After resurfacing, Angel tried to find traces of the island from the angle it had just entered the water. However, except for Ariel, which approached cautiously, and "Red Haired Woman", which was slowly advancing under the control of Helene, there were still only lingering thick fog and a calm, mirror-like sea.
Calm... like a mirror?
Angel caught a glimmer of inspiration. She first eliminated the Error option and generally dived below the sea surface. She used her naked eyes protected by extra sclera to observe the surrounding seawater. Unsurprisingly, she saw that even fish and corals did not exist, only a dead ocean.
Then, she returned to the sea, her figure flashed, and appeared next to a glass window at the back of the deck.
This is not "Mirror Substitution", but a deeper use of "Mirror World".
Just in the short distance of twenty meters from the sea to the deck, Angel had discovered anomalies in the entire sea area:
There is no space for "Mirror World" below the sea surface.
This is the key that she didn't find at all when she used Magic Mirror to observe the internal conditions of the fog yesterday.
No wonder Wensa said that time, place and skills are indispensable... If Demoness, who is looking for "Fountain of Youth", is too cautious and does not enter this sea area at all and only explores outside, then he will not be able to find anything unusual in this sea area anyway...
Angel thought, his eyes gradually lit up.
She already knew the crux of the problem:
The island where "Fountain of Youth" is located is hidden in a special "Mirror World", and this space can only be entered by a special method, instead of freely shuttling through ordinary Mirror Tunnels like the "Desperate" Demonesss, entering and exiting at will.
After understanding this, the only thing Angel has to do is to find the key to enter "Special Mirror World".
During her trip to Trier in June, she had already seen the method of using a specific silver mirror to enter Special Mirror World, so she was naturally familiar with this, but there was no silver mirror as a key here, The information provided by Wensa and Tia did not mention this at all. Instead, it mentioned key points such as "Demoness's skills" and "the method only Demoness understands"...
If they mean "Mirror World", this is indeed a skill that only Demigod and Demoness know, but there is no mirror that can be entered below the sea surface... Could it be that the real "mirror surface" is this windless sea?
"Helene, don't let the wind blow again!"
Angel shouted loudly, and Red Haired Woman, who was standing next to the rudder with a slightly excited look stirring the sky and strong winds, stopped his movements with some regret.
The man-made wind and waves around him gradually subsided, and Three-Masted Sailing Ship gradually stopped gliding under the resistance of the sea water, floating quietly on the mirror-like sea surface. The surrounding fog once again enveloped the deck, and suppressed emotions were passed between Sailor.
The same depressed and depressing emotions also appeared in Angel's heart. She looked at the calm sea around her and found that although there was no wind and no marine life disturbed the sea water, tiny waves still appeared from everywhere, and irregular water patterns continued to form, merge and disappear. In her "induction" of the mirror, it seemed that each individual area of this sea area could be used as a "mirror", but it could not be connected together and no one could pass through it.
And I suspect that even if I capture a mirror large enough for me to pass through alone, what I enter is the ordinary Mirror World above the sea, not the Special Mirror World with "Fountain of Youth" hidden... Angel thought, and the slightly joking and sarcastic reminder of Wensa appeared in his mind again.
Time, place, and the skills of Demoness are all indispensable... I am now in the mist-shrouded sea area, and I have determined that I need to use the skills of "Mirror World". So the only thing left is time?
"Helene, what time is it now?"
She looked at Helene, who had stopped controlling the strong wind and was picking up the huge ruby "Rose Necklace" in boredom, observing it from various angles, and asked.
The latter took out his pocket watch, took a look at it, and replied, "Bayam The time is already afternoon, but it should be noon here."
Noon... will it be a special time? Or, like some kind of legend, this Mirror World will only "turn on" at midnight?
Angel was thinking, when the ruby in Helene's hand gave off a dazzling light, which made her look at it.
It was the bright light reflected on the gemstone by the sudden intense sunlight.
She looked up at the sky with enlightenment, and found that the dark clouds that had been shrouding the fog had dispersed at some point. The midday sun shone on the sea, and even the fog had dispersed a little.
Sunlight... reflection...
Mirror?
Various thoughts jumped in Angel's mind, and she quickly formed a strange idea. She came to the side of the ship and looked down, and found that with the strong sunlight, the reflection of the "Red Haired Woman" in the sea became clearer, and the surrounding fog gradually dissipated. Not far from the reflection of the ship, a huge but hazy shadow appeared, like some kind of mirage.
That's Mirror World's island.
It turns out that the "time" Wensa refers to is the moment when the dark clouds dissipate and the sun shines!
Angel suppressed the excitement in her heart and immediately tried to enter this special Mirror World, but the seawater around her was still calm, but not completely calm. The subtle waves and disturbance of the water patterns made them unable to serve as a real mirror and open the door to another world.
Unless... let the water surface stop completely and let the sea water freeze completely!
"Ariel, come up!"
Angel shouted loudly, and before Siren, who was still soaking in the water below, could react, a few invisible spider threads stretched out, tying her up tightly and catching "Lazy Fish" like a sea fish. " fished it out and threw it into her exclusive wooden barrel of sea water. Water splashed on the deck, and several Sailor who were close were splashed all over by the sea water shot by Ariel's fish tail.
Suddenly, they felt a biting cold, as if they were coming from the summer sun to the frosty winter.
Extremely cold gas continued to gush out from around Angel's body, bypassing the Sailors on the deck and spreading toward the surrounding sea water. The moist sea mist immediately condensed into water droplets, which turned into snowflakes before they fell into the sea, slowly falling on the frozen sea surface.
Under the full control of "Despair" Demoness, the hundreds of meters of sea around "Red Haired Woman" formed thick Frost in less than a minute, and a thick fog formed in the sky It precipitated into white snowflakes and quickly merged with the ice surface to form a crystal clear ice layer, presenting a dreamlike scene in the sun. All Sailor ignored the chill on their bodies and stood beside the ship in admiration.
Snow falls in July, a scene they have never seen at sea. Only Polar Sea far south of the Southern Continent has such a legend.
But Angel had no intention of enjoying such beautiful scenery. All her energy was focused on smoothing the temporary ice surface. Snowflakes formed by moist sea fog continued to fall on the ice around the ship, filling the uneven surface of the ice until it reflected the scorching sun above, the ships on the sea, and the reflection of the "island" that appeared again at some unknown time.
At the moment when all the real and illusory scenes appeared on the ice at the same time, Angel sensed this new "mirror".
Without hesitation, she used it as the entrance to "Mirror World", activating this "key" that only Demoness could create.
The crystal clear ice immediately turned deep and dim, and layers of space emerged inside, as if leading to an unknown world.
"Red Haired Woman", which was originally fixed in the center of the ice, also broke free and slowly sank to the sea surface, first the hull, then the deck, and finally the mast and bright sails.
At the moment when the top of the mast "entered" the ice, all Sailor felt like the world was spinning and losing the direction of gravity, as if they were floating in the air and in free fall.
"Ah——"
The first one to scream was the shocked Siren Ariel. Her sharp voice penetrated everyone's eardrums, making people feel violent and want to pick up the weapons around them and smash and chop everything over!
Angel was not affected by the noise. She looked up and watched the mirror made of ice keep moving away until it turned into a small point that could not be seen clearly, while "Red Haired Woman" kept falling, as if falling into the endless abyss. The surroundings were similar to other "Mirror World", but there was no "passage" for people to pass through, only illusory gray mist.
The next second, the darkness receded and the light returned.
The feeling of falling on everyone disappeared in an instant. The "Red Haired Woman" appeared in a piece of sparkling sea water, with unblocked sunlight still above its head. The surrounding dense fog retreated several sea miles away, surrounding the sea area like a towering Mist Wall, forming an "eye of the storm" the same size as the previously foggy sea area.
"This place is as calm as the eye of a typhoon..."
Helene murmured, looking around the deck, and suddenly froze.
In front of her, a huge island was close at hand.
"So, Miss Angelica went to find 'Fountain of Youth', not Backlund?"
Cherwood Borough next to East Borough, in a cafe, Shermane, who is slightly disguised to cover his face, and Trissy, who is wearing Ladies' Wide-brimmed Hat and covering his face with Black Veil, are enjoying coffee and exquisite snacks as afternoon tea for the two ladies.
Holding a piece of cat tongue cake in his mouth, Shermane lowered his voice and asked, tilting his head slightly to one side, looking innocent and cute.
"Of course, maybe by the time you see her next time, she will already be Sequence 3," Trissy chuckled and replied pretending to be mysterious, "Also, I'm teaching you these moves to use on Viscount Stratford, so don't pretend to be innocent in front of me."
She picked up a cookie crumb with her fingertips and hit Shermane accurately on the forehead, causing the latter to put away his fake smile.
Immediately, the smile transferred to her own face.
Sequence 3... I have just finished digesting Sequence 7's Potion. The gap between her and her is wider than the gap between ordinary people and me... Shermane's eyes flickered and he suddenly asked:
"That 'Red Gloves' should have seen my face yesterday. If the church issues a wanted order, will it affect our plan to deal with Stratford?"
"Of course, so I told you to be careful before, but it seems that you didn't listen at all... If I hadn't been nearby at that time, I'm afraid you would have been caught in that Chanis Gate and kept company with Sealed Artifact." Trissy picked up a croissant, frowned, sniffed it and put it back on the plate. He said in a helpless tone, "Fortunately, your Miss Angelica should know that guy, so I wrote a letter and told her about the matter and let her deal with it."
"Miss Angelica knows that 'Red Gloves'?"
Shermane asked with his eyes widened.
The disheveled man in the windbreaker with messy hair seemed to appear before her eyes again, as well as his bohemian smile.
Would "Golden Queen" know such a person?
"That's right, I met him once at Tingen City a year ago. At that time, he didn't wear Red Gloves. He was just an ordinary Nighthawks. He was as reckless as you and even more stupid... At that time, your Miss Angelica was also a Nighthawks, not even 'Witch'..."
Trissy murmured, his eyes unfocused and lost in memories.
"At that time, at that time..." Her tone suddenly changed, as if she had thought of something bad, "I stabbed her man... I don't know if she will remember me..."
As she said that, she looked at Shermane, and Shermane also looked at her, and they looked at each other.