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Chapter 353: Trace of the Enemy (2)
Translator: Leo Editor: Leo
Angele smiled and walked to them quickly.
"I thought it would take you a while."
"The location was fairly close," Hikari wiped the dust off her long robe and smiled. "They couldn't handle the damage dealt by my potions."
"Alright, let's wait for Reyline to come back and I'll tell you the true reason why I gathered you here." A mysterious smile appeared on Stigma's face.
"The true reason? Again?" Angele exchanged eye contact with Hikari, they were both curious.
However, Stigma changed the topic right away. "Alright, let me introduce my sister to you. This is Della, Della Unochi." He pushed the girl in red to the front.
Della was shy, her face blushed as Stigma pushed her forward.
"Umm… Thank you for helping me and my brother!" she hesitated for a second then bowed to Angele and Hikari; there was a serious expression on his face.
"Help? Well, you can say that." Hikari looked at Della. "But your brother doesn't really need our help…"
Angele chuckled. Stigma was a rank 3 wizard. Although his mentality was unstable due to the fast progression, he was still much stronger than the average wizards. Stigma had already achieved what most wizards could not achieve all their lives.
"Still, thanks for helping us. It was a tough situation." Della raised her head and bowed again. She was elegant and polite.
"You brother is much stronger than us." Angele looked at Della. "You're a good girl, Della. Contact me if you need my help. You can treat me like a… big brother, maybe? Ha." He wanted to treat Della well since it seemed like she was the most important person to Stigma.
"What? Big brother? Come on…" Stigma shook his head and laughed. "Oh, right, Reyline's still fighting?"
"He's almost done and he'll be back soon." Hikari activated the communication rune and exchanged messages with Reyline.
She closed her eyes for a while and sent several more messages.
"Yeah, he'll be here soon. Let's just be patient."
The four just waited by the edge of the canyon quietly.
Della was curious about Angele and Hikari.
She still could not believe that Stigma in front of her was the same person she used to know. The man killed a group of assassins easily and his mentality wave was incredibly strong.
Della protected Stigma when he was young but the situation changed. She was still trying to figure out what was going on.
She walked to Angele and started asking questions.
Della already had a long conversation with Hikari but she did not learn much valuable information. She decided to ask the man that wanted to be her 'big brother'.
"So, my brother became a formal wizard a long time ago?"
"Yeah, actually, I'm not sure if you have noticed or not." Angele looked at Della. "Your brother is definitely a… siscon."
"Siscon? What does that mean?" Della, Stigma, and Hikari all looked confused.
"A term that describes a brother that wants to have a romantic or… sexual relationship with his own sister," Angele explained.
"What?" Della was still a bit confused. Several seconds later, her face blushed again after finally understanding what Angele just said.
She turned around and stared at Stigma.
"Seriously? Stigma!" she shouted and jumped to her brother. Della scratched Stigma's face with her nails and bit him in the right shoulder.
Stigma grunted and fell to the ground. They rolled several times on the grass. Della rode on Stigma's body and slapped his face several times.
Stigma did not fight back at all, he just let Della hit him. It almost looked like he was enjoying being beaten by his sister, everything was shown on his face.
Della did not notice the change, but Angele and Hikari shook their heads after seeing Stigma's expression.
Reyline finally appeared when they were having some fun. There was a bloody human head in his right hand. The man had a blank expression and his left shoulder was soaked in blood.
"What happened?" Stigma stopped his sister immediately. He kissed Della's cheeks and quickly stood up.
"Nothing. It's about my… organization," Reyline said in a light tone.
He dropped the human head to the ground. "And this is an elder of your family I believe. I tried to talk to him, but it didn't work out."
The human head rolled several times on the ground and left a trail of blood behind. It was an old man with a long white beard. Even in death, his eyes remained wide open.
Della was about to blame Stigma for kissing her cheeks but the human head caught her attention.
"Elder Rumble… He was an old fogey…" she looked at the Reyline with mixed emotions.
Short blonde hair, handsome face, and elegant behavior, the man was like a perfect knight from a teenage girl's dream.
"You woke up?" Reyline forced a smile on his face after noticing Della's sight. "Hello, I'm your brother's friend and my name is Reyline. You can just call me Rey if you want to."
"I'm Della. Thank you for helping me and my brother." Della stood up and bowed to Reyline politely.
"Alright, I'll start explaining why I gathered you here since everyone is back," Stigma cleared his throat and said.
"Huh? I thought you only wanted us to deal with your family problem." Reyline was confused.
"I think you all know the legends about the altars in the Abyss Canyon, right?" Stigma glanced around. "My family problem is nothing compared to what I'm about to tell you. We killed all the elders in my family and I'll tell my father everything after I go back to my family. I shall be the one to rule the family council. Also, Hikari and Reyline, you're having trouble creating the mentality crystal, right?"
Stigma glared at Reyline and Hikari.
They looked surprised after hearing him.
"How did you find out?" Hikari stared at Stigma.
"My eyes." Stigma pointed at his eyes. "I can see through a lot of things with my eyes."
"The Eye of the Truth." Reyline's expression changed as he spat out the words.
Stigma nodded but he did not say anything else.
Angele knew what the Eye of the Truth was and he gave Stigma a strange look.
"What is the Eye of the Truth?" Della had never heard of the name.
"It's simple. He can see through the walls and your clothes," Angele sighed and explained. "He's using the Eye of the Truth every time you see a black glow around his eyes."
Della thought for a while and her face quickly blushed. It seemed like the description reminded her of something.
"Stigma!" she screamed furiously. "So that's why you wait outside my room every time I go take a shower? What are you thinking? Do you really look at your own sister that way? Seriously? Stigma?" she jumped on Stigma and bit him on the right shoulder again.
CHI*
It sounded like a knife cutting through a piece of meat.
Angele took a step back after seeing the scene.
Stigma opened his mouth but he did not scream. It seemed like Della was not holding back this time. She was biting with a lot of force.
Screech*
Suddenly, a strange noise came from the sky.
They looked at the sky at the same time.
It was an enormous black eagle, its wings spread wide open. The eagle rotated in the sky and it blocked the sunlight.
Della's bite barely hurt Stigma's shoulder, he was a wizard after all. Still, two lines of teeth marks were left on his skin.
"What's that? It has been flying above my head for a while," Della raised her head and asked.
Stigma's expression turned serious after he saw the black eagle.
He glanced at Angele and saw Angele nodding at him. It seemed like they already knew what was going on.
"Reyline and Hikari, can you go back to the air transportation city and wait for us there? Angele and I have some things to take care of. We'll go find you after we're done," Stigma said.
"I want to go with you," Della followed.
"Go with Reyline and Hikari. Don't worry. We'll be fine. There are some insects following us and we need to shake them off." Stigma looked relaxed.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
Angele raised his head, staring at the eagle. Suddenly, Henn's voice echoed in his ears.
"The thunder eagle… Haven't seen such a beautiful creature in years."
"It's not the time to praise an eagle. What you tried to do to me is unacceptable, but we should focus on Alicia now," Angele responded in a cold tone.
"It seems like you're hiding many secrets from me…" it seemed like Henn learned something when she tried to take control of Angele's body.
"I'm a wizard and I have my special abilities. Why are you surprised?" Angele smiled. It was a gentle and mysterious smile. It almost looked like his body was surrounded by a strange aura.
"Whatever. I'm just curious." Henn was not concerned. She knew that Angele could not get rid of her yet.
Stigma and Hikari already decided where they would meet after everything was done.
Hikari, Reyline, and Della started heading to the air transportation city right away.
Stigma raised his head and looked at the eagle again.
"It's the mount of the wizards that ambushed me. Let's find a better battlefield."
"Sure." Angele nodded slightly.
They exchanged eye contact quickly.
CHI*
The two disappeared at the same time.
Two golden flashes of lightning were released by the eagle and struck the ground right after they left.
BAM*
The lightning turned into two men in long silver robes.
The two men's blonde hair looked like golden liquid, shining in the sunlight. Their skin was pale and their faces were handsome. They both had golden pupils. The man on the left had a triangular silver rune in the center of his forehead, and the man on the right had a rune that was similar in color but shaped like a crescent moon.
"Master Cena, they escaped," one of the men said in a light tone.
"No, they're trying to find a better place to fight," the man with a crescent moon on his forehead told him. He crossed his arms and glanced around. "They're trying to challenge the wizard lord's palace. People already forgot how strong the shadow lord is… That's why I hate peaceful eras…"
"We shall spread despair and fear again… It's the number one rule in the palace." The other man chuckled. "It took us so long to find them… but it's fine… we can finish them off here."
"You're probably the reason why I'm lucky. Every mission with you will become much easier than I thought." The man turned around and turned into a golden lighting, disappearing into the air.
The other man chuckled, turned around, and disappeared into the air as well.
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Chapter 354: Engage (1)
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Angele accompanied Stigma from behind as they ran along the plains at their fastest pace.
The cold gusts coming from the Abyss Canyon continued to brush across their face.
"What do you have in mind?"
While running, Stigma constantly surveyed the surroundings, as if he was searching for someplace.
"Well, we need to find a better place. You have seen how those servants of the shadow lord fight. Do not let them draw too close to you. Those people have a screw loose. They will sacrifice themselves just to kill their enemy."
"Seriously?" Angele squinted his eyes. "Wizards often try to desperately survive in battles, though. If those wizards really have no regards with their own lives, this will be a tough fight."
"That is how they almost killed me and my master. If not for the huge stock of high-quality healing potions, we would already be dead now." Stigma sighed. "Well then, this place should be good enough."
Suddenly, he stopped his movements and only remained standing at this particular place.
A giant blue hexagram appeared on a particular surface of the canyon's edge as soon as Stigma stopped. The hexagram disappeared in but a split second, that Angele almost thought it was an illusion he had seen.
Stigma inspected the surroundings before taking out a handful of white dust, then he sprinkled it onto the ground. The white dust soon turned into smoke before it could touch the soil and disappear into the air gradually.
"What's this?" Angele walked to Stigma and questioned him, "Do you know if they will come?"
"No. I am only being extra careful. This is a small trap I had set after I left the ruin. Come along." Stigma smiled and walked behind a boulder by the cliff.
The rock was about one meter tall. Stigma stopped behind it and disappeared without leaving any trace.
Angele started. He scanned the area using his biochip, but no mentality wave had been detected.
He did the same thing Stigma had just done.
CHI*
There was apparently a transparent bubble behind it. It felt like walking into a thin layer of plastic.
For a second, Angele's vision blurred before Stigma reappeared before him.
"Now we only need to wait for them to reach us." Stigma pointed at the trap.
Angele examined his surroundings. The rock and the soil were covered in dark red magic circles. Majority of the runes were figures of triangles that contained strings of such complexity within.
"You have put a great deal of effort into this."
"Of course. Last time, I almost got killed so I decided to be more careful." The smile slowly disappeared from Stigma's face.
Angele nodded but did not speak. Right now, he was only thinking of seeing the extent of the strength of those servants.
The two wizards remained standing behind the boulder and patiently awaited.
About two minutes later, rays of eye-blinding golden light appeared from the sky.
Two flashes of lightning struck and landed on the empty ground in front of the particular boulder and soon formed into two human beings.
The man who had a crescent moon figure on his forehead started examining the particular location. His gaze soon fell on where the invisible hexagram was drawn.
"Illusion circle? Seriously? Do they truly think that I will be tricked by this?" Cena shook his head.
The man who had a triangle figure on his forehead looked at the ground and chuckled.
Cena waved his right hand. A golden glow enveloped the soil.
Angele looked daggers upon seeing such a scene take place. He took a step forward, about to attack, but Stigma suddenly grabbed his hand and dragged him back to where he was.
"Don't worry. Let us wait." Stigma slightly shook his head.
With this, Angele calmed down and looked at the golden glow.
WOO*
It sounded as though something was vibrating.
CHI*
This golden glow savagely struck Cena's body upon being reflected by the invisible hexagram.
BAM*
Cena stumbled for three steps and expelled some blood out of his mouth.
"Now!"
Cena suddenly heard a shout coming from behind the boulder.
At that instant, two lava balls flew towards him before he could react.
PA PA PA PA*
Countless blue pulses of lightning appeared on the ground and shackled their feet.
BOOM*
The lava balls exploded in the sky and rained down to the ground as lava droplets.
The area soon became a sea of flames. The ground was bedaubed in boiling lava. Angele could barely see what was happening.
His eyes had been blinded by the sparks of lightning for a moment. The only thing which remained in his sight was the rain of lava. The area's temperature was constantly rising, and the pulses of lightning still continued to crackle in the air. He could feel the intense heat sweeping across his face.
Angele inhaled deeply and conjured a wide-bladed, silver sword in each of his hand. Both of the swords' point was blistering red, akin to iron completely heated in a furnace.
He swung the swords several times, leaving two dark red strings in the air.
"One for you, one for me." Stigma unsheathed a black mace out of thin air. Its handle was covered in complex runes and it looked old but luxurious.
"Sure, let us separate." Angele lightly nodded and ran to the other side of the plains. He was traveling at such absurd speed that his body looked like a blurry shadow.
Stigma only stood there as he watched Angele depart before he turned around and looked at the ground filled with boiling lava.
BOOM*
The lava on the ground exploded once more, turning into lava droplets, and splattered everywhere. The lava droplets struck the grassy area and ignited them. The smell of grass being burnt immediately drifted into the air.
Even at this moment, the two servants of the shadow lord remained standing at their original position.
Cena's sleeves, on the other hand, had been burnt black. The man was caressing a sapphire ring on his right index finger with a grim expression.
Crack*
The ring broke into pieces and dropped to the ground. The fragments of the ring turned into a black shadow that immediately dissipated.
"Good…Terry…Go kill the man who is trying to flee. I will deal with the one behind the boulder.
"Naturally," the white robe called Terry answered in a deep tone.
Terry transformed into a flash of golden lightning and disappeared.
Cena was breathing heavily. He watched as Stigma stepped out of the shadows.
"We meet again…Stigma…"
"A pleasure…I guess? Master Cena." Stigma smiled in response and raised his right hand.
CHI*
In his right hand materialized a black scimitar that had an eye-shaped ruby embedded on its blade. Dark red light glowed around it.
Angele pressed on at his maximum speed while using the biochip to probe his location.
The tall grass growing on the yellow plains were dancing amidst the strong winds. The setting sun had failed to bring warmth to the land.
Angele ran down the edge of the Abyss Canyon without a pause. Several minutes later, he stopped by a wide cliff.
He surveyed the surroundings first before he retrieved a small golden ball from his pouch.
"Golden cirrus, the force of nature." Angele uttered an incantation and dropped the golden ball to the ground.
The ball transformed into a streak of golden light which sank into the ground.
Angele then took out a green bottle from another pouch, one filled with dark green powder.
He removed the black stopper of the bottle and with a flick of his finger, a string of red energy particles entered the bottle.
Angele shook the bottle several times and leaned it forward.
The powder inside the bottle was slowly poured out.
The dark green powder that had been mixed with red specks of light slowly descended. Just like what occurred to the golden ball, it dissipated several seconds later.
Angele nodded slightly, clearly satisfied with the result.
He had just finished preparing two of the strongest magic circles he possessed. The first was called 'Sunset' and the second was called 'Venom Snake'. Both magic circles were gifted to him by Vivian.
On the contrary, the ones he had set up in the Nightmare Realm were magic matrices that had a wide effective range and worked well against those mutated creatures. These were slightly stronger than the two magic circles Angele had just finished setting up.
The Sunset and the Venom Snake magic circles were powerful, though they were incomparable to magic matrices. Furthermore, they had different types of usage and properties.
These two magic circles had balanced properties, having the capability of handling both defensive and offensive tasks. The biggest advantage it possessed—that is, using such magic circles—was that they could be set up within seconds.
The power that these two magic circles could unleash was on par with average level-2 spells. From another point of view, these two magic circles were like two level-2 spells that could be cast instantly. However, they could only be activated once, and the effective duration was short.
Angele saw a flash of golden light rushing towards him as soon as he finished setting up the magic circles. The golden light landed right before him and transformed into a man wearing a long, white robe.
Angele, squinting, focused his gaze on the man.
The white-robed man had a blond hair, a triangular silver rune drawn on his forehead, clear skin, and a pair of gold-colored eyes. He looked at Angele as if he was looking at a rat.
"Young man, you are unlucky." The man's voice was crisp. "My name is Terry. I am sorry, but I must kill you."
"Interesting." A cold, spine-chilling smile appeared on Angele's face. Blue light flashed in his eyes.
"Wait, you're a…female?" Angele fell dumbstruck the instant he checked Zero's report.
"Huh?" Terry was similarly surprised. "How did you find that out?"
Invisible waves surrounded the man as he raised his right hand.
The image of a handsome man wearing a white robe was soon replaced by a beautiful blonde of whom had a cold expression once the distorted waves disappeared.
The lady had a balanced body frame and smooth skin. What drew Angele's attention, however, was her right ear.
The ear looked nothing like a human's. Long and furry, it looked like the large ear of a rabbit.
Contrary to that, her left ear was that of a normal human's.
"Well, let me introduce myself to you once more. I am Terry, fourth captain of the Shadow Lord Palace." Terry's voice had changed as well—it was now gentle and clear.
"I am Master Stigma's…servant." Angele smiled. He evidently did not want to disclose his true identity to Terry.
Terry was not bothered by this. She raised her hands and conjured two wavy daggers with two lightning bolts.
"All right, let us begin!" Terry once again transformed into lightning and flew towards Angele.
Flashes of golden lightning appeared in the air and merged into her body. The main lightning bolt that was formed from her body transformed into an arrow surrounded by countless golden runes.
The arrowhead was infused with pulses of golden lightning. The arrow ceaselessly whistled through the air as it approached Angele swiftly.
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Chapter 355: Engage (2)
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Angele's countenance changed. He retreated one step then raised his right hand.
A golden magic circle manifested on the empty ground before him and began spinning slowly.
BAM*
Golden light came forth from the soil and streaked towards the arrow-transformed Terry.
Ten more rays of golden light shot out of the ground one by one, all of them flying towards the lightning arrow.
Thin green mist drifted across the air as the rays of golden light all streaked away. Parts of the mist took form into several triangle-headed, green snakes with green glowing eyes. These mist snakes similarly shot towards the lightning arrow.
Rays of golden light, venomous snakes, and poison mist were all intercepting Terry, who had transformed into the golden lightning arrow.
Angele maintained a calm composure. He lifted his right hand and unleashed two lava balls. Simultaneously, a black light flashed in his eyes and the silver metal separated from his body which shapeshifted into a countless number of needles floating in front of him.
Several glowing black needles were hidden amidst the hail of silver needles—a simple but deadly tactic.
Angele pointed forth before him.
CHI CHI CHI*
The sound of a volley of arrows being unleashed from bows simultaneously echoed.
Hundreds of silver needles whistled towards the lightning arrow.
By now, Angele's face had already turned pale due to the consecutive casting of spells. He immediately retrieved two mana potions from one of his pouches and opened it.
He quickly chugged the two glass tubes empty. A sweet and refreshing fluid flowed down his throat, and he now felt much better than before.
He had spent too much mentality and energy particles due to the two magic circles he had set.
Furthermore, he had used a large portion of his mentality to strengthen his metal forcefield and manipulate the flying silver needles. In his previous encounters, Angele had used this exact tactic several times already. Not only these silver needles dealt physical damage, they were also infused with the ability to petrify whatever and whoever came into contact with it.
Once Angele emptied the potions, he looked at the approaching arrow with complete focus, thinking about his next move.
BAM*
The lightning arrow decelerated to a certain extent every time it was struck by the streaks of golden light. Terry made attempts at dodging the streaks but had still been struck seven or eight times, causing her speed to dramatically plunge.
Following after the golden rays, the green, venomous, mist snakes jumped onto the lightning arrow. Each of these mist snakes that were about one meter long successfully eliminated some of the lightning pulses surrounding the arrow.
Due to this, it shortened the lightning arrow's length from two meters to one.
The figure of Terry's face gradually took form on the arrowhead.
"You think you can stop me with those petty tricks?" Terry, looking at Angele, mocked.
CHI*
The golden lightning arrow suddenly absorbed all the lightning pulses surrounding it. A materialized long arrow, which seemed to have been made out of gold, took form.
CHI CHI CHI*
The streaks of golden light and the mist snakes were destroyed. The arrow flew straight into the hail of silver needles.
Clank Clank Clank*
It sounded like metal pins hitting a large metal shield.
"What a waste of time…" Terry's voice came from the arrowhead. "I'm disappointed. You are way weaker than I have expected and…Ugh!" But suddenly, she grunted.
BOOM*
The arrow exploded into innumerable lightning pulses that soon reformed into the figure of Terry, who was still adorned in a long, white robe.
She had an irritated expression on her face. A black needle had pierced her right chest. From the small puncture on her chest, her body was being petrified.
Terry tapped the triangular rune on her forehead. It flickered with light.
Underneath her feet surfaced a golden green magic circle. It had a complex structure; many runes were spinning above it.
BOOM*
Golden runes, green smoke, and pulses of lightning merged into one before exploding into a bright ball of golden light.
The glaring light caused Angele to cover his eyes with his hand. He was blown away by the shockwave produced by the explosion.
At Terry's original location, only a three-meter-tall ball of light remained.
This ball of light started rolling forward, its size ever-changing and its surface enveloped by lightning pulses.
Angele was still recovering from the damage he received. He felt a sensation as if his skin was being pricked by numerous needles.
Peering ahead, he conjured another pair of lava balls while watching out for any movement coming from the ball of light.
BAM BAM*
The pair of lava balls sank into the light-ball and exploded.
CHI*
Out of the blue, a golden laser beam coming out of the light-ball darted out at Angele.
The laser beam was too fast such that Zero's warning was rendered useless. Angele failed to dodge this. His vision blurred for a second. He could feel the laser beam piercing through his right chest.
BAM*
It felt like he had been struck by an elephant. Angele stumbled ten steps backward. He could hear the bones of his body breaking. Due to the intense pain, he nearly blacked out.
Angele tightly grasped at his right chest. The invisible shield created by the crystal scorpion was penetrated through and destroyed, then it slowly dissipated.
His chest had been burnt black. Many of his ribs had fractured. The metal barrier covering his body had been eradicated.
The ball of light soon became transparent until it slowly and completely disappeared. It reformed into Terry, who had similarly been injured to a severe state.
There was a huge bloody hole right in the middle of her chest. Barely any flesh was left.
"Two offensive magic circles. How much mentality did you spend? You are crazy." Terry glared at Angele. "I must admit, I have underestimated you."
Angele was confounded. Terry was still alive even after being inflicted with such a terrifying injury. He thought that only rank 4 wizards could survive an injury of that level. The only and biggest difference rank 2s and rank 3s had was the gap in mentality levels.
Although Terry was only a rank 3 wizard, the power of her spells was comparable to the ones Angele cast, more or less 200 degrees. Angele had thrashed the woman with four lava balls, two offensive magic circles of the high tier, and his special needle yet the woman still had enough strength to retaliate.
Angele had realized that he was up against a formidable opponent.
"Is that so? Am I now a worthy opponent?" He sustained a deadpan expression as he tried to remain calm. Angele had been severely wounded by the light-ball. Nonetheless, he had an absurdly high stamina and the assistance of the ancient bloodline he possessed.
His chest wound had already begun recovering at a ridiculous rate. Newly-formed tissues and flesh had already replaced a part of the burnt area.
"There is another soul within you. I can feel it. You cannot hide it from me." Terry deeply breathed and put down her hands. Her chest was no longer bleeding. She should have taken doses of high-quality healing potions or used enchanted items that had healing effects.
"Which one is it? Perhaps you are thinking that the soul will help you once you fall into danger?" Terry shook her head. "Unfortunately for you, I have a special item in my pouch that can restrict that soul's ability. Several minutes ago, you nearly died yet the soul did not help you. Do you not think it is strange?"
"Huh?" Angele faked a surprised expression. "What are you talking about?"
"Don't even try to lie. Right now, that soul cannot communicate with you. It probably thinks you are still safe, but it will die once I kill you. It's simple." Terry lifted up her right hand and summoned even more lightning pulses. It quickly conjured into two golden pavises.
"Die!" With two shields of roughly a meter in height, she shouted and charged forth at Angele.
Crack*
Suddenly, a huge crack appeared on the cliff.
The cliff could no longer handle the force from all the spells they had cast.
Strands of black smoke appeared above the Abyss Canyon. Innumerable black eyeballs came into being.
These black eyeballs were the size of a human head. These were floating in the air without a noise. All of these were looking at Angele and Terry with such greed, as though these eyeballs wanted to devour the two wizards alive.
On the other side of the Abyss Canyon.
Stigma was kneeling on the ground, scowling at Cena with hatred in his eyes, and was panting.
Suddenly, he noticed the black eyeballs that were floating.
"Those are…?!" Stigma's pupils constricted. "Death Eyes…"
Cena's mien distorted upon witnessing such queer scene.
"Death Eyes can kill rank 4 wizards…Wait…has the final stage almost been completed?!"
"What? Final stage? What are you talking about…" Stigma was confused.
Cena looked at him but did not answer the question.
"This fight has to be postponed. The Death Wave is coming. I must go. We shall meet again," he said after picking up his left arm from the ground.
"Wait, what about your friends?" Stigma narrowed his eyes. "Do they know about the Death Wave, too?"
"Naturally," Cena replied.
BAM*
A loud noise from the other side echoed in the air.
Angele silently stood holding one wide-blade sword in each of his hand. The cliff he was standing on could fall into the abyss anytime.
After scanning it using his biochip, he now knew that those black eyeballs were dangerous and that he should try to stay from the black smoke. He was not even sure whether Henn could block it if she was not in her soul form.
Terry and Angele would both die if they, at the very least, touched the black smoke somehow.
The endless black smoke could easily deal more than 1000 degrees of acid damage and kill anyone within its effective range.
Angele's heart was beating fast. The life-or-death situation he was presently under somehow excited and relieved him. For him, this was quite enjoyable.
It felt like walking a tightrope without any lifesaving measures. One wrong step and he would fall to his death.
Terry was standing opposite Angele. Still, she too was standing on the cracked cliff. The woman looked at Angele. Two deep holes could be seen on the pavises in her hands, such damage was inflicted by Angele's swords.
"Why are you still here?" Terry questioned him in a calm tone. "The Abyss Canyon will soon be sealed by the Death Wave. You need to be at least three kilometers away from this place. The Death Wave can easily kill any wizards below rank 4."
"I'm not leaving." Angele swung his swords several times in the air. "Don't you think this is beautiful? I am so excited that my body is trembling. Finishing the battle at this place will be my ultimate happiness." He licked his dry lips and smiled.
"Wizards shall all rot in a life of peace. We may die together in this battle, but our final moments will be enjoyable. You may only experience such once in your life." Angele spread out his arms.
Terry narrowed her eyes. "You've lost your mind." She jumped forward, turning into a flash of lightning.
"No. This will be an unforgettable memory for us both." Angele smiled. A red beam was unleashed from the musical note located in the middle of his chest.
BAM*
Tarry returned to her original form forcibly without a warning. She dropped to the ground and shook her head several times.
"You! How dare you!" Holding her pavises tight, she roared at Angele.
BOOM*
The cliff they were standing on completely separated from the canyon. Thus, there began the descent of the two wizards into the endless darkness alongside broken pieces of rocks and the dirty mud.
The scene looked like a gigantic yellow boulder sliding into the abyss from the edge of the canyon.
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Angele smiled and lowered his hand. He quickly slashed forward and released a red string of energy from the blade.
Translucent sound waves left his chest and started spreading in all angles.
The cliff started sliding down; Angele ran up the incline and charged toward Terry, his sword soaring through the air.
BAM*
The two ran into each other and another translucent wave was released into the air. The yellow cliff under their feet broke into pieces and completely fell off the edge of the canyon.
They were standing on a relatively small piece of rock and the surface area was large enough for four to five people to stand on it. However, the rock cracked again after the impact.
Angele held his sword tight and slashed down.
CLANK*
Terry was forced to retreat to the edge of the cracked rock.
The rock cracked again when Terry was about to fight back. She lost the support and started falling.
However, she quickly released the tower shields and grabbed the edge of the rock.
BAM*
A black leather boot stepped on Terry's hands hard.
Crack*
The edge of the rock cracked.
"See you." Angele looked down and watched Terry fall into the abyss. The black smoke was approaching her quickly and Angele's body was reflected in the female wizard's constricted pupils.
"Light of the Thunder!"
Terry reached forward and chanted the incantation.
BAM*
A ray of golden light was released from her hands and hit Angele hard.
"Phoenix!" Angele shouted and a flaming red bird spurted out of his chest. The bird had a long tail that was coated with flames—it was the ancestral spirit Angele acquired by completing the third stage of Molten Core River.
The golden ray hit Angele's chest and penetrated his skin, muscles, and bones after breaking the silver barrier.
CHI*
The golden ray pierced though Angele's body and spurted out of his back, leaving a golden arc in the air.
"Go!" he shouted as he spat out blood. Angele had no time to treat the wound, but his stamina was so high that he could still recover even if his heart was crushed. He could use the energy particles to temporarily keep the heart pumping and help his blood to absorb oxygen.
He quickly took out two small bottles from the pouch—one was red and the other was blue.
Crack*
His powerful grip crushed the bottles.
A glowing blue energy circle and a glowing red energy circle covered Angele's body as the bottles broke.
The lightweight potion and feather potion helped reduce Angele's weight. Their effects could be combined—it was the perfect combo in this situation.
Angele left Terry to die in the black smoke and grabbed Phoenix's claws with the right hand. The bird started flying up slowly after his body's weight was reduced.
Phoenix was flapping its wings slowly, but its altitude was increasing quickly. Angele's weight was almost the same as a feather's, the bird had no problem lifting him up.
The chilling wind brushed against Angele's face and the wound in his chest. The brown cliff was still sliding down and there were large pieces of rocks in the air.
Phoenix dodged all the falling rocks; it changed the direction several times in the air and Angele was not hit by any rock.
Several minutes later, Phoenix brought Angel back to the edge of the canyon and landed on the grass.
PA*
Angele's feet touched the land again. He staggered and almost fell to the ground.
He was almost killed by the woman named Terry. Angele gave the abyss one final glance—the only thing he saw was the black smoke, Terry had already disappeared.
Angele took a deep breath and stood straight.
"You really think I'm going to die with you?" he sneered as he looked at the wound in his chest.
The golden ray penetrated the center of his chest and the musical note was destroyed. He could see the grass on the ground through the large hole.
The musical note was nowhere to be found, and the flesh in the large hole was growing back at an unbelievable rate. Angele could see how fast he was recovering with his bare eyes.
'Zero, check my condition.' Angele was suffering from the intense pain. He took out a glass tube containing green powder from the pouch and poured the powder into the bloody hole.
CHI*
White smoke rose from his chest as the powder came in contact with his flesh.
Angele's brow furrowed, he bore the pain and returned the tube to the pouch.
'Angele Rio. Severely injured. Damaged by unknown radiation energy. Damaged by energy particles. Attributes reduced temporarily due to injury. Strength reduced to 9 (12). Agility reduced to 7 (11.5). Stamina reduced to 11 (16). Mentality reduced to 102.5 (123.7). Recovering…'
He looked at the endless Abyss Canyon again.
The terrifying clouds of black smoke were moving quickly in the darkness. They were approaching the edge of the canyon at full speed. It would take them about ten seconds to reach Angele's position at this rate.
Angele's expression changed, and the silver sword was absorbed into his skin. He turned around and started running toward the plain.
Phoenix twittered and landed on his shoulder.
The man and the bird turned into a blurry red shadow, disappearing into the depths of the yellow plain.
Angele stopped and took several deep breaths after about ten kilometers of running. He turned around and looked at the plain.
Countless creatures were trying to escape on the endless plain. They looked like colorful ants that were moving in the same direction at full speed.
Black leopards with flaming red tails and groups of white rhinos were all running like crazy. The silver rhino leading the group was surrounded by a thin layer of white cloud.
Black birds, yellow birds that looked like wild geese, as well as some red and green furry creatures gathered in the sky and were flying forward at full speed.
Angele stood on the grass. He could see the sea of black smoke approaching behind the escaping creatures. The creatures that were swallowed by the smoke looked like stones sinking into the sea. They disappeared without making any noise; even the strongest creatures like the blackbirds and saber-toothed tigers could not escape the death wave.
Fortunately, the death wave was slowing down.
Angele narrowed his eyes and glanced around, then noticed that a group of lions with three feet was passing by.
The three-feet lions only had three feet supporting their large yellow bodies. It sounded like thunder blasted every time their feet hit the ground. The noise was so loud that he could barely hear the sounds made by the other creatures.
This thunder blast-like noise was the only sound Angele could hear. The land started shaking as more and more lions appeared.
Raising his right hand, Angele released a thin silver string; it accurately landed on the leading lion.
Angele stopped the silver string from extending and grabbed it tightly. The contrary force was strong enough to pull him toward the lion and he landed on its back safely.
The lion was more than two meters tall and its body was more than four meters wide. It almost looked like a small elephant. The lion glared at Angele, but it did not do anything.
"Thirty regular magic stones or I'll shake you off!" the leading lion shouted in Metia.
"Alright." Angele was a bit surprised. He did not know that he was riding a creature that could talk.
The lion did not say anything else after hearing his words. It lowered its head and started increasing the speed.
Angele sat on the lion's back and activated a green communication rune. The rune looked like a spinning vortex.
He tapped on the finger lightly.
"Hey, are you still alive?" Stigma's voice came from the rune.
"I'm fine." Angele checked his wound—half of the bloody hole was already fixed. "Where are you now? Did you get rid of Cena?"
"Yeah, I killed him before he escaped, but it'll take me at least half a month to recover." Stigma sighed. "What about you?"
"I almost fell into the Abyss Canyon, it's a miracle that I'm still alive." Angele smiled. "Also, you're right about the servants of the shadow lord. They don't fear death, the woman hit me hard before falling into the death wave. We need to figure out a good plan. You don't want to rule the family anymore, right?"
"Yeah…" Stigma sighed again. "I didn't expect them to find us so easily. I want to leave the central continent with my mother and my sister. We need to go to a safer area."
"Can you escape the tracking spell of the prophet?"
"Don't worry, my master will help me. She's probably the best prophet in the world." Stigma sounded proud. "Also, I… Ugh!"
Stigma's voice disappeared.
Angele scrunched his eyebrows.
"Stigma? Stigma?"
The green vortex shrank in size as he tried to talk to Stigma.
Several seconds later, Stigma's voice was transferred to him again, but he sounded much weaker than before.
"I'm fine. It's the aftereffects… Green. You need to lay low in the central continent. I progressed too fast, so fast that I'll become extremely weak for a short period every two years, weak like a rank 1 Gas stage wizard. The time has come, I need to find a place to hide."
"Is that really worth it? I was wondering how you reached rank 3 so fast," Angele responded.
"Well, I have to find a way to fight the servants of the shadow lord and this is the only method I have; otherwise, they'll destroy my physical form and capture my soul."
"Where are you planning to go? When will you leave?"
"Very soon. I'm on my way to pick up my mother. I'll bring my sister, my mother, and several of my friends, then go back to the west coast. I'm familiar with that area and I have my own property there."
"West coast…" Angele did not expect Stigma to return to his homeland. "Good choice. You're familiar with the route and I'm sure you can survive the trip. Also, it seemed like the storm giant was weakened. You can go around that area and find a better route. We'll meet again, right?"
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Chapter 357: The Trading Company (2)
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"Of course, I'll be back," Stigma responded in a low voice, "Also, Green, thanks for helping me out this time. I left some gifs for you and I think you will like them. You can pick up the gifts in the Trove Trading Company in the air transportation city. The code is 95452 and you can unseal the gifts with your own communication runes."
Alright, we'll meet again."
"Take care."
Pa*
The green vortex rune broke into pieces and disappeared into the air. It meant Stigma deactivated the communication rune by himself—it seemed like he did not want to leave any traces behind.
Angele knew that Stigma would not return to the west coast even though he said so. Stigma would not want anyone to know about his family's location, not even his friends. The prophet from the enemy's organization could track them down using the information he mentioned in the communication runes.
'Well, I thought it would be a happy ruins exploration experience, but I guess things happen. Stigma should have told us the truth earlier and everything would be much easier.' Angele exhaled once slowly. 'The shadow lord… I should stay out of her sight also well…'
The shadow lord was one of the three lords in the Anfarian High Council of the central continent—the Elemental Hand and the wizard's guild stood no chance against her. The good thing was, Cena and Terry were swallowed by the death wave from the Abyss Canyon, so they would not be able to send any information back.
It was part of Angele's original plan—if his identity was completely exposed to the shadow lord, Vivian and the Elemental Hand would be in big trouble. The difference in strength was huge—the shadow lord's palace was like an elephant and the Elemental Hand was just an ant.
The high council had been ruling the central continent for thousands of years. While they could not give orders to other organizations directly, no one wanted to mess with them.
'The terrifying power of the death wave will remove any traces I left behind and the prophet from the shadow lord's side won't be able to inform them about my situation using the tracking spells. I shall return to the air transportation city while I'm still safe. I can start progressing again after I return to the mansion. The shadow lord, huh… It's a big problem…' Angele had the plan in mind.
Angele closed his eyes and started recovering on the back of the lions' leader. The lions finally stopped on the grass by the city when the sun started setting.
He threw a high-quality magic stone to the lion and headed to the city quickly.
Angele found Reyline and Hikari in a barbecue restaurant when the night was about to fall. They were eating and chatting.
"Didn't you receive the messages?" asked Angele via energy particles transmission as he removed his hood and checked the surroundings.
They were the only people in the restaurant at the moment.
"What're you talking about?" Hikari was cutting a piece of deer steak into pieces. "Everything is finished, right? We asked for assistance from the wizard's guild and the potion master's guild, they already took care of the problem."
Angele walked to them and sat down at the table.
"He still has some problems and had to find a safe place to stay."
"So, he's gone already?" Reyline sounded a bit surprised. "We came here to help him and he left without saying a word? What the hell?"
"How serious are his problems?" Hikari questioned in a low voice.
"Very serious."Angele nodded. "But, he said he left us some gifts, and he was confident that we would like them."
"I start to hate this guy." Reyline's brow furrowed. "If Stigma thinks we can't help him on the matter, the situation must be bad. Is it related to the incident in the White Mist Town?"
"Well, you guessed it right," Angele asked for some fruit wine and a barbecued steak. "Actually, we haven't talked to each other for years. How are you doing now?" His sight fell upon Reyline.
"Reyline, you're a rank 2 wizard now, right? You were already at the Crystal stage when we arrived at the air transportation city."
"Yeah. You're right." Reyline took a sip of the green fruit wine. "I advanced to rank 2 about four years ago."
Hikari picked up a piece of meat and delivered it into her mouth. "I'm still at rank 1 and it might be hard for me to advance to the next rank, there's a bottleneck. I'm doing fine with my potions and I acquired some high-level potions from the guild. I should be fine."
"You need higher mentality level to use higher level potions. You can only use level two potions now and you should try increasing your mentality faster. Anyways, it seems like you're an important member of the guild." Angele smiled.
"Yeah, I'll be promoted after advancing to the next rank and I'll become the department head of the potion lab." It seemed like there was a bright future in front of her.
"I heard that you can command an army of 5000 energy soldiers as a department head in the potion master's guild, right?" Reyline interrupted. "The energy soldiers, the Watchers from the Elemental Hand, and the Sunrise army in my guild are all strong military units."
"No, it's different. The energy soldiers are energy creatures with no intelligence. They are weaker than the Watchers and the Sunrise army, but yeah, I can command an army of 5000 energy soldiers if I become a department head."
"I'm now a student of the Ice Breaker master Cameron, he's a high-rank wizard in my guild. I need to join a mission in the eastern snow mountain after this," Reyline said as he looked at Angele.
Angele was sending a message to Lyn but he raised his head quickly after Reyline stared at him.
"I'm working in the human resources department. It's boring."
"That's not bad at all." Hikari smiled. "Sadly, Stigma didn't leave his family. He could have earned a decent position in a large organization if he chose to leave."
"I'll be leaving if he's not coming. My guild members are waiting for me," Reyline said in a low voice.
"Let's go see what Stigma left for us in the trading company." Hikari was curious. "I don't really need any resources and I want to know why he was so confident that we'll like the gifts."
None of them were depressed that Stigma would not be able to come.
Wizards had long life expectancies and they did not care if they could not meet with their friends for the next several decades. They already got used to such situations.
The three finished their food and stood up. Angele asked a pedestrian about the exact location of the trading company and hired a carriage. They headed to the trading company right away after leaving the restaurant.
There was a white building that looked like a church sitting quietly between the luxurious gardens in the center of the air transportation city.
There were many people passing by its gate and the street lamps on the side brightened up the whole area. Most of the people were nobles, scholars, or Knights.
Angele sat in the carriage and watched several wizards stepping out of the trading company. They jumped onto black griffins and took off into the sky.
The three sat in the carriage and looked at the engravings above the gate of the trading company: Trove. Under the word, there was an engraving that looked like a gray bat.
"That's the place. Trove Trading Company is the most reputable company in the Tarry River area, you can rent their storage, purchase insurance, apply for a loan, or exchange currency here." It seemed like Hikari was familiar with the place.
"I've rented their storage several times," Reyline added, "However, the other two trading companies are more popular in my area."
"Is that so?" Angele had never used their services but he refused several of the company's dinner party invitations—he never liked those merchants. "Security level is high here."
His sight fell upon the two towers on both sides of the main building.
The white towers were about half the height of the main building, but they looked like two guards guarding the main entrance. There were crescent moons engraved on the towers.
"Two level 2 trading towers, only for wizards at rank 2 or below, this is like the enchanted version of the trading tower on the west coast," Angele said in a calm tone.
"Yeah, they must have high-quality items for wizards at rank 2 with such trading towers, which means the company is probably protected by wizards above rank 3,"Reyline added, it was a simple observation. "Also, this is just a branch, their main location is probably guarded by rank 4 wizards."
The carriage slowly stopped.
"Masters, we're here." The old coachman yelled.
Hikari took out a silver coin and handed it to the coachman.
"That's the fee."
"Thank you, master."
The three jumped off the carriage one by one. There were many people walking on the street at night, and there were fully-geared guards patrolling the area. The wind was a bit cold.
Although the death wave from the Abyss Canyon was still not over, the people in the city did not seem to care. The only change was that there were adventures on the street.
The three entered the gate just like other pedestrians. They walked past a fountain, walked up the stone stairs, and entered the main building.
Angele saw several white robes with blonde hair as he entered the building. He was a bit surprised but his expression remained indifferent.
"What happened?" Hikari noticed Angele's reaction and looked at the white robes by the counter as well.
"Nothing." Angele started walking again, he moved to the closet counter beside the white robes.
The white robes were only five to six meters away from him, but his skin was aching. It felt like being pricked by hundreds of needles.
Their mentality waves were so strong that the radiation energy in the air was being drawn to them. Angele compared their information that was gathered by Zero with the stone wizards he met, but none of them had such strong mentality waves, not even the rank 4 wizards.
Reyline and Hikari followed after him—they also noticed the white robes.
"May I help you, Sir?" A deep voice came from the counter. Angele turned around and looked in front of him.
It was a monster with a strange appearance.
The monster had a white body that looked like it was from a lion and two heads over its shoulder. The one on the left was a goat's head, and the one on the right was a lion's head. The monster's tail was a snake, which was introducing their services to other customers.
It was the lion head that spoke to Angele. The head had the size of a wheel and it was staring at Angele with a pair of large eyes.
"Insurance? My brother can help you," the lion head looked its tail, the tail was a snake, and it seemed like the snake was in charge of selling the insurance.
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Chapter 358: A Familiar Face (1)
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"Insurance?" Angele hesitated for a second. "I'm here to pick up something, the number is 95452."
The lion head and the snake head looked disappointed after hearing his words.
"Fine, picking things up. Damn. People don't buy insurance anymore?" the lion head muttered. He turned around, then grabbed a black leather scroll. He opened it and started reading.
"954532… this one." The lion handed over a blank paper. "Your communication rune, please."
Angele pressed on the surface of the paper.
Chi*
A black snake that was biting its own tail appeared on the paper.
Crack*
One of the lockers behind the lion was unlocked. Th lion opened the locker and took out a wooden square box with a red lid.
"Your item, Sir." The lion handed the box to Angele.
Angele grabbed the box carefully—it was quite heavy.
"Go ahead." Angele stepped aside. Hikari stepped forward right away, but Reyline was not interested.
Angele made it look like he was checking the box; however, in fact, he was glaring at the white robes that were on the other counter.
There were three of them—the other people around them looked like guards. Two of the white robes were female and they had triangular silver runes on their foreheads.
The third one was male and he was talking to someone behind the counter. The man also had rune on his forehead, it was a crescent moon and it looked identical to the one Cena had, but the man's was a bit brighter.
Angele noticed that the man tried to use the robe to hide the weapon on his back—it looked like a long sword or a long scimitar.
Hikari and Reyline retrieved their items as well.
Hikari was holding a black accessory box in hand; she looked surprised as she opened it. Hikari closed the box after checking the contents and carefully put it in her pouch.
Reyline was playing with a short red stick that looked like a flute, but it seemed like he had not figured out how to use it yet.
"Let's go." Angele looked at the two.
Reyline glared at Angele and send him a question using the energy particles.
"You know them, Green?"
"Yeah, they're members of the shadow lord's palace. Stay away from them," Angele responded and started heading to the door.
"Shadow lord's palace?" Reyline's expression changed, it seemed like he knew the name. Hikari noticed that there was something going on as well.
The three left the trading company, walked past the garden, and stopped in the shade behind a lamp.
Hikari learned about the information from Reyline and her expression changed.
"I might be able to help. I knew someone from the shadow lord's palace and I can probably get some intel. Well, I hope they're not here for what Stigma did in the ruins."
Angele and Reyline nodded. Members of the potion master's guild knew a lot of people as most organizations needed to purchase potions from them.
Hikari did not waste any time. She started walking right away.
She drew a Z-shaped rune in the air, it was a red glowing rune that was floating in the air.
Hikari rolled her right sleeve up and touched the red rune with an egg-shaped pattern on the sleeve.
PA*
A red energy wave was released by the rune and it disappeared after several seconds.
Hikari closed her eyes and started communicating with her contact. She opened her eyes again after everything was done.
"I got the information."
Angele and Reyline looked excited after hearing her words.
"They're here to investigate a robbery done by the underground races, nothing about the ruins," Hikari looked relieved as she explained.
"Good. I didn't expect the lords to come just for the treasure from the ruins. I've heard about the robbery before, it happened a while ago." Reyline nodded slightly. "I'll be leaving now if everything is fine. I still have a mission to take care of."
"Later, friends." Hikari smiled.
"See you." Angele looked relieved as well. "I hope you will already be a rank 3 wizard the next time I see you."
"Finally something I like the sound of." Reyline wiped the dust from his robe. "Your servant is here, see you later."
"Yeah." Angele noticed that Lyn just jumped off a black carriage outside the gate. The female wizard was wearing a black silk dress with a red umbrella in hand. She looked like a girl from a noble family with the long silky gloves on her hands.
"Alright, I'm leaving, there are many potion labs need my help. Stigma's gift surprised me. The trip was definitely worth it. Lucky me." There was a satisfied smile on Hikari's face.
"Well, Stigma's task was not easy at all. I hope everything will be nice and peaceful the next time we meet." Angele sighed.
"Well, things happen, right?" Hikari waved her right hand, turned around, and headed to the main gate with Reyline.
Angele stood in the shade and watched the two disappear. Lyn walked toward him after saying goodbye to Reyline and Hikari.
"Master." Lyn lowered her head slightly. "Sorry, I'm late."
"It's all good. Give me a minute." Angele looked at the door of the main building, it seemed like he was waiting for something.
Lyn was a bit confused. She hesitated for a second and waited patiently in the shade.
About ten minutes later, several white robes with blonde hair stepped out of the door. They were the ones at the counter earlier.
A group of people approached them. The leader was a chubby middle-aged man, he was wearing a black robe with silver decorations on the edge. He looked like a balloon in the robe.
The chubby man bowed to the white robes and followed behind them. Two teams of guards in white armor surrounded them in the center and escorted them out.
Three luxurious carriages with pearls and gems for decorations were waiting for them outside. The appearance of the carriages was eye-catching and several pedestrians were staring at it.
"That's the governor of the air transportation city. A fat *ss that should die in a pool of money," Lyn explained using the energy particles. "His words have much weight in the city, even the master wizard in charge of the purifying towers can't ignore him."
"Huh? Why is that?" Angele scanned the governor already, he was just a mortal.
"Well, his wife is related to the shadow lord palace." It seemed like Lyn knew a lot of information about the chubby man. "I know his daughter, but we don't talk to each other often. I just came back from her dancing party. "
"Dancing party? Well, don't tell me you're interested in the 'noble's game'." Angele was mocking Lyn.
"Of course not, that's why I left earlier." Lyn knew what Angele was implying.
Obviously, noble's game was designed by the nobles that enjoyed wasting time on meaningless activities; they would hold a naked party after the dancing party, and have a sex party in a spa.
The second half of the party Lyn attended was something similar.
To be clear, most of the parties held by the nobles would become a mess in the second half. They would just have intercourses with the people they found charming during the party.
"I don't really mind if you're into something like that," Angele said in a light tone.
"I've never played any noble's game," Lyn answered with no hesitation. She was a bit different from the other wizards Angele knew. The girl knew that her virgin body might be a valuable asset and it might help her in the future.
Angele's sight moved as the three white robes moved. He lowered his head after they jumped onto the carriages and left.
"Let's go, we need to get back to the Ness River as soon as possible. Something is happening here."
"How do you know, Master?" Lyn had no idea what was going on.
"I can smell the blood from their bodies. They just killed someone." Angele stepped out of the shadow and walked to an empty carriage that was parked by the street.
They purchased a spacious carriage from a man and hired an experienced coachman. They left the air transportation city when it was still dark outside.
Two crescent moons were hanging over the night sky. The moonlight illuminated the white clouds. They looked like fluffy cotton floating in the air.
On a plain far away from the air transportation city.
A black carriage was slowly advancing on the narrow path. The window on the right was open and there was white light inside.
A bright glass oil lamp was hanging in front of the carriage and the orange light illuminated the road ahead. The old coachman had white messy hair, he was drinking and driving with his eyes narrowed.
Angele was enjoying the night view in the carriage with a blank expression on his face. Lyn was sitting opposite of Angele, she looked sleepy. She was still wearing the silver dress.
The carriage was spacious—there was a table, a wine shelf, three chairs, and a small bed. All the furniture was made from wood.
There were several leather dolls hanging on the walls; red characters were marked on them, forming the word "peace". The dolls were swinging as the carriage was advancing.
Angele supported his chin with the right hand and peeked out the window. The visibility was low and he could barely see the surface of the road under the dim light.
The carriage was traveling at full speed, it already went past several slower carriages.
The black plain was moving backward on the other side in Angele's sight. There were several people camping on the roadside and there were wizards riding humongous eagles passing by.
Angele turned his head around and took out a box from his pouch.
It was the square box he'd retrieved from the trading company.
He tapped on the surface of the lid and a strange bird pattern appeared on it, releasing a black glow.
PA*
The lid moved to the right by itself.
There was a fist-sized black ball lying on the black silk quietly. The ball was translucent, and it looked like there was someone moving inside. The tiny man was struggling, and it seemed like he was trapped in the ball.
Small bumps were appearing and disappearing on the surface of the ball. It was a strange scene.
'That's it. The Thousand Shadow Orb…' Angele looked happy. 'Well, this thing should help me block my connection with Henn, but I don't know how long it would last."
He closed the lid again and carefully put the box under the table.
It was not something he should carry in a pouch. Thousands of shadow fiends were sealed inside the orb, the orb would explode if the fiends somehow broke through the barrier. The damage the explosion could do would be much stronger than the heart bombs.
Angele spread out his hair with his finger carefully after putting down the box.
His brown hair was now dark red. It trailed over his shoulders. The hair was same in size and length.
The light red glow was released from the musical note on his chest and it covered his hair immediately. It almost looked the hair was painted in red.
His hair color was replaced by the color of fresh blood.
Angele took out a tube filled with red gel from his pouch and carefully applied the gel on his hair.
He improved and modified the technique he learned from Todd when he was in the Nightmare Realm.
Todd stopped the butterflies from moving using chains created with energy particles. He stored a lot of spider webs in his crystal card device and they were like the spell material for the energy chains. Angele realized it was unnecessary to carry a lot of spider webs so he decided to use his own hair as the material.
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Chapter 359: A Familiar Face (2)
Translator: Leo Editor: Nou
Angele had spent years trying to combine his Metal Mastery with the bloodline abilities, and he'd never found a way to do so; however, this time he found inspiration from the "sky locker".
The illusion spells, the illusion sound wave, the Metal Mastery, the High-Temperature Field, and the sky lock... if they could be combined with poisonous potions, the result would be incredible.
Angele was trying to develop a new fighting style with all the techniques and spells he knew. With the addition of the sky lock, he finally made some significant progress.
He infused his hair with the silver alloy and applied the venom on it. With the help of the High-Temperature Force Field, petrification ability, illusion skills, and illusion sound wave, his hair could deal some serious damage.
Most importantly, the length of his hair could be changed as he wished.
Angele held onto his blood-red hair, and it started growing quickly. It soon touched the ground and started spreading out in all direction as if it was alive.
This was due to the bloodline modification. Angele had found a special bloodline in the Nightmare Realm, enabling him to control his hair like his arms.
"Finally, it's almost done." Angele rubbed his hair softly and then rested for a while before starting to practice the Molten Core River again.
Time flew.
Angele had no idea how much time had passed until he heard the racket caused by the horse hooves from outside.
Angele and Lyn woke up from the meditation at the same time.
It was late in the night and visibility was low outside.
Two horses passed by the carriage from both sides and a fruity fragrance permeated the air.
Angele's expression changed. He wanted to say something, but his body was already partially paralyzed. White and green light flashed on his body for about ten seconds before he could finally move again.
PA*
Lyn's head slumped down as her body slammed into the wall, and she passed out. She was not prepared for the attack.
"Halt!"
The horses outside slowly came to a stop.
'The poison…' Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes. 'Interesting, it's just a sleeping gas, and inhaling it will cause you lose the ability to fight. The gas was released by the two strangers on the horses but it seems like the gas doesn't work on animals.'
Lyn would not be waking up anytime soon.
Angele was carrying two enchanted items that could help neutralize the poison, but the gas still paralyzed him. His poison resistance and illusion resistance were greatly increased by the ancient bloodline, which was why he recovered so fast.
The carriage slowly stopped and it was quiet outside.
Blinking his eyes, he opened the door and jumped off the carriage. The old coachman was sleeping in his seat.
There were barely any lights on the narrow path. The only thing lighting the way was the oil lamp from the carriage.
Angele sniffed the air and left a red hand print on the door of the carriage. The energy particles would alert him if any stranger approached the carriage. He turned around and started heading to the source of the strange fragrance.
Although his wounds were still recovering, he was ready to fight.
He traveled for several kilometers and saw two horses lying down on the ground. They were killed and there were pools of warm blood under their bodies.
PA PA PA*
Whipping noises came from the small forest ahead.
Angele's attributes were much higher than average wizards, and he could hear people talking from miles away. It almost felt like someone was whispering in his ears.
He glanced around in the darkness, activating the mentality compression technique and the stealth technique.
Inside the small forest, a tiny girl with long hair could be seen lying beside a tree by a campfire. She was about 12 years old, and the white outfit she was wearing was soaked in blood.
A man was hanging on a branch of that tree. The man's hands were tied up, he was half naked, and his white silky pants were soaked in blood.
There was a woman was whipping the man with a long black whip beside the campfire. She was using so much force that every hit would splash blood into the air.
The woman had a serious expression on her face. She kept hitting the man for several minutes before stopping.
"How does my Dragon Perfume taste? Spit it out, where is that b*tch? She stole our family treasure! Inviting her to our family is a mistake! Lions… Why did he fall in love with a low-class b*tch like her?! I should kill him in that woman's bed," the woman shouted furiously.
The man was hanging on the tree branch, but for some reason, it did not look like that he was in pain. He responded in a calm tone, as if it was someone else taking the hit, "I don't know anything about the treasure."
"Keep lying!" The woman whipped the ground and started abusing him again.
PA*
A piece of flesh was flayed off from the man's left cheek, the blood spurted out of the wound and dripped down his chin.
Angele stayed in the shadow and watched the woman question the man; however, the man just would not give the woman the answer she wanted.
Angele was getting impatient. He stepped forward and broke several dry branches on the ground.
"Who's there?!"
The man and the woman looked at the same time and saw Angele.
Angele glanced at the man and stared at the woman. "Give me the antidote."
The woman had a balanced body, slim waist, long legs, and large breasts. However, the bloody whip in her hand turned Angele off.
"Antidote?" The woman stopped for a second and realized what happened. "Ah, you're the one in the carriage?"
"My friend is still sleeping in the carriage. It'll take her months to wake up. Just hand over the antidote." Angele walked to the woman slowly.
It seemed like the woman didn't want any trouble. She stared at Angele for a while, took out a small ball from her pouch, and threw it to Angele.
Angele caught the ball easily. It was a container that looked like a black ball with a crack on its surface.
"Feed your friend the powder inside. You only need a little bit of it. I suggest that you leave now. This is none of your business." The woman narrowed her eyes.
There was a gentle smile on Angele's face.
"Also, I want some of that Dragon Perfume you talked about. I want to know why it has such a strong effect."
The woman's expression changed after hearing the word.
"Don't be greedy. The Dragon Perfume is a secret of my family and the recipe can only be given to the formal inheritors."
Angele chuckled softly, "That's why I'm here. The antidote is just a bonus to me."
There was a red glint on Angele's long hair and the light from the campfire made it look like glowing blood. The young man's pale skin made his appearance even more terrifying.
"But this is my family's secret…" The woman was not sure if she should start a fight against the man here.
"Ugh…"
The young girl grunted and turned around. Angele finally had a clear view of her pale face.
He was a bit surprised after seeing the girl's face.
It was very familiar to him.
He quickly searched through his memory.
It was the girl with the merchants. They met by the Ness River and the girl was singing. Angele recalled the scene he saw after purchasing the queen's cube. The beautiful girl had left a deep impression on him. Her name was Anser. She was pure and beautiful.
The girl on the ground looked exactly like Anser.
Angele looked at the young girl and queried, "Do you… know a girl named Answer?"
As soon as the woman heard that name, she drew her dagger and charged toward Angele
Angele leaned to the side, dodging the attack, and kicked the woman in the waist.
Crack*
The woman's blue energy barrier was destroyed in a split second. Angele's kick was so strong that her body was bent at a strange angle. The woman rolled on the ground for several times and stopped moving.
Angele walked to the woman and searched her body, finding a crystal bottle with the Dragon Perfume inside.
He raised his left hand and a ray of red light was released, cutting the rope around the man's hands into pieces.
When the man dropped to the ground, he untied the rope on his feet and rushed to the young girl. He carefully held the girl in his arms and picked her up.
"Thank you for saving us, master." There was no expression on the man's face but he sounded excited, it was quite strange. "Sorry, master, I don't have normal expressions due to some special reasons." The man walked to Angele and bowed to him. "Master, do you know Anser? She's my sister."
"I don't really know her but we had a short conversation about ten years ago. What's your relationship with her?" Angele looked at the girl, her face was identical to the young Anser.
"Anser is my sister. The girl's name is Mariana, Anser's daughter," the man responded.
"Daughter?" Angele stopped for a second and shook his head. "I didn't expect—" He did not finish the sentence.
"Alright, leave the place now. Someone else is coming." Angele took a deep breath and reached out to the girl in the man's arms.
The girl was scared but she still let Angele rub her cheeks.
Green light flashed on the girl's body as Angele touched her cheek. The girl's wounds were healed within seconds.
"Thank you, master"—the man bowed again—"if we can survive this—"
"Leave now," Angele interrupted.
The man nodded, turned around, and disappeared into the forest with the girl. The man's attributes were relatively high. There was a white glow around his body, meaning that the man was a formal Knight.
The girl in his arms raised her head. She looked at Angele over the man's left shoulder. Her eyes looked like white and black gems mixed together, seemingly as if she was trying to memorize Angele's appearance.
Angele turned around and left the campfire after the two were no longer in his sight.
Lyn already woke up when he returned to the carriage. Angele thought she would be sleeping for months without the antidote. It seemed like her resistance was higher than the average rank 2 wizards.
"Master, did you find the one who drugged us?" Lyn's head was still dizzy and she rubbed her temples for several times.
"Yeah, here's the antidote. Feed it to the coachman, only a small amount is needed. We need to keep moving after he wakes up." Angele handed the black container to Lyn.
Angele looked at the crystal bottle and thought, 'I should do a detailed analysis of this sleeping gas. Not bad, a bonus for my trip.'
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Chapter 360: Magic Circle (1)
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Lyn fed the coachman some of the antidote powder, and they waited for the old man to wake up so they can start traveling again.
Once they were moving towards their destination, Angele started analyzing the Dragon Perfume. He wanted to solve the questions he had about the Nightmare Realm.
He had noticed that the location would change when he entered the realm from different areas, as if the main world had some connections with the Nightmare Realm.
The mansion area was much safer than the other areas; thus, he wanted to find a way to make it his permanent entering location in the Nightmare Realm.
Stigma's matter had been resolved and he wanted to focus on some of his own things.
The progression of Molten Core River was slow but steady. There was no shortcut to complete the fourth stage.
'The biggest problem is that the shadow lord and I need to lay low for now. I don't have much information on the structure of her organization. If Henn can't be separated from my body completely, I'll have to find a way to deal with the shadow lord. I must be careful as I don't want to bring Vivian any trouble,' Angele thought. Nothing happened on the rest of the trip, and he was able to return to the mansion safely.
However, he received the messages from Vivian's students right away: they wanted him to attend the meeting at the headquarter and it seemed like there was a problem.
The headquarter of the Elemental Hand.
Several humongous white and black owls slowly landed on the white platform on the side of the mountain of the headquarter.
Several young men and women jumped off the owls. They were wearing black outfits with dark red decorations around their neck and were all releasing strong mentality waves.
"Seth, you can go with Milan first. I still need to report to headquarter," a man with short brown hair said in a light tone. He was a muscular man with long and sharp ears, almost like that of an elf. The man had a long face and there was a cold expression on his face.
"Fine, Morrian." The man handed the rein over to a worker that had just approached him. "I haven't seen Angele for a while. I need to ask him for more of that worm meat, that thing is addicting… Damn…" The man had short black hair and he was wearing a golden headband. He did not seem to care about what the others thought of him.
"Alright, hurry, we're here for the serious business. Don't waste too much time. We'll wait for you at that place." The last one was a woman who had her face covered with a purple silk mask. Her eyes were clean and there was a purple earring with a black gem on her right ear. The gem was about the size of an egg and looked quite heavy.
"Alright then, I'll go report to headquarter now. See you soon." Morrian nodded and left the platform, he headed to the main gate of the headquarter right away.
Two silver and black carriages were waiting to be inspected by the apprentices that were guarding the entrance.
Morrian walked to them and showed the two apprentice a brown wooden sign.
"The symbol of the elders. Master, please follow me." One of the apprentices bowed politely. He turned around and led Morrian into the entrance.
The apprentices and wizards in the carriage nearby looked at Morrian curiously.
"Who's him? Why can he enter the headquarter without undergoing security check but we can't?" A chubby white robe questioned the apprentice that was doing the inspection.
The apprentice smiled and explained, "That master is related to the elder's council and he had the badge that would only be given to people like him. He will still go through a security check, but the process will be done by wizards in the headquarters."
It seemed like the wizards in line did not know too much about Elemental Hand's system.
Seth and Milan watched Morrian enter the headquarter from the platform. They wiped the dust off their robes and started heading to the snow mountains in the other direction.
"It has been a while. Maybe Angele is already waiting for us in the volcano ruin." Seth smiled and gazed at the blurry snow mountains.
The mountains were hiding behind the thin white clouds.
"Yeah, me too, it's the first time I've visited this place in years." Milan looked at the tips of the snow mountains. "Angele is Vivian's only son and this is the first time I'll see him in person."
"Umm… He doesn't like to chat just like the other wizards. You'll know when you see him." Seth started heading to the ruin.
Milan shook his head and followed after Seth.
They quickly disappeared into the large forest at the foot of the mountain.
The clean sunlight reflected on the surface of the snow, but it did not bring any warmth to the land.
On top of the snow mountain, the smell of the sulfur from the volcano permeated the air.
A woman with long blonde hair was talking to a man beside the volcano. She was wearing a long red robe, and the man had dark red hair.
It seemed like they did not care about the thick smoke coming out of the volcano.
"It seems like Shozo already declared that he wanted to quit so he's no longer one of my students. I only have four students right now and they're like your brothers and sisters. You can tell them what you need and the problems you need help with. If they can't solve the problem for you, just come talk to me."
The woman was Vivian. Invisible flames surrounded her body, and they were dancing in the air. The light and air around her were twisted, and the scene was quite strange.
The man standing beside him was around 20 years. He had an average looking face but his behaviors were gentle and elegant. It was Angele, and he just arrived not so long ago.
"Understood, thanks. I'll let them know." He nodded slightly.
"Shozo and the Black Earth haven't declared the war against us yet so it shouldn't be a problem. Also, Shozo probably won't attack you even if the war starts. I need to take care of the people from the alliance and you better stay in the organization's territory before the problem I solved. Also, you won the fight against Shozo and the inheritor's bodyguard because you caught them off guard. The power of master Henn is limited and she can only help you defeat the average rank 4 wizards. Also, if you meet a wizard that has a lot of practical experience on the battlefield, you'll be in trouble."
Vivian stopped for a second and continued, "Also, although you didn't report the situation back to me on time, you made a right decision in the air transportation city. You left right away as the members of the shadow lord's palace appeared in the city. The war already started, they started battling the underground races and some of them were killed. They traded their lives to kill an important leader of the underground races. The situation escalated quickly. Thank God you left the city in time."
Angele was a bit surprised. "So, I was just lucky. I didn't think it was the start of a full-scale war."
"You're right. I've already said this several times but let me know if you want to leave the organization's territory. There'll be trouble anywhere you go to." Vivian rolled her eyes. "Alright, I have to leave now. I'll inform my students and you can go wait for them now." Vivian looked at the right and moved her lips, it seemed like she was talking to someone.
CHI*
Vivian turned into a distorted energy wave and disappeared into the air.
Angele took a deep breath, turned around, and walked to the edge of the mountain top.
The volcano was the only area that wasn't covered by the snow. The surface of the black rock was bumpy and the light reflecting on the white snow outside the volcano was eye-blinding.
Angele walked to a cliff by the edge of the snow mountain.
The chilling wind brushed over his face. It felt as though there were knives slashing his skin. He could still feel the freezing air even with a high-temperature force field.
His long leather boots left deep footprints on the snow as the snow was above his ankle.
Angele stood on the cliff and looked down. In his view, it was a sea of white clouds and he could barely see the trees in the forest down below.
Several minutes later, Angele saw two black shadows climbing up the mountain slowly from the narrow path beside the cliff.
Seth was on the in the front, his short black hair and his signature golden headband were hard to miss.
A young woman with a purple mask followed after Seth and her egg-sized earring was eye-catching, as it was pulling her earlobe down.
"Hey! Angele!" Seth already saw that Angele was standing on the cliff.
"Seth and Milan, you're finally here." There was a gentle smile on Angele's face, he walked to them quickly.
"It has been years but it seems like nothing has changed," Millan sighed and glanced around after arriving at the top of the mountain.
"Let's enter the ruin first. You have can have some rest after the dinner. There's no maid or worker here, so we have to do everything by ourselves," said Angele while walking to the volcano.
"My last visit was decades ago and I'm forgetting things." Milan shook her head.
Angele chuckled softly and started talking about his progress of Molten Core River. They also chatted about the important events that happened recently.
He already scanned the two using the biochip as they approached.
Seth was still a rank 2 and his attributes did not change, but Milan was a strong rank 3 wizard. She already reached the last part of Molten Core River's fourth stage, but she was having trouble completing it.
They did not try to hide anything when the topic switched to their ranks. Angele thought he should tell them the truth as well and said that he was already a rank 2 wizard.
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Chapter 361: Magic Circle (2)
Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe
Milan and Seth were not at all surprised upon knowing Angele's present rank. His progression did not seem to be fast. They had thought that as Angele was the Vivian's true, one and only son and had the bloodline, he could easily reach rank 2 sooner or later. Yet Angele's progression was similar to those wizards who possessed average talent levels.
The three continued to chat amongst each other as they entered the ruins underneath the volcano.
Upon passing through the tunnel, Angele led the two to a small room with stone walls.
The black walls of the room were flat and smooth, without any glowing crystal embedded.
In the middle of the room, there was a stone table where a red orb floated on top of it.
The light orb floated on the table's surface. Strange noises echoed throughout as distorted energy waves were constantly being released by the light orb.
Angele closed the room's door after Milan and Seth had entered the room, after which he carefully pressed his hand on the handprint on the door's surface.
Crack*
The door soon merged with the walls, making it seem as if the door was never there.
Milan sat down at the table and took off her mask, which revealed her neat chin and rosy pink lips. "Let us wait for Morrian."
"Sure, you two are the ones who give orders anyway." Seth shrugged. At the same time, he seemed to look a tad speechless.
Angele did not say anything but only sat down, waiting patiently.
About ten minutes later, a rectangular door appeared on the stone wall slowly.
Crack*
The door opened, and a long-eared, muscular man stepped into the room.
"Were you waiting for me? All right, let's begin now. We can use the mini energy pool here to contact Nico."
After having the door sealed again, he walked to the table. The four of them sat opposite to each other.
Morrian looked at Angele and gave him a nod. "Angele, we have only met once through the telescope. This should be our first time seeing each other in person. If you need any help regarding Molten Core River or if you are facing any problem, come talk to me. My words carry a heavy weight in the northwest." With a flick of his finger, a black light-dot flew towards Angele.
Angele did not try to dodge it but instead raised his left hand where it landed right in the middle of his palm. A black communication rune soon appeared on his thumb, its image a glowing black owl.
"Thanks, Morrian." Angele smiled.
"I can help you, too. Even if Milan Family is weaker than our organization, I can still help you deal with some minor matters. You should not bother Master Vivian too much since she is busy with the war. Just come talk to us instead." Milan smiled as she similarly sent her communication rune to Angele.
Purple light flickered on the index finger of his left hand, revealing a glowing rune that looked like a giant lizard that only had two legs.
"Thank you, Milan." Angele had already known that Morrian and Milan were telling the truth. Vivian had taken them in as her students, and they had received tremendous benefits from of the organization. They needed to find a way to repay her.
"Alright. Let's get straight to the point." Morrian cleared his throat, his expression turning solemn.
The gentle smile on Milan's face had disappeared as well.
Seth moved his chair slightly farther and winked at Angele.
Angele pursed his lips and decided to ignore his behavior.
"You should know by now why I have gathered you here. It's about Nico's family matter," Morrian started explaining.
"I don't know much about it." Milan's brow furrowed. "Nico is in trouble. She needs our help."
"Yeah, you're right." Morrian nodded. "Nico joined the competition in her family and was dragged into a mess alongside her young brother. She's well-prepared, though. She predicted that something like this might happen, that's why I had several materials for an energy pool sent to her."
"The materials came from the Baton Family. I thought it was unnecessary, but I still sent her two energy crystals from the Cave of Greenland. Never have I expected the situation to be this bad," Milan added, "that she had to build an energy pool which means that it's indeed a big problem."
"Seth, are you the heir of your family's magic circle legacy?" After hesitating for a second, Morrian turned to look at Seth.
Seth was not in the slightest bit interested in Nico's problem, but he immediately replied upon hearing Morrian's question. "I have already learned the magic circle, but it only has 20% of its original power."
"What about you, Milan?" Morrian turned to the side.
"About 25% percent. I haven't mastered it, yet." Milan nodded. "Well, let's just start."
Morrian closed his eyes and made his decision. "With the help of buffs, we can enhance our magic circle legacies. My circle will serve as the main circle. I will guide it to the location. Be careful. We shall only act when absolutely necessary."
"Of course. Shozo and you always find the right timing. I am counting on you." Milan smiled.
Angele sat on one side and watched as the three formulated a plan. He knew that there was not much he could do to help.
Wizards who possessed magic circle legacies were able to join in battles happening in another place with the aid of an energy pool. That was how the storm giant lord attacked Vivian.
Magic circle legacies would not increase the damage of the spells greatly, but it often came with mysterious characteristics. Moreover, all magic circle legacies could be used as a base of an energy pool.
The power of an energy pool could easily aid wizards in casting their spells at the designated place. Their spell power output would not be weakened just because of distance-related issues.
Wizards who could use magic circle legacies could change the outcome of a battle or a war.
However, in a wizard's entire lifespan, one could only control one magic circle legacy. If the circle were to be destroyed, the only way to restore it was to repair it. Wizards who possessed one would not be able to replace theirs with a different magic circle legacy.
Only formidable families or organizations had enough resources to build and support those large magic circles. It would take these organizations hundreds of years' time to build one and an immense amount of materials was needed. Most of all, the only way of activating the circle once it was completed was through the required bloodline.
Magic circle legacies were only given to elders, leaders, or heirs of the families.
Angele did not have a magic circle legacy, so he could not join the battle through the energy pool. He was only here to collect information.
He was still the weakest wizard here.
Angele had once seen Seth activate his magic circle legacy and stand in one place without moving. The terrifying energy flows easily blocked most of the enemies' attacks.
Comparing Seth with Terry, the wizard he had fought at the Abyss Canyon, Seth would easily overwhelm her if he could activate his magic circle legacy. The power of the magic circle legacy, after all, was entirely on a different level.
If one could fully activate their magic circle legacy, one would also gain an endless supply of energy particles. In other words, the opponent must be far stronger in order to win—that is, if they possessed no such magic circle legacy.
The best option for wizards who had no magic circle legacy was to flee, even if they were a rank higher, if their opponents possessed a magic circle legacy.
In addition to that, wizards who had magic circle legacies must be members of great standing in their respective families or organizations and were likely carrying incredible enchanted items or magic devices.
There were two possible ways for Angele to gain access to a magic circle legacy: one was to build it himself, but doing so would cost him a considerable amount of time and resources. Another was to inherit it from Vivian.
However, Vivian would probably not let him inherit it as long as she was still alive.
At present, the only thing Angele could do was to wait for the three to finish their discussion. He was still too weak to help Nico.
The three wizards started making preparations after planning.
Morrian raised his right hand, aiming at the floating orb, and released a pale yellow light from the middle of his palm.
The light enveloped the orb's surface, though nothing happened.
Several minutes later, Morrian gradually put down his hands.
The four wizards looked at the light orb in silence. The head-sized orb suddenly started a slow descent and touched the surface of the table, then it sank into the table like a fish jumping into a river.
Distorted energy waves had covered the stone table's surface. A white circle took form in the middle of the energy waves.
A green grassland appeared in the white circle. Looking at it felt like gazing down from the peak of a small hill.
The grass seemed endless. The shadows under the towering trees divided the grassland into several regions.
Cavalry troops were slowly advancing. Angele could see that they were sauntering across the grassland while maintaining a square formation.
These cavalrymen were wearing white armor and blue shirt beneath and silver helmets. They were wielding long spears that had black spearheads.
The cavalry troops quickly lined up. Their horses were also adorned in silver armor. The light it reflected was blinding to one's eyes.
One of the cavalrymen at the vanguard was holding a black iron war banner, which had a blue and silver color, from top to bottom, separated by a straight line.
The cavalry troops were merely marching forth slowly but steadily without saying a word.
"This is what Nico is seeing," Morrian explained in a light tone, "The army is marching and will soon engage the energy forces. We just have to wait, for now."
He took a glance at Milan and Seth. "You should know just how expensive it is to build a one-time-use energy pool like this. The number of resources we have spent can easily sustain a small organization for years, so I hope you understand that we only have one shot, and the energy pool will break after that. We must succeed."
The two slightly nodded in response. Seth was no longer laughing or mocking around. His expression had turned somber.
Morrian then turned his sight towards Angele.
"Angele, there is something I need you to do as well. Please make sure that this room is safe and undetectable."
"For sure."
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Chapter 362: Unexpected (1)
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Angele stood up, walked to the stone gate, and glared at the three wizards. They were sitting at the table with their eyes closed, waiting for the time to come.
The room was so quiet that he could hear the three breathing.
Angele opened the door and stepped outside.
The temperature in the underground tunnel was high and the sulfurous smell was intense. He cut the volcano lizard's meat into pieces and mixed them with some mushroom to make a soup. He separated the soup into three portions and returned to the stone room.
"Have some food. It seems like you'll have to wait for a while."
Morrian and Milan were talking about something in low voices. Seth was taking a nap in his chair.
"Thank you, Angele. We don't want to cause you too much trouble, but…" Morrian looked Angele and apologized.
"It's fine. There's nothing I can do for Nico, so I'll just try my best to assist you on other matters." Angele smiled.
Angele put down the soup on the table and returned to his own seat. He looked at the white circle carefully.
The scene in the circle was shaking slightly—it seemed like Nico was riding a horse, and the trees on the sides were moving backward.
"She'll be traveling on the road for about three more days. Nico's army was moving to a large canyon as her family was fighting against her enemies there. According to the message Nico sent a while ago, there were more than 10,000 people fighting in the war, and her army was the last reinforcements her brother had. If Nico's army is eliminated, her family will be destroyed."
Morrian stopped for a second and continued to explain, "We need to wait till Nico's enemy tries to attack them before we cast our spells through the energy pool."
Milan nodded and woke Seth up for the food.
Angele sat down and waited for the three to finish their meal. He then took the empty dishes back to the kitchen and washed them clean. Angele returned to the stone room again and started observing the energy pool. It was the first time he saw wizards provide ranged support using the pool and he wanted to collect as much information as possible.
Three days were like nothing to wizards, they would not mind the wait at all.
Time flew, and three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The atmosphere in the stone room was getting heavier and heavier.
Morrian was staring at the circle and Milan was meditating with her eyes closed. Seth sat on the side, he was playing with a red monkey. The monkey was jumping back and forth on his shoulders while yelling.
Angele lowered his head; there were blue light dots flashing in front of his eyes.
"Alright, get ready! It's about time!" Morrian suddenly shouted.
The three stopped what they were doing and looked at the white circle immediately.
It seemed like Nico had entered the battlefield and the scene was still shaky. The cavalry in blue armor was everywhere, riding on black horses. All the cavalrymen who entered Nico's sight were blown into pieces as if they were hit by bombs, turning into blood mist.
"Master Nico! Someone is coming to us!" A nervous voice came from somewhere far behind.
Nico quickly turned her head around and looked at a small hill ahead. Two men in black were attacking a man in blue on top of the hill.
The blue robe was trying his best to protect a silver carriage under the war banner. Electric pulses, purple energy flows, and lasers were flying everywhere around the three.
"Damn!" Nico's voice came from the white circle.
She started charging toward the small hill right away.
Three lava balls were released from her right hand and they soared through the air, flying toward the hill.
The surface of the lava balls was red and there was golden lava flowing through the tiny cracks on it. The soldiers around were terrified; they moved to the side quickly, their horses running around in fear.
The path in front of Nico was cleared and she could easily move through.
BOOM BOOM BOOM*
The loud noise echoed in the air as the three lava balls exploded, turning into three golden shadows. The golden shadows flew toward the men in black like lightning bolts. For some reason, the lava drops did not splash around.
"All hail the Muses!" one of the men in black shouted. A distorted minotaur shadow appeared in front of him—it was enormous.
The minotaur opened its mouth and roared.
BAM*
A ray of golden light penetrated the three golden shadows, turning them into countless golden light dots, disappearing into the air.
"The Roar of Minotaur! It's my first time seeing the ability being activated successfully." Milan was impressed. "There's only a small chance that you can learn the ability when practicing an advanced meditation technique called the Minotaur's Ritual. Also, you can't control the ability very well even if you can activate it. However, the ability might be triggered when the caster is just trying to move the energy particles. Nico's opponent was lucky."
Inside the circle, the golden ray flew straight at Nico after destroying the lava balls.
Seth raised his left hand and red light dots appeared between his fingers.
PA*
"Wait!" Milan stopped him.
"But…!" Seth was getting nervous.
"Trust Nico. She's weaker than Shozo and me, but she won't be defeated so easily. Remember, she's also one of Master Vivian's students," Morrian spoke in a light tone.
"Holy Light!" Nico's voice came from the circle again.
A ball of red light appeared in front of Nico. The light ball was about the size of a fist, and it blinked twice.
A large web covered with fist-sized runes and strings was created in front of Nico by the energy particles within seconds. All the strings were connected to the light ball in the center.
CHI*
The ray hit the large web hard.
The red web and the golden ray started fighting against each other.
The endless golden energy particles were slowly turning the red web's color to gold. Strangely, it seemed like the web was absorbing the golden ray's power and it was expanding.
Although the web was expanding, the golden ray's strength was penetrating it at a much faster rate.
CHI*
The golden ray finally went through the large web.
However, the web bought Nico enough time to dodge the attack. She moved to the left and kept charging forward. The man on the right was still fighting against the man in blue and the other man in black already released five elemental golems.
Two of them were earth golems and they were completely black. The golems had strong bodies and they rushed toward Nico as they opened their mouths.
There were also three wind golems that were about one meter tall each. They surrounded the earth golems, laughing. The wind golems looked like three green ribbons.
Some of the cavalrymen around were top-level Knights—Angele could see the white light surrounding their bodies. They tried to attack the earth golems, but their weapons were easily blocked. The cavalrymen were then grabbed by the earth golems and thrown to the ground. The Knights were severely injured and the blood they spat out turned into a small pool on the ground.
The land started shaking as the two earth golems rushed toward Nico.
Morrian, Seth, and Milan's faces turned serious after seeing that scene.
"Nico's enemies were well prepared…" Milan muttered.
At that moment, Nico's voice came from the white circle again.
"Morrian and Millan, it's about time. Destroy that hill for me."
The three exchanged glances and nodded slightly.
"Earth Fire!" Morrian raised his right hand and reached to the circle. A terrifying red skull appeared behind him, with black flames burning in the skull's eyes.
"Light of the Night!" Milan raised her hands as well and a pair of purple eyes appeared behind her.
Seth did the same thing, causing black flames to start burning on his right arm. "Decompose!"
They slowly moved their hands to the center.
CHI*
The three hands merged into each other as they touched. The scene was quite strange.
Their hands looked like a large ball of play dough. The play dough turned into a humongous hand that was about half a meter wide, then sank into the table and reached to the small hill in Nico's sight.
Angele's eyes were wide open and he could feel that his body became numb.
The horrifying energy surrounded the wizards in the stone room. Angele opened his mouth and tried to inhale, but he couldn't feel the air.
It felt like the air in the room was solidified and Angele thought he was an insect that was trapped in amber. His attributes were extremely high, but he could barely move.
Angele stared at the screen inside the light circle and his pupils constricted. He finally understood the true power of the inheritor magic circle.
On a large plain in front of a canyon.
The blue cavalry was fighting against the black cavalry, their roars and war drums as their background music.
A beautiful girl in a white battle dress was fighting on the battlefield—it was Nico. Her dress was soaked in blood.
She looked at the small hill in the front calmly, holding the necklace tightly in hand. Blue light leaked out of the gaps between her fingers—the light came from a diamond-shaped blue crystal.
"Morrian and Milan, it's about time. Destroy that hill for me," she spoke in a cold tone.
The diamond-shaped crystal shined and released a ray of blue light after she finished her words. The light struck into the air, leaving a blue trail behind—the trail slowly disappeared after several seconds.
Suddenly, the sunlight disappeared from the land, and the sky was covered by a sea of black clouds.
The clouds turned into a large vortex which started spinning on top of the hill slowly.
The battlefield was covered by the shadow. The soldiers stopped fighting at the same time; they raised their heads and stared at the sky.
People underneath the shadow could feel terrifying pressure coming from the sky. The soldiers could barely move under such heavy pressure; it almost looked like they were trapped in a swamp.
The people on the hill were the ones who were directly impacted by the pressure.
The two men in black and the man in blue were moving like turtles. The scene looked like a slow-motion movie. It would take them two seconds just to complete a simple movement.
It took one of the men about ten seconds to raise his right hand, fear was written all over his face.
The earth golems and the wind golems were also slowed down—they were having a hard time moving forward.
Nico looked at the hill, looking depressed. "Maxwell, the family will remember your sacrifice." Her voice echoed in the sky.
The man in blue already accepted his death, he looked happy after hearing Nico's voice.
BAM*
Seconds later, an enormous hand appeared in the center of the giant vortex and hit the top of the hill. The hand looked like a white stone pillar that fell from the sky.
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Chapter 363: Unexpected (2)
Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe
Mud and grass leaves were blown into the air along with the mangled, bloodied pieces of flesh of the corpses. Nico's vision was blocked by the pieces of rocks that were blown.
Everything splattered everywhere like raindrops. After a few moments' time as it fell to the ground, everything returned to normal again. The gigantic hand and the black clouds had dispersed so quick that it almost seemed to have never been there.
The sky regained its clarity and sunlight shined upon the land once more.
A gigantic handprint was all that was left at the original location of the small hill. Everything within the scope of that hand had all been completely flattened.
From carriages, soldiers, warhorses, war banners, and the three wizards—all of them had disappeared.
Crack*
A crisp sound echoed in the sky.
The diamond-shaped crystal shattered into fragments and disappeared into the wind as it seemed to have been ground into white powder.
Nico stilled for a second and glanced around, then she raised her hand.
"Surrender to me!"
"Surrender to me!" Her voice echoed throughout the battlefield.
Inside the stone room, the atmosphere finally regained its former form.
Angele took a deep breath and watched as the white circle vanished from the table.
Morrian, Seth, and Milan's hands separated from each other's and put it down at the same time.
"It is finished." Milan sighed in relief. "Are you all right, Seth?"
Seth's face had turned pale as he seemed to have spent too much mentality.
"I'm fine. That strike has already decided the outcome of the battle. Problem solved. I will recover if you let me eat some of that worm meat." He looked at Angele, his eyes blinking.
Angele only shrugged, though he felt a tad speechless.
He had finally discovered just how powerful magic circle legacies were after seeing the three's combined might.
Vivian's magic circle legacy was the gravitational magic circle which had almost been destroyed due to Henn's schemes. At that time, Angele never thought about it too much when Henn asked him to destroy the circle. However, seeing the effect of the circle that increased wizard's power to a completely different league—
It was an eye-opening experience.
"Angele, have you ever seen Master Vivian's gravitational circle? It draws power upon the earth and greatly increases the damage output of her spells. With the incredible range of her spells, she can easily destroy everything within an area with a diameter of several kilometers. And, she has more than enough mentality to cast several spells successively. Armies will be wiped out within seconds. Wizards of lower ranks stand not a single chance against her might. Master Vivian had once destroyed a legion of more than 100,000 soldiers with the help of the gravitational circle," Morrian gleefully explained. Compared to the one used on Earth, a 'kilometer' of the wizard world was a bit farther.
"Is that so?" Angele inhaled sharply but calmed down after. He finally understood how powerful organizations could keep winning wars waged with their enemies.
The magic circle legacies were the only ones assisting organizations in building their dominance. It was nigh impossible for average members of organizations to overthrow the rule of the people high up the hierarchy. That was most likely the reason major organizations could last for hundreds of years in the central continent.
"All right, we need to rest now. Angele, you can do whatever you want." Morrian knew Angele was in shock. He ended the conversation with this and closed his eyes and began his recovery, like what Seth and Milan were doing at the moment.
Angele stood up, bowing to the three wizards, and stepped out of the room.
The door closed as he re-entered the red tunnel. The temperature within the tunnel high, albeit tolerable, and the only one producing noise was the lava underground.
Angele was still pondering about the battle he had just witnessed and the words Morrian had said.
'Magic circle legacy, it makes a huge difference. I'm lucky that the wizards I have fought did not possess such power…'
He cleaned the dust off his long robe before he headed straight to the dormitory area.
There were only four people in the ruins at present. Vivian was currently fighting on the frontlines. There were several skirmishes and battles happening. Furthermore, she had to command the army and deal with the Black Earth organization. She would not have much time before everything was solved.
Angele climbed up the ladder and returned to his old room, closing it after he entered.
He needed to make plans for his future.
Angele seated down at the desk and took out an empty leather scroll. He grabbed a quill and dipped it into the ink bottle sitting on one side of the desk.
He pressed it on the paper and inked a black dot on it.
'This is me, so—' He drew a line on the left side of the dot and started jotting down a few words. '—Henn and the Shadow Lord's palace. I will need more time on that.'
He then drew another line beside the dot and wrote a few by the end of it. 'Dark Wizard Tower, Black Earth, and Elemental Hand's war. I need to pay more attention to them.'
'Nightmare Realm' was used to label the third line he drew.
Angele put the quill down and began thinking.
The majority knew he was the one and only son of Elemental Hand's third elder and was grounded due to the incident with the heir of Black Earth.
However, people had not had the slightest idea that he was one of the elite members of Dark Wizard Tower and had already built a fortress in the Nightmare Realm. He was being tracked down by the Shadow Lord because of Henn, who was inhabiting his body. From another perspective, perhaps without Henn, his life should be much more easygoing.
Angele had already known that the Shadow Lord would find him sooner or later as long as he continued to stay in the main world.
It was highly plausible for high-rank prophets to exist in the forces of the Shadow Lord's palace. Prophets would cast tracking spells once they discovered any trace he had left behind. A formidable prophet only required a small amount of information of the target, and the process would be even easier if their target was a low-rank wizard.
'I did the right thing at the Abyss Canyon. I should be fine if I just stay in the organization's territory.' Angele recalled the events that had happened recently and calmed down.
Angele desired to slow down his progression and take his time exploring other areas in the Nightmare Realm temporarily. He could collect more bloodlines for his research, too, but this plan of his had been disrupted by Henn.
CHI*
Angele picked up the paper and burnt it to ashes using fire energy particles, and threw the remains into the garbage bin on one side.
He stood up and placed his right hand on the musical note in the middle of his chest.
Red light flashed in the air. Angele disappeared from the room.
The Nightmare Realm. A black shadow slowly emerged at the empty ground beside the Ness River.
The bright sunlight shined upon the man's long hair, reflecting the color of fresh blood.
"It's still close, a difference of ten meters is acceptable." Angele nodded.
Angele looked at the mansion. A gentle smile appeared on his face.
He promptly headed to the mansion, where a girl jumped into his arms right after he stepped into the barrier surrounding it.
"Green! Where did you go? You have been gone for so long this time." Freia tightly hugged Angele. "I won't forgive you if you did not bring me any tasty snacks."
"Of course. Come here, cute girl. I have something good this time." Angele took out a small bottle from his sleeves. This bottle was sealed with a wooden stopper and was filled with colorful candies. He shook the bottle before giving it to Freia.
The girl was wearing a black dress and a pair of silk tights. With the white coat and white hat, Freia looked like a girl from a random noble family.
The only thing missing was a laced sunshade.
Angele rubbed Freia's soft cheeks. Her skin was cold and elastic; it felt like tapping on the surface of a fruit jelly.
"There is nothing to do here, right?" Angele walked into the main building, whereas Freia wrapped her arms around his neck and hung on his body like a koala.
"Yeah, I spend most of my time taking care of the flowers and reading books," Freia replied, "I can't even step out of the shield."
"Come on, you are too old for this." Angele lowered his head to let Freia land on the ground safely. Raising his hand, he then summoned Phoenix.
"Go play with Phoenix." Angele carefully threw Phoenix into the air.
The bird landed exactly right on Freia's hat. She screamed and tried to drive it away, but Phoenix never did move.
Angele slightly shook his head then went into the living room. He had finally discovered a way to send himself back to the mansion even when he was at other areas in the main world.
He sat down on the sofa and started skimming through the messages from the communication runes.
His progression speed was similar to that of average wizards. There was not much the chip could do for him. He needed more time to master the fourth stage.
The only difference between him and average wizards was, he had a chip that could aid him whenever he reached a bottleneck.
Suddenly, Angele's face tightened as one communication rune that looked like a black swan faded from one of his thumbs.
"Cruise, you are the head of the Human Resources Department." He had been working with Cruise for years, so they knew each other quite well.
However, if the communication rune faded away…
Angele quickly tapped on the black swan.
A black light dot left the nail and landed on the table in front of him, turning into a black leather paper with a short message written on it.
'Dear Master Angele, please head to Mermaid's Song and attend Department Head Cruise's funeral on the 20th day of October. Cruise made an attempt to advance to rank 3 on the 13th day of July, but he failed and passed away.'
Angele himself knew many wizards had stopped making any further progress upon reaching rank 2. Some had already completely depleted their potential, while some were just too old already to progress. However, the biggest problem they were facing was in training in advanced meditation techniques unsuitable for them. They had wasted their time and resources to train in the techniques that were not most suitable for them. Many wizards were either severely injured or killed when attempting to advance to the next rank every time.
However, Angele had not expected Cruise to experience the same thing and end his life this way. They had worked together for ten years already, so this news was depressing.
There was also a message sent by Rock. It said that he failed to advance as well and his body had been permanently damaged. Thus, he had given up his life as a wizard and decided to return to his hometown. Rock had only informed his friends about his situation before leaving.
He, Mincola, and Angele joined Elemental Hand together, yet his journey had now ended.
Angele sighed with mixed emotions. He deactivated the communication runes after checking the messages.
Luckily, he had the biochip that could calculate the success rate for him. It could also build a plan for Angele to help himself improve. Angele's talent level was below average. It would have been hard for him to reach rank 2 if not for the biochip.
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Chapter 364: Funeral (1)
Translator: Leo Editor: Nou
Angele stayed in the mansion for a while and checked the situation of the matrices. The crystal card could still support them for about half a year, so they did not need to be replaced yet. He gave some more food to Freia and returned to the main world.
Morrian, Seth, and Milan left the ruin after resting for several days. They left Vivian's gifts to Angele before leaving.
Angele put the gifts into his travel case and left the ruin, heading directly to the Mermaid's Song.
The distance from the ruin to the Mermaid's Song was short, so it only took him about ten days on the road.
The city was a mess. Many people were crying on the streets.
Three funerals were being held in the city and the atmosphere was heavy.
Walking down the main street, Angele saw people carrying white and black coffins around.
He turned left and entered a narrow street. Most of the pedestrians on the street were women and children, with barely any young men in sight.
Angele was wearing a long black robe. He walked down the brown-paved street and headed towards the direction stated in the message from the communication rune.
Reaching the end of the street, a large grassland—covered with white tombstones—appeared in his sight.
The orange light from the setting sun illuminated the tombstones, giving the place a peaceful and quiet feel.
There were people gathering at the graveyard and some were lowering the coffins into the graves carefully. There were also wizards reading eulogies and paying tribute to the dead.
Angele walked to a group of people that was standing by the forest.
Most of them were wearing black outfits, and they all had serious expressions on their faces.
There were about 30 people there, and they were all holding white flowers in their hands. A small band was playing some sad, mournful music with their violins and harps.
People were still coming to the graveyard despite the dim sunlight.
A wizard was preparing for a eulogy with a black book in hand.
As Angele walked toward the group, the wizards noticed his presence and started greeting him.
"Master Angele."
"Master Angele, you're here."
Angele nodded as he walked, heading straight to the coffin.
The coffin was open and the former department head, Cruise, was lying inside. His body was covered with black flower petals and black silk. Cruise was donned in a black suit, with an eye-shaped ruby lying on his chest.
Dozens of white flowers surrounded the coffin.
As Angele stood in front of the coffin, he could hear Cruise's relatives crying.
He bowed slightly and took out a plain black box from his sleeves. Crouching down, he carefully placed the box to the right of Cruise's body.
He then stood up and walked to Cruise's family.
To the right were a five-year-old boy and two girls. They all had blond hair and pretty faces.
Angele patted one of the girl's head lightly. She was about 17 or 18 years old.
"Julie, let me know if you need any help. Don't worry, I'm your father's good friend, and I respect him a lot," Angele spoke in a light tone.
"Thank you…" Julie was the oldest child of the three. Her eyes turned red, and she was trying not to cry again. "Thank you, master Angele."
Angele looked at the three children, shook his head, and sighed with mixed emotions. He turned back around and rejoined the group.
A tall, eye-catching man was wearing a dark green swordsman's suit in the group talking to several other wizards with a hushed voice.
As he saw Angele walking to him, he ended the conversation with the other wizards and turned around.
"Master Angele, long time no see." He hugged Angele slightly.
"President Barry, it's not a long time, just two years. What happened? Was it really just an accident?" Angele's brow furrowed. "Cruise did not seem like the one who would try to advance without preparation."
"I'm sorry but that's just what happened." President Barry was the president of one of the three schools in the Mermaid's Song. He was one of the stakeholders in the city.
The old man was hundreds of years old, and he was a friend of Cruise.
"Cruise was dying and he had to give it a try. If he succeeded, his life expectancy would increase again; however…"—Barry sighed—"his wife passed away a long time ago and he was just worried about his children."
Angele knew what Barry was implying. "Yeah, that's the problem. Julie and the other two children are not talented and Cruise's family probably won't take care of them. I understand that this is the rule in the central continent… Children without talent will not be considered as formal members of the family. The situation will get worse as Cruise already passed away. What's your plan?"
Barry turned around and looked at the three children. "I don't have any child and I need to take my students to the frontline. I don't think I can take care of them. I'm counting on you and Piatto. You two were close to Cruise, right?"
Angele nodded. "No problem. Cruise treated me well, and although we chose a different path, I respect people who would sacrifice their lives for their dream. I'll help take care of his children and a peaceful life is probably the best for them."
"Yeah… A hundred year is nothing to us… however, they're just mortals and they can't even live that long," Barry sighed.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it." Angele's sight fell upon the three children on the other side. They reminded Angele of Frey and Freia in the Nightmare Realm.
The difference was that the youngest one here was the boy and none of them had the talent like Frey had
Angele and Barry just stood there and stopped talking but none of the other wizards around tried to approach them.
Angele was the son of the third elder. Barry was a strong wizard with a high position. People wanted to talk to them, but they knew it would not be a wise choice to approach them at the moment.
The funeral started minutes later.
A bald wizard in a black robe with golden trimmings walked up to the coffin. He stood in front of the people and in his hands was a thick black book.
"Cruise Einzbern. He served in Northern Iceland for four years and he died as the head of the Human Resource department in the Mermaid's Song…" The old man started listing Cruise's major achievements in a deep tone.
The band was still playing the elegant, but sad music. The sound of the violins and the harps, in addition to the scene, was quite melancholic.
The people attending the funeral sprinkled some silver dust over Cruise's body after the old wizard finished the speech. The glowing silver dust slowly dropped down and quickly coated the surface of the body.
The dust was called the Soul Savior, and it was used to protect the dead ones from the Necromancers. A strong wizard designed it hundreds of years ago.
It was getting dark, and the wind was getting stronger. The sky was slowly covered by the clouds.
Seconds later, bean-sized raindrops fell from the sky, which quickly turned into a downpour.
PA*
The people around the coffin opened their black umbrellas.
Angele raised his right hand and created a black metal umbrella to prevent the rain from dropping on his head. The umbrella looked identical to the ones used by the others.
The raindrops struck the surface of the umbrella and made some light noise.
"Master Angele, you're here?" Several young wizards greeted Angele as they approached him from behind.
"Rook, what's going on with all the funerals in the Mermaid's Song?" Angele watched several coffins being dropped into the graves and questioned a young man using energy particles. "I just arrived and I'm not familiar with the situation."
These young wizards were also members of the Human Resource Department, and they all had more than twenty people working for them. They were all rank 1 wizards, and they were the main force there.
The man named Rook had a bitter smile on his face after hearing the question.
"The situation in the War Drum City was much worse than the Mermaid's City," Rook started explaining. "One of the legions in the frontline was ambushed by the alliance's main force. Thousands of people died, only several hundred of them survived…"
"Seriously? Those alliance dogs…" Angele cursed and looked Rook. "Take care of Cruise's children for me. They're mortals and I want them to live a peaceful life."
Rook looked at the coffins and a hint of fear flashed in his eyes. "I thought the wizards were the strongest living beings in this world, and we can get most of the things we want in our lives. I don't understand why we should keep progressing until I heard about Master Cruise's death…"
Angele glanced at him but did not say anything else.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier. The coffin was quickly lowered into the grave and was covered with flowers.
The people around started leaving.
When there were only several people left, Angele decided to leave as well.
"Master Angele."
A young girl's voice stopped him from behind.
Angele turned around and he saw Julie standing in front of him with the two other children. The young girl and young boy held their sister's hands tightly as they were staring at Angele.
"What happened, Julie?" Angele asked softly.
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Chapter 365: Funeral (2)
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"Can you take us with you, Master Angele?" Julie begged as she grabbed ahold of her brother and sister's hands.
"Sorry,"—Angele shook his head slightly—"I can't adopt you."
He knew that Cruise had many political enemies when he was alive. As a friend, he had wanted to help the man's children, but without the intention of adopting and treating them as his own.
He also knew that it was not the first time Julie tried asking for a wizard to adopt them; however, no one wanted to become the target of Cruise's political enemies. The best way to help the three children was to keep them out of this fight. People wouldn't care as long as they were mortals.
Angele sighed. "Go talk to Barry and study in school. You'll find a good job in the city after you have graduated."
After saying that, he left.
Angele would not become the department head after the death of Cruise. The headquarter would send someone else to replace Cruise, and Angele could keep doing his job as an assistant.
He declined all the party invitations from his colleagues and returned to the mansion by the Ness River.
Angele had decided to stay in the mansion and focus on practicing the Molten Core River.
The required runes and magic circles for the fourth stage were extremely hard, and he was still having trouble understanding them.
He had wanted to take his time to study the magic circles, explore the Nightmare Realm, and spend more time with Freia.
Air transportation city, by the edge of the Abyss Canyon.
Under the dim sunlight, the Abyss Canyon looked like a huge fissure in the land, with chilling air breathing out from the darkness.
The orange light from the setting sun illuminated the ground, and the ladder-shaped clouds were painted in gold.
Crack*
A white leather boot stepped on a small rock, flattening it.
It was a woman with a huge chest and a charming face. She was wearing a long tight robe, and her face held a cold expression.
Her skin was clean, her face pretty, and her right ear was long and white, covered with grey fur.
The woman glanced around the area.
"This the last place that I detected Terry's vital signs," she muttered.
Two men in white robes were behind the woman.
One of the men crouched and touched the ground to check the dust.
"The death wave that ended a while ago already erased all the living beings from the area and we won't be able to locate the murderer." His brow furrowed. "Master Erwin, I think we're just wasting time, we should find Master Julian and…"
"Are you questioning my decision?"
The woman named Erwin turned around and glared at the man.
"Yeah." The man stood up and responded in a cold tone, "Master, you're just wasting your time."
BOOM*
The male wizard's head exploded like a watermelon, his brain, mixed with the shattered bones, splashed on the ground.
Erwin lowered her right hand calmly.
"It has been 500 years since someone last questioned my decision…" She turned her head around and stared into the abyss again.
The male wizard's dead body fell to the ground. Black strings of smoke rose from the dead body and formed a human's face. There were no nose nor ears on the face, and the scene was terrifying.
"Master Erwin! What you just did was unacceptable and I'll report the situation to Master Phil!" The human face roared in anger and slowly disappeared into the air.
Erwin was not concerned about what the face just said—she was still looking at the abyss. The other male wizard did not react to the incident either, and it seemed like he didn't care that one of them was just killed.
"Terry… I'll avenge you…" Erwin spoke in a light tone.
"Master, a rank 4 wizard in the air transportation wants to speak to you through communication rune. What do you think?" the man questioned.
"No. He's just a rank 4 wizard without the inheritor magic circle and I'm sure he doesn't have any important matter. Everyone thinks that Terry and Cena were killed by the underground race, but I'm seeing something different. They were murdered by someone else," Erwin explained. "I'll stay here for several more days. You can go back first."
"Yes, master." The man bowed and left, leaving the other man's body on the ground.
The Nightmare Realm, in the mansion beside the Ness River.
Angele stood quietly in the center of the living room and started thinking in front of the two matrices' control panels.
Phoenix stood on the wooden bird stand in the corner of the living room singing in a strange voice. The bird had cleaned its feathers with its beak, and its body was a bit larger than before, surrounded by a golden glow.
The morning sunlight went through the window and dropped on the floor, dividing the living room into two areas.
With Zero's help, Angele was able to analyze his progression: 'My advancement with Molten Core River slowed down again. It'll probably take me four to five years to reach the bottleneck of the fourth stage.'
Wizards needed to find their own ways to break the bottleneck, but some of them needed at least one hundred years to figure out the way. Although Angele had the help from the biochip, it would still take him a while to advance to the next rank.
'My enemies will find me sooner or later. I'll need to find some other ways to increase my power.' Angele recalled the scene he witnessed in the stone room and it was making him excited.
'Zero, is the analysis of the Frozen Wave Matrix completed yet?' Angele asked. He had spent most of his time practicing the Molten Core River, so he had asked Zero to analyze the matrices for him.
'Task completed. The Frozen Wave Matrix has been partially analyzed. Creating the basic model.'
A simple graph of the matrix was displayed in front of his eyes.
It was a diamond-shaped picture with five blue dots.
Four dots formed the diamond shape, and the dot in the center was blinking.
The dots were all connected by the energy strings.
'That's the basic unit of Frozen Wave Matrix?'
The structure graph for the complicated matrices usually contained multiple basic units and was hard to understand, but Zero did a good job analyzing them. Angele could have always studied the structure himself, but that would've taken a lot of time and he might become bored halfway through.
It only took Zero five months to create the basic model for the basic unit of the Frozen Wave Matrix, and even then, it was able to simplify the graph by a lot.
Angele looked at the simplified graph of the matrix, and it was the simplest graph of a matrix he had ever seen.
The book related to the matrices could never teach him something like this.
'Show me the data,' he ordered.
DI*
Rows of complicated data were displayed under the blue graph.
The most important information was the function and energy consumption of the matrix.
'Function: Release energy shockwaves. Damage, zero. Good for alarm. Range is decided by energy consumption.'
'Energy consumption: 1.52 degrees/hour.'
Angele looked at the simple graph and sighed with mixed emotions.
'The powerful Frozen Wave Matrix is created with such weak basic units…'
He walked to the sofa and sat down. Taking out five regular magic stones, he placed them on the table just like the five dots on the graph and used some clean water to create the energy strings and connected the stones.
After all the stones were connected, Angele used his right index to tap on the magic stone in the center of the basic matrix.
A translucent shockwave was released from the center of the matrix and it started expanding to all angles. The shockwave quickly covered the whole living room.
Angele was satisfied with the result.
'That's the basic unit of Frozen Wave Matrix. Zero, analyze the basic unit of the Twisting Matrix for me and find the two energy cores of it. Also, see if you can try to combine the two basic units.'
He wanted to create an energy center using the two matrices, and he wanted to connect the two matrices in such a way that only one crystal card would be needed to deliver energy to them.
The ultimate goal was to connect all the matrices in an area and power them all solely through one crystal card.
'Task created. Analysis started…' Zero's mechanical voice echoed in his ear.
Angele headed to the second floor and entered the reading room.
The reading room was rebuilt into a laboratory. Freia was no longer allowed to enter the room and there was a defensive magic circle set up outside the door.
Bottles with various sizes were located in the room, and many crystal bottles had glowing liquids inside.
There was a white platform in the center of the reading room. A female, with a slim body and half the height of an adult, was lying on the platform quietly with her eyes closed. The female had a pair of translucent wings, like those of a dragonfly, and her hair was silver.
She was a corpse of an unknown species, and Angele had been studying her body for a while.
The dead body was surrounded by an invisible force field, with a diameter of about two meters, and no living being could enter the area.
Angele had not yet found a way to destroy the force field. He had purchased a small energy absorption matrix from the market and he had thought that the force field would disappear if there were no longer any energy supporting it.
He could have tried to break the force field by force, but he didn't want to damage the body.
Angele walked to the body and tried to touch the dead body.
CHI*
It sounded like a soap bubble was pricked by a finger.
Angele knew that it meant the force field was no longer supported by a sufficient amount of energy. Raising his right hand, Angele created a small silver dagger as he tried to stab into the chest of the body.
However, before the tip of the dagger contacted the body's skin…
BAM*
A ball of purple flame covered the whole dead body.
Angele did not expect it and his finger was scorched by the purple flame. His expression changed and he took several steps back quickly.
White, green, and red glows flashed on Angele's body and the purple flame was slowly extinguished. The tip of his index finger already turned purple and it was hard like crystal.
The body was still covered in the purple flame as it slowly melted and started evaporating.
"Damn!" Angele was not sure what he did wrong, however, the purple flame reminded him of something.
He quickly raised his right arm and the dark red armband flashed.
WOO*
The armband started absorbing the purple flame from the dead body.
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Chapter 366: Tomb (1)
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The purple flame was extremely powerful. Angele's finger was crystalized within seconds, he could barely feel his index finger now. It was almost like his finger was cut off without any pain.
Angele watched the body melting in the purple flame. His expression changed several times before the flame disappeared completely. He walked to the white platform and lowered his body.
He extended his left hand to touch the remains.
'The flame is… interesting…' Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes. However, Zero did not find any valuable information even after scanning for a while.
'It's just the remains of the dead body, but I didn't expect the purple flame at all. She must have been a strong creature before death. I should probably check that area again…' Angele walked to the window and looked over the forest on the other side.
Strong creatures had to possess special bloodlines. Angele knew that he should try to extract the bloodline from the creature.
There was excitement in his eyes.
Angele cleaned the platform and found some helpful tools. He left the reading room and locked the door.
He went to the garden and played with Freia for a while. Angele returned to the living room and started meditating again after checking the matrixes.
The night fell.
Angele slowly woke up from the meditation and checked the surroundings.
The whole mansion was deadly silent and it was cold.
Other than the wind and rustling trees outside, silence ruled everywhere.
The chilling wind came from the opened main door, causing it to clatter along with it.
The only light in the living room came from the moon. The blue moonlight illuminated the living room's floor.
Angele stood up from the sofa and wiped the dust off his robe. He walked to the second floor and stopped by a room on the left.
He raised his right hand and pressed on the door.
Crack*
The door was unlocked with a crisp sound.
The bedroom was dark and there was a ball of fiery golden light standing quietly on the bed. The light ball was jumping around and there was a long tail on its back. The ball was the only source of light in the room.
The light ball was a red bird—it was Phoenix. The bird had been taking care of Freia for days.
Freia was sleeping on the large white bed and Phoenix was scampering around her. Angele could see the blue veins on her clean skin. Freia's brow furrowed, it seemed like she was having a bad dream. There was an anxious look on her face and she was struggling.
Angele walked to the bed and rubbed Freia's cheeks slightly.
The anxious look disappeared from Freia's face right after Angele touched her cheeks. She quickly calmed down as her expression relaxed.
The girl was breathing at a steady rate.
Angele covered Freia with the blanket and waved his right hand.
Phoenix flew into the air and landed on Angele's right shoulder, it started cleaning its feathers again.
Angele turned around, left the room, and closed the door.
He walked down the stairs and left the mansion.
The white mansion was surrounded by darkness; the blue light from the sky went through the thick clouds and illuminated the mist. It looked like the sun was about to rise.
Angele tightened his robe as it was a bit cold. The only light around came from the glowing crystals in the mansion. The visibility was low outside due to the thick blue mist.
He stepped on the wet and freezing grass.
PA*
With a flick of his finger, a pink energy wave appeared around his body and started expanding right away. The energy wave disappeared into the air seconds later.
The circle warmed up his body and Phoenix was relaxing on his shoulder. The bird released a thin red glow to brighten up the surroundings.
With the help of Phoenix and the high-temperature force field, Angele walked through the translucent barrier with no hesitation.
CHI*
The bird and the wizard passed through the defensive barrier with no problems and stepped among the black vines.
Angele entered a small forest beside the mansion after passing through the vines. He checked the map using Zero and turned right.
The chilling wind blew on the tree leaves, making a loud noise.
Angele walked in the forest, checking the map several times. He asked Phoenix to double-check the direction and increased his pace.
He returned to the location where he found the dead body quickly.
It was an enormous tree with a wide tree trunk.
The tree was about four meters wide and there was a black cave under its root. It seemed like the cave lead to a dark tunnel, but Angele could not see anything inside.
The tree was relatively short when compared to the other trees in the forest—its height was about half of the other trees, but it was extremely wide. There was not a single leaf on the tree's thin branches.
Angele walked to the cave and crouched to its right.
'That was where I found the dead body.' Raising his hand, he pressed on the grass slightly.
The green grass was also painted in light blue and Angele checked the marks on the ground.
The only thing he found around the cave was his own trail.
'If it was not related to the spells, the body probably dropped to the ground from the sky.' Angele raised his head and looked around.
Some bloodstains were left on the branches above and there was a broken branch shaking in the wind.
Angele looked around as blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes. He used the biochip to scan the area. 'There must be something here…'
Suddenly, his pupils constricted.
He noticed a trail of small footprints behind the footprints left by him, it seemed like they were left by a female.
Angele walked for a while in the deadly silent forest, but he did not know that someone was following behind him.
Goosebumps rose on Angele's skin. He recalled the words Todd told him—that anything could happen in the Nightmare Realm.
'Damn it!' Angele knew that he might be in trouble. The footprints meant that someone was following closely behind him when he was walking among the tall trees.
Raising his left hand, the Light of the Thorn started releasing the golden rays and they brightened up the surroundings.
A golden ball of light appeared in the dark forest and the area around the cave was brightened up.
Angele glanced around cautiously and stood there for a while. He felt relieved after realizing that there was no one around him.
He told Frey not to leave the mansion during the nights when the young man was still here. Angele chose to explore the Nightmare Realm at night because the world was so different when the night fell.
Many things would only happen during the nights in the Nightmare Realm.
Todd had never left the basement during the nights as he knew that the night in the Nightmare Realm was much more dangerous than the daytime.
Angele turned around and looked at the grass again. He noticed that there was a trail left by the body on the right, it was marked by Zero.
'The thing dropped to the right of the tree at an angle, which means she came from that direction…' Angele turned to the right.
There was nothing in his sight due to the low visibility.
Angele looked at the black tree cave again. He thought for a second and slowly took out a test tube full of pink liquid.
He removed the wooden stopper carefully.
CHI*
Red mist spurted out of the tube.
The red mist landed to the right of Angele and turned into a large, blurry human-shaped shadow. The shadow was much higher than Angele, it had the size of a small giant.
The shadow man was surrounded by the red mist and his eyes looked like two small rubies. The man had no mouth or nose, but he had a muscular body and there were red flames burning on his shoulders.
"My pleasure, master." The shadow man bowed to Angele and put his right hand in front of his chest. The man's voice was deep and hoarse. He was speaking the universal ancient language with a strange accent.
Angele nodded and pointed at the cave. "I'm counting on you," he responded in the same language.
"No problem." The shadow man hit its chest and entered the cave.
Seconds later, Angele heard some creature grunting inside the cave, but nothing else.
The shadow man left the cave and it looked like his size shrank.
"There were several guards guarding a wooden door and it looked like a tomb," he reported back in a low voice.
"Thanks, come back now." Angele nodded and unsealed the tube again.
"Understood."
The red shadow man turned into red mist and returned to the tube. The mist turned into pink liquid quickly.
Angele sealed the tube with the wooden stopper carefully and returned it to his pouch.
It was a summoner spell he learned after advancing to rank 2 and it was called the Blood Giant.
The body of the giant was made from toxic and acidic blood. The giant had low intelligence, but it could follow basic orders.
The creatures or puppets that contacted the body of the giant would be damaged by the strong venom. If the blood giant killed a creature with blood inside its body, he would absorb all of the creature's blood and use it as fuel.
The blood giant's body size would keep increasing as long as it could collect enough blood.
The largest blood giant in the history had a height of more than ten meters. His one footstep could crack the land. The only problem was that the blood giant was hard to craft and a lot of rare resources were required.
Angele was working in the human resources department and he accepted some expensive gifts from the wizards who wanted to join the Elemental Hand. He spent years crafting the blood giant using the resources he purchased and was sent by Vivian.
Angele looked at Phoenix after taking care of the guards. The bird twittered and flew toward Angele, sinking into his chest.
Angele started chanting the incantation with a low voice and created a translucent fire barrier around him.
He also formed a thin layer of metal barrier on the surface of his body and his skin turned silver.
There were two twisted, long daggers in his hands, they were also created with the silver metal.
Angele stepped into the cave after everything was prepared.
The golden light from the Light of the Thorn brightened up the cave.
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Chapter 367: Tomb (2)
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Two long-extinguished torches were hanging on the walls on both sides. Angele walked down for about five meters and a brown door appeared in his front. He heard the blood giant killing the guards, but there was no dead body on the floor.
The door was made of wooden planks and there were large gaps between each of the plank.
The arched door had the height of an average human being.
Angele tried to push the door, but it did not move.
There was a keyhole on the left. He raised his right hand and put the tip of the dagger in the keyhole. The tip of the silver dagger melted and went into the keyhole, turning into the key.
CRACK*
The wooden door was unlocked.
Behind the door, there was a yellow sacrificial altar and there were two burning candles standing on their stands. Their orange light brightened the area.
In the center of the altar, there was a thick book with a red cover lying on a wooden stand.
Angele made sure that there was no one behind him. He stepped into the door and closed it.
He wiped the thick white dust off the surface of the book and revealed its title: The Book of the Dead.
The characters were written in the ancient language and they looked like a terrifying black skull with two horns.
'The Book of the Dead?' Angele looked a bit confused. 'Some people will compile their greatest achievements into books before passing away and this is definitely one of them, so what the blood giant said was correct—this is someone's tomb…'
He opened the book and saw a colorful picture on the first page.
It was a cavalryman with red heavy armor and a war horse. Burning flames surrounded the cavalryman's body and he was raising a white scimitar into the air.
There was a short sentence written under the picture: Burning Knight Orlando, his bravery shall be remembered.
The rest of the book recorded the knight's achievements and how many wars he had served in. However, Angele had never heard of any countries mentioned in it.
There was no valuable information in the book and Angele returned it onto the wooden stand.
He glanced around and saw two tunnels leading to the same exit. The torches inside the tomb were still burning and the bright light warmed the place up.
A rotten smell permeated the air, it was mixed with the intense smell of pine oil. The only sound in the tomb came from the flames on the torches.
Angele turned left and passed through a short tunnel, reaching another wooden door on the other side
He unlocked the door quickly with the same trick.
Behind the door, there was a spacious hall.
There was a stone staircase on the other side of the hall, the stairs led to another altar with a plate on it. Yellow flame was burning on the plate.
There were six small caves on both sides of the hall—each side had three caves. Inside each cave, there was a book with a red cover on top of a small platform.
There was a total of six books lying on the inclined wooden stands quietly.
In the center of the hall, there was a rectangular stone coffin, small pieces of red rubies inserted into its edges. Each ruby had the size of an eyeball and was reflecting the light from the flame.
Angele slowly stepped into the hall while checking the surroundings carefully. Suddenly, he noticed that someone was approaching him from behind.
CLANK*
Angele quickly created a silver shield and blocked a large axe coming from behind.
The center of the shield was dented—it turned into a ball of metal liquid and was absorbed by Angele's skin.
Angele quickly stabbed backward using a dagger without turning around.
However, he did not hit anything.
Angele was surprised and he noticed that another strike was coming. He blocked the slash from the axe again with a metal shield.
He quickly took several steps forward and turned around, the appearance of the enemy was finally revealed.
It was a skeleton standing beside the wooden door.
White bones formed the skeleton's body and it was holding a rusty black war axe with both its hands. The skeleton was running toward Angele, its bones shaking as it moved.
'A skeleton soldier?' Angele hesitated. 'A skeleton soldier that's not controlled by a wizard that knows necromancy?'
The skeleton soldier charged at Angele as he thought, swinging its axe down again.
CLANK*
The blade of the axe slashed across the surface of the shield, but sending sparks in all directions was all it managed to accomplish.
'Interesting…' Angele already scanned the skeleton soldier using the biochip. The soldier was like a muscular mortal using a large war axe and it could only deal eight to ten degrees of physical damage.
Raising his right hand, Angele pointed at the skeleton soldier.
CHI*
The long red hair on his head started growing; the hair covered the skeleton soldier's body within seconds and trapped it on the floor.
KA*
The skeleton soldier thrashed around several times, but it could not move at all. Its war axe was still in the air.
Angele's hair looked like a red spider web, the skeleton soldier trapped in its center.
He walked to the skeleton after making sure that it could not do anything.
Angele touched the skeleton's rib cage.
It was cold and hard. The edges of the ribs already started decaying and Angele's hand was covered in the white dust from the bones after he touched it.
The skeleton was still struggling and making noises. Angele reached into the skeleton's empty chest, but there was nothing inside, just like its appearance suggested.
He then focused on checking the skeleton's skull.
Obviously, there were no eyeballs in its eye sockets, and there were some black worms crawling there instead.
'What energy does this skeleton soldier consume? Why is it moving?' Angele went around the skeleton solider and put his fingers into its eye sockets.
As expected, there was nothing inside.
'This thing does not know how to check its opponent's strength, but it was not damaged by the radiation of my elemental mentality wave… Interesting…' Angele kept thinking.
'What if I do this?' He cut some of the skeleton's bones into pieces and stabbed the dagger into its chest.
The skeleton soldier was still just struggling.
'So, this thing won't simply die… then what about…' Angele aimed at the skeleton soldier's skull with the right index finger.
CHI*
A silver needle stabbed into the skeleton's forehead and penetrated its skull.
The skeleton was still struggling—it seemed like the attack did not damage it.
'There must be a core…' The silver needle returned into Angele's skin and he looked at the skeleton.
Blue light dots appeared in front of his eyes.
'Zero, scan the target for me. Adjust the effective range when necessary.'
'Scanning…' A ray of blue light was released from Angele's eyes after Zero reported back and it dropped on the skeleton's body.
The blue ray moved from the skeleton's skull to its feet quickly.
'Scan completed. Unknown gene change detected. Visualize it in your sight?'
'Sure.' Angele's eyes flashed again as he finished the order.
A blue light screen appeared in his sight.
A hologram of the skeleton started spinning on the light screen.
The image shifted several times—from the surface of the backbone to the stem cells, and to the cross-section of the bone's stem cells.
Angele could see the cross-section of the cells clearly on the hologram.
He gasped after he noticed what was inside the cells.
The cells were filled up with black triangular magic circles and those circles were blinking in a breath-like rhythm.
Each of the magic circles was built with three basic points and each of the points looked like the shape of "".
'That's… incredible...'
Angele knew that runes like these ones would probably lead him closer to the ancient bloodline wizards.
The cells from different parts of the skeleton were being displayed on the light screen and they were all filled up with the simple magic circles.
Angele crouched and used the metal string to recreate the triangular magic circle on the slate. He carefully put down the three "" on the magic circle.
The circle looked exactly like the one he found in the cells.
He took out three regular magic stones from the pouch and dropped them on the three signs quickly.
CRACK*
The three magic stones cracked together after the third stone was dropped on the last sign. The stones turned from black to white and translucent.
The center of the magic circle slowly turned dark and it looked like a deep hole leading to the abyss.
CHI*
An eye suddenly appeared in the center of the magic circle. It was an eye with black pupils and it had the size of a small fish. The eye looked like an eye from a mortal, but its size was increased.
'What is this…?' Angele looked at the magic circle, confused. The eye was glancing around, but nothing happened.
'If the magic circle inside the bone cell of the skeleton is the foundation of the whole thing, something similar should happen after I powered the circle up with magic stones.' Angele's brow furrowed.
'Wait, there's another possibility…' He searched through his memory. 'Maybe the triangular magic circle is just an agent and it has different effects on different things. It can power up the skeleton soldier when it's applied to a dead man's bones. I powered up the magic circle with magic stones and the effect must be related to magic stones…'
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Chapter 368: The Snake Honor (1)
Translator: Leo Editor: Nou
The eye on the around was still glancing around curiously.
Angele observed the eye for a while and removed the broken pieces of magic stones.
However, the eye was still there.
'What creature is this and where does it come from?' Angele was confused. He stood up and pointed at the circle. A large metal piece was released from his hand and covered the eye.
He returned to the skeleton soldier. After thinking for a while, he pressed on its skull.
Crack*
The skull broke into pieces, and the whole skeleton soldier fell apart.
The black and rusty ax dropped to the floor as well since there was no longer any skeleton holding it.
Angele picked the ax up and quickly checked it.
The ax had a wide blade, and a sentence was engraved on its handle: "To Chita".
The sentence was written in the universal ancient language and was a bit blurry due to the decomposition.
Angele swung the ax several times in the air.
'About 25 kilograms…' He had weighed the ax using Zero.
His long hair started to shorten, shrinking in size, and returned to its normal length seconds later.
Angele walked over to the coffin in the center of the hall with the ax in hand.
The stone coffin lied there quietly, and the rubies around its edges looked like hundreds of eyes.
He placed his hands on the coffin and pushed it slightly; however, the coffin remained tightly sealed.
Glancing to the sides, he saw that the lid had been completely fused to the coffin.
Angele thought for a while and decided not to open the coffin.
He turned around and started checking the books one at a time.
The books were all about the achievements the one in the coffin had obtained, but the authors of each book were completely different. He walked to the altar as he did not find anything valuable from the books.
He walked up the stairs and stood in front of a burning flame.
The intense heat waves were coming from the flame, but he noticed that it was burning without fuel.
There was nothing inside the bronze container, and the strong flame was floating in the air.
The bronze container was surrounded by dried, black flowers, and there was a silver short sword with a complicated pattern on its handle lying off to the right.
The patterns on the handle looked like two snakes with their mouths open—seemingly as if they were poised and ready to strike.
Angele looked all around, but that was all he found here.
He grabbed the short sword and slashed forward.
CHI*
A ray of silver light was released from the tip of the sword, sinking into the stone wall on the opposite side.
A slim mark was left on the wall. The mark was dark, and it should be at least several meters deep.
This was very surprising.
'I don't remember applying any energy to the sword…' He held the cold handle of the sword tightly. The handle was a bit wet and the whole sword weighed as if it was made of wood.
He raised the sword and slashed forward again.
CHI*
Another silver ray left the tip of the sword and another slim mark appeared on the wall.
Angele checked the sword multiple times, but he did not find anything out of the ordinary, even with Zero's help. It was a simple sword, but it felt like the blade was infused with something, like energy particles.
He tested the sword against random objects in the tomb, but nothing stood a chance in the face of the silver ray.
Angele carefully wrapped the sword with silver metal, creating a make-shift scabbard, and tied it to his belt.
Before leaving, he collected all the books in the tomb and tied them up with metal strings.
The magic circle was just left on the ground. Angele was certain that the eye would disappear after all the energy in the magic stones was consumed.
Crack*
Angele pushed the wooden door open.
Right as he was about to take a step forward.
WOO*
Chilling wind brushed the back of his neck.
Angele turned his head around and noticed the light had already disappeared from the tomb. The chilling wind had come from the depths of the dark.
His expression changed. He left the tunnel quickly and returned to the root of the large tree.
It was still night and the mist still lingered in the air. Blue lights penetrated the clouds and illuminated Angele's body.
Angele checked the surroundings and started heading back to the mansion.
However, he noticed that something wasn't right several steps later. He turned around and what he saw scared him.
The large tree was moving and struggling like a live human being.
"AH!" The tree screamed in a high-pitched voice and it was shaking its trunk, like a man in his death throes struggling to survive.
The tree's trunk, skin, and branches started melting, turning into a pile of black sticky liquid within ten seconds, and disappeared into the ground.
The only thing left was a patch of green grass, and it almost looked like the tree was never there.
Angele checked the books and the short sword. Those didn't disappear with the tree; however, the eyes of the snakes were covered with a black glow.
'I need to leave the area now…' Angele was filled with a sense of foreboding. He, filled with caution, drew the short sword and decided to leave the area.
CHI*
A large crack appeared on the grass and a large eye appeared on the ground. The eye was looking around curiously.
The eye was about ten meters long, giving the illusion that there was an enormous beast underground looking upward.
Angele paled, recognizing the eye immediately—it was the same one from the magic circle. Even the details were identical, but its size had increased greatly.
He took two steps back and started running towards the mansion. He kept checking around him as he ran, but there were no traces of anything following after him.
Angele felt a bit relieved. There were just too many strange things in the Nightmare Realm, and although he was a knowledgeable wizard, he had no idea what was going on.
Turning around, he was surprised, instantly stopping and standing still.
A trail of tiny footprints stopped right in front of the barrier created by the metal force field, and they were disappearing into the ground quickly.
The footprints stopped moving when he stopped running.
Something invisible slowly turned around and it felt like the thing was staring at Angele. He could feel the chill climbing up his back.
Angele raised the short sword and slashed forward without hesitation.
CHI*
Silver light flashed in the air.
PA*
It sounded like a bubble burst. The silver ray disappeared after hitting the invisible thing.
Angele took several steps back and he noticed that the invisible thing was no longer moving.
He turned back around and started running again. Although he was still constantly checking the surroundings, he saw that there were no more footprints following after him.
'That thing probably followed me out of the mansion and I thought it left before I entered the cave,' Angele guessed.
The thing was nearly impossible to detect. It doesn't release any form of waves, whether it be energy, mentality, or soul waves. The only trace was the footprints on the ground.
Angele returned to the mansion quickly after he increased his speed.
After seeing the energy barrier and the vines, he felt much better and calmed down.
Suddenly, his expression turned cold.
Countless tiny footprints surrounded the energy barrier, but their sizes varied and they were all standing, facing the mansion.
Suddenly, as if they noticed Angele's presence…
PA PA*
All the invisible creatures turned to Angele at the same time. Angele could not see anything, but he felt as if he was being stared at by a large group of people.
The forest grew deadly silent.
Angele's expression turned serious, he raised the silver sword again.
CHI CHI CHI*
Several silver rays were released into the air and landed on the grass.
PA PA*
Half of the footprints on the ground were erased by the silver rays.
Angele took two steps back and ran to the other side of the barrier.
Immediate after sheathing the short sword, he created a dark red lava ball.
He threw the lava ball into the air without looking.
BOOM*
Intense light from the lava drops brightened up the whole forest and drove some of the mist away.
Angele could feel that the lava drops were destroying the invisible creatures.
He suddenly stopped and looked around.
Trees were damaged by the lava drops, and branches were on fire. Some golden lava drops were still dripping down on the tree trunks.
The footprints disappeared from the ground completely and the heat waves were spreading in all directions.
Satisfied with the result, he stepped into the burning flames without any hesitation and headed back to the mansion.
The high fire resistance from the Molten Core River helped him against all the incoming lava drops, and as a result, the fire didn't damage him at all.
The fire from the burning wood warmed up the area and the strange feeling was no longer bothering him.
Angele passed through the barrier and the black vines started moving again.
Taking a deep breath, he walked past the fences.
'Many things happened during my exploration. I wonder how Frey is doing now? He said he just wanted to check the cities around the area, but anything could happen on his way…' Angele sighed and grabbed the books that were still tied up by the metal strings.
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Chapter 369: The Snake Honor (2)
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Angele pushed the door open and stepped inside. He saw someone sitting on the sofa in the darkness.
He was about to draw his sword but realized that the only other person in the main building was Freia.
"Freia, why aren't you sleeping?" Angele questioned in a gentle tone.
"Green?" Freia stood up and ran toward Angele. "I thought you were not coming back…"
Freia jumped into Angele's arms. She was trembling due to the low temperature in the living room. The girl's face was pale and her brow furrowed, it seemed like she had a nightmare.
"That'll never happen." Angele rubbed Freia's long black hair softly. "What happened? You should put on some more clothes."
With a flick of his finger, a ball of red flame beside the two, bringing warmth to the room.
Freia's face turned pale and she hesitated. The girl hugged Angele tight and she started speaking several minutes later.
"Green, I know you have left the mansion many times during the nights…" Freia's body was still trembling. "The nightmares wouldn't stop haunting me and I decided to sit in the living room. I thought of going to the garden but I was scared to go alone. Also, I saw someone peeking at me from the forest on a rainy day, I was so scared and I wanted to talk to you. However, you were nowhere to be found, and I learned that sometimes you were not in the mansion at all…"
Angele could feel the freezing cold but soft body of the girl. He remained silent. He would return to the main world when the night fell, it was impossible for him to stay in the Nightmare Realm forever.
He had tried to take Freia back to the main world. Sadly, none of his methods worked.
There were too many mysterious things in the Nightmare Realm and Angele knew that it was hard for Freia to survive in the mansion alone. The place was too large for the girl. Freia started having nightmares after she learned that Angele was not in the mansion all the time and the fear was infesting her mind slowly.
Angele was certain that Freia would not be able to handle the loneliness even if she was a boy.
"Come on, listen, I'll stay here with you. Just sleep." Angele stood up with Freia in her arms. He walked to the sofa and the burning flame ball was still floating around.
"Thank you, Green…" Freia raised her head and looked at Angele quietly. Her expression loosened as she closed her eyes. The girl fell asleep within seconds.
Angele sat down on the sofa again and stayed up the whole night.
Sleep was not necessary for wizards. Angele would not feel tired without having any rest.
Freia slept quietly in Angele's arms. He decided to practice the Molten Core River since he had the time. Angele's mentality was increasing slowly but steadily.
The morning sunlight shined through the windows and dropped on the red carpet, the latter reflecting some bright red light.
Freia slowly woke up, it seemed like she had a good dream this time.
Freia was growing well; her breasts were larger than what other girls at her age boasted and Angele could see that through the thin black sweater she was wearing.
The girl was only wearing a white underwear on the bottom and she tried to cover it with the long sweater. Freia's face blushed as she just realized that her outfit was revealing.
Angele was still meditating and Freia realized that her "father" would not look at her in a sexual way.
Angele washed Freia's body several times when she was still young and he also helped take care of Freia when she was sick. The girl knew that Angele had seen her naked body and her face stopped blushing. Frey, Todd, and Angele were probably the only three males Freia knew; she felt shy because she knew the basic differences between men and women.
However, the males around Freia were her family members, and it was just her instinct that she did not want a man to look at her half-naked body.
Angele noticed that the girl had already woken up and he quickly scanned the sky. "Morning. Did you have a nice sleep? Go have some food now."
"Sure." Freia jumped to the floor. "I want to check the Sun Flower first!" She looked excited as she finished her words.
Angele smiled and raised his right hand.
WOO*
Phoenix left his body and landed on his hand.
"Go with Phoenix."
"Sure."
Angele watched Freia run to the garden happily, Phoenix circling around her. He slowly stood up and his sight fell upon the books with red covers.
Angele started reading those books in the living room after breakfast with Freia.
Freia was also reading the books curiously, but she got bored quickly. The poems were tiring to read, the vocabulary used in such books was fancy but meaningless.
Freia leaned against Angele's right arm and fell asleep again.
Angele quickly scanned all the poems into the database and asked Zero to collect the helpful information for him.
He found the information he wanted quickly.
CHI*
Angele slowly drew the silver short sword he found.
Blue light dots blinked in front of his eyes and he finally learned what the sword was.
'Snake Honor sword: A sacrificial sword that is used to stop the dead ones from reviving,' the biochip reported back.
Angele held the short sword in his hand to scrutinize it, but it just looked like a normal sword.
Angele double-checked the two defensive matrices outside the mansion and returned to the library. He wanted to finish the system he was designing.
He decided to leave the mansion again after checking the specimen he had in the lab.
It was like a different world during the daytime in the Nightmare Realm.
He decided to check the place he visited last night again.
Angele walked down the stairs and grabbed a black cloak.
"Freia, I need to leave for a minute, don't worry, I'll be back before you know it. Stay in the mansion with Phoenix." He looked at Freia.
"I want to go!" Freia woke up quickly after hearing Angele's words.
"Well, fine…" Angele had taken Freia to the forest several times before as he already knew that the daytime in the Nightmare Realm was relatively safe; he just needed to avoid dark areas.
Freia put on a black cloak as well and they stepped out of the barrier with Phoenix.
Angele checked the route he recorded in the biochip and found the location quickly.
A vibrant grassland was surrounded by tall brown trees, but it was empty.
Angele was a bit confused, he walked around but did not find any trace of that eye.
Rays of golden sunlight landed on the ground and illuminated the grass.
"Green, what are you looking for?" Freia walked around the area as well but she did not find anything interesting and she returned to Angele.
"Some… mysterious things," Angele responded.
Angele checked the surroundings. He did not extinguish the fire around the mansion last night, but he did not see any burnt trees on the way here.
It almost looked like nothing had happened last night; Angele was certain that he had destroyed a part of the forest.
He checked the surroundings carefully again, but did not find any valuable information. Angele decided to return to the mansion with Freia.
They stopped by the small wooden house by the Ness River. Freia started fishing by the water—she had a brown fishing rod and the bait she used was just some random flowers.
Angele sat on the side and started to ponder about the things that had happened last night.
He was certain that none of the strange creatures were in their soul forms. Although he acquired Snake Honor and it was a strong weapon, the invisible creatures, the dying tree, the tomb, and the eye on the ground all left a deep impression in his mind.
"Freia, you've heard many stories from your father, right?" Angele looked at the girl and suddenly asked.
"Yes." Freia nodded. "Father told us about many strange things he encountered in this world when we were young. What happened, Green?"
"How much of the stories do you remember?"
"Each of the stories was told many times and I remember most of them," Freia answered with confidence.
"Have you heard about a huge eye on the ground and something like an underground tomb?" Angele went straight to the point.
"An eye on the ground?" Freia searched through her memory. "I think I've heard about it from a tale my father told us. It was a story from the book of the church. The eye on the ground is something from the Oblivion Realm and it would only appear when certain requirements were met. Time, location, and sacrificial materials. The eye is hard to summon, and…"
Freia stopped for a second and continued, "Many hunters tried to summon the eye, but none succeeded. My father said that it was just a tale and we should not treat it seriously."
"Do you know a weapon called Snake Honor?" Angele wondered.
"Yeah, one of the widely used weapons from the churches. They were only given to the strong ones with a title called the Holy Eye and they were all very close to the Hunter Lord. My father said that he had the chance to become a Holy Eye but he was too old," Freia blinked as she explained.
"The Holy Eye had a beautiful armor, a strong mount, and the mutated creatures stood no chance if they encountered one of them…" Freia recalled.
Angele drew the short sword, it seemed like the weapon was left in the tomb by someone else and it did not belong to the Knight in the coffin. Maybe the owner of the weapon had the ability to communicate with the Oblivion Realm; also, it was possible that a Holy Eye was killed by something when he was exploring the tomb.
He realized that this weapon had the features of the concept gear he failed to acquire.
BLOP*
Freia lifted her fishing rod and there was a small fish on the hook.
PA*
The fish dropped onto the grass.
However, it was not an ordinary fish. The thing had countless legs and it looked like a centipede. It rolled several times on the ground and started crawling back to the water, the hook still in its mouth.
"Well, it's inedible anyways…" Freia shook her head. She removed the hook and threw the fish back to the river.
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Chapter 370: Eye Devil (1)
Translator: Leo Editor: Leo
Angele glared at the small fish and threw the Snake Honor into the air.
CHI*
The short sword penetrated the fish accurately and dropped into the water.
"Green, why did you throw the sword away?" Freia was surprised, but she noticed that the sword was connected to a silver string in Angele's hand.
BLOP*
Angele pulled the string slightly and the sword jumped out of the water with the fish on its tip.
The sword returned to his hand and Angele started checking the blade.
The blood from the fish was dripping down the blade; it almost looked like the sword had its own blood vessels.
Angele looked at the short sword and started thinking.
Freia was still fishing using the flowers as bait and she threw most of the strange creatures with weird appearances she caught back into the river.
The sun started setting and it was getting dark outside. Freia finally stood up.
"Let's go, Green." There was a metal bucket in her hand—it was created by Angele's force field. The tiny fish inside the bucket was great for making a fish stew.
Angele nodded slightly and stopped thinking.
"One more thing, Freia. Stay in the mansion and don't even leave the main building in the next several days as I need to make sure the areas around are safe," Angele exhorted.
"Understood, Green." Freia nodded several times.
Angele escorted her back to the mansion and asked her to cook the fish stew first. He then put on the cloak again and left the mansion.
Angele walked around the mansion and walked to the small forest on the opposite side of Freia's room.
The orange light from the setting sun filled up the forest. The dim sunlight illuminated the tree leaves, tree trunks, and the grass. The wind in the late afternoon was warm and soothing.
Angele walked to the large trees and started observing.
He slowly crouched beside one of the trees.
The grass under the tree was leaning, it looked like someone stepped on it.
Angele touched the grass—it was wet and warm. He also detected a hint of energy particles.
He stood up calmly and glanced around.
PA*
He heard someone stepping on the grass, the noise came from the deep forest.
"Who's there?!" Angele disappeared into the air, only a small hole was left in the place where he was standing at.
He turned into a black shadow and rushed to the source of the noise, moving through the woods at full speed.
PA*
The black shadow hit one of the trees on the way and he quickly created two silver daggers in hands.
CHI*
The tree trunk was slashed into pieces and the tree started falling to the left slowly.
BAM*
The tree dropped to the ground, the cracking branches and the leaves making loud noises.
Angele stood beside the destroyed tree and checked the surroundings carefully.
Suddenly, a blurry gray shadow entered his sight—the shadow was running away and it was about to jump into the bushes.
Angele's expression turned cold, his body turned into a black shadow again and rushed toward the gray shadow.
The distance between them was reducing quickly.
A silver light dot appeared in front of the black shadow and the light dot hit the back of the gray shadow hard.
BAM*
The gray shadow was pinned on the tree trunk.
"MOO!" A strange voice echoed in the air.
The black shadow turned around by the gray shadow, it was Angele with the black cloak.
His cold stare fell upon the gray shadow that was pinned on the tree trunk by a silver dagger.
It was a small man that was only about one meter tall. The man looked like a young child, and he was wearing a broken linen outfit. His skin had the color of an old candle and his body was unbalanced.
The small man was facing the tree trunk; he was struggling and trying to get rid of the dagger, but nothing worked.
Strangely, the dagger penetrated the man's chest but there was no blood leaking out of the wound, and it almost looked like the man was a puppet.
Angele's brow furrowed and he approached the tree carefully. The man suddenly turned his head around and shouted again.
Angele blinked his eyes and he finally had a clear view of the man's face.
The man looked almost identical to a human being but only had one eye.
There was only one eye on the bridge of his nose. It was a white eye with two black pupils, one on the right and one on the left. It looked like a normal pair of eyes but on the same eyeball.
The man stared at Angele and Angele could see the fear in the man's eye. The man was pushing the tree trunk with all the strength he had, but it was not working.
"Can you understand my words?" Angele questioned in a low voice.
"MOO!" the man screamed again in fear.
Angele pursed his lips and raised the dagger in his right hand into the air.
CHI*
A blood hole was left on the small man's forehead as the tip of the dagger extended.
The small man stopped struggling and lost all his strength. He looked like a dead beast that was hanging on the tree trunk.
Angele pulled the dagger out of dead man's body and carefully gouged his large eyeball out.
Angele held the fist-sized eyeball in hand carefully.
He took out a test tube from the pouch which was filled up with translucent slimy liquid.
He removed the wooden stopper and applied the sticky liquid on the surface of the eyeball, preventing the eyeball from drying out.
The fist-sized eyeball had the texture of soft rubber ball and it had a hint of charming fragrance.
Angele carefully covered the eyeball with a thin layer of metal after applying the sticky liquid. He put the metal ball on his waist and used the force field to prevent it from falling.
PA*
The dead body of the small man dropped to the ground.
Angele was not interested in the dead body, he was looking at the trees in the front.
There were about ten more gray shadows moving in the front.
"Ha." Angele pursed his lips again, his body turned into a black shadow and charged forward.
"MOO! MOO!" The deep voice was familiar, a large group of gray shadows was trying to escape.
Angele was running to the northeast of the mansion; it took him about half an hour to kill some more single-eyed men and he collected sixteen fist-sized eyeballs. They looked like a bunch of white grapes.
The night was about to fall. Angele stood between the trees with a bunch of eyeballs in hand, and he decided to return to the mansion.
"You're just going to leave?" A high-pitched voice came from behind but Angele was not sure if it was a man or a woman.
Angele turned around and saw someone stepping out of the thin mist between the trees.
"Huh? You know how to communicate with me?" Angele narrowed his eyes, he looked excited. "You're the second one that knows how to speak I meet here."
"Interesting." The mysterious man revealed himself as he left the mist.
The man was wearing a black outfit with a black mask and a black hat. The only thing Angele could see was a pair of blue eyes.
"You killed my single-eyed gnomes and you're just going to leave?"
"Single-eyed gnomes?" Angele looked at the eyeball. "You mean the owners of those things?"
"What else can it be?" the man responded in a cold tone.
"Well, so, we'll have to fight?" Angele's expression turned serious.
"The single-eyed gnomes are not impacted by the mutation, they're the best servants you can find now, but you killed them all. You must pay for what you have done," the man said. "I don't like facing the strange creatures in the night but it doesn't mean I fear them. The night is about to fall, make the right choice."
"Are you threating me?" Angele looked like at the man in black curiously. "What a joke." He raised his right hand.
CHI*
A ray of silver light flew toward the man in black.
Clank*
The man used a white dagger to block the silver ray.
However, his pupils constricted as the two metal objects contacted.
The silver ray exploded after being blocked, turning into countless silver strings, flying toward the man.
"Halo!" the man shouted and created a black string. A large black bird spurted out of the string, it was a bird formed by the shadows.
The bird swung its wings several times and jumped to the glowing silver strings.
The silver strings sank into the bird's body and disappeared.
Twitter*
The black bird shouted and flew toward Angele.
Angele raised his left hand and a ball of golden light spurted out of the white ring on his middle finger.
"The Light of the Thorn!"
CHI CHI CHI*
Countless rays of eye-blinding golden light blocked the black bird; although the bird handled the metal force field like it was nothing, it started melting quickly in the golden rays like ice that met fire.
The golden rays were flying everywhere and the temperature in the area started rising.
The light illuminated Angele and the mysterious man's bodies.
"Rossie!" the man screamed in a high-pitched tone, his voice turned into the voice of a woman, and black mist appeared behind him.
The black mist was moving toward Angele quickly, it almost looked like the mist was a living being.
The mist slowly disappeared before it reached Angele—inside it was a skeleton in a broken black outfit. The skeleton floated in the air and jumped to Angele.
There was still some white hair on the skeleton's skull and it was surrounded by a black glow.
For some reason, Angele could feel that his movement was impaired. His body was still strong, but he felt weak and he was slowed down.
'Warning! Warning! You are under the effect of an unknown force field. Debuff: Slow, Senility.' The chip's warning echoed in Angele's ears.
'The effect ignored my defensive force field and impacted me directly.' Angele's expression changed and two lava balls appeared in front of his body.
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Chapter 371: Eye Devil (2)
Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu
The cracks on the surface of two lava balls flying toward the skeleton were filled up with golden liquid.
There was a short distance between the two lava balls.
The skeleton leaned to the left and dodged the first lava ball.
BOOM*
The first lava ball exploded after passing the skeleton, turning into a golden light ball; most of the lava drops splashed on the bones of the skeleton.
"AH!" the Skeleton screamed in a high-pitched tone. Half of its body was burnt to ashes and it lost its original form.
It almost looked like a beast took a large bite of the skeleton and crushed it.
HUA*
The skeleton broke into pieces and dropped to the ground.
The second lava ball was flying at the mysterious man.
Angele took out a lot of glass bottles and tubes from the pouch carefully; he did not even check the result of the lava balls' attack.
He used the force field to remove all the lids and stoppers from the containers.
Angele raised his hands, then poured all the colorful pills and liquids into his mouth. He quickly swallowed them all.
Seconds later, the effect of the potions and pills helped him remove the debuff—he was no longer slowed and weakened.
Angele raised his right hand and reached forward.
BOOM*
Countless silver strings formed a silver flood, moving toward the man in black that was still standing on the other side.
The trees and grass between them were destroyed by the flood.
"Basilicata!" the man in black shouted again in the high-pitched tone. The sound wave materialized in the air—it looked like the wave on the surface of the water, spreading to all angles.
"Final Judgement!" A light voice came from nowhere, mixing with the one from the man in black.
CHI*
Suddenly, four black wings appeared on the back of the mysterious man.
The wings were growing rapidly; reminiscent of those bats boasted, they covered the whole area within seconds, yet still kept expanding.
The black shadow under the wings covered the grass, tree trunks, dry leaves, and the sky; everything was turned into black.
Each of the wings was more than ten meters long.
Manifested in the form of three slowly spinning black diamond-like crystals, a cold and terrifying energy wave was moving toward Angele. The dark energy coming from the surface of the crystal penetrated Angele's defensive force field and sank into his body.
The silver flood approached the mysterious man at the same time.
BOOM*
The silver flood was stopped by an invisible energy barrier when it was about one meter away from the man. The silver needles were trying to attack the man, but they could not proceed any further.
Black light flashed in his eyes as Angele's face turned pale.
"Die!" he shouted, raised his left hand, and created a long silver sword.
Chi*
The sword disappeared from his hand, turned into a silver string, then started extending. The sword used the silver flood as a bridge and it was going for the man's head.
The mysterious man removed his mask—it was a woman with an attractive face.
A ray of black light was released from her mouth and it contacted the tip of the slim silver sword.
Clank*
The black ray hit the sword and they both disappeared into the air.
The woman swung the enormous wings slightly and jumped into the air. She almost looked like a dark angel.
"Dark Night!" she shouted furiously.
BOOM*
The four black wings' size increased again; they painted the sky in black like spilled ink.
The setting sun disappeared and the area beneath the wings almost looked like the night sky with blinking stars as decoration.
The whole forest was covered by the shadow.
Angele's movement was slowed down again; he had no idea what effect the woman's skill had. He released two more lava balls and the three silver scars appeared on his cheeks.
BOOM*
The strength of the silver flood doubled and it was going for the woman that was flying in the sky.
"Phoenix!" a red bird appeared on Angele's right shoulder.
He decided to let the silver flood do its thing. Angele raised his hands and created a long metal bow, then quickly drawn the bowstring fully.
CHI*
A long silver arrow appeared on the bowstring and he stared at the target.
WOO*
Angele's eyes became surrounded by a red glow after a crisp noise. His eyes were clear like a pair of rubies.
'Modifying the angle…' Zero's voice echoed in his ears.
"Iamususi, heed my call!" Angele chanted a short incantation with a low voice.
Countless small red beads appeared around the arrow—they looked like a bunch of spinning glass beads.
Then, dark-red flame appeared on the tip of the arrow.
Red light dots and blue light dots were moving in front of Angele's eyes. His left eye turned red and his right eye turned blue several seconds later. The blue light came from the chip and the red glow came from the Molten Core River.
"Pyroblast!"
CHI*
The arrow turned into a red string and flew toward the woman.
Angele had no time to check the result. He stopped the silver flood and started backing off.
He finally stepped out of the darkness after moving back for more than ten meters.
The red string mixed with the retreating silver flood and the two lava balls as they hit the woman in the sky together.
A ball of red exploded in the air and it almost looked like a small sun appeared in the night sky.
Angele covered his eyes with a right hand to block some of the eye-blinding light.
The heat wave warmed up the wind, spreading to all angles. The smell of the burnt wood permeated the air as a streak of black smoke rose into the sky.
The light faded away quickly.
The woman's black outfit was damaged, but it seemed like wings on her back changed again.
Angele saw that there was an hourglass pattern in her right eye. The hourglass was made from redwood and glass; there was not much sand left in the upper part of the hourglass.
CHI*
A long black spear appeared in her right hand, coated with dancing dark shadows.
The dark energy was the source of the black spear's power, and its size and length were increasing quickly. Also, the shadow flame around the spear was getting more and more intense.
Angele could feel the pressure coming from the sky. He raised his head and put his right hand on the chest. Then, a red glow appeared in front of his chest, and a singing female voice resounded in the sky.
The red glow illuminated his chest and a strange energy wave was released from the bloodline signet. His long red hair started growing rapidly.
Angele and the woman both knew that they were more or less evenly matched.
Angele could feel that the woman was slightly stronger than him, but it seemed like she was scared by the bloodline signet from the scorpion woman.
Also, he knew that the three diamond-shaped crystals around his body were damaging him using the dark energy waves.
Those materialized energy waves looked like black smoke, and they were invading his force field and his body. The defensive barrier from the crystal scorpion, the metal force field, and the high-temperature force field all failed to stop the dark energy. It was probably the reason why Angele was slowed and weakened again.
Without the help of the potions and pills, he would stand no chance against the woman.
The two looked at each other, but neither was trying to attack first.
They both knew that they were about to use their strongest skills. They traded several attacks, but none of them dealt any actual damage; however, the next exchange would probably decide the outcome of the battle.
The woman hesitated for a second and suddenly started laughing.
"Well, is it really worth it? I mean, we are fighting because you killed my single-eyed gnomes, but I'm not sure we have to go as far as trying to kill each other." The woman's voice returned to normal, but it still sounded a bit strange.
"You're right. I'm just using them for my experiment. I knew something would happen, but I didn't expect to meet a strong opponent." Angele's expression relaxed.
"An experiment?" The woman was a bit confused. "They're just materials for you?"
"Of course." Angele nodded. "I've been collecting materials my whole life and I'll go after anything that I've never seen before. To be honest, I didn't want to start the battle."
"Well, we should probably stop here, then." The woman nodded. "Let me introduce myself. You can call me Eye Devil and my territory is the Lion Tree City."
Angele decided to tell the woman a fake name. "You can call me Phoenix, my territory is the forest and that river."
"You should make things easier for us. The lords have never heard of you. You know this world is a mess now." Eye Devil chuckled. "I was here to expand my territory but I meant no offense."
"It's my fault. I lived in the forest for too long and I have no idea about the current situation. Do you have a map of this area? We can do a trade, what do you think? Tell me what you need." Angele shrugged.
"There's no need to trade for it." Eye Devil dropped a leather scroll to the ground.
PA*
Angele caught the scroll and scanned it with the biochip. He made sure that it was not a trap and slowly opened the scroll.
It was a very detailed, large map.
A city in the center of the map was marked with a white block and it said: "Lion Tree City". Angele also found the Dark Cloud City, Dawn City, and several lakes around the Lion Tree City.
Angele had visited the Dark Cloud City before—it was to the northeast of Ness River—so he recognized it quickly.
All three cities were on the top-right of Ness River and they formed a triangle.
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Chapter 372: Invitation (1)
Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu
The Eye Devil slowly landed on the ground and black wings slowly disappeared from her back. The sand had completely disappeared from the hourglass in her eye and the light from the setting sun returned to the forest.
The red light slowly disappeared from Angele's chest but the three black crystals were still spinning around him, so he glared at Eye Devil.
With a flick of her finger, the three crystals cracked into pieces at the same time and slowly dropped to the ground.
Angele could feel that his body was lightened up and the debuffs were removed.
"Such mysterious power, it ignored my defensive barriers. I've never seen something like that before," Angele praised.
He was certain that Eye Devil was not using all her power; he used the data collected by Zero to compare their power levels and it turned out Angele was slightly weaker—that was the reason why he was talking to her politely.
Although Angele had the bloodline signet, it did not mean that he could win the battle.
Angele thought that he would die after severely injuring Eye Devil even with the help of Henn. He did not know why, but he knew he would lose.
The power of Eye Devil was terrifying.
However, Eye Devil thought similarly—they were not familiar with each other's skills.
"It's not the first time I've heard someone saying that." There was a gentle smile on Eye Devil's face. She surmised that the guy named Phoenix had a strong background as she could feel the pressure coming from multiple angles during the battle. It felt like the skills the man used were similar to the abilities she knew.
Her expression loosened again after thinking for several seconds. Eye Devil threw the black spear into the air.
CHI*
The spear turned into a ball of black smoke and returned to Eye Devil's body.
"I want to invite you to my party if you don't mind. The strongest lords in the area will be attending the party and I can introduce you to them." Eye Devil smiled.
"A party?" Angele hesitated. "In the Lion Tree City?"
"Of course. I invited all the lords in the area. You're interested in the special experiment materials, right? I'm sure you'll find the things you need there."
Angele was not sure if he should accept the invitation.
He stood there and hesitated for a while, but still decided to attend the party.
"Alright, I've been living in the woods for too long and I think I should learn more about the society. Thanks for the invitation, I'll attend the party. When does it start?"
Eye Devil raised her right index finger and pointed at Angele's map.
CHI*
Black light flashed on the map and disappeared within seconds.
Angele opened the scroll again and found a black arrow mark on the map.
"What's this?"
Devil Eye lowered her finger. "It's just a small trick. The direction of the arrow will keep changing until you find the location of the party."
Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes, he scanned the map into the database and nodded slightly.
"Interesting trick. Alright, I'll go prepare for the party then. When will it be held?"
"The day after tomorrow."
Angele folded the scroll and put it in his pouch.
"I'll see you soon."
Eye Devil smiled again. "I'll be waiting."
Angele nodded again and picked up the metal-coated eyeballs. He turned around and started heading back to the mansion.
He was checking the surroundings constantly using the biochip and the mentality wave. His right hand was in the pouch, holding an energy potion—he was ready to fight again.
Angele could feel the cold sight of the Eye Devil; the mysterious woman was glaring at him, and he was not sure if the words she said weren't just trying to earn his trust.
Angele stopped, turned around, and looked at the forest after he made sure that he was no longer in Eye Devil's sight.
The sight of Eye Devil's body had been completely blocked by the vibrant trees and bushes.
"Alright…" Angele sighed, turned around, and started walking to the mansion again.
He returned to the mansion about half an hour later.
There were countless black vines surrounding the mansion. They moved to the side and created a path to the gate for Angele.
Angele walked on the path and disappeared into the bell-shaped barrier. The vines returned to their original position quickly.
Eye Devil appeared on a tall tree in the small forest beside the mansion as Angele entered the mansion.
She crouched on the branch and looked at the luxurious mansion, licking her lips.
"So, he wasn't lying…" she muttered and tapped on her forehead slightly. A blood hole appeared between her eyebrows; her red veins and white skull were visible through the blood hole.
Several seconds later, a tiny brown octopus climbed out of the blood hole. The octopus was swinging its sticky brown tentacles as it jumped on Eye Devil's hand quickly.
A hint of a smile on Eye Devil's face as she looked at the octopus.
She threw the octopus to the ground and it rolled several times before disappearing into the mud.
'This guy's skill impacted my bloodline, he probably already has the true form… However, he did not even use the true form to fight my sealed form, I could've won that fight…" Eye Devil looked at the defensive barrier and she looked surprised. "The defensive system is incredible, without the true form, it's nearly impossible for someone to build such a fortress. He wouldn't be able to support the system without the power of the true form. I made a wise decision. I'm not sure what's going to happen if…'
Eye Devil thought she was lucky. She did not want to get injured as she had a big plan in mind. She was certain that the man named Phoenix had a similar power level to her.
'Wait… I should probably try to convince him to work with me if he has a similar personality as Carl…'
Eye Devil sighed with mixed emotions. She gave the mansion one final glance, then disappeared into the forest.
Inside the mansion.
Angele watched the dark shadow disappearing into the forest through the window on the second floor.
He suddenly covered his mouth as his face turned pale.
Blood was about to spurt out of his throat but Angele forced it down.
He took a deep breath after Eye Devil completely disappeared.
'She probably misunderstood something. Eye Devil was not serious during the battle and I'm sure she hasn't revealed her true power yet. However, she almost forced me to use my final plan…' The pressure Eye Devil gave him was almost as strong as Vivian.
Angele calmed down and started checking his body.
Angele drank a lot of high-quality potions and swallowed many pills at the same time to cleanse the debuffs, but there would be consequences.
Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes for several minutes. He took out a small blue tube from the pouch. The tube was filled up with black pills; he took one of the pills quickly.
Blood returned to his pale face again, it seemed like the pill helped him recover.
'The special alloys for my metal force field were all used up during the battle, I need to craft some more.' Angele's brow furrowed. He did improve the metal skills by a lot, but the fast consumption of the special alloy was a big problem. The metal he had was usually enough for quick fights, but a battle like the one he just experienced was way too intense.
A lot of the special alloys was gasified before reaching Eye Devil and it was impossible to collect them from the air. It was a big loss for Angele.
'All for those damn eyeballs…' Angele sighed softly.
He turned around and looked at the white platform in the center of the room. There were more than ten eyeballs piled on the surface of the platform—they looked like some terrifying fruits.
With a flick of his finger, a ball of yellow flame appeared around his body.
The clean yellow light illuminated the platform, it was perfect for the experiment.
Angele grabbed one of the fist-sized eyeballs carefully. The two black pupils looked like a pair of normal eyes.
'The texture…' Angele scrunched his eyebrows. 'Let me see what I can get from it. I need to test its resistance, cell activity, and pH value. Everything needs to start from scratch.'
He walked to a sink on the other side with the eyeball in hand. There was a test tube shelf over the sink and it was full of colorful test tubes. The colorful liquids inside the tubes was moving like they were alive. Some were bubbling and some were changing their forms every other second.
About half an hour later, Angele took out the eyeball from a test tank carefully and checked it using the biochip.
'That's all the basic information I need.' He returned to the platform with the eyeball and a magic circle was already prepared on the surface of the platform.
The magic circle was large enough for all the eyeballs. There was a moon rune in the center of the circle, and a beetle pattern was engraved in the middle of the moon.
Angele put the eyeball on the moon rune carefully.
He then put his hands on both sides of the circle.
WOO*
The magic circle was surrounded by a red glow, the runes and strings all looked like that they were infused with fresh blood.
The eyeball pile started melting at a visibly fast rate—Angele could see the changes with his eyes.
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Chapter 373: Invitation (2)
Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu
The eyeballs melted and turned into red liquid. The liquid formed a head-sized blood ball on top of the magic circle.
The surface of the blood ball was boiling.
Angele raised his hands and started drawing runes in the air.
Blinking red runes were released from his fingers and sunk into the blood ball.
The blue light dots in front of his eyes were getting brighter and brighter as more and more runes merged with the blood ball. Also, there was sweat dripping down his chin.
The floating blood ball started shrinking as the runes sunk into it.
The color of the ball also changed—the intense red glow brightened up the whole reading room.
Angele finally finished the last rune after about one hour.
The last red rune drew a straight line in the air and jumped into the ball.
The blood ball was still shrinking.
PONG PONG*
The deep noise sounded like human's heart beating.
The blood ball looked like a small human fist and there was no longer anything happening on its surface, but Angele could see the red vapor rising from it.
The vapor created a mysterious red mist and it had an intense syrupy smell.
Angele looked at the fist-sized blood ball and scanned it with the biochip.
'Bloodline extracted, checking the database…' Zero reported back quickly.
'Searching completed, no data found, bloodline effect simulation started…'
'Simulation completed, possible bloodline merging effect: Increase your attributes, acquire an unknown ability, possible evolution. Consequences: body shape change, appearance change and more. Please collect more data.'
Zero's report came back.
Angele read the result carefully but he was a bit confused. The result of the simulation was not helpful, it did not mention how many points of attributes he would get and not all the consequences were listed.
He hesitated for a second and sighed.
'I should wait.' He tapped on the surface of the blood ball.
CHI*
The red ball turned into a ray of light and sank into his chest. It turned into an eye-shaped signet beside the red musical signet.
It was the third bloodline signet he got and it was also sealed inside Angele's body.
Angele had two choices at the moment.
First, he could keep practicing the Molten Core River and slowly progress just like the other wizards in the central continent.
Second, he could extract the bloodlines' abilities and walk the same path as the ancient wizards. Although Angele was not sure how the ancient wizards strengthened their bodies, he knew that the ancient wizards increased their power by improving their bloodlines.
They signed contracts with the strongest beings from different realms, they also acquired the power, knowledge, and bloodlines by exploring the mysterious chaos world.
It was nearly impossible for the modern wizards to travel to other realms. For them, the only way to communicate with the beings from other realms was by using the world stones.
However, Angele had the bloodline signets—he could easily go to other realms and find the information he needed. He had the opportunity to become one of the strongest modern wizards in the main world.
He rubbed the bloodline signets several times.
Angele decided to visit the Lion Tree City and see if he could some valuable information or knowledge there.
Two days later.
In a forest northeast of the Ness River. The golden sunlight warmed up the surface of the ground and the temperature was high between the trees.
The gentle wind was hot and humid.
The golden light was reflected by the dark-green tree leaves which looked vibrant and clean.
There was a large sea of trees beside the endless yellow plain.
A man in a black cloak slowly stepped out of the forest. He slowly removed his black hood, revealing his clean face and long red hair. It was Angele from the Ness River.
He left the mansion when the time was right and followed the directions as indicated by the arrow on the map.
Angele finally left the forest after two days of traveling.
He stood by the edge of the forest and looked at the plain.
It was a yellow plain with no grass, no creature, and no tree, it was empty.
He was standing on a small hill and the view was quite nice.
On the other side of the plain, there was a yellow city sitting on a large empty area quietly. The wind mixed with the sand blurred the sight of the city slightly.
Angele looked at the city, but the latter was surrounded by some yellow fog; it almost looked like the whole city was covered with fog, and he could barely see anything.
The only noise he could hear was that made by the wind; there were no insect and no bird cries, the place was deadly silent.
Angele took out the scroll tapped it slightly and unsealed it.
'This is the Dark Cloud City.' He moved his right index finger on the map and found the mark quickly.
'The Lion Tree City is not far ahead.' He checked the black arrow, it was not pointing at the Dark Cloud City, but the city on the left of the plain.
Angele put on the hood again, he sealed the scroll and started advancing.
CHI CHI*
Suddenly, he heard some strange noise coming from behind.
Angele stopped moving, leaned to the side and glanced around, but he did not find anything and so decided to keep moving.
Yellow smoke rose from the ground quickly in the grass behind Angele. The yellow smoke turned into a translucent human-shaped shadow. There was nothing connecting the man's head and neck.
"Siiii!" the shadow shouted and jumped to Angele.
BAM*
The shadow hit the black cloak and was turned back into a pile of yellow smoke; it returned into the ground quickly.
Angele was not interested in the strange creature. He increased his speed and headed into the direction pointed by the arrow.
It was not the first time he had seen something like that translucent shadow. He met many of them on the way here and their appearances varied. Some were old, some were young, some looked like males, and some looked like females.
They would try to jump on Angele after they saw him, but they were all blocked by the black cloak.
Angele was not sure what those creatures were. They looked like creatures with no intelligence, but it was possible that they were the mutated citizens of the city. They could not be destroyed by physical damage and they could go through any object that was not black.
Those creatures were only active during daytime as the night was too dangerous for them.
The whole Nightmare Realm was getting more and more strange.
Angele increased his speed again after tightening his cloak. He was headed to the left of the Dark Cloud City.
It was night. On a small hill on the plain.
The sky was covered with black clouds and the moon was nowhere to be seen. The air was hot and humid.
Angele was standing on the hill overlooking the city on the plain. He was still wearing a black cloak.
A dark area was surrounded by a circle of red string.
That dark area was the Lion Tree City according to the map.
A sulfurous smell permeated the air as the wind brushed over his face.
Angele calmed down and stared at the city.
The red strings were flowing slowly, releasing poisonous gas and high-temperature heat waves. The string was a river full of dark-red lava, its surface bubbling.
The dark area in the center was filled up with buildings built with black rocks. Some of the buildings were more than 100 meters tall, but some were only six to seven meters tall. They looked identical to the office buildings on earth.
The city was surrounded by heat waves and poison. It almost looked like the city was set on fire.
The red light from the lava river was eye-catching in the dark night.
Angele inhaled once—he could smell the sulfur from the air.
'Good thing I'm practicing Molten Core River and this heat is like nothing to me.' Angele sighed. He quickly made several hand gestures as he chanted some strange incantations.
More than ten red eyes slowly appeared around his body as he finished the incantation. Those glowing eyes disappeared into the air quickly.
It was the improved Eye of Fire spell. Angele stepped forward and started moving to the city.
BOOM*
Suddenly, a green star appeared in the sky. It was dropping toward the black city.
The green star made some loud noise; it sounded like a plane, leaving a trail of green light behind.
Angele could see that there was a terrifying creature inside the green star. The creature looked like a berserker wearing a terrifying bone armor.
There were two green axes on the creature's back. He was wearing a horned bone helmet with a white flashing rune on it. There was a crazy look on his face and his mouth was wide open, it seemed that he was shouting.
The star landed in the black city quickly.
BOOM*
A ball of green light disappeared into the city and the land was shaking.
Angele's expression changed several times and he started walking toward the black city again.
It was a great opportunity for him to communicate with other intelligent creatures in the Nightmare Realm. He wanted to learn more about this world and the things happening around.
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Chapter 374: Eye Devil's Party (1)
Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu
The color of the mud under Angele's feet was getting darker and darker. The temperature of the ground was also increasing, and pink mist was rising from the cracks in the land.
KA KA KA*
Angele was advancing slowly but steadily. White smoke would rose from his feet every time he took a step forward.
CHI*
A strange noise came from his feet.
Angele knew that it was the sound made by his burning boots. He could feel that his feet were getting hotter and hotter.
He lowered his head and looked at the ground. There were only several hundreds of meters between him and the lava river.
'My fire resistance is high but I can still feel the heat…' Angele looked ahead.
The red smoke kept rising from the black area in the front and he could see some lava flowing in the cracks on the ground.
The smell of sulfur permeated the air.
Angele stopped for a second and took another step forward.
CHI*
Fire sparked on the edge of his black cloak and quickly expanded to other parts of the cloak, igniting the whole thing.
WOO*
Angele's body was covered in red flames and the cloak started burning.
He raised his hands.
Black metal liquid spurted out of his skin and coated the surface of the burning cloak completely.
The fire extinguished seconds later and Angele had a new black cloak that was made of black metal.
His face turned pale and he quickly put his right hand on the face.
A black mask appeared on his palm and he covered his face with the mask. The nose and mouth area of the mask started transforming. They turned into a large filter.
Angele took out a glass tube from the pouch and poured the yellow particles into the filter. He dropped the tube to the ground after the process was completed.
He started walking to the dark city again.
The eye-catching red lava river was getting closer and closer.
Angele could hear the noise made by something burning in the air and the color of the sky around turned from black to red.
On the other side of the river, there were some small burning dots moving around.
Those humanoid light dots were surrounded by the poisonous fire; they were naked and their bodies were red. Angele could see the golden flames in their eyes. Those strange creatures were humpbacked, their hands and feet replaced by sharp claws. They were also breathing heavily.
With the help of the black metal cloak and the black metal mask, Angele's body was not exposed to the air. He stood beside the lava river and white smoke started rising from his body.
Angele stood by the edge of the lava and raised his head, but he did not see any bridge.
'Damn, this place is definitely not for human beings…' Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes.
'Average temperature of the area: 782-952 Celsius. Air composition: Unknown poisonous gas, 87.21%. Final conclusion: Not a place for mortals,' Zero reported back quickly.
Angele took a deep breath; the air from the filter was minty and refreshing. The high-temperature gas was not a big problem to him. He had already completed the third stage of the Molten Core River and his fire resistance was probably higher than most of the creatures in the area.
He walked to the river and stepped into the lava with no hesitation.
PA*
Black metal liquid appeared under his feet and it quickly formed a rectangular blanket over the red lava river.
Angele walked on the metal bridge calmly.
The humanoid creatures were staring at the unwelcome guest.
"Ha…" Red poisonous gas was coming out of those creatures' mouths. They were looking at Angele like looking at a delicious piece of meat. The creatures already prepared their claws, they were ready to strike.
Angele walked over the metal bridge and landed on the other side of the river within half a minute. More than 20 fire men were moving toward him from all angles.
He quickly glanced at those fire men.
Each fire man was about one meter tall; they were getting closer and closer, the road was almost blocked by them.
'What's this all about?'
Angele stepped forward with a blank expression on the face.
CHI*
A sea of red hair spurted out of the black cloak and penetrated the heads of the fire men around.
CHI*
All the hair returned into the cloak.
Angele only stopped for one second, then started walking again.
The fire men fell to the ground, turned into piles of red lava, and slowly sank into the cracked land.
The rest of the fire men witnessed the scene and decided to retreat. They watched Angele walk to the large city slowly.
Angele entered the dark city and the buildings around him were all burnt black. There were burn marks everywhere and he did not detect any living beings around.
The warm wind was blowing the black ash into the air.
Angele felt like he was walking on a thick blanket that was covered with ash. The ash almost covered the back of his boots.
It almost looked like the land was covered in burning firewood and there was fire sparking from time to time.
The street was dark and he did not detect any movement of any living beings.
Angele checked the surroundings and headed to the center of the city—it was a tall black building.
It only took him about ten minutes to reach it.
Angele observed the buildings on the street carefully; the whole city looked like a ruin that just survived some intense fire and there were dead bodies on the ground, but they were also burnt black.
He saw two people already standing in front of the tall building.
The first one was the star he saw from the sky, it was the berserker with bone armor and a bone helmet.
The grayish white bone armor was decorated with dark green crystals. There were two green axes on the man's back and they were made of translucent dark green crystals.
The man's head was hidden under the horned helmet. The two horns had different length and they looked wild.
The other one was a woman wearing dark red armor. There was a V-shaped open area on her chest, it almost looked like she was wearing a V-neck tight suit.
There were six black thorns on the back of the woman, they looked like a pair of bone wings; there was red glow on the tips of the wings.
The two quickly noticed Angele's presence. Angele took several steps forward and stood several meters away from the two, so he would have enough time to react if anything happened.
The woman looked at Angele and smiled, countless green crystals appeared on her cheeks and they looked like a bunch of terrifying green eyes, blinking constantly with green lights.
"Finally, someone new." She chuckled. "I didn't expect Eye Devil to find us some new blood."
The berserker did not say anything, he glared at Angele and lowered his head. The man was more than two meters tall and he had a muscular body. His arm had the size of a male adult's leg, it looked quite strong.
"One more," he spoke in a deep tone.
They heard the noise made by some metal armor as the berserker finished his words.
DANG DANG*
It sounded like an empty metal armor suit walking on the ground; the noise was getting closer and closer.
The three turned their heads around and looked at the black street.
A man with a full black armor was walking to the building step by step from the street.
The man was fully geared and there was a broken purple cloak on his back. The cloak was dancing in the heat waves.
Strangely, some green gas would be released from the gaps of the man's armor every time he took a step forward.
There was a long silver sword in the man's right hand and there was a pair of green eyes on the sword's handle. The blade was about two meters long, but it was thin and Angele noticed that there was a long green string in the center of the blade.
"You're early." The voice from the black armor sounded like it was a robot that was speaking. He was speaking in the ancient language—it sounded a bit like a swarm of bees flying around and the voice was hard to distinguish.
The man looked around and his sight fell upon the stranger in a black cloak.
"Huh? A newbie? Who invited him here? Spider, did you invite him here? Bone, was it you?"
"What are you talking about?" It looked like the berserker hated his nickname. "Why does it have to be us? You didn't even mention Eye Devil's name."
"We know each other for years and I know how Eye Devil deals with things. He'll try to kill every newbie he meets. The only possibility is that he can't kill this guy," the black armor responded. "Do you really think Eye Devil can't win a fight against him?"
"Well, anything is possible." The woman that was named Spider started playing with her long purple nails.
The black armor glared at Angele again and walked past him. He leaned against the black building and stabbed his long sword into the ground.
Angele hid under the black cloak and he looked a bit speechless.
He was trying to scan the three using the biochip, but the force field around the three could easily deal more than 1000 degrees of damage and Zero could not analyze their power level at all.
Fortunately, Angele had high attributes and the interruption effect of the crystal scorpion. Otherwise, he would have trouble standing still under such pressure.
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Chapter 375: Eye Devil's Party (2)
Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu
In the Eye of Fire, the three were releasing eye-blinding light and they looked like three small suns.
The stronger the creatures were, the more intense the light around them would be, that was the fundamental of the Eye of Fire. However, Angele had never seen such strong light, even when he tested the spell on Vivian.
The three stopped chatting. They just stood there and waited patiently.
Angele decided to proceed with caution so he just waited there as well.
The other three here could easily kill him; his only advantage was the two bloodline signets on his chest. For some reason, the energy waves released by the signets covered the mentality wave he was releasing.
It was a passive ability that would take effect when he partially activated the signets. The energy waves released by the signets were old but elegant.
The other three had trouble understanding the strange energy wave so they did not say anything else.
Angele had not expected to meet such terrifying creatures. He'd thought that the lords attending the party were at the similar level as Eye Devil and he could somehow handle the situation using the bloodline signet. However, the situation was much more complicated than he'd thought.
Angele knew the environment and the creatures of the Nightmare Realm were dangerous and what he witnessed confirmed the theory again.
The four stood in front of the black building for two hours and they looked like four sculptures.
A large white eyeball appeared in front of the black building. The eyeball was surrounded by tentacles and covered in blood veins.
"Masters, please follow me. My lord has finished the preparations," the eyeball spoke in a high-pitched tone. It turned around and walked to the entrance of the building after finishing the sentence. The tentacles around its body were waving in the air.
The Bone started moving the first—the Spider, the black armor, and Angele followed after them.
They entered the dark hall together.
There was a complicated red magic circle on the surface of the floor. There was a triangular platform floating in the center of the magic circle and there was a silver crossguard sword standing on top of the platform.
The triangular platform was moving up and down.
The four followed the eyeball into the magic circle.
CHI CHI*
Red light flashed in front of Angele's eyes and the environment around changed.
It was a spacious red hall and the red light was fading away from the magic circle on the floor.
The hall closed and the eye-shaped glowing crystals on the walls were releasing bright red light.
There were several tiny windows beside the glowing crystals.
Angele could see a black cliff through the window. A burning waterfall of lava was dropping from the cliff, it looked like a long red blanket. The noise made by the flowing lava was loud and the heated air was over 1000 degrees Celsius in temperature.
'It's underground…' Angele looked at the sky but the only thing he saw was black rocks.
CLAP CLAP*
"Welcome to the Eye Devil's Cave. Clap, everyone!" A bloody eye suddenly appeared on the right side of the bumpy wall.
The eye looked like a feline's eye and it was moving around. It seemed like the eyeball was trying to get used to the "eye socket".
Angele recognized the voice immediately—it was from the woman he met in the forest.
"Get to the point. Don't waste our time!" The black armor leaned against the wall with his arms crossed. It seemed like he was getting impatient.
The eyeball on the wall moved again and its sight fell upon the black armor. "Vapor, be patient, I invited many guests here."
"Huh? Are they all related to the thousand-eyed bloodline?" Spider seemed interested.
Eye Devil chuckled. "Well, I'm not the only one with the thousand-eyed bloodline this time."
"Alright, let's get out and we'll know how many people are here." Bone shook his body and his bone armor made some loud noise. He walked to the left side of the hall and the wall separated as he reached the end of the hall.
Behind the wall, there was lava—Bone stepped into it with no hesitation.
"Wait, I'm not finished yet… The location was changed to the Blood Hall this time," Eye Devil opened her mouth again after Bone left the hall.
Spider shook her head and laughed. "Well, why can't you be nicer to Bone?"
Angele did not say anything but he felt a bit relieved.
If the party were to be held in the lava, he was not confident that he could handle the thousand-degree golden lava for too long; also, he would have a hard time trying to observe the area inside the lava.
It was good that they changed the location.
"Ah, one more thing." Eye Devil's sight fell upon Angele. "This is a hermit I met in the southwest area. His sealed body had the similar power level to me. I think he's one of the sleepers that woke up due to the broken seal. Friend, tell us your nickname—just trying to make things easier here."
The other two stared at Angele as they waited for the response.
Angele noticed a hint of fear in their eyes and he was speechless. He felt like he was standing on a cliff and there were people waiting to push him down. Angele was playing with fire but he was not sure if he would be damaged by the fire.
He must not reveal his true power to those terrifying creatures—they would probably devour him if they found out about the truth.
Angele calmed down and smiled.
"You can call me Phoenix, I think I already told you that last time."
"Oh… Yeah, I have a bad memory. Sorry, you did tell me last time. Alright, Phoenix, I hope this will be an eye-opening experience for you. You can leave through the exit now as the coordinates had already been changed." The eye disappeared from the wall as she finished her words.
The red lava by the exit turned into a dark red light screen after she finished her words.
"Let's go." Vapor held the long sword in hand tight and entered the light screen.
Spider followed after him.
Angele turned his head around and looked at the wall that Eye Devil vanished into.
"Eye Devil, I hope I'll find something I need this time," he muttered and entered the light screen before Eye Devil responded.
"I won't disappoint you…" Eye Devil's voice came from the behind.
Angele stepped forward.
His sight blurred for a second during the teleportation.
He entered a larger red hall and there were several people waiting inside.
Those people were naked and countless red eyes covered the surface of their red skin. Their hands, bodies, necks, and faces were all covered in human eyes.
There were two long rectangular tables on both sides of the hall and raw meat was lying on the silver plates quietly; some of the meat looked like human arms and legs.
CHI*
A tall man that was covered with eyes was sitting on the table beside Angele. He was cutting a living woman in half; he bit on the woman's leg, tearing off a large piece of flesh.
The blood dripped down the legs of the table and entered the sinkholes in the ground.
The smell of blood and barbequed meat permeated the air.
Angele stood in front of the light screen and glanced around. He followed after Vapor and Spider—they were heading to the center of the hall together.
He noticed that the red men would bow to them as they walked by. Angele could see the respect and fear in their eyes.
They also bowed to Angele as he was following the lords.
Spider was not concerned about the people on the side. She glanced around and she looked disappointed. "The Blood Hall is sick as f*ck."
"Well, I like it." Vapor chuckled, he was walking in the front.
The three walked down the hall and reached two rows of black seats on the other side of the hall.
Angele looked around and sat down on a chair with tall back.
There were a total of eight seats, four on each side, and they were reserved for the main guests of the party.
Angele sat on the side, Spider and Vapor sat next to each other.
The blood hall stank; the strange smell came from the dead bodies of the animals on the table. There were also bodies of human beings and they were cut into pieces. None of the meat was fully cooked.
Green blood, blue blood, and red blood were mixed all together, then turned into a strange dark-red color. The tables were a mess.
Angele calmed down quickly. The scene was disturbing, but he was a dark wizard and he had seen people doing experiments using living human beings.
Although the scene made him uncomfortable, he decided not to say anything. He wanted the others to consider him a strong individual that did not like to speak too much. The fewer things he did, the safer he would be.
WOO*
The floor started vibrating as Angele was thinking about his situation.
A long rectangular table appeared in front of the seats.
Three girls with countless eyes on their red skin brought them three large silver plates from the side and they carefully laid down the plates in front of the important guests.
Inside the plate, there was a naked human girl with clean blonde hair. Her hands and feet were attached to the edge of the plate and it seemed like they cut off her tongue. The girl was struggling and there were tears running down her cheeks.
The red girls also served them several cups of bubbling green drinks.
"Please help yourself. This is the appetizer. A young and beautiful human girl. We checked her blood and health condition before washing her. I assure you that she was not infected and she just woke up from the blood cell about two hours ago," the red girl explained in a gentle voice.
Angele looked at the girl on the plate and his face was twitching.
It seemed like they wanted him to eat the girl alive…
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Chapter 376: Eye Devil's Party (3)
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This fifteen-or-so-year-old girl had clean and elastic skin, and the silver plate fit her body perfectly on the table.
The girl was staring at Angele with fear and sadness in her eyes.
Angele raised his head, glancing at Spider and Vapor.
The bones on Spider's back stabbed into the young boy on her plate; also, it seemed like the boy's flesh and organs were already turned into liquid. He looked like a balloon that was filled up with liquid.
Spider was absorbing the red liquid from the dead boy using the bones on her back.
Vapor was still wearing the full-body black armor. He supported his chin with the right hand but he did not touch the girl on the plate. It seemed like Vapor was thinking about something.
The dark green light on his armor already faded away, then turned gray. The texture of the green string on his long sword changed from translucent to metallic as well. Also, the color of his helmet and armor all turned gray.
He sat on the seat, looking like a silver stone sculpture.
'Good, it seems like not all the people here eat human beings.' Angele felt a bit relieved and he was about to move his sight away.
CHI*
Vapor suddenly raised his hand and pulled the girl's right breast off her body. He threw the flesh into his mouth without paying it too much attention; blood leaked out his helmet and splashed on the table.
Vapor was not concerned—he wiped the blood off with the back of his right hand and started thinking again.
The girl in front of him was struggling in pain and was in her death throes.
Angele was a bit speechless. He looked at the girl on his plate and narrowed his eyes. He leaned to the side and looked at the red girl that was standing beside him.
"Where did you find the material?" He pointed at the girl on the table.
The eyes on the girl's body blinked several times, she looked confused.
"You mean the human girl? It's a rare treat. We caught them at a human residential area not so long ago and they reproduced in the blood cells. You're looking at the product from the honorable blood cell technique of the thousand-eyed bloodline. Only one human being can be reproduced every ten years. The one on your plate is an important source human from the cell."
Angele was interested after hearing the explanation.
"I want to take her back and do some research. Are you sure she was captured not so long ago?"
"Of course. Do you want me to pack her up for you? We'll prepare everything for you," the red girl responded politely.
"Pack her up? What do you mean?" Angele wondered.
"Well, I'll cut off her hands, feet, and head so we can put her into several bags and it'll be easier for you to carry," the red girl explained calmly.
"She'll be dead if you do that. I want to do some experiment with her first." Ange was disappointed.
The girl was surprised. She bowed to Angele and quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, master! I'm sorry. I didn't know that…"
"You can leave now." Angele waved his right hand.
"Yes. Master." The eyes on the girl's body blinked several times again, she turned around and walked to the side door of the hall.
Angele observed the girl carefully and stopped the girl from struggling with both hands.
It seemed like the girl heard the conversation between him and the red girl. She calmed down slightly after she learned she would not be killed. The girl looked sad and tired.
However, she knew that Angele would do experiments with her body. Although she would not be killed right away, she knew that the procedure of the experiment would not be a pleasant experience for her.
Angele rubbed the girl's waist softly, it was smooth and clean. It felt like touching warm silk.
He grabbed the girl's breast, the texture was soft and comfortable. He then checked the girl's eyes.
"Good, eyeballs are normal," Angele muttered.
"Open your mouth and show me your tongue!" he ordered in a light voice.
Tears spurted out of the blonde girl's eyes. She opened her mouth but there was nothing inside.
"Ah, sorry, I forgot your tongue was cut off." Angele sighed and removed the metal belt that was preventing the girl from escaping. He turned the girl around.
He pressed the girl's neck and slowly moved his hand down.
Angele stopped after reaching the girl's tailbone.
He sighed with a hint of relief.
'Good, no curse, no tracking spell... it's a healthy subject.' Angele did not want to take back anything that could expose him to danger.
He tied the girl up with the metal belt again and lowered his hands. Angele just sat on the seat quietly and the girl started struggling again.
Angele quickly glanced around the hall.
There were dozens of people standing or sitting beside the two long rectangular tables on both sides of the hall. They were naked and their red skin was covered with the red eyes. It seemed like the eyes were checking the surroundings constantly.
Some of them were drinking fresh blood and chewing human flesh while chatting.
Besides the eyes on their body, they also had a pair of normal eyes under their eyebrows. Also, it seemed like they did not care that their genitals were exposed to the air—maybe such was their culture.
Angele also saw several tall men with only one eye on their faces devouring the food on the table.
Those muscular single-eyed men were almost bald, their muscular bodies were only covered by yellow leather skirts and none of them was wearing shoes. Also, it seemed like the large white bones they carried were their weapons.
Also, most of them were chewing large bones with little meat on them.
A tall and muscular man stepped out of the dark red light screen as Angele was looking around. The man was wearing a large bone helmet and there were two dark green axes on his back. The man was breathing heavily and he was furious.
"F*cking Eye Devil! Damn it! One day I'll crush you into pieces and feed you to the insects!" he cursed and walked to the main seats of the hall. It seemed like he was ready to fight.
However, it looked like the monsters in the hall were used to Bone's reactions, they just bowed to him.
Bone was not concerned about how others thought of him. He walked to Angele and sat down on an empty seat.
"Someone! Bring me a wild rhino!" he shouted to the waiters in the corner.
Several minutes later, a five to six meters long black rhino was brought to him by two red girls.
BAM*
The enormous silver plate was dropped in front of Bone. To ensure that Angele had enough space in front of him, the rhino was standing on the plate.
Bone was about to grab the rhino's head but he turned to Angele first.
"Hey, Phoenix, right? You don't like that soft meat too, huh?" He pointed at the blonde girl and pursed his lips.
Angele was surprised, he was not sure what he should say.
Bone grabbed the rhino's head and pulled a large piece of skin off its head. "Try this, it has a bite." He moved the left hand to the middle of the rhino's body.
KA*
A large piece of bloody rhino meat was dropped to Angele's silver plate, including the bones.
"Trust me! You'll like it!" Bone chuckled and started sucking the brain out of the rhino's skull. He put his head close to the rhino's head and started devouring the creature.
The blonde girl on Angele's plate was hit by the bloody rhino meat with skin hard. She trembled and wanted to move away but her movement was restricted by the metal belt.
Angele grabbed the rhino meat, it had the texture of a stone. It felt like holding a large red tire in hand.
Also, he would rather eat raw rhino meat than the human flesh. Although he preferred the cooked meat, he did not want to draw any unnecessary attention.
Angele decided not to eat the girl and his excuse was his intention to use her in an experiment, but there was no excuse for him not to eat the food Bone gave him. He thought that he should at least show his appreciation as a guest at the party.
Angele scanned the meat using Zero and pulled a strip of meat down with his incredible strength. The mouth area on the metal mask melted so he could throw the meat into his mouth.
Angele started chewing the raw rhino meat quickly.
"Huh?" The taste of the meat was not what he expected. It was sweet and fragrant.
The meat had the texture of the creamy beef jerky on the earth. Also, the rhino blood made the meat juicy and sweet. The meat was quite tasty.
"You know your meat." Angele nodded at Bone, he was satisfied. "But the meat is a bit tough for me."
"Ha, I knew you'd like it!" Bone laughed, he sounded happy. "The meat is not tough, you're just too weak. You should eat more rhino meat, it'll help you build your strength."
Angele was speechless. His Strength was over 15 and it was at the similar level as a mutated beast. Angele was certain that he could fight the mammoth from the tales, a creature famous for its incredible strength. He could easily destroy the rhino on the plate without using any spell but Bone thought Angele was too weak.
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Chapter 377: Eye Devil's Party (4)
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"It's understandable, you and Eye Devil didn't focus on training your strength," Bone said as he chewed on the large rhino bones—he'd already finished eating the rhino's brain.
Angele was not sure how he should respond to Bone but someone else interrupted before he could say anything.
"Bone, not everyone is like you. Phoenix was sealed for too long and he's probably still recovering." A familiar face appeared on an empty seat beside.
The woman was wearing a black robe with a silk mask, only the top half of her face was exposed to the air. It was Eye Devil.
"Eye Devil! How dare you!" Bone dropped the rhino bone to the table and stared at Eye Devil. "Why didn't you stop me?"
"Well, you left that hall before I could finish my words. You should blame yourself for that." Eye Devil chuckled.
"Whatever, I won't let it slide this time!" Bone turned around and started eating again after he stared at Eye Devil for a while.
Eye Devil's sight fell upon Angele. "Phoenix, why don't you have some food? You didn't like the appetizer?"
Angele smiled. "I'm taking her back to do some experiments. I need to see if human beings have changed after all those years." He decided to choose his words wisely.
"Is that so? Do whatever you want to." Eye Devil did not say anything else.
Bone patted Angele on the shoulder. "I know you're different! Come here, let's have some real food!" He used his right hand to cut the rhino in half and sliced off a large piece of fresh rhino meat for Angele. Bone did everything so fast that Angele had no time to decline the offer.
Angele lowered his head and saw a large piece of rhino filet on his legs.
"Thanks, rhino meat is the perfect snack for me. I like it." He nodded at Bone slightly.
The rhino meat reminded him of the beef jerky on the earth. He pulled a small piece of fillet down and threw it into his mouth.
"Snack?" Bone and Eye Devil's expressions changed.
"Rhino is a relatively large creature and you consider it a snack…? How large is your true form…" Eye Devil and Bone looked at Angele in a different way. They misunderstood Angele's words.
Eye Devil pursed her lips and closed her eyes.
Angele was chewing the rhino meat but he suddenly heard Eye Devil's voice echo in his ears.
"Phoenix, I have an offer for you."
Angele was a bit surprised, he was not sure if he could send the words to Eye Devil using the energy particles without being detected. He decided to exchange eye contact with Eye Devil.
It seemed like Eye Devil was not getting suspicious.
"It's easy. Help me make the price higher and I'll give you a share. Also, I'll help you once for free, the detailed procedure is…"
In the front of the hall, there was a red platform between the main guests' seats.
The five waited for about two hours and the rest of the main guests filled up the three remaining seats. They were all wearing black cloaks and their faces were covered by metal masks. They looked like three human beings but Angele had no idea what kind of monsters they were.
The people eating at the tables all stopped and stood up. The red girls cleaned the table and the floor. The place looked much better without the blood.
Eye Devil disappeared from the seat within seconds and she appeared on the red platform quickly.
CLAP CLAP CLAP*
Eye Devil clapped her hands several times.
"I'm glad that you decided to attend my party. We have three masters from the ultimate hell, Bone, Vapor, Spider, and a hermit named Phoenix that just broke the seal. There are eight sealed masters here, something that hasn't happened in several thousands of years. This is a grand party for the lava hell!"
CLAP*
The guests beside the tables started clapping together and they were staring at Eye Devil with excitement in their eyes.
A gentle smile appeared on Eye Devil's face.
"As the host of this party, I appreciate that you decided to join us today." She bowed to the guests slightly. "Also, I prepared a small activity before we start the party."
She clapped her hands as she finished the sentence.
CHI*
A bloody meat cocoon dropped down from the ceiling.
The meat cocoon was supported by some white spider web and it was floating on the right side of Eye Devil.
Eye Devil smiled and pressed on the meat cocoon slightly.
"We found this item on the edge of the void fissures. We'll auction the item before the party starts. The rules are the same as always, tell me the price you want to pay using the void talk."
The meat cocoon cracked open in the center and inside, it was a golden headguard that looked like a crown.
The was a fiery ruby in the center of the V-shaped headguard. The whole item looked simple but elegant.
"This is the Minstrel's Crown, an artifact from an empire of the Soul Lake Realm. The crown was worn by two of the empire's Emperors. That's the reason why this accessory is infused with mysterious power." Eye Devil smiled and looked at the guests. "You must be the nobles from different areas since you received my invitation. Come closer everyone, you can check the artifact with your own eyes."
Eye Devil walked straight back to her seat, she sat down slowly and started resting.
The guests stepped forward and started observing the crown inside the meat cocoon carefully. They took the crown down and whispered as they observed the artifact.
Spider, Vapor, and Bone stood up as well—they walked to the crowd and looked at the crown.
Time flew.
The three black robes that came from the ultimate hell were not interested in the crown. Two of them stood up and started checking the ancient paintings on the walls.
The last one was communicating with someone else with the "void talk" ability.
The two black robes stood next to each other, they were releasing freezing energy waves.
A red man and a red woman walked to the two black robes and greeted them politely.
"Elder Ice Lance and Elder Snow Devil, right? Do you remember me? We've met in the ultimate hell once about 150 years ago." The red man opened his mouth.
"Of course, Elder Luis, it's been a while but you still look young." One of the black robes chuckled.
"I'm nothing compared to you two. You're still at the top level, but we're getting old and we're much weaker than before. The thousand-eyed bloodline is relying on Eye Devil now." The eyes on the man's skin blinked altogether.
"This is Lina, my new Liyus, and she'll be with me for the rest of my life." The man named Luis introduced the girl to the two elders.
The girl bowed to the elders. "Nice to meet you, Elders."
"Nice to meet you too. Liyus, huh? Please take care of Luis for us as his wife." The other black robe hugged the girl slightly.
"It's my duty, don't worry." The girl nodded and smiled.
The four had a short conversation. Luis wanted to introduce his wife to his old friends and he reached his goal. The red man and the red girl left together.
The two black robes started observing the paintings again and no one else talked to them.
"Snow Devil, did you see the guy that covered himself with the black cloak?" Ice Lance looked at Angele, the young man was taking a nap. "I don't like him. Did you notice the strange fragrance around his body?"
"I noticed that moments ago. Where did Eye Devil find this sealed form? He probably just broke the seal and he's having trouble stabilizing his power. Don't worry about him. Also, what do you think about this crown?" Snow Devil responded.
"It's a decent artifact, but I don't want to pay too much for it." Ice Lance showed two of his fingers.
"20000 soul crystals?" Snow Devil gasped. "Well, that's a lot of resources, but I guess it's fine for you."
Angele noticed the two black robes as well.
He opened his eyes and started chewing the rhino meat again. He was checking the creatures in the hall.
The terrifying part was that all the defensive barriers around the creatures in the hall could easily deal over 1000 degrees of damage.
It meant that he could be easily killed by any of the creatures attending the party.
He hid his true power with the bloodline signet; otherwise, those creatures would know how weak he was.
Angele used the mentality compression technique and let the bloodline signets do their thing.
He already knew that the crown everyone was looking at might be counterfeit—such artifact would only be treated as collectible after being purchased. No one would try to activate its effect. An artifact from the Soul Lake Realm... it was an honor for any nobles to own an artifact like that.
Eye Devil wanted Angele to raise the price for her and she would give him a share as a reward. She knew that Angele just broke the seal and he would do anything to get the resources.
It was a thought she had after the fight with Angele in the forest. The woman had a similar way of dealing with things to the wizards. She would do anything as long as the benefit justified the cost.
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Chapter 378: Eye Devil's Party (5)
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The guests returned to their own seats after checking the crown. Vapor and Spider returned to their seats as well.
Eye Devil slowly stepped onto the platform in the center and glanced around.
"So, have you checked the authenticity of the artifact?"
"Of course, it's authentic. It's an artifact from Eye Devil and we all trust you," a minotaur that was surrounded by burning flames responded in a deep voice.
The minotaur's words made the other guests chuckle.
"Is that so? Elder Ebola has some good taste." Eye Devil nodded at the minotaur. "Alright, name your price now."
"10,000!" A young red man stood up and shook his wine glass slightly, there was a smile on his face.
"12,000!" Another man shouted—he was talking to his friend not so long ago.
The two black robes nodded slightly and one of them joined the bidding. "20,000."
Eye Devil's sight fell upon him. "Thank you, masters from the ultimate hell."
"Thanks, Eye Devil," the black robes responded to Eye Devil politely. It seemed like they feared Eye Devil's power.
"23,000." Someone else joined the bidding.
The two black robes did not move an inch until Eye Devil stopped looking at them.
Ice Lance was a bit confused. "Elder Snow Devil, I don't think we need to be so polite to Eye Devil."
"It's common sense, we pay our respect to the strong individuals," Snow Devil answered in a light tone. "We're not the sealed ones, we're just here to represent them. You're here because of your father and I'm here because of my master. Eye Devil is not being polite to us, she just knows who is behind us."
"You're right." Ice Lance nodded.
The price was already raised to 30,000.
Eye Devil blinked her eyes and smiled.
Spider and Vapor were talking to each other but their voices were so low that Angele could not hear anything.
Angele and Bone sat on the side and watched the guests bid.
"37,000!" An old man with the thousand-eyed bloodline stood up as he used the void talk to increase his voice.
The hall became silent after hearing the number, it seemed like no one was willing to pay more than that.
The guests in the hall hesitated after hearing the number. The main guests glanced around and waited to see if someone else would bid again.
Angele's sight fell upon Eye Devil and noticed that she raised her right fist slightly.
"40,000." Angele buffed his voice using the energy particles so the guests in the hall could all hear him.
Suddenly, all the guests looked at the stranger with curiosity in their eyes.
The hall remained silent for several seconds.
"41,000!" Elder Luis held his wife's right hand tight and joined the bidding.
"50,000." One of the main guests raised the price again.
It was Spider, she was sipping fresh blood from a red wine glass. Spider's cheeks were covered with tiny green crystals—they looked like opened green eyes and they were blinking. It almost looked like the eyes were part of her skin.
Angele shrugged. "I'll stop here if Spider wants the crown."
Spider looked at Angele and there was a friendly smile on her face.
50,000 was the final price.
Eye Devil clapped her hands after the auction ended. Two teams of red girls stepped into the hall—there were golden beetles on the plates that they were holding. The golden beetles had patterns that looked like human faces on their backs. They were screaming and struggling on the plates.
The plates were put down in front of the guests; they floated in the air and it almost looked like they were supported by invisible stands.
There was a plate in front of Angele as well. There were more than twenty golden beetles lying on the tiny silver plate. Those beetles were running around the plate like crazy, but they just could not leave the plate. It looked like they were struggling in pain.
"Nice, finally some good stuff!" Bone praised. He grabbed a beetle from the plate and threw it into his mouth. The man looked satisfied as he chewed the beetle.
"This is the beetle king from the oblivion realm, try it, you won't be disappointed," Bone explained.
"Beetle king?" Angele looked at the beetles curiously. Those beetles had golden shells and six legs. Some of them were trying hard to turn themselves over.
Angele's brow furrowed, he grabbed one of the beetles and threw it into his mouth.
He could feel the six legs of the beetle moving in his mouth. Angele hesitated for a second and bit the beetle.
Crack*
The beetle stopped moving and some sticky liquid leaked out of its body. The liquid was salty, it tasted like a thick shellfish soup.
Angele tried his best not to spit the beetle juice out. Although his body was strong enough to handle the weak poison inside the beetle's body, the texture of the thing was just unpleasant.
"You can have mine if you want more. I don't like it." Angele spat out the beetle legs and pushed his plate to Bone.
Bone grabbed the plate and poured the beetles into his plate. "Thanks!" The man looked excited.
Angele was a bit speechless as he watched Bone chew the golden beetles.
"Alright, we should get to the point since the auction is finished." Eye Devil stood on the platform and asked the waitresses to take the crown away.
The woman glanced around and the smile disappeared from her face.
"I think you've already heard about the information of the void fissure."
"The images from the other realms appeared in the void fissure and that's the reason why we gathered you here," Vapor added in a light tone. "Eye Devil, just tell everyone about the situation."
Eye Devil nodded. "Alright, which realm should we southerners choose this time? I think you're familiar with our old plan."
"Well, it depends, I want to know which fissure is easy to go through." A single-eyed man chuckled. "Although we all want to go to the elf realm, it's not us who makes the decision."
"Morrow is right. The lords of the north will select the Soul Lake Realm. They were defeated the last time and I'm sure they are not happy with the result," Luis explained.
Bone sat on his seat; he was still eating the golden beetles. "What's the new plan? Eye Devil, did you find a good target for us this time?"
"We just broke the seals and we need some time to recover. Let's postpone the discussion and wait for the lords to regain their power. The void fissures can wait." Eye Devil clapped her hands and the walls of the hall started moving down.
The hall turned into an open platform after all the walls disappeared.
Angele heard some loud noise from outside.
The platform was surrounded by a sea of lava and there was a lava waterfall dropping from a high cliff on the other side. The lava drops splashed on the surface of the lava sea.
The platform was built in a large cave underground.
There were many dark tunnels leading to other areas of the cave, the lava entered those dark caves and disappeared. However, the lava from the waterfall refilled the lava sea and it was a balanced loop.
Angele sat on the seat and he could feel the temperature around him increasing at an unbelievable rate.
'Warning! Warning! The temperature is reaching the limit that you can handle.'
Angele's expression changed but his face was covered by the black mask and no one knew what he was thinking.
'How's the temperature around me?' He wondered.
'1231 to 1257 degrees Celsius.'
It felt like being trapped in a heated metal cube. Angele's skin was burning, and his dark red hair looked like heated iron on his shoulders. A burnt smell permeated the air.
The good thing was that his hair was also buffed by the fire resistance from the Molten Core River; the only problem was that the venom on his hair could not handle such heat.
Most of the creatures in the hall could handle the temperature but some of them were reducing the temperature around their bodies using some special techniques.
Not all the creatures could handle the bizarre environment with their physical forms.
"Alright, the rules are the same as always. Let's get the party started." Eye Devil smiled and returned to her seat.
Suddenly, translucent fire spirits appeared in the area around the platform. Each fire spirit was about the size of a human's palm and there were invisible wings on its back. They were naked and they were all playing some light music using the harps in their hands. The music was getting louder and louder—it almost covered noise made by the waterfall.
The music sounded like boys and girls breathing. It was beautiful and attractive.
Some of the single-eyed men and women hugged each other. They fell to the floor and rolled several times.
Also, the naked men and women with the thousand-eyed bloodline started having sex right away.
Most of the guests in the hall were affected by the music. Spider jumped into Vapor's arms and she was seducing the man.
Eye Devil sat on the side and smiled. She was sipping from a glass of blood wine slowly.
"This again…? It's so boring." Bone stood up. "Well, I'll be leaving." He glared at Angele. "Phoenix, you're not interested too, right? Why don't you leave with me?"
"Yeah." Angele stood up. "Let's go. Wait, Eye Devil, where are the materials you promised me?" He looked at Eye Devil.
"Don't worry, I've already prepared them for you." Eye Devil smiled. "I asked my servants to get them ready." She clapped.
A red girl appeared by the edge of the platform, she walked to Angele and Bone quickly.
"Masters, please come with me."
Angele and Bone nodded, they followed the girl into the dark red portal.
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Chapter 379: Eye Devil's Party (6)
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The two returned to the first building they entered after leaving the portal.
A large red magic circle was releasing rays of blinking red light on the ground and there was a stone platform floating in the center of the circle. A long silver sword was stabbed into the stone platform.
Bone stretched his body and the bone armor made some loud noises.
"Alright, I thought there would be something that I could help you with, but the crown she auctioned was a joke." With a flick of Bone's finger, a white light dot landed on Angele's palm, turning into a white skull.
Angele checked the weight of the skull.
"What's this?"
"You can contact me using this thing. To be honest, I haven't met a man that I liked in years. Just talk to me if you need any help!" Bone hit his chest armor with his right fist, making some noise. "Alright, I'll go back to my Bone Sea now. Also, don't trust Eye Devil, that woman is hard to deal with. She can get mad at you anytime. Be careful."
"Sure." Angele nodded. He still had several questions to ask; however, green flames covered Bone's body before he could say anything else.
The green light blinked and Angele's sight blurred. Bone had already disappeared from the scene after he could see things clearly again.
A wide smooth tunnel appeared on top of the building and Angele could see the night sky through the hole.
A green star was flying away from the area in the sky. It was Bone, his body coated with the green flame.
The tunnel on the ceiling slowly disappeared; it looked like a recovering wound.
The female servant was not surprised by the scene. She started talking after Bone left.
"Please follow me, master."
"Sure."
Angele and the female servant went straight to the 27th floor—they stopped in front of a dark red room.
The door was open.
There was a blonde girl standing in the room—it was the same girl that Angele saw on his plate. There was also a group of single-eyed men with sharp ears that were tied up by the wall. They looked tired.
What caught Angele's attention was not the living creatures—it was a pool of blood in the center.
The blood in the pool was boiling and a sweet fragrance permeated the air.
The blood pool was surrounded by four black snake statues and there was dark red blood coming out of their mouths.
The female servant bowed to Angele politely.
"Those are the gifts my master prepared for you. The blood in the pool is the essence of the creatures collected by the thousand-eyed family. Also, those single-eyed men are the inheritors of the single-eyed giant. The female human you asked for during the party is also here."
"Good." Angele nodded slightly. He looked satisfied. "You can leave now."
"Understood."
The female servant left the room quickly.
Angele glanced around. The blonde girl and the single-eyed men were looking at him in fear. He shook his head slightly and walked straight to the blood pool.
"Eye Devil, where's the reward you promised me?" Angele turned around and talked to a wall. He noticed that someone was hiding behind the wall when he entered the room and he was certain that it was Eye Devil.
Angele detected the difference between it and other walls because he had two bloodline signets.
CHI*
The wall was ripped open by a large bloody eyeball. The black pupil in the eyeball twitched for several times and calmed down.
"The reward is here too, but I need to make one thing clear, I can't give you any soul crystals. You can choose something else." Eye Devil's voice came from the eyeball.
"I was never going after the soul crystals. Tell me more about the Nightmare Realm. I noticed that something isn't right after breaking the seal this time," Angele spoke in a calm tone but his heart rate slightly increased. He was trying to play as someone that just broke the "sealed form" after a long sleep.
"The realms overlapped, it's not a big deal. How long have you been sleeping… Whatever, let's not waste the time. What do you want?" Eye Devil responded in a calm tone.
"What do you have to offer?" Angele questioned and his expression did not change.
"You know what, I acquired an inheritor's secret technique not so long ago—it was from a sealed one that had similar abilities as you. I can give that to you for free, I think it'll aid you greatly. The secret technique is too good to be the reward of what you did for me, but I might need you to help me again in the future."
"Inheritor's secret technique? Are you sure that the technique doesn't come with a secret trap?" Angele wondered.
"Well, there'll be traps but there's no such thing as a free lunch. Many living beings had access to the secret techniques but only a few of them succeeded." Eye Devil was not concerned.
"You're right." Angele nodded slightly.
"Alright then. Secret technique it is. Do you want me to deliver those things to you?"
"No, it's fine. I'll walk back and check the changes that happened to the environment on my way." Angele declined the offer politely.
"Sure, I'll see you again." Eye Devil's voice stopped after finishing the sentence and the eye on the wall slowly closed. A black scroll was released from the closing eye and dropped to Angele's feet.
Angele picked the scroll up and put it in his pouch. He glared at the blood pool and there were blue light dots flashing in front of his eyes.
An hour later, Angele slowly walked out of the black building.
A naked girl with blonde hair was following after him. The girl was surrounded by some red light, protecting her from being killed by the high temperature.
The two went across the city and passed through the lava river. They slowly stopped after they were far away from the city.
Angele turned around and stood on top of a small hill, overlooking the black city.
The red eye-shaped bloodline signet was blinking on his chest; the light was much more intense than the musical note from the signet of the scorpion woman.
Angele was playing with a small red stone in his hand.
He extracted the blood essence from the blood pool and turned it into a blood crystal. The energy from the blood pool was all stored in the crystal. He did not expect that there was so much power in the pool that it could be turned into a blood crystal.
The bloodline signet from the single-eyed giant was successfully buffed by the single-eyed slaves. The reward for attending the party was quite good.
He glared at the blonde girl.
"What's your name?" Angele sent the words using energy particles.
"I… I don't know…" The girl hesitated, her tongue was fixed by Eye Devil's servant. "I forgot everything… Part of my memory was taken away by the blood cell and I don't know anything about myself."
"Is that so? The blood cell is interesting." Angele decided not to ask too many questions. He did not want to save the girl, but he did not want to kill her either. He had his own rules—the girl did not offend him or take anything important away from him. There was no point in killing a human being for no reason; it was something that he would not do.
The girl could not survive alone in such a bizarre environment and Angele did not want others to know that he was a human being as Eye Devil might try to kill him if she found out about the truth.
Also, Angele did not want to bring a random stranger back to the mansion as he had no idea if the girl was a trap. He did not want to put Freia in the risk.
He thought for a while and took out the black scroll that he acquired from Eye Devil.
Angele unsealed the scroll and countless dark red runes appeared on the surface of the leather scroll.
WOO*
The scroll started vibrating and rays of red light were released by it; they formed a translucent light screen that looked like a hologram in the air.
It was an enormous dark red map.
The map was divided into three areas separated by a lava river. The two areas on the left were in red and some tiny areas were marked in black. The larger area on the right turned from red to blue, and then blue to white.
"Phoenix, this is an interactive map called the Eye of the Truth. The information displayed on the map is collected by the eyes from the thousand-eyed bloodline inheritors. It's an important map and I hope you don't share it with anyone else. Ah, actually, they won't be able to view the map without my authorization. If you want to know what is happening with the world, the only thing you need to do is checking the map." Eye Devil's voice slowly disappeared after finishing the explanation.
Angele glanced at the map without saying a word, he raised his left hand and pressed on the area on the left.
CHI*
The size of the red area was increased by multiple times and it filled up the whole light screen. Clear views of the mountains, rivers, ruins, and forests were displayed in front of his eyes.
A sentence that was written in the universal ancient language was displayed at the bottom of the map: "Two hourglasses until the next time the Oblivion Realm overlaps with the word."
There were two red wooden hourglasses behind the sentence and the sand inside the hourglasses already started dropping.
"Overlap of the Oblivion Realm?" Angele was a bit surprised.
He looked at the scroll and opened the second half of it.
WOO*
Red light flashed on the surface of the light screen and the scene changed.
A man's deep voice came from the light screen.
"According to the intel collected by the thousand-eyed bloodline inheritors, the Oblivion Realm has been moving toward our Nightmare Realm in the last several years. The Oblivion Realm is the realm of death and corruption; it is a totally different realm than the Nightmare Realm, something like this should never happen. I think all the realms are merging with each other, but it's just an assumption. We're not the only example here."
A female voice joined the conversation.
"You mean the realms will change if they contact each other and this is our best chance to explore the other realms. We should take over their realms and conquer them! We haven't got the chance to communicate with the other realms since the wizards that could talk to us disappeared. This is our best opportunity! We shall take everything that enters our sight!"
"You're way too aggressive, we should wait for the old bastards from the other realms to move first. It's impossible for the Nightmare Realm to take over other realms if we use a plan like yours every time the realms overlap. Alright, it's about time for us to end the broadcast. This is Collins and Blue Feather from the thousand eyes. Please tune in again tomorrow for the new broadcast…"
Angele was speechless after listening to the broadcast. He slowly closed the scroll.
He thought the conversation was a record of a meeting or something and he did not expect it to be a broadcast…
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Chapter 380: Changes and Bloodline (1)
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Angele was heading to the mansion with the blonde girl. He applied a thin layer of dark metal to help her defend against the strange creatures.
Several days later, the Dark Cloud City finally appeared in their sight again.
Angele stood in the dark forest as the sun started rising—he overlooked the yellow city that was sitting quietly on the plain. The yellow city was deadly silent in the wind mixed with the sand. There was not a single person walking around the city.
The blonde girl stood behind Angele and looked at the city as well.
"I think… I've been here…" She suddenly opened her mouth. "Everything looks so familiar to me."
"Familiar?" Angele turned around and saw the confused look on the girl's face; there was sadness in her eyes. He knew that the city reminded the girl of something but she was trying to hide it from Angele.
Angele narrowed his eyes, the red eye-shaped bloodline signet shined, the string around the signet released some red light.
"It's fine if you can't remember…" He raised his right hand patted the girl's head softly. The gentle expression on his face calmed the girl down.
Angele rubbed the girl's soft blonde hair and the red light disappeared from his chest.
CHI*
A strange noise echoed in his ears.
Countless images were transferred into his mind like a movie.
The blonde girl held the edges her dress and walked down the carriage. She walked to the meeting hall that was full of guests with a gentle smile on her face and there was a man in a white suit by her side. The golden light illuminated on the two's bodies, they were elegant and polite. They drew everyone's attention with the golden light surrounding them.
"Dear Angelica, the party is starting, we should hurry," the young man spoke in a gentle tone.
They joined the party. The two mixed with the noble guests and started dancing along the music.
Suddenly, the sky was torn apart and the earth started shaking. A group of men that was surrounded by flames rushed into the hall and they started executing everyone in their sight.
The girl started running with the young man and the guards she brought here; however, the burning men caught up quickly.
The girl asked the guards to draw the monsters' attention and she wanted the young man to attack them from behind. However, the man gave the girl one final glance and started running away, leaving the girl to face the monsters alone.
The images disappeared after the final scene.
Only a split of a second passed when Angele was viewing the images.
He slowly lowered his hand. "Do you want to go check the city out? It's your hometown, right?"
The girl stared at the Dark Cloud City and tears were running down her chin like a river.
The girl had already learned a lot about Angele in the last several days; the man treated her like a brother, he was always so kind and polite.
"It's fine, master, let's just head to your place," the girl lowered her head and responded in a low voice. "This is no longer my hometown, all my friends were killed by the…"
Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes as he nodded.
"Let's make one thing clear, although you're my test subject, I won't hurt you for no reason. If you're willing to cooperate, your body will be strengthened after some minor damage from the experiments."
"I'm ready, master. I'm grateful that you didn't eat me back in the hall." The girl raised her head. Although there were still tears on her cheek, she had already calmed down.
"Alright, let's go. I need to you to become friends with another girl at my place." Angele turned around and started walking to the Ness River.
The girl gave the Dark Cloud city one final glance, it seemed like she wanted to memorize the look of the city. She ran toward Angele as the young man was already meters away.
The two slowly vanished into the vibrant bushes of the forest.
Ten days later, by the Ness River.
The golden sunlight of the afternoon illuminated on the surface of the river and the mansion.
HUA*
The leaves from the trees on the left of the mansion were dancing in the gentle wind.
Two people stepped out of the forest slowly. One was tall and the other one was short, and they were both wearing long metal robes. Not a single inch of their skin was exposed to the air.
"Finally…" The man in the front removed the black mask from his face, revealing his pale skin—it was Angele.
He turned around and looked at the girl. "Do you remember your name? What should I call you?"
The girl opened her mouth but she hesitated. "I don't. Master, please give me a new name."
Angele nodded slightly. "Alright, I'll just call you Orphie from today. It means 'forget' in the chaos language."
"Forget… Orphie…" The painful memory struck the girl again but she tried her best to hide it. It seemed like the memories were coming back to her.
Angele looked at the mansion. "Let's move. It has been a while since I left my territory."
He stepped forward and a red string spurted out of the black cloak, stabbing into the mud on the ground.
The red string returned to his cloak within a second—it was formed by Angele's long red hair.
Angele was not interested in the tiny spy he just killed and he just started walking again. Orphie glanced at the ground, she noticed that blood was leaking out of the mud and she was a bit scared. The girl stopped looking immediately and ran toward Angele.
The girl had no way to survive in such a bizarre environment alone. The girl had no crystal card device and she lost part of her memory so there would be nothing she could when facing dangerous creatures alone even if she knew how to activate the crystal card device.
Angele stepped into the sea of vines in front of the mansion. The vines on the ground already turned black; they moved aside to let him pass through.
Angele was advancing slowly; the blonde girl behind him was checking the surroundings constantly. She already noticed the remains of the dead creatures between the vines and some of the vines were soaked in colorful blood.
They finally arrived at the defensive barrier about one minute later.
Angele raised his right hand and pressed on the barrier, he lowered his hand after several seconds and grabbed Orphie's hand. They then stepped into the barrier together.
CHI*
It felt like walking through a large bubble.
They finally returned to the mansion.
Angele pressed on his chest and released a ball of fire. The fireball turned into a red bird that was surrounded by a golden glow. The bird swung its wings and flew toward the mansion slowly.
"Phoenix!" The door of the main building was pushed open—a girl jumped out of the door and grabbed Phoenix in her arms.
"Green! You're back!" Freia was still wearing the gray sweater with a pair of thick cotton socks. Her long black hair trailed over her shoulders and the hair on her left shoulder was braided. The girl looked pure and cute.
"Yeah." Angele nodded. "I brought a friend back for you. This is Orphie and she's my new lab assistant."
Freia looked at Orphie and blinked her eyes curiously. "Orphie… You're the first human being I met besides Green, my brother, and my father."
"You've been living in the mansion your whole life?" Orphie sounded surprised.
Angele watched the two girls greeting each other, he walked away as the two started chatting.
Freia had been practicing sword skills for years and Angele was certain that Orphie would not be able to hurt Freia. He checked Orphie's memory multiple times on the way and made sure that Eye Devil did not plant anything inside the girl's body.
Angele did not care about the soul stones, the map, or the inheritors of the single-eyed giant. The inheritor's secret technique that Eye Devil gave him was the most important item he'd acquired this time.
Angele quickly walked to the second floor as he entered the main building. He entered the reading room and locked the door. A black snake rune flashed on the surface of the door.
He quickly walked to the lab platform that was covered with random items.
HUA*
All the random items were blown away to the side.
Angele pressed on his chest using the right hand. The musical signet and the eye-shaped signet started shining at the same time; red glow was released from Angele's body and the red light engulfed the whole room.
Every object in the room was illuminated by the red light.
Angele took a deep breath and calmed down after the preparation was completed. He relaxed and put down the filter mask on the corner of a table.
He slowly took out a stick that looked like a flute from the pouch.
It was a yellow stick, its surface covered in complicated flower and vine engravings. There was also a mermaid engraving in the center of the stick. It was the carrier of the secret technique that Eye Devil gifted him.
Angele held the stick in hand and observed it carefully.
"It's a musical instrument that looks like a flute…" He noticed that there were many tiny holes on the stick. "The flute is infused with fire energy particles but mermaid should be the symbol of water… That's strange."
Angele played with the flute for a while but he did not know find the right way to activate it.
'Create task. Scan the object in my hand.' He had to rely on the biochip.
'Task created, scanning…'
A hologram of the flute was displayed in Angele's sight; the flute started spinning and it was scanned by several translucent blue strings.
Seconds later, rows of data slowly appeared under the flute.
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Chapter 381: Changes and Bloodline (2)
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The hardness, heat resistance, tenacity, completeness, different energy conductivity, etc... rows of data kept refreshing in Angele's sight.
'Activation simulation started,' the biochip reported back.
Angele waited for about ten seconds and the flute finally stopped spinning in his sight.
'Activation method: Fresh blood. Lead your mentality to the third, fifth, and seventh hole.'
Angele remained calm. He raised his left hand and pointed forward with the index finger. The tip of his finger was slashed open and a fresh drop of blood landed on the surface of the flute.
It looked like a chemical reaction occurring as the blood came in contact with the flute. The flute vibrated and dark red flames were released from the holes.
The dark red flames formed several palm-sized mermaids and they started rotating around Angele's body.
CHI*
Flames were released from the flute and the mermaids dissipated in the air one by one.
Angele narrowed his eyes as an invisible mentality wave was divided into three parts and the entered the third, fifth, and seventh holes of the flute accurately.
PA*
Intense dark red flames spurted out of all the opening in the flute; the flames floated in front of Angele, turning into a large mermaid.
Strangely, there was a key in the center of the mermaid's chest, a golden key that had the texture no different than a normal key's.
Angele raised his right hand and turned the key around.
Crack*
The mermaid opened her mouth and released a ray of red light—the light hit Angele's forehead hard.
Angele leaned backward due to the impact.
The red scorpion mark between his eyebrows appeared and it was absorbing the bright red light.
The information was transferred to his brain.
It took more than half an hour for the mermaid to finish transferring the information to Angele.
WOO*
The mermaid separated into red flames and returned to the flute.
Angele shook his head. It seemed like he was trying to understand the information that was just sent to his brain.
'That was refreshing… Such secret technique can only be studied by ancient creatures with pure bloodlines... Although my bloodlines were extracted from the inheritors of the ancient creatures, I can still study the technique…'
There were a lot of thoughts going on in his mind but Angele's expression did not change.
'Alright, I'll skip the confusing part and study the basics first… Maybe I can start practicing it soon…'
Angele grabbed the flute and returned it to the pouch after all the flames were gone. He walked to the left and sat down with his legs crossed.
He closed his eyes tight and sat in the quiet reading room. The two bloodline signets on his chest were releasing eye-blinding red light.
The red light turned into strings of energy and started rotating around Angele's body.
Time flew. The two signets on Angele's chest started merging into each other several hours later.
The black metal robe slowly melted on Angele's body and it was absorbed by his skin.
Seconds later, the two bloodline signets completely merged into each other; they turned into a blurry red meatball and it looked like there was a small balloon on Angele's chest.
The red meatball released countless blood veins that looked like tree roots. They quickly covered Angele's whole body.
Ten minutes later, Angele was covered by the terrifying blood veins—including his face.
The blood coming out of the red meatball was being transported inside Angele's body through the blood veins.
The meatball looked like Angele's second heart; it was bumping quickly.
Angele already lost his consciousness but he could still feel the constant pain coming from the skin. It felt like he was being stabbed by thousands of sharp needles.
He got used to the pain quickly as he had survived countless dangerous battles in recent years. Angele was no longer the young man that could not handle the pain.
He had no idea how long had passed, but he could feel the pain leaving.
Angele opened his eyes again and he noticed that the room turned into a mess.
It looked like all the objects in the reading room were blown to the ground by a strong wind. Some weak containers like the glass beakers and test tubes hit the walls or the floor—they broke into pieces and there was colorful liquid everywhere.
Angele slowly stood up from the floor and his feet numbed as he sat on the floor for too long.
He could feel the itchiness coming from his head and the center of his eyebrows. Angele looked at his chest—the red meatball already disappeared and the two bloodline signets were no longer there.
He raised his right hand and held the fist tight. It felt like his body was lightened for some reason.
'This is… strength… the pure strength of my physical body…' Angele noticed that his body looked different and he could feel the energy from inside.
Angele waved his right hand after the numbness disappeared from his feet.
The silver metal liquid slowly formed a mirror in front of him.
"What the…" Angele was surprised.
The man in the mirror looked completely different.
Angele's face remained the same but there were two tiny cracks at the place where his eyebrows should be. They looked like a pair of eyes that were closed and there was golden light leaking out of the cracks.
Also, a dark red horn appeared on top of his head. It was still growing between his long red hair.
Angele's body was much stronger than before. He looked like a barbarian that just left the snow mountains in the mirror.
He touched his new "eyebrows" and discovered that they had similar texture to his eyelids.
'Interesting… But what will happen if I return to the main world… will my body stay in this form?'
'Zero, have you finished checking my body?'
'The two ancient bloodlines merged into each other and the impurities were removed. Your attributes are increasing at a fast rate…'
'Angele Rio, Strength 21.2, Agility 18.5, Stamina 32.0, Mentality 157.1, Mana 157.2, Fire Resistance 247 degrees, other resistance 104 degrees. Gene limit reached. Healthy. Bloodline signet ability has been turned into Talent Ability,' Zero reported back quickly.
'That's crazy…' Angele gasped. His Strength was increased to 21 from 15 and his Agility was increased to 18 from 11. The Mentality was increased by 30 points and the Stamina was increased by more than 10.
Angele's new attributes were terrifying… He was certain that he could handle the fire spells casted by rank 2 wizards just with his physical body. He could just stand there and wait for the opponent to use up all his mentality and mana.
He waved his right hand again and the metal mirror disappeared.
Angele's expression turned serious, it seemed like he was thinking about something.
Seconds later, he pressed the center of his chest and his body disappeared from the room.
Main world, in the mansion beside the Ness River.
Angele's body slowly appeared in the reading room.
He quickly created another silver mirror as he regained his physical form.
The man in the mirror looked just like a normal human being.
Angele tightened his fist—the only thing that changed were his attributes. Also, he noticed that he could no longer activate the abilities of the bloodline signet in the main world. It seemed like something was preventing him from doing so.
It seemed like there was a mysterious power interrupting his bloodline ability.
The ability of the musical note and the memory scan from the eye-shaped signet already turned into his talent ability. However, he had not fully activated the eye-shaped signet yet.
'Why is the Nightmare Realm different from the main world?' Angele was confused.
He walked the window. The glass was blocked by the curtain and only several rays of golden sunlight passed through the gap between the curtain and the window. Angele moved the curtain to the side and peeked outside. He saw Lyn talking to a new maid they just hired—the female wizard was wearing a long black dress. She noticed Angele's sight and raised her head.
Angele nodded at Lyn through the window, he lowered the curtain and returned to the center of the room. He then pressed on his chest again.
CHI*
Red light flashed in front of his eyes.
He returned to the Nightmare Realm again and there was red mist in the air.
Angele created the metal mirror again, the horn appeared on top of his head and his eyebrows were replaced by two eyes.
He looked in the mirror and started thinking.
'The merging of the bloodlines was the result of studying the basics of the inheritor's secret technique. The bloodlines I used were extracted properly and the method I used was simple. There was no point for the creator of the technique to write down fake information. I'm sure that the different environment is the reason why my appearance changed…' Angele was trying to find out what was happening to his body.
'Sadly, Henn is studying the Thousand Shadow Orb right now, otherwise, I could ask her about the situation.' Angele shook his head slightly.
High-rank wizards could spend years to study a rare item and Henn had not talked him for months.
The good thing was that Henn's mentality wave was covered by the Thousand Shadow Orb and that was the reason why the shadow lord did not go for Angele.
Angele licked his lips and there was a strange sulfurous taste in his mouth. He was a bit surprised and opened his mouth.
He saw that there were countless sharp teeth in his mouth through the mirror. The teeth had the shape of a crocodile's teeth and there was white light reflecting on them.
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Chapter 382: Power of the Bloodline (1)
Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu
Angele rubbed his teeth with the right hand and it felt like touching the blade of a saw.
'I don't even know what my true form will look like. The true form is the basis of all the inheritor's secret techniques. I have the scorpion woman's bloodline, the single-eyed giant's bloodline, the tree elf's bloodline, and my soul that is from the earth… I wonder what will happen if I combine all of them together…
Angele waved his right hand and the mirror disappeared; he then quickly created a black mask on his face.
Turning around, he opened the door and left the reading room.
Angele noticed that it seemed like Orphie and Freia had an argument. They sat far away from each other and no one was talking.
He glanced at the two girls and walked to them.
"Orphie, tell me if there's an area full of large creatures around here." Angele was not sure how strong he was after his body was upgraded. He wanted to test his power on the creatures of the Nightmare Realm.
Orphie quickly stood up as she saw Angele walking to her, however, she hesitated after hearing the question.
"Master, I'm not familiar with the surroundings, but I know that there was a creature called the Water Devil in the rivers around the Dark Cloud City. It was a strong creature and you can go have a look."
"Dark Cloud City, huh?" Angele's brow furrowed, he did not want to travel that far. "Well, it's fine, I'll try to find some in the areas close to the mansion."
Freia walked to Angele and jumped into his arms. "Green, why are you wearing a mask?" She questioned curiously. The girl was over 20 years old; however, she stayed in the mansion for so long that her mental age was still very young.
"There's a problem with my face and I don't want you to get scared," Angele rubbed Freia's hair softly and responded gently. "Alright, you two should stay in the mansion, I'll be back before you know it."
Angele calmed Freia down and assigned a room to Orphie, he then quickly left the mansion.
He stood outside the barrier and looked around.
On the left, there was the Ness River, and on the right, there was the forest that led to the Dark Cloud City.
He hesitated for a second and walked to the pass between the river and the forest.
The path led to an empty ground that looked endless. Angele's sight was blocked by the thin gray mist.
Angele walked along the path and passed by several dark green willow trees. The trees' long green branches were swaying in the wind.
He heard something vibrating in the air after walking for a while.
Angele slowly stopped and looked around. Everything was coated by the mist—the further away he was from the mansion, the thicker the mist would be.
He could barely see the green surface of the river and the only thing that was clear in his sight was the mud under his feet.
WOO*
The noise was getting louder and louder, it sounded like there was a group of bees approaching.
Angele chanted an incantation in a low voice and countless flaming eyes appeared around his body. The eyes vanished into the air after about one second.
He raised his right hand and released a lava ball in the direction of the noise.
The dark red lava ball slowly blew the mist away with the heat wave it was releasing.
CHI*
A blurry eye appeared in the center of the lava ball and was observing the surroundings.
A red light screen appeared in front of Angele's body—it showed the scene the eye on the lava ball was seeing.
The left side and the right side were engulfed in the white mist and the mud on the ground was moving backward. Angele could hear the wind blowing from the light screen.
Suddenly, an enormous shadow appeared on the light screen.
Angele's pupils constricted.
The creature that appeared in front of him was a humongous black dragonfly.
The dragonfly was more than ten meters long and the translucent wings behind it were vibrating. Also, the way the dragonfly was flying looked identical to a bee's.
The dragonfly was slowly flying on above the surface of the river—it seemed like the dragonfly was looking for food.
KA*
The mouthpart of the dragonfly moved slightly, the lava ball was already inside its sight.
CHI*
BOOM*
Suddenly, the dragonfly disappeared from the light screen as the lava ball exploded. The light screen turned into flames and slowly dropped to the ground.
WOO*
The intense vibration noise was still approaching, it was getting closer and closer.
Angele's expression changed, he created a long silver sword with bright burning flames on its tip.
A black shadow flashed in front of his eyes as he prepared the sword.
BAM*
Something hit his chest hard, but it was blocked by the black shield created by the metal force field.
'The strength of the creature is terrifying…' Angele stood there and he did not move an inch. His Strength was 21 and with such strength, he could easily handle the impact.
Angele held the sword tight and slashed forward.
The black shadow was approaching; it looked like the shadow was going for the blade.
Clank*
The black shadow was blown away by the impact and it seemed like the shadow stopped after hitting a tree.
The sword in Angele's hand looked like the edge of a crescent moon.
Angele's brow furrowed and the sword was absorbed by his skin. The alloy was not hard enough for his increased attributes.
He stepped forward, the mist slowly disappearing, and finally got a clear view of the scene.
Two of the large trees in the forest were destroyed and the large black dragonfly's body sank into the trunk of the third tree in the middle. The dragonfly's left eye was cut in half and its right eye was cracked. Its wings broke into pieces, but the dragonfly was still moving and struggling.
'The dragonfly has a strong body…' Angele praised the monster in mind. 'I didn't use all my power but the physical damage was over 300 degrees and it could easily crack the hardest sulfurous crystal. But this monster did not die after taking the direct hit…'
Angele walked to the dragonfly and raised his right index finger, aiming at the monster's head.
CHI*
A silver needle flashed in the air.
A blood hole appeared in the center of the dragonfly's head.
'Scan the gene structure for me and check if the dragonfly has any ancient bloodline.' Angele ordered.
Blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes.
'Task created, scanning…' Zero's mechanical voice echoed in his ears.
The hologram of the dragonfly appeared in Angele's sight. The hologram quickly shifted to the blood hole on the dragonfly's head and the detailed picture of the creature's white flesh was displayed in front of his eyes.
Seconds later, the scene changed again and it turned into a hexagonal cell.
CHI*
The hologram disappeared from Angele's sight.
'Analysis completed. No ancient bloodline detected. No special ability detected. The dragonfly's strength came from its special body structure.'
'Body structure?' For some reason, the word reminded Angele of the skeleton soldier. Also, he realized that there was a basic application of the runes mentioned in the inheritor's secret technique.
'Maybe I should give it a try later…' Angele looked a bit excited.
He left the dragonfly's dead body on the ground and walked along the river. This time, he wanted to see what he could do as a rank 2 wizard. He applied the wind energy buff to his body so he could move much faster than before.
Angele decided not to rely on the power of the bloodline when trying to fight against the monsters in the forest, so that he would know how much the bloodlines had been helping him.
Two more dragonflies appeared above the river from the left—Angele could hear the noise made by their wings.
The dragonfly on the left was black and the one on the right was red. They were smaller than the one Angele just killed.
Angele released two lava balls without locating the target, then quickly stepped back and moved to the side. He raised his right hand and started doing the gestures that would trigger the spells. He was also taking out tubes and bottles using the left hand. All the containers were quickly slammed on the ground.
BAM BAM BAM*
An earth golem and two wind golems were created on the ground beside the river after the loud noises.
The dark brown earth golem was more than three meters tall. It hit its chest with the fists several times and opened its mouth.
Two translucent wind golems were rotating around the earth golem and releasing light green energy strings. They were trying to trap the two dragonflies using the energy strings; the strings were being destroyed by the dragonflies constantly, but they successfully slowed them down.
BOOM*
One of the flies failed to dodge the strike from the earth golem and it was thrown into the river. The other dragonfly grasped this chance and removed a large piece of rock from the golem's body with its attack.
Angele's expression changed, the earth golem was not created with simple mud—it was made with granite. The body of the golem was much stronger and harder than normal earth elementals; however, the granite golem could not recover its body like the golems that were made with mud.
Angele was certain that normal earth golems would easily be destroyed by the dragonfly's strike.
He chanted an incantation with a low voice and created several flying fire beads over his palm. They looked like a ruby bracelet that was surrounded by flames.
"Pyroblast!" he shouted and released the ruby bracelet from his hand. The bracelet flew toward the black dragonfly that was thrown into the river.
BOOM*
A circle of intense flame exploded in the air.
The dragonfly was blown back into the water and started sinking.
Angele glanced at the granite golem and the two wind golems that were fighting with the red dragonfly, then quickly casted a level 2 wind category binding spell.
Countless green strings spurted out of his hands and flew toward the dragonfly; the strings looked identical to the ones released by the wind golems. The two types of strings combined together and finally slowed the red dragonfly down.
The granite golem hit the dragonfly with its right fist.
The red dragonfly leaned down and hit the ground with its tail, then charged toward the golem's fist.
BAM*
The noise was loud and deep.
The golem leaned backward after taking the hit, it seemed like the dragonfly was stronger.
CHI*
The red dragonfly made some noise and rotated in the air. It started charging toward the golem again.
BOOM*
The granite golem lost its balance after taking the hit. The red dragonfly increased its speed and hit the golem again before it could regain the balance.
The wind golems and Angele could barely catch the dragonfly with their energy strings.
Although Angele could see the dragonfly's movements easily, he wanted to fight with the creature using only rank 2 wizard's power. He asked Zero to do the simulation, and it seemed it was impossible for a rank 2 wizard to catch the dragonfly using spells. Also, he would not be able to predict the dragonfly's movements or track it down with the mentality wave as a rank 2 wizard.
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Chapter 383: Power of the Bloodline (2)
Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu
There was a red string rotating around the granite golem beside the river; a large piece of black granite would fall to the ground every time the red string hit the golem.
The two wind golems were already destroyed after being penetrated by the red string.
The granite golem was still trying to fight back but its body size was shrinking at a fast rate.
Angele released multiple binding spells and a level-2 illusion spell; however, none of them worked on the dragonfly.
Several minutes later, the black dragonfly jumped out of the river again; the dragonfly took the Pyroblast directly, but it was just slowed down and there was no visible wound on its body.
Angele stood on the side and stopped moving. There were blue light dots flashing in front of his eyes.
'Data collected, new creature profile created, please name the creature.' Zero's voice echoed in his ears.
'Red Dragonfly and Black Dragonfly. Show me their data,' Angele ordered.
The spinning holograms of the black dragonfly and the red dragonfly were displayed in his sight as he finished commanding the biochip.
'Black Dragonfly: Estimated Power Level – Rank 2 wizard. Strength 6, Agility 6.3, Stamina 17, Mentality 13, Fire Resistance 200, Wind Resistance 150-200.'
'Talent Ability: Defensive Buff, Resistance Buff, Fast Recovery, Energy Barrier (draw energy particles from water resources, maximum defensive power is 294 degrees).'
Angele's expression changed after checking the black dragonfly's information. The black dragonfly was the shield of the "two-men" army and it could easily soak up the damage.
He then looked at the information of the red dragonfly.
'Red Dragonfly: Estimated Power Level – Rank 3 wizard, Evolution product of Black Dragonfly. Strength 12.5. Agility 11.7. Stamina 16.5. Mentality 15.1. Resistance: Fire Resistance 300, Wind Resistance 200. Talent Ability: Defensive Buff, Resistance Buff, Agility Buff, Fast Recovery, Energy Barrier (same as the one Black Dragonfly has, with counterattack as passive ability).'
Angele finally understood why the two dragonflies were so hard to deal with.
The black dragonfly he slew not so long ago was a bit larger than the two dragonflies in front of him. However, it was killed by Angele's bloodline ability within seconds.
Angele nodded his head and he looked satisfied.
'How much data of the wizards have I collected in the database?' he questioned.
'1432 cases have been collected.'
'What about the wizards over rank 2?"
'Rank 3 wizards: 5. Rank 4 wizards: 3.' Zero reported back immediately.
'Scan the data and simulate the battles for me, use my current power level as a reference.' Angele was not sure if the order was going to work.
'Need more data. Your Talent Ability hasn't been activated yet.'
'Talent Ability?' Angele rubbed his chin as he watched the black and red dragonflies destroying the granite golem. The dragonflies switched their target and were charging toward him.
'Well, let me give my Talent Ability a try then…' He gathered all the bloodline power of the scorpion woman at the horn on top of his head and the bloodline power of the single-eyed giant on his extra pair of eyes.
Angele tried to activate the horn with the mentality; for some reason, he opened his mouth and it looked like he was about to roar.
CHI*
A translucent sound wave was released from Angele's body.
The two dragonflies dropped to the ground, struggled for several seconds, and died.
All the trees, flowers, and grass started dying in the area around Angele; the effective range was more than thirty meters.
The brown tree trunks turned black, then twisted and cracked. The tree leaves turned from green to yellow, and yellow gray before falling to the ground.
The grass turned from green to yellow, and yellow to gray as well; it looked like they were burnt by flames. The grass was blown away by the gentle wind like ashes.
Angele stood there and stopped releasing the soundwave as his face turned pale. It was the first time he fully activated the bloodline power of the scorpion woman. After merging the bloodlines, the only thing he needed was the mentality, and the bloodline of the ancient creatures would no longer be consumed.
However, the sound wave cost him a third of his mentality.
Everything inside the effective range was turned into gray ashes and blown away by the wind.
'Let me name this ability as Ash Bluster, the area damage is around 500-600 degrees. It's a strong ability. Let me try the bloodline of the single-eyed giant as well…' Angele took a deep breath and focused on the second pair of eyes above his eyebrows.
Angele blinked his eyes.
CHI*
The golden eyes on his eyebrows slowly opened; the pupils looked like the ones the cats had and the eyeballs were rolling.
Angele could see more things in his sight with the four eyes and his vision radius was greatly expanded. It felt like looking at a different world.
It would take him some time to get used to the four eyes he had.
Suddenly, Angele could feel that his body was filled up with a violent power.
The objects around were sinking slowly.
'Wait… My height is increasing…' He suddenly realized what was happening.
Angele lowered his head and looked at his body. The muscles in his legs and arms were growing. His body size was increasing like crazy.
Raising his right hand, a silver metal mirror appeared in front of him.
The man in the mirror looked completely different.
It was a strong giant that was more than five meters tall, his body coated with a thin layer of black metal. Red spikes appeared on the man's shoulders, elbows, and knees—the spikes looked like sharp teeth.
CHI CHI CHI *
Angele felt that his back was itching after hearing the noise; a layer of a red substance that looked like bones removed the metal layer and covered his body.
Several minutes later, Angele's body stopped changing.
His body was covered with dark red bone armor and the appearance of his head had changed completely. The top half of his face was covered with a red mask and there were four holes for his eyes on the mask. Angele's pale chin and bloody-red lips were exposed to the air. His long red hair almost reached his waist.
Angele looked in the mirror and deactivated the Talent Ability.
CHI*
Angele's body started shrinking after several seconds. His height and muscles returned to normal, but the dark red armor was still on his body. He still looked slimmer and slightly taller than before.
'So, that's the effect of the single-eyed giant's bloodline?' Angele looked at the man in the mirror and raised his right fist. He could feel that his attributes were increased to a terrifying level without checking Zero's report.
'A strong ancient bloodline…' Angele gasped. He pointed at the river and flicked his finger.
"BAM*
A translucent ball of air was released from his finger and splashed in the water.
Angele stretched his arms that were covered with sharp red spikes.
He waved his arms hard in the air.
The size of his right arm increased by several times and the diameter of the arm was more than one meter; it looked horrifying.
BAM*
A one-meter-wide and ten-meter-long fissure appeared on the ground. The wet mud and the gray stones splashed in the air.
'So the single-eyed giant's bloodline is all about the strength.' Angele nodded slightly—he looked satisfied.
The hologram of his body appeared in his sight, spinning. Rows of data were displayed under the hologram.
'Strength is increased to 45 but Agility is decreased to 8.2. Mentality is the same and my Stamina increased to 56…' Angele's face twitched several times. He knew that his attributes increased, but the numbers were still hard to believe.
'I probably look like an enormous creature from the tales…' Angele was a bit speechless.
Angele partially deactivated the ability again and his right arm returned to its original shape.
WOO*
A lava ball appeared above his palm and it was spinning. The golden lava was flowing through the cracks on the surface of the ball.
Angele raised his left hand and pointed at the lava ball.
KA*
His left hand stabbed into the lava ball—it felt like touching some warm water. His hand was not damaged at all.
'Zero, what is my power level now?' Angele lowered his hands and questioned.
'Estimated power level: Rank 3 wizard. Your power level will be similar to a rank 4 wizard if you can increase your mentality,' Zero reported back.
The increase of his attributes brought his power level to the next rank.
Angele was certain that he could handle the spell damage from rank 3 wizards with his high attributes easily. It was the result of the merged bloodline, but it was just the basics of the secret technique.
'Eye Devil is in her sealed form… I wonder how strong her true form is… It'll be horrifying…' Angele knew his condition and his attributes were probably similar to a rank 4 wizard.
The rank 4 wizards who spend a lot of resources improving their physical bodies probably had similar attributes as Angele.
In another word, Angele would have trouble handling the mentality waves of the rank 4 wizards, but he could defend against their normal damage spells.
'I didn't expect the bloodline of the single-eyed giant to be so strong… Maybe I should use its Talent Ability more.' Angele raised his fists and he could feel the endless power that filled up his body.
'I'm still curious about Eye Devil and the other lords' true form…'
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Chapter 384: The Past (1)
Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu
Angele had a general idea about his power level after testing his abilities.
Before activating the Talent Abilities, he was one of the strongest rank 2 wizards; however, his power level was close to a rank 4 wizard with the new body.
If Eye Devil and the other lords were the elders with the sealed forms in the Nightmare Realm and they could invade the other realms, they must be much stronger than rank 4 wizards.
Angele recalled the day he attended Eye Devil's party—the monsters could easily deal more than 1000 degrees of damage and it was terrifying. He needed to advance to the next rank to have such power.
However, those monsters did not activate any of their abilities—the damage came from their force fields.
Angele could not imagine how strong those monsters would be if they actually used their abilities.
He lowered his head and looked at the black armor on his right hand. Angele held his right fist tight, excited for what he achieved. However, he realized he was still very weak when compared to those monsters.
'I need to become stronger before they found out the truth.'
Angele stood beside the green river quietly and thought for about half an hour. He turned around and walked to the mansion slowly.
'I need to solve the problems in the main world first before extracting more ancient bloodlines from the creatures in the Nightmare Realm.' There were many things he needed to study, such as the mysterious rune and the magic circle from the tomb.
The wizards in the central continent had no shortcuts to the higher ranks. They had to proceed slowly and steadily; the rare resources would not help them that much.
Angele had the help from Vivian, the biochip, and the ancient bloodlines. However, his progress was still slow.
Extracting the ancient bloodlines and adapting the Talent Abilities that came with the bloodlines was a much better method. Although his appearance would look terrifying, he was walking the same path as the ancient wizards.
In the main world.
In the reading room, rays of golden light shined through the gaps of the curtain.
A man in black robe slowly appeared on the red carpet. It was Angele—he just left the Nightmare Realm.
He was wearing a long black metal robe and he looked just like an ordinary human. Angele checked his clothes, looking a bit confused.
'My assumption was correct; my bloodline abilities were deactivated after I returned to this world. I can't activate them and my power level is the same as a strong rank 2 wizard. Also, I can't even activate my bloodline signets anymore, which means I'm slightly weaker than before.'
Angele's brow furrowed as he walked to the windows and dragged the curtain to the side.
He saw two maids and a Knight-level male guard chatting and laughing in the garden. They were hired by Lyn not so long ago; the maids were watering the plants.
The golden sunlight reflected on the surface of the rippling Ness River and there were several white birds slowly circling above the water.
Angele noticed something was going on in the forest on the other side of the river before he closed the curtain.
The width of the Ness River was more than 300 meters. There were several people wearing brown leather armor fighting with two men in black.
Angele rubbed the surface of his nails and started waiting.
Seconds later, he heard the footsteps outside the door.
Knock Knock*
With a flick of Angele's finger, the black snake rune disappeared from the surface of the door and the door opened by itself.
Lyn slowly stepped into the room.
"Master, are you looking for me?" The girl spent a long time studying the drugs and plants after she was drugged the last time; she got some decent results, but her outfit was infused with the smell of herbs.
Lyn was wearing the short black skirt and pink tights with a pair of black silky gloves that were covered in mud.
Angele glanced at the girl and questioned, "Playing with your herbs again?"
Lyn nodded slightly. "Yeah, I failed to protect you as a guard the last time and it was you who solved the problem for me. I'm a Watcher but I was ashamed of what I have done. Don't worry, I won't be drugged again since my resistance is increased to a very high level, and…"
Angele waved his right hand and stopped Lyn. "Alright, enough. Come here. Do you know what's going on? It seems like some people are fighting over there."
Lyn closed the door and walked to Angele. She looked in the direction Angele was pointing at and saw two groups of people fighting.
The three in brown were on the left and the two in black were on the right.
"They're fighting in Goodnow Family's territory, but… Well, I think their patrols are fighting with some outsiders," Lyn responded in a light tone.
"Goodnow Family? It's a small family, right?" Angele had never heard about the family. All the large families had tried to invite him to the parties they held, but only the nobles with high-rank wizards in their families were allowed to send invitation letters to the mansion and he had never gotten anything from the Goodnow Family.
"Yeah, it's a small family. They don't even know that you live here and we didn't tell them anything when we purchased the mansion. The only thing they know was that this place is owned by a large noble family," Lyn quickly responded.
"Is that so?" Angele nodded as he watched the fight. The fight was ending, one was injured and one was killed. They both started retreating and the fire caused by the spells was extinguished by another group of people. However, the traces left by the fight could still be found in the area.
"Send someone to the Goodnow Family and ask the ones that were fighting to come see me," Angele stopped for a second and ordered.
"Do you really want to see them?" Lyn was a bit surprised, but she understood the situation immediately. "Sure, I'll send someone there now."
She turned around, left the room, and closed the door.
Angele stood by the window and saw a Knight in black armor jump on the black horse, then start moving to the other side of the Ness River right away.
The horse and the Knight disappeared from Angele's sight quickly. He knew that it would take at least one day for them to come back.
Angele looked at his left hand—there was an eye-shaped amethyst ring on his middle finger.
He rubbed the surface of the gem.
Blue light shined upon the gem and a ray of blue light was released. The light dropped on the windowsill in front of Angele quietly.
A row of text quickly appeared on the light screen.
"This is the intel center, please tell us your question."
"I want the event log of Elemental Hand," Angele spoke in a deep tone.
"Elemental Hand. Intel Level C. Access Granted."
CHI*
Suddenly, rows of information appeared on the light screen, looking like a blue waterfall. There was so much information that it blurred in his sight for a second.
Blue light flashed in front of Angele—he recorded all the information using the biochip.
The information flow stopped after several seconds.
Angele rubbed the gem again and the color of the gem returned to purple.
The blue light screen slowly vanished into the air.
Angele closed his eyes and started thinking.
He filtered the information he acquired from the Dark Wizard Tower's intel center; two of the messages caught his attention.
The first one was about the Elemental Hand's army that was led by Vivian.
The first elder of the elder council joined the battle; he assisted Vivian and started pressuring their enemy. The alliance could not handle the pressure and started retreating, including the lords in the Thousand Waterfall City and the storm giant lord.
The second message was about the fairy realm. The portal Angele found the last time was not the only one—there were also several other portals in the Terry River area. Also, some of the wizards from the central continent council already started an investigation. The details of the investigation were not mentioned, but three of the portals had been sealed.
Those were the most important events for the Elemental Hand and it seemed like things were going well for the organization.
Angele started checking the communication runes after reading the messages.
Vivian sent several messages to Angele, asking him to keep practicing in the mansion; she would test him after the war ended.
Mincola also sent him several messages, saying that he had to stay in his family's territory for some time.
There were also messages from Seth. Nicole's situation was getting worse, so Morrian, Milan, and Seth all went to help her.
Angele checked all the messages quickly. He had not visited the Mermaid's Song for a while as the new department head for the Human Resource Department hadn't been assigned to the city yet. The elder council had no time to do that during the war, but things were going well for the city. Everything was well-organized by the other assistant.
The department did not need Angele's help so he decided not to visit the city.
Angele walked to the shelf after checking all the messages. He crouched and dragged a black box out.
Crack*
The box was unlocked; inside it was a thick black book.
The book was half a meter long and wide. Two silver crescent moons were painted on the cover of the book.
Angele grabbed the book and put it on his knees. He wiped the dust off the cover of the book.
'The book of communication runes. It has been a while.' He shook his head slightly. It seemed like the book reminded him of something.
Angele opened the book and saw communication runes that were in different colors and shapes lined up on the page.
Most of the communication runes were no longer glowing; only a few of them were still surrounded by colorful light.
"So many people have passed away…" Angele sighed with mixed emotions.
Angele recorded all the communication runes he had in the book; the light of the runes would fade after their owners passed away.
Wizards could not store all the communication runes on their nails—that was the reason why the book of communication runes was created. Angele modified his book slightly; every time he received a new communication rune, the rune would be recorded in the book automatically and all the messages would be saved at the same time.
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