Chapter 553 Whose Right Hand <TOC> Chapter 555 Turning Illusion into Reality
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Sanders left, saying he was going to check out the small cabin.
It was at this time that Angel learned that Sanders had never seen this cabin before when he used to enter the Witch Town area of the Nightmare Plane.
Angel entered for the first time and encountered this cabin. He didn’t know whether he was lucky or unlucky.
After Sanders left, Angel curled up in bed.
He silently recalled the words Sanders had said to him, that he might be you, the you projected by the Nightmare Plane.
“The Nightmare Plane’s projection… of me,” Angel recited slowly, and an image surfaced in his mind.
Short, gray-green hair, deep eyes, chiseled features. Also, a tall figure and gentlemanly attire.
Young Sanders.
Angel had seen the young Sanders in Nightfall City. The mysterious energy of the Nightmare Plane had simulated the young Sanders and even replicated the dagger representing the Iguro Family, which Angel had brought back to the real world.
Since Sanders could be projected, then he himself might indeed be projected in some area of the Nightmare Plane.
“Project Reality, Reveal Illusion, Create Truth.” This is the Nightmare Plane, not only projecting architecture, but perhaps even humans?
However, it seems that not many people are projected? At least Angel didn’t meet any humans in Nightfall City, only the young version of Sanders.
In this Witch Town, he did encounter an old witch, but could she be considered human?
Angel didn’t understand how the Nightmare Plane’s projection mechanism worked, but he had a hunch that if the Nightmare Plane were to project humans, there should be a selection process.
Once accepting the setting that the Nightmare Plane can project humans, many doubts may be resolved.
For example, Angel remembered learning the names of some Nightmare Plane creatures during the Twilight Auction, such as: Glen, Dink, Francois, Yorkshire, Ollie… etc. These were all people from the Pat Manor. If the Nightmare Plane could project humans, maybe these were the humans projected into the Nightmare Plane?
However, something seemed off. He remembered the owl doll’s name was Ollie. In fact, not all projections in the Nightmare Plane were humans; maybe some turned into animals?
Angel’s thoughts began to race, and finally, after letting his imagination run wild, he returned to reality.
In Sanders’ description of the person with golden long hair, if it really was Angel’s projection in the Nightmare Plane, then which period’s “me” was it? Angel had never had a period of having long hair, nor did he have any plans for it in the future.
So, Angel still had some doubts in his heart.
Because, perhaps the other party was a woman? After all, in Angel’s mind, having waist-long, silky smooth hair was most likely a woman.
Of course, Angel did not rule out the possibility that the Nightmare Plane projected him as a woman. After all, when Ollie was a maid, she became an owl doll in the Nightmare Plane; the gardener Glen’s son, Foxx, turned into a female fox harpist in the Nightmare Plane. Therefore, Angel couldn’t be completely sure.
Angel wouldn’t believe that the other person was his projection before officially solving the mystery.
Even if it was his projection, to him, that wasn’t himself but another person. After all, the main consciousness was Angel, not the “Angel of the Nightmare Plane.”
Once he understood this point, Angel felt a lot less pressure.
However, regarding his right hand… he still didn’t know how to deal with it. He had always wanted to ask Sanders’ opinion, but for some reason, Angel felt that Sanders didn’t seem to care much about his hand being replaced. Compared to his original hand, Sanders seemed more interested in his current hand.
Angel pinched his palm and gently pressed it onto the floor.
With a slight force, the floor cracked into a large number of spider web patterns centered on his palm.
This power was even more formidable than the “Great Knight” Angel had heard of in Grud Town. He couldn’t estimate how far his power could reach, but it should be comparable to the power of his bloodline.
It sounded like a good thing, but this power didn’t originally belong to him, which made him unsure.
Moreover, what was the use of those green runes floating on his right hand? Angel wasn’t clear at the moment. When he looked directly at the green runes, he felt a strange sense of discomfort, as if he could see a pair of scarlet eyes through these runes.
Angel spent a long time studying the secrets of his right hand, but still had no results.
However, he found a benefit of having a right hand, or having a physical right hand.
He could use tricks now.
In fact, even if Angel had become a soul, he could still sense the mental space. However, the tricks he built needed magic to cast, and although his magic source contained magic, his soul body couldn’t hold magic at the moment, and would even cause internal energy disorder due to the mixture of magic.
So in the past, when he became a soul, he couldn’t use tricks, but now that his right hand had become a physical entity, there was a place for magic to reside, and he could use tricks again. However, the cast point had to be through his right hand.
This situation seems to have its advantages for now.
However, Angel couldn’t guarantee what state his right hand would be in when he returned to the real world and had an out-of-body experience again. Would it be a soul or a physical entity?
He would only know once he tried it after returning.
As time passed, Sanders never returned, and Angel, in his boredom, remembered the purpose of Sanders bringing him into this Nightmare Plane.
Was it possible to bring items from the real world into the Nightmare Plane?
Although Angel had tested this not long ago, the scrolls he brought in were all “false.” However, he was searching for an exit in the fog at the time, so the test was done hastily.
Sanders hadn’t asked him about this earlier, probably because he saw that the scrolls on Angel were fake and assumed that Angel couldn’t bring items into the Nightmare Plane.
But Angel remembered clearly that he had brought a holographic tablet into the Nightmare Plane before.
However, the holographic tablet was his biggest secret, related to Jon’s identity, and he couldn’t reveal it to anyone. Therefore, he couldn’t use it as an example for Sanders.
Since the holographic tablet could be brought into the Nightmare Plane, there must be a certain mechanism that allowed objects from the real world to enter.
Angel planned to use this time to find out the rule behind this.
At first, Angel thought that perhaps the Earth’s aura was the key to bringing the holographic tablet into the Nightmare Plane. But when he took out the Heavenly Eye pendant hanging on his chest to test, he found that the Heavenly Eye was also false.
That is to say, the key to bringing the holographic tablet into the Nightmare Plane wasn’t the Earth’s aura.
So, what was the key?
Angel thought and experimented until the evening when he finally discovered the trick when Sanders returned.
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Sanders returned to the room, covered in dust and dirt.
This small room was one of the few safe houses he had identified. He dared to leave Angel here because the fog in Witch Town had dissipated, and he could reach him in time if Angel encountered danger.
However, after the witch incident, Angel hadn’t encountered any other dangers until Sanders returned.
This time, Sanders went out mainly to deal with the painting in the cabin. Since the witch had escaped back into the painting, he wanted to destroy the painting to prevent her from creating the fog again in the future.
However, when Sanders found the painting, it had turned into an ordinary painting.
At least, it appeared as an ordinary painting to him.
And, the painting does not depict the boudoir that Angel mentioned or the painting within the painting.
Instead, it was the picture of —Castle Under the Moonlight— that Angel saw when he first went to the cabin.
There was nothing unusual about the painting. Sanders tried to enter and exit the cabin repeatedly, as Angel did, but the painting remained unchanged.
He guessed that perhaps the witch was hiding deep within the painting.
Multiple worlds are hidden within the painting.
This situation reminded him of the “Magic Painter.” A wizard who could connect two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds through his brush, and stepped onto the path of true knowledge by doing so.
Could it be that this painting was drawn by the Magic Painter?
If that were the case, Sanders could not break the painting with his abilities. In the end, he could only temporarily seal the painting and leave it for the future.
Then, Sanders went to Witch Town and swept up some items.
It seemed that Angel couldn’t bring things from the real world into the Nightmare Plane, so he had to test the other purpose of this trip: what was the limit of the items Angel could bring out of the Nightmare Plane?
In this sweep, Sanders went from ordinary items to extraordinary items, gradually increasing the quantity.
Moreover, to obtain more data, he had to search for more different types of extraordinary items to determine Angel’s limit.
Therefore, he spent an entire day in the not-so-large Witch Town.
It wasn’t until now that he returned to where Angel was.
What he didn’t expect was that when he came back, Angel had brought him another surprise.
Upon entering, Sanders saw Angel lying on the bed, his face pale.
His brows furrowed as he immediately sensed that something was wrong with Angel’s soul power, which had become exhausted. But before he left, Angel’s condition seemed fine, so why was it exhausted again?
As Sanders was puzzled, he suddenly noticed a magical rune scroll scattered beside Angel.
The magical runes on the scroll were shining brightly.
His eyes lit up; this was a “Grand Novaguard” magical rune scroll that could withstand a wizard-level attack. It was one of several magical rune scrolls he had prepared for Angel before entering the Nightmare Plane.
Sanders picked it up.
The touch told him that the scroll was real and usable!
Feeling the energy fluctuations on the magical rune scroll carefully, Sanders was sure that this was a usable magical rune scroll.
But why, when he had examined Angel not long ago, did he find that all the magical rune scrolls left with him were fake?
Chapter 553 Whose Right Hand <TOC> Chapter 555 Turning Illusion into Reality