Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 1099 - 212: The Buried Things

Chapter 1099: Chapter 212: The Buried Things

"There’s... something here, yeah, I saw it." Pannis stood in place for a while before pointing ahead and saying, "Let’s move to a safer place, I’ll come back later with the lion."

"I don’t want to." Dillie snorted coldly, "If you want to come back, come by yourself, I don’t want to see these inexplicable things. I want to stay as far away from them as possible."

"But I need your nose," Pannis teased, "Without you, how can I search for things buried in the soil?"

"You are the dog, damn Kyle." Dillie glared at Pannis with his eyes narrowed, "I’ve told you countless times, don’t treat me like a dog, I’m a scorpion-tailed lion, damn, a scorpion-tailed lion. Aren’t you afraid I might eat you?"

"Okay, okay, you’re not a dog, you’re a lion dog." Pannis twisted his body to dodge the tail that Dillie swung at him, laughing, "Stop it. If you’re worried about losing your memory, then just keep watch with them over there. Actually, I’ve almost pinpointed the location of the thing, I really just wanted you to accompany me to dig the soil."

"Damn, I should bite you to death." Dillie growled, turning his head away to avoid looking at Pannis’ brilliant smile. He darted past the last few Chaotic Fragments and lay down at the safe spot Pannis had pointed to, resting his head on his front paws, muttering to himself, probably cursing Pannis, his evil adversary, under his breath.

Catherine, both exasperated and amused, glared at Pannis and, seeing his feigned innocent expression, led the girls to follow Dillie. Before leaving, she couldn’t help but give a cautious glance.

It wasn’t until everyone had left that Pannis’ expression turned serious. He looked up to check the position of the surrounding Chaotic Fragments to ensure they wouldn’t cause any issues, then he bent down close to the ground like a lizard, quickly crawling towards a clearing between the trees. In this open area, he crawled back and forth, diligently inspecting the soil for any unusual signs.

In fact, this was a great opportunity. The path leading from the wandering woodlands to the Forest of Death’s core, the Bone Burial Road, had been shrouded in mystery for thousands of years. During this time, numerous powerful beings had lost their lives here, leaving behind countless secrets. Though over the centuries, many powerful individuals had indeed entered the Core Area through other directions and ventured into this Forbidden Land of Living Souls for exploration, no one had dared to search as carelessly as now with the threats of Soul Assault and Twisted Souls looming. Of course, with an important mission at hand, there wasn’t much time to truly explore the countless secrets hidden within the Forbidden Land, but considering the time and place, Pannis had a preliminary guess, a very important guess.

"Hmm." In the safe area, Catherine forcefully covered her mouth, suppressing an almost instinctive cry of alarm. She saw Pannis crawling right beneath a Chaotic Fragment, missing a collision by perhaps only thirty to forty centimeters. Such a distance was perilous given the regular twisting movements of the fragment. Only after Pannis had safely crawled under the Chaotic Fragment did the knight girl finally exhale deeply, looking around at her teammates, their faces also covered in nervous sweat.

"You don’t need to be so nervous." The scorpion-tailed lion, Dillie, idly chewed on his tail, occasionally speaking to the girls, "That guy, even though he’s a bastard now, no, he was always a bastard. Everyone is deceived by his facade, only I can see that he truly is a bastard. Yeah, though he’s a bastard, he is a dependable one. Just now, it looked dangerous, but from his perspective, there certainly was absolute confidence, or else he wouldn’t have done it. Sometimes, you worry about him a bit too much. Don’t think that the perfect Kyle was just a nickname."

"I know he used to be strong and perfect," Catherine said with a wry smile, "but now his heart..."

"Yeah, indeed, something happened that we don’t know about that made him like this," Dillie finally let go of his tail, shaking off his fur, and continued, "Maybe his spirit has broken, his faith collapsed, but many inherent things will never change, like his reliability, like his habit of meddling in others’ affairs, and like his and Nellie’s almost headache-inducing sense of justice and illogical responsibility. Oh, ****, am I actually speaking ill of a knight’s nature in front of one? Have I also become an idiot?"

"Uh, what do you mean?" Clearly, Dillie’s last few words weren’t in a common language because the confused knight girl, not understanding, forgot to argue with the scorpion-tailed lion about his remarks on meddling and the sense of justice and responsibility, and asked puzzlingly, "What language is that? I’ve never heard it before."

"Of course I haven’t heard of it; it’s the language of my hometown. Don’t ask me where that is because I don’t know either. Just think of it as another world." Dillie said gloomily, dismissing the questions. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, "The excavation has started; it looks like he has finally found something, but he’s terribly slow."

Indeed, Pannis, surrounded by numerous Chaotic Fragments, was squatting on the ground, carefully digging with a shovel. Although he had to dig with small movements due to the interference from surrounding enemies, the power of a Demigod was immense. Soon, a shallow pit of a few dozen centimeters appeared, and half of Pannis’s body was already inside it.

"With him digging like that, is it really not going to disturb the surrounding Chaotic Fragments? It feels like danger could strike at any moment," Lina said worriedly. "By the way, Mr. Dillie, if the Chaotic Fragments find you, can’t you use the Inherent Psychic Domain to evade their attacks?"

"If only it were that easy," Dillie said with a grimace. "Though I wasn’t here last time, I heard from those two birds, what do you think caused his last contact with the Chaotic Fragments? He was trying to test if he could escape these Twisted Souls by relying on the Inherent Psychic Domain. As for the results, it’s obvious that he couldn’t."

"Why is that?" Lina asked curiously. "Entering the Inherent Psychic Domain, isn’t that like entering another space?"

"The problem is that the space isn’t independent," Dillie said, bored, seemingly about to chase his own tail again but was interrupted by Lina’s persistent questions, and he said impatiently, "You don’t grasp the domain, so you don’t understand its true state. Indeed, the state of the domain and the deity’s Divine Kingdom are somewhat similar, both created through some method in a space that originally didn’t exist. However, the space of the Divine Kingdom is independent of the Yarran World, existing alongside it. If the deities wish, they can even make them observable by the Yarran World, like those stars in the sky, which damn it, those are actually Divine Kingdoms, not celestial bodies. Galileo would be crying."

"What about the Demigods’ then?" Ignoring the last few sentences she didn’t understand, Lina continued to ask, "Are the Demigods’ domains the same as the Yarran World?"

"Assume this here is the Yarran World," Dillie finally gave up on playing with his tail and resignedly lay back on the ground, drawing a square with his paw and several circles around it on the ground, explaining, "What you see is the space where the Yarran World exists, these circles here represent the Divine Kingdoms independent of that space. Inside the main space of the Yarran World, there are often many unknown Overlapping Spaces, scattered in different locations."

"Yes, we’re quite clear on that," Catherine glanced subtly at Ava, and nodded, "Some are natural, and some are man-made. Are your Demigod domains such Overlapping Spaces?"

"No, they’re not, and the so-called man-made Overlapping Spaces are actually built upon the naturally existing demiplane spaces. As for the domain’s space, it’s hard to describe in words. If I must, think of the domain’s space as attached to the main space of the Yarran World. Think of it as being behind the main space, connected to it by only a plane. It’s not precise to say so, but that’s the only way to understand it for now," Dillie explained. "Since it still maintains a connection with the main space, theoretically speaking, even though I can enter the domain, I am still standing here. Unlike an Overlapping Space that is completely in another space, or like a Divine Kingdom that’s independent of the space, so although we can’t see, touch, or sense each other, we are actually still standing together. Does that make sense to you?"

The girls shook their heads in unison, which frustrated the impatient scorpion-tailed lion, and he said, "If you don’t understand, forget it. You’ll know once you grasp the domain. Anyway, these Twisted Soul Fragments, including the omnipresent Soul Assaults, all act directly on the Intersection Surface where the domain’s space is attached to the main space. So, even inside the domain, it’s still affected. Oh, whatever, just think of it that way."

"Uh, anyway, thank you for the explanation, Mr. Dillie," Catherine could only smile wryly and sighed, "It does sound very complex."

"It is complex, and you can only understand it once you truly grasp it," Pannis’s voice suddenly came from behind the knight girls. "You don’t need to study it now since you can’t really make sense of it anyway."

"You’re back? Where did you find this?" Catherine hid the surprise in her heart, swiftly turning around, then her eyes twitched because Pannis was holding a dirty skull that still faintly smelled foul.