Chapter 1167: 154. Fog Zone

After heavy rain comes clear skies.

Muen curled up between the gaps of the dragon claw, his face full of utter lifeless despair as he used battle aura to evaporate the moisture from his whole body.

—Naturally, he did not dare be so bold as to change clothes in Miss Dragon’s palm again. He was afraid that this disaster-level dragon, whose temper was not exactly good, would treat him as some kind of filthy thing and casually pinch him off with a splat. As a result, he looked somewhat wretched.

Fortunately, high in the sky, there was only one person and one dragon, so there was no need to care too much about appearances.

“Speaking of which, I still don’t know what exactly lies outside this Fog Wall surrounding Annabawei.”

As the enormous dragon’s body gradually rose higher, Muen peered out through the gaps. After experiencing so many people in Annabawei yearning for what lay beyond the Fog Wall, at this moment, some curiosity and expectation inevitably arose in his heart as well.

Earlier, Alan had said that on the other side of the fog, he had seen land similar to Annabawei... Then what about the other aspects? What kind of place exactly was beyond the Fog Wall?

Alan had also personally seen Miss Dragon destroy that place. In other words, beyond the Fog Wall, Pollution also existed?

“Fog Wall? Outside? What do you mean?”

Muen suddenly heard Miss Dragon’s voice. It was still as indifferent as ever, only this voice did not seem to come from that dragon mouth that could be called ferocious, but rather from the resonance of her entire abdominal cavity.

Ventriloquism?

Mm, that was relatively reasonable. After all, the structure of a dragon’s mouth and the structure of a human mouth were so different. A dragon should not be able to “speak” language like humans.

And besides, a dragon opening its mouth and blah-blah-blah talking or whatever—just imagining that scene shattered the illusion quite badly...

“If you very much want to study the structure of my mouth, I can help you at any time.”

The dragon head slowly leaned over. A scarlet long tongue licked past.

“No, no, no. I feel that I absolutely do not have that thought.”

Muen stood straight on the spot.

A young girl’s little mouth, of course, he very much liked exploring, but dragons were an exception...

Looking at those sharp fangs, they could probably crush him into pieces a hundred times over...

“Answer the question. The Fog Wall and outside you mentioned... what do they mean?”

“Fog Wall? The Fog Wall is, of course, the Fog Wall in front of us. As for outside... outside also naturally means outside...”

Muen was completely confused.

“Could this question possibly produce some ambiguity?”

“So it turns out you still know nothing.”

The golden pupils looked at him deeply.

“What do I know?”

“Ignorance.”

“...”

Muen almost cursed someone’s mother.

Every single one of them was like some damn riddle-person. Even now, they were still clutching those thousand-year-old dead secrets and refusing to let go... And that was his fault?

So these old bastards...

“Forget it. It indeed is not your fault. After all, before this, you had not yet reached the degree of being recognized by the Silent Covenant. You did not have the qualification to know this aspect.”

“To be so magnanimous, I truly thank you.”

Muen was expressionless, so moved he was almost about to shed tears...

“The things you are about to see next are also among the contents sealed by the Silent Covenant. However... the current you should barely count as qualified to understand those things.”

Hamreign said.

Although his realm was still far too low, his status was there after all. It was harmless for him to understand a little.

“Hm?”

Before Muen had time to express his confusion, he felt his surroundings suddenly shake.

At that moment, the enormous dragon increased her speed and rose from the ground.

In an instant, they flew into an extremely high altitude.

Annabawei rapidly shrank in Muen’s field of vision, until only an indistinct outline remained. Muen’s gaze also began to extend upward along with the Fog Wall.

Upward. Always upward.

Only when he truly intended to cross it did Muen realize that the Fog Wall was actually even higher than he had estimated. Fortunately, even such a height was nothing more than a brief moment for Hamreign.

Therefore, before Muen even had time to fully raise his head, his field of vision... suddenly opened wide.

The suddenly intensified light made Muen subconsciously narrow his eyes slightly, but his vision was not affected. He quickly took everything into his eyes.

It was as if he had suddenly arrived by the sea. A vast sense of emptiness rushed toward him head-on.

The sun was at the edge of the sky. The sunlight felt somewhat cold, plating the pure-white ocean with a pale golden coat.

The surging wild wind struck his face, yet it did not raise any waves.

Muen stared straight at everything he saw after passing through the Fog Wall. The scenery he saw at this moment had clearly exceeded his expectations completely, shocking him until his mouth seemed to have been stuffed with an egg and could not close no matter what.

Beyond the Fog Wall...

No. It should not be called beyond the Fog Wall.

Because as far as the eye could see, no matter how far his vision reached, what he saw... was still a vast expanse of white.

Dense fog, heavy fog, towering fog... just like that, it covered everything all the way to the end of his field of vision, as if it wanted to swallow the entire world completely.

Yes. It was all fog.

At this moment, Muen finally understood why Miss Dragon had been so puzzled just now.

Fog Wall?

Where was there a fog “wall”?

Here, there was fundamentally nothing that could be easily summarized with the word “wall.”

There was only a boundless, soul-shaking vast sea of fog.

But since it was a sea, then what “outside” was there?

What exactly lay on the other side of one wave?

Muen asked in his heart.

Then answered himself:

Of course, another wave.

Even if waves had an end, for the people of Annabawei, perhaps there had never been any outside—because judging from the range of this fog, they most likely would never be able to walk out of this place.

“Th-this fog covers such a huge range? Is this really in our original world?”

Muen stood dazed for a long while, yet still could not suppress the shock in his heart.

No matter from what angle one looked at it, the scene before his eyes could not be explained as a simple geographical environment.

Hamreign was still continuously rising into the sky, but Muen still could not see the edge of the fog. Exactly how large this area was, he could not imagine.

And such a peculiar region—before this, he had actually had no knowledge of it at all?

Ever since transmigrating over, he had constantly been cramming all kinds of information related to this world. From ancient history to the evolution of magic, from local customs to detailed information about the various countries, he had absorbed all sorts of knowledge like a sponge. Added to his own identity as the son of a duke and the help of the Black Book in his mental space, even if he could not call himself some kind of expert, he could still barely count as a scholar.

At least, he would not suffer losses because of a lack of culture.

But even so, he had never known that there was actually such an enormous fog zone in this world.

All the texts he had read had also completely failed to mention this point.

“I already said it. All the information you could understand before was the result after being sealed.”

“Even such an enormous region can be sealed?”

“Heh.”

Hamreign laughed softly and asked in return, “Where was the place you lived before?”

“Belrand.”

“Extend outward from there.”

“The Empire of Leopold.”

“Extend outward again.”

“The continent.”

Muen paused, then added, “The Tia Continent.”

“Extend outward again.”

“How could the Tia Continent extend outward any further? Isn’t that the only...”

Eh?

Wait?

Only?

Muen immediately froze.

He frowned, and his head slowly turned bit by bit as he did his best to sort through all the information he had obtained over the past few years.

Then he asked himself in his heart.

From what moment had he begun firmly believing that the Tia Continent was the only continent? That it was the entirety of this world?

According to his understanding and cognition, for a world... or rather, for a planet, was it not perfectly normal to have several continents?

But he had read so much material and absorbed so much knowledge—so why had he never once had any doubt in this regard?

“That kind of sealing is not only on the level of knowledge... but also on the level of cognition?”

Muen suddenly understood.

“It seems you are not too stupid after all.”

Hamreign glanced back at Muen.

“At least outside the effective range of the Silent Covenant, you finally reacted.”