Unsurprisingly, after being deprived of all of his external senses for quite some time, the influx of information Valyr had received from it being forcefully opened caused the young man to feel a considerable level of mental pain.


    If he were topare it to something, then it would be more or less equal to the mental strain he had put his mind through forcefully pushing the entrance to the connection open.


    Nevertheless, as someone who had endured such types of pain before, Valyr knew what to do and quickly shut off two of his most important senses, closing his eyes and covering his ears to allow his other senses to limate to his current surroundings.


    Then, once he feltfortable with three of his senses active again, he removed his hands from his ears, allowing his sense of hearing to limate, before eventually allowing himself to limate his sense of sight, opening his pair of eyes in what was quite a considerably long amount of time.


    ''Mngh…'' Squinting his eyes as he limited the amount of light his eyes took in, Valyr''s sight eventually adapted to be able to see his current surroundings, which only left the young man at a loss of words as he stared at what was before him with his mouth slightly agape.


    "Elder Noel…" Shifting his gaze to the old man that was beside him all this time, Valyr tapped on thetter''s shoulder to catch his attention, considering that the old man had been staring out into the horizon for what seemed to be quite some time now. "Is this really the Shadow ne?"


    "Hmm?" Hearing his name be mentioned, Noel turned his head to look at the origin of the questioning voice, only to notice that the young man he had brought to the Shadow ne was now looking at him. With an expression of surprise briefly adorning his face, the old man''s mouth curved into a smile as he nodded.


    "What other ce would this be if not the Shadow ne?"


    "That''s not what I was trying to say…" Reading between the lines of Noel''s response, Valyr scratched the back of his head as he gave the elder a slightly bitter smile. "In my mind, I thought the Shadow ne would look like…"


    "…it would have an appearance rted to its name, I presume?"


    "Yeah." Valyr nodded, a bitter smile still adorning his face. "But don''t you think this sight before you is somewhat the opposite of that?"


    Shifting his gaze to the sight before them, Valyr took in the surroundings of the Shadow ne once more, taking in a deep breath to make sure he did not ask Noel the same question.


    When onepared the colors of the Shadow ne to the colors of the real world, then the colors of the Shadow ne were said to be slightly muted, leaning more towards a darker version of that color. The most prominent example of that would be the skies of the Shadow ne, which looked to be the same sky blue as the one he was familiar with, but mixed with a somewhat murky gray.


    However, if one were topare thendscape of the Shadow ne to thendscape of the real world, then one would easily notice that there was a drastic difference between the two, something Valyr took a long time looking at to understand why the ce was called the Shadow ne, even though it was not a literal world of darkness.


    For one,nd and water seemed to take on the opposite property in the Shadow ne. As far as he could see, the ground they were standing on could be considered arge body of water, with small waves propagating throughout as many creatures roamed thendscape. He did not know how he and Noel did not sink into the water, nor was he going to try and find out within the limited amount of time they had.


    As for thend, Valyr was fortunate that there was a decent plot ofnd only a fair distance away from them, taking on the shape of a smallke. Watching some of the creatures lean their necks towards thend and proceed to take a bite out of it, the young man was left scratching the back of his head for a considerable amount of time, which was only exacerbated by the fact that one of the creatures fell into thend while taking a bite out of it.


    Indeed. <novelsnext></novelsnext>


    Fell into thend.


    Even the trees and nts that one would be used to when out in the wilderness were also topsy-turvy within the Shadow ne.


    Trees would have trunks made out of leaves, and leaves made out of wood, with the fruits hanging from the leaf branches having a seed-like exterior. As for the flowers, their petals were made out of leaves and wood, while the stem and leaves were made out of a petal-like material, which prompted Valyr to think that all of them would droop due to how flimsy petals were.


    But they didn''t.


    Lastly, he noticed how the grass had its des made out of roots and its roots made out of grass des, prompting the bitter smile on his face to be wider. As to how he knew?


    Well, he could see the grass de roots through the water, after all.


    If anything, Valyr was d that the living creatures of the Shadow ne were not inverted as well, with their inner organs being their outer appearance and vice versa. Then again, he would eventuallye to know that the Shadow ne had taken on a different approach on how these creatures were the opposite of their nature in the real world.


    But that would be a story for some other time.


    "I''m guessing you''ve gotten an idea of why it''s called the Shadow ne?" Seeing as Valyr continued to stare at the sight before them, Noel decided to pose a question to the young man as he let out a chuckle.


    "The real world is considered the light, so the opposite of that would be…" Though still somewhat uncertain, Valyr faintly nodded as he voiced out the conclusion he hade to, which only made Noel let out another chuckle in response as he nodded in agreement.


    "The shadow. Correct." Noel faintly grinned. "The reason why this is called the Shadow ne is because the nature of this ce is the opposite of the real world, with only a few things between here and the real world being the exact same."


    "In any case, I definitely wasn''t expecting you to only take this much time to form your Shadow Eye," said the old man not long after. "I could only recall a couple of people having formed their Shadow Eye within a day. And that day is in real world time, not Shadow ne time."


    "On the other hand, you only took like… what? Six hours within the Shadow ne to form it? Factoring in the time ratio between the two, you''ve only taken less than an hour in the real world."


    "You''re definitely a monstrous talent, Valyr." Saying these words, Noel''s grin became wider.


    "And man am I d I could pass on this subss of mine to such a talent."