Chapter 1333: Section 1334 Space Displacement
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More than a month had passed since they had returned from the Abyss.
Although Popota had never said it, his heart was actually filled with anxiety.
Popota also knew that going to another Witcher Organization, especially the Black Castle that seldom interacted with the outside world, would probably not be easy. He wasn’t saying that he wanted to go immediately, but if they truly were to go, including himself, they actually needed to do some mental preparation.
Because he didn’t know how to tell Hua Que about his past after seeing her.
The reason why Popota asked this question was just to hope that Angel could give him a rough timeline, so he could prepare himself.
“It shouldn’t take too long,” Angel reflected for a moment before providing a rather vague timeframe.
Like Popota, Angel also yearned to reach the Black Castle sooner. After all, he was completely helpless regarding Toby’s situation and could only hope to benefit from Greya’s assistance.
And, since Greya had been summoned away by apprentices from the Black Castle when she was on Illusion Demon Island, it was very likely that she was currently there.
Now that Jon’s situation had temporarily stabilized, Angel had planned to go to the Black Castle during this period.
However, if he went to the Black Castle alone, with his current identity as an Alchemist, he might not be refused. But who knew if Isabella, that old witch, would go crazy again like she had last time at Silent Hill.
Therefore, he could only wait for Sanders to return from Punk Theme Park. And before leaving Pat Manor, Sanders had also mentioned the plans to head to the Black Castle.
Not too long? Hearing this answer, although Angel still hadn’t given a specific time, it at least showed that he hadn’t forgotten.
Popota nodded without continuing to inquire further, putting the topic aside for the moment.
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Gondola had been flying over the sea for half a day, and now he was close to the center of the Whisker Sea in the windless belt.
This place, due to the lack of winds all year round and the absence of passing ships, even had fewer sea beasts than other areas, which was exactly the location Angel wanted.
In the vast, boundless ocean, he found a deserted, unpopulated island and decided to attempt constructing his first Witchcraft Slot there.
But before constructing the Witchcraft Slot, Angel still needed to construct the last few pattern lines of the Gate Model.
His thoughts sank into the Mind Space.
The Gate Model, emitting an odd glow, stood erect amidst the chaos.
By now, the Gate Model’s more than two thousand seven hundred pattern lines were essentially formed, and only by looking through the Axis of Myriad Manifestations could one find that a few lines were still missing.
The energy distribution among the Gate Model’s pattern lines wasn’t all the same. Of the more than one thousand three hundred lines that Angel had built himself, one-twentieth contained spatial attributes.
The lines with spatial attributes, Angel had originally thought he would find difficult to construct, but in reality, they were just slightly slower than the regular lines, though the magic power consumed was many times more.
So, every time after constructing lines with spatial attributes, he generally had to engage in meditation again, waiting for the Magical Core to recover before he could continue building new lines.
It was precisely because of these lines with spatial attributes that Angel’s progress had been so slow, until he had almost completed them today.
The remaining few lines, which did not involve spatial qualities, Angel estimated that with his magical core currently full, constructing all the lines would consume very little of his magic power, less than one-thirtieth. The remaining magic power should be enough to support the consumption of the Witchcraft Slot.
Thinking this, Angel took a deep breath and began constructing the remaining few pattern lines.
Perhaps because he had already grown very familiar with the construction over the past few months, Angel found himself able to focus on other questions while building—
For example, what would be the effect of this Gate Model?
This question, in fact, Angel had basically had a general direction when he began constructing it.
It should have the function of spatial displacement.
Whether the final effect was short-range teleportation or long-distance translocation, any spatial displacement skill was very useful for a wizard.
Short-range could be used in combat and evasion, long-distance for escaping and rushing on one’s way.
One must know that even space mages, who were extremely scarce, had to reach the formal stage before they could learn the corresponding spatial displacement spell technique.
Therefore, Angel’s first Witchcraft Slot gaining a spatial displacement trick would be a huge upgrade for him!
But Angel still harbored some doubts in his heart.
Was the effect of the Gate Model merely simple spatial displacement?
He had these doubts because only half of the Gate Model was built by himself, while the other half was made of a “special energy.”
This special energy, Angel still found difficult to understand in its composition.
Because it came from that mysterious world closely related to the “Eye of the Sky,” the world that had absorbed the energy from a plane fusion and then pulled Angel into it.
In that mysterious world, Angel had removed his emotional module and rationally done many things.
Among them, he followed the energy core of that mysterious world to learn “building lessons,” and what he built was the Gate Model.
Since it was a “lesson,” naturally, the “teacher” had to provide a demonstration in the beginning.
And the half of the Gate Model that the “teacher” had built at the time was constructed with special energy.
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Angel could have easily allowed the special energy to fade and just reconstructed the model using his own magic power within the Mind Space. However, the special energy was too unique. It seemed ordinary on the surface, but like a reef exposed on the sea, the small part visible bore no comparison to the gigantic structure lying beneath the waves, unimaginably vast.
Angel even speculated that this kind of special energy might be unique to the Eye of the Sky, a transcendent existence beyond cognition.
Therefore, after analyzing the pros and cons, Angel decided to continue building according to the Gate Model that had already been half-constructed by the special energy.