The last girl in the group, little Angel, opened her eyes in a different place. The first thing she did was look around and search for Yasenia with her big blue droopy eyes. After looking around, she didn't see anybody nearby, and her shoulders slumped. Angel whined a little, "Again alone? I wanted to appear beside Yasenia…."
Angel took out her communication device with the intention of calling Yasenia right away. Still, after she powered them up with her energy, she didn't see them activating fully, meaning that they were very separated. Angel pouted but then became optimistic. 'The communication device won't become active until all of them are interconnected, so maybe it is just one of us that is very far away, and Yasenia is nearby!'
Angel nodded with a smile but then frowned a little. 'But I also don't want the others to be in danger... I can't be selfish and care for everyone!'
After trying everything she could to find Yasenia for now, she began analyzing the surroundings. She was in a very strange place. Around her, Angel could see rock pillars of different sizes. Some were 100m tall and very thick; others were 20m tall and very slim. However, the place wasn't barren land. It was filled with vegetation, mainly different species of ivies coiled around the pillars. On the ground, the leaves of these ivies filled the floor together with diverse flora and grass. The floor was made of stone slabs with grass growing between the cracks.
Angel approached one of these pillars curiously but cautiously. She couldn't even remember the number of times Yasenia had advised her about different things she had to keep in mind inside the secret realm. Between them, the advice that Yasenia gave her most often was to treat everything as something that could potentially harm her or even kill her.
Angel, of course, will listen to her dear Yasenia. She didn't feel Yasenia was tiresome or annoying when advising her; on the contrary, Angel always heard with a sweet smile at the nagging dragoness and even repeated what Yasenia told her back to her. Seeing Yasenia smile when she saw that she understood things always resulted in Angel diving inside Yasenia's embrace and Yasenia caressing her dearly.
Therefore, now that she was approaching the purple ivy around the pillar, she had her shield out and had activated her recently evolved elemental coat called [Prismatic Glass Coating]. This elemental coat surrounded Angel in a film-like transparent glass. It weaved with her white dress beautifully, giving her body a visible rainbow-like color. Angel looked extremely beautiful with it.
The effects of the coat were its ability to stop projectiles, increase her light channeling capacity, to be able to shoot lasers from every part of her body, and the most important thing, increase her ability to create glass structures. This meant that Angel could place [Glass Nodes] faster, creating her formations at a higher speed.
Angel didn't see anything attacking her when she was near the pillar, so she used her shield to move the ivy and look at the grey stone pillar with more detail. When she parted the ivies, there were some lines on the pillars that went upward, making sharp turns to interlock with each other. Angel hmmed and thought, 'Are these formation lines? But I haven't seen anything like this before.'
Angel's scrunched her little nose, annoyed. 'So difficult to understand... I should copy these lines; they may come in handy in the future... Oh! I could give them to mommy Tatyana~; I bet she will praise me.' Angel giggled happily, thinking about rewards she could ask Tatyana.
Angel's eyes and demeanor changed when doing formations and rippled with profound light as she analyzed and deduced the formation lines on the pillar. After thinking for a moment, she removed most of the ivy from the pillar. Then, she took out a 20m long white sheet and moved it around with her energy.
Without the ivy, she could see most of the pillar, and using her advanced trained spatial vision, she could write those formation lines as if they were drawn on a flat surface, not a cylindrical one. Her hand blurred as her blue eyes moved around. As if it was magic, lines appeared on the white sheet, copying the pillar with flawless precision.
Angel didn't only copy the lines but also left notes in intersections about the energy amount she felt, placing different formulas and hypotheses she came up with in that instant. The number of calculations Angel did was enough to overwhelm a cultivator a whole realm above Angel. If any other formation master were to see the current Angel, their mouths would fall to the ground.
This was one of the reasons why Angel could fight with formations; her mental calculation capacity was extremely powerful; not even Tatyana when she was younger or the current Yasenia came even close to her. Tatyana was sure that Angel's talent in formations was similar to Ying Yue's when she was alive.
Just two minutes later, the whole 20m tall pillar was copied in the sheet with innumerable but clear connotations.
Angel revised it for another minute and then smiled, satisfied. "Yay! One down! Let's try to copy different size pillars~."
Angel moved to one of the biggest she could see nearby and hmmed for a while, thinking of ways to take out the ivy. She looked at the pillar she had just copied and gathered energy in her mirror shield, firing it with her basic skill [Laser]. A white 2m wide laser smashed the pillar, but it didn't damage it to Angel's delight, just burning the ivy nearby.
Then, she turned toward the 100m tall pillar and began burning the ivy around it. 'Thankfully, it was just normal ivy and didn't attack me!'
Angel took one minute to clear the ivy and then took five minutes to copy the whole pillar. She was faster because she realized that the formation method was the same, so she didn't need to annotate so many connotations besides the different patterns she saw.
Angel continued walking around and suddenly saw a five-meter-tall stone slab. She walked toward it cautiously. She didn't feel anything react, so she started inspecting it. "Oh… There are symbols on them… Hmm, they are not runes. Maybe a foreign language? It has been quite a while since I saw another language; in the Sky Continent and the surroundings, we only speak one language. Well, I myself know four of them~."
Speaking of languages, Yasenia came to her mind, "Doesn't Yasenia know like fifteen languages? I was completely stunned when I learned that she knew so many… Mommy Tatyana sure has raised her strictly… Maybe she can read this one… Ugh, I want to find Yasenia! Why does everything make me remember her!"
Our little baby started stomping the ground, making her big breasts bounce. After she vented her frustration, she also copied the stone slab and kept the sheet inside her ring. Then, she walked around the rock pillar forest collecting things she found interesting. After walking for ten minutes, she reached the end of it. She now could see a normal forest before her.
She looked back and jumped more than 50 meters upward, standing on top of one of the stone pillars. She saw that the stone-pillar area spanned an enormous circular area.
Angel thought, 'So I was in the outskirts of it… Huh, what's that?'
Angel jumped toward one of the tallest pillars around to get a clearer view. What she saw was toward the middle of the stone pillar area. It was a place surrounded by tall walls with an ancient aura coming from it. She could barely see it only because she was on a very tall pillar and the aura around it suddenly flared once, making her feel its presence.
After focusing her eyes, she became surprised, "A town? No way… Are there residents in this secret realm? I hope not… If there are, Yasenia won't be able to loot this place as easily…."
It seems that Angel's priorities were a little skewered…
Angel thought about it and decided to create a formation to mark toward the town's direction so that she could go toward it with Yasenia after they got together. 'I'm sure there will be some things useful for her there.'
She didn't want to go alone, mainly because she wasn't as confident in her own strength. If she found a group of four or five half-steps, it would be hard to even escape from them. However, Angel couldn't help but hesitate, biting her lips softly. 'But... Maybe other cultivators will appropriate the things there if I go later... Ugh, what to do?'
Suddenly Angel heard explosive sounds coming from her left. She looked over there with confusion from the tall pillar and saw dust explosions appearing around that area. Her face was serious as she saw the strength of that fight. 'A big fight is going on over there… Haven't we just entered the realm? Who is causing so much destruction?'
However, her doubts cleared when a deep and resounding dragon roar reached her. Angel opened her eyes wide with joy. In the next second, Angel jumped from the pillar toward the ground, like a meteor falling to earth.
*Bang!*
Angel landed on the forest ground, creating a dirt explosion. Then, put sterength in her legs and shot toward the fighting zone with her maximum speed, laughing happily. "Hahaha, I found her so fast!"
Then, she registered that Yasenia was fighting, and her face became extremely cold while extremely thick killing intent exploded from her. Now that she was in the eighth level of the Mental Nourishing realm, she didn't fear anyone under the Unification realm. Even if she couldn't win, she was confident in escaping. "These fools will be a nice target to test my skills. Let's see how much they last until I fill them with holes! [Prismatic Steps]!"
*Bang!*
Angel's body became illusory as she accelerated even further, going toward Yasenia at sound-breaking speed, surrounded by colorful lights because of the [Prismatic Glass Coating] around her.