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Chapter 530: The Past (1)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Angele was her son and so decided not to think too much about Vivian's virginity.
He recreated his body by the entrance of the stone pillar. Angele rearranged his long robe and slowly walked down the spiral staircase.
The entrance to the basement of the stone pillar was by the end of the staircase. Turin and Becky walked down the staircase as well.
"How's the situation?"
"The man is a son of Prince Evil Dragon, his arms and legs were cut off. The man's eyes, nose, and tongue were all removed. He's still alive because he's a wizard," Turin responded. "How should we handle him?"
Angele hesitated, he was surprised by what he just heard.
"Prince Evil Dragon is really treating me seriously… He did me a great favor…" Angele reached the end of the staircase before he finished these words. There was a black wooden door in front of him.
The basement was dark, the only source of light was from the burning torches on the walls.
There was a large glass bottle in the basement. Inside the glass bottle, there was a man without limbs. The bottle was almost filled up with water and the man could barely breathe as only his head was above the water.
Also, there were several armored women in the corner of the basement; they looked weak and helpless.
Angele loosened his collar and stepped into the room. He stopped by the glass bottle and observed the man inside carefully.
The man barely had any hair left on his body. He looked like a snowman without limbs due to his pale skin. The man displayed no reaction as Angele approached him, he was just breathing.
"He's the one you were looking for, Valla. He lied to Elder Vivian and earned her trust with a fake message," Turin explained.
Angele's eyes were slightly red and he stared at Valla for a while.
"Prince Evil Dragon already punished the man for me. I don't think there's a point for me to kill him," he spoke in a light tone. Angele shook his head slightly and walked to the corner.
"They helped Valla to capture Vivian," Turin quickly introduced. "Prince said that you can do whatever you want to them."
Angele remained silent.
*CHI*
His long red hair grew and stabbed into their foreheads accurately. Only one of them was left alive.
Their eyes widened after their foreheads were pierced and looked soulless.
*CHI*
Their souls were pulled out of their bodies by the hair, which absorbed the souls quickly.
Angele finished them off and glanced at the man in the glass bottle. "You, eat this thing in the glass bottle."
He looked at the last survivor, it was a girl in a white dress.
It seemed like the girl was so scared that she could barely think straight. The woman looked at Angele and looked at the man in the glass bottle.
"Will you let me live?" she asked in a hoarse and shaky tone.
"Well, if you can finish it all…" A cruel smile appeared on Angele's face. He pointed at the glass bottle and a ray of green light illuminated the man. "Go now, you won't be able to leave the basement before you finish all of him."
The girl looked at the man in the glass bottle with a pair of soulless eyes. The basement remained silent after Angele finished his words.
Turin and Becky scrunched their brows, however, they decided not to say anything regarding Angele's order.
The girl hesitated for a while, stood up, and slowly walked to the glass bottle.
Angele was still smiling. He pointed at the girl and released some black smoke into the girl's ears.
"I gave you sharp nails and teeth, don't waste anything." He turned around and stepped out of the basement.
Turin and Becky followed after him, the last thing they heard was the girl chewing the man like crazy. It almost sounded like a beast having its dinner.
They suddenly heard a loud noise coming from the basement when they arrived at the exit of the stone pillar. It sounded like something exploded.
"Becky, send someone to clean the basement and see if anyone is still alive." Angele stopped and said, "Turin, I'll be leaving the central continent so the war won't bother me anymore. What's your next plan?"
Turin heard the question, but he waited for Becky to leave before answering. He thought for a while and responded, "I'm no longer a wanted criminal due to the war. I wanted to live a peaceful life and that's why I followed you. I'll leave the area with you."
"I want you to stay with Vivian, will that be fine?" Angele suddenly asked.
Turin hesitated and responded, "I'm sorry, leader. I'm afraid that I can't join the Elemental Hand due to my past…"
Angele knew what Turin was implying and nodded his head. Turin killed his relatives and teacher by accident, so he did not want to join another organization. The incident almost made him mentally ill. Although Turin was better when compared to Victoria, he was still a crazy man that was being impacted by negative emotions all the time.
"You don't have to join the Elemental Hand, just stay with Vivian and protect her."
"I can do that, but there's something I have to take care of before leaving the central continent. Is that fine?" Turin replied.
"I'll give you a month," Angele agreed. "Let me know if you need help."
"Thank you, leader." Turin stepped back, turned around, and left the stone pillar. He walked to the plain and quickly disappeared into the grass.
Angele tightened his robe and stepped out of the stone pillar as well.
It was quiet outside and there were barely any people around. He could still hear gentle music played by a harp. It almost sounded like a woman crying.
Becky walked out of a stone pillar on the left with several maids and moved to Angele. The maids entered the stone pillar and quickly walked down the stairs.
"What are going to do to me? Just tell me," Becky spoke in a low voice. "I can't return to the Dark Wizard Tower and the alliance will torture me for intel. I can only follow you or find a remote area to live."
"For real? Find a remote area?" Angele mocked at her as he saw several white robes walking out of a stone pillar. The wizards were saying goodbye to each other, they hugged and started whispering.
Angele had mixed emotions after seeing the familiar scene. For some reason, he wanted to sigh deeply and could barely hear what Becky was saying.
He thought of his father and the moment he left the school. Angele felt a bit sad and lonely as he recalled the days he had on the hot balloon.
Becky was still waiting for Angele for an answer. The armored woman had long black hair and a cold expression on the face. The woman was attractive and behaved like a noble woman. If she did not talk, people would consider her as one of the most beautiful women they had ever seen. Becky was strong and confident, she looked like a female knight that was good at swordplay.
Becky was also a unique female wizard; she was different.
The tight white armor revealed Becky's balanced body.
"I just realized that you're an attractive woman." Angele smiled. "You're lucky that I'm not a wizard who behaves like a thirsty beast. Think about it, you should be grateful."
"I'd rather be captured by a thirsty beast," Becky responded in a cold tone. "Just tell me. When will you let me go? I don't want to stay around you anymore!"
"Take off your concept gear and give it to you. I'll let you go," Angele quickly replied.
"It's impossible. Concept gear is not a shirt. You can't just put it on or take it off whenever you want to. The concept gear will disappear and you won't be able to get it even if you kill me," Becky mocked.
Angele remained silent, but the smile was still on his face.
One of the two white robes flew toward the plain and disappeared by the horizon quickly.
"How old are you, Becky?" he suddenly asked.
"Don't you know that it's impolite to ask a lady's age?"
"Got it, 131 years old, right? You're young…" Angele checked Becky's memory using his mentality wave.
"Not again… Why do you have to do this?!" Becky's face turned red.
"Alright, let me see how long you can live under normal circumstances…" Blue light dots flashed in front of Angele's eyes.
He quickly scanned by Becky's body.
"You body is energetic and healthy after I removed the restriction. You can live for around 500 years more… Alright, go ahead and do whatever you want. I have some things to take care of."
Angele finished the word and walked to the center of the stone pillar forest, he was not concerned that Becky was enraged.
"Bastard!" Becky shouted.
The tallest stone pillar was sitting in the center of the stone pillar forest, its height double a normal stone pillar's; it was quite eye-catching.
Angele checked Becky's life expectancy.
A normal rank 4 wizard could live up to 800 years; even the injured ones could live for around 500 years. Angele was not sure about the life expectancy of wizards at higher ranks, however, he knew how long he could live, and he had the same power level of a rank 8 wizard.
The weakest rank 8 creatures could live for around one hundred thousand years and stronger rank 8 creatures could live for around six hundred thousand years or even one million years.
The only way to increase one's life expectancy was to increase one's power level. The special techniques used by wizard families could only increase one's life expectancy by around 30 to 40 years, however, his body would rot if he could not strengthen his soul.
Angele was worrying about Vivian. She had already lived for a couple hundred years and Angele was not sure when she would pass away.
Chapter 531: The Past (2)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Angele calmed down and stood in front of the tallest stone pillar.
There was no entrance on the smooth surface of the pillar, but there was a shell-shaped balcony above. A golden man was standing on the balcony, looking at Angele.
"I was expecting you." The man smiled.
"I apologize, I'm late." Angele smiled as well.
With a flick of his finger, Angele floated in the air and flew to the balcony.
The golden man moved aside. Angele landed on the balcony and stood beside the man.
The man put his hands on the railing of the balcony and questioned in a light tone, "Are you happy with my punishment?"
"I don't understand why you treat me so well. This has always been my question. You've offered me a lot of help from the beginning." Angele leaned against the railing and spoke in a calm tone, "You offered me a team and helped the members of the Elemental Hand. Prince Evil Dragon, you have to explain everything to me or I just can't trust you."
"Don't worry. I'm just following the guidance of the guardian and I'm on your side. Also, I know you're wondering about my background. I'll explain everything to you now." Prince Evil Dragon smiled. "Have you heard of Terror Dragon?"
A golden bubble surrounded the two as the conversation continued; a glowing silver crescent moon appeared in the center of the bubble and blocked all the energy movement.
"Yeah, I have."
Angele was not concerned, he was just waiting for Prince Evil Dragon to continue quietly.
"I'm the last inheritor of Terror Dragon…" Prince Evil Dragon went straight to the point.
"I've already shown you my true body. It's a bird in a gold birdcage."
"That's your true body?" Angele was a bit surprised. "I thought that was a shadow of you."
"You're talking to the shadow now." Prince Evil Dragon started searching through his memory. "When the wizard world was the strongest realm around, our power affected numerous realms. Some Dragon Wizards were trying to invade the strongest realm we knew, the Chaos Realm. Terror Dragons also decided to help."
He started explaining the things happened in the ancient times.
"Elemental Wizards and Dragon Wizards were two of the four strongest sections. Terror Dragons were part of Dragon Wizards. Our ancestors were strong but they ended up paying for their arrogance." Prince Evil Dragon lowered his voice.
"They opened the portal to the Chaos Realm. The sky collapsed, the land was broken into pieces, and the stars fell. The sun and the moon were also destroyed. The Light Ancestor from the Chaos Realm stopped us from creating any light, so the darkness came. The wizard world was not the only realm that was impacted, the realms that were close to the wizard world all suffered."
A terrified and painful look appeared on Prince Evil Dragon's face.
"Three years, only three years. The strong beings of this world starved to death, some of them were rank 7 or rank 8 wizards but they died of starvation and lack of life energy… A few of the wizards used the last of their power and opened portals to other realms. No one knows if they died or survived…" Prince Evil Dragon was so emotional that he stopped talking.
Angele waited for a while and decided to ask, "What happened after that?"
"My grandfather and most Terror Dragons died during the dark era. The darkness was invading the souls of the living beings and no creature could survive without enough life energy. After that…" Prince Evil Dragon stopped for a second and continued, "After that, the human wizards gathered other remaining wizards, they burned their souls and sacrificed their lives. The Eternal Light of Dawn was created and stopped Light Ancestor from controlling the light."
It felt like the light returned to Prince Evil Dragon's eyes. "It was the ending of a great era and the Eternal Light of Dawn marked the start of a new era. Living beings had access to light again and my father was one of the wizards who sacrificed themselves!"
Prince Evil Dragon was breathing heavily, it sounded like he was proud and excited.
"After the war, everything returned to peace. The portal was closed but the wizards took a huge loss and many inheritors were eliminated."
Angele's brow furrowed, the things Prince Evil Dragon said were different from what he'd read.
"I heard that the ancient wizards had techniques to communicate with other realms. There were so many strong realms but no one could win the fight against Light Ancestor?"
"You're not wrong. Some wizards reached to other strong beings from different realms and some of them had the power to handle Light Ancestor; however, those strong beings were too far from the wizard world and the wizards did not have enough energy to summon them. I didn't expect you to know that." Prince Evil Dragon slowly calmed down. "It was our own fault. We should've never opened the portal to Chaos Realm." There was a bitter smile on his face.
"After the dark era, the remaining wizards named the Eternal Light of Dawn as Eternal Light. The light was kept in the deepest place of the wizard world. The weakest wizards who participated in that war were named as Wizards of Dawn. They wanted to honor the wizards who sacrificed their lives during the war. Wizards of Dawn are just rank 4 wizards now."
"What does it have to do with you and me?"
"The guardians… They're the ones who protect Eternal Light. Eternal Light is the Eternal Light of Dawn and has the power to predict the future. The energy fairies that spawned around the light are guardians who protect the light, they're history. They witnessed everything."
Prince Evil Dragon explained, "I'm the last living Terror Dragon and the guardians informed me before I met you. They told me that you were related to the Terror Dragons and you're one of the most important people during the chaos era."
"That's why you signed the chaos contract with me?" Angele questioned in a low voice.
"It's not that simple." Prince Evil Dragon chuckled. "Many things happened. I've approached you many times before I made the decision."
"Huh?" Angele was a bit surprised. "When did that happen?"
"Remember the girl that talked to you on the balcony during Count Wheat's dinner party? I was in her soul." Prince Evil Dragon smiled. "I observed you carefully every time you met her or talked to her."
"Interesting, so that was why I paid so much attention to a mortal." Angele smiled as well. "You were the reason."
"There are other reasons I can't tell you, but I chose to sign the contract with you in the end." Prince Evil Dragon looked at Angele. "The guardians told me that I should never become your enemy and I should offer you as much help as I can."
"Why you trust the guardians so much…?" Angele shook his head. "The dark era… I wish I could witness that…"
Also, Angele was surprised that the guardians knew the old dragon gave him the dragon sigil.
"Anyway, you probably made the right decision. You led me to the old dragon, were you already planning everything when you did that?"
"That master… he refused to see me…" It seemed like Prince Evil Dragon had some problems with the old eye-gouging dragon.
Although Angele knew that Prince Evil Dragon was still hiding something from him, he decided not to participate in the incident anymore. The old dragon probably wanted Angele to find the inheritor of Terror Dragon for him.
"If that's the case…"
Angele raised his right arm and rolled his sleeves up.
He then rubbed his skin.
*CHI CHI*
Some dried branches slowly appeared on his skin. The dried branches looked like tree roots, they were growing like crazy.
The dried branches lined up and twisted as they grew. Several seconds later, the tree branches turned into a head-sized wooden ball.
Angele's eyes turned white as the red pupils disappeared. He turned to Prince Evil Dragon and looked at him calmly.
"This is the dragon sigil from the ancient dragon… Prince Evil Dragon, are you ready to accept it?" His voice was hoarse and deep, it sounded like there was a lot of old men talking.
Prince Evil Dragon felt the energy waves as he saw the dried branches. He understood what was happening. He kneeled as he heard Angele's question and an honest expression appeared on his face.
"Yes, I'm ready. For ancestors!" he responded.
Angele raised his hand and tapped on the wooden ball.
Rays of white light were released from the ball. The white rays floated in the air and charged to Prince Evil Dragon.
The white rays looked like translucent mists that were moving into Prince Evil Dragon's eyes and ears.
The shadow of an enormous white dragon appeared around the two and surrounded them. The dragon had more than ten pairs of wings and was much taller than the stone pillar. The energy waves the shadow released were calm and gentle.
"Go now…"
Angele threw the wooden ball into the air.
Intense white light rushed out of the wooden ball and the sky was suddenly blocked by a huge vortex surrounded by dark clouds. A white ray appeared in the center of the vortex and shined upon Prince Evil Dragon's body.
Angele gave Prince Evil Dragon one final glance, turned around, and disappeared into a ball of flames.
Chapter 532: Settle (1)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Angele reappeared at an empty ground not far away; he could still see Prince Evil Dragon in the white ray. He put on the hood and lowered his hand, rubbing the communication rune slightly.
"Vivian, I'll be out for a couple days. I'll be right back. Don't worry, I'm not going to any dangerous areas." He left Vivian a message.
Angele lowered his hand when the red scorpion-shaped rune glowed.
The wizards in the stone pillars or houses heard the noise and stepped out of the buildings. They all looked at Prince Evil Dragon with surprise in their eyes.
The wizards left the buildings and all moved closer to the balcony.
"The dragon sigil…" an old female wizard with messy white hair said. "I thought I would never be able to witness something like this in my whole life…" There was a cane in her hands.
"That must be Prince Evil Dragon," someone said.
Angele lowered his head and left the crowd.
"Vivian is safe now and I should proceed with my plan…"
He walked to the plain at full speed and disappeared by the end of the horizon quickly.
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Rayton Highland.
In the dark red sky, there was red mist coming out of the black fissure which quickly permeated the sky.
The sun disappeared, there was no moon or star. It almost looked like the sky was painted in blood.
The red snow was falling down slowly, all the areas on the land were covered with the red snow.
The whole Rayton Highland was surrounded by a ball of red mist; the highland was completely closed. It almost looked like a volcano surrounded by small hills.
There were wooden outpost towers around the large mist ball occupied by archers in red leather armor. They were all looking at the enormous red mist ball.
On the south of the highland, there was a deep fissure that was close to the mist ball, releasing white fog. A seven-meter-tall green outpost tower was standing in the forest quietly on the other side of the fissure.
A man in red leather armor was writing something down on a piece of wood while sitting on top of the outpost tower.
*Rumble*
The sky was covered with dark clouds as thunder was rumbling. The chilling wind was blowing over the trees of the forest.
The scout on top of the tower tightened his leather armor and stopped writing. He sipped some wine from the water pouch and his cheeks turned red.
He looked like the wooden piece.
The words he wrote on it had already disappeared and were replaced by someone else's handwriting.
'Sun Hour, 7. Nothing is detected by 20143 outpost tower.'
'By the way, I hunted a black antelope, should we braise it or roast it?' Another sentence appeared on the wood piece.
The man picked up the pen and responded, 'Do whatever you want. I'm not interested in meat.'
*CHI*
Suddenly, he heard some noise from the forest.
He stopped writing and checked the surroundings with his brow furrowed, but he did not find anything.
"Jim, what are you looking for?" A crisp female voice came from behind.
"Master Hikari? Nothing, I thought I heard some movement," the man named Jim responded. "You're fast, I thought it would take you a while to get the water."
A young woman was climbing up the ladder. She had a balanced body and was also wearing the red armor. The woman was wearing a black ponytail and it seemed like she was hiding something under her right armor piece.
The woman was gentle. She was wearing a gray belt with black test tubes attached to it. It seemed like the test tubes were filled up with different potions.
The tower was spacious, it could easily fit five to six people. Hikari climbed up the outpost tower and stood by the railing, overlooking the red mist ball on the other side of the fissure.
She could barely see the whole mist ball from the tower and it felt like her sight was blocked by a tall red wall.
The thick red mist was quite depressing.
"Jim, where are Khafra and Jesse? When will they come back?" Hikari wondered.
Jim hesitated for a second and responded, "They said that they were going to collect some materials and won't be back until afternoon."
Hikari's brow furrowed. "We're at the frontline and we shouldn't leave the outpost tower for so long…" She did not finish, but Jim knew what she was trying to imply.
"Have we cleared the area?"
"Pretty much." Jim nodded. "Only the underground creatures are still alive."
Hikari nodded, she started climbing down the wooden ladder. She took out a black test tube using her right hand and poured some red powder on the ladder.
The red powder disappeared as it contacted the wooden ladder, however, the powder was still visible and looked like tiny red dots.
Hikari narrowed her eyes and quickly put the test tube back. Her expression turned calm again.
She left the outpost tower and entered the forest. Hikari quickly hid in a bush and activated a stealth technique. She was barely releasing any energy wave and her skin turned green.
Hikari stayed in the bush for a while and saw two wizards in red armor stepping out of the forest, one male and one female. The two wizards had serious expressions on the faces.
"Hikari is also assigned to this area. I'm sure she's here for those things as well!" the female one spoke. "We put a lot of effort into this and were finally assigned to the front line so that we can collect the materials and magic devices that were left in the mist area. The mist area is not as dangerous as before; it's a perfect time to execute our plan. I hope she won't interrupt us."
"Don't worry, I think that woman also wanted to collect resources in the red mist. I have a plan." A gentle smile appeared on the male wizard's face. "You never liked Hikari, right? We can set up an ambush when she enters the red mist. We can just take everything she collected from her."
"That's a simple but effective plan." The female wizard nodded and agreed. "This is the frontline, it's normal for wizards to die. We are from the same organization, but I always hated her."
"Hikari is a strong wizard, to make sure that everything will go as we planned, I'll use this!" The male wizard took out a half of a black ball from his pouch.
"Huh… Half a Thunder Ball… You're really going hard on her," the female wizard said in praise. She gritted her teeth and took out a silver-blue dagger from her pouch. "I spent two years on this Six Sound Dagger. With your Thunder Ball, we'll be able to stop the woman from activating her ability!"
The woman rubbed the blade of the dagger and looked a bit sad.
"I almost had a fight with a wizard in my team; if my brother didn't help me, I would already be dead."
The two wizards showed their strongest items and started discussing the details of the plan.
Hikari hid in the bush and listened to the two wizards' conversation. If Hikari had not had a keen sense, she would have been in trouble when she was ambushed.
The red powder she poured on the ladder could simulate her mentality wave, so the wizards thought that Hikari was still at the tower.
'It's great that I found out the truth… I need to go back to the tower so that they won't get suspicious.' Hikari started moving away from the wizards slowly.
She left the bush and it almost felt like that she was just a piece of rock on the road as she slowly moved back.
*PA*
Suddenly, she stepped on a piece of small stone and made some light noise.
"Who's there?!"
The two wizards heard the noise and looked at Hikari.
Cold sweat appeared on Hikari's forehead as she stopped moving immediately. If she was detected by the two wizards, she would not be able to make it out alive. The two wizards had similar power level as Hikari and it was nearly impossible for her to win the fight against both at the same time.
The atmosphere got heavy.
The two wizards glanced at the area and the female one said, "Maybe it's just squirrels or something, don't worry."
"Yeah, I heard they were still clearing the area." The male wizard nodded.
"Alright, let's follow our plan. Make sure you don't alert Hikari," he said in a light tone.
"No problem."
Hikari felt relieved and started moving again.
"Hikari?" Suddenly, a voice came from behind. "What are you doing here?" It was a familiar male voice.
Hikari stopped moving again.
The two wizards in the forest were surprised. They quickly turned around and put their hands into their pouches.
Hikari looked speechless, she stood up, turned her head around, and saw a man in a black robe.
"I followed your communication rune here. I didn't know you were at the frontline. It has been a while." The man took off his hood and revealed his pale face.
He then glanced at the two wizards. "What're you doing here? Are you playing hide-and-seek?"
"Kill her!" the female wizard shouted and released some green mist. The mist was moving to Hikari and Angele quickly. With the help of the mist, she quickly pulled the dagger out and threw it at Hikari.
The male wizard released the black ball. Six shockwaves were released by the black ball; each had a different color. The noise sounded like it was made by six different musical instruments.
Strangely, with the help of the noise, the dagger from the female wizard started glowing. The light was getting more and more intense every second. The dagger quickly rotated in the air and flew at Hikari like lightning. Hikari quickly summoned an Earth Elemental.
It felt like that the air in the whole forest was pulled to the dagger and the scene around the dagger started twisting. It looked like that the area was surrounded by waves of water.
A strong pressure was applied on Hikari's body and she could barely move.
The Earth Elemental Hikari just summoned broke into pieces and collapsed. The Earth Elemental could not even handle the pressure of the energy waves.
Hikari looked at the dagger and her eyes were filled with desperation.
"It's great that you're still alive. We haven't talked in years… but I still remember the days we spent on the airship… Time really flies…"
The dagger was stopped by a large hand several meters away from Hikari.
Angele grabbed the dagger and continued to talk with Hikari. It seemed like the man was searching through his memories.
"Green…" Hikari's pupils retracted, she felt surprised and jealous. The young wizard stopped the attack, which would be fatal to her, like a toy.
Hikari spent days trying to figure out what Khafra and Jesse were planning but she noticed that everything would be unnecessary if she had enough power.
Angele was slightly stronger than Hikari when they first met, but he was at a different level now. Hikari felt jealous, speechless, and a bit depressed deep in her mind.
Angele was not concerned, he kept talking. "The war was ridiculous. I knew you would fight for this world. I'll leave the central continent soon and I don't know when we will meet next time."
He looked at the two wizards calmly; it seemed like they were surprised by Angele's power.
"Are they your enemies? Do you want me to take them out for you?"
Hikari was still recovering from her shock. Angele thought that Hikari wanted him to help since she just remained silent.
Red light was released from his eyes; it felt like the light was infused with twisted power. It landed on the two wizards quickly.
*BAM BAM*
It sounded like exploding watermelons.
The heads of the two wizards completely disappeared. They exploded, blood mixed with broken pieces of fleshes and splashed everywhere.
*PA PA*
The two headless dead bodies kneeled on the ground, the enchanted items on their fingers also broke into pieces as the light faded away.
Hikari's throat was dry and she could barely talk. She watched Angele kill two wizards like stepping on two ants.
A strange feeling was taking over her mind. She was terrified by the man that was standing behind her. She felt like that the man could easily kill her like he'd killed the two wizards. The man was at a completely different level.
It was the pure fear of an unknown being. Hikari felt like that she could be killed by the fear just by standing beside the man.
"Green…" she shouted out the name but she was not sure what else she should say.
Angele's brow furrowed as he looked at Hikari. He realized that what he just did shocked her. Hikari was terrified by the power level difference—no one wanted to stay with someone that could eliminate them in the blink of an eye.
He was trying to weaken his mentality wave and energy waves. If the mentality wave touched Hikari by accident, Hikari might be killed just like the two wizards.
Chapter 533: Settle (2)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
Hikari took a deep breath and questioned in a light tone, "Did you just say that… you were going to leave the central continent?"
She was trying her best to calm down.
"Yeah. I'm leaving soon." Angele nodded. "I had trouble locating you guys during the war. I didn't expect to actually meet you here. I just found the energy waves released by your communication rune."
"Are you going for the resources and magic devices in the red mist as well?" Hikari wondered.
Angele was a bit surprised, he looked at Hikari and realized that the woman had not improved a lot since they last met.
The broken magic devices and random resources in the red mist area did not catch his attention. It would be a great waste of time if he had to pick those things up from the ground, however, for Hikari, they were treasures.
"Yeah… I'm trying to see if there's a magic device that I can use." He decided to change the way he talked to Hikari since he wanted Hikari to think that they were just friends. Angele wanted to show his respect, so he would not offer Hikari anything if she did not ask.
It seemed like Hikari advanced to rank 3 not so long ago and her mentality wave was relatively unstable. Angele knew that if he revealed his true power, Hikari would never look at him the same way she used to.
Angele stared the woman in the eyes and he felt a bit speechless.
'Maybe… it has already changed…'
Angele noticed the fear and respect in Hikari's eyes; it was obvious.
"If you do find something, I have rare herbs here that you might be interested in, like rune grasses, crystal bananas, and other rare herbs… You're much stronger than before but we're both potion masters and you might need them. Can you trade with me first after you leave the mist?" Hikari spoke in a shaky tone.
"Of course." Angele smiled. He would not tell Hikari that he had tons of rare herbs like rune grasses or crystal bananas. He had plenty stored in the mirror and could use them for years.
They stopped talking about resources. They stood next to each other and told each other their recent findings. Angele decided to leave about one hour later.
"I'm heading to the mist now. I'll meet you later."
"Sure, take care."
Angele turned around and stepped out of the forest, heading to the red mist on the other side but he could still feel that Hikari was staring at him.
A real friend should be someone that treated you like you treated him. Angele did not mind if Hikari wanted something from him, however, he did not want to make Hikari feel bad for the difference of their power level.
Wizards all had their own pride. It could be disrespectful if you decided to offer help before your friend asked for help. One might want to fight his way to the top instead of asking for help or taking advantage of the friends he had.
Angele left the forest. He looked at the tall mist wall and started thinking.
Without any hesitation, he jumped off the cliff. A blue staircase appeared under his feet and led him straight to the other side of the fissure.
He walked to the other side of the fissure using the staircase. Some red mist moved to his body and covered the energy waves he was releasing.
Angele did not stop, he walked into the red mist and quickly disappeared.
The sky was dark-red; he could see a mouth-shaped crack floating in the sky. The land was also dark-red; that was the only color here.
It felt like the world behind the red mist was painted in blood. The red snowflakes were falling down the sky and leaning to the left in the wind.
The place was deadly silent, there was no creature making any noise.
*KA*
Angele stepped forward and left a hole on the ground. It felt like that he stepped on something hard.
*PA*
He removed the snow and finally saw what was under his feet.
It was the upper body of a male corpse. It seemed like a beast bit part of his body off; blood and broken pieces of bones were frozen under the snow.
Angele's brow furrowed, he glanced around but did not find any moving things.
He jumped up and floated in the sky. He decided to fly to the center of Rayton Highland.
*WOO*
Strong wind was blowing over his face; the forest below him was mostly burnt black. There were no dead bodies in Angele's sight—he wondered if all the bodies were buried under the snow.
Angele took out a white skull as he flew and tapped on it lightly.
Green flames appeared in the eyes of the skull.
Bone's voice came from the skull. "Phoenix, you're back? We kept our promises, so the five legions that entered this world are now sleeping under the snow."
"Those are your legions and I don't really care how you manage them. There's one thing I still need to mention, don't kill the residents of the wizard world unless they attack you first when you're raiding," Angele responded.
"The first legion that entered this world had low intelligence and it's now under our control. I promise you that there'll be no more pleasure killing. Also, we're prepared. When will you meet us? I think you want to collect all the negative emotions in this world, right?" Bone chuckled.
"It depends, I have something else to take care off. Just do as you planned."
"The problem is, the Fairy Realm is trying to seal the realm channel; why don't you come and help us? We already know their coordinates, we can just break through the channel since it'll take some time for them to change the coordinates," Bone said.
"With the special ability of Lord of Terror, we can save a lot of effort." A gentle female voice came from the skull.
"Spider is here too? I assume you've finished off the last realm you visited?" Angele thought that it would take them a while to get everything done.
"Yeah, the members of my sect will take care of the rest. We collected a lot of souls. I think Eye Devil should be happy. We're working much harder than you." Spider was a bit helpless.
Angele smiled but remained silent. Raising his head, he looked at the sky; there was a large floating island that was built with bones there. On the island, there was a white palace with translucent souls rotating around it.
The souls looked like naked women with bone wings on their backs and the song they were singing sounded like people crying.
Angele lowered the skull and fully released his mentality waves.
Light black smoke appeared around his body naturally. There were white human faces flying in the smoke. The faces were screaming and crying. The female souls around the palace were scared by the faces in the smoke and started moving away.
Angele flew to the bone palace in the snow and slowly landed on an empty ground in front of the castle.
The bone palace was a couple hundred meters wide and around one thousand meters tall. It was built with just white bones.
The patterns on the main gate looked like two white skeletons. One of them was on the right and the other was on the left; there were green flames burning in the skeletons' eyes.
*Crank*
The door slowly opened, revealing the spacious dark hall inside.
Bone and Spider were naked. They were lying on their chairs as four naked human beings were giving them massages.
The two human beings around Bone were female and the two human beings around Spider were male. They were all good at massaging and had attractive appearances.
Bone moaned and opened his mouth to speak, "Phoenix… Why don't you give it a try? This'll be the best massage you've ever had. Eye Devil visits me just for this."
"I'll pass, I don't like massage." Angele stepped into the hall and the gate behind him closed automatically.
The human beings glanced at Angele curiously, it seemed like they wanted to know what was going on.
"Come on… I thought you were preparing to break the seal based on what you said and you're just lying here, enjoying the massage." Angele walked to Bone and crossed his arms.
"We have you, Lord of Terror, I think you can break the seal with the correct coordinates easily. There's nothing we need to do." Bone chuckled. "Spider and I fought for two whole days. We're still weak and need a massage."
"Where are the other ones? Who's the commander?"
"Vapor. He's excited for some reason, so we made him the commander," Spider interrupted.
Angele turned to Spider and looked at her body. He was just curious.
There were countless green crystals on Spider's face, they looked like tiny eyes. The six black bone spikes on her back were shortened but they looked more detailed than before.
Her breasts looked identical to a human being's, but larger.
However, Angele could not see her genitals.
He glanced at Spider's body and his sight fell upon her stomach. That was the only place that was covered by a piece of silver cloth.
"What are you looking at?" Spider chuckled. "My body is still aching, but we can have some fun the next time we meet if you want." The green eyes on her face were blinking and it made Angele a bit uncomfortable.
Angele noticed that there were tiny green spiders crawling out of that piece of silver cloth. The spiders had the size of a fingernail and quickly moved to the corner of the hall.
"I'll pass… Well, we're different, you know…" Angele stopped looking immediately. "Alright, just hurry up. I have something else to take care of just like I said. One more thing, Bone, the thing prepared wasn't activated. I'll probably use that when we're in the Fairy Realm."
"Whatever. I've gifted you that, use it when you need it. Also, we're just waiting for the commander's order and we're not in a hurry." Bone pushed the woman's hands away and stood up. "However, I don't think that guy will keep the promise."
"I understand, but send my word to him. I have my bottom line and I hope everything will end peacefully," Angele responded in a light tone.
"Sure."
"Alright then, I'll be leaving now. Where are the captured creatures of Rayton Highland?" Angele turned around and walked to the gate.
Bone yawned and replied, "The underground area below the palace. Go down there and you'll find out."
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Angele nodded his head and left the hall. He jumped off the floating island and started falling.
His body drew black string in the air and landed on the red snow directly.
*CHI*
The snow was so thick that it reached his waist.
Angele stood in the snow and glanced around, there was a bump slowly rising up from the right and the snow was sliding down the incline, revealing a red moth.
The moth had a furry body. It swang its wings slightly as it looked at Angele with respect in its large compound eyes.
"Master, the channel is open, please enter," the moth talked in a strange voice; it was speaking the universal ancient language.
Angele looked at the moth. "Where's the channel?"
The moth did not respond, it just opened its mouth slowly.
The moth's mouth was getting larger and larger. It kept expanding and looked like the entrance to a cave when it stopped.
The mouth of the moth turned into an entrance within seconds.
Angele peeked into the mouth of the moth and could see the wiggling pink flesh with purple blood veins on its surface. Also, he found some black cocoons among the gaps of the flesh.
The flesh was covered with sticky liquid and looked disgusting. The tunnel was leading down and was rather dark. Angele had no idea how deep the tunnel was.
Angele hesitated for a second and flew into the moth's mouth; the rotten smell quickly permeated the air.
He could hear the strange noises made by the sticky liquid. It sounded like someone was chewing.
*PA*
With a flick of Angele's finger, a ball of bright yellow flame appeared around his body and the tunnel ahead was brightened up.
Angele stepped on the soft flesh and walked down the tunnel. He advanced for more than ten minutes.
A spacious area finally appeared ahead. Two men with only the upper half of their bodies appeared on both sides of the walls. It looked like the bottom halves of their bodies were connected to the walls.
The two men were naked, but Angele was not sure about their gender. Their bodies were soaked in blood and had no skin. He could see the men's muscles and bones—they looked like two skinned bodies that were hanging on the walls.
Angele stopped in front of the two men.
"I assume you've received the order," he spoke in a low voice.
The two men raised their heads slowly and straightened their backs as they looked at Angele using their soulless eyes.
"Yes, Master, we've received the order… Please enter now…"
They moved their bodies to the side, so the tunnel was no longer blocked.
Angele walked into the tunnel and turned right; he quickly entered a hall with walls made of flesh.
The hall was egg-shaped and there was a reserved area for wardens. There were several men sitting around a black table. Those men had red skin and there were long black ponytails on their heads.
Angele observed them carefully and noticed that the ponytails were actually black centipedes; the spikes on the ponytails were the centipedes' feet.
The wardens were wearing black-red outfits, they looked just like human beings besides the centipedes on their heads.
They noticed that someone entered the hall and looked at the entrance. They realized that it was Angele and quickly ran to him, lining up by the entrance.
"Greetings, Master!" a female warden shouted in loud voice. The woman was chubby and heavy, she looked like a strange air balloon. Angele could barely see her feet.
"Greetings, Master!" There were around ten wardens and their genders varied. They all started shouting, but not at the same time.
Angele did not say anything; he just glanced at the table. There were two large caterpillars fighting against each other on the table—it seemed like the wardens had been watching the two caterpillars.
He glanced around.
The hall was full of prison cells.
All the real prison cells were built underground and Angele could only see the floors behind the railings. There were around ten prison cells here and there was a black stone plate on top of each prison cells.
"Do you imprison all the captured living beings here?" Angele wondered.
"Yes, Master!" the female warden answered loudly.
"Have you seen a human being that looks like this?" Angele waved his hand and released some black smoke. A pale face was created in the black smoke.
The pale face twisted and it looked like Suman.
The female warden turned around and shouted, "Look closely, everyone! Have you seen this human being?!"
The wardens observed the human face carefully.
"I think… he's in the fifth prison cell," a slim warden spoke in a light tone.
"Take me to him." Angele nodded and looked at him.
The wardens led Angele to the fifth prison cell on the right. The warden opened the door and stepped into the cell. She lifted up the stone plate from the ground and revealed the spacious basement under the ground.
"Master, do you want to enter the cell or should we bring the person to you? I think around four to five other people were captured with this man and sent to the prison together," the female warden added.
"I'll go in myself," Angele spoke, "so you can just wait outside."
"Sure."
Angele arranged his long black robe and jumped into the basement.
There were many human-like creatures in the corners of the rectangular basement. Those creatures were naked and moved back slightly as they saw Angele landing on the ground.
"Green, is that you?" A man's voice came from the left.
Angele turned his head to where the voice came from and saw a man with dark skin standing up. It was Mincola, who helped Suman escape. Suman, Sella, and other members of Suman's team were standing behind Mincola.
Bella the blade dancer, Messiah the assassin, and Dorman the wizard were all here. However, they were all naked; it seemed like the wardens removed everything from their bodies when they were imprisoned.
"I didn't think that things would be like this." Angele chuckled. "I wanted to know if you escaped successfully, but you were still captured."
Suman and his team members slowly stood up. Suman stood in front of Sella and Bella as he glared at Angele with hatred in his eyes.
"You started everything, right?" Suman suddenly opened his mouth, his voice was hoarse and it seemed like he had not talked in a while. "You're just here to mock us, right?"
"Mock you? I don't have the time to do something like this." The smile disappeared from Angele's face. "Be mature, Suman. You're too naive. This'll happen again if you don't change."
However, Suman's eyes were still filled up with dedication.
"Anyway, I'm not here to educate you. I'm here to ask you about the concept gear. Suman, you're the owner of a concept gear; if you can tell all the information I need, I can release you from here. Think before you make the decision. I heard that you can't take off the concept gear like a shirt, which means you hid it somewhere safe and you can activate it whenever you want, right?"
Suman's face turned pale, it seemed like Angele was correct.
"Why do you need the concept gear? You're already strong!" Messiah questioned in a deep tone. He was no longer talking like he did not care, the recent events changed him.
"I'm just curious about the concept gear. Wizards are curious about all the things they're not familiar with, right?" Angele shrugged. "Also, concept gears might reveal a hidden secret for me. I really want to know how the concept gear pauses the time…"
"I can give you all the information I know if you let us go, but I just can't trust you," Suman spoke in a deep tone.
"I can kill you and read your memory if I want to. I'm just trying to solve the problem in a peaceful way." Angele smiled.
Suman looked at his team members and calmed down. "Fine, I'll tell you everything."
"Sounds good." Angele nodded.
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Ten minutes later…
On the Rayton Highland, Angele was standing in front of an entrance over the red snow. He watched Suman and his team members leave while thinking about something.
The red snowflakes covered his head and clothes, but he was not concerned.
*CHI*
The entrance behind Angele slowly closed and disappeared into the ground.
"I didn't expect the concept gear to be something like this…" He removed the snow from his robe, turned around, and started walking.
Although he released Suman and his team members from the prison, it did not mean that they would make it out safely. Monsters were everywhere on Rayton Highland; it was nearly impossible for them to leave the mist safely.
He stopped thinking about Suman and increased his speed. About half an hour later, he reached the main altar where Prince Evil Dragon fought against the Duke.
There were still blue flower petals on the shell-shaped stone pillar over the main altar; broken pieces of flesh and blood were everywhere.
Some of the shorter stone pillars were destroyed and the whole altar was a mess.
A ray of purple light came from the sky as Angele stepped on the edge of the altar. It stopped right in front of Angele and turned into a man in a heavy armor.
The armor on the man's body was silver and there were some purple crystals on the armor pieces. The purple cloak behind the man's back was damaged and his body was surrounded by a green glow.
The two purple flames in the man's helmets were his eyes.
"Vapor, I thought you already left this area." Angele walked to the man and looked at the blue flower petals on the broken altar.
"No, I'm guarding this location." Vapor's voice was mixed with static noise for some reason.
"Everything is prepared. Just activate your special ability and open the channel to the Fairy Realm."
"That's what I came here for." Angele nodded and crouched. He pressed on the blue flower petal and closed his eyes.
Vapor took several steps back and waited quietly aside.
The snow was still falling from the sky; the place was deadly silent. They just stayed there without making any noise.
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Angele slowly stood up and opened his eyes after a while. "The coordinates are ready; the only thing needed is the realm power of the Nightmare Realm. It's not a problem."
Vapor nodded and responded, "I'm counting on you."
"Sure."
Angele smiled.
*BOOM*
His body suddenly exploded, turning into a ball of black smoke.
The smoke ball expanded and its diameter reached several thousand meters minutes later. Vapor had to fly away from the altar and look at the smoke ball from the sky.
*BAM*
A large black claw reached out of the smoke and pressed on the red snow, destroying a small dark forest, leaving a hundred meters long print on the ground.
*BAM*
The second, the third, and the fourth claws appeared.
The earth cracked and started shaking. The wind was getting stronger and strong. The endless black smoke moved to the claws; it felt like dark clouds were falling from the sky. Several seconds later, a dark vortex that was created by the clouds appeared on the ground, its diameter was over ten thousand meters.
In the center of the vortex, a strong scorpion that was several thousand meters long appeared. The scorpion had more than ten legs and there were translucent human faces around its shell. The faces were crying, laughing, whispering or sneering; they were created by pure negative emotions.
The scorpion stood in front of the main altar and looked at it. The altar looked like a rat when compared to the scorpion.
*CHI*
Red glow was released by the scorpion, looking like boiling lava. The trees started burning and the land dried. The air twisted and the temperature was increasing quickly. Some of the stones on the ground started melting.
Several seconds later, half of Rayton Highland was surrounded by the red glow.
The scorpion used a pair of its legs to hit the remainder of the main altar.
*BOOM*
Loud noise echoed in the sky and the black smoke around the scorpion almost disappeared.
Countless black cracks that looked like spider webs appeared in the area above the altar and were slowly expanding.
The purple flames in Vapor's eyes were dancing, it seemed like he was anxious. He stared at the cracks and slowly created a long amethyst sword in his right hand.
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The Fairy Realm.
*Rumble*
The lightning was followed by thunder. The bright white light brightened up the altar in the center of a dark castle.
The altar was built with white stone and was large. There were white robes and black robes floating in the air. Some of the wizards were human beings and there were also wizards from other races, like tiger men, minotaurs, and bird men. There were more than one thousand wizards here.
Count Mystery and Bossier were floating together. They were the closest wizard to the altar and there was a large bat with a pair of silver wings around.
The sky was dark and the dark clouds were boiling like hot water. The area above the altar was twisting.
"It's coming!" Bossier shouted loudly as he raised his right hand.
"Get ready! Prepare the force barrier!"
Gentle white glows surrounded by the wizards that were around the altar.
More and more glowing white dots appeared. They looked like the stars in the sky and they were connecting with each other.
The area above the altar twisted again, the air in the area turned dark and some black smoke appeared.
*CHI*
Two legs with shell pierced through space and entered Fairy Realm. It looked like the legs were from an insect.
"Now!" At the same time, Bossier waved his hand and ordered.
*BAM*
The two legs were stopped by a translucent barrier and could no longer proceed.
All the wizards around the altar were releasing energy waves that were moving to the area above the altar. It felt like nothing could go through the barrier.
The barrier was being strengthened constantly.
"We've waited for so long and it finally started…" Bossier looked at the white robes on the other side. The leader of the white robes was a man with short green hair. "Prince Griffin, do you see that? That's the power of a sealed form from Nightmare Realm." He sent the words through energy particles.
The green-haired man's face was still covered in shock from a moment ago. Taking a deep breath, he said, "It seems like Duke Bossier was not overreacting when he was describing the situation—he made it sound like the situation was not that bad. It was good that we of the Elune Empire arrived ahead of time, otherwise, we'd have faced the consequences after the barrier had been destroyed."
Bossier nodded. "We have to gather all the elites here to fight against the sealed form. That's why we sent the letters to different countries. One of our Dukes fell and two of our department heads were seriously injured during the previous battle. The Suran Empire took a great loss. 90 percent of our elite legions were destroyed. The situation is getting worse every second and we had to invite you to the capital of the empire. The Fairy Empire might be completed eliminated if we don't work together. I think we can all agree after witnessing his power."
"I understand and I agree." Prince Griffin nodded. "I hope that the armies sent by the other three countries will arrive in time so that we can make sure that the sealed form can't break through the barrier."
Thousands of wizards all focused on the dark legs above the altar. The energy waves turned into a force field; the barrier created by the barrier was holding well against the legs.
"We need to stop him from opening the channel!" Bossier raised his right hand again. He looked at Mystery and the silver bat.
"I'm sorry but I'll have to give you orders."
"No worries, this is a critical period and it's not the time to talk about politics. Cough…" the old bat responded in a low voice, however, he started coughing before he could finish speaking.
"Duke Constantinople is on his way back. He needed to travel through four portals and it'll take him two days to arrive. We're on our own now," Mystery explained.
"What about the support from other countries?"
"They are working on it. Without Prince Griffin, that sealed form would've already broken through the barrier!" a female white robe interrupted. "Two of the strongest department heads were seriously injured and the other four department heads are not good at battling. Should we activate the energy pool?" The woman looked at Bossier. Bossier was the commander here, he had the right to make decisions.
"Not yet… That's our final resort." Bossier had a serious expression on the face. He watched the dark legs hitting the translucent barrier.
"Get ready! Ice Jellyfish!" He raised his right hand high in the air. "Release!" Bossier shouted.
A humongous translucent jellyfish rushed out of the clouds when his voice was still echoing in the sky. The jellyfish was a couple hundred meters long and its tentacles were moving to the two dark legs.
The two legs had the same size as the jellyfish's body.
The translucent tentacles pierced through the barrier and twisted around the legs.
*CHI*
The noise sounded like steam coming out of a pipe. White smoke rose from the legs as the tentacle contacted them. A sour and stinky smell permeated the air.
The legs retracted a bit, it felt like they were damaged by the tentacles. However, the tentacles enraged the owner of the legs and they hit the barrier hard.
*BAM*
The dimension barrier was pushed back; the gap was large enough for the body of the legs' owner to enter the realm.
The upper body of the monster entered Fairy Realm. It was an enormous scorpion that was surrounded by black smoke. There were strange human faces rotating around the scorpion's shell.
The scorpion's body was over 1000 meters long. The six legs that entered the realm with its body were attacking the barrier like crazy; the noise made by the impact was loud and deep.
When the scorpion entered the realm, a third of the thousand wizards that were supporting the barrier started falling but they were caught by other members.
The rest of the wizards' faces turned pale, they were all spitting blood. It seemed like they were damaged by the scorpion's mentality wave.
Bossier also took some damage, he spat out some dark blood and the chest area of his black robe was soaked in blood.
"Don't stop! Come on! Transport your energy to the barrier!" He was still shouting. "Bronze giant, join the battle, the jellyfish is failing!"
*BAM BAM*
As Bossier finished his words, loud footsteps appeared from the far side; it felt like there was something charging to this area.
The castle created a path on the right like it was alive for the humongous metal giant that was rushing into the area.
The giant's skin was covered with a metallic glow; it was built with pure bronze. The giant's skin turned red and its body's temperature was increasing as it moved closer.
The giant reached the scorpion, but it only had the height of the length of a scorpion leg. The giant feared nothing, it charged to the scorpion with both fists in the air. its body surrounded by intense golden flames.
*BAM*
The fists moved through the black smoke and hit the shell of the scorpion, leaving a deep hole in it. However, the shell of the scorpion recovered within seconds.
"This thing has such a strong body…"
The desperation filled up the wizards' eyes and Bossier's face turned pale. No one knew if it was due to the injury or the fear.
"Jellyfish!" the bronze giant shouted.
A shadow of a woman in a white dress appeared above the jellyfish and the woman nodded.
White smoke rose from the jellyfish and the upper body of the scorpion was surrounded by the smoke. The white smoke mixed in the black smoke and they slowly turned gray.
"Ah!"
The giant roared and opened its arms. It grabbed the scorpion's body and the tentacles of the jellyfish quickly twisted around the giant's body.
"Ficolin never fears death!" the giant shouted. "Die with me! The Song of Destruction!"
Bright silver light appeared on the giant's and the jellyfish's bodies. It felt like the light was coming from inside their bodies; a large red eyeball appeared in the sky above them.
The eyeball was covered with countless tentacles and blood veins. Also, the red pupil of the eye was looking at the scorpion who was being stopped by the giant and the jellyfish.
"Eye of Destruction… Damn it! Ficolin, it's fine if you want to sacrifice yourself, but don't take jellyfish with you!" Bossier's eyes turned red. He noticed that the woman on top of the jellyfish was also surrounded in silver light and felt like blood was rushing into his brain. "No! Sister!"
"Prepare the energy pool!" Mystery suddenly shouted.
"No!" Bossier grabbed Mystery's collar. "That's my sister! My sister! Do you know what you're doing?! He's trying to take my sister with him! You promised me! Come on!" He started shaking Mystery's body like crazy.
"This our best chance! Our guardian monsters sacrificed themselves for this!" Mystery responded in a calm tone.
"I have to catch this chance!"
*WOO*
The noise made by a horn echoed in the sky.
The land under the altar started shaking. The white ground slowly turned blue and translucent.
"The empire spent thousands of years to save that power and this is the moment we use it!" Mystery pushed Bossier away from him.
Some strange noise came from the land, it sounded like something was coming from under the ground.
The wizards in the sky lowered their heads and saw the scene that they would never forget.
The castle, the buildings around the castle, the towers, the parliament, everything started shaking. A lot of green plants started rising from the bottom of those buildings.
It felt like the capital was turning into a garden country. Young roots and vines came out of the ground and tall trees were growing at full speed. The plants cracked the land.
It only took couple of seconds for the city to turn into an abandoned ruin. It felt like that the ruin had been sitting in a forest for hundreds of years.
The giant and the jellyfish's bodies turned into silver liquid, which completely coated the scorpion's body.
The stare of Eye of Destruction stopped the scorpion from moving so the scorpion could not remove the silver liquid from its body.
The sound made by the horn was getting louder and louder.
The blue color on the ground was also getting more and more intense.
A ray of blue light spurted out of the ground and pierced through the upper half of the scorpion's body. The scorpion's body and the head broke into pieces after taking the hit.
The blue ray had a diameter of over 1000 meters and the scorpion's upper body was completely covered by the light. The wizards that were close to the blue ray were evaporated in the light.
The scorpion lost its power and left the realm. It made some noises and its body parts turned translucent. They started disappearing into the dimension fissure.
"We protected our realm! Finally…" Everyone felt relieved. They looked at the scorpion's broken shell and head excitedly.
*BAM*
*ROAR*
Suddenly, the scorpion reappeared in the sky and hit the barrier hard. It almost looked like the scorpion was not damaged at all. The scorpion used its legs and hit the barrier hard.
*Crack*
The wizards were surprised after hearing the noise.
The barrier cracked.
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The sky turned dark.
A large amount of dark clouds that appeared from nowhere slowly turned into a large vortex that floated over the capital.
*Rumble*
The lightning was followed by thunder.
A large crack that looked like a black spider web slowly appeared on the barrier while the wizards were still in shock. Pieces of cracked barrier started falling.
The barrier pieces quickly disappeared into the air; there was a large black hole in the center of the spider web, its depths endless.
The black-red scorpion slowly crawled out of the hole.
*Roar*
The scorpion roared and red hair spurted out of the gaps in its shell. The hair was flying around like tentacles.
Bossier raised his right hand and shouted, "Come on, don't stop!"
His eyes were red and he was staring at the scorpion monster. He quickly recovered from the death of his sister.
Some of the wizards in the sky lowered their altitude and tried to escape but there were still wizards trying to follow Bossier's order after some hesitation. Only a few of them released all their power and strengthened their mentality waves so that they could gather the remaining energy particles around them.
The energy flows looked like colorful stripes that were linked to the center of Bossier's right hand. The energy flow formed a golden rotating badge above his palm.
"That's it…" The old bat exchanged eye contact with Mystery and both raised their heads. Silver and white light from their bodies gathered upon Bossier's right palm, entering the golden badge.
Bossier's skin was turning dark and his blood veins were pumping. It felt like they could explode at any time. His body started shrinking, it felt like his muscles and fat were being burnt like fuel.
Colorful light appeared around the golden badge and the area was getting unstable. Bossier's body started vibrating as the light appeared.
The strong energy was being compressed on his right hand.
*CHI*
Dark-red blood spurted out of his right arm; the blood veins in his arm started exploding but it seemed like Bossier was not concerned, he just stared at the scorpion.
"Now!" He suddenly threw the golden badge to the scorpion. The badge turned into a golden ray that looked like a long golden bat.
Strangely, the scorpion looked at Bossier as he completed the procedure.
"My job here is done…" the scorpion spoke in a deep tone. Its body started shrinking. The scorpion had the height of several thousand meters but it quickly turned into a human being that was wearing a black robe.
The man had long red hair and an average face, however, he looked mysterious with his dark-red eyes that looked like translucent rubies. His body was surrounded by black smoke and he was floating in front of the dimension fissure.
It was Angele who just returned to his normal form. He looked at the sky and smiled. Before the golden bat reached him, he quickly deactivated his true form and disappeared into the dimension fissure.
Angele was not concerned that the golden bat might destroy the dimension fissure he just opened and decided to leave.
The wizards were surprised, but another black shadow jumped out of the dimension fissure—it was a strange man with a long sword in hand and wearing heavy armor. The shadow's body was surrounded by thick green smoke. It seemed like the man had no idea what was happening but he could see the terrifying golden bat flying at him.
The man was surprised, he quickly raised his long sword and tried to block the attack. It was the only movement he had the time to do. The noise was not loud, but the impact made the whole world shaking.
The intense golden light blinded all the living beings in the area for a second.
They all heard the man roaring furiously after the strike.
"Phoenix! How dare you!" the man was speaking the universal ancient language.
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On Rayton Highland, Angele stood on the main altar quietly with the dimension fissure right behind him. The dimension fissure was dark and deep, it looked just like a tunnel that led to the underground.
Snowflakes from the sky fell into the dimension fissure, leaving no trace behind.
The snowflakes were brushing over Angele's long robe in the chilling wind.
He did not mind waiting in front of the dimension fissure.
*BAM*
It sounded like something in the dimension fissure exploded; the explosion was followed by some pure energy. The light created by the explosion illuminated the dimension fissure.
"So, I timed it correctly." A gentle smile appeared on Angele's face. "That strike would've killed me if I didn't have the masks. I didn't expect the residents of the Fairy Realm to be so strong.
*CHI CHI CHI*
He heard the noise from behind and three men appeared. The golden man, Spider, and Bone teleported to him.
"Vapor will be mad," Bone mocked and chuckled. "The golden badge was created using pure energy. It doesn't deal a lot of physical damage, but it'll impact the soul. Vapor will definitely go after you later."
"What else can I do?" Angele was speechless. "Do you want me to handle all the attacks alone? You're the ones who get benefits from invading the Fairy Realm. I almost died and I'm sure you saw that!"
"Well, your body is extremely strong. Actually, you're the second strongest sealed form I've seen. You have 13 life masks, the bloodline of single-eyed giant, and terrifying illusion abilities. You're the perfect one to start the battle." The golden man chuckled as well.
"It sounds like you think that I'm born to do the hard work." Angele shook his head and sighed. "Alright, I'll be leaving the central continent for a while. I need some rest. We entered the Fairy Realm first, I think we have the advantage. You don't need to worry about the lords of the north now, right?"
Bone stopped laughing and responded in a serious tone, "We've stayed in the wizard world for a while. The lords of the north will either give up this world or come here and fight us. However, we had enough time to prepare everything, so we're not afraid of them. Not every lord has full power right after they are summoned. The lords are hard to deal with but the dimension channel is not a problem for us."
The golden man nodded. "Yeah, they shall know what we felt the last time. We were stuck in the dimension channel and the only thing we could do was defend ourselves. It was the worst feeling I had in the last one thousand years." His expression turned serious as he thought about his past experiences.
"We're the only lords here this time?" Angele glanced around, he did not find other living beings.
Bone shook his head. "Two Undead Kings of Bone Sea are also here. Undead Kings are the strongest beings in Bone Sea and there is a total of three of them. One of them worked with me and the other two are technically not under my command, however, I'm the strongest being in Bone Sea and I can give them orders."
Bone Sea was not ruled by Bone alone, there were political wars going on; however, the situation was a bit different for Bone. The Undead Kings would follow his orders during major operations but Bone did not have the right to give orders to all the legions he had. He just gave the general orders most of the time and the kings had the right to execute the order using their own methods.
Spider opened her mouth. "I'll take my two sons and one daughter with me."
The golden man was a bit surprised after hearing those words. "Your daughter? You mean the mother of reproduction? I heard that she's the purest being among the millions of children you had."
Spider hesitated after hearing that. "I thought you didn't know. Most of my children are not intelligent, so intelligent children are rare to me, unlike Bone."
"Well, the problem is you have full control over your children but not all my soldiers listen to my command." Bone shrugged. "Alright, that's it. We should enter the dimension fissure now."
He stepped into the dimension fissure and disappeared quickly.
Spider and the golden man followed after Bone, Angele was the last. His sight blurred for a second and then it was filled up with bright light.
The dark clouds were still rotating in the sky but the area was a mess. There were broken white stone pieces and dead wizards everywhere. The buildings around were all destroyed.
The area around the altar was empty and the place was deadly silent.
Vapor stood on the altar with a human head in hand. It was the head of Duke Bossier from the Fairy Realm. Vapor's armor was damaged and the purple flames in his eyes weakened. It seemed like he was tired after a big fight.
Vapor saw Angele walking to him and the purple flames in his eyes were strengthened again.
"Phoenix!" He gritted his teeth and the sword in his hand was shaking.
"What? I lost one of my life masks and handled most of the attacks. Don't tell me you can't take that golden badge," Angele responded with a calm expression on the face.
"You could've warned me, you know." Vapor knew that Angele's action was reasonable but he was still angry.
"You want me to warn you? I lost a life mask and you should take some damage too, that's what I call fair; otherwise, I'll be the only injured one here," Angele responded. He was mocking Vapor.
Vapor never liked the new Lord of Terror and had always been disrespectful during their conversations. Vapor was older and more experienced but Angele needed to teach him what respect was. He wanted to make sure that the lords could keep their promises.
"Alright, alright, calm down, you two. Phoenix, you need to understand that Vapor is not good at defense. He's specialized in speed and you're the one with the strongest body here," the golden man interrupted.
They stood in the center of the ruins and stopped talking. Bone and Spider started setting up a special portal on the side.
Different from the wizards, the lords built the portal using only natural ingredients. They took out something that looked like brain of an alien. The brain floated in the air and they poured some stinky gray liquid on top of it.
Minutes later, the brain exploded and turned into a white square gate. The creatures that walked out of the brain gate were coated with brain tissues that tissues looked like disgusting sticky liquid. Those creatures had the shape of human beings.
*HUA*
After the noise, another brain gate was created and two teams of people stepped out of the gates. They were soldiers that worked for Spider and Bone.
They were not releasing strong energy waves; it seemed like they decided to hide their power intentionally. When the lords were here, releasing strong energy waves would be considered a disrespectful action.
Angele glanced at the soldiers and his sight fell upon a woman. The other one looked just like normal soldiers but this woman was different.
Chapter 537: Changes (2)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
The bottom half of the woman's body was a spider and she had eight furry legs. Her upper body was human but still covered with thick fur. The woman had no hair and there was a hole between her eyebrows with small spiders crawling out of it constantly.
The spiders were moving around the woman's body and would enter or leave the hole between her eyebrows from time to time. It seemed like the hole was their nest. The spiders varied in colors but they were all venomous.
If Angele did not see her breasts, he would not know if the creature was male or female.
Also, the woman's skin was covered with black wrinkles and she was definitely not a good-looking female creature.
"Nice to meet you, I'm the mother of reproduction, the ninth daughter of great Akasha." The woman sent the greetings using energy particles after she noticed that Angele was looking at her.
Angele nodded and stopped looking at her. The other people already started discussing their next move.
The legions that entered the wizard world needed to take full control of the area. There was barely enough soldiers on Rayton Highland so the people here would be the only ones that invaded the Fairy Realm.
Vapor was talking about assignments already. Bone would take the route to the east and eliminate every living being he saw, Spider would go to the north, the golden man would go to the east, and Vapor would take care of the south. The Undead Kings and the soldiers of Spider would follow their leaders.
Angele was the only one that was not assigned a mission, but he was not concerned; he wanted freedom. The Dark Wizard Tower was part of the Suran Empire from the Fairy Realm; the Dark Wizard Tower and the White Wizard Tower were the two strongest wizard organizations in the Suran Empire.
Vapor was injured as he was not prepared for the strong attack and most of the important members of the Suran Empire caught the chance. They teleported to a safe area and only the wizards who failed to enter the portal were slaughtered by Vapor.
The wizards teleported to the south of the capital.
Angele was familiar with the Dark Wizard Tower, he knew that the organization had many branches that were hidden in the dark. It was nearly impossible for Vapor to track all of them down. Eye Devil was good at tracking her prey down, but she was the only one had the ability to accomplish that.
"That's it, let's start moving now." Vapor glanced around. He snorted as his sight fell upon Angele. Vapor flew into the air and left a green string in the sky, heading to the south.
Bone and Spider exchanged eye contact, then started heading to the directions they were assigned to with their soldiers following after them.
The golden man stepped forward and jumped into the air, heading to the east. He left a huge hole on the ground.
Angele watched the others leave but he was not in a hurry. He stood by the altar and waited. He slowly walked down the altar after all other people left.
The altar had the length and width of around 1000 meters. However, the mysterious altar and the runes on it were all destroyed. Angele felt like that he was walking on a pile of cracked stone pieces.
Angele left the altar and reached a white stone staircase. By the end of the staircase was a white road with a large building on the side.
It seemed like the building was a restaurant or a hotel, but half of it was destroyed. The cut was nice and clean. It felt like the building was sliced in half by a sharp blade. There were white tables and chairs on the left side of the building but most of them were broken into pieces.
Angele looked over the area but did not see anyone around.
Raising his head, Angele surveyed the area on the far side. There were white and gray buildings on both sides of the road. The road was so long that he could not see the end of it.
Most buildings were damaged, it seemed like they were hit by bombs or magic missiles. Some of the buildings turned into piles of stones.
The center of the city was nearly destroyed but the areas around were not impacted by the battle.
There was no one around but the capital just looked like a human city.
Angele was standing on a high hill, he checked the surroundings but the only things in his sight were the buildings. The capital was so large that he could not see the edge of it.
Angele walked several steps down and jumped into the air.
*PA*
He landed on the road by the damaged hotel and started advancing slowly.
The capital of the Suran Empire was deadly silent, there was no noise at all. The only sound echoing on the street was Angele's footsteps. The gentle wind was blowing the banner of an accessory shop to the air.
"It seemed like they were prepared for this, all the residents in the city were evacuated." Angele nodded slightly. "That's why the wizards retreated so fast…"
Angele raised his head and looked at the sky. The vortex created by dark clouds were slowly disappearing and the gathered energy particles were collapsing.
"It seemed like the rules of this universe are different from the rules of Earth. Large realms like the Nightmare Realm feel endless, but small realms like the Void Realm only have an area of 30 million square meters. You just move in a certain direction and you'll return to where you started sooner or later. The skies of the realms are all endless, no one knows if those realms are just planets that vary in size," Angele muttered as he started thinking.
He had entered the Void Realm once, not as an invader, but as an explorer. Angele flew into the sky and tried to go as high as he could—he wanted to reach the edge of the realm; however, the sky of Void Realm was just endless. There was no atmosphere and the only thing he could see was white fog. He flew for three days in the air but it only took him half a day to return to the land.
Angele was enlightened by the experience and wanted to learn more about his universe.
"The sky of the Void Realm was just white fog and the dimension was twisted. I wonder if the situation is the same for the Fairy Realm."
Angele walked down the main street of the capital slowly. He passed through the destroyed area and entered an area that was caught in the war.
There were tall road signs that were standing quietly on the street and the signs were not too far from each other. He also saw a tall white tower on the far side and a statue of an old man in a white robe with his arms opened was on top of the tower.
Angele saw a lot of restaurants and accessory shops around. Those stores were nice and clean, they were not impacted by the battle at all.
He walked to a bakery on the right.
A yellow board with product prices written on it was standing in front of the bakery quietly. The words were written in a language that Angele did not know and there was a picture of someone enjoying the product below the price list.
The decorations in the bakery were all yellow and there were glowing crystals on the walls. Rows of glass showcases were lined up by the walls and there were beautiful baked goods inside.
It seemed like the people evacuated not so long ago—everything looked the same and the blue drink on the desk that Angele found was still warm. A refreshing mint smell permeated the air.
There were posts of sales events on the showcases, it seemed like the recommended products were painted on the posts.
"So, those baked goods won't come to life like the ones in the Dark Wizard Tower." Angele recalled that some objects in the Dark Wizard Tower's headquarters were turned into fairies.
Angele went around the glass showcases and took out a white cream muffin with a cherry on top from the counter. The muffin was decorated with some red fruit jam.
"This is just a normal muffin that's not releasing any energy particles. How did those objects come to life then?" Angele bit the muffin; the taste was sour and the texture was soft. However, the desserts he had in the Dark Wizard Tower were much tastier than this.
He put down the muffin and muttered, "Maybe the food level here is low…"
*BAM*
The noise from outside the bakery was loud like thunder. Angele's head was covered with the white dust that fell from the ceiling and some of the decorations in the shop were shaking.
Angele quickly walked out of the bakery and checked where the noise came from.
By the end of the street, there was a human being that kneeled on the street—the man was crawling to Angele.
The man was naked and there was a small building on his back for some reason. There was still black smoke coming out of the chimney of the building. Angele could also hear the noise made by rotating gears.
The man had a painful expression on his face and was crawling to Angele on his knees. His knees were injured and left a trail of blood on the ground.
Angele narrowed his eyes and watched the man crawl on the street. He did not do anything.
Suddenly, his sight blurred and the man disappeared. It was almost like the man he saw was just an illusion, there was no blood on the ground.
*AH*
He heard someone screaming in pain from the behind. The voice was so close that Angele thought someone was right behind him.
Angele was surprised, he quickly turned around and saw the naked man crawling back to the main altar. It seemed like the man's destination was the dimension fissure.
The man still had the painful expression on his face and was staring at Angele. He was still moving backward slowly, it seemed like something was shaking on the back of his head. It looked like the man was moving slowly but he traveled a long distance within seconds.
Angele noticed that it seemed like the man was trying to hide something from his view since Angele could not see what was behind his head.
Angele's sight blurred again and the man disappeared. He teleported to the staircase that would lead him to the altar and was still moving backward.
"This feeling…" Angele remembered something and looked at the dimension fissure carefully.
Dark red mist was coming out of the dimension fissure, also, it seemed like that the realm power of the Fairy Realm was neutralizing the mist. The mist quickly disappeared into the air after entering the Fairy Realm.
'Maybe the strange realm power of the Fairy Realm changed the realm power of the Nightmare Realm?' Angele noticed that something was off. The realm power of the Nightmare Realm was strong and the realm power of the Fairy Realm could turn objects into living beings. If the two powers were mixed together, Angele had no idea what would happen.