The Gondola sailed through wisps of floating cloud.
Half an hour had passed since they left Maraya Iceberg. Looking back along the road they had come, the vast icebergs were no longer in sight. Only the occasional water elemental creature leaping from the deep-blue sea below told them they had yet to leave Maraya Iceberg's bounds.
Angel leaned against the side of the boat, Frost Isel's intelligence still echoing in his mind.
"Naimeicui..." Angel murmured the name inwardly.
After a while, Angel sat up and tapped the air with one finger. Illusion nodes winding around his fingertip swiftly constructed an illusion before him.
It was a parchment map whose edges had already frayed.
The map divided every extreme environment on the Tidal Realm's main continent into regions. Within each region was a simple sketch of an elemental creature.
This was the Tidal Realm Map Feng had drawn.
In truth, Angel had not looked at this map in a long time. Along the way, wise ones from every region had guided him, and later he had subdued Lober. They were exceedingly familiar with the Tidal Realm's terrain, far more reliable than Feng's half-baked mapmaking skills.
The reason Angel had brought out the map again now was that he recalled what Frost Isel had told him in the ice chamber—
"Naimeicui is nature's true incarnation. Compared with Lushleaf Groot, the current monarch of the Azure Forest Region, it is held in greater esteem by nature's attendants. Moreover, Naimeicui is an uncrowned king."
Angel asked, "What is an uncrowned king?"
Frost Isel rose from its throne and pointed at the mural Feng had painted on the ice wall. "This is an uncrowned king."
Only later did Angel learn that when Feng first arrived in the Tidal Realm, he had traveled through every region