Angor dashed to the rock where the old king was depicted.
After standing still, he quickly tore open a magic scroll and set up an energy defensive force field in the vicinity.
This place had become the only safe zone in the middle of the war. However, it was still difficult to stay completely unaffected by an explosion. Besides, fire crystals were still falling from the sky. Touching any of them would be a piece of art.
In order to prevent the mini tunnel from getting damaged by the stone, he added a defensive forcefield to protect it.
However, Dankros saw Angor's action differently.
Dankros just told Angor about the greatness of Infernal Heruya. Angor knew that the old king's portrait might be affected by the explosion, so he came here to protect it without hesitation.
"He's … showing his respect to the old king!"
Dankros' anger toward Angor subsided a little after coming to this conclusion. However, he didn't want to admit that he called Angor the wrong person, so he remained silent. Holding its breath, it was ready to wait for the new king's battle to end. When the two "suspected spies" were captured, it would help and exempt them from the death penalty.
Dankros didn't want to talk. However, Angor remembered something and wanted to get an answer from Dankros.
Angor secretly released illusion nodes to prepare for a backup plan while he led Dankros to the painting on the rock.
Since he was already on the rock, he wanted to know if the fire creature knew there was a way out.
Maybe it was because Angor respected the old king, Dankros did not keep quiet this time. Instead, he answered several questions.
Angor didn't know why Dankros suddenly changed its attitude. But seeing how cooperative the bird was, he quickly changed the topic to something he really wanted to know.
"… This earring looks like the nose ring of the new king."
It looked like he was pointing at the earring, but upon closer inspection, one would realize that he was actually pointing at the mini tunnel.
Dankros glanced at the earring and replied carelessly, "That nose ring was given to the new king by the old king."
Angor carefully observed Dankros' eyes and noticed that the creature wasn't looking at the mini tunnel at all. Angor realized that Dankros didn't know about the tunnel's existence.
Then, would the other elemental creatures know?
"I once asked Professor Magoo about the Old King's Earrings, but I'm not sure if it's real or not," Dankros said as if he suddenly remembered something. Teacher Magoo said that this was given to the old king by the Savior from outer space a long time ago. "
An otherworldly savior?!
Angor narrowed his eyes. Was he referring to Feng?
He just wanted to confirm whether the mini passage had been discovered by the elemental creatures. He didn't expect to get such important information.
As expected of Dankros!
"Beyond the heavens? Savior? "Angor pretended to be puzzled.
"You don't even know this?" Dankros gave Angor a "why are you so ignorant" look. "Beyond the sky means beyond this world. Teacher Magoo said that there were other worlds beyond this world. I've never been there, but I've heard it's different from our world. "
"As for the Savior, you should know about him. A long, long time ago, there was an Elemental Quake that swept across the entire world. It shattered all the monarchs and above on the continent. Luckily, the old king was only a half-step monarch at that time. Otherwise, he would've been dragged into the disaster as well. In the end, the disaster was stopped by a visitor from outer space. He brought a huge amount of elemental energy from outer space and calmed the world down. He's what we call the Savior. "
"Does this Savior have a name?" Angor asked.
Dankros considered and shook his head. "There should be a name, but I don't know. Maybe Professor Magoo knows. "
Angor then asked about Professor Magoo's identity. Dankros cautiously asked why Angor wanted to know the name of the Wise Man, but he still told Angor the answer.
Professor Magoo was a fire-type creature who lived in the same era as Inferno Heruya. He was the final destination of the countless "bean sprouts" in the lava lake. He was the Wise Man of the Fire Domain, and also Dankros' teacher.
Angor was going to say that if Professor Magoo was as small as Dankros, he could sneak him out. But now, Professor Magoo was so huge that he occupied the entire lava lake and couldn't even move. Angor gave up on the idea.
As for asking Professor Magoo about the past, that was even more unrealistic. After all, they were enemies now.
Angor sighed and stopped thinking about Professor Magoo for now. He thought about the "world disaster" and the "savior from outer space" mentioned by Dankros.
Dankros only described a few details, but Angor could roughly guess what was going on in his mind.
The "world disaster" was basically a disaster caused by plane fusion.
Once the plane fusion began, the fused plane would go through a game of chess with the world's consciousness. In order to avoid the interference of the powerful beings in the subsidiary planes and cause the fusion to fail, the will of the main world would cause a terrifying disaster in the subsidiary planes. It would destroy all the powerful beings in the subsidiary planes, leaving only those with lower energy levels.
This fit Dankros' description: all elemental creatures above the monarch level in the Tidal Realm would die in the disaster.
As for the "savior from outer space", it should be Feng.
According to Dankros, Feng must have done something to bring in a large amount of elemental energy from the outside world, which solved the "world disaster". This also caused the Old Earth to become a land without any elemental energy.
But Angor was curious. How did Feng do it?
A plane fusion would cause a huge commotion. How did he manage to hide the ripples of the plane fusion without the World of Adepts knowing about it?
"Maybe a legendary did it?" Angor couldn't figure it out, so he had to put it aside for now.
…
Angor's illusion nodes were basically in place. He just needed to wait for an opportunity.
However, the battle in the sky was still in a stalemate. Under the influence of the Elemental Tide, there was no sign of victory.
While waiting for an opportunity, Angor kept trying to get more information from Dankros.
Dankros didn't know much about the "savior from outer space". Angor's main concern was the painting of the old king.
He wanted to know what the other elemental creatures thought of the painting.
However, Dankros found it very strange. "It's just very respectful. We usually avoid this place to prevent the fire on our bodies from burning the paintings."
"Have you never thought of protecting this painting?"
"Why?" Dangros gave Angor an even more curious look. "Why?"
Angor didn't know what to say. He couldn't tell Dankros that the painting had a passage to the outside world, could he?
"After all, it's your most respected king, isn't it?"
"The painting is very meaningful, but the king's fire has always been burning around us. It never left our bodies …" Dankros said.
In Dankros' mind, the king's fire would stay in this place even if he died. In his opinion, the king never left. He just used a different method to accompany his descendants.
Angor understood Dankros' logic, so he didn't ask any more questions.
But judging from Dankros' attitude, Angor could guess that the passage to the outside world was never exposed. Even if someone knew about it, it would only be the elemental creatures who lived in the same era as the king.
After asking all the questions, Angor and Dankros no longer talked as deliberately as before.
They talked about the Tide Realm again. Unfortunately, Dankros didn't know much about it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have called them "spies of Yzert the Frost".
Still, Dankrose's answer helped him solve the puzzle that had been bothering him for a long time.
Why didn't illusions work on elemental creatures?
It wasn't because the illusions were useless. Instead, the entire area was filled with fire energy. The sudden appearance of a moving area without any fire energy naturally exposed their location.
It was easy to solve this problem. Fill the area covered by the illusions with the corresponding elemental energy, and they would be able to hide themselves.
However, this was only possible when stationary. If one wanted to hide while moving, they would have to have a strong control over elemental energy. Otherwise, if the elemental energy in the air was unevenly distributed, other elemental creatures would easily notice them.
This information was a great help to Angor.
He wasn't good at controlling elemental energy, but Elmi was. In the future, he could let Elmi control the elements in the air. He would only need to use illusions to hide himself. This way, he wouldn't have to worry about being discovered.
As Angor was thinking about his bright future, a bright firelight illuminated their faces.
When he looked up, he saw a fireball falling from the sky and landing a hundred meters away. A huge explosion occurred as soon as it touched the ground.
The explosion created a crater with a radius of dozens of meters. Large amounts of lava flowed out and quickly turned the crater into a lava lake.
The aftershocks of the explosion were also surging, rushing directly to their vicinity.
Fortunately, Angor set up a defensive barrier. Otherwise, the rock would have been destroyed by the shockwave alone.
Dankros yelled at the Sky Battlefield to express his dissatisfaction.
Meanwhile, Angor's eyes flashed as he began to connect the illusion nodes he released earlier.
The fireball appeared to be an accident, but it was actually Elmi's signal. Angor already knew what Elmi meant when the explosion occurred.
Elmi was going to break the stalemate and create chaos.
Once that happened, it would be the best time for them to escape!
Angor looked calm on the surface, but his mind was already on edge.
When the two fiery figures separated from each other in the sky, Elmi didn't continue fighting. Instead, he floated in the air. His blue lantern flickered, and the flames on his body underwent a strange change.
The bright flames suddenly dimmed, as if a dark current was being injected into them.
Magic Fire Midier looked at Elmi's transformation and his eyes gleamed. "Interesting … Is this your new ability?"
Still, Elmi didn't answer. Instead, he stomped on the air and unleashed his dark flames.
A large number of fire crystals were caught in the explosion. However, what came after the explosion wasn't a cloud of smoke. Instead, it was a cloud of dark mist.
In the blink of an eye, the sky was engulfed in darkness.
Fire creatures didn't just rely on their eyes to see. As long as there was fire energy in the area, they would be able to see what was going on.
At first, Magefire Midier thought so as well, but when he tried to sense his surroundings, he realized that even if there were fire elemental energies, the surroundings were pitch black.
It was as if the place was covered in dust.
"That's not pure fire …" Midier was surprised. "It's mixed with Fallen Earth Czerny's power?"
The intertwining of fire and earth elemental energy created this dark fog.
Demonic Fire Midier couldn't help but sigh. At first, it was the power of ice, then the power of fire, and now the power of earth. No wonder that idiot Dankros thought they were spies.
Now that earth energy had appeared, it meant that Elmi's energy had begun to recover. He didn't need to rely on fire to fight anymore. This wasn't good news for him.
Although he didn't really think they were spies, they had trespassed on his territory. If he wanted to get the truth out of them, he had to defeat them first.
It seemed that he had to get serious now.
Demonfire Midier heaved a long sigh of relief. The demonfire on its body burned even brighter. The horns on its head, which had almost materialized, now seemed to have transformed into two twisted pillars of fire that rose into the sky.
Its body grew from three meters tall to ten meters tall. His wings of fire flapped quickly. All the dust around him was blown away by the fierce wind.
Soon, the surrounding darkness was either blown away or burned to ashes and fell to the ground.
Midier's narrow eyes flashed with excitement. Now, it was time for the real battle.
Midier looked at Elmi hovering in front of him and slowly opened his mouth.
Dark purple devilish flames that could even burn space gushed out of its mouth and engulfed Elmi in front of it.
However, Elmi easily dodged the attack with a flash of his hand.
Midier knew that to defeat such an opponent, one Midier's Breath of Fire would not be enough. But what if it didn't just attack once, but hundreds of times?
The reason Demonic Fire Midier was given the prefix "Demonic Fire" was because of its Demonic Fire Breath!
In the past, he wouldn't dare to be so wasteful. But now that he was in the Elemental Tide, he didn't need to worry about running out of energy!
With that in mind, terrifying Midier's Breath of Fire rushed towards Elmi.
But …
Elmi dodged all of them. He was unharmed.
Midier was stunned for a moment. Then, he fired another hundred times.
Although Elmi's dodging was a little awkward, he still found the only way out of the dense attacks.
Midier started to feel that something was wrong. Based on Elmi's previous speed and ability, he shouldn't be able to reach this level.
More importantly, why didn't Elmi counterattack?
Midier hesitated for a moment. Then, he gently released a small flame and ignited the "rain of fire" nearby.
The explosion of the rain of fire would not do any harm to Elmi, who had already turned into flames.
However, Elmi was still dodging, and it was having a hard time doing so.
Midier extended his senses to the surroundings.
He didn't dare to do this during the previous battle. But now, something was clearly wrong. He tried to use his senses to touch Elmi.
However, there was no Elmi in front of him.
Instead, there was only air and several strange energy sources.
Midier looked down and saw that Angor was no longer standing on the rock.
At this point, how could Magefire Midier not understand that the El Mi in front of him was not the real El Mi at all, but an illusion?
The real Elmi already ran away when it was still dark!
He was fooled!
Midier knew that he wouldn't be able to find Elmi by now. But he had to find Elmi.
Ignoring the illusion, Midier landed on the ground and prepared to search for Angor and Elmi.
However, at this moment, a violent flame suddenly erupted from a certain direction in the distance.
(End of Chapter)
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