Parmigi Highlands, above the moat.
When Angor and Madelyne arrived, Moonfrost Union's guards had already arrived and were preparing for the trade.
"It won't take long. Let's go to their Frozen Wing first," Madelyne said to Angor and walked toward the Moonfrost Union's flying vehicle.
The Frozen Wing was a large vehicle belonging to Moonfrost Union. It looked like a giant iceberg with a pair of wings. Angor could feel the extreme coldness from it even before he got close.
Angor followed Madelyne onto the Frozen Wing and noticed that there were different areas on the iceberg. The area near the bottom was filled with pale-faced laborers wearing thick fur coats. The flat road on the mountainside was filled with sorcerer-apprentices. They wore different clothes and came from different backgrounds.
According to Madelyne, they were all apprentices from major organizations or clans who accepted Abyss Quests.
Angor remembered seeing Abyss Quests in the questing hall before, such as frontline construction or patrolling. However, when he asked the guard on duty, the guard told him that no one would accept the challenge and advised him not to do it.
"Most organizations don't recommend Abyss Quests, but the rewards are great. There are always people who are not afraid of death," Madelyne explained. "Apart from them, there are also those who seek enlightenment in desperation."
Desperation meant that people who wandered between life and death, hoping to squeeze out their hidden potential and break through a bottleneck. However, this so-called bottleneck did not include the great barrier. This was because breaking through the great barrier required not only potential, but also the accumulation of one's foundation.
At the top of the iceberg was a large platform that looked like a square. There were few people here, but most of them were wizards.
Seeing this, Angor flew to the hillside area on his own.
However, Madelyne stopped him before he could take a step. "You didn't accept an Abyss Quest, so you don't need to go. Just follow me."
With that, Madelyne grabbed his wrist and leaped from the mountainside to the platform at the top of the mountain.
Angor and Madelyne's arrival only attracted a small number of people's attention.
No one paid attention to an apprentice like Angor. Instead, they were all looking at Madelyne.
Madelyne used to be from a wizard family in Goman Kingdom. Ever since she joined Brute Cavern, she had been keeping a low profile and rarely showed up in public. Madelyne's trip to the Abyss Plane with Brute Cavern's supplies attracted a lot of attention.
However, Madelyne didn't have much to offer. She had just joined a wizard organization, so she didn't know much about the big organizations. Most people just glanced at her and didn't pay attention to her anymore.
Madelyne did not mind being ignored. Instead, he led Angor to a corner of the square and explained to Angor about the wizards from different organizations while waiting for the trade to end.
"Do you see those scantily clad women over there?" Madelyne glanced at a woman not far away and snorted: "This style of dress, if it's not Elysium Bliss, then it's Garden of Virtue. Her name is Beatrice, and she's a Shadow Sorcerer. "
While listening to Madelyne's introduction, Angor glanced around. Angor tried to hide his gaze, but wizards had better senses. They easily noticed Angor's gaze. However, since he was just an apprentice who was only looking at them with curiosity, they ignored him.
Apart from wizards, there were also some apprentices and Monster Attendants here. Like Angor, there were quite a number of people who were sneaking glances at them.
Angor looked around and didn't recognize anyone except for one or two faces he saw in magazines.
Just as he retracted his gaze, he inadvertently made eye contact with an adept not far away.
It was a stooped and thin old man with a white beard. The skin on his cheeks was loose, and he was sinking with the gravity of the earth. However, even though his appearance was old, his eyes were shining brightly, without any signs of turbidity.
The old man nodded at Angor with a smile and fell into deep thought.
"That lady with the lamp over there is Tong, a new genius witch from Nocturnal Forest. I heard she's quite close to Leona …" Madelyne raised an eyebrow when she saw Angor looking at the old man. "You know him?"
"No." Angor shook his head.
Madelyne didn't ask why. "He's Vifet from Moxa Westland. His nickname is' The Light of Twilight '. He has a good reputation in the wizarding world. I heard that he has connections all over the world. I heard he even has connections in the Northern Territory and the Western Continent."
Connections in the Northern Territory and the Western Continent? Angor was a little surprised. There were four basic realms in the wizarding world: the Eastern Territory, the Southern Territory, the Northern Territory, and the Western Continent.
These four domains were extremely far apart from each other, and the space-time distance was almost immeasurable. It was extremely difficult to travel to other realms.
But this Vifet had connections all over the Northern Territory and the Western Continent. This was no easy feat. Could it be that Vifet had been to other realms?
Madelyne didn't know how to answer Angor's question. "Maybe. I don't know Vifet that well. I heard he left the Southern Territory 600 years ago and came back 300 years ago. I don't know if he really went to other realms. "
Angor looked at Vifet again and saw the man closing his eyes to take a nap.
Madelyne kept talking to Angor. There weren't many wizards here. Most of them were guards from the Moonfrost Union. Madelyne didn't know Angor very well, so she stopped talking after a while.
Madelyne was trying to find a topic to learn more about Angor, but she suddenly heard a loud noise coming from the lower level of Frosty Wing.
Angor was standing at the edge of the square, so he could see what was going on.
The body of a laborer on the lower floor suddenly exploded, and a huge blood-colored flower grew out of his body. The Blood Flower had a huge mouth, and as it swayed, it instantly swallowed another worker beside it.
Those workers were the ones who unloaded the goods. Because they had to inspect the goods in person and to prevent them from being misappropriated, the goods from the Abyss were actually placed inside the iceberg by the Moon Frost Alliance.
Now that it was time to unload the goods, the workers came in handy. One by one, they began to move the goods down from the iceberg so that the wizards of Brute Cavern could inspect them.
"Something went wrong with the goods. The seed of the Abyss Man-Eater Flower fell into the worker's body," Madelyne said. Madelyne said, "That's the larva of the Abyssal Man-Eater Flower. Its seeds need flesh and blood as nourishment for it to bloom. Now, that worker has become fertilizer for the flower. "
Madelyne shook her head. "I checked the list. It was Leona who ordered it. So that thing is useless. "
Useless? Angor didn't know what Madelyne meant. Leona had already arrived at the lower level of Frosty Wing. Her expression was terrible, and the guards were bowing to her.
"It's already blooming. Why?" Angor was confused.
"The same seed will grow and perform differently in different environments, lands, and climates. Although the Abyss Man Devouring Flower broke out of the ground, what caused it to break out of the ground was only the body of an ordinary mortal, so its later growth was inevitably affected. "
"I heard that Leona went to look for wizard-level monster flesh to nourish the Abyss Man-Eater Flower. No wonder she's so angry, "Madelyne explained.
In the end, the guards paid Leona's compensation, and the Abyss Man-Eater Flower was burned to ashes.
It was only a small interlude, but it still piqued Angor's curiosity.
As an alchemist, Angor was always interested in materials, not to mention the fact that they came from another world.
Since he was here to inspect the goods, he had a chance to observe them.
Most of the goods were special materials found on the surface layer of the Abyss. Some of them were from the inner layer, such as the Abyss Man-Eater Flower.
Angor recognized most of the materials on the surface layer, but when it came to the inner layer, he had no idea what he was looking for.
Even Madelyne couldn't recognize the goods even though she read the list.
The inner layer of the Abyss was a forbidden zone for wizards.
The so-called frontline of the Abyss was only the surface layer.
Even if the Moonfrost Union wanted to explore the inner layer, they would only wander around the fourth layer. No one dared to go any further. According to legend, the inner layer of the Abyss was limitless, which was why it was called the "Infinite Abyss". Now, the frontline wizards were already stopped at the fourth layer.
Half an hour later, the trade was completed.
The guards of the Moonfrost Union slowly returned to the top of the ice mountain, and the Frozen Wing began to flap.
"It's time to leave," Madelyne said.
Angor looked at the ground and saw a dozen wizards and apprentices looking at the Frozen Wing in the sky. Their eyes were filled with hope and eagerness.
It was a farewell, but also a blessing.
Everyone knew that the journey to the Abyss was a long one, and this might be the last time they saw each other.
…
The Frozen Wing was slowly flying over Parmigi Highlands.
In fact, the Frozen Frost Wings could increase its speed. However, with the two worlds merging, spatial anomalies were occurring. Even the appearance of a crack could cause the Frozen Frost Wings to lose its effectiveness.
As a precaution, the Moonfrost Union had to slow down the Frozen Wing's speed.
"I'm starting to miss your Gondola." Madelyne smiled at Angor.
The Gondola was small, so it could quickly turn around if it encountered a crack. Compared to Frostwing, which was a big monster, it was much better.
"Gondola can only be used here. Once we leave Parmigi Highlands, it won't be as good as the Frozen Wing." Angor glanced at the Frozen Wing's structure. There were many space-stabilizing devices, which meant the Frozen Wing could travel across long distances.
Combined with the Frozen Wing's defensive capabilities, the Frozen Wing was much stronger than the Gondola.
Madelyne wanted to continue the topic by asking Angor about alchemy, but she noticed that Angor was lost in thought.
Did he find out about the Frozen Wing's unique alchemy method?
What Madelyne didn't know was that Angor wasn't thinking about alchemy at all. Instead, he was thinking about someone he saw before the Frozen Wing set off.
White Bear.
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