Chapter 253: Starlight

After finally making it here, Joo Joowon was somewhat unwilling to accept that he could not absorb anything simply because he was too weak. He tried to search through the cluster of particles for weaker individuals, but found nothing.

Just then, Joo Joowon suddenly faintly sensed a connection that seemed almost nonexistent gradually becoming stronger, as if some creature were running toward him.

No, not running, but...

Joo Joowon opened his eyes and saw a white cat suspended in the air looking at him. Its body was not solid, but instead appeared as a faint phantom formed from condensed starlight.

"How did you get here?" Dal gave his troublesome cat servant a faint glance, then opened his mouth and bit down on the back of his neck.

Joo Joowon immediately felt a pulling force.

The world before his eyes constantly changed, becoming a dazzling blur.

When the scenery before him finally became clear again, he discovered that he had returned to the "eggshell."

Joo Joowon: "..."

What goes around comes around. Had he actually been treated as a kitten now?

Joo Joowon curiously reached out and touched Dal, but his hand directly "passed" through his body, causing him to freeze for a moment.

He could clearly touch him, so why could he not touch him?

Logically speaking, they should both be in the same state right now, so they should have been able to touch each other.

Without thinking too much about it, Joo Joowon simply gave up on trying to touch him. Looking at Dal, he guessed, "Did you bring me back because you sensed that I was about to be in danger?"

He felt that Byeol and Dal were in a special situation. Perhaps they could sense the fluctuations in a person’s fortune, especially since he already had a close relationship with them. It should therefore be easier for them to notice such changes than it would be for other people.

Dal did not answer. He simply glanced at him indifferently, seeming to let out a sigh, or perhaps he had not done anything at all.

His body gradually faded, transforming into a streak of rainbow starlight that drilled into Joo Joowon’s soul and disappeared without a trace.

Joo Joowon’s face showed surprise. So the sub-soul really had run from Byeol’s side over to his side?

It did not seem so, or perhaps it was still on its way for the time being?

If both sides were in a soul state, there was no reason Dal could touch him while he could not do anything to him.

Therefore, this special state might simply mean that Dal had left an anchor in him, using the connection between the two of them to try to descend here. However, because of his special nature, he could temporarily accomplish some things that he could not.

Joo Joowon could not help touching himself. He considered himself fairly capable of controlling his own body, yet at this moment, he could not sense where Dal had gone at all.

Although Dal was currently only a Level 1 creature, given his special nature, he was probably more powerful than many Level 10 mutated beasts.

Creatures born from the mysterious were naturally born knowing how to use their own abilities, so their starting point was naturally different from that of ordinary creatures. It was like a three-month-old tiger whose paws could already be a full size larger than those of an adult cat or dog.

When a cat wanted to hide, it was very difficult for its owner to find where it had hidden. In any case, Dal would not hurt him, so Joo Joowon did not force himself to find him. He simply tried his best to sense Dal’s aura. If he really could not find him, then so be it.

Where could he be? His eyes? His brain? Or perhaps somewhere like his dantian?

Thanks to the connection between their minds, Joo Joowon soon faintly sensed him through their connection. Dal was right above his... head?

This kind of conceptualized situation was difficult to describe. Dal did not appear in the form of a cat. Instead, he appeared as a streak of starlight, slowly floating up and down within a mass of cloud-like energy.

Although it looked like cloud energy, Joo Joowon did not actually know what it was. He could only see it with Dal’s help.

At the center of the cloud-like energy was a mass of purple energy, while the outer area was covered by thick, dark clouds. It caused the area between his eyebrows to look dark. It was not completely static, but constantly rose and fell. Occasionally, some of the purple energy at the center would even overflow into the outer area.

Joo Joowon suddenly realized something.

Could this be "fortune"?

Dal did not say anything, and Joo Joowon did not know whether this really was the case either.

It seemed that Dal noticed that Joo Joowon had seen him. He also turned his head to look at Joo Joowon, starlight swirling in his eyes as if he were thinking about something.

Before Joo Joowon could try to communicate with him, a "comet" dragging a long tail suddenly came crashing down toward him, heavily pressing onto his soul.

With a crackling sound like thunder and lightning, Joo Joowon felt the space around him begin to collapse like a black hole. After that, his soul seemed to undergo some kind of change that even he himself could not understand.

A trace of starlight began to emerge. Then, like a chain reaction, more and more starlight began to appear.

He instinctively raised his head. Above him, the originally empty space had already become a sea of stars. At this moment, an extremely intense feeling of hunger suddenly came from his entire body. Instinctively, his Mental Power began absorbing the "starlight" falling from the sky.

Faint streaks of cold light suddenly appeared across Joo Joowon’s body like lightning. In an instant, a certain star high in the sky seemed to receive some kind of signal. Its light completely poured into the space, continuously washing over his body.