Chapter 2562 Wizard Eye Ghost <TOC> Chapter 2564 The Flamboyantly Dressed Hero Squad
Translator: SumTLMan
Daus squinted his eyes playfully and said: “Well, that’s interesting.”
Kael, puzzled, looked at Daus: “What do you mean?”
Daus twitched the corner of his mouth, not really knowing himself. His comment was just a spur-of-the-moment thought that the Black Count’s contradictory answer might hold a clue. It seemed like the right time to add something to the atmosphere, so he spoke up.
But he was met with Kael who took his words too literally.
Daus smiled meaningfully at Kael, saying nothing, suggesting that it was something to be understood rather than explained.
At that moment, Angel said: “Lord, are you only asking if this Wizard Eye Ghost comes from the underground labyrinth?”
The Black Count confirmed: “Correct.”
Angel continued: “A Wizard Eye Ghost cannot simply appear out of nowhere; it must have a lineage. So, could it be that this Wizard Eye Ghost was born in the external world, hence the answer is no. But its lineage, like its ancestors, might be from underground? Therefore, through it, we could find other Wizard Eye Ghosts and locate the entrance to the underground labyrinth.”
The Black Count hadn’t yet responded when Daus nodded thoughtfully, stroking his chin: “That makes a lot of sense.”
Ignoring Daus, Angel continued to stare at the slab, waiting for the Black Count’s reply.
After a few seconds of contemplation, the Black Count finally said: “That’s a possibility, but it’s not just about lineage. It could also involve other things, even other people.”
As soon as the Black Count finished speaking, everyone seemed to think of something and turned their heads toward a corner of the ruins.
The short-haired woman in a leather jacket was sitting on the ground, pushing herself with her hands, trying to leave this area overwhelmed by a terrifying aura.
The transcendents were too terrifying, even more so than the monster itself. With a wave of their hands, numerous arrows pierced the monster’s eyes, a horrifying sight she had never witnessed before. Remembering her earlier thoughts of diverting disaster elsewhere, she felt utterly powerless and trembled, barely able to push herself backward.
But she hadn’t moved far when the gaze of the group, filled with transcendents, turned toward her.
The short-haired woman was instantly petrified with fear.
“Vai, I told you to stop wearing that black cloak all day, looking like a ghost. Look, you’ve scared her pale,” Daus tsked.
Vai couldn’t speak, but that didn’t stop him from using his magic to form a line of text on the ground: She was clearly frightened by you, who else would carry such a long sword around.
Daus lazily retorted: “But she was looking at you.”
In this back-and-forth between the two, Angel had already approached the short-haired woman.
Although Angel’s appearance wasn’t as sunny and radiant as his real self, to the short-haired woman, he seemed better than Vai. After all, Angel had been at the back the whole time, appearing to be an ordinary person like her.
Angel: “Are you okay? Can you stand up?”
Perhaps it was Angel’s gentle words, or his calm demeanor, that eased the tension of the short-haired woman, allowing her legs to stabilize. Eventually, she managed to pull herself up using the crumbling wall, shakily standing upright.
“Hello, may we talk?”
As Angel spoke, he manipulated the power of illusions, steadily calming her fluctuating emotions and restoring her peace.
Regaining her composure and calm, the short-haired woman, however, remained silent, still warily observing Angel and his companions.
“Doesn’t saving your life merit a response? I dislike using force, but if you still refuse to speak, I might have no other choice.”
As Angel spoke, he gently lifted his hand, with a fierce flame floating above his palm.
Seeing the flame, the short-haired woman quickly realized, he too was a transcendent!
The flame danced continuously, and within it, an illusion appeared, a woman being burned by intense fire… Wait, that woman was her!
Perhaps aided by the illusionary power soothing her emotions, the short-haired woman, though startled and threatened, didn’t lose her senses. She understood what she needed to do.
Confronting a team with at least two transcendent beings was undoubtedly a death wish.
“My, my name is Mia, from the White Crocodile Adventure Group… But now, I am the only one left…”
The short-haired woman, Mia, started to talk to herself.
Angel did not interrupt her but listened quietly.
There were two theories now, one was that the lineage of the Wizard Eye Ghost was a breakthrough, and the second related to people and events connected to the Wizard Eye Ghost. In their knowledge, the most relevant connection to the Wizard Eye Ghost was Mia. Even though they were in a hunter-prey relationship, this was still within the scope of the prophecy.
Because Mia might be the breakthrough, Angel did not use his transcendent powers excessively on her. After all, prophecy is like the lines of fate, always prone to change, especially under the influence of transcendent powers, where change is most likely.
As for Mia’s rambling, it might contain critical clues, so Angel listened very attentively.
So far, Angel hadn’t heard any useful information.
Angel had the patience to listen, but Daus didn’t have the patience for these irrelevant details. He stepped forward and said to Mia: “Stop beating around the bush. Tell us everything about your encounter with the Wizard Eye Ghost, including the circumstances and location.”
Angel wouldn’t interrupt himself, but he wouldn’t stop Daus from doing so, perhaps Daus’s spiritual perception was at work.
Angel clearly intended to interpret all of Daus’ actions as spiritual perception.
Mia was somewhat fearful of Daus, but the illusory power controlled by Angel kept her emotions from fluctuating too much, allowing her to maintain a certain level of calmness.
“We encountered that monster… the Wizard Eye Ghost in Area Three to the left of the ruins.”
“At the time, the Wizard Eye Ghost was facing away from us, and our captain’s eyesight wasn’t great, he thought it was a person in purple clothing and greeted from a distance. As a result, the Wizard Eye Ghost noticed us.”
Daus muttered: “…His eyesight is really that bad, huh? It’s not like it’s pitch black, can’t he see the reflective scales?”
Mia continued with the subsequent developments. Essentially, it was a series of blunders; their squad originally had three people, two of whom were killed, only Mia escaped.
As for why Mia, a woman, could escape, Mia didn’t dare lie and straightforwardly said it was because she sold out her teammates.
“I just wanted… to survive.”
Daus raised an eyebrow: “Wanting to survive isn’t something unspeakable… go on.”
Mia paused for a moment: “There’s no more after that, then I met the lords.”
Mia’s silence was clearly holding back. But no one asked; they could guess from her subtlety, she hesitated to say that her reason for running here was to lead disaster elsewhere.
Just as she sold out her teammates, it would be best to “sell” them to the Wizard Eye Ghost to buy herself time to escape.
Their unspoken words were well known, and they were too lazy to ask.
Daus: “That’s it then, any other details? Especially when you encountered the Wizard Eye Ghost, or when it was chasing you, was there anything unusual about it or any of its companions around?”
Mia thought for a moment, couldn’t think of anything unusual, and was about to shake her head.
At that moment, Daus muttered again: “Is your adventure group stupid or what, does the captain have no sense of danger, to greet an unknown entity?”
Hearing Daus’ words, Mia had a thought and said: “I just remembered something, I don’t know if it has to do with the Wizard Eye Ghost.”
“Let’s hear it then.” The one who spoke was Angel.
After speaking, Angel gave Daus a meaningful look. He had read many detective novels, and in those novels, The Key Clues were usually provided by someone who, after a lot of irrelevant talk, suddenly remembered to mention some details they thought unimportant. Typically, these additional details turned out to be crucial clues.
Now, the person who had prompted Mia was undoubtedly Daus.
Indeed, people with intuition really are different.
Angel admired for a moment, then continued listening to Mia’s explanation.
“This matter might need to start from the very beginning of the establishment of the White Crocodile Adventure Group. Originally, there were six of us in the early team, and gradually, our numbers even grew to twelve. But at our adventure group’s prime, we encountered a despicable group.”
“They called themselves the Hero Squad, but their actions were far from heroic. We had reserved Area Three on the bottom left of the ruins for ourselves, but under the guise of justice, they intruded and snatched many treasures from us.”
“They even brought along people from other adventure groups to explore treasures in our section of Area Three.”
“How could our leader tolerate such humiliation? Hence, we went to war with the Hero Squad… Their strength was stronger than we imagined; even our leader died in that battle. Following the leader’s death, our members gradually left until only three of us remained.”
At this point, Mia’s face was full of sorrow.
However, Angel listened with a face of disbelief. The idea of ‘reserving’ an area was wrong from the start. Moreover, the so-called Hero Squad was initially just there to hunt for treasures without causing any conflicts. It was your leader who couldn’t tolerate what he perceived as an insult——what kind of insult is that anyway? And thus initiated the fight, which they lost.
Whose fault was that?
Of course, Angel is judging by his own standards. Perhaps “reserving” is a rule here, and maybe Mia’s group could still hold the moral high ground.
However, an ancient ruin abandoned for years that no extraordinary beings thought to claim was being partitioned and reserved by mere mortals, what boldness, and without fear of one day the people of Bylron Tree Court coming to clear the area.
“Ever since our leader died and the members left, we frequently encountered provocations from the Hero Squad and fell into numerous traps, all man-made, undoubtedly by the Hero Squad. This sudden encounter with a Wizard Eye Ghost might also be their doing, aiming to kill us.”
Mia concluded the story here, but Angel only heard Mia’s speculations and her random accusations against others, without catching any valuable clues.
Could it be that the patterns of detective novels don’t apply here?
Or could it be that the clues actually lie within the Hero Squad?
While Angel was speculating, Daus asked: “If you had ‘reserved’ this so-called Area Three, how could other teams still break in?”
Daus, being a wandering wizard, was often confronted with treasures being “reserved” by wizard organizations, alliances, or families.
In Daus’ eyes, “reserving” meant making it completely impenetrable, not even a mosquito should get through. Because any variable could disrupt the balance.
But the “reserving” Mia spoke of was far from what he envisioned.
Mia replied: “Because the people of the Hero Squad are like moles. Our scouts found their traces and reported immediately, but by the time we got there, even though they were supposedly not out of Area Three, they had vanished. Later, we incidentally found out they were actually hiding underground, and even initially, when they broke in, they had tunneled in from below, impossible to guard against.”
At this, everyone’s eyes suddenly lit up.
It must be this one!
Underground, there is still a passageway that connects to the surface, this must be the intact entrance!
In the prophecy of the Black Count, Mia really is the key to breaking the situation!
While everyone was delighted to find the clue, Angel silently looked at Daus: indeed, Daus’ spiritual perception played a role again.
It was Daus who initially said to go see what happened.
Interrupting Mia’s monologue to let her speak about the key point was also Daus.
It was Daus who asked her to elaborate.
Most importantly, pointing out that the “private event” wasn’t secure, prompting Mia to reveal the ultimate answer, was still Daus!
What is this if not spiritual perception?
Angel suddenly felt very fortunate that he brought Daus along on this expedition to explore the ruins; this guy’s intuition was so strong that he probably didn’t even realize it himself, thinking it was just unconscious questioning.
He always managed to ask about the key details.
At least, if it were Angel, he certainly wouldn’t have thought to ask about such a minor detail as a “private event.”
With the clue in hand, the next steps were straightforward, the goal: find the Hero Squad and locate the real entrance to the underground labyrinth.
As for how to find it? The answer was also simple, wasn’t Mia here?
Mia would lead the way to where the Hero Squad was active, and Angel and Daus could release scouting puppets or Wizard Eyes to look for traces from above.
As long as it was confirmed to be the Hero Squad, the rest would not be difficult.
After telling Mia about the task of finding the Hero Squad, Mia initially thought it was her “emotional performance” that moved these extraordinary beings, and they decided to seek out the Hero Squad to avenge the White Crocodile Adventure Group.
With this beautiful vision in mind, Mia naturally wouldn’t refuse and, suppressing her excitement and elation, set off again on the road to Area Three.
Chapter 2562 Wizard Eye Ghost <TOC> Chapter 2564 The Flamboyantly Dressed Hero Squad