Chapter 331 - Abandoned Village
Chapter 331: Abandoned Village
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Angor stepped out of the plane passageway and immediately felt something was wrong.
He thought the rainbow dragonflies were taking him to the Nightmare Realm, which… didn’t happen. The area outside was still full of nightmare mist, but he did not sense that particular stillness which suggested frozen time.
When he turned back, he saw a giant monster nest about ten meters high.
It looked exactly the same as the one he saw in Lady’s Juice. Even the dragonfly guards were patrolling in the same manner.
He looked around further and only saw more mist in every direction. There were faint building silhouettes across the mist, which all looked like small wooden cottages.
He then sensed more carefully and noticed that everything here was ordinary, apart from the nightmare aura.
“This is not the Nightmare Realm… Is it the wizarding world, or another plane?”
But Angor had a question.
Everything was inside that circle. So what was “outside” the circle? Did the circle mean “safe zone”, while the area beyond was dangerous?
He had no idea about that until he ventured out to see for himself.
He took out his hologram tablet and took a photo of the map. He then left the village behind.
There was nothing else to see there, so he might as well go outside.
As long as he was away from the plane passageway, anywhere else would be fine.
…
Half a day later, Angor trotted back into the village with his head lowered in distress.
He was all ambitious when he left the village, believing that his feet could take him anywhere as long as he stayed determined.
And he was wrong. After taking a great tour, he finally understood what the circle around the map meant. It didn’t mean “safe zone”, but a restriction.
The area inside the circle was the only passable ground.
As for the circle itself… It was a stone wall that reached all the way into the sky.
Angor spent half a day as he made a full trip along the “circle”, but he did not find any opening or anything that he could use to climb the wall. And with the mist over his head, he could not see the top of the wall.
This meant he was either at the bottom of an abyss or an underground area like Midnight Sovereign. Either way, it wasn’t easy to get out.
His most important task right now was to find an exit.
And he believed such an exit existed. There was only a dense forest around the village. There was no cultivable soil or ranch field. The villagers who once lived here couldn’t possibly survive by picking fruits off the trees only.
Those pens and forging tools had to have come from somewhere outside. There had to be a way to go somewhere, and he had to find it as soon as possible.
He walked on the main path of the village while thinking about this question. He left his spirit feelers out to scan the surroundings so that he could notice anything of interest.
Also, he began to realize that the village might have been more beautiful than he imagined.
The decayed houses didn’t prevent him from noticing the careful designs of them. Almost every family had trees planted around their house. It was just that most of them had died due to the lack of sunlight. He tried to establish the image of a lively village in his mind, where friendly villagers, colorful flowers, and fruitful trees laid everywhere.
It seemed like a perfect paradise to escape the war too, should any war broke out outside.
But despite his imagination, there were only ruins and silent sadness left behind.