"Wow, Granny, you're amazing!"
Seeing this, Paimon immediately praised Citlali until her eyes narrowed with delight.
"All right, all right, hurry up!"
At Citlali's urging, everyone slowly approached and entered the rift.
The moment they passed through the rift, Natlan's nearly forty-degree heat plummeted to almost zero. The drop of nearly forty degrees immediately left Lumine and Paimon a little uncomfortable, but they were adventurers, after all, and adapted after a while.
As for the Stellaron Hunters, they had even visited the bitterly cold Jarilo-VI. This little temperature difference was no trouble at all!
"Are you all right? Do you need my help?"
As Mavuika spoke, her hair lit up with flames, turning her into a human lighter girl.
That scorching heat and light immediately opened up a small, ten-meter-wide area within this dark realm of death. Some souls were drawn by the heat, too, but lingered outside the circle of light, both yearning for it and fearing it.
"So these are what they call souls? How amazing!"
It was Stellaron Essence's first time seeing and sensing souls at such close range. There was no fear whatsoever in her expression, only great curiosity in her gaze.
"These blue ones are all neutral or kind souls. If you encounter red ones, those are evil spirits. Those are the ones you need to watch out for."
"But I ask that, if you really do encounter evil spirits, you avoid them as much as possible. Please only attack if there's no other choice."
Mavuika knew these souls might have been Natlan's warriors in life. Even if they had turned into evil spirits after wandering too long, they had not been like this from the beginning.
Seeing that Mavuika the lighter girl had lit up a circle of light, Theresa abandoned the idea of