Yao Ziyan had originally planned to inject magic into the communication device to contact Ausia, but Luo Chuan refused. Mainly because he felt that, at this hour, she was surely resting already. Setting aside the issue of time difference, even if they did get through, what then? Were they really supposed to casually chat, just as Yao Ziyan had said? Heaven knew what strange and bizarre things Ausia would imagine...
Chimera watched Luo Chuan and Yao Ziyan appear, only to vanish again a few minutes later. It shook its head and curled back up to sleep. As a Magic Beast, making a living by loafing around and waiting for death was naturally its sacred duty. The world clamored on, cherry blossoms silently faded in the blink of an eye, but none of that had the slightest thing to do with it.
On a deserted, remote street, darkness lay entrenched like spilled ink. The distant lights were completely shut out, and the night sky's stars stretched as vast as a sea of smoke. Only the hazy outlines of one large and one small moon could barely be seen, their moonlight exceedingly dim here.
In the darkness, ripples spread through space as though it had been disturbed, wavering like water. If an experienced mage happened to witness this scene, they would certainly have been shocked, because the entire process involved no flow of magic whatsoever. It was as though space had warped of its own accord. The odds of such a thing happening probably had no idea how many zeros after the decimal point.
Before long, two illusory figures silently emerged from the spatial ripples and rapidly solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye. The whole process was like a line drawing being filled with color. In just a few