When Ebert stepped onto the light blue staircase, a cool energy instantly surged from his feet to his heart, as if he was in a clear stream, refreshing. However, this comfortable feeling only lasted for a moment. The next moment, a strong repulsive force suddenly came from the staircase, and he was fiercely bounced out!
"Ebert!" Saraswati exclaimed, watching Ebert's figure, like a kite with a broken string, falling towards the bottomless abyss of clouds and mist.
At the critical moment, Ebert instinctively activated the magic of "Nature's Voice", trying to grasp the natural power around him and stabilize his body. However, this time, what responded to him was not the kind and gentle power of the past, but a chaotic energy turbulence!
"What's going on?" Ebert was horrified. On this "ladder to heaven", the power of nature seemed to be twisted and suppressed, becoming violent and uncontrollable. He tried his best to grab even a little bit of energy that could be used for leverage, but he was repeatedly pushed further away from the "ladder to heaven" by this chaotic energy turbulence.
Seeing himself getting farther and farther away from the safe stairs, with a bottomless abyss of clouds and mist below, Ebert's heart couldn't help but sink.
Is it going to end like this?
At this moment, a voice sounded in his heart, like a morning bell and an evening drum, deafening.
"Child, are you confused?"
The voice was old and deep, as if it came from the ancient times, and it seemed to come from the depths of his soul.
Ebert was shocked. Who is it? Who is speaking?
"Who are you?" He couldn't help asking, with a tremor in his voice.
"Who I am is not important." The voice was still calm and indifferent, "What's important is who you are? What kind of person do you want to be?"
"I..." Ebert was speechless for a moment.
Yes, who am I? What kind of person do I want to be?
He has never seriously thought about this question.
Since he came to this world, he has been forced to be involved in one adventure after another. In order to survive and protect himself, he constantly learns new knowledge and masters new powers. He thought that as long as he was strong enough, he could control his own destiny, protect the people he wanted to protect, and return to 1943.
But now, when he faced the test of life and death, he realized how narrow and superficial his understanding of power was.
Are power and magic really only used for fighting and conquering?
"Child, feel it with your heart. Everything in the world has spirits and sounds." That voice seemed to see through his confusion and bewilderment. "The power you pursue does not come from magic itself, but from your understanding of the world and your awe of life."
"Listen with your heart, listen to the sound of nature, listen to the sound deep in your heart..."
The voice gradually faded away and finally disappeared.
Ebert closed his eyes and immersed his mind in the surrounding environment.
At this moment, he seemed to forget life and death, and everything.
He heard the whistling of the wind, the patter of the rain, the rustling of the leaves, the sound of flowers blooming, and the singing of birds...
He felt the warmth of the sun, the moisture of the rain, the thickness of the earth, and the rhythm of life...
At this moment, he seemed to be integrated with the whole world.
He felt an unprecedented tranquility and peace, as well as an unprecedented powerful force.
This power did not come from magic itself, but from his understanding of the world and his awe of life.
"So, this is the real 'language of nature'..."
Ebert opened his eyes, with a gleam of enlightenment in his eyes. The violent energy turbulence around him seemed to become clear and discernible in his eyes. He could feel that every flow of energy, every collision, contained a certain law, a certain rhythm.
This is the sound of nature.
He opened his arms, no longer resisting, but choosing to embrace this power.
"Buzz——"
A strange energy wave, with Ebert as the center, spread out to the surroundings.
The originally violent energy turbulence, as if inspired by something, gradually calmed down, no longer conflicting with each other, but began to slowly rotate, forming a huge energy vortex, wrapping Ebert in it.
Ebert's body also slowly rotated with this energy vortex.
He felt as if he had turned into a fallen leaf, a drop of rain, a breeze, blending into the world and becoming one with nature.
The magic of "Nature's Language" was running in his body, smoother and more powerful than ever before.
He felt that every cell in his body was cheering and greedily absorbing this powerful natural force.
His mental power was also rapidly improving at an incredible speed.
Apprentice Level 5!
In just a few breaths, Ebert broke through the bottleneck, and his mental power went to a higher level, reaching the level of Apprentice Level 5!
After breaking through to Apprentice Level 5, Ebert felt as if he had been reborn. He could perceive the natural forces around him more clearly, and could also control these forces more freely.
As soon as he thought about it, the energy vortex surrounding him began to move slowly like an obedient pet, following his will, and flew towards the direction where Saraswati fell.
"Saraswati, hold on!" Abbott shouted in his heart. At the same time, he injected more mental power into the magic of "Nature's Language", urging the energy vortex to approach Saraswati at a faster speed.
At this moment, Saraswati had fallen into the depths of the clouds, and the light blue stairs had returned to calm at some point, as if nothing had happened. Only the rolling clouds and the occasional flash of blue lightning proved the thrilling scene just now.
The energy vortex was like a green lightning, cutting through the dense clouds and rushing towards the direction where Saraswati fell. Ebert stared at the front, anxious. He didn't know how Saraswati was doing, nor did he know if he could get there in time.
"Saraswati, you must hold on!" Ebert prayed in his heart. He pushed his mental power to the extreme, and the speed of the energy vortex also increased to the extreme.
Finally, he penetrated the last layer of clouds and mist and saw Saraswati.
She was floating in the air, her face was pale, her breath was weak, and her lavender sari was mostly burned by the electric light, revealing a large area of snow-white skin.
And under her was a bottomless abyss of clouds and mist, like a giant beast with its bloody mouth wide open, waiting to devour her.
"Saraswati!" Ebert felt a pain in his heart, and quickly controlled the energy vortex to dive towards Saraswati.
He stretched out his hands, trying to grab Saraswati, but his hands passed through Saraswati's body.
"What's going on?" Ebert was shocked, and then he found that Saraswati's body had become somewhat translucent, as if it would disappear at any time.
"Ebert..." Saraswati opened her eyes weakly, looked at Ebert, and a bitter smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, "It seems that I... I can't do it..."
"No, no, you will be fine!" Ebert shook his head desperately, he couldn't accept, and couldn't believe that Saraswati would die like this.
"Don't... don't waste your energy..." Saraswati's voice became weaker and weaker, "The power on this 'ladder' is too... too strong... I... I can't resist it..."
"Sarasswati..." Ebert's heart was in his throat. He tried hard to see through the thick fog and find Saraswati's figure, but the fog seemed endless. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see through it.