Looking at the exquisite glazed box in front of him, Dangross’s eyes erupted with a bright light.
It had witnessed with its own eyes how an unremarkable stone was transformed into a square glazed box in Angel’s hands, adorned with mysterious patterns and beautiful gemstones... For an elemental sprite that had almost never come into contact with human creations, this series of celestial crafting completely overturned its previous worldview.
"Just burning it with fire, can make a stone change at will?" Dangross couldn’t help but look at its own fingers, it could also release flames, perhaps it might work for it too?
Thinking of this, Dangross glanced around, and finally locked its gaze on a large black stone on the scorched earth.
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A few minutes later, Angel smiled satisfactorily at the continuously circulating red and blue energy streams inside the two glazed boxes.
Although making these two boxes wasn’t difficult, to complete the internal energy environment transformation so quickly, was quite rare even among sorcerers proficient in magic patterns.
Angel was quite satisfied with his work. Although the appearance wasn’t pretty, it was only a temporary place for these two elemental creatures to store energy bodies, so there was no need to make it too complicated.
Since the internal energy of the space had already entered a circulating state, it was time to try putting them inside.
With this thought, Angel turned his gaze to the unconscious frog and raccoon cat lying aside.
"Dangross, you move the traveling frog into the box with the red gemstone, and leave the raccoon cat to me... Dangross?" Angel said as he subconsciously looked to the side but did not see Dangross.
He looked around in confusion, but still couldn’t find any trace of it.
Just as Angel was about to ask Lobal, he heard a distant sound resembling a muffled slow explosion.
Although the sound was not loud, it stood out in the silence of the valley bottom.
Angel looked over, filled with suspicion, and saw dark gray smoke billowing near a black stone dozens of meters away, clearly the source of the sound.
He was about to use spiritual power to probe the situation when he saw Dangross, covered in black ash, staggering out of the smoke.
Its pupils were obviously unfocused, though not yet spiraled, but not far from it.
Together with its staggering gait, it looked as though it were drunk.
"Dangross?!" Angel didn’t know what had happened, nor did he have time to test the two boxes. With a flash of ghostly light, he vanished from his spot, reappearing beside Dangross in the blink of an eye.
Carefully using Hand of Magic to steady Dangross from its staggering. Then, Angel quickly observed Dangross’s body and found its outer skin looked alarming, covered in black ash, but it was actually just dust, with no wounds.
Angel didn’t relax, as often, elemental creatures don’t show anomalies on the outside; observation is needed internally. Just like the traveling frog and raccoon cat that looked normal outside, but their internal elemental cores were cracked.
Angel extended his spiritual power into Dangross’s body.
Perhaps because Dangross was dazed, or maybe because it was familiar with Angel’s aura, it didn’t resist his spiritual power entering its body.
Half a minute later, Angel withdrew his spiritual power.
Dangross’s elemental core was undamaged, just some energy consumption. Unless anything unexpected happened, it should recover soon.
Confirming Dangross was fine, Angel sighed with relief. After all, Dangross was placed in his care by Mr. Magu, and it wouldn’t be good if something happened. Besides, Angel was also counting on Dangross to help him bluff subordinates.
Dangross’s condition had stabilized, but another question rose: What exactly had it been doing, to get itself in such a mess?
Angel cast his gaze toward the source of the dark grey smoke.
By now, the dark gray smoke had mostly dissipated, allowing a clear view of the mess behind the large black stone.
A ground full of black rubble, some pieces still smoking, radiating a reddish deformed high-temperature state.
Angel immediately saw that these stones had definitely been burned by fire. Judging from the rubble on the ground and Dangross’s state, he could roughly deduce the scene—
Dangross secretly hid behind the large black stone, trying to burn it with fire, ultimately causing an explosion, leaving itself in an ashen mess.
Angel couldn’t help but smile wryly as he picked up the rubble, weighing it slightly.
The residual traces basically confirmed Angel’s guess.
"What was it doing?" Angel: "Burning stones for fun?"
"Though I don’t know what it was trying, to cause the stone to explode, its flame temperature is really impressive." Angel secretly praised, recalling the traveling frog’s flames creating substantial black smoke without cracking this stone, while Dangross managed to burn it to a blast, is telling enough.
Angel marveled as he carried Dangross back.
As for why Dangross was playing with burning stones, Angel didn’t bother guessing; it wouldn’t hurt to ask when it came to its senses.
When Angel returned to the glazed boxes, he happened to see Lobal peering curiously at the box patterns, muttering something with a click of the tongue.
"Have you observed anything?" Angel asked casually as he approached.
Lobal’s tail-head responded: "It seems like there’s elemental energy circulating inside this box, but with the lid on, it’s not very clear to sense."
"That’s right, there is indeed elemental energy inside." Angel: "Then, did you observe anything else?"
The tail-head pondered for a moment, summoning a Hand of Wind, pointing at the patterns on the box: "I feel these patterns are very mysterious, watching them makes my eyes dizzy, and I can’t remember the pattern directions at all, similar to the patterns on the pure white door opened by His Highness Frostbite."
Angel nodded: "Excellent observation, both the pure white door and these box patterns are types of magic patterns. However, the types of magic patterns differ greatly, and the directions of these patterns differ vastly. It shows great talent that you could associate them."
"Weren’t you curious about the elemental energy inside the box? Now that I’m opening it, you can perceive it." Angel said, then opened the box.
As the lid was opened, Lobal immediately perceived the rich aura of elemental energy.
Inside the box with the blue gemstone was the essence of pure water, and inside the box with the red gemstone was the scent of flames.
The purity of the elemental energy, Lobal could only perceive in extreme environments.
Most importantly, even though the lid was opened, the degree of elemental energy dispersing outside was very minimal, with energy circulation still ongoing inside the box. It was as if an invisible force was sealing the elemental power within the box.
"This is amazing!" Lobal’s tail-head’s eyes flashed with surprise: "This is my first time..."