Chapter 107: Angel’s Ability
While Angel remained silent, the serpent’s corpse began to turn into smoke and drift towards William’s ring, just as the beetles had done last time. Perplexed, William approached the corpse, and the closer he got, the faster it vanished. Little by little, the entire serpent’s body disappeared.
As he looked at his ring, he noticed it had grown slightly larger. But it wasn’t just his ring; he also felt better. It was as if he had just woken up from a refreshing sleep, his entire body feeling full of energy, a reduced version of the sensation he had when he ate the Kraken’s heart last time.
"Your body is improving rapidly; your stats increased by .01. The impressive thing is that all your physical abilities increased at the same time," Angel informed him.
"It feels great. If I hunted many of those things, I could become much stronger. Now I want to know what happened," William said.
"What happened is strange to explain, so I’ll start from the beginning. When they taught you how to cast spells, I tried to copy you so I could help you. I thought if both of us could cast spells together, we would be unstoppable. But since then, no matter how hard I try, the mana of the magic world rejects me. Although it doesn’t feel as clear as when I was here and it forced me into a sphere shape, the truth is I feel like something is pushing me away at all times. I’ve come to the conclusion that being inside your body makes the sensation not as strong. The second time we came here, I tried to experiment by entering your body, but I realized I couldn’t exist in the same way as in the magic world, so I gave up on that experiment."
Angel paused, as if she were searching for the right words again.
"Last time we were here and I was sent to that place against my will, I remember being in a dark room surrounded by that grey energy. Frightened by what was happening, I tried to use that grey energy, and the energy moved. It was strange, it seemed to listen to me, but I couldn’t do anything with it. I didn’t want to say anything because I wasn’t sure what was happening, and I didn’t want to give any false results.
Unfortunately, we were expelled very quickly, and and I didn’t manage to do anything. Today, when we entered, while you were preparing everything for the journey, I was trying to manipulate the energy, and I realized it obeyed me, but it was very different from what you do. I have recorded every small detail of your way of casting a spell and replicated it over and over, but it didn’t work.