Chapter 122
With the cage in her hands, Michelle retracted all the spirit energy she had spread around the room and turned her full attention to the cage. She knew that the net of her spirit energy wasn’t an omnipotent ability, so she didn’t rely solely on it and started moving her hands over the cage bars, trying to find something the net didn’t catch.
For a long while, she kept turning the cage over in her hands, feeling the surface for any imperfections or abnormalities. But going over the cage bar by bar, it took her quite a while until she found something. And when she found it, she furrowed her brows, her eyes shutting even tighter in concentration. It was nearly unnoticeable, but she found a slightly warmer bar compared to the others.
Trailing her fingers over it up and down, she realized that the side of the bar that was in the cage was even warmer, making her frown a bit, as it felt quite hot for her, as she had a cold body.
Keeping one of her hands on that bar, Michelle still used her other hand to check the other bars for abnormalities. And on exactly the opposite side of the cage, she found a bar identical to the one she found before. It was warmer than the others. The two bars were definitely a breakthrough point; she just needed to figure out how, exactly.
Michelle’s cold fingers wrapped around the two bars, ignoring that she felt like it would burn her hands, and she pulled on the bars violently, testing their strength. To her pleasant surprise, they vibrated a bit, something that didn’t happen with the other bars even when her spirit energy exploded around them. The two bars were not only warmer but also weaker.
Condensing a speck of her spirit energy in each hand, Michelle let it explode on the two bars, but they only shook, and nothing else happened. Though the bars were clearly weaker than the others, the explosion of her spirit energy wasn’t enough to break them. So she coated her hands in her spirit energy and started pulling on the bars again, but except for shaking again, it had no result.
With a sigh, Michelle thought about seeking out Nyxaroth for help, but she had already decided not to rely on him, so she shooed away the idea and thought of a different way. She remembered the memories Rivenaar passed on to her, so she decided to go through them to see whether the cage fit anything from the memories.
Rivenaar’s memories were already part of her own memories, but as their amount was huge, and they were all very complex, filled with thoughts and decisions, Michelle never bothered to absorb them into her memories fully. She just kept them in her mind like a thick scientific book she had read before but never fully remembered. Because that way, if she needed some knowledge from it, she would know where to look for it, even though the information wasn’t directly available to her.
Going through Rivenaar’s memories as fast as she could, she soon found something about invisible beasts and beasts of an evasive nature. Being an old monster, Rivenaar had met quite a lot of them before he was captured by Mavreth.