While Angel communicated with the two elemental creatures, no one else spoke. They quietly listened to the conversation between them.
The longer they listened, the stranger it felt.
From the exchange, they could piece together the rough outline of the story: a travel-loving fire frog and a water-element civet drying gemstones by the shore had fought for some reason. In the end, both their elemental cores had shattered, and Angel had happened upon them and brought them back.
At first glance, it seemed perfectly normal. But upon reflection, something felt off.
If the elemental creatures in this scenario were replaced with humans, it would indeed be entirely ordinary. Similar incidents were everywhere in the human world.
But occurring in the world of elemental creatures, it was somewhat strange. Wild elemental creatures in the Wizarding World were already exceedingly rare; even wizards found it difficult to encounter them. Yet two elemental creatures with utterly different attributes had happened to meet and started fighting over some trivial matter.
It gave people the illusion that elemental creatures in the wild were as numerous as field rats.
Moreover, the civet had mentioned the Rain Forest, while Angel had mentioned "Mr. Ma Gu" and "Mr. Aikimo." Those all seemed connected to extraordinary forces and extraordinary lifeforms, yet they had never heard similar terms in the Wizarding World.
They had even secretly wondered whether Angel truly was in another world.
But Angel had denied it earlier. Besides, if he had gone to another world, Angel would not have been able to log into the Dream Wilderness. Only then was that doubt completely dispelled.
Although they had still failed to glean much useful information from the conversation, they had a feeling that Angel and these two elemental creatures were concealing many secrets.
While they were quietly speculating,