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Chapter 385: The Past (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu

Angele kept turning the pages.

The communication runes from the wizards of Elemental Hand and some apprentices were also in the book. Most of the runes in the second half of the book were from the wizards of the west coast.

Suddenly, his finger slowly stopped at a while glowing rune—it was Nancy's communication rune.

The rune looked like a white rose but its light was fading away, it seemed like the owner of the rune was dying.

Angele checked the glow of the rune carefully.

'The glow… She still tried to become a formal wizard but she failed several more times.' Her potential and life energy were probably wasted during the procedure.

Angele looked at the communication rune. He could see that the beautiful girl was slowly turning into an old woman with wrinkles all over her face.

'It's her own choice. I already did what I can.' Angele shook his head and started checking the other communication runes.

Suddenly, he stopped at a dark blue rune that had the shape of a centaur—the rune was surrounded by a purple glow.

The message echoed in his ears as he touched the rune with the right index finger.

"I'm sorry, Green. I'm not sure how many years it'll take for this message to be delivered to you. The situation here is getting worse and worse every day. Most of the signal obelisks were destroyed by the strong merfolk soldiers and I'm not sure if there'll be enough energy for the messages to be delivered to the central continent. I had to rely on some special method to send you the message. I've been working with your teacher in recent years and things are going well for me. However, I have one thing that I have to tell you." It was Isabel, her voice was so familiar.

"I'm sorry… Your father has already passed away. He became an adventurer several years ago as he said that he wanted to explore the world. Although we sent some people to protect him, his ship was destroyed by the storm when he was trying to travel across the Gem Sea. The whole ship broke into pieces; we tried to find them with the help of merfolk, but the sea had already become their grave…" Isabel sounded apologetic.

Angele knew that Isabel had already tried her best to show her emotion. She had never changed.

'Father…' Angele recalled the moment that he reincarnated to this world.

A familiar scene visualized in his sight. It felt like he was looking down through the window of his room in the castle. The Baron with long hair and mustache was sitting on a strong horse, taking off his gloves and smiling at Angele.

Angele stood up and sighed with mixed emotions.

He knew that this moment would come sooner or later. However, it still made him feel depressed when it came.

Angele was not the original Angele and he did not spend too much time with the Baron.

He stood beside the window and suddenly noticed that there were not many things or people connecting him with the west coast.

Cold beauty Isabel, mysterious Axis of Time, terrifying Ramsoda, endless Gem Sea, the Andes Alliance, the Anser Plain, and the perished Rudin Empire.

The faces of the people he knew and the things that happened in the past were going through his mind.

Angele just realized that he had visited so many places and met so many people.

He put his index finger on Isabel's communication rune.

"I've received the message," he spoke in a low voice.

The communication released some light blue glow, the message had been sent, but Angele was not sure if Isabel could receive it.

He took a deep breath and closed the book, putting it back into the box.

Angele's father had passed away and he never found out where his mother was. The only one that would take care of him like taking care of a family member was Vivian. He was not sure if he should thank Henn for her evil plan or not.

"It's probably what every wizard will go through in their lives…" He took a deep breath and stopped muttering, staring at the sky through the window.

In the Abyss Canyon.

On the yellow plain, the deep canyon looked like a long centipede lying quietly on the land, releasing chilling waves to all angles.

On the edge of the canyon, there was a white-robed person sitting quietly with his legs crossed.

The white-robed person was a young and beautiful woman; her right ear looked like the shape of a rabbit year, it was sharp and furry.

The golden sunlight landed on the woman and she looked like a white statue in the bright light.

Twitter*

A black bird and a white bird landed on the woman's shoulders. They jumped and twittered; it seemed like they were not concerned about the presence of the woman.

Suddenly, the woman opened her eyes—there were two black vortexes spinning in her pupils.

"Finally," she muttered. "The death wave didn't remove all the traces you left on this land."

She slowly stood up and the two birds' bodies quickly turned white. Layers of blue ice climbed up their bodies within seconds.

Pa*

The birds died and dropped to the ground.

The woman raised her right hand and released a ray of white light. The white ray stroke into the sky and turned into a standing light cylinder.

She just stood there and waited after sending the signal.

Some white smoke appeared in the sky and landed in front of the woman, turning into a man in a white robe.

"Master Erwin, you found some traces?" the man asked.

"What's the matter?" Erwin was not interested in his question.

The man nodded. "Two more rank 4 wizards from the underground world are attacking us and we need your help. They don't have the inheritor's magic circle."

"I don't work for free." Erwin's expression turned cold. "Tell him that I need three more years before I can find the one who killed my sister. Just leave me alone!"

"Three years?" The man was surprised. "Don't tell me you're going to…"

"You guessed it. I need to go down the canyon to find my sister's body." Erwin shook her hands, she was losing her patience. "I'll come back in three years."

"But, Master, the canyon is too dangerous, and—"

"Alright, you can leave now." Erwin waved her right hand and hit the man with a ray of white right. The man failed to finish his words and his body turned into white smoke, flying toward the sky.

Erwin walked to the edge of the canton and looked down. The vortexes in her eyes were spinning faster and faster.

The Nightmare Realm, in the arena of the mansion.

The orange light from the sun painted the whole arena in red.

The gentle wind blew over the land and it brought warmth to the area.

There were two people fighting against each other in the arena, it was two young girls with crossguard sword and a long dagger in their hands. They were trading attacks every second.

Angele stood beside the arena and watched the two girls fight.

Freia was wielding a crossguard sword and Orphie was using a long dagger.

Orphie was having a hard time defending against the incoming strikes and her tight white swordsman's suit was already damaged.

Freia had no trouble winning the practice match.

"Orphie, you need to practice more. I only used a third of my true power," Freia mocked Orphie as she performed the sword skill combo.

Orphie's face turned red and she only blocked half of the incoming strikes.

CHI*

Orphie's belt was damaged by the sword again.

Clap Clap*

Angele clapped his hands slightly.

"Alright, that's it. Freia, stop now."

Freia jumped backward and pointed at Angele with her sword.

"Green, why don't you come and help me improve my skills? If you lose the practice match against me, can you take a bath with me? Don't run away from me this time!" Her long black ponytail was dancing in the wind and her elastic skin looked pink under the light of the setting sun. The girl was young and full of energy.

Angele was a bit speechless.

"You're no a kid anymore and I won't take a bath with you. Come on, take the bath and we'll have the dinner."

Orphie blushed as she heard the conversation. "I'll go take the bath now." She walked away quickly.

She already knew that Freia did not treat Angele like her father after living with her in the mansion. Freia looked at Angele like a wife would look at her husband. It was like a romantic relationship with nothing to hide.

However, Orphie was still not sure if Angele was a human being. She did not think too much about it as she was safe in the mansion.

Freia still stood on the arena after Orphie left.

Freia drew a flower in the air with the tip of her sword. "Green, hurry! Are you afraid of me?"

Angele stepped on the platform and raised his right hand, creating a silver crossguard sword.

Freia slashed forward before Angele could react. The blade drew a silver string in the air as the girl was going for his throat.

Clank*

Angele hit Freia's sword with his sword and leaned to the side. He suddenly charged forward and tried to grab Freia's shoulder. This combo could usually win the fight for him and Freia would go have the dinner without saying anything else.

However, Freia just let Angele grab her shoulder; she blocked Angele's sword and was still trying to hit him in the throat.

However, Angele's sword would hit her face before she could hit him. Freia did not look at the incoming sword, it almost looked like she was trying to trade her life with Angele.

"Now you're acting like a child." Angele was speechless, he slightly lowered his sword and blocked Freia's attack.

Angele's hand was still on Freia's right shoulder, however, Freia suddenly leaned back slightly and he could feel that he grabbed something soft.

He noticed that his hand landed on Freia's breast after she moved back slightly.

"Well…" Angele quickly moved his hand away. It seemed like what Freia did was intentional.

The two stood in the arena and the situation was awkward.

"Green, what do you think? It's larger than before, right?" Freia looked at Angele and asked. It seemed like she did not mind that Angele grabbed her breast.

She lived in the mansion for too long. Angele and his brother were the only two that could teach her about the things between man and woman. However, she never thought it was a big deal.

"Sometimes I grab them myself and it feels pretty good, but if I use too much strength, it'll…" Freia started explaining.

Angele had no idea what he should say. "Come on, stop. Go have dinner now. I brought Orphie to you because I want you to have someone to play with. If you don't listen to my words, I'll take Orphie away and you'll have no one to play with."

"Fine…" Freia rolled her eyes, it seemed like she got another idea so she did not argue with Angele. She jumped off the platform and returned the sword to the weapon shelf.

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Chapter 386: Visit (1)

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Angele knew that Freia was planning something, but he was not concerned. He melted the long sword and absorbed it into his skin. The metal layer on his body was made with normal precious metals after the fight with Eye Devil and the magic resistance was much lower than before.

Without the magic resistance material from the claw warriors, there was not much he could do. Also, the claw warriors almost disappeared from this world and Angele was lucky that he had met several ones on the west coast. However, the wizard culture was much more developed in the central continent, and such materials would only be used for the gear specially crafted for wars. It was nearly impossible for organizations to share them with the members. Angele thought that the ones he met were trained by the owner of the mansion.

He could probably get some claws by asking Vivian, but the Elemental Hand was at war and he did not want to bother her with unimportant matters.

Anything could happen in the Nightmare Realm; he would find the items he needed sooner or later.

Angele took Freia to the dining hall and they started having dinner.

The only noise in the hall was made by knives and forks. The three did not say anything, they just focused on finishing the food.

"Orphie, come to my room after dinner," Angele suddenly spoke in a calm tone. "I mean, the reading room."

"Sure, master." Orphie sounded a bit surprised but her expression did not change. She knew the day would come—she found that the way Angele dealt with Freia was a bit strange and she thought that an "old monster" like Angele must have some weird hobby.

Freia acted like she did not hear the conversation and was just eating her food.

The white bread and meat corn soup were finished by her within seconds; she almost choked on the food, but she hated the black pepper steak and she did not even touch it.

"I'm full." She put down the silverware, pushed the chair away, and left the dining hall.

Angele glanced at Freia, and again, he knew that the girl was planning something. After finishing the dinner with Orphie, Angele turned the silverware into a large ball, which was absorbed by his skin. The leftovers were collected in a bowl, then frozen by the energy particles.

The silverware was controlled by the metal force field, but the remains of the food would just fall down.

Angele moved the plates over to the rubbish bin before turning them back to the metal liquid; the remains would drop into the bin easily.

He took Orphie to the second floor and entered the reading room after cleaning the table.

Crack*

The door was locked by Angele and the black snake rune appeared on its surface.

"Alright, take a seat." A gentle smile appeared on Angele's face. Orphie was still glancing around and he sat down first on a chair beside the window.

Orphie nodded. "Thanks." She sat down on the opposite side. "What should I do?" Angele did not do anything to her in the last several days so she did not think that she was in danger.

"There's something I need to tell you." Angele cast an illusion spell on himself to cover his strange appearance after returning to the mansion as he did not want Freia to get scared.

He just looked like a normal human being at the moment.

"I think you know that the reason why I took you away from Eye Devil was not that I wanted to save you. You don't have anywhere else to go, so I took you back to my mansion. To be honest, I have several human friends and I don't want to eat you, but we're just strangers to each other and I don't want to give you the resources for free. That's the problem."

Orphie was wearing a white one piece and with a long blonde ponytail. She looked cute and pure.

She remained calm. "I can understand what you're worried about, what should I do to earn your trust? Or how should I pay you in return? You know, if you kick me out of the mansion, I'll die within minutes. There are no other choices for me to choose."

"I'm glad that you can understand." Angele smiled. "I just wanted you to help me with a small experiment.

"I'll do whatever you want me to." Orphie nodded.

Angele nodded; he looked satisfied. "Good, I like people that are willing to listen. You need to pay if you want anything, that's the truth of this world."

He stood up. "Let's get started now."

"As you wish." Orphie stood up as well.

Angele pointed at Orphie.

An invisible force slowly lifted Orphie up and helped her lay down in the air.

Angele waved his right hand.

Orphie's body was moved to the platform in the center of the room and lowered down.

Angele walked to the platform and gently removed all the clothes from Orphie's body.

The girl was trembling slightly but she tried her best to calm down. She never wore any clothes in the blood cell and she already got used to it, but she felt a bit uncomfortable being stared at by a male.

Orphie watched Angele remove her clothing and take out a blue test tube from the shelf. He slowly sprinkled the powder on the girl's stomach.

The powder landed on Orphie's skin; it looked like tiny ice cubes and was extremely cold. She could feel that the bottom half of her body became numb due to the coldness of the powder.

"What's this?" she could not help but ask. "It's freezing."

Angele responded as he sprinkled the powder carefully. "A powder that will keep you safe, you'll get used to it later."

Orphie bit her lips, her body was getting colder and colder. She could barely move her limbs and she started having trouble breathing.

Angele looked at the girl carefully.

He built a wheel-shaped magic circle on the girl's stomach. Her skin was white and clean.

The blue powder was absorbed by the girl's skin quietly as it landed on her body. It looked like the magic circle became part of her body after everything was done.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you… the only thing you need to do is relax, don't think about anything." Angele's gentle voice sounded warm and comfortable. It helped Orphie relax. There was a strange energy wave surrounding her body.

Angele was satisfied with the start of the experiment.

Pa*

He flicked his finger.

The blue magic circle on Orphie's stomach started burning; the dark red flame brightened up the room slightly.

The girl's body was warmed up by the flame quickly.

Angele made several gestures in front of his chest and strings of red energy started gathering in the air. The energy strings thickened; they looked like countless red ribbons that were sinking into Orphie's stomach.

"Helinmu, Yasuweila, the moon of reproduction," Angele quickly chanted the incantation and created a long fire chain between his hands.

The flames on the chain slowly faded away, turning into countless red light dots that dropped on the magic circle.

Angele's expression slowly turned serious.

He waved his right hand and blood appeared on his right index finger. He quickly pressed it on the magic circle.

It looked like the red blood was sucked into the magic circle by something as the blood contacted her skin.

Angele slowly lowered his index finger and looked at the wound—it already stopped bleeding. His high Stamina helped him recover within seconds.

"Alright, you can just do your daily routine like usual, but you need to let me know if anything happens to your body." Angele looked at Orphie—the girl was still trying to figure out what happened.

"Understood." Orphie's brow furrowed and she slowly sat up. The girl was blushing and her skin was coated with a red glow.

She looked at the magic circle on her stomach—the circle only had two levels beside the complicated strings.

It was a circle and a triangle; the whole magic circle was simple, but there was a small red meat cell in the center of the circle, pumping. The thing looked a bit strange, but she could not feel any pain or itchiness.

"Alright, there's one thing I need to let you know about the experiment," Angele started explaining. "Your body was modified to fit the blood cell and you could no longer reproduce as a human being. You need to understand that if my experiment succeeded, you'll be able to reproduce again, so please be prepared for the possible changes."

Orphie was a bit surprised at first but she looked excited.

"Good, you can leave now." Angele waved his right hand.

"Yes, Master." Orphie grabbed her clothes and left the room without putting them on.

The door was slowly closed.

Angele stood in front of the platform, blue strings flashing in his eyes. No one knew what he was thinking. The glowing crystals on the wall were out of energy and the only source of light in the room were the burning torches.

The light from the flames shined on Angele's face as his expression changed several times.

'If I can succeed this time… With my blood, the reproduction ability of Orphie, and the inheritor's secret technique, I can probably validate my final assumption.'

He planted his own blood into Orphie's abdomen and raised the merged bloodline like a seed.

If he could succeed, he would be able to get his own inheritor—an inheritor with the merged ancient bloodline.

Although the inheritor would be weaker than him, the inheritor would still be able to develop its power in the Nightmare Realm.

The pure bloodlines extracted by the biochip were stronger than the lords in this realm—this was Angele's biggest secret, and something that he could rely on.

If he could improve the inheritor with the blood planting method, he only needed to pay a little to acquire a strong assistant.

That was probably the reason why the sealed forms wanted to produce their own inheritors.

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Chapter 387: Visit (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu

In the next ten days, Angele met the representatives from the Goodnow family and they told him the details about the areas near the mansion. He also asked the family to capture different insects and collect different plants for him. Angele would gift them magic stones for every new species they found.

He spent most of his free time in the Nightmare Realm with the crystal scorpion activated and absorbing the essence crystal he acquired from the blood pool that Eye Devil gifted him. Also, he was waiting for Orphie's body to change.

Sadly, the magic circle on Orphie's stomach shrank and weakened. She regained the ability to reproduce, but the seed failed to grow.

Angele checked Orphie's body and noticed that something was happening to the girl. He could see that the girl's eyes turned red—they looked identical to the color of his own eyes.

One month later…

In the Nightmare Realm.

Angele looked at Orphie with his brow furrowed. The girl's skin was much smoother than before and it seemed like she was horny.

He rubbed the girl's arms slightly.

"Ugh!" Orphie bit her lips, her body trembled and her eyes rolled up; it seemed like she reached climax again. The girl's private part was wet.

"That's the change you noticed?" Angele lowered his hands and started thinking. "Although you can reproduce again, your body is so sensitive that you can barely… Sorry, it seems like something went wrong during the experiment, or maybe…"

He did not finish the sentence.

The bloodline of the scorpion woman was in the merged bloodline that was planted in Orphie's body; the scorpion woman was famous for her promiscuity. Orphie's condition was a consequence of the bloodline.

"Sorry, can you please help me… deal with my condition… It's fine if I can't completely recover from this, but my body is so sensitive that I can barely put on any clothes…" Orphie blushed and responded while breathing heavily.

"Sorry, but I can only try." Angele nodded apologetically.

He turned the dark red armband on his right arm slightly.

CHI*

A ball of purple flame was released from the flame.

The fireball expanded and landed slowly on the surface of Orphie's body, sinking into her skin.

Orphie felt much better after the ball disappeared.

"I need to repeat this process once every half a year, you need to come and find me in time because your body's sensitivity is lowered temporarily. It's like adding water to a balloon, but the balloon will explode half a year later and all the water will… Anyway, just make sure that you remember the date," Angele explained. "Also, I'll ask you one more time, do you really want to keep your body in this form?"

"Yes, and I thank you for recovering the reproduction ability for me, it has always been my dream. The only consequence is a sensitive body and I can live with that," Orphie responded in a serious tone.

Angele shrugged, he could not understand why bearing a child was so important to the girl.

"Alright, that's it for the day. You can go have some rest now." He suddenly turned around and looked out the window.

"Yes, Master." Orphie got up and looked at the wetted platform. She grabbed the clothes, slowly walked out of the room, and closed the door.

Angele waved his right hand and all the stains on the platform vaporized. It was a cleaning spell that was usually used to clean wizards' long robes, it was perfect for the occasion.

Angele slowly walked to the window after everything was clean. He could see that there was a man standing quietly in the forest.

The man was wearing a black hood. He raised his head after noticing that Angele was staring at him, and turned out to be a beautiful woman with her face hidden behind a purple mask.

Angele narrowed his eyes, opened the window, and jumped down.

BAM*

He landed on the ground quietly and jumped forward. He turned into a black shadow, rushed through the barrier, and stopped in front of the woman.

"Hey, Phoenix, it has been a while." The woman had a gentle smile on her face. "Thank you for helping me during the auction, I was just passing by when I realized that you live here."

"Passing by?" Angele glanced around. He could see the traces of energy in the air that were left by Eye Devil. He also noticed the energy particles left by the human's magic card device—those energy particles were not infused with the bloodline power, they were just like the ones he could find in the main world.

"Who are you after?" he questioned in a low voice.

"Yeah, there were some insects trying to make trouble in my city, and I decided to send one of my doppelgangers here." Eye Devil did not hesitate to tell Angele that what he was seeing was just a doppelganger.

"Interesting, those insects are still trying to escape?" Angele was trying to guess why Eye Devil suddenly came to visit. He was wondering if Eye Devil was getting suspicious.

"Yeah, those insects are good at escaping, and one of them is related to the old church. Anyway, let's stop talking about those boring things. Also, why don't you show me around your territory? I think I treated you well back in my house." Eye Devil rolled her eyes and pursed her lips into a smile.

Angele was getting nervous, he had no excuse to ask Eye Devil to leave; however, Freia and Orphie would make her even more suspicious if she saw them.

He started thinking and he was trying to find an acceptable excuse.

"Huh? There's a human in your shelter? And a female one?" Eye Devil suddenly opened her mouth before Angele could say anything else. "Well, she does look beautiful."

Eye Devil's sight went over Angele and fell upon the mansion.

Angele turned his head around and he was surprised.

Freia was staring at them in front of the gate curiously.

"That's why you didn't eat your food at the party, huh? I didn't know you like… Don't worry, it'll be a secret between us." Eye Devil gave Angele a strange look. "I served you the best young girl I had that day…"

"Well, I was worried that you would devour her by accident. I started training her when she was young and I needed her for a special experiment."

"It won't happen." Eye Devil chuckled. "Also, you'll attack me if I do that, right? You're much stronger than before, I assume you're breaking your seal?"

"No, I'm still weaker than you." Angele smiled and shook his head. "Alright, please follow me."

"That took you a while to say that." Eye Devil sighed.

"Well, I apologize."

Angele noticed the woman's emotions were unstable, but he had no other choice but to invite her into the mansion.

Angele could return to the main world if anything went wrong, but Freia would be in trouble and that would be a problem.

Eye Devil entered the defensive barrier with Angele

Eye Devil looked around curiously. Freia watched Angele inviting a stranger into the mansion and walked to them. She jumped into Angele's arms.

"Who is she?" Freia glanced at Eye Devi as she hugged Angele.

Angele rubbed Freia's hair and spoke in a gentle tone, "Don't worry, she's a friend of mine, and she's just here to visit."

A gentle smile appeared on Eye Devil's face.

"What a cute girl! My name is Daisy and you can just call me that. Nice to meet you." She raised her right hand and there was a small blue fruit on her palm. The fruit looked like a walnut. "This is a small gift for you. An unpolluted blue apple."

"A blue apple! My name is Freia and Daisy, you're beautiful!" Freia's expression relaxed after seeing Eye Devil's smile and she grabbed the apple from Eye Devil's hand. "Thank you!"

Angele glared at the apple and patted Freia's back. "Alright, go to the garden with Orphie. We'll be having a short conversation."

"Sure." Freia nodded and jumped out of Angele's arms, walking to the garden.

Angele felt relieved as the girl disappeared from Eye Devil's sight.

"What a pure and cute girl! I can't resist her smile." Eye Devil looked at Angele.

'Well, because you want to eat her,' Angele thought, speechless.

"Alright, I'll show you around. I'm sorry that this place is much smaller than your city and I didn't prepare anything."

"It's fine, no worries." Eye Devil's eyes were surrounded by a purple glow. It seemed like she was planning something.

Orphie heard the noise as well, she was staring at Eye Devil in fear beside the door. She covered her mouth with both hands and tried her best to stay calm. However, she just watched Angele leading Eye Devil to the mansion.

She knew Eye Devil—it was the monster she saw in the blood cell, who was there just to check if the food was still fresh...

Outside the mansion, three people walked out of the bushes slowly after Angele entered the mansion with Eye Devil.

"Scarferro, are you alright? How's your wound?" the leading one questioned the one behind him.

"I'm fine. I didn't know that the city was the territory of that monster. I miscalculated the whole thing," Scarferro responded in a deep tone as he held his right arm tightly.

"It was all my fault. I'm sorry." The last one was a female, she was wearing a leather armor that looked like a bikini with a long black robe. "If the monster hadn't met someone she knew, she'd have found us and forced us to activate the magic card device the teacher gave us." The woman sounded depressed.

"Also, it seems like there's another monster here, but I saw a girl by the gate when they were talking. We need to tell our teacher about the situation, the intel might be helpful to my father," the leader spoke in a low voice. "Alright, we need to leave before they find us."

"Sure," the other two people agreed.

The three jumped back into the bushes and concealed themselves in a black smoke screen that came out from nowhere. They started running in the opposite direction of the mansion.

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Chapter 388: Fear (1)

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Angele and Eye Devil walked together along the hallway on the first floor.

The hallway was open; on the left, it led to the living room of the main building, and on the right was the Ness River.

The sun was setting and there was some thin mist above the surface of the river, like floating silk towels.

Angele was leading the way, glaring at the dark surface of Ness River.

"The river is great but it's the only attractive thing in my territory. I hope it doesn't disappoint you." He was checking Eye Devil's behavior constantly as he walked as he had to make sure that she was not trying to attack him.

Eye Devil followed after Angele with a smile on her face.

"I'm not disappointed at all. I like your place more than my own. It's nice and quiet."

"Well, it's nice you can say that." Angele shook his head and he was a bit speechless.

They walked past the pool with clear water.

"It's a pool that I built a while ago, I swim in it from time to time," Angele introduced.

"Interesting, a swimming pool, huh?" Eye Devil glanced at the pool curiously.

They left the pool area and arrived at the garden quickly.

"Alright, this is my garden and I have some rare plants here," Angele pointed at the garden.

Eye Devil did not seem interested.

Orphie and Freia were taking care of the sunflowers carefully, they were watering and pruning the flowers.

Eye Devil's sight fell upon Orphie.

"I have a lot of food like that in my city. Just tell me if you need more. I'll ship them to you."

"Well, if it's free." Angele smiled.

"It won't be free." Eye Devil rolled her eyes. "Alright, let's go." Suddenly, she stopped before leaving the garden. Eye Devil quickly turned around and stared at Orphie again.

"Huh? The power…?" Eye Devil looked surprised. "An inheritor? Wait!"

Angele was surprised but his expression did not change. He waited for Eye Devil to finish her words.

"The power is interesting. I think I detected the power from a scorpion king from it…" Eye Devil turned around and looked at Angele. "Phoenix, can you gift that pet to me? I'll send you twenty better ones later and you can do whatever you want to them. What do you think?"

"Sorry, this is a prototype and I still need it." Angele shook his head and declined the request. "Alright, let me explain." He planted the merged bloodline in Orphie's body not so long ago and Eye Devil would find out the truth just by doing some simple tests on the girl.

Eye Devil stared at Angele for several minutes and smiled. She did not say anything else.

"Let's go. I'll show you the other areas." Angele turned around and started walking again.

They passed through the garden and arrived at the arena.

"This is where I practice my skills, only physical skills, energy skills will probably destroy the platform. Also, I sometimes…" Angele was interrupted before he could finish the sentence.

"I'll give you 100 slaves for that piece of meat, what do you say?" Eye Devil did not give up.

Angele shrugged. "Well, I can't, sorry."

"200."

There was an apologetical smile on Angele's face.

"300! Plus a piece of high-quality noble meat!" Eye Devil's expression turned cold. "Phoenix, think twice before you answer me."

The smile disappeared from Angele's face as well, he stared at Eye Devil.

"Eye Devil, it's not about how many pieces of meat you can give me."

Eye Devil stood in the center of the hallway, invisible energy vortexes appeared around her body and the wind started blowing in the whole area.

Angele and Eye Devil stared at each other calmly, but no one moved. The atmosphere was getting heavier and heavier.

"Phoenix, don't be too greedy…" Eye Devil pursed her lips. "You better give me what I want…"

"I told you already, it's not about the price," Angele spoke in a deep voice. "Eye Devil, don't make this hard for both of us."

Eye Devil was still staring at Angele in the eyes.

Several minutes later.

She suddenly chuckled.

"Whatever, it's just a piece of meat. We shall not be so hard on each other just for that. Not worth it."

Angele loosened his expression as the atmosphere lightened. "You're right. Alright, I have some other places that I want to you show you."

He turned around and started walking; however, he noticed the intense energy wave coming from behind immediately.

Angele had no time to think, he turned around and released several flame beads.

BAM*

The black light and red light exploded at the same time but the hallway was not damaged. It almost looked like nothing happened, and the energy waves disappeared several seconds later.

Angele jumped back slightly and looked at Eye Devil.

"Really? Eye Devil."

Eye Devil stood there quietly and a sweet smile appeared on her face.

"It was just an accident." She did not look concerned. "Also, I wanted to know if your power has already recovered. You said that your physical form was still weak several days ago. However, I can see that you're recovering just by looking at your reactions."

"Is that so?" Angele stared at her calmly.

"Come on, I'm not stupid. This is your territory…" Eye devil chuckled but Angele was still staring at her.

She finally gave up. "Alright, alright. I won't try to take it from you. I didn't know you would be so angry."

"It's great if you understand." Angele narrowed his eyes. "Alright, thanks for visiting me, but I won't walk you home, please be careful when you leave."

He was asking Eye Devil to leave.

"Are you sure you don't want to spend the night with me? I'll do anything for you as a compensation." Eye Devil rolled her purple eyes slightly and she was trying to seduce Angele. "Any position, any hole, also, you can do it with your true form."

Angele was not interested at all. "Thanks, but I'll pass. It's getting late, and I want to rest. Please."

Eye Devil sighed and she looked a bit sad. "Fine, I'll visit you again later. Am I not attractive enough to you?" She turned around and her body quickly became a ball of purple flame.

The fist-sized flame flew through the defensive barriers with no problem and disappeared into the night sky.

Angele watched Eye Devil leave quietly.

Several minutes later.

"Ugh!"

He suddenly covered his mouth with both hands—blood was leaking through the gaps between his fingers.

"I was injured just by one strike?" Angele removed the blood from his hands. "Eye Devil is breaking the seal and even her doppelganger can damage me. I probably should've transformed…"

Angele remained silent after finishing the sentence. He looked at the direction that Eye Devil left and there were blue light dots flashing in front of his eyes.

Half a month later…

In the Sherry Forest of the main world.

It was early in the morning. The sunlight landed on the ground through the gaps between the tree leaves and white mist permeated the air in the forest.

A man wearing a long black robe was moving quickly between the trees, his footsteps a bit loud in the quiet forest.

The tall trees and the vines on the ground could not stop him from advancing; it seemed like the man was familiar with the environment here.

He slowly stopped on a cliff several minutes later. There was an enormous tree in front of him.

The tree trunk had a diameter of more than ten meters, the shadow of the tree hundreds of meters long. There were light dots from the sunlight blinking on the surface of the ground as there were still gaps between the tree leaves.

There were some dark green vines with white buds on the tree's trunk.

The black robe stepped forward and stood in front of the tree. He removed the hood but was still wearing a black helmet.

It was a normal metal helmet that had the texture of bronze. The helmet was just used to cover his face.

The man tapped on one of the white buds slightly.

CHI*

The bud blossomed and it turned into an attractive white flower. An intense fragrance permeated the air as the flower blossomed. It was a mysterious smell that was a bit like the smell of an apple.

Strangely, there was a white human face in the center of the flower, about the size of a nail. The eyes on the face slowly opened and looked at the man in front of it.

"Green, you're here," the human face spoke in a deep tone.

The man in black was Angele. He returned to the main world to recover and noticed the message from the Dark Wizard Tower. It was about if he would become a core member of the organization.

Angele thought for a while and decided to answer the call; however, he had to sign the soul contract with the organization before he could become a core member. It was a new contract that was developed recently; the consequences would be terrifying if he broke the contract.

Dark Wizard Tower started recruiting core members right after finishing developing the contract and the organization was trying to turn its elite members into a strong force.

There were many elite members that were not sure if they should become core members of the organization due to the new soul contract. The elite members had high potential and most of them were already relatively strong when compared to normal members. If they could become core members of the organization after signing the contract, they would have to be loyal to the organization. It was a great way to create a strong force.

Angele knew that something big would happen to the Dark Wizard Tower right after reading the message.

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Chapter 389: Fear (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu

Angele had completed several missions from the Dark Wizard Tower over the last several years and already collected a lot of points, but he only spent them on necessary things like purchasing extremely rare materials.

Vivian could not acquire those materials for him, they were sold by the Dark Wizard Tower's members that explored the dangerous ruins.

Angele told Orphie and Freia that Eye Devil was a dangerous monster before leaving the Nightmare Realm. Although Freia found it hard to believe, she still nodded her head and agreed to what Angele just said. The girl did not witness their argument.

After everything was done, Angele took the blood essence crystal that was gifted to him by Eye Devil to the main world and absorbed its power every day. The crystal contained pure bloodline power and it could help Angele modify his body.

Dark Wizard Tower messaged him before he absorbed all the power from the crystal.

Angele calmed down and stood in front of the flower, raising his left hand. There was a ring with an eye-shaped amethyst on his left middle finger. "How many of them are here?"

Blue light flashed on the surface of the ring.

The human face glared at the ring.

"You think I don't trust you? You don't have to show the ring to me… There are about twenty people here and they're all elites in this area. Alright, get in now."

Angele smiled. "I showed you the ring because it's the rule." He lowered his hand. "Alright, I'll leave now, I'll talk to you later."

"Sure," the human face responded.

Angele walked past the tree, stopped by the edge of the cliff, and jumped down.

Down the cliff was an endless abyss; the only thing he could see was some thick black fog.

It was not the first time he traveled to the headquarters of the organization, but Angele still found this method inconvenient.

His body was falling down at full speed; the strong wind was blowing into his pants, sleeves, and collar. He could feel that the heat on the surface of his skin was being taken away.

WOO*

The noise made by the wind was the only thing he could hear and his skin was getting wet.

The dark fog got thicker and thicker after he fell for a while—it almost completely blocked Angele's sight.

Angele could feel that the weightless feeling was getting weaker and weaker. Several minutes later, he stood on the dark cloud and it did not feel like he was still falling anymore. He could feel the texture of the cloud with his feet—it was soft but steady.

Raising his left hand, Angele released a ray of blue light from the amethyst ring on his left middle finger.

The blue ray stood in front of him like a blue stick, surrounded by blue light dots that looked like floating flower petals.

About half a minute later, the black fog around Angele slowly disappeared.

The environment around him had changed. There were white clouds floating in the bright blue sky. He was standing in a cylinder-shaped canyon with black cliffs on both sides.

Under his feet was a rectangular blue light screen, which looked like a floating tile that was preventing him from falling.

Angele could see a long spiral staircase created by blue light bricks in front of him; the staircase looked like a blue string leading to the entrance of a black city in the sky.

There were four white waterfalls around the city, their size varied. The water came from the tall towers in the sky, while the waterfalls were surrounded by mists. The noise they made was harsh on Angele's ears.

Angele looked down, under the translucent blue tiles, it was a white underground river. The water from the waterfalls dropped into the river and went into some tiny caves on the side.

He raised his head; there were already several people that arrived early and were climbing up the stairs.

Angele started moving as well. He stepped on the second blue light brick and made sure that it could handle his weight.

He shook his head slightly and started walking up the stairs as well.

CHI CHI*

Angele heard some noise coming from behind and turned his head around. He noticed that a ball of black smoke appeared in the air and another person landed on the light bricks after the smoke disappeared.

It was a man wearing a long black coat, with thick brown fur around his collar. The man had a handsome face and his facial features were almost perfect. His skin was smoother than a woman's and his short red hair was waving in the gentle wind.

Also, the reversed Ω sign between the man's brow was quite eye-catching. The sign was red and there were red electric pulses around it.

The man had a pair of red eyes and he noticed Angele as well—they quickly exchanged eye contact.

"Greetings, I'm Bismarck from the Sky Lord Palace. It must be the fate, we both like red." There was a gentle smile on the man's handsome face. He raised his hand and looked at Angele. For some reason, the red hair that stuck on his forehead made him even more attractive.

Angele did not want to shake the man's hand. He started walking upstairs again. His long red hair and the long black robe flying in the wind. Angele could smell the sick smell of blood from the man named Bismarck.

Bismarck hesitated for a second and lowered his hand, it seemed like he was not ruffled.

The smell of the man almost made Angele puke; he noticed that as the man greeted him.

It was the smell of the bloodline—after he merged with the ancient bloodline and started refining the true form, his sense of the bloodlines was much keener than before. The bloodline did not only contain a man's gene, the soul sigil of the man could also be found in it.

'Sky Lord Palace? It's one of the three wizard lord palaces…' Angele had no intention to make friends with people from the wizard lord palaces. He already enraged the Lord of Shadow, if the Lord of Sky somehow got mad at him as well…

The three wizard lords hated each other, but they could easily kill a low-rank wizard like Angele.

'I didn't expect to see someone from the Sky Lord Palace here. I wonder how strong the Dark Wizard Tower's elite members are…' Angele raised his head and stared at the black city above.

The wizards that could enter this area all signed the new contract so Bismarck just simply told Angele who he was and who he was working for.

This was the headquarters of the Dark Wizard Tower, and the wizards could not leave the area without the permission of the organization; also, they could not send any messages to the people outside the headquarters.

Angele calmed down and kept stepping up the stairs. Bismarck followed behind him; it seemed like he was enjoying himself.

Two more wizards appeared on the light staircase after Bismarck. The first one was a bald female wizard that was wearing a leather armor suit that looked like a white bikini. The second one was a gray robe with the head of an eagle and the body of a human.

The woman and the eagle man did not say anything, they were just going upstairs quietly.

Angele finally reached the top of the staircase after about half an hour; it was the entrance to the black city.

The city looked like an enormous altar with stone staircases in the front and the back. The staircases led to the top level of the altar. There were black buildings on both sides of the staircases.

There were people walking on the empty grounds among the black buildings. Most of the people were wearing black crystal shoulder armor on their left shoulders, otherwise their outfits varied. Some of them were talking to each other.

However, most of them covered their faces with masks and they were looking at others carefully.

The entrance of the city was a large empty ground. A team of guards wearing black crystal armor was standing in front of the gate. All the guards had muscular bodies and their heads were covered by completely closed helmets. Angele also noticed the complicated magic engravings on the surface of their armor.

"Go to the first floor if you're wearing one piece of crystal armor. Go to the second floor if you're wearing two pieces of crystal armor," the leader of the guards spoke. He was talking about the crystal blade armor that was handed to all the elite members and should only be worn on shoulders.

There were about eight wizards at the entrance and Angele was one of them. Bismarck stood beside him—it seemed like he was interested in Angele.

There was a black leather scroll in the guard's hand. There were some words written on the scroll, but what caught people's attention was the large mouth in the center that was full of teeth.

A male wizard stepped forward and grabbed the black leather scroll. He read the contents carefully and chanted several simple incantations, pointing at the large mouth on the scroll. A white light dot was released from his finger tip and it sank into the large mouth quickly.

"Next." The guard took out another black leather scroll and looked at the second wizard that just stepped forward. "Ah, Sophia, long time no see." The guard's voice was gentle.

"It's you. Long time no see." The female wizard stepped forward and repeated what the last wizard just did. Another white light dot sank into the scroll's mouth. "I haven't seen you in years, I'll talk to you after this is done."

"Sure." The guard nodded. His voice was neutral. Angele was not sure if it was a woman or a man.

The wizards signed the contract one by one and Angele's turn had come.

He grabbed the black leather scroll and checked the contents. There was no trap or secret pattern; the words explained the rules clearly. It seemed like the masters of the Dark Wizard Tower were not trying to trick them.

Angele did what the others did and released a white light dot.

He sealed the scroll and started walking to the empty ground on the left of the first floor. There should be someone else waiting for him there.

"So it's Green. It's the name on your contract. I saw it." Bismarck's voice came from behind.

Angele's expression turned cold, he stopped and looked back.

Bismarck raised his right index finger, a glowing, red butterfly on his fingertip swinging its wings. "Well, it's an accident."

"Why did you peek at my contract?" Angele spoke in a cold tone.

Bismarck smiled and stared Angele in the eyes calmly. He suddenly winked at Angele.

'Ugh…' Angele could feel the goose bumps rising on his skin.

'Is this guy trying to seduce me?'

He wanted to puke again.

Bismarck was still winking at him and it was making Angele uncomfortable.

'Dumb*ss…' The man's behavior was giving him chills. Bismarck was more horrifying than the monsters on Eye Devil's party at the moment.

Angele tightened his collar as he suddenly felt cold. Angele turned around and walked to the servant that was waiting for him in the front quickly.

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Chapter 390: Filtering (1)

Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe

There were only five servants working as attendants. These attendants looked like waiters and waitresses standing at the side.

Angele soon noticed — as he walked closer to them — that they were not living beings.

The attendants' mouths looked similar to the ones wooden puppets commonly had, and not the hint of the existence of a soul was there in their eyes.

'Wait… It's not that they look like wooden puppets, they are wooden puppets,' Angele thought of this as he focused his gaze on the representatives' body. He discovered to himself that their skin seemed to be as hard as wood while having the color of human flesh.

The attendant nearest at the front noticed that Angele was walking toward her, so she slightly moved her neck and rolled her soulless eyes, staring at Angele.

"Welcome to Sky City. I'm 'No. 241', at your service. Please follow me," the attendant who was wearing a long white dress had a monotonous voice.

Angele was about to return the greeting, but the attendant had already turned away and walked to a small building in the city. The entrance of this particular building was wide open, but inside was dark.

Only one of the puppets conversed with Angele, while the rest of them remained standing in their respective place as they awaited the arrival of the next guest. Another wooden puppet attendant walked out of a different building and took the place of the attendant formerly assigned there.

Angele turned to glance at Bismarck — the man was waving at him while smiling. Bismarck, too, was signing the contract.

Angele no longer bothered himself with the man, as he accompanied the wooden puppet attendant through the door on the left.

It was dark inside, though there were sun rays passing through the gaps between the window. The place was peculiarly hushed.

"Is this the new teleportation gateway? Is there anything you can tell me about this location?" Angele tried to ask the wooden puppet attendant leading the way.

Despite so, the wooden puppet attendant continued her way ahead, almost as if she did not hear his query.

"Sky City has gathered you here because we want to search for the elite of the elites among you. Since we are the administrator of this area, we are allowed to use any resource within our sovereignty. Not only that, we also can ask for the immediate presence of the organization's members if we do so please," the puppet attendant replied in a monotonous tone.

"Huh?" Angele felt intrigued, "How is it possible for you to ask the elites of the area to come here? It sounds like the organizational structure is quite simple."

"It isn't about the organizational structure. You must pay for the benefits we are providing you with, or else, you shall be exiled, and your memory shall be erased," the puppet attendant explained.

"Erase my memory? Ha," Angele sneered, but he did not say anything else.

The pair walked slowly through the dark, wooden building. Angele could not see anything around him. To him, it felt like walking into the endless abyss.

The wooden puppet then suddenly carried on with an explanation before Angele even asked any other question.

"The competition will be held across the five major divisions with one sole purpose — to find the elite of the elites. And you can kill your own opponent if you wish."

"I can kill my opponent?" Angele's eyes squinted, "What are you implying, then? That the organization thinks the benefits it provides to its elite members are good enough for them to fight to the death?"

"The winner shall become one of the division generals, and the top three participants shall be awarded with the magic circle legacy. Be reminded though, that, in reality, the participants will not die and lose their physical forms. The winner shall withal gain the right to participate in the secret meetings of the organization. I'm sure you will not be disappointed if you ever win in the competition," the wooden puppet attendant stopped her explanation right after.

Angele was a bit surprised.

Just the magic circle legacy alone would be an attractive reward. Certainly, Vivian's magic circle legacy was truly powerful, but she would not bequeath it to Angele unless she was about to die.

Angele knew that magic circle legacies could transform a weak wizard into a high-rank wizard. Fighting and winning against a possessor of a magic circle legacy was nigh impossible. After all, the power difference was too great.

Although he could only inherit one magic circle legacy, having one would still aid him significantly during crucial times in battles.

Angele no longer asked anything else after listening to her explanations. Dark Wizard Tower's reward would surely make any wizard that possessed no magic circle legacy fight to the death.

"The magic circle legacy was built by the Dark Wizard Tower, and there are two versions of it. The first version used an infusion model and the second used the semi-inheritance model. If you have another original magic circle legacy you need, you can just infuse it into the one you will win in the competition and alter it into a magic circle legacy set," the wooden puppet attendant added.

"A magic circle legacy set…" Angele was becoming thrilled. A magic circle legacy set was developed to aid wizards to surpass their limit in order to activate more than one legacy circle. The legacy set was much more difficult to build compared to the magic circle legacy itself. It too would require a vast amount of resources, but the result of gaining the ability to possess two magic circle legacies was well worth its price.

A legacy set required too many resources that the top brass of mid-sized organizations had no capability of building one. However, it could mainly assist a wizard to activate the infusion model or the semi-inheritance model while also keeping the possibility of acquiring yet another magic circle legacy, which was the reason Angele was excited.

Angele remained with the wooden puppet attendant as they slowly walked along, but he did not speak of anything else.

The darkness surrounding them slowly disappeared from their sight.

The tiny building made out of wood was no longer there. Instead, Angele could now once again see the blue sky, white clouds, and vibrant grass. The clouds were slowly passing across the endless sky.

Angele soon realized that the attendant had disappeared, and he was now standing on an empty ground located beside a waterfall.

His current location was surrounded by mountains. A green lake lay before him.

There was a twin waterfall from one of the mountains, separated by rocks halfway in the air. They looked like numerous white ribbons descending onto the river.

The noise created by the waterfall spread out across the valley.

Angele stood by the river and overlooked the other side. He saw that there were two wizards standing next to each other; they seemed to be friends.

The one on the left was adorned with a white cloak that completely did not expose his skin.

The other, seemingly a male too, was wearing a golden armor with luxurious design. He had short, blue hair, and half of his face was covered by blue fish scales. He carried a high-quality silver bow on his back.

The two immediately noticed Angele's presence when the latter looked at them. They became vigilant upon seeing Angele's behavior.

But Angele did not mind that. He took out a small green bottle from one of his pouches and opened it. Immediately, a ball of green smoke drifted out of it.

The green smoke formed into a hazy, human-like shadow, but it dissipated before it could solidify. It soon transformed into green particles that surrounded Angele's body.

Angele could feel himself becoming lighter and he slowly flew into the air.

He could now view the environment within and around valley clearly as his flight increased in altitude.

Outside the valley, there were rivers and mountains. The mountains were filled with vibrant, green plant life; the entire place was filled with vitality.

Angele's flight altitude continued to increase. He wanted to get a better look at the surroundings.

Yet at this moment, a deep, hoarse male voice echoed in his ears.

"There are five cores for the five divisions of the Sky City. You will only be able to leave the world rift if you can obtain a complete core. The number of core fragments you can obtain depends on your performance. That is how we award you. Please note that you only have three days left in the world rift."

'World rift?!'

Angele's expression changed. He did not expect the area he was in right now to be a collapsing fissure of the world.

No matter how powerful a wizard was, they would not be able to leave this place without knowing the teleportation coordinates.

At once, he took a glance at the pair of wizards on the ground. They looked surprised, and obviously, they should have heard the voice as well.

The voice spoke again, "Watch out for the cores."

A vibratory noise slowly resounded in the sky. That made him feel like the heaven and earth started to shake.

Angele quickly raised his head.

Five black stars soared through the endless blue sky and began their descent.

At the same time, he saw powerful wizards, varying in forms, appearing on the mountains on the far side. Just like him, those wizards were spectating the descent of these black stars.

The five stars that were surrounded by dark flames would soon strike the land.

Angele did not rush toward the closest star. Instead, he took out some tiny, colorful stones from one of his pouches while blue light flashed in his eyes. He ground the stones until it turned into powder and scattered them into the air.

The colorful powder was blown away by the wind. As Angele continued to watch, his expression became grim.

'They really did not lie. This is really a world rift. I didn't expect for Dark Wizard Tower to find a place like this… Wait… Five places like this… Damn.' Angele took a deep breath.

'I must go after the cores, or else, I won't be able to leave the rift.' He glanced at the two wizards near the river again and discovered that they, too, were looking at him. The three of them seemed to be having similar thoughts.

Angele turned around and directed the wind element to take him to the closest star.

The five stars were becoming closer and closer to the ground.

BOOM*

The earth started shaking for a while.

The closest star descended onto a long river that was not so far away from Angele. He could even see the mud splashing into the air.

Angele remained floating in the air. He could see wizards jump out of the mountains and make a beeline for the star as fast as they could muster.

The scene looked like dozens of colorful ants moving toward an enormous black hole. Meanwhile, some of them were flying toward the star just like Angele.

Angele stopped wasting his time. As he headed straight for the star, he saw a ray of black light flash in the deep crater it created.

CHI CHI CHI*

Within the deep crater, a black light-ball exploded, turning into numerous pieces that flew toward all angles like raindrops.

The black cores turned into countless black fragments that were drawing strings in the air.

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Chapter 391: Filtering (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe

All right, so that's how it works…. Angele stopped flying. He seemed to already have understood the entire situation.

The organization had arranged it in a way the cores would explode so that all wizards would have the chance of getting their hands on the core fragments. Due to this, wizards who did not have high agility would not be in too much disadvantage. However, the battle for the fragments would become much more intense this way.

Chi!

A core fragment flew by the right side of his face.

Pa!

Angele raised his hand and caught the fragment.

It was a glowing core fragment shaped like a diamond. But then, he could feel that the fragment was trying to move away and was now certain that he ought to put it in a closed container.

The traction of the fragment… It will lead me to the location where there is another fragment…. Angele had completely understood this rule.

He surveyed the nearby areas.

All right, it's still early. I shall now start collecting fragments.

Chi!

His body disappeared from the sky.

In the next moment, he appeared in the area and he was now standing on the peak of a mountain. Angele looked over at an old man in a black robe standing beside the river. The old man had a grim expression as he pulled his hand out of the woman's chest. The woman was wearing a white armor, but there was a large, bloody hole right in the middle of her chest.

"Hand the fragment over to me." Angele raised his right hand. Black and silver pieces of rocks gathered around right in the middle of his palm and took form into an enormous gray greatsword.

The old man glared at Angele, with a tinge of red light flashing in his green eyes and he suddenly tried to capture Angele from the far side.

Ding!

A silver shield materialized before Angele, easily blocking a translucent hand. A white shockwave spread out after the collision and disappeared within seconds.

It looked like the hand had been formed out of thin air and was about three meters tall and about one meter wide. The hand struck the colossal silver shield with immense force to try to break the shield.

Angele held the greatsword in his right hand and executed a vertical slash. The upper half of the stone blade was broken into pieces and hurled toward the old man in black.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Like bombs exploding, the broken stones smashed into the ground near the river one by one and mud and grass were blown into the air.

Angele did not care. He once again slashed forth and created some more broken stones.

The earth was shaking and the empty ground beside the river had already become a mess.

There was some black light flashing in the flying mud and stones at first, but it disappeared quickly and nothing else happened.

Angele dropped the stone greatsword to the ground.

The mud and stones here are full of minerals. I can control them with my forcefield. He jumped down and slowly landed on the empty ground slowly with the help of the green smoke.

The woman in the white armor and the old man in black were both crushed by the stones, but it seemed that they were still alive.

The old man in black spat out some blood. He looked at Angele with a face that had already turned pale.

"I'm sorry, but I think I should be the one to keep your fragments," Angele smiled as he moved his hands near the old man's eyes. His fingers slowly reformed into silver needles.

Suddenly, both the bodies of the woman and the old man became two rays of black light and bolted into the sky like lightning. Three core fragments dropped out of the light and landed on Angele's palm.

"Huh?" Angele was surprised, "So the organization would actually do help the ones who are about to die." He caught the fragments and stored them in a metal sphere.

"All right, next." He looked at the river's surface and walked to the next fragment.

Under the riverwater, there was a man spectating the situation. He let out a sigh with a hint of relief.

One day later…

Water was flowing across the river. There was a white string in the middle of the river, of which had been formed by the waterfall from the mountain.

Angele stood on the right side of the river, holding two silver crossguard swords in both of his hands and overlooking the other side of the river calmly.

The green mountains on the other side were deadly silent. White mist drifted in the air above the river.

There were several other people watching what was happening at the river from atop the mountains.

"The Swordsman is fighting against the Night Devil… What do you think?" a man asked softly.

"I don't know about Swordsman's rank, but he has already killed all the people who got in his way. Hino the Thunderbird, too, lost the battle against him, but Night Devil is also one of the strongest wizards in this competition," another man spoke.

"The magic circles set up by Night Devil have killed more than 20 wizards who were after his core fragments, and all of them were at a high rank. I don't think Swordsman can win here," the last man added, "All right, it's not our business. We just need to make sure we can protect our own fragments. Swordsman already knows we're here. He didn't attack us simply because we don't have many fragments in our possession. But Night Devil has two complete cores — Swordsman will not let this chance slide."

The three sighed with mixed emotions. In their respective territories, they were considered to be strong wizards and it was their first time meeting other people who were considered to be in the same caliber as them. However, they soon discovered for themselves that they were weak after fighting against several other elites from the organization. Due to that, they decided to team up in order to protect the fragments they had. The organization had not specifically made it clear, but if they were to fail to collect even a single fragment by the end of the competition — the punishment ought to be far worse than just wiping out their memory…

There were more than 60 wizards in this division, and half of them had already lost during the battles. The remaining wizards knew how strong each other was.

The strongest wizards were called Swordsman, Night Devil, and Deadman.

These noms de guerre were coined by the wizards who were part of the division. The possessors of a nom de guerre were the best of the best within the division.

Swordsman possessed at least one complete core, and the same applied to Night Devil. Deadman was slower, but he had one complete core as well.

Either Swordsman or Night Devil would become the one possessing the most of complete cores after this battle.

Angele was standing beside the river with a calm demeanor.

Zing! Zing!

He was spinning two silver swords in his hands.

He was walking to the other side of the river. The splashing water covered the back of his silver boots.

"Night Devil, huh? That's the nickname they gave you?" Angele walked as he talked. His long, red hair was flying about amidst the gentle breeze. He slightly raised his chin, and in front of his eyes, blue light was flashing.

Angele could not use the lava balls. Although it could deal a lot of damage, all wizards in the central continent would then know who he was once they view him cast the spell. He could only rely on the enhanced metal forcefield and the one-time spell that was stored in the biochip, the Pyroblast.

He never rested on the first day. Angele followed the leading of the fragment and took away the fragments from all the wizards he had come across with. No one could deter him.

There was one wizard who was called the Thunderbird. He left a burnt mark on Angele's right shoulder, but that was it.

There was a total of five cores in the area they were in, and Angele was up against a person that was stronger than the Thunderbird, the Night Devil.

He could feel the traction from the two cores Night Devil had.

The problem was Night Devil's background.

He learned from a wizard he defeated that Night Devil was one of the core members of Dark Wizard Tower and was alleged to have joined the competition because of the desire to obtain the magic circle legacy.

Angele crossed the river while thinking of this.

He stepped onto the muddy soil with his boots. Several white birds flew out of the plant life in the mountains.

The birds departed the area very quickly.

Angele raised his head, watching as the birds flew away. The shadow of the birds brushed on his face, and a white feather slowly dropped from the sky. He caught it and grasped it forcefully, breaking it into pieces.

Chi!

Countless red lines that looked like spider webs appeared on the ground and started glowing right after.

The red light climbed up Angele's feet, attempting to bind him to the ground.

Invisible waves appeared on the mountain's surface, and a pretty girl appeared out of nowhere. She had a pale face and was wearing a black armor. Her chest armor barely covered her chest, but her legs were well-protected by the thick pieces of armor. There was nothing around her waist.

"Swordsman… You have already lost the battle the moment you stepped into my gravity trap." Her long, blonde hair trailing over her shoulders looked like luxurious silk. She looked at Angele the same way as her looking at a dead person.

"The gravity of this land will stop you from moving. Hand the core over to me. You have no chance of winning."

When he raised his hand, he could indeed feel the gravity restricting him from moving.

"So you're Night Devil?" he looked at the girl curiously.

The girl had a pair of black eyes. She was holding a long-reaching weapon that looked like a crescent blade surrounded by black smoke.

"What are you trying to do?" the girl sneered and moved her weapon, leaving a blurry shadow behind. She was targeting Angele right at his waist.

Angele smiled and slowly moved his hand toward the girl. Three silver scars appeared on his face.

Mud and rocks from the land and the mountain around the girl started flying toward her as Angele's hand moved.

Bam!

Clang!

The two struck each other at the same time.

Angele's waist was hit by the blade, but the sound it created was akin to a piece of metal being hit. What was left on his metal barrier was a light scar.

"That's all you can do? How disappointing…" Angele shook his head, "You are too weak… I was expecting better from you."

The girl was surrounded by mud and rocks. Red light flashed around her body, and a black face slowly appeared behind her as a pair of blue wings on her back started fluttering.

Boooom!

Night Devil had cast three of her strongest spells before she finally blew all the rocks away.

Blood leaked out of her mouth. She was now looking at Angele in pain.

"How dare you…"

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Chapter 392: Approaching and Striding (1)

Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe

"What can you do if you can't move!" Night Devil spoke cryptically while she was trying to compose herself.

The girl raised her right hand. As she did so, rays of red lit up out of the magic circle drawn on the ground such that it surrounded Angele in the middle.

Angele could only stand amid the magic circle quietly. He could not move freely due to the effects of the magic circle, which rooted him to the earth. The rays of red light were like oil climbing up his body.

His field of vision had been overlapped by the red light, so he could not see anything else. It felt like he was standing in a pot of boiling oil.

Blue light flashed in his eyes, but it disappeared seconds later. Disappointment took over Angele's expression.

"Not bad. I didn't expect that you could set up such a trap. It's impressive," Angele smiled and spoke aloud, "You can actually bind…"

Bang!

A towering stone fist bashed him from behind, hindering him from saying anything else.

The fist had a black-brownish color and the size of a wheel. It had been formed out of the deposits of rocks and mud.

Angele could sense another oncoming attack from behind. It was the feeling that something was about to strike him really, really hard. He frowned and tried to turn to where he was being attacked from, but the stone fist was much faster than his reflexes.

Thud!

Immediately, the strike landed on him. Angele knew, of course, that the fist had already hit him without him having been able to completely turn around.

Crack!

The stone fist cracked and reverted to countless rocks mixed in with mud as it dropped to the ground.

Chi!

A silver string drew a line in the air and disappeared into the red light at the back.

Following the attack was a roar that sounded like it came from a beast's, coupled with the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

"An earth golem?" Although Angele's eyes were still blurry, he could hear the roar from behind, one that he had already heard of many times during the time he was back in the laboratory.

"That's a high-rank golem. Why would you waste it here?"

Angele did not even look back.

Pa!

With a flick of his finger, black rocks of varying sizes floated up above the ground.

All of the stone pieces slowly reshaped into shards that were completely sharp and were seemingly aiming at all angles.

A trace of silver light flashed on the scars on Angele's face.

Chi! Chi! Chi!

Like droplets of rain, the stone shards darted toward all angles. The red light was affected by the explosive shockwave his relentless attack caused.

Angele was fully concentrated on listening to the noises around him.

Ahead of him was a sound similar to that of a stone hitting the surface of the mountain. By his left side, the stone had not seemed to have caused an effect. The same thing could be said for the one by his right side. However, when the stone struck toward the river, he heard the girl grunting in pain.

He remained standing at his original position, while at the same time, many silver needles materialized around him.

"Strike!"

Ss! Ss! Ss!

A shower of silver needles flashed toward behind him.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

There was the noise generated by metal hitting an object.

"Damn!" he heard the cursing from Night Devil herself, who was evidently behind him.

Angele's body became lighter, and the red light coming from the magic circle faded out.

"The time limit's reached? Well, it's impressive that you could trap me in this magic circle for so long. I presume that the magic circle should have worked longer if my body was not unbelievably stronger…" he spoke nonchalantly.

Angele stretched his body and turned around.

The red light had already disappeared, and now, there was that girl standing on the river surface. Her right arm had been injured in the battle, while the blade in her grip was broken in half. There was a pair of bloody holes on her right arm, caused by the silver needles.

Night Devil was scowling at Angele with eyes full of hatred. Angele could see a black human figurine in her left hand, but he was not sure what it would do.

"All right, you win," Night Devil breathed deeply to calm herself, "I will give you one complete core, while I keep the other one. What do you say? Or perhaps you want to fight to the death with me?"

Angele smiled gently and innocently and stomped the ground with his right foot.

Boom!

The cracks in the ground looked like a spider web, and Angele had already disappeared from where he was.

Booom!

Night Devil was shoved away by Angele. She then flew up into the air and smashed into the mountain walls with immense impact. Angele soon appeared before her.

Angele pummeled her into the walls of the mountain, resulting in broken rock fragments from falling from the cliff, but all of them were blocked by his energy shield.

"Huh?" Angele stared at Night Devil confusedly, "Your energy barrier is strong." He discovered to himself that the girl was not in the slightest bit injured after being hit.

Night Devil sneered in response and waved her left hand.

Boom!

Green flames burst forth in the air. Angele was blown away by the strong impact that he had to retreat more than ten steps back, just so he would not fall to the ground.

Angele shook his head lightly because of him feeling dizzy. He looked at Night Devil, but the girl was yet to be injured.

"A defensive magic device from your teacher? Why didn't you activate it earlier?" he put forward his questions.

"I wanted to test how strong I am. That is why I said you wouldn't be able to hurt me. I shall give you one core instead, as a proof that I have lost a battle to you. You should know it's impossible if you want to stop me," Night Devil coldly barked in reply.

A gentle smile appeared on Angele's face.

"Believe it or not, the defensive barrier around your body wouldn't be able to stop me if I were to use my true power."

Night Devil narrowed her eyes. She suddenly detected an unusual energy wave exuding from Angele's body.

"This is the core," she threw a black crystal bead into the air as she focused her gaze on Angele. Night Devil leaped away and slowly disappeared into the darkness. The girl did not want to mess with him any longer, as she was not sure what would happen hereafter had she not left.

Angele took a step forward and caught the bead. His attributes were so high that his reaction speed was insanely fast. Night Devil could not damage him no matter what. The girl's attacks were weaker than the Thunderbird's, but her magic circle impressed him still.

Mediocre wizards would have lost their ability to fight after being trapped in that magic circle. Night Devil would then have won once the trapped wizards no longer had sufficient mentality to maintain their energy shields. However, she could not at all do enough damage to Angele.

The black figurine was the girl's trump card, but she did not fully activate it. She seemed to have considered that she did not want other wizards joining the fray once they noticed that she had already become an arrow at the end of its flight. Angele had not been injured by her final strike, so she decided to drop one and leave.

At this moment, Angele now possessed two complete cores and even formed a third core by combining a whole bag of fragments.

He raised his hand, and three eyeball-sized, black crystal beads were spinning atop his palm.

"Three complete cores… But it was not mentioned that I would be able to leave just by collecting the cores…" Angele looked at the sky.

The soft, fluffy white clouds were floating in the azure sky. This place looked exactly just like an area in the main world. Angele would not believe that this was a world rift had he not taken the test.

Angele lifted up his left hand and looked at the amethyst ring worn on one of his fingers.

There was a black vortex silently spinning in the middle of the gem.

Angele focused his mind and observed the three cores in his hand carefully. He noticed that the space around the cores was a tad twisted.

The twisted forcefield surrounded Angele's body, but it covered a radius so small that it could only fit one person.

So that's the benefit of the core — the forcefield will lead me to the coordinates and protect me from harm once the world rift completely collapses. I should be safe if I can protect the cores that will guide me back to the main world , Angele guessed. The only thing I must do now is to find a safe place and await its coming.

He probed the surroundings, then he walked to a hill and started his ascent.

Angele arrived at the hilltop minutes later. With a wave of his right hand, he created an empty field on the hill and sat down with his legs crossed to begin his temporary stay.

There were about 20 different energy waves around the hill, and it came from the wizards who had spectated the fight between Angele and the Night Devil. They were trying to ambush the loser of the battle, but no one had been severely injured.

The outcome of a battle between wizards mostly was reliant on their instant cast spells, talent spells, and magic devices or magic items. A battle like this would often conclude within minutes.

The difference in power between Angele and Night Devil was indisputable. Angele had walked straight into a trap, yet Night Devil failed to cause injury to an immobile wizard. That was the reason she accepted her loss without having the magic device fully activated.

Angele sat on top of the hill quietly, and time was passing quickly.

It was becoming darker and darker. Once the night descended, the area visibility had become low.

Fissures slowly manifested at the edge of the dark sky. It looked like paint being torn apart, and its cracks were the gates to the endless abyss.

The thin airflow was drawn to the sky, being taken away from the world rift.

Angele was still sitting on the empty ground and was surrounded by the forcefield produced by the fresh air. The forcefield was sending in fresh air to him.

His eyes opened as soon as he detected the sudden change in airflow. Angele lifted his head and gazed at the fissures in the sky.

Boom!

Explosive noises came from a hill on the other side. A translucent serpent raised its head as white smoke appeared and roared at the sky.

It was a white serpent more than 10 meters long and it was moving its body around the hills.

Angele could see a person wearing a white-gold clothing flying around the serpent, releasing black smoke from his hand. It took form into human-like shadows and hit the serpent's body.

Every time the shadows hit the serpent's body, the serpent would struggle and roar in pain. Meanwhile, the man had easily dodged all of the serpent's attacks.

Several minutes later, the serpent crashed to the ground, causing mud and water from the river to be splashed away.

Angele leaned down his head and stopped viewing the fight. It might have looked like a major fight, but the damage they could deal was lower than 200 degrees. A battle like that could easily be won by him.

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Chapter 393: Approaching and Striding (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu

On the other side of the valley.

The serpent fell to the ground and the man in gold slowly landed on its head.

He was a young man with a blank expression, wearing a white-goldish full body armor and a pair of black leather gloves. On the back of his gloves, there were two parallelogram engravings.

"It's over, Kevin," he spoke in a calm tone as he stood beside the serpent's white eyes.

The serpent opened its eyes, revealing the dark space inside.

A man in black climbed out of the serpent's right eye, his body covered in wounds, and fell to the ground right away.

"Where are the fragments?" the man questioned in a deep tone.

The man in black chuckled and opened his mouth. "Too late, I've already handed them over to Puppet. You can try to take them from the puppet if you want."

"The Puppet…" The man in white's expression turned serious. "Was that what you were planning?"

"We knew each other for years but I didn't expect to see you here. Why should I save the fragments for you if I already know that I can't win the fight against you? I'm not dumb."

The man in black sneered and disappeared into the cracks in the sky after turning into a ray of black light.

"Fool." The man did not watch the black ray leave, he turned around and headed to where the next fragment was. "You'll lose everything if you don't keep the fragments for yourself. Dark Wizard Tower will not waste their resources on erasing your memory."

"Puppet…" the man muttered and his expression turned even more serious.

He followed the lead given by the fragments and increased his speed.

After about half an hour, he finally arrived at the indicated location that was near the river.

He turned several times and arrived at a small canyon.

The man gasped as he stepped into the canyon. A man in brown was fighting against four other wizards just by himself.

Rays of black electricity-infused flames were splashing everywhere. Translucent energy waves were appearing and disappearing from time to time; the wizards were attacking the man like it was a tag match.

Every time the four wizards tried to prepare a strong spell, they would be interrupted by the man in brown. However, they decided to cast the spells one by one so the man had to defend against their strikes.

The whole canyon was full of the noise made by the electric pulse and fire explosions, the wind created by the wind energy particles, and the furious roars from the elemental golems.

The man in gold recognized the man that was fighting against four wizards immediately, it was Puppet.

"Alright, time is up." There was a mysterious smile on Puppet's face as he suddenly raised his right hand.

The four suddenly stopped moving, they could no longer cast spells and looked scared.

The four wizards were hit by a black fireball released by Puppet.

BOOM*

Four rays of black light soared into the sky after the explosion.

Puppet waved his right hand—the black fragments were drawn into his palm and quickly formed an incomplete core.

"Reveal yourself, Insect!" His voice turned serious, yet Puppet was not talking to the man in gold, he was looking at the other side of the mountain.

Suddenly, translucent waves appeared on the mountain and a human-shaped shadow stepped out of the waves as his body quickly solidified. It was a creature with the head of an insect and the body of a human.

Insect's head looked identical to a caterpillar's head. There were two green tentacles on top of its head and its eyes were reflecting a light purple color. Those eyes looked like they were taken from a humongous fly.

"How did you detect me?" Insect sounded confused, his voice was deep and hoarse.

Puppet chuckled but he did not answer the question, he just stared at Insect.

The atmosphere got heavy as the two stopped talking.

"Insect, what's the point of ambushing me? You're a strong wizard and you should go for Albatross, I'm sure he has more fragments than me." Puppet narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth again.

"Albatross? Why don't you ask me to go for Swordsman?" Insect sneered. "I prefer a quick death than a slow one."

"Well, go ahead if you want to." Puppet shrugged.

The two stopped talking again after finishing the conversation; they feared each other's power but they were still trying to find the best moment to start the battle.

The canyon was deadly silent; the only noise was made by the wind.

The man in gold breathed slowly and started backing off—he knew that he could not win the fight against any of the two strong wizards.

A translucent wave appeared in the sky above the canyon when the three were about to act.

The wave had a diameter of five meters and was slowly expanding. It looked like an enormous glass plate.

CHI*

A human in white slowly stepped out of the wave.

It was a woman wearing a tight white armor. Her body was slim and there were six white bones lining up on her back. They looked like a pair of bone wings without any feathers.

Puppet and Insect raised their heads at the same time. Their expressions changed quickly, it seemed like they already realized what was happening.

"A strong wizard that just jumped through the divisions!" Puppet spoke in a deep voice. "She probably has more than four complete cores if she can jump through the divisions. I'm sure she's the strongest wizard in her starting division!"

"The translucent wave was the rift wave and she used the cores to break the walls separating the divisions!" His expression turned serious.

Insect knew that the situation changed, he exchanged eye contact with Puppet and they decided to finish off the outsider first.

A strong wizard from a different division was not here just to visit, she was here to collect more cores.

They knew that they would not be able to win the fight against her alone and they had to work together.

"Now!" Puppet swung his arms and countless white strings flew toward the woman in the air.

Insect stamped his feet and a black shadow of an insect appeared on the ground, charging toward the shadow of the woman that was floating in the air. The shadow was moving without releasing any energy waves and it was deadly silent.

It almost looked that it was not the first time the two worked together.

The woman looked at the two and narrowed her crystal-clear eyes.

WOO*

The next moment, everything in the area stopped moving.

The white strings in the air, the black shadow on the ground, Puppet's arms, Insect's mouth, and the man in gold's right foot...

The river stopped running and the air flow completely disappeared.

The color also disappeared from the space.

The river, the mountains, and the objects in the area, they all turned black and white.

With a flick of the woman's finger, three rays of white light were released from her fingertips and landed on the three's foreheads.

CHI CHI*

Two rays of black light shot into the air and the black fragments gathered on the woman's palm.

The woman collected the fragments and scrunched her eyebrows. The color finally returned to the area several seconds later.

The only thing left on Puppet's original location was a pile of wood dust. He was escaping on a large wooden bird.

Puppet's face turned pale and the wooden bird's speed was increasing. He saw that there were still wizards fighting below him.

The woman in white was flying toward him, increasing her speed. The wizards she passed by were all hit by strings of white light and turned into black light. The fragments from the area below were all collected by the woman.

It felt like the woman was a reaper and no wizard could escape from her strike.

White bubbles were coming out of Puppet's mouth; he used a secret technique to escape, but the technique severely injured his body. Although he was a strong wizard, he could not activate the secret technique consecutively.

Several other wizards noticed the situation and started escaping. Some were riding their magic pets, some were assisted by their wind golems, some were accelerating using the pure power of the energy particles.

All the wizards were trying to move at the highest speed they could reach.

The wizards that were moving slowly were all finished off by the woman.

Rays of black light stroke into the air and the woman was still collecting the fragments.

"Let's head to Swordsman's location!" someone shouted.

"Damn! Where did this woman come from?!" a wizard with a fractured arm shouted while flying in the air at full speed.

"Yes, go find Swordsman! This woman is from another division and Swordsman is the only one who can stop her!" Puppet shouted as well. He knew that his mentality was running low. He escaped the first attack using the scapegoat and his injury was slowing him down.

"I'd rather give all my fragments to Swordsman! If all the fragments in this division are taken away by her, our rank in the organization will all be lowered!" he kept shouting.

The woman in white suddenly stopped and watched the wizards flying away like an army of bees.

She slowly landed on top of a mountain.

The woman raised her hands and formed a longbow with the white light.

CHI*

She pulled the bowstring to the full as a white flame appeared in her right eye. The woman's sight went over the mountains and rivers, falling upon an empty ground on top of a hill.

Angele suddenly opened his eyes and two exchanged eye contact despite the distance between them.

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Chapter 394: Winner (1)

Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe

Both of them knew that they were confident in their abilities after their exchange of eye contact.

Angele slowly stood up and scanned the other side of the area.

A white light was flickering on top of a mountain.

Although the two were far away from each other, Angele could feel pressure in the middle of his chest. It seemed that the woman was aiming at his chest.

Ka!

Angele heard strange noises.

Suddenly, he felt something weighing him down increase.

In the middle of his chest, a white cross appeared, flashing. It was the sign of an incoming attack.

The mark penetrated my energy barrier and forcefield shield… Then it landed on my body as if nothing happened…. Angele's face became dire.

Yet for some reason, the energy wave from the cross seemed familiar to him.

Angele lifted his hands and conjured two silver crossguard swords. He executed forth a cross slash, leaving a silver cross in the air.

At this point, Angele decided to rely on his high attributes since he was not sure if the spells he knew would work on this opponent of his. Some of the opponents he had fought knew much stronger spells than him, yet they still lost.

With that in mind, he elected to use spells that would augment his physical skills, coupled with the metal force-shield.

Angele leaped forward with both swords in hand and jumped down the hill, descending into the river. He leaned closer to the ground and started running toward the woman at full speed.

He knew that the woman possessed incredible marksmanship just by seeing how she locked onto her target. He needed to reduce the distance between them.

Although Angele possessed the aid of his biochip, he would not be able to triumph over an archery face-off without a good longbow. The only solution he had was to get closer to the woman and initiate a close-quarters combat.

Angele was like a black dot moving between the mountains and rivers. He was traveling so fast his body became a blurred shadow.

The wizards that were flying in the sky passed by, like birds. Seconds later, all the other wizards had escaped the area. Angele and the woman were the only ones who remained here.

Angele could hear the loud noises generated by the wind and all the surrounding objects become unnoticeable to him. The only thing he could clearly see was the path ahead.

Suddenly, after some time, white light flashed from the top of the hill while he was making a beeline for it.

Chi!

A sharp and strange noise was approaching him, and it was becoming sharper and sharper every second.

Angele's eardrums hurt just from listening to the noise. He knew he had to defend when he witnessed the white light flash.

A layer of silver materialized before him, followed by a transparent shield, and then the two swords in his hands.

Booom!

The impact that hit Angele's body was so great that the metal barrier was destroyed in an instant, along with the energy shield from the crystal scorpion.

The white light that had an appearance of an arrow broke through his two crossguard swords easily and smote Angele's chest fiercely.

For a second, Angele stopped breathing when the arrow landed on his chest.

Everything around him was surrounded by the white light, and his ears were ringing.

Warning. Warning. Metal forcefield has been destroyed. Repairs are required. Zero's mechanical voice echoed in his ears.

You have been hit by an unknown energy strike. Damage: Over 500 degrees. 0.42 percent of your body is damaged. Time required for recovery: 2 seconds.

Angele retreated more than ten steps back after being hit by the arrow. He looked at his chest after the white light disappeared.

A nail-size wound was left in the middle of his chest, revealing the pink flesh under the skin. However, the wound was healing at an inconceivable rate.

This was not the first time Angele learned what his high attributes could do for him.

Angele could not transform into his true form, but his Stamina was already higher than magic beasts'.

He picked up the pace and rushed toward the mountain without an ounce of hesitation.

The woman in white looked baffled as she checked her longbow. Yet, she did not know why Angele was not severely injured after taking the attack.

There was a black dot moving along the river, approaching the mountain at full speed.

The woman pulled the bowstring again.

Chi!

A transparent arrow was conjured on the bow, and the woman uttered an incantation in a deep tone. Seconds later, the incantation was completely invoked.

"Mu! Bul! Kul! The Twisting Arrow of Fate!"

Strangely, several sharp arrows took form on the bow one by one. The arrows were made out of white light and lined up quickly. All the arrows were targeted at Angele at a strange angle.

Dozens of arrows were on the bow, looking like a line of terrifying sawteeth.

White flames appeared in the woman's right eye again.

"Strike!"

Chi!

Countless arrows disappeared from the bow and drew multiple curves in the air, flying toward Angele from all angles.

At that instant, the entire sky was covered in translucent arrows.

Just like stars falling down from the sky, the arrows started raining down when approaching their target.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

All the arrows landed on the target.

The arrows began exploding after landing, and white light covered the area with the light as the only thing visible. An arrow would explode every time a white light flashed.

The woman did not stop; she dropped the longbow immediately.

It disappeared into the air after it turned into a streak of light. She then lifted up her right hand.

"Tals!"

"Tals!"

Wooo!

A large, white plate that was about two meters tall slowly appeared behind the woman. On the plate were five blinking runes, each representing a gear or a weapon. These runes formed a dark circle in the middle of the plate.

"Minge!"

"Minge!" The woman lightly beckoned with her right hand.

Crack!

The white plate began spinning, and one of the runes stopped near her right hand.

Chi!

A golden axe appeared in her hand after a flash.

The white plate evanesced after the axe fully materialized into a solid form.

Including the length of its handle, the golden axe, overall, was about two meters long and was greater breadth was larger than the woman's body. It looked simple yet mysterious and like an axe normally wielded by a normal infantryman.

The woman held the axe tightly and watched out for the black shadow that had just jumped out of the area covered in white light. She wasted no time as she jumped down the mountain and slashed forward.

Angele was seeing the woman jump down the mountain when he escaped the arrows' onslaught. The woman was merely brandishing her axe, but he noticed the unusual energy wave coming from that weapon.

Clank!

It sounded like metal striking each other. The strike ripped his black robe open and left a white mark on his right shoulder.

Angele immediately ceased his advance after taking damage. His body was burning bright amid the white flames, and white light was glistering everywhere. It almost made him look like he was being devoured by an enormous — more than ten meters in height, approximately — white fireball.

The woman silently stared at it, with her still grasping the axe.

"It's over," she uttered under her breath.

Outside the battlefield, in the Sky City.

In a secret chamber of the city.

At the dark chamber grounds, there was a large screen that displayed the multiple battles happening in different areas.

The large screen itself was a division of five shell-shaped, smaller screens, and battles from five different locations were being directly broadcast live.

There were five black chairs surrounding the screen.

The surface of the chairs was slightly damaged. Furthermore, all of them were engraved with monster and plant figures. It looked like someone tried to repair the chairs and filled the surface cracks with special alloy.

Five human-shaped shadows were respectively seated on these chairs. Black smoke encompassed the shadows, and the mentality waves they were emanating could twist light and space itself.

"The 4th rift is finished, and Hunter has jumped to another rift. I think she'll become the winner of this competition," the shadow at the leftmost part spoke, whose voice sounded like an old man's.

His eyes fell on one of the shell-shaped screens.

In the broadcast, a young woman in white armor was standing near a river before a mountain and peering at a burning ball of white flames. Within the fireball was her opponent, the strongest wizard in the particular rift she was now in.

"Yeah, Hunter inherited and has successfully activated concept gear. She only needs to use the sealing ability of the concept gear when battling normal wizards. When facing a strong wizard that can't be ensnared in time, she can still use the special ability of the gear and then use her power as a rank 3 wizard to win. I don't think anyone in that rift can survive a battle against her," another shadow concurred, but this one sounded like a woman.

"I don't think Swordsman will lose so easily."

"Yeah, I agree."

Two other black shadows of the five had a different opinion, however.

The last one of the black shadows sat in his chair, feeling hesitant.

"We shall not conclude so early. Let's just watch," he spoke in a low voice.

Things escalated as soon as he finished speaking.

A man wrapped in white flames jumped out of the fireball and, transforming into a white shadow, charged toward the woman.

"I knew it. Swordsman likely possesses the strongest physique among the participants, so he will not lose so easily," one of the black shadows that had a contradicting thought laughed.

"Hunter will never lose. I won't take my word back," the female voice muttered.

The white flames around Angele's body had burnt his clothes to ashes and his pouches too had completely disintegrated. He was, right at this moment, running buck-naked.

His metal forcefield had been destroyed, and he could no longer rely on Metal Mastery. Although his body was absurdly sturdy, and the destroyed forcefield would not be a problem, he was trapped in a difficult situation.

However, that was not what enraged him — it was the pouch that did so. In it, there were far too many rare spell materials and potions significant to him, including the summoning potion of the Blood Giant. It was a potion he had spent a huge chunk of time on developing, and he had only used it once, in the Nightmare Realm.

Angele's body transformed into a white string, rushing toward the woman at his greatest speed. The woman looked shaken up. She, after all, could not believe what was happening.

"How dare you… My pouch…" Angele bellowed and closed in on the woman and then he tried to grasp the woman's face. He was certain that — if the strike could land — the woman's head would explode because of his absurd might that was too powerful.

The woman quickly had doused her panicked state. She was witnessing Angele charging toward her, but her facial expression did not change. She was looking at Angele as she would a corpse.

Pa!

With a flick of the woman's fingers.

Time itself stopped.

Color itself disappeared from the world. Everything turned monochromatic.

Angele felt surprised when he noticed himself becoming trapped in time. His hand was only about a centimeter away from the woman's nose, but now, he could not even move one inch forward.

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Chapter 395: Winner (2)

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"That's…" Angele immediately realized what was happening. After all, he had seen this kind of situation several times already. "Concept gear?!"

Green light appeared on him, and he could now move again. He wasted no time in aiming at the woman's head in retaliation.

Bam!

An explosion of light occurred between the two. The large axe landed on Angele's forehead, causing him to be blown away. Making good use of this chance, the woman successfully leaped away.

The woman was so fast Angele failed to see what she just did. He felt dizzy after taking on the attack.

"Didn't expect you to know about concept gear," the woman slowly walked toward Angele with the axe in tow, "However, you're up against a person who not only knows about concept gears… You will lose and never touch upon the secrets of the cores."

Weng!

She lifted the axe up high.

"It's over. Fissure of Despair!"

As if it was just a normal strike, she chopped down.

Intense light streaked in the air, engulfing all things within its encompassing area.

In the secret chamber.

"That's it. Fissure of Despair has a similar damage output to a spell cast by a rank 4 wizard. The damage it can do is terrifying," the female voice echoed in the room.

"I don't think Swordsman can withstand the attack from a concept gear even if his body is strong," another black shadow sighed and chimed in, "Sadly, if it wasn't Hunter who had invaded this rift, Swordsman would have won easily. He's just unlucky."

The two other black shadows shook their heads, too.

"Yeah, there wasn't much he could do."

"What do you think, Descartes?" one of them looked at the one who hadn't given their opinion.

Descartes was that man who thought that Swordsman would not lose so easily.

He was focused on the screen. Although white light had covered the broadcast image, it seemed he could see through it.

"I think Swordsman is still in. I trust him."

"Huh?" the other looked surprised upon listening to his reaction.

"Let's just watch how it goes. The winner is either Swordsman or Hunter. They have so many complete cores on them, and the only thing we need to do is to wait. The rule is simple — the wizard who carries the highest number of cores will win," Descartes spoke in a meaningful tone.

It was still amid the explosion of light, and the earth was continually shaking. The river water had evaporated, revealing a dried-up riverbed. The mud, grass, and rocks had all since disintegrated before the white light.

Several minutes later, the light faded away.

What remained at Angele's original location was a deep, dark fissure.

The woman stood beside the fissure and took a look, but there was nothing but darkness there.

"He must be severely injured, or dead." Holding up her right hand, the axe transformed into a streak of light and vanished.

"Tals!"

The white plate reappeared behind her and spun. A rune flashed and flew into her hand, turning into a white longbow — the same bow she wielded earlier.

"Arrow of Light." The woman lightly pulled the bowstring.

The dark fissure was gradually being illuminated by the arrow-light, and it almost looked like the light had coated the walls of the fissure.

Booom!

The earth shook again when the light was brought to it. Then, a white shadow jumped out of it and tried to attack the woman with his fist.

The woman quickly leaped away in retreat and dodged the strike. When she looked at the white shadow, her expression turned for the worse.

It was the man who had taken several attacks from her head-on. But right now, the man was bare-naked with his long, red hair covering his private parts. He was gazing at the woman before him with complete focus.

She could see the fractured bones through the deep wound in the man's chest, but it was healing at an incredible rate.

Angele gazed at her gravely. This experience where he had no way of fighting back was his first, and all his clothes were burnt to ashes.

His chest wound had been in a worse state several minutes before, but after hiding in the fissure, it was now looking much better.

The woman's equipment and spell level were much stronger than his. When he used his bloodline merging technique, all of his bloodline power aided him in transforming into his true form, but he could no longer activate any bloodline power after that. And although his lava ball technique could contend with wizards at a similar level as him, it would not work effectively the same way on the woman. He was certain it would just be a waste of energy, so he had rather used the energy to heal.

Before he could possibly do anything, the woman would definitely take this chance to stop him. In addition to that, the crystal scorpion and the Metal Mastery stood no chance against her.

I have to utilize my body wisely.

Angele planned things out in his mind and then he took a stomp forward and left a large hole in the ground.

He charged with his fastest speed. At first, he considered holding back since he desired to know where she obtained the concept gear. However, when he discovered that she was in a whole different league, he decided to utilize all of his energy and power. Angele struck at the air with his fist, releasing an invisible energy-fist toward the woman.

Bam!

A huge crack appeared on the mountain; mud and rocks splashed everywhere.

But, the fist missed.

The woman's body blurred for a second and disappeared from the original place. In the next second, she was already behind Angele.

"How are you still alive! How about this?" She switched away her weapon, and a wavy, white dagger appeared in her hand. The dagger-tip was coated with a white flame.

This flame looked a tad unalike compared to the other white flames she used. It was much denser and stronger.

The woman lightly flicked the dagger, and the flame on the dagger-tip became even much denser. Her face, however, had turned pale due to this skill costing a great amount of mentality.

"Die!" Her hand and the dagger being held suddenly vanished.

The next moment it appeared, the dagger had already sunk into Angele's back completely.

Angele didn't have enough time to react. The woman had been so fast he had no idea what had happened, and there was nothing Zero could do for him.

His attributes were high, but the dagger had easily stabbed his back as if it was stabbing butter.

Yet, no blood came out of the wound.

Angele looked down, only to see that the dagger had long since pierced through him. And due to an unusual power, he could not move an inch and could barely think.

The woman in her white armor blinked away once more, moving to the peak of a small hill more than 30 meters away while she watched Angele get penetrated by her dagger.

Chi!

A white light-cylinder fell from the sky and landed on where Angele was. It was more than 10 meters wide, and almost seemed like the sky and the land had connected.

The world regained its color after the light-cylinder appeared.

The river continued its flow and the air regained its circulation. The wizards who were spectating finally gained the chance to watch what happened.

"That's my strongest skill, Purification Judgment…" the woman muttered, "You'll be purified and gasified within 10 seconds…"

"Ugh!" She suddenly covered her mouth when she coughed out blood. White light-dots were mixed in the blood.

Inside the secret chamber.

"Now it's over. There is nothing Swordsman can do anymore."

"All right, Hunter shall be the winner of this competition."

"Now we only need to wait for the final results from the other divisions."

Four of the black shadows were having a brief chatter.

Descartes faintly sighed. He had thought Angele could find a way to make a comeback. "I never knew Hunter could use Purification Judgment… She's almost rank 4, I think. Damn…"

"Wait…!" Suddenly, one of the black shadows shouted, "What's going on?!" He pointed at the screen with a startled face.

The rest of the black shadows heard him and quickly turned to look at the screen. They suddenly became bereft of speech.

In the live feed being broadcast, a blurred shadow jumped out of the white cylinder and charged toward Hunter.

"H-He's still alive!" a black shadow spoke with a shaky voice.

The man had taken so many attacks and sustained grievous injuries, but he was still alive and actually had escaped the Purification Judgment…

The chamber was, at present, deadly silent. When they saw Angele charge toward Hunter, they could feel chills running down their spines.

Angele's upper body had been burnt black, and there was a gaping bloody hole in his chest. There was barely any flesh left on both of his arms, and a large part of his waist was missing.

The man seemed to be a burnt zombie, but he was still charging really fast as if nothing had happened to him.

Hunter was still puking out blood, her face pale. She immediately turned upon seeing the man rushing toward her and moved about 10 meters away from where she originally was in a breath.

Because she did not have much mentality left, she almost fell. However, she turned and tried to flee again.

Chi!

Red hair locked onto her right arm and pulled her backward, preventing her from fleeing.

"Run?" Angele shouted hoarsely. His long, red hair could not be affected by the light-cylinder. It was swiftly expanding as it headed toward the woman.

Chi! Chi!

The woman was lifted up in the air like a puppet, and his red hair formed a huge web that ceased any further movements. The rest of his hair was still flying about in the air.

Angele walked to her and saw her still vomiting blood.

"All right, now it's over," he spoke in a low voice, "You are the first person to injure me to this extent."

There was despair amid her helpless eyes, as she looked at the burnt zombie quietly. At this moment, her huge chest, long legs, and slim waist looked strangely enticing when she was lifted up by his hair.

"Haha…" Angele chuckled.

He approached her — the wounds on his shoulders had already healed.

Angele grabbed her by the chest with both of his hands.

Psshhh!

Blood and innards splashed in the air.

From the middle, the woman's body was torn apart.

Angele stood in the rain of blood and dropped the corpse to the ground.

The woman transformed into black light and streaked into the air. Meanwhile, six black cores flew toward Angele and began revolving around him.

This was the hardest battle he had ever fought since recently. He had no way of retaliating, and had the woman been a rank 4 wizard, he would have died. The one reason he won was due to the woman having no enough mentality left in her.

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Chapter 396: Teleportation (1)

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Angele caught the six cores.

"Only six?" Angele was kind of confused, so he quickly checked the location where he left the woman's corpse.

The woman's corpse had already disappeared together with the black light, and the only thing that remained on the ground was the deposit of black mud and grass that was within the explosion.

A technique like projection, maybe? Angele wondered.

His wounds had nearly fully healed while he was checking the surroundings. However, only a small amount of the energy reserves was left in the biochip. Had the woman cast one or two more spells of considerable power, he would have been the one who had lost the battle.

Angele needed energy and blood to aid in his healing process. If there was no ample amount of blood, he had to rely solely on the energy stored in his body and the biochip.

Even though the healing process did not consume too much energy, this time he had taken too much damage.

Angele wiped some of the dust off his body before he traveled to a small hill.

"Get out!" His long, red hair expanded and stabbed into a giant bush beneath the hill, easily capturing a thin man wearing a white mask.

"Take your clothes off," Angele spoke in a low voice.

The man's face turned for the worse upon noticing the killing intent exuded by Angele's eyes and decided to keep his mouth shut. He hurriedly undressed his coat and pants, throwing them at Angele after.

It was a black leather coat.

Angele caught the coat and the pants before he let the man leave.

But he frowned when he put on the clothes.

"It's a bit too small…"

The coat and the pants were both too small. On Angele, the black coat looked like a tight suit. Obviously enough, the clothes barely fitted Angele's body.

Some of the wizards who witnessed the fight were plotting an ambush, certain that Angele would need time to heal. But upon seeing that just now, they immediately gave up.

The wizards nearby hurriedly fled from where Angele was at, and the place soon became deadly silent.

Angele walked down the river wearing the leather coat. He hesitated for a moment before he tied up the cores using his dark red hair. He had, after all, ended up with ten complete cores.

The composition of the cores was abnormal. The cores neither floated on the surface, nor sank completely into the riverbed, but only lingered between.

Angele jumped into the river and began swimming. The water gradually washed the bloodstains off him.

His long, red hair spread out in the water. The cores that were tied up were wrapped in a light-purple glow. It bore semblance to mysterious and luxurious hair accessories.

Angele swam slowly in the river; it had been a while since he had taken a dip while being in such a peaceful environment.

Because he had collected enough cores, he decided to take a breather in the remaining time.

The woman in white had six cores, and he had four. Angele was assured that he would be the winner, considering how there wasn't much time left.

Besides, it was impossible for him to discover how to travel to other rifts in time, so he was now merely waiting patiently for the results to be announced.

There were no living beings in the river — no fish and no freshwater plant. The only thing he could see through the clear water was the riverbed.

He floated on his back in the water and looked at the sky.

The black crevices amid the blue sky were becoming larger and larger.

He could even hear the noise from the cracks that were produced by intense gusts.

Air was surging into the crevices, and the gravitational force in the rift was gradually reducing.

Even though he now nearly looked so relax as though he had fallen asleep, Angele was actually using the biochip and his mentality wave to survey the nearby surroundings.

Finally, a deep male voice came from the sky after a long time of waiting.

"Time is up. Wizards who failed to obtain a core shall be deemed failures, while those with cores shall be teleported."

Appeared on the ground were columns of black light that streaked into the heaven and sent into the crevices in the sky as soon as the male voice ceased. Those who were sent out into the crevices were the wizards who failed to acquire a complete core.

Following that, white light also descended from the sky, turning into columns of light.

One such column appeared above Angele and surrounded his body.

He was still afloat in the water. The white light brought warmth and refreshment to him that he was no longer tired. Apart from that, water droplets were in it.

It seemed as though these water droplets were weightless as they descended from the sky and sank into Angele's skin.

The water droplets were refilling his energy, and his body was lifted up high by the power in the column of light.

"Wait…" his expression changed. The column of light reminded him of a particular fountain from tales and myths. "The 'Fountain of Rebirth'?"

"If this is really the Fountain of Rebirth…" he hurriedly glanced around.

While floating in the air, he saw more than ten columns of light and with it the wizards who obtained a core in the rift.

All of them were injured at the very least. Some had fractured limbs while some had holes in the heads or necks, yet no matter how serious their injuries were, all of them were healed in and by the white light.

Angele even saw a female wizard — or rather, half a wizard — whose bottom half of her body was missing, but she was nonetheless healed by the light. The bottom half of her body regenerated within seconds.

"Terrifying… If this is the real Fountain of Rebirth, then what's behind Dark Wizard Tower must be…" Angele's expression hardened.

Within the light, his body continued to float upward, and everything under was coated with a thin layer of the white light.

He approached the crevices in the sky minutes later and entered one of it and arrived in a dark space.

Everything was in the air afloat since there was no gravity in this space.

An egg-shaped exit appeared before him after a while.

The white light immediately took Angele to it.

Angele was blinded temporarily by the light due to him having stayed in darkness for too long.

His eyes adapted to the brightness outside the exit seconds later, and he could finally see where he was.

He was in a spacious, luxury bedroom. The main tone of the room was gold, and there was a queen-size bed in the middle. The sheets, walls, and carpet — everything — was painted dark-gold.

Angele was the only one inside. The room had no door, but there was a square window on one of the walls.

It was half-open, so he could hear water and birds flying outside.

"What is this place?" he glanced around and confirmed that the window was indeed the only way out of the room. He quickly walked to the window to peek outside.

What was beneath him was an enormous canyon that also had a river. But the water seemed to be boiling and splashing everywhere.

Angele immediately took notice that the room was built inside the trunk of a towering and broad tree and was surrounded by a black forest that had lofty mountains. A herd of deer and a scurry of squirrels could be seen jumping and frolicking around the rivers running down the mountains.

He stood beside the window and recited an incantation.

Then, with a flick of his fingers, a wisp of dark flame flew toward the forest.

Baaam!

It exploded and transformed into a flaming eye that was directly looking at him.

The scene before the Eye of Fire was transmitted to Angele's vision.

Light from the setting sun passed through the thin mist and painted everything beneath pale yellow.

It was a canyon of a sea of trees and rocky walls. There was a dark, deep fissure in the middle of it.

The towering tree was located on a large cliff by the edge of the fissure.

Water was flowing down the branches of this towering, dark brown tree. It flowed into the river beneath the fissure, making the tree as though water had come from it.

Its trunk was filled with windows. White and orange light emerged out of the windows. Standing in the rooms were wizards who had differing facial expressions.

Though some of the windows were closed and no light coming out of it.

"So the wizards who participated in the competition and obtained a core have all been teleported to the tree. That must have cost them a lot of resources…"

The eye-shaped amethyst ring on his left hand was not damaged even after all those battles, and he was still wearing the clothes he extorted from that certain wizard.

His pouch remained destroyed utterly.

"Were all of those just projections, or did I actually enter the world rift?" Angele was kind of perplexed, "If it actually was only a projection, my outfit and my pouch should not have been destroyed."

He checked the texture of the coat he was currently wearing; it was leather. Angele leaned and checked the ten purple cores tied to his hair. They looked like hair accessories made out of gems.

"It wasn't an illusion. Although I can't activate my ability, I can still distinguish reality and illusions with my merged bloodline.

"Wait, but if it's not a projected, the wizards who were killed should have died…" he recalled the moment he ripped that woman apart. "It's nearly impossible for anyone to survive with a broken body like that…"

Angele thought for a while, yet he still did not find the answers he was seeking. There wasn't enough data in his database and so he had to give it up.

He went around the room and decided not to leave through the window. Angele lay on the bed instead and rested.

There must be a reason as to why they had sent them to a room like this, so the only thing he should do was to wait.

After about two hours, from the window, he heard something flapping its wings.

It was a golden bird reflecting the sunlight, which slowly landed on the windowsill.

Chirp~

The golden bird jumped several times and spread out its right wing, dropping a tiny, green seed onto the windowsill.

The seed immediately took root on the windowsill. It looked like a sharp needle stabbing into a wooden plank.

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Chapter 397: Teleportation (2)

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Within 10 seconds, it grew to become a palm-sized, green plant wherein a green bud the size of a fist developed on top of it.

Crack!

It broke open then from it flowed transparent, slimy fluid that fell on the carpet.

Intense stench immediately diffused in the air.

This caused Angele to jump up from the bed and look at the plant frowningly. Once the golden bird saw Angele already awoken, it flew away from the windowsill after fluttering its wings.

Cough! Cough!

The broken-open green bud started coughing as if it was a person. The plant soon leaned down and acted seemingly as if it choked on the slimy fluid.

"I apologize for interrupting your nice dream," an old woman's voice came from the bud, "Did you notice recovering faster than usual while you're here in the heart of the tree?"

Angele avoided the slimy fluid and stood in front of the bud, his brow still furrowed.

"Who are you?" he questioned in a whisper, "Is this plant a tool for communication?"

"I'm your contact. I think all of you right now have the same question. Sadly, this is a one-way message. I won't be able to receive your feedback. Your lunch shall soon be delivered, so help yourselves. After lunch, you shall know how depressing this place is and… Damn it, Newbass! The only thing you know is eat! Come back! Come back…"

Chi! Chi!

The voice soon became noise, and the message stopped there.

Angele looked at the slimy fluid on the carpet—speechless—and the room smelled like it had been soused with disinfectant potion.

He massaged his temples several times.

"Fine, lunch… The strange message explained nothing… but whatever." He waved his hand, and the slimy fluid floated up high, becoming a transparent ball and flying out of the window.

Angele returned to his bed for the opportunity to take some more rest. He noticed that the room was indeed aiding in his recovery—mentally and physically. The old man said that this place was called 'the heart of the tree'. Perhaps that ought to be the reason for his fast recovery.

Angele could hear faint noises coming from outside as he continued to lie down. It sounded like many children doing menial jobs.

"Move! Let's go! Move!" they were shouting, and their voices were getting nearer.

Angele sat up and looked outside.

"What's going on?" He looked out the window with a flabbergasted face.

Beside the green plant, at the edge of the brown-wood windowsill.

A group of crème-filled, black biscuits were lined up and climbing up the window with their short legs.

In the hands of this biscuits grasped black spears that were as though they were made with flour.

"For justice!" the biscuit-leader raised up its spear and shouted with a cute, child-like voice.

"For justice!"

"Gourmandism shall fall!"

The other biscuits, too began shouting, though they were only yellow random things.

The biscuit-leader started giving out orders, "Now! Biscuits of the Helios Family, line up! Biscuits of the Julie Family, line up! Rest of you, follow me!"

The biscuits divided into three groups after finding out their positions.

The biscuit-leader turned around and watched Angele stood up.

"Damn it! Brothers! Attack!" he pointed toward Angele his black, long spear. "You, ultimate evil! For the peaceful life of the biscuits! You shall fall!"

"Go!"

"Defeat him!"

Angele walked to the windowsill tongue-tied. The scene where biscuits were running to him was amusing, and he did not know how he should react to it.

The food delivery was here. He finally understood what the voice was implying.

"So that's how the food is delivered… The biscuits are probably my lunch then."

With a flick of his finger, a fireball materialized and floated above the biscuits.

"Oh! No! I'm being roasted!"

"My heart… my heart!"

The biscuits fell to the ground and the cream in them began to melt. Attractive, milky fragrance wafted in the air.

"Well, sorry, I guess." Angele deeply exhaled. He picked up one of them when they stopped moving and sent it into his mouth.

The combination of the crisp of the biscuit itself and the creaminess of its filling was refreshing. There was just right about enough sugar content to make it tasty.

"Oh! God! God! Damn it! What have you done! You're a murderer! It's a massacre!" a plump bread roll climbed up the windowsill.

It started crying and wheezing upon seeing what transpired, but its 'tears' were just powdered white sugar.

"The cream biscuit families are wiped off the land in just one day? God! No… it's not real…"

Angele didn't care; he caught the bread roll and sent it to his mouth.

Chomp!

He bit the bread roll in half, and it stopped talking instantly.

"It's good." The bread roll was lightly toasted, crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside, and the sweetness from the wheat flour and white sugar were perfect.

Angele was satiated after eating up all the food that climbed up the window.

There was not much food, but they were surprisingly sating.

He rested a bit more after having lunch. Soon, on the opposite side of the window, a rectangular door gradually appeared on the golden wall.

Creak!

The door opened, revealing an arched hallway within.

The hallway was built out of brown wood. From time to time, there were people passing by.

Angele stood up from the bed and walked to the hallway and looked around.

His room was located amid the wall of a large, ball-shaped hall.

The walls were painted black and covered with small doors. A long spiral staircase connected the rooms, which led to the lower level of the hall.

Angele stepped out of the room he was in. It was quite noisy in the hall.

On an empty area beneath the staircase were several tall chairs mantled with red blankets.

The chairs were well arranged. People were already seated on some of them.

The whole time, people were walking out of the rooms. They walked down the flight of stairs and took a seat in one of the chairs as if they were waiting for something.

Many people were talking to the people they were familiar with.

However, some of them were strangers and were checking the surroundings constantly. Angele saw several familiar faces, and some of them came from the same rift as he was in.

He stood by the door without a noise. Seconds later, a person wearing a white maid uniform approached him and bowed to him.

"Welcome to the heart of the tree. The winner of the competition will be announced soon. Please take the cores with you and wait in one of the seats." The maid's voice sounded like a young girl.

However, Angele saw the maid's face filled with wrinkles and her skin as dry as barks. She was an old woman who looked like she was nearly dying.

Angele stayed calm and nodded slowly, "Understood."

"And, this room shall be yours whenever you're in Dark Wizard Tower. Please memorize its location," the old woman advised.

"Sure."

"All right, let's head down the stairs." The old woman started walking to the left side of the hall.

Angele accompanied the woman. There were still people stepping out of the rooms, also guided by maids in white. They went to head down the staircase as well after listening to the explanation.

Angele blended into the crowd and quickly arrived at the bottom level. He made sure there was no restriction on the seat selection and sat down on a chair at the front-left corner.

"Commander Lion is here!" a loud voice echoed in the hall.

At the back of the hall, three people emerged out of nowhere in front of a closed black gate.

The three's gender varied. The one in the lead was a tall man with a thick beard, and following him, there were a man and a woman. Both of them were blond, and all of them had attractive characteristics.

The tall man looked around before he walked to one of the chairs and sat down with a blank face alongside his company.

"Commander Kaelyn is here!"

A short, gray-haired man wearing a luxurious black tuxedo appeared in front of the black gate. He pursed his lips into a gentle smile and sat down on a chair quietly.

People slowly quieted down, and they focused on a small platform at the front of the hall.

Three golden light-columns landed on the black platform seconds later.

The light-columns were not intense; they brought a hint of warmth to the hall.

Three people appeared in the golden columns one by one.

"The ceremony is being supervised by Count Hosla and hosted by the head of the change department, master Sando!" the voice echoed in the hall again.

Two women and one man were standing in the light columns—all of them wearing golden hemmed, white outfits.

At the front-most was a beautiful woman who had long, green hair and a few wrinkles on the corners of her eyes, her light-blue eyes shining slightly.

When the voice mentioned master Sando, the woman nodded at the audience and smiled gently.

Count Hosla was standing at the right side of Sando and nodded at the audience as well. He was an old man whose hair had already turned white.

Meanwhile, at the left side of Sando was a young girl who had a deadpan face. She was likely just Sando's assistant, considering how her name wasn't mentioned.

The three people on the platform successfully drew the attention of the audience.

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Sando slightly held up the skirt of her white dress and looked around. She waited until all noises disappeared before she once again opened her mouth.

"I am honored to host this awarding ceremony. My name is Sando. I think some of you have already heard about my name while the rest have not, but it's fine." She released the grip from her dress and conjured a platinum wand in her hand.

She waved the short wand in the air, which released a white beam. It landed behind them, on the wall of the platform, and materialized into a large, egg-shaped screen of light.

The scenes of the wizards fighting steadily revealed in it.

There were barbarians and archers, ranged spells and summoning spells, and even a showdown of basic spells.

Without making any noise, the audience was watching the moving visual images on the screen.

Angele sat on his seat while looking at it and saw the most intense moment in the fight between him and the woman clad in white armor.

'He' 1 charged out of the white light with wounds all over his body, but even that could not hide the madness in his eyes.

Aside from that, many fights between other wizards that had happened were also recorded.

The moving images slowly stopped, pausing at the scene where a barbarian was lifting up a horned helmet in the air.

There was an emerald in the middle of the man's chest, which was sending green energy into his body then transfusing it to the green vines twisting around his body.

"So, the one who wins the title of Beyond the Rift is…" Sando took out a blank paper and began reading, "Uramon! Please come here and accept the award!"

A man about two meters tall stood up from his respective seat.

Thud! Thud!

With loud footsteps, he walked straight to the platform.

He looked exactly like the barbarian in the video highlight. Angele could sense the excitement from the man's emotionless face.

Sando pointed towards the man when he arrived at the platform. Blue light flickered around the barbarian for several seconds.

That must be the mark for the reward.

Angele heard people whispering near him.

"Only two people will be awarded this time, and they will be invited to the platform. The rest of us have to stay in our own seats, but I don't know who the other one is."

"First is Uramon. There is another one who obtained a lot of cores but failed to move across the rifts."

Angele maintained a calm demeanor as he listened to others gossip.

"Next, the one who obtained the greatest number of cores in his respective rift but failed to travel across it!" The highlight shifted again and stopped right at the moment when Angele charged out of the light-cylinder. " Angele 2 , from the City of Sky!"

Angele stood up as soon as Sando finished speaking. He noticed that the wizards near him stopped chattering instantly and multiple people were scowling at him. Such a thing was an unpleasant experience.

He left his seat and walked to the platform from the left side.

The three people on the platform seemed kind of different. They were looking at Angele with gentle faces, seemingly as if they were just here to see him.

Sando waited until Angele walked to the front and pointed at him with the short wand.

A white beam landed on his body and disappeared before he could feel anything.

"Wizard Angele, is this your first time visiting Dark Wizard Tower's headquarters?" Count Hosla pursed his lips to a gentle smile.

Angele nodded, "Yes, it's my first time here."

"Would you like to join the department of change?" Sando asked curiously.

Angele could see Sando not jesting, and the young girl's eyes also fell on him. Both of them were waiting for an answer.

Count Hosla did not say anything else, only observing the situation with a smile on his face.

"I'm sorry, but… what exactly is the 'department of change'? Thank you for the offer, but I need more information," he responded politely, thinking that it was impossible for him to join a department he only knew the name of.

"No worries," Sando nodded in satisfaction. "To be honest, the director of the wizard department wants to take you in as his student, but Descartes is not here at the moment. Using a projection too isn't a good idea, that's why I'm asking if you want to join my department.

People started murmuring after they heard the wizard department's head's name be mentioned. There seemed to be something special about the spell department.

Besides that, Angele noticed the change in Count Hosla's expression as soon as he heard the name.

"All right, go accept your reward. You can pick a location to set up the circle, but the location can't be changed once it's built," Sando advised.

"Thank you, master," Angele nodded.

"I'll speak a bit more since this is your first time here. I have already placed the mark of permission on you. Someone will assist you in selecting one of the magic circle inheritances prepared for the winners, and if you decide to build the circle in the energy pool of Dark Wizard Tower, its safety is guaranteed. One more thing, you're now allowed access to the truly rare resources provided by the organization," she added.

"Thank you again, master."

Angele placed his right hand on his chest and bowed slightly and then stepped off the platform.

He saw a tall guard in a black steel suit waiting for him as he left the platform.

"Please follow me, master Angele." The guard spoke meaningfully, "It's your first time here, so please stay inside the heart of the tree. The outside world is completely different. Please be careful."

"Completely different?" Angele was kind of astonished but noticed how the guard was withholding what he knew from him. "Is this a world rift, too? Is the outside world somewhere in a different realm? Or are you just telling me that the outside world is dangerous?"

But the guard did not reply. He turned to his left and moved up the flight of spiral staircase.

Even though Angele didn't get what he wanted to know, he wasn't mad at him. He only continued to walk behind the guard.

While walking on the stairs, Angele watched as Sando awarded the other winners and saw someone familiar to him. It was the woman in white armor, the woman who had been torn apart by him.

She stood at the front of the audience's seats, along with the other winners, and received a tree-shaped badge from Sando. But then, she turned her head and saw Angele walking up the stairs. Her face changed, now as though she was planning on taking revenge. The outcome of their final battle was disgraceful to her.

Angele returned the woman's glare. Both of them knew how intense the battle at that time and how cruel it ended. Accepting her loss so easily was nearly impossible for her. She should have been the one to obtain a magic circle inheritance if Angele hadn't been in the rift she last invaded.

Angele moved his gaze away and instead followed the guard to a tiny door on the right.

Behind the door was a dark hall, which had walls that seemed to have been built with boiling mud, and the air stank.

The wet mud underneath Angele was roasted dry by the fire energy he exuded.

The guard before him didn't seem to care about the environment they were in; he just stepped on it.

They quickly reached the end of the hallway and found a small door before them.

The guard pushed the door open and invited Angele in.

Angele discovered an unusual thing when they left the hallway. It had only taken them about 10 seconds to reach the end, but when he turned around, he couldn't find the first door he saw. The only thing he could see was pure darkness.

A spacious hall was behind the small door.

The floor was built with black marbles as smooth as mirrors. The ceiling was embellished with black and white, checkered pattern. Meanwhile, the candle stands hanging on the walls looked like the heads of random monsters.

The dim light from the lighted candles was flashing.

They walked for about half an hour to reach the wall.

Angele and the guard stood in front of the marble wall. The guard took out a black quill and a small bottle containing red ink and dipped the quill into it and then drew an arched door on the wall.

Creak!

Accompanied by the noise, it opened and revealed a wooden staircase leading upward.

"Please, the master is waiting for you," the guard turned to him and said.

Angele nodded and stepped into the door.

He noticed the guard stopping by the door as if the man would not move until Angele finished his business.

Angele stepped onto the stairs.

Ka-ta! Ka-ta! Ka-ta!

Several minutes later, Angele finally reached the end of the staircase and saw a wooden door that was half-open.

Two lit-up torches were placed in the holders on the wall. The noise it generated was akin to boiling fat.

Angele lifted up his hand, about to knock on the door.

"Come in," a voice from behind the door came. It was spoken by an old man and in Metia language, the common tongue of the central continent.

"Excuse me." Angele opened the door and let himself in.

The room was an average-sized study. He could smell the scent of the leather-bound books in the atmosphere in the room.

Amid the dim light, he could see a wooden table painted red and surrounded by unorganized bookshelves.

A wrinkly-faced old man was sitting beside the table. He had a beard more than three meters long, placed over his left shoulder.

"Nice to meet you. I'm the vice director of the wizard department." The old man was searching around the table and found his pair of glasses under the books. Finally, he could see Angele's face clearly.

"The director is busy and doesn't have time to meet you here. So, I'll be the one handing the reward, and you'll become his student." The old man stood up and walked to Angele. "I'll be honest, the director has high expectations for you. Your battle skills have impressed the directors of numerous departments. They are thinking that the talent you possess is related to the ancient metal race."

"Metal race?" Angele had no idea what the metal race was. He was certain he was a human being.

"Yes, those of the metal race had terrifyingly high magic resistance—able to resist damage dealt by the majority of spells and bodies that can heal from injuries at an insane rate. The problem was, the food they relied on to survive was scarce, so the entire race became extinct due to starvation…." The old man took out a magnifier and put it over Angele's face and quickly checked Angele's entire body.

Goosebumps arose from Angele's skin.

"Master… can you tell me where my reward is?" He retreated one step.

"The reward is right here, don't worry." The old man returned to the table and put down the magnifier, then took out something black from the drawer.

"Put this on." He threw the black item to Angele.

Angele carefully caught it and saw that it was a shoulder armor piece. It looked just like the last reward he got, but this one had double the size.

He wore the armor on his left shoulder.

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Chapter 399: Truth (2)

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The armor piece was a perfect fit for his left shoulder, and he could sense the surge of information being transmitted into his brain.

It was the information related to the magic circle inheritance.

"Can you feel that? That's the advantage of having a magic circle inheritance set. Dark Wizard Tower is one of the most powerful organizations, but even we can only build several of those sets. Can you imagine how many resources were allocated into this?" the old man whose name was Medisa chuckled as he explained.

"And this," he threw Angele a white ball, "this is the seed of the magic circle inheritance. Plant it in the location you have selected, and the only thing you need to do is to wait. Make sure you're the only one there when you plant the seed or there will be trouble."

"Got it." Angele carefully grasped the white ball. "Can you give me a durable and stable pouch? Mine was destroyed during the competition."

"No problem." Medisa fetched a small black pouch from the drawer. "This is something I used when I was young. Made out of dragon skin, I'm sure it won't break in a normal battle. I watched how you fought in that battle. I like your style. You know, the director has three students, but I like you the most. I'll give it to you for free just because of that." Medisa gave Angele a thumbs-up.

"Is it a tradition for a director to take the winner as their student?" Angele queried.

"It's a rule that a director of a department can take the winner in as their student, but it doesn't have to be the wizard department. Dark Wizard Tower does not host competitions often, you see. The director of the department of change invited you to hers, didn't she? She probably likes you, too," the old man explained, "I know what you're thinking. You're wondering about the benefits of becoming a student of the director, right? I can tell you one thing—you will be able to protect everything important to you in the chaotic times about to come…"

The old man showed a meaningful smile.

"Huh? So you will give me power? Or authority?" Green (Angele) remained calm for he knew he was getting closer to the secrets of Dark Wizard Tower.

"Authority and power come hand in hand. However, you can't protect anything with just mediocre authority and power. You need to maximize them. Something terrifying will soon come, but for a wizard like you to become stronger, you need at least hundreds of years," the old man shrugged, "We don't have much time left."

"Huh? Who exactly are you asking me to protect?" Angele's expression changed, and he took off the armor piece and kept the white ball in his pouch and attached it to his belt.

"Let me explain that to you, Green (Angele)." A voice sounding like it was from a middle-aged man came from near the door.

"Juventus, you again!" Medisa's face hardened, and he seemed to have lost interest in the topic. He returned to the table and took a seat. "Fine, I'll let you explain. Every time you're here, you just…" He did not finish his sentence, but the old man seemed to be annoyed and frustrated at the person named Juventus.

Angele turned around to see a bearded man in white outfit standing by the door. He looked just like an average human male. There was a stack of yellow-leather paper in his papers, which were covered with messy handwriting.

"Medisa, I wrote a few new poems today. Can you read and help me improve them? I assure you it's different this time! I've improved a lot! A lot!" The man smilingly barged into the study and approached Medisa's table.

"All right, all right, put them down first. Tell Green (Angele) about the truth of Dark Wizard Tower. I'll read your poems later." Juventus was giving Medisa a headache. "Green (Angele) is the only one who's normal between you three… He knows what he should do, and he works hard…" Medisa said as he picked up the stack of papers, but it looked like he wasn't at all impressed.

"Just explain the truth to Angele…." The old man waved his hand.

The bearded man turned to look at Angele but became irritated right after. It was because he was slightly shorter than Angele.

"Damn! You're taller than me? I hate people who are taller than me!" he muttered.

"All right. Angele, let me tell you the truth of the Dark Wizard Tower. You're now a core member of the organization."

"Huh?" Angele looked at Juventus—he had always wanted to know more about Dark Wizard Tower.

The bearded patted his own chest, "Let me introduce myself first. My name is Juventus. You can just call me Juven if you want."

"Okay." Angele nodded.

Juventus cleared his throat and finally started explaining, "Dark Wizard Tower isn't only a powerful organization in the central continent but also in other areas of the world. But, we have no relations with any of the three Wizard-lords." His expression became serious.

"Do you know the true identity of the two persons accompanying Director Sando at the ceremony?"

Before Angele could say anything, the man had already begun answering his own question.

"The woman with the emotionless face is Director Sando's student and also the winner of the previous competition. Count Hosla…" he stopped for a second, "is a noble of the Fairy Realm."

"Fairy Realm?" Angele narrowed his eyes. "Does Dark Wizard Tower have relations with the Fairy Realm? I thought everyone was trying to seal the portals. How did he come to our world?"

"Yeah, the relations between our world and the Fairy Realm is complicated, but the Count Hosla you saw was just a projection. Do you know why the majority of the portals were first discovered in the central continent instead of the other areas of the world?" Juventus grinned. "We spent more than 100 years to study and modify the magnetic field. Now, we finally have access."

"I was told that the Fairy Realm is extremely dangerous. As a member of Dark Wizard Tower, I don't think that's a good idea." Angele felt fearful once he recalled that day when he encountered the woman in black and the flying dragon.

"Not a good idea? Ha, that's the biggest problem." Juventus chuckled. "Dark Wizard Tower is equivalent to the First Empire in the Fairy Realm."

Angele was surprised, "That's impossible. It has been years since the last wizard discovered the means to travel to other realms. Don't tell me the fairies never left our world after the invasion."

"You're right. No one can travel to other realms. The truth is, the most prominent members of Dark Wizard Tower are those who entered the Fairy Realm during the ancient times. Almost the entire First Empire of the Fairy Realm is being controlled by our wizards. In other words, most 'fairies' you said are human beings." Juventus's words were hard to absorb.

Angele realized he was in the same boat as the organization after he learned the secret. If he decided to leave the heart of the three, he would be eliminated immediately.

"The most prominent members are trying so hard because they want to return to the Wizard World," Juventus smiled, "The balance formed by the three Wizard-lords shall soon be broken by the Empire. That moment shall be the moment when glory and honor return to us." He retrieved a flame-shaped platinum badge. "Take it. It will prove you're a student of the wizard department."

Angele received the badge and looked at it.

There were words engraved on its surface—

"The Suran Empire. The abyss that shall never be defeated. No one shall thwart the Empire from advancing."

It was written in the ancient language.

"Order shall be rebuilt when the Empire returns to this land," Medisa spoke in a low voice, with pride written all over his face.

"The three Lords will not let this happen so easily." Angele shook his head.

"The three Lords do indeed know of our existence. They are trying to hinder our most prominent members from entering this world, hence they formed the Central Council since no one wants to share their authority with a… stranger ," Medisa chuckled, "Our return will aid the wizards in regaining the power of the ancient wizards; no one can stop us!"

"Is that what you were referring to when you mentioned having the power to protect? It solely depends on who we are?" Angele finally understood the situation.

"You're right. We are of the core members, so we're allowed to save our friends. As long as your relatives or friends in the Wizard World don't try to fight, the Imperial Army will not attack them," Juventus explained.

"That means if you're a core member, you and a strong being from the Fairy Realm will be given the authority to lead an army. You will be the one to decide who to attack, that is how you save the ones close to you in the chaos that is about to come," Medisa added, "But the problem is, since the Fairy Realm can approach our world during the coming of chaos, the other realms can, too."

Juventus nodded, "I have already visited the World Tree. Aside from the Fairy Realm, only an empty Sand Realm is approaching. It is one of the weakest realms, so there's nothing to worry about. Still, the other dangerous realms may also do the same. Chaos Realm, Oblivion Realm, and the most invasive realm... Nightmare Realm—those realms are relatively close to the Wizard World, but, if the Nightmare Realm arrives…"

They stopped after mentioned the name of that realm. Their faces turned grave.

"It can't be those horrifying monsters…" Medisa muttered.

"If what the historical records say is true, there should be a countless number of realms around our world. The Nightmare Realm is but one of them. We can't possibly be so unlucky." Juventus waved his hand in dismissal.

"You will also become a commander of an army. When will you learn taking things seriously?" Medisa's face loosened up, and he sat down.

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Chapter 400: Reward (1)

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"You need to work hard so that your future soldiers will obey your orders." Medisa got a brown leather scroll and threw it to Juventus. "Take it. Read it carefully."

"Ha, thanks." Juventus caught the scroll in a way that looked like he was catching a precious treasure.

Angele stood beside Juventus and peeked at the scroll to see the contents, but the only thing he saw was a strange poem.

"What do you think? We can share it. I have always thought only poems and arias could represent the emotions of life." Juventus looked satisfied.

"I'll pass." Angele shook his head; it caught him off guard. "I don't understand why you have to cut a complete sentence into several parts.

Angele remembered that he still had several other questions and was about to ask.

"Oh! No!" Suddenly, a high-pitched male voice came from the table.

A piece of leather paper stood up on Medisa's table. Its edges had transformed into two short legs, and it was trying to escape.

Pa!

Medisa caught the leather scroll and pulled it back to the table and continued writing.

"No! You can't stain my beautiful body. I'm not an adult yet! God! Oh! Oh! Oh!" the paper started moaning as Medisa kept writing. The scene was quite disturbing.

"Damn it, Medisa! Do you really think your wig is large enough for your bald head! You shouldn't use me to draw on this guy," the black quill in Medisa's hand had also started talking.

"Listen to it! Listen! This guy is moaning, and it's gross! Do you know how painful this is? Every time, every time! I can't stand this guy's voice. I'm a high-quality quill with a very long history! Can't you find a normal paper to write on? I suggest that you break this guy to pieces and use it to wipe your butt!" the quill was surprisingly mean to the paper.

Medisa sighed but did not say anything.

Juventus chuckled and looked at the old man, "When did they become fairies?"

Medisa was not concerned about the argument between the quill and the leather paper. He raised his head and said, "Several days ago. I thought I could handle it, but…"

Angele was speechless. "What's going on? Fairies?" He wondered.

"This place is like… a rift between the Wizard World and the Fairy Realm. Sometimes, objects become sentient due to the mysterious power of the Fairy Realm, like the biscuits and bread rolls you had for lunch. Anything that is turned into living beings can be referred as fairies. That's why the Fairy Realm is powerful. They don't need to reproduce because fairies are everywhere, and they can be anything," Medisa sighed when he finished explaining.

"Seriously? That's the Fairy Realm?"

The noise made by the quill and the paper was getting louder.

Juventus exchanged eye contact with Angele. "All right, let's go. Medisa can handle this."

"All right." Angele finally understood why the Fairy Realm was feared by the wizards.

He left the room with Juventus and returned to the hall through the wooden staircase.

The guard by the door bowed to the two wizards and disappeared after turning into a ball of black smoke.

Angele glanced at the door drawn by the guard, which had already disappeared. What was left was the normal surface of the wall.

"Don't be surprised. You'll get used it to sooner or later as long as you live here." Juventus shrugged. "Let's go, I'll introduce you to a… cute female friend. You know, there's always a cute female student around a legendary white-bearded teacher, right? That's what they often wrote in novels."

"Is that so?" Angele was not sure how he should communicate with Juventus.

They quickly went across the hall and arrived at a small palace that had a fountain in the middle.

The fountain's green water was clean. There was a window on the roof where the golden sunlight came from.

A beautiful girl in a white dress was standing beside the fountain, looking upset. Her long, black hair was draped over her shoulder and her face was neat and pretty. But the most eye-catching thing was her light-green eyes.

"Damn it! If … that'll become the biggest shame of my whole life!"

Angele and Juventus heard the girl cursing while they were still walking to the fountain. The girl was cursing and washing something in the fountain.

"Hey! Dina, what are you doing?" Juventus loved to see others suffering.

He stepped forward and approached the girl, "Congratulations! I heard that your underwear turned into fairies."

"Juventus! What the hell! Why are you even here?" The girl turned her head around and became flustered. She quickly hid the thing she was washing behind her back.

"All right, let me introduce, this is our new friend, a student of our teacher, Angele," Juventus pointed at Angele.

He then turned around and introduced the girl to Angele. "This is the youngest student our teacher has, Dina. I hope you'll get along with each other."

Dina nodded at Angele unwillingly, "Greetings, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you, too." Angele's brow furrowed when he saw what was happening. "I'm sorry, but I think I should let you know that…" He pointed at Dina's legs.

Dina's short dress could barely cover her knees.

A white panty was hanging on the girl's legs. It had short, white arms and a mouth and a pair of eyes on its front side. It was trying to climb down to flee.

"Enough! That's enough! I can't take this no more!" the panty was crying as it climbed down, "Dina, you devil! The last time you took a shower was 10 hours and 32 minutes ago. I don't want to be your panty anymore. It's not like you'll die without a panty anyway, and… the wind will probably make you feel good!"

Silence. Dead silence. The three had never expected something like this to happen.

Dina's face was burning, and there were tears in her eyes. The girl suddenly opened her mouth and screamed before Angele or Juventus could say anything.

"AH!"

"Move…" Juventus and Angele quickly left the palace.

They could still hear Dina screaming even when they were more than ten meters away from the palace.

"Don't worry, you can talk to her later. This is a bit… awkward…" Juventus sighed, "Anyway, what do you plan to do with your magic circle inheritance set? Do you want to set it up here?"

Angele already had something in mind.

"I'll set it up in the energy pool?"

He thought about it on the way here.

There was no place that was absolutely safe in the main world. If he built it in the ruin under the volcano, it would be too hard for him to explain the situation to Vivian.

And building the circle set in the Nightmare Realm would be too risky. Like, what if the power could not be transferred to the main world? And the place was way too dangerous.

Building the circle set in the headquarters of Dark Wizard Tower was the best choice.

Dark Wizard Tower already had suggested that he should build the circle set by the energy pool. The energy pool could help him transfer the power since the place was safe. It was what the organization promised him.

Angele had thought for a long time, but he still decided to set up the circle by the energy pool.

The inheritor's magic circle set was the best energy buff tool he could get but he doubted if the circle set would help him after he found the way to activate his true form in the main world.

"Yeah, the energy pool," Angele repeated the location.

"All right, I'll take you there." Juventus knew that Angele already made up his mind and he did not say anything else.

Juventus told Angele more about the fairies while leading him to the energy pool.

They left the hall, walked over a wooden bridge, and entered a tall tower that looked like the trunk of a tree. This tree seemed to be a branch of the main tree.

The main hall of the branch was dark. Monster-looking, black statues could be seen guarding the place.

The black statues looked terrifying and seemed to look real. Their eyes were glowing rubies embedded in them and were the source of light in the hall.

In front of them was another thick square stone gate with a black dragon head engraved on the surface. The dragon closed its eyes tightly, and there was yellow smoke being released out of its nostrils.

Juventus pressed on the dragon's head and closed his eyes for several seconds.

Bam!

The door opened from the middle of the dragon's head.

They finally entered the hall where the energy pools were located.

The inside was a spacious round hall that contained countless glowing green pools, which covered the whole ground.

The pools had varying shapes: round, egg-shaped, rectangular, irregularly shaped, and tear-shaped. All of those were the energy pools and their glows were brightening up the dark hall.

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Chapter 401: Reward (2)

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There were many people already lingering around the energy pools.

Some of them were uttering strange incantations and the rest were waiting for something while seated cross-legged. There were people making calculations with formulae and runes on something, too.

That being so, the arrival of Juventus and Angele did not draw any attention.

The entire room was lit by the green glow of the energy pools and so the faces of those wizards who were there were also dyed green. The place looked terrifying overall.

"Pick one. All the pools here should have enough energy to sustain the magic circle," Juventus explained, standing by the entrance.

Angele nodded a little and looked at the energy pools. The sizes of those pools varied.

Nonetheless, the size mattered not. He only needed to find the one that perfectly fitted the Legacy Magic Circle he obtained.

Too strong an energy pool whereas the magic power required not much, then the Legacy Magic Circle would be greatly affected, and the runes be weakened.

Besides, if the energy pool had insufficient output, it would not be able to transfer enough energy to the magic circle.

Angele had to check the magic circle's power level and search for the energy pool perfect for it.

He explored the energy pools in the hall and selected a rectangular one located on the right side.

"I'll take that one." He walked to the energy pool and took out the seed from his pouch. "How do I set this up? Are there any restrictions here?" He looked at Juventus.

"No. The only thing you must do is to place your mentality mark on the seed and throw it into the pool," Juventus said, crossing his arms, "And if you plant the seed in the energy pool you chose, the magic circle will completely be protected by the defensive power of the pools. It's nigh impossible for even a powerful wizard to mess with your magic circle without your permission, so don't worry—it will be fine even if others were to know the location of your magic circle."

"Is that so?" Angele somewhat nodded.

He held the seed and concentrated his gaze on its surface.

A crimson mark, which looked like a needle, took shape on where he was staring at with focus.

"All right." Angele crouched, sighing, and carefully dropped the seed into the energy pool.

It started germinating and developing rapidly as soon as it sank into the glowing green water.

Roots emerged from the seed's surface, twisting and expanding apace in the energy pool.

Seconds later, the energy pool was occupied entirely by the roots that soon formed a natural magic circle.

The magic circle formed from the roots slowly floated on the surface of the water. Green leaves and vibrant flower buds appeared in the circle immediately.

A human face took shape on the magic circle. It looked like as if it was trying to smile and its left eye was open and the right eye closed.

"That's…" Juventus had his breath taken away, "the Totem of the Metal Giant… I didn't expect your reward to be so good. The director must really have high expectations for you."

"Huh?" This was the first time Angele heard of the Totem of the Metal Giant. "What do you mean? Is this a rare Legacy Magic Circle?"

"Rare? No, no. It's extremely rare," Juventus looked at Angele. "This Legacy Magic Circle is not part of the rewards that had been decided upon, which means, the directors have prepared it especially just for you. It may not be the strongest Legacy Magic Circle of all time, but it should be the most suitable for you."

"What enhancements do this Legacy Magic Circle come with?" Angele raised his eyebrow questioningly and asked softly.

"It will aid you in manipulating metal forcefields, according to its distance, strength, and accuracy. And the Metal Skin spell, a derivative of the Stone Skin spell, will become your passive spell. Any damage you receive will be greatly reduced. For the other basic features, you will have to find those out yourself," Juventus explained.

Angele slightly nodded. Information regarding the Legacy Magic Circle was being transmitted to his brain as the circle continued to grow. His biochip verified the safety of the information and stored it in the database.

All of the information pertained to the Legacy Magic Circle set.

A permanent passive spell called Metal Skin and an area spell called Metal shock that could be cast twice per day. The power of the Legacy Magic Circle was further enhancing his body withal.

Angele discovered that if the power of the circle was to be applied to an average wizard's body, it could double the wizard's life expectancy. However, with Angele having merged ancient bloodlines, he could already live much longer than an average wizard. Angele could easily live for more than a millennium.

Common sense dictated a wizard would reach a different level altogether with the assistance of a Legacy Magic Circle.

On top of that, Angele had yet to fully activate the Legacy Magic Circle set.

He did not know how strong or powerful the circle would be until it was fully activated.

"All right, let's leave since the magic circle is done. Our body will get damaged if we stay here for too long. The wizards who stay here all day are those who are nearly on their deathbed and already lost hope. They are making an attempt to develop a spell that can extend their life expectancy," Juventus whispered.

"Sure," Angele agreed.

The two of them promptly departed from the hall of energy pools.

"Since I placed the circle here, can I still activate it when I'm out in the Wizard World?" Angele asked as he walked with him.

"You can. The energy pools here are connected to many different areas. But since the coordinates of your magic circle is here, if you move too far away from this location, the power that will be transferred to you is going to be weaker than it should be. Keep that in mind.

"And should you opt to stay in Dark Wizard Tower, you will be able to request for extra resources. It's a benefit that's not counted as your future reward. Besides that, you can go to the department of change and request for some bodyguards, excluding the shadow you already have."

"Department of change?"

"Yeah, one of the six departments and responsible for soul modification experiments on living beings. The department of change has five major armies and four of them consists of modified mutants. The core army is the last one and it creates so many mutants every day that they often send some of those mutants to the members of the organization to become their bodyguards/ Well, that is what I heard at least. I can't access the special rewards yet, so I don't know a lot of details about it.

"Did you not place your magic circle in one of the energy pools?" Angele wondered.

"Yeah, I did, in an energy pool of my family's secret chamber." Juventus shrugged. "Do you want to go to the department of change now? Their director likes you, so she may give you something good," he advised.

"Sure, it'd be better if I can get everything done now." Angele nodded.

They left the energy pool hall and went down the wooden spiral staircase outside the tree. Several minutes later, they stopped at a black stone door.

Two doorkeepers wearing black, full-body armor were standing outside the arched stone door. Black energy particles were leaking out of the gaps between the pieces of armor. The doorkeepers were grasping heavy metal spears.

"Welcome, Master Green," the guard on the right spoke deeply and nodded at Angele. He immediately smacked the surface of the door with his left hand.

Chi!

The stone door was slowly opened.

Behind the door, there was a cozy room painted in bright yellow.

The orange flames were dancing in the fireplace. The floor was covered with red carpet.

Angele saw someone familiar sitting in a chair by the fireplace.

It was a woman in a fit, white leather armor. She had a body that was balanced and looked strong, a pair of blue eyes that were crystal clear, and her hair was tied in a ponytail. The woman was gentle and beautiful.

When she heard the noise produced by the door, she turned her head to see and saw Angele and Juventus standing by the door.

"It's you!" the woman hurriedly stood up and glared at Angele with such resentment in her eyes.

Angele was a bit startled. It was, after all, the woman who had been torn apart by him in the competition.

The woman was breathing heavily, panting in rage.

"This must be destiny," Angele smiled, "Destiny has brought us together. What happened in the competition was just an… accident."

"Why are you still smiling?" the woman's tone was sharp, and it sounded like she was trying to remain composed when she spoke.

"Well, it was a competition. I did what I have to do." Angele spread out his arms, shrugging.

The woman no longer talked, but she was still somewhat scowling at Angele.

"Anyway, I'm here to pick up my reward. I have already placed my magic circle in the energy pool," Angele went straight to the point.

A middle-aged man slowly stepped out of a room, "Yes, we've already received the message. Master Green, please follow me." The man was wearing a long black robe.

He then sent his words to the woman in white using energy particles. Angele was not sure what they were saying.

The woman's expression changed several times and finally nodded her head. She glared at Angele before she turned around and walked down the stairs.

Angele could still hear the loud noise made by the woman's feet. She seemed to be doing that intentionally.

"Please follow me." the man turned around and entered a hallway.

Angele and Juventus quickly followed after him.

The three continued to walk. Angele saw maids and servants running around with random things in their heads. They all bowed to the wizards, but they did not say anything.

The man smiled, explaining, "This is the department of change's territory and the person in charge is Commander Ulanos. He prefers a quiet environment, which is why the servants and maids here don't have tongues. I'm sure they'll greet you if they can."

"Is that so?" Angele was a bit surprised. He looked at Juventus, but the latter seemed to already be used to a situation like this.

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Chapter 402: Return (1)

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Members of Dark Wizard Tower might seem like ordinary wizards, but most of them were extremely cruel in reality.

Angele looked at Juventus, who seemed to have already witnessed such a situation so strange and had already gotten used to it.

Nonetheless, Angele stayed calm as he followed behind the servant without further making any noise.

They changed directions several times before entering a dark hallway. No maids or servants were in the hallway, and the atmosphere was cold and humid.

Wall-mounted yellow crystals brightened the hallway, but some of them had already cracked and would likely need to be replaced soon.

The man brought Angele and Juventus to a room on the left side of the hallway. Opening the door, he led them in.

Inside was a spacious room decorated with brown wooden floor and walls.

There were dark-red coffins arranged in two columns on the floor.

The coffins were sealed tight and a glowing white magic circle was engraved on the surface of each coffin.

"These are your goods, Master Green. They've just been delivered here not so long ago. Please press your hand on the magic circles," the man explained.

Angele looked at the man and stepped forward. There were ten coffins all in all. He immediately pressed on the magic circle with his palm.

The man nodded and smiled, "All right, they're yours now. Your mark has been planted in those liches that will become your bodyguards. This is a gift from the department of change."

"How powerful are they?" Angele was curious.

"Hard to measure. Liches will perish under the bombardment of powerful light element spells, but on the other hand, all damage from other spells will be halved. Not only that, the plague aura emanating from their bodies is extremely dangerous. Please make sure it's under your control, lest it becomes a huge problem."

The man handed Angele a small wooden box. It was a hexagonal box as large as one's palm, dark-red in color, and had a smooth surface.

"This is your coffin locator. Please keep the guards inside the coffins when you don't need them because the longer they stay inside, the more powerful they will be."

Angele accepted the box and thought it was light upon checking its weight. "From what I know, liches are often slow due to the changes done to their undead bodies. Are those liches the same?"

"Yes, but it's much better than you expect. These liches can teleport within the vast effective range of the aura, so you can stay within it when you need them. Also, the owner and selected people by the owner will not be damaged by the radiating energy," the man smiled, "Our researchers know what they're doing."

"Sounds good." It was a free gift, and Angele had no reason to decline this. "And do I have full control over the liches? I mean, it's understandable if the department can destroy them when necessary."

"Don't worry." Juventus, smiling, started to explain, "Department of change's rules are strict, and there are other departments verifying the gifts they send out, so the situation you mentioned will never happen."

"That's great, then." Angele nodded slightly. "Will department of change accept personal orders? I hear the department is also researching on soul forms."

"That depends. We do research on souls, but I think the wizard department does a better job on that," the man composedly answered. "And you need to set a reward if you want us to fulfill your request, and we will then spread the request to our members. But if no one wants to take it, there will be nothing we can do."

"Interesting." Angele squinted his eyes. "I will think about it." He was, at present, still trying to deal with Henn even though he possessed the Thousand Shadow Orb, and no one could find her at the moment. Regardless of that, there were just too many secrets lying within Angele's body, and he was worried that Henn would find out the truth sooner or later.

Angele was a core member of the Dark Wizard Tower and he wanted to remove Henn from his body. However, he had not yet found someone he could trust in the organization and he needed to wait for the time to come.

"All right. That's all I have to say, I think." The man nodded slightly. "I shall be leaving now."

"Right, how can I carry all those coffins back?" Angele asked.

"We'll set the coordinates and send them to you," the man replied, "Hence the reason I gave you the box."

"Thanks." Angele nodded. "So, I don't need to do anything."

"Correct."

The man turned and left the room as soon as he finished speaking.

Angele glanced at the coffins.

"Let's go. We're done, right?"

Juventus nodded, "Yeah, that's it. You can either teleport back or stay here for much longer. And you can meditate in the heart of the tree where your progression will be slightly faster. But if you stay here for too long, your items may transform into fairies."

"I think I'll teleport back, but how do I return to the heart of the tree if I want to?" Angele looked out from the window as he walked.

A sea of towering trees; everything he saw was filled with vibrant green.

"The same way you came. Technically, it should be easier since your ring will guide you." Juventus retrieved his pocket watch and checked what time it was. "All right, it's three in the afternoon. I have something else to take care of. Just contact me if you have any further questions."

With a flick of his fingers, a black light-dot was thrown toward Angele.

Angele turned to catch the light-dot with his finger. "Thanks for showing me around."

"No sweat. Our teacher asked me to take care of you, and you're my senior brother anyway." Juventus waved at Angele, putting away his pocket watch, and left the room.

Angele's eyes fell on the coffins after Juventus left.

"Lich, heed my call." He sent his mentality wave into one coffin on the right.

Creeaak!

The wooden coffin opened, and a dried-up corpse stood up from inside.

The corpse was covered with wounds. Yellow smoke was drifting out of the gaps. The corpse seemed to belong to a male's; its eyes had already turned black and its muscles looked like grayish meat jerkies.

The lich was wearing a yellow robe and holding a short wand made out of black crystal in his right hand.

"As you wish… ah…" Yellow smoke came out of the lich's mouth.

Blue light flashed in Angele's eyes as he scanned the lich's body.

[New file created. Name: Lich.]

[Scanning for data…]

The lich's hologram was displayed in front of Angele's eyes.

Rows of data were shown under it.

[Lich. Strength 6, Agility 5, Stamina 11, Mentality 0.] This was the lich's attributes. Besides that, the undead creature also had talent skills.

[Plague Aura: Deadly poison that affects a large area. Creatures with Stamina lower than 5 may be killed instantly.]

[Withering Light: Release polluted light from the wand. Damage: 40 degrees.]

[Enhanced Skin: Reduce damage taken by 50%, except for damage inflicted by light element spells. Lich will be destroyed when it receives over 1000 degrees of light element damage.]

The lich only had three talent skills. Nevertheless, Angele was satisfied with the result.

I won't call it a bodyguard, but a lich will assist me on the battlefield for sure, especially when the battle is intense.

Angele put away the wooden box in his pouch and left the room. He began to walk back the way he came.

He could hear unusual noises coming from the closed doors on both sides of the hallway.

There were women moaning, monsters roaring, wind blasting, and many men groaning. It sounded as if those men were undertaking a terrifying ritual.

Angele hurriedly returned to the first room after passing through the hallway.

The flames in the fireplace had become weaker. There was a young girl wearing green clothes sleeping on the chair.

Angele left the room and went to the wooden staircase.

When he looked down the stairs, he saw a river with a rapidly flowing current. The wet and chilling wind was blowing across his face.

He ascended the flight of stairs quickly and returned to the first area.

There were not many people in the heart of the tree due to the fairies being a bother. No one wanted their clothes to suddenly transform into a fairy, especially their undergarments. Being in a situation like that would certainly be awkward.

Angele continued walking and then he returned to the main hall.

The ceremony had already ended; no one was seated on the chairs and the servants were already cleaning the place.

Angele returned to his room after inspecting the map made by Zero.

When he opened the door to his room, he saw a black, egg-shaped ball of light floating in front of him.

"Message. Core members who live in the heart of the tree. If you wish to return to the Wizard World, you will need this black egg," an old man's voice rang throughout the room.

Angele made sure he had everything with him before stepping into the egg-shaped portal.

It was time to end his trip to Dark Wizard Tower.

Pure darkness surrounded him and the only thing he could see was the energy shield manifested by the crystal scorpion.

Angele felt himself not moving at all as he stood in the darkness.

Then, after about 10 seconds, light blinded his eyes.

And soon, he was standing on a cliff edge where a boiling black smoke lay beneath it.

Green trees with huge roots, vibrant vines, and dancing flowers amid the chilly breeze—this environment was familiar to him.

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Chapter 403: Return (2)

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This was the place where he jumped down and was teleported to the Sky City.

Angele turned around and saw the enormous tree right away.

He patted the dust off his clothes before walking toward the tree.

Green vines were tangled around the tree. He could still see the human face in the white flower, which seemed to be taking a nap.

"Oh… it's Green. You're the third one who teleported back. That was quick." The face awoke due to the sound of Angele's footsteps and immediately opened its eyes.

"Is that so? Well, I have finished my mission. I'll be leaving now." Angele smiled.

"Green, it's different now. You have signed the contract and become a core member. You can now summon organization members within this region when necessary. This is the list of the members." The face opened its mouth wide to reveal a long, black scroll on its tongue.

Angele took the scroll and unfurled it. The scroll was filled with names of people, their position in the organization, identities, and also their skill levels. About 100 elite members were on the list.

The list had more than ten and two ranks 3 and 4 wizards, respectively, and all of them had powerful backing.

It constituted a truly powerful force.

Angele became kind of surprised when he saw a familiar name on the list. It belonged to an Elemental Hand elder who was similarly an elite member of Dark Wizard Tower.

With a flick of Angele's fingers, the scroll was ignited.

Seconds later, the scroll was completely burnt to ashes—he had no reason to keep it after recording the data—and its remains were instantly blown away by the wind.

"You're responsible for the safety of the data as a contracted member. Benefit comes with duty," the face said. "And there is another person in-charge of the area, responsible for the execution of the plan given by the organization. You two will have to cooperate."

"Cooperate? You mean, I will have to assist them?" Angele raised his brow. "I thought I was the only core member of this region."

"Well, he's responsible for handling the army, and you will assist him when necessary. You two are now the ones accountable for executing the orders of the organization within the Tarry River region. That's all I know. You must complete the setup and wait for the time to come," the face explained.

"Fine. Do you have anything else to say? If there's none, I will be leaving."

"See you next time."

"See you."

The face disappeared. Along with it, the flower turned black as it withered and dropped to the floor before it became a pool of black fluid and was quickly absorbed by the soil.

Angele sighed in relief and he began to walk into the forest.

Several days later, in the morning.

In the mansion beside Ness River, Angele sat in the living room while comfortably having breakfast.

The golden sunlight passed through the window and to the ground, bringing rejuvenating light and warmth to the living room.

On the contrary, Lyn was lying on the sofa with an exhausted face while reading a thick spell book carefully.

"All you all right? Having nightmares lately?" Angele put down the bread and cup of goat milk, looking at Lyn.

"Thank you, master. There has been an accident during an experiment, and a side-effect similar to the Hand of Exhaustion's was applied to my body," Lyn replied in a low voice, yawning afterward.

"The mansion's protected by my secret force. You don't need to worry too much about safety. Go take a rest," Angele shook his head and said.

"Thank you, master." Lyn was way too tired. She stood up and returned to her room.

Angele would never tell Lyn that it was him who drugged her and wanted to make sure she did not know what he was planning.

After Lyn went to her room, he took his time to finish his breakfast and when he did so, he clapped his hands.

A maid entered the room and quickly cleaned up the table.

"I don't want anyone around until noon, understood?" Angele ordered.

The maid nodded, "As you wish, master."

"I don't want anyone to interrupt me." As soon as he finished speaking, he stood up and went up the second floor and stopped by a room that had its door open.

This ought to be an empty room, except for the fact that there was a maid cleaning inside.

"Done?" Angele entered the room and questioned her.

"Yes, master, almost done," the maid replied and bowed. She was wearing the standard black and white, laced maid uniform. Its low-cut design made the uniform quite revealing. Angele could see her bare chest when she bowed, and it felt like he could easily fondle it if he wanted to.

The maids had been hired by Lyn not so long ago, and all of them had their own plans. These maids were seeking to seduce Angele in the hopes that he would like them, so their job in the mansion would become much easier. Some of the maids hired even had plans of building a romantic relationship with their new master.

"All right, you may leave now." Angele looked coldly at the girl. Things like this had been happening constantly in the mansion. It had been like this ever since Lyn purchased them from the slave market.

The possibility of wizards reproducing with mortals was nil, but they could still basically have intercourse with their maids if they so desire. Angele knew of several wizards who relished such lifestyle as it was rampant in the Wizard World.

In any case, wizards would not simply feel tired just because of having sexual intercourse plenty of times in a row.

But even with that fact, Angele had never thought of it as the right way to live his life.

The maid seemed disappointed when she was asked to leave, but she still did so hurriedly. Angele closed the door and the windows and carefully inspected every nook and cranny of the room to confirm it was safe.

He retrieved a tiny hexagonal box from his dragon skin pouch.

Angele crouched and placed the box in the middle.

Pa!

The box was opened.

Angele immediately withdrew several steps and looked at the open box quietly.

Yellow smoke floated out of the box right after it was opened.

The intense leathery smell from the thick yellow smoke quickly drifted in the air. The smoke wrapped every object in the room.

The clock continued ticking. About 2 to 3 hours later…

The smoke was becoming much more thicker, rapidly reaching Angele's waist.

Seconds later, two rows of dark-red coffins appeared within the smoke, with five coffins each row. They were well-arranged on the floor.

Angele nodded satisfactorily and waved his right hand.

The entire heap of yellow smoke drifting about in the room was sucked back into the ten coffins completely.

Before leaving, Angele inspected each coffin.

Pa!

He placed his right hand on the door. A black snake rune appeared on the surface.

"You! Come here." Angele pointed at one maid who was wiping the handrail on the left side of the staircase.

"Yes, master." The maid walked to Angele carefully and lowered the rag in her hand.

"From now on, no one shall enter this room without my permission." Angele pointed at it. "Go and inform everyone in the mansion."

"What about Master Lyn?" the maid asked.

"Same."

"Understood." The maid immediately bowed and went down the stairs.

Angele watched on as the maid went down before he walked to a mirror on the wall.

His metal forcefield was destroyed in the competition, and he needed enough time to fix it, so he could not create a mirror with his talent ability. That was the reason he asked one of the maids to purchase a large mirror for him.

The mirror was about a meter tall. Angele's body was reflected on it.

Long, crimson hair, an average face, and a pair of glowing red eyes that looked like spinning vortices. His skin was pale and his body well-toned.

He was clothed with a long, black robe decorated with silver hem—a simple robe yet luxuriously designed.

Angele retrieved a dark-red crystal that was irregularly shaped and looked like half of the crystal was bitten off by a beast.

Angele placed the crystal in front of him and closed his eyes for a second.

The appearance of his reflection immediately changed.

Now appeared a tall and muscular body and a lengthy black horn on his head, which looked like a black tail behind his back. There was a second pair of eyes on his face, which were exactly the ones he had in the Nightmare Realm, and golden light was leaking out of it.

His armor had also turned crimson. Light was flickering on the spikes of his knees, arms, and shoulders. The spikes almost seemed to look like they were covered in blood.

What changed the most was Angele's height.

In his normal form, he was approximately two meters tall. But at this moment, he was more than three meters tall, and the mirror now barely showed his entire body.

"Ha…." Angele exhaled slowly, his breath sulfuric. The dark-red crystal in front of him was shrinking at a rapid rate.

The crystal soon sank into his chest and disappeared within half an hour.

Angele was becoming taller once more, and the black horn on top of his head was growing longer, almost reaching his knees already.

"The rate of development of my true form is terrifying…" Angele frowned. "While it's great that my true form is improving quickly, my mentality isn't experiencing the same. I cannot fully control the abilities of my true form if my mentality is not high enough. The best possible option in order to increase my mentality lies in the Molten Core River technique, but the path I'm walking is of the ancient wizards'. How did they solve such a problem?"

Angele began pondering, and his true form gradually dissipated as the crystal was being absorbed. After several minutes, his body transformed back to its original shape.

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Chapter 404: Sister and Brother (1)

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A strong body must be matched with a strong mentality. If not, he would not be able to utilize his power to the fullest extent.

That was what he was anxious about.

Angele had never known how ancient wizards solved this particular issue. The information he acquired from Eye Devil had never mentioned anything related to it.

He left the mirror, heading to his study, and looked at the bookshelves inside.

Thick, brown books were arranged on the dark-red bookshelves. He had recorded some of the important information on those books.

The contents were mostly regarding his theories and the results of his researches. There was no dangerous spell book kept in the shelves and those books were encrypted through the use of a special method. There were even several books that introduced poems and local tourist attractions.

Angele lifted up his left hand and slightly spun the ring around his finger.

Chi!

The ring released a streak of white light, soon materializing into a rectangular screen in front of him.

Displayed on the screen were rows of information. The ones being shown on the left were the quests provided by Dark Wizard Tower and the one shown on the right was the summary of the latest intel he had received.

Angele checked the available quests at present. Majority of these quests were about ruins exploration, collection of rare resources, and guarding certain members of the organization. Yet, nothing had piqued his interest.

However, there was a message in the summary that was addressed to him.

He tapped on the screen, and a message popped out of it and covered the entire screen.

From: Count Vanara

"Vanara, leader of Red Scimitar and the Count of River Empire, cordially invites you to his birthday celebration."

Following the body was a marking drawn like an onyx ring, an eye-shaped ring that was identical to the one Angele had in his possession.

So he's the other one in-charge. That was fast. Angele rubbed his chin.

He lifted his finger and began writing his reply just below the message.

This was the method used in replying to messages.

Time and location?

Seconds later, another message appeared.

In one month, at the Count's Mansion at Wheat City. It shall be our first meeting then. I hope you will have a good time in my party, the count immediately sent a reply.

Certainly, Angele replied right away.

They swiftly wrapped up their conversation.

Angele closed the message box and started checking out Count Vanara's intel through the intel center.

Count Vanara, the member overseeing the Tarry River region. His skill level, hidden. Publicly known as the leader of the Red Scimitar but actually one of the organization's important members, possessing authority over the Fiery Shadow Army.

Angele read through the intel. He was now even more certain that the count was doing the same thing as him.

He received several more messages as he read through it.

Angele's ring functioned as a receiver of messages, too. Other members of the organization could message him anytime; the only requirement was his communication rune.

He just received more than 10 messages, all of which were sent by his future servants.

I can gather elites and rare resources now. Re-signing the contract with Dark Wizard Tower was the right decision , Angele thought of this as he replied to the messages one by one.

The senders were important members, leaders, wives, and relatives of small organizations and also core members of large organizations.

These people had different backgrounds, yet all of them could gather elites and use the resources with their backing.

Angele categorized the people who showed respect to him into three different groups based on the intel provided by the organization.

He made certain that the members of these groups held nothing against each other so that their power could be utilized.

Besides that, Angele selected three members to represent as the leader of each of the three group.

They need me for something, so they contacted me right away. Seems like they already know something is about to happen. There are more than 100 elites within the Tarry River region. Those who already know of the events that will unfold in the future must have connections with the core members of Dark Wizard Tower, while the rest are just people who work for the organization and are not sure of what's happening.

Angele closed the screen after replying to all those messages.

"Sadly, no matter what happens, I've got no right to make decisions when I signed the contract. No one will give up their final hope when the world's about to change, which means the members of the organization within this region must obey me. They have no choice."

He stood up and walked to a bookshelf and took out a book. "It's good. I should probably talk to them when I visit the count."

Angele was the son of one of Elemental Hand's elders. While the core members of those other organizations would never talk to him as their backing were far more powerful, he was a core member of Dark Wizard Tower who had also become a student of one of the six directors. Things now had upended.

Rank 4 wizards were much stronger than him, yes, but those below rank 4 would have to obey his orders…

Angele began formulating a plan while reading the book.

Suddenly, he noticed some of the pages at the end of the book were covered in mold.

"Damn it!" Angele scowled. "Hana! Hana!"

He shouted.

Intense footsteps came from the other side of the door quickly.

"Yes, master!"

A middle-aged woman's voice echoed in the hallway.

Angele waved his hand, and the rune marking on the door gradually faded away.

Creeaaak!

The door opened by itself.

A maid in a black uniform entered the room and walked to Angele carefully. "Master, were you looking for me?"

"Hana, how long have you been working in the mansion?" Angele closed the book.

Cold sweat appeared on the maid's forehead.

"It's… it's about ten years, master."

"Ten years, huh?" Angele lifted up his hand to raise her chin with a deadpan expression. "You were a naïve girl when you were… hired. Time flies. You're now more than 30 years old…"

Hana didn't do anything and only let Angele touch her chin.

"You're becoming old. Go fetch your remaining payment and leave. Find a good man to marry or do whatever you want. You're no longer my maid," as Angele said this, he released her chin.

"Master…" Hana was trembling, knowing that she had just been fired by her master. Now, she would have a hard time in her hometown.

"You want to know the reason?" Angele turned around and sat down by the window.

"Yes, master." Hana bit her lips; tears were welling up in her eyes.

Angele glared at her, "I thought I told you how to take care of the books in this room."

Hana became dumbfounded for a moment, quickly realizing what blunder she had done.

Angele remained unfeeling, "The books inside this room are important. All significant information I have acquired from around the world are recorded there. I've told you to soak the books in black stripe oil once a year and apply the cat-head incense on them. I'm paying more than 2000 gold coins just for that every year. Do you remember?"

Desperation was in the eyes of Hana, who leaned down her head and not say anything.

"This is just a guess, but did you keep some of the money for yourself after noticing how those books were fine even without treatment?"

"Master… I'm sorry…" Sweat was dripping down Hana's chin.

"Leave now. I won't ask you to reimburse me considering you served me well. Return to your hometown and enjoy the rest of your life." Angele waved his hand, sighing. "Also, summon Raylene for me."

"Thank you, master…" Hana replied shakily and sighed. She thought the master was going to punish, or even kill her for what she had done. The maid was grateful. She bowed to Angele and turned around to exit the room.

Seconds later, a pretty girl about 18 years of age entered.

"You'll be the one to take care of my books from now on, understood?" Angele looked at the girl, saying this.

"Yes, master," the girl nodded her head politely in response. Though, it seemed like she had something else to say.

"What?" Angele noticed the look on her face.

"Master," the girl bit her lips, "there's a girl named Sari. She's a maid in the mansion, hired not so long ago. Sari wants to… talk to you." Raylene became a maid in the mansion when she was 15 years old and had worked for Angele for some time now.

The girl was young and pure and never made any advances on Angele like the other maids. Just for that reason, Angele liked her a lot.

That was the reason why he was offering her an easier job.

"Ask her to come here." Angele nodded and fetched a book about wizards' history from the desk.

Raylene bowed to Angele.

"Thank you, master." She herself knew she was the reason Angele considered to talk to Sari. Her master was busy, and he barely talked to the mortals who worked in the mansion.

Raylene exited the room and minutes later, she brought back a red-haired girl with her.

The girl was looking down her feet. She was approximately 17 years old and could not even look at Angele directly. The girl looked quite cute in her white maid uniform.

"Ma… master… my name is Sari," the girl introduced herself with a small voice. "Thank you for seeing me, master."

"Tell me what you want," Angele put down the book and replied.

Sari soon noticed that Angele wasn't a coldblooded monster the rumors said otherwise. She lifted her head up and looked at Angele's average face. The man's long, red hair was draped over his shoulders, and he was leaning on the back of the chair with his legs crossed.

With the light of the sunset on his body, Angele looked like a handsome man in a picturesque scene.

The girl had stopped talking. This was her first time directly looking at the owner of the mansion.

"Sari… Sari…" Raylene noticed her friend wasn't doing anything, so she tried waking her up.

Sari got her left arm pinched by Raylene. She looked down again with her face blushing, completely ashamed of herself that she almost wanted to run away.

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Chapter 405: Sister and Brother (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe

"All right, tell me what you want." Angele became curious upon witnessing the girl's reaction. While he was a noble before he became a wizard apprentice, the girls in the castle back then wouldn't simply blush just from seeing his face. Now, however, Angele had become a god in the eyes of mortals and he reveled in this feeling.

Things, on one hand, might have been much easier had he changed his appearance.

On the other, the girl's reaction was refreshing to him. As a wizard, Angele hadn't had many opportunities to enjoy his life amid such a dangerous world.

Angele's mood was lifted for that reason.

"Just say it. If it's not too much trouble for me, I'll solve the problem," Angele encouraged.

Pursing her lips, Sari finally spoke out.

"Master… I have a younger brother who enjoys reading, a lot. And he loves taking care of books. I hear there are many books in your study, so I want to recommend him to you. I'm sure he can take good care of your books."

"Taking care of books, huh?" Angele's brow raised up. "How old is your brother?"

"Thirteen. He worked in the lord's mansion for several years. His main job was maintaining the lord's books," Sari hurriedly replied.

"Sure, ask him to come here. I will hire him, if he can get the job done." Angele nodded.

"Thank you, thank you, master… thank you." Sari bowed several times before she was dragged out of the room by Raylene, who knew Angele dislikes noisy places. Sari's voice was a bit too loud, after all. Both of them hurriedly bowed to Angele and left since Raylene did not want to anger her master.

Angele smiled, not in the least bit concerned. It was better if the person taking care of his books was a bibliophile. At least, there would be no mold in his books.

Even though the information recorded on the books had already been stored in his biochip, he still found it a pleasure reading the physical copy of books whenever he had time.

Three days later, in the morning.

Inside the study, Angele was gingerly taking a sip from his cup of hot milk and looking at the two teenagers who were quietly standing before him.

The one on the left was Sari, who was in a black-and-white maid uniform. The one on the right was a red-haired boy.

The boy, wearing an old, gray linen clothing, looked thin and weakly. But even though his face looked pale, his eyes seemed bright. He was staring at Angele hopefully.

"Master, my name is Saya. Please trust me, I shall take good care of your books!"

He leaned over to bow. Sari did the same, too.

The brother and sister duo stood there unmoving.

Angele gazed at them curiously.

"Saya, right? Straighten your back. I have several questions for you."

"Yes! Master!" Both Saya and Sari answered loudly and straightened their backs.

"Too loud. Lower your voice whenever you're answering my question." Angele waved his hand.

"As you wish, master," Saya softly replied, nodding.

"First question. Where are your parents?"

Saya and Sari instantly became downcast upon hearing the question.

"I don't know, master. They sold us in exchange for money…" Sari softly spoke, "If I hadn't been bought to become a maid, I would have had to work at the town's tavern…"

The town's tavern was equivalent to a brothel.

Saya tightly grasped Sari's left hand.

"Very well. Second question." Angele was unbothered, for he had heard far too many stories similar to theirs.

"Saya, how did you fall in love with books?"

Saya was caught off-guard. Such a question was something he had never thought of being asked. The boy thought for a while before he suddenly raised his head.

"Master, in my eyes, books are priceless gems. I can learn a lot of things I will likely never experience just by reading. Books are treasures to me!"

Angele nodded satisfactorily. Saya was young, but the words he spoke didn't sound like they came from the mouth of a 13-year-old boy. His childhood must have been tough.

"All right. Last question, do you know how to take care of this book?" Angele picked up a book he had been reading recently.

The book entitled [Honor of the Family] looked like a large, black brick.

"Come here and take a look. You can read, can't you?"

"Yes!" Saya affirmed excitedly, exultation written all over his face. He carefully took the book away from Angele's hand.

"It's an old book. This texture… it's made from the high-quality bark of a White Angle Tree. The book needs to embrace the sunlight for at least one hour every three months and must be kept in a dry, dust-free environment. The branches of the white pine will steer insects away, and if you put on gloves when reading the book, the material will last for hundreds of years…" Saya gazed at the book in his hand and continuously muttered these things. He seemed to love the book so much that he forgot where he was.

Angele nodded as he listened to the boy's murmurs. He himself knew how to take care of books made out of different materials, but he didn't have time to do so.

Saya had just explained the best method of preserving the books made from special materials. Angele was satisfied with this result.

Angele trusted the maid Hana, but mold still appeared in his books. Saya would seem to do a much better job than her.

"Good. I'll hire you to take care of my books. Monthly payment shall be 10 gold coins. What do you think?"

Ten gold coins could easily sustain a mortal's needs for a month, but they must know how to cook considering how the cost of bought cooked food in restaurants was much more expensive compared to the cost of the raw ingredients in the market.

Besides, Saya was young, so he might not need much money. Angele didn't want to offer him too much, for he knew just how greed could easily destroy a person. Ten gold coins should be more than enough money for a teenager, and he would be safe working in a wizard's mansion.

Angele was now becoming partial to Saya. In the future, he was planning on increasing his wage.

"Thank you, master! Thank you!" Saya was so jubilant that his voice was trembling too much. Nonetheless, a bright smile was on his face.

Angele smiled without saying any more.

Saya did not disappoint Angele over the next 10 days. He categorized the books in the room and carefully maintained and cleaned them.

And even though Angele never told Saya not to read the books, the boy still tried his best not to, even one, open any of them. To a bibliophile, Angele's study was akin to a treasure trove.

Angele was not only the owner of the books, he was also the owner of his sister. Saya himself knew he must not bring any trouble to his sister. Sari had already taken a risk when she introduced him to Angele, so Saya needed to be careful when he worked in the mansion.

Angele grew fond of the boy's behavior. While he never told him directly, he mentioned to Saya that it would be fine if he read the books in the study while cleaning.

The boy was shaken up and thrilled upon being given permission to read books in the study. He then spent more time cleaning the study, just so he would have the time to read books.

Time went by.

Angele didn't blame Saya for staying in his study for too long. On the contrary, he respected people who enjoyed studying, especially the young ones.

But what staggered him was the change in Sari's behavior. The girl would often steal glances from a corner when cleaning the mansion and would look away if Angele exchanged glances with her. She seemed to have become starstruck with Angele.

Sometimes, Angele watched Saya clean the books while having mixed feelings about it.

A person like Saya would shine if given the chance. Knowledge was power; studying could change one's life. If Saya could survive in this chaotic world, he would likely become an influential personage in the society.

Saya was similar to a sponge that knew no limit, wanting to absorb as much knowledge as possible so that he could have a better life in the future.

And Angele had noticed that Saya had been training in a certain set of physical skills since he was young. The boy reminded him of Freia's brother whom Angele had not heard from for a while already.

Freia's brother was different from Saya, but both of them had their own dreams and both would try to fulfill their dreams.

Ten days soon passed. Saya and Sari had settled down in the mansion over the course of this time. Things were going well for them.

Angele could easily overturn someone's life if he so wished, but he never intended to help them out. It was merely a whimsical decision he made.

The time to attend the count's dinner party had come.

Prior to his usage of the ring, Angele informed the wizards who had contacted him before. Approximately 20 more wizards joined his team, with the total number reaching 40. Half of the elites in the Tarry River region had joined his team.

They received Angele's message and decided to meet him at the Blue Gold Cave of the Red Stone Mountains by the outskirts of the Tarry River region.

The meeting location was suggested by Angele.

Barely any people were around Blue Gold Cave. There had been several wizards inhabiting this place back then, but they had moved to other areas a long time ago. Mortals would never explore an area they thought to be related to wizards as they perceived these places to be hazardous.

Apart from that, Angele would have to pass by the Blue Gold Cave along his way to the dinner party.

Angele arranged the work in the mansion after messaging his newly-gathered followers. Lyn wanted to accompany him, but the good thing was, Angele found an excuse that discouraged her from going with him. Once Lyn knew Angele had something private to take care of, she no longer insisted. Things involving the Elemental Hand were also becoming better recently.

The Elemental Hand and the alliance desired to put an end to the war, for it had lasted for too long already and both forces were growing weary. The areas around the battlefield all suffered greatly, and the smaller organizations demanded peace, so they began negotiations.

No one would foolishly attack the son of the third elder during these times of negotiation. Things would become much more raveled if Angele was indeed attacked.

Not only that, people also knew how Angele defeated two rank 4 wizards and walked away without dying. Without any plausible reason, no one would want to mess with him.

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Chapter 406: Guide (1)

Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe

A twisting gray road with other paths branching out from it lay amid the vibrant green trees, as though it was the blood veins of the land.

Slowly advancing along the narrow path was a black carriage being pulled by four unicorns.

There was no defining feature on the carriage whatsoever, only pure black. The coachman was a messy-haired, short old man holding a horsewhip in his hand. He looked as if he could fall asleep any time.

The dark sky brought no light to them and to the path. The cold wind continued to swoosh across.

The path was smooth but not so much, so the wheels occasionally stumbled on some rocks and granted a not-so-smooth ride to whoever was inside the carriage.

Inside the carriage was a man seated cross-legged, staring blankly at one corner. Blue light was continuously flashing in his eyes.

"Perhaps once I return home after the birthday party, I'll be able to finish my new project… It's about time I start this," he uttered under his breath. Looking at the holographic image rotating before him, he smiled.

Angele was looking at a hologram modeled after him. But, it had some slight modifications compared to his true form. The model showed an appearance similar to his true form, though his height had become shorter by half a meter, from three meters.

Three days ago, as he traveled in the black carriage he was in, Angele was contemplating on several things. One of these things was the continuously decreasing usefulness of his biochip. His biochip was now only used for storing a powerful spell or for storing data—mainly, becoming a mere archive.

Angele's brows were furrowed.

Just using Zero as a storage seems to be not fully utilizing what it's actually capable of…

A while ago, Angele had started thinking of things that could be used to further enhance his strength with less effort but more results. And so, his biochip came into his mind. If he could get Zero to integrate his spells, matrices, and runic knowledge to create something, then he'd gain another card for battles.

At present…

In the hologram, his body had become much slimmer and not only did his one horn get reduced to several centimeters long, he also gained another horn, and these were each located on the side of his head. His eyes had also become two golden-red pairs of eyes that when looked upon, would make one feel like they would get sucked in. Equipped with silver plated armor formed by his Metal Mastery and his face covered by illusory flames—all of this was Angele's newly conceptualized form, a new, powerful arsenal of his.

This new form's purpose was to increase the damage output he could unleash in fights all the while reducing the mentality and stamina required.

Angele breathed in and out.

He looked out the window and could see a red mountain from afar.

Angele closed his eyes. Soon, they would arrive at the Blue Gold Cave.

From near a cave, at a place not too exposed, several men and women wearing robes of different colors were gathering in one place. All of them were exuding terrifying auras. They were all clearly elites. Yet, nobody seemed to be talking and instead were gathered there as though they were waiting for something.

The chilling gusts continued to howl across the surroundings.

The sound of a black carriage traveling toward them echoed and stopped by where the group of elites was at.

A young man, with an average face, long red hair that was draped over his shoulder and wearing a golden-hemmed robe, stepped out of it.

All of them looked at the young man and bowed in greetings.

"Wizard Green?" a male wizard asked.

The young man only nodded and replied with a question, "Is everyone here?"

"No, two more people are on their way to this place. They should be arriving in a few minutes."

"Got it."

After a moment, a portal appeared, and two black-robed wizards stepped out of it.

"Just in time."

When the two wizards saw the red-haired young man wearing a golden-hemmed robe, they bowed to him and introduced themselves.

"I'm Frappe, and this guy right here is Leo." Wizard Frappe smirked.

Wizards Frappe and Leo said, "Happy April Fool's Day!"

"The real chapter is below!"

A twisting gray road that had branched paths lay amid the vibrant green trees. The overall appearance of the road looked like blood veins but on land.

Slowly advancing along the narrow path was a black carriage pulled by four unicorns.

No defining feature could be seen on the carriage, only pure black. The coachman of the carriage was a messy-haired, short old man who held a horsewhip in his hand while he looked as though he could fall asleep any time.

No light was brought upon from the dark sky. The cold wind was swooshing across everywhere.

The carriage was slowly advancing as the wheels relentlessly crushed the pebbles in its wake. The shrubs on both sides of the road were shaking. Some forest creatures seemed to have been scared away due to the movements of the carriage.

"Master, in three days, we'll reach the Blue Gold Cave, but you will have to walk there to the cave yourself," the coachman reminded as he yawned.

"It's fine. I can walk." A deep voice belonging to a male came from the carriage.

The window of the carriage opened, revealing the pale and mysterious face of a man.

The man had a pair of glowing red eyes, which looked like clear red crystals of the highest quality.

He placed his hand on the windowsill and looked out to the other side of the forest.

"Something is going on. Ham, stop the carriage. We have to wait," he spoke calmly.

"As you wish, master." The coachman was not in the least nervous, for he seemed to have already gotten used to this kind of things. "This is the fourth time. What's wrong with this world? If it wasn't Master Green who hired me, I wouldn't even think of traveling this far."

Angele chuckled upon listening to him and looked at the other side of the forest again. Along a narrow path, an intense battle was occurring.

Several people wearing gray clothes and white bandana were duking it out with the guards of three carriages. People were laughing loudly, groaning in pain, and shouting. It was complete chaos.

"There are several bandits nearby. We should wait until they finish," Angele spoke tonelessly. It had been since he departed from the mansion, heading to the Blue Gold Cave. Still, the number of bandits in the forest was surprising.

Angele would always wait until the bandits finished pillaging before passing by, not wanting to draw too much attention.

The noise ahead slowly dissipated as the bandits had the carriages surrounded. Something seemed to have happened, and Angele could hear them laughing.

For more than 10 minutes they laughed and shouted.

Angele initially thought they would leave after they were done, but they were doing something else instead.

He stopped watching and closed the window and then took up the staff lying on the seat.

Ka!

Angele jumped off the carriage with a black staff in hand after the door was pushed open. He put on his hood and covered his entire body with his long, black robe.

"Ham, stay here."

"Sure, master!" Ham smiled. Angele could see his white teeth. He was simply no mediocre coachman, considering how a normal coachman would not travel alone with someone like Angele.

Angele nodded and slowly advanced with the staff in his hand. Some of his hair could still be seen underneath the robe.

Three carriages formed a triangular blockade up ahead, barring the bandits outside. The women and children within the blockade looked helpless.

The ground was covered with corpses and pools of blood. The stench of blood drifted in the air. Some of the corpses belonged to the bandits, but most of them were from the guards.

The bandits around the carriages were looking at the women and children with malevolent expressions. There was no way for those in the middle to escape.

Most of the bandits were carrying scimitars or crossguard swords. Some were wearing a broken version of the army's leather uniform.

The bandits were being led by a half-naked man who had a long scar below his left eye, standing on one side with his arms crossed. The scar twisted as he laughed. It was terrifying.

"Beard, what else?" the man shouted at the carriages.

There was a brawny man who had a long, black beard standing in the triangular blockade. He held the corpse of a girl in his right, his chest was soaked in fresh blood, and he was laughing.

A gash was left on the corpse's neck, with blood spurting out. The girl's soulless eyes were wide open, her body still twitching.

Hatred, desperation, and anger were written all over the female guards' faces as they looked at the girl's corpse. They tightly gripped their weapons in anger, yet there was not much they could do.

There were many broken arrows on the ground, indicating that arrow attacks weren't effective. No visible wound could be seen on the man who had a long beard.

"Whatever, we'll sooner or later die anyway. Why don't we try and take some of them down?" A girl in red was enraged, looking as if she would fight until the end.

"They killed all the men. It's obvious what they'll do to us. There must be a way. We shouldn't just hand ourselves to them!" one of the female guards said.

"Besides, Big Daddy just needs some treatment. I'm sure he's still alive! We shall not give up!" the guard encouraged.

There were about 10 girls in the blockade. Their final hope lay in the white-haired old man who was lying on the ground.

He had a damaged black leather armor equipped. A long scimitar was stabbed into the ground beside him.

"Yes. If Big Daddy wakes up, there will be hope," the other female guard said.

"Who's there?!"

Suddenly, the bandits around the carriage shouted.

Angele was slowly walking to the bandits, but before he could reach the carriage, he was detected.

Nevertheless, he didn't try to sneak. He was still unhurriedly walking to the bandits without a care.

A small group of bandits went to Angele immediately. The leader was the man with a scar under his left eye.

The man squinted, and his face turned solemn after noticing that there was only one man walking toward them.

"Friend, we're members of the Sandstorm. We'll be done in 10 minutes. Can you wait?" The man knew that no one would dive straight into a group of bandits alone unless it was someone who possessed great power or a… formal wizard. But in his troupe, there were several wizard apprentices, and he was a grand knight himself. With enchanted weapons in tow, he was certain they could win a fight against a low-rank wizard.

The man wasn't really a bandit and so he didn't wish to risk himself in the situation. Hence, he decided to speak with the stranger first.

Angele looked at the bandit, but before he could say anything, things changed.

Chi! Chi! Chi!

Suddenly, a huge red shadow appeared under his feet and transformed into a man right above the bandits. The shadow quickly solidified, and he turned around and showed everyone his appearance.

It was a young man with an attractive face.

Pa!

The man landed to the ground on his toes and bowed to Angele.

"Master Purple Eye, don't waste your time. I can kill them for you since they got in your way." He licked his lips. Flames were rising in his eyes.

Angele looked at the man.

"Turin?"

"I'm glad you know me." Turin was one of the elites who joined Angele's group.

Turin was also one of the powerful wizards who joined Dark Wizard Tower through their own power. They hadn't come from famous wizard families, but their skill level was extremely high.

Turin's body was wrapped with a red cloak. His hair was as red as a burning flame. There was a queer expression on his face.

"I recognize you because your words have left a deep impression on my mind." Angele smiled. "Regardless, I'm glad you're here to welcome me."

"Victoria is up ahead awaiting your arrival, too." Turin smiled as well. "We're certain you'll make our life more exciting."

"That should be one of the reasons you joined me, right?" Angele chuckled. Turin was one of the three leaders Angele had decided upon.

Turin was like a cruel beast who craved for danger and excitement in his life. That was his reason for joining Dark Wizard Tower. When he learned about the organization's big plan, he almost went crazy.

Rumors said Turin was a genius from a small wizard organization. He stayed in the mountains for years, but he realized his family and the organization he was formerly in could no longer satisfy him. Turin craved for better knowledge and stronger spells.

Turin realized that the people around him were too weak after accidentally killing off his father and his teacher during a simulation battle.

After that event, Turin became mentally unstable and he slew thousands of people during a war between wizards. That was how he became an infamous "criminal" and a wanted person by all the organizations in the central continent.

Furthermore, the man loved eating the raw liver of children and kept many of them as a livestock in his territory, just so he could enjoy a fresh liver whenever he wanted to.

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Chapter 407: Guide (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe

Victoria was also an oddity who was recruited by the Dark Wizard Tower, for he too was a genius.

Angele had already checked into Victoria's data from the intel center of the organization.

Victoria gave up his original physical body and created a new one through the blood essence he had collected from more than ten thousand corpses on the battlefield. With his Blood Aura, he could harvest blood from any living beings that were weaker than him.

On top of that, his Blood Aura was a passive ability, ergo uncontrollable.

Like how fishes swam in the water and people breathed in the air.

In other words, people ought to stay away from Victoria as much as possible. The man was a plague, literally.

Turin licked his lips and glanced at the bandits.

Fear came to manifest on the faces of some bandits.

"Turin! It's Turin…!" One wizard apprentice began to flee when he realized who the person was. He seemed to have heard about Turin's tales.

The bandit leader's face stiffened, and he put his right hand into the pouch tied to his belt He was about to activate an enchanted item. He might not know who Turin was, but he knew how dire the situation they were now in just by the look on the wizard apprentice's face.

"Die!" Lifting up his hand, a green fireball materialized and darted toward Turin.

Chi!

Turin released a circle of red light, with him standing right in the middle.

The luminous circle expanded within seconds.

"Kill… him…" the bandit leader shouted as every movement of his slowed down. The man's voice had started sounding older by the second, his skin was drying up, and wrinkles had now covered his face.

Pa!

A wisp of green flame exploded in the air, like a soap bubble.

The bandits raised their weapons up and rushed to the two wizards, but they immediately turned into dried-up zombies in several steps.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The corpses dropped to the ground, dying as their life energy was completely depleted. Some, killed by the weight of their own equipment.

All the bandits died in a split second. The scene was terrifying, and the women and children within the triangular blockade were frightened.

Turin stood beside Angele to see his face. He wanted to find the expression he wanted to see.

Angele only squinted his eyes and once again put on his hood, all the while showing a callous expression.

"Let's go. There are people waiting for us."

"As you wish, master." Turin chuckled and glimpsed at the people who were in the blockade. While some thought that the two wizards were their saviors, Turin overturned it when he raised his hand and gripped the air.

Boooom!

A ball of flame exploded.

The children and woman began screaming, shouting, groaning in pain. All of them were instantly devoured amid the explosion.

The fervent conflagration devoured everything in its wake, burning the carriages into flames and the trees around.

The nearby vegetation was also caught up in the flames.

Not once did Angele turned to look back at the burning carriages, only heading to his carriage straightaway. The people being attacked by the bandits and the bandits themselves were nothing to him. Mortals were mere ants and their deaths meant nothing to Angele. People had all stepped onto ants at least once in their life, but no one would care about their deaths.

Turin was only silencing the witnesses. He turned and went after Angele without looking back.

When Angele returned to the carriage and was opening the door, he heard another carriage approaching from behind his.

He stopped for a second and turned to look to the side.

A silver-edged, black carriage was slowly drawing near, protected by a convoy of mercenaries wearing green leather armor.

"Hey! Friends, what's going on there? What's burning?" the leader of the mercenaries asked aloud when he saw Angele.

"There was a conflict between bandits and several merchants," Turin answered, now standing behind Angele.

"Is that so?" The leader lost interest. He asked several of his members to check up on the situation and put out the fire.

"The situation is worsening. Bandits are everywhere. We have already encountered five groups of bandits, but luck was upon us. None of them were strong." The leader sighed.

The two carriages began to move. Angele never said anything, knowing that those mercenaries thought that bandits would not attack them if they traveled together.

Angele and Turin had both gotten inside the carriage. They only wanted to reach their destination and thought it would be fine if and as long as those mercenaries did not bring them any trouble.

Riding a horse, the leader of the mercenaries moved near to Ham and began conversing with him.

Ham sighed in response.

"You're right. I've fought on the Reindeer Battlefield. The deserters were much better than these bandits."

"You fought in the Reindeer War? Me too. Which unit were you in?" The leader found a new topic to get into.

"I was in Unit 13. What about you?" Ham was interested.

"I was in Unit 12. I didn't expect to meet a comrade here." the leader of the mercenaries laughed and began to talk about the things that had happened during the war.

Several minutes later, they returned to their former topic.

"The mercenary group was the one that put an end to the war of the three organizations in the Tarry River region. Did you know that?" the mercenary leader started recounting the stories of the mercenaries.

"I know, actually. The White Sword Mercenary Group, right?" Ham knew the situation back then well. "The White Sword Mercenaries' performance was impressive in the final battle."

"And their leader, Eagle of the White Sword, crushed the Storm Giant's service troop with his two thousand mercenaries. The first elder of Elemental Hand even conferred him an honorary title for his great deeds for the organization. He's a true legend among mercenaries…" the leader recounted with excitement.

"So, you're saying the Eagle of the White Sword contributed to world peace?"

"That's right," the leader nodded. "The Eagle of the White Sword, Master Augustin, is still fighting alongside his brother-in-arms in the central continent. His mercenary group has the potential to become one of the five biggest mercenary groups on this land."

Angele sat in the carriage, silently eavesdropping on their conversation.

Turin sat opposite him, smiling.

Angele knew Turin was trying to showcase his power when he killed all the bandits before he could do anything.

The two of them sat opposite to each other without uttering a word.

Angele discovered that Turin had a skill level rivaling a powerful rank 4 wizard and was much stronger than the Wizard Shozo. The man might be as powerful as Vivian without the Legacy Magic Circle supplying her power.

And without his True Form, Angele would have a difficult time overpowering Turin. The latter seemed to have realized Angele's situation, hence the reason he acted with contempt upon Angele.

Even though Angele's backing was more powerful than his, he might not obey Angele's orders if the situation allowed it. Turin only joined Angele's group for cordiality's sake and might not do things as Angele would order.

This case was the same for the other people who joined his group. For example, Victoria and that particular elder of Elemental Hand.

Angele mused on the situation and understood the reason.

He took a glimpse at Turin, who was looking out the window with a bored face.

With the Dark Wizard Tower's contract, while Turin's stronger than me, there is nothing he can do. Angele reached this conclusion in his mind.

"Master, have you ever heard of a group of people who call themselves 'Pathfinders'?" Turin suddenly asked.

"Pathfinders?" Angele remained composed. "No. Who are they?"

Turin despised the thought of being controlled by someone weaker than him. But Angele possessed the Legacy Magic Circle set, so he still came here as a courtesy.

"These Pathfinders all wear gray robes. No one knows what they are planning."

"Huh?" Angele opened the window. "That's the 'Pathfinder' you're talking about?" His eyes fell on a hill in the forest.

Turin smiled, not saying anything. He didn't want to answer Angele.

Pathfinders were the observers of the world and would only appear around the people who would become someone with a leverage on the world in the future.

In the forest, a man in a gray robe was standing atop a hill, looking at the carriage slowly moving along the narrow path.

The window of the carriage opened, and the man inside looked at him.

The gray robe was holding a long cane in his hand when he exchanged eye contact with the man.

The carriage slowly disappeared into the horizon.

The gray robe retrieved a small black scroll and started writing down something carefully with his finger.

He furled the scroll after he finished writing and tapped on the ground with his cane.

Tap!

The man transformed into an enormous gray eagle with the robe and the cane.

The eagle raised its wings and flew up into the sky, soon turning into a black dot and disappearing into the endless sky.

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Chapter 408: Meeting (1)

Translator: Leo Editor: Frappe

Within the Tarry River region, at a particular part of a mountain, there was a huge and dark cave; and at its entrance, there was a small lake, which reflected the azure sky and the white clouds amid it.

More than 10 people were waiting nearby the lake, all wearing black robes. Despite gathering so, all of them kept some distance between each other. Most of them were watching a red-robed person seated at the mouth of the cave.

"We have waited for two days already. I must return within the next three days or else they'll start suspecting." A woman standing beside the small lake questioned, "Where is Master Purple Eye?"

"Let's wait. He should be here soon," a man answered in a whisper, "Turin should have met up with him already."

No longer talking, the woman walked to one side and started meditating with her eyes closed.

It was already noon time. Time seemed to pass by slowly. The swooshing sound accompanying the wind was becoming louder, as if a banshee was screaming.

The loud noise awoke several wizards that were meditating.

"He's here," someone said.

The wizards nearby the cave glimpsed at the forest.

Two people were slowly heading toward the cave they were at, coming from the dark green forest.

All of them ceased chatting and those who were seated all stood up, their gaze falling on the two persons walking to them.

Of the two, the one in front was a man clothed in a robe of black, though the robe was not long enough to hide his dark red hair. The man looked at all the wizards there quite calmly, and he wore a purple-eye-shaped ring on his left hand.

"He must be Purple Eye," someone spoke seriously.

Angele walked before Turin and observed them carefully.

He checked the information stored in the biochip and identified them quickly.

Angele walked to the cave entrance and looked around.

"I'm glad everyone is here. The organization has assigned me to become the leader despite the fact that I may not be the strongest here, and…" Angele paused for a second then continued, "I hope you cooperate with. Everything we do is for the better future."

No one reacted or spoke out as if they were waiting for one who would begin talking.

The cave bore pure darkness within, behind the wizards, and cold winds were coming out of it. The temperature of the surrounding area also plunged because of it.

Angele scanned the wizards, "Do you have anything to say? If not, I shall start giving out orders in accordance with the rule."

"Wait!" Someone took a step forward right when he finished.

The person was a man clothed in red, had a pair of purple eyes, and a see-through skin wherein the bones could be seen by Angele. The oversized robe he was wearing made him appear to be a child in an adult's clothes.

"I have a question." The man eyed Angele.

"You're Victoria, aren't you? Go ahead." Angele stayed unperturbed.

Victoria chuckled. "I want to know, what will happen if we don't obey your orders?"

Angele looked around, a smile appearing on his face. "I won't give out orders that won't benefit us all and orders that are impossible to fulfill. And since you're here, I think you already know what's going to end up happening. The world is changing as ever, yet there is nothing we can do. Ergo the reason we came together in this place. As long as you obey my orders, I shall protect you in the pandemonium that will soon come.

"Also, if you ever try to betray my trust, I shall enforce the rules and punishments of the organization upon you." Angele lifted up his left hand and blatantly revealed the purple ring to everyone. "This ring proves my identity as your superior and the right to banish you from the organization. If you do not obey my orders, or if you make a big mistake, you know what will happen."

Angele derided them. "All of you knows the secret. You should know the consequences if you're banished from the organization, v ery serious consequences."

"We know the consequences. We will be chased down, killed, and then turned into puppets at the beck and call of the organization," a middle-aged female wizard answered him. "What I want to know is the standard of this 'big mistake' you mentioned."

Angele's eyes fell on Victoria, who was standing before him. "You must restrain yourselves, and never do anything that will become a hindrance to the entire plan as a whole."

He paused for a second then carried on, "Earlier, Turin slew a band of bandits and the people whom they were attacking. I have nothing against that, but it's completely unnecessary. I don't think drawing the attention of the public is a good idea at this point."

"Huh? It's not necessary? What should have I done then?" Turin stepped up and asked.

Angele glowered at Turin. "You could have killed the bandits and made yourself seem like a hero just passing by. It would have been fine had you killed the bandits only. But killing all of them was a problem. There's a line between good and evil, and you broke it. That way of dealing with such situations isn't a clever one."

"My mistake then," Turin smirked and bowed slightly to Angele. "I'll be careful next time."

"Good." Angele nodded then turned once again to Victoria.

The red-robed Victoria was watching Angele with a detached face.

"Also, Victoria, you're the troublemaker of this group." Angele traded a glance with this bloodsucking murderer. "As a wizard, we ought to devote our time to improving ourselves to become much stronger. Meaningless genocide will only drag you into the spiral of vengeance."

"I have my own way of dealing with things," Victoria retorted.

"Slaughtering for no reason will increase the possibility of our secret plan being exposed to the society."

"Giving orders already, are you? I may show you respect, but that doesn't mean I'll obey you," Victoria screwed up his eyes, "or do you really think I won't try to kill you?" Red fluid gushed out of his red robe, his body seemingly surrounded by red mist. Purple glow filled his eyes, and he started releasing a terrifying mentality in every direction.

Woooo!

Victoria conjured a vortex that contained pressure. The vortex began its expansion, albeit slowly.

"I didn't give you an order, only telling you what a true wizard is," Angele spoke out calmly.

Chi!

Victoria raised his right hand up.

A streak of light flashed and completely materialized into a crimson crossguard sword.

The sword-point touched Angele's nose and left several thin lacerations on his skin.

"Are you serious? Are you telling me that I don't know what a true wizard must do?" Victoria's voice turned cold. Angele could now feel the intent to kill surface from the man.

Yet, Angele's facial expression did not change. "I'm only telling you what I think. You have two choices, kill me or obey me."

Victoria's gaze slowly switched onto the purple ring on Angele's left hand.

Chi!

The blood-sword dissipated and transformed into a blood sphere, sinking into his robe. An amiable smile instantly surfaced on Victoria's face.

"Why would I kill you? You're the leader assigned by the organization and if you want, you can banish us from the organization. No one here will… mess with you. Don't worry."

"That's good if those are your true thoughts." Angele seemed oblivious to the wounds on his nose. He, too, smiled. "The organization would punish you if you killed me, and had I banished you from the organization, someone from the organization would solve the problem for me. No one wants to die a turncoat, right?"

"Absolutely." Victoria walked to Angele's right. Turin was standing on Angele's left. Both of them were expressing their submission.

"What are you doing?" Angele's voice turned cold, as he stared at Victoria.

"You!" Victoria's face soured as he, too, looked at Angele in the eyes. The atmosphere became heavy. It felt as if a battle between the two could start at any time.

Angele lifted up his left hand. "Maybe I should banish you from the organization."

"I'm sorry, leader." A smile appeared on Victoria's face yet again. When he lifted up his right hand, a red light flashed in the air.

His right hand fell to the ground. Blood was boiling in his wound, yet it did not splatter.

Victoria was still smiling.

"I totally respect your words. Please forgive me."

Angele loosened up. "Why, Victoria? Cutting your hand off will weaken your life energy. I knew there was a misunderstanding. You know I was just trying to clear things up, right?"

"Yeah… It took me some time to understand the situation." Victoria picked up his right hand and walked up to Angele.

The rest of those who gathered were not crazy like Victoria. They already had understood the situation and paid their respect to Angele. Turin and Victoria were the only two persons who wanted not to be controlled by someone weaker than them, while the other members had none such problem.

Turin and Victory were the only ones here that were stronger than Angele in any case.

"We have nothing against your decision if Master Victoria follows your orders."

"You're the Purple Eye. The rule says we must follow your orders."

"There will always be one or two persons who would want to test you. They don't even know how powerful you are."

The wizards started licking Angele's boots. In spite of that, one person thought otherwise.

The crowd quieted down as a person wrapped in a black robe took a step forward.

The person put down their hood. It was a woman, a beautiful woman who had a pair of attractive and clear eyes.

"I wouldn't be as kind as you are right now if I were you. Victoria will bring trouble to the group. We should kick him out." The woman seemed to despise Victoria a lot.

"It's you, Lela!" Victoria recognized who the woman was, but his reaction was a bit unusual. The man began surveying the surroundings as though he was looking for something.

"Where are your cuties? Didn't you bring them here?"

Lela chuckled. "They are here, but I'll never reveal them to you."

Angele moved his eyes and looked at Turin, Lela, and Victoria successively.

He noticed how the others seemed to fear this wizard called Lela. She must have a powerful backing and a high skill level. Only basic intel about her was on the report sent to him by the organization.

"All right, let me explain my plan." Angele clapped his hands to draw everyone else's attention. "You have already agreed to join me since you're here today. Turin, Lela, and Victoria will each be a captain of a unit. All of you should have powerful backing in your own territories. Everyone here has different specializations. In any case, please send all intel to Lela, who will then send out a report to me after verifying the gathered intel. Victoria and Turin, you two make sure we possess a powerful force at our disposal whenever necessary. Only elites shall be selected as soldiers; I don't need weaklings. I hope all of you can contribute to the establishment of this army. I'll reward each of you with mission points accordingly."

Angele fulfilled his plan of asking the wizards to build up an elite troop directly under their control so that he could have a force that could fight for him whenever necessary. Using mission points as a reward was also a reasonable action.

The wizards began pondering after Angele said everything.

Although they decided to serve the organization to survive in the future pandemonium, they were worried that the organization would dispose of them once they could no longer provide the required quota. They had to figure out how much they should contribute to the organization.

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Chapter 409: Meeting (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu, Frappe

Angele talked with the wizards for two whole days before leaving the Blue Gold Cave. He quickly returned to the carriage.

Turin, Victoria, and Lela accepted the important missions that Angele gave them. Turin was in charge of creating a basic army and Victoria was in charge of creating an army of assassins. Lela needed to check the intel collected by the team members and send the report to Angele.

Angele would have everything ready as long as the three wizards were under his control. It did not matter if those wizards were loyal to him as the organization's contracts took care of the problem. Turin, Lela, and Victoria were strong wizards and they were recruited by Dark Wizard Tower because of their talent.

It would take some time for the three wizards to get used to their new job and Angele needed the time to attend the Count's party. Angele wanted to see how strong the Count was as the man was also in charge of the area.

Also, the rumor said that the Count had been helping the organization for a while.

On the edge of the Tarry River area. In the deep forest.

There was a white castle standing quietly on top of a mountain, surrounded by green trees.

The white castle was surrounded by four twisted paths, with numerous white arrow towers built on them.

It was getting dark outside—the night was about to come.

On the main path to the castle, there were luxurious carriages, moving slowly toward the top of the mountain.

Platinum carriages, black carriages with silver edges, black carriages with golden edges, and golden carriages. The expensive carriages were all advancing on the main path.

There were nobles of both sexes in beautiful suits and dresses sitting inside the carriages. There were also wizard apprentices that were having short conversations.

Most of the formal wizards in the carriages were not saying a word.

Angele slowly looked out the window and checked the carriages around him. There were only two formal wizards in the carriages behind him.

However, there were more than ten wizard apprentices.

Angele sat in the carriage quietly. He could feel that the carriage was climbing up the mountain.

He looked at the vibrant forest down the mountain—the trees became shorter and smaller in his sight.

The setting sun was slowly moving down in the endless sky and the pale orange light illuminated the ground.

Groups of black birds were passing by in the sky, they were rotating and twittering.

Angele inhaled deeply once and slowly exhaled.

He sat on the carriage for several days, so he was getting bored.

"Ham, what do you know about the Wheat City? And who's this Count of the Riverside Empire?" Angele questioned the coachman.

"Actually, it's normal that you don't know anything about the Riverside Empire—it's a small empire with five cities, and Wheat City is one of them. It's also the only territory of the Count," Ham explained. "However, he's a Count after all, and he's the leader of the Red Scimitar. He has a strong force in hand."

"What's Red Scimitar?" Angele wondered.

"You don't know the Red Scimitar? It's an organization with three formal wizards; it's one of the stronger organizations in the Tarry River area," Ham said.

Angele was a bit surprised. "Three formal wizards and it's a strong organization? The families in the air transportation city have more wizards than that."

"You're a Master Wizard and you probably don't know how rare it is for an organization in Tarry River Area to own three wizards. This place is at the edge of the central continent and you can't compare it to the air transportation city. The air transportation city is an important city with what it does and it must be guarded by a strong force. Actually, it's rare for a mortal like me to talk to a formal wizard. It's an honor." Ham sighed.

'So, this area is similar to the west coast,' Angele concluded in his mind.

"Where did you acquire that information?"

Ham chuckled. "I was once a Grand Knight and a follower of a wizard at the Crystal stage. I've served as a mercenary for more than 30 years. I travelled around the land for jobs with higher pay, that's how I collected the information."

"That's interesting. You must have enchanted items then?" Angele wondered. He was not asking about the complete enchanted items, he was asking about the damaged enchanted items that could still be activated. Wizards would gift such items to their servants or followers. If the follower or servant's inheritor had the potential to become an apprentice, he could send the inheritor to the wizard with the enchanted item so the wizard would know who the person was.

Most of the Grand Knights owned enchanted items and it was different from the situation on the west coast. The Grand Knights of the central continent were more talented and the wizards could help them activate some low-rank enchanted items. They were stronger than the Grand Knights of the west coast who could not activate the enchanted items.

"I do, but I don't think you'll be interested." Ham smiled. "The Count invited the people with strong backgrounds in the area to his party, including their sons and daughters. He said that it was a birthday party, but I think he's trying to find a wife for his only son."

"So, political marriage? Interesting." Angele had a general idea about the Count's situation.

The man was a leader of the Red Scimitar, a Count of a small country, and a core member of the Dark Wizard Tower. Angele was just an assistant to him—the Count's skill level had to be high.

The man also had a strong force in hand. However, the Count put so much effort into faking himself as an average nobleman. It was no doubt that the Count had a big plan in mind.

Angele decided to be careful when communicating with the Count.

They would exchange communication runes during the party and Angele needed to find a way to increase his mentality after that. He wanted to make sure that the members of his team would follow his orders.

Also, it was impossible for him to fight back if the monsters of the Nightmare Realm invaded the main world.

The Molten Core River was the only way to increase his mentality at a relatively fast rate.

The problem was that his progression with the meditation technique had slowed down after completing the third stage. Also, it was nearly impossible for him to complete the fourth stage due to his low talent level.

Most of the wizards who practiced the Molten Core River could only complete the fourth stage. They could go for the higher levels, but their speed would be greatly slowed down and it was nearly impossible for them to increase their mentality to the required level before they died.

They could not advance to the next stage with just rare resources and that was why the rank four wizards were highly respected by the wizard society.

'I should probably try and find a creature with high mentality in the Nightmare Realm,' Angele thought.

He avoided using his true power in the Nightmare Realm, but he needed the ancient bloodline to support his true form. Also, he would not draw too much attention if he was just extracting the blood of the creatures he captured.

Eye Devil collected a lot of bloodlines and built the blood pools after she broke the seal. She was just trying to recreate her true form as soon as possible.

Angele pondered as the carriage arrived at the top of the mountain. The guards at the arrow towers did not check his carriage since the Count already informed them about Angele's presence.

The other luxurious were all checked by the guards, but Angele moved to the top of the mountain without any problem.

On top of the mountain, there were two rows of maids in white dresses greeting the guests by the entrance of the castle. A team of guards in black armors was patrolling the area; there were several middle-aged men and women helping the guests that were stepping off the luxurious carriages.

A woman in black approached Angele's carriage as it stopped and opened the door for Angele.

"Welcome. The Count has been waiting for your arrival." The woman bowed politely.

Angele glanced around, nodded, and stepped down the carriage. He changed to a luxurious outfit on the way to the castle and there was a white crossguard sword on his belt as a decoration. He changed his appearance and hairstyle using a simple illusion spell.

The guests that just stepped out of the carriages looked at Angele and noticed his white noble suit; however, Angele's short black hair and average-looking face did not attract their attention.

Angele looked just like a son of a noble family. Although he was not handsome, his behavior was gentle and elegant; there was also a hint of cruelty in his eyes.

Another normal white carriage stopped by the gate, inside the carriage, it was a merchant and his daughter.

The merchant was a middle-aged chubby man, his daughter was wearing a white dress and a black ponytail. The girl had a beautiful face, a thin waist, and large breasts. She was about 16 or 17 years old, but she already had a nice body.

"I know the Count only invites people with strong background to his party." The chubby man noticed the presence of Angele. "Can you see that guy? The man looks like a normal son of a noble family, but his behavior shows that he's well-educated and hates wasting time. I think he must come from a large noble family."

The chubby man nodded and his daughter nodded as well after hearing the words. "You're saying that the guy has a strong background?"

"Yeah. He's probably a friend of the Count's son. I'm invited to the party because you're a friend of Miss, Sasha. I'm honored to have a daughter like you." The chubby man rubbed his hands. "You're the pride of my life."

The girl glared at the chubby man. "Dad, Sasha is just a friend of mine. I didn't become friends with her because of her background."

"It doesn't matter, haha."

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Chapter 410: Searching (1)

Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu

In the garden outside the castle, there were guests chatting while walking around. Most of them were the young ones of the noble families and the rest were the merchant families. They looked polite and elegant with the wine glasses in their hands.

Angele followed the woman through the door and arrived at the dinner hall.

The hall was painted in gold, with a thick yellow carpet on the floor. There were several servers putting down dishes on the long rectangular table.

There were crispy roast geese, colorful vegetable salads, soft white bread, saucy dark cow liver, and thick honey soup.

The guests could select the food they wanted and servers would pour wine for them.

Angele glanced at the guests. His sight fell upon a middle-aged nobleman that was surrounded by several nobles while talking with a noblewoman.

The middle-aged man was about 30 or 40 years old and there was a gentle smile on his face. He had a muscular body, hidden under his white army suit, and behaved elegantly. It seemed like he had been serving in the army.

He noticed that Angele was looking at him and turned his head to Angele.

"Excuse me." He bowed slightly to the other nobles and went across the hall, stopping in front of Angele.

"So, you're here? I thought you'd be late." The man raised his right hand. He was prepared for Angele's arrival.

Angele raised his right hand as well and gave the man a high five.

"Well, that's a weird way to greet people."

"Is that so?" The man chuckled. "Someone said the same thing to me before. Nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself, I'm the Count of the Wheat City."

"The name's Green. I know you're the Count, but what's your name?" Angele grabbed a glass of green fruit wine from the server's plate.

"Name? Everyone knows that I'm the Count of the Wheat City. No one has called me using my real name for so long that I forgot what my name is. Just call me Count, it's fine."

"Alright." Angele shrugged. "Is there a better place to talk?"

"Follow me." The Count turned around and walked to the hallway on the left of the hall.

Angele followed after the Count, who stopped the guards or servants that wanted to help him.

The hallway was getting darker and the oil lamps on the walls started fading. Some of the oil lamps were already extinguished.

The light in the hallway weakened as well.

They almost walked around the whole castle while in the same hallway.

On the left side of the hallway, there were white stone pillars lining up. Outside those stone pillars, there was an unorganized garden, a gentle wind blowing over its plants.

The nobleman stopped by a round fountain and turned around.

"This is the back of the castle and also my private garden. No one will interrupt us here." The man was still wearing a gentle smile on his face, but the expression looked a bit strange under the dim light cast by the flame.

"As one of the people in charge, I need to know the details of the plan." Angele checked the surroundings using his mentality and asked directly.

"Details of the plan, huh? That'll take a while." The Count turned around and pressed on the white wall.

WOO*

A twisted black rune that was about two meters long appeared on the surface of the wall, surrounded by tiny floral patterns on its edge.

Black glow flashed on the surface of the rune. The Count stepped into the wall without any hesitation. He disappeared into the wall without any problems.

Angele narrowed his eyes as he saw the man disappearing into the wall. He tapped on his pouch and created a translucent energy barrier.

The energy barrier turned invisible within seconds and Angele stepped into the wall as well.

CHI*

He disappeared into the wall and arrived in a dark tiny room.

There was a fist-sized oil lamp on the wall, the Count was standing beside it. He just lighted the oil lamp up and turned to face Angele.

"This is one of the secret chambers in the castle. Alright, I'll show you my plan."

There was a yellow sand plate in the center of the room. The mountains, rivers, and forests were simulated on the plate and the cities were represented by tiny models. It felt like looking at the central continent from the sky.

There were several black arrows that were drawn with ink beside those city models.

Angele walked to the other side of the sand plate and approached the Count.

"That's how you improve your plan?"

The Count nodded. "I was the only one in charge of the area and I could complete the plan by myself. Purple Eye, you can write a report and inform the headquarters about the situation." He stopped for a second and pushed a city model slightly forward. "It's great to have someone to talk to."

"So, you're confident in your plan?" Angele looked at the sand plate. The sand plate successfully simulated the landscape of the whole central continent.

The Count chuckled. "It's not about how confident I am. The plan must succeed." He pointed at a city in front of him. "That's our current location. The edge of the Tarry River area and the Molten River area. The war going on in the Tarry River area is also part of my plan."

Angele knew that the Count did not want to tell him the actual situation so that the Count would be the one who contributed the most to the plan.

"If you're confident, I'll be your assistant and follow your orders. There's not much I can do if the plan is already completed, but can you tell me about the progression?"

"Of course." The Count smiled and pressed on the edge of the sand plate.

KA*

Light flashed upon the sand plate; dozens of white light dots and red light dots appeared on the map.

The light dots slightly brightened up the room.

Angele looked at those light dots carefully and listened to the Count's explanation. "The white dots represent the locations or organizations that already joined the plan, but none of them knows about the actual situation. The red dots still need some work, but everything is almost done. It took me more than 30 years to finish all those."

The Count sounded relaxed.

Angele glared at the Count and looked at the sand plate again.

Most of the light dots were white on the map created with the sand plate. Some of the red dots were slowly turning white, they were still in the process of joining the plan.

"Impressive. I know why you were selected by the organization now. I'm willing to help you if you need." Angele smiled.

"Sure, I'm counting on you, Master Purple Eye." The Count laughed and rubbed his beard.

PA*

One of the red dot suddenly exploded when the two were talking to each other.

"Huh?!" The Count's expression changed as he looked at the sand plate.

"What happened?" Angele wondered. "Is there anything wrong?"

"No worries, it's just a small problem." The smile returned to the Count's face. "I'll take care of it."

"It's probably not the first time it happened?" Angele looked at the red dot. It was a small city beside the river named White Elephant. "Do you need my help?"

"It's fine. I have my methods," the Count responded confidently.

Angele looked at the Count and he noticed that the man was trying to warn him. The Count wanted to be the one that was rewarded by the organization since he'd been preparing the plan for years.

The Count raised his right hand and tapped on the location where the red dot exploded.

CHI*

A triangular white light screen with clear images flashing on it appeared over the sand plate.

It was night. Beside a building that was burning with intense flames, a wounded man and a girl were looking at the conflagration, their bodies illuminated by the orange light.

Beside the two people, there were many dead bodies in white outfits. It seemed like they were from the same organization. One of the dead bodies was a tall and muscular man. He died with his eyes open while he was still standing

Angele noticed that the Count's expression changed again as he checked the scene. It seemed like he knew the man and the girl. Those dead bodies were probably members of the Count's team.

Angele looked at the man and the girl. They looked familiar to him.

Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes.

"He's the son of the Lord from the Thousand Waterfall City. Why is he here?" He was a bit surprised.

Angele glared at the Count and noticed that the man's face twitched. He knew that he was correct.

"The girl standing beside him must be Suman's lover, Sella," Angele continued.

"You're… correct." Smile returned to the Count's face again. "You've only met them once at the party held by Shozo and you recognized them immediately. Ah, you and Shozo are taught by the same teacher, right? Sella is a relative of Shozo. I want to eliminate Suman and Sella, I wonder if it'll be a problem to you."

"Of course not," Angele responded in a serious tone. "However, it seemed like they defeated your men... again, do you need my help?"

"Don't worry." The Count calmed down. "Again, I'll take care of it myself."

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Chapter 411: Searching (2)

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"I hope the incident won't affect the initiation of the big plan," Angele suggested indirectly.

"It won't." The Count removed the light dots from the sand plate. "Let me show you the interesting intel I collected over the years."

Angele nodded and stopped talking. He had a general idea of how the Count would treat him.

The Count thought he could execute the plan by himself and he did not want a stranger to interrupt him. Also, the man only told Angele the basic information, and it seemed like the inheritor of the Thousand Waterfall City, Suman, was the biggest problem to him at the moment.

Angele was a bit confused, he had scanned Suman himself and he knew that the man was not capable of killing so many people. There had to be something the Count was hiding from him.

Although the Count did not tell Angele the actual progress of his plan, Angele still had a general idea of the situation after the conversation. He was not really interested in the Dark Wizard Tower's plan; the reason why he followed the order was the contract he'd signed. The Count did not need his help and it was a win-win situation for him.

They returned to the party hall and the Count gave a speech after greeting the guests.

Angele stood in the corner of the hall with a glass of green wine in hand. He was checking the situation in the hall as it would be disrespectful if he left the hall when the party just started.

The dishes on the table were quite attractive to Angele since he only had meat jerkies on the way here.

The band started playing music as the Count finished the speech. There were also dancers dancing on the dancing floor.

The nobles standing beside Angele were introducing themselves to the people they met. The atmosphere in the party hall was light.

Angele picked up a plate of roast goat after finishing a whole bottle of green wine and walked to the balcony.

It was an empty balcony as it was on the other side of the hall; however, someone was already there before Angele.

There was a young girl wearing a long white dress standing on the balcony. The moonlight illuminated the girl's black hair and smooth skin. It was a girl with an average-looking face and a pair of clean eyes.

The girl put her hands on the metal handle and she glared at Angele surprisingly after hearing the footsteps from behind.

Angele smiled lightly. "Sorry, I didn't know there was already someone here."

"No worries." The girl shook her head. "You don't like the noisy environment, right?"

"Yeah." Angele nodded. "I prefer quiet places."

The girl nodded. "I prefer quiet places too. I don't care what the others think of me and I don't have to follow all those rules… I just want to relax."

Angele smiled and put down the plate in the corner of the handle and looked down, he did not say anything.

Under the moonlight, there was a sea of the dark forest below the mountain.

The wind soared over the trees; there was an orange line advancing slowly on the far side.

"It must be the merchants' carriages passing by," the girl muttered.

"Is this normal?" Angele wondered.

"Yeah, this territory is famous for its rich fruit wine, hence those merchants come here," the girl explained.

"What do you think of the Count? Do you like him?" Angele questioned.

"The Count is a nice person and he's kind to everyone." The girl had no idea why Angele asked that.

"I'm not familiar with the Count. Does he have any family?" Angele smiled.

"Yeah, he has a son and a daughter. He especially loves his son, Olive; he also has a beautiful wife. That's all I know," the girl answered honestly.

Angele smiled, but he was praising the Count in his mind. The man was probably a rank 4 wizard but he still made sure that the others thought he was just a mortal.

However, it was possible that the Count was enjoying the life of a mortal.

Angele recalled the conversation he had with the man.

Angele stopped chatting after talking with the girl for a while. He put his hands on the metal handle and enjoyed the night view.

The place was deadly silent.

Angele finished the meat on his plate as the party ended. He asked the girl about her name before leaving.

"Beatrice, what about you?" the girl responded.

"Green, just call me Green." The girl was different from the other girls he knew. Although she had an average-looking face, she left a deep impression in Angele's mind due to her unique personality.

Angele got on the black carriage that was waiting for him and left the mountain with the other leaving nobles.

He needed to find a way to increase his mentality and the ancient bloodline might be helpful. The Count declined Angele's offer, so Angele had no reason to help with the man's plan.

One month later, in the Nightmare Realm.

The sunlight of the early morning reflected off the surface of the Ness River.

Angele crouched by the river and looked at the water with his brow furrowed.

"Why is the water level increasing?" His sight fell upon the other river on the opposite side of the Ness River.

Last time, he retreated after encountering the mutated dragonflies. He decided to explore the other direction, but the water level of the Ness River was increasing for no reason, and the mansion would probably sink into the water if it did not stop.

According to the information Eye Devil gave him, anything could happen in the Nightmare Realm, and the change of the landscape was normal. The realm was called the Nightmare Realm for a reason.

A river could turn into a mountain in a day.

Angele stood up and looked at the other side of the Ness River. His sight was blocked by the white mist and the only thing he could see was something gray.

Freia and Orphie had improved over the days. Freia was no longer a lonely girl and Angele informed them that he would be outside exploring for a while. He wanted to make sure that they were not worried about him.

Angele's goal was to find a suitable ancient bloodline so he could use it in his experiment.

He walked past the small house by the river and kept advancing.

The mud under his feet was wet and cold. He was wearing a pair of leather boots, his steps the only source of sound in his surroundings.

Angele looked at the river that was running into the Ness River as he walked.

The shore of the river was covered with light-yellow mud and the path led directly into the mist.

The wind was getting chilling, so Angele tightened his collar. With a flick of his finger, the Fire energy particles warmed his body up.

Raising his head, the mist that was blocking the path turned into thick white fog. The fog was getting thicker and thicker as he advanced.

"The same as the last time?" He could feel that his dry skin on the hand was wetted by the fog.

Angele turned his head around—the mansion and the small house were no longer in his sight; the only thing he could see was the river.

He inhaled deeply and found the chilling air refreshing. He started advancing again.

Time passed.

Angele increased his speed in the endless fog, but the fog just would not go away. It felt like the river shore was leading him into the abyss.

He suddenly heard the noise made by the water as he walked. Angele stopped and noticed that the noise was coming from behind.

Turning around, the sky was getting dark and the light was fading away.

Angele found that there was an arched black stone gate on the place that he just walked by. The gate was about two meters tall.

The stone gate looked heavy. Inside the gate, there was a dark blue sky and the surface of a clear blue sea.

The sea waves hit the shore; they were the source of the noise.

Angele narrowed his eyes and looked at the gray sky over his head.

He then looked at the blue sky in the gate. The place inside the gate looked like a new world to him.

"Is this part of the changes?" He slowly walked to the gate.

There were complicated plant and monster engravings on the edge of the gate. The engravings were covered with dark green moss and some of them were damaged.

Angele put his hands on the edge of the gate, he could smell the fragrance of the sea.

It seemed like the gate led to a sea that was somewhere far away from here.

The blue light from the sky illuminated the spacious beach by the sea.

Everything on the other side of the door was blue.

The beach was surprisingly smooth, there was no stone or shell to be seen anywhere. It seemed like there was no living being in the world behind the gate. The beach and the sea were deadly silent.

Angele could still hear the waves hitting the shore, but he did not see any creatures.

It felt like he was the only person in the world at the moment. He felt depressed and lonely for some reason. Angele glanced around and again, the only thing he could see was the thick fog.

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Chapter 412: The Gate (1)

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"Is this an illusion?" Narrowing his eyes, Angele walked around the gate.

The black gate sat quietly on the shore of the river and there was nothing behind it.

Angele returned to the front of the gate and peeked inside again.

The smooth beach, the blue sea, and the clear sky, everything looked the same. However, the place was too empty and it looked like a large piece of sapphire.

He could hear the noise made by the waves and smell the fragrance of the sea.

Angele thought for a while, then raised his right hand and reached into the gate.

He did not feel anything; there was no defensive spell or barrier by the gate, and it seemed like the air inside the gate was also the same.

Angele hesitated but he still slowly stepped into the gate.

He looked back as he stood on the other side of the gate. Angele could see the thick white fog over the Ness River.

The black gate was still standing on the beach alone, and it was the only thing Angele could see in his sight. There was no stone or any living creature.

Angele stayed calm, he formed an eye-shaped circle with his hands in front of his chest.

The slow incantation echoed in the air.

CHI*

A red eye appeared between his hands. The eye was formed by red flames and it was burning in the air, releasing eye-blinding red light.

Angele pointed upward.

The fist-sized eye quickly flew into the air, then looked down. The view of the eye was displayed in Angele's sight.

On the edge of the endless sea, the smooth beach looked like a large piece of blue paper with a tall black gate standing on it, and a young man in a black robe was looking around by the gate.

Angele could see that the area ahead was covered with thin blue mist and it seemed like there was something spinning in it.

PA*

The fire eye burnt out and cracked.

Angele's brow furrowed, he thought about the scene he just saw and went around the stone gate. He looked at the other side of the beach, but the only thing there was the thin blue mist he saw earlier.

He tapped the edge of the black stone gate, leaving a glowing black rune on the surface, and walked toward the blue mist.

About ten minutes later, a large farm appeared in his front.

The farm was built on the beach, but it did not look like it belonged to the blue beach.

The farmland was divided into four equal areas and there was a tall windmill standing in the center of the land.

Strangely, the fans of the windmill were replaced by four black butterfly wings.

There was no wind in the blue mist. The fans of the windmill looked like spinning black butterflies that were flying without the help of the wind.

It was a large farm. Angele could see the blue mist on the other side of the farm and he could hear the noise made by the windmill. It seemed like the windmill he saw was not the only one on the farm.

The noise made by the windmill was mixed with the noise made by the sea waves.

Angele stepped onto the farm while checking the surroundings carefully. There were no crops on the farm, it was just a clean gray land.

He could smell the fragrance of flowers after walking for several minutes. Angele approached one of the windmills and stopped in front of it. The butterfly wings were moving above his head.

Angele touched the wall of the mill carefully.

It was cold, soft, and smooth. He pressed down and created a small hole in the wall.

Angele went around the windmill and noticed that there was no entrance to it.

CHI*

Suddenly, Angele heard a noise that sounded like hoe hitting the mud.

CHI*

The same noise went into his ears again.

Angele looked around and noticed that there was someone hitting the mud with a hoe in the blue mist.

Angele's lips moved, he chanted the incantation without saying a word. Red light flashed on the surface of his body quickly.

He took out a glass tube with blue liquid inside from the pouch and held it in hand as he walked to the man.

Angele could finally see the man as he got closer.

It was a middle-aged bald man that had the same height as him. He was wearing a black farmer suit, holding a black hoe in his hand; there was no expression on his face.

The man was hitting the mud with his hoe and it seemed like he did not notice Angele's presence.

"Hey…" Angele stopped when he was two meters away from the man and asked loudly, "Do you know what this place is?" He was speaking the ancient language.

The bald man turned around and looked at Angele with his soulless eyes.

Angele noticed that there was a white windmill on top of the man's bald head. The windmill was spinning slowly; it looked like a plant that rooted in the man's head.

The man looked at Angele and it seemed like he did not hear Angele's words.

"Can you understand my word?" Angele questioned.

There was no response.

Angele scrunched his brow and took two steps back.

The man quickly turned around and started hitting the ground with his hoe again.

Angele's expression turned serious and he returned the potion to the pouch. He touched the second pair of eyes he had with the right hand.

"I shall reveal my true form."

The second pair of eyes opened and the glowing golden eyes rolled.

Angele's body started increasing in size and a long black horn appeared on top of his head. His horn quickly reached his waist and the teeth in his mouth looked sharp like a sawtooth.

'I can check the memory of the creatures that are weaker than me. Let me see if this guy has any valuable information in his brain.' Angele's true form had the similar power as a rank 4 wizard, but his mentality was low. His body was strong, his defensive ability and recovery were incredible.

The petrification ability was eliminated by the bloodline of the ancient one-eyed giant. The bloodline of the scorpion woman had merged with the bloodline of the ancient giant and those two bloodlines created a balance in Angele's body.

Angele's high attributes came from the bloodline of the one-eyed giant, his memory check and the illusion abilities came from the bloodline of the scorpion woman.

He had used the memory check ability once on the human girl he saved from Eye Devil's party. The memory check ability was different from the one used by the wizards, it would not damage the target's body; however, it was weaker than the method used by the wizards. The only thing Angele could get was what the target was thinking and there were certain limitations.

Angele was more than four meters tall and he was wearing a black armor that was covered with bone spikes. His four eyes were blinking at the same time. With the long red hair and the long horn, the man looked like a terrifying monster from fairy tales.

He stood in front of the farmer, the shadow of his body covering the latter.

However, the bald farmer acted like Angele was not here; he was just working with his hoe.

"Alright, what're you thinking…" Angele reached to the farmer's hand with his enormous right hand.

The man's forehead was covered by Angele's hand and he stopped moving. The windmill on top of the man's head slowly stopped spinning.

Blurry images flashed in Angele's mind.

"Harvest in three days… Harvest in three days…"

A deep voice echoed in Angele's brain.

In the images, Angele saw golden sunflowers slowly growing in the farmland. Each of the sunflowers had a diameter of two meters. Their pupils looked like the faces of sleeping human beings.

Some of them were males and some of them were females, but all of them were sleeping.

"The flower…" The sunflower reminded Angele of the strange plant he saw during an exploration when he was still an apprentice.

However, he was certain that the sunflower he'd encountered in the mansion was much smaller than those in the farmer's memory.

"That's where those sunflowers came from. The flowers in the mansion must be from here." Angele heard loud footsteps coming from the blue mist before he could analyze the situation.

Two tall men in black rushed out of the blue mist.

"Juss!" The two men roared in a hoarse voice and rushed Angele. They were shouting in a shaky tone and the word sounded weird.

The two men's upper bodies looked just like muscular male human beings, however, the bottom half of their bodies were formed by waist-sized hooves. The hooves looked like the hooves of donkeys, but oversized.

They were not walking; they were jumping, and the earth was shaking with mud splashing everywhere under their steps.

Angele took two steps back and looked at the two men with donkey hooves. He noticed that they were just slightly shorter than him. They were wearing black farmer suits and had a crazed look on their faces.

The two men struck forward with their fists when they were about ten meters away from Angele. Two head-sized shock waves flew toward Angele quickly.

BAM BAM*

Angele was pushed back by the impact as the two shock waves landed on his shoulders. He could feel the intense pain building up in his body.

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Chapter 413: The Gate (2)

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Angele was enraged, he roared and hit one of the hoofed men with his right fist. His long red hair was flying in the air despite there being no wind, turning into countless red spikes and striking the man on the other side.

BAM*

The hoofed man hit Angele's fist hard with a thunderous sound, then took several steps back after the impact. His face turned pale and he was breathing heavily.

Angele's hair hit the other hoofed man's body; however, it felt like hitting a large piece of thick iron, and the hoofed man did not take any damage after being slowed down.

BAM*

Angele's chest took a hard strike, causing blood to spurt out of his mouth. However, he made use of this opportunity to grab the hoofed man's neck, twisting it to the left.

KA*

The man's head turned 180 degrees and it seemed like he was killed.

NAA*

The other man saw it and started roaring; his voice sounded like that of a goat. It seemed like he was preparing for the next strike, and he indeed charged toward Angele right after releasing the roar.

Angele leaned to the side and hit the man with the black spike on his elbow.

CHI*

The spike stabbed into the man's face and pierced through his brain.

PA*

The last hoofed man fell to the ground.

Angele stretched his back, then looked at the two hoofed men on the ground and scrunched his eyebrows.

"I wouldn't have taken any damage if I'd already got used to my true form…" He turned around and looked at the bald farmer before finishing the sentence.

It seemed like the farmer was not disturbed by the battle. He just started to hoe the ground after Angele moved away.

Angele was not concerned. He walked to the two hoofed men's dead bodies and crouched.

He touched the wound on one of the men's face and sent some of the white blood into his mouth.

It was sour and bitter. The blood had a fragrance of durian, but the biochip showed no sign of bacteria.

'Create an analysis task and compare the results. Tell me if it's similar to the blood of any creature in the database,' Angele ordered in mind.

'Task created. Analyzing the blood sample…'

A hologram of a standing hoofed man appeared in Angele's sight and started spinning slowly. Rows of data were being refreshed under the hologram.

Angele was concerned about the progress of the analysis and decided to focus on the two dead bodies.

He checked the two hoofed men's pockets, but there was nothing inside. He then pulled the edge of their clothes lightly.

CHI*

The clothes on the two men's bodies were torn apart easily and their naked bodies were exposed to the air.

The body of a hoofed man was weird; the man had no genitals, and the bottom half of his body was just a black donkey hind leg that was covered with hair. Angele thought that it was a man just by looking at his face.

The only difference between the hoofed man and a normal human being was the bottom half of his body.

'Analysis completed, display results?' Zero reported back.

'Yes,' Angele agreed.

'New file created: Donkey Giant.'

'Strength 36.2, Agility 11.3, Stamina 21.7, Mentality Unknown. Bloodline comparison result: Ancient Donkey Giant.'

'Ancient Donkey Giant: No detailed data. Talent Skill: Strong Reproductive Ability (a Donkey Giant can impregnate any creature). Note: If you meet one donkey giant, there will be more to come. Donkey giant usually doesn't appear alone.'

The data from the biochip was regenerated from the wizard who left the voice message.

Angele's expression changed as he heard the last sentence.

NAA*

He heard the familiar roar from the far side.

Angele stood up and he was planning to retreat.

'I should probably kill them all. Although the bloodline is not useful, I may be able to convert it into a rune.' An evil thought somehow rose up in his mind.

However, he realized something.

'I took damage from just two donkey giants. If they come in groups, I won't be able to survive the fight. What was I thinking?'

Angele shook his head and stopped thinking. He grabbed the dead bodies and started leaving the farm.

He left an eye of fire in the air above the windmills.

After about half a minute, more than 100 donkey giants charged into the farm; they ignored the farmer and started to search for Angele.

Angele hid in the thick mist outside the farm and was monitoring the situation using the eye of fire. The giants had no way to track him down and they were just wandering around on the farm. They retreated as they did not find anything.

Peace returned to the farm and the eye of fire slowly disappeared into the air.

Angele was standing beside the stone gate on the beach. He had extracted all the white blood from the two dead bodies and turned it into a head-sized blood ball that was floating in the air.

The size of the blood ball was decreasing and there was white steam rising from its surface.

Angele reached into the blood ball with one of his fingers and the eyes on his brow closed, while the other pair of eyes was checking the surroundings constantly.

About three hours later, the floating blood ball turned into the size of a walnut.

Angele opened his mouth.

CHI*

The blood ball flew into his mouth like a lightning and he swallowed it quickly.

Seconds later, his expression changed as he opened his eyes.

'There's not much this bloodline can do since it's similar to the bloodline of the one-eyed giant, but it'll increase my Stamina.'

He pressed his chest with the right hand.

Angele roared, his muscles started expanding again and his height increased from four meters to about five meters. The muscles of his balanced body were hard and strong.

He had already recovered from the damage he took earlier.

'The bloodline of the donkey giant is useless. I wonder what the tiny windmill over the farmer's head is. Sadly, it's not related to any bloodline. I'll name this area the Butterfly Farm; I should move on.'

The bloodline of the donkey giant barely contributed anything to Angele's body—it increased his strength slightly, but it just felt like an appetizer of a meal.

Also, the bloodline of the donkey giant failed to improve Angele's genes, most of its features were already in the bloodline of the one-eyed giant.

It was just a waste of time.

Angele's situation was a bit complicated. The strong bloodlines of the one-eyed giant and the scorpion woman had already improved his genes to a different level. He needed to find the bloodlines that were at the similar level as the two high-level bloodlines he had.

It was impossible for him to find anything like that in the main world. There were barely any valuable bloodlines in the main world and he would have to kill countless creatures to find them. The Nightmare Realm was the best place for him to search at this point.

For some reason, Angele noticed that his thoughts had changed after stepping through the stone gate.

Some random thoughts would jump into his mind and they interrupted Angele's normal thinking process.

Angele recalled the things that happened at the Butterfly Farm and assumed that it was an issue with the environment.

It seemed like something was interrupting the living beings' thoughts on this side of the gate.

Angele took a deep breath. He wanted to embrace the chilling air and calm himself down. He could hear the rhythmical noise made by the waves.

He noticed that the noise made by the waves was following a specific pattern and never changed.

Narrowing his eyes, Angele walked to the sea and the waves hitting the beach. He glanced at the endless sea, but did not find anything.

'Zero, record the noise made by the waves and analyze the frequency of the sound.'

'Task created… Sound collected… Analyzing the frequency…'

Angele closed his eyes and focused on listening to the sound of the waves that was recorded by the chip.

Swish Swish*

The rhythmical noise kept repeating.

'Slow it down.' Angele gave the order as his brow furrowed.

The sound slowed down immediately, but it still just sounded like a normal voice made by the waves.

'Slow it down by 20 times.' Angele did some calculation and gave the order again.

Swish*

The noise finally changed, it sounded like the TV static.

'Slow it down by 5 times.' Angele's expression changed.

CHI CHII CHIII CHIIII*

Suddenly, Angele noticed something strange from the sound of the waves.

'Slow it down by three more times.' Angele thought.

CHI CHII CHIIIII*

The noise made by the waves was gone, it sounded like a beast roaring.

The voice was making Angele anxious for some reason.

'Alright, slow it down by 30 more times.'

The voice changed again after the biochip modified its speed.

"Help… Help us… Please… Help us…'

It was hoarse, deep, and slow voice that was mixed with some static. The voice sounded like it was recorded on a device and was extremely slow.

Goosebumps rose from Angele's skin as he listened to the voice.

Angele looked at the sea and it seemed like there was something hiding under the water. He hesitated and started thinking.

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Chapter 414: The Bridge (1)

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Angele stood on the beach for about half an hour and checked all the belongings he had. He made sure that all his potions were still effective and started moving to the left slowly.

The smooth and clean blue beach was expanding; the black stone gate looked like a small black dot far behind him.

Angele was advancing at a fast pace as the waves hit the beach constantly. He checked the surroundings nonstop with blue light dots flashing in front of his eyes.

About two hours later, there was still nothing in front and the blue sea was still endless; everything looked normal.

Angele stopped, taking out a black nutrition potion and pouring it into his mouth slowly. The nutrition potion could prevent him from getting hungry or thirsty for the next several days.

'The waves are getting noisier,' Angele thought. He noticed that something was changing.

After finishing the potion, Angele rested for a while and started advancing again.

Minutes later, a white island appeared on the surface of the sea. The island was floating on the sea alone and looked like a large leaf.

Angele stopped moving and overlooked the island.

On the beach of the white island, there were several blurry shadows that looked like short men. The rest of the island was covered in a thick blue fog.

Angele checked the distance between him and the island as his brow furrowed.

The Metal Mastery still needed some time to be fixed. Although he had other methods to travel across the sea, he would not be able to fight back if he encountered anything on the way to the island.

Angele hesitated, but he still started approaching the island.

'A race with the ability to seal their voices in the waves. It must be a strong ancient bloodline with high mentality. Maybe I can find the bloodline or item I want from them.' A thought climbed up Angele's mind.

He stepped into the sea with his black leather boots.

"Agglomerate." He pointed at the water under his feet.

CHI*

A thick layer of green light dots appeared and they quickly formed a green staircase.

It was a rectangular staircase that was surrounded by a green glow; its size was perfect for Angele to walk on.

Seconds later, the staircase started expanding in front of Angele and turned into a long staircase that led directly to the lonely island.

Angele walked on the staircase and moved to the island.

It was a basic spell that could form wind and water energy particles into a staircase. Angele spent years studying and learning about the spell models, it was the perfect time to utilize his knowledge. He knew a lot of weak spells that might come in handy sometimes.

Although those spells might not work during a battle, they could assist him in complicated situations like this.

The waves were still moving on the surface of the sea.

Angele's expression slowly turned serious as he got closer to the island.

There were broken brown wooden planks in the water around the island, they looked like pieces of wrecked boats. He could finally see the situation on the island.

Three children wearing white clothes were standing on the beach, waving and shouting at Angele.

"Help!"

"Help us!"

"Please, help us!"

Angele watched the children shouting and waving at him. However, the movements of those children were slightly mechanical, they looked like robots repeating the same behaviors.

'Rising tide, ship accident, or… they're probably already dead…'

Angele guessed and narrowed his eyes.

The faces of those children were pale, it almost looked like they were soaked in water, and blood was spurting out of their eyes, leaving two trails of blood on their faces.

Angele looked at the island speechlessly.

"You can see us, right? You can see us!" A boy on the island shouted at Angele loudly. He had a pair of large eyes but he was staring at Angele soullessly. "Please! Help us! Help us! Help… Help… Help… us…!" The voice changed, it became long and deep. It was no longer a voice of a child, the voice sounded like it was from an old man with his mouth covered by a piece of paper. The scene was mysterious and terrifying.

The voices of those children became deeper and deeper as the time passed.

Angele was not sure if he should keep advancing and answer those kids.

The voices of the children turned louder as Angele was about to retreat. It felt like those children were just several meters away from him.

Angele's head was dizzy and he could barely think of any solution.

"Trying to interrupt my thoughts again?" Raising his right hand, he pushed forward.

Red light flashed, a head-sized lava ball spun and flew toward the three children that were standing on the island.

The red cracks on the surface of the lava ball were filled up with golden lava. The temperature of the lava ball was extremely high and water started evaporating as the ball traveled by.

The lava ball started shrinking and it landed accurately in front of the three children.

BOOM*

Red light stroke into the air as the lava ball exploded; the beach of the island was covered with the golden lava drops.

The whole beach was hot and there was white steam rising in the air.

The voices of the children disappeared after the explosion.

Angele looked at the beach and the three children were nowhere to be found, it felt like that they were never there as they left no trace on the beach.

Some of the blue fog disappeared after the intense explosion.

Narrowing his eyes, Angele started walking again.

'I should pay the island a visit since I'm already here.'

The island was getting closer and closer. Angele could feel the heat left by the explosion, and the melted stones already started solidifying on the ground.

Ka*

Angele stepped on the beach and walked to the location where the three children used to be.

Only a two-meter-long hole was left there, created by the explosion of the lava ball.

Angele crouched and checked the hole, but he did not find anything there.

Standing up, he looked around.

It was a round island and he could see a large bridge deep in the blue fog that led straight to the sky from the ground.

The sky bridge was blurry, dark, quiet, and mysterious.

"Help us…" The voice appeared again and was echoing in Angele's ears. It felt like someone was whispering in his ears.

Angele's expression changed and he checked the surroundings.

"Pitiful…!" He snorted and took out a light blue potion from his pouch, inside it was some glowing blue liquid.

He threw the potion into the air.

Crack*

The test tube cracked and it sounded like glass being broken.

A strong vortex appeared above the island.

The noise made by the vortex was getting louder and louder. It started gathering the blue fog and turning it into a blue vortex.

The bottom of the vortex was connected to the center of Angele's palm.

The thick blue fog gathered together and turned into some blue liquid after spinning for a while, slowly dropping into an empty bottle in Angele's hand.

The rest of the island was cleared as the fog disappeared.

The small island had a diameter of around ten meters and was surrounded by the sea.

Angele saw a long yellow stone tower, sitting on the other side of the island quietly.

The stone bridge was connected directly to the sky. The upper part of the bridge was old and broken, but it led to the endless sky. Angele had no idea what was above the bridge.

The voice had disappeared from Angele's ears. He returned the bottle to the pouch and glanced around.

There were three children in white standing in front of the stone bridge facing backward; they were looking at the sky without saying a word.

The bodies of the children started melting slowly without making any noise, just like a candle, turning into pools of white liquid and sinking into the ground.

Angele walked to the stone bridge quickly and stood where the three children disappeared.

There was a sentence written on the surface of the bridge in the ancient language.

'Nightmare Realm Year 544. We discovered the gate to another dimension. This is an interesting bridge. We three can't do any damage to it. It's a great exploration and I'm sure there is something exciting waiting for us.'

The words were small but clean.

Angele found a small piece of white cloth that was hidden under a small black stone.

He crouched and grabbed the stone.

"Give it back!" Someone screamed at him from behind—it was the voice from one of the children.

Angele turned around, but nobody was there.

He sneered and patted his pouch. A translucent energy barrier quickly surrounded his body.

The defensive barrier from the crystal scorpion could block the attack from the soul forms and that was the reason why Vivian gifted him this magic device. The barrier was weak to spells, but it was great against soul attacks.

Angele checked the black stone in his hand.

'The stone is not from this island.' Angele noticed that all the stones on the island were white and it seemed like the stone was from another area.

The white cloth quickly turned into ashes as he picked up the stone and disappeared into the wind.

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Chapter 415: The Bridge (2)

Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu

The cloth was exposed to the sun and wind for too long. It was normal for it to decompose after the stone was removed.

Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes. "An ancient race, huh? That's what I'm looking for. I assume what's left of you is on the bridge."

Angele raised his head and looked at the bridge.

The yellow stone bridge led straight into the endless sky and had a smooth surface that was built with yellow bricks. The gaps between the bricks looked like the lines used in the runes. They were old but mysterious.

"It might be a ruin…" Angele guessed and stepped onto the bridge.

The footsteps echoed in the air and he was advancing at a fast pace.

Time passed...

About half an hour later, Angele was still walking on the stone bridge. There were no decorations on it, and the island below already looked like a palm-sized white cloth; it was quite eye-catching in the blue sea.

The wind in the sky was getting stronger and there were clouds around the bridge.

Angele increased his speed and kept climbing.

Angele had been walking for a while, but the only thing he could see was still the surface of the bridge.

Another hour later, the island below the bridge looked like a small dot and Angele felt like he was walking in the clouds.

The chilling air turned into white frost on the surface of Angele's black robe. He stood by the edge of the bridge and looked down.

Angele could see the white clouds boiling under the bridge, they looked like a large cotton farm.

The white clouds were moving slowly with the strong wind. Gentle sunlight was coming from the blue sky.

However, the sunlight failed to warm Angele's body due to the chilling wind.

Angele calculated his altitude quickly with the help of the biochip.

"154000 meters… and the bridge is still going." Angele looked in the front, the only two things in his sight were the stone bridge and the sky.

"I should keep advancing. I'm sure there is something I need here." Angele already noticed that this place was different.

The stone bricks under his feet were old and it felt like they were already here thousands of years ago, but they were only slightly damaged.

Angele increased his speed again; he turned into a blurry black shadow and charged forward like a lightning bolt.

Angele had no idea how long he had been running but he started to feel tired. Finally, something different appeared ahead.

He slowly came to a stop and stood on the bridge. The place was extremely cold and there was no wind here.

There were three piles of white bones that were covered with white outfits ahead.

Angele walked to the bones and crouched. He removed the outfits and observed the bones. They were dead bodies of three children.

"Those are the bodies of the three children I saw earlier. Only ancient races have the ability to survive on such altitude." He started checking the bones again.

Based on the bones, there were two boys and one girl. Angele found rings, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets on their bones. Only one pair of earrings was still complete but they were still covered with a light layer of ice.

The rest of the items all crumbled into dust upon being touched by Angele.

Angele collected the earrings and put them into the pouch.

Raising his head, the path in the front was still endless.

He looked down the bridges and the sea of clouds looked slightly different, there was something weird about the edge of the "sea".

"The height is getting ridiculous, even for me." Angele felt like he was standing on an enormous ball and he could see the edge of the planet.

However, he still could not see the end of the stone bridge.

"I can't do it anymore, I must return." Angele checked the temperature with the biochip and it was -307.5 degrees Celsius at the moment.

"It's lower than the absolute zero on earth. What will the absolute zero of this world be?"

Absolute zero was the lowest temperature possible on earth and everything would stop moving at that temperature. It was the rule of earth; however, it seemed like this world was different. The wind stopped and there was no gas here. The temperature was still decreasing and it seemed like a temperature lower than -273 degrees Celsius would not stop the living beings from moving.

'Maybe this is the High-Energy Realm of the tales?' Angele had an assumption in mind.

Angele wanted to keep advancing, however, he could no longer handle the temperature. He had stopped breathing a while ago as there was no air here. He would die if he kept exploring.

Angele had strong ancient bloodlines in his body and the help from the heat force wave, but he still felt cold. He was not sure who had the ability to reach the end of this stone bridge.

'Zero, how long have I been walking?'

'428 hours and 41 minutes,' Zero reported back quickly.

'17 days already? Seriously?' Angele was surprised. 'It seems like there's no day and night in this realm…'

Angele sighed as he looked at the stone bridge and pointed at the three piles of bones.

Nothing happened.

"Huh?" Angele hesitated and released more energy particles.

Still nothing.

He released a lot more energy particles.

Finally, a small string of green energy flew out of the tip of Angele's fingers and surrounded the bones, lifting them up to the air.

"It seems like energy particles are having trouble handling the temperature as well. That's more than 100 degrees of energy."

Angele collected the bones with his hands and rolled them up with his robe. He gave the bridge one final glance, turned around, and started running down.

He wanted to use those bones as lab materials; he was certain that the bones were what he was looking for. Without the blood, Angele could still find the cell structures with the bones, and it was possible for him to find some active bone cells for other uses.

Angele ran down the bridge. He was slow at the beginning due to the cold, but he sped up and turned into a black lightning bolt after several hours.

15 days later.

At the entrance of the bridge on the white island.

A black shadow jumped down from the bridge and landed on the surface of the island.

The man's black robe was damaged and his face was pale. The long dark-red hair trailed over his back and there was something inside the rolled-up robe.

It was Angele, who just came back from the bridge. It took him 15 days to come back from where he reached.

The trip on the bridge took him more than a month. The good thing was that Angele was a wizard and had plenty of time to spare.

Angele stood by the entrance of the bridge and checked the surroundings.

"I've found your bones, but I'm not doing it for charity. It's a simple rule," he spoke in the ancient language.

The island was empty and no one answered.

Angele did not wait, he started explaining what he was looking for.

"I need the bible of the true form. You're from the Nightmare Realm as well and I'm sure you know that my request is not ridiculous." That was Angele's true purpose. He had the bloodline of the scorpion woman, however, what he needed was the bible of the true form, and he was certain that the bible would teach him how to increase his mentality.

The worst choice was to go to the scorpion woman's place again. He was lucky the last time as he passed the trial of the Wall of Confusion and entered the palace of the scorpion woman. Although he was much stronger than before, the place was still too dangerous for him. He planned to negotiate with the three ancient soul forms that probably died a long time ago.

The energy rune he left on the stone gate had become unstable and it meant that the stone gate was about to disappear.

The dimension gate could lead Angele to anywhere and they would disappear or appear for no reason. The chance of him entering this area again was probably the same as getting hit by a meteor when walking on the street.

Also, the three children reached an incredible height when they were still young with weak bodies but high mentality. Angele assumed that they must have had a strong bible—it would aid Angele greatly.

A small amount of bloodline would only increase Angele's mentality by a small amount. However, with the bible, which was like the high-rank advanced meditation technique, Angele would be able to find the right way to train himself.

The bible from Eye Devil was pretty much fake; only the basics were helpful, and that was the reason why Angele created his true form. If he kept going with that bible, he might die from the traps concealed within. Angele needed to increase his mentality, but he also needed a real bible for his true form.

About ten minutes after Angele finished his words, a translucent crystal orb appeared on the ground in front of his feet.

The crystal orb had the size of a fist and its surface was smooth. Angele knew that the negotiations were successful after seeing the orb.

'They were trapped on this island because they were too far away from their dead bodies. Their soul forms were weak because of that.' Angele did some research about the soul forms and that was why he decided to negotiate.

The bible could not be practiced by the soul forms and it was reasonable for them to trade it for their bones.

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Chapter 416: Sound of the Knell (1)

Translator: Leo Editor: Kurisu

Angele walked to the crystal orb and picked it up.

The orb was clear and there was an invisible force slowly moving inside it.

Angele had read about the orb from the sacred book, it was used to record the knowledge as pure energy.

Raising his right hand, Angele tapped on the surface of the orb with his index finger.

CHI*

White light flashed and the crystal orb turned into a ball of liquid, then disappeared into Angele's finger.

At the same time, a lot of complicated knowledge was transferred into Angele's brain.

"They're yours now…" Angele groaned and put the bones on the ground. "I'll be leaving now as the gate is getting unstable. This'll probably be the one and only time that we meet."

He took several steps back, turned around, and walked to the beach.

A green staircase appeared under Angele's feet, creating a path to the shore on the other side.

Angele was checking the surroundings constantly when he was retreating as he was not sure if the souls would attack him.

However, nothing happened after he stepped on the staircase and walked for a while. Angele turned his head around as he returned to the beach with the gate.

The island had disappeared into the thick fog and it seemed like the souls had no intention to return through the gate.

Angele's brow furrowed, he mentioned the gate since he wanted to see if the souls would follow him. It seemed like the souls had other plans.

He checked the unstable mentality wave of the rune he left on the gate and stopped thinking. He started rushing to the gate at full speed.

Minutes later, Angele returned to the black stone gate.

Blue electric pulses appeared inside the gate and the image of the Ness River's shore was getting blurry.

Angele wasted no time and entered the gate.

CHI*

His body numbed for several seconds after contacting the electric pulses; the next moment, he already returned to the Ness River.

'Zero, record the energy movement and the frequency.' Angele remembered something and gave the order.

'Task created. Recording…'

The space inside the black gate twisted and it seemed like something with a moving magnifier.

Crack*

Finally, a loud noise was made by the broken gate.

Boom*

The stone gate fell to the ground and turned into a pile of broken stones before Angele could do anything.

The fog started disappearing and it felt like it was sucked in by something. He could finally see the riverside clearly again.

Angele picked up some broken stone pieces of the gate, observed, and scanned them using the biochip.

However, the result was a bit disappointing.

'The gate was built with the world stone, however, there is no energy or force left. If I can build a gate like this with world stone, it'll be possible for me to teleport to other realms,' Angele guessed in mind. 'But it can't be that easy… The place I went to doesn't feel like a complete realm… It felt like an abandoned ruin with nothing living inside.'

He stood up and put one of the black stone pieces into his pouch.

Angele glanced around.

Some mutated creatures were moving toward Angele slowly after the fog disappeared.

There were tall bald yetis with enormous wooden bats in their hands and a group of tiny black insects that looked like flies. They'd all noticed Angele.

Angele's mission was accomplished and there was no point for him to fight.

The bald yetis were charging toward Angele. There were two of them and the wooden bats were shaking over their shoulders. Both of them were only wearing just a piece of linen cloth.

They were looking at Angele like at a piece of fresh meat—Angele could see the greed in their eyes.

Angele raised his hands calmly and created two lava balls that were floating in front of him.

"Strike." He pointed at the two bald yetis.

WOO*

Two red lava balls rolled and moved to the target accurately.

BOOM*

The explosion made the earth shake, and the yetis and flies were swallowed by a sea of fire. The intense flames splashed with the golden lava drops, those creatures were evaporated within seconds.

Angele remained calm and the orange light illuminated his body.

'Alright, I shall return to my territory.'

Angele looked at the direction he came from, turned into a blurry shadow, and disappeared.

Five days later…

In the reading room in Nightmare Realm.

Angele wiped his hands and moved from the operating table to the window.

"How's your body's condition?" Angele questioned as he looked out of the window.

On the white operating table, Orphie stood up naked; her skin was pink and she was panting.

"I don't feel anything strange, but my eyes are turning pink for some reason," Orphie responded in a light tone.

"Pink? It's normal. I'm helping you regain the ability to reproduce with my bloodline and that's just a possible reaction." Angele nodded.

"How's Freia doing?"

"She's doing fine, but she was depressed since you were gone for…" Orphie put on her clothes quickly.

Knock Knock*

Someone knocked on the door and interrupted their conversation.

"Hey! Green! It's a letter from my brother!" Freia's loud voice came from outside.

"Huh?" Angele was a bit surprised. "A letter from Frey?" He smiled and he felt relieved. "Alright, let's go have a look. Didn't expect to receive a letter in such a dangerous world."

He put down the white towel and opened the door.

Freia was standing by the door of the reading room with a brown envelope, which was sealed with red wax, in hand. There was a red insect that looked like a large mosquito on Freia's shoulder; it had four transparent wings and its body was covered with gold and green circles. The insect's large yellow compound eyes were rolling, looking in different directions.

Freia handed the letter to Angele as she saw Orphie stepping out of the room.

"Green, this is a letter to you from my brother. Also, come down for lunch after reading the letter." She turned around and walked down the stairs. It seemed like Frey also wrote a letter to Freia and she wanted to read it as soon as possible.

Angele grabbed the letter, removed the seal, and opened it.

'Dear Green,

It's been years. I wanted to come back and visit you myself. I also wanted to take you to where I live right now. However, I gave up after considering the situation.

You and my sister live in a remote area, where there's fewer issues and political wars. Moreover, someone found out about your shelter somehow. Please be careful.

Also, I'm doing well right now and I finally found a way to send letters. I sent dozens of letters to you and I'm sure one of them will end up in your hand.

Alright, I guess you already have a general idea of my current situation. I've seen a lot of things recently and apparently, human beings are much more evil than monsters.

Please don't worry. I've gotten everything sorted out. I'll write to you from time to time. You can reply to me through the following method.

Your student,

Frey.'

It was a short letter but Frey explained everything well.

Angele tapped the letter and smiled—he already considered Frey and Freia his own children after all those years. He was worried as Frey never contacted him after leaving the mansion, but he felt relieved after reading the letter.

Based on the contents of the letter, Frey was doing well in the outside world, and it seemed like he had acquired a certain level of power.

"As long as he's still alive…" Angele sighed. "I should stop worrying too much about him."

He should focus on his research before the chaos came.

Angele spent most of his time analyzing the content of the sacred book he got from the island.

After about five days of comparing, he confirmed that the content in the sacred book was real. Also, it was impossible for the soul forms to modify the sacred book as they probably did not expect Angele to bring back their bones.

Angele decided to practice the sacred book after making sure everything was correct.

He put down the letter and looked at Orphie who was waiting for his orders. The girl had not left the reading room yet.

"Go have some rest and help me take care of Freia. Don't let her stay in the garden for too long."

"Yes, master." Orphie bowed to Angele, lifted her white dress up slightly, and walked to the stairs.

Orphie disappeared from Angele's sight after walking down the stairs and Angele returned to his reading room right away.

He locked the door.

Angele walked to the bookshelf and took out a notebook with a cracked red shell.

Ka*

He opened the notebook—it was filled up with notes regarding the magic circles and runes. Angele wrote down a lot of basic formulas to analyze the details of some runes. Data, characters, detailed graphs, and strings, there was a lot of important information on that notebook.

Actually, the information on that book looked like a blueprint of a certain device.

Angele remained calm while turning the pages.

Everything he found recently was also recorded in the notebook; he used the two sacred books he had, and compared the difference between the runes.

He was trying to verify the sacred book that was given to him by Eye Devil.

However, Angele finally confirmed that the sacred book from Eye Devil was at a lower level with a lot of mistakes that were set up as traps intentionally.

The sacred book he acquired from the three souls had a weird name:

Erin's Funeral Oration.

Translator's Thoughts

Leo Leo

Bible is now changed to sacred book.

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