Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 2952 The Weird Forest

Angel originally thought that he would choose a random direction and walk around to see if he could find a way out of the forest.

In other words, in this dark forest, can we find the guidance to leave the omen.

However, Angor only took a few steps before he frowned.Although he couldn't perceive the thinking space, and couldn't mobilize energy, his spiritual sense as a wizard didn't disappear.

He vaguely felt that something was wrong around him, but he couldn't find out what was wrong for a while.However, the oppressive feeling between the brows from the spiritual sense all reminded him that this forest seemed to be not as simple as it appeared on the surface, and there was some kind of unspeakable danger lurking in it.

"Where does the danger come from?" Angel stretched out his fingers and rubbed the swollen eyebrows, trying to increase the effect of spiritual perception.But it didn't have any effect, on the contrary, it made the surging spiritual sense slowly disappear.

Everything returned to silence, as if the danger was just an illusion.

Angel knew very well that the pressure between the eyebrows just now was definitely not an illusion, and there must be something wrong here.Now that his spiritual sense was silent, he could only try to catch the surrounding things with his eyes and analyze the source of danger.

Are monsters lurking in the shadows of the forest?Or is it a trap laid by hunters in the forest?
Or... the forest itself is dangerous?For example, the surrounding trees, in fact, hide spiritual intelligence, can they turn into evil towering tree people?
When Angor's thoughts were flying wildly, several shrill crows suddenly reached his ears.

Are there crows in the forest?

Angel looked up, and vaguely saw several black shadows flying by in the dark forest, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The size of the black shadow is very similar to that of a crow, and when it flies by, you can hear the sound of fluttering wings, so there is a high probability that it is a crow.

Although these suspected crow-like creatures disappeared in a blink of an eye, their screams never stopped. It seemed that this group of crows had been wandering around Angel.

Could it be that the danger comes from the crows?

In the wizarding world, crows are mostly used as eyes.Moreover, crows have always been small-minded, and they must retaliate. There are also wizards who raise crows to warn those who approach them by means of metaphors of their characters.

Angel didn't know if these crows were freed, or if they were the eyes of a certain extraordinary person, but after all, this is only in "Omens", so there shouldn't be any dark metaphors, right?
Maybe these crows are not a source of danger, but a setter of atmosphere?
After all, even Angel, now listening to the crow's cry like the voice of the dead, and looking at the dark forest in front of him, would feel inexplicably uneasy in his heart.

The gloomy atmosphere here has obviously been accentuated by this group of crows hiding in the shadows.

Suppressing the turbulent thoughts in his heart, Angel refocused on the present moment.

It is not an option to stop at the same place all the time. Angel thought about it and decided to go in a different direction.

Perhaps the premonition of danger before was because he was going in the wrong direction?As long as you find the right direction, can you get rid of the dangerous premonition?

Changing the direction, Angel took a few more steps.

The spiritual sense did not wake up again, which seemed to mean that changing the direction could indeed escape the danger?But Angel felt that it was not that simple. The spiritual sense didn't remind him, maybe it was just because it had reminded him before.

Angel ignored it and continued to walk a few steps.

When the total number of steps reached thirty, Angel stopped.Because, he finally found out what was wrong!

The surrounding trees seem to have become thicker and bigger!
Are there really problems with trees?In order to prove that his discovery was not wrong, he chose to move on.But this time, he changed the reference coordinates.

After a few seconds, Angel stopped again.

At this moment, his expression was not as calm as before, because he discovered... the truth.

——The trees don't change, what changes is himself.His body has shrunk.

This forest is like Gulliver's tunnel, every time he takes a step forward, his body shrinks a circle.

This shrinking does not make Angor's body feel strange, as if it has naturally become smaller.Because of this, Angor didn't notice it at first. If it wasn't for the reminder from his spiritual sense, Angor might not realize his abnormality until all the surrounding trees turned into towering giants.

However, the shrinkage is also regular. It only shrinks when walking, and it will not shrink when stopping.

That means stopping is the "solution"?
Absolutely not.

Angel tried to stop still and analyze the surrounding situation, but the more he stopped, the more he didn't want to move or dared to move.It seems that after he noticed the law of shrinking, "stopping still" became a safety island in his heart, making him even more reluctant to take a step.

And this is definitely not a good thing.Unless he wanted to be trapped in this weird omen all the time, he had to move and find a solution to the omen.

"Every time I walk, it will shrink. Is this the hint of this omen?"

While thinking to himself, Angel took the initiative to attack, and began to do more tests related to the law of shrinking around.

Angel seems to be wandering around, but in fact he is testing the impact of different aspects, different moves, and various factors on the reduction.He also climbed trees and even ran at full strength for a stretch.

In the end, he got a not-so-good result:

The shrinkage is not affected by any other factors. As long as you walk, no matter what posture you take, even if you are crawling forward, you will definitely shrink.And running, will speed up the speed of shrinkage.

In other words, if he wants to find a solution to the strange sign, he will inevitably shrink, and this shrinking will continue.In the end, it may become smaller than dust.

No, he might not even have the chance to turn into dust, and be threatened by other dangers in the forest, such as - crows.

Ever since the first crow rang in Angel's ears.This group of crows hiding in the dark has never left, and they call twice from time to time, showing their sense of existence.

There is no doubt that these crows are secretly watching him in the dark.

Today's Angel, after a series of previous tests, although his body is already a lot smaller, his height is also half a head shorter than before.But at least he still maintains the size of an adult, facing the crow hiding in the shadow of the forest, he still has a certain advantage.Using the comparison between the hunter and the prey, he is barely a hunter now.

But when he keeps shrinking, and his body size becomes similar to that of the Kulakuka tribe, at that time, the hunter and the prey will change positions.

He would be the prey, and the crow the hunter.

Angel believed that at that time, the crow would definitely fly out from the dark and attack him.

"The forest that can make people smaller, and the crows that look at it." Angel murmured in a low voice: Is this the test of the omen?

Angel knew that it was difficult to guess what the real test of the strange sign was, but the biggest dilemma at the moment was indeed to solve the problem of shrinking himself and the crow in the dark.

How to solve the dilemma?Could it be to stop first and find a way to kill the crow?
No, the crows are not attacking now, which means that they also know the law of the forest shrinking, so they will definitely wait until the offensive and defensive transitions before attacking.

Even if the crow stops, it won't attack. On the contrary, it will receive some hidden psychological hints, making it more afraid to move the more it stops.

But what if you don't stop?Are the crows going to settle?Or were the crow and shrinking just a kind of psychological oppression, forcing him to panic and make him ignore the clues hidden in the dark?

Angel began to force himself not to think about the crow and the shrinking body, ignore these external factors, and seriously search for clues hidden in the forest.

……

Angel didn't care about the changes in his body, and started to walk in the forest. At first, he planned to look for "human traces". If there were human traces, he might be able to find a way out.

But after searching for a while, there were no human tracks, but some animal tracks.

This footprint was found under a rotting broad-leaved forest. The footprint is very small, about the size of a baby's fist, but it penetrates very deep into the ground.

Angel did not recognize the shape of the footprints, because the footprints were filled with water, and the water had turned the clear footprints into mud.

Could this footprint be a clue?Angel didn't know, but he decided to search around the footprints.

Since there is one footprint, there must be a second footprint.

After looking for it, Angel became another three centimeters shorter.However, the second footprint was found anyway.

It is worth mentioning that the second footprint and the first footprint should be left by the same animal, but the distance is relatively far, four meters away, it seems that this animal took a big step?
Also, the size of the footprints has not changed, which means that there is a second creature in the forest that will not shrink due to movement.

The first is the crow, and the second is the owner of this footprint.

The crow is the enemy who peeps in the dark, so could the owner of this footprint be the one who unleashed the omen?

Angel thought for a moment, but decided to follow the direction of the footprints and look for the owner of the footprints.

After this search, another five centimeters disappeared.

However, Angel found about ten footprints this time, and it is basically certain that the owner of this footprint has not shrunk.

Although the owner of the footprints left one footprint on the left and one footprint on the right, the general direction is determined.

"Will this direction be the direction to leave?" Angel didn't know, but he was willing to try again.

Continue to follow the footsteps, this time, Angel stopped by two centimeters shorter.

It's not that he found the owner of the footprints, and Angel didn't intend to give up, but... his spiritual sense, which had been silent before, suddenly woke up for a moment.

This time, the revived spiritual sense no longer gave Angor a dangerous reminder like before, but gave Angor a vague guidance: it seemed that his spiritual sense was echoing somewhere in the forest.

At the same time, the spiritual sense guided Angel to a general direction - true north.

But the walking direction of the footprints is the northwest of his current coordinate origin.

Although it is not in the opposite direction, it also deviates from a large angle.

Moreover, Angel could roughly estimate that the location of the spiritual guide was at least nearly a thousand meters away from his current location.

Not to mention whether there will be detours in the middle, even if he walks in a straight line, according to the law of shrinking, and the scale of his steps after shrinking, when he reaches the target position, his size will shrink to half of his current size. into a form resembling a gnome or a halfling.

Although it would not be immediately prey, the crow was already qualified to attack him.

His chances are running out, and the biggest problem facing Angel now is to choose footprints, or choose to believe in spiritual perception?

Angel stopped and fell into deep thought.

About half a minute later, Angel took another step. This time he did not follow the footprints, but chose to believe in spiritual perception and headed to the north!
The reason for making this choice is because of Angel's trust in "absolute self".

Spiritual perception is very wonderful. It can be called inspiration or spirituality.It comes from itself, it is the guidance of the deep thinking, it is the generalization of the energy ether sea, and it is the outlet of the cellular consciousness.

It is also an intuition from the inside out.

Described in more straightforward language, this is an absolute self.

The superficial self can also be deceived.But the deeper absolute self, the probability of being deceived is very small.

At least, Angor has never seen the ability to deceive the absolute self in the wizarding world of the Southern Region.

Therefore, he chose to believe in spiritual perception.

However, there is something strange about the sudden inspiration this time.For example, spiritual sense can predict danger, and can make a decision when hesitating, but directly rely on spiritual sense to guide the way, and even the coordinates of the end point of the direction have already appeared.

This is very strange.

It's not that spiritual perception can't do this, but that there is generally only one type of thing that can achieve this situation: there is something in the guiding place that is deeply related to Angel, and even the coordinate point has Angel. Items, only then will there be a sense of "strong correlation".

But Angor can be sure that there is nothing missing from him.

If you have to say it, it probably only has room for thinking.

But thinking space is the least likely to be lost.Although Angel can't perceive it now, he can be sure that the thinking space has been following him in a higher dimension.Otherwise, spiritual perception will not appear.

Since it is not a thinking space, and Angel has no other lost items, why does such a "strongly related" spiritual sense appear?

Angel didn't know, but he decided to go and see for himself.

……

After walking for another 10 minutes, Angel had shrunk by about [-] centimeters.

However, the distance to the target point is getting closer and closer.

The cry of crows did not disappear, but kept ringing in my ears.But apart from the spying crows, Angel found no other dangers in the forest...and no other animals.

This seems to mean that the footprint of the previous animal may be the only animal in the forest?

If so, would his choice be wrong?Should you not believe in spiritual perception, but in footprints?

A trace of confusion appeared in Angel's heart.

Do you want to back off?Step back at this time, maybe there is still time?

It seems that there is a voice in Angel's heart that is constantly bewitching him to back away and try to find the footprints, but Angel still doesn't stop after deliberation.

Step back now, maybe you can quickly find the footprints, but where does the footprint end?Will his size hold him up to the end of his trail?It's hard to say.

However, if he chooses to move on, at least Angor has a set goal.

Compared to searching for footprints aimlessly, moving forward with a goal can at least give him a... result.

(End of this chapter)