Toward the Swamp?
A question mark of confusion popped up over Chen Yu's round head.
He knew that the distances between Planar Rifts did not strictly follow positional distances on the Prime Material Plane.
Without the precise calculations and complex spell deductions of a high-level mage, it was difficult to locate and connect two Planar Rifts separated by a great distance.
Yet according to the Heart-Snatcher Shadow, the rift controlled by the vampires was not only close to the rift deep within Gore, but was also coincidentally connected to it.
The odds of that were lower than a Slime not liking to bask in the sun.
What was even stranger was that if the vampires had known this secret long ago, they could have quietly infiltrated the heartland of Gore through this rift and caused the stonekin far more trouble than by releasing a single Heart-Snatcher Shadow. Why expose the rift in such a manner?
Suspicious. Extremely suspicious.
Chen Yu felt that he had caught the scent of a conspiracy.
After Nili waved away the stonekin youths who had been chattering around them, she asked the same question.
After another round of "patient" communication from Yano, along with the comfort of "cooperate or get beaten again," the Heart-Snatcher Shadow haltingly described what lay within—the Frozen Snowfield, a massive castle, Spirit Chains locking down the Planar Rift...
That reminded Chen Yu of the Wandering Castle the Ice Elemental had mentioned during their earlier campaign against it.
What exactly did it want by linking so many Planar Rifts together?
Did it want to escape the Elemental Plane?
Nili folded her arms, lightly tapping her elbow with her fingertips. After pondering for a moment, she said, "Salazar must know quite a lot about that castle on the vampires' side."
"I think their true