Chapter 1242: Chapter 82: Failed Rescue
“The whirlpool sweeps away everything it touches.”
The whisper of Elena echoed in Aileen’s mind from her dreams.
Lu Li raised his hand to touch his neck, but Porter was faster, snatching the pendant and handing it to Elena.
“Make the most of your ti.”
Lu Li didn’t hesitate, taking the pendant while grasping the tentacle Elena raised, stepping towards the fog wall.
He smoothly entered the thick fog, but his right hand holding Elena was blocked by the gray fog, as if a wide wooden stick were caught by a fence.
Elena muttered lowly at this mont, and Lu Li guessed it was the phrase “The whirlpool sweeps away everything it touches.”
Lu Li exited the mist, returned the pendant to Porter, opened the mouth of his stomach bag, and before the toothless mouth closed, he took out the eyeball to summon rchant Anthony.
After a brief wait, rchant Anthony erged from the depths of the thick fog.
“Let Mother of the Marsh inform the Twisted Shadow that we have found Elena, but she cannot leave the Land of Vortex; the fog mist prevents her.”
rchant Anthony retreated into the gray mist and returned shortly with the Twisted Shadow’s decision: It would attack the area Lu Li was in, creating a gap for them to escape.
Ten exorcists left the Land of Vortex as beacons, while Lu Li and Elena stayed on the edge of the mist, awaiting rescue.
The rchant quickly returned with an hourglass for timing.
“Exchange it for a tir unaffected by the Land of Vortex.”
Lu Li instructed rchant Anthony to take back the spiral hourglass and switch it to an alarm clock—its hour and minute hands pointed to 11:50, moving clockwise.
The alarm clock might also be affected by the Land of Vortex, but it was more accurate than the hourglass.
Elena comnted on the alarm clock, her nervousness causing murmurs only she could understand. Although puzzled by what the clock looked like in her view, she could indeed recognize its purpose. Because as the final minute approached, she grew silent.
Tick—tick—tick—
The second hand leapt towards the end point and gradually slowed, becoming clearer, resonating in the mind.
At that mont, Lu Li sensed sothing and looked deeper into the thick fog.
Tick—
Ring ring ring ring—
The suddenly jarring sound of the alarm clock, like the roar of tides, woke Lu Li and Elena.
Lu Li turned off the alarm, the surroundings no longer noisy, but the gradually clear sound of the tide did not disappear.
Lu Li reached out to grasp Elena’s “hand,” listening to the approaching, increasingly clear tide—and the tremor.
The trembling ca from Elena beside him; when Lu Li looked over, her other “hand” raised towards the sky.
The thick clouds covering the Land of Vortex gathered into a storm-like vortex at so unknown ti. The trembling ca from all around, the rising dust turning into a vortex, repainting the land—
The Land of Vortex was responding to the invasion, a foreboding sense of impending doom urging Lu Li to leave.
You could see the Vortex People rushing from Vortex Town in the depths of the dust, hear the increasingly noisy tide within the wailing wind, and sll the moist coast within the windblown dust making it hard to open your eyes.
When Lu Li realized the terrifying power of the Land of Vortex would arrive before the rescue, he opened the wooden box to summon rchant Anthony: “Tell the Twisted Shadow to stop, the Land of Vortex is awakening… It will notice us.”
rchant Anthony vanished into the depths of the mist, and Lu Li and Elena approached a tree, grasping the curved trunk to withstand the gale.
As the tide sound grew clearer, the ground trembled from the depths, so ancient existence spreading fear gradually awakening.
The foreboding in Lu Li’s heart peaked, a hazy hallucination appeared before him: in the unclean darkness, a giant spiral mushroom stood, empty shells stacked like snail shells filled the caves, everything forming nearly dizzying twisted lines—
At this ti, the tide sound echoing in the ears suddenly dimd, as if the waves that nearly reached the edge of the fog receded.
The vision disappeared with the ground’s trembling, the vortex storm clouds returned to calm, and the raging hurricane transford into a gentle breeze.
Only the Vortex People coming from Vortex Town stretched endlessly like ants.
Having narrowly escaped, Lu Li and Elena prepared to leave the area to avoid them. From the depths of the thick fog suddenly ca the sound of scattered footsteps.
Porter and the others, who had returned to the outside world, ca back.
“We are exorcists.”
The youngest, Riel, firmly answered Lu Li’s gaze.
Porter didn’t say it, but expressed the sa aning: “Don’t worry, if we can’t help and encounter danger, we’ll leave imdiately.”
Lu Li nodded, leading them into the prival forest ford by the whirlpool, along the fog wall to leave the area, asking at the sa ti: “What will the Twisted Shadow do next?”
“Uh, it wants us to ask you…”
The Twisted Shadow trusts Lu Li’s judgnt more.
“I’m still thinking.”
As Lu Li left the area and pondered, Elena’s tentacle touched his arm, pointing to their right with a murmur.
The layers of curling trees obscured the view, the only recognizable thing was that it was the direction of Vortex Town.
Lu Li gestured for the other exorcists to remain quiet, focusing on the direction Elena pointed to listen carefully.
Gradually, the weak sounds of random rustling reached them.
The Vortex People had arrived.
Lu Li prepared to hasten their departure, but Elena pulled him back and pointed ahead—indicating there were also people there.
“You wait here for us, we’ll hide in the mist for now.”
Lu Li and the others retreated towards the thick fog, telling Elena, different languages, but she should understand what was said through the actions.
The lonely Elena stood in place, watching them approach the thick fog.
But the unexpected situation caught everyone by surprise—Wenger was blocked by the mist.
The fog wall blocked them.
“What’s going on… why…”
Wenger pressed his shoulder against the seemingly substantial fog wall, which remained unmoving, as if rged with the space.
Porter patted the fog wall, looking around at his companions in panic.
No one was polluted, showing signs of becoming vortex-like, but why did the thick fog block them…
“The Land of Vortex may have realized intruders have entered.”
A calm voice restored their composure, Lu Li surveyed the surroundings, the rustling could now be heard without needing silence: “Take the Invisibility Potion.”
Lu Li took out a labeled potion, removed the cork, and drank the bitter potion, his figure gradually disappearing like a mist outlined on a window.
The ten exorcists gathered around Lu Li while drinking the Invisibility Potion, vanishing from sight.
“Oh no… our footprints.”
Langeler’s exclamation suddenly rang out from the front of the mist.
The scattered footprints clearly guided to their location.
At that mont, Elena made a murmur, actively approaching the vague outline in the forest depths.
Watching Elena’s departing back, the group suddenly, inexplicably, felt unease and fear.
Was she like the Vortex People, of the sa kind, unable to recognize Lu Li… Had Elena long since fallen, becoming a mber of the Land of Vortex…?
Lu Li was unaware of his companion’s thoughts; he pondered another matter: how to take Elena from here.
Wait for the Twisted Shadow and Ashes District to weaken, defeat the Land of Vortex?
Or perhaps…
Lu Li’s quiet dark eyes fell towards the center of Vortex Town, at the towering Spiral Tower.
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