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Thinking a bit more about a way to touch the void obsidian, Michelle stared at Nyxaroth for a long while before deciding to ask: “Nyx, is it a bad idea to touch the wall while you keep your spirit energy around me, so you could pull me back if something went wrong?”

When her words fell, Nyxaroth thought about it a bit. The method Michelle thought of had some hope, but no one could be sure that he would be able to pull her back if something really went wrong. Also, even if he was able to do that, what if the wall was still able to suck away her soul energy? Or what if just a moment of touching the wall was able to harm her severely?

Nyxaroth’s silence was enough of an answer for Michelle. “Is it too risky?” she asked as she kept her gaze on the black wall in front of her. The urge to touch it was only growing within her. She felt like if she didn’t touch it, she would miss out on something life changing, and that was making her restless.

But she knew not to put herself in pointless danger, so she didn’t push her luck, and didn’t touch anything, just waiting for Nyxaroth’s decision.

“It’s indeed risky…” he spoke after a while, but there was a hint of uncertainty in his voice. He, too, had the feeling that the wall would react differently to Michelle since her soul energy was a complete void. But there was just no guarantee.

“How risky?” Michelle asked with a tilt of her head, her gaze still on the wall. She felt like small claws were scratching at her heart, begging her to touch the wall. She didn’t even know if it was her own curiosity, or if the wall was starting to affect her somehow.

“There’s triple the chance that something could happen to you than you getting out of it safely,” Nyxaroth said as he noticed Michelle’s restlessness. She wasn’t the kind of person who would turn restless just because she wanted to touch something. So he was guessing that the wall was able to affect her even from a distance. But was the wall able to affect all Soul Masters, or just Michelle because she possessed black soul energy?

“I need to check something. Until then, don’t touch the wall!” Nyxaroth suddenly said before he turned into a speck of black mist and entered Michelle’s body, checking her condition.

In her body, everything was perfectly fine, except that her soul energy was restless, swirling around, trying to get out. It was like it felt the presence of something it needed. That was definitely because it felt the void obsidian. But was it like that because it really needed the void obsidian, or was the void obsidian able to manipulate any soul energy, so its wielder would touch it and get drained by it?

Coming out of Michelle’s body, Nyxaroth pressed himself to the wall again, and listened to it. He also spread his spirit energy all around it, so he could sense it better.

The void obsidian was already full of soul energy, which just showed how many Soul Masters fell prey to it, but the soul energy inside was still as calm, unlike Michelle’s soul energy. But one thing was the same in Michelle’s body and in the void obsidian. There was a kind of strange energy which Nyxaroth couldn’t really pinpoint. He just felt that it was there somewhere.

Before, when he was residing in Michelle’s body, he had never felt anything like that. It appeared only after she had seen the void obsidian.

But if the energy was in the wall too, why wasn’t the soul energy within it reacting to it? Was it really that the energy could affect just black soul energy? Did that mean it was safe for Michelle to touch the wall?

The moment Nyxaroth stepped away from the wall, Michelle looked at him with a clear question in her eyes. “What did you find out, Nyx?” she asked quickly.

For a while longer, Nyxaroth remained silent in thought, considering the risks and dangers of Michelle touching the wall. Then, he finally spoke: “Like I said before, it is risky, but it might be worth the risk.” After saying that, he explained to Michelle what he found out.

When Nyxaroth finished speaking, Michelle frowned a bit. She had no clue as to what she could gain if she touched the wall, so she didn’t even know whether it was worth the risk. And the fact that the wall was able to manipulate her soul energy didn’t make her the least bit happy. “Nyx, let’s put this aside for a while. I’ll think about it, but now, how about we try to get to the other side of the wall so we can see what the Ostrich family was trying to hide there?” she finally said.

Nyxaroth stared at the wall as he spoke: “Though void obsidian has excellent absorption properties, it’s very fragile, so breaking it should be easy, but it needs a special method to break…” He ran his hand over the wall again, trying to remember the method. It was a long time since he had last seen void obsidian, so he didn’t remember everything about it.

Michelle stared at Nyxaroth before forming an ice spear in her hand, coating it in a dark mist. “Nothing will happen to me if I hit it with my soul energy, right?” she asked.

“Yes… Nothing should go wrong…” Nyxaroth answered subconsciously. And as he snapped back to reality, the ice spear flew by him and stabbed into the black wall, exploding into shards. The wall shook a bit, but nothing else happened.

Nyxaroth remained silent, his gaze fixated on the ice spear stabbed into the wall. An image was forming in his mind, but he couldn’t clearly remember it. It was too long ago to remember in an instant, no matter how excellent his memory was after it was enhanced by cultivation.

Knowing that Nyxaroth’s silence meant that he was thinking about something deeply, Michelle stayed silent and motionless, so she wouldn’t disturb him in any way. She just started preparing her spirit energy to create more ice spears coated with the dark element.

If Nyxaroth was in his human form, Michelle would have seen a frown forming on his face, and his black eyes would probably narrow or close in thought as he searched the most unnecessary fragments of his memories he had always deemed useless. In the end, void obsidian wasn’t something he cared about, so the memories that stayed about it in his mind were sparse and nearly forgotten.

Slowly, the shards of memories came together, forming a puzzle, but an incomplete one. There were still some things Nyxaroth couldn’t remember, but that wasn’t important because he had already remembered the way to destroy void obsidian.

“Michelle, you have two elements, right?” he took on his human form and turned to look at Michelle.

“Yes…” she nodded a bit. “Why is it important?” she asked as she watched Nyxaroth place his plans on the smooth and cold surface of the black wall.

“Place your hands on my back and channel both your elements into my body!” Nyxaroth said as he slowly closed his eyes.

With a slight nod, Michelle did as she was told, putting her hands on Nyxaroth’s upper back, coating her right hand in her dark element spirit energy, and her left hand in her ice element spirit energy.

Nyxaroth instantly felt the temperature difference as the two elements seeped under his skin and found his spirit veins.

Then, he took control of the two elements and led them to his own hands. There, he condensed them, and they exploded against the wall, sending him flying back along with Michelle.

When the two got up from the ground, there was a hole in the wall, leading into a room swallowed by eerie darkness.

“How come that worked…?” Michelle asked as she walked towards the hole. It was big enough for a person to pass through without having to bend their head, but she didn’t walk through just yet, as she didn’t know if the void obsidian had left behind some of its aura or energy, which could then drain her soul energy.

“As I said before,” Nyxaroth started explaining. “Void obsidian is fragile and easy to break, so if two simple conditions are met, it can be easily broken. The first condition is that it has to be broken by energies of at least two elements, both belonging to one person, and the second is that someone has to be touching the void obsidian in the place where the energy is channeled into it before the explosion. Since you couldn’t put your hands on the wall since it could possibly suck away your soul energy, the best way for us to go about it was to channel your spirit energy through me so I could send it into the wall.”

Hearing that, Michelle nodded a bit. “I guess that we are lucky that I’m a dual-element Spirit Master…” she muttered. “Now, let’s go see what the Ostrich family was hiding from the eyes of the world.”

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