Chapter 93 The Gathering of Experts Part 6

"What is it? Is the place you want to go very far?" Asked Alesia from behind his back.

Daniel turned to look at her with a face that only one that had just seen a ghost would have.

Alesia approached Daniel, and once she was right next to him, he pointed with his finger at Krea, the capital of the Krehan empire. He then made his fingertip slide over the map.

Under his touch, mountain ranges, deserts, oceans, kingdoms, and empires were passed. Only after his finger reached the right edge of the map, did a small looking island appear in sight. Above the depiction of this island, a big word had been written in black. The word was 'Nestreia'.

Inside the territory of Nestreia, right in the middle, Daniel was finally able to find the small kingdom of Karalis.

Alesia's eyes opened in surprise. She looked at Daniel and said "That's a.. dozens of years long journey.. Not even my father could pull it out in less than three years.."

Daniel pressed his palms on the table and bent his head forward. He tried to calm himself and catch his breath, but he couldn't help but inhale and exhale rapidly.

"Are you okay?" Asked Alesia with a sorry tone. She didn't know Daniel that well, but based on the few times she had seen him, she thought of him as an incredibly cunning person. Extremely daring and brave.. So, seeing him in that state was like peeking at the other side of the medal for her.

While still looking at the map, Daniel exhaled deeply and said "Thanks for your help.." He then straightened his back once again, rolled the map back up, and put it into his spatial ring.

He then walked towards Alesia, took her hand into his, and teleported away. The moment right before teleporting, he flipped his middle finger at the cartographer.

Alesia had been taken by surprise, but before she could react and move her hand away, she had already reappeared in front of a table. At this table, Heimart and the rest were sitting quietly while enjoying their drinks.

At the edge of the table, were two empty seats with two non-alcoholic beverages waiting for the two of them.

Complete trust between friends. That was something that Alesia had never seen..

His friends had immediately noticed that Daniel had stopped, so, instead of going too far, they sat at a table and waited for Daniel to reach them. They didn't even need to ask him before doing something like that, just like Daniel didn't need to make sure the others would wait for him.

It had all happened very naturally.

While Alesia was busy thinking about the mechanics of the group's relationships, Daniel had already let go of her hand and sat at the table. He then looked at her and said "Aren't you going to sit?"

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After a day spent with his group of friends, Daniel entered directly into the ring that Edmund had given to him.

Once inside, the first thing he notices was how dense the space was. It wasn't exactly like being submerged by mud, it was closer to someone sitting on one's chest and preventing them from breathing.

The space wasn't really tangible, and yet it was difficult to move through it.

In the eight hours it took for Daniel to fully comprehend the density of space, he had understood that the reason why he had problems moving. The reason was simple.. Just like not every bit of his body was filled with bones, tissue, and blood, the cells of his body weren't orderly stacked with no space in between them.

In conclusion, the reason why Daniel couldn't move as comfortably within dense space, was because his very own body was partially made out of space of lower density.

He had the same problems moving into dense space that a bubble would have in staying underwater. The only difference, was that gravity hadn't been applied to this dense space.. There was no up to float to. He could only stay still and attempt slow movements.

After comprehending the concept of dense space, Daniel was finally able to thicken the space in the outside world, and dilute the space that came in direct contact with his skin.

He then left the ring, and directly jumped into the locked in which Roley had been forgotten for days.

Right after he entered the locket, his body started to rotate rapidly. Luckily, he had a comprehension of space that was approaching the sixty percent, so, he was able to quickly stop the violent motion by stabilizing the space immediately around himself.

In the void, he could feel fragments of space that moved in all directions, like shards of glass that kept crashing, shattering and reforming. He could enter each of this shards, and once in, he would end up thousands of meters away from the original spot.

It was a constant moving labyrinth.

"No wonder Roley was so pissed when I got him out" Muttered Daniel in his mind.

Suddenly, he heard a desperate voice coming from within his head. It said "For the love of my tree father!!! Get out of this hell as soon as you can!"

"Will I ever learn why you hate space so much?" Asked Daniel with a derisory tone. He then added "Calm down.. I won't let myself be caught into unstable space.. I will only study it for a few hours.. Hang in there."

Daniel wasn't lying. The first thing he did after stabilizing the space around himself and installing the time sp