Chapter 80: 79. Star Palace

79. Star Palace

"What is this place?" Dorothy was astonished.

Before entering, the two had already seen the dots of light flowing throughout the entire space. They were like fireflies, yet they could dance in the air at a faster speed, and their trajectories seemed to follow a certain rule, very profound.

Li Ang estimated the distance they had just walked; this empty space was already inside the peak of Frost Sky Island.

Moving further forward, one could see that the floor of the space and the walls in the distance were all built of translucent glaze. No, it shouldn't be said to be built, because this glaze was integrated, and no seams could be seen at all.

It was even wrong to say it was glaze, because no glaze could be so transparent and clear while still flowing with magic. This seemed to have light spots rhythmically moving inside, and its surface wasn't flat either, as if it had formed naturally.

"What the two distinguished guests see is a substance called 'Star Crystal'."

Noticing the gazes of Li Ang and his companion, Eden explained in front.

The beast-ear woman looked at Dorothy, then looked at Li Ang: "Who is this guest?"

"Like Zoe, she is my group member."

"Like me?"

Zoe looked Dorothy up and down with questions in her eyes, looking at her curves, which, although not as plump as Eden's, were sufficiently alluring. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"You're not the same at all."

Dorothy laughed dryly: "Yeah, yeah, little sister."

"Li Ang," Zoe stared straight into Li Ang's eyes: "I thought there was only me as a group member."

"It's impossible to have only two people in a group." Li Ang recalled that this guy should have common sense to this degree.

"Ah right, I didn't have time to introduce you just now."

Li Ang rubbed his temples. Zoe was truly skilled at kicking people out of their normal train of thought. Once she messed things up, he forgot everything.

He came between the two and introduced them to each other.

"This is Zoe, a child I met in my hometown on Satus Island. She's a bit naughty, but she's a kind child. She's good at using a sword and has special potential."

"This is Dorothy, a companion I adventured with before. I encountered her by chance in the Ignis airspace this time. She also has special potential, so we will adventure together in the future."

Li Ang said it briefly. As for their specific powers, he would let them understand slowly later; it couldn't be explained in one or two sentences.

"Hello." Dorothy's polite smile was impeccable.

Zoe didn't respond to her. She pulled Li Ang's sleeve and pointed at Dorothy, asking: "How long ago was before?"

"About eight years ago."

"Oh." Zoe counted with her fingers, and finally laughed in realization: "Then I knew you earlier."

"What's there to argue about with this."

Li Ang didn't know how many times he had sighed from just now until now. He looked up, but saw Dorothy's strange expression beside him.

"What do you mean by earlier?" The half-elf girl's rainbow-colored eyes were locked on Li Ang's face.

Zoe: "Although I didn't know Li Ang then, I had already been sleeping in Li Ang's bed and bedding every day."

"You two have a story." Dorothy squinted at them.

"Stop, stop, stop."

Li Ang inserted himself between the two and said to Eden: "In short, if there's something important to say, there's no need to avoid her. She is trustworthy..."

"Hey, what do you mean by getting quieter and quieter at the end." The half-elf girl shouted: "I can get hurt too, you know? I clearly entrusted my whole life to you."

Zoe's large red eyes blinked.

"Then please follow me, the two of you."

Eden shook her ice-blue tail at the end and led the way forward. Dorothy muttered something in her mouth and followed angrily.

Li Ang whispered to her: "It's not that I don't trust you. I was just thinking in my heart how to tell you about this series of things in front of us. As a teammate, you need to understand, but it might also exceed everything you've known in the past."

"Anyway, I'm just someone who doesn't understand anything, right."

"That's something even I didn't know."

"Fine, I'll try my best not to lose my composure. However, they don't know about the Magic Life Flower either, right? I heard my mother talk about it; that's also an ancient secret."

Zoe quietly sized up the two who were talking, her nose sniffing something unconsciously.

"What are you doing?" Li Ang asked.

"Why do you and her have the same smell?"

"We took the same ship."

"Oh."

The girl nodded, a trace of doubt still on her delicate small face, pinching her chin and thinking about something.

Under Eden's guidance, the three arrived at the center of the vast space.

"Lord Li Ang," Eden turned back: "This is my Star Palace."

"This is the place you said before that you deliberately wanted to bring Zoe to."

Eden nodded, her large ears shaking slowly.

"Due to the arrival of the God-Child, my power has recovered accordingly, and the light here is even more abundant."

Li Ang glanced at Eden's panel.

Previously, her energy source and skills both had the word "exhausted," but now they had all disappeared, causing her combat power boost to rise to 38%.

As the wolf woman's voice fell, Li Ang's clothes fluttered, and golden light flowed to the side, condensing into the Earth Snake Anastasia.

"Little An!"

Zoe excitedly hugged the giant snake, and the giant snake's star eyes flickered, as if transmitting some information to the girl.

"You two actually experienced so many things..."

Zoe seemed to have received the information completely in an instant, looking at Li Ang with a hint of worry.

"We'll talk about those things later."

The girl nodded obediently.

Eden said: "My race is all transformed from a part of the natural world, but not born from the laws of nature or the supernatural."

"It was born under the guidance of that ancient race called the God-People, right?" Li Ang thought of the device in the island core ruins on Satus Island.

Eden nodded, but didn't seem willing to talk in the direction of the God-People, just saying: "Because it wasn't born from the laws of the world, although my race was set to exist forever, the core power 'Light of the Star Soul' will still gradually consume over the passage of time and cannot be replenished by itself."

"In most cases, my race will choose to hibernate to pass the long years, and the weak Light of the Star Soul during slumber will also dissipate. Through their irradiation, the surrounding matter will transform into 'Star Crystal'."

Li Ang looked up at the vast space around him: "So, you once slumbered here."

"Yes."

Eden raised her hand, and the light spots in the entire space moved, circling in the air under the guidance of her power.

"And a large amount of Star Crystal will also produce Light of the Star Soul, nourishing us again. In the eternal years, my race maintains its existence in this way. We call the space that continues our existence the Star Palace."

Li Ang squatted down, touched the Star Crystal floor, and perceived the spirit within it.

Just as she said, the spirit in the Star Crystal attracted magic to slowly transform into a type of energy Li Ang had never felt before. They were hot and stable; they should be the Light of the Star Soul providing power for the Star Soul.

The spirit of the Star Crystal was different from the spirit of the natural world. When the ordinary spirit followed instinct to draw magic and interfere with the material world, it had intermittency, just like the cycle of people working and resting, but these spirits in the Star Crystal produced Light of the Star Soul at exactly the same speed.

Eden continued: "However, Star Crystal originally came from my race itself. Their replenishment can only delay exhaustion. Fortunately, the God-Child has descended into this world."

"In this Star Palace, the Light of the Star Soul is not as intense as in my race's body, making it more suitable for helping the current God-Child grow."

"Mission accomplished. In just three days, the God-Child has already gained strength improvement."

Oh?

Li Ang hadn't looked at Zoe's panel before, so he immediately opened it.

He discovered that the girl's spellcaster profession had already been determined as Elemental Master, and she had two spirit positions contracted: one was the Earth Snake, and one was the Frost Sky Giant Wolf.

Is the Star Soul really that excessive? Can it even serve as a position for elemental spirits?

What was even more excessive was that both of her professional ranks had reached 3.

Although it was said that the three ranks of the Mortal Realm were relatively easy to improve and would basically be learned naturally as one became familiar with magic without hitting any talent barriers, Li Ang still underestimated the growth speed of the Star Soul Greenhouse. Isn't this just cheating?

However, not breaking through the realm meant that even with a cheat, one still had to consider following up with personal effort.

"My race has other help we can give the God-Child."

Eden said, retreating a distance, revealing the posture of a giant wolf amidst the ice mist.