Kael didn't know what Angor was looking for at first, but he soon heard Angor's voice coming from the front.
"Alright, this is the place."
Kael followed Angor's lead and looked around, only to see that they were standing in front of the door of the last room.
To the left was the way back to the stairs, while to the right was a dark void.
Kael's gaze naturally drifted to the left. There was only a path on the left, and the right was the end. To his surprise, Angor didn't look to the left as he expected. Instead, he signaled Kael to look at the dark void on the right.
Kael followed Angor's gaze.
"Sir, is there anything special about this place?" Kael asked. "What's so special about this place?"
"They can't see it, but you should be able to sense it."
Others can't see it, but I can feel it? With that thought in mind, Kal-El continued to watch.
After a long while, Kael asked hesitantly, "Sir, are you referring to those spatial rifts?"
Before Angor could answer, Kael heard Dorcas speaking again. "Space rifts? Is there one up ahead? "
"Yes, there is. Be careful, mister!" Kael was just about to reply to Dorcas, but when he looked up, he saw that Dorcas had already reached the end of the path, and right in front of him was a tiny crack hidden in the dark void.
"Careful? Of what?" Dorcas asked.
Kael gulped nervously. "Mister Kael … there's a space rift in front of you."
Dorcas was about to take a few steps back when he heard Kael's words. But before he could, he sensed a powerful pulling force coming from the front.
Before he could do anything, Dorcas was dragged toward the space rift.
When Dorcas was pulled directly in front of the spatial crack, he finally saw the crack that was even thinner than a strand of hair.
However, before he could express his surprise, he was torn into two by a tearing force.
Everyone looked on helplessly as Dorcas's body was torn apart just like that, and finally fell into the void …
"Mister Kael …" Kael looked at Angor with a complicated expression.
"What? Do you have a question?"
Kael quickly shook his head. "No, no."
Angor remained calm. "It's normal to be torn apart by space rifts."
Kael didn't know what to say when he saw Angor's serious expression and heard Dorcas cursing in the Spirit Bond.
Aside from the fact that Dorcas was a Bloodline Wizard and might not be strong enough to resist space rifts, Kael also thought that Dorcas was just a normal human being.
Dorcas stood there for a long time without being "sucked" away. But when Kael pointed at the space rift, Dorcas was instantly sucked away.
It sounded like the space rift was trying to devour Dorcas. But space rifts didn't have consciousness, and Dorcas was only an illusion. It wasn't the space rift that killed him.
It was Angor for sure.
Dorcas wasn't the only one who understood this. Everyone understood this, including Dorcas, who had been 'killed'. Or else, Dorcas wouldn't be cursing in the Spirit Bond.
"When the observed object changes from an unknown state to a known state, the observer's state will change as well," Angor explained in a serious tone.
What Angor said wasn't hard to understand. When a variable was still a variable, it had infinite possibilities. But when the variable became a known quantity, all "possibilities" would collapse, and only the result shown by the quantity would be left.
It didn't sound like a problem at first. But if Dorcas didn't know there was a space rift in front of him, he could be alive or dead. But once he knew there was a space rift in front of him, he would be dead for sure.
It didn't make any sense at all.
Dorcas wasn't an idiot. He saw the flaw in Angor's words. "Bullshit!" he yelled in anger and began to refute Angor's words word by word.
Angor waited for Dorcas to finish. "Who told you that the observed object is a space rift, and the observer is you?"
"To be specific, you're the observed object."
The Spirit Bond remained silent for a while. About ten seconds later, Wai broke the silence.
"So you're saying that since you didn't notice the space rift, Red can stay alive, but when you see it, you'll definitely die?"
In other words, the observer was Kael, who pointed out the existence of the space rift in front of Dorcas. This also reminded Angor to perfect the illusion.
According to the rules Angor set up in the beginning, life and death were related to the real world.
In other words, if a "mortal" was in front of a space rift in the real world, he or she would be pulled in and cut into pieces. In this case, Dorcas would also be affected by the space rift in the illusion.
However, Angor didn't notice the space rift in the beginning, so the illusion didn't show up either. Now that Kael mentioned the space rift, Angor had to fill in the missing piece of the puzzle. When the illusion created the space rift, Dorcas, who was standing closest to the rift, would be affected.
Angor nodded. "You're right. You can think of it that way."
Wa Yi also showed a look of understanding. "If that's the case, then it does make sense."
Dorcas was the only one who reacted to Wai's conversation. "You're a traitor, aren't you? How can you help him?"
Wai pretended he didn't hear anything.
Dorcas continued, "Also, Jin Mingming said something before: They can't see it, but you can sense it."
"That means he already knew there was a space rift in front of him. So, he did it on purpose! "
Everyone heard what Angor said to Kael. Dorcas' rebuttal was quite convincing.
"How do you know I'm talking about a space rift?"
"If it's not a space rift, then what is it?" Dorcas asked.
Angor considered for a moment. "Fine, I admit. I told him to sense a space rift. But I don't know which one he sensed."
Angor wasn't lying this time.
He had a lot of knowledge about space, but he didn't have much experience when it came to practical application. Of course, he wasn't as good as Kael, who had been studying space for years.
Because of this, Angor asked Kael to help him instead of doing it himself.
"Hmph. Even if you're telling the truth, you can control the illusion and make me leave first so you can simulate a space rift," Dorcas complained in his mind.
Angor didn't argue this time. He did have such an idea.
"See, I was right, wasn't I? What a dark mind! You need to know that he's a black-hearted bastard! "
Dorcas continued to nag in the Spirit Bond, but Angor didn't respond. He had already blocked the connection.
"The world is peaceful now," Angor muttered. "I should've done that sooner."
Angor looked up at Kael, who was still wearing a complicated expression. "Don't mind him. Let's keep going."
"Keep … doing what?" Kael still didn't understand what Angor wanted him to do.
"Simple. Find a path."
Angor explained briefly. Kael would control his illusion nodes to avoid all the space rifts and go deeper into the void.
"… Until you reach your limit."
Angor asked Kael to sense the space rifts earlier because he wanted to see how good Kael was. And Kael didn't disappoint. Kael's spatial senses were way better than Angor's.
Kael's perception was accurate, but his range was limited. On the other hand, Angor's perception was far away, but his accuracy wasn't as good.
By working together, they could make up for each other's weaknesses and reach deeper into the void.
Kael didn't know how to actually do it, but he understood Angor's intention.
But there was one thing Kael didn't understand.
There was no path ahead. Why did Angor want to keep going?
Kael had the same question in his mind as everyone else. Kael didn't dare to ask, but it wasn't a taboo topic for Count Black and the Wise Lord.
"Why do you want to explore the void in this direction?"
At almost the same time, the Dark Count and the Wise Sovereign both expressed similar sentiments.
Angor shrugged. "It's nothing. Just a little experiment."
Trying something? What kind of thing?
The Wise Ruler subconsciously wanted to ask, but when he thought about how he and the Black Earl had asked the same question, he guessed that the Black Earl would ask the same question as well. Thus, when the words reached his mouth, he stopped.
But to his surprise, Count Black didn't ask any more questions. It seemed he already knew what Angor was going to do.
While the Wise Overseer was wondering if he should ask something, Angor had already started working together with Kael.
It wasn't that Angor didn't want to talk. He already sensed that Dorcas' "corpse running" was about to come to an end.
To avoid further delays, he quickly called Kael over and began his first attempt at exploring the area.
Of course, Angor wasn't going to explore the end of the void. He could sense that the source of the resonance was deeper in this direction. Therefore, he wanted to see what was in the depths.
Would the wood spirit be there?
With this question in mind, Angor began to spread out illusion nodes in the distance. Following Angor's instruction, Kael attached his spirit feelers to the core of the illusion nodes and guided them forward.
With Kael's guidance, they didn't run into any trouble.
While it was inevitable that they would lose some energy during the process, as long as they didn't run into any spatial rifts, they wouldn't lose too much energy.
After walking for another two hundred meters, Angor sensed that he was about to reach the place where the item resonated with the cane resonated with him.
But at that moment, Karl suddenly stopped.
"Sir, something's wrong," Kael suddenly spoke.
"What is it?"
"The spatial energy around us is very chaotic. This isn't normal."
While listening to Kael's explanation, Angor also noticed that the seemingly peaceful environment was only a facade. The spatial energy in the void was indeed beginning to become unstable.
Although the frequency of them encountering spatial fissures didn't change, the speed at which these spatial fissures appeared and disappeared was much faster than before.
For example, Angor just saw a spatial rift appearing not far from them. However, as soon as it appeared, it was quickly covered by a chaotic energy field. The field covered the spatial rift and made it disappear, but it didn't mean that the danger was gone.
Forcefully covering a spatial rift would only increase the frequency of spatial rifts appearing around it, and it would become a "danger zone". Once they entered the danger zone, they might accidentally walk into a newly formed spatial rift.
"Should we keep going, sir?" Kael asked.
Angor considered for a moment and decided to go ahead. They were already very close to the source of the resonance, and since the source of the resonance was there, it meant that the other side was a safe zone.
With that in mind, they kept moving forward.
However, they didn't get far this time before they ran into danger.
A new spatial rift appeared out of nowhere near their core node.
The sudden appearance of this crack also meant that there was definitely a spatial crack that had been forcibly covered up in the vicinity.
And once such a danger zone appeared, it would spread at an extremely fast speed.
This meant that the area around them had already become a danger zone.
Angor began to consider whether he should go back or not.
Losing some illusion nodes and spirit feelers wasn't a big deal. At most, he would feel dizzy for a few seconds. However, if Kael lost a spirit feeler here, he wouldn't die, but his spirit energy would be damaged and he wouldn't be able to use his spirit energy for a while.
For a supernatural, not being able to use one's spirit energy would greatly affect one's condition.
For a scholar like Kael, his spirit energy was his ticket to explore the microscopic world. If he lost his spirit, he wouldn't be able to do any research for a while.
With this in mind, Angor decided to leave.
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