After all, it’s a new "Wilderness of Dreams," and Angel’s control over the authority wasn’t as precise and thorough as before.
This resulted in Angel and Laplace being placed near the coordinates of "Slough in the Bottle," but all three had some distance deviation.
However, the deviation wasn’t much, all within two hundred meters.
Soon, Angel and Laplace found the Slough.
When Laplace approached the Slough, it seemed to sense the presence of its "Master" and slowly floated up from the Crystal Origin.
Through the transparent glass body, the whale-shaped Slough in the bottle could be clearly seen, emitting a faint glow.
This anomaly made Angel pause for a moment. It should be noted that the first thing he did upon arrival was to search for the Slough. After ensuring it was unharmed, Angel went to find Laplace.
But at that time, when Angel encountered the Slough, it showed no reaction at all, as if it were nothing more than an ordinary inanimate object.
Yet now, when Laplace meets the Slough, such an anomaly occurs.
It could only be said, unsurprisingly, that it recognizes its own, even if Laplace had entered as a mere consciousness, the Slough could identify her instantly.
Looking at the glowing and levitating Slough, Angel whispered, "Can you activate it?"
Laplace glanced at Angel and nodded, "Yes."
After speaking, Laplace gently extended her hand, muttering some indistinguishable syllables. As the syllables fell, the glass bottle not far away suddenly shattered into countless fragments.
And the Slough within the glass bottle emitted a brilliant silver light.
Immediately after, in Angel’s astonished gaze, the Slough scattered into countless silver stars, and these silver lights transformed into a silver ribbon, enveloping Laplace...
This scene seemed oddly familiar.
Angel had watched some animations on the Holographic Tablet from Earth; one of them was an animation with a female perspective as the main character. This animation’s themes involved past lives, cute pets, female group portraits, counterattacks, campus life, and superpower battles against crime. In every episode, there was an indispensable "transformation" phase, where the protagonist could only gain superhuman powers after transforming.
In the animation, at the moment of transformation, a band of light wrapped around, revealing the protagonist’s body curves without reservation, although further details were obscured by "holy light." Once the band of light enveloped the protagonist fully, it gave the protagonist a new outfit and a cute pose, completing the transformation.
And now, countless silver bands of light enveloped Laplace, lifting her into the air, making everything under the illumination of the divine light impossible to view directly...
This scene was so much like the transformations in the animation.
Angel thought it couldn’t be more alike, yet what was even more similar lay ahead.
In the animation, to highlight the "change," the protagonist’s clothes would change first, with the camera showing parts of the transformed clothing until the protagonist struck a cute pose, fully displaying the transformed outfit.
Angel wasn’t sure if Laplace was transforming, but after the bands of light surrounded Laplace for several seconds, they began to disappear bit by bit.
The order of disappearance was from bottom to top, starting from the feet.
Earlier, Laplace had used her hair to make a cushion on her feet, and now, as the bands of light vanished, the first thing Angel saw was a pair of cloven hooves.
An odd cloven hoof of the ungulates.
The cloven hoof divided front and back, somewhat resembling special high heels, except the hoof tips were quite sharp, with a shape slightly akin to demon hooves.
After displaying the "cloven hoof feet," the bands of light continued to rise, and the transformation proceeded.
The legs above the cloven hooves, previously concealed by a skirt and occasionally glimpsed revealing smooth, unadorned skin beneath, were now exposed.
But now, the legs above the cloven hooves not only sported prominent and developed muscles, but were also covered with numerous silver scales, maintaining a streamlined shape, elegantly yet threateningly.
The bands of light soon skimmed over the scale-covered waist, rising further to the upper body.
The holy light gathered inward, finally allowing the upper body’s spectacle to be seen.
Laplace’s upper body underwent a significant change as well, although it didn’t transform entirely into a beast form, it was covered with many silver scales, and a huge pair of wings made of silver scales emerged from the back.
Laplace might have previously worried about slipping on the Crystal Origin, but now there was no such concern at all. With enormous wings spanning six meters wide, Laplace could easily fly in mid-air, unbound by the earth.
As for Laplace’s head, the changes were minor, with only a circle of silver scales growing at the hairline on the forehead, while the rest remained the same.
The hair color hadn’t changed, the hair length hadn’t changed, the face hadn’t changed—the scornful gaze that came with its own filter to view everyone with was unchanged as well.
At this point, the bands of light finally disappeared, and Laplace’s "transformation" was fully completed.
Unlike the animation where the transformation merely changed clothing, Laplace’s transformation altered not just clothing but her body shape as well.
What was once a girl not even two meters tall was now twice Angel’s height.
The cold temperament, combined with the huge stature, broad wings, and the whole silvery radiance, exuded an indescribably powerful deterrent force.
Previously when Angel met Laplace, he didn’t feel much, as everyone was just an ordinary person on this newly formed Crystal Origin.
But now, seeing Laplace again, Angel instantly felt an overpowering sense of insignificance, like dust.
This intense sensory gap wasn’t only due to the disparity in size but also because of the warning radar deep within his heart conveying.
The real combat power of Laplace after transformation was unknown, but just the aura she emitted definitely exceeded Wizard Level.
This was why "mortal" Angel felt a sense of inferiority.
The gap was simply too immense.
Even in the Wizard-Level Wilderness of Dreams, those possessing Wizard-Level combat power were extremely few, and Angel had not expected, in this newly birthed world, that Laplace, relying on the past’s Slough, had reached Wizard Level or even higher.
Despite Angel also being able to use a Dream Conch to bring in powerful weapons and Magic Rune Scrolls, with his current physical condition in the new world, he couldn’t unleash the power of these weapons. Even possessing a True Knowledge level weapon was of no use.
But Laplace was different. She now seemed to have reclaimed her past physical form, not only able to fully control the Slough but also to use all the power it bestowed.
Angel looked on with envy, jealousy, and resentment, but there was nothing he could do.