Angor was on his way back to Phantom Island.
Rein Mute did mention a way to speak to Sunders, which was asking for someone’s help to deliver a message. Roughly a week later, a wizard in Brute Cavern would collect materials to be transported to the Abyss and head there with the Moonfrost Union. That was when Angor could ask for the courier’s assistance.
Also, the wizard happened to be someone Angor already knew—”Raging Thorns” Madelyne.
She used to be a wizard from the Goman Kingdom, but she later came to Brute Cavern after a certain incident forced her away from her home.
She was Papaya’s teacher.
It shouldn’t be hard to ask a wizard to carry messages as long as Angor paid a good price for it. After all, the job would only take them several extra seconds.
However, Angor couldn’t tell a third person about Jon or the dream wasteland, so he had to expect Sunders to “call back”.
Now, the question was whether Sunders could respond in time. Jon couldn’t wait forever.
Angor was not certain if this was a good choice, so he asked Rein Mute whether there were other ways.
“This is the safest approach” was Rein’s answer.
“Sir, well... Is it possible for me to accompany Miss Madelyne and travel to the Abyss?”
Rein was quite shocked by Angor’s suggestion. “People are having enough trouble staying away from that place. Why take the risk? Do you have urgent matters to talk to Sunders?”
“Very urgent, sir.”
Naturally, Rein did not want to see such an important “human resource” dive into great danger. It was only a matter of time before Monkey fully stirred up the enmity against demons, by which point the entire Abyss Plane would be bathed in the blood of both humans and the other inhabitants. An apprentice like Angor would die before he saw what got him.
But... It was written in the creed of Brute Cavern that they would not babysit their apprentices in constant safety.
“... You can.” Rein nodded after some careful thoughts. “But you MUST return as soon as you can. Don’t tarry there for any second beyond necessary.”
By this, Angor was left with two choices. He could either ask Madelyne to send a simple message to Sunders and wait for Sunders to get back to him, or he could go to the Abyss and then come back together with Madelyne.
As he tried to weigh his options, he suddenly heard a group of people riding on broomsticks traveling past his position. They were focused on their conversation and did not notice Angor through his Infinite Reticence.
“Master Thran is amazing! Look at how he refined an entire bucket of tainted blood within hours!”
“And his runes! I don’t know what they do, but I know I should never get close to that kind of power.”
“That must be why the leaders weren’t worried about the disrupted space outside at all. We got Master Thran to help us.”
Angor watched as the apprentices headed to a teleportation station outside and realized they were probably delivering resources to “Master Thran”, who was currently working on something at Parmigi Highlands.
Rein Mute mentioned this name earlier. Thran was a famous rune crafter from the Valley of Breeze. When the space around Brute Cavern was constantly threatened by space ruptures, added with the fact that Lady Mirror, the “gatekeeper” of Brute Cavern, had gone into seclusion, people inside Brute Cavern were getting more anxious by the day.
Just a few days ago, the leaders of the organization successfully invited Master Thran here to build space-sustaining magic arrays around Brute Cavern. As people believed, this was enough to protect the mirror world from harm.
When speaking of Thran’s name, Rein also made another suggestion to Angor. “If you wish to learn more extending knowledge of runecraft, I can ask Master Thran to take you as his assistant.”
Angor rejected the offer. It sounded pretty nice, but not now. He didn’t have the time.
He wasn’t going to care about Master Thran. But taking this chance, he learned when the plane fusion would go into action.
According to Rein, it should be somewhere after two weeks.
Rein thought Angor would like to get involved in the plane fusion and seize some resources out of it, so he inconspicuously advised Angor to quit.
Of course, Angor never planned to do such a thing. By knowing Rein’s answer, he meant to find out when he should leave Brute Cavern so that he didn’t risk letting his Alien Eye get exposed to others.
Also, he didn’t know how far he should go in order to get the Alien Eye completely out of the effect range of the plane fusion. And since he had a chance to travel to another plane...
Now he thought about it, there were many things he could do in the Abyss Plane. Apart from talking to Sunders, he could also evade the plane fusion and find some time to see whether he could go into the dream wasteland from there.
However, it was a dangerous thing to do. Even if Madelyne promised to escort him, he might come across unknown threats.
It took him three days to make the final decision, which was to join Madelyne. He believed he wasn’t completely helpless during such a journey. If Madelyne and Moonfrost Union all failed to protect him, at least he had many means of escape.
According to records, the transport team of Moonfrost Union had traveled to and back from the Abyss Plane several times this year, without running into any unsolvable situation. Besides, Madelyne wasn’t going to stay there. After the goods were delivered, she would leave immediately.
With this in mind, Angor quickly drafted a letter and asked Goode to deliver it to Madelyne.
One day later, he received Madelyne’s approval. He then happily headed to Madelyne’s residence for a visit. But to his disappointment, Madelyne was not present—it was Papaya who addressed him, saying that Madelyne had left for another brief task.
Angor simply spent some time talking with Papaya about the Krakoks and how her grandmother was doing. Meanwhile, he managed to learn something about Madelyne’s character.
...
In the meantime, Rein was meeting with another guest in his wizard tower.
“I see. Angor would go to the Abyss?” Rein gave Madelyne a curious look. “I won’t force his decisions. Just... Keep him safe, alright? Brute Cavern probably won’t receive a second genius like him any time soon.”
Madelyne was always a smart woman. She knew she should inform Rein of this matter as soon as she received Angor’s letter, especially when Rein just made it clear that the organization had their eyes on Angor’s potential.
“I will, as long as it does not threaten my personal safety.” Madelyne nodded.
“Move as fast as you can then. Even if Mister Monkey did not incite so many enemies upon us, the Abyss Plane has never been a touring spot.”
“Of course.” Madelyne nodded.
Rein suddenly showed a cunning smirk. “Do note that I’m aware of why you offered to go with the transport team...”
...
Angor was busy arranging his items in the space bracelet while purchasing what he lacked from the resource center. Since he wasn’t sure whether he could visit the dream wasteland in the coming days, he made sure the Foundation City was fully supplied as well.
There were only a few days until Moonfrost Union would come. When the more important tasks were all attended to, Angor decided to pay Dave a visit.