The hands that stopped the petal belonged to Angel.
The moment Angel touched the petal, it burst with intense rosy light. Wang Wang thought Angel had been attacked and felt slightly panicked. After all, it seemed to Wang Wang that Angel was suffering to help it stop the petal.
However, the pink light didn’t last long; after a second, the halo dimmed.
Wang Wang looked again and saw that Angel was unharmed. He held a pink petal in his palm, which rapidly expanded and eventually turned into a bright red fruit.
Angel looked at the fruit in his hand, which resembled an apple, and without much hesitation, he took a bite.
The fruit wasn’t large, but it was bigger than Angel’s mouth. Normally, it wouldn’t be eaten in one bite, but miraculously, once Angel bit it, the red fruit deflated like a balloon, turning into pure energy that he swallowed in a single gulp.
"It tastes good." Angel gave Nami Midori a gentle smile. Although this fruit wasn’t a real fruit, the taste was genuinely excellent. The flesh was pure natural energy, beneficial without any harm upon ingestion.
Nami Midori glanced at the still-stunned Wang Wang, then said to Angel, "This fruit wasn’t originally meant for you."
"In any case, thank you for your gift." Angel understood that though Nami Midori said this, the fruit was indeed intended for him. After all, Nami Midori was watching to see Wang Wang use Void travel, not to see it hard-catch the petal and then devour the fruit.
Moreover, with the Void Traveler’s extremely cautious nature, it wouldn’t carelessly eat something from strangers.
Nami Midori didn’t immediately reply, instead, she swam slowly to the side, her gaze fixed on the distant Wang Wang.
"This Void travel is indeed spectacular, but can it really traverse a Spatial Tempest?"
Angel couldn’t answer at the moment; such a question could only be known through direct experimentation. So he waved to the distant Wang Wang, signaling it to come over.
Upon hearing the dialogue between Nami Midori and Angel, and recalling the previous scene under the pink light, Wang Wang roughly understood that the green snake had no intention to harm it. The petal, which appeared full of energy, wasn’t some kind of attack but rather a kind of edible fruit gifted by Nami Midori?
Although Wang Wang didn’t get to eat the fruit, it didn’t mind; even if it had known in advance that the petal was a misdirection for fruit, it wouldn’t have eaten it.
After temporarily lowering its guard against Nami Midori, Wang Wang followed Angel’s instructions and traversed to his side.
When Wang Wang arrived, Angel got straight to the point, not mentioning the previous incident.
Angel: "The Spatial Tempest over there is this time’s target. Do you feel confident to traverse it?"
Following Angel’s gaze, based on its experience living in the Void for years, Wang Wang sensed something unusual upon seeing the Spatial Tempest.
Firstly, that Spatial Tempest exhibited a strange cyclical change, sometimes expanding, sometimes contracting, like the rise and fall of tides. It was Wang Wang’s first time seeing a Spatial Tempest with such periodic changes.
Secondly, it was too clean.
A Spatial Tempest is a spatial collapse. Within that Spatial Tempest, the spatial collapse was so clean that no spatial fragment remained.
Even after "the tide receded," the reformed spatial barriers were as smooth as a mirror.
This implies one thing: the Spatial Tempest must have existed for a long time because if it had only appeared for a day or two, there would certainly be remnants of original spatial fragments. Only after prolonged periods, with debris repeatedly washed away, can it become this clean.
Angel had previously mentioned to Wang Wang that the Spatial Tempest had persisted for over four hundred years, which Wang Wang initially doubted. But now, judging by various signs, it might indeed be possible.
A Spatial Tempest lasting over four hundred years was something even Wang Wang, who had lived long in the Void, had never encountered.
"Is there any difficulty?" Angel asked again, seeing that Wang Wang hadn’t responded.
Wang Wang thought for a moment: "If it’s just me traversing the Spatial Tempest, there’s no problem. But if I take you with me, I’m not sure I can get through."
Angel had already learned from Wang Wang that it could transport people for at most a hundred miles, but this Spatial Tempest spanned at least a thousand miles. Given Wang Wang’s ability, it indeed couldn’t take him directly through.
However, Angel didn’t plan to traverse the entire Spatial Tempest; he mainly wanted to know if the Treasure Land hidden within it still existed.
"No need to carry me through first." Angel said, "Try traversing alone first, to see if the Spatial Tempest here is completely pervasive or if there’s still a haven inside."
Wang Wang: "You mean that the Spatial Tempest here forms a ring, with an area inside that hasn’t been invaded by the tempest?"
Angel nodded. If the Spatial Tempest was part of what Feng had set up, then the Treasure Land shouldn’t have been destroyed by it.
Wang Wang furrowed its brow, puzzled: "It’s impossible for a disaster like a Spatial Tempest to leave a safe haven in the middle. I’ve never heard of such a thing."
Angel: "But you’ve never heard of a Spatial Tempest lasting over four hundred years, have you? This Spatial Tempest’s existence is special in itself; maybe its interior is indeed hollow?"
Wang Wang couldn’t refute Angel’s words. This Spatial Tempest was unlike anything it had encountered before, so perhaps there was something special about it.
With that in mind, Wang Wang said: "Let me go and check it out first."
Angel: "Thank you."
Wang Wang didn’t say anything more, it nodded at Angel, then began to merge with the darkness, eventually disappearing.
After Wang Wang disappeared, Nami Midori languidly came to Angel’s side: "Did it head into the Spatial Tempest?"
Angel nodded.
Nami Midori’s cool voice reached his ears: "Did you feel it?"
Angel queried: "Feel what?"
Nami Midori paused contemplatively: "This Void Traveler’s Void travel is somewhat different."
Nami Midori had observed other Void Travelers around; some also used similar Void travel abilities when it tossed out the petal.
It could still trace their Void travels and even judge their final landing points based on energy fluctuations.
But Wang Wang was different. At the moment it traversed the Void, Nami Midori couldn’t sense anything, as if it truly vanished from the world.
"Perhaps Wang Wang’s traverse happens in a higher-dimensional space?" Angel recalled the line that reached into the Mind Space and replied.
"Higher dimension?" Nami Midori was somewhat puzzled.
Angel briefly explained some wizards’ speculations about higher dimensions. In essence, wizards attributed unexplained phenomena to a new plane, only defined but never discovered.
Even with the explanation, Nami Midori was still baffled. Although its power was strong, it was ultimately just an Elemental Creature confined to the Tidal World.
Nami Midori: "Higher dimension... what does the scenery look like there?"
"I’ve never experienced it either, who knows?" Angel said, but he couldn’t help recalling the Strange World he encountered when studying The Gate of Void, and the long "tunnel" he experienced using its special effects... Could these places be higher-dimensional existences?
Angel didn’t know, but he still had a chance to explore.