Chapter 936: Meeting Sellifer Again
'Sellifer?' Hearing the woman's voice echo out in his mind, Valyr quickly recalled the conversation he and Noel had before they came to the Shadow Plane.
Recalling how Noel wanted to talk with Sellifer and ask her if he could be her student, Valyr made use of the talisman Vaughn gave him to have the latter ask Sellifer to contact him. Fortunately, with a bit of explaining, everything worked out in the end, with Vaughn telling the young man that it would only take a couple of hours at most for Sellifer to contact him.
'Considering how much time Noel and I have spent searching for beasts to kill so far, if I factor in the time ratio between the Shadow Plane and Veldanyr, it does add up that she would contact me at around this time.'
Inwardly muttering these thoughts to himself, Valyr soon glanced at Noel and gave him a knowing glance, hoping that his gaze conveyed to Noel his intentions that the divine being he wanted to talk to had finally made contact with him.
Unfortunately for him, Noel could not understand the meaning behind the young man's glance. Nevertheless, he still felt that Valyr needed some time on his own through his gaze, so he decided to give the young man the space he needed for the meantime.
Getting the peace he wanted from the glance, a faint smile adorned the young man's lips as he finally responded back to Sellifer's messages. "Before we start, can you hear me?"
"Yeah, I can," replied Sellifer back, her voice continuing to echo through his mind. "So, what made you ask Vaughn to contact me?"
Nodding in response to the woman's response, Valyr did not beat around the bush. "Do you still remember Noel? The one who put me on the path of Shadow Energy in the first place?"
"Yeah?" answered Sellifer with a slight hint of confusion. "What about him?"
At those words, a wry smile adorned the young man's face. "Well... how do I put this?"
Scratching the back of his head as he pondered over his words for a bit, Valyr eventually replied. "So... to cut a long story short, he asked me to ask you if he could become your student."
Unsurprisingly, the confusion Sellifer felt deepened because of that. "What for?"
"I don't know." Valyr shrugged his shoulders at the question. "I have a feeling it has something to do with Azure Energy or the fact you taught me how to wield Azure Energy, but I'm not too sure."
"Does he want to learn how to wield Azure Energy or something? Where did he get that idea from?" As these words left Sellifer's mouth, Valyr imagined the woman slightly frowning. "Is it because I gave him the method to purify Shadow Energy?"
"No idea," said the young man in response, feeling as if that was the only thing he could say at that moment.
Hearing his question, Valyr nodded in response.
"What did she say, then? Did she agree?" asked Noel back, his body trembling with great expectation.
"She..." Just as the young man was about to respond to his question, a strong presence suddenly appeared from their side, revealing a rift that showed a dazzling woman clothed in
all dark blue.
"I said no."
Whoosh!
Crossing the rift to arrive at the Shadow Plane, Sellifer's aura swiftly spread out in its entirety, immediately making the two turn pale as they felt like they were mere ants standing in front
of a massive elephant.
Seeing the sudden change in their expressions, the woman briefly had a look of realization as she reined in her aura, allowing the color on both Noel and Valyr's faces to return soon after.
Taking a few deep breaths to compose himself, Valyr soon shifted his gaze towards the being that appeared before them, only to fall into a slight daze from the sheer beauty the woman
exuded.
Briefly shaking his head to consciously extricate himself from the feeling, the young man eventually looked at Sellifer once more before asking in slight uncertainty. "Did you come
here with your real body?"
"Yeah." Sellifer nodded, her tone laced with the inherent power of Azure Energy. "I could've made a clone or split a small fragment of myself to meet with you, but it's not like the Shadow Plane forbids the entrance of Divine-level beings."
"In any case..." The woman smiled soon after.
"You've grown a lot since we've last met, Valyr."