Chapter 58: The Demon's Teleportation
According to the arena's rules, after a match begins, contestants are forbidden from leaving the Void Arena.
However, this is the rule of the Void Arena, not the rule of Reincarnation Paradise. Whether Su Xiao abides by it depends on the situation.
Now, he planned to temporarily ignore this rule and leave the arena with Lilim for a while. He had already dealt with his first-round opponent, and for the subsequent matches, he could either spectate or return to the rest area to recover his condition.
"Leaving temporarily is fine? The second round will start within 20 hours."
Lilim realized that Su Xiao had to participate in the Void Arena. To take part in the arena, Su Xiao had even exposed his identity as a Law Destroyer.
"No problem. I have eyes and ears inside the Void Arena."
As he spoke, Su Xiao had already led Lilim to the front of a rest room.
Creak～
The door to the adjacent rest room was pushed open, and the Water-Wind Mage they had encountered earlier walked out. He glanced at Su Xiao, noticing the bloodstains on his sleeve, which made him associate Su Xiao with having just participated in a duel.
"Quite the lucky man."
The Water-Wind Mage muttered before letting out a cold snort. He recognized Lilim.
"Oh, if it isn't the Wind Prince."
Lilim smiled meaningfully. The Water-Wind Mage, also known as the Wind Prince, darkened his expression and quickly strode toward the arena.
"He must be one of your future competitors. He's a junior mage from Arcane Eternal Star, the second son of the Fierce Wind King. Among the new generation of Void powerhouses, he has quite a reputation."
Lilim's smile was strange.
"Strong?"
"No, what made him famous isn't his strength, but his ability to combine wind and water elements. You're a Law Destroyer, so you should understand what it means to perfectly combine two elements."
Su Xiao certainly understood what it meant to perfectly combine two elements, because it was nearly impossible.
"If this were the era of the Law Destroyers, he would be a prime target for elimination. Merging two elements isn't just about disrupting elemental balance; it fundamentally alters the elemental structure within the body."
"None of my concern, as long as he doesn't provoke me."
Su Xiao didn't care what the Wind Prince had done; he had no grudge against him. But what was puzzling was why a genius like the Wind Prince would participate in the extremely high-mortality Void Arena. He should have been kept under strict protection for nurturing.
"Interestingly enough, this Wind Prince is so obsessed with elemental changes that he spends most of his time holed up in his family's mage tower. It's said that after mastering spells, he left the tower no more than five times. Eventually, even his father couldn't stand it, so he threw him into the Void Arena to 'see the world' and entrusted his friend, Mage Sage Seraphilia, to secretly protect him here. A prince's treatment, huh."
There was a hint of disdain in Lilim's tone. In her view, the Wind Prince was just a bookworm and a hothouse flower.
The two entered the rest room. Su Xiao had temporary access to this room.
Closing the door, Lilim pressed her pale hand against it, and an inverted five-pointed star formation appeared. The inverted five-pointed star formation was a skill the Demon race excelled at. Although its structure was similar to a magic formation, it wasn't magic. Demons didn't actively communicate with elements; they preferred using demonic power.
"The place we're going to is a very remote planet in the Void. No need to worry about safety; it's uninhabited. Usually, you wouldn't see a living creature for centuries. An alchemist who enjoys solitude lives there."
Light flickered in Lilim's hand as several sharp animal teeth and a piece of parchment appeared.
"Give me an hour."
Lilim spread the parchment flat on the ground and scattered the animal teeth beside it.
Su Xiao sensed strong spatial fluctuations from these teeth, as if they could penetrate or traverse space.
Lilim then took out various materials, her face full of reluctance.
"Maybe... I should take back what I said?"
Lilim grimaced. She couldn't understand how the Demon race's probing of Su Xiao had turned into her funding the construction of a long-distance teleportation formation.
"When I get home, I must get reimbursed by my second brother. What a terrible idea this was."
Lilim grumbled incessantly as she set up the long-distance teleportation formation with a look of deep grievance.
About an hour later, the spatial fluctuations in the room grew stronger. Su Xiao instinctively took a step back.
"You seem to hate spatial movement?"
Lilim seemed to have discovered something new. Earlier, when the small giant charged fiercely at Su Xiao, he hadn't taken a single step back. But now, after the spatial formation was completed, he stepped back.
"Not really."
Su Xiao vaguely felt a dull ache at the back of his head, which was actually an illusion, since being teleported by Reincarnation Paradise was never a pleasant experience.
"Let's go."
Lilim channeled demonic power into the parchment on the ground, and the spatial fluctuations became more pronounced.
Su Xiao approached the long-distance teleportation formation. From this, he could gauge Lilim's strength; she had constructed it with just some materials.
Spatial energy enveloped Su Xiao, and his vision blurred as if he had entered a high-speed washing machine. Compared to Reincarnation Paradise's teleportation, this one was highly unstable.
Just as Su Xiao felt like he was about to be shaken into vomiting, the scene before him changed. He found himself in a strange forest where the trees were a fiery red, and some green fireflies drifted by, making the entire forest look breathtakingly beautiful.
"Ugh～"
A retching sound came from beside him. Su Xiao turned his head to see Lilim leaning against a tree, bending over and dry heaving.
"You..."
Lilim looked at Su Xiao with disbelief. She wasn't very skilled at setting up long-distance teleportation formations, so this one was quite unstable.
"Ugh～"
Lilim continued to dry heave, and it took a few minutes for her to recover.
"Don't you feel nauseous? The turbulence inside the Demon Wormhole was unbearable even for me."
"A bit dizzy."
Su Xiao vaguely guessed that his frequent teleportations by Reincarnation Paradise had built up a resistance to spatial teleportation. Or rather, the distance teleported from Reincarnation Paradise to derivative worlds was far greater than this one. This kind of teleportation was just a drizzle for Su Xiao; as long as he didn't have to endure that dull blow to the head, a bit of turbulence was fine.
"Your resistance to the Demon Wormhole is monstrous. It seems the place you come from is quite peculiar."
Lilim wiped the vomit from the corner of her mouth, and her sluggish spirit quickly recovered. Her physique was very strong.
"Don't wander around in the Firefly Forest. This entire area is a massive alchemical defense barrier."
Lilim crouched down, picked up a twig, and drew several symbols on the ground: a sun, a moon, a test tube, a goat's head, an inverted pentagram, and an X.
This was a way to convey several pieces of information to the owner of the Firefly Forest. The sun and moon were prefixes, the test tube represented the forest's owner, the goat's head represented the Demon race, the inverted pentagram represented the nobility among the Demon race, and the X represented Lilim herself.
Sssss～
Several numbers appeared on the ground: 5, 1, 8, 3.
Seeing these numbers, Lilim frowned.
"So troublesome."
Lilim picked up a few stones, arranged them into a triangle, and then stepped forward.
"Follow me. Ignore whatever you see."
The two walked one after the other deeper into the forest. As they passed, the fiery red trees came to life, transforming into countless tree-men. A conservative estimate put their number in the tens of thousands.
These tree-men gave Su Xiao a strong sense of threat. Even if there were only one, he might not be able to handle it.
These tree-men were all alchemical creations, incorporating multiple branches of alchemy, including alchemical creature manufacturing.