Chapter 835 Entering the Mirror
After surfacing again, Angel tried to find the trace of the island at the angle where he had just entered the water, but except for Ariel who was approaching cautiously and the "Red-haired Girl" who was moving slowly forward under Elaine's control, there was still only lingering thick fog and the sea as calm as a mirror.
Calm... like a mirror?
Angel caught a glimpse of inspiration. She first dived below the sea surface to eliminate any wrong options, and used her naked eyes protected by the extra sclera to observe the surrounding sea water. As expected, she saw that even the fish and corals did not exist, only a dead ocean.
Then, she returned to the surface of the sea, and her figure flashed, appearing next to a glass window at the rear of the deck.
This is not a "mirror substitute", but a deeper level of skill in utilizing the "mirror world".
In the short twenty-meter distance from the sea to the deck, Angel had already discovered the abnormality of the entire sea area:
Below the sea surface, there is no space for any "mirror world".
This was the key point that she had completely missed when she used the magic mirror to observe the situation inside the fog yesterday.
No wonder Wensa said that time, place, and skill were all crucial... If the witch seeking the Fountain of Youth had been too cautious and hadn't even entered this sea area, instead only exploring from the outside, she wouldn't have discovered anything unusual about it...
Angel thought about it, and his eyes gradually lit up.
She already knew the crux of the matter:
The island where the "Fountain of Youth" is located is hidden in a special "mirror world", and this space can only be entered by special methods, rather than freely entering and exiting like the "Despair" witches who travel freely through ordinary mirror passages.
After realizing this, the only thing Angel has to do is to find the key to enter the "special mirror world".
During her trip to Trier in June, she had already witnessed the method of using a specific silver mirror to enter a special mirror world, so she was naturally familiar with it. However, there was no silver mirror that served as a key here. The information provided by Wenza and Tia did not mention this at all. Instead, they talked about "witch's skills" and "ways that only witches know"...
If they meant the "world in the mirror", this is indeed a skill that only demigod witches know, but there is no mirror that can be entered below the sea surface... Could it be that the real "mirror" is this windless sea area?
"Elaine, stop blowing the wind!"
Angel shouted, causing the red-haired girl standing by the helm, who was stirring the sky with a slightly excited look, to stop with some regret.
The man-made wind and waves around gradually subsided, and the three-masted sailboat gradually stopped gliding under the resistance of the sea water, floating quietly on the mirror-like sea surface. The surrounding fog once again shrouded the deck, and repressed emotions were transmitted among the sailors.
The same depressed and dull mood also appeared in Angel's heart. She looked at the calm sea around her and found that although there was no wind here and no marine life disturbed the sea water, tiny waves still rose from everywhere from time to time, and irregular water ripples continued to generate, merge, and disappear. In her "sensing" of the mirror, it seemed that every individual area of this sea area could serve as a "mirror", but they could not be connected into one piece, and people could not pass through.
And I suspect that even if I could capture a mirror that was large enough for me to pass through alone, I would only enter an ordinary mirror world above the sea, not the special mirror world that hides the "Fountain of Youth"... Angel pondered, and Wenza's slightly playful and sarcastic reminder appeared in his mind again.
Time, place, and the witch's skills are all indispensable... I am now in the foggy sea, and I have confirmed that I need to use the "mirror world" technique. Then the only thing left is time?
"Elaine, what time is it?"
She looked at Elaine, who had stopped controlling the strong wind and was boredly picking up the huge ruby in the "Rose Necklace" and observing it from various angles, and asked.
The latter took out his pocket watch, glanced at it, and replied, "It's already afternoon in Bayam, but it should be noon here."
Is noon... a special time? Or, like some legend, will this mirror world "open" at midnight?
Angel was thinking when the ruby in Elaine's hand emitted a dazzling light, which made her look at it.
That was the dazzling light reflected from the gem by the suddenly intense sunlight.
She looked up at the sky with a look of realization, and found that the dark clouds that had been covering the fog had dissipated at some point. The midday sun shone on the sea, and even the fog dispersed a little.
Sunlight...reflection...
Mirror?
Various thoughts raced through Angel's mind, quickly forming a strange idea. She came to the side of the ship and looked down, and found that with the strong sunlight, the reflection of the "Redhead Girl" in the sea became clearer, and the fog around it gradually dissipated. Not far from the reflection of the ship, a huge but hazy shadow appeared, like some kind of mirage.
That is the island in the mirror world.
It turns out that the "time" that Wensa mentioned refers to the moment when the clouds dissipate and the sun shines!
Angel suppressed her excitement and immediately tried to enter this special mirror world, but the sea water around her was still calm, but not completely calm. The tiny waves and the disturbance of the water lines made it impossible for them to serve as a real mirror and open the door to another world.
Unless... the water surface stops completely and the sea water freezes completely!
"Ariel, come up!"
Angel shouted loudly, and before the mermaid still soaking in the water below could react, several invisible spider silks extended out and tied her up tightly. She scooped up the "lazy fish" like catching a sea fish and threw it into her exclusive seawater barrel. Water splashed on the deck, and several sailors who were close to it were splashed by the seawater splashed by Ariel's fish tail.
In an instant, they felt a biting cold, as if they had come from the summer sunshine into the bitter cold of winter.
Extremely cold air continued to surge out from around Angel's body, bypassing the sailors on the deck and spreading towards the surrounding sea water. The humid sea mist immediately condensed into water droplets, which turned into snowflakes before falling into the sea, slowly drifting down on the frozen sea surface.
Under the full control of the witch "Despair", thick frost formed on the sea surface hundreds of meters around the "Red-haired Girl" in less than a minute. The thick fog in the air precipitated into white snowflakes and quickly merged with the ice surface to form a crystal clear ice layer, presenting a dreamlike scene under the sun, making all the sailors ignore the coldness on their bodies and cling to the side of the ship to marvel at it.
Snow in July was a scene they had never seen at sea. Such a legend only existed in the polar sea far south of the southern continent.
But Angel had no time to appreciate such a beautiful scenery. All her energy was focused on smoothing the temporary ice surface. Snowflakes formed by the moist sea mist kept falling on the ice around the ship, filling the uneven surface of the ice until it could reflect the scorching sun above, the ships on the sea, and the reflection of the "island" that appeared again at some point.
At the moment when all the real and illusory scenes appeared on the ice surface at the same time, Angel sensed this new "mirror".
Without hesitation, she used it as the entrance to the "mirror world" and activated this "key" that only a witch could create.
The crystal clear ice surface immediately turned deep and dim, with layers of space emerging inside, as if leading to an unknown world.
The "Red-haired Girl" that was originally fixed in the middle of the ice also broke free from its restraints and slowly sank to the sea surface, first the hull, then the deck, and finally the mast and bright sails.
At the moment the top of the mast "entered" the ice, all the sailors felt dizzy and lost the direction of gravity, as if they were floating in the air and in free fall.
"ah--"
The first one to scream was the frightened siren Ariel. Her sharp voice pierced everyone's eardrums, making people feel violent and want to pick up the weapons beside them to smash and chop everything!
Angel was not affected by the noise. She looked up and watched the mirror made of ice moving away until it became an invisible dot, and the "Red-haired Girl" kept falling, as if falling into an endless abyss. The surroundings were similar to other "mirror worlds", but there was no "passage" for people to pass through, only illusory gray mist.
The next second, the darkness receded and the light returned.
The feeling of falling on everyone disappeared in an instant, and the "Redhead Girl" appeared in the sparkling sea. The sun was still unobstructed above their heads. The thick fog around them retreated to several miles away, surrounding the sea area like a towering wall of fog, forming an "eye of the storm" of the same size as the sea area shrouded by fog before.
"It's as calm here as the eye of a typhoon..."
Elaine muttered, looking around the deck and suddenly froze.
Before her, a huge island was within reach.
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"So, Miss Angelica went to find the Fountain of Youth and isn't in Backlund?"
In a cafe in the Cherwood area adjacent to the East District, Sherman, who was slightly disguised to hide her appearance, and Triss, who was wearing a wide-brimmed hat and covering her face with a black veil, were enjoying coffee and exquisite pastries as afternoon tea for the two ladies.
Holding a cat tongue biscuit in her mouth, Sherman asked in a low voice, her head slightly tilted to one side, looking innocent and cute.
"Of course. Perhaps the next time you see her, she'll already be Sequence 3," Triss chuckled and replied mysteriously. "Also, I'm teaching you these moves to use on Viscount Stratford. Don't act naive in front of me."
She flicked a cookie crumb with her fingertips and hit Sherman's forehead accurately, causing the latter to put away his fake smile.
Then, the smile shifted to her own face.
Sequence 3... I just finished digesting the Sequence 7 potion. The gap between me and her is even greater than the gap between an ordinary person and me... Sherman's eyes flickered as she suddenly asked:
"That 'Red Glove' yesterday should have seen my face. If the church issues a warrant, will it affect our plan to deal with Stratford?"
"Of course I will. That's why I told you to be more cautious earlier, but it seems you didn't listen at all... If I hadn't been nearby, you would have been captured and thrown into that Chanis Gate, living with the Sealed Artifact." Triss picked up a croissant, sniffed it with a frown, and returned it to the plate. She said helplessly, "Luckily, your Miss Angelica should know that guy, so I wrote her a letter to tell her about this and let her handle it."
"Miss Angelica knows the 'Red Glove'?"
Sherman's eyes widened as he asked back.
The disheveled, messy-haired man in the windbreaker and his unruly smile seemed to appear before her eyes again.
Would the "Golden Queen" know such a person?
"Yes, I met him once in Tingen City a year ago. Back then, he didn't even wear the red gloves. He was just an ordinary Nighthawk, as reckless as you, and even more foolish... At that time, your Miss Angelica was also a Nighthawk, not even a 'witch'..."
Triss muttered, her eyes unfocused as she lost herself in memories.
"At that time, at that time..." Her tone suddenly changed, as if she had thought of something bad, "I stabbed her man... I wonder if she will hate me..."
As she spoke, she looked at Sherman, and Sherman looked at her, and they looked at each other in surprise.
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