"As for our destination coast, as it’s in a non-governed zone, we need to proceed further. At our current speed, it’ll still take another two days to arrive."
Angel nodded: "Are there any formidable beings in the nearby elemental territories? Especially those with concealment abilities."
Lobal thought for a moment, then said, "There are indeed some powerful thunder creatures in the Flashing Mountains and Black Thunder Pool, but as for concealment abilities... none."
"Even if they had them, with their energy fluctuations, it would be almost impossible to escape the surveillance of ’Wind’."
Angel nodded again, believing what Lobal had said. For an elemental creature like Lobal, he was very sensitive to elemental energy fluctuations.
Since Lobal said so, it should be the truth.
However, Angel always felt that his spiritual sense shouldn’t be wrong either.
Unable to figure it out, Angel could only temporarily set it aside.
He glanced at the clear sky around him, then refocused his attention on Dangross.
Dangross looked around suspiciously: "Mr. Pat, is everything alright?"
Angel shook his head: "It’s fine now, let’s continue with the previous topic. By the way, I’ve always wondered why there is enmity between the Region of Fire and the Malaya Ice Mountain. Malaya Ice Mountain drifts on the sea, while the Region of Fire is far inland. How did you two end up fighting?"
Dangross: "Well, that’s..."
Dangross began to babble on, and as it spoke, the Gondola slowly left the area.
Long after the Gondola departed, a breeze swept through.
The wind came and went, silent and unnoticed.
...
On the Gondola, Dangross’s voice continued.
"Stop. I already know, you don’t need to repeat it," Angel interjected during a pause, quickly interrupting Dangross’s babble.
"Did I repeat myself?" Dangross, who had been speaking with righteous indignation and fervor, asked somewhat confusedly after being interrupted by Angel.
"You’ve repeated it three times already," Angel said. "I know the specifics now, there’s no need to keep saying it."
Dangross opened its mouth for a while, and finally muttered, "Alright, I get it."
Dangross put on a pouty face, but Angel ignored it. He wasn’t making things up earlier; Dangross had indeed repeated the same thing three times over.
The reason it didn’t realize it was purely because it got carried away. When speaking of the grudge with Malaya Ice Mountain, Dangross couldn’t wait to berate every single ice creature. By the time it got to the end, it forgot what it had said earlier, resulting in continuous repetition.
However, Angel did extract some key information from what it said.
The hatred between the Region of Fire and Malaya Ice Mountain had been accumulating for thousands of years. Although Dangross wasn’t sure of the specifics, the trigger for the enmity seemed to be Kalomchis.
Because Dangross repeatedly mentioned afterwards that Malaya Ice Mountain had sneaked to the Region of Fire multiple times, intending to snatch Kalomchis’s remains.
And it was precisely because it involved Kalomchis that, as the "self-proclaimed" successor of Kalomchis, Dangross harbored deep resentment towards all elemental creatures from Malaya Ice Mountain.
This was also why Dangross had imagined how the captors would punish it, even before Trilisha caught it. Because if it were in its place, capturing the ice creatures, it would treat them the same way.
Overall, it’s quite a clichéd story. Angel only listened casually, having no intention to involve himself in the feud between ice and fire, for it seemed more like a petty squabble in a miniature war to him.
When humans enter the Tidal World, all old grudges have to be set aside.
Day and night alternated, and soon two days had passed.
During this period, they did not encounter any danger, arriving smoothly at the coast they intended to land on.
This coastline had no name, or rather, the coasts along the route were all nearly nameless. After all, elemental creatures, unlike humans, did not have a strong desire to name every place.
Only elemental territories or very special places had unique names, while other areas were mostly untitled.
Such unnamed areas were everywhere on the main continent of the Tidal World.
The coast Angel chose to land on was unnamed. The path they were set to take onward was unnamed.
They would cross many unnamed rivers, go over unnamed mountains, and eventually reach the destination: the Green Forest Domain.
The reason for choosing this route was because it was full of "unnamed" areas. According to Lobal’s travel experiences, although not every elemental territory in the Tidal World was as harsh as the Baya Desert, there were still certain restrictions. Instead of wasting time figuring out these restrictions, it was more convenient and faster to choose an unregulated unnamed area.
Moreover, elemental territories generally had extreme environments, making entering them quite dangerous even without restrictions. For instance, wood creatures could never enter a fire territory.
It could be said that the vast majority of travelers and adventurers, traversing the Tidal World, nearly always chose the unnamed paths.
Angel also didn’t wish to waste time in various elemental territories. Even for delivering the Shadow Box, there were messengers from the Region of Fire who could do that. Hence, he chose to take the unnamed road straight to the Green Forest Domain, to quickly resolve the matter of Feng’s treasure. Then he planned to return to the Region of Fire to coax... or rather, sincerely invite Kelonkcro to become his elemental partner.
Re-entering the continent from the Gentle Wave Sea, under Lobal’s guidance, they moved forward, stepping from the unnamed coast into the unnamed mountains.
After flying approximately half an hour over the unnamed mountains, suddenly, a huge rumbling sounded from somewhere in the mountain range.
As the sound echoed, black smoke began to rise from the source of the noise.
"Huh, what’s happening over there?" Lobal’s main head looked over curiously.
Lobal’s tail head glanced at the rising smoke, then turned to Angel: "Master, should we go over and take a look?"
"No need to court unnecessary trouble." Angel shook his head.
Lobal nodded, preparing to instruct Speedy to move on when Dangross suddenly said beside him: "Mr. Pat, how about, how about we go take a look?"
Dangross looked at Angel with pleading eyes.
"Are you curious?" Angel glanced at Dangross and slowly said, "You know, curiosity killed the cat."
Dangross didn’t understand why curiosity would kill a cat, but now wasn’t the time to ask: "I’m not curious, it’s just that I seem to see sparks floating in that black smoke."
"Since there’s fire... I’m thinking, could it be a fire elemental creature?"