After leaving the cemetery, Angel and Dangros followed the long, narrow red jelly corridor upward.
When they reached a three-way intersection, Dangros suddenly called out, "Wait."
Angel stopped and looked at Dangros questioningly.
Dangros silently watched one of the paths. More than ten seconds later, a tiny spark drifted out from that pitch-black passage.
Dangros lightly hooked a finger, and the spark was summoned over.
"What is that?" Angel noticed that Dangros had directly slapped the spark into the "head" between its wrist and palm.
Dangros did not speak immediately, as though it were sensing something. Only after a long while did it say, "This is a message from one of my underlings. Little Yinba is waiting for me at Blazing Road."
Having said that, Dangros looked at Angel. "Little Yinba also invited Mr. Pat. It seems Teacher Mago assigned it something."
Since it was something Mago had assigned to Little Yinba, Angel considered it and nodded. "Then let's go take a look."
Dangros nodded and led Angel toward another passage.
On the way to Blazing Road, Angel asked about the little sparks that had drifted over earlier. "You can use that method to send messages?"
Dangros nodded. "Yes. As long as you pour what you want to say into a spark, then seek out the recipient, you can transmit a message."
"That sounds pretty good." Angel could not help recalling the countless sparks floating through the skies of the Fire Region. Could they all have been drifting messages?
If that guess was true, then when Angel had secretly concealed himself and moved forward, were netizens above his head actually livestreaming and discussing his journey on some "forum"?
Dangros said, "Most of them are not, but some little sparks containing messages are hidden among them."
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