Upon careful examination, Sanders noticed that the scroll seemed to depict a map.
The map’s outline resembled both a blooming flower and a white dove spreading its wings.
"Why does this pattern look somewhat familiar?" Sanders felt as though he’d seen this shape somewhere before.
Sanders pondered for a moment. His mind’s memory caskets opened one by one, and every image of his past flashed quickly like a revolving lantern.
Soon, Sanders captured an image.
He was only thirty years old at the time, and he was preparing to explore the ruins on an island in the Devil’s Sea with a group of companions. Before entering the Demon Sea Area, he first went to the Barbarian Cave base in White Shell Sea Market to rest.
At the corner of a staircase in the White Shell Sea Market base, he had seen a nautical map.
The nautical map started from the southeastern coast of Flourish Continent and extended southward, with names of continents, islands, and seas marked. Places like Feran Continent, Revelation Continent, the Devil’s Sea, Spirit Island—all were marked on the map.
Because of the impending exploration in the Demon Sea Area, Sanders had memorized this nautical map.
On that map, there was a continent’s outline, akin to a blooming flower, like a white dove spreading its wings.
And that continent was Edge Island, also known as... Old Earth Continent.
Because Sanders never thought about going to Old Earth Continent, he didn’t care what it looked like, but now recalling it, he discovered an obvious discrepancy.
The Old Earth Continent is generally an irregular oval continent, surrounded by star-point-like islands. It definitely doesn’t resemble a blooming flower.
Where exactly is the problem?
Sanders did not continue to reminisce about the past, but instead looked at the map in his hand. Those doubts will always have answers; let’s see if there’s any residual information on this map.
Upon closer inspection, Sanders discovered that the map’s artist was not very skilled. The map’s scale was essentially chaos, and the terrain markings were haphazard to the extreme.
The map had many divisions, each seemingly representing different tribes or nations.
However, what puzzled Sanders was that each division had a very simple sketch—monkeys, snakes, winged men, and so on.
"Different ecosystems in each area?" Sanders was unsure for the moment.
After looking at the map for a few more minutes, Sanders gained no further insights. The information on the map was truly scarce. Apart from a general description of the terrain and images of different creatures in each division, there was nothing else.
Sanders looked up and asked Angel: "What place does this map represent? Is there anything special about it?"
Angel replied: "At first glance, this map seems ordinary. But once you use the Eye of Nalda to observe it, you will receive feedback information hidden within the map."
"The Eye of Nalda, do you mean the Alchemy Eye? Is this a map meant for you alchemists?" Sanders asked.
"Perhaps it’s not for alchemists, but... for me," Angel sighed deeply and, seeing Sanders’ puzzled expression, waved his hand again.
Beside the map, lines of text slowly emerged.
"These texts are the information the Eye of Nalda has given me," Angel explained.
Sanders glanced down; the overall text information hadn’t been summarized yet, but he had already seen a name that struck him eye-catchingly.
—Illustrated by: Mirael von.
This map was left by von, and the hidden information can only be seen through the Alchemy Eye. He seemed to understand why Angel would say that the information on the map might be intended for him.
Did von set up another game? And the one to play it, is it Angel?
Sanders collected his thoughts and continued to read the remaining information.
Name: "Tide World Map (Abridged)."
Illustrator: Mirael von
Information: A broad distribution of representative creatures in the Tidal World.
Note: "Oh my, I’m not skilled at drawing maps, just make do with it."
The map’s information wasn’t extensive, but after reading it, Sanders was dumbfounded. He had previously thought that this map represented some hidden continent, but now he realized the map referred not to a continent, but to the —Tidal World.
To be named as a "World," this was a hidden world, one that had never been discovered!
Sanders’ heart suddenly raced.
He understood too well what an undiscovered world could mean!
Moreover, remembering the mystery of the Old Earth Continent’s elemental disappearance and Angel bringing two elemental creatures into the Wilderness of Dreams this time, he already had a bold hypothesis... no, it was a real speculation.
Sanders restrained his wandering thoughts and calmly asked Angel two questions.
"The Tidal World is a world?"
"Yes."
"The Tidal World... is it an affiliated world of the Wizards’ Realm?"
"Yes."
Sanders had actually already suspected this because if the Tidal World were an independent world, Angel could not possibly traverse the void to enter the Wilderness of Dreams.
Then there was only one possibility, the Tidal World is an affiliated world of the Wizards’ Realm, allowing Angel to enter the Wilderness of Dreams from the Tidal World!
Though he had already guessed this, Angel’s confirmation still shocked Sanders.
The value of an undiscovered world is already terrifying.
An undiscovered world that is also an affiliated world of the Wizards’ Realm would be worth ten times or a hundred times more!