Chapter 675 - v4c57 Elemental Activation (2) (1/2)

v4c57

Elemental Activation (2)

Crunch, crunch.

Brendel and Maynild slowly walked through this crystalline forest. The frozen branches turned to dustings of snow under the weight of their boots. The two of them looked up and examined this bizarre forest. The snow-white world seemed like a palace of ice. Darkness seeped out from the gaps between the trees and swallowed all sound until only the deathly silence remained.

“Something seems off.” Brendel stared at the withered forest and watched his exhalation turn into white fog that quickly disappeared in the air.

“You can’t feel any signs of life. This is a forest that has died, maybe due to being frozen?” Maynild pressed a hand against her sword and watched her surroundings with her usual alertness.

This is the legendary Tree of Fog and the Forest of Imagination that co-exists with the Crystal Stags. How could it be frozen to death?” Brendel raised both his hands and exhaled into the center of his palms before rubbing them together. “This mission isn’t going to be easy, so let’s best be careful.”

Maynild’s face chilled and she drew her blade a tiny bit, the sound of her sword sc.r.a.ping against the sheath ringing in the air. But Brendel turned around and stilled her hand. “Don’t be in such a hurry to display your antagonism. In a place like this, it’s best to be careful before we invite the dark magic forces to attack –”

But the female knight gently moved his hand away and continued to draw her blade slowly. She rea.s.sured, “Don’t worry, I can feel the flowing of the dark magic.”

Brendel watched as she drew her long blade.

“You can feel the flow of dark magic?”

Maynild remained expressionless. “Everyone has some sort of special ability. Magic forces, in my eyes, are solid. They are scattered throughout the world and restrained by unseen forces.”

“Those are Laws.” Brendel inhaled quietly. “You’re a Child of the Moon and you have greater talent than Bai Jia did. It’s such a shame that you didn’t choose the path of the Mages. The Dragon’s Magic, which molds magic forces, was practically made for you –”

The female knight swung her blade back with a whoosh and pointed the icy cold blade at Brendel’s neck. “I said, I am myself and she is herself. I don’t wish to talk of this topic with you again. I hope you learn to give others a bit of respect.”

With that, she slowly drew her blade back. With a quiet buzz, the air above her blade vibrated very slightly, as if a shapeless air current was wrapping itself around the blade.

Brendel took the scene in with his eyes and was momentarily stunned. The air twisting around the blade was clearly the airflow caused by dark magic moving — Dark Swordsmaster — he couldn’t help but give Maynild a thoughtful look.

“Apologies — “ He started to say.

But Maynild had already turned around and was walking ahead of it.

Brendel looked at the female knight walking in the snow with her back upright. Her unique sense of stubbornness and pride were her defining characteristics, so much that they must be part of her bones.

He thought it over for a moment and then quickly hurried to catch up. He had never considered that Maynild had the ability to see the flow of dark magic. Child of the Moon, the mage bloodline talent that was second only to the Azure Tribulations. No wonder she said she could help him find the Crystal Stag.

The flow of dark magic probably had shape in her eyes. The River of Magic within the forest would be like an actual river to her.

The two slowly walked through the forest for a while. They crossed deadly silent paths — this Foggy Ice Bloom Forest wasn’t exactly big, but Brendel felt very weird about it. Because he had Glow Wave, he also had the attribute to probe the darkness. But for some reason, he always thought the magic in this forest seemed to fluctuate in strength and appear on and off randomly.

He finally asked, “You can sense which way the magic is flowing?”

“I don’t know.” Maynild’s answer was very simple.

“What?”

Brendel thought the female knight was joking. But he turned around to see Maynild looking all serious. “The magic in this forest seems to have completely died away, but this is not the kind of silence that comes with death. They seemed to have once flowed across these withered paths –”

The female knight pointed to the paths in the forest. “But now, all that remains are dried up traces.”

“What… are you saying that the magic in this forest is drying up — or has already dried up?” Brendel looked stupefied at Maynild.

Warndt was a world of magic. In this world, it wasn’t atoms or something smaller but physical that made up the very gra.s.s and trees of this world. The four major elements were the basic building blocks of this rule, which was ruled by Marsha’s Tiamat Law.

Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth. As for light and dark, they weren’t really elements themselves but rather the representation of energy.

The four fairy kings, in accordance with the promise they made with Marsha, continued to construct the world at its borders. The entire world was built upon these foundations.

But underneath the elements, the world of Warndt had another source of energy — dark magic. Elements and Laws were all just bricks and blueprints of this world.

But the foundation of the world was magic.

Without magic, this world wouldn’t exist. Or rather, it would be deathly silent just like this forest. It would wither and fall into silence until it finally turned to dust.

But in reality, this supposition doesn’t exist because the entire world floated upon the Sea of Magic and magic filled the entire world to the brim. There was no reason for a natural black hole to exist.

Unless it was man-made.