Chapter 246 Trying To Enter
"Are you sure you want to go, Mira? I'm sure you know how dangerous it is! Is there really a need for you to risk your life for just a bit of adventure?"
Maria asked nervously, but she already knew that it was impossible to convince Mira to not go.
"Mmhm. I feel like I might find something useful here. Do you want to go in, Elenei?"
"No thanks. I'll stay here and protect these two. If anything goes wrong just contact me through our link. I'll do my best to come and get you."
Elenei morphed into a small tweety bird and sat on Celaine's shoulder. Mira nodded at the three of them and walked towards the fog with both anticipation and a bit of dread in her heart.
When she was in arms reach of the fog, she decided to do a bit of testing. She's not dumb enough to just walk in a purplish-black fog without knowing what it can do.
Mira stretched out her hand and pointed her finger at the fog then shot out a piece of ice into it. As soon as that piece of ice touched the fog it instantly turned purple and disintegrated into dust.
Mira just stood there dumbly as she realized that this place might be more dangerous than she initially thought.
Maria, Celaine, and Elenei watched this scene and were dumbfounded. Sure, Mira's attack might not have been the strongest but it was still an attack that could kill a Late-Xiantian Stage Foundation Realm Expert. For it to turn to dust in an instant… Fuck! This fog might be able to insta-kill Core Formation Realm experts or even higher! What kind of shit hole did Elenei find?!
Maria and Celaine stared at Elenei intently, but the latter didn't pay much attention to them as she felt cold sweat all over her body.
When Mira shot that piece of ice into the fog, Elenei was able to better understand what and how strong the fog was and what she found shocked her to the core. She was secretly glad that she didn't decide to follow Mira into that hell hole because although the fog wouldn't be enough to instantly kill her, it would be incredibly annoying for her to deal with.
However, she still didn't know exactly what this fog was as she found it to be extremely unlikely that such a thing will just randomly appear in some Mortal World.
Mira, on the other hand, wasn't too bothered. Sure, she was shocked by how potent it was, but she refused to believe that there wasn't a way to deal with it.
So instead of continuing her tests, she decided to observe the fog and the ground. She started walking around this weird biome, trying to find any secrets that will allow her to enter without turning into dust.
After almost an hour of looking around, what she found the most interesting was neither the fog nor the ground was spreading. It was almost like they were trapped in a barrier that didn't permit them to extend.
After a few more tests, Mira came to a few conclusions about this place. One, it was made by a person to keep people out of his/her territory. Two, it was made by a person to trap and kill any unsuspecting adventurers seeking fame and fortune. Three, this place was naturally made and is basically a dead zone. Four, there is a poor little treasure in there that needs crying because it needs Mira to pick it up. Five, it's someone's inheritance.
Or maybe it's none of those ideas and something totally unexpected is going to happen. It's not like Mira is some all-knowing sage and the world is vast with unlimited possibilities. For all she knows, this could be the butt of a giant beast and this is the remnants of its farts.
Although this place could be anything, Mira can make some deductions about the likelihood of certain circumstances. For example, the chances of it being a trap are extremely low and/or nonexistent. The reason being, who would make a trap in the middle of fucking nowhere?! The only village around here is isolated from the outside world and has been like that for thousands of years. Plus, this place isn't even close to where that village is located.
Sure, it didn't take Elenei that long to get here from the village, but that's simply because her flight speed is beyond comprehension!
This place also isn't a trap because why would someone make it so their trap can be seen to everyone.
In fact, this reason alone is enough for Mira to rule out anything man made. So that leaves it either being some sort of treasure, a naturally occurring biome, or beast farts. And if Mira's being totally honest, the possibility of it being any of those three is about the same.
She's leaning more towards it being a natural treasure simply because she feels she'll find something useful here but who's to say that a naturally occurring biome can't contain useful treasures for her? And also a beast that can fart poison deadly enough to make Elenei feel a bit scared would be incredibly useful!
Still, this means that the possibility of this place being made by Heaven and Earth is around 67%. If that's the case, then she should have a chance at entering without dying all she has to do is find it. However, if that's not the case… She's fucked.
This thought made Mira feel a bit better since her thinking about it being a beast was more her imagination and a placeholder for anything unexpected. It's highly unlikely that this is some beast or else this Continent would've been decimated already if an abomination like this, a beast that can kill Nascent Soul Realm experts with just its gas, existed.
Mira stopped theorizing and decided to do a bit more testing before taking action. The first thing she did was form a shovel out of ice to see if she could dig her way under the fog. However, that idea didn't do much since as soon as her shovel touched the ground it started rotting away, but it was at a much slower rate than the fog. The second thing she noticed was when she dug up a bit of the ground, both the fog and the ground around it filled in the hole she made, returning the hole back to what it was originally.
However, this begs the question, if the ground and fog are pretty much the same thing just in different forms why did it take longer for the shovel to disintegrate?