Chapter 518 Encountering Great Whirlpools <TOC> Chapter 520 Active Illusion Nodes
Translator: SumTLMan
Luna bit Angel’s clothes, and they both quickly descended.
Soon, Angel saw the Black Whirlpool again. However, this time he didn’t approach it, but observed it from a distance. Around the whirlpool, everything was pitch black, and nothing could be seen clearly.
“According to the mental waves received from the heart scale, they seem to be in the Black Whirlpool.” Angel wasn’t sure if the whirlpool was dangerous, so he hesitated to enter it.
Luna seemed to see Angel’s hesitation and was sucked into the whirlpool in front of him.
Angel watched as it disappeared from his sight, but it emerged from the whirlpool a short while later and swam to his side, meowing softly.
Could they pass through the whirlpool?
With that in mind, Angel gathered some courage. He didn’t have much time to waste; if he wanted to save people, he had to act immediately.
Thinking this, Angel took a leap and entered the whirlpool.
As soon as he entered the whirlpool, Angel felt the suction force slightly decrease. Turning back, he indeed saw the exit of the whirlpool.
With the assurance of an exit, Angel cautiously continued to explore.
After entering the dark whirlpool, Angel could clearly feel that the surrounding light was even dimmer. It seemed that there was some substance around that absorbed visible light, scattering or absorbing all the faint light from the surface.
The deeper he went, the darker it became.
He was now in a state of soul detachment, unable to cast light spells. The darkness below was also hard for Angel to navigate.
At that moment, Luna suddenly spit out two streams of cold, ghostly fire. It was the same cold ghostly fire that Angel had seen in Cherie’s hands, emitting a cold, white glow.
The light from the two ghostly fires was very dim, and combined with the unknown light-absorbing substance, it made the fires look like faint glows, barely illuminating half a meter.
Luna manipulated the ghostly fire to circle around them.
Under the faint light, Angel found that there was no difference between this place and other sea areas. There were a few small fish swimming around, but none of them were extraordinary creatures.
The only difference was the darker surroundings and the unknown illusion nodes placed all around.
Angel tried to attack an illusion node, and it shattered in response. But almost instantly, a new illusion node was formed.
Up to now, Angel still couldn’t figure out what kind of illusion was around them, or even determine which category of illusion it belonged to. He was completely at a loss.
Moreover, Angel couldn’t figure out why Luna was not affected by this illusion spell. Could it be that this illusion spell was only targeting humans?
With the fire guiding the way, Angel continued to dive deeper.
Under the illumination of the fire, he saw many grotesque deep-sea fish that could only be found in the deep ocean. Under the dim white light, they appeared extremely terrifying. However, they were just ordinary fish that posed no threat other than scaring people.
After diving several hundred meters, Angel suddenly discovered many extraordinary fish, most of which he had seen in the Flying Fish World. Angel didn’t want to waste his soul power on these flying fish, so he mostly avoided them. However, he soon found himself blocked by a long-winged shark about ten meters long.
The wings of the shark seemed to have evolved from fish fins, wrapped in ice particles.
Undoubtedly, this was an extraordinary sea beast.
In his soul state, his combat power approached that of a half-wizard, so the battle ended almost instantly. However, after the battle, Angel realized something was wrong.
This sea beast did not attack his physical body from beginning to end but relentlessly pursued and attacked his soul. In the end, after he killed the sea beast, its corpse turned into fragments and disappeared completely.
“Is this not a real sea beast, but some sort of consciousness entity? Or is it an illusion?” Angel wondered, carefully observing the other extraordinary sea beasts. They all seemed to lack physical bodies, while the ordinary fish had them.
Angel felt more and more strange. Was this really the work of an illusionist apprentice?
These extraordinary creatures, just illusions?
It didn’t seem likely.
After diving for another two minutes, Luna suddenly meowed and handed the heart scale to Angel.
Through the feedback from the heart scale, Angel sensed that the separate heart scale had arrived at Cherie and the others’ location.
Judging from the feedback from the Sword of Mer, Cherie and the others had not moved and seemed to be still asleep. This separate heart scale could pose a danger to them.
Thinking of this, Angel no longer held back his speed and dived at a very fast pace, regardless of whether it would attract the attention of sea beasts.
Suddenly, Angel felt as if he had passed through a membrane, and the surrounding water disappeared instantly.
When Angel entered this strange space, he immediately discovered the people lying on the ground with the help of the dim fire. At this moment, Luna suddenly meowed towards a certain direction.
Turning his head, Angel saw a dark shadow dragging Nausica towards the side.
“Who are you?!” Angel shouted sharply, controlling the Gravity Lines to instantly strike.
The shadow was startled and let go of Nausica before running away. By the time Angel flew over, the other party had already escaped. However, Angel could sense that the Gravity Line still hit the opponent, and he heard a painful cry.
The deliberately suppressed voice sounded low and muffled, but Angel could clearly discern that the person might be a woman.
Moreover, judging from the figure, she was not a Ger race or a frogskin monster, but a human!
Was she the source of this illusion? But why did she run away after a single hit? She didn’t seem to be very powerful.
Angel did not pursue but helped Nausica up first.
A sound came from behind, and Angel turned to see Luna repeatedly hitting Cherie’s face with her claws, leaving several cat paw prints on her face. The sound he heard was Cherie waking up.
“Luna?” Cherie touched her slightly hot face and looked around: “Where is this?”
Cherie woke up? Does that mean there’s no illusion holding them back here?
Angel cautiously returned his soul to his body, and indeed, he no longer felt dizzy. However, Angel could still feel the strange illusion nodes surrounding him. He vaguely felt familiar with their aura but couldn’t remember where he had encountered them before.
After Cherie woke up, she woke up everyone else one by one.
Only after everyone woke up did Angel briefly recount what had happened.
“Black Whirlpool?” Cherie rubbed her forehead: “I have no memory at all, maybe I really fell asleep then?”
“Never mind that, there are only fifty minutes left until the countdown ends, and we must leave immediately,” Angel urged everyone to get up. No matter what was going on here, he didn’t have time to explore. They had to leave first.
At that moment, Nausica, who had been looking down and thinking about something, hesitated and said: “My… Sword of Mer is gone.”
Following Nausica’s words, everyone’s eyes fell on her. Suddenly, Coral exclaimed in disbelief: “Nausica, what happened to your face?”
Nausica had been looking down, and they didn’t notice anything at first. When Coral called out first, they noticed a deep gash on Nausica’s face, stretching from her left forehead to her right cheek.
Nausica knew she couldn’t avoid it any longer, so she brushed her hair aside and revealed her face. “I don’t know what happened, but when I woke up, it was like this. It’s just an external injury; I’ve already treated it with a healing spell.”
“Could it be that woman?” Angel pondered.
“Which woman?” Coral angrily said: “I’ll kill her for trying to ruin Nausica’s appearance!”
Angel quickly recounted the situation he had seen earlier: “Nausica’s Sword of Mer and her face might have been injured by her.”
“It must be that person! Let me see her; I must kill her!” Coral paused and wondered: “But it’s strange that none of our Swords of Mer were lost. With so many people here, why did they only target Nausica? Is it an enemy of Nausica?”
“An enemy of mine?” Nausica went through images in her mind but eventually shook her head: “In the Wizarding World, I don’t think I have any female enemies…”
“No, you have one. Have you forgotten that woman with the pointed hat? She even hurt you!” Coral suddenly shouted.
Nausica was stunned, but quickly realized.
When she entered the Purification Garden, she faintly saw a woman wearing a thin veil pointed hat, showing hatred towards her. In the flying fish world, she was also ambushed by that woman and even severely injured at one point.
“Could it be her? But I don’t know who she is,” Nausica muttered quietly.
“This woman is so hateful; if I meet her, I’ll make sure she suffers!” Coral said angrily.
“The loss of Nausica’s Sword of Mer is not a problem. Luna has a heart scale, and Nausica should have one on her as well. We can craft another Sword of Mer,” Angel sighed: “We don’t have time to bother with that person now. We must leave, or we won’t make it in time.”
Everyone nodded, and Nausica apologized: “I’m sorry for causing trouble for everyone.”
Angel smiled: “It’s not your fault. Don’t worry; I believe everyone understands. Besides, we have extra scales to craft the Sword of Mer, so one sword for each person is just right.”
After Angel’s comforting words, they all decided to leave.
“I fell through a layer of water film earlier. If we fly up, we should be able to leave,” Angel paused: “However, after leaving, we might be affected by the illusion. If you pass out, I’ll carry you up.”
With that, Angel took the lead and flew upward with his soul.
But after flying for a while, he still couldn’t touch the water film and ended up in dense fog.
“Something’s wrong. I clearly went through a water film and immediately fell to the ground. Why can’t I reach the top now?” Angel showed a doubtful expression and looked back at the others.
But he found that they weren’t following him.
Angel gave up flying upward and descended instead. In just a couple of seconds, he landed on the ground and saw the others, all with puzzled expressions.
“Once you fly up, you get confused and then fall back down.”
“An illusion.” Angel could basically determine that this was some kind of illusion, and this illusion could even deceive souls.
Chapter 518 Encountering Great Whirlpools <TOC> Chapter 520 Active Illusion Nodes