Limited by time, Zheng Qing's trip to the Silent Forest with the two witches lasted only one morning before coming to an end.
Since it was Saturday, Zheng Qing needed to work as an assistant in Professor Monteria's laboratory that afternoon. In the evening, he had to report to the School Labor Committee and join the nighttime patrol of Linzhong Lake. This was his punishment for leaving the team without permission during the last Magic Ban Festival—after more than half a year at school, Zheng Qing felt that the place he knew best was neither the library nor the study rooms, but Linzhong Lake at night.
Dances, adventures, patrols, and more—he had left too many memories beside that vast lake.
Of course, as far as Ilena and Colmar were concerned, the one accompanying them through the Silent Forest that day had not been Zheng Qing, but a mysterious talking black cat.
As for the results of that morning's search, they came as no surprise.
They found nothing.
According to Senior Colmar's explanation, the Silent Forest suffered from too many magical imbalances, causing frequent spatial distortions and overlaps throughout the forest. Many exploration spells commonly used by wizards failed there. Whether they could find that Mystic Realm, or what method they should use to find it, was essentially a matter of mystical chance.
An even greater uncertainty than fog divination.
Zheng Qing had also secretly taken out his silver-cased Pocket Watch several times that morning, but he had not detected any trace of stable dimensional fluctuations. That only deepened the gloom in his heart.
He had reason to believe that the Sign of Heavy Yin Fei Rui had divined was somehow mysteriously connected to him. And the only way to solve the puzzle the hamster had posed was for him to