"Maybe you didn’t take it seriously, you need to look carefully." Arnott was eager to express his feelings about the painting, trying to let Dangross feel the beauty brought by the artwork.
But Dangross completely didn’t understand, nor could he comprehend Arnott’s words.
"In terms of art appreciation, Dangross hasn’t awakened at all, don’t bother with him." At this moment, Angel interrupted Arnott’s words.
With the astonishing painting skills of the Magic Painter Wizard, in Dangross’s eyes, these were all lifeless rigid paintings. So don’t expect Dangross to have artistic aesthetics.
Under Angel’s forceful intervention, the futile conversation between Arnott and Dangross finally came to a halt.
At this time, Cubic also stepped forward, leading the way to White Sea Bay.
On the way to White Sea Bay, Arnott still occasionally looked back towards the palace on Forbidden Peak, with regret in his eyes.
"You seem to really like those paintings? Why?" Cubic also noticed Arnott’s gaze and asked curiously.
For this newly made friend, Arnott still liked him, so after a moment’s hesitation, he answered truthfully: "More than the paintings themselves, I actually prefer the scenery in the paintings."
"The scenery in the paintings?"
Arnott nodded: "The scenery I like, you can only see it in faraway places..."
Arnott’s tone was emotional, and Angel glanced at him, understanding that Arnott was probably thinking of his sister Salmado. Salmado’s dream was to see distant landscapes, and under her influence, Arnott had ingrained the obsession with the distant into his consciousness. So when he saw Feng’s paintings, he naturally thought of them as distant landscapes.
No wonder Arnott hadn’t cried before, it was because of the impact of the scenery in the paintings.
"Scenery that can only be seen in the distance?" Cubic’s eyes sparkled with curiosity: "What’s the difference between distant scenery and nearby scenery?"
"I... don’t know." Arnott lowered his head and said with a face full of disappointment.
"You don’t know and yet you are so expectant?" Cubic continued to ask.
"It’s precisely because I don’t know that I’m even more expectant." At this point, Arnott raised his head, his eyes glowing: "My sister once told me, the distant is not the destination, it is the unknown process of chasing the distant that is a journey worth anticipating."
"If the destination is not worth expecting, then why chase the distant?"
"The destination can always be changed; when you reach one destination and find it isn’t as good as expected, change to another until you find a destination that matches your heart... If you don’t chase the distant, you’ll never know if the destination is worth expecting." At this point, Arnott glanced at the cage that confined him and sighed helplessly, "I really want to pursue the distant too, but when can I leave?"
Arnott seemed to be answering Cubic, but in fact, he was conversing with himself.
Cubic was silent for a while before saying: "When you mature, then you can."
Arnott glanced sneakily at Dangross, wishing to say: Dangross isn’t mature either.
But in the end, Arnott didn’t say it out loud. He knew that the reason Dangross could travel far was not because of himself, but because Angel was beside him.
Cubic also noticed Arnott’s gaze. He glanced at Dangross, then finally focused on Angel, remaining silent.
...
White Sea Bay, despite its name, is actually just a cloud sea near Wind Island, unaffected by the strong winds.
The group of wind element creatures captured by Angel was now quietly staying at White Sea Bay.
Angel came to White Sea Bay naturally to meet with them.
Angel didn’t meet the rank-and-file soldiers, but directly conversed with their current leaders—the three major Wind Generals.
The conversation mainly covered two points: understanding the personal information of the three major Wind Generals, and arranging for them to conduct an investigation and summary of the information capabilities of other wind element creatures, to facilitate Angel’s future staffing arrangements.
Regarding the content of the next twenty years and the life they would soon face, Angel did not mention it at this time. Because much of the content would only be arranged after the people from the Barbarian Cave settled in. In the initial stages, they could even live and let live.
Angel could see that the three major Wind Generals were outwardly respectful to him, but deep down in their eyes, there remained a hint of hostility.
Being captured was one reason, Aimer being killed by Toby was also a cause of hostility.
Angel didn’t pay too much attention to it. He didn’t plan to cultivate them into element partners, just use them as tools, not caring what they thought.
No matter how great their hostility, due to the constraints of the oath, they couldn’t possibly do anything harmful to Angel. They could only think in their hearts; showing it outwardly would be punished by the oath, let alone actually taking action.
Moreover, under the influence of the oath, they would also exhaust all efforts to complete Angel’s orders, making them the most qualified tools.
After learning the personal information of the three major Wind Generals, Angel left. As for the information of other wind element creatures, it would be reported at the next meeting.
After leaving White Sea Bay, Angel returned to Wind Island.
As Fuyi descended, he felt the ground slightly tremble. He paused, and moments later, a slender bean vine burst out from the ground before him, growing in the wind.
"Jack!" Arnott immediately called out the name of the bean vine.
A pair of familiar eyes grew from the leaves at both ends of the bean vine, which squinted happily at Arnott, also calling out his name.
The visitor was none other than Jack, the bean vine who had joined them on their journey.
"What brings you here?" Arnott was quite excited to see Jack. Though leaving Wind Island, he hadn’t successfully followed in his sister’s footsteps, he did not return empty-handed. Knowing Jack and becoming friends, despite Jack’s indifference to his crying tendencies, was one of his gains.
Jack: "I came to check on you guys, and by the way, His Highness asked me to bring greetings to Mr. Pat."
"His Highness, you mean Crown Prince Phraon?"
Although Jack also referred to the gentle Uranus as His Highness, a prefix was always added rather than directly addressing His Highness; in his previous words, not only was no prefix added, but his eyes became subconsciously more solemn when mentioning His Highness, so Angel guessed that the His Highness he referred to was Phraon Glinn, not the gentle Uranus.
Jack nodded: "Yes, His Highness’s Avatar Seed has already arrived at Wind Island, and he hopes to meet with Mr. Pat."