"Didn’t you say earlier that we encountered some kind of spatial dislocation while at sea?"
"Now, is even the entire city experiencing issues?"
"This is certainly not where the sun should be rising."
Bapulor’s face remained cheerful.
He jestingly mentioned the phenomenon defying logic in the distance, then he himself stood up from the chair.
He ripped off the mask on his face, turned around, and bowed to Ronald.
"However, since morning has already arrived... Ronald, it’s time for us to part ways. I have thoroughly enjoyed our collaboration, and I hope when we meet again, it can be like today."
Ronald didn’t say much, just nodded and simply replied,
"Well then—until we meet again."
Under the eerie morning sunlight, Bapulor left Ronald with a gentle smile.
Then the heretical Magician jumped down from the roof of the inn.
A scream of a sprained ankle reached the rooftop.
Ronald leaned over and looked down to see Bapulor limping alone towards the outside of the Purwick Tower on the main road.
"You really are something..."
Smiling and shaking his head, Ronald then retracted his gaze.
Summoning two souls from the blood river of Hell’s "violent" forces, Ronald began a comparative test using "Soul Domination" while chanting a spell, and accelerated at his highest speed towards the sea.
The information obtainable on land was still too limited.
To understand what was happening around him, he indeed needed to check the sea which continuously hinted at issues.
The dawn light rose from the edge of his vision.
As the distance from the land increased, Ronald felt the oddities even more.
Normally, looking from the ground towards the sky, the sun’s trajectory is roughly a straight line, from one end of the horizon to the other.
But not long after taking flight, Ronald noticed that the sun’s trajectory was severely tilted, almost having an angle like that of the poles.
Ronald couldn’t guess what exactly was happening.
But while still maintaining his flying speed, he began to expand the range of his Reconnaissance Spell to the maximum, and at least...
"The range... has enlarged?"
Ronald’s expression changed in mid-air.
He wouldn’t forget the specific effects of his own spell.
Now, by setting his Reconnaissance Spell to its limit, Ronald immediately sensed an enhancement in its magical effects.
—Ronald remembered the situation inside the "Infinite Negative Domain."
The sealed Wizard, who used the method of spreading knowledge to continuously strengthen humanity’s understanding of the mystical side, ultimately aimed to continuously improve the magical effects.
So in the world outside the seal,
Has this evolutionary process already begun?
And do the various changes happening right now also have a connection with this behavior?
Ronald flew for a distance while contemplating.
Then, the continuously relocating sun in the sky once again seized all his attention.
It was an unusual sight never heard of even in dreams.
The sun rose from the sea surface, then slanted across at an angle to the other side of the sky. Here, the sun suddenly cut across at a right-angle arc, then flew towards the opposite direction in the sky!
From left to right, from right to left.
While the sun continuously moved forward in the sky, it also kept changing directions at a tilted angle, its trajectory clearly forming an ever-extending repeating ’S’ shape!
Ronald didn’t know how to describe his current feelings.
Honestly, even in the extraordinary world of the "Infinite Negative Domain," he had never encountered such bizarre and strange phenomena!
However, even stranger things were still to come.
Continuing to fly forward, Ronald encountered an even more baffling situation.
— Connected land appeared at the edge of his vision.
Although he couldn’t determine his exact speed, having experience from when he left Bapulor, Ronald had some awareness of his current speed.
He had only flown out a little over a hundred miles.
And now land was in sight?
At the inn at Bapulor, he had carefully examined the nearby maps, and according to his original flight direction, he should have seen nothing but the vast ocean.
So what was this suddenly appearing land?
It couldn’t be that he had, again, unluckily encountered a spatial displacement point!
From the land to the ocean, and then to the sun in the sky.
The chaotic encounters brought chaotic information, all these elements collided continuously in his mind, making it impossible to grasp any thoughts.
Ronald continued to fly in silence.
On the land in view, he could also sense signs of human activity.
To understand everything happening in this world, he still had to gather information to proceed.
Silently reducing altitude, Ronald entered a city with the help of a spell.
Like Bapulor where he had set out in the morning, the temperature here was also quite hot.
But just a walk around the city.
Would reveal its fundamental differences from Bapulor.
The buildings in this city, besides considering factors for ventilation and cooling during hot weather, were also designed for warmth in cold temperatures. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ N()velFire.net
Anyone with a bit of common sense.
Could see these buildings.
Were absolutely not the type to appear in equatorial regions!
Ronald frowned deeply as he observed the sun’s trajectory in the sky.
The general sentiment of the city’s human populace was uneasy, and through the conversations of ordinary civilians on the streets, he knew the changes since yesterday had severely disturbed the city’s order.
It might be due to the lack of substantial support from mystical forces.
In any case, with the city’s original security standards, it was now very difficult to control the situation.
The problems of robbery and killing were not to be ignored.
With complex emotions, Ronald continued to traverse the city.
Along the way he noted, there were no investigative forces stationed here, so seeking official strategies was not advisable.
About a quarter of an hour passed.
By the time Ronald had stopped two murders and robberies happening on the streets.
The third time he intervened, the young boy he saved didn’t run away in panic but instead bowed politely to thank Ronald.
Ronald straightforwardly asked,
"Young man, can you tell me something?"
"Sir, please ask, I will answer what I know."
The conversation was direct and simple.
First off—the city’s name was Seklorol.
This place was just a small border city, with its largest commercial activity coming from ocean-related industries.
More importantly, there was Seklorol’s geographical location.
It was situated on the coastline of the continent of Il.
If Ronald’s understanding of continental geography was not mistaken.
Then by following the direction of the land straight ahead, crossing the continent, and coming to the other side of the city facing the sea, one would equally see a city.
As for the name of that city...
Provided there were no spelling mistakes in each byte—it should be called Bapulor!