Angel gently thanked the Black Earl.
Even if the Thunder of the Homeland isn’t needed, he still needed to thank the Black Earl for his goodwill.
Black Earl: "What do you plan to do next? Fight? Or... something else?"
If it’s a fight, the Black Earl will cooperate with Angel, with them leading together. If it’s "something else," Angel will lead, and the Black Earl won’t intervene unless absolutely necessary.
"...I plan to negotiate with this Infant Spirit." After contemplating for a moment, Angel decided to share his idea.
No doubt, Angel’s idea was classified as "something else" by the Black Earl.
"Alright." The Black Earl did not ask how Angel intended to negotiate, but simply advised, "Most Infant Spirits have a natural instinct to disguise, be careful not to be deceived by its appearance."
Angel nodded: "I understand."
Infant Spirits are a type of undead, they don’t possess wisdom, yet in terms of attack methods, they have a natural instinct to disguise, using the guise of an abandoned baby in the wild to lure humans near before attacking. This "fishing" behavior is instinctive, but can also be seen as compensation. After all, Infant Spirits are much weaker than most undead.
However, Angel wasn’t worried about being tricked by the Infant Spirit, because he was very aware that the one he’s "negotiating" with this time, most likely, won’t be the Infant Spirit, but the Maneater Flower.
After the Black Earl agreed to Angel’s idea, he didn’t make any more interventions, not even speaking a word, just silently floating aside.
Angel flew forward another three meters.
The distance of merely three meters wasn’t due to caution; it was purely because Angel needed to consider the scope of the Domain Field. Any further, and the Black Earl would be outside the Domain Field and would surely be affected by the Red Wax.
However, even a mere three meters advancement was enough. The distance to the Infant Spirit was so close now, close enough to see all the intricate details of the Infant Spirit and Maneater Flower.
...
Angel’s approach seemed unproblematic to him.
But, as for the "onlookers" who were unaware of the truth, their hearts were in their throats, fearing that Angel might fall into a dangerous predicament in the next second.
Led by Dox, the group’s concern was for Angel.
But there was another person, who was watching everything with an astonished look.
That person was Adanis.
Adanis was highly confident that this group would never breach the Infant Spirit holding the flower’s defensive line. Because she knew very well the terror of this Otherworldly Infant Spirit!
When the Otherworldly Infant Spirit suddenly descended, had it not been inadvertently lured into the Mirror Domain by Adanis, the Qingkong Poetry Room might have ceased to exist by now.
While in the Mirror Domain, Adanis also tested the strength of the Infant Spirit.
Without exception, each attempt ended in Adanis’s death. Though in the Mirror Domain, Adanis used only mirror shadows, through the transmission of a real mirror, the power was nearly comparable to Adanis. Yet, even so, facing the Otherworldly Infant Spirit was a dead end.
However, after dying many times, Adanis gradually found out some secrets of the Infant Spirit.
This was an Infant Spirit with intelligence and cunning; it had a natural premonition of danger, so after entering the Mirror Domain, even if it could break the imprisoned Mirror Space, it never did so.
Because it knew that once it broke the Mirror Space, with nowhere to go, it would only fall into the deepest part of the Mirror Domain, which is—the Sea of Void Mirror.
And the Sea of Void Mirror, even for a powerful being like an Infant Spirit, is an extremely dangerous place.
Thus, Adanis grasped the first means to deal with the Infant Spirit: banishment to the Sea of Void Mirror.
Besides, in the hundreds of encounters Adanis previously had with the Infant Spirit, aside from dying the equivalent number of hundreds of times, she also gleaned another piece of information by probing.
The Otherworldly Infant Spirit descended to reality not for the Underground Labyrinth, it seemed to have another purpose, a purpose that made it eager to leave, to regain freedom.
After confirming the Otherworldly Infant Spirit’s purpose and grasping its weakness, Adanis began to try to persuade the Infant Spirit to surrender, she was very eager to obtain the loyalty of the Otherworldly Infant Spirit, hoping it could be used by her.
As long as she could control the Otherworldly Infant Spirit, Adanis even had a way to break through the constraints of Qingkong Poetry Room, completely nullifying the contract set by Augustine.
However, 993 deaths also made Adanis recognize a fact.
She couldn’t obtain the loyalty of the Otherworldly Infant Spirit, even when using the Sea of Void Mirror to threaten it, it never yielded.
From occasionally sensed mental fluctuations, Adanis knew the Otherworldly Infant Spirit seemed to have another master, whom it referred to as ’Queen’.
After knowing the Otherworldly Infant Spirit couldn’t be used by her, Adanis set a number for herself, once she died a thousand times, she would inevitably banish the Otherworldly Infant Spirit to the Sea of Void Mirror.
If it couldn’t be used by her, no matter how strong it was, it was worthless.
However, before Adanis died her thousandth time, Angel and his group broke in.
Thus, in the 994th meeting with the Infant Spirit, Adanis and the Otherworldly Infant Spirit reached an agreement.
—Intercept all life forms entering the Slow Corridor, kill them, grind their bones to ashes, then she would set it free.
This wasn’t merely a verbal agreement; after all, once the Infant Spirit was released from the Mirror Domain, no one could guarantee if it would retaliate against her, and Adanis had to consider her safety and the safety of Olao.
Therefore, a contract between them was established. With the Mirror Domain as witness, if the Infant Spirit failed to fulfill the agreement or attacked Adanis or Olao, the Mirror Domain would pull it from reality directly back into the Mirror Domain, falling into the Sea of Void Mirror.
Because of this agreement, Adanis was very confident that Angel and the others would absolutely not break through the Infant Spirit’s defensive line.
In Adanis’s thoughts, Angel and his group seemed unlikely to even break through the Red Wax and Weaving Net.
Because Adanis personally experienced the power of Red Wax and Weaving Net, she died hundreds of times in the Red Wax and Weaving Net respectively. And until now, she hasn’t found any method to break the Red Wax and Weaving Net.
Fire attack? Weaving Net is not afraid of fire. Although Red Wax will melt into wax oil by fire, wherever the wax oil flows will become a place of madness.
When Red Wax is solid, it affects only the area where Red Wax is, but turns into wax oil, making this area expand limitlessly without any dead angles.
Therefore, at present, there is no effective method to threaten the Weaving Net and Red Wax.
Adanis firmly believed that Angel and the others were doomed to die, even prepared to have a "heart-to-heart" with Olao, but the development exceeded her imagination.