The crowd turned towards the voice and saw a handsome, tall man appear beside them.
"Sanders?" Dumatin looked at the newcomer, raising his eyebrows slightly: "Why are you here?"
Sanders said nothing, but gave a sidelong glance at Angel nearby.
Angel coughed and said, "Just a short while ago, I sensed my mentor entering the Wilderness of Dreams, so I changed his entry point to here."
After saying this, Angel muttered softly, "However, I didn’t expect the timing of the mentor’s entry to be so coincidental."
Sanders said lightly, "It’s not a coincidence; I sensed something unusual."
Lately, Sanders has been calculating details for Sumishe’s assumption of authority, and he hadn’t planned to enter the Wilderness of Dreams. However, just moments ago, a warning alert from the "Energy Level Limitation" he set up reached him.
"Due to the special nature of New City, I extracted energy currents from thousands of miles around to construct a region of about one thousand Lus centered on New City." Sanders: "But just now, in just a split second, the energy domain near New City dropped from a quasi-middle magic region to a micro-magic standard."
As the Energy Authority Controller of the Wilderness of Dreams, Sanders sensed something was amiss and entered the Wilderness of Dreams immediately to investigate.
Coincidentally, Angel had marked Sanders, so he was first to know of Sanders’ entry and transferred him here.
Rhein didn’t concern himself with when Sanders entered or exited, but asked, "Are you sure that floating fireball is the cause of the reduction in energy standards?"
Sanders nodded affirmatively: "Yes, I am sure."
As the current energy authority of the Wilderness of Dreams, Sanders’ words naturally earned Rhein’s trust.
"What exactly is that fireball and why does it absorb so much energy?" Rhein asked in confusion.
Sanders looked at the young man beside him: "That question should be directed to Angel."
In fact, he vaguely sensed the commotion within the fireball and had some guesses in mind. But for the specifics, Angel needed to explain, as only Angel could influence the Wilderness of Dreams to such a great extent.
Angel chuckled: "Didn’t I already mention the answer earlier?"
Sanders was late to arrive and didn’t know what had transpired. However, the others seemed to have some thoughts and fell into contemplation.
After several seconds, Ironclad Granny chuckled softly: "Earlier you asked us why we thought you wouldn’t encounter non-water elemental creatures. Between the lines, didn’t it imply that you encountered more than just water elemental creatures?"
"Moreover, as soon as you said that, the fireball appeared."
"So, does this fireball represent an elemental creature with another attribute? A fire elemental creature?"
Seeing Ironclad Granny announce the answer, Angel did not refute: "Granny is correct."
Indeed, including Dumatin, the others had already guessed this answer, but they remained somewhat skeptical: Nowadays in the Wizards’ Realm, wild elemental creatures are very scarce. Angel encountering a water elemental creature already seemed like incredible luck. Now, being told that Angel not only encountered a water elemental creature but also a fire elemental creature seemed truly unbelievable.
"Did you really encounter a water elemental creature and a fire elemental creature?" Dumatin’s tone still carried disbelief.
Angel nodded: "Isn’t the reality quite evident?"
Rhein at this point also asked: "Are you sure you haven’t left the Wizards’ Realm?"
The extreme environments in the Wizards’ Realm capable of birthing elemental creatures are basically monopolized by various Witcher Organizations. Therefore, many wizards venture to other worlds in search of elemental creatures.
Angel encountering two elemental creatures of different attributes at once made Rhein suspect he might have left the Wizards’ Realm.
Angel: "I’m still in the Wizards’ Realm, but I stumbled upon a fortuitous opportunity."
Since the opportunity involved personal privacy, Rhein refrained from probing further but couldn’t help muttering: "You wouldn’t have stumbled upon some sage’s ruins, right? Elemental creatures in those ruins, without a master’s constraint, are exceptionally cunning. You better not let them fool you."
Angel: "Not a ruin, but indeed discovered through information left by a certain wizard... regarding this fortuitous opportunity, you’ll know in a few days, and in the future, I might need Lord Rhein’s help."
Rhein was a bit surprised: "What opportunity would require my help?"
Angel did not answer, but Sanders watching Angel’s mysterious smile had a fleeting sense of apprehension.
Could this kid have caused another major upheaval?
Reflecting on the incidents caused by Angel during his growth, Sanders felt a headache developing. Angel, in the eyes of others, seemed the least worrisome, yet only Sanders knew this guy was even more troublesome than Sumishe and Flora.
Sanders lets Sumishe and Flora grow wildly, hardly bothering to think about them. But with Angel, whenever he left alone, Sanders would intermittently think of him, fearing he had caused another big issue.
Even with the reputation of defeating the Southern Domain, facing the various deeds Angel committed, Sanders felt anxious, even contemplating telling him silently: I’m just a Second Level True Knowledge Wizard, not a Legendary Wizard. Much of what you do, I’m already struggling to handle...
Thinking of the Queen in the Nightmare Realm, then the Demon God’s descendant lying in space, along with the body of the Demon God’s avatar.
These are all entities Sanders cannot provoke, yet Angel keeps stirring the hornet’s nest one after another. Although the endings were fortunate, the process was terrifying; one wrong move, and not only Angel but the entire world might have to pay the price.
Thus, hearing Angel’s words at this moment, others didn’t think much, but Sanders felt a vague unease internally.
Yet, since he’s his student, Sanders couldn’t undermine him in front of others. He could only suppress his desire to shake Angel’s shoulders and remained silent.
While they conversed, the floating fireball in the distance began to show new changes.
The fireball started to continuously shrink, with a large amount of fire element energy compressed into the interior, finally sketching out a fiery red figure in mid-air.
Seeing the current situation, the others understood why Angel needed to shield the rain. All the flames on the fireball would eventually serve as nutrients for that fire elemental creature. If the rain were allowed to extinguish the flames, constructing the fire elemental creature might become problematic.
"The questions we had earlier now have an answer. Even without the foundational support of the elemental laws of reality, we can still construct the body of an elemental creature," Dumatin remarked as he observed the increasingly distinct outline of the fire elemental creature in the distance. "However, it seems the energy consumption is quite significant."
Sanders replied, "If every elemental creature requires this much energy consumption, the current Tidal World cannot accommodate too many elemental creatures entering at the same time. Moreover, each time an elemental creature enters, there must be a waiting period for the energy in the Domain Field to recover before proceeding to the next one."
Dumatin stated, "It seems that allowing a large number of elemental creatures to enter the Wilderness of Dreams is not feasible for now. However, water element creatures seem to follow a different procedure?"
Dumatin cast a dim glance toward the raccoon absorbing the residual veins on the other side.
Sanders also noticed that raccoon, and with Angel’s explanation, he roughly understood the situation.
The birth of the water element raccoon did not consume virtual magic power but followed another path.