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Chapter 465: Ten Years (2)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Angele sighed with mixed emotions; he was not following the bloodline path that was practiced by most of the strong beings in this realm. He made some evolutionary changes to the bloodline signets of the three strong bloodlines he had. Although the path was clear, he still needed to proceed with caution.
'I've already reached the top level of my true form since I recreated the rune. For the refined true form, I'll have to utilize the power of the fear, and my body will change again; however, it'll take me some time to accomplish that. I should probably test my power first.'
Angele stepped out of the room and left the tree house.
The green fence surrounded the tree house in the center.
The woman in black was pouring water onto the empty ground with a wooden kettle, it seemed like she was planting something. The woman turned her head around and smiled after hearing the noise.
"How was your night?"
Angele glanced at the woman and questioned, "Did you try to escape?"
The expression froze on the woman's face.
It took her a while to respond. "I tried to escape, but none of my attempts succeeded…"
Angele nodded calmly, he was not angry at all. "It's impossible for you to leave me before I unseal you from the black light prison that I applied on you. You'll faint and walk back to the restricted area if you try to escape."
The black light prison was one of the techniques he mastered; it was usually applied to the prisoners by the Watchers.
With the help of the biochip, Angele already learned more than one hundred strong techniques and spells over the years. He had already become a spell master with all the unique spells he acquired.
Angele looked at the ground where there were some green sprouts. However, he had no idea what those plants were.
"I just… planted them for fun…" A strange smile appeared on the woman's face, it almost looked like that she was about to cry.
Angele noticed that those green sprouts were surrounded by some mysterious black smoke.
"Alright then, did you find enough food?"
"Well, for people like us, we only need to eat once every 10 to 15 days," the woman replied. She had the same power level as a rank 2 wizard when she was unsealed; however, it seemed like she already had the mentality wave of a rank 3 wizard after resting for a while.
"Good." Angele was not concerned. "I need to leave this place for a while and I've already increased your activity range. Just take care of yourself."
He did not care if the woman knew how big the area was, she would test it out by herself anyways.
Angele looked in a random direction and disappeared into a ball of flames.
A ball of flames exploded in the deep forest and disappeared into the air within seconds after releasing some red energy waves.
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In the wizard world.
The ruin under the volcano.
In a bedroom, red energy waves appeared in the air; a ball of red flames exploded, turning into a humanoid creature—it was Angele, who was wearing a white robe.
Angele glanced at the bedroom and felt the strong pressure right away after recreating his body. His true form had already reached the top level of a rank 6 wizard. With the help of the three bloodline runes and the new rune he created, his power level had already increased to an incredible level.
The attributes of his normal form were also increased, especially the mentality and the stamina. He noticed that a new talent ability was being formed and his attributes were increasing constantly at a steady rate. He was certain that he would advance to rank 4 in the main world sooner or later.
However, he realized that he was weakened by the realm difference after returning to the main world. His strong talent ability was weakened and his progression was slowed down.
Angele's mentality was around 400; however, it was decreased to about 200 in the main world.
'The strange feeling I had when I returned to this world…. This must be the realm difference. It seems like I've already become a denizen of the Nightmare Realm…' Angele concluded quickly.
He did not feel anything when he was in the Nightmare Realm, there was no realm difference at all; also, he could only experience the realm difference when he reached a certain level.
Raising his left hand, Angele looked at the purple eye-shaped ring. The ring was glowing, it seemed like someone left him messages.
Angele rubbed the surface of the gem.
*CHI*
A white diamond-shaped light screen was released by the ring, floating in front of Angele's eyes.
Rows of information flashed on the screen.
Angele glanced at the screen and stopped at one of the messages.
'11 world stone altars have been fixed. Two enemies were captured. Please inform us on how to deal with them.'
Angele tapped on the message slightly.
The message was zoomed in, turning into a new square screen, revealing Lela's attractive face.
"Leader, you finally responded. We caught two enemies. What should I do with them?"
"Which two?"
"Suman's girlfriend and a middle-aged man. It seemed like they recruited the man on the way."
Angele thought for a while and responded, "Hand them over to the Count. Just make sure that the altars are running properly, I don't care about the other things."
"Sure."
Angele knew that the count would use the two enemies he captured to try and find Suman. It was an obvious trap, but Suman would do anything to rescue his comrades-in-arms. The count asked Angele for help the last time and he thought that it was a shame so he had to deal with the situation by himself.
He closed the light screen and kept reading other information.
The intel collected by the elite members in numerous ways was delivered to his ring every day. Angele quickly acquired a general understanding of the situation.
The central continent was relatively stable; however, the east coast, south coast, and the west coast had lost their connection with the central continent. Only the northland could still communicate with it. All the communication towers were interrupted by the strong dimension radiation, it was nearly impossible for the messages to be delivered without losing a part of them. The whole world was in chaos at the moment since they had no way to exchange information.
The Molten River area, the Tarry River area, and the center area all turned into independent areas. They had no way to contact each other.
In the center area, Eugene's problem was still being dealt with, and something happened to the three lords. The Lord of the Sky disappeared and his lab subjects all escaped. The energy wave leak caused by the problem unsealed a strong mutated creature. The creature was severely injured Bismarck's teacher and father after they sacrificed their lives; however, it was still alive.
Bismarck had to use some black magic to communicate with a different realm and sacrificed half of his body. He turned into a monster and solved the problem.
However, the Lord of the Sky lost all his power.
The Shadow Lord was mysterious, she had not yet done anything after Eugene was killed, and many people were leaving her territory. No one knew what happened and all the information was blocked.
The Mirror Lord's soul was dying and his daughter became the new Mirror Lord. It seemed like the new Mirror Lord already noticed something and she started gathering mercenaries and knights. The whole Palace of the Mirror Lord had become the base of a revolutionary force.
"Which means, the situation is getting worse every minute," Angele muttered and continued to read.
The civil war of the Elemental Hand had ended and they signed an armistice agreement. The elder council and the alliance decided to work together when fighting the outsiders after the war ended.
Angele checked the information and realized that the outsiders it mentioned were servants of Prince Evil Dragon.
Prince Evil Dragon found a group of strong wizards and established an organization. He was attacking the two other large areas around the Elemental Hand.
He was fighting the center area and the Tarry River area without any problem; also, he left a strong force to defend from the attacks coming to the Molten River area.
Angele finished reading the information; he thought for a while as his brow furrowed, tapping on the ring slightly.
A man's voice came from the ring after he waited for a while.
"Green? What's the matter? I thought you were busy."
"Juventus?" Angele was confused as the voice was a bit unfamiliar.
"Yeah, it's me. The cross-dimension communication weakened the signal. I'm busy right now, go straight to the point!" Angele could hear that the man was turning pages, it seemed like he was dealing with some documents.
"I've already prepared everything, what about the world stone points? I read the messages and I assume that everything is going as planned," Angele spoke in a deep tone.
"Yeah, why? Although everything is going as planned, it'll still take us several years to finish arranging the resources. Also, we need to prepare the locations for the army. Meetings are happening every day in the organization and the nobles of the empire were checking our world constantly. There are so many things waiting to be completed." Juventus was in the headquarters of the organization and he would receive the intel before it was sent to the system.
"There's a problem with the three lords. Did the master say anything? If not, I'll go and handle my personal business and you won't be able to contact me for a while." Angele wanted to continue his plan in the Nightmare Realm.
"Don't worry, just find a person to handle the things for you. The elites all signed the contract and no one can betray the organization. I'll give you… ten years to finish your things," Juventus replied.
"Great, much appreciated." Angele smiled.
"Well, we're following the same master after all," Juventus chuckled. "Come visit us when you have time."
"Sorry, I hate the effect of the Fairy Realm… I don't want my clothes to talk for no reason." Angele recalled the scene.
"Well, you're right… Damn it! My glass! Come back! Alright, I'll talk to you later, I have something to take care of." The communication ended.
Angele was certain that Juventus went to chase his cup. Juventus was also busy with other things so Angele decided not to bother him too much.
Chapter 466: Dimension Fissure (1)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Angele checked the situation of the main world and felt that a storm was coming.
He stepped out of the room and left the ruin. He stood by the edge of the volcano.
It was early in the morning and the sky was still gray. Tiny snowflakes were falling down, dancing in the chilling wind.
*CHI CHI*
The snow would make some strange noise every time Angele took a step. He slowly walked to the edge of the snow mountain.
Standing on the cliff, Angele could see the white clouds down the hill—the clouds looked like cotton flowers.
A purple-black ray of light was standing among the tops of the snow mountains, striking into the sky. It looked like a long bar that was stabbed into a mountain.
Angele looked at the purple ray and noticed that it came from a white stone platform. A group of people in black robes surrounded the platform, chanting incantations.
"This place… The energy pool of the elder council…" Angele muttered and inhaled several times. He stopped looking at the platform, turned around, and walked to the ruin. He was just here for some fresh air.
Angele returned to the entrance of the ruin and recalled the moment he acquired the bloodline of the scorpion woman. He found the bloodline when he entered the Nightmare Realm in the ruin.
'I wonder what will happen if I enter the Nightmare Realm here again. I should be able to handle most of the situations now," Angele thought. He wanted to return to the Nightmare Realm in a safe location, but he was still interested in the secret treasure that he failed to retrieve a long time ago.
He pressed his right palm on the chest and released some red light. The light changed color several times.
'Alright, the coordinates should be correct…' Angele glanced around and made sure that he was the only one here. Red light flashed again and he disappeared into the air.
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In the Nightmare Realm.
Black dust was flying in the dark sky like gray snow.
The platform on the ruin, the area around the ruin, and the surface of the snow mountain were all covered with the black dust.
A ball of red light flashed beside the entrance of the ruin and Angele appeared, wearing a white robe.
He looked at the sky, looking confused.
"Black snow?" Angele grabbed some dust and rubbed it. The dust was burning hot and there was fire sparking around it.
The area was deadly silent; there was no one around, and the whole world was quiet.
The world was dark and the only source of light was the golden light ray that penetrated the clouds.
Angele hesitated, he noticed that the rusty platform in the front was covered with dust. It seemed like the platform was not activated for years.
He stepped on the platform and stood steadily.
*KA*
The platform started going down slowly.
It took a while for the platform to reach the bottom. The door opened, revealing a red tunnel that was utterly quiet.
The walls of the tunnel were covered with thick dust, it seemed like no one had walked in it for years.
Angele glanced around and his expression loosened. He slowly stepped down the platform.
He started advancing through the red tunnel. Angele stopped by a painting that was hanging on the wall after turning several times.
The painting was also covered by the dust.
*CHI CHI*
Angele tried to clean the painting; however, he noticed that the dust had already become a part of the painting and he could barely make out the image under it.
He scrunched his eyebrows and started to advance using the route that led him to the ruin of the Nightmare Realm the last time.
Seconds later, a black grandfather clock appeared in the front. The clock was lying on the ground, broken in half. The wooden part of the clock was burnt black.
Angele was a bit confused, he increased his speed.
Several minutes later, he stopped in front of a spacious room, looking at the wall that was covered with vines quietly.
"Wall of Confusion?" He stood in front of the wall, looking at the vibrant vines. "Are you still alive?"
No one responded.
Raising his hand, Angele removed the vines, but the only thing he could see was a red wall.
'What happened to this place?' He scratched the wall using the tip of his finger.
He sniffed at the finger—there was a weird smell on it.
Angele left the room and followed the original route. He arrived at a small indoor garden minutes later.
The garden was filed with colorful flowers and green leaves. The swing was waving in the gentle light, but the terrifying woman he met the last was no longer there.
Angele stood by the entrance of the garden and inhaled deeply. There was a fishy smell in the air.
He glanced around the garden and walked to the bronze door on the other side. It was the entrance to the illusion pool.
Angele noticed that the door was half open as he approached it, but he could not see what was behind it.
He pushed the door open carefully.
*CHI*
The door slowly opened.
Inside, it was a short tunnel and there was a large door by the end with a large keyhole. The door was broken, it seemed like someone knocked on the door with a strong force, and there was a large irregular hole in the center.
Angele noticed that there were some broken white bones on the ground, he was not sure what the creature they belonged to was.
He slowly approached the door, lowered his body, and entered the door through the hole.
A spacious white hall appeared in the front and there was a dried pool in the center. The blue statues of the scorpion women around the pool were all broken.
The whole hall was coated with a light blue glow and it seemed like the blue glow was released by the pool.
Angele stepped forward, lowered his head, and looked at the pool.
Some blue cracks that looked like spider webs were at the bottom of the pool; also, the cracks could easily fit a person.
Angele narrowed his eyes and walked to a scorpion woman statue.
The body of the blue statue was broken into pieces, but the bottom half of the statue was still standing there. He could see drops of red blood around the statue.
He crouched and was about to check the blood. Angele suddenly detected something was approaching him from behind at full speed.
Angele had no time to think; a shadow of a giant appeared behind him and he struck forward right away.
*BAM*
His right arm ached and a large piece of flesh was pulled off his arm, revealing the white bone inside.
*Roar*
He could hear a beast roaring.
However, Angele did not see any creature around. The beast stopped roaring and the area became quiet again.
'This thing pulled a piece of flesh off my arm easily, which means, the beast had the same power level as a rank 3 wizard.'
Suddenly, Angele raised his right hand and struck forward.
*BAM*
A ball of translucent shadow was blown away, hitting the wall and leaving a crack on the surface.
Angele's body disappeared into the air and he hit the center of the crack like a bullet. A spinning red rune circle appeared on his back.
*BAM*
Angele attacked again—intense red light was released from the rune circle, covering the whole crack on the wall.
Under the red light, a large pair of red hands made of lava came out of the rune circle and pressed on the creature that was in the center of the crack.
The creature slowly revealed itself in the red light, held tight by the hands.
It was a dog with three large heads.
Angele took three steps back and let the hands hold the dog.
He took out a yellow bird egg from the pouch and cracked it. He then threw the cracked egg at the large dog.
*PA*
The bird egg turned into a pile of sticky yellow liquid, covering the body of the dog. The dog could no longer stay invisible and Angele finally had a clear view of it.
The dog had three heads that could release translucent flames from their mouths and its fur was black. Also, the dog had red eyes and there were collars on its necks.
"A three-headed dog? What? Is that Cerberus?" Angele was surprised. He checked the wound on his right arm. It had already recovered and it almost looked like he was not injured at all.
He walked to the Cerberus and started observing it carefully. The dog's behavior was restricted by the rune circle.
The dog was about one meter tall and it was staring at Angele while roaring.
Angele thought for a while and scanned the dog using the biochip. He recorded the creature's mentality wave and energy wave. He also collected the creature's fur and muscle tissue. Everything was stored in the mirror quickly.
The black mirror Angele found from the Soul River Realm had already become an important item. Angele stored most of his lab subjects in the mirror and the items that he used a lot in the pouch.
He tapped on the dog's heads quickly.
*Crack*
The heads of the dog exploded, white brains and red blood splashed on the wall. The dead body of the dog fell to the ground and stopped moving.
Angele deactivated the rune circle and the large hands slowly disappeared. He had dozens of methods to deal with the creatures that were weaker than rank 4 wizards.
He returned to the edge of the pool and started flying to the cracks at the bottom of the pool.
Angele floated above the blue cracks and noticed that the radiation energy from the cracks seemed familiar.
'This energy is similar to the energy I found from the world stone altars… However, it's stronger and more chaotic…' Angele's brow furrowed. 'Wait… Don't tell me this is a new dimension fissure…'
*DING*
Suddenly, he heard some strange noise.
Angele quickly took out a green skull from the pouch—he could hear Bone's voice coming from it.
"Phoenix, Eye Devil wants to build the Eye Tower of the Doomsday and asks us to collect souls. We need to start collecting the souls right away if you have the time."
"Eye Tower of the Doomsday?" Angele knew what the item was as it was mentioned in the information from Eye Devil. It was a device that could buff the power of her people. The souls would be able to help Eye Devil break the seal and the realm wall. The only thing they needed to do was to collect the souls.
Chapter 467: Dimension Fissure (2)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
"So, she wanted to find the souls from different realms?" Angele assumed.
"Yeah, Eye Devil put in a lot of effort this time, she provided us with five detailed coordinate sets to five different realms and she wants us to help her collect souls." Bone chuckled. "Vapor and Abyss will be here too. Eye Devil's offer is so attractive that everyone wants a part of it. I heard that Eye Devil's servants were trying to find more realms to enter, such as the Mist Realm, the Wizard World, the Giant Tree Realm… It'll take a while for them to confirm the coordinates, but still…."
"Wait? That's a lot…" Angele was a bit surprised after he heard about the wizard world, he felt like his heart stopped for a second. The army of the Nightmare Realm was so strong that he doubted if the modern wizards could handle the invasion. The ancient wizards had no problem fighting against the creatures from other realms, but the situation had changed.
"Phoenix, I suggest that you consume part of the souls you collected using this chance so you'll recover faster. You'll be ignored if you can't show us your true power," Bone advised.
Angele remained silent for a second and responded, "I'll think about it."
"Good then. I have something else to take care of. Talk to you later." Bone cut the communication.
Angele returned the skull to the pouch and started thinking. He was trying to calm down.
Waving his hand, a slim man in a black robe with a white ghost mask on the face appeared from the black smoke. It was a smiling mask—it was one of the masks that represented treachery.
After modifying the Erin's Funeral Oration, he could feel the negative emotions moving to his body every time he practiced the Sound of the Knell. He could feel that he would be able to control the ghost masks in the future and it seemed like the ghost masks were turning into parts of his body.
'I heard that the Eye Tower of the Doomsday could gather the souls of the creatures. This dimension fissure should be able to lead me to a new realm.' The men with masks jumped into the blue dimension fissure under his command.
*CHI*
The men entered the fissure immediately, but Angele was still floating above it. Closing his eyes, he could see what the masked man was seeing.
A large harbor appeared in front of his eyes.
The night was about to fall and he could already see the sky that was covered with silver stars.
Below the sky was a large canyon with black rocks. The river running down the canyon was also black, and by the end of the river, there was an endless sea.
Tall black buildings that looked like ships were standing on both sides of the canyon.
The buildings looked like ships that were built on large platforms. The buildings had many levels and each of the levels was releasing light that varied in colors.
He could also see the balconies and windows on both sides of the canyon, it seemed like the whole canyon was turned into a base.
The masked man was floating in the air, looking down. The masked man could barely deal any damage; however, Angele could use him to block fatal attacks.
It was also an effect of the new Erin's Funeral Oration.
Angele only created one masked man at the moment, it was like having an extra life. He could block an attack that would kill his soul or physical form using the masked man.
He could see that there were many similar buildings on both sides of the river through the masked man's face. Those buildings looked like the buildings in sci-fi films and there were people walking around them.
*WOO*
Something vibrated in the air and made some loud noise.
Angele was about to ask the masked man to return to the Nightmare Realm; however, he stopped immediately after hearing the noise.
A large translucent wave appeared above the canyon.
A humongous spaceship slowly appeared in the center of the wave. The spaceship was black and covered with blinking light. Smoke was rising from the surface of the ship and it seemed like the ship was damaged.
"Wait…" Angele was surprised after seeing the familiar object.
*WOO WOO*
A couple black fighters left the windows on the walls and rotated around the large spaceship, leaving some blinking white light dots in the air.
The light dots dropped on the spaceship and merged into its body. The light dots were used to repair the ship.
Also, Angele heard someone's voice echoing in the air.
Angele had no idea what language it was. The voice was complicated, but it sounded a bit strange. It seemed like the voice was announcing something.
"Wait… This is like the modern world I'm familiar with…" Angele was in shock and asked the masked man to stay in the air.
The spaceship suddenly started melting when Angele was still in shock. The spaceship twisted and turned into a large monster that was floating in the air.
It was a black monster that looked like a dolphin with a fully armored knight on its back.
Angele observed the appearance of the armored knight—the knight looked familiar.
He recalled the information he collected recently and realized that the familiar feeling came from the golden book.
'This must be the Void Realm the man with a cape mentioned… The void monster has an appearance that is identical to this one…' Blue light flashed in front of his eyes and he quickly checked the information related to the Void Realm.
There were many realms that were close to the Nightmare Realm—the Void Realm was one of them, and the void monsters were their main force. All the people of the Void Realm that could sign contracts with the void monsters were called Void Riders or Star Riders and they were the strongest beings of the realm.
Angele slowly calmed down as he read the information.
The Void Realm was not the same as the modern world Angele thought, also, he was not worried that other people with the same biochip would be able to reach the same level as him.
Angele had lived in the wizard world for so many years; the biochip was just a tool to him, and he handled many dangerous situations by himself since the biochip could not react to the instantenous strikes. The biochip leveled up many times as he became stronger as well—his biochip was different from the biochip he had when he was still at Earth.
The masked man was still in the air. Angele observed the harbor for a while, and returned to the dimension fissure after the sky turned dark.
Angele checked the illusion pool again, but he failed to find any trace of the scorpion woman. He sent the coordinates of the dimension fissure to Bone. The fissure could easily be turned into a vortex portal that would link them to the Void Realm.
Angele double-checked the dead body of the dog after sending the coordinates. He had a feeling that the dog did not kill the scorpion women, they just broke the seal and left the area through the dimension fissure.
The broken statues around the pool were just like normal stone statues.
'If I'm not mistaken, the Wall of Confusion, the old woman, and the scorpion women all escaped the area through the dimension fissure; it's possible that they were the reason why the fissure appeared.'
Angele collected all the things he needed and reorganized the scene.
Minutes later, he heard footsteps coming from the entrance. A team of skeleton soldiers entered the hall, wearing black armor and holding bone weapons in hands.
"Captain Geraharden from the Bone Sea reporting in!" The leading skeleton soldier walked to Angele and bowed to him. "Master, we traveled here through a portal in the area, is this the dimension fissure you mentioned?"
White flames were burning in the skeleton soldiers' eyes and they were staring at the blue fissure.
"It's a fissure to the Void Realm. Make sure that you don't alert the residents of the Void Realm when expanding the fissure. The fissure is right above a harbor," Angele ordered.
"Yes, Master, we'll be careful!"
Angele left the ruin after the skeleton soldiers started working. He decided to return to the plain that Eye Devil was sealed at.
He flew in the air at full speed for two days and finally left the black snow mountains.
Golden desert appeared on the ground and dust was no longer falling from the dark clouds in the sky.
It was the first time that Angele flew for so long in the Nightmare Realm—he needed some time before he could reset the coordinates, so he had to travel in the air.
According to the information regarding the scorpion women he'd acquired from the woman in black, buildings like Eye Tower of Doomsday would usually cause strange side effects. Angele only needed to do some small modifications, and those side effects would become something that Angele could use while keeping the original functions of the building. The side effect would be turned into a huge amount of negative emotions.
The souls collected by the Eye Tower of Doomsday were usually souls with hatred. The negative emotions from such souls had always been a problem, however, those emotions were just what Angele needed.
The refined true form required a huge amount of negative emotions. He needed the bead of fear, the bead of anger, the bead of desperation, and the bead of madness. Also, he needed the core of fear. His power level would be greatly increased after he acquired the refined true form and he would be at the same level as Eye Devil.
Angele also needed to collect the bloodline power and keep refining it. However, with the updated biochip and the purified bloodline power, he would be able to reach the top-level of the refined true form soon.
Chapter 468: Life (1)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
However, the top level of the refined true form was pretty much the same as what Eye Devil showed in the Soul River Realm, and Angele was not sure if Eye Devil had shown her limits.
Three days later, he finally returned to the dark-red plain.
He could see that Eye Devil's humongous body was still being sealed by the four blue light chains.
Eye Devil had completely calmed down. There were dragon knights, giants, knights, and spiders around her. They were building the base of a certain building. It seemed like they had a plan going on.
Angele flew to Eye Devil at full speed, drawing a clear line in the air.
The guards that looked like spiders around Eye Devil stepped aside so Angele could enter the area.
Angele was not concerned about those creatures, he could easily find out the power level of the creatures below with his true form. Only several of them had the same power level of a rank 4 wizard and the rest of them were weak.
He moved to Eye Devil's waist, leaving a red line in the air.
The upper and bottom half of Eye Devil's body were connected by a floating red eyeball.
The eyeball blinked and stared at Angele.
*PA*
Angele slowly landed on Eye Devil's waist.
The texture was soft, Eye Devil's flesh felt like some high-quality carpet. The air around the eyeball was strange and Angele could barely breathe.
He glanced around.
The eyeball was more than three meters tall, it was releasing a translucent force field, linking Eye Devil's body.
"I need a large number of souls, I heard that you found the dimension fissure to the Void Realm?" Eye Devil's voice came from the eyeball.
"Yeah, but I might need some help. I don't think I can enter it just by myself," Angele responded.
"Vapor and Bone are building the dimension fissure to the Abyss Realm. No one knew that you can find a mature dimension fissure. They're heading to us now," Eye Devil replied. "I decided to share all the coordinates collected by my people with you since we have to compete with the northland or Storm will have trouble handling the possible pressure."
Angele remained silent for a second, he knew that the southland and the northland never liked each other since they were not on the same boat.
There were more lords in the southland; however, none of them could compete with the Plague Lord, and the lords from different continent decided not to work with each other.
Especially the lords in northland, they were strong but only cared about their own benefits. The lords in southland sometimes worked together when the situation allowed and that was the reason why northland and southland never fought each other.
The southland and the northland would still compete when they were invading other realms. If the southland paused the invasion because of Eye Devil, the northland might be able to acquire more resources.
Eye Devil stopped for a second and continued, "You already know the situation of the southland. Storm and I oversee two large areas, but we're just the representatives. If the lords of the northland learn about my situation, it's possible that they might try to attack us."
"I understand." Angele nodded. He was about to ask something else, but he suddenly felt heat coming from behind.
Angele turned his head around as he heard the footsteps. A tall man wearing a white cape with golden edges walked to him slowly while creating a translucent staircase under his feet.
The man looked at Angele, smiled, and greeted him.
The eyeball turned to the man and looked at him. "What's the matter?"
"Lord, Elder Anker and the other 15 elders are here; also, they brought all the necessary resources for the Eye Tower of Doomsday. They'll be guarding your body and make sure that you're safe," the man responded politely.
Angele narrowed his eyes. "I'll be leaving now."
"I'm counting on you," Eye Devil said, there was nothing she could do at the moment.
Angele nodded but he did not say anything. He disappeared into a ball of flames.
*BOOM*
The flame exploded and disappeared.
Eye Devil stared at the location that Angele was standing at.
"An ancient lord from the scorpion woman race… It has been millions of years since the last lord of that race appeared. He's recovering so fast that it's unbelievable."
The man with a cape also nodded. "You're right, Lord Phoenix knows how to utilize the dimension power. He probably set up many coordinates in this dimension just for the teleportation. Scorpion woman is a guardian race and he probably has some of the strongest talent abilities."
Eye Devil blinked her eye. "I heard that the scorpion woman can absorb the negative energy from the souls. He decided to help me because he wanted to absorb the energy, but it's a good thing. I need a way to deal with the energy anyways."
"I hope that's the case…" The man sighed. "I'll ask the servants to set up the polluted blood pool for you…" He stepped forward and revealed a diamond-shaped rube that he was holding in hand.
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In the ruin, by the dimension fissure.
Angele's body appeared in the air as fire sparked.
A naked woman with six spider legs on the back was standing by the illusion pool.
The woman had clean skin and her private parts were covered by a purple armor. Also, the woman's cheeks were covered with tiny green eyes that were blinking.
"Spider? Are you waiting for me?" Angele recognized the woman right away.
Spider chuckled and questioned, "I heard that you found this dimension fissure. I came here first because I was in the area. Why don't we enter the fissure together and explore it a bit?"
"Well, can you deal with the Star Riders in the Void Realm? Why don't wait until others get here?" Angele's brow furrowed. Teams of skeleton soldiers were jumping into the dimension fissure and the skeleton mages were drawing green runes around the fissure.
"I'm no Eye Devil," Spider responded with a smile on the face. "Do you know that the Void Realm is weaker than the Soul River Realm now?"
"Is that so?" Angele knew the situation in the Void Realm. If the information from the golden book was real, the only strong beings in the Void Realm were the Star Riders and their void beasts. The strongest Star Rider had the similar power level as a rank 3 wizard. However, if the Star Riders had special abilities and moved as teams, it would still be a problem.
"I won't force you if you won't want to. I'll enter it before Vapor is here." Spider jumped into the blue fissure before Angele responded.
Angele stood by the illusion pool, he hesitated for a second and took out some glass tubes from the black mirror. He started crafting some potions.
He spent years doing the research about the rune circles and biology. He had no problem doing general gene modifications to the strange creatures he found and Orphie.
He was spending more time studying the rune circles recently, but he acquired many virus samples when he was doing research on the weird creatures.
He mixed some purple potion into the black powder and added some red steam into the mixture. Angele quickly bit his finger and dropped some of his blood into the final mixture.
*BAM*
A ball of black smoke was released by the mixture and countless black insect eggs appeared in it.
The insect eggs were invisible and revealed themselves only after Angele supplied them with the mixture and his own blood.
'I didn't know that one day those black beetles would be helpful to me. I'll use them this time.' Angele was satisfied with the result. The insect eggs were the eggs of the black beetles that surrounded his mansion. He captured some of the beetles and retrieved their eggs.
Angele returned the test tube to the mirror and jumped into the blue dimension fissure.
His body was brushed over by some chilling wind and the harbor appeared in front of him again.
It was night and the colorful lights on the buildings were flashing. They looked like signal light from machines. There were also lights moving on the ground, it almost felt like there were searchlights in the sky.
Spider was floating by the fissure, staring at the harbor. The invisible skeleton soldiers decomposed and turned into an incomplete bone ship.
Teams of skeleton soldiers were stepping out of the fissure and all turned into parts of the bone ship.
Angele stood by Spider and started observing the harbor again.
"The Void Realm… It had its time… In the ancient time, the Ice Realm, the Void Realm, and the Wizard World were the strongest realms that were ruled by human beings," Spider explained. "Sadly, after all the ancient wars, the Void Realm is not as strong as before."
She pointed at the largest ship building in the harbor.
"Did you see that? That's the slave arena of the Void Empire."
"How do you know that?" Angele was a bit surprised and noticed that something was strange about her spider legs.
By the end of her spider legs, there were countless white strings that reached into the air and disappeared. It felt like they merged into this dimension.
Angele did a quick check and there were at least thousands of those white strings.
"Well, it's my special technique." Spider smiled. "Why don't we bring some excitement to this realm?"
She waved her right hand.
*CHI*
Countless white spider webs appeared in the sky and formed an enormous spider that almost covered the sky.
Same white strings were released from the spider web and started falling like a meteor rain.
The white strings landed on the surface of the buildings, the land, and the river.
The white strings were everywhere after just a blink of an eye.
Chapter 469: Life (2)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
The human beings in the harbor were not alerted by the spider webs at all, it seemed like they did not see anything.
Angele saw the large spider web behind Spider spinning in the air. It looked like a huge rune circle that was releasing countless white strings.
"See, there is no hope left for this realm…" Spider's word echoed in the air. "They no longer believe in the mysterious power and have no idea what we are doing here. I didn't expect the Void Realm to be so weak after ten thousand years…"
Angele remained silent for a second and said, "Which means, even if we're not invisible, they won't be able to see us?"
"You're right, we're at a completely different level. Without the special techniques, it's impossible for them to detect us, and they probably can't see what we're doing here." It seemed like Spider had no sympathy for mortals.
Angele sighed and slowly flew to the harbor.
The black harbor was getting closer and closer. There was a curved balcony on the left above the river. A man and a woman in tight silver suits were drinking glasses of green liquid while having a conversation.
Angele slowly landed on the balcony and stood beside the two; however, they did not notice his presence at all.
He observed the two human beings. The man was handsome and the woman was beautiful; however, they looked a bit strange.
Blue light flashed in front of Angele's eyes, he scanned the two's bodies and understood the reason.
The two somehow modified their appearance—their true appearances were just average after Angele recreated their original bodies using the biochip.
He stood there and listened to the two's conversation. Angele collected a lot of data and asked Zero to analyze the language.
After about half an hour, they stopped talking and started making out on the balcony.
Angele had already collected a lot of information and quickly left the balcony.
"Cough!" Suddenly, the woman started coughing.
"What happened, babe?" The man started coughing as well after finishing speaking.
*Cough Cough*
Angele floated in the air. He could hear the people from the harbor coughing. He noticed that the white strings created by Spider were releasing thin white smoke. The mortals all started coughing after absorbing the smoke that was invisible to them.
He realized that Spider was trying to execute her plan.
Angele raised his head.
The whole sky was white and Spider was in the center of the large spider web. She looked down, still releasing white strings. The strings were moving to the harbor.
"What a wonderful realm…" Spider chuckled, more and more people started coughing in the harbor.
*WOO WOO*
Minutes later, an intense alarm echoed above the harbor.
"Cough… Cough… A quick announcement! This is urgent! A plague is spreading in the harbor. All people who are infected should go to the plague control center and get treated as soon as possible."
The voice sounded familiar.
Angele flew to the buildings and landed on the ground.
The surface of the cliff was smooth and covered with a metallic white substance. People were quickly moving to a large building that was built on top of a hill.
People were moving on a pathway with handles on the side. There were couples with children, women, men, and individuals that were carrying suitcases.
The outfits they were wearing looked identical to the outfits people were wearing in the 20th century on Earth. Some were wearing black suits and some were wearing dresses. They covered their mouths with either hands or white masks.
"Cough…" Angele started coughing as well, however, that was from the frost damage of the dragon breath.
The mortals of the Void Realm were just living their lives, but their lives were being taken away by Spider's poisonous gas.
Angele watched the people moving to the plague control center and started thinking. He knew that the lords did not care about the people of other realms, but the scene was still terrifying.
The Soul River Realm had the power to fight back and it felt like a normal war to Angele; however, this time, Spider was just slaughtering the mortals that had no way to fight back.
"It's a serious plague I think, even the nobles are infected. Maybe there's a problem with the air?" Angele heard people talking.
"What about the normal residential areas?"
"Bad, very bad. I think something is going on, maybe the nobles are doing some weird experiments."
"Don't worry, Brother. I've already informed our parents. They'll come and pick us up soon."
"What are the workers in the plague control center doing? All they do is eat and drink!"
With the help of the chip, Angele could easily understand what the residents of the Void Realm were talking about.
'So, the nobles and the normal citizens are living in different areas.' Angele flew into the air and blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes. He noticed that the buildings on the other side of the river looked older than the buildings on this side.
"Ah!"
A man suddenly groaned.
Angele turned around. He saw a middle-aged chubby man in a black suit kneel and hold his neck tight. His face turned purple and blood was spurting out of his mouth.
His back was connected to a white string, which was pulling a translucent shadow out of his body.
The translucent shadow looked like a human being that was being pulled to the sky.
The people around the man started screaming. They all stayed several meters away from the dead body and the situation was getting worse.
"It begins…" Angele muttered as he disappeared into a ball of flames.
The harbor turned into a mess. The white strings were dragging the screaming souls to the sky—they landed on the spider web and slowly disappeared.
"Master Star Riders! A serious plague is spreading in the harbor on the north of Northland! Please report the situation to the empire plague control center immediately! We need help… Cough…" The voice started coughing as well.
A knight in black armor left one of the balconies above the river. He tapped on his left shoulder, and a humongous void beast appeared below him.
"Ordo!" the knight shouted and did a hand gesture.
"You go north and I'll take care of south!" A man in red armor nodded and flew into the sky, he was riding a red horse-shaped void beast.
The two finished communicating and the bottom halves of their bodies merged into the void beasts. They turned into two stars and flew into two opposite directions.
Angele appeared in the sky again and watched the two Star Riders leave. He remained silent.
Countless translucent souls left the mortals' bodies and flew to the large spider web. The scene was terrifying and beautiful at the same time.
Fewer people were screaming after many of them were killed. The smell of blood permeated the air.
A soul was flying to the web in front of Angele.
It was a child that was about ten years old. The child's soul was struggling in pain. Also, the soul had nothing attached to his waist.
Angele hesitated and reached to the child's arm. It felt like touching a bowl of warm water.
*CHI*
The soul was absorbed into Angele's finger like a ball of smoke that had no volume.
The white string detached from the child's soul. It seemed like Spider did not care at all.
Angele did not expect something like this to happen. He stopped in the air and could feel something warm entering his body. Zero informed him that his mentality was increasing and his other attributes also increased. He just consumed a soul, his mentality and stamina were increased by 0.5.
The blue souls were passing by his body and they looked like blue raindrops that were flying in the sky.
'How cruel… but that's how it is… The weak ones stand no chance against the strong beings…' Angele sighed and started flying again.
He had no intention to consume the souls that were from the innocent mortals, but Angele decided not to interrupt the process. He wanted to go to the Eye Tower of Doomsday so he could absorb the negative emotions and create the five emotion beads.
The negative emotions in the air turned into light black smoke and part of it was absorbed by Angele, the rest of the smoke just disappeared into the air.
Angele realized that the number of negative emotions he could absorb at one time was limited, but the woman in black could absorb as much as she wanted. 80% of the negative emotions he absorbed was just impurities and he decided not to absorb any unpurified negative emotions.
He stopped by Spider.
"I'll head back now. You can take care of the rest, right?"
"Why don't you consume more souls so you'll recover faster?" Spider sounded surprised.
"There are too many impurities in those souls. I'll go to the Eye Tower of Doomsday. Those souls will be delivered there anyways," Angele responded.
"What? You want to take some of the souls away from Eye Devil?" Spider finished the sentence and noticed that there was a serious expression on Angele's face so she did not say anything else.
"I'll be leaving now." Angele turned into a ball of flames, passing through the spider web and disappearing into the translucent fissure.
Chapter 470: Welcome Party (1)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Three days later…
The location where Eye Devil was sealed.
By the edge of the dark red plain, Angele was standing in a small red bush, staring at the black buildings.
The red clouds were boiling in the dark sky and illuminated the whole land.
A large black platform was built on the right of Eye Devil's body and there was a black vortex floating above the platform.
The floating vortex was releasing a strong force that was pulling all the translucent souls to it. The souls were like rain drops that were flying into the vortex.
Behind Angele was the wooden house he built a while ago. The woman in black was also staring at Eye Devil.
"Souls are everywhere… It started last afternoon," the woman muttered. "Where did you get all those souls?"
Angele remained calm, he was absorbing the black smoke coming from the woman.
"You don't need to know. Do you agree to my offer?"
"Well, I got my talent ability by luck and I don't think you can recreate it." The woman shook her head. "I fear light because of this ability and that's why I'm wearing black."
Angele looked at the woman. "No worries, we have a lot of time."
He had not practiced the Molten Core River for a long time and focused on the modified Book of Fear. He followed the method mentioned in the book and absorbed the negative emotions while practicing the Sound of the Knell.
The Book of Fear had three chapters: Prologue, Funeral Oration, Epilogue.
Angele removed the poems from the Erin's Funeral Oration since they were useless.
The prologue of the book could help him improve his bloodline power.
The funeral oration would help him purify his bloodline power and also explained how to create his true form and refined true form. The epilogue explained how the special weapons or armor were crafted. There were also some secret techniques, including the Sound of the Knell and the way to create the second or third life using the negative emotions other than fear.
Angele watched the translucent souls fly to the black ball beside Eye Devil and took out a red notebook from the mirror. He opened the notebook—it was full of incomplete formulas and some theories that were not validated yet.
He turned to the second last page, it seemed like he was excited.
A black rune circle was drawn on the leather paper of the notebook. There were complicated rune circles in the large rune circle. It looked like a well-designed pocket watch that was full of gears.
Strangely, the small rune circles were all rotating and making some strange noises.
"The Ritual of Black Death…" Angele rubbed the rune circle carefully.
He modified the rune circle slightly and there were five empty slots. He wanted to use them for something else.
"I only need to put the five emotion beads into those slots and I'll be able to create my refined true form; however, it'll take years…" Angele closed the notebook and handed it to the woman. "Hold this."
"What's this?" The woman was confused.
"This book will help me absorb the negative energy around your body so you can have some nice dreams during the night. I forced you to leave your hometown, this is some compensation," Angele responded in a calm tone. "I'll check the negative energy absorbed by the book later. You can stay here—Eye Devil's servants will deliver food to you—or you can stay around Eye Devil's body. However, you must stay here until I finish my business."
"How long will it take?" The woman was not anxious at all. "I was sealed for a long time and I don't care if I have to stay here for a bit longer."
"I'm not sure, it depends on how many souls they collect…" Angele sighed and looked at Eye Devil.
"It won't be too long…" he muttered.
For some reason, the woman suddenly felt fear toward the man she was staring at.
"Go now… I'll be leaving…" Angele turned around and disappeared into a ball of flames.
The woman checked the notebook and remained silent. She had a general idea of what Angele was about to do. There was only one way to collect souls, which was to kill more living beings.
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Four years later…
The main world.
On top of a mountain between the Molten River and the Tarry River.
The blue sky was reflected on the surface of the mirror-like volcano lake.
The area around the lake was surrounded by random stone pieces that varied in shape and some vibrant green trees.
There were birds twittering and beasts roaring in the forest.
It was noon. A group of people wearing black robes with red badges on their chests were waiting quietly by the lake. They stood there quietly, staring at the sky.
In the front, there were two old men with messy hair and long beards, and there were four black robes standing behind them.
"It's almost the time," one of the old men spoke. He turned his head around and looked at a female black robe—a young woman wearing pearl earrings.
"Isabel, where is your grandfather?"
She chuckled and responded, "He'll be here in half an hourglass."
"Is that so?" The old man nodded.
"Don't worry, the First Elder is the strongest wizard of the Elemental Hand. He'll be here on time," the other old man said. "We had an agreement with the alliance and we've already decided to face the chaos together."
"True. With the First Elder helping us, everything will be alright." The two old men started a random conversation.
Behind the four black robes, there was a group of wizards with mermaid-shaped badges on their chests—there were about ten of them. In the center of the group, a young man with a pale face was waiting patiently and a middle-aged man was talking to him.
The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Green, happy, right? You mother is finally back."
"Yeah, I'm happy, but I'm surprised that it took her so long to complete the mission…" Angele smiled as well.
"Of course it took a while… She's one of the elders, even the rank 3 wizards spend years on their experiments. Just like me, I'm the head of the Human Resource department in Mermaid's Song and I have a lot of resources, but I lost ten years of effort in the recent lab accident…" The man looked depressed. "Ten years, Green. All my efforts turned to ashes. I'd break down mentally if I'm a weak man. A wizard's life can be hard too…"
"True. I'm on the same boat as master Brum." A middle-aged woman on the side joined the conversation. She had a pair of shapely eyes and a serious expression on the face. It was Masha, she communicated with Angele a lot after the tomb exploration.
"Master Masha, there was an accident in your lab too?" Brum questioned in a low voice.
"Well, yeah, when I was at the northern ice plain…"
Angele smiled as he listened to Masha and Brum's conversation.
They were here to welcome the army back. The two old men were heads of the Eagle Eye School and War School.
The four black robes behind the heads were representatives of the organizations that worked for Elemental Hands: The Wind Valley, the Wandering Farm, and the Gold River. The granddaughter of the First Elder, Miss Isabel, was also here—she was also one of the new Energy Retrievers.
The people with strong backgrounds were all here, the only reason that Angele was in the team was that he was the only son of Elder Vivian.
Angele glanced at Isabel. They met once during the party held by Shozo and he knew that the girl was the second granddaughter. The people around Isabel were probably also inheritors of the elders.
He stood in the team and waited patiently. Couple minutes later, he heard thunder rumbling in the sky and the noise was approaching.
In the blue sky, a group of pink light dots appeared, flying to the welcome team.
"They're here." One of the old men put on a pair of glasses and arranged his long robe.
"Urartian, you or me?" He looked at the other old man.
"I'll do it." Urartian stepped forward and took out a short black wand. He held the wand in hand and pointed at the sky.
A water beam spurted out of the lake and flew toward the pink dost in the sky.
*KA*
The water beam froze and turned into a wide ice lance as they left the lake. The surface of the lake started freezing as well.
The ice shreds splashed in the air and the top of the wide ice lance turned into a large smooth platform—it could easily fit dozens of flying mounts.
A long staircase appeared on the surface of the ice lance, leading to the frozen surface of the lake.
A simple parking platform was quickly created.
Urartian lowered his wand and nodded slightly with his right hand on the beard.
"Dandy, what do you think? This is a new ice spell that I modified recently."
"Well, not bad, but mine is still better." Dandy chuckled.
Urartian glared at Dandy and looked at the sky.
All the people at the scene raised their heads and looked at the sky.
Chapter 471: Welcome Party (2)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
There were dozens of red dots approaching—they landed on top of the ice lance slowly. The red dots were owls with black robes on their backs.
There were also couple warriors in white armors on the owls' backs.
The two old men stepped forward quickly.
"Urartian, Dandy, it has been a while." A bald man chuckled and walked down the ice staircase. The others were also jumping off the backs of the large owls.
Behind the bald man were Vivian and a middle-aged man with a pale face. Other members followed after the three, including the warriors.
The two old men walked to the bald man and hugged him. "First Elder, we accomplished our mission and we've captured Ys Reagan."
"Huh? He's the one that betrayed us for an enemy, right? How should we deal with him?" the First Elder spoke in a serious tone. "They were going after Green, right, Vivian?" He turned his head around and looked at Vivian.
"That's correct, but I have no idea how Green got in the trouble." Vivian's brow furrowed. "There might be some misunderstanding."
"What do you think? Fifth Elder?" First Elder looked at the middle-aged man who hadn't said anything yet.
The man responded calmly, "Anyway, Elder Vivian contributed the most during the war." He did not say anything else.
The elders decided to change the topic and they started talking about the situation in the central continent.
They started walking down the stairs as they talked.
Vivian was in the front and she waved at Angele.
Angele carefully moved through the crowd and walked to Vivian.
"Vice Department Head, I heard that you had not worked in the Mermaid's Song in a while." Vivian's brow furrowed. "Don't worry too much about the past. Everything can be solved."
Angele noticed that Vivian was implying something, it was possible that Vivian found out about some of his secrets. He listened to her words and nodded.
Vivian still had her clean and smooth skin with long blonde hair trailing over her shoulders, reflecting the sunlight. She still looked beautiful even when she was narrowing her attractive sharp eyes in a furrow.
Vivian was surrounded by a cold aura; she dressed just as Henn, and they both looked like mysterious beauties. However, Henn was like a siren, while Vivian was just cold to people who were not related to her.
Angele followed after Vivian, they talked about their recent experiences and some important events.
There was already a large airship that looked like a brown boat waiting by the coast when they walked to the lake.
They entered the airship one by one and started to have conversations with their old friends. The atmosphere was light and happy.
Vivian and Angele walked to the railing as the airship sailed. They put their hands on the railing and looked at the egg-shaped lake.
"How's your progression with the Molten Core River?" Vivian wondered.
"It's… going well…" Angele was not sure how he should respond.
Angele had not practiced the Molten Core River in a while, he spent most of his time on the Book of Fear. The main world was far away from the Nightmare Realm, so the realm difference was extremely strong. There was no way that his true power could be utilized in the main world.
Although his mentality was approaching 500, in the wizard world, his mentality was still relatively low.
"Cough…" Angele started coughing again.
"What happened?" Vivian noticed the changes immediately and put her hand on Angele's forehead. Something warm entered Angele's body right away.
"What's this?" She was surprised. "Dragon breath…? Were you attacked by a dragon?"
There was a bitter smile on Angele's face. "I found a ghost knight when exploring the tomb. He exploded and I was caught in the dragon breath for some reason. No worries. I can handle it myself."
"I'm not familiar with the dragons, but I have an old friend who might be able to help. I'll take you to him." Vivian lowered her voice.
"It's alright, I can handle it. There's not much frost damage left." Angele was a bit speechless, the eye-gouging dragon failed to cure his wound, and he was certain that Vivian's friend would not be able to help him as well. "We should keep it as a secret."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I'm sure."
They stood by the railing. Vivian was slightly shorter than Angele. She raised her head and looked at the young man.
"I know that you're hiding something from me. Just let me know when you need help. I'm worried." She rubbed Angele's cheeks.
"I understand." Angele nodded. He could see that Vivian was tired after the war. Also, it seemed like Vivian was worried about the future of this land—Angele could see the confusion in her eyes.
"Don't worry. I'll be with you." He reached to Vivian and grabbed her hands.
"Thanks," Vivian responded, she sounded happy. "It's great that you're thinking about me. Just don't make too much trouble, the chaos is coming…"
"Well, I'm not a kid anymore…" Angele shrugged and an innocent look appeared on his face.
"I'm a rank 3 wizard now."
"Yeah, yeah… You're a rank 3 wizard now…" Vivian chuckled. She turned her head to the side and looked at the snow mountains.
Vivian knew that rank 3 was the highest rank Angele could reach with his talent level. She realized that a long time ago.
Vivian was an elder and she could easily check a rank 3 wizard's life energy force field and see if he could become a rank 4 wizard. She noticed that Angele reached rank 3 when they chatted through the telescope.
The energy particles she released into Angele's body confirmed her thoughts. Vivian knew that Angele did not have the talent to become a rank 4 wizard, but she was surprised by the dark energy in Angele's body. Also, it seemed like that the dark energy could not be removed from Angele's life energy force field.
'It's fine, I'll protect my son.' Vivian looked at Angele and made the decision. 'I'll make sure that he can live a happy life… Also, he still has the chance to reproduce.' A bitter smile appeared on Vivian's face as she thought. She knew that the members of Fenrir Family all had problems with reproduction. Wizards in the Elemental Hand and the Tarry River all heard about the rumors. That was the main reason why Vivian only had one child after all those years.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger. Vivian's long hair was flying in the air and it looked like golden waves.
Angele held Vivian's hands tight.
It had been four years and all the world stone altars were prepared. The realm war would start in 13 days and the Dark Wizard Tower's army was prepared. They were ready to enter the wizard world.
Angele collected a lot of information using the purple ring. Dark Wizard Tower's main targets were the areas with large numbers of wizards.
The strong wizards of the Dark Wizard Tower were about to build 15 chaos holes so the prophets would no longer work. They only needed to wait for the war to start.
No one would know what the outcome of the war would be.
In the Nightmare Realm, Angele spent four years absorbing the negative emotions that were purified by the woman and he successfully created five masked men who could block five fatal strikes for him. That was the reason why Vivian detected the dark energy in his life energy force field.
He also created three of the five emotion beads. The most important bead was the bead of fear. It was the core of the five beads. With the Black Death Ritual, he was getting closer and closer to the refined true form.
His power level was slowly increasing in the wizard world but with the Dark Wizard Tower, Angele could still protect Vivian during the war.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you when the chaos comes." Angele smiled.
Vivian nodded. "I know." She thought Angele was just trying to make her feel better, but she was still happy.
"Ah, right, take this." She suddenly remembered something and handed a small box over to Angele.
Angele grabbed the box and looked at it. It was a box made of green jade the size of a palm. It looked like a box for accessories.
"It's a rare item someone gifted me. I don't need it, so I'll just give it to you." Vivian smiled. "Alright, I'll have some rest. Wake me up when we arrive at the council."
"Sure." Angele nodded and watched Vivian walk to the cabin. He slowly opened the box.
*PA*
The box opened and made some crisp noise.
The box was filled up with brown mud and there was a ball of green grass in the center. It looked like some random grass from the roadside.
It seemed like the grass knew that Angele was looking at it.
The grass ball twisted and started transforming. It looked like a green furry monster.
The grass ball slowly turned into a human-shaped living being that was made of grass. The grass man straightened its back and looked at Angele.
'Wait… This is!' Angele was surprised.
The Origin Grass, it could block a fatal attack for its owner just like the masked men. Also, the Origin Grass could teleport its owner somewhere far from the original location, but that could only be activated once.
It was nearly impossible for a rank 4 wizard to acquire a rare item like this. The chance was the same as a mortal surviving an attack from a soul form.
No one would gift Vivian something like this unless someone was obsessed with her. It was a lie. The owner of the Origin Grass needed to feed it with his own mentality and blood. Vivian probably spent a lot of mentality and blood on it since it was a large Origin Grass.
Origin Grass would only recognize its owner and the related inheritors through the owner's bloodline.
It had to be one of Vivian's final resorts. She wanted to make sure that Angele could survive the incoming chaos and decided to give it to the only one she loved.
Chapter 472: Preparation (1)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Angele inhaled deeply and carefully put the box into the black mirror.
The altitude of the airship had already increased and the lake on the land looked like a palm-sized tofu. There were strange creatures flying over the snow mountains.
A thin layer of pink barrier appeared around the airship, blocking the intense wind.
Angele stood by the railing for a while and decided to walk around.
"Green, do you have time?" A male voice came from the side.
Angele turned around and saw a man with a cold expression on his face.
"Head of the Intelligence Department. Do you want to ask me about Eugene?"
"Yeah." The man nodded. "Don't worry. It's related to Elder Vivian and we'll proceed with caution."
Angele thought for a while and opened his mouth. "Everything started at the air transportation city. I assume you already know that I have a friend from the air transportation city."
"Yes, we do." The man nodded. "You and your friends had a fight with Eugene's young sister and killed her. That's why Eugene is going after you."
"Yeah, that's pretty much the situation." Angele was not concerned, he knew that the Intelligence Department already had the information they needed. The man was just here to confirm the information since the incident was related to the son of an elder.
"Much appreciated," the man replied politely, turned around, and left.
Masha walked to Angele after she saw that the man left.
"Green, the war is over. There'll be a party for the wizards of the central continent at the Ice Lord Mountain of the Northern Ice Plain. Are you interested?"
Angele hesitated. "Who is the host?"
"The new Mirror Lord, a beauty that's quite attractive. Also, she doesn't have a partner yet." Masha smiled. "What do you think? You might have a chance."
"I'll pass. Are there any other events for the elders?" Angele wondered.
"They need to rest. They lost a lot of resources and wizards on the battlefield, they need to refill the energy pool. I think they'll spend years here." Masha shrugged. "Finally, the peaceful life is back. I don't even have time to do research during the war. Ah, the magic mount racing is coming soon. It's held once every five years. Are you interested? You'll be able to see well-trained or modified mounts during the competition. We can catch some special mounts and join the race."
"Sorry, I have something that I need to take care of." Angele declined the offer.
"Fine, I'll find someone else to go with me." Masha shrugged. "Also, I heard the elders brought back a group of slaves. There is a birdman from the Feather Race… The birdman is…"
Masha just would not stop and Angele was listening to her stories patiently.
Minutes later, the large palm-sized headquarter of Elemental Hand appeared on the ground, and the airship started landing.
The elders went to the meeting hall right after the ship landed. The rest of them returned to their position as well.
Vivian spent several minutes talking to Angele. He walked straight to the volcano ruin after finishing the conversation. He was still worried about the Dark Wizard Tower's plan and his progression in the Nightmare Realm.
The war was coming and there were many things that he needed to pay attention to. He was getting more and more anxious every day.
He rubbed the purple ring and information was transferred into his brain.
The Count had successfully activated all the world stone altars and the dimension gate was ready to use.
Angele concluded the information he collected as he walked into the unpopulated forest. Suddenly, a strong and cold mentality wave was transferred to him through the purple ring.
He stopped and stood by a red tree.
"The war is coming. Me, Duke Mystery, will complete the preparation. Count Wheat and Green, please check all the altars again. We need to make sure that everything is done properly. The return of the empire is important. Resources are not the only thing we're going after and I hope you can understand." The deep and slow voice echoed in Angele's ears.
"Third Legion, War Elephant Legion, and Wood Dragon Legion, please go through the dimension gate. Complete the process within three sun hours and start building the base and the energy pool immediately after you arrive at the destination. Don't disappoint the Grand Lich."
The mentality wave disappeared into the air, but his voice was still echoing.
'That's one of the five dukes from the Fairy Empire, Duke Mystery; he's also an important member of the Dark Wizard Tower. His mentality wave is so strong!' Angele's expression turned serious. The man's mentality wave was deep like a sea and extremely cold. For some reason, the Duke reminded him of Spider—Spider was probably stronger, but their power level had to be close.
Angele found an empty area and checked the surroundings. He made sure that he was not followed and disappeared into a ball of flames.
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Angele teleported to the area around Eye Devil's body.
In front of Eye Devil's humongous body, a black building that looked like a pyramid was built on the land, releasing intense black smoke.
On top of the building was a large black ball with a diameter of more than ten meters. Countless blue souls were being absorbed by the black ball which felt like an endless abyss.
Angele appeared in the area in front of the black pyramid, which was guarded by the eyeball knights carefully.
The guards were wearing black armor with red spears in their hands and the eyeballs in their helmets were coated by a dark red glow. They were scanning everything in the area using their mentality waves.
Angele was wearing a black robe. He glanced at the pyramid.
The black pyramid had the similar height as Eye Devil, they were both more than 1000 meters tall. Eye Devil's head was at the same level as the black ball and she was staring at it.
Angele walked to the pyramid and stepped on the black staircase. The eyeball knights on the side all bowed to him.
"You're here." Red light flashed in Eye Devil's helmet and she looked at Angele. "You're way too early. The next gathering is not here yet."
"Well, I have something to ask." Angele's brow furrowed. He teleported in flames and arrived at the top of the pyramid seconds later. He stood by the black ball.
On the platform by the ball, a woman in black was holding a red leather notebook and sitting on the ground with her legs crossed. It seemed like she was thinking of something.
"You're here?" The woman in black noticed Angele's presence and woke up. She quickly stood up.
"I still have questions about the elemental creatures… Could you help me?" she questioned politely.
Angele asked the woman to help him purify the negative emotions and decided to pay her back by teaching her some basics of the wizards. Sadly, the woman could not even understand the things that were taught to the apprentices.
The subjects that all the rank 2 apprentices could understand took the woman couple years just to memorize the basics. If the woman was born in the wizard world, she would be a mortal her whole life.
Strangely, the woman had never mentioned that she wanted to return to her own realm. She just studied all the things that Angele taught her.
"How's my Black Death Ritual?" Angele questioned in a low voice.
"It's going well, but I need couple more months." The woman shook her head.
Angele narrowed his eyes and stopped asking. He turned around and looked at Eye Devil.
Eye Devil was still sealed by four blue chains.
"Where are Bone and Spider now?"
"Spider is in the Void Realm and she's killing everything she sees. Also, it seems like she found something interesting and she'll probably stay there for a while. Bone and Vapor finished off Burning Realm. They decided to meet Sun God in the Abyss Realm," Eye Devil responded.
"They conquered three realms in four years? That's fast." Angele smiled. "However, it'll be great if they could proceed faster. I'm still recovering but there's something that can speed up my progress."
"Huh? What do you need?" Eye Devil was interested.
Angele took out a palm-sized metal box from the black mirror. Translucent energy runes were floating around the metal box. The glowing white runes were rotating around the box. It seemed like the runes were guarding the box.
"The ritual power of the Destruction Eye? What are you trying to protect with such a strong power?" Eye Devil recognized the runes and she was even more interested.
Angele smiled and did not say anything.
He moved his hand through the runes and opened the box. Inside was a smaller black box.
He opened the black box and there was a slim test tube in the sand that filled up the box.
Blue and red liquid was flowing in the test tube. Strangely, the two colorful solutions did not merge with each other. They twisted around like two snakes.
Angele carefully took the test tube out of the black box.
"This is the seed I created using the special creatures from different realms.
"That's it? What will it do?" Eye Devil checked the test tube carefully but did not detect any strong energy or mentality waves. Besides the strong life energy inside the test tube, there was nothing noticeable.
Chapter 473: Preparation (2)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Angele smiled. "This is just a seed. You need to plant the seed and nourish it before you can get the result."
"Well, show me the result, then." Eye Devil was getting impatient.
Angele shook his head. "You only need to ask someone to take the test tube to a realm that is full of life energy, like the Sea Realm. Pour just one drop of the liquid on the ground and everything will be good to go."
"That's it?" Eye Devil remembered something. "Don't tell me it's…"
"Yeah, it's a plague." Angele returned the test tube to the box and handed it over to an eyeball knight carefully.
"Plague will be affected by many things, for example the energy, the magnetic field, the force field, and the air. I don't think your seed will be able to handle all challenges," Eye Devil responded.
"No worries. It's fine if I fail. It's just a test anyway." Angele had no interest in the slaughters that were happening in other realms. He struggled when he made the decision. However, it would take too long for him to create the refined true form if he could not collect a large number of souls in a short period of time.
"Alright, how's the progression? You're searching for other realms, right?" Angele questioned in a calm tone.
"We've confirmed the coordinates of the Mist Realm. It'll take us some time to confirm those of Tree Realm and the wizard world. It's easier to get the coordinates of the wizard world this time. It seems like the Nightmare Realm is connected to the wizard world by a dimension fissure, but we can't find it," Eye Devil responded.
"I hope things are going well," Angele replied.
"Yeah, but the Tree Realm and the wizard world are not good targets. The creatures there are relatively strong. We will take care of those two realms after we get most of the resources in the closer realms. We'll have to work with the northland for these two worlds," Eye Devil spoke in a deep tone.
"Are those realms strong?" Angele was a bit surprised.
"Yeah, I know about them too." The woman joined the conversation after hearing their words. "A strong being of the wizard world was summoned to the Soul River Realm years ago and defeated one of the lords from the Nightmare Realm. The wizard world and the Soul River Realm were just slightly weaker than the Nightmare Realm."
"You know a lot, not bad for a young one." Eye Devil chuckled. "We had a war against the wizard world. The strong wizards were not bad at all. I heard that the Tree Realm was once a realm beast from the Chaos Realm, but that was millions of years ago. We're not sure if the realm beast is still alive, but the creatures in the Tree Realm are strong."
"Also, the Chaos Realm might not be the strongest realm since there are so many realms. It's endless. Realms are being eliminated and created all the time. It's just a circle of life."
Angele was a bit surprised that Eye Devil had a lot of interesting knowledge.
"Alright, I'll pay Bone a visit. This is the food I brought you." He took out a black case from the mirror and handed it over to the woman in black. He said goodbye to Eye Devil and walked down the stairs.
He cast the Elemental Teleportation several times and returned to the area in front of the Pyramid. He suddenly heard something soaring in the sky before he could contact Bone.
Angele looked at the sky—three blue stars dropped from the dark-red sky and landed on the pyramid, turning into three living beings and starting a conversation with Eye Devil.
'Are they from the abyss?" Angele recognized them quickly. Eye Devil communicated with different people a lot recently and tried everything she could to speed up the progress. Angele assumed that Eye Devil was still hiding the most important coordinates from others. She was also communicating with the abyss and the storm. Angele was not concerned, he also needed the souls.
Angele lowered his head and rubbed the surface of the green skull.
"Bone, are you there?"
"Yeah, why?" Bone's voice came from the skull. "I'm having fun here. Do you want to join us?"
"Can you speed up the progress?" Angele questioned in a low voice.
"I'm afraid not. Vapor is crazy, he's killing everything he sees and I don't even know where he is right now. Also, it'll take a while until my whole army travels through the dimension vortex."
"I have something that might help you speed up the progress," Angele responded in a calm tone.
"Huh? Did you find something valuable from all the bones you took from me?" Bone was interested.
"You're right," Angele confirmed. He went to the Bone Sea and collected the bones of many strong beings. He extracted what he needed and combined all the invasive bloodlines with strong life force together. He then altered the result using the power of the Nightmare Realm and turned the substance into a terrifying germ that was out of his control. He only needed to spread the germ to the realms that were connected to the Nightmare Realm.
"I'll send my servants to you."
"It's fine. I'll go there by myself." Angele made up his mind.
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Five hours later…
In the sky of Nightmare Realm, the red clouds turned into a vortex above the plain. The vortex rotated and expanded to the far side.
Inside the vortex was a dark tunnel surrounded by dark clouds.
Angele was flying to the red vortex at full speed.
The clouds around the vortex were all rotating slowly. Angele felt like he was traveling in a tornado and the only thing he could see were the boiling clouds.
The red clouds turned dark as he advanced. It felt like that the terrifying clouds could devour Angele if he was not careful.
Air was sucked out of the tunnel created by the clouds and Angele could not breathe. He had to hold his breath so the gas inside his body would not be sucked out.
It was uncomfortable and quiet. Angele was squeezed into a narrow space.
Angele had a lot of strange feelings after entering the vortex.
He traveled a long time in the tunnel and finally saw a green dot in the front.
*CHI*
Angele turned into a ray of red light and rushed to the green dot.
His sight was brightened up. A green world appeared in front of Angele's eyes.
The sky and the land were green. Intense green mist permeated the air and the green light that came from nowhere was the only source of light.
Angele raised his head and looked at the sky. There was no sun, no clouds, and everything was green.
He floated in the air and looked down.
There was a vibrant and quiet forest on the ground. The trees covered the whole land and the forest was endless.
However, he could not find any living beings.
Angele glanced around, he did not see Bone and Vapor.
He took out the green skull again.
"Where are you now?"
"The Abyss Realm. This place has changed since the last time I was here. Also, Vapor said that he just found a new dimension vortex that came from nowhere. We decided to check it out. You just traveled through the tunnel, right? There's no living being there. We already set up a dimension vortex at a different location."
"Alright, I'll leave after I finish my business. Don't worry about it." Angele's brow furrowed and he put the green skull back in the mirror.
He took out a white box from the black mirror that looked identical to the one he showed to Eye Devil. Angele opened the box and opened the black box inside.
He carefully took out the test tube and broke it.
*Crack*
Broken pieces of glass dropped down and the liquid in the test tube vaporized as it contacted the air. The red and blue steam merged into the air quickly.
Angele quickly moved away from the steam—it seemed like he did not want to contact it. He dropped the broken test tube to the ground after all the liquid vaporized. He quickly turned around and flew into the vortex.
Something changed after Angele disappeared into the vortex.
The trees on the ground twisted and stood up from the mud like they were living beings.
*ROAR*
The tallest tree roared like a lion, its body surrounded by green flames.
The other trees were also surrounded by green flames and the forest turned into a sea of blazing green.
The germs were blown to the enormous trees, they landed on the trees and merged into their bodies without making any noise.
The trees suddenly calmed down and it was like nothing happened.
Seconds later.
*BOOM*
A tall tree exploded and countless insects flew out of the tree trunk, moving to other trees around.
The other trees started exploding as well; black insects also spurted out of the tree trunks.
The insects were long and slim. They looked like maggots with wings.
*BAM*
Green flames appeared around the tallest tree again and the tree struck the black insects with its palm.
"Nunuhanliya!" the tree shouted in some strange language. It sounded like the tree was scared and it kept hitting the other trees.
Piles of dead insects dropped from the holes created by the tree.
More and more germs were generated as the trees exploded. The black insects were everywhere and they were destroying everything they contacted.
Minutes later, the black insects were like a drop of ink on a green carpet. The ink was expanding like crazy and the green area started turning dark at full speed.