Barren
“To heal the damage done to my sea of consciousness, as well as dispel the mark from Alric, half of my spiritual force can’t be used during this period, right?”
Leylin stroked his chin while contemplating.
A moment later, he decided. “Let’s start!”
*Weng Weng!*
The moment he gave the order, silver spiritual force in his sea of consciousness clung on to the nearest cracks at the edges, and then crystallised and solidified!
The silver crystals covered about half of the sea of consciousness, and within the crystal, the milky-white spot was frozen, like a little worm frozen in amber.
After solidifying about half of his spiritual force, Leylin realised that the fine cracks in his sea of consciousness had stopped expanding after having been reinforced by the solidified spiritual force. He heaved a huge sigh of relief.
This way, he had completely dealt with the troublesome parts of his body. The price he had to pay for this was that he could only use the strength of a rank 1 Magus.
After stabilising his injuries, Leylin was now in the mood to survey his surroundings.
It was rather dim, with some moss that gave off some faint light, which allowed him to see just a few metres away. Everything else was just pitch black.
“This must be somewhere within a cave! I wonder what direction leads to the outside…”
Leylin gave a long sigh and took another look at the teleportation spell formation.
The spell formation here was the same as that in the Ancient Spirit Slayer Sect’s secret plane. However, a rune at one of the corners had already been destroyed by Leylin.
Leylin believed that if he was the rank 3 Magus on the other end if he was not going to personally keep watch, he would destroy the spell formation at the other area. Hence, this teleportation spell formation would not be able to be used for a long period of time.
On one end, the set up by the Magi of the Spirit Slayer Sect was very simple. There was only the spell formation in the cave, and other than that, there was a very long and narrow passage that seemed to be carved out from the stone walls.
“Night Vision!”
Leylin used a support-type acolyte level spell on himself.
A black glint flashed in his eyes, and darkness no longer hindered his sight and he took his surroundings in.
“The dark elemental particles here are very dense. It seems to be more than in the south coast!” While using this spell Leylin could tell the large difference between the two continents.
If it was said that the concentration of dark elemental particles in the air in the south coast was 1, it would be at least 1.5 or even up to 2 here.
“A.I. Chip! Test the concentration of elemental particles in the air and make a comparison with that in the south coast!”
[Mission established. Beginning collection of data. Generating comparative diagrams.]
Quickly enough, the A.I. Chip transmitted two different pie charts to Leylin.
In the pie chart, the ratio of colours that represented different elemental particles had various percentages. These were all presented in front of Leylin clearly.
“On the right is the average data found on the south coast, while the one on the left is the newest data!”
Leylin compared the differences between the two.
The newest set of data revealed that the concentration of dark, shadow and death, as well as other negative energy particles, rose to about two times that of in the south coast.
The positive energy particles such as that of light, plant and life were a little lower.
“Also, the concentration of earth elemental particles is quite high, while fire and water are quite meagre.”
Leylin touched his chin, looking thoughtful.
“In other words, there is approximately the same concentration of elemental particles here as in the south coast, though the composition is a little different. The concentration of negative elemental particles is almost equal to that of a small scale secret plane, while the positive elemental particles are only like that of the Chernobyl Islands…”
Leylin made a few conjectures and took a few large steps forwards, entering the long and narrow stone passage.
This passage was quite long, and only after ten or so minutes of strolling did he reach the end.
At the end of the passage was a large stone door.
Calling it a door might even be a stretch. From what Leylin could tell, it was just a large rounded rock that was blocking the exit.
Through the chinks in the rock, Leylin could hear the faint sounds of wind entering.
“It’s best to keep this stone door. When I need this teleportation spell formation in the future, I can still come back!”
With a thought, he used a rank 1 spell. “Shadow Stealth!”
Black rays surrounded Leylin’s body, and within the rays, he started to become transparent.
The effect of Shadow Stealth was that the user would temporarily become hard to see, and would be able to hide within tiny shadows. He could pass through most physical objects, but in this mode, he would be unable to attack, else th