The next day, Angel packed his luggage, took the ticket purchased under a false name, and boarded the steam train on time from Masik's border town Essen across the border to the Loen Kingdom's capital Backlund.
Since the journey lasted a day and a half, she had the luxury of buying a first-class seat on a long-distance train, which gave her a separate room, bathroom, meals in a dedicated dining car, and even room service.
"Except for the bumps, it's just like being on a luxury liner..."
Sitting on the cushioned chair, Angel felt a little emotional.
As long as you are willing to spend money, you can enjoy an extraordinary Travel experience in this era. Compared with being surrounded by noise in a second-class carriage and waiting in a small seat for a short opportunity to move when the train arrives at each station, the three times more ticket money is still worth it.
Of course, Angel, who wants to maintain his new "personality", has to pay more for this part of the travel expenses. Otherwise, once his identity is suspected, a second-class long-distance ticket will inevitably become the most conspicuous problem.
While she was heading to Backlund, the passenger ship "Angelica Zaki" was docked briefly at Midway Island, and then along the safe channel explored by Emperor Roselle to the Southern Continent West Bayam, Berens Harbor would arrive at the end of the journey almost at the same time as Angel.
Soon, Church of Storms will learn that "Red Haired Woman" is being repaired at Damir Harbor. After a simple interrogation, Mandated Punishers will be able to get it from Sailor learned about the whereabouts of Angelica and Gehrman, and then missed Berens Harbor, making everything confusing again.
"As long as some false news is spread from time to time, the military and Church of Storms can continue to circulate in the Berserk Sea. It is completely impossible to guess that Klein and I have returned to Loen and hid in Backlund with a population of five million..."
There are two members on Tarot Club, "Hanged Man" and "Hermit", who are still at sea. With the connections of "Iceberg Admiral" and "Queen Mystic", it is not difficult to release some specious news.
Even if Church of Storms could guess that the two people with the "Faceless" ability had already changed their identities, he would think that they would hide in the Southern Continent, which is beyond the reach of Orthodox Church, instead of returning to Three Great Churches's base camp.
This is the opposite... Angel was thinking as he looked out the window at the scenery. The train was passing through a humid swamp. While the environment became dim, the lights in the carriage made the glass windows reflect what was ahead like a mirror.
With a thought in mind, Angel pointed at the glass window with his finger. This temporary "mirror" became dark and deep in the faint flash of Angel's purple eyes, and layers of unclear color blocks and spaces appeared inside, as if it had become a window to another world.
Now, behind the glass window is "Mirror World".
Although we already know that the world in the mirror is not safe and even contains some dangers, as "Despair" Demoness, Angel must master this ability, otherwise the effects of the extraordinary powers enhanced by Potion will be greatly reduced.
Whether it is through the mirror Travel, releasing Black Flame through the air, curses, divination and Anti-Divination, or even using mirrors to create lifelike illusions, all rely on the power of "Mirror World".
Just like "Marionettist" requires Spirit Body Threads, "Wraith" requires Spirit World.
After hesitating for a moment, Angel stretched his hand into this mysterious space.
In an instant, her body sitting on the armchair became illusory and lost its shape, as if attracted by some force, she got into the narrow glass window.
Angel The scenery outside the window in front of her eyes turned into a series of dark passages, which were intertwined and connected with each other, spreading in all directions above, below, left, and right of her like a spider web. Some were connected to other large or small "mirrors" at very close positions, and some led to infinity and gradually disappeared in the dim background.
This is "Mirror World", the world that connects all mirrors?
Angel let his weightless body follow the passage, passing through different "spider threads", and came to a nearby mirror as wide as a pair of Door Opening, and looked out carefully.
She saw the steam train passing by quickly, trailing black smoke gradually away, she saw the shrubs and muddy swamps of different heights around her, and she saw the gray sky and clouds high above.
This is a puddle somewhere that can reflect the surrounding environment... Angel reacted immediately, withdrew his gaze and looked in the direction he came from. Not surprisingly, he found that the narrow "door" was slowly leaving its original position and moving in another direction.
"The direction and speed of the train's departure are different... is it because 'Mirror World' is similar to Spirit World, but the orientation and distance do not correspond to Physical World?"
She realized something and was not in a hurry to return to the carriage. Instead, she explored the spider web composed of various mirrors and passages nearby, and quickly figured out the general method of movement.
"Each visible 'door' corresponds to a certain mirror of Physical World. The length of the passage does not represent the actual distance, but it contains certain special rules. Spirituality will also give certain hints... After adapting, it can shuttle between different mirrors at a speed a hundred times faster than reality, and can even observe the external environment without leaving 'Mirror World', which is equivalent to 'snooping' without exposing itself..."
While summarizing in his mind, Feather Fall shuttled between different passages, and always paid attention to the passage connecting from the steam train not leaving his sight. Angel soon exhausted his curiosity and prepared to return along the original route.
Suddenly, in the dense passage in front of Angel, a unique "mirror" appeared. Compared with other mirrors that looked gray, it was more colorful, with blocks of color like oil paintings constantly flowing inside.
Floating forward, she had no time to react, so she fell headlong into the color blocks. The hazy and dark "Mirror World" in front of her eyes immediately became colorful, with large and small color blocks moving constantly, and some Spirit World Creature flew quickly among them.
Spirit World?
Angel's heart tightened. She looked back at where she came from and found that the "door" that suddenly appeared had disappeared without a trace.
He actually entered Spirit World without the help of Mr. Azik?
Compared with "Mirror World", which has no gravity and can float at will, Spirit World has a clear "up and down" direction relationship. Angel, which cannot shuttle Spirit World, immediately felt a strong sense of weightlessness and fell involuntarily toward the dark space below. The seven-color intertwined light strip above became farther and farther away.
"Oops, I have to go back to 'Mirror World' immediately..."
Angel touched Magic Mirror in his arms without hesitation, and used the same method as before to open the "mirror" that could only pass through with one hand, and the whole person became illusory again.
A moment later, the figure of Angel, covered in cold sweat, appeared from his own independent room, still sitting on the chair by the window. Outside the glass window in front of him, the swamp was slowly disappearing, and the large green grassland was filled with the breath of spring in the sunshine.
Only the remaining layers of color blocks in front of me and the cold touch of Magic Mirror in my arms made the experience just now seem extremely real.
"No wonder even Mr. Fool reminded Mirror World that it is not safe... What suddenly appeared just now was the passage to Spirit World. If it were other more dangerous places, such as underground, the seabed, or even the church of Orthodox Church..."
Angel murmured, looking at the glass window next to him with some fear.
Of course, this trip was not completely fruitless. She had initially mastered the method of using "Mirror World" to travel. At least short-distance Travel was no problem. She could even use different mirrors to spy on others and impose curses.
The most important thing is that she discovered that "Magic Mirror", which uses blood to strengthen connections, can open up a space that is unique to herself and can be connected to Mirror World in one way.
This allowed her to escape from Spirit World and return to Mirror World, and...
Place Magic Mirror on the table, pull out the revolver tied to the leg under the long skirt with a strap, Angel strokes the mirror surface with one hand, opens the passage to his own "Mirror World", and presses the revolver on the mirror surface with the other hand.
Just like entering the mirror just now, the revolver quickly disappeared from Physical World.
After being promoted to Sequence 4, Angel no longer has much need for this kind of weapon without extraordinary power. Carrying a pistol on his body is purely out of habit. It is just used to test the reliability of "Mirror World". Even if it is accidentally lost or cannot be retrieved from the mirror, the loss is not too big.
"If it succeeds, I will have an extra 'space' of my own. I don't need to carry all the valuable things with me, and I won't have to bother Mr. Fool often with sacrifices..."
She put away Magic Mirror with anticipation, prepared to leave the room, and go to the dining car to have a look.
After Atmospheric Pollution Investigation Committee officially started work and Environmental Protection bills were promulgated successively after Great Smog, the haze that Backlund had not seen all year round finally became a lot thinner.
East Borough Under the afternoon sun, Sherman, wearing a cloak and meticulously combed brown hair, walked out of the two-story building with a full stomach and a faint smile on his face. Behind him, in the second-floor window, two girls were secretly looking at his back.
It wasn't until he returned to the apartment next door and blocked the sight behind him that Sherman sighed softly and locked the door. The smile on his face disappeared and his expression became indifferent.
He walked faster, walked up the stairs to the second floor, returned to his bedroom, took out the revolvers, daggers and other weapons hidden on his body, maintained them a little, and then returned them to their original places one by one.
When he was concentrating on the work at hand, a half-length mirror behind him completely reflected his back. The thin figure, which seemed taller due to concentration, kept swaying in the candlelight, as if the scene in the water was disturbed by ripples.
Suddenly, the figure stopped moving and became fixed.
Next to the half-length mirror, a slim figure wearing a hood gradually took shape.
Sherman, who was sitting at the table, seemed to feel something and paused in his movements, but Spirituality told him that he was safe, so he did not react further. Instead, he stuffed the cleaned dagger into the scabbard on his thigh, picked up the brass bullets one by one, and stuffed them into the cylinder of the revolver.
"If you trust Spirituality's intuition too much, you will fall into this one day."
A soft female voice sounded from behind, causing Sherman to slam the magazine shut, roll away from the place, and raise the gun to aim in the direction of the sound.
"Miss Irene?"
In a flash of lightning, he recognized the woman behind him, and his tense limbs slowly relaxed.