The Unreadable Prophecy-Could It Be That Place?

Nion moved instantly.

Once I picked up the paper, I was completely absorbed in the task.

[Soaring Wings were both rejected; the Exiled Black Hole banished him. Powerless and tragic, ah, that Jet-Black Continent was truly the place he should have been kept in.]

Unknown Mist shrouds its top, and in Dream Butterfly Wings lift Crimson Curtain of Avoidance. Fear and numbness are meaningless.

This place is precisely where the weak and vulnerable find it difficult to survive.

[Hide your breath between the Giant Beast's Teeth Gap, carve out a moment of peace even from the Rotten Soil; do not be blinded by the scattered bones and legends, for even in the Vast Death Ground lie nests of respite.]

[The Reversed Rain Clouds is a natural cycle; each raindrop is like sand turning back the flow in Hourglass. Opportunity and death tumble and coexist within the clouds. Quickly build Isolating Umbrella.]

When the Prophecy Poem were written down.

When Pairo picked up the poem, his expression immediately turned ugly.

First, many things in the Psalms cannot be compared, meaning they are very difficult to interpret.

Without intelligence and factual basis, accurate interpretation is impossible, and even if interpretation is achieved, the information cannot be effectively conveyed.

However, the possibility it presented was worrying: they would be unlikely to reach Kevin and his group for at least the next month.

Moreover, from just a few words, one can understand why Uncle Kevin and his companions encountered deadly danger.

Because the environment they were in was deadly.

The very first sentence cannot be fully understood.

All we know is that Kevin and Melusina are called "the intolerable ones," but what makes them intolerable? The Ruins? Or something else?

Then we learn that they were Exile by the Black Hole, and the place of their Exile is the [Jet-Black Continent].

I've never heard Pairo this place before, and I don't know what it refers to, but I vaguely remember Uncle Kevin talking about something similar.

But it's very rare, so rare that it can only be described in a few words.

It seems that if you don't have the ability, there's no point in listening.

Could it be there?

The second sentence is even more difficult to judge. The only information that can be extracted from it is that Uncle Kevin seems not to know where they are, or is unsure, and then determines it for some reason.

It also indicated that the location was deadly.

The third sentence expresses that even in this dangerous place, there are areas where one can catch one's breath; one should not stagnate because of fear.

This once again illustrates the danger of their location.

It's even quite possible that Uncle Kevin has already guessed correctly, but is afraid of being right.

The fourth sentence is even more outrageous; it's almost completely incomprehensible. It seems that the so-called Rain Cloud are not some kind of paper bag but a definite description.

Most importantly, the word "Hourglass" appears, which is generally associated with time.

It suddenly became terrifying.

Isn't this even more dangerous?

What kind of hellish place is that?

Pairo was so anxious he kept scratching his head. All three verses in the Prophecy Poem indicated the danger of that place, showing that the Danger Level was ridiculously high.

"Aunt Rosana —can you bring her back?"

Pairo lowered his head and couldn't help but ask.

Rosana looked at Pairo and shook her head regretfully. "No, actually I already tried."

When the stick figure representing her family was about to meet its demise, Rosana's Nen ability allowed her to activate her Fiery Red Eye state and forcibly drag it home.

At this stage, Rosana is able to sense the situation of her family.

However, the Nen ability that should have been able to forcibly call them home failed, even though Kevin and Melusina had reached the [fatal] stage, and even though she had activated Fiery Red Eye.

But they couldn't be called back at all.

In what kind of environment could such a situation have occurred?

Pairo scratched his hair in frustration.

We can only wait and see if Kurapika and his team can achieve anything. If not, we'll have to call in outside help.

No, for safety's sake, we should call now.

Unknown area.

Kevin and Melusina took turns resting for the night and then emerged from their resting place.

"We didn't encounter any danger last night," Melusina said.

Kevin nodded, but then said, "But there are all sorts of noises coming from afar."

When they are on their guard, we have to be extremely vigilant.

So even though they took turns resting, they weren't exactly in top form.

The two stood at the waist of the boulder Melusina covering her brow with her hand as she looked around at her surroundings.

"This place is truly enormous."

She couldn't help but sigh.

The shortest of these trees are tens or even hundreds of meters tall, and in the distance, at the edge of the field of vision, you can even see trees that are hundreds of meters tall.

The plants and grasses were even more outrageous, some growing to seven or eight meters, or even more than ten meters tall.

"Do you think we've shrunk?" Melusina suddenly asked with a laugh.

Kevin looked around and shook his head helplessly. "The chances are slim."

He knew Melusina was joking, but he still answered seriously.

Specifically, besides these enormous plants, you can still find some relatively normal plants.

Although they also experienced some growth, they didn't increase by much.

The soil and sand also prove that their size has not shrunk.

There were just too many large plants around, blocking out the sun.

"This place is dangerous, so we'd better explore outwards kilometer by kilometer. Today we plan to explore a 3-kilometer radius around here, and then we'll stop," Kevin said.

Upon hearing this, Melusina nodded without any objection.

She clearly sensed that Kevin probably already knew where they were.

She herself also had some unpleasant suspicions.

Melusina materialized Four Maids -type Nen Beast, assigning two to guard the sanctuary.

The other two followed the two ahead to scout the way.

"What kind of date is this?" Melusina asked Kevin with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Kevin smiled and pondered for a moment, "A picnic or date?"

"Then let's go on a picnic or date."

Nen ability enveloped the two of them.

Their mobility and physical strength have been improved.

However, the 3-kilometer area was easily explored.

The surrounding 3-kilometer radius was entirely covered with Dense Forest of various giant logs, piled up in a dense, orderly fashion.

The place where they originally appeared was actually just a small, sparse clearing in Dense Forest.

"No danger or traces of life were found within a 3-kilometer radius. The worst possibility is that this area has been encircled by some creature."

"If we're lucky, this place hasn't been invaded by any biosphere," Kevin said.

They found no trace within a 3-kilometer radius.

Of course, it's also possible that the creatures here don't mark their territory using the behavior of normal wild animals. "Now we need to find a safe water source," Melusina reminded him from the side.

Kevin licked his fingers, raised his hand high, and felt the humidity in the air.

"Over here, if we're lucky..."

The two ran in a certain direction, and about five kilometers away from where they were, they saw a stream.

It flows slowly from afar.

"These creatures are so wary—" Kevin remarked, looking at the empty stream.

In the wild.

This water source should theoretically be teeming with life.

However, when they arrived, there were no living creatures at all, which was highly unusual.

This is clearly not a human settlement.

Therefore, such a situation would not occur in a stream in the wild.

The only explanation is...

The animals that were drinking water here sensed their arrival and fled even before they arrived.

The evidence includes footprints along the stream and some marks from digging in the soil.

These all look fresh.

But this is far too cautious.

Kevin kept his circle at a distance of less than 100 meters from his body, and it never shot out in a columnar shape.

"This is troublesome," Melusina said, frowning.

She's not some clueless little girl; [Food Village] is a holy land for chefs, and she even raises and hunts her own ingredients.

She was certainly aware of the situation.

This means that if the two of them run out of food, hunting creatures here will be extremely difficult.

These creatures are many times more vigilant than they are.

Kevin glanced at Melusina with a wry smile and murmured, "I'm increasingly convinced that my suspicions are correct."

Dark Continent.

Only when the predator is extremely powerful will the prey evolve extreme vigilance.

Even the ability to distinguish the strong.

Without such abilities, these creatures could not possibly survive in such a dangerous situation.

If that's the case.

To survive here, the two must integrate into the local ecosystem.

Moreover, one must become a predator, or else face becoming the prey or starving to death.

The water source has been identified.

The two did not rush to fetch water, nor did they carry any tools for doing so; they simply wanted to determine if there was such an area for fetching water.

They quietly left this place.

After the two left.

Some small creatures slowly returned to the water's edge.

Some were even hiding right under Kevin's noses, and neither of them noticed.