It’s a pity that dreams and reality are separated by a chasm, fire creatures don’t dare come near him at all, even if he wants to fool them, there’s no place to use it.
As for forcibly capturing... he has no plan to do that for now, after all, he has recently built a friendly foundation with the life in the Region of Fire. Even if he really wants to break it, he’s at least going to wait until he gets Feng’s information first.
With full regret, Angel descends to the edge of the Lava Lake.
Dangross jumped off the Hand of Magic, using its index and middle fingers as feet, pattering to the edge of the Lava Lake, gazing into the wilds around, then turning back to Angel: "Mr. Pat, Teacher Magu spends most time sleeping, I’ll first check if it’s awake."
After Dangross finished speaking, it directly leaped into the lake, but did not sink, instead standing on the rolling surface of the lava lake, its two "feet" moving rapidly, treading the waves.
Finally, Dangross floated to a relatively calm area of the lake.
This relative calmness is only made with the naked eye, Angel can clearly see from the perspective of spiritual power that Dangross has stopped next to a transparent "sprout".
The sprout floating on the lake is an extension of Magu’s organ.
After coming to the sprout, Dangross did not speak, but carefully approached. Just as Dangross was about to touch the sprout, the sprout suddenly swayed and its mouth filled with sharp teeth directly came down on Dangross.
Dangross cried out in pain.
"Let go, let go! Teacher Magu, it’s me, it’s me!" Dangross called out.
But the sprout did not stop, still biting onto Dangross, Dangross used all its strength to force open the mouth, only then created an escape gap.
Dangross immediately leaped back to the lakeside swiftly.
As soon as Dangross got ashore, it collapsed on the scorched earth, panting heavily, looking exhausted and scared.
"Your Teacher Magu doesn’t seem too welcoming to you." Angel glanced at the sprout in the distance which became silent again, then looked down at Dangross.
Dangross rested for a moment before catching its breath: "That’s not it, Teacher Magu’s outer tentacle, when he sleeps, will automatically attack the surrounding active life."
"Actually, as long as you dive under the lake, the tentacle won’t attack, but this Lava Lake is Teacher Magu’s domain, before diving it’s better to greet the tentacle."
Angel: "I see, but it’s still sleeping, do we need to wait for it to wake up?"
Dangross shook its head: "No need, when I was bitten by the tentacle just now, I already sent a stream of fire along the tentacle’s esophagus into its body, surely the teacher will wake up after receiving it."
What Dangross said was normal, but to Angel it feels like it farted in Magu’s esophagus.
Shaking off the unseemly image in his mind, Angel stood quietly by the lakeside with Dangross.
While waiting, Angel suddenly feels a slight movement at his feet.
Looking down, he finds a tiny crack in the scorched earth where a slug the size of an infant’s fist, covered in blue fire, is slowly crawling out.
After crawling out, the slug seems confused, spinning in place.
Seeing this, Dangross runs quickly over, using its thumb and pinky finger together, picks up the blue fire slug.
Dangross buries its palm in the blue fire slug, rubbing it non-stop. The scene looks like a human burying their face in a feline’s fur to breathe deeply.
After a long while, Dangross lifts its "head," using its pinky to pat the blue fire slug, then carefully places it back in the Lava Lake.
Watching the blue fire slug disappear, Dangross couldn’t help but "laugh with hands on hips": "Today’s harvest is decent, I’ve collected another little follower, hahaha!"
Angel: "...What is this?"
Dangross: "That little spirit was just born out of the World’s Harmony, I just spoke to it, told it to become my follower, I can protect it in the future, then it agreed."
Angel full of doubts: "Do newborn Elemental Sprites already have Spirit Intelligence?"
Dangross: "Of course not, not everyone is as smart as me!"
Angel: "Then how would it agree to be your follower?"
Dangross with an ’it’s only natural’ expression: "I left my flame in its body, it has recognized my flame, naturally becomes my follower!"
Are you collecting followers or coveting its body...
And after hearing Dangross’s words, Angel again pictures Dangross excreting into someone else’s body.
Angel looked at Dangross with suddenly a subtle expression, this subtlety carrying a hint of contempt.
Dangross didn’t realize Angel’s psychological change, it was looking around at the moment: "Every time the World’s Harmony arrives, a lot of little elves are born, surely there are more nearby, I must seize the chance to collect more followers."
Soon enough, Dangross discovers another newly born Smoke Tadpole, it excitedly wanted to collect a follower, but this Smoke Tadpole was swimming in mid-air smoke, it simply couldn’t reach it.
Frustrated, Dangross came to the lakeside, whistled. Half a minute later, a group of fluttering fire butterflies flew out from under the lake, under Dangross’s command, the fire butterflies landed on it, all spread their wings together and carried it up into the air.
Dangross was carried by the butterflies to the Smoke Tadpole’s side, then uses the same trick as before on the blue fire slug, embracing the tadpole in a fierce inhale.
In no time, Dangross landed on the ground, waved to the tadpole, which immediately drifted along the smoke beside it, affectionately snuggling up.
Clearly, once more an ignorant newborn little Sprite was corrupted by Dangross.
Dangross contentedly patted the tadpole’s head, signaled it to operate on its own, then manipulated the fire butterflies to search for Elemental Sprites around, once a target was found, it would quickly run to collect a follower.
After a good while, Dangross seemed to find no more newborn sprites nearby, then indicated the fire butterflies to return home, it went back to Angel’s side itself.
Angel witnessed the entire scene, filled with confusion towards Dangross’s behavior: "Are those butterflies your followers?"
Dangross nodded: "Of course, that group of butterflies was the little sprites born during the last time the World’s Harmony arrived."
"Why do you collect so many followers?"...Are you really not coveting their bodies?
Dangross: "A little brother is a little brother, he can help me fight."
"Help you fight?" Angel seemed to recall something: "Was that self-destructing furball monster your little brother too?"