Angel had just arrived in the Black Forest when he sensed something strange. The region around the Black Castle was always covered with dark clouds, with Lightning Serpents dancing among them.
But upon his return, Angel noticed a sliver of light.
The dark clouds in the sky remained, but they were much thinner than usual, and the Lightning Serpents had disappeared. Under these conditions, a streak of light penetrated the thin patches of the clouds and sprinkled down.
Although the light was still dim, duller than the gloomy days in the outer world, such brightness was very rare in the Black Castle, which was perpetually shrouded in darkness.
“This undead disturbance might give the Black Castle the chance to be reborn,” Angel mused as he looked at the faint light. “Perhaps this is the effect taking place?”
While he guessed to himself, Angel headed towards the area where the undead were converging.
It took most of the day, but Angel managed to gather six more White Light Bullets once again. After so many incidents of vanishing and banishment, the undead around the Black Castle had clearly thinned out, and Angel encountered less than a hundred of them on the way to the spatial node.
However, this was only near the Black Castle building. In the distant reaches of the Black Forest and beneath the Black Castle in the Corpse Forest, there was still a large number of undead.
After returning to the Soul Realm, Angel was about to go back and organize the experiment records of the Samsara Overture. However, as he passed through the long corridor to his temporary residence, the door opened and Sanders came out from inside.
“Mentor?”
“You’ve come at just the right time. I’ve already communicated with Greya through messages, and she and Felicia have emerged from the ice cave,” Sanders said.
Sanders was now planning a trip to the ice cave himself.
Upon hearing this news, Angel’s eyes lit up. His reason for coming to the Black Castle was twofold: to keep his promise to Popota and to meet Greya.
Knowing that Greya had already come out, Angel decided to accompany Sanders to the ice cave.
Angel was very familiar with the route to the ice cave, having spent a lot of time there with Shadow, including conducting his Alchemy work.
They journeyed down from the Soul Realm, through the Negative Third Layer Soul Chasing Grounds, the fourth layer of the Worm Nest, and finally reached the ice cave.
Before even formally stepping into the ice cave, Angel noticed that many Apprentices from the Black Castle had gathered around, and he even saw Natasha there.
Seeing Angel’s puzzlement, Sanders explained, “You were at the Garden of Living Souls and didn’t know that an anomaly occurred at the Black Castle not long ago…”
A beam of light, like a spear piercing the heavens, had broken free from the shackles of space, rising from underground and slashing through the clouds.
This column of light entered the clouds, stirring them as if agitating a pool of water.
The Lightning Serpents that once navigated the oppressive black clouds suddenly disappeared, and even the thick dark clouds thinned out considerably.
The source of this light anomaly was from the ice cave, hence the inquisitive Apprentices had gathered nearby.
After Sanders had finished recounting, Angel understood why he had felt a thinning of the black clouds and light spilling down upon his return to the Black Castle. It seemed to have been caused by this anomaly.
Whether the light that penetrated and spilled through the clouds was daylight or the light that broke into the clouds was still somewhat uncertain.
“It appears that the ‘Feast’ Greya and Felicia were preparing should be taking shape,” Sanders said, looking towards the entrance of the ice cave not far away. “Let’s go, proceed inside.”