Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 3341: Chapter 3342: Forest Fairy Tale

Angel accepted Laplace’s suggestion, and the group immediately changed course and arrived near the entrance of the Silver Coral Island.

Dog Deacon had heard before that the entrance to the Silver Coral Island was in a pool. In its imagination, the so-called ”pool” was a large lake, if not boundless, at least a ”small ocean.”

But the reality was nothing more than a small puddle, only two to three meters square.

This left Dog Deacon in shock for a long time: ”...The entrance, is in this puddle?”

”That’s right.” Angel: ”Don’t be fooled by how small this puddle is; it’s actually bottomless inside... However, the entrance is not at the bottom of the puddle. Just jump in and swim down one or two meters, and you can sense the entrance.”

Angel explained briefly, but as he mentioned the entrance, he couldn’t help but glance at Dog Deacon.

To enter the Silver Coral Island instance, there’s one prerequisite: kind-hearted purity.

Angel and Laplace weren’t worried about this threshold; it was just unclear whether Dog Deacon met the requirement.

Perhaps realizing Angel’s thought, Laplace coughed lightly: ”If Meatball can maintain its original intention, it should meet the requirements. The real concern is not it, but whether that book can be brought into the Silver Coral Island.”

Angel understood Laplace’s meaning, but Dog Deacon looked completely puzzled, pointing at itself: ”Me? Maintain the original intention? What’s wrong?”

”Maintaining the original intention is the prerequisite for entering the Silver Coral Island,” Laplace explained lightly. ”If your original intention has been lost or disturbed, then the Silver Coral Island might not welcome you.”

After hearing Laplace’s words, Dog Deacon’s heart skipped a beat: although Laplace spoke of the entry prerequisite to the Silver Coral Island, Dog Deacon inexplicably sensed another layer of meaning.

Could it be that Laplace’s suggestion to come to the Silver Coral Island... also carried a test for me?

Or a reminder not to ”forget the original intention”?

Dog Deacon concocted a whole scenario in its mind, but it was overthinking; Laplace had no intention of testing it, simply stating facts.

Whether Dog Deacon had forgotten its original intention was its own business.

If Dog Deacon truly forgot the original intention and couldn’t enter the Silver Coral Island, Laplace wouldn’t dwell on it, but would directly take Dog Deacon to the ”World Grinding Day.”

The World Grinding Day instance might be dangerous for new residents, but for someone with Angel as a ”cheat,” it’s much easier. Moreover, entering the World Grinding Day has no thresholds, and the space inside is vast, making it easy to find a secluded spot.

However, Dog Deacon did not know Laplace’s thoughts. After its own imaginings, it seriously told Laplace: ”I will prove myself; I have never forgotten my original intention.”

After saying this, Dog Deacon didn’t even wait for others to demonstrate, but with a ”splash,” jumped into the puddle.

Laplace: ”???”

Laplace turned to look at Angel, eyes full of confusion: What is it doing?

Angel shrugged: I don’t know either, but it’s already jumped in, so let’s go...

Then Angel and Laplace followed and jumped in.

...

At the edge of the Silver Coral Island, on a sunny beach, Angel and others appeared one by one.

Dog Deacon was also among them.

When everyone came to their senses, Angel and Laplace first looked at Dog Deacon, or rather, at Dog Deacon’s hand.

Seeing that the frayed leather-bound book was still gripped by Dog Deacon, Angel and Laplace heaved a long sigh of relief.

The leather-bound book wasn’t rejected outside, marking success for the first step.

Next, let’s see if the training dungeon can be opened in the Fairyland... If it can, that would mean a dungeon within a dungeon, or perhaps a nested dungeon?

Setting aside unnecessary thoughts for now, the most important thing is to find a secluded and sparsely populated place.

After a quick survey, Laplace pointed to a rocky beach offshore: ”Over there.”

The outer sea of the Silver Coral Island is vast. Even with God’s Vision, it was hard for Angel to see the end. Among this vast sea, there were few islands, but quite a few shallow beaches and rocky shores.

The rocky beach Laplace pointed out was about a mile from the main island.

These nearshore rocky beaches grew a special kind of mussel and sea ring flower, the former being a delicious ingredient, and the latter could be made into year-round decorations, which also purified the air when placed at home.

Due to these two specialties, residents of Rabbit Town liked to go to the rocky shores to gather them, so several wooden boats could be seen near the beach.

”Alright, there’s a boat we can use.” Angel nodded in agreement.

Currently, Rabbit Town hasn’t entered the economic age and is still on the road to shared prosperity, so using these wooden boats doesn’t require any payment, as long as the ”owner” doesn’t see you.

These wooden boats are simple, without sails, and manually operated, suitable for paddling near the shore but not for going far.

Angel and the others found a free ”shared” wooden boat, grabbed the front rope, and hauled it to the shore.

With the call of ”set off,” the group stepped onto the wooden planks and, with the receding tide, slowly sailed towards the distance...

If the residents of Rabbit Town went overseas, they would undoubtedly take oars, but Angel had no such concerns, directly manipulating a gust of wind to push them toward the rocky shore.

On the way to the rocky shore, Laplace’s gaze turned to the leather-bound book in Dog Deacon’s hand.

”Meatball, you’ve read this book, haven’t you?”

Dog Deacon hesitated for a moment, then nodded: ”I have read it, but haven’t finished it.”

Laplace: ”That’s okay if you haven’t finished it, I just want to know what the book’s content is about?”

The other books in the Illusion Technique Library were either Angel’s own creations or borrowed from famous works in the Wizards’ Realm or entertainment novels from Earth and placed in the library.

However, the leather-bound book in Dog Deacon’s hand wasn’t a product of Angel’s illusion technique; it was a real book, an extra book in the library.

Since it’s an extra book, what is its content? Laplace was very curious whether it was a direct copy of Angel’s bizarre books, or if the Fairyland Authority had created a new book?

Not to mention Laplace’s curiosity, even Angel, who was manipulating the cloud wind to move forward, looked over curiously.

He had only been observing the authority information in the book and hadn’t closely looked at the book’s content. He only vaguely noticed that there seemed to be many illustrations within the pages. Was it a picture book?

Since it was a question from Laplace, Dog Deacon naturally did not dare to hide anything, and he also felt there was no need to hide it; the book was a very commonplace picture book.

”The content of the book is actually a collection of fairy tales, where the protagonists are various anthropomorphic little animals that live in a place called Green Rainforest.” Dog Deacon: ”Oh, and the name of the book is ’Forest Fairy Tale’.”

Then, Dog Deacon narrated a few pages of the fairy tales he had seen.

For example, there’s a golden python named Gold Pancake, who often tries to fulfill the wishes of the little animals in the forest to make them happy. However, the way Gold Pancake fulfills wishes always differs slightly from the actual desires of others.

Like how the male lion Enge wanted to lose weight to pursue his beloved lioness, so he confided in Gold Pancake, who decided to help Enge without a second thought, and Gold Pancake’s way of fulfilling Enge’s wish was... to shave off Enge’s mane.

Without the mane, his weight significantly reduced.

Then, the crow Black Sister wanted to drink orange juice from a small bottle, and Gold Pancake pondered for a long time to fulfill her wish, telling Black Sister to keep dropping small stones into the bottle until the liquid slowly overflowed, allowing her to drink the delicious orange juice!

Black Sister followed Gold Pancake’s method, and the result was... the bottle filled with stones, but she still couldn’t drink the orange juice.

In essence, they are adorable stories among a group of cute little animals.

Moreover, each story is accompanied by an illustration.

Through the illustrations, you can clearly see the appearances of these little animals — of course, they are all cartoonish.

Just like Gold Pancake, the golden python, in the illustration, it has cute eyes, stands all along like the word ”了”, and occasionally wears a hat, giving the impression of a little python gentleman.

The other animals also follow this art style, cute and lovely without brains.

After listening to Dog Deacon’s narration, Angel and Laplace exchanged a glance, seeing surprise in each other’s eyes, not expecting the content of the book to be fairy tales with such a style.

Previously, when Angel heard Dog Deacon mention ”fairy tales,” he immediately thought of dark fairy tales, mainly because he had encountered many dark fairy tales. Besides, Greya particularly loved dark fairy tales, and Angel had created countless shadow boxes for her in the style of dark fairy tales.

Thus, Angel’s reaction to fairy tales automatically leaned toward the darkest direction.

But this time, ’Forest Fairy Tale’ was a very normal fairy tale, full of fantasy and love, truly suitable for children.

Although he had confirmed that the content of ’Forest Fairy Tale’ was pure, Angel still couldn’t help but think deeply: Why is the Immortal Realm creation this time a book, and why is the content fairy tales? Could it mean that the instance content might be the story from the fairy tales?

Angel shared his thoughts, and after Laplace listened, she nodded in agreement: ”It’s indeed possible; otherwise, the Fairyland Authority wouldn’t just create this book for you to read fairy tales, right?”

Dog Deacon, at this point, despite already being inside the Silver Coral Island instance, was still completely oblivious about the particulars of the instance.

He pondered for a while and asked: ”If the training dungeon is related to ’Forest Fairy Tale,’ then how might it be presented?”

Laplace contemplated for a moment: ”It’s hard to say; maybe you’ll play the role of an animal, or perhaps you’ll need to find a key clue through the fairy tale stories?”

As she finished the sentence, Laplace looked at Angel, wanting to hear his opinion since Angel’s understanding of the Immortal Realm was certainly above hers.

Even Angel didn’t have a concept about this, but he did present an idea of his own.

”Previously, Little Red’s training dungeon involved distinguishing flower scents, which, in a way, corresponded to her talent.” Angel: ”If Dog Deacon’s training dungeon content also corresponds to its ability, it might very well be related to mind reading.”

Continuing, Angel shrugged his shoulders: ”But what connection there could be between mind reading and fairy tales, I can’t figure out either.”

Laplace gently nodded, she too felt Angel’s logic made sense, although she couldn’t associate mind reading with fairy tales either.

While Laplace was deep in thought, the wind stopped, and the wooden boat halted as well.

Because, the reef field had been reached.

...

It was a reef field nearly a hundred meters wide, and from the densely packed holes and oddly-shaped ”stone buds,” it could practically be confirmed to be a biological reef. Those odd-shaped rocks might be the remnants of coral that formed reefs.

Compared to ordinary reefs, biological reefs might be more fragile, but they attract more clams and shells.

On this reef field lay numerous spotted sea oysters, encircling in layers, resembling an unknown mysterious totem. Coupled with the fact that spotted sea oysters often accompany sea-ring flowers, the blooming flowers added some dreaminess to this mysterious totem.

However, for Angel and the others, whether it is beautiful or dreamy doesn’t matter.

They came here to open the training dungeon, not to admire the scenery.

Angel scanned the surroundings to ensure no new residents were nearby and then used God’s View to look under the reef field, choosing a relatively solid place, and said to Dog Deacon: ”Let’s do it here.”

Dog Deacon wasn’t aware of what Angel was doing with the opening and closing of his eyes, but since Laplace agreed with Angel’s suggestion, he naturally had no objections either.

Dog Deacon followed Angel’s intention, headed to the center of the reef field, and under the gaze of everyone, he slowly opened ’Forest Fairy Tale.’

Dog Deacon did not choose to flip directly to the last page to trigger the training dungeon, instead, he started from the first page, watching carefully and memorizing.

According to Angel and Laplace’s suggestion, the content recorded in ’Forest Fairy Tale’ might be related to the dungeon, so he intended to memorize it carefully.

Dog Deacon’s serious memorization, in truth, meant that he intended to enter the training dungeon.

Initially, he didn’t plan on entering the dungeon so soon, but Angel had mentioned Little Red earlier.

Now it’s confirmed that Little Red has entered the training dungeon, and the dungeon process she went through was not too difficult for her.

This means Little Red’s progress might be quicker than expected.

If Little Red knew he came to Crystal Origin of Dreams but dared not start the training dungeon, it would be shameful.

If Little Red cleared the training dungeon while he lagged behind because he didn’t initiate the dungeon, that would be even more embarrassing!

Thinking of this, Dog Deacon’s deeply buried sense of competition suddenly surged.

He didn’t want to be underestimated by Little Red!

Of course, this was just Dog Deacon’s fantasy; with Little Red’s character, she would never disparage others, especially Dog Deacon.

Nonetheless, reality didn’t prevent Dog Deacon’s fanciful thinking.

In conclusion, Dog Deacon chose to access the training dungeon now, which is why he meticulously read ’Forest Fairy Tale’ before entering the dungeon.