Nothing unexpected happened that night.
After all the hardships Angel had endured along the way, he felt relieved—but also faintly uneasy.
Perhaps I'm overthinking it. Angel thought to himself. Windwhisper Valley had always been recognized by wizards as a sanctuary for countless years. It would be stranger if it were unsafe.
The oil lamp went out and was relit, cycling through this twice.
Twelve hours had passed since yesterday's interplanar passage closed, and both of them had more or less recovered.
"Let's try again."
After Sanders spoke, Angel had originally intended to offer up his Fragment Mayfly, but Sanders waved him off. He took out another glass bottle himself, with a Fragment Mayfly inside.
Back when Gloria learned that Sanders had to go to the Abyss, she had specially prepared several Fragment Mayflies for him, so that if anything happened, Sanders could successfully smuggle himself back from the Abyss.
After all, Gloria wanted something from Sanders.
Although Sanders believed the accident in yesterday's interplanar passage had been an isolated incident, he intended to change several conditions just to be safe.
First, they changed their location. Windwhisper Valley had more than one underground cavern, and Sanders led Angel to another cavern ten kilometers away from their original spot. Then Sanders adjusted the Wizarding World beacon that the Fragment Mayfly was locked onto. He had previously set it near Savage Cave, but now he granted Angel's wish and placed the coordinates at the border of Alya Duchy, on the edge of Pamiji Plateau.
With two necessary prerequisites changed, Sanders refused to believe the interplanar passage could still go wrong.
When a dark, shadowy passage appeared before them again, Sanders turned to Angel. "The passage is ready. Let's go."
The interplanar passage resembled the deep maw of some creature waiting to devour them,