Chapter 1246: Unexpected Place

“Get ready, the teleportation is starting!”

The voice of the Scroll Angel wasn’t loud, but it pierced through the rumbling tumult of the Array’s operation, reaching Noland Lee’s ears.

Noland Lee, standing dozens of meters away, gestured to the Scroll Angel, signaling that he was prepared.

As an even more potent surge of Soul Energy flowed into the Array, the luminosity on site reached its peak. Noland Lee’s vision went completely overcast, as if he were in an endless Grey Mist Ocean.

He felt his body lighten considerably, as if wrapped in warm Sea Water and suspended in the water, an illusion.

His body began to sway to and fro with an unknown rhythm, its lines twisted, straightened, elongated, and contracted by an invisible Power, as though he was no longer a person but a three-dimensional geometric entity made up of countless curves.

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A surprised and quiet exclamation entered his mind:

“What? Why would the Star Palace Barrier respond to our teleportation Ceremony?”

“???,” a string of question marks floated through Noland Lee’s mind.

Had he heard that correctly?

The Star Palace Barrier had reacted to the teleportation Ceremony?

Wasn’t it said that after the disappearance of the Star God, Gilenz, and Senati, the Star Palace Barrier had become nothing but a decoration?

Before Noland Lee could shout his inquiries, another voice came from beyond the Grey Mist:

“Pay attention, Noland! An unknown existence is using the Star Palace Barrier to track our Ceremony, trying to figure out where I am teleporting you. I need to increase the energy and speed up the teleportation, or the other party will detect your destination! I suspect it’s very likely the Metal Ancestral Dragon behind this! It can actually control the Star Palace Barrier to a limited extent, indicating it must possess a Treasure from either Gilenz or Senati. No wonder it dares to invest so much resource into the Inner Cosmos; it had this backup plan!” noveldrama

As the Scroll Angel spoke, the Grey Mist surrounding Noland Lee grew thicker and even started to feel somewhat sticky.

Just as the Grey Mist was solidifying around him like cement, Noland Lee heard a very faint cry of alarm.

“Damn it!”

Just as Noland Lee was about to ask what had happened, the Grey Mist engulfing him suddenly pulled him upward, shooting out of the Spinning Continent.

In a very brief moment, the clouds above the Spinning Continent, the deep blue and profound Heavens, and the endless surface of the Deep Sea flashed before Noland Lee’s eyes before being left far behind, shrinking to a tiny point.

Looking around, Noland Lee saw only endless darkness, with just a small patch above his Head dotted with faint starlight.

“Am I still in the midst of teleportation?”

Noland Lee lifted his arm in confusion, intending to scratch his Head out of habit, but found that his limbs were immobilized, and only his head and eyes could move in a small range.

Before the teleportation had started, the Scroll Angel operating the Array had specifically discussed the precautions of teleporting with Noland Lee.

They boiled down to three points.

First, do not move at all, as it would cause a deviation in the teleportation trajectory.

Second, there was no need to worry about accidentally dying; in fact, his body had been converted into pure energy by the Array the moment the teleportation began.

Third, trust in the “Escape” Core of the Plane’s ability to navigate. Although this Plane Core had not joined the Supreme Star Palace, its exploits in navigation were well known, so Noland Lee didn’t have to worry about accidents during teleportation.

So… should he not worry about accidents now, either?

Noland Lee furrowed his brows and slightly lifted his Head, straining to look at the small patch of Starry Sky above.

He felt that he might be trapped inside the Star Palace Barrier…

Under normal circumstances, he should have flown out of the Black Hole where the Inner Cosmos was and then toward a designated part of the Starry Sky. But why did it feel like he was stuck in place?

Noland Lee took a deep breath and pondered.

After a little while, he realized he couldn’t save himself and that he could do nothing but wait for death or for the teleportation to resume.

The darkness around him closed in like a quagmire, causing Noland Lee an unwarranted chill and sense of isolation.

Noland Lee felt his body rapidly losing heat, and an unsettling premonition grew stronger within him.

Fortunately, the situation soon took a turn.

Wisps of Grey Mist began to reappear, winding upwards around Noland Lee’s legs in spirals.

The warm sensation dominated once again, quelling the chill within his body and dispersing the “Extreme Cold” of the darkness.

The emergence of the Grey Mist seemed to symbolize that the teleportation was resuming normally.

Noland Lee saw hope of escape.

But before he could witness the scene of himself entering the Starry Sky above, the Grey Mist vanished all at once, and the cold returned.

Noland Lee’s heart skipped a beat.

Had the Teleportation Array failed to activate?

Just when the chill was spreading through his entire body again, the Grey Mist appeared once more.

This time, the concentration of the Grey Mist was much thicker than before, forming a thick “down layer” on the surface of Noland Lee’s body, completely shielding him from the cold of the darkness.

As the Grey Mist was about to thicken to the point of solidity, just like when the teleportation had first started, Noland Lee’s heart was lifted, fearing the Grey Mist would disappear again.

Thankfully, thankfully.

The Scroll Angel hosting the teleportation Ceremony was very reliable.

They must have paid some price to restart the disrupted transmission successfully.

Wrapped in the Grey Mist, Noland Lee passed through the “Cave Entrance” above his head into an expansive Starry Sea.

Upon setting foot in Outer Space, the surrounding stars seemed to flicker uniformly in response to his arrival, blinking in the blink of an eye.