After adding a friend, the tree group’s interface immediately popped up with an unread message.
Redemption of the Dead: "Tablet... Tablet... I need tablets..."
It’s just a few short words, but Angel felt as if they carried the rolling emotions of Nis.
"Are you okay?" Angel asked.
After a moment, a new bubble popped up on the interface: "No problem, I’ve just been buried in deciphering the tablet these days, feeling a bit exhausted."
Angel: "Why not take a break?"
Nis quickly popped up with new information: "No!!! I feel I’m close to cracking it completely, I need a new tablet now."
Angel fell silent for a moment but still agreed, returning to reality to bring Nis a new tablet into the Wilderness of Dreams. After all, it’s rare for Nis to be so serious about research.
As soon as the tablet was delivered, Nis’ bubble immediately fell silent, likely to only light up next time when urging for a new tablet.
Angel shook his head, closed the Interlinker, and exited the Wilderness of Dreams.
...
The gondola continued its leisurely flight, Angel stretched, and opened his eyes.
"Where are we flying to now?" To break the awkward spreading air as he saw Loga staring tightly at him across, Angel initiated the conversation.
"We just left the third barrier line." It was Loga who spoke, answering Angel’s question while still scrutinizing Angel, after a while, he asked: "Mr. Pat, were you resting just now?"
Angel understood Loga’s implication; why resting involved sometimes opening eyes, sometimes closing them, and taking out a strange sea shell and tablet.
This needed too much explanation, relating to the mysterious object and the Wilderness of Dreams, he didn’t know how to explain, so he said: "Yes, I was resting."
"What about just now..."
"Sleepwalking." Angel firmly replied.
Loga was choked for a moment, clearly disbelieving, but his mouth opened then closed without further questioning.
Unlike Loga’s sensitivity, Dangross did not find Angel’s behavior overly odd, focusing instead on pleasing Toby while he awoke.
Briefly dealing with Loga, Angel took a deep breath, looked at the departing direction, and accelerated the gondola.
According to Loga, after leaving the Wild Stone Wasteland’s central district, there are three major barrier lines, each with stationed Keepers and many Patrollers, creating a fortress of stone in the Wilderness.
Angel saw firsthand the strength of a few Keepers and Patrollers, and looked at the pervasive stone creatures, contemplating whether he could reach the core area without the help of the Little Inba’s Earth Mark, purely by forcing his way through.
Probably still possible, but certainly at a great cost.
And this is just the Wild Stone Wasteland, giving some insight into the terror of the Elemental Creature’s territory; if he entered an area like the Flashing Mountains, finding their Monarch and Sage would likely be multiple times harder than in Wild Stone Wasteland.
After another four hours, Angel finally flew to the last barrier line.
Sounding like it didn’t take long, but the distance flown by the gondola, if converted to Old Earth Continent’s distances, would be enough to travel from the farthest north to the farthest south.
This also shows that this land is incredibly large, with even the inconspicuous Wild Stone Wasteland comparable to the full area of Old Earth Continent.
Crossing the last barrier line led them to the frontier. Here, they could faintly see the distant rolling golden sand dunes.
Just then, Loga, who had been silent, spoke: "Mr. Pat, the airspace over the Baya Desert is forbidden unless you are accompanied by earth-element creatures from the Baya Desert, otherwise, it will be seen as taunting the desert."
Angel didn’t have time to mock Loga’s lexical misuse when it continued: "If unaware, it doesn’t matter. But the Baya Desert is filled with flying sand and rolling rocks, all these are the eyes of sand creatures, thus it’s hard not to be discovered. It’s best to comply with the rules and enter from the ground."
Angel: "Entering from the ground won’t provoke them?"
Loga: "If you enter alone, you would definitely be stopped, but compared to flying, it reduces their sense of threat. Even if reported to the Sage, as long as you can provide a reasonable explanation, they will loosen the restrictions."
Of course, all the above is assuming Angel entered alone; now with Loga present, identified by the Sage, they likely won’t face much difficulty.
Angel thought for a moment and decided to follow Loga’s advice.
Every realm has its own rules; since he isn’t preparing to battle the Baya Desert, it’s better to adhere to their regulations.
As they were nearly stepping onto the desert’s outskirts, Angel lowered the gondola and entered via the land route.
It was already past dusk.
The temperature in the Baya Desert suddenly changed, with each step Angel could clearly feel the surrounding temperature dropping.
Upon reaching the border of the Baya Desert, the temperature was close to zero degrees.
For Angel and Loga, this temperature was entirely tolerable, but for Dangross, it was somewhat unbearable.
Dangross almost had his whole hand shrink a circle from the cold, with trembling fingers holding onto the Blood Night Shelter.
Seeing this, Angel communicated with Earl Mi in his mind.
In the unseen shadow world, the Blue Lantern Flower on Earl Mi’s head gently swayed, and instantly a shield of flames appeared around Dangross’ location.
Under the protection of the flame, Dangross slowly returned to normal size.
As Dangross recovered, simultaneously, a quicksand vortex suddenly appeared in the dune ahead of them.
In their caution, a desert halfling emerged from the quicksand, appearing as if it were a genie monster.