Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure - Chapter 1576 1576: Rescue mission (16)

When I said this, the others came back to their senses and remembered the reason that we had come here in the first place.

The gnomes in particular immediately headed in the direction of the barrier under the lead of Grandpa Stumps.

He took out a potion that he threw at the barrier that soon created a hole in the barrier.

The barrier itself was still there, but there was a hole that had been created that would allow them to enter.

However, this was a small hole that was only big enough for gnomes to pass.

At the same time, he was the only one that entered the barrier.

After entering the barrier, he turned around to say, “Give me some time to check on them and bring them out. It’ll scare them if all of us enter the cave at once.”

Since the gnomes had no problem with this, there was nothing that the rest of us could say.

After all, this was the land of the gnomes in the first place.

So what they said was what happened here.

While waiting for Grandpa Stumps to come back with the rest of the gnomes, I went over to Angil to take a closer look at him as well as have a talk with him.

When Angil saw me coming over, he was naturally wary. But compared to before, it seemed that he was more receptive towards me as he saw what had happened with the shadow.

“Is there something wrong?” Angil asked after I came over.

Though he asked this in a calm voice, it was clear that he was scared as if I had come over with a specific reason.

To comfort him, I said, “I just want to ask you a few questions. Or rather, I want to get to know you a bit better.”

Angil looked a bit surprised and a bit confused when he heard this, but he eventually nodded in agreement as he waited for me to ask my questions.

“What do you think was the best choice of actions for the gnomes? Do you think that it was best for them to keep isolating themselves like this?”

There was a strange and confused look that appeared on Angil’s face when he heard this.

It was clear that he didn’t understand why I would be asking him something like this all of a sudden, but I didn’t explain my question as I waited for him to answer it.

The expression on Angil’s face slowly changed as it became more and more complicated.

It was as if the more that he thought about the question that I posed, the more thoughts that appeared on his mind. It was as if there were many different things that he was thinking about with the way that his expression changed.

After a while, Angil finally said with a sigh, “It’s not my place to say, but I do believe that the gnomes have isolated themselves far too much. Take this incident as an example. While I was the one that caused it, there was no one that the gnomes could rely on because we isolated ourselves. If only we’ve opened ourselves up to the rest of the world…”

Angil couldn’t help giving another sigh before continuing by saying, “I know that it’s asking for a lot to open ourselves up to the other races after what happened in the past, but what you’ve done for us is also proof that things have changed. While I still don’t know how much has changed, I at least know that we need to change with the world.”

Angil continued by saying a few more things on this topic, but I just stopped listening to what he said.

The reason that I had asked this was because I wanted to know one thing about Angil and the answer that he gave me was more than enough for me to figure this one thing out.

“Just like the shadow, it seems that there’s something that he desires greatly. It isn’t a bad thing that he wants this, but it seems like that desire for change is being manipulated.”

The more that I thought about this, the more that something seemed to stand out.

Is it because of their desire to change that the God of Destruction is able to manipulate them?

Is it because the God of Destruction desires something similar in that it wants to become more than just the God of Destruction?

The more that I thought about this, the more likely that it seemed.

It really felt like there was something that connected all of the Apostles of Destruction and the ones that they manipulated.

There was a part of me that regretted not asking the Apostles of Destruction that I met before more questions.

But if the God of Destruction was like that, then did that mean that it was being used as well?

The more that I thought about it, the more my head ached since it seemed like it was too complicated.

It really seemed like there was some kind of complicated relationship between the gods.

Especially between the God of Creation and the God of Destruction.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by the barrier suddenly disappearing. Or rather, I was pulled out of my thoughts by the sound of Angil reacting to the barrier disappearing.

Though he had a strong reaction to the barrier disappearing, it also seemed like he was afraid of this.

It seemed like he was afraid to actually go towards the cave now that the barrier was gone.

This was understandable since he was the one that had caused the disaster in the first place.

I naturally had no idea how they would react to him when they saw him again since I didn’t know anything about the gnomes.

But that didn’t mean that I should just stand here and wait for him.

That was why I left him alone here and headed towards the cave.