Angel pondered for a moment and then lightly tapped the boat’s edge with his knuckle, the energy ripple instantly reaching Lobal’s tail hooking onto the boat edge.
Lobal’s three heads suddenly froze, turned rigidly, and looked at Angel.
"Master." After a mysterious moment of silence, the tail head spoke first.
Angel: "You seem to be having a heated discussion, what are you talking about?"
The tail head hesitated for a while, exchanged glances with the main and vice heads, and then spoke up: "Actually, we were in..."
As the tail head expounded, Angel finally realized that the three heads of Lobal had gathered to discuss the Shadow Box Trilogy they had watched earlier in the Ice Palace.
The Shadow Box Trilogy had left them greatly astounded with each installment; the third part, "The Possible Futures of Tidal Realm," particularly shocked them unimaginably.
"Sir, will humans surely enter the Tidal World?" the main head couldn’t help but ask.
Angel glanced at it but didn’t respond. The trilogy had already made the answer crystal clear, making the question redundant.
Seeing Angel ignoring it, the main head lowered its head awkwardly.
While the main head fell silent, the vice head raised another question: "Sir, would it be good or bad for elemental creatures if humans enter the Tidal World?"
Angel: "There are both pros and cons. But regardless, the decision isn’t in your hands, so there’s no need for you to worry."
As if prearranged, the tail head added: "After watching ’The Possible Futures of Tidal Realm,’ I’ve been wondering... do you intend to make us your elemental companions?"
As the tail head finished speaking, Cubic also perked up its ears. From this, it could be inferred that Cubic had been pondering questions related to the trilogy in silence.
Facing the tail head’s query, Angel asked in return: "Would you prefer I say yes or no?"
The tail head fell silent, but from its eyes, Angel discerned clear resistance.
This reaction was within Angel’s expectations, considering his initial encounter with these wind elemental creatures had been far from pleasant.
Angel didn’t mind; he hadn’t intended to make these pledged wind elements his companions anyway.
"Since I’ve committed to a twenty-year oath, I won’t consider other possibilities. After twenty years, you’ll be free," Angel concluded, ending the topic.
"Have you been to the Green Forest Domain before? Have you seen Nami Midori?" Angel asked.
Though still engrossed in earlier thoughts, the tail head quickly set aside its restlessness upon Angel’s inquiry and began to recount details carefully.
A few minutes later, the tail head stopped talking.
From the tail head’s account, Angel learned that Lobal had indeed visited the Green Forest Domain during its travels through the Tidal World but had not seen Nami Midori.
Lobal actually wanted to meet this legendary figure, but a certain incident later changed its mind.
Nami Midori resided in a secluded forest area within the Green Forest Domain. When Lobal was ready to approach the forest, it had been swept away by a terrifying aura before it could get close.
Afterward, Lobal found out that this was Nami Midori’s warning to intruders of her forest.
Because the aura had deeply shocked Lobal, an unprecedented terror, it no longer dared to think of meeting Nami Midori.
Moreover, according to Lobal, not only did it not get to see Nami Midori, but almost no other elemental creatures in the Green Forest Domain did either.
Even among the mouths of some newly born elves in the Green Forest Domain, stories related to "Nami Midori" had become mere legends—heard of but never seen.
This suggested that Nami Midori was not only powerful but also very mysteriously low-key.
This also explained why other region’s Element Lords and The Sage knew little about Nami Midori since she had not shown herself in a long time.
"It seems that to find out if Nami Midori’s true form is a snake, one must visit the Green Forest Domain," Angel thought to himself.
After sending Lobal away, Angel also paused his curiosity about Nami Midori.
Putting away the Illusion Technique map, Angel greeted Toby and secretly communicated with Earl Mi to stay alert before entering his daily meditation time.
As Angel entered meditation, he didn’t notice the contemplative look on Dangross’s face as it lifted its "head," seemingly making a decision, and gazed slowly at... Angel.
Three hours later, Angel awakened from his meditation.
As soon as he opened his eyes, a palm appeared before him. Instinctively, Angel swung it away, sending the palm outside the Flying Boat.
After the swing, Angel realized that the palm seemed to have eyebrows and eyes, reminiscent of Dangross?
Angel hurried to the boat’s edge to look down.
The force seemed to have sent Dangross downwards. Being an elemental creature... even a fall from a thousand meters should be fine, right? But below was the sea...
As Angel contemplated this, he saw a gust of wind rise from below.
Along with the wind came cries and wails.
Upon closer inspection, a hand made of wind gently cradled Dangross. And Dangross, unaware of being held, continued to wail.
It wasn’t until the wind hand placed Dangross back onto the Flying Boat that it bewilderedly glanced around.
Huh? It hadn’t fallen? It had thought it was going to plummet into the sea and become the first drowned Fire Elemental.
While Dangross felt a sense of relief, Angel lightly addressed the wind hand outside the boat: "Thank you."
The wind hand swayed slightly before disappearing.
"What was that just now?" Dangross asked, standing up.
"Speedy, it saved you, so you should thank it." Angel casually remarked, "Since Speedy is currently serving me, it means I saved you too, so you should also thank me."
Dangross instinctively wanted to express gratitude but paused as if remembering something: "But you’re the one who hit me down!"
Angel responded with a composed look: "I opened my eyes to see you right in front of me; how was I supposed to know if you were going to attack? It’s best to strike first."
Dangross: "I wasn’t going to attack you. I was...I was..."
Seeing Dangross suddenly lower its head, Angel raised an eyebrow: "What were you going to do?"
After a long silence, Dangross mumbled: "I... I wanted to... say thank you to you."
"See, you still wanted to thank me." Angel chuckled lightly.
Dangross: "That’s different. You hit me down just now, so I won’t thank you for that."
Angel raised an eyebrow: "Then why did you just say you wanted to thank me?"
Dangross squirmed slightly before saying: "I meant to thank you for what happened earlier at Malaya Ice Mountain."