Death's Power

"Calderon City..."

Angel fell into thought as she read the letter Klein had sent.

She remembered him mentioning the place before he left for the Southern Continent. One of the main ingredients for the Trick Sorcerer Potion was hidden in that city, which likely lay deep within the Spirit World. If Klein wanted to advance to Sequence 4, he would have to go there—perhaps more than once.

Just like my search for the Gazer... Angel chuckled, burned the letter, and rose from the armchair in her bedroom.

She rang the bell, and her personal maid Aisha soon appeared. Angel asked her to tell Ribak, the butler resting downstairs, that she would be staying home tomorrow and that he should cancel all her appointments. She then changed into casual clothes, gathered her Mystical Items and equipment, and slipped into the Mirror World, heading south.

To travel directly from the North Continent to the Southern Continent, she could take a passenger ship, a journey of three to seven days. She could also have Klein pick her up using the Traveler he had Grazed with Creeping Hunger, or smear her blood on the cover of The Travels of Grosell, enter the Book World, then come back out. Her final option was to cross the entire sea through the Mirror World.

Nothing in Klein's letter suggested urgency, so he had not immediately used Teleportation to return to Backlund. Angel did not want to rely too often on that book of unknown origin, either. That left her with the Demonesses' way of traveling.

Based on Angel's previous trip to Bayam, reaching the northern coast of East Balam would take about two hours. But now that she had digested most of the Despair Potion and grown more adept at Mirror Shuttle, she needed only half an