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Chapter 545: Exploration (2)

Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu

The wall looked endless and was releasing thin white light. Angele could see the dark tornado rotating on the other side through the white light.

Angele glanced around. He was standing by the wall and the wind was weaker here than in other areas. He could easily see the things around him.

The wall was around five meters tall and Angele could not see the end of it. He could only hear some strange noises made by the tornado here that sounded like stones rolling.

Angele checked the surroundings, the only eye-catching thing here was the wall.

With a plan in mind, he started moving to the left of the wall. Several minutes later, a large black building that was built into the wall appeared. The building looked like a large gate with plated road in the front.

Angele stopped in front of the gate and saw two eagle statues on both sides of the gate. Each of the statues was over two meters tall and their purple bodies were covered with tiny holes.

He rubbed the surface of the statue, it was smooth and cold. The material was hard, it was probably the same as the one used for the road.

Angele started advancing and looked at the arched gate. There were three spikes on top of the gate and the white light they released was brighter than in other areas.

Also, there were four symmetrical windows on the surface of the building and there was light flashing inside.

Angele's expression changed.

'There are guards here?'

He stepped into the gate and entered a dark tunnel.

The end of the tunnel was blocked. He could see a dried fountain with a mermaid statue ahead. The statue was holding a silver vase, but there was no water coming out of it.

There was a black stone gate on each side of the walls. Angele noticed the moon and sun patterns that were engraved on the surface of the gates.

Strangely, he heard that someone was playing harp and singing from inside the gate.

It was a crisp male voice, singing in a language that Angele could not understand.

Angele looked at the gates and knocked on the gate with the moon pattern.

WOO*

The gate slowly opened and the orange light spurted out it immediately.

Angele's body trembled, he quickly covered his body with black smoke. Several seconds later, he transformed back to his human form and stepped into the gate.

Inside the gate, it was a U-shaped hall with several wooden counters inside. Behind the counters, there were people with long sharp ears. It seemed like they were servers.

There were several empty stone tables in the center of the hall and creatures that were releasing strong energy waves were drinking by the tables.

Only two of the creatures looked like human beings, the rest of them looked like monsters. There were black rhinos with two heads, silver eagles in red armor, and humanoid creatures with heads of lobsters. Those lobster men also had six pairs of arms on their bodies.

The only similarity the creatures had was their high power level.

Angele entered the gate and closed it quickly. He glanced around and saw at least three creatures that were stronger than rank 4 wizards.

'Power Seekers?' The creatures reminded Angele of the term.

There were many wizards in the central continent and some of them were extremely strong. Most of the strong beings were exploring different areas of the world; they wanted to find out the truth about the realms.

This was the belief of the ancient wizards. Although the ancient wizards were eliminated when they were exploring other realms, there were still modern wizards who were following the ancient wizards' path. They would rather spend time on improving themselves than enjoying their lives.

Those strong creatures feared nothing and the pursuit of power was the only thing that mattered to them. People could only find them in extreme environments; those strong beings all had strong wills.

The light in the hall came from the burning candles. The man that was playing the music was sitting by an egg-shaped flower pot. He suddenly stopped and smiled.

"Welcome to the Doomsday Inn, young blood." The man had silver short hair and an attractive face. He had no pupils; instead, there were blue and red vortexes in his eyes. The man was wearing heavy black armor and looked like an armored robot. The sharp parts on his armor were dark-red and there were cracks all over the armor. Also, the man was speaking the ancient language—it was a language that Angele was familiar with.

"Huh? Two newcomers in ten years. Impressive," a man with a red beard shouted behind the counter. "Outsider, are you here to hunt or train yourself?" The man grabbed his wooden cup and drank some wine.

The creatures in the hall heard those words and looked at Angele. However, it seemed like most of them were not interested, only the man with a beard and the man playing harp were still looking at him.

"Me?" Angele was a bit surprised. "I'm here to collect something that I need." He walked to the man with a beard and pursed his lips into a smile.

"For your research maybe?" The man shook his head. "This is the abyssal gate, you should find somewhere better to collect the things you need."

"What do you mean?" Angele threw a magic stone to the man. "Give me a cup of that too, thanks."

The man chuckled and grabbed the magic stone. He grabbed a cup poured some wine for Angele.

"The abyssal gate is the gate to block the abyss, which means, if you enter the tornado area through the gate, you'll be facing countless terrifying creatures from the abyss. This is an ancient ruin left by the ancient wizards; without the ruin to stop them, the creatures might conquer the whole world," the man explained and put down the cup on the counter.

Some of the yellow wine splashed on the surface of the counter; it was quite fragrant.

Angele grabbed the cup and sipped some wine. The wine was tasty but strong.

"The wine is so strong! I've never heard about this place when I was in the central continent."

BAM*

The handsome man that was playing harp slammed his right hand on the counter but the counter was not damaged by his heavy armor at all.

"Central continent? You're from the central continent?" The man rubbed the silver harp in his hand.

"You've never heard of this place… Well… The weak ones are afraid of our names. I've been living here for over 200 years, time really flies. I was a rank 3 wizard when I got here, but I'm a rank 4 wizard now."

"The environment was alright when the shape-shifting old men were still here and the tornado was much weaker than now, sadly…" The man with beard shook his head again after drinking some wine.

"I lived here for over 1000 years and I don't care anymore. Femora, the changes can only be stopped if Colin is here…"

The handsome man shook his head as well. "He already left, there's no point for us to talk about it now. My teacher's decision would never change."

'Over 1000 years…' Angele narrowed his eyes, he realized that this was not a just a random ruin. The shape-shifting old men the man mentioned reminded him of something.

"Beard, the shape-shifting old men you talked about are old men that transform their bodies into different animals, right? They are the definition of privacy invasion."

"You know them?" The man sounded a bit surprised after hearing the word. "Anyway, you must be strong since you found this place; it's understandable that you know them. You're right, those men enjoying peeking…" It seemed like Angele's words reminded him of something.

"They're also guardians of this world; it's not a secret."

"Alright, let's change the topic. Newcomer, you're still young, why are you here?" Femora looked at Angele, it seemed like he was interested.

Angele noticed that Femora's face was covered with strange patterns. He probably cast healing spells on himself too often. The patterns would only appear on a part of his body after he applied the healing effect on his body too many times.

Also, when Femora stared Angele with his red and blue eyes, Angele's body trembled slightly; he could sense something dangerous from the man.

Angele's human form had the similar power level of a rank 5 wizard but Femora still scared him for a second, which meant that Femora had a similar power level as his human form.

"Me? I'm just a traveler that wants to study the tornado. That's why I'm here." Angele dodged the question and drank some wine.

PA*

Femora rubbed his harp slightly. "Do you really know where this is?" He looked at Angele with a strange expression on his face.

"You can't enter this place using a normal method. The dimension gate was the only way that leads to the dark tunnel. You need to travel through the dark tunnel before you can find the abyssal gate. You can only walk around the edge of the tornado unless you're a rank 5 wizard."

Angele finally understood why it took him so long to land on the ground. He glanced at the two and questioned, "Don't tell me this is the bottom of the tornado…"

"You're correct!" Femora chuckled. "This is actually a forgotten area. You might be the strongest being of this area, you might be a wanderer from other realms, you might a wanted criminal, but none of that matters. There's no rules here. The only thing you can rely on is your own power!" Femora flicked his finger.

CHI*

An invisible energy ray hit Angele's shoulder but it was blocked by a dark-red barrier.

"This is one of the strongest areas of this world." The man with a beard chuckled.

"He blocked your attack like nothing, Femora, the last one was killed by this."

Angele smiled, he knew that Femora just wanted to test his power, so he was not enraged. He was still sipping the wine from the cup and listened to the man's explanation.

"Strong beings from all the areas are welcomed here. If you can travel through the storm force and enter the underground world in the twisted dimension, you'll be able to reach the bottom of the tornado and find the Doomsday Inn. This place is called doomsday for a reason."

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Chapter 546: Exploration (3)

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"Where did those monsters come from?" Angele went straight to the point. He knew that the two that talked to him were probably in charge of the inn. The reason why they tested Angele's power and explained everything to him patiently was that they wanted to become friends with Angele.

"From the dimension fissure to the Chaos Realm, the ancient wizards opened it," the man with a beard explained. "Those monsters came from the Chaos Realm or some other realms. I don't really know, but the only thing we need to do is kill them. The bastards that are not from the underground world call this place Root of the World."

"Huh?" Angele narrowed his eyes. "I've heard of this term… In the ancient times, wizards tried to find a closed space that was in the underground world. It was mentioned that the three strongest wizard lords had lived in the area. Do you know that there are monsters from other realms on the ground now? They're here for the resources."

"Other realms? Are you talking about the sealed forms or just raiders? Just let them do whatever they want, they can't stay in this world forever. I don't care." The man with a beard was not concerned. "The strongest wizards of the wizard world lived in the fifth level of the underground world. The wizards on the ground are weak. The creatures from other realms are strong but the furthest they can get to will be the second level of the underground world. They'll have to return to their own realms after the realms move away from each other. I know someone that is familiar with the invasions."

Angele felt a bit speechless, he never spent too much on studying the underground world and he did not know that the real wizard world was actually under the ground.

The man noticed the change of expression on Angele's face and pursed his lips into a smile.

"Root of the World refers to the space under the world tree; there are four levels in this space. The size of each level is similar to the size of the gem sea… You know gem sea, right? The sea between the central continent and the west coast. The empire was being destroyed when I was at the gem sea, it was a big event. I wonder what happened after that."

"Can you be more specific? I have no idea how big the gem sea is…" A bitter smile appeared on Angele's face. He noticed that the red beard was a living history book. He knew a lot of information that was considered as secrets to the outside world but he was not trying to hide any of it from Angele.

"It has the same size as the Sky Area, do you know Sky Area?" Femora interrupted, he sounded a bit impatient.

Angele was confused, he shook his head. It felt like he barely knew any valuable information when compared to the red beard and Femora.

"Well…" The red beard put his hand on the forehead. "What do you know then? You're a strong wizard but you're not knowledgeable at all. Femora, help me explain it to him!"

Femora nodded. "Alright, I'll make it easier for you. This area has the size of 20 central continents. You know central continent, right?"

Angele remained silent.

Femora did not say anything else.

"Come on, say something!" The red beard sighed.

"You probably never paid any attention to the underground world. There were so many wars and empires in the history but the only things you can find on the ground are some small ruins. Don't you think it's a bit strange? Where are the big ruins? Dimension fissures are very unstable when compared to the actual realm.

"Have you ever thought of the ruins of the ancient wars? There are so many strong ancient wizards in different areas, they could do whatever they wanted to and ruled the empires. Where are all those ruins?" The red beard kept asking questions.

Angele thought the ruins that popped up from time to time were all what the ancient wizards had but he realized that he might be wrong. "You're right…"

"Understand now?"

"Understood."

The red beard sighed with relief. "Good then. I was worried that you were too dumb to understand everything. What's your next plan then?"

"Actually, I have a question. Do you know what the area was used for before the tornado appeared?" Angele questioned politely, he wanted to show his respect.

The red beard rubbed his chin. "It was just a remote area that was weak and poor. I've only been there once and all I met were mortals. There was barely any wizard there."

Angele nodded. "What about the tornado? What's inside it?"

A lobster man approached them before the red beard opened his mouth.

"I've only been there once," he repeated the sentence the red beard said. "He says this sentence every time you ask him about a location. His nickname is Beard the Living Map."

The red beard rolled his eyes and he threw a green wine bottle into the lobster man's mouth.

"Inside the tornado, there is the dimension fissure and the monsters. Alright, young one, I've told you a lot of things. Why don't you become a member of Doomsday Inn? I'll pay you one Golden Beast every ten years."

"I'll pass. I need to take of my family and my friends first." Angele stood up and smiled. He turned around and started walking to the exit.

The red beard and Femora looked a bit sad after hearing those words.

"That's sad. I think he's scared and he'll just leave." The red beard sent the words to Femora through energy particles.

Femora shrugged but did not say anything.

Angele walked to the stone gate, he suddenly turned around and looked at the counter.

"Red beard!"

"Huh?" The red beard was confused.

"To be honest, I do want to become a member of the inn but it'll take a while before I come back." Angele smiled.

The red beard hesitated for a second and smiled. "For sure, I'll welcome you back no matter how long it's going to take."

"I'll be back in 1000 years." Angele finished speaking and the inn suddenly became silent.

The red beard's wine cup stopped moving and Femora just put his hand on the harp. The wine was dripping down the lobster man's chin.

All the creatures in the hall were surprised by what Angele just said. The flames were dancing on the candle stands and no one was talking. Their sights all fell upon the man that was standing by the exit.

It felt like the atmosphere was getting heavy.

Angele chuckled.

"I'll come back in 1000 years. Don't forget." He pushed the gate open and disappeared into a ball of flames.

The red beard breathed heavily and put down the cup with excitement in his eyes.

"No problem! I'll wait 1000 years!" he shouted and his voice echoed in the hall.

Femora had mixed emotions about this. He was shocked, surprised, and depressed at the same time. "A strong being that can live for 1000 more years… I won't be able to see that day I think."

"It sounded like he didn't care… I think he could at least live for ten thousand years…" The red beard was still excited.

"If he really is that strong, I don't mind waiting 1000 years for him."

"Beard, do you really believe what he said?" a man with a head on his chest asked.

"I trust my own eyes." The red beard pointed at his eyes.

Angele left Doomsday Inn and stood in the sandstorm. He inhaled deeply and looked at the gray area outside the red barrier. He could no longer see the inn below.

"I didn't expect to find an inn at a place like this, and it was even filed up with strong creatures... Peace will return to this world in 1000 years and I'll come back here to study the truth of the world…"

Angele was being serious when he talked to the red beard. He would come back if the inn was still open 1000 years later.

He started flying in the strong wind that was mixed with gray sand. The only thing he could hear was the wind and he was not even sure if he was moving at full speed.

Angele flew for a while and he slowly stopped in the air after he was certain that he was far away from the inn.

"I'm just moving around the edge of the tornado based on the strength of the wind. The wind is pushing in a certain direction." Angele closed his eyes and checked the situation using the biochip.

Several seconds later, he opened his eyes and looked to the right.

"That's it! I can move through the edge of the tornado ahead."

A large hologram of the tornado slowly appeared in front of his eyes.

'Tornado Model created. 81% of the tornado simulated. 2% of the details included,' Zero's voice echoed in his ears.

"81%, huh? That's good enough…" The blue light dots slowly disappeared in front of Angele's eyes.

"I can't even detect the inn at this range. I think it should be fine."

Angele raised his hand and aimed at the entrance to the tornado. He released a lot of thick black smoke from his mouth and nose. The black smoke surrounded his body in the center.

More and more black smoke was released. The smoke expanded too all angles and it turned into the shape of an enormous scorpion quickly.

The smoke scorpion raised one of its claws and slashed in a certain direction.

A strong ray of smoke was released by the claw and quickly turned into a smoke pillar. There were pale human faces rotating around the pillar, singing something.

"In the name of fear!"

"In the name of fear!"

"Fear is the source of everything!"

"All hail Lord of Terror!"

Those souls were trapped in the smoke pillar and the energy waves they released were tearing through the sandstorm. The smoke pillar was so tall that it looked endless.

The smoke boiled in the pillar and slowly disappeared into the air several minutes later.

It was almost like the black smoke had never been here; only a dark tunnel was left behind.

The smoke scorpion nodded and its body started shrinking. The scorpion released some more black smoke and recreated its human form.

"This tunnel can only last for three days… I should go back now…" Angele muttered as he checked the communication rune. He could locate the caravan using the rune, however, the sandstorm was infused with energy and he could not communicate with others through it.

Angele checked the direction and disappeared into a ball of red flames. He started traveling through the sandstorm again.

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Chapter 547: New World (1)

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Two hours later.

A ball of red flames was released from the sandstorm that was in front of the caravan. Angele recreated his body next to a bull.

The door of the carriage was opened right after Angele returned to the caravan, revealing Fir's face.

"Master Green, how's the situation?"

Angele smiled and nodded. "I found the entrance. Inform everyone that we need to start moving. The tunnel won't last for too long and doesn't appear often, so we need to travel through it as soon as possible."

"Sure, I'll let the elders know. They are sitting in different carriages with their relatives so I only need to inform them about the situation." Fir looked relieved.

Angele jumped into the carriage and closed the door. The door of the carriage was protected by a wind-blocking spell. It was quiet inside the carriage but he could still see the furious sandstorm through the window.

He sat down by the window and grabbed the fruit wine from the table. The wine was slightly spicy and warmed his body up quickly.

Fir lowered his left hand and nodded. It seemed like she already sent the message out.

"Let's get moving then." Angle tapped on the table using his finger.

MOO*

The bull started pulling the carriage forward slowly.

The caravan traveled at full speed for several hours and charged into the tunnel that was opened by Angele.

The place suddenly became silent after the caravan rushed into the tunnel. The wind and the sand were no longer making any noise.

The carriages were connected by a green chain, advancing in the tunnel at full speed.

"That's the secret path you talked about?" Fir looked out of the window, surprised.

"Yeah… I found this path by accident," Angele responded calmly.

He peeked through the closed window and saw that the carriage was surrounded by gray clouds.

The deeper they advanced, the darker the clouds became. It felt like the caravan was traveling through a tunnel made of clouds.

The dark clouds were boiling around the caravan, but none entered the tunnel.

They advanced for around ten hours.

Angele suddenly grabbed a wooden cup from the table and threw it out of the window.

CHI*

The wooden cup hit the dark clouds and sank into it, but nothing happened.

"Inform the other carriages, we're already inside the tornado. Tell them not to touch the clouds or they'll be devoured by the wind," Angele spoke in a deep tone.

Fir nodded, she was a white robe that had already mastered the communication technique. The energy waves were interrupted by the strong tornado but she could still contact other wizards. She could even do a better job than Angele, which helped a lot as no one needed to leave the carriages to receive messages.

The woman tapped on the table using her fingers and released some white energy waves. It only took her several minutes to finish the job.

"Keep advancing and increase the speed!" Angele ordered.

The speed of the carriages started increasing slowly and the noises made by the wheels were getting louder.

Vivian was sitting by the window, staring at the dark clouds.

"I can sense the great power around me; if the energy waves explode, they can easily destroy the whole caravan." There was a serious expression on Vivian's face. "I wonder how Green found this secret path."

"I don't know, but I trust him." The First Elder was holding a diamond-shaped badge in his hand.

"Without this tunnel, it's nearly impossible for us to survive the sandstorm. The energy waves from the tornado have the same power level has a spell casted by a rank 2 wizard and they are coming from everywhere. I can probably survive one glass hour in this environment. The three wizard lords didn't find a secret path like this so they failed to explore the tornado," he spoke in a low voice.

"You're right." Vivian nodded. "I wonder how long this tunnel is. Make sure that no one leaves the carriages. The carriages are protected by defensive spells, they'll last for a while even if something unfortunate happens. Also, pay attention to the chains, it'll be a disaster if they break."

A white robe beside her nodded; the wizard was sending messages to other carriages. The energy waves the wizard released looked identical to the ones released by Fir.

"The Second Elder said that the chain has been reinforced. Don't worry."

"Good, then." Vivian nodded. "Keep an eye on the surroundings. Although Green said everything should be fine, we still need to be careful.

The white robe nodded.

The carriages were connected by a green string, advancing at full speed in the tunnel. The path ahead was dark and the green light around the carriages was the only source of light.

Time passed, no one knew how long they had been advancing for. The color of the clouds ahead finally turned from black to light gray.

The noise made by the wind was not as loud as before.

In the leading carriage.

Fir looked surprised. "Are we on the other side yet?"

"Not yet." Angele shook his head. "We're reaching the end of the tunnel. The area ahead is the sandstorm area of the tornado but we've moved past the dangerous part and the wind won't be too bad."

"That'd be great." Fir quickly informed the carriages behind.

Angele heard people from other carriages cheering after the message was sent out.

"I hope everything goes as planned." Fir sounded relieved.

"Everything will go as planned, don't worry," Angele interrupted. "This secret path helped me survive during the war. If not for it, I would already have been dead."

"You're lucky if that's true," Fir joked.

"I'm always lucky."

The carriages' speed increased as they left the tunnel, charging into the endless sand.

The strong sand started hitting the carriages hard again loudly.

Angele noticed there were evil energy waves behind them as they left the tunnel.

The energy waves had the power level of a rank 6 wizard and were hard to detect. The one who released the energy waves was hiding in the dark and it seemed like he was trying to find the best chance to ambush the caravan.

Angele's expression turned cold as red light flashed around his eyes. He released some black smoke from his right ear and the smoke moved through the window, charging to the source of the evil energy waves.

ROAR*

The force field was so strong that the monster hiding in the sand was having trouble handling the pressure.

The monster looked like a dog with three eyes and was more than ten meters tall. A scorpion that was formed by some black smoke was roaring above the monster's head.

"I'll devour you if you get closer!" The scorpion released some terrifying energy waves and the monster could barely move under the pressure.

The monster trembled and slowly started stepping away. Its eyes were closed and there was blood running out of them. Finally, the monster left the effective range of Angele's force field, turned around, and disappeared into the sandstorm.

The smoke scorpion collapsed and returned to Angele's ear.

"The elders said that they heard something." Fir suddenly opened her mouth.

Angele smiled and explained, "Don't worry. It's normal here. I also heard strange noises the last time I was here."

"Alright, I'll send a message to the elders." Fir nodded.

Three days later.

A smile appeared on Angele's face as he noticed that the sandstorm was getting weaker and weaker.

The noise made by the wheels and the wind mixed together but it was no longer loud.

Angele stood up and opened the window.

Some warm golden light appeared in front of the carriage.

"The sunlight!" Fir woke up from the meditation. She looked relieved after seeing the golden light.

"We're finally out!"

"You're right, finally, we're free!" Angele nodded.

MOO*

The bull shouted. It seemed like the creature noticed that the area in the front was warm and safe. The bull charged forward and its speed was increasing gradually.

BAM*

It felt like that the carriage went through an energy barrier.

The noise that bothered them for weeks disappeared. There was no noise from the wheels nor the wind. Angele could hear birds twittering and the area looked peaceful.

The golden light in his sight was getting intense.

Angele narrowed his eyes slightly and it took him a while to get used to the light.

There was a land that was covered with green grass in front of the caravan and there were small hills on it. The land looked like a large soft blanket.

The land was endless and there were white flowers mixed in the grass. Several black eagles were soaring through the sky. Angele could smell the fragrance of flowers and grass in the air.

The caravan slowly stopped, he jumped off the carriage and rubbed the ground.

The texture of the mud was wet and warm. Several ants climbed up his finger and moved around his hand. He could also feel the tiny stones in the soft mud.

Angele grabbed some mud and his finger turned brown. He put his finger into his mouth; the mud was bitter and fishy for some reason.

'Comparing the soil… Energy content lower than average… The energy content in the soil of the central continent is 24 times stronger.' Rows of data were displayed in Angele's sight.

'The man didn't lie. The soil here is bad…" Angele stood up and glanced around. He was surprised by what he just saw.

On the far right of the land, there was an enormous gray scale standing quietly on the ground.

The scale was more than 3000 meters tall and looked like a mountain with its top in the clouds; also, there were several white birds rotating around the scale.

"Oh my…"

More and more people got off the carriages. They also saw the gray scale on the far side and they were all surprised. The scene was so strange that no one knew what to say.

"Who would build a scale like that for no reason?" The First Elder wondered. The Second Elder and Vivian were standing beside him. They were speechless after seeing the scale.

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Chapter 548: New World (2)

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"It might be the giants from the tales," the Second Elder spoke in a low voice. "They are probably related to the tea pots and vases we saw earlier."

"You might be right but this scale is too large even for the giants…" The First Elder looked surprised as he stared at the scale.

"There's another one there!" one of the wizards shouted.

They looked in the direction that the voice came from and found another humongous gray scale on the far left.

Angele glanced around but the only thing he could see was the green grass. There were no strangers around.

He applied some force to his feet and flew into the air.

Angele flew for a while and started observing the area. He noticed that the grass on the ground was slowly turning yellow.

The color turned from light green to dark green and from dark green to bright yellow. It seemed like the color of the grass was changing under the sunlight.

The color was shifting back and forth between green and bright yellow.

Angele's brow furrowed as he started landing.

"Calm down, everyone. I think something is a bit off," he shouted and tried to calm the crowd down.

The crowd slowly stopped talking and they all looked at Angele. "Master Green, did you find anything?" Mike stepped forward, it seemed like the wizards considered him as the representative.

Angele shook his head. "I didn't find anything, but I think something is missing in the air…"

The First Elder walked to Angele and nodded. "We noticed that too. Vivian and Second Elder checked the situation. They had a similar conclusion. This is probably not our destination. Although the radiation energy is weak here, the energy movements are unpredictable. It means that only a few creatures will be able to live here. This is not an ideal environment for human beings."

Angele nodded. "I agree with what First Elder just said. This is not the destination. Turn your heads around and observe carefully."

They all turned their heads around and started observing.

All they could see was a land that was covered with green grass, there was no trace of the tornado. It was almost like that the tornado was never there.

Mike had a strange expression on the face. "The tornado is gone… Will we be able to go back to the central continent in the future?"

They looked at Angele as they heard Mike's words. Angele was the one that brought them to this area and they assumed that Angele knew the answer.

"I don't know." Angele shook his head. "I think the scales are the answer to the secret. We should check them out."

"I agree." The First Elder nodded.

"The color of the grass is changing," one of the wizards shouted.

"The grass was green but it's golden now…" Vivian crouched and pulled some grass.

CHI*

The grass turned into gray dust in the wind right after it was pulled off the ground.

"It doesn't matter. Let's head to the scales," Angele spoke in a deep tone. "Get on the carriages, everyone."

They returned to the carriages and the bulls started heading to the scale that the closest to the caravan.

The bulls were extremely high in Stamina, they just needed to be fed once every couple of months. The bulls were perfect for long travels and relatively fast when compared to normal creatures. They could run as fast as a human knight.

The sky was blue and the golden sunlight shined upon the top of the mountain. The green grass glowed under the sunlight.

On top of the hill, there was an enormous scale that was over 3000 meters tall. The scale was black and it looked like that the scale was made of pieces of rocks. Its surface was covered with tiny cracks and green moss. It seemed like the scale had been standing here for years.

The two dishes hanging on both sides of the scale were balanced, they were not leaning at all.

GA GA*

A white shadow passed through the blue sky, it was a bird with no head making some strange noises. The bird slowly landed on the left dish and started drinking water from it.

MOO*

The caravan slowly stopped by the scale; the bulls were still mooing.

The carriages were all painted in black and were barely noticeable by the scale. They looked like tiny black dots when compared to it.

A ball of red light was released from the first carriage and the light ball was flying up.

The light ball had the shape of an egg and was translucent. There were red flames burning inside the ball; it slowly landed on the edge of the left dish and turned into a human being.

It was a man in a black robe who had long red hair. The man's skin was pale and there was a confident expression on his face. It was Angele, who decided to check the situation alone.

Angele stood on the edge of the dish and looked at the water. The dish had a diameter of over 300 meters and it almost looked like a lake. The golden sunlight was reflected in the shimmering water and the wind was blowing gently.

There were several white birds with no head standing on the edge of the dish, drinking water using their necks.

CHI CHI*

Angele heard the noise coming from the other side and quickly checked the source of the noise. A ball of white fog landed on the other dish, it was the Second Elder.

Angele quickly activated the communication rune; he could hear the Second Elder's voice echoing in his ears.

"Green, did you find anything?"

Angele shook his head and responded, "No, the only thing I can see here is some water. What about you?"

The Second Elder replied in a strange tone, "Well, I found a huge pattern here. I've never seen anything like this. I'll show it to you."

An egg-shaped white light screen appeared in front of Angele's body after the Second Elder finished his words. A strange red pattern was displayed on the light screen.

The pattern looked like a circle with two triangles on its top. Inside the circle, there were countless runes that weren't following any particular order. There were strings, triangles, squares, insects, creatures, and human beings. Some of the runes were simple but most of them were complicated.

Angele narrowed his eyes and observed the pattern carefully. He felt like that he had seen it somewhere.

Vivian's voice came from the light screen. "I have no idea what this pattern is. The runes inside circle don't make any sense…"

The First Elder also joined the conversation. "I think those are just random runes that have no actual meaning. I'll show them to the other wizards. Wait a bit."

Some wizards failed to reach higher ranks but they might know more. The wizards who explored different areas of the world usually knew more about information like this so they just started waiting for the First Elder's response.

Angele could hear other people talking through the light screen.

He started thinking as his brow furrowed. Some blue light flashed in front of his eyes and it seemed like the biochip reminded him of something.

"I've seen a similar pattern in some random books. The pattern has no actual meaning, however, it's used for explaining and sharing certain information."

"Huh?" The First Elder was a bit surprised, he did not expect Angele to know the things that they had never seen.

"What is the pattern trying to explain then? Maybe it's related to the scale?"

"That's possible." Angele nodded.

Vivian agreed, "Yeah, those runes are not releasing any energy waves, that might be the only explanation."

"Who's there?!" someone suddenly shouted below, it seemed like they found something.

Angele and the Second Elder jumped off the dishes immediately. They were dropping at full speed but they landed on the ground without any problem.

Mike and two male black robes surrounded a strange human-shaped creature in the center. They were standing on the empty ground by the carriages.

The wizards already prepared their magic devices, the magic devices were glowing. It seemed like they could be activated at any time.

"What happened?"

The crowd led by the First Elder gathered around them. Angele and the Second Elder also approached them.

They had a clear view of the person that was surrounded by the wizards.

The man was strange. He was wearing a gray linen outfit, and his head was a large magnifier, its glass slightly curved.

The man looked just like a normal male human besides the magnifier head.

"Don't kill me! Please!" The mentality waves the man released were sending the message to the wizards around.

The man shook his head and the wizards' faces reflected on the magnifier.

The First Elder moved closer to the man and asked the wizards not to cast the spells.

"Who're you? Are you a resident of this area?" he questioned using the mentality wave.

Using mentality waves to trade messages was a basic technique, however, only simple messages could be delivered through the mentality wave. The technique was still used by some old races with strong mentality.

The man calmed down after he received the First Elder's message. "I'm a magnifier man… the ritual… is not my fault…"

He pointed at the First Elder and then pointed at the scale behind him.

"A ritual?" Vivian noticed that the man said that word when he was pointing at the scale. "Do you mean that the scale is used for a ritual?"

However, it seemed like the man did not understand the sentence.

Vivian repeated the sentence using mentality waves but the man just pointed at the scale.

"Exchange… Ritual… You…!" he suddenly shouted and the wizards were a bit surprised.

"It disappears…"

"Disappeared?" Vivian and the First Elder exchanged eye contact. "Maybe the scale has the ability to start a certain ritual. The things in the circle refer to the things that can be sacrificed and that's why there are many things in it. I think that the scale can be activated using a sacrificial ritual and it will teleport us somewhere else."

"I think you're right." Angele suddenly opened his mouth; his eyes were covered by red glow. He checked the magnifier man's memory and acquired random pieces of information. The portal could only be activated through the ritual.

"Let's give it a try."

"Sure, let me try the portal." Vivian flew to the left dish right away.

"What should we use as the offering then?" Fthe irst Elder wondered.

"I have a magical heart here." Angele took out a gray heart from the mirror; the heart was still pumping.

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Chapter 549: New World (3)

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He flew to the right dish and threw the black heart onto it after Vivian landed safely on the left dish.

KA*

The heart landed on the dish without any problem.

The whole scale suddenly leaned to the left, it seemed like the left dish was heavier than the right one.

Angele was surprised after he saw the black heart disappear from the dish. The heart left no trace behind.

"Does it mean that the two things on the dishes must be equal?"

"Green, try this!" The First Elder's voice came from below.

A red shadow flew to Angele, then rotated in the air and slowly flew into Angele's hand.

It was a red arm that was skinned. Angele could see the muscle and the tendon clearly.

He had no time to check the arm so he just threw the arm onto the right dish.

KA*

The scale shook slightly and regained the balance quickly but it was leaning to the right slightly. It seemed like the arm was more valuable than Vivian.

A strong but cold mentality wave surrounded Angele.

"Do you want to start the teleportation?"

"What are you?" Angele was excited after he heard the voice.

"Where will the scale teleport her to?" He wondered.

"Start the teleportation now?" The mentality wave questioned again, the voice was emotionless.

Angele narrowed his eyes as blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes.

'Analyzing the mentality wave… Target unknown… Not logical… Not intelligent… It's a generated question…' Zero's mechanical voice echoed in his ears.

"So, I have to say yes or no…" Angele muttered as he looked at the left dish. Vivian was floating in the air and she nodded after noticing that Angele was staring at her.

"Start the teleportation or not?" the mentality wave repeated.

"Start," Angele answered.

WOO*

The sky turned silver-gray for a second but it returned to normal quickly.

Angele saw that Vivian's body was surrounded by a ball of gray fog; she disappeared along with the fog.

"She's gone?" Angele quickly checked the situation using the biochip and blue light dots appeared in front of his eyes.

On the left side of his sight, rows of data were refreshing. Angele could see the information like the density of the energy, the dimension movement, the radiation density, and the movement of the air. The data was being calculated constantly.

'How safe was the teleportation?' Angele questioned.

'The teleportation was extremely safe. The success rate was 99.985%,' the biochip responded immediately.

Angele checked the number of the dimension movement, the number was so large that Vivian had to be teleported to somewhere far from this area.

"Vivian's mentality sigil is still active! The place must be safe!" the First Elder said loudly.

The magnifier man started talking again, "Disappear… many people… just like you!"

The Second Elder's brow furrowed. "Is he trying to tell us that there are many people like us on the other side?"

"That's the only possibility." The First Elder nodded. "This area doesn't feel like the inside of a tornado or the other side of the tornado. It felt like a random dimension fissure and my guess is probably right. An ancient scale like this can only be found in dimension fissures. I think the scales were built for the giants."

"It's highly possible." The Second Elder nodded in agreement. "First Elder, should we use the scale too?"

"Let's do it. It's impossible for us to return to the central continent now and this area just makes me anxious for some reason. We should leave now. There are many human beings on the other side and we should be able to rebuild our organization there." The First Elder finished his words and looked at the other people.

"What do you think? Should we stay here or teleport to the other side?"

"We should teleport to the other side, this is not even a question." Mike stepped forward.

"The children in the team aren't feeling well after we traveled through the tunnel. I think the radiation here is not just from the energy particles and mortals will be hurt if they stay here for too long. However, I don't think we can just trust the magnifier man like this."

"It's easy. I have a spell that can test if he's telling the truth, I've already cast it on him." Angele slowly landed on the ground. "I can guarantee that he's telling the truth." He checked the magnifier man's memory and saw the scene on the other side. It was a glowing cave with human beings living inside. The scene was nice and peaceful.

"That's it then. We should teleport together. Second Elder, Mike, and I will protect the mortals. We should protect them using a metal barrier or an ice barrier so that they won't take too much radiation. Fir and Green, help take care of the children. Also, please put the offerings on the right dish."

The First Elder waved his right hand and a black leather bag dropped into Fir's hand. "These are the limbs of energy creatures I collected. I wanted to use them for lab materials, however, I think this is a better time to use them."

The Second Elder threw a red leather bag to Fir as well. "I have some materials that I don't need too."

The other wizards all handed the materials that they could spare to Angele and Fir. They needed a large number of materials as offerings.

They could not keep the carriages and the bulls. The wizards stored everything they needed in the rings and their relatives to the left dish.

It took them around ten minutes to take all the mortals to the dish that was several hundred meters high.

Angele and Fir flew to the right dish. Angele was the one who dropped the offering.

The mentality started questioning Angele again after he dropped everything on the dish.

"Start the teleportation or not?"

Angele led Fir to the left dish and landed by the wizards who were prepared for the teleportation. He exchanged eye contact with the First Elder and opened his mouth. "Start now."

WOO*

Angele suddenly heard something ringing in his ears.

It felt like that his body was pulled like noodle and then slowly returned to the normal form. Some bright-silver light blinded Angele's eyes and it felt like that his body was soaked in some strange liquid.

Angele had no idea how long had passed when the silver light disappeared.

There was a black wall right in front of him; the wall was bumpy and there were glowing mushrooms on its surface.

Angele glanced around, he noticed that he was standing on a white platform with the team. There was a large white stone wall behind him and the engraving on the wall looked like a large scale.

The other walls in the cave were black and there was a narrow path in front of them. By the end of the path, there was white light coming from outside.

Vivian was resting on the path with her eyes closed.

The crowd got noisy after several seconds.

"Is everyone doing fine?" The First Elder swung his hands and released some green light. The mortals and wizards at lower ranks were quickly relieved from the pain caused by the energy radiation.

"I'm fine, First Elder."

"I'm good but my muscles are sour."

Mike crouched by a girl with silver hair; he was checking the girl's condition carefully.

"The children are recovering, which means, the area with the scales was the problem."

"Sounds good." The First Elder was satisfied with the result.

Vivian noticed the presence of the team and quickly walked to them.

"I was waiting for you. I checked the surroundings and found that this was just a normal cave. There is a forest and some small hills around. Also, I found a town that's occupied by humans on the left. I checked the energy movement and I'm certain that there was no wizard here. Actually, the density of energy particles here is low, that's very strange."

Vivian's brow furrowed.

"There are over 10 000 people in the town but I didn't find any wizard apprentice and knights here, which means, those people are all mortals."

The First Elder's brow furrowed as well. "That's not good news. Are you sure that you didn't find any knight? Who's protecting the town then?"

"There are swordsmen and normal knights that are not releasing any energy waves but they are still mortals," Vivian explained. "Also, I checked the elementals here."

Raising her hand, Vivian released an oval mirror in the air. Inside the mirror, there was a translucent vortex and there were a few colorful strings in the vortex.

Angele observed the vortex carefully, he noticed that there were only red, blue, and green strings in the vortex.

"Fire, life energy, and water… Those are the only energy particles in the air here. Also, the density is so low that I can barely see the strings." Blue light dots flashed in Angele's eyes. He did the comparison and the energy density in the central continent was 100 times the energy density here.

"That's why there's no knights and wizards here. Alright, let's leave the cave first." There was a serious expression on the First Elder's face as he left the cave first.

The rest of the wizards all had their brows furrowed. The low energy density would be good for the mortals but the spells they cast would be much weaker than before. They had to rely on the energy particles that were stored in their bodies, however, it would be hard for them to collect the energy particles in the air. It was a terrible news to the wizards who enjoyed doing research.

It would not be a problem to Angele, he was a wizard that followed the ancient wizard's path and he could still rely on the refined true form. Although he could not sense the Nightmare Realm here, the pressure from the realm power had already disappeared after the two realms contacted.

The only problem was that the realm power here was barely noticeable due to the low energy density. It was the first time that he found a place that was weaker than the west coast. In such an environment, it would be nearly impossible for them to build a portal that could teleport them back to the central continent.

Wizards' power came from the energy particles, without enough energy particles, they would never be able to build a strong portal.

Although Angele had a huge amount of energy from the negative emotions, he would not build a portal using the power of the souls and the negative emotions.

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Chapter 550: Research and Exploration (1)

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The rain was heavy.

There were some small white houses on the empty ground among the vibrant green trees. The white houses looked like white flowers lying on a large green blanket and formed a line; they looked a bit blurry in the rain, but one could tell that they were all well organized.

There was a cave with its entrance blocked by some vines on a hill by the town. The vines were removed and a group of people wearing either black or white robes stepped out of the cave. The raindrops were hitting their robes hard—the noise was quite loud.

Angele overlooked the town below the hill through the gaps between the leaves.

"That's the town you talked about, mother? It's a good idea to stay in the town for now."

The First Elder was walking in front of the team.

"This is the closest town we can find; we can study the scale when we have time. The only problem is the density of energy particles. Green, thank you for finding us a safe place to live." He nodded.

"It's my pleasure. My mother and I are both members of the Elemental Hand. I'm doing it for the organization," Angele responded politely. He glanced at Vivian and noticed that she was smiling.

"Alright, let's build some wooden houses here, we can check the situation of the town. We need to learn more about the environment." The First Elder and the Second Elder started giving orders to other wizards in the team.

The wizards were asked to find the safest area around, purchase daily supplies, and learn about the local language. There were also wizards securing food and water sources. Also, numerous runes were set up as an alarm.

The wizards all had their own missions, including Fir.

Although the First Elder did not ask Angele to do anything, he still decided to help Mike, who was asked to find a safe place for the wooden houses.

He walked down the hill in the rain and started rethinking the whole thing.

He wanted to make sure that the Elemental Hand could leave the central continent safely and live a peaceful life with his mother. Angele's life expectancy was long and he wanted to spend as much time as he could with his mother, however, he still needed to find a way to strengthen himself.

Angele stepped on the grass. He was not actually trying to find a safe location, he was just thinking about the future with his brow furrowed.

'The Nightmare Realm will be separated from the wizard world sooner or later. I need to find a way to keep my ability to activate my refined true form. Without the power of the Nightmare Realm, I'll be restricted by the realm power again…'

Angele glanced at Mike and the other wizard, they were all checking the surroundings in the forest.

'This is my chance. I left the central continent with the organization and I'm far from the central continent. I can't be dragged into countless wars by the sealed forms. The realm power of the wizard world will continue to pressure me and weaken me after the Nightmare Realm left.'

He knew the situation well.

'If I want to solve the problem, I'll need to find out the real reason why the realm power is pressuring me and how it works… Maybe I should collect some creatures from other realms and see what happens…' he continued to think.

'Zero, create a research subject and name it as Realm Power,' he ordered.

'Mission created… Collecting data… No information related to realm power is found… Do you want to increase the search range?' Zero responded.

'No. Pause the mission but update the progress when new data is collected,' Angele responded. Everything returned to normal after some blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes.

Mike waved at Angele by a river and shouted, "Hey, I found a good place here! The river is nice and we can collect some food around it!"

Angele and the other wizard quickly walked to the river.

The twisted river was running down broken pieces of black stones like a white blanket. The grass and bushes by the river were vibrant and clean. Everything in the area was refreshing.

Angele jumped onto a rock and pointed at the river.

However, the flow of the river barely changed and Angele was surprised.

"Right, I forgot that the density of energy particles here is way too low…" Shaking his head, Angele smiled.

"I was thinking about this too…" There was a bitter smile on Mike's face. His robe was soaked in water as he failed to block the splashes. "We relied too much on spells when dealing with basic things. What do you think, Air?"

The other wizard was a female white robe; there was a black scar on her neck. The scar looked like a centipede and it changed Angele's first impression of the woman. "It's understandable. The wizards of the central continent made the spells more practical by casting them to help with our daily lives. It's a way to improve ourselves." She stopped for a second and continued, "I'm a rank 2 wizard who focuses on water spells but I can barely gather the water on my palm without using the energy particles in my body."

She pointed at the river, a string of water left the river and flew to the woman. The water string turned into a small ball of water quickly.

"In the central continent, if I release an energy-infused water string like this, I can easily destroy a small army. However, there's barely anything I can do here…."

Mike tried to calm Air down, however, he looked a bit helpless. They started cutting down the trees by the river. They wanted to create an empty ground here for the wooden houses.

Angele helped them as well. Without casting any spells, they cut down the trees using their physical strength. Angele's attributes were much higher than the other wizards' so he decided to cut down the trees by himself and asked the other two wizards to build the wooden houses.

The rain slowly stopped after a while. The golden sunlight pierced through the dark clouds and landed in the forest. It was bright but still cold.

Angele quickly cut down numerous trees as he thought about the realm power. An empty ground was created without any problem.

He tried to cast spells, however, a rank 2 damage spell in the central continent only had the power of a rank 1 apprentice here. The spell could barely do anything, it felt like that the wizards were two ranks lower than they were here.

The good thing was that Angele's power came from the bloodlines or he would be greatly impacted too. He felt like he was just a strong rank 1 wizard here and would have trouble recovering after using up all the energy particles in his body.

Most of the wizards decided to save the energy particles for critical situations and were using their hands to collect the things they needed.

The wizards were much stronger than mortals so they would not get tired easily. It only took them a couple hours to build more than 20 wooden houses by the river.

The wooden houses spread on the empty ground; they looked like large cubes. The wizards also built fences around the houses.

"That's all we can do for now. We can build better houses later if we decide to stay here for a longer period." Mike was satisfied with the small town they built and quickly sent the signal to the team.

Several minutes later, the other people brought the food they collected here. They also caught some wild boars and chickens. The wizards who went to the town returned with basic tools and condiments. They also learned the local language through some special spells.

The elemental spells were weakened but the spells that would affect people's mind were still usable. The wizards acquired the knowledge of the language without any problem.

The three elders were still in the town, they wanted to learn more about the environment.

There were around 20 people in Elemental Hand's team; they entered the wooden houses and retrieved their items from the magic devices. Also, they put their names on the houses that they selected.

Some of the wizards modified the houses to the way they liked.

Angele selected a house that was close to the forest and waited for the elders to come back.

The three elders finally came back following the signals left by the wizards when the sun started setting.

Vivian had a short conversation with others and walked to Angele's house. Angele stepped out of his house to welcome his mother before she knocked on the door.

"Vivian, how's the situation here? I only visited the dimension fissure the last time I traveled through the tornado and it's my first time here," Angele questioned.

They entered the wooden house together and sat down in the wooden chairs.

"We haven't talked in a while. Too many things happened." Vivian grabbed the cup from the table and sipped some water. "The water is not polluted by the energy radiation and tastes great."

Angele peeked through the wooden window, the wizards all returned to their houses with their relatives. The Elemental Hand finally found a peaceful place to settle down. The members decided to live in this town they created with their families.

The First Elder and the Second Elder were talking with Fir but Angele was not sure what they were talking about. Outside the fences, the trees were marked with glowing red runes that would alert the wizards if anything happened.

"We're safe now. What's your next plan?" Angele questioned in a calm town.

"Plan? I've visited the town…" Vivian sighed. "All I could find were mortals. The mortals here are kind and it might be a good idea to settle down here. What about you, Green? You're young and you probably don't want to waste your time here."

Angele chuckled. "No worries. I need a peaceful environment like this to solve my problem. An environment like this will help me think, also…" He stopped for a second and continued, "It's nearly impossible for me to go back from a place like this. The density of energy particles here is way too low. I can build a portal or send my shadow back to the central continent. Magic circles are supported by the energy particles in the air, however, we have to rely on ourselves now and wizards can't do anything without the energy particles."

"Sadly, First Elder wanted to rebuild the organization in a remote area, but in an environment like this…" Vivian lowered her head and looked at the cup, she looked a bit depressed.

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Chapter 551: Research and Exploration (2)

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"If we want to leave this area, we'll have to study the stone wall with the scale on it. Maybe the scale can help us teleport somewhere else, we just need to figure out the method." Angele shrugged.

"The problem is we don't have enough materials as the offering, only a small number of us can be teleported…" Vivian did not finish the sentence.

"Don't worry, most of the wizards that left with us hate the war. If we want to return to the central continent, we'll have to travel through the tornado again, however, it'll take me a while to find another hidden path and I've already made it clear. The wizards are here because it's their destiny," Angele said.

"We need to get used to the environment here and live a peaceful life."

"Yeah, we've already made the decision and we shouldn't regret." Vivian sounded a bit depressed.

They both knew that it would be nearly impossible for the Elemental Hand to be rebuilt in a remote area when the elder council left the central continent. The First Elder, the Second Elder, and the other wizards who joined the team all knew it.

They already gave up everything but they found a safe place to live.

"Alright, why don't we find a quiet place and build a two-level house. We need a good house if we're going to stay here for a while." A smile appeared on Vivian's face.

"No problem." Angele smiled as well.

Nine years later…

The gentle sunlight pierced through the forest and reflected on a two-level house with white walls.

The house was built somewhere deep in the forest, surrounded by silver metal bars. There were small flowers that varied in color around the house and bees were dancing above them.

BAM*

Some black smoke spurted out of the second floor's window.

COUGH COUGH*

A male was coughing hard inside the house.

In a dark room on the second floor, Angele, who was wearing a black outfit, was coughing with his hands covering the mouth. His long hair was tied up.

There were many white candles on the ground but all of them had already been extinguished. The green smoke from the candles filled up the room and the ceiling was covered with burnt marks.

"Again?" Angele looked at the floor with his brow furrowed; a moon-shaped red rune circle was drawn on the floor using blood and the tiny runes looked in the circle looked like ants.

"It has been nine years and the power of the Nightmare Realm is weakened. The realms will be separated from each other in a couple months. I need to figure out why the realm power is weakening as soon as possible." There was dedication in Angele's eyes.

As the Lord of Terror, Angele's bloodline power could help him return to the Nightmare Realm whenever he wanted, however, if he wanted to figure out how realm power worked, he would have to do tests in the main world.

He spent nine years studying time and space. He also checked the condition of the sealed forms that were still in the central continent and everything was going as he planned. However, Angele had not expected that it'd only take nine years for the realms to separate from each other.

"That's why the beard was not concerned with the sealed forms. It's impossible for the sealed forms to get to the fifth level of the underground world in such a short period."

"Green!" Suddenly, Angele heard children shouting outside. "Vivian asked you to go to the town and have breakfast."

Angele looked out of the window.

Outside of the silver metal bars, there were two children shouting. The two children were around ten years old; the one on the left that looked like a boy was wearing a shirt and there was a slinger on his belt. The other looked like a girl, she had long red hair and her purple dress was cute.

"Alma and Egg Tart…" Angele looked at the two children and smiled. The two children both looked cute, however, the one that looked like a boy was actually a girl and the one in a dress was a boy. It was a tradition of the town, boys would be treated like girls until they were 13 years old and girls would be treated like boys until they were 13 years old.

The wizards and their relatives communicated a lot with the people from the town in the last nine years.

Some of the wizards moved to the town since most of them enjoyed the peaceful life and the environment here was perfect for them.

Only the First Elder and Angele were still living in the forest. Vivian and Fir all moved to the town.

"Breakfast, huh? Alright, you can go play if you want. I'll be there soon," Angele responded quickly.

The two children heard the response and disappeared into the forest. It seemed like they had friends waiting for them.

Angele was not concerned about the dark smoke in the room, he moved away from the window and walked down the stairs.

The wooden staircase led him to the first floor quickly, he walked around the staircase and pulled a black ring on the floor up.

Crank*

The ring was the handle of a trapdoor which hid the entrance to the basement.

Angele lowered his body and entered the basement, closing the trapdoor.

The basement was empty, there were no decorations there. The only object there was a gray platform in the center of the room; the platform had a diameter of five meters and occupied most of the area.

There were two tall silver candle stands on both sides of the platform; dim red light from the candle stands was reflected off the walls.

Angele walked to the platform but did not step on it. He stopped by the edge of the platform and checked his feet.

A blue glow flashed on the gray platform when Angele approached it. The blue glow came from the flashing light strings that looked like tiny cracks; the cracks were not following any specific pattern.

"I hope I can succeed…. The problem is I only have a couple months left."

The wizards of the Elemental Hand were barely doing any research that required the use of energy particles but it was not a problem for Angele—he had the energy created by negative emotions. Sadly, the energy created by negative emotions was hard to control. Angele spent the last nine years trying to design a special rune circle that could utilize his bloodline power.

The rune circle was designed using the bloodline power and its fuel was the energy created by negative emotions. Angele wanted to use the rune circle to help him with his study.

Angele was a bit anxious as he looked at the flashing cracks.

"Nine years of study… I hope I did everything properly. If I can get the desired result, I'll be able to find out the truth about the realm power and solve the problem. The ancient wizards injured the ancient light without taking any damage and I'm sure I can do it too. Let's start."

Angele stepped forward.

The complicated red rune circle glowed under his feet and a larger rune circle appeared outside the circle he was standing on. Several seconds later, the second circle was followed by a third circle.

The rune circles stacked and all appeared under Angele's feet, covering the floor of the basement.

Angele took out a dried body of a white bird from his pouch.

"In the name of the Terror Lord…" he started chanting the incantation.

The dead bird was revived on Angele's palm and its dried body was filled up with life energy. Several seconds later, the dead bird turned into a normal white bird and left Angele's hand.

The bird rotated around Angele several times and released intense red light from its eyes. The bird charged into the gray platform and disappeared into the rune circles.

"All the realms… All the dimensions… My sigil… Open the tunnel for me…" Angele released some thick black smoke, which all moved to the gray platform.

Some red walls that were covered with countless runes appeared around the platform. The black smoke gathered and turned into a black bead that was slowly spinning. The bead was surrounded by the red walls.

CHI*

It sounded like a piece of cloth was being torn apart.

The black bead was destroyed and turned into an eye-shaped fissure with pure darkness inside.

Angele stared at the black fissure; suddenly, dark light flashed in his sight.

The basement blacked out for a second and Angele's sight blurred. He noticed that the fissure disappeared completely when he could see things again.

An unknown creature appeared on the gray platform.

The creature looked like a ball that was stuck on a cube. Its body had the color of bronze and it looked like a mechanical creation. Angele could hear the noise made by gears.

The ball was on top of the cube and the two holes that looked like eyes were staring at Angele.

"What's this?" Angele looked at the strange creature on the platform with his brow furrowed. "I created the summoning spell to call the creatures from other dimensions but it shouldn't bring me a robot…"

Angele checked the creature and noticed that the realm power was not pressuring it at all.

"Is the creature too weak? The realm power is not doing anything to it…" Angele was a bit speechless. He named the summoning spell as Angele's Great Dimension Spell. The spell would summon a random creature from a random realm for him but he could not control the outcome, so the creature might be strong or weak.

He wanted to summon something that would trigger the weakening effect of the realm power but it seemed like the robot-looking thing in front of him did not meet the requirements.

Angele waved his hand. The red walls released red electric pulses and the electric pulses quickly struck the bronze robot.

CHI CHI*

After the noise, only a pile of black dust was left on the platform.

Angele waved his hands again and the dust was blown away from the rune circles. The dust was sucked into a small hole on the ground.

"Again!"

He took out another dead bird.

Angele repeated the process and the bird charged into the rune circles again.

Black light flashed.

Angele's sight was blurred and he saw the second creature he summoned.

It was a man that was standing on the platform, surrounded by the walls. The man was wearing a white fur coat and had short golden hair. The man's face was handsome but his expression made him look like he did not care about anything. The man had his hands in his pockets and he just stood there.

"Where is this place?" The man raised his head and looked at Angele. The man was not speaking using his mouth, he was sending the message using his mentality wave.

"I'm Lord of Ethereal, how did you teleport me to this place?!"

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Chapter 552: Research and Exploration (3)

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Angele's eyes narrowed and scanned the man's body using the biochip.

"Lord of Ethereal, huh? Your mentality is strong," he responded to the man's word using mentality wave; however, the man's condition was a bit strange.

The man had strong energy movements inside his body but he was not impacted by the realm power, it felt like that the man could resist the realm power naturally.

Angele was interested in this strong being that was from another realm.

"Let's do a trade, strong being from another realm. I'm interested in the way you use your mentality wave."

Angele's message was a bit hard to understand since he was not good at sending messages through mentality waves.

He repeated the sentence multiple times and the lord finally understood what he was trying to imply.

"That's not a problem!" The man flicked his finger.

"This is the first time I travel to another realm like this and what you're asking is just a common thing to me so I'll just gift you it."

Angele noticed that the knowledge from the lord was sent into his brain through mentality waves.

"Thank you." He quickly improved his mentality wave messages and the message was much easier to understand than before.

"Sadly, my spell can only keep you in this world for a short duration."

The lord looked at the rune walls around him as his brow furrowed.

"It's understandable, you can't break the truth of the dimensions. Your realm and my realm are way too far from each other, it's a miracle that you successfully brought me here."

"As a payback, you can have this." Angele threw a purple healing potion to the lord.

The healing potion traveled through the rune walls without any problem and the lord caught it safely.

"That's some strong life energy force!" A surprised smile appeared on his face. "Thank you for your potion, my wounds will heal faster now."

"You helped me too." Angele smiled. He was not concerned about the healing potion, it was one of the weakest healing potions he had, but it seemed like the lord did not have something like this in his realm.

"Of course." The man chuckled and disappeared into the air.

The smile quickly disappeared from Angele's face as he started thinking.

'Actually, I don't need to put a lot of resources into this summoning spell, I'm just using the power of my bloodline… However, the creatures I summon will be completely random. The first creature can be killed by a mortal and the second one named Lord of Ethereal came from a realm with creatures that all have strong mentality waves. The mentality wave message technique he gave me was practical but that's it. I want to summon a strong creature that I need... I wish the outcome of my summoning spell was not random.'

Angele was using the energy created by negative emotions as the fuel for the complicated rune circles. The rune circles changed the dimension rules and summoned random creatures from random realms using the realm power of a random realm.

There were so many random factors during the procedure and they were out of his control.

"Last time…" Angele inhaled deeply and repeated the procedure again.

CHI*

Dark light flashed.

The fissure that was surrounded by the rune walls was still there. A one-meter-long tentacle of an octopus reached out of it.

The tentacle slowly moved out of the fissure; it seemed like the creature was trying to leave it. A strong and chaotic energy wave filled up the basement.

Angele stepped back and there was excitement in his eyes.

"Rank 6… That's good enough!"

PA*

One of the suckers on the tentacle exploded and translucent blood splashed on the rune walls.

A strong and terrifying force field appeared in the basement, it was the realm power which Angele was familiar with.

"Great!" Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes as he stared at the tentacle.

PA PA PA*

The suckers on the tentacle exploded one by one and the realm power was weakening the octopus every second.

ROAR*

The octopus's voice sounded strange, its tentacle returned into the fissure.

After dark light flashed, the fissure disappeared and everything returned to normal.

The blue light dots stayed in front of Angele's eyes for several minutes.

A row of information appeared in his sight.

'Sample collected, analyzing…'

Behind the sentence, there was a white progress bar that was being filled up slowly.

"It's about the time." Angele checked the biochip and noticed it took him half an hour to do everything.

He could summon three random creatures in this specific month of the year.

"It's great that I activated the realm power during my last attempt, otherwise I'd have to do it again next year. I hope I'll get some valid results…"

He glanced at the gray platform, turned around, and walked to the exit of the basement.

Angele pushed the trapdoor open and flew out of the basement. He checked the house, opened the door, and headed to the town.

Most of the wizards were living in the town but they were hiding their true identity from the local residents. The local residents thought that the wizards were just mortals.

The First Elder asked the wizards not to do anything suspicious before they could explore all the areas around.

Angele walked down the hill and entered the town.

The town was surrounded by farms and there were yellow windmills in the farms. There was also a river by the town and the residents built a watermill over the river.

There were chubby middle-aged women washing clothes by the river. They chatted as their hands moved. Their children were playing with the water and looked happy.

There were also armored soldiers on horses patrolling the area. The muscular soldiers were carrying white shields and had swords or iron bows on their backs.

The bridge over the river was the only way that Angele could walk to the town. He stepped on the bridge and headed to the town.

"Green! Are you on your way to Vivian's place?" A boy that was fishing on the bridge recognized Angele. The boy was around ten years and had short blond hair. The freckles on his face looked like sesame on a piece of toast.

Angele recognized the boy as well, it was a boy that lived close to Vivian.

"Jack, fishing again?"

"Do you want me to show you the way? Vivian is having a barbeque party on the other side of the town, I think you may need a guide." The boy named Jack quickly organized his fishing equipment.

"Also, the merchants have arrived. They built a large tent in the town and they brought a circus here." The boy blinked his eyes.

"That's for you." Angele chuckled and threw a small piece of silver to the boy. He collected the silver piece from a mine; it could be traded for several empire silver coins.

Two silver coins would get the boy a ticket to the circus and he could purchase some snacks while watching.

Jack smiled and caught the silver piece.

"Thank you, Green!" He collected his fishing equipment and walked down the bridge with Angele. They headed to the left side of the town together.

It took them a couple minutes to arrive at a two-story house with white walls. There was a spacious garden in front of the house, tables, chairs, and barbeque tools lined up on an empty ground.

Several wizards of the Elemental Hand attended the party. Some of them were drinking and some of them were barbequing, there were also people that were having conversations in small groups.

Fir and Vivian were chatting with smiles on their faces. They both noticed Angele's presence.

"Welcome." Vivian walked to the fence and hugged Angele. "Why are you always late? We already started because you were the only one that did not show up."

"I had something to take care of." Angele looked at Jack.

"Jack, do you want to have a drink here?"

Jack looked at Vivian but he was too anxious to talk. Angele could see his lips trembling.

"I… I… I…"

Two armored soldiers that were patrolling the street passed by and they shouted, "Jack!"

"Your father is looking for you. He's angry, you should head home now!" the soldier in the front shouted.

"Sure, Ham…" Jack was surprised by the loud voice and quickly ran to the soldier.

Angele smiled as he was dragged into the garden.

The soldier named Ham watched the two black robes walk into the garden and talked to Jack in a serious voice, "Stay away from the outsiders, they don't look like good people to me. Your father will be mad if he finds out about this."

"But Green has always been kind to me…" Jack objected.

"No one knows what the black robes are thinking!" The other soldier sounded a bit drunk.

"The children in this town all like them for some reason, especially you and Ruby."

"Alright, go home now. Your father is worried. Did you catch any fish today?"

"Well…"

Angele was dragged to Fir by Vivian. He grabbed a glass of green fruit wine from the table and took a sip. The fruit wine was sweet, fragrant, and refreshing.

"The First Elder is back with his group…" Vivian spoke to Angele in a low voice. "They're in the living room, waiting for you."

Angele nodded. "Alright, let's go."

Fir finished the fruit wine and put down the glass on the table. She nodded and entered the house first. Angele and Vivian followed after them.

The First Elder and the Second Elder were sitting by the fireplace in the living room. They smiled after seeing the three wizards walking to them.

"Sorry for interrupting the party. I had to gather you here. Alright, let's start." The First Elder looked at Vivian and she quickly locked the door. They walked to the two elders and sat down by the table.

Mike was also here, eating a meat skewer slowly. "You spent years exploring the area, I assume you've got everything sorted out."

"Yeah." The First Elder nodded. "Second Elder, I'll let you do the talking."

"Alright." The Second Elder glanced around. "First Elder and I explored the area over the last several years. We tried to do it as fast as possible so we used a lot of our resources and finally have a general idea of the layout of this land."

He cleared his throat and continued, "There are only mortals in the countries on this land. Their main forces are strong soldiers on heavily armored horses. There are no knights here but there are rumors of wizards going around. The rumors said that people here hated wizards and the kings treated the wizards as their enemies. They would burn the wizards they captured alive and some mortals were killed due to false reports."

The wizards were a bit surprised after hearing the word.

"Which means… If they find out who we are, it'll be a big problem?" Vivian questioned in a low voice.

"We're just rank 2 or rank 3 wizards now and we can only cast weakened spells using the energy particles stored in our bodies. There'll be consequences if we use up all the energy particles…"

Fir, Mike, and Angele remained silent. They did not expect something like this; it was lucky that they were living in a remote area.

"It'll be hard for us to rebuild our organization… That might be the reason why we didn't encounter other wizards in the last nine years… If we don't return to the central continent, we won't be able to collect the energy particles we need." Fir was worried.

"The mortals can kill us if they send a whole army here."

"Don't worry, no one knows who we are as long as we don't expose ourselves to the public. Also, we can return to the dimension fissure in the worst case," Angele said.

"Some people already told me that they wanted to return to the central continent…" The First Elder sighed. "I gathered you here because I want to ask you if you want to stay here or return to the central continent. We don't have enough offerings to send all people back."

"It has been nine years but we don't know what's happening in the central continent… I think I'll just stay here," Fir spoke first. "My family died during the war and I don't want to go back."

"I don't really care. I'll just stay with my mother." Angele shrugged and looked at Vivian.

Vivian hesitated and smiled. "We've already announced that we were leaving the central continent and I don't think there's a place for us there anymore. I think White City Alliance has already created another organization like the Elemental Hand and there'll be a problem if we go back unless we hide in a remote area, but it'll be the same as what we're doing right now. I'll just stay here I think."

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Mike looked at the First Elder. "First Elder, why don't you tell us more about the ruling class here? I'll be staying here too. I'm a normal wizard but I'm one of the strongest individuals here." He looked a bit excited. "If I stay here, my power will be recognized and I'll be respected one day. I won't go back just for that."

Mike was born and raised in the central continent, it was the first time he realized that he could become one of the strongest human beings in a world that was full of mortals. Unlike the wizards that traveled to the central continent from other regions, Mike had not experienced such feelings yet.

Mike, Angele, Vivian, and Fir were all interested in learning more about the local areas.

"This is a town in the Stanley Empire. Only merchants visit this town once per year since we're in a remote area. There are many towns like this in the empire, they don't communicate with other towns often. The empire is much larger than the human empires in the central continent. We visited at least six large cities and we heard that there was a total of 12 to 14 large cities." The First Elder stopped for a second and continued, "Also, Stanley Empire is weakest of the five countries here but it still has around 30 000 soldiers in the army.

"Most importantly, we found many strange ruins here and they looked like unexplored ruins left by the ancient wizards."

Most of the wizards looked excited after hearing these words.

"For the ones who want to go back, we should just let them go." The First Elder sighed. "This might be our chance or our graves… We have to work for the future…"

Angele smiled after he noticed that his mother looked happy. He was not concerned about his power as a wizard, his main problem was still the realm power. He needed to avoid the pressure from the realm power or just solve the problem completely so he could release his true power when necessary.

Vivian was also not a problem for him. In this area, Angele was confident that he could protect all the members of the Elemental Hand.

"Also, one more thing, about your wedding with Fir," Vivian suddenly interrupted.

"Well…" The smile disappeared from Angele's face. He liked Fir but Angele's true form was a humongous scorpion monster and he was worried that their children would be scorpions too.

Fir glanced at Angele with a calm expression on the face and mocked, "Master Green has Becky with him and I think he never thinks of me…"

"Becky…" Angele was a bit speechless. He did bring Becky here but Becky left years ago and Angele had no idea where she was. Although Angele's bloodline was inside Becky's body, he could barely sense it due to the distance.

"We haven't seen Becky for years…" Vivian chuckled. "Fir, Green, if you think it's fine, we'll hold the wedding for you as soon as possible. What do you think? The Fenrir Family needs inheritors!"

A sweet smile appeared on Fir's face. "I have no problem with that."

Angele shrugged. "I'll still focus on my research, I hope you don't mind…"

"I'll try to make you spend more time on me," Fir spoke in a light tone. She knew that a dark wizard that had a strong body like Angele would be perfect for the environment. When the energy particles are limited, Angele would still be able to handle many things. Fir hated the political wars and endless research. She always wanted to live a peaceful life and would never give up a chance like this.

Angele was smart and he was not ugly, also, Vivian always treated Fir well.

The three elders chuckled after they heard the conversation.

"Alright then, we'll hold the wedding in three days. Green and Fir, it won't be a big wedding, we can only work with what we have here." The First Elder sounded apologetic.

It was night. In Angele's house that was built on the hill.

There was still orange light from a burning candle coming out of the reading room's window on the second floor.

Angele stood in front of a large stone wall in his black silk robe, scraping something off the wall carefully. He used a silver metal plate to collect the dust.

Most of the wall was covered by a black blanket but it was still visible that there was a painting behind the blanket.

Minutes later, Angele left the stone wall and sat down by the table. He started checking the dust he collected under the dim light.

'Zero, is the analysis on the realm power done yet?' he questioned as he checked the dust.

'Analysis completed, you can retrieve the result now,' Zero quickly responded.

'Retrieving the result.'

CHI*

A blue screen flashed in Angele's sight for a second as countless rows of data and graphs appeared in front of him. The data and the graphs were the only things he could see at the moment.

The data was being calculated and everything merged into a new formula with a lot of runes in it.

Angele felt relieved after seeing the formula. "The denser the energy particles are, the stronger the realm power will be. According to this formula, most of the energy particles are from a different realm and that's the reason why the realm power of the wizard world was activated. If I can collect the local energy particles and store them in my body, the local realm power will no longer be a problem. However, it'll be hard for me to complete this procedure…"

Angele's head was aching. The power of his true form came from the bloodline of the scorpion woman and the single-eyed giant. The two ancient creatures were both from the Nightmare Realm and the Son of Sun was also from a different realm. He would be a complete stranger to the wizard world if he was not a human being.

"But how does the realm power recognize the energy from a different realm? If I can figure that out, I might be able to avoid the realm power…" Angele's brow furrowed.

"Anyway, let me prepare the materials for the summoning spell." The dust he collected from the mysterious painting was the main material for the summoning spell he created.

Angele wanted to find out the truth about the painting. He was almost trapped in the painting and still remembered how that felt. He spent a lot of time trying to study the painting over the years.

As long as part of the painting was covered, there would be no danger.

Angele flattened the dust carefully using a metal needle under the light from the candle.

"Zoom in," he muttered.

Suddenly, his pupils shrank and turned to the size of holes made by needles. He stared at the dark dust on the silver plate.

The dust was zoomed in; its size increased gradually and filled up Angele's sight.

The dust looked like pieces of random black crystals in his eyes. The sharp crystals lined up randomly and it was impossible for Angele to count them one by one.

It felt like the crystals were made of some dense black substances.

'Magnify them by 100000 times for me,' Angele thought.

CHI*

One of the black crystals was zoomed in again, the tiny substances on the surface of the crystal turned into a large piece of stone in Angele's sight—the stone was also made of countless tiny black substances.

Angele's brow furrowed.

"It doesn't make sense… The last time I collected the dust, such substances did not appear after they were magnified by 200000 times. Zero, magnify them by 500000 times for me."

CHI*

The substances on the black crystal were zoomed in again, however, he could still see the black substances. The new substances he saw were then zoomed in again.

The process repeated several times and it blurred Angele's sight. Several seconds later, there was barely any light left on the new crystal in his sight.

Angele's brow furrowed as some blue light brightened up the black crystal, however, he could still see the tiny substances on the surface of the crystal.

"That's impossible…" He was surprised.

'Zero, analyze the sample for me and tell me how many times I have to magnify this thing!'

A progress bar appeared in Angele's sight and it was slowly filling up.

Several seconds later, a list of data appeared behind the progress bar.

Angele as shocked what he just read.

'Alright, following the result, magnify this thing by 156000000 times!' He gave the order quickly.

'Magnifying…' Although the biochip had been upgraded, it still took the system more than ten seconds to complete the process.

Angele's eyes blurred again but what appeared after was still a large black crystal with tiny substances on its surface.

However, he noticed that something was a bit different this time.

'Keep going…'

Suddenly, he felt like someone was standing behind him.

"Who's there?!" Angele attacked using his elbow and countless dark flames appeared on his body. A ball of smoke with something screaming inside charged at the person behind him.

He quickly turned around but the only thing he saw was the edge of someone's white outfit. Although Angele moved as fast as he could, the person still disappeared before he could do anything.

Angele's body was releasing terrifying and twisted force fields. The force fields filled up the whole reading room.

The elbow and the flames all missed, it felt like that he was seeing illusions.

'It's impossible!' Angele glanced around.

'Someone was behind me but I failed to detect him…' His sight slowly fell upon the painting that was covered by a blanket.

Part of the blanket was removed and the face of a woman in a white outfit was revealed. The woman was staring at Angele with one eye, she looked like a living being that was hiding behind a blanket.

"I'm sure I covered the painting with the blanket…" Angele stared at the painting with a serious expression on the face.

He walked to the painting and covered it again.

"The blanket was made of silent stones and it weighs 200 kilograms…"

Narrowing his eyes, Angele looked at the blanket.

"You did nothing in the last nine years. I don't know if you're a powerful artifact or not but I'm glad that you finally reacted to what I just did."

Angele checked the painting and the stone wall carefully. He walked to the table and sealed the dust in the silver plate.

He blew off the candles and walked down the stairs, heading to the bedroom on the first floor.

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Chapter 554: Unexpected (1)

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It was late at night.

In the bedroom, Angele was having a sweet dream on a large bed.

Although he was a wizard, he still enjoyed sleeping from time to time; it would make him feel relaxed.

The cold moonlight shined through the window and landed by the bed. A white shadow slowly appeared in the moonlight—it looked like a woman. The woman stood by the bed quietly and stared at Angele.

Ugh*

Angele made some noise and turned to the other side. The woman could only see his back.

The white shadow disappeared after Angele made the noise like she was never here.

Angele suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes and looked in the direction of where the woman was standing.

"This thing can go through my barrier…" he muttered. The painting started bothering Angele again, however, he had to keep visiting it as he needed the material for the summoning spell.

Also, Angele still wanted to find out the truth about the painting and would not give up just for some strange things that had been happening to him recently.

Crank*

It looked like that the door was pushed open by some wind; it was dark outside.

Angele got off the bed, walked to the door, and was about to close it.

PA*

A pale hand grabbed his wrist and tried to drag him to the other side of the door.

Angele's expression changed, it felt like his right wrist was locked by a claw and his bone ached. The pale hand's pull was so strong that Angele could barely stand still.

He realized that what outside the door was no longer his living room, it had to be the entrance to somewhere dangerous.

'I can't be dragged to the other side!'

He tried to resist the pale hand and his body was trembling.

"Damn!" he shouted and stabilized his feet. Angele released a lot of black smoke.

BAM*

He won.

Angele's sight blurred and everything disappeared. He was holding the handle of the door in hand and could see the moonlight on the living room's floor. The place was cold and quiet.

"Damn it!" He hit the door hard and made some loud noise.

"It seems like you want me to stop…" He assumed the painting was trying to stop him from studying it.

Red light appeared around his eyes and it looked like boiling lava.

"I won't give up the painting. I need the dust for my spell that helps me study the realm power. You'll pay for what you have done…" he muttered.

BAM*

The door was slammed close.

There were birds twittering outside the window.

"Have a seat, please. This is a special flower tea I made with tongue fruit and green flower leaves. Try it."

Angele put down two wooden cups and sat opposite Fir in the living room. Fir was wearing a tight black dress.

It was early in the morning and he could see the white smoke rising from the wooden cups. The creamy and fragrant smell of the tea permeated the air.

Fir was a bit surprised after she saw Angele. The elite wizard who was smart and calm looked a bit tired for some reason. She could even see the dark circles around his eyes.

"I apologize if I'm mistaken but are you having trouble sleeping recently? I have some tranquilization potion here…"

Angele smiled. "Thank you, but using the tranquilization potion is risky, I might get addicted. Don't worry, it's nothing serious."

Fir nodded. "I almost forgot that you're a potion master too but our wedding is tomorrow and I hope that you're prepared for it."

Angele was a bit speechless after hearing those words.

The two would be sleeping on the same bed soon but they were talking like they just met each other. Fir was being very polite to him and it made the situation even stranger.

"Don't worry. People all know why we're getting married." Angele smiled.

Fir heard that and nodded.

It was true that Fir never loved Angele and Angele never loved her. They were getting married because Vivian asked them too.

Fir was a wizard that loved research and exploration just like Angele did.

"I can talk to Vivian if you don't like me," Fir spoke in a low voice as she stared at Angele's dark circles. "Also, I'm here to see how you're doing on the hill. Do you mind if I take a look around?"

"Of course, go ahead." Angele shrugged. "Ah, I have some deserts I made in the kitchen. I'll grab you some." He stood up and walked to the kitchen. He disappeared at the corner quickly.

Fir grabbed the wooden cup and sipped some tea. The tea was tasty and creamy, it quickly warmed up her body.

She suddenly heard the footsteps coming from the staircase. The noise was crisp and rhythmical.

"Master Green? That was fast." Fir put down the cup and saw a woman in a white dress walk into Angele's bedroom.

Fir's brow furrowed, it felt like that the woman did not see her at all.

"We're not even married yet and you're already doing this to me?" Fir was Angele's fiancée after all and was a bit angry. She thought the woman was trying to make her jealous.

"I'll find out why master Green loves you so much!" Fir stood up and looked at the kitchen, however, she noticed that Angele was not making any noise.

"Is he doing this on purpose?" Fir felt even worse.

She decided to go and talk to the woman. Fir was certain that the woman was not from the Elemental Hand and assumed that Angele was keeping a local resident in his own house.

"A mortal will get old in just a couple years and she'll no longer be attractive… I'm different…" Fir smiled.

"I'll still be the same 200 years later."

Fir pursed her lips and walked to the bedroom. The door of the bedroom suddenly closed as Fir stepped into the room.

"Fir?!" Angele sat down with a plate of peanut muffins in his hand. He glanced around but could not where Fir was.

The tea on the table was still warm but Fir was nowhere to be found.

Angele's brow furrowed, it only took him around ten seconds to grab the dessert but Fir disappeared after he came back.

"Where are you, Fir?!" he shouted.

No one responded.

Angele noticed that something was off. He stood up and scanned the area using the biochip.

He looked around and noticed that the door was his bedroom was closed.

"I don't think I locked the door…"

He walked to the bedroom but thought of the pale hand he saw last night and decided not to open the door.

"Fir!" he shouted. "Talk to me if you're inside the bedroom!"

Angele moved away from the bedroom, he checked the guest room and the storage but he did not find anyone.

"I have a bad feeling about this… Fir is gone."

He rushed to the staircase but realized that he had not opened the bedroom's door yet.

Angele's expression changed, he walked to the bedroom but he found that someone locked the door from inside.

He hit the door hard.

Bam*

Crack*

The door of the bedroom was broken into pieces.

Inside the bedroom, Fir was hitting a door on the other side anxiously.

"Green, are you there?! Come on, open the door and let me go! I don't like jokes like this!"

Angele was surprised after he saw the scene.

The bedroom only had one door and Angele just entered through. There should be a window on the wall opposite to him but it was replaced by another door.

Fir heard the noise from behind, she turned her head around and looked at Angele with confusion in her eyes.

Crank*

The door Fir was knocking slowly opened. A pale arm reached out and tried to grab Fir.

"Run!" Angele shouted and charged to Fir. He grabbed Fir's arm and dragged her away from the door.

The pale arm missed and everything disappeared after the two wizards' sights blurred for a second.

They were sitting opposite to each other in the living room. The tea and the peanut muffins were still on the table.

The tea was still nice and hot.

"What just happened?" Fir had no idea what just happened. She looked at her wrist but there was no mark on it. "You grabbed my wrist hard, right? What's going on?"

Lowering her hand, Fir raised her head, however, she noticed that Angele disappeared.

A woman in a white dress slowly walked up the stairs. Fir noticed that the woman's face was covered by her long hair.

Fir had trouble breathing. She watched the woman walk to the second floor and could no longer hear the footsteps.

"Green?!" Her voice was shaky. "Master Green, are you still here?"

"Fir! Fir!"

She could hear a voice coming from the far side and it sounded like Angele.

Fir's head ached and her sight blurred for a second again. She saw that Angele was shaking her shoulders anxiously.

"Are you alright? Answer me!"

Fir looked at Angele but noticed that there was a pair of pale feet standing on the second floor. It was the woman but her body was blocked by the staircase.

The woman was wearing a white dress and her skin was extremely pale.

For some reason, Fir knew that the woman was staring at her. It felt like that the woman could see through the objects that were blocking her sight.

Fir could feel a chill running down her spine.

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Chapter 555: Unexpected (2)

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"Green… Did you see that? The woman… The woman in the white dress…" Her voice was shaky. Fir casted several spells when she was trapped in the bedroom but nothing worked. The only thing she could do was yelling and asking for Angele's help but she realized that the woman was still around.

"A woman in a white dress…" Angele's expression turned serious.

He rescued Fir from the bedroom but she just sat there and remained silent. Fir did not say a word no matter what Angele did and she finally regained consciousness after Angele shook her shoulders.

"What did you just see? Tell me about the details…" He suddenly noticed that the light faded away from Fir's eyes again.

His expression turned serious.

"Come on, not again!" He picked Fir up, left the house, and rushed out of the fence. Angele found a random tree and slowly put Fir down by it.

"Cough… Cough!"

Fir started coughing; she was trying her best to breathe. It almost felt like that she was choked by something. Fir leaned against the tree trunk and lowered her head. Her mouth was wide open and Angele could see the saliva dripping down her chin.

It took a while for Fir to recover.

She was still breathing heavily and there was fear in her eyes.

"Green, who the hell is that woman?"

Angele crouched and remained silent for a second.

"I don't know…"

"Why is there something so dangerous in your home?! That thing is more terrifying than a soul form!" Fir's voice was hoarse.

"I'm going to tell the elders about it."

"Don't!"

"I almost died there!" Fir was almost shouting.

Angele's brow furrowed but he was not sure what else he could say.

"I had a problem with my research…"

"Actually, you know what, I'll have to reconsider our marriage." Fir inhaled deeply and slowly calmed down.

"I assume that you didn't tell master Vivian about this… Although I don't know what that thing is, I don't want to stay near it!"

Angele nodded. "Fine, I understand, however, don't say anything to Vivian. This research is important to me but I don't want her to get worried."

Fir stared at Angele with fear and anxiety in her eyes.

"Alright, I won't tell the elders about this. I'll say that I just don't want to get married."

"Thank you… and sorry." Angele stood up and took out a blue potion from his potion. He removed the stopper and blue smoke was released from the test tube.

The blue smoke turned into a small snake and disappeared between Fir's brow.

Fir felt much better after absorbing the snake.

"Flying Snake Potion… Thank you, I needed that." Fir stood up. "Don't worry, I won't tell master Vivian about this, but I think you should talk to her when you need help."

"Yeah, sorry, you wouldn't be dragged into this if you didn't visit me." Angele felt sorry for her.

He had been doing everything alone in his house and the previous visitors did not encounter any problem.

However, after the last time he observed the dust, the woman started bothering him again, and his house became dangerous. Angele did not expect the woman to attack other people.

"I'm a wizard and I understand the risks that are associated with research so I'm not going to tell you to stop doing the research." Fir wiped the dust off her dress. "However, I think you should be more careful when progressing with the research since the woman is dangerous."

Angele nodded with a serious expression on his face. Fir turned around and headed to the town. Her speed increased gradually and she disappeared from Angele's sight quickly.

He stood in the forest and glanced at his house. The place was cold and quiet. The house reminded him of the two-level building in the painting; they looked similar.

"No one can stop me from accomplishing my goal. I don't care if it's dangerous or not!" Angele made up his mind and returned to his house. He entered the living room and closed the door.

He glanced around and walked to the basement again.

Angele pulled up the trapdoor and closed it after entering the basement.

He stood in front of the gray platform and inhaled deeply.

He could still see the countless dark-red runes around the gray platform.

Angele quickly took out a dead body of a yellow squirrel and chanted an incantation. The life energy returned to the squirrel's body and it was quickly revived.

The squirrel jumped down Angele's hand after making some noises. It landed in the center of the platform and disappeared.

WOO*

The rune walls quickly rose up from the floor and they were surrounded by rotating runes. The gray platform was sealed by the rune walls.

Angele was satisfied with the result.

"I still have some time before the end of the month and this is my last chance. I'll have to wait for a long time until I can cast the spell again."

He checked the time using the biochip and started meditating in front of the rune walls.

Time passed.

About two hours later, Angele slowly opened his eyes and took out something that looked like jujube. He started eating the jujube slowly.

He finished around 30 jujube and his face turned red slowly. There were also silver flames sparking around his mouth.

"It's about the time."

Angele stood up, looked at the runes walls, and opened his mouth.

Silver flames were released from his mouth and slowly entered the rune walls, disappearing into the air.

The jujube were called Silver Sparrow Fruits and were made by Angele. The Silver Sparrow Fruits could help him detect the energy movement better.

The bloodlines inside Angele's body would not help him detect the energy movements better since those ancient creatures did not have such abilities. He wanted to get the best result of the summoning spell so he had to make the special fruits using his knowledge.

Silver Sparrow Fruits were perfect for the occasion.

Angele stared at the rune walls after releasing the silver flames.

"Endless realms… Endless dimensions… Listen to my call and open the dimension gate…"

CHI*

It sounded like a piece of cloth was torn apart.

Dark light flashed in the basement.

A half-naked woman with six arms appeared inside the rune walls. The bottom half of her body was the tail of a snake.

The snake woman had clean skin and a beautiful face. She looked elegant but wild with her silver snake tail.

"A cross-realm summoning ability… Interesting…" the woman spoke in the Chaos language. The silver necklace made of teeth on her neck was glowing. "Who're you? You went through the defensive barriers and summoned the sage of the six-arm snake race!"

Angele checked the energy wave the woman was releasing; the woman might be stronger than a rank 6 wizard. There was a terrifying shadow in the woman's body, Angele could hear warriors roaring and weapons hitting each other from the shadow.

"Six-arm snake race? I'm sorry, this is a summoning spell that I created, but I can't control what I summon." He had never heard of the six-arm snake race but he knew that there were so many realms and it was possible for him to summon a strong creature from any of the realms.

The snake woman was looking at Angele curiously. "It's the first time I see a creature that walks on only two legs but our upper bodies looked identical…" she said as she glanced around. "Alright, outsider, why do you summon me? What do you want?"

"I have just one simple question that can only be answered by a strong being like you. I wonder why the realm power didn't weaken you when you were summoned here. I'll pay you back if you can show me the secret."

The snake woman was strong but she was not impacted by the realm power. It was hard to believe.

"That's it?" The snake woman looked at Angele and nodded. "The method is simple. If your power is stronger than the limitation set up by the realm, you can just cheat the realm power by building a barrier that will hide your true power around your body. That's what I did."

"Huh? I understand what you're saying but how do you build the barrier?" Angele was excited. He was about to solve a problem that all sealed forms wanted to solve.

The snake woman hesitated.

"It's a simple technique but it's still a secret and it requires a lot of special materials. Also, the barrier can only be built in my own realm. I can build one for you but you will have to pay for it. What do you think?"

"It depends on what you need." Angele smiled.

"Weapons! A lot of metal weapons!" The snake woman went straight to the point.

"Metal weapons?" Angele was surprised, he did not expect such a strong being to ask for something so simple.

"Metal is rare for my realm and the realms around my realm. Get me 60 000 tons of metal weapons and I'll tell you the technique. Also, I'll build a barrier for you," the snake woman spoke with a calm expression on her face.

"60 000 tons of metal weapons?" Angele was scared by the number. He would need a huge amount of energy if he wanted to send the weapons to the snake woman's realm. He doubted if he could accomplish that even with the refined true form.

There might be thousands of realms between his realm and the snake woman's realm. Sending just one weapon to the snake woman was already hard.

"Yeah, my queen will consider it as a fair trade if you can provide 60 000 tons of weapons. The six-arm snake race has been ruling seven realms for over 10 000 years but we barely have any metal weapons. I assume that the number is a bit too big for you?" The snake woman told Angele some background information intentionally.

However, the snake woman noticed that Angele was still calm after hearing the information and she realized that Angele had never heard about the six-arm snake race.

"The metal weapons will not be a problem but the energy needed when transporting the weapons is…" Angele's brow furrowed.

The snake woman was surprised, she thought Angele would not be able to provide that many weapons.

"Well, take this." She thought for a while and threw a silver teeth necklace that was similar to the one on her neck to Angele.

PA*

Angele caught the necklace and looked at it.

"What's this?"

The snake woman raised her head and spoke proudly, "A dimension locator. We use it to do trade with outsiders. You're lucky, we've only handed out five locators since the empire was funded and this is the sixth one."

Angele knew that he was lucky, he did not expect to do a trade with a strong being from a different realm. It was an important experience for him, however, he knew that it would only happen when the strong being he summoned was strong and intelligent.

Only the ancient wizards had the ability to something like this.

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Chapter 556: Same Kind (1)

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Angele inhaled deeply and stored the silver necklace in the mirror. "That's a useful tool. Six-arm snake race, huh? I'll remember this name."

The snake woman nodded. "Alright then, you don't have enough energy to keep this spell going. How long do you need to collect all the metal weapons?"

Angele thought for a second and responded, "60 000 tons of metal weapons… I'll need some time. Can I refine the weapons so it'll be easier?"

"Refine? What do you mean?" The snake woman was a bit surprised. "You mean increase the density of the metal?"

Angele heard the question and nodded.

The woman hesitated for a second and responded, "It'll be great if you can refine them. I hope you'll have the weapons prepared the next time we meet."

"I'll prepare everything in 1000 years," Angele promised.

"Sounds good." The snake woman was satisfied with what she heard. "One more thing. Take this with you. I don't want you to die before you finish your job."

She threw a finger-sized golden key to Angele. The handle of the key looked identical to the upper body of the snake woman.

"This is a Doomsday Key, only activate it when absolutely necessary. It'll help you in a life-threatening situation but there'll be consequences."

Angele caught the key and observed it carefully. He cut his chest open and inserted the key into the wound quickly.

The wound was bleeding but healed within seconds. The whole process surprised the snake woman.

"Maybe you don't need this key after all…"

"Maybe." Angele knew that the woman noticed the power of his bloodline and smiled.

CHI*

The snake woman disappeared into the air and the space in the rune walls became empty again.

Angele patted the key in this chest calmly. The pain from the wound was barely noticeable to him.

"It's about the time to cast my last summoning spell of this period… I'll have to wait for the next tidal moon if I want to cast the summoning spell again."

He started chanting the incantation again.

Dark light flashed on the platform.

WOO*

A white-goldish rune circle that was made of countless triangles appeared inside the rune walls. The rune circle was spinning at full speed and looked like flowers with sharp edges. The noise came from the sharp edges rubbing against each other.

Angele's expression turned serious after seeing the scene.

"Such a strong realm reaction… The target is from somewhere far away from the wizard world…" he muttered as he made several rune gestures using his hands.

The smoke that was dark like ink was charging into the rune walls and became part of the rune circle.

The light from the rune circle was getting more and more intense. A golden oval appeared in the center of the circle, its surface glistening.

The strange vibration noise was making Angele's body numb.

"Still going? How far does it have to be for the summoning process to take so long?!" Angele was getting excited.

The summoning spell Angele created had random target. It was possible that he could summon a strong being like the snake woman again but it was also possible that he would get a pebble. It all depended on his luck, the distance between the realms was not what decided the outcome.

Angele covered his eyes with some red light to defend against the eye-blinding white light from the rune circle.

CHI*

He finally heard the familiar noise as the white light disappeared from the basement. Everything returned to normal.

Angele blinked his eyes to adapt to the change of the light and looked into the rune walls.

He was a bit surprised after seeing the result. The creature in the walls was extremely weak.

It was peaceful inside the walls; there was a young woman that was about 20 years on the platform. The girl had an average face and was slim.

Angele found it hard to believe after seeing the woman's outfit. She was wearing a white t-shirt with a pair of jeans and there was a pink hairpin on her head.

"Love" was printed in the center of her t-shirt and it was eye-catching.

"What a realistic dream it is!" The woman rubbed her knees and slowly stood up. She started checking the environment as she put her hands on the rune walls. A black box fell out of her pocket as she straightened her back.

"Ah, my communication device…" The girl lowered her body and picked the box up.

Angele's brow furrowed. "A communication device?" The girl reminded him of the Earth.

Everything was handled by biochips before he reincarnated into this world. Communication devices were used before the biochip revolution but it was possible that the woman came from somewhere similar to Earth.

Angele started thinking. He was not concerned that another person from the Earth could achieve what he had achieved in this world.

His achievement was not solely due to the help he got from the biochip and he doubted if another person from the earth could reach his level using the same method.

Angele's biochip had been upgraded multiple times and he survived countless dangerous battles. He also explored many ruins and collected many strange items. The biochip helped him to progress faster than others, however, it was not the only reason why he succeeded.

Suddenly, Angele recalled how he reincarnated into this world. He realized that it might not be just luck. It was possible that someone summoned his soul and threw it away since his soul had no power. His soul then entered a dead person's physical body who died not so long ago.

He thought of many things and it took him about half an hour to conclude everything.

Strangely, the woman was still in the rune walls, Angele thought that she could not last that long here.

Angele pursed his lips. "Maybe she's too weak and the rune circle did not even treat her like a living being.

"Hey, who are you?" The woman waved her hand and she was curious. It seemed like she thought she was having a dream and she was not scared at all. Although Angele could not understand her words, he still managed to analyze the meaning of the sentence using his mentality.

"Which country are you from?" Angele suddenly questioned back using the mentality wave.

"Which country? I'm from United Morrigan!" the girl responded. "Look at my hair and my pupils, pure black, and my skin is yellow. I'm from Ming An City and I'm a student of Ming An University. My name is Xinrui Li, what's your name, handsome?"

Angele's brow furrowed as he looked at the woman. She was average-looking, she was weak, and she did not seem very intelligent. The woman was useless to him, Angele would not get a lot even if he traded the woman for something else with a wizard. However, he would not kill a human being that might be from another Earth.

"Can I have a look at your communication device?" Angele's sight fell upon the black box in the woman's hand.

"What?" The woman sounded a bit anxious. "This is a privacy invasion! Hey! Come on, what are you doing?!"

The black box left her hands and landed on Angele's palm.

Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes as he pressed the buttons on the device. It took him seconds to figure out how to operate the device.

He also scanned and analyzed the device using the biochip.

"She's from a world with a low technology level…" Angele played with the communication device in his hand. The thing looked like a smartphone but it was powered by a diamond-shaped stone instead of a battery.

The diamond-shaped stone was releasing heat.

Angele could easily figure out how the device worked.

He knew that the evolution of technology was different for different realms and he was in a world that a strong Individual would be recognized for his talent.

"Their technology is not as advanced as the technology from the Earth." Angele felt a bit relieved. He did not want another human being from Earth, however, he also realized that he might be able to return to Earth someday. The problem was strong wizards or strong beings could destroy everything on the Earth if they wanted to.

"Young one, what if I tell you that this is not a dream and you won't be able to return to your world… What will you do?" Angele put down the communication device and looked at Xinrui Li.

"Seriously…" Xinrui looked at Angele, she was still in shock. "The dream is almost too realistic…"

"Wake up, young one. I have something else to do and I'll come back for you."

Angele grabbed the communication device, turned around, and left the basement.

CHI*

He pushed the lid open and saw a pair of a woman's feet by the staircase right away. The only things he could see were her feet, her upper body was blocked by the staircase.

Angele stared at the woman's feet and his expression slowly turned serious.

"You're crossing the line… I guess I'll have to find a way to deal with you…" he muttered as he landed on the floor of the living room.

He was still staring at the woman's feet.

The strange thing was that he could see the woman's feet through the gaps of the staircase, however, there was nothing above the handle of the staircase.

It felt like that the area above the handle and the area below the handle were two different realms.

Angele's sight moved, he could only see the woman's feet when his head was above the handle and he could not see anything if he changed the angle.

PA PA PA*

The woman turned around and walked upstairs. The noise gradually disappeared.

Angele just stood there until the woman's footsteps completely disappeared and felt relieved.

He hesitated for a second and walked to the handle of the staircase. He reached to the area above the handle using his hands.

A strange thing happened.

He looked at his hands from a lower angle and they just disappeared.

It felt like that his hands were no longer in the house, they went to a different dimension.

BAM*

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Chapter 557: Same Kind (2)

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Suddenly, something grabbed Angele's hand, dragging him to the other side.

Angele was caught off guard and hit the handle hard.

It felt like there was a pair of hands that were dragging him to a completely different realm.

"Die!" Angele narrowed his eyes and released some dark smoke from his right arm which quickly turned into the claw of a scorpion.

Crack*

It sounded like the claw cut something into pieces and he could finally move his right arm again.

Angele quickly took two steps back and looked at the handle quietly.

"Such power… It's…" He recalled the day he met the woman for the first time. The woman traveled using the tree trunks like she was at another dimension.

"I need to take her out as soon as possible…"

Angele's right arm was surrounded by dark smoke again and it quickly returned to normal.

He walked upstairs and entered the room that was opposite to the room with the painting in it.

Everything was calm and peaceful. He picked up a crystal orb from the bookshelf and rubbed it several times.

The white crystal orb started glowing.

"Green, I'm sorry about the wedding. Fir said that she wanted to delay the wedding because she needed some time to get prepared." Vivian's came from the crystal orb. "The wedding will be delayed for two years. I think I should give you two some more time."

The voice repeated after the sentence was finished. "Green, I'm sorry about the wedding…"

Angele sighed. "I guess she didn't say she wanted to cancel the wedding because she didn't want to disappoint Vivian… She was scared." He put down the crystal orb and the white glow faded away from the orb.

Angele stayed in the room with the painting most of the time for the next ten days. He also delivered food and water to the girl in the basement daily.

The woman finally understood that it was not a dream and felt depressed. She would still do what she had to do to survive but she did not say anything else.

Angele was not concerned, he spent most of his time studying the painting. He also visited the elders and Vivian from time to time.

He tried to see if there were any mineral resources around.

He found a large iron mine in a hill around the town; it took him two days to locate the mine.

The only thing he needed to do was mining. Angele spent some time and developed a perfect metal force field to help with the mining procedure. The iron ores would be refined by the force field as well.

The two realms finally started separating after a couple months.

It was summer. The chilling wind was blowing over the trees in the forest.

Angele was writing something down on a pile of yellow leather paper in his reading room.

The only noise here was made by the pen.

Angele's shadow leaned on the floor under the bright light from the candle and his shadow was waving in the wind.

He suddenly stopped writing. Angele raised his head and looked out of the window, the night sky was dark.

"Finally…"

A dark-red glow surrounded his eyes and a large shadow of a scorpion appeared behind him slowly.

WOO*

A red wave suddenly appeared in the night sky and expanded to the endless sky. It felt like that the red wave was scanning the whole sky.

"Phoenix, we'll be going back now. Are you coming?" Bone's voice was sent to Angele through the energy waves released by the realm power of Nightmare Realm. "Fly back in your true form if you want to leave with us. The realms are separating and the realm power will be pressuring you again."

Angele smiled and responded, "Don't worry about me. I have something else to take care of."

"Do whatever you want. You can come back when you want to anyways." Bone was not concerned. "I wish you were with us. The lords of the northland were pushed back into the dimension tunnel and Vapor slashed the tunnel in half. We almost created a dimension vortex. Thanks to you, we finally defeated them once, ha."

"Well, we were just lucky." Angele chuckled but he did not say anything else.

Their conversation ended as Bone's voice slowly faded away.

Angele put down the pen and stood up.

A strong pressure appeared and moved to Angele as he stood up. The pressure was coming from all angles.

He released some black smoke but it quickly disappeared under the pressure.

It felt like that there was a mountain over his back and he had to use all his force to support the mountain.

The feeling was familiar but he had not got used to it yet. Angele shook his head; although he still had the power of a rank 3 wizard, the power was from his bloodline, and it was impossible for him to fully activate his true form. However, it was still possible that he could release a strike with the power of a rank 6 wizard once.

"The dimension channel to the Nightmare Realm is disappearing…" he muttered and looked at the sky. It felt like that he could see the entrance to the dark channel closing slowly.

"The good thing is that I have a lead on how to handle the realm power." He turned around, left the reading room, and walked downstairs.

He opened the lid and entered the basement.

The woman he summoned was still surrounded by the rune walls in the center of the basement. The woman looked excited after she saw Angele.

"Hey! When will you let me go? Why do you even keep me here?"

Angele glanced at the woman and waved his hand.

The runes walls slowly disappeared and the girl was finally released from the prison.

The girl ran to Angele and she looked a bit scared.

"Are you a mage? I've read about something like this."

"Mage? What's that?" Angele chuckled but he was not here to check on the woman.

He walked to the corner. There was a T-shaped rune circle on the wall; the white runes inside the circle were crawling slowly, looking like strange white insects.

Some silver liquid was dripping down the bottom of the rune circle.

The liquid was collected by a small hole below the circle. There was already a good amount of liquid in it.

Angele nodded slightly as he was satisfied with the result.

"Hey, can you teach me some magic skills?" The woman named Ruixin Li opened her mouth again. "Like… like the thing you just did. You waved your hand and the light walls disappeared. Can you teach me that?"

Angele glanced at the woman and scanned her using the biochip. The woman's body was weak and she did not seem very intelligent.

"Aren't you scared? I could kill you."

"You won't, right?" Xinrui chuckled and took two steps back. "You summoned me because you thought I could help you with your research, right?"

"You're just the waste of a failed experiment." Angele was just being honest.

"Well…" The smile disappeared form Xinrui's face.

"If you were not a human being, you'd end up in there." Angele pointed at the garbage disposal tunnel. The woman came from a place like the Earth and Angele kept her alive because the woman reminded him of the old days. Also, he would not waste his resources if the woman was not a human being.

Xinrui pursed her lips and took several more steps back. "What are you going to do to me then?"

"It depends." Angele smiled. "You're a student of a university, right? What were you studying?"

"Country Structure and Society…" Xinrui responded in a low voice.

"Huh?" Angele was a bit surprised. He suddenly reached to the woman's head as his eyes glowed. His red eyes looked like two clean rubies.

"What are you doing?!" Xinrui leaped away and she stared at Angele anxiously.

"Huh? My illusion spell didn't work?" Angele sounded surprised. He was going to trick the woman using illusions and read her memory, however, the spell failed. "That's interesting."

Angele was interested, he walked around the woman and observed her body.

"I think there's a problem with your body. I was going to help you. Why are you scared? Do you really think I'm interested in your weak body?"

Xinrui was still anxious.

"Well, whatever. I'm the one who summoned you so I'll give you some advice. The world is dangerous, if you dress up like this, you might be considered as a witch and you'll be burnt. It'll be better if you can stay in the town that's not so far from here or you can just stay at my house. I'll clean the storage room for you. Don't use the living room," Angele explained. He noticed that the woman was a bit different.

"Also, no one can understand your words. I can help you learn the language for a price and it'll only take a second for the process to complete."

"Seriously? You can teach me a language in a second?!" Xinrui got excited again, it almost felt like that she was mentally unstable.

"Of course, for a price." Angele showed the woman one finger. "Ten years. Work in this house for ten years. Clean the rooms, wash the clothes, and cook the food. If you think it's a good deal, come find me in the reading room on the second floor in three days. Also, I need to leave for a while, you can find the food in the kitchen."

"Ten years?!" Xinrui was surprised after she heard the word because it sounded like ten years was nothing to Angele.

"One more thing, the reading room, kitchen, and the storage room are the only three places you have access to." There was a gentle smile on Angele's face and he looked a bit curious as he looked at the woman.

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Chapter 558: Reunion (1)

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"Seriously?" Xinrui's expression changed after hearing those words.

"Yeah, I suggest that you spend some time in the reading room. You can read all the books there and it's a test to see if you can become my student." Angele smiled.

However, it seemed like Xinrui misunderstood these words.

"I understand! It's a test, right? I'll try my best!" Her expression looked serious.

Angele nodded as a red glow surrounded his eyes. Some translucent black smoke flew to Xinrui, however, it did nothing to her.

'Alright, the illusion spell doesn't work and the bloodline ability did nothing…' He had a general idea in mind. 'She can check the painting for me since that's the only thing she can do right now. I'll turn her into an apprentice if she survives.'

It seemed like Xinrui recovered from the depression after the conversation and started asking about the runes again.

Angele answered some of her questions as he led the woman to the living room.

The woman was excited, she was running around while screaming.

Angele sat on the sofa and started thinking.

Angele was almost certain that the painting was not a soul form, it might be a strong being from a different realm. It was possible that the being could travel through dimensions.

He was not sure what the painting was trying to do, however, he knew that there was a secret hiding behind the painting. It was from the nature of his strong bloodline.

It was the reason why he decided to keep the painting. He thought that the secret might help him and the soul forms. The secret might solve everything for them.

"It's time to pay the Nightmare Realm a visit…" He picked up the brown wooden cup from the table and took a sip from the green fruit tea.

Angele tapped on the surface of the table slightly using his right hand.

PA*

A ball of black smoke was released and splashed everywhere.

The black smoke coated the doors of the rooms excluding the reading room and the storage room. The kitchen had no door so the woman could still access it.

BAM BAM BAM*

The doors were closed and sealed.

Angele locked the rooms he wanted to lock and was satisfied with the result.

"What happened?" Xinrui walked around the living room carefully.

"Nothing, just do whatever you want. I have to go now." Angele stood up and stared at Xinrui in the eyes.

"Remember, this is a test, I'll take you in as my student if you can pass the test."

Xinrui nodded with a blank expression on her face.

BAM*

Angele's body turned into a ball of dark flames and disappeared into the air.

The sky was dark and there was thunder rumbling.

In the dark-red plain under the sky, a ball of dark red flames appeared on top of a small hill and it quickly turned into a human being.

The man was wearing a black robe, his long red hair trailed over his shoulders.

"I need to find out the truth about the sealed forms" Angele overlooked the Doomsday Eye Tower on the far side of the plain.

There was an enormous black shadow that looked like a human being standing by the black pyramid; his body looked like a cracked rock. It was a shell made by the mud and sand.

A ball of black smoke rose from Angele's feet and he quickly flew to the black shadow.

Rumble*

The thunder rumbled again and the noise was lowered gradually.

At the waist of the giant shadow, there was a white eyeball. The eyeball rolled and stared at the approaching black robe.

Two men in black armor with black edges bowed to Angele. They turned into golden light and disappeared into the sky.

A ball of black smoke stopped in front of the eyeball as the two men left. The black smoke vanished into the air, revealing Angele's body.

"It has been a while, Eye Devil." Raising his head, Angele looked at the giant eyeball.

The eyeball rolled and Angele's appearance was reflected on its surface.

"I'm preparing for the next auction right now. I already invited two sealed forms that just woke up and Storm. It's great that you're back, Phoenix."

Angele smiled. "I'm here to ask you an important question, a question about us."

Eye Devil's pupil retracted slightly for a second. "I knew you would ask about this sooner or later."

Eye Devil stopped for a second and continued, "it's a question that every sealed form wants to solve. You want to know why we sealed forms are sealed, right?"

Angele nodded. "Yeah, we're strong and we have long life expectancies but why are we sealed? Are we sealed by someone else or do we just seal ourselves?"

Eye Devil was searching through her memory and did not answer the question immediately.

The two remained silent for a while.

It took a while for Eye Devil to organize the answer.

"Phoenix, you're not born as a bloodline inheritor so you don't understand… We have the power and the long life expectancy when we are born. It's like you're born in a rich family with a strong background, everything is ready for you. We conquered many realms and we defeated many strong beings, however…"

Eye Devil stopped for a second before she got to the point.

"The stronger the bloodline is, the more problems there will be, in another word, our power is limited."

"Problems?" Angele's brow furrowed. "I knew it, you won't seal yourselves for no reason."

"Yeah, we seal ourselves for a reason," Eye Devil agreed. "The power of bloodline came from the realm and the support from the realm power is the main problem. With the support of Nightmare Realm's power, we're undefeatable, however, with the support, the bloodline power will consume our souls. The bloodline power needs the support of realm power, it'll drain the life energy from our souls when the realm power is not present.

"So, we seal ourselves when there's not enough realm power," Eye Devil continued. "That's the cost of having such strong power. We can't leave our realm. We can conquer as many realms as we want, however, we're trapped in the Nightmare Realm."

Angele's expression turned serious as Eye Devil explained.

"Do you mean that you have to seal yourselves when there's not enough realm power even if you're in the Nightmare Realm?"

Eye Devil confirmed, "We can only be woken up when the realm power is active. There'll be no support from the realm when the realm power is inactive so we have to seal ourselves. The situation will be the same for you. You'll die if you don't seal yourself when the time comes."

"Is there another way to handle it?"

"Extract the power from the souls you collect and you'll be able to delay the process." It was also the reason why the sealed forms loved to collect souls. "Also, souls will increase our life expectancy."

Angele inhaled deeply, it was not the result he wanted. The people he knew would all be dead because he would be sleeping for thousands of years when sealed. He wanted to stay with Vivian until she passed away but it would be a problem if he had to seal himself.

"The power of the Nightmare Realm is the source of our bloodline power, but at the same time, it trapped us in this realm. Without the support of the realm power, I'd be dead. That's the truth I've been looking for." Angele was certain that Eye Devil was telling the truth after thinking for a while. "How long until we need to seal ourselves again?"

"We can enjoy our lives for around 3000 years every time we unseal ourselves. We'll seal ourselves again after the realm power becomes inactive. It's still early so you can enjoy your power with nothing for you to worry about." Eye Devil chuckled.

"I'll enjoy my life more if I don't have to seal myself from time to time." Angele shook his head. "Haven't you guys found a way to bypass the rule after all those years?"

"Well, there's a way, but it's hard to accomplish." Eye Devil chuckled. "I can tell you the method for free since many people already know about it."

"What's the method?" Angele listened carefully.

"Our bloodline power is supported by the Nightmare Realm's power; no matter which realm you were from, you're now part of the Nightmare Realm. Nightmare Realm's power will be strengthened if a bloodline from a different realm is accepted by it. However, the realm power will become your enemy if you try to break the restriction. If you can handle the realm power by yourself, you'll no longer be restricted by the rule." Eye Devil stopped for a second and continued, "You can also find a way to hide. If the Nightmare Realm can't find you, you'll be fine. However, this is just the first step."

"After that, you need to make sure that your life energy is not drained completely by your own bloodline power. The easiest way is to seal yourself, become a guardian of a different realm, or collect souls. The best way is to become a strong being that's at a whole different level." It seemed like Eye Devil had a big goal. "Become a strong individual like the ones you heard about in the legends so you can fight the realm power without any problem, like Ancestor Sella of Chaos Realm. Ancestor Sella was the Water Ancestor, it provided water to five different realms after it left the Nightmare Realm. Ancestor Sella represented the purest water source."

"Ancestor Sella, is it at the same level as Light Ancestor?" Angele wondered.

"Yeah, you know what you need to do now." Eye Devil explained everything and stared at Angele.

Angele calmed down. "Why don't we just give up the bloodline power?"

"We can't. Sealed forms are considered as part of the Nightmare Realm. It's like your body; you don't want to cut your own limbs off, right? The Nightmare Realm won't let you give up the bloodline power," Eye Devil explained.

"Understood… I'll validate that by myself."

"You have the scorpion woman's bloodline and you should be able to travel through the realms. Maybe you'll become the third sealed form that escapes the Nightmare Realm. I would suggest that you check out a realm that is at the same level as the Chaos Realm." Eye Devil closed the eye and stopped talking.

Angele narrowed his eyes. "So, it's possible to escape the Nightmare Realm. Can you tell me their names and experiences?"

Raising his hand, some red light shined upon his palm and turned into a red bead.

"Thanks." Angele turned around and disappeared into a ball of dark flames.

Eye Devil opened her eye again after Angele left.

"He might be our hope… The last one who escaped also had the bloodline of scorpion woman…"

Angele checked the wooden house after leaving Doomsday Eye Tower and the woman in black already left. She left a letter and said that she had somewhere she wanted to visit.

He was not concerned, the woman could barely do anything for him after he became Lord of Terror.

Angele organized the house and received a message from Eye Devil's service. The servant reported that they found people at Angele's old place so Angele headed to his home right away.

It took him five days to get to the mansion by the river.

The white walls and the fences were covered with green vines. There were many dried yellow leaves on the plated path. The rusty gate was half-open and Angele could see the footprints on the ground.

'Maybe Frey and Freia are back.' Warmth filled up Angele's mind. He spent years with them and he already considered them his own children.

He recalled the day Frey left the mansion and the dedication in his eyes. He still remembered Freia's cute face.

Angele stopped thinking and slowly walked into the rusty gate.

Crank*

The gate made some noise as it was pushed open.

Some birds flew away after hearing the noise. The white, black, and red birds left the mansion and quickly disappeared into the sky.

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Chapter 559: Reunion (2)

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Angele checked the footprints and noticed that there were more than one people here.

'Many people entered and left the mansion.' Angele confirmed his assumption.

Suddenly, the door of the main building was slowly opened—a group of human beings wearing tight white suits appeared. Their leaders were a man and a woman, they were both around 35 years old.

The man and the woman looked surprised after they noticed Angele's presence.

"Green… Green?!" the middle-aged woman shouted in a shaky tone as she stared at Angele's face.

Angele's sight fell upon the woman's face and he realized that the woman looked familiar, although there were scars on her face.

"Freia and Frey?" he wondered.

"Green! It's really you!" Freia rushed into Angele's arms.

Angele opened his arms and hugged them. They were much taller than he remembered. He recalled the day Sando left the two children to him; they had already grown up.

Freia's was trembling in Angele's arms. Angele rubbed her head as a smile appeared on his face.

"Alright, come on, you're not a kid anymore, stop crying."

"I thought we would never see you again…" Freia said in a shaky tone.

Frey had two swords on his belt and there was a crystal band on his head. The man had some mustache, he slowly walked to Angele and looked at Angele respectfully.

Angele patted Freia's back. "Alright, let's enter the building first."

"It looks like you're doing well. Are you a leader now?"

Frey nodded politely. "Yes, I'm a judge in Colin's Church of Hunter now."

Frey always knew what he wanted to do and he was talking like a leader. He did not waste any time on saying meaningless words.

The rest of them remained silent but they all looked like experienced warriors that were good at ambushes. People like them were perfect for random encounters.

Most of them were young and their gender varied, however, it seemed like they were wondering who Angele was.

Angele entered the building with others but he was speechless after he saw what happened.

The decorations in the living room were removed and there was a white platform in the center. On the platform, there was a tombstone.

'Rest in peace, Green.' The sentence was engraved onto the surface of the tombstone.

Angele looked at Frey and Freia after seeing the tombstone.

"Green, we tried our best to find you, but… So we thought that you already passed away…" Freia quickly explained.

"Green, we've visited your mansion many times over the years, however, we never found you," Frey explained; his voice was a bit hoarse, and it seemed like there was a problem with his throat.

An armored woman on the side exchanged eye contact with other team members and left the building. The other members quickly left as well, they wanted to create the space for Angele, Frey, and Freia.

They stood in front of the tombstone. Angele asked them about their experiences.

Freia and Frey became famous in the territories of the human beings but almost died during the small-scale wars that were going on. Frey became a representative of the young generation in the church and later the judge of the church after some political wars. With the help of Frey, Freia successfully survived the wars and became the commander of the church's elite team.

Angele told them a fake story, he said that he was just exploring the realm and described the scene of Eye Devil's plain.

Angele was smiling while speaking. Freia could feel the warmth climbing up her heart just by looking at Angele's face. She knew everything would be fine if Angele was with them. However, she wondered why Angele's appearance never changed. 20 years had passed but he did not age at all.

Freia made sure that the other team members left and asked, "Green, it has been years but you still look the same. It almost feels like that time stopped for you…"

"A drug I took would keep me young and my life expectancy is longer than average because my body is slightly different," Angele explained. "I think you should remove that since I'm still alive."

Frey and Freia chuckled. Although Frey was a judge and Freia was a commander, they acted like children when they were around Angele. Angele was the one who took care of them when they were young, after all—he was like their father.

Frey quickly grabbed the tombstone and put it down.

"Have you created your own families?" Angele asked a random question, however, Frey lowered his head after hearing the word and Freia remained silent.

"Alright, I won't force you to answer my question. You must have your reasons. I think you're not here just to visit my grave." Angele pointed at the tombstone and laughed.

Frey hesitated for a second but he still decided to tell the truth. "The biggest hidden base of the human beings was detected and we need to eliminate the monsters that are threats so the relocation operation will succeed. We passed by this area so we decided to visit the mansion."

"Monsters?" Angele was a bit surprised. "There shouldn't be any monster in this area. What exactly do you do in the church? Tell me."

Frey nodded and explained his duty in the church, he also told Angele about the basic system of the church.

Time passed. Angele only asked several questions. Frey was doing the talking most of the time and he told Angele how hard it was for the human beings to survive.

"The church is in charge of our people's safety. We need to find safe places to build farms or shelters. However, there were traitors who became servants of the lords; our work is to find and hunt them down."

BAM*

Before he finished these words, something made a loud noise outside and the whole building started shaking. The dust fell from the ceiling.

"It's Viktor! Retreat! Everyone!" A young man's voice came from outside.

"Damn, how did it catch up?!"

"Stay in your formation and prepare the hunter's blade!"

Noises made by metal weapons and exploding bombs followed after the voice.

Frey and Freia's expressions turned serious, they charged out of the door right away.

The hunters were attacking an enormous white caterpillar. The caterpillar was chubby but strong.

The hunters were holding dark scimitars in hands. A large piece of flesh would be cut off the caterpillar's body every time it was hit by the scimitars.

"I didn't expect Viktor to be so fast. Retreat, everyone, retreat now!" Frey drew his swords and charged forward. His body turned into two shadows and he quickly struck the caterpillar on both sides of its head.

CHI CHI*

Two large wounds appeared on the caterpillar's body and white blood spurted out of them. The caterpillar was screaming in pain as it struggled.

BAM*

The caterpillar exploded and the white blood splashed everywhere.

Ten more caterpillars appeared in the forest, moving toward the humans at full speed. There was a caterpillar that was more than ten meters tall behind the smaller caterpillars and it was also moving toward the human beings slowly.

There was an upper body of a man on top of the largest caterpillar's head. The man's body was connected to the caterpillar's body.

The man was bald and naked. The color of his skin looked identical to the color of the caterpillar's body.

"Insects… We finally found you…" the man spoke. His voice sounded like the noise made by the caterpillars.

Frey took two steps back; he looked anxious. He exchanged eye contact with Freia and she quickly sent a signal to the team using a hand gesture. The whole team started moving away from the caterpillars slowly.

"King of Viktor… I thought you would only send your servants…" Frey looked to the right before finishing the sentence.

A monster with the head of a snake and the body of a human being slowly stepped out of the forest.

"Snake Shadow Demon…" Frey's expression changed. "You're fast."

"I've been following you for six days. I'm going to capture you all, ha. It's hard to meet the judge of the church." The snake man sneered.

"Step back, arrogant bastards!" someone behind Frey spoke in a deep tone.

Angele stepped forward and his eyes were covered with a red glow.

"Which lord are you working for?"

"How dare you talk to me like that…"

The snake man's sight fell upon Angele.

"Green!" Frey stepped forward and stood in front of Angele. "I'll take care of this, don't worry!"

"It's fine." Angele smiled.

CHI*

Raising his hand, Angele released some black smoke toward the snake man and the caterpillar man.

The black smoke turned into a snake and hit the invisible barrier in front of the snake man's body before he realized what just happened.

CRACK*

The barrier broke into pieces.

ROAR*

A shadow of a monster appeared behind the snake man. The monster had the head of a snake and the body of a bird.

"I'm the Lord of Dire and my name is Unora, who are—"

BAM*

The black smoke snake turned into a large hand and crushed the shadow, penetrating the snake man's body.

The shadow turned into black smoke along with the snake man before it could finish the sentence.

"I've informed the lords that this is a restricted area… I have the right to kill the creatures that invade my property…" Angele lowered his hand and looked at the caterpillar man.

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Chapter 560: Time Flies (1)

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The caterpillar man was scared and quickly took several steps back. He turned around and started escaping without saying a word.

The man's body hit the tree on the roadside hard and he was hit by some black smoke after running for a while.

It looked like the black smoke was ignited—the caterpillar's body was covered with dark flames. Several seconds later, the caterpillar's body started shrinking like a balloon that was hit by a needle. His body turned into a ball of black smoke and quickly absorbed by Angele's body.

Angele released some more dark smoke and took care of the other caterpillars. He then turned around and checked the situation.

Frey was staring at Angele anxiously, his muscles were tightened and it seemed like hew as ready to fight.

"Who are you?! Are you really the Green we know?"

Angele's power surprised him, he thought Angele was lying to them.

Freia and the other team members also looked at Angele after hearing Frey's word.

"Yeah, I'm the Green you know." Angele sighed slightly. "I did lie to you about the drug that could keep me young, however, you should've wondered why the mansion was never attacked when I was here."

He turned to Freia and stared at her. "Girl, the sunflower never blossomed, right?"

Freia hesitated, she looked at Frey with confusion in her eyes, but her sight quickly returned to Angele, and it seemed like she was wondering what she should do.

Frey remained silent for a while before opening his mouth again.

"Can you show us the strange golden device you used a lot when we were young?"

Angele chuckled, he took out the Light of Thorn from the mirror and activated it using his mentality wave.

CHI CHI CHI*

Rays of golden light landed on the ground, opening several burnt holes that were smoking.

"He's the real Green, only the real Green can fully activate this thing!" Freia quickly confirmed Angele's identity. "Also, there's no point for him to lie with such strong power."

Frey slowly loosened his expression. "Sorry, Green, too many things happened recently…"

A bitter smile appeared on his face.

"I underestimated your power, I think. You survived in this realm for so long and I don't see any wounds on your body… It's nearly impossible for a normal hunter to do something like that…"

The other team members slowly loosened their expressions as well after hearing the word.

Angele walked to Frey and patted his shoulders, he could understand why Frey questioned him like that—it meant that Frey had been in similar situations before. They had similar height, however, Angele looked a bit strange since he looked younger than the middle-aged man. Angele was much older than Frey, but it looked like a young man was patting a middle-aged man's shoulders.

"Alright, leave this place now. You don't need to worry about me anymore." Angele smiled.

"Aren't you leaving with us?" Freia sounded a bit anxious after she realized that Angele would not join the team.

"Sorry, I can't go with you, but you can make this mansion your shelter. I'll know when you're here and I'll come back for you," Angele responded.

Frey wanted to say something but he did not. Frey raised his right hand and waved.

"Let's go!"

Suddenly, a female member stepped forward and spoke loudly, "Sir! I have something to say!"

"Don't! We need to leave now!" Frey stopped her as he knew what she was going to say.

The female member had short green hair, she was about 15 years old but she looked like an experienced soldier. Although her body trembled after she was yelled at, she still did not move an inch.

Frey decided to give her order again but Angele stopped him.

"What do you want to say?" He looked at the girl curiously.

The girl with green hair bowed to Angele slightly.

"I know it's wrong to interrupt your conversation but I have a question I must ask. With such strong power, why don't you contribute to the human organization? You're a human being too, right?" The girl chose her words carefully but she was still questioning Angele's decision.

"Great power comes with great responsibility! As a relative of our judge and commander, you should join us and fight for our future!" the girl with green hair kept asking.

Angele smiled and shook his head. "I apologize that I can't help you."

"Why?!" The girl looked surprised as she stared at Angele's face. "Do you understand that if a strong being like you can help the human beings, we will have a much higher chance to survive?"

"I understand but I still can't help you." The gentle smile was still on Angele's face. "There are too many things to explain if I have to convince you so I'll keep it short. Frey and Freia are the only two human beings I care about in this realm. It won't really make me sad if all other human beings die," he responded in a cold tone.

"You!" The girl was enraged, she stepped forward while breathing heavily but another female member behind her quickly stopped her.

It seemed like Angele's word reminded Frey and Freia of something.

"I understand." Frey stepped back and bowed to Angele. "We'll leave now, Green." He was not angry at all. Frey patted the girl's shoulder and the girl returned to the team, however, she was still sad about what just happened.

Freia kissed Angele's left cheek and said, "Goodbye, Green."

"Goodbye." Angele rubbed Freia's cheeks just like what he did when Freia was young.

Frey and Freia knew what Angele was trying to tell them. They quickly disappeared into the forest with the team.

Angele just stood there without saying anything else.

He wanted the local human beings to understand that he could not protect them forever. Also, if Angele decided to join a low-level conflict like this, the lords might become his enemy since the low-level creatures usually worked for certain lords.

What they did in the wizard world already made the lords from the north their enemy. The fight between lords would greatly impact the lives of the low-level beings. It would be a disaster for the human beings if they were caught in the battle.

If Angele did not inform the lords from the south about Frey and Freia, they would not even make it to the mansion, and it would be nearly impossible for them to survive in the south.

The mansion was Angele's territory so he could help them defeat the caterpillars and the Dire Lord would be fine with that.

Also, the human beings in the Nightmare Realm were not related to Angele, he offered the help because Frey and Freia were in the team.

He made sure that the team left and looked at the main building with white walls.

"The situation is still the same. I want to meet you again, but…" Angele muttered and disappeared into red flames slowly.

Red light flashed and the scene became clear again.

Angele shook his head and checked the living room. It was quiet and clean.

He could not detect any movement in the house. The orange light from the setting sun landed on the floor and illuminated the whole living room.

The air smelt like burnt toast.

"Xinrui?" Angele shouted and his voice was slightly buffed by his mentality wave.

No one responded.

Angele's brow furrowed, he was in the center of the living room and he decided to check the second floor.

Ka-ta Ka-ta*

He stepped on the staircase and he could see the edge of a white dress by the corner on the second floor.

"Xinrui?" he shouted again.

The white dress moved back and it was quickly blocked by the wall.

Angele had a bad feeling about this. He quickly walked to the second floor and turned left, heading to the reading room.

He stepped on the wooden floor; the noise echoed in the house.

The door of the reading room was half open, Angele pushed the door and entered the room.

"Ah!"

He heard someone screaming and it sounded like a woman that was groaning.

Angele was surprised by the voice for a second.

The voice quickly disappeared. Angele glanced around but he did not find anyone in the room.

There was a black desk, a black chair, two red wooden bookshelves, and a tall candle stand. The painting was on the left and it was still covered by the blanket.

Angele's expression turned serious. 'The voice wasn't an illusion, it must be the playback of someone's voice.' The voice sounded like Xinrui, the woman he summoned.

Angele already tested that his illusions spells did nothing to Xinrui and he doubted that someone else's illusion spells would work on her.

He left the reading room and checked other rooms on the second floor but he did not find anything. He then walked down the stairs and started checking the rooms on the first floor.

All other rooms seemed fine except the storage room.

The storage room looked normal but Angele could smell the stink as he stepped into it.

The storage room was small and dark. Many wooden planks were pinned on the door from inside and bloody handprints were left on the wooden planks, there were also some bloodstains on the floor.

Closing his eyes, Angele released some gentle red light.

CHI*

Some blue smoke slowly appeared in the storage room and he could hear a woman screaming from the smoke.

"It's Xinrui, she's dead…" Angele pursed his lips. "It means the painting is not using illusion attacks and its attacks can deal actual damage."

Angele wanted to find Xinrui's soul by tracking the remaining of her soul, however, the remaining of her soul was the only thing he found.

He checked the blue smoke carefully and found some new information.

"I can track the path of her remaining soul to find the truth…"

After talking to Eye Devil regarding the disadvantages of the sealed forms, he noticed that maybe it was his bloodline that made the decision to keep this painting. If he could reach a whole different level, he would be freed from the realm's curse. He would not keep such a dangerous item in his house if he was the one who made the decision.

Angele left the storage room following the path of Xinrui's soul. He quickly reached his bedroom and noticed that the bronze handle was destroyed and the white door was also covered with bloody handprints. He did not see any of those before summoning the soul.

He remained quiet as he checked the handprints. After checking everything, he followed after the smoke again.

They stood in front of a large vase at the corner of the living room.

There were some green plants, white and yellow flowers in the vase. The flowers were beautiful and vibrant.

The blue smoke moved to the other side of the vase through the gaps among the leaves.

Angele pushed the leaves away and his pupils retracted after seeing the thing behind the base.

On the white wall behind the vase, he found a painting. There was a woman on the wall, staring at Angele with a smile on her face.

The woman was Xinrui, who probably suffered before her death.

She was wearing the jeans and the t-shirt. Her outfit was clean and organized.

"How's that even possible…" Angele muttered. He reached to the painting but his sight blurred for a second.

The painting quickly disappeared and the only thing left was the white wall. It was almost like that he was seeing illusions.

'I'm sure it was not an illusion.' Angele was certain. 'The ability is nothing like an energy attack… Only an individual with power that's greater than my true form can accomplish something like this… If I can analyze this ability…'

He realized that the painting might have an answer to his problem.

Angele put his hands on the wall; the wall was cold but his heart was filled up with warmth.

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Chapter 561: Time Flies (2)

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Angele spent most of his time studying the painting after that. He tried many different methods when experimenting and it would take him at least half a day every time he decided to do something different.

The mining rune circle was successfully developed and he kept refining the iron ores he collected, turning them into refined iron ingots. He just needed to collect the ingots once every couple of weeks.

60 000 tons of metal weapons were not a big problem for him, he could easily get loads of iron ore from the mine. Although he needed to refine the iron ore, it would only take him several years to finish everything, and the six-arm snake race could craft the weapons by themselves.

However, he was having trouble activating the dimension locator, it seemed like he had to wait for the next month of the tide to come so he could contact the six-arm snake race using the power of the tide.

Studying the painting, collecting the ingots, checking the dimension locator, and spending time with Vivian, those were the main things that Angele needed to do.

Vivian was living like a mortal in the town. She developed several hobbies, and gardening was one of them. She almost turned the empty ground around her house into a colorful garden.

She would visit the merchants that visited the town from time to time with Angele and go collect flower seeds in the hills. She also spent time with other local women. Vivian enjoyed the tea time and reading time.

There were barely any energy particles in the air so the wizards would have trouble collecting them after casting spells, so they only cast spells when necessary. Most of the wizards were living like mortals in the town—Angele could still cast spells due to his bloodline power, however, the story was different for other wizards of the Elemental Hand.

Fir ended up refusing to marry Angele and Vivian found him several other girls, however, nothing worked out. The mortals could barely breathe in front of Angele because of the weak mentality wave he was releasing. Xinrui was the only one that had no problem with his illusion spells and mentality wave.

Vivian gave up because of that, she thought that Angele had a long life expectancy and he could take his time.

Time flew, ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

Some of the wizards moved out of the town to stay away from the mortals, they thought that the mortals would find that the wizards were different sooner or later.

The First Elder and the Second Elder also moved to two different towns that were far from here.

Angele and Vivian were still living in the same town. They stayed in the shelters the wizards built for several years and changed their appearance slightly so the residents of the town thought they were children of Angele and Vivian.

The life was nice and peaceful. Angele was still studying the painting and the dimension locator while waiting for the next month of the tide to come.

However, nothing happened in the next 30 years.

100 years had passed when they returned to the town for the third time as the relatives of Fenrir Family.

Angele's thoughts and mind changed slightly after living in a peaceful environment for so long. He learned a lot after all the studies he did and reassessed all the power he had.

He noticed that wizards and strong individuals with bloodline power shared one similarity. They would all reach a whole different level after they broke their power limitation.

Angele named the power limitation as Ancestor's Limitation and the level above Ancestor's Limitation as Siva State. In the Chaos language, "Siva" meant "Eternal".

Siva State represented the extreme power—after reaching Siva State, it would be nearly impossible for him to be defeated and he would be able to affect the dimensional movement. Angele's refined true form was very close to the power limitation, which meant that he was one step away from Siva State.

However, he needed the support of Nightmare Realm's power to maximize the power of his refined true form. The other lords were all at the similar level, the only difference was how close they were to Siva State.

After reaching Siva State, it was no longer about utilizing the rules of the realm. He would become the source of pure power—just like Ancestor Sella, who provided water to numerous realms.

Siva State could not be accurately defined and understood since it was a mysterious power level that was never mentioned. Siva State itself was just a concept so Angele barely learned anything about it after analyzing the information he collected for over one hundred years.

Siva State was not just about power and energy.

However, Angele was getting closer to finding out the secret of the painting; also, the month of tide finally came again…

CHI*

The orange light from the candle appeared in the reading room.

Angele put down the flint stone, walked to the wooden window, and pushed it open.

It was night and it was dark outside. The wind that blew through the window was cold.

Hoot*

He could hear the owls making noise in the forest and there were several glowing flowers on the ground.

There was a black mustache on Angele's face and his body was slightly stronger than before. He was wearing a silk shirt with long leather pants and boots. He looked a bit like his father in this outfit.

Angele inhaled deeply, the air was wet but refreshing and it made him felt much better.

He pulled out the chair and sat down by the table. There were test tubes, metal beakers, and some other lab equipment on it. There was also a rectangular box with a silver scorpion engraved on it.

Angele pressed the lid of the box slightly.

PA*

With the noise, the lid opened by itself. The box was filled up with broken pieces of ice; there was white smoke rising into the air.

In the center of the broken ice, there was a red ball with the size of a finger nail.

Angele grabbed the ball and closed the lid. He took out a metal plate and put the red ball on it.

The red ball melted as it landed on the plate, revealing the dark dust inside.

Angele's expression turned serious. He released some black smoke using his mouth which quickly surrounded the dark dust.

"100 years passed… I checked the dust that was from different parts of the painting but there's one thing that I still don't understand…" He sighed.

"The barrier from the six-arm race can only help me temporarily, I need to advance to the next level so I can solve the problem completely. I hope that the study is worth my efforts…"

The month of the tide was coming and he could finally solve the problem temporarily. Angele was excited since he had been battling the realm power for over 100 years.

Angele calmed down as blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes. His red pupils retracted slightly as he stared at the dust on the plate.

CHI*

His sight blurred for a second.

'Modifying the magnification…' Zero's voice echoed in his ears.

'Magnifying… 246 310 000x magnification…'

Black, white, and blue dots flashed in front of his eyes. It felt like there the light dots were flying by Angele and he could barely see anything.

Finally, the magnification stopped after about ten seconds.

A platform with countless diamond-shaped substances appeared in his sight; there were so many of them that they looked like a sea of diamonds.

Angele quickly found the diamond he observed the last time and started checking the diamond behind it.

'Magnify it and scan for unknown movement.'

'Magnifying…'

Angele's sight blurred as the diamond was being magnified. The surface of the diamond was also made of countless small diamonds.

'No unknown movement detected…'

Angele was not depressed at all, he just switched to the next one.

Time passed.

Finally, Zero said something different when he checked the 3005th diamond.

'Unknown movement detected…'

Angele was going to switch to the next diamond but his expression froze after hearing those words. It was the first time he heard a different response from the biochip after all those years.

He tested all other methods but it seemed like only the basic observing method worked.

'Was it a false warning?' He quickly stopped what he was about to do.

'Unknown movement detected… Keep magnifying?' Zero questioned again.

'Yes, magnify it now!' Angele gave the order before Zero finished its words.

The diamond was being magnified again.

One side of the diamond moved closer and closer. He could see that there were countless black diamonds on the surface just like other ones. One of the diamonds on the surface was magnified again.

The process repeated numerous times.

It felt like that process could be repeated forever, the only things he could see were seas of black diamonds.

Finally, Zero reported back again when Angele was about to get impatient.

DING*

'Maximum limit reached…'

Angele had no time to listen to Zero's word.

He could not believe what he just saw. He was so surprised that he had to hold his breath. Angele wondered if he was seeing illusions.

The magnification was completed.

The surface of the black diamond was no longer a sea of diamonds, it was nice and smooth.

It almost looked like the surface of a marble tile.

Also, there was a hole in the center of the surface.

The shape of the hole was irregular and it looked like an entrance to an unknown realm.

He could even feel the chill that was coming out of the hole.

Also, Angele found several pale fingers by the edge of the hole.

It seemed like the owner of the fingers noticed Angele's sight and the fingers quickly disappeared into the endless abyss.

Angele recognized the fingers immediately, it was the from the arm that tried to drag him into an unknown realm.

'Does it mean that this is the secret of the painting? It's an entrance to an unknown realm?'

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Chapter 562: The Tide (1)

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Angele looked at the black hole and asked, "Zero, can you move a bit closer?"

Zero remained silent, the only thing he could hear was some static. It felt like that the noise was from a TV with no signal.

Several minutes later, Zero finally reported back.

'Unknown interruption detected… Blocking…'

Angele looked at the black hole and controlled the magnifier manually, he slowly moved away from the hole.

The hole was getting smaller and smaller in Angele's sight and quickly disappeared into the sea of diamonds.

'Biochip recovered, system recovered, debug completed.'

Angele closed his eyes and opened them again; everything returned to normal in his sight. The dust was lying on the plate quietly and the flame of the candle was dancing in the air. His shadow was also waving under the dim light.

"Damn…"

Angele took a deep breath and stood up. He carefully sealed the plate and returned it into the black box to keep it cold.

"Finally, something new…" Angele stood in front of the window and the chilling wind was blowing over his face. He was happy that he finally found a clue.

Crank*

Suddenly, the door behind him opened slowly, revealing the dark hallway. It felt like that the door was opened by a living being since the wind was not strong enough to do that.

A woman in a white dress slowly passed by and disappeared into the darkness.

Angele turned his head around and looked into the hallway.

"Again?" He had already got used to the strange scene over the years.

He stored the painting in the mirror when living with Vivian so the woman would not appear. He would observe the strange scene carefully when Vivian was not around.

DOO*

The noise coming from outside sounded like children yelling. The pitch of the noise was changing to high from low and it just kept going.

"Doodoo bird's voice… The sun is about to rise…" Angele was not concerned about the door. He turned his head back and looked at the sky.

"It's time to visit Vivian."

He put the box back into the mirror, turned around, and walked to the door. He also took down the black cotton coat from the hanger and put it on.

The coat almost looked like a large cloak and there was some white fur around the neck. He locked the door and put on a pair of black leather gloves.

BAM*

The candle was extinguished as the door closed.

As Angele was walking in the dark hallway, the wooden floor made some strange noise. The wooden floor was still holding up after all those years.

Ka-ta Ka-ta*

He walked down the stairs; the noise was extremely loud in the quiet house.

Angele tightened his coat and walked to the door on the first door. He carefully pushed it open.

BAM*

The broken wooden door fell to the ground.

Angele was a bit surprised. "Again?"

Shaking his head, Angele stepped out of the house. He was not concerned about the damaged door.

He entered the forest and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

"Miss Vivian, have you prepared your flowers?"

In the town, a young man with a cart was shouting at a two-level house with red walls loudly.

The sun was still rising and the doodoo birds were still making noises. There were several chubby women walking on the street with baskets in their hands. They broke the silence of the early morning.

Behind a fence, a young woman with clean skin was carefully cutting the fresh flowers in the garden.

The woman was wearing a white dress; the dress had a reflective coating, its texture was similar to silk. Her long black hair was tied up but there was still some of it trailing over her shoulders.

Under the bright morning sunlight, the woman's large breasts and slim waist were eye-catching. Her legs were also reflecting the sunlight and they looked like they were made of white jade.

The woman was Vivian and she had been living in the town for over 100 years. She dyed her hair black and looked just like a local woman. Also, the expression on her face was no longer cold; maybe the garden work changed her.

Vivian straightened her back after hearing the voice, she put down the red roses in a small cart on the side.

"Almost done. Ram, you're too early. Do you want some breakfast? I have pancakes here."

Vivian pushed the cart to the iron gate, she opened the gate and stepped out from behind the fence.

The young man with a cart was wearing gray linen outfit and had short brown hair. He blushed and lowered his head after hearing Vivian talking to him.

"Miss Vivian, your flowers are so good that I won't be able to get them if I'm late…" Ram responded; he sounded shy.

Vivian quickly pushed the flower cart to Ram, who helped her push the flower cart onto his cart. Ram then took out a small piece of paper and stuck it on the flower cart. The paper was just a label.

They wiped the dust off their hands quickly.

"Alright, Miss Vivian, I need to collect flowers from some other families." Ram rubbed his hands, it seemed like he was cold.

"Take this." Vivian took out a yellow paper bag and gave it to Ram. Ram could smell the fragrance of the warm pancakes.

Ram wanted to give the bag back but his stomach made some noise right after he smelled the pancakes.

Ram lowered his head and said, "Thank you…"

"Alright, go ahead, young man." Vivian rubbed Ram's cheek and smiled.

Ram nodded, he turned around and walked to the cart. He suddenly turned around after he realized he still had something to say, however, he was still too shy to look at Vivian's face and just looked at Vivian's boots.

"One more thing, Miss Vivian, do you know that there's a ghost house at the east of the town?"

"A ghost house? You mean the old wooden house on the hill?" Vivian hesitated for a second and realized what Ram was talking about.

"Yeah, I know. What happened?" She looked at Ram.

Ram lowered his voice. "Don't go near there. I heard that there was a strange person living in the house. He walks like a ghost and wears a black coat all day. That man might be a wizard…"

"Huh? A wizard? That's impossible. I heard that the empire had already eliminated all the wizards." Vivian chuckled.

"I don't know the details but just don't go near there. My grandpa told me that the people who entered that wooden house all died or disappeared," Ram continued. "Alright, I need to go collect the flowers. I'll talk to you later!"

"Sure." Vivian nodded. "Thank you for the information."

"My pleasure." Ram bowed to Vivian slightly, it felt like that he was trying to show the respect like a knight but he did it in the wrong way and it was quite amusing.

"Go!" Ram shouted and the bull in front of the art started moving. They slowly disappeared into the morning mist.

Vivian stood by the gate and waited until the cart disappeared, then looked at the shadow on the left.

A tall man slowly stepped out of the corner. He was wearing a black hat, and although Vivian could see the man's mustache, his face was barely visible due to the mist.

The man took off the hat. It was Angele; he was smiling.

"Do you need help?"

"Of course." Vivian smiled and raised her hands.

"Alright, just give me what I needed."

Angele took out a purple potion from the pouch on his belt and threw it to Vivian.

"This will be good for a month. You can use it on any flowers in the garden."

Vivian caught the potion and checked it carefully.

"Great, it seems like you found some good materials this time. The quality of this potion is great."

"Yeah. Alright, I need to go and open my shop. I'll see you at noon." Angele waved his hands and disappeared into the shadow.

"See you at noon." Vivian shook the potion bottle several times and returned to the garden.

Angele walked on the street slowly and the white steam coming out of his mouth merged into the thin mist. He found several milk delivery guys running around on the roadside.

He walked passed two streets and reached the south side of the town. There was yellow light coming out of the old buildings that varied in height.

On the twisted street that was covered with mud, there was a vendor offering milk tea. The vendor was trying to get people's attention.

"Famous Duban milk team! Only five bronze coins per cup!"

The vendor's voice was a bit hoarse but it was still quite loud on the street.

Angele purchased a cup of milk tea and took a sip from the cup that was made of the tree leaves. The milk team was creamy and fragrant. He could also taste the apple juice in it.

He walked to the end of the street and stopped by a small shop.

On the right side of the shop, there was a small river, and there was a grocery shop on the left. The door of the shop was covered with gray wooden planks.

Angele finished the milk team and dropped the leaf cup. He then quickly moved the wooden planks to the side.

There were not many objects inside the shop.

A red wooden counter, an empty showcase with multiple slots that were separated by wooden stripes, and nothing else.

Angele jumped over the counter and pulled a small black wooden bed out of the counter. He flattened the bed and sat down on it. He then took out some strange items from a locker under the bed.

There were square stickers that looked like herbal plasters, glass bottles with yellow dust inside, dried herbs, and some colorful beads or badges. They looked like a bunch of low-quality products.

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Chapter 563: The Tide (2)

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Angele lined up the items on the counter and took out a complete set of rusty armor. The silver armor was covered with orange rust, it also came with a broken axe and a dirty crossguard sword.

He rubbed his chin after everything was put down on the counter.

"I think something is missing…"

He thought for a second and took out several poem books from the mirror. He quickly put them on the right end of the counter.

This pawnshop was Angele's only source of income in the town. He purchased the valuable items that others no longer wanted and sold them for a higher price—the price difference would be his earning.

Angele had a long life expectancy and collected many things that he did not need. The pawnshop was a perfect disguise for him.

He lay down on the bed and covered his eyes with a random book after everything was done. He quickly entered the biochip's database and started simulating the controlling of his bloodline power. Angele did not waste any time over the last 100 years, he had already improved the spells using the bloodline power. Only the sealed forms would know if he was using the bloodline power or just casting wizard spells.

One of his recent goals was to maximize the power and the controllability of his spells.

He organized all the damage spells he knew and abandoned the ones that he did not need. Angele ended up with three battle styles that fitted his three talent abilities: Golem, Lion Man, and Light Form.

He had to cast the spells separately before; after turning the spells into battle styles, he could easily switch to the best battle style during the fights.

The battle style system was extremely helpful for Light Form. He needed to control his energy accurately and efficiently when Light Form was activated. Although Angele was still one step away from Siva State, he still wanted to figure out a method that could help him maximize the efficiency.

He covered his eyes with a book because he did not want anyone else to see the blue light from the biochip.

Time passed.

More and more people appeared on the street. There were also carriages and teenagers who were heading to the training ground. Dogs, chicken, and ducks were also just left on the street by the farmers.

The dogs were barking from time to time and the chickens were also making noises.

"Hey, I'm here to do business!" A young boy with freckles on his face stepped into the shop. The boy's eyes were big and his face was handsome, however, there was some dried mucus under his nose. There was also an egg-shaped birthmark on his forehead.

The boy was breathing heavily as he entered the door, it seemed like he ran to the shop from home.

"Hey, Andre! Are you here?" The boy raised his voice since Angele did not respond to him. He quickly tapped the surface of the counter several times.

Angele slowly moved the book away from his face and stood up.

"Tom, you again… What do you want? Marbles or snail shells?"

"I saved a lot of money this time! I want the crossguard sword!" Tom pointed at the sword.

"This is a legendary sword that has served Knight Uris for years. Knight Uris eliminated 18 empire knights on the battlefield during the war and the price for such a rare item is…"

"188 silver coins!" Tom interrupted before Angele finished the word.

"You know it already… Do you really want this sword?" Angele questioned.

Tom nodded several times.

"I, Tom Lori, will become a knight one day! This legendary weapon will be perfect for my journey! It'll bring me the glory!"

Angele's cheek twitched slightly.

"Fine…" He grabbed the crossguard sword and tried to clean the blade using a piece of cloth. He wiped the blade several times and the white cloth quickly turned dark.

Angele felt guilty that he was pretty much taking all the pocket money from the kid. Tom was the only son of Lord Lori, the one who controlled the town.

He grabbed the leather pouch from the kid and checked the number of silver coins. The leather pouch was quite heavy with all the coins in it. He then carefully handed the crossguard sword to Tom.

"Congratulations."

Tom held the crossguard sword like holding a treasure in hand.

"I'll become a strong knight one day…" he muttered. It sounded like he was talking about his dream and cheering himself up.

Tom turned around and headed to the exit with the sword in hand. He suddenly looked back before leaving the shop.

"Andre, Vic said that there was a letter for you so you better go pick it up. Also, my father said that several knights from the church came to the town so you should hide your armor."

Angele nodded and smiled. "Thank you, the letter is probably from Becky. I owe you one."

"How about a gift?" Tom returned to the counter and smiled.

Angele watched Tom grow up. He wondered into Angele's shop when he was around two years old and found many things that attracted him. Tom treated Angele's shop as his treasure trove and found many "legendary" items here. He was almost 13 years old but he still liked those random items.

Angele's smile turned gentle as he thought and he tried to pat Tom's head.

"Don't touch my hair! Akasha did my hair this morning!" Tom blocked Angele's hand.

"Well, take this." Angele thought for a while and grabbed a book with a red cover from the book, throwing it into Tom's arms.

"You're turning 13 soon, dress or battle skirt, you decide."

Tom checked the book, it was a legendary journey of a nameless knight. It seemed like he liked the book a lot.

"Thank you! That's a great gift!" He turned around and rushed out of the shop, it seemed like he was afraid that Angele would take the book back.

Angele chuckled as he watched Tom leave.

Tom was actually a girl and she loved knight stories a lot. Also, Tom was not afraid of Angele. Angele only had several regular customers, Tom was one of them. Young boys would be treated like girls and young girls would be treated like boys, this was a tradition in the town.

The red book Angele gave Tom read like a story but was actually written by Angele. He recorded the battle techniques on the book, his physical skills were stronger than Grand Knights' and he had hundreds of years of experiences. The book would be a treasure to any knight that wanted to reach a higher level.

However, Tom needed to read the book page by page, Angele hid the techniques in the story.

Angele knew what it meant when the knights from the church visited the town.

The church hated the wizards the most and could eliminate all the wizards they encountered. They were not here to play games. They were probably here for Angele and Vivian.

The church treated rumors that were related to the wizards seriously.

Angele lay down again and rested for several hours.

He stood up and organized his coat. Angele wanted to have some lunch but Tom rushed into his shop again.

Tom changed his outfit, she was wearing a tight leather suit and it seemed like she was proud of her breasts even though there was barely anything there.

She was also wearing a pair of brown leather boots and a short gray skirt. Angele could see her slim waist and legs. She was quite attractive for her age.

She looked nothing like the boy Angele met in the morning.

"What do you think, Andre? Am I attractive to you?" Tom turned around, her head was around Angele's chest. "Don't fall in love with me."

She looked excited. "Look at my legs, my skin, my breasts! I'm sexy, right? I've been treated like a boy my whole life and I can finally dress like a girl. Can you give me another gift? Look how cute I am."

Angele was speechless. "Well, Tom, no, I think I should just call your girl name, Fra… I'm not interested in kids, you know."

Fra was surprised, the smile quickly disappeared from her face.

"Ah!" Fra screamed, turned around, and rushed out of the shop, disappearing into the crowd.

Angele laughed and closed the door. He sealed the door using the wooden planks.

He suddenly looked to the center of the town before leaving.

An invisible energy wave was spreading in all angles—the energy wave was so invasive that it was pushing all the energy particles away but there was barely any energy particles in this area.

"The church…" Angele blinked his eyes and thought for a while. He just realized why the density of the energy particles was so low in this area.

In the forest outside the town.

There was a group of people traveling in the thin mist and they were heading to the town at full speed.

They were wearing luxurious silk cloaks and they were riding horses in the shadows.

The noise made by the hooves were deep and loud. Those people covered their faces with their hoods and lowered their bodies on the back of the horses. They were traveling so fast that their cloaks were flying in the air.

The knights in the front slowed down; there was a total of six people in the group. The hooves were still making noises.

"Loria is in front of us and I can feel the holy power of Alice," one of the black cloaks spoke in a deep tone.

"According to the intel, there are two evil wizards hiding in the town, we need to eliminate them. With the help of the knights, it shouldn't be a problem. Also, we should capture them alive so we can find more wizards!" The black cloak had a hoarse voice and he was speaking in a strange tone.

"Understood!" The rest of the team quickly responded. There were males and females in the team. They were all young and strong.

"Let's go! The god is watching us, we shall not let any wizard escape!" The leading knight increased his speed and charged to the town.

The rest of the team followed the knight and quickly disappeared into the mist.

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Chapter 564: Ambush (1)

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Knock Knock*

Angele walked through the garden and knocked on the brown wooden door. The surface of the door was rough and cold.

Crank*

The door opened. Vivian, who was wearing a white silk dress, checked the surroundings and asked Angele to enter the house.

Angele followed Vivian to the living room. He could hear the fire burning in the fireplace. The flames were dancing and brought warmth to the room.

He took off the black coat and hung it on the hanger.

He loosened the collar and spoke in a low voice, "Did you notice that?"

Vivian nodded and poured some flower tea into the cups on the table. The orange liquid in the cups was nice and warm.

"The church finally came… I wanted to spend the rest of my life here if I could…" She looked a bit depressed as she grabbed the wooden cup. The steam from the tea surrounded her face.

Angele put his hand on the back of Vivian's hand.

"Mother, don't worry, I'm sure you can still live a couple hundred years." He stopped for a second and continued, "I'll take care of the church. The life has been too peaceful for me and I need some exercise. We can still stay in this town if I can get rid of them."

He grabbed Vivian's hand and kissed her forehead. "Trust me…"

A gentle smile appeared on Vivian's face.

"I know you'll do anything for me but I don't want to bother you too much. You're still young, you should go out and explore the colorful world."

The conversation paused here, they were both enjoying the family moment.

They suddenly heard some noises made by the metal, it seemed like some armored knights were passing by.

Angele stood up and walked to the window. He moved the dark curtain to the side and looked out of the window.

A team of knights in silver armors was moving slowly on the plated road. Their horses were also equipped with silver armors and were carrying long silver lances on their backs. The bright sunlight reflected on the sharp tips of the lances.

There were people looking at the armored knights on both sides of the street and the children were no longer running around. The knights were feared and respected by the residents.

The noise made by the hooves slowly faded away as the knights disappeared by the end of the street.

Angele moved the curtain back, turned around, and looked at Vivian.

"The loyal knights… The church has the right to order the knights, we both know they're here for just one obvious reason…"

"We should leave." Vivian stood up and her brow furrowed. "Our power is weakened on this land. I can't even restore my energy particles by absorbing the energy particles in the air. Also, the energy particles in my body are disappearing slowly. If we kill them with our wizard power, the church will send more knights here. They are like bees who are looking for honey."

"I don't have to use my true power." Angele smiled. "Just leave it to me, I'll take care of it by tomorrow. Alright, let's talk about something else. How are the elders doing? And how's Fir?"

"I haven't heard from First Elder and Second Elder for a while… Fir and the other wizards are traveling in different regions. They said that it would take two years for the letters to be delivered in the last letter I received." Vivian took a sip from the cup and sighed.

"First Elder probably expected this when he decided to leave the central continent. The future of the Elemental Hand is in the hands of the wizards who decided not to leave the central continent."

Angele already prepared the chessboard when they were talking. There were black dots and white circles on the chessboard.

"It's still early, why don't we play some chess?" He picked up a white pawn that looked like a horse.

In the center of the town, a large grass ground was surrounded by some white fences. The grass reflected the sunlight and looked like a large emerald.

In the center of the grass ground, there was a gray house with yellow walls. The paint on the walls was old and some of the white bricks under the paint were revealed.

On top of the house, there was a bronze cross; a girl in a leather skirt was lying on the red roof beside the cross.

The golden sunlight shined upon the girl's body and was reflected off her clean skin. Without the birthmark on her forehead, the girl would be even more attractive.

The girl was Fra Loria, she was the one who visited Angele's shop. The girl had her hands on the back of her head and she looked like a lazy cat that was enjoying the sunlight on top of the roof.

"How long do I have to wait?" She yawned.

"I thought the loyal knights and the church's holy knights will be here but I've already waited here for so long…"

The sunlight was getting intense, Fra closed her eyes and had a nap. She suddenly heard some intense noise made by hooves below and quickly woke up. She turned around and slowly moved to the window of the attic.

After the noise, she heard metal objects hitting each other and some intense footsteps from inside the house.

"Alice, the food and the tea are prepared. The rooms and hot water are also ready. Do you want to…?" A high-pitched male voice appeared. It was Fra's father, the Mayor of the town.

The knights jumped off the horses and quickly entered the house. There were more than one knights here as the footsteps were loud and intense.

"Don't worry about it," the knight named Alice responded in a cold tone. His voice was strange, it was hoarse but attractive, and no one would know if it was a man or woman just by his voice.

"Did you check all the residents here? Did you find the people I need?"

"I'm still working on it… Please give me some more time…"

BAM*

It sounded like the Mayor was hit by a fist.

Fra's heart was racing, she moved closer to the window and looked down.

In the spacious living room, her father, the Mayor of Town Loria, kneeled on the carpet, and there was saliva dripping down his chin. The Mayor covered his stomach with both hands and there was a tall man with gray hair standing in front of him.

The man was wearing a black eyepatch and his face was covered with scars. His right hand was on the handle of his hammer and he was staring at the Mayor.

Suddenly, the man noticed that there were two beautiful women looking at them with their mouth covered by hands—the two women were standing behind the railings on the second floor. They screamed after they noticed that the man was staring at them.

A hint of cruelty flashed in the man's eyes.

"I didn't expect to find such beautiful women in a small town like this… Gray, I think the Mayor is assisting the wizards! There might be female wizards in his place!"

He turned to the knight behind him and ordered, "Draw the circle and show the white flag!"

"Sir." The young knight looked confused. "He's the Mayor of a town that is owned by the country…"

"What are you afraid of? Do as what I said!" the man named Alice spoke in a deep tone.

Three of the knights in the team also looked at the two women, the female knight was just drawing a cross in front of her chest, it seemed like she was used to a situation like this.

"Master! You can't do something like this! I'll show you the results as soon as possible! I just need a bit more time!" Fear was written all over the Mayor's face and he tried to stop Alice by grabbing his leg.

BAM*

He was kicked in the stomach by Alice. The Mayor rolled twice on the floor as blood spurted out of his mouth.

"I… I didn't assist any wizard!" The Mayor was begging the man, he did not care that there was blood all over his face. "Master, please, don't do this!"

Alice stepped forward and drew his sword.

CHI*

The crossguard sword went through the Mayor's chest and the Mayor's white outfit was soaked in the blood from the fresh wound.

"Ah!"

People on the second floor screamed and they quickly locked the doors.

A terrifying grin appeared on Alice's face.

"I want one of them, you can have the other. You know what you need to do after everything is done."

He suddenly turned around and waved his hand.

PA*

A male servant behind the staircase fell to the floor. His head was hit by a silver dagger and he died before he could say anything.

The two knights sneered and left the room.

Fra covered her mouth on the roof, she watched her father die, and there were tears running down her cheeks. Her body was shaking and trembling.

"Ah!"

BAM BAM*

Men were laughing and women were screaming in the house. Fra also heard something fell to the floor.

Fra knew that she would be in big trouble if she made any noise. This was probably the worst event she had ever witnessed and everything was done by the knights she admired. She was desperate and helpless.

There were several workers and a female guest in the house besides her father and her mother. It was her mother and the female guest who were screaming.

It was no doubt that she had no way to save her family.

The two women finally stopped screaming after a while but their throats were cut open right after. Fra could smell the blood although the window was closed.

"Mother…" she muttered and huddled herself up with her head above her knees.

The female knight searched the house and reported back, "Sir! We found a painting here, I think the Mayor's son is not here."

"Don't worry, we can make his son a wanted man. The church's force is arriving soon, we need to hurry!" Alice responded in a cold tone.

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Chapter 565: Ambush (2)

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The royal knights finally arrived, they searched the house and took away all the valuables. It took them less than 30 minutes to finish the job.

They packed up the valuables and put them on the horses. The loyal knights left the area quickly.

Fra waited for a while and slowly climbed down a rope by the edge of the roof. She sneaked into the house and rushed out of it several minutes later. There were tears on her face and blood on her outfit.

There were several old books and a damaged crossguard sword in her arms. Those were the treasures she collected over the years.

There was a white circle around the house; she also saw a white flag waving on the grassy ground.

Fra tried her best not to cry out loud. She looked around with a confused look on her face; she had no idea what she should do.

Angele won two games in a row; Vivian was upset about it. She finally let Angele leave after Angele lost two games to her intentionally.

He walked down the street and headed to his shop. The people on the street were all chatting with fear on their faces.

Angele heard words like "church", "white flag", and "knights".

"Hey, Andre!" a man with a hoe in the hand greeted Angele. "Do you know that the knights went to the Mayor's house?"

"Hey, Misho. What did he do?" Angele was a bit surprised.

"I heard that they were assisting wizards. I already saw the white circle and the white flag around his house"—Misho lowered his voice—"the white circle and the flag mean that the Mayor is considered as a traitor, his whole family will be wiped out!"

"You heard it too?" a young girl that was just passing by interrupted.

"I heard that the white flag appeared at noon. I think they were already executed."

"That's sad… Loria was a good mayor. I didn't expect him to be with the wizards, maybe they were the ones who built the house on the hill…" Misho made his voice even lower.

"Also, the people who got lost over the years were probably captured by the wizards. The wizards can turn them into frogs and insects!" A middle-aged woman also joined the conversation.

They walked as they chatted. The Mayor treated the local people well but he was then turned into an evil being that helped the wizards.

Angele sighed as he listened to the conversation; he thought of Fra right away—they just met in the morning.

He knew what the royal knights and holy knights were up to. The wizards already told him what they learned by letters, the people with power were just trying to maximize their profit by conducting the wizard hunt.

"No one has found Tom yet, the kid is now wanted. You can get 20 gold coins if you can capture him alive… That's about 2000 silver coins… I don't know why they are going so hard on a child…" Misho shook his head.

"If the Loria Family is helping the wizards, the kid must be evil too, he must know that his father was dealing with the wizards," the middle-aged woman interrupted. "That's a lot of money you know, 20 gold coins will keep my family fed for over 30 years…"

Angele was not interested in the conversation, he turned left and entered a quiet alley when they were still talking.

There were two garbage bins in the alley and the fermented fruits around the bins made the air stink.

He heard footsteps as he started heading to his shop again.

Ka-ta Ka-ta Ka-ta*

Angele turned his head around and saw a team of guards patrolling the area. The guards were all drunk heads that barely worked before the knights came. They were all going after the Mayor's girl.

"You'll get 10 gold coins if you can tell us where Tom is!" the guards shouted as they ran.

The sentence was repeated numerous times and finally stopped after the guards moved to the next area. Angele started walking again, he suddenly stopped when he passed the two garbage bins. He opened the garbage bin on his left quickly.

There was a young girl inside, the girl had a pair of clear blue eyes on her dirty face. She was staring at Angele in fear and there was an egg-shaped birthmark on his forehead.

Angele looked at the girl's eyes, they were filled up with desperation, fear, and pain.

"Tom?" He opened his mouth. "No, I mean, Fra, right? You were in my shop this morning."

Fra heard the familiar and gentle voice, she could no longer hold it and the tears started running down her cheeks again. The tears left two lines on her face due to the dirt.

Angele did not know how he could make Fra feel better.

He patted Fra's head and removed a piece of garbage from her hair.

"You can go with me if you have nowhere else to go."

Fra moved out of the garbage bin carefully and stood in front of Angele. Her body stank and the flies were flying around her.

"Let's go, you're now a worker in my shop and your name is Fra. I assume only your parents and I know this name." Angele looked at Fra and Fra nodded.

He did not care that she was in a garbage bin, Angele quickly took off his coat and gave it to Fra.

"You were from a different town, right? I think you'll need this since this area is cold." Angele covered the girl's body with the coat, he grabbed her hand and they walked to the other side of the alley.

The church and the knights were going after Angele but the Mayor's family was caught in the middle of it. Angele was a selfish wizard but he still decided to take care of Fra.

Angele watched Fra grew up and liked the girl. Fra was one of the few customers that would actually buy his items.

They returned to Angele's shop without being noticed.

Angele asked her to take a shower in the backyard before the night fell.

The energy wave from the center of the town was getting stronger and stronger. It was strengthened after the black robes from the church entered the town.

Angele was not worried that they could find him and Vivian. They were high-rank wizards and they could easily hide their energy waves.

What he needed to do was to eliminate all those who disturbed his peaceful life this night.

CHI*

The silver blade sparked on the whetstone.

Angele sat in the backyard with a silver crossguard sword in his hand. He was slowly sharpening the blade using a rectangular whetstone.

He lifted the crossguard sword after sharpening it for a while and put it into a bucket of clean water.

Angele washed the blade and carefully returned the sword into the sheath on his belt.

He stood up and looked at Fra, who was sleeping in the room. Angele released some dark-red light using his finger. The light quickly entered Fra's nose.

It helped the girl sleep better.

"I shall teach those bastards some manners…" Angele put his hand on the handle of his sword.

"It has been a while since the last time I showed my sword skills." He decided to handle them using the sword skill set he perfected.

CHI*

Angele disappeared into the darkness.

Angele's house on the hill.

The old house was almost shaking in the chilling wind.

It was dark inside the house and the walls of the house were covered with green vines.

Two groups of people walked out of the forest. The people in the front were wearing black robes and black cloaks. The other group of people was knights that were fully equipped.

The leader of the black robes looked at the wooden house.

"That's the ghost house you talked about?" There was a serious expression on his face.

"Yeah," a black robe behind the leader responded.

The leader looked at the knights.

"Alice, surround the house. You're the leader of the royal knights and you're a holy knight. You have the right to give orders."

"As you wish." Alice nodded.

"Are you going to enter the house? I don't think it's necessary. We can just burn the house down and the thing inside will come out."

"Good idea. Let's do it."

The black robes and the knights separated. They quickly surrounded the small house.

The leader of the black robe grabbed a torch and waved it around.

The flame quickly lighted the wooden house up.

"The God is watching us…" The leader prayed and threw the torch to the house.

In the forest on the hill, Angele was running to his house at full speed, he was wearing a tight leather suit.

He walked around the town but did not find any enemy. He then realized that they were heading to his house so he quickly rushed to the hill.

Suddenly, he stopped as he saw the bright light from the flames on the hill.

"They already arrived…"

He drew the crossguard sword slowly and drew a cross in the air.

BAM*

He stabbed the crossguard sword into the ground like lightning.

BOOM*

The land started vibrating and it felt like that the whole hill was shaking.

A large black fissure was created by the sword and quickly moved to the people who were around the house. The black fissure looked like a humongous snake.

Crack*

The land under Angele's feet cracked, he jumped into the air and turned into a black string, charging to the leader of the black robes.

The leader turned around as the orange light from the flames illuminated his wrinkled face.

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Chapter 566: Untitled (1)

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"Lie down!" An armored knight jumped at Angele and hit him hard.

BAM*

They passed by the leader of the black robes and started fighting in the sky. Silver flames sparked as their swords contacted.

"For the church!"

"God bless us!"

The black robes from the church shouted and drew their maces. They raised the maces and they were about to charge at Angele, however, they were stopped by the fissure on the ground.

Angele held the sword tight and slashed forward.

Clank*

The blade blew the armored knight away; the knight rolled several times on the ground and hit the tree. It was the knight with an eye patch. Blood leaked out of his armor, and no one knew if he was still alive. He just lay by the tree without moving an inch.

Angele checked the surroundings and noticed that most of the knights were stopped by the fissure. They were trying to find a safe place to stand, however, the leader of the black robes was walking to him with a calm expression on the face.

He swung the sword and drew a cross in the air.

"You never learn…"

"God is watching us!" the leader roared and threw the mace at Angele; his body was coated by a thin white glow.

BAM*

The mace landed where Angele was standing at and left a one-meter-wide hole on the ground.

Angele's expression changed after he dodged the attack.

"Interesting…" He leaped to the side and dodged another attack. The leader picked the mace up; the spikes on the mace were illuminated by the white glow.

Angele kicked the leader hard when he missed the attack.

BAM*

The leader almost fell to the ground, Angele's Strength was over 30, however, it seemed like the leader was not severely injured. Although the white glow on his body was weakened, he roared and his muscles suddenly started growing. He looked much taller and stronger than before.

The leader charged to Angele like an angry bear.

The attack still missed and Angele kicked the leader in the waist again. The leader fell to the ground but he quickly stood up and it felt like he was not feeling any pain.

Angele's expression turned serious as blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes.

Rows of data were being refreshed by the leader's body, he could even see the electrocardiography and the electroencephalography in his sight. The man's heart rate was over five times per second.

'Target is recovering… He'll fully recover in five seconds,' Zero reported back quickly.

Angele looked at the leader who just stood up and scanned his body.

'I already used all my force when kicking him, although I'm not in my true form, the attack can easily knock a mammoth out. The white glow is the problem—80 percent of the damage was blocked by the white glow and he recovered from the injury within seconds. He's just a group leader in the church but he's so strong…' He finally knew why they could eliminate the wizards. The energy density in this area was low and the servants of the church buffed their bodies using a certain technique. It was nearly impossible for an average wizard to win a fight like this.

'My Strength is 33 and an average mortal's Strength is 1 but this guy is not even hurt… He can probably handle an average wizard easily…' Angele stopped thinking and slashed backward.

CHI*

A black robe behind Angele was hit by the tip of the blade, his forehead was pierced and he fell to the ground while the mace was still in his hand.

Angele quickly pulled the blade out of the black robe's forehead and blocked the mace from the leader.

He stabbed the leader using the tip of the sword but it was stopped by the white glow around the man's body.

WOO*

It sounded like the blade was vibrating, Angele could feel the strong force coming from the handle of the sword and could barely hold it steadily.

"Die!" he shouted and moved the sword away from the leader. Angele's body started spinning like a gyroscope.

The silver blade drew numerous silver lines in the air and the slashes all landed in the center of the leader's chest.

CHI CHI CHI*

Two more armored knights charged toward Angele while he was spinning but they were blown away right away. The two knights landed in the forest and fainted.

Crack*

A black crack appeared in the center of the leader's chest and Angele's sword finally went through the man's body. The bloody tip of the sword appeared on the other side of the leader's body.

Angele held the sword using both hands and kicked the leader in the waist while pulling his sword out of the man's body.

'It's over. I just need to focus all force at one point and repeat the process multiple times.' Angele inhaled deeply. He did not use any wizard power or bloodline power this time. He felt tired because his opponent had a strange shield and a strong body.

PA*

The leader of the black robes fell to the grass floor and looked at the night sky with a pair of soulless eyes. The sapphire ring on his right hand was still releasing some white light.

Angele walked to him and removed the ring from his hand. The remaining white glow quickly disappeared from the man's body.

"God will… punish you…" he spoke when the blood was still coming out of his mouth and stopped breathing a couple seconds later.

Angele looked at the ring in his hand, it was a silver ring with a sapphire on it. The sapphire was clean and attractive.

He glanced around and noticed that most of the black robes were caught in his blade dance. There were also black robes who died in the fissure, however, some of the knights escaped. He knew that he knocked some of the knights out during the battle, but he was not sure if they were still alive or not.

Angele's wooden house was still burning, he stood in front of the dancing flames and wiped the blood off his blade.

"I should leave now… I've already collected the painting and the things that are important to me. I didn't kill all the knights because I need them to send the message back. The church will go after us and Vivian will have more time to escape," he muttered as he played with the sapphire ring. He walked to the forest and finished off the fainted knights.

"If I used any of the three battle styles, a fight like this'd be finished in seconds…" Angele lowered the crossguard sword as a bitter smile appeared on his face. He was fighting enemies with strange powers as a swordsman with a strong body. Also, the crossguard sword he was using had average quality.

Angele glanced at the fissure on the ground as he stopped thinking. He created the fissure using the sword skill he developed, he did not use any of the wizard power or bloodline power.

He decided not to waste any more time and started heading to the town.

He increased his speed and rushed to the town. Angele arrived at an arched bridge a couple minutes later, the bridge was the only exit of the town.

Teams of guards in white armor were patrolling around the bridge. Two leader-looking guards with helmets were having a conversation while looking at the burning fire on the hill.

On the other side of the bridge, people from the town were also looking at the fire by the bridge. Angele noticed that Vivian was also in the crowd.

He hid in the shadow and moved to the left side of the river. He jumped over the river and entered the town with no problem after he made sure that no one else was around.

Angele thought for a while and threw the crossguard sword into the river. He wiped the dust off his body and retrieved a damaged black coat from the mirror. He put on the coat and headed to his shop.

He could see the patrolling guards on the street; the guards were checking the surroundings constantly with torches in their hands.

Angele increased his speed and returned to his shop within half a minute.

He jumped over a wall and entered the quiet backyard; he could hear Fra breathing in the room.

"Fra? Wake up, there's a problem, we need to leave," Angele spoke in a low voice. He pushed the door open and entered the room.

There was a small storage room behind the shop. It was used just for storage but Angele put a wooden bed in it so Fra could use it as a bedroom.

Fra was sitting on the bed quietly, she leaned against the wall and remained silent.

"Get ready, Fra, we need to leave tonight. Something happened to the people from the church," Angele walked to Fra and looked at her.

Fra raised her head and spoke in a hoarse voice, "I thought you were going to hand me in and claim the reward…"

"Why? Because you didn't see me after you wake up?" Angele patted the girl's head. "Well, I'm going to sell you to someone else for even more money after you grow up." He pulled Fra's cheeks. "Alright, go get ready now."

Fra looked frightened and confused. She lost her entire family and Angele was her last hope. She was wanted by the church—although the reward might not be attractive to everyone, she still doubted if Angele was really trying to help her. Also, Fra knew that her relatives that did not live in this town would be executed sooner or later.

They quickly packed everything into two large cases and put all the silver coins they had into a large leather pouch.

Angele took out some black mud and applied it on Fra's birthmark. The black birthmark quickly turned into the color of her skin.

"A little trick but it will return to normal after the mud is dry. We need to hurry." Angele poured the rest of the mud on Fra's hair and turned her hair white.

They dragged the two cases out of the shop carefully.

It was late in the night and most of the local people already returned to their houses.

It was quiet on the street but there were still guards patrolling the area.

Angele grabbed Fra's hand and headed to the exit of the town.

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Chapter 567: Untitled (2)

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"Hey, Andre! Where are you going?" A guard stopped them when they were heading to the exit. "It's late at night, go back and sleep!" He waved his hands, asking Angele and Fra to leave.

"Wed, you're in the patrolling team too?" Angele smiled. "This is a relative of mine, she came here to visit and I want to send her back. You know that the masters and knights from the church are here. I can't believe that there are wizards in my town... I decided to find a safer place to stay for now."

"Yeah, you made a wise decision, I'd leave the town with my family too if I had a choice." Wed nodded and rubbed his nose.

"You'll be examined at the bridge, we want to make sure that the wizards are still in the town. Alright, you can leave now. Just be careful, it's late."

"Sure, thank you." Red light flashed in front of Angele's eyes, he activated his illusion ability for a second.

Fra remained silent. They started heading to the bridge again.

They reached the bridge and saw what the examination was. It was a silver cup with clean water inside.

A red glow appeared on the surface of the water, however, he already activated his illusion ability, and no one saw the changes, including Fra. The guards did not say anything when they passed.

Angele grabbed Fra's hand after the walked over the bridge and sent a message to Vivian using the communication rune.

"I'm leaving."

"Take care of yourself. You should've left 100 years ago." Vivian's voice echoed in Angele's ears.

"Mother—"

"Don't," Vivian interrupted before Angele was going to send anything else. "You have a bright future. I don't have enough energy particles to keep my appearance young; I don't want you to witness me getting old."

Angele remained silent and sent one last message.

"I'll come back for you."

He collected a lot of daily supplies for Vivian over the years, including the special grass that could block one fatal attack. The grass was gifted to him by Vivian but Angele did not need it anymore.

Vivian's life was ending—that was why she decided to stay in the town. The First Elder and the Second Elder were in a similar situation, they all wanted to pass away somewhere peaceful.

"Let's go." Angele and Fra turned around. They stepped on the only path that could lead them to other areas of this world.

He knew that Vivian would feel better if he was not around when she got old; also, Vivian did not want to become Angele's burden.

Fra looked at the town for one final time and started walking while dragging the case forward.

In a small house with a garden in the front.

Vivian packed up her belongs and outfits, standing by the entrance of the garden. She put a lot of efforts into the garden.

"Green wasted too much time on me… I should go and fulfill my last wish now…" she muttered.

The man with a handsome face and long hair never left her heart.

"Teacher, I'll find you…"

She picked up the brown travel case, opened the gate, and disappeared into the darkness.

Seven days later…

The red leaves on the trees formed a large red carpet on the ground.

Under the bright sunlight, there was a caravan traveling down a path in the forest slowly. The caravan looked like a long white caterpillar.

The wheels of the carriages were rolling on the grounds, horses were neighing. The coachmen were whipping the horses from time to time.

On the last carriage of the caravan, there were two outsiders lying in it. The outfits they were wearing differed from the uniforms of the merchants. It was Angele and Fra. They paid to join the caravan and brought two brown cases with them.

The caravan was advancing slowly. A large lake appeared on their right after they traveled for a while; the water looked golden due to the reflected sunlight.

The red trees around the lake looked like a circle of red flowers; there were swans moving on the surface of the water slowly. There were also small birds following after the swans, the place was quite noisy.

The wind was nice and warm. Angele inhaled deeply, he could smell the fragrance of baked goods in the air.

"Fra, how many silver coins do we have?" he asked.

"We have 32 silver coins and four bronze coins," Fra, who was lying in the carriage, responded quickly. "We spent most of our money to get on the carriage. If we don't have a source of income, we'll starve for over three months; there's still a long way to go." It seemed like she was still recovering from the death of her family but she felt better. She was now acting like a servant of Angele.

"Don't worry…" Angele smiled. The sapphire ring in his pouch was vibrating slightly.

He knew that the ring was sending signals to the church; that was what he needed—he wanted to drive the people from the church away. However, it seemed like the signals were unstable, the ring would only release some signals sometime during the afternoon every day.

"It's about time." Angele took out the ring and threw it out of the window without being noticed by Fra.

The sapphire ring drew a line in the sky and dropped into the lake.

"Did you throw something outside?" Fra looked at the lake with confusion on her face.

"Nothing." Angele shook his head. "What are you planning recently? You always go to the forest after finishing the food. Aren't afraid of the wolves?"

Fra's expression changed after hearing the word. "Nothing… I just want some private time." She recalled the day she found the secret of the red book. Fra noticed that there was a hidden slot in the cover of the book and there was some old paper in the slot.

Fra realized that she finally encountered a situation like the knights in the novel would after she read the things recorded in the old paper.

A special training technique that she had never seen before was written on the old paper. Also, the name of the secret technique was "The Avatar of Love and Justice".

PA*

Angele suddenly spat out the water in his mouth when he heard the response. He realized that he gave the technique a strange name for fun when writing it.

He quickly lowered the water bottle.

"Sorry, I wanted to laugh when I saw the anxious look on your face," he apologized.

"Why would you find it funny?" Fra glanced at Angele and stopped talking to him.

Angele stopped making fun of Fra as well. The month of the tide would start tomorrow, he needed to find a chance to activate the dimension locator. If he could open the portal to finish the trade, the iron ingots in the mirror would be exchanged for the barrier he needed. Also, he found out the secret of the painting but he was not sure how he could enter the portal.

These two things had been bothering him for a while.

The black robes from the church were much stronger than he'd expected. He had to give up his house so he could no longer summon the creatures from other realms using the rune circle and rune walls he built in the basement. The only thing he could do was try to contact the six-armed snake race using the dimension locator.

Angele sighed as he reached into the pocket. He pressed on the silver tooth necklace, which was the dimension locator.

"Let's start."

DI*

'Communication mission started…'

'Calculating the coordinates…'

'Range exceeded… Trying to establish a connection…'

Angele closed his eyes and a black vortex that was spinning at full speed appeared in his sight. The vortex was formed by water but it was muddy and Angele could not see what was inside it.

Suddenly, the black vortex changed after a while.

WOO*

The water in the vortex started boiling and there was some water splashing around.

PA*

A large book with a gray cover appeared in the center of the vortex.

The book floated on the water and opened by itself slowly.

A swordsman in red armor appeared on the left side of the page, he was holding a wide blade and a shield in hands. There was a glowing red rune on the center of the shield.

A strange blue bird then appeared on the right side of the page; the bird was surrounded by blue ice waves and had a strange voice.

They stood on the page quietly but would move their bodies from time to time.

'What's this?' Angele had no idea what the dimension locator brought him.

He tried to communicate with the two creatures using the mentality wave.

The mentality wave did not find any physical form, however, a strange message was sent to his brain.

"World Book."

This was the only thing he received.

Angele knew what he just summoned after hearing the name.

World Book had endless information recorded in it; it was from a realm of books and knowledge. He just needed to pay for information and knowledge he needed.

However, how much he needed to pay would be decided by World Book.

"What do you want to know? I'm a book that can summon the fire swordsman and ice bird." The book sent a message to Angele using the mentality wave.

Angele hesitated, he did not expect to communicate with a book from a realm that was full of books.

"I want to know how to establish a permanent connection with the realm of books."

"You're strong but you can't afford the cost. Also, I don't have the right to do that," the book declined. "Do you have anything else to ask?"

"Do you know that I'm weakened by the realm power?" Angele questioned in a deep tone.

"Yes, you're one step away from a new level. Also, you're carrying the entrance to a labyrinth."

"How do I reach the next level?"

"I can't answer you because I don't have enough information. You can try and enter the Realm of Lost, the eternal well there might be able to answer your question. However, don't go near it if you can't dance." The book closed, the swordsman and the bird disappeared as well.

The book slowly sank into the vortex and disappeared.

Angele felt that his head was dizzy.

'Warning! Warning! 75.3 percent of your mentality is consumed! Reason: Unknown. Please check your condition," Zero's warning echoed in his ears.

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Chapter 568: Untitled (3)

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'Seriously?' Angele quickly stopped sending out mentality waves. The black vortex slowly disappeared and there was nothing left in his sight.

"Ugh…" He groaned and shook his head.

"I think I caught a cold. Fra, can you go buy me some herbs from the merchants?"

Fra was lying beside him but it seemed like she was thinking of something.

"Fra?" Angele repeated, he just wanted to use an excuse to get some private space.

"Oh, sure. I'll go now." Fra finally heard the word. She sat up and jumped off the carriages. The merchants were in the front so she had to run past several carriages.

Fra quickly disappeared from Angele's sight. Angele slowly took out the silver tooth necklace from a pouch.

'Only certain creatures can be summoned during the month of the tide. They must have high mentality or strange mentality wave frequency so I can find them.'

He returned the necklace to the pocket carefully and started meditating so that his mentality could recover.

Black smoke came out of his mouth and entered his nose. Several seconds later, the black smoke slowly faded away.

Fra returned to the carriage with a gray leather pouch in hand; she saw that Angele was sleeping so she tried to be as quiet as she could. She slowly put the pouch down on the wooden case beside Angele.

Time passed and the sky turned around orange to dark.

The caravan slowly stopped by a forest. The carriages in the front formed several circles and set up the campfires.

The merchants were eating freshly baked brown bread with barbequed meat and mushroom soup around the campfire. They were drinking and chatting. There were also people watching the guards of the caravan wrestle.

Angele applied some special herb mixture he created on Fra's face after they left the town. No one would know that she was the wanted "boy". She was watching two female guards wrestling with a female guard she became friend with recently.

The people around the wrestling guards were all cheering.

Angele leaned against the wall and watched the two strong female guards fighting against each other.

"Ha!"

The one on the left had short brown hair, she roared and used her strong arms to throw her opponent to the ground.

"Next!" She spat some saliva on her hands and rubbed her palms against each other while glancing around.

"I'll be the next!" A strong man stood up and took off his black vest, revealing his muscular body. He straightened his back and stepped forward.

The orange light from the campfire illuminated the two guards' muscles as the match started.

Angele shook his head; he was not interested. Suddenly, blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes. He quickly turned his head around and looked at the other side of the lake. There were some people wearing silver that were hiding in the darkness. The one in the front had faster movements than others and was holding two swords that had different length in hands.

"They are here," Angele muttered and glanced at the people around the campfire. Fra was still focusing on the wrestling.

Angele stood up and jumped off the carriage, he walked straight to the lake.

He walked through the small forest and reached the lake. The noise from the camp faded and the area was dark.

The sun was still setting so he could still see some color on the clouds.

Angele looked at the other side of the lake and the people wearing silver also noticed his presence.

"I can use my wizard power now…" Angele smiled and stepped on the surface of the water.

PA*

Waves appeared when he stepped on the water but he was not sinking at all.

The expressions on the silver swordsmen's faces changed.

CLANK*

The leader signaled using his swords.

"It's a strong one! Everyone, use the hunting formation!" he shouted as some gentle white light was released from his sapphire ring.

The swordsmen in silver armor formed a shell-shaped formation by the lake and waited as Angele charged to them.

The leader's whole body was covered in the silver armor, only some of his brown hair could be seen below his helmet. The man lowered his body and stared at the approaching wizard.

"He can walk on water, which means he's at least a rank 2 wizard. That's a problem…" he muttered as the white glow from the ring turned into a white barrier which coated his body.

"Leader, should we retreat for now and wait for the others?" a team captain behind him questioned in a low voice.

"It's not like he'll let us leave if we decide to retreat…" the leader responded.

He noticed that the man in black disappeared after he finished the sentence; he could feel the chill climbing up his spine.

Clank*

CHI*

"Ah!"

"Shields! Get your shields ready!"

"On your left!"

The swordsmen shouted and screamed.

The leader had no time to think, he quickly turned around and started slashing.

CLANK CLANK*

He heard a loud noise coming from behind.

"That's incredible, I didn't expect you to block that!" Angele revealed himself from the darkness. His red eyes were glowing and there was a long silver sword with an engraved blade in his hand. It seemed like Angele took it from one of the swordsmen.

"Damn it! He got Jason!"

"He's moving way too fast!"

"Stay in your position and stay focus!"

There were six swordsmen left and their faces were all covered with cold sweat. The swordsmen were staring at Angele anxiously.

It took Angele only several seconds to eliminate eight swordsmen by cutting their throats open; there was still blood spurting out of their wounds, splashing everywhere.

The leader tightened his muscles as the white light around became intense; he was staring at Angele without moving an inch.

"How dare you…" His eyes turned red. The leader grabbed the handle of the sword so tight that his fingers turned white.

Angele swung his sword and removed some of the blood. The red glow appeared around his eyes again and he quickly released an invisible wave that was spreading in all angles.

"Watch out!"

"He's going to disappear again!"

"We need to stay close to each other!"

The rest of the swordsmen stayed close to each other, checking the surroundings constantly.

Angele was moving around them but he was moving so fast that no one could see him. He walked to swordsmen and slashed forward.

CHI*

Angele cut the throats of two swordsmen open. The blood spurted out of their wounds right away.

He moved to the left slightly and dodged three swords that were going after his head. He quickly slashed forward again, leaving a silver line in the air.

Angele cut some of the swordsmen's bodies in half. The blood already turned into small pools on the ground.

Only the leader was still alive after the two attacks; the others died before they could make any noise or say anything.

The leader tried to fight back by slashing forward but missed. He could not even see Angele's body while his team members were falling to the ground.

"Henry…" He hesitated as he saw one of the swordsman's body was cut in half.

BAM*

The leader was kicked in the back. He was blown away by the impact and rolled several times in the blood pools.

Angele deactivated his illusion ability, walked to the leader and slashed down.

Clank*

The leader dodged the attack by rolling to the left and hit Angele's blade using his swords.

"God is watching us!" the leader roared and stood up. He started attacking Angele with his swords like crazy. His swords were coated with white glow, his attacks were fast and powerful. The two swords were moving so fast that almost looked like two silver shadows around Angele's body.

BAM*

Golden sparks appeared between the two and the only noise here was made by the swords.

'Such power…' Angele was slightly surprised. 'He's just a team leader from the church but he's almost as fast as me.'

Angele leaped away to dodge the swords that were going for his legs and landed in front of a tall tree.

"Let's end this now!" Angele charged forward and hit the sword in the leader's right hand. He then quickly turned around and used the remaining force to slash forward.

CHI*

The white light around the leader's left arm started fading away. Although they had similar speed, his sword skills were weaker than Angele's and it was nearly impossible for him to fight back.

The white light around his body was weakened, the leader felt like that the wizard was dancing with the blade. The wizard kept hitting his swords and his arms were having trouble handling the force.

Dang*

With a noise, the leader's swords were blown away from his hands, but Angele was still spinning like crazy and kept hitting the same point on the leader's neck.

CHI CHI CHI CHI*

The white light finally faded away and bloody wounds appeared on the leader's neck. The leader's body trembled and he could no longer block Angele's attacks.

Angele did a simple forward slash again and leaped away without looking. He landed on the grass that was soaked in fresh blood, his eyes still glowing in the dark.

The leader took several steps back and stopped after hitting the tree behind him.

He opened his mouth but could not even say a word.

A large hand tapped on the man's shoulder from behind the tree.

"Have some rest, I'll take care of the rest." A deep voice came from the shadow.

A tall man stepped out of the shadow, staring at Angele with a calm expression on the face. It was a farmer wearing a brown linen outfit. He was about 40 years old and had a pair of emotionless eyes. The man did not look like a strong being at all, he just like a normal farmer.

The man's short black hair was messy and his outfit was covered with patches. Also, the man had a pair of calloused hands.

Angele looked at the man that just stepped out of the shadow, he noticed that the white light around the man's body was much stronger than the light around the leader's body. He sensed danger from the man; the feeling was making his body trembling.

'It has been a while since the last I had a feeling like this…'

The red glow around Angele's eyes got intense. It was not fear what made him tremble, it was excitement.

He had not felt something like this ever since he had the refined true form.

The middle-aged farmer looked at Angele and glanced at the bodies on the ground.

"The name is Victor. I didn't expect to meet a strong being like you, the report I read was wrong… I thought this was going to be an easy mission…"

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Chapter 569: Untitled (4)

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"Victor… the legendary knight… You're Victor, the legendary knight?!" the leader, who was still alive, shouted in a hoarse voice after hearing the name.

Victor remained calm, it felt like he did not even hear the leader's words.

Angele was interested. He repeated the term and asked, "A legendary knight? What kind of rank is that?"

"Rank?" Victor chuckled.

"It doesn't really matter." He charged forward and tried to hit Angele's chest with his fist.

It was just a simple punch, it was slow and it was not buffed by the white light.

It felt like he was a fighting like a person that was never trained and there was still a smile on Victor's face.

Angele leaped away without any problem and was about to say something.

BAM*

The mud, stones, grass, and all the objects in front of Victor were blown away. Broken pieces of stones were splashing everywhere.

Angele's body numbed, it felt like he was hit by a train. His body was blown into the air and he knocked down many trees with his back while he was flying.

"Damn it!" Blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes while he was still flying. The silver sword quickly turned into an enormous mud sword that had a width and a length of around ten meters.

The mud sword started falling toward Victor.

BAM*

With a loud noise, Victor was also blown away by the impact. He flew into the forest on the right and slowly stopped after breaking down more than ten trees.

All they could hear was trees falling after they attacked each other.

However, neither was hurt. They slowly stood up and not even their outfits were damaged.

The smile disappeared from Victor's face and bright white light appeared in his right eye.

Angele gathered the mud from the ground and turned it into black mud armor.

They could both feel the incredible power inside each other's bodies.

Angele licked his lips, he was trying to maximize his power. In this area, he only had the power level of a rank 3 wizard.

'Battle style one, Earth. Activating…' Zero's voice echoed in his ears.

"Nevermind, I give up." Victor suddenly waved his hand as the white light disappeared from his eyes.

"I can feel that I'll lose the battle if you use all your power. Let's just call it a day."

Angele's brow furrowed. "Your strength and speed are at a similar level as mine. Why are you trying to run?"

"I can't win so I give up." Victor shrugged. "I have the holy teleport so you can't kill me. I can't win but I won't lose."

"You mean a draw?" Angele laughed as he swang the mud sword. The sword cut down several trees around easily.

"I don't think you can just leave like this."

He slashed forward.

BAM*

The mud sword hit Victor's body but it felt like he was hitting an iron bar. Countless white light dots appeared around Victor and formed a light pillar around his body. The pillar quickly struck into the sky.

"What's this?"

Angele did not give up, he hit the light pillar hard using the sword.

BAM BAM BAM*

The mud blade was breaking but it did not damage the light pillar at all.

"Don't waste your time. This is a portal from the God. I'm protected by its holy power. No one can stop the process." Victor was not nervous at all, he was speaking in a relaxed tone.

Angele stopped moving and watched the light pillar growing, he had no idea how tall the light pillar was.

He noticed that the light pillar gave him a similar feeling as the realm power of Nightmare Realm.

The mud armor on his body slowly broke into pieces, dropping on the ground. He decided not to waste his energy.

"Church… White light… They hate wizards… Maybe…"

Narrowing his eyes, Angele had a general idea in his mind.

"If I'm not mistaken, I need to reach the Siva State to find more clues..."

The light pillar suddenly disappeared, it teleported Victor and the leader away when Angele was still thinking.

Angele lowered his head and looked at the trees on the ground. He turned around and started walking back to the camp. His eyes were surrounded by a red glow again and he activated his illusion ability.

'I hope I can summon the six-arm race as soon as possible… This area is much more complicated than I thought.' He looked at the people who were still watching the wrestling and slowly disappeared into the darkness.

Angele revealed his wizard power and used the illusion ability to remove the traces. He also took all the money on the soldiers from the church before returning to the caravan.

Fra asked him where the money came from but did not say too much after hearing Angele's excuse. In the next ten days, Fra trained as the technique from the book said in her free time. The caravan was still advancing slowly and Angele would correct her using the illusion ability when she made any mistake.

The church did not send more people after him since that day. It seemed like they knew how strong Angele was and decided not to send low-rank soldiers here. It was just what Angele wanted.

He tried to use the dimension locator to communicate with the creatures during the month of the tide, however, the only creatures he found were strong creatures with chaotic minds or weak beings like Xinrui.

The difference between the dimension location and the summoning spell was that he could not summon the creature physically, he could only communicate with them. Also, sometimes, he would not find anyone when the signal was weak.

He managed to use the dimension locator to cast his summon spell but it did not work the same way.

Angele knew that summoning random creatures would not help him reach his goal so he told the six-arm snake that he would fulfill the order in 1000 years. He just needed to find the right creature once in 1000 years so that he could complete the trade.

Angele and Fra joined another merchant caravan several days later, they started heading in a different direction. They repeated the process several times and they met many merchants.

They almost used up the money they collected from the swordsmen so they decided to save the money for food and stay in the current caravan.

About eight days later, Angele finally felt relaxed after he made sure that the church was no longer tracking him.

Angele was sitting in the last carriage as usual and the carriage was moving forward slowly. It seemed like he was having a nap. Fra was sitting opposite to Angele, patching Angele's damaged shirt.

The golden sunlight of the early morning shined upon the two's bodies but it barely brought any warmth to them.

Angele was watching a black vortex spinning in his sight. There was a pale face of a woman in the center of the vortex.

The woman had no hair or eyebrows, her lips and eyes were both purple.

Angele saw that the woman was wearing a silver tooth necklace when he was about to disconnect.

"Who are you?" he questioned using the mentality wave.

"I'm a dark snake. I heard that you've completed the order placed by the six-arm snake race. The sage ordered us to search through the dimension tide and we finally found you." The woman's body appeared in the vortex as well, her skin was covered with black scales and she had a tail of a snake but she only had one pair of arms.

"Are you sure that you can get in touch with the six-arm race?" Angele was excited.

"Yes, please give me a second, I'll contact the sage." The snake woman disappeared into the vortex.

The center of the vortex started bubbling.

A beautiful woman with six arms appeared in the vortex, she was also wearing a silver tooth necklace and her long black hair trailed over her shoulders. The woman's naked upper body had a silver color.

"I'm Amhara the Sage, summoner, I'll take care of the trade. Your metal collection is…"

"Huh?" She suddenly stopped and sniffed.

"The smell… We hate this smell… The smell of the pure light…"

"Pure light?" Angele narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"

"The realm you're in is full of this smell. I think there's an ancestor in your realm if I'm not mistaken, an ancestor that's an inheritor of the Light Ancestor…" the snake sage responded in a cold tone.

'So, I was correct…' Angele confirmed his assumption. 'A strong being that hated the wizards… It must be Light Ancestor…

'Everything can be explained if that's the case. Low density energy particles, wizards are being hunted down, and the strong white light… The possibility is high…' Angele thought.

"Alright, let's complete the trade. We've prepared the barrier and you'll be satisfied," the snake sage spoke in a light tone.

"How do we do that? This is just a dimension communication, we can't transfer items through it." Angele's brow furrowed.

"We can open the gate of trading but you need to destroy the dimension locator. The dimension channel will be opened temporarily and we'll handle the energy cost," the snake sage replied. "Alright, let's start."

"Sure."

Angele opened his eyes and noticed that the silver tooth necklace in his pocket slowly disappeared.

He then quickly took out a glass bottle from the mirror quickly but carefully; it was half-filled with some sticky silver liquid.

Angele noticed that the silver bottle was dragged away by a strong force when he took it out and a cold ball appeared above his palm at the same time.

The ball was white and had two symmetrical holes in it. He could feel something soft inside the ball after shaking it slightly.

"The trade is now completed. It was a pleasant experience." The snake sage's voice echoed in his ears.

"Thank you." Angele felt relieved. He could feel that the realm power was weakening when he was holding the ball in the hand. Also, his energy waves and mentality waves were barely noticeable.

He observed the ball for a while but he had no idea how it worked.

There was no rune, character, or pattern on the surface of the ball, it was smooth like an egg.

'Which means, I'll be able to utilize the power of my refined true form with this thing in my hand.' Angele was satisfied with the result. He quickly pressed ball on his arm.

A crack appeared on his arm, revealing the muscles and bloodline veins inside.

However, it felt like that the ball was blocked by an invisible barrier and could not be hidden inside his arm.

Angele tried to throw it into the mirror, put it into his mouth, and store it in his pouch, but nothing worked. He had to touch the ball with his skin.

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Chapter 570: First Glance (1)

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'This thing…' Angele's brow furrowed as he held the ball in hand. 'I can't even put it into my mouth. That's a problem…'

Gentle blue light was released from his eyes as he scanned the ball on his palm. The ball had the size of an egg and its surface was illuminated by the light.

Several seconds later, Angele stopped scanning and tapped on the ball for three times.

KA*

The ball suddenly started shrinking, it turned to the size of a nail, and then transformed into a white ring.

Angele tapped the ring again and it quickly returned to its original size.

He repeated the process several times.

'It only has two forms?' He carefully put the ring on the middle finger of his left hand.

Suddenly, an arm appeared in front of him, holding a large black coat.

"Here you go, your outfit." Fra's young voice came from behind.

Angele turned around and grabbed the patched coat. He saw that Fra was about to fall asleep.

"You can go sleep first if you want."

Angele was testing the barrier so he was not facing Fra, however, Fra saw the white ring on his finger right after he turned to her.

"Where did you get that from?" Fra yawned. "Anyway, I need to have some rest. I already bought the breakfast and you know where to find it." She moved to the wall and closed her eyes.

Angele jumped off the carriage and ran to one of the carriages in the front. He opened the door and entered that carriage.

The carriage was relatively small. There were two middle-aged men inside, eating pine nut cakes and purple mangos.

Angele could hear them chewing the fruits; the purple juice from the blue mangos was dripping down their hands. The dried juice stained the wooden table under their hands.

He could smell the sour fragrance from the fermented fruits as he entered the carriage. There was a white pine nut cake on the table, the brown pine nuts were mixed in the cake. It smelled like baked eggs.

Angele sat down with his legs crossed. He grabbed the cake and took a bite.

"That's way too dry…"

"Come on, don't complain." One of the middle-aged men chuckled.

"Take this, it'll make everything better." He threw a fist-sized purple mango to Angele.

Angele caught the mango and wiped it using a piece of white cloth.

"It's the first time that I see a mango like this. Where did you get this?"

The middle-aged man licked his lips and responded, "From a mango farm in Sella. They also have black and red mangos but the purple mangos are the cheapest."

The other middle-aged man's brow furrowed after hearing these words.

"Talking about the mango farm in Sella, I heard that there was an incident. Do you know what happened?" The man's dialect was a bit strange and it was hard to understand.

"I guess you don't travel often. You need to explore the world so you'll learn more and know more information. I do know of the incident about the mango farm. It's related to the country's recent decisions." The man lowered his voice.

"A relative of mine is a royal guard and knows the background information. They are gathering the army, I think something big is going to happen."

"What do you mean? Are they going after the wanted criminal?"

"You mean the cold-blooded killer that's wanted by the church? No, I don't think that guy will be caught easily. It's a different situation. A Count in Sella passed away and the inheritors are fighting; also, the lords around the area were also eyeing that position." It seemed like the man knew a lot of information.

"A coldblooded killer? The church is strong, right? I don't think they can't catch a killer." When Angele heard those words, he was interested.

The middle-aged man chuckled. "The church is the strongest here but there are still people who are not afraid of them, including the cold-blooded killer. The wizard alliance was eliminated years ago. An organization called Shadow Tower brought a lot of trouble to the church but it was eliminated too. The cold-blooded killer was a member of Shadow Tower."

The other man joined the conversation. "Well, I've heard of those when I visited the large cities. The cold-blooded killer became a wanted criminal about 30 years ago but the church hasn't caught him yet. He's one of the church's strongest enemies."

"I never knew that. It's great that I met you guys and I learned a lot today…" Angele smiled and took a bite of the mango. The mango was juicy, sour, and sweet. It had the texture of a banana. "Are there other people who are fighting the church?"

The man glanced at Angele and noticed that Angele gave him a different feeling. He felt good that he knew something that Angele did not know.

"There are many people who dislike the church, like the remaining members of the Shadow Tower, the wizards, some underground races, and the Siren Empire from the north. That's all I know. If you go to the city that's owned by the church, you'll see the holy knights running around all day. They probably have many things to deal with every day. I don't know what exactly they are doing, I only know the situation of the areas around here."

Angele spent the morning in the carriage, chatting with the two middle-aged men. He heard a lot of local news.

The church controlled the countries in this area. It was like the strongest organization of this word—even the Kings needed to invite the church to attend their coronation ceremonies.

However, the church was extremely hard on the people and those who hated the church would be eliminated.

The main enemy of the church was a group of people with special powers—those people were called wizards.

The sunlight was burning hot during the noon. Angele left the carriage and returned to his own carriage.

The caravan also stopped for lunch.

Fra climbed into the carriage with a large wooden basin in her arms. Fra's and Angele's clothes were inside the basin. It seemed like she just washed them.

"It's lunchtime." Fra put down the wooden basin and walked to Angele.

Angele knew what she was asking for. He took out two silver coins.

"Lunch and dinner."

Fra stared at the two silver coins she got.

"Seriously? That's not enough… Two silver coins… You can only get…" They heard people shouting before Fra finished her word.

Angele and Fra leaned to the window, they tried to see what was happening.

A team of mercenaries was standing on the grass. They approached the caravan.

The mercenaries were wearing damaged outfits, however, the shields and swords in their hands looked nice. Some of them were wearing horned helmets.

Some mercenaries were talking to the guards of the caravan. The guards were fully equipped with high-quality gear. They looked much more reliable than the mercenaries.

"Those mercenaries joined the caravan several days ago," Fra spoke in a low voice; she seemed curious. "They are arguing about the pay."

Angele nodded.

"They are asking for more money when we are still far from the destination. It's the perfect time to raise the price," he said as his sight fell upon a man behind the mercenaries.

The man's face was covered with red cysts; some of the cysts were broken and there was sticky red pus leaking out of them. The man was holding a leather water pouch in hand and sipping wine from it. The man looked lazy and it felt like that he did not care about the things that were happening around him.

'That man…' Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes. He noticed that the man was releasing some weak energy waves with ancient bloodline power.

The bloodline power gave felt similar to the bloodline power the sealed forms had.

'He's weak but I'm not mistaken. Also, there's…' Angele glanced at the shadow that was hiding behind a tree in the forest on the right.

"Alright, it's none of our business." Angele tapped on Fra's shoulder. "Go buy the lunch first."

Fra looked at Angele, jumped off the carriage, and walked to the vendor.

Angele stayed in the carriage and covered himself with a gray blanket. Closing his eyes, he made it look like that he was having a nap.

He started checking the dust from the painting he stored in the pouch using his mentality wave again. He wanted to find a way to enter the portal. It was something he did every day.

It was night. The crescent moon was blocked by the clouds but the moonlight still shined upon the land.

In the dark forest, there were three campfires that were just extinguished, they were still producing some smoke.

The carriages around the campfires looked like three gray circles.

People were sleeping inside the carriages. The guards and the mercenaries were holding iron bars or wide blades in hands. Some of them were having a nap with their backs leaning against the carriages.

In one of the carriages, an adult and a young girl were sleeping under the window. There was barely any light in the carriage.

"Mother…" The girl suddenly started crying and rolled to the adult. She moved closer to the adult unconsciously and grabbed the adult's waist.

CHI*

Suddenly, something soared through the air outside the carriage.

The adult turned around and escaped from the girls' arms. He quickly opened the window and checked the surroundings. Some gentle moonlight shined upon his face, it was Angele.

He covered Fra's body with the blanket and rubbed her cheeks. He then carefully jumped off the carriage.

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Chapter 571: First Glance (2)

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The window of the carriage was opened; it was quiet and cold outside.

The forest was deadly silent in the night, the only thing that brightened up the area was the gentle moonlight.

Angele left the carriage quietly. There were blue light dots flashing in front of his eyes.

A dark-red string appeared in the forest. The string came from the carriage and quickly expanded deep into the forest.

Angele started following the direction pointed by the string.

He left the camp and the carriages quickly. About ten minutes later, he heard people talking ahead but the wind blurred their voices.

"If it wasn't for you, things would never end up like this!" It sounded like a middle-aged man.

"I told you that I don't know…" The other voice sounded speechless.

"We should've… You promised… Are you trying to…?" The man sounded a bit anxious but the important words were drowned out by the wind.

Angele activated his stealth technique and lightened his footsteps while moving forward. He could finally hear the voice clearly.

He looked at the two people who were talking through the gaps between the bushes but their faces were hard to see under the moonlight. One of them was a mercenary he saw earlier, the other one was a girl in a white outfit. Her skin was clean and her hair was smooth.

'Wait…'

Angele was a bit surprised, he moved closer to the two people and observed the girl carefully. The girl had no breasts and had Adam's apple on her neck. He checked the girl using the mentality wave and realized that it was a man that looked like a girl.

Under the moonlight, the man's cheeks looked pink. He was staring at the middle-aged mercenary with anger in his eyes.

"Do you really think I'll forgive you? No way! If you didn't let that guy leave, we would've succeeded. I'll get everything sorted out tonight."

He took out a pair of black daggers with spikes on the blades. The spikes looked purple under the moonlight.

"Silence!" the man shouted and the two daggers released intense purple light.

All the sounds in the area suddenly disappeared, the effective area of that ability was quite large.

The middle-aged man was surprised, he wanted to say something else but nothing was coming out of his mouth. The man approached the mercenary with the daggers in hand; the mercenary was anxious, he tried to communicate with the man using hand gestures.

The man's expression changed.

"Cut his throat!" The man's voice echoed and an invisible blade appeared at the mercenary's throat.

DING*

The middle-aged mercenary fell to the ground and a masked woman in black appeared in front of him. The woman had a sharp claw on her hand which blocked the invisible blade.

The mask covered the woman's face, Angele assumed her gender because of her breasts; also, she did not have Adam's apple.

With a flick of her finger, the invisible blade was pushed away, and the blade quickly disappeared into the forest.

"Who are you?" The man looked at the woman in black. "You're strong since you handled my talent ability like it was nothing."

He swang his black daggers and the purple light quickly disappeared.

"I'll just eliminate you if you don't want to talk! Darkness!" the man shouted.

Thick black fog appeared in the forest and covered all the objects in the area.

Angele was almost caught in the smoke, he quickly took more than 30 steps back but he could no longer figure out what was going on in the smoke.

His brow furrowed as red glow surrounded his eyes. He partially activated his true form so that he could see through the smoke.

There were countless tiny insects in the dark smoke; strange substances released by the insects reflected the light in the area—that was why the smoke looked so thick.

Angele's partially activated true form did not help him see through the smoke.

'Such power… It's not a spell. It's more like the power of a bloodline…' Angele compared the energy movements and concluded thus.

Around two minutes later, the thick smoke finally disappeared into the air.

Angele watched the smoke disappear; suddenly, his sight blurred as a black shadow charged toward him.

He quickly raised his hand to block the attack.

BAM*

The center of Angele's palm was pierced; the wound looked like a large bloody hole. All the flesh was gone and it almost looked that something took a bite off his hand.

The woman in black appeared in front of Angele and started attacking him like crazy.

BAM BAM BAM*

Angele blocked the attacks and hit her back using his hands and legs. Some translucent energy waves would appear in the air every time they exchanged attacks.

Angele was caught off guard, he hit a tree when he was stepping back and the tree was knocked down.

"Die!"

Stones and mud gathered on his right feet. He looked like a heavy robot that was trying to kick the woman.

BOOM*

It sounded like something exploded between the two. The white energy waves expanded in all angles.

The energy waves disappeared after traveling for about five meters in the air. The trees in the effective range were all cut down.

Angele's arms were covered with the wounds and the flesh in the wounds was removed. However, his wounds were recovering at full speed and the flesh quickly grew back.

"Why are you going so hard on me?" He chuckled. "I was just curious. I won't do any harm."

The masked woman was kicked in the waist. She put her left hand on a tree and her right hand on her stomach. The woman was breathing heavily while staring at Angele with tears in her eyes.

"I won't let you… touch… him…" She was trying her best to speak but her voice was hoarse and her dialect sounded a bit strange. It felt like that she did not like talking too much. Also, there was blood spurting out of her mouth.

Angele straightened his back and looked at the woman. "Are you here to protect that man? What's your relationship with him? "There was still a smile on his face. "Also, don't lie, I hate it when people lie. I'll kill them all if you don't tell me the truth."

The woman coughed several times.

"He's… my… young brother…" she slowly responded.

Angele did not respond to her words. A red glow appeared around his eyes and reached to the woman in black with his right hand.

He released an invisible energy wave.

However, the energy wave was blocked by an invisible barrier when it reached the woman.

"Huh?" Angele strengthened the energy wave and released more energy waves.

However, all the energy waves were blocked by the barrier.

'It means that her bloodline is stronger than my scorpion woman's bloodline…' Angele checked the information related to the bloodline.

'Don't tell me the level of your bloodline is higher than my ancient bloodline.'

He could not believe the result. The son of the sun, the single-eyed giant, and the scorpion woman, they all had strong ancient bloodlines. The bloodline of scorpion woman could help him check his target's memory and travel through the realms. It was one of the rarest bloodlines one could find.

If the level of a bloodline was higher than another, its bloodline power would also be stronger, and it would not be impacted by the bloodline powers of the bloodlines at lower levels.

"Woman, what kind of bloodline do you have? You're weak but your bloodline is strong." The red light around Angele's eyes got intense.

The masked woman stared at him calmly.

"Your bloodline… is not… from the ancestor…" she responded slowly.

"Ancestor? You mean your bloodline is from one of the ancestors?" Angele's expression turned serious. People with bloodline power feared the ones with bloodlines at higher levels.

Their talent ability would be useless when the opponent had the stronger ability.

Angele looked at the woman, he suddenly had the urge to kill her.

'If I wasn't close to Siva State, I could've gone for bloodlines at higher levels… Sadly, it's too late for me to do that…'

The woman was weak and it would not help even if he extracted the bloodline from her body.

With the help of the Nightmare Realm's realm power, the bloodline level problem was not critical for him. The woman had a strong bloodline but she needed a lot more time to improve and it should not be a problem. The only way for her to improve at a faster rate was to get the help from the realm power of her own realm but she needed to be extremely lucky to do that. Angele wanted to know if the ancestor of her bloodline was still alive, that was his only concern.

Angele thought for a while and decided not to kill the woman.

"My bloodline is one level below yours, however, you're too weak. You need to reach my power level to defeat a legendary knight from the church," Angele responded in a low voice. "To be honest, I'm interested in you and your brother's bloodline. If you need help with a serious injury, you can talk to me, I'll cure you for a price." Angele's smile looked kind and attractive.

He approached the woman and released some green light, the light quickly surrounded the woman's waist.

Several seconds later, the woman stood up and checked her waist. She could not believe what just happened, she did not even feel a thing when the green light was absorbed by her body.

"This one is free, I only fixed your bones and muscles so you still need to rest. Also, take some herbal medicine, I'm sure you can find that." Angele thought for a second and continued, "You have the bloodline power so it means that you're an enemy of the church, right? Anyway, go back and have some rest. No one knows what happened here, I handled it using my illusions."

Angele waved his right hand, turned around, and headed to the camp. The woman hesitated for a second and walked to the two people that fainted on the ground.

Angele turned his head around and glanced at them.

'An ancestor's bloodline… Maybe it'll lead me to Siva State…'

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Chapter 572: First Glance (3)

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Angele returned to the caravan quickly. The camp was quiet; he saw several mercenaries sleeping by the carriages with swords in their arms. Also, there was not much smoke rising from the extinguished campfires.

Angele softened his footsteps and walked to his carriage. He opened the door and lay down next to Fra. He listened to the movements around in the darkness carefully.

He could hear someone walking by but the footsteps faded quickly.

Angele moved to the wall and started thinking about the information he'd collected today.

'I shall be careful if Light Ancestor is behind the church. Although Light Ancestor was defeated, weakened, and sealed, Light Ancestor still has the power to eliminate me easily. I should probably lie low."

Angele recalled the day he met the old eye-gouging dragon. The dragon was probably in a similar situation like him, it was like Lord of Terror without Nightmare Realm's realm power. The old dragon was probably much stronger than the King of eye-gouging dragons and that was the reason why it survived for so long.

In the ancient times, there were three races that had a lot of strong wizards. Chaos Dragons were just one of them. Eye-gouging dragons were part of Chaos Dragons but they already had strong beings like the old dragon. Human beings produced the strongest wizards of the time—they probably had wizards whose power level was higher than the old dragon's.

Light Ancestor destroyed the ancient wizards but the ancient wizards successfully sealed him.

Angele narrowed his eyes.

'Which means… Light Ancestor is at least at Siva State and probably has some terrifying talent abilities.'

Siva State was a power level that was defined by Angele. He considered the individuals that had higher power level than him as individuals who were at Siva State. Siva State could probably be used to describe the ancestors' power level.

However, Angele had no idea what would happen after he reached that level. Individuals at Siva State still had different power levels.

Angele checked the surroundings in the darkness.

TOOT TOOT*

Owls were making noises outside.

The sky turned from black to gray and some other birds started twittering. The sun was about to rise and the forest got noisy.

Angele suddenly looked at Fra and closed his eyes. He made it look like that he was sleeping.

Fra slowly opened her eyes, she realized that her body was right next to Angele's body and blushed. Fra slowly moved away from Angele and put on her outfit. She then quickly organized her blonde hair and moved to the door of the carriage.

When she was about to reach the door, she suddenly remembered something and returned to Angele. She picked up a damaged crossguard sword beside a wooden case carefully and stared at Angele. For some reason, she did not want Angele to figure out what she was doing.

The crossguard sword had a decent size and was a bit hard to move in the carriage. The wooden case and the sword were right beside Angele. Fra tried her best not to wake Angele up and slowly moved the sword away from Angele.

She moved as slowly as she could.

About ten seconds later, Fra finally held the crossguard sword in her hands. She was tired and her face was red. The crossguard sword weighed around one kilogram. Fra picked it up using one hand; there was cold sweat on her forehead.

Fra took out a red notebook from her own case after acquiring the sword. She put the red notebook into her pocket and started moving to the door again.

PA*

Suddenly, her butt was slapped.

Fra was surprised, she slowly turned her head around while her body was trembling. It was Angele who just slapped her butt. However, it seemed like Angele was sleeping and what he did was unintentional.

"Damn it, old man! I'll make you pay back during lunchtime! I'll mix some diced flies into your meat, it'll taste good!" Fra cursed in a low voice. Angele's hand was still on her waist and she was still in shock.

The hand slowly slid down her body as she moved forward. It landed on her legs and then fell to the floor.

Fra felt relieved, she quickly crawled out of the carriage and closed the door.

She sat on the driving seat and took out a pair of red leather boots from a wooden box and put them on quickly.

Fra jumped off the carriage with the crossguard sword in hand and walked to the forest.

"Damn it! I hate you, even insects are better than you! I'll beat you up after I master those sword techniques! I should work harder!" Fra felt angry after she recalled what'd just happened in the carriage.

She slashed down the bushes as she walked into the forest. Broken pieces of wood and leaves were everywhere.

"My legendary crossguard sword… Andre is forcing me to work for him to pay back the daily expenses… He also took all my treasures away!" She was still cursing and she was trying to find the best word to describe Angele. Several minutes later, she failed to find the word she wanted.

"Andre, you pig!"

"You pig!" She nodded and repeated the word. That was the best curse she knew.

In the carriage, Angele could no longer hold it—he sat up and started laughing. He looked out of the window and saw Fra cursing while slashing down the bushes.

'Interesting kid… She never did something like this in front of me…'

Shaking his head, Angele crossed his legs and started testing the painting's portal.

He heard that the guards were walking around, it seemed like they finally woke up.

He kept doing simulations until Fra came back. They had breakfast together and the caravan started moving again. The carriage was almost jumping when the wheels ran over large pieces of stones.

Angele got bored; he leaned against the wall and started reading an old novel. Fra was swinging a small branch in her hand, it seemed like she was still practicing.

"Fra, did you wash the clothes?"

"Yeah."

"Did you feed the oxen?"

"Yeah, I bought some long grass from Wade. It's about one bronze coin per meal."

Angele raised his head and glanced at Fra.

"You haven't cleaned the carriage, right? Also, you need to wash my boots."

Fra pursed her lips after hearing the word.

"I'm the one that's paying for everything, you know that, right?" Angele's expression turned serious.

"Go now, use wooden brushes and clean them carefully."

Fra inhaled deeply and glanced at Angele. It seemed like she was cursing at Angele in her mind again.

'I'll definitely make your lunch taste better!' she shouted in mind.

"Alright, just go, thanks." Angele smiled and patted the girl's shoulders. "Work hard. I need to leave the carriage for a minute."

He jumped off the carriage and started walking. Angele turned his head around and made sure that Fra already started working.

'If she only practices the sword techniques, she won't have enough strength to maximize the power. She needs those work,' Angele thought. He ran to one of the carriages in the front.

There were two mercenaries around the carriage, walking while chewing something. It seemed like they were still sleepy.

Angele approached them.

"Hey, do you know where Heli is?"

One of the mercenaries glanced at Angele.

"Heli? He's sick. Why?"

Angele threw a silver coin to the man's hand accurately.

A smile appeared on the man's face right away.

"Well, I can take you to him, but he's really sick. He's resting in one of the carriages behind."

The man started walking after finishing these words. Angele followed after him and went past his own carriage. They reached the end of the caravan—a bunch of oxcarts.

There were several sick men and women lying on the carts. Their faces were pale and they looked tired.

The man stopped after seeing the situation.

"You can find him here, I don't want to be infected. You should stay away from them too." He pursed his lips and left.

The people in the carts were groaning. Angele found the man he saw last night in one of the carts on the left.

The man's face was pale but it seemed like his situation was a bit different from the others'. His body would only move when the cart was shaking.

Angele jumped into the cart and sat by the man.

"Young man, you're dying… I have some drug that'll cure you. What do you think?" He smiled and looked at the middle-aged man. "I think something that happened last night was the problem."

The man named Heli was surprised after hearing these words.

"How do you know that?" He was hunted down by a woman with strange power. The woman accused him of breaking a promise, but he did not remember what he did. His head was still dizzy.

If the masked woman had not helped him, he would already have been dead.

Heli thought for a while and observed the man talking to him.

It was a young man with a pair of dark-red eyes. However, it seemed like the young man thought he was older than Heli. The young man had smooth skin and some mustache, he looked like a man from a noble family. Also, the smile on his face was making Heli feel uncomfortable for some reason.

The young man was wearing a linen outfit but still looked like he was from a rich family. His long red hair was nice and clean.

Angele chuckled.

"Of course I know." He lay down by Heli and lowered his voice as he spoke, "I also know that you were saved by a masked woman. If the masked woman hadn't appeared, you would already have been dead, right?"

Heli was even more surprised after hearing these words; he tried to sit up.

"Who are you?! Wait, do you know who I am?" Heli lost part of his memory. He met several people that claimed they knew him. They either hated him or felt sorry for him. There were also people who tried to kill him.

Heli only knew that he woke up in a random valley but he was not sure why there were so many people going after him, including the feminine man he encountered last night. Those people all had special powers.

"I know you've lost your memory…" Angele smiled and looked at the sky.

The clean blue sky looked like a large piece of sapphire, while the clouds in the sky looked like smoke balls. The sun was warm and nice, its golden light illuminated the ground gently.

Angele could smell the refreshing fragrance of random flowers and grass in the wind.

"I also know that you're different. You have something that others don't have," he continued before Heli could say anything. "However, I don't know who you are. I'm just curious."

Angele turned his head to the right and found a thin man in gray lying in the cart.

The man's face was pale and he looked like he might die at any time. There was a short wooden bar in his right hand; he held the bar so tight that it felt like the wooden bar was a treasure to him.

The man noticed that Angele was looking at him, he turned to Angele and narrowed his eyes.

"Do you know me?" The man had a pair of green eyes and a hoarse voice, it sounded like he had not drunk water for days.

Angele and Heli looked at the man after hearing the voice.

Heli looked at the man and found the man familiar. However, he could not remember who the man was; he rubbed his temples and tried his best to think.

Angele looked at the man because he noticed something different. Also, the man's sight was piercing through his body when he stared at Angele. It was something that did not happen to Angele often.

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Chapter 573: First Glance (4)

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"Young man…" The man had a hoarse voice; he was staring at Angele.

"I can see you in my eyes, however, you didn't change…"

Angele had no idea what the man was talking about. He could feel that the man's eyes had strong power, however, it seemed like the power was not about dealing damage—it was something else. He thought that he was being stared at by something unknown.

He glanced at Heli; the man that lost part of his memory was still confused but Heli was paying attention to the situation.

Angele lowered his head. He noticed that the short bar in the man's hand only had the length of an arm and the width of two fingers. The black surface of the bar was covered with many scratches.

For some reason, Angele thought that the short bar was dangerous. Although the man was weak like an infant that could die at any time, the bar had a strange power in it. Angele felt like the whole situation was hard to explain; usually, weak individuals did not get to keep strong items.

"You're… different." Angele smiled as blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes. He scanned the man's body and noticed that the man was about to die. "You give me a feeling that you're going to die soon but… It also feels like that you'll never die…"

"Don't worry about him, young man, he's crazy. He would dance while screaming when he's having problems," an old woman on the side advised.

A young man from another cart added, "Yeah, he was crazy last night. He kept hitting a piece of wood using his head and almost died. We tried our best to stop him... actually, we saved his life."

Angele smiled but he did not respond. He stood up and jumped off the carriage.

"Alright, I need to leave now. You can find me in the third carriage on the right."

Heli heard the word and watched Angele leave. He wanted to stop Angele and talk to him but did not do so.

The man with green eyes lay back down with the short bar still in his hand.

"You can't defeat me…" he muttered as some cracks appeared on the surface of his bar.

There were green vortexes that were spinning slowly in the man's eyes. The green vortexes were hard to notice unless they were observed closely.

Cold sweat appeared on his face and his face turned pale.

"No one can defeat me! No one!" The man was groaning but he sounded confident; he held the short bar even tighter.

Angele suddenly turned his head around and looked at the man with a serious expression on his face.

Angele returned to his carriage and traveled with the caravan. He encountered another private caravan three days later. Heli decided to leave the caravan after the feminine man approached him again. Strangely, the man with green eyes also left the caravan; for some reason, the leader of the private caravan just let them join without asking any questions.

He realized that the man with green eyes and the feminine man were all going after Heli.

Heli might be the key character in this event; also, the ancestor's bloodline in Heli's body attracted Angele for certain reasons. Angele decided to join that private caravan with Fra.

They purchased an oxcart and followed after the private caravan. He did not care where the caravan was heading to.

Five days later…

Fra, who sat in front of the oxcart, asked, "Why are we following them?"

She sounded a bit disappointed.

She'd put some green flies into Angele's potato soup several days ago. However, Angele said he wanted Fra's soup and switched the two bowls.

Fra was upset after Angele switched the bowl. She decided not to drink the potato soup with green flies inside and had to finish the dry pancakes without the soup.

Fra felt angry every time she thought about her failed prank and kept glancing at Angele.

Angele, who was sitting beside her with a whip in hand, leaned against the seat as he heard Fra's question.

"It's the first time I saw a man that's prettier than a woman, so I decided to observe him." Angele sighed. He sounded lazy.

"I thought we were heading to the Snow Tree City…" Fra's eyes were wide open.

"I changed my mind, I want to visit Truffle City now," Angele responded calmly.

"You…" Fra was speechless. Raising her head, she looked forward.

There was a large white carriage in front of them. She could see what was happening inside through the window.

The middle-aged man named Heli was sitting with the feminine man. Different dishes, fruits, and desserts lined up on the table in front of them; there was also a whole roasted goose.

A noble woman with long black hair in a black outfit was sitting opposite them. The woman, who was wearing a silver headband, had an attractive smile on her face.

The woman was talking to Heli and the feminine man while eating the desserts. Her movements were polite and gentle. It almost felt like talking while eating was a common thing for her.

Fra looked at the food on the table and swallowed.

"I want some of that…"

"Work hard and save money then. You'll be able to enjoy a lunch like that one day," Angele said and smiled. He did not care that Fra was glaring at him again. His sight fell upon a weak horse on the right side of the caravan; the horse was walking slowly along the forest.

It was a brown horse that looked weak and tired. The man with green eyes was riding the horse—he was wearing the same outfit and his face still looked pale. His body was shaking as the horse moved, it felt like that he could fell off the horse at any time.

'The man is hiding his true power…' Angele guessed. 'Wait, it might be a different situation.' He looked at the short bar in the man's hand.

'That's the problem…' Angele could feel the terrifying power in the short bar—it felt like he was looking at an endless abyss. The dark power inside the bar was infinite. Although Angele recovered his power, he still felt like it was looking like a dark sea.

'The man is weak but his soul is strong. He's fighting against the dark power inside the bar,' Angele assumed, 'which means he's a mortal with a powerful artifact…'

It seemed like the man with green eyes was familiar with the short bar; however, his soul was too weak for the artifact and he was still trying to control its power.

Also, the man's soul was not blue like normal souls, it looked gray and was getting darker slowly.

Several minutes later, Angele suddenly looked to the right and found something strange in the forest.

Under the golden sunlight, there was a group of people wearing red leather pants and black cloaks approaching the caravan from the side. There were around ten people in the group, all holding silver scimitars in hands.

They were all looking at the man with green eyes who was riding the horse.

"Amber, we finally found you," the leader of the group spoke. The voice sounded like it was from a young girl. "You shall not escape this time!"

After the leader finished these words, silver crescent moons appeared in the black cloaks' eyes. They increased their speed and charged toward the man with green eyes.

The man raised his bar and was about to fight back, however, he suddenly coughed and spat out some blood. He fell off the horse and hit the ground. The man was suffering after the impact.

The horse was surprised and neighed loudly.

"Who's there?!"

"Bandits! Eliminate them!"

The guards of the caravan noticed the invaders and drew their blades. There were around ten guards—they separated into two groups, with one half protecting the caravan while the rest charged at the black cloaks.

The fight was intense. Angele could hear the noise made by metal objects hitting each other. The guards were well-trained, however, it seemed like the black cloaks were stronger than them.

The guards were wearing leather armor, but it was like paper to the silver scimitars. They quickly retreated to the caravan.

"I'll take care of them!" The mercenary named Heli jumped off the carriage and charged at the black cloaks with a silver blade in hand.

He looked like a fish that was swimming in a pool. He quickly dodged the attacks and cut two black cloaks' throats open; however, he was stopped by a black scimitar when he was about to go for the next target.

It was the leader—they traded hits around the trees. The guards and other black cloaks did not want to get caught in the fight so they stayed away from the two. One of the black cloaks still stood too close to them and his head was sliced off.

Angele made it look like he was scared but he was observing the situation. Angele wondered why the feminine man did not join the battle—he should have the power to eliminate all of the black cloaks but he just stood there and watched the fight.

The good thing was that the man did not see Angele's face that night.

"Ah!"

One of the black cloaks screamed as he was kicked away. He rolled several times and hit Angele's cart hard. The black cloak stood up with a pair of red eyes, his face covered with bloody wounds.

"Damn it!" he cursed in a low voice. Suddenly, he turned to Fra and Angele.

"Die!" He aimed at Fra and slashed forward.

"Don't worry, Andre! I'll protect you!" Fra was holding the damaged sword in hand and her face was pale. Although she was trembling due to fear, she still stood in front of Angele.

BAM*

The bandit missed the strike, his scimitar hit the edge of the cart and he was having trouble pulling it out.

Fra was not prepared for a real battle; she was scared, however, the attack from the bandit made her move. She held the sword tight and slashed forward.

"Ah!" she screamed and closed her eyes while hitting the bandit.

PA*

The sword hit the bandit's chest, however, it was blocked by the man's leather armor.

Fra finally opened her eyes. The bandit pulled the scimitar out of the cart and slashed forward—this time, the scimitar hit the blade of Fra's sword.

Fra's sword moved upward due to the impact and its handle hit the forehead of the bandit by accident.

The bandit's eyes rolled up and he fell to the ground.

Fra was surprised, she had no idea what'd just happened.

"Thank you!" Angele put his hands on the girl's shoulders and looked at her. "You're a hero, Fra! Without you, I would already be dead! Thank you so much!"

Fra could not believe that she defeated the bandit as she looked at the sword in her hand.

"Maybe the soul of the hero protected me?" she muttered.

Although she practiced the sword techniques for so long, she did not use any of them during the battle. The bandit made a mistake and Fra won the battle accidentally.

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Chapter 574: Chaos (1)

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Angele dragged Fra into the cart before she could react—he helped her dodge a broken blade that was flying to her.

"Wake up!" Angele tapped the girl's cheeks to make sure that she was aware of the situation.

BAM*

It sounded like something exploded outside; they could see the bright-red light. The intense light illuminated the whole cart.

A ball of golden flame exploded in the dark forest and quickly turned into waves of red flames. The waves were spreading in all directions and the earth started shaking after they hit the trees.

The carriages, carts, and every object around were all pushed away.

Angele's cart was pushed three meters to the left; the wheels left a trail of dark marks on the ground.

The leader of the black cloaks was in the center of the explosion, his body broke into pieces and half of his head was on the ground.

"Amber… You shall not escape…" The leader's voice was still echoing in the forest; the high-pitched voice sounded like it was from a woman.

PA*

Heli stepped on the broken head and looked at the noble woman who was standing behind him.

The noble woman slowly lowered her right hand; there was a white ball in her left hand. There were complicated golden patterns on the surface of the ball. The woman smiled after she noticed that Heli was looking at her.

"This is a high-level holy bomb I purchased from the church. Not bad, eh? It deals great damage to ghosts and magic creatures but it won't hurt normal things."

"It's powerful, yeah." Heli looked at the white ball; he was still a bit scared. He watched the bomb explode and thought that he was going to die in the golden flames. Although he was blown away by the impact, he was not injured.

The woman was about to say something else but they heard footsteps from the forest again.

Angele raised his head and looked at the forest.

'They're from the church?' Angele's brow furrowed, he did not expect to find people from the church here. They had not bothered him for a while but they were here again.

Fra was in Angele's arms, her eyes were wide open. It seemed like she was still thinking about the battle—after she defeated the bandit by luck, she was so scared that she could barely move.

In the deep forest, a group of people in white armor were approaching the caravan. They were surprised after they saw the battlefield. Their leader was a female knight; she glanced around and her sight fell upon Heli.

"Found you, send the signal!" She talked to the knight beside her and stepped forward, drawing her sword. A thin white glow quickly covered her blade.

The female knight was moving forward without any hesitation. She started slow but her speed increased gradually. She swang the sword several times in the air, lowered her body, and charged at Heli.

"Die! Heretic!"

Angele thought the church was going after him.

Heli remained silent, however, he turned around and started running after seeing the female knight's face. The feminine man just followed after Heli but it seemed like he was not going to offer any help.

"Miss Diana, I'll see you around!" Heli shouted. Heli and the feminine man charged into the forest first, the female knight followed after them.

The ground was covered with dead bodies of guards and bandits. The noble woman just stood there with her brow furrowed, it seemed like she was thinking about something. She then looked in the direction Heli left and remained quiet.

Some of the guards that were still alive cleaned the area. It seemed like they were used to the deaths of their colleagues. Things like this were common to them.

Angele straightened his back and glanced at the noble woman, then whipped the ox once.

The leader of the guards was talking to the woman, it seemed like he was asking for additional payment.

Angele was not concerned, he did not say anything and just traveled to the forest on the other side.

The wheels of the cart spun as the cart quickly entered the forest, disappearing by the corner.

As Angele sat on the driver's seat, blue light dots flashed in his eyes. He changed the direction slightly and went around the whole area. He started heading in the same direction as Heli.

The noble woman's caravan was no longer there and the man with green eyes also disappeared.

The only things in his sight were the vibrant green trees; the golden light from the sun shined upon the cart and Angele's outfit. They could hear strange voices from random beasts.

"Where are we heading to?" Fra raised her head, she was still holding the sword in her arms.

"Find a random place and stay there for the rest of our life," Angele gave a random response.

"Huh?" Fra was confused.

Angele turned around and pinched her cheeks. "Do you really think we're going to do that? There are prizes on our heads so we should stay away from the church. We need to find a safe place to lay low, there's no way that we can follow our original plan."

"Oh, yeah…" Fra finally realized that she was a wanted criminal and the sad memories came back to her again. She wiped the sweat off her face using the sleeves; some of the potion was also removed from her face.

The black birthmark on her forehead already turned gray—the birthmark would fade away soon.

"Where should we build our camp then?" She wondered.

Angele did not respond, he just pointed in a direction.

Fra looked where he was pointing at.

In front of the vibrant forest, there was a snow mountain standing there quietly. The tip of the mountain was surrounded by white mist.

The snow on the mountain reflected the sunlight; the light almost blinded Fra.

"That's a tall mountain…"

Angele smiled and patted Fra's head.

"Check our inventory and see how long we will last on the mountain. Also, we need to feed this ox."

"Sure…"

Fra started checking the items in the cart.

Angele closed his eyes and started his daily routine. He was still searching for a way to enter the portal of the painting.

The portal he observed would change slightly every day; the color of the portal would change slightly due to the energy waves and return to normal after a while.

Angele's long research helped him to find the secret, he noticed that the energy wave was what decided if the portal would accept unknown things or not.

He tried to figure out how the energy wave worked and when the energy wave was the weakest so that he could send his mentality wave deep into the portal.

Analyzing the force field was the hardest part, there were so many waves and frequencies he needed to record. The whole process would take him a long time. The biochip indicated that only two percent of the analysis was completed. If he wanted to explore the portal using his mentality wave, it would still take a long time.

It was already afternoon when Angele opened his eyes. The orange sunlight was coming from the sky, Angele and the cart's shadows were long on the ground.

'Eight hours passed. Progress saved.' Zero's voice echoed in his ears.

Angele inhaled deeply and checked the surroundings. The tall trees had brown tree trunks and were slightly wet. The leaves on the branches were dark-green and some of them were covered with white frost.

The ox already stopped moving and its tail was swinging in the air.

The place was deadly silent, there was no insect or creature making noise.

Angele glanced around and jumped off the cart. He looked at Fra—she was sleeping in the cart with the sword in her arms.

He walked around the cart and stopped in front of a bush. He slowly reached into the bush and suddenly grabbed.

PA*

He grabbed the neck of a young leopard and moved it out of the bush.

Roar*

The young leopard was struggling in Angele's hand and trying to scare Angele away with its voice. It kept scratching Angele's skin using its claws but nothing worked.

"This area is terrorized by black leopards? Maybe I can follow it to…" Angele dropped the leopard and it landed safely on the ground.

The leopard stood up and ran away immediately.

Angele followed after the leopard for about two minutes and saw a small river ahead. On the other side of the river, there was an arched gate that was made of wood. The gate was built in the hill, it looked like an entrance to an underground tunnel.

There were yellow stripes on the tightly closed wooden doors. The edges of the gate were white and there were two torch stands on both sides of the gate. There was no torch on the stands but Angele could see the ash left on them.

Angele slowed down and looked around the river. The river came from the hill and was running down the forest. The river was so long that Angele could not see the end of it.

The river was around two meters wide and there was water grass in it.

"That's it…"

Angele was not concerned about the leopard. He returned to the oxcart and drove it to the gate. It took him about ten minutes to finish the process. He let the ox drink water by the river and returned to the cart. He closed his eyes and started resting.

The sky was getting darker and darker. Two gray shadows appeared by the river after a while.

The one in the front was Heli, there were bloody wounds on his face. He was carrying a weak man in gray on the back while moving forward slowly.

The feminine man was following after the two with a blank expression on the face. The white outfit he was wearing was still clean but Heli's outfit was greatly damaged.

Heli raised his head and looked at the river, he quickly found Angele's oxcart.

"Cough…"

The man with green eyes was dying on Heli's back. He spat out some blood, which splashed on Heli's shoulders.

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Chapter 575: Chaos (2)

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"Even the healing potion from the church is no longer working…" Heli was anxious, he turned around and looked at the feminine man.

"Cynthia, is she still going after us?"

"No." The pretty man named Cynthia shook his head gently. "We traveled much faster than them. Pay more attention to the guy on your back. He'll die in a couple glass hours."

Heli raised his head and looked at the cart that was parked by the river and recalled what the strange man said to him. He realized that the man could heal them for a fee.

He quickly checked his pouch but realized that he only had five silver coins left. The coins were dirty and one of them had a part missing.

The man with green eyes woke up and spoke in a hoarse voice, "Cough… It's fine… Just leave without me…"

Heli acted like he did not hear those words. He repositioned the man on his back and slowly moved to the cart by the river.

CHI*

In the cart, some green light rose from the man's back; it smelt burnt.

Angele was holding a black stick in hand—he pressed the stick on the man's back.

Heli and Fra were staring at them anxiously.

It felt like that the man with green could not even feel the pain when the burning stick landed on his skin, but there was sweat on his forehead.

"Alright, this is the last wound." Angele dropped the smoking stick and put the other sticks on the table back into his pouch.

"This is a special healing technique I developed to treat his illness. It's very effective, he only needs to rest for several more days."

"Thank you so much!" Heli was almost treating Angele like a god. "Amber saved my life once and I must pay him back. If you need my help in the future, I'll—"

Angele smiled and interrupted, "There's a fee, you know." He just looked at Heli.

Heli suddenly stopped talking and looked at Angele awkwardly. The atmosphere got heavy, even Fra knew that Heli had no money to pay for the treatment.

The man with green eyes remained silent, it seemed like he had no money too.

Angele remained calm.

"Don't have enough money? No worries. I need help with a potion that I'm studying and the only thing I need is some of your blood."

"Blood?"

"Yeah, only a little bit of blood, it won't hurt." Angele took out a glass syringe from a wooden box. The syringe had the size of an arm.

Heli looked at the syringe and felt scared.

"Will my blood work?" the man with green eyes asked.

"You're too weak. You'll die if you lose blood." Angele shrugged.

Half an hour later…

Heli jumped off the cart with a pale face several minutes later.

"I owe you one." The man patted Heli's shoulders.

"If you didn't save me from that monster, I would be dead already. It's nothing." Heli waved his hands.

"Let's go, we need to move or they'll catch up. Let's go around the forest and head to the East Empire. The church hasn't fully terrorized that area yet, the border is close."

The man named Amber nodded.

They walked to the right side of the river and disappeared into the forest. The man named Cynthia also rushed into the forest.

A dark shadow appeared in the bushes after Cynthia left—the shadow was having trouble catching up but it was still following after them.

Angele raised his head and looked at the shadow but did not say anything. He swang the glass syringe; it looked a bit purplish under the sunlight for some reason.

"Andre, what are we going to do next?" Fra questioned behind him.

"We'll stay here. This place is great I think." Angele looked at the entrance to the tunnel on the other side of the river.

"Are you looking at that wooden door? I think it's an entrance to a tomb." Fra noticed what Angele was looking at.

"I think only a weak noble family would build a tomb here but it looks old. I doubt if the noble family still exists. It seems like no one has visited the tomb for years."

"I didn't expect you to know that." Angele was surprised. He noticed that Fra was reading a novel about a legendary knight and felt a bit speechless.

"A legendary knight named Barbosa built a tomb like that and the legendary gear, Shield of Honor, was buried with him!" Fra sounded excited.

Angele shook his head and said, "Alright, we need to set up the tent here. We'll just stay by the river."

They set up a gray tent by the river quickly.

Angele purchased the tent when he was still an apprentice and was surprised that the tent was still perfect after all those years.

The tent was perfect for two people. Fra was slim and was not worried that Angele would do anything to her so she usually slept next to Angele.

They took out dry rations and condiments from the wooden boxes. They also found some mushrooms from the forest and caught some fish from the river. Fra had no problem living here.

She would practice sword techniques after she woke up every day and thought Angele did not know what she was doing.

Angele usually used the time to study the blood he extracted from Heli.

There was a strong bloodline in Heli's blood, much stronger than the bloodlines Angele had. However, he could not extract the bloodline from Heli's blood—Heli was too weak. He only acquired some bloodline essence.

Strangely, the bloodline essence increased Angele's wizard power greatly after it was completely absorbed. The problem was that Angele already gave up the normal wizard power and became a bloodline wizard.

The bloodline essence merged into Angele's negative emotions and turned into some strange power that went through his whole body. The strange power helped him form the fourth mentality crystal.

Angele was shocked and quickly studied the bloodline essence using the biochip but did not find any valuable result. Only a third of the mentality crystal was formed; the power was not strong enough to complete the process.

He could only form three mentality crystals as a wizard due to his low talent level but this bloodline essence changed the situation. Angele's mentality was much higher than the requirement to become a rank 4 wizard but he could not do so. Also, he was just one step away from Siva State.

Heli's bloodline brought him hope. Angele immediately started thinking that maybe the bloodline would help him break the limit and enter Siva State.

Siva State had the same power level as a legendary rank 9 wizard.

Two months later.

PA*

Heli returned to Angele's cart again with Cynthia in his arms. They were both covered in blood and Heli fell to the ground after he stopped walking.

"Help him..." Heli spat out the words and fainted.

Angele and Fra were having dinner by the cart when Heli arrived. Angele shook his head speechlessly after seeing Heli. He walked to them and checked their condition. Fra helped him to put them down on the ground.

Angele was checking Cynthia's condition. The pretty man was seriously injured—although Cynthia was unconscious, his brow was still furrowed. The man's long dark hair trailed on the grass and there was a terrifying wound on his body. From his left shoulder to the right leg, the wound was around one finger wide, and Angele could almost see the organs in his stomach.

There was also a bloody hole on the right side of the man's neck. There was still blood spurting out of the hole.

Also, Angele saw some white light on the left side of the man's chest.

Angele's brow furrowed after seeing the situation.

"They are both dying but they still made it here… They are trying their best to survive…" He slowly cut the man's clothes open, revealing the chest.

The man's skin was almost translucent due to the light that was coming out of his body and his heart was still pumping.

"Fra, knife."

Fra quickly handed a silver knife to Angele.

Angele grabbed the knife and slowly cut Cynthia's chest open, revealing the red flesh and white bones inside.

Through his ribs, Angele could see the surface of his heart. There was a white rune on it. Mortals would not be able to notice the light coming from it.

"That's a problem…" Angele's expression turned serious.

Heli just woke up and his face turned even paler after hearing those words.

"I think you can still save him, right? I'll do whatever you say!"

Angele looked at Heli and said, "This thing is like a bomb that was stuck to his heart. The bomb will be detonated when a certain requirement is met. The man will explode into pieces. Who did this to you? That's some incredible technique."

Heli was cold and his lips twitched.

"He was just trying to save my life…" He could barely finish the sentence.

"There's only one method." Angele stopped for a second and continued, "I need one fresh spinneret from a yellow jade spider. You must bring it back within five days or he'll die."

"I'll go now!" Heli stood up but he hesitated before leaving.

"Where can I find the yellow jade spider?" He wondered.

"There are many yellow jade spiders and random bushes in the forests but not all of them have the spinneret. You can find them at places that are dark and wet," Angele explained.

Angele was not lying to Heli, he did need the spinneret to solve the problem. However, he did not have that in his pouch or the storage and he had to stay here to keep Cynthia alive.

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Chapter 576: Situation (1)

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"I'll leave now!" Heli picked up his damaged sword and started heading to the forest.

"I can go with you!" Fra stood up. She ran up to Heli and said, "You don't know the area well and I know a place with a lot of yellow jade spiders! I'm familiar with the area and I can lead the way for you."

There was a serious expression on her face.

Fra was moved by the relationship between Heli and his friends. It almost felt like that it was a scene in the novels she was reading. Fra was moved and excited at the same time.

Heli patted Fra's shoulders.

"Thanks, I'll ask Cynthia to buy you some delicious treats after he recovers. He's rich." Heli tried to tell a joke but no one was in the mood to appreciate it.

Fra and Heli rushed into the forest and disappeared into the bushes.

Angele crouched by Cynthia, taking out a purple needle from his pouch. The air around the needle looked a bit strange, it felt like the needle was releasing a force field.

"I don't really want to waste my resources, but…" Angele muttered as he looked at the forest. "I'd never help you if you didn't have the things I want…"

Shaking his head, Angele stabbed the needle into Cynthia's heart.

CHI*

The needle quickly disappeared and the white rune on his start was covered with a thin layer of dark shadow. The shadow surrounded the rune and the white light coming from the rune was weakened.

Angele felt relieved and was about to stand up.

PA*

Cynthia suddenly straightened his back and spat out some blood.

Angele was surprised, he quickly released a lot of black smoke and sent it into the wounds on Cynthia's heart. The black smoke turned into black dots and appeared on his skin.

However, the black dots were removed by some unknown things inside his body quickly. Although there were a lot of black dots, they would not last for too long.

Angele's expression turned serious. Raising his hand, he took out a golden potion from the mirror. He broke the glass tube without looking.

The golden liquid in the glass tube rotated in the air and sank into Cynthia's heart. The liquid was quickly absorbed by his body.

The heart was still pumping and only a small part of the white rune was left; the light almost faded away.

Suddenly, Cynthia's body trembled and he fell to the ground again. He released some dark light—it returned into his body before it could fully leave it. The process repeated for more than ten times and would happen once every minute. Cynthia's skin turned from pale to gray and the process finally stopped when he almost turned into a zombie.

Angele felt relieved after seeing the result.

"The holy power is so strong. I used the blood essence of a banshee but it didn't work… The church definitely has some strange power…" Angele was lucky that he made the decision quickly. He had to use a potion he crafted in Nightmare Realm. He combined more than ten ancient bloodlines with strong recovery abilities to craft this potion and only made two such potions. The potion was rare, it could even heal his refined true form when necessary.

Normal healing potions would not work on his refined true form due to the high resistance he had. Only potions with strong effects would be helpful; although Angele had many rare potions in the mirror, he still felt a bit sad that he had to use the potion.

"Finally, he should be fine for now." Angele stood up and looked at the forest again. "The only thing we need to do now is wait. Also, I need to keep him alive."

He put Cynthia down in the cart and started meditating with his eyes closed. Although the meditation would barely do anything for him, it could still help him recover his mentality. The natural mentality recovery speed was still slower than the meditation.

"Water…"

Angele was woken up from the meditation by Cynthia's voice. He had no idea how long had passed.

The man's lips were dry and he was asking for water.

The golden sunlight of the afternoon shined upon Cynthia's pale face. His sight was blinded by the light so he slightly leaned his head to the side.

Angele checked Cynthia's eyes and noticed that there were white dots in his blue pupils.

"You can't drink water yet. It'll be fine after Heli brings me the spinneret." Angele lowered his hand and checked the surroundings. He made sure that no one else was in the area.

"There are two yellow jade spider nests around. I can detect the one that's close to me but it seems like they went for the one on the other side and won't be back today." Shaking his head, Angele took out some dried fruits from a pouch and started chewing.

Angele looked at Cynthia and noticed that the man was staring at his food.

"Don't even think about it. You can't eat or drink. The thing on your heart was temporarily deactivated by me. If you eat or drink, the thing might be activated again," Angele explained.

Cynthia pursed his lips and closed his eyes. He decided not to watch Angele eat.

After the dinner, Angele took out some herbs and materials to make some more potion.

Time passed and the night arrived. They finally heard footsteps from the forest.

"Andre! We're back!" Fra's voice echoed in the forest.

Angele walked to the river and looked at the forest.

Heli was supporting his body using his crossguard sword. It seemed like his left arm was broken. Fra was walking in the front, holding some yellow objects in hands.

They walked across the river and stopped in front of Angele.

Fra carefully handed the yellow objects to Angele.

"Those are the spinnerets, right? We found two!"

Angele looked at the two objects and said, "Sadly, they are just normal spinnerets from yellow spiders, not yellow jade spiders. Yellow jade spiders are queens of yellow spiders and you can only find one of them in a whole group of yellow spiders."

The two were surprised by Angele's words.

Angele sighed. "Sit down and have some rest. You can try to find the right thing tomorrow. I would've gone to their nests by myself if I hadn't had to take care of this guy."

Heli did not say anything, he just stood there quietly.

"I'll go again now." He finished the words, turned around, and headed to the forest. It seemed like he did not want to waste any time.

Fra watched Heli, she was not sure what she should say, so she just remained silent.

Angele was not concerned, he glanced at the shadow under the tree on the other side of the river. Someone was standing in the shadow; it looked like a woman. She disappeared after Angele glanced at her.

He turned around and tapped on Fra's shoulder.

"Come and help me. I need to make some herbal medicine."

"Sure…"

Four days later, Heli returned to the camp with a small ball that looked like it was made of jade.

The yellow ball was the spinneret that Angele needed. It was easy to use; Angele extracted the spider silk from the spinneret and covered Cynthia in it. He only left a small opening so he could send medicine into the man's mouth. Cynthia almost looked like a yellow rice cocoon. Two days later, Angele broke the cocoon and Cynthia was finally healed. However, he lost a lot of life energy and they could see the bones under his skin.

Angele'd extract five syringes of blood from Heli as a payment. He gave Heli one month to recover before extracting the blood. Heli and Cynthia pretty much joined the camp. Although Cynthia tried to offer Angele money, Angele did not seem interested.

WOO*

Angele was holding a cup of fruit tea in hand and trying to cool the tea down by blowing air over it. Heli and Cynthia were also sitting in the cart.

"So, you're going to leave?" He took a sip from the green fruit tea. The tea was made from apple, it was sweet and sour.

Heli and Cynthia nodded.

There was a bitter smile on Heli's face.

"First, I don't think the food here is enough for four people. Also, Cynthia said that he wanted to buy some new clothes. We've both recovered and already paid you, so I think it's time for us to leave."

Cynthia did not say anything, but he nodded.

Fra was reading a novel on the side; she heard those words and looked at Cynthia.

"I thought you were going to teach me more sword techniques…"

"I've told you all the basics I knew over the last two months. You already found a set of great sword techniques. I could barely understand those techniques so you have to learn them by yourself. Also, my dagger skills are much better than my sword skills," Cynthia responded in a low voice.

Fra moved closer to him and they started a private conversation. Cynthia's face still looked like a pretty woman; Fra sat so close to him that their legs were next to each other. Heli's face blushed after seeing the scene for some reason.

Angele pursed his lips and glanced at Heli. During the month, Angele noticed that Cynthia shared similar characteristics as Timos—he had the body of a man but the mind of a woman. Also, he noticed something interesting when interacting with Cynthia.

It was a secret of Cynthia.

Angele sipped from the fruit tea again.

"What happened? Your face is red. Are you sick again?"

Heli's body trembled slightly and he quickly drank some water. He tried his best to calm down.

"The water is hot and the weather is hot. I'm not sick. One more thing. Andre, do you have basic healing potions? Cynthia wants to buy some healing potions from you. If we're hurt again, we can use the healing potions first before heading to your camp." He stopped for a second and continued, "We already went to many doctors before we found you, no one could heal him. Some even made the situation worse. If we hadn't reached you camp in time, he would have been…"

He did not finish, but the atmosphere got heavy.

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