Apotheosis

Every single time the three-eyed boy returned, he would carry along with him some Burning Crystals.

If there happened to be too many Burning Crystals, he would stuff them into the huts below. But if there were not many Burning Crystals, he would toss them directly to Zen.

At the beginning, the three-eyed boy was indifferent to Zen and Elvinia. But eventually, after they got to see each other more often, he grew more comfortable and friendly with them.

Once, the three-eyed boy even brought back a small mountain of Burning Crystals and took out a small black toad. As the toad was revealed to light, its body began to emit traces of black light.

He handed this toad to Elvinia as a gift.

With a nasty glimpse at the dark strange creature, Elvinia, of course, was in no way going to accept this.

Just then, the three-eyed boy directly threw the toad to her. The moment it came into contact with her, it seeped into her soul. Then, Elvinia felt that her soul force began to surge. It turned out that the black toad was actually more effective than soul crystal itself.

Elvinia was in shock. The three-eyed boy scoffed coldly and walked away.

Meanwhile, Zen continued to study the properties of the Dark Region.

Every time the mission of making candles was completed, Zen squatted outside the hut and sat at the junction of candle light and darkness, trying to understand the properties of the Dark Region.

He took down some pieces of wood from the corner of the hut, carefully placing them in and out of the darkness.

For some reason, the wood sticks remained unchanged.

In addition to this experiment, Zen also poked candles into the darkness. Still, when he took them back, the candles didn't alter in any way.

"It should be because of the energy!" he gasped.

Like candles, the wood sticks from the hut didn't possess any energy fluctuation. The materials that didn't contain energy fluctuation or the Other Shore Power could freely go in and out of the Dark Region.

Sands, stones, the Souls of Light, and corporeal bodies on the Other Shore all contained some level of energy. If these things fell into the Dark Region, something would definitely occur to them.

"Elvinia!" Zen called out, excited.

Elvinia walked over with an unwilling expression on her face, but she still took out an Other Shore To

night on the Other Shore. But Zen thought ahead, and he made sure to keep an accurate record of it from the very beginning.

He and Elvinia had been in the candle workshop for three months, and they had made about a thousand candles.

In desperation, Elvinia repeatedly hinted towards Zen that after the three-eyed boy and the giant ape had left, they would just light candles and escape.

However, Zen had been a bit hesitant about this idea. If the three-eyed boy had been monitoring them or had set traps in the surroundings, they would be in trouble.

There was only one chance for them to escape, and Zen must remain extremely cautious to ever succeed.

It was the first week of the fourth month, and

Zen and Elvinia were hard at work to make wax.

Just then, they began to feel the ground shake. With a quick glance at each other, they wondered why the boy had returned so soon.

As they approached the door, they were met once again with the huge hairy hand stretching out from the darkness. Dark red blood began falling from it, like a red rain. Because the blood belonged to the Dark Region, it released energy and quickly disappeared when the light from the candle met with it.

"Whose blood is it?" Zen frowned slightly.

"Bang!"

The giant ape's hand unfurled after landing on the ground, and Zen and Elvinia let out a large gasp. The three-eyed boy was lying in the palm of its hand, drenched in goopy blood. His skin was bitten by probably numerous monsters. Zen and Elvinia had no idea whether he was dead or alive at this point.