Chapter 618: Chapter 526: Even in the worst environments, life always finds a way!
Rafael, although he didn’t know what Lynn was up to, still took the “Ring of Arcane Secrets” out of trust.
Yoland, Tic, Ivina, and others also took various instruments and made preparations for the journey.
Lynn didn’t give a long motivational speech but reminded everyone to be extremely careful and prioritize safety and stealth for the exploration. If necessary, they could always retreat and rest before the council prepared a second team to enter.
“We will be careful, see you later then!” Rafael said solemnly before stepping into the swirling Space-Time Gate, with the others hastily following suit.
“So, it was severed, wasn’t it?” Lynn watched as they vanished into the Space-Time Gate, sensing something and mulling over it in his mind.
But this had been within his expectations. He just wondered whether the Soul Splitting Magic would work on the other side.
On the other side, upon entering the Space-Time Gate, Rafael felt dizzy, as if his consciousness were peeled away and his body had been whirled about dozens of times in a vast cyclone.
By the time Rafael came to his senses, he had already emerged on the other side of the Space-Time Gate.
“Such dense Magic Power.”
This was Rafael’s first sensation, and he wondered if the Magic Power concentration nearby was so high due to the Space-Time Gate, nearly comparable to the Magic Power tide on the monthly Morrow Day.
Yoland, Tic, Ivina, and others also stepped out from the temporal vortex to find themselves in a dark, icy, desolate world.
As reported, the temperature here was extremely low. Tic shivered involuntarily as he took out a temperature measuring device and waited a moment before quickly reaching a conclusion.
“The temperature is around minus twenty degrees Celsius,” said Tic, astonished.
“No wonder it’s so cold.” Yoland also shrank his neck, despite having enhanced his wizard robe with cold-resistant magic, it was still bitterly cold.
“Also, the gravity in this world seems lighter,” Ivina said as she tried jumping and soared three or four meters high.
Even though she was in excellent physical shape, she could not jump such an exaggerated height without relying on magic or Divine Arts.
Reminded by Ivina, Rafael and the others also noticed this sensation of being lighter.
According to Lynn’s theory of universal gravitation, this world’s mass must be much smaller than the mass of our planet,” Yoland, an expert in astronomy, looked up at the sky.
There were no stars here, no moon or sun – only darkness upon darkness.
“Now is not the time to think about these things. Once we find a place to settle down, an experiment to measure gravitational acceleration will tell us more,” Rafael refocused everyone’s attention from gravity and temperature back to the immediate tasks.
In fact, part of their mission was to study the elemental composition and gravitational constants of this world, and they had brought all the necessary instruments with them.
If possible, the council wanted them to estimate the size of this continent or planet using Lynn’s method of parallax, but Rafael thought that was completely insane, a problem with the councilors’ brains. Without any light in this place,
creating a light source big enough unless they released “Sky Vaulting” high in the sky, which would be akin to revealing their position…
“Light bright as day.” Rafael raised his hand to cast a spell, and a flickering ball of lightning condensed above their heads, its phosphorescence immediately dispelling the surrounding deep darkness.
Only then did they notice that the Space-Time Gate here was also erected within a valley, probably because the Church’s expeditionary force had recently slaughtered nearby magical beasts, leaving the air filled with a mix of blood and a foul stench.
“Good, magic can be used smoothly,” Rafael breathed a sigh of relief, the thing he was most worried about hadn’t happened. This gave him more confidence, and he then turned his gaze towards Tika, the spiritual energy wizard in the team.
Tika nodded and opened his large wizard robe.
Ivina’s pupils contracted slightly, for within the robe were countless half-palm-sized, pitch-black bats.
“Are those magic bats?” The wizards immediately recognized them as small, blood-sucking magical beasts that normally traveled in swarms. Without the aid of a wizard or Divine Mage, a hundred or so could wipe out a whole town.
But it was clear that Tika, the spiritual energy wizard, hadn’t brought the magic bats for combat.
These creatures could use echolocation to navigate, making them excellent scouts in foreign dark environments to reduce their chances of exposure.
Yoland, too, began to take action, placing his hand on the ground.
He had been chosen for the scouting party not just for his astronomical knowledge, but more importantly, because he had a technique to sense ground vibrations.
In an unknown world, the more methods of scouting, the better. Otherwise, there might be an oversight in some area.
As soon as Yoland’s hand touched the ground, his expression changed dramatically, and he shouted in shock, “Below… Below!”
At the same moment, a sense of alarm surged in Ivina’s mind. The solid ground beneath her feet suddenly collapsed, and a gaping maw full of sharp teeth sprang from the earth, snapping at her with a cruel and bloody glint in its eyes.