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Chapter 1449 - Journey Together

    <h4>Chapter 1449: Journey Together</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Henyee Trantions <strong>Editor: </strong>Henyee Trantions


    After dealing with all official business, Rnd returned to his room and saw Anna arranging her clothes, with arge leather suitcase at her side.


    “Uh... What are you doing?”


    “Can’t you tell.” She patted the folded clothes. “Preparing for a long journey.”


    “Then Neverwinter has to stop everything.” Rnd cracked a joke. “Is it really good that the Minister of Industry is able to leave without saying a word?”


    “Don’t you worry. Aside from the steam turbines, the few finished products to strengthen the piston engine, the factory is already in the production stage, and at the most, the number of qualified products will drop slightly. Also, the Society of Wondrous Crafts members you’ve brought back are all talented. Letting them take over for a while isn’t a bad thing.”


    “Wait a minute...” Rnd sensed something amiss. Anna had picked out all the in and durable clothes, with not a single party dress or formal silk gown. There was not even a single skirt within them, and she did not appear to be joking. “Where are you going?”


    “To the floating ind, with you.” She revealed a “do-you-still-need-to-ask” expression. “You’re not nning to wait in Neverwinter for the oue at the frontlines, right? I can tell that you’ve made that decision after conversing with the Three Chiefs of Taqu. Furthermore, traveling to the Bottomless Land from the ridge of the continent is far more convenient, so that gives you more of a reason not toe back here.”


    “That won’t do—” Rnd subconsciously denied her. “Firstly, ignoring the fact of how this final battle with the demons will turn out, no one knows what is in the Bottomless Land. And Hackzord mentioned that thend there has been overrun by Sky-sea Realm; the risks are too much, you don’t even know—”


    “Smack.”


    Anna extended both arms to gently p his cheeks, then shake his head by force before caressing them. “I know. And because of that, I’m going.”


    Her voice was soft and gentle, but Rnd knew from one look in her eyes that she was epting no as an answer.


    And in that instant, the image of her during their first encounter ovepped with her current appearance.


    At that time, Anna still had a trace of her nascency. She had nothing but her ability. Even so, her resolve once she made up her mind had always been difficult to change.


    Rnd could only attempt onest time. “You’re different from the past. As Queen, leaving Neverwinter to take on this unnecessary risk is not the mature thing—”


    “If I am truly mature, I would not have agreed to let you go to the Bottomless Land without knowing anything about it at all.” Anna pressed down on his shoulders, cutting him off. “As to what would eventually happen to you, be it you failing or disappearing, all of them are possible oues. In other words, this final attack might possibly be ourst time seeing each other again. Do you think I’m willing to stay in the city? Since everyone is taking the same risk, it isn’t much for me to join.”


    “...” Rnd knew that hisst attempt had failed. After all, in a flipped situation, he would never be willing to wait alone. “If we don’t return...”


    “Then it will be a situation so terrible that it can’t get any worse right?” Anna released her hands andughed. “But even so, I will not regret it.”


    ...


    Passing through the contorted ck and white lines, Nightingale entered the empty office.


    With it sote at night, most people had already fallen asleep, leaving only a few flickering mes in the courtyard dancing to the night breeze.


    After drawing the curtains, she pulled open a drawer, taking the glowing magic stone and cing it into a light holder.


    Very quickly, the room was lit with a mild light.


    The broken teapot had been cleared long ago along with a reced rug, as though the little incident had never urred.


    Nightingale walked past the telephone table and found her target—a wooden case covered up by the messy files at the table head.


    In the Mist, she could distinguish objects without light. In this unique domain that felt like apletely different world, it was forever in its monochrome state. ck, white, and gray constructed the entire world even without any light source.


    Except for this.


    She opened the case; in it were filled with papers with scribbling written all over, and a few bright stones.


    Nightingale took one stone piece and ced it in her palm, then attempted to enter the Mist. Just as the surging magic power took form, it immediately scattered, as though obstructed by something.


    “As I’ve expected...” She sighed as she ced the stone back into the case, feeling somewhat depressed.


    It was a report from the Magic Tower; if it wasn’t not from Agatha or Celine, then it was from Isabe. But the possibility of it being written collectively by the three of them remained—the crisis of the Deity of Gods had just been resolved, but the Red Mist on the Hermes teau had not dissipatedpletely. The Taqu witches had to digest the findings and experiments done by the pure witches; thus, Isabe chose to temporarily live in Neverwinter. Together with the technology obtained from the demons, plenty of results were obtained, with a report due to be sent in theing days.


    Typically, Rnd wouldplete reading the report on the same day, but this day was an exception. With the separation of North Slope Mountain and the test flight of the huge ne arranged on the same day, Rnd never had the opportunity to open the case.


    But Nightingale noticed the existence of the stone right from the beginning. After all, there were only two things that were not affected in the Mist, one being magic power, and the second being the pure dark cavity formed by God’s Stones. ording to Isabe’s research, the two might even be connected.


    Thus, Nightingale had long noticed the ck blob of light when Rnd had met with Banach Lothar, just thatpared to a God’s Stone, its range of influence was on a much smaller scale, obviously a result from Isabe’s alterations. As it was a specimen rted to the report, she did not pay much heed to it.


    The small stone was the reason why Nightingale was unable to react when the teapot dropped—the ck light shielded the falling teapot, and inside the Mist, her body had deemed the situation ‘irreversible.’


    If it were merely so, Nightingale would had attributed it as an ident. However, she had seen a line that outlined a table being ejected upon her contact, passing through the blob of ck light to collide with the teapot, ultimately altering the falling trajectory of the teapot.


    Distortions in the Mist could not be controlled. Even she had to be careful around unsettled lines; otherwise, she might be the one to be severed.


    It was her first time witnessing such a thing.


    But Nightingale was unsure if it was a coincidence, or if something had changed within her.


    She attempted to manifest the ability again by touching the edge of the table in the Mist repeatedly, mimicking the situation a couple of times but to no avail.


    <i>Seems like I’m overthinking this. </i>Nightingale awkwardly retracted her hand.<i>Agatha’s right, just because many of the Witches are able to do it, I shouldn’t assume that evolving is a simple thing. Fortunately for me, I hadn’t said anything, otherwise Rnd would have made fun of me.</i>


    She put the glowing magic stone back into the drawer and departed the office by retracing her steps.


    “Crack...”


    The room that had regained its silence suddenly produced a soft sound.


    At the table side that was hidden from sight, a crack blossomed along the wood grain.
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