Angor returned to the dragonfly nest and prepared a temporary shelter for the night.
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Angor did not sleep at all. He lit up the fire in the stove in the center of the room and waited for the sparks to appear. With the dim light of the fire, Angor began to think about his future.
Toby, on the other hand, could settle down anywhere. He took out a small wooden bed and quilt from Snowy Feather, put on his furry pajamas, gave Angor a goodnight kiss, and lay down on the wooden bed to sleep as usual.
Toby's usual habits dispelled Angor's uneasiness about coming to a strange place.
At least he was not alone.
Angor chuckled. He put aside the random thoughts in his head and walked to the window after stretching himself. As expected, he saw a large number of colorful dragonflies outside. The colorful lights on their bodies were so dreamy that it was intoxicating.
Angor did not feel sleepy since it was his first time here. He took out his hologram tablet and began reading The Mystery of Nightmare Domain.
Life had to go on. As a wizard with a great future, he could not give up his pursuit of knowledge because of a little setback.
Time slowly passed as he studied.
When dawn came, Angor turned off the tablet and began to think about his plan for the day.
He did not rest last night, mostly because he was still excited about surviving the ordeal. However, there was another reason for him to stay up late.
However, the only difference between day and night in this desolate village that was sealed by the fog was the color of the fog. During the day, the mist was grayish white. At night, it was bluish black.
Based on the color of the mist, Angor compared the time difference between day and night. Roughly speaking, the daytime lasted for 14 hours, while the night lasted for about nine hours. This ratio of day and night was in line with the average annual rate of the Month of Harvest.
Besides, the hologram tablet also showed the time difference between day and night.
Based on this, it was highly possible that he was still in the wizarding world, and the southern wizarding region at that.
This was only a guess, and he had not tested it yet. But it was still good news. Angor's joy did not fade away for the rest of the day.
Another day was over.
He had not found a way out yet, but he was not in a hurry. Even if he could not find a way out, staying in the village for a while would not hurt.
Also, according to what he knew about Sunders, this incident should fall under the category of Sunders protecting his children. When Greya went missing, Felicia went to Starliege Church to seek help from a Prophet. He believed that Sunders would ask a Prophet to locate him and come to him since he had saved so many lives in the name of "duty".
He didn't know where his confidence came from.
But his confidence was not wrong. At least half of it was correct. As soon as he left the plane passageway, Sunders received the news in the mirror world.
Sunders did seek out a Prophet, but he did not go to Starliege Temple. It wasn't that Sunders didn't take Angor seriously. It was just that Angor's level was too low for such a high-level Prophet.
Besides, Sunders did not go looking for Angor. He only asked a Prophet one question, "Is Angor still alive?"
The Prophet never found Angor's whereabouts, and Sunders was not happy about it for half a month. After Angor left the plane passageway, the Prophet finally sensed the trace of fate. "He's alive. Maybe he's a blessing in disguise. He's fine now."
Due to Sunders' dark expression, the Prophet did not beat around the bush like he usually did. Instead, he directly stated his conclusion.
Sunders finally relaxed after hearing that Angor was still alive.
When the Prophet asked if he could locate Angor's location, Sunders refused. "As long as I know he's still alive, he'll find his own way."
Sunders left. He believed that Angor needed more training, and he did not want the boy to become a canary in an ivory tower.
Angor's confidence was only half right. Sunders did seek out a Prophet, but he only asked about Angor's current condition. Angor still had to rely on himself if he wanted to leave.
Of course, Angor did not put all his hope on Sunders. He was not in a hurry to leave the village because he needed time to settle down.
He became a level-2 apprentice by chance, but he did not have the knowledge that a level-2 apprentice should have. At least, he had to learn all the level-1 dramatics he needed. Also, he needed to study "Mystery of Nightmare Domain".
These plans needed time, so Angor did not mind staying in the village.
Angor spent the next few days studying alone.
He put "Mystery of Nightmare Domain" at the top of his list and studied it day and night. He now had a better understanding of Nightmare Domain.
There was a passage about Nightmare Domain that made him feel better about staying in the village.
"Nightmare Domain can be improved as well, but only if you have enough nightmare aura."
Nightmare aura was the aura contained in the nightmare stones mentioned by Sunders. In other words, it was the aura of the Nightmare Realm. Angor only had a few nightmare stones. He planned to use them when he needed them, such as when he was fighting a powerful enemy.
If he wanted to increase the concentration of nightmare aura in his Nightmare Domain, staying in the village was the best choice. That was because the mist here contained the aura of the nightmare realm.
The stronger the nightmare aura, the stronger the nightmare illusions he could release. He could also use the nightmare aura to raise nightmare monsters. According to "Mystery of Nightmare Domain", as long as the nightmare aura was strong enough, he could even tame a nightmare monster and use it for his own purposes.
Angor skipped this step. The rainbow dragonflies, parasites, musical teacups, toy soldiers, and so on in his Nightmare Domain were all very obedient. They would not go west if he told them to go east.
The only downside was that they were not strong enough to fight.
He also wanted to absorb the rainbow dragonflies into his Nightmare Domain to increase his power. However, his Nightmare Domain was still in the early stages, and the nightmare aura was not strong enough to feed these half-wizard level monsters. If he tried to take them in by force, the dragonflies would starve to death. So he had to give up on the idea.
Two months later, on the first day of the Month of Looming Frost, Angor finally stopped studying. He had learned all the nightmare illusions he could use, and the nightmare aura in his Nightmare Domain had reached its saturation point.
The village was like a paradise without too much danger. However, food was scarce here, and there were no wild beasts to hunt. He had been eating Mana Bread recently, which made his mouth smell like socks.
Therefore, under these circumstances, he decided to leave the village.
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For the past two months, he had searched every single house in the village but to no avail. Most of the places with written records were vague. He spent a lot of time trying to determine the history of the village and concluded that it had been abandoned for at least a thousand years.
A thousand years had passed. Even if someone tried to leave behind something useful, it would all turn into dust.
"How is he going to get away?" Angor asked in a worried tone.
Angor left the village again and began to look for a way out in the nearby forest. He wanted to find some kind of underground entrance. Most of the trees in the forest were withered, and the ground was covered with broken branches. Angor used his spirit feelers to scan the area.
However, he still didn't find anything after two rounds.
When he returned to the village, Angor decided to think from a different perspective. How would the locals get out of here?
Judging from the fine villas in the village, the people who used to live here did not have to worry about food and clothing, so there must be a way to get supplies from the outside world.
Angor simulated himself as a villager and did nothing else. He just treated himself as a normal person.
After three days, Angor came to a place.
It was the lake behind the village.
During these three days, as a "normal villager", Angor needed water to wash up, eat, and take a bath at night. If he did not use "Create Water", this lake would be the place he came to the most every day.
The lake water was black, and there was a rotten stench coming from it. Angor tried to fish from the lake to fill his stomach. However, the black, stinky substance floating on the surface of the lake was enough to make him give up.
Normally, if there was a water source, he could find a way to leave through the underground river.
However, this lake did not have any signs of running water, so Angor assumed it was a dead lake. Either it was man-made, or it was accumulated by rainwater.
It was impossible for rainwater to accumulate here. Angor had Toby fly over the lake a while ago. Above his head were solid stone walls and plants that absorbed light, so there was no way it would rain here.
This place was actually a miniature version of the Black Devil Nation's core world.
Angor did not think too much about it back then. Now that he thought about it, something did not feel right.
If this lake was not formed by rainwater, then it must be man-made. Since it was a man-made lake, where did the water in the lake come from?
Angor walked around the entire area and did not find any other water source. No one dug a well either. So this lake must be the only source of water for the villagers.
Here came the paradox.
How could a lake that could be used for daily life be stagnant? If the water was not alive, it could also deteriorate. The villagers could not live with deteriorated water.
If there was no other water source, then there was only one possibility. This lake used to have running water!
Angor looked at the lake that was probably dead for nearly a thousand years. If he wanted to know the real reason, he would go down and explore.
Angor lowered his hat and fully activated his Purification Field. A pale white light barrier surrounded him as he jumped into the dark, rotten lake.
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