Angor sensed something wrong as soon as he stepped out of the plane passageway.
He thought the rainbow dragonflies would take him to the Nightmare Realm, but they didn't. The place was filled with nightmare energy, but it didn't feel like time was frozen like in the Nightmare Realm.
Angor looked back and saw a giant nest about ten meters tall.
He was not unfamiliar with the appearance of the nest. It was exactly the same as the nest in Lady's Juice. Even the five-colored dragonflies and seven-colored dragonflies guarding it were not much different.
Angor kept looking around. Everything was blocked by the mist, and he could only see the vague outlines of buildings. Most of them were small wooden houses, which didn't look like they were built with advanced methods.
Angor carefully sensed the air and found nothing out of the ordinary except for the nightmare energy. "This isn't the Nightmare Realm. Is this the wizarding world? Or is it another plane? "
Of course, Angor hoped that this was the wizarding world. But even if someone told him otherwise, he wouldn't feel too sad.
For someone who went through despair, even the slightest glimmer of hope was a form of salvation.
Being able to leave the plane passageway was already the best thing he could do. What more could he ask for? Besides, this place might not be the dangerous Nightmare Realm, which was even better for him. What was there to be sad about?
Angor walked forward with Toby in tow.
As he moved, the rainbow-colored dragonflies and the five-colored dragonflies all followed behind him. It was like a rainbow-colored cloak that fluttered in the wind.
With such a cloak, Infinite Reticence wouldn't work even if Angor's bracelet was fully activated.
It was too dazzling!
Angor sighed helplessly. He waved a hand at his little tails and asked them to go back to their nest.
They were his saviors, after all. He didn't want to force them away like Sunders did.
Maybe they only saved the name "Shava", but Angor still felt greatly indebted to them. No matter what, he couldn't forget about saving his life, even if they were just a bunch of dragonflies.
Angor considered for a moment and decided to tell them to go back and protect the nest.
At first, the dragonflies didn't want to go back. However, Angor told them that "the queen wants you to guard the nest, not run around", and they all slowly returned to the nest.
However, there were still hundreds of rainbow dragonflies following behind him, including the one that delivered the "Hollow Weed" to him.
This dragonfly was about three times bigger than the others, and its colorful glow was also brighter. Angor assumed it was the leader of the group.
He did not disperse his emotions. Instead, he communicated with the large dragonfly alone, hoping that it would take the dragonfly away.
The giant dragonfly was smarter than the others. Only when Angor ordered it to return to its nest did it slowly lead the rest of the dragonflies back to its nest.
However, not all the dragonflies left. There was still a colorful dragonfly dancing in a figure eight pattern beside Angor. It seemed to be so excited that it forgot where it was. The dragonfly would follow Angor wherever he went.
Angor considered for a moment and decided not to chase it away. Instead, he activated his Nightmare Domain and let the dragonfly join the teacup band. The teacup band played music while the dragonfly danced. Nice, right?
After leaving the nest, Angor walked for about ten minutes in the mist to get a general idea of the layout of the place.
It seemed to be a village, but he did not see anyone here. The entire village was shrouded by the fog that gushed out from the nest's passageway. Even if one looked up, they would not be able to see the sun.
Perhaps this was a place similar to Midnight Sovereign, where everyone in the village was infected by parasites. Wait, that didn't seem right. If they were infected by parasites, they would sing and dance like crazy. However, Angor did not see anyone singing on his way here.
He also did not see any luminous parasites around the nest.
So, this was just a village covered by the nightmare aura? With that in mind, Angor pushed open the door of a small wooden hut nearby.
The hut was really small. It looked like a temporary shelter built by a hunter in the woods. It looked old and tattered, and the walls were covered with patches.
Angor tried to push the door, which broke into pieces like a piece of paper. Before he could go inside, the hut collapsed and buried Angor in a pile of broken wood.
He activated the Magic Barrier on his windbreaker when he was buried, so he wasn't hurt. When he struggled to get out, he frowned when he saw the scene of devastation.
Even the wooden hut was rotten. How long had this place been abandoned?
He wanted to find useful information in this abandoned village to confirm the location, but it seemed like it was going to be a very difficult task at the moment.
Angor did not look at the rotten hut anymore. Instead, he went to a relatively sturdy wooden and stone villa.
"Nothing special about the architecture. The door design and the size of the hut all fit the average height of a human." Angor guessed that the village was inhabited by humans or humanoids before it became a wasteland.
There were weeds in the yard, but they had not been trimmed for a long time.
Angor carefully pushed open the door of the villa. There was no collapse or weathering. The designer must have taken this into consideration.
However, just because the house did not collapse did not mean the furniture inside was still intact. Wooden tables, chairs, and dusty countertops would break if Angor exerted a little force.
"This place has been abandoned for at least hundreds of years. Maybe longer." Angor waved his hand and a thick layer of dust appeared.
The "Purification Field" was fully activated, so he didn't need to worry about the dust. However, he was more worried that the information he was looking for might have been covered by the dust or eroded by the wind due to the long passage of time.
Angor did not find anything in the small villa. The stairs on the second floor were broken. He used his spirit feelers to check the rooms on the second floor, but they were still empty.
Angor left the villa and went to several other houses, but he did not find anything.
He finally found something useful inside a large bunker building in the center of the village.
The bunker building might be something like a battle center. Angor found some dried pens and broken parchments. Some parchments still had marks on them, but they were too old and covered in dust to recognize what was written on them. He tried to brush away the dust, but the parchments were already turned into dust by the wind, so he had to give up.
The only thing he found was a map of the village.
It was a map drawn on the wall of the bunker.
There was a large circle covering the entire map. There were pictures of trees inside the circle, which probably represented a forest. There was also a wooden house in the center, which probably represented a village. There were also lakes, tents, torches … and so on.
The map showed all the terrain nearby, but there was one thing that bothered Angor.
Why were all the pictures inside the circle? What was outside the circle? Could it be that the circle represented a "safe zone"? Was there a dangerous area outside the circle?
He had no idea. He had to explore the area first.
He took out his hologram tablet, recorded the map, and left the village.
Since he couldn't find anything in the village, he would go outside.
He already escaped from the plane passageway, and everything was going well. Even if he couldn't find anything here, he could just walk out!
Half a day later, Angor, who "walked out", returned to the village with his tail between his legs.
He left the village in high spirits, thinking that he could always see the future as long as he could walk. But he was wrong. What future did he have if he couldn't even get out of the village?
He walked around the village and finally understood why there was a big circle on the map. This circle was not a safe zone, nor did it represent the boundary. It simply represented one meaning: "Restriction".
Only those inside the circle were allowed to move around on the map.
And the meaning of the circle was a stone wall that was too high to reach.
Angor walked along the "circle" on the map. It took him half a day to complete the whole thing. There were only stone walls around him. There was no way to climb because he couldn't see what was above him due to the thick fog.
Either he was at the bottom of a cliff, which looked like a valley. Either that, or it was a geocentric world like Midnight Sovereign. No matter which one it was, it would not be easy to leave this place.
He had to find a way out at least.
Angor believed that there must be a way. There was no fertile land or grazing land around here. The villagers who used to live here couldn't have relied on fruits to make a living, right?
There was also no place to make paper, iron, or stoves in the village. Those things must have come here from the outside.
There had to be a way out. But where was it? That was a problem he had to solve.
Angor walked on the main road of the village while thinking about this problem. He also used his spirit feelers to observe the houses around him. If he found any clues, he would check them right away.
While doing so, he realized that the village was much more beautiful than he thought.
The houses were all rotten and weathered, but it wasn't hard to see that many of them were carefully designed. Almost every family planted trees. Most of the trees had withered due to the lack of sunlight. In the past, the village was filled with people, tall trees, fruits, and flowers. It must have been beautiful.
There were no enemies here. Maybe this was a paradise.
But now, the paradise was gone. There was only a deserted village.
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