Opening the Magic Furnace

Inside the Magic Furnace, Landen could only wait slowly for the girls to activate the array and fully release the energy within the Ley Line.

"Didn't I tell you not to rush recklessly into the Magic Web again?" Tania's reproach came through. "But you just had to go straight into the Magic Furnace. This is even riskier than entering the Magic Web. Sometimes the mana flow in the Magic Web is a little slower, but the elements inside the Magic Furnace have never slowed down."

"So back in March, before you broke through and became a Great Fairy, was that also why you were so afraid of the Magic Furnace at the Salt Mine?" When he had asked the fairies to enter the Magic Furnace before, Landen had only been thinking of his own territory. Now that he personally felt the violence inside the furnace, guilt rose in him instead.

"Not exactly. The fluids inside the Magic Furnace are still manageable for us. It's just that Great Fairies have been born in those small Magic Furnaces before, and they suppress ordinary Magic Fairies," Tania explained. "Actually, you can leave already. Fiana told me the Dragon Girl is almost here, and the Magic Furnace on the sixth level can be fully opened soon."

"Let me stay a little longer." Landen, however, did not want to leave. "I want to sense the Magic Web again."

"What are you going to use to sense it?"

"All dharmas are empty in appearance, neither born nor destroyed... no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no form, sound, scent, taste, touch, or dharma; no realm of eye, up to and including no realm of consciousness." Landen recited a passage of Zen from his hometown. This was the feeling he thought fit most closely, though Tania