Chapter 494 Dark Gourmet <TOC> Chapter 496 Frogskin Monster
Translator: SumTLMan
Whether Sunisha was related to Sin Lady or not, no one knew.
However, since Angel didn’t drink her soup, he temporarily put the matter aside. What he was more concerned about now was that time was almost up—
Unbeknownst to them, the time in the hourglass was approaching its end.
What kind of changes would occur in the Purification Garden when the time was up? Would the thin membrane in the sky really open when time ran out? If the membrane did open, the endless water pressure from the sky would come crashing down, its destructive power absolutely apocalyptic.
Angel’s absence of mind immediately caught the attention of Alan, who was talking to him.
Alan asked telepathically, and Angel thought for a moment, then replied: “I may have to leave first… As for the exit, I think it’s not under our feet, but in the sky.”
His words were not only transmitted to Alan, but also to Hermes and Cherie.
After doing all this, Angel patted Alan on the shoulder and whispered: “I hope to see you leave the Purification Garden safely.”
With that, Angel cast a Multidimensional Illusion, enveloping everyone, retracted the Gondola, and departed with his soul detached.
The hint he gave was his payment to Hermes for showing the way. As for how they would act later, they would undoubtedly have their own plan.
Angel’s Multidimensional Illusion caused a moment of confusion among the crowd, but Hermes and Alan, who knew Angel was leaving, quickly calmed down. On the other hand, Sunisha, who didn’t know the situation, thought they had started fighting.
When the Multidimensional Illusion disappeared, the Gondola was gone, and so was Angel.
As Sunisha pondered her doubts, Hermes said to them: “Ladies, I think it’s time for us to go our separate ways as well.”
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This time, when Angel’s soul detached, he did not drink the witch’s soup. He calculated the time in his heart, and if nothing unexpected happened, he should be able to return to the membrane before his body’s activity decreased.
His speed was extremely fast, but when he reached the high-altitude area, he had to slow down. There were too many flying fish in the high-altitude area, and Angel, having learned from his previous bloody lesson, cautiously navigated through the fish schools to avoid a similar situation.
As he traversed the fish schools, the hourglass had already started counting down.
Angel silently counted down in his heart as well, wanting to know if the membrane would rupture when the countdown ended.
When the last bit of golden sand fell into the bottom bottle, Angel’s mood tightened as well—
However, under the high tension, no anomalies appeared.
The membrane didn’t rupture, and the world didn’t experience any changes. Angel, with a puzzled look on his face, flew to the membrane.
He reached out to touch the membrane.
This time, he didn’t receive any message, but his hand naturally passed through the membrane and touched the vast waters behind it.
“Can I go through it now?”
Angel took out a bizarre smiling face top hat from his bracelet. This hat has a Purification Field attached to it, capable of creating a protective shield underwater.
After putting on the hat, Angel rushed forward, dragging his body through the membrane.
As Angel was surrounded by the endless waters, an emotionless voice echoed in everyone’s ears:
“The Sacrificial Blood Ritual officially begins. The current world will enter the countdown to destruction. Please move to the Purification Garden.”
As everyone was still puzzled, a golden countdown appeared in the sky: 01:59.
By looking up, everyone could see the glaring countdown. After a minute, the last digit of the countdown changed to 01:.
It was then that everyone realized the meaning of the voice. Two hours later, their current world would enter destruction, and they had to find the so-called “Purification Garden” to survive.
But where was the “Purification Garden”? No one knew.
While everyone began to search anxiously for the Purification Garden, Angel was swaying left and right with the current.
He naturally heard the cold voice that echoed through the heavens and the earth. He also believed that he might have already arrived at the so-called Purification Garden, but where should he go next?
As Angel couldn’t find a way out, he lowered his head to observe the world outside the membrane, but he found something strange.
He couldn’t see the fish beneath the membrane, nor the white clouds below it. What he saw was an endless array of stars and a dim moon.
The world seemed to have turned upside down. The membrane was no longer a membrane, but the sea surface under the night sky.
The world that Angel initially experienced seemed to have disappeared.
He thought for a moment, then slowly floated upward. He wanted to see if it was the water surface or if he would return to the outside of the membrane.
Before long, Angel’s head successfully crossed the water’s surface, but what he saw was not the white clouds and flying fish outside the membrane but the stars and the moon filling the sky.
“Does this mean that the Purification Garden is different from the original world? After coming here, I can’t go back?”
Angel flew out of the water to observe his surroundings. But all around were vast seas, and he couldn’t see anything clearly.
He simply continued to fly higher, wondering if there would be a similar “membrane” in the sky. However, Angel had flown for less than two minutes when he felt a palpitation, as if something bad would happen if he continued to fly higher.
Angel trusted his intuition.
Even with the addition of high altitude flying fish, Angel thought that Sky Mechanical City wouldn’t use the same trick twice. He only glanced at the general environment from a high altitude before returning to the Purification Sea.
Now that the sky was inaccessible, did this mean he should dive to the ocean floor?
As for searching for possible exits or continents on the ocean surface, Angel didn’t know for the time being. However, his personal preference was to go to the ocean floor and see the situation… After all, in Totoro’s possible prophetic vision, he appeared at the bottom of a certain sea. Whether this ocean floor was the bottom of the Purification Sea was another matter.
Looking at the dark and seemingly bottomless ocean floor, Angel dived in.
Not long after diving into the ocean floor, Angel saw schools of fish racing towards him. He subconsciously wanted to use the Boundless Silence to dodge, but as soon as he entered the Boundless Silence state, Angel felt a hit on his back.
Turning around, a dark gray dolphin appeared behind him.
Angel’s heart skipped a beat, preparing to use a trick to deal with it. However, the dolphin, after discovering it had bumped into something strange, swam over to take a closer look.
Boundless Silence weakened one’s presence, not their form, so since the dolphin had already bumped into him, it wasn’t difficult for it to find him.
The dolphin circled around Angel several times.
Its eyes were very innocent, not malicious like the flying fish outside the membrane.
After a while, the dolphin suddenly swam over. As Angel was on guard, the dolphin began to rub its tail on Angel’s body…
Angel: “…”
Angel quickly judged that this possibly amorous dolphin was just an ordinary animal.
Angel didn’t want to engage in a human-animal posture with the dolphin, so he cast a Fear Spell into the dolphin’s head. The dolphin showed a bewildered expression, if it could have an expression, and then swam away happily.
Angel continued to dive, finding more and more fish around him, and the species were becoming more diverse. Moreover, according to Angel’s judgment, these fish should not be extraordinary.
Could it be that the Purification Sea was just an ordinary ocean? Or was the danger not in the fish themselves?
As Angel was guessing, he didn’t know that outside the membrane, the flying fish that had touched the membrane had quietly entered the Purification Sea, including large whales surrounded by energy.
The deeper he went into the sea, the more dark and gloomy it became. When Angel estimated that he had dived about 300 meters, the light had completely disappeared.
In complete darkness, Angel’s heart also rose with a sense of insecurity and… boundless loneliness.
The deeper he went into the sea, the lonelier he felt.
He hadn’t learned any night vision spells, so he could only use the Light Spell to illuminate.
As soon as the Light Spell started, the faint light only illuminated a few meters in range.
Surrounded by the endless ocean currents, a faint and flickering light shone in the dark depths of the underwater world, as if it could be extinguished at any moment. However, this light managed to dispel a significant part of Angel’s loneliness.
As creatures that are attracted to light, schools of fish surrounded Angel, enclosing him in a formation.
Without their aggressive demeanor, these small fish seemed much cuter.
Accompanied by the encircling fish, Angel delved deeper into the seemingly endless ocean floor.
After an unknown amount of time, Angel encountered a massive whale over thirty meters long and saw unknown fish fighting fiercely. However, these fish did not seem interested in Angel; even those with sharp teeth and claws that attacked Angel were easily defeated using basic alchemical items without resorting to any spells.
When Angel estimated that he had reached more than three thousand meters below the sea, he unexpectedly discovered uneven stone walls and slopes. On one side of the slope, he saw a light.
He initially thought it was bioluminescence emitted by some fish, but it was not. When he swam over, he found a strange underwater structure instead.
A round, black castle with a roof made of large seaweed, interspersed with beautiful shells and coral.
In the center of the castle, there was a round window.
The light he had discovered was coming from that window.
“With doors and windows… This is certainly not a structure that fish could create. Could there be some intelligent beings living beneath the sea?” Angel wondered as he extinguished his light spell and activated Boundless Silence, slowly approaching the round castle.
However, when Angel was less than a hundred meters from the castle, an extremely bizarre creature rushed out, completely ignoring Angel’s invisibility and threw a harpoon at him.
Angel dodged, but before he could react, the harpoon behind him suddenly changed direction, still aiming at him without error.
It was obvious that Angel’s Boundless Silence had failed once again.
He didn’t have time to explore the reason for the failure, as he found that this indescribable creature had energy no less than the fish outside the membrane and that the harpoons it threw seemed to have an automatic targeting system. No matter how Angel evaded, they accurately aimed and attacked automatically.