Chapter 608 - Another Interlayer
Angor thought there was an invisible barrier in front of him that had bent the light.
Carefully, he picked up a broomstick from a pile of junk and tried poking into the “barrier”. The broomstick did not meet any resistance, nor was it cut or damaged in any way. It went through the unknown obstacle smoothly.
But Angor saw something wrong with the light again.
As soon as the broomstick went past where the “barrier” was supposed to be, the tip of it suddenly grew darker as if the nearby light source could no longer reach it.
Angor looked at the object in his hand, which displayed two different brightness at two ends, and was sure that there was something right in front of his position that had certain effects on objects nearby.
Perhaps it meant to block light from traveling through, or even to block all sound, judging from how everything was so quiet around here.
Angor then tried reaching an arm into the “barrier”, before retracting it.
Nothing was wrong. His arm looked fine.
Froggy and Fox exchanged some looks.
“Sigh. That’s the silly dog. It’s supposed to stay with us, but it ran off to somewhere from this interlayer. So it met with you, Lord Shava.”
Angor quickly noticed a particular word that might be useful: the “interlayer”.
He knew what it meant. During Twilight Auction, when he accidentally summoned the “Queen”, that special realm of an elegant castle hall was an interlayer. Later, Sunders helped him sever the connection between that castle hall and Nightmare Realm, thus turning it into his own piece of Nightmare Domain.
According to The Mystery of Nightmare Domain, which was composed by Sunders, an interlayer always suggested the existence of a “hemi-passage”.
As for the passage…
He looked up at the black vortex above his current position.
Next, he quickly looked away and pretended that he wasn’t interested in the vortex.
“Where is Yorkshire, if I may?”
“That dum-dum went off to find this dog! I think he ran into a Nightmare Watcher who betrayed us and is fighting with the watcher right now.”
Froggy was smiling for some reason. It seemed he was happy to see Sunders and Yorkshire fight each other.
Fox looked away and showed a worried look.
Angor nodded and moved around while observing the possessed citizens so that he might find Nausica.
It was too difficult. The area wasn’t exactly bright, and his task was made harder when all people would stay away from him while making funny faces.
Angor decided to ask Toby to fly around with a lit oil lamp held in his beak so that they could check the surroundings better. Fox and Froggy didn’t question the presence of Toby—they already saw Toby together with Angor during the Twilight Auction.
“Her highness won’t do her nightwatch this time, so what’s our next plan?” While searching, Angor did not forget to pry information.
“This city looks rather fine. We may remain here and recuperate,” said Fox.
Are they going to turn Sleepless City into another of their “camp”, like Pocratee? Angor wondered.