After sighing a few times, the Fey Gentleman did not extend the topic of Nightmare Light, but continued to walk forward.
Although Angel felt itchy with curiosity, he could not say much, so he followed in silence. As for the mystery of the Nightmare Light, he could only try to find the truth after leaving here.
...
"We’ve arrived. From here, you can reach the Candle Corridor."
After passing through the territories of many terrifying insect swarms, and finally taking a small path through a dense forest, they arrived at the northeastern slope of Rainbow Mountain.
This is a relatively flat region, offering a very wide view, allowing them to clearly see everything here.
On the left is a small house in the shape of a loaf of bread, like a restaurant, behind which is a pink lake continuously bubbling with mist and foam. Presumably, this lake is the source of the Pink Princess, while on the right are several mother nests of Colorful Dragonflies resembling mountain hollows.
Although the Fey Gentleman said you could reach the Candle Corridor from here, Angel hadn’t yet found the so-called entrance.
As Angel looked around, the door of the bread house opened, and with a tremor of the ground, Davascia, looking like a meatball, walked out from within.
With black and white eyes blinking a couple of times, Davascia tilted his head before finally fixing his gaze on Angel.
"Lord Shava, would you like to have the Candy Feast I prepared?" Davascia looked at Angel with shining eyes.
Angel remained silent for a moment, then shook his head: "I just ate a dinner at Misty Goldlady’s castle earlier, so I’m not hungry now."
Davascia lowered his head in some disappointment: "Oh..."
"When Lord Shava gets hungry, will you come here to have the Candy Feast?" Davascia looked back up with hopeful eyes after his initial disappointment.
"If we are still in Xinnai Land by then, there’s a chance." Angel replied ambiguously.
Davascia didn’t think too much about it. Hearing "there’s a chance," he happily nodded, muttering, "I should prepare in advance, what ingredients should I use?" Then, Davascia, biting his finger, returned to the bread house.
Angel’s mouth moved as if wanting to say something but in the end, nothing came out.
"Davascia is just like that, only hearing what he wants to hear. However, he is truly eager to make a Candy Feast that will satisfy Lord Shava." The Fey Gentleman remarked from the side. Although he did not say it outright, the hidden meaning still hoped Lord Shava would return to Xinnai Land in the future.
After the Fey Gentleman finished speaking, he walked forward. He didn’t head to either side but went straight to the front.
In front of a stone wall beneath a small slope.
The Fey Gentleman reached out and tapped the stone wall, which then disappeared, revealing in front of them a dark passage.
"This is the entrance and exit of the Candle Corridor." After saying this, the Fey Gentleman was the first to step into the passage.
Angel also followed, and upon stepping into the Candle Corridor, he thought to himself: as expected, his previous suspicion was correct, that there are dangers lurking near each region’s entrance and exit.
Especially at this connection between the Candle Corridor and Rainbow Mountain, not only are there Colorful Dragonflies, but Davascia’s home is also nearby.
If it were someone else entering, they’d likely face Davascia immediately.
Angel now felt somewhat fortunate that he could still communicate with Sanders through the Wilderness of Dreams. Otherwise, if they entered this relic because of him, the outcome would likely not be favorable.
...
Candle Corridor.
At first glance, it looked much like what Angel saw when looking through the relic gate. It was all narrow corridors, with wall-mounted candelabras at intervals casting light, so it wasn’t too dark.
However, the reach of the candlelight was limited in dispelling darkness, and shadows existed between the candelabras. Within these shadows lurked some strangely shaped ghosts.
Upon entering the Candle Corridor, the Dalmatian jumped down from Angel’s arms and started barking at some dark corners.
And the targets of its barking were these oddly-shaped magical creatures.
For instance, this one in front of them.
It was a magical creature emerging from the darkness, resembling a leopard. Overall, it looked like a black magic leopard, but the middle of its abdomen, not covered by fur, revealed stark white bones. These bones didn’t contain any internal organs but a faintly glowing metallic sphere.
Upon its appearance, the strange bone leopard stared at Angel with a fierce gaze.
This was the first magical creature Angel encountered after entering the relic that harbored intense malice towards him. Perhaps for this reason, the Dalmatian leaped down from his embrace, positioned itself in front of Angel, and barked at this bone leopard.
Seeing the bone leopard was about to pounce on Angel, the Fey Gentleman standing by the side lightly snapped his fingers, causing the glowing metallic sphere in the bone leopard’s abdomen to bubble and release a large amount of steam.
After a second or two, a muffled sound came from inside the sphere, and its light quickly diminished. Simultaneously, the green glow in the bone leopard’s eyes vanished, as if its soul had been lost.
Subsequently, the bone leopard completely turned into a corpse, collapsing to the ground.
It was only then that the Fey Gentleman awkwardly explained: "These magical creatures I captured from the void and modified..."
For this reason, these creatures couldn’t sense Shava’s aura, and thus couldn’t be suppressed by Shava’s rank.
This didn’t surprise Angel much. Seeing the bone leopard, he already sensed it wasn’t a Nightmare Realm Demon, so he believed the Fey Gentleman’s explanation.
More than anything, Angel was curious about the "modification" mentioned by the Fey Gentleman.