Chapter 2791 Contract and Cooperation <TOC> Chapter 2793 Second Treasure Appears
Translator: SumTLMan
Gengar’s sneak attack came even faster than imagined.
Angel had originally said, that they would continue forward, and on the way Gengar could launch sneak attacks on them at any time, however what he had not expected was, that while they were still speaking, Gengar’s sneak attack had already arrived.
Without any sign at all, the ground suddenly opened up a hole.
Vai and Kael, who were positioned above the mouth of the hole, made no resistance at all, and simply fell into the pit.
Angel and Daus both reacted at the first instant, each of them grabbed one, Angel prepared to pull Kael, Daus grabbed Vai, trying to pull them back up from the pit.
However, they failed.
And the opening in the ground did not close, it still quietly gaped open, and you simply could not tell that it had just swallowed two people.
Angel and Daus exchanged a glance, then made the same motion, lowering their heads to look at their own hands.
They were very sure, that they had caught hold of Vai and Kael just now, yet for some unknown reason, the hands that were holding them had suddenly lost all strength.
This feeling was just like, the anemic state that appears after losing too much blood, the hands weak and soft, and even if you clenched your fists tightly you still could not muster any strength.
Precisely because of this, even though they had grabbed Vai and Kael, they still had not managed to pull them back.
But the strange thing was, that after Vai and Kael fell into the pit, the strength in their hands seemed to have returned?
Daus opened and clenched his hands repeatedly, confirming that there was no problem at all, and his gaze, gloomy and deep, turned toward that opening in the ground which still had not disappeared.
「Could it be that this hole is playing tricks?」 Daus turned his head and said to Angel: 「You try using a method of an energy nature to hold me back, I’ll go in front of this hole and test it.」
Angel did not hesitate, he directly stretched several Phantasmal Limbs out from his palm, and fastened them around Daus’ waist.
After confirming that they were firm and difficult to break free from, Daus walked step by step to the front of the pit, took a deep breath, and very carefully first stretched out his hand……
However, before Daus could even carry out a preliminary probe, the pit unexpectedly expanded in an instant.
The extent of the expansion happened to be just enough to encompass the position where Daus was.
And before this Daus had not felt any abnormal fluctuation at all, by the time he realized that both feet were already suspended in the air, his whole person had already begun to fall downward.
Daus tried to release mental power, it had no effect.
He then tried to use magic power to keep his body suspended, it had no effect.
Daus even thought of activating his bloodline to forcibly break through the shackles, but although he could feel the bloodline within his body, no matter what he did he could not activate it. It was as if, the bloodline had entered a slumber.
All of his abilities were having no effect, Daus could only pin his hopes on the Phantasmal Limbs that Angel had fastened around his waist.
Yet, the Phantasmal Limbs were just as if they did not exist, and as Daus fell downward, they followed along, without the slightest pulling force at all.
Daus could only watch helplessly as he himself grew farther and farther from the mouth of the pit…… in the end, he completely fell into the 「Abyss」.
After Daus had fallen, the Black Count, who was floating in midair, turned his nose and aimed his 「nostril」 at Angel: 「Is it ability nullification?」
Angel pondered for a moment, then shook his head: 「I can feel that the Phantasmal Limbs have not been destroyed, however, just like my hands before, once they are above the mouth of the pit, all strength completely disappears.」
Angel’s words, made the Black Count think of the earlier description that the Sovereign of Wisdom had given of Younus’ ability.
Younus’ devouring was extremely special, it ignored all defenses, and so long as you were within the range of its swallowing, no matter how strong your power was it was useless.
And now, One-Eyed Big Treasure’s simulation of Younus’ ability, had also achieved a similar effect.
Even a bloodline wizard who was called the strongest of the same realm, had no strength at all to fight back when above that mouth of the pit.
This kind of ability was indeed very special and very powerful, but what concerned them even more was, that the expansion of this opening was practically without a sound, with not the slightest energy leaking out.
And Gengar was clearly also holding back, because from beginning to end the opening had never closed.
If it closed the opening, and then silently opened it beneath their feet, then they would not even have time to say the word resistance, let alone to react.
Earlier they had only heard the Sovereign of Wisdom say that Younus’ opening was so powerful that even he did not dare to step into it, at that time they still had no firsthand feeling of it, but now Younus’ child Gengar, merely with a low-fidelity simulation of Younus’ opening, had almost caused them to be completely wiped out.
At this moment, they finally understood why the Sovereign of Wisdom had repeatedly stressed the need to be careful and cautious.
It was just that, with this degree of utter soundlessness, was it useful for them to rely only on being careful and cautious?
Looking at that opening in the ground from which not the slightest trace of aura was leaking, the Black Count muttered: 「This time I’ll be the one to test it, you pay attention to observing the stone slab.」
When he finished speaking, the Black Count’s nose separated from the stone slab it had been resting on, and the stone slab then drifted gently into Angel’s hand.
At this moment Angel still did not understand the Black Count’s intention, and looked at the slab with some confusion. With this one look, however, he discovered that all sorts of large and small energy lines were emerging upon the slab.
Angel raised his head and looked at the Black Count.
The Black Count: 「I am not familiar with magic formations, but I have presented in real time on the slab all the energy lines carried in the earth in this vicinity. This type of spell is called 『Earth-Vein Recording』, this kind of recording has the support of the power of the earth and will not disappear just because something happens to me.」
「You must constantly pay attention to the changes in the earth veins on the slab, and it would be best to combine them with the state of the surrounding magic formations to make your judgments. If this method is useless, there is no need to be discouraged, we can think of other ways.」
Perhaps because it concerned the ruin site, the Black Count’s degree of involvement during the exploration of the ruins was clearly much higher than before.
Using the method of Earth-Vein Recording, to assist Angel in judging the flow of energy in the magic formations, and thereby seek a way to break the pit, was clearly a decision that the Black Count had made after deep consideration.
And to complete this step, someone inevitably needed first to trigger the pit, the others had already fallen into the pit, so the Black Count planned to go personally.
「My lord, wait a moment.」 Seeing that the Black Count was about to enter the opening, Angel quickly called out.
Without giving any explanation, Angel took the slab in his hand, and began to compare it with the surrounding magic formations. After comparing, he took out another formation disc, and placed it at an energy junction point of the magic formation.
The energy lines on the slab changed immediately.
Looking at the images on the slab, Angel pondered for a moment, then took out a carving pen and was engraving line after line of guiding runes on a blank slab.
Using the external formation disc as a guide, was in order to further observe the changes of the magic formations. At the same time, Angel also wanted to conduct an experiment.
After doing all of this, Angel then said to the Black Count: 「It’s done.」
The Black Count did not know what Angel had done, but he believed that Angel had his own judgment. The Black Count also did not ask any further, and directly wrapped himself in an entire earth barrier, then leapt above the pit.
The earth barrier that the Black Count had set up, was primarily focused on strengthening traction.
Since the pit was going to pull people down, then the pulling force of the earth barrier could pull people back to the ground.
With the Black Count’s ability, the effect of the earth barrier he released was definitely much stronger than that of an ordinary earth wizard, and had absolutely reached the level of true knowledge.
Even if Angel entered the earth barrier, without Eremy’s help he would also be suppressed by the traction.
However, when the Black Count came above the pit, that earth barrier, powerful enough to make Angel unable to move, did not have the slightest effect at all.
Even someone as strong as the Black Count, still fell from midair.
Seeing this, Angel immediately picked up the stone slab, and began to observe the flow of the energy lines around them.
Looking at the records on the slab, Angel’s brows knitted slightly, the original energy fluctuations of the earth barrier had been extremely great, but when its core, that is to say the Black Count, came to the location of the opening, the energy lines of the earth barrier bizarrely disappeared.
It was the lines that disappeared, not the energy.
The energy was still there, but having lost its lines, it was like an off-the-rails sky bus, and would only fall in a completely unstructured way.
Precisely because of this ability of the pit that was almost like cheating, Angel’s brows furrowed tightly.
Without the protection of the earth barrier, the Black Count, as expected, fell into the pit.
Angel, on the other hand, sat cross-legged on the ground, carefully observing the flow of the energy lines on the slab, and from time to time stood up, walked over to the vicinity of the external formation disc, and once again picked up the carving pen to engrave.
Time passed little by little.
Roughly three minutes later, Angel stood up, without the slightest hesitation, and with a leap of his whole body, jumped into the pit……
As everything before his eyes went black, Angel felt that he experienced two seconds of weightlessness, and when he stood firm, he had already once again appeared inside Gengar’s body…… that is to say, in that pitch-black space.
……
This space was still pitch-black and unchanged, however, compared to the situation when Angel and Kael had stayed here previously, the level of liveliness had doubled.
Or it could be said, that wherever Daus existed, there could be no lack of boisterous noise.
「Gengar, look at this place, it’s pitch-black all over, have you never thought about sprucing it up? Hang a wall lamp, set out a deep-red lacquered wooden bookshelf, then add a fireplace and a carpet, match it with a soft big sofa, roasting at the fire while resting and reading, don’t you think that would be very cozy?」
Gengar did not speak, but wherever Daus was talking, Vai’s voice could not be missing.
Vai: 「There isn’t even a ventilating window here, and you still want a fireplace? Do you want to suffocate people to death?」
Daus: 「Gengar is a creature of an energy body, it can’t be suffocated to death.」
Vai: 「If it is an energy creature, then what is that pit in the outside world supposed to be, it clearly has a body in the material world.」
At this, Daus and Vai almost simultaneously looked toward Gengar, the meaning being that they hoped Gengar would come and judge between them.
But Gengar was not stupid either, he was very clear that these two people in front of him, one singing and the other echoing, looked as though they were in an endless argument and were seeking him to arbitrate, but in fact were merely probing his true strength.
So, Gengar also did not speak, he only floated in midair and quietly waited…… waiting for the arrival of the last person.
It was not long before Gengar perceived Angel’s presence.
Although it was waiting for Angel, when it truly sensed Angel’s arrival, Gengar still felt a little disappointed. After all, Angel had also fallen into the pit, which meant that this group of people had been totally wiped out.
If it could not be broken, then they could only choose destruction. And what Gengar least wanted to see, was destruction.
Even though Gengar believed in his mother’s strength, in the mouth of the Sovereign of Wisdom this group of people were all no nameless characters, and if they truly played all sorts of trump cards, even if his mother did not die she would still be injured.
Gengar absolutely did not want to see his Mother suffer any harm.
Right now it was already thinking in its heart, whether to indirectly reveal its mother’s ability and let them analyze it…… or perhaps simply banish them to the Mirror World, to sink forever into the Sea of Void Mirrors.
While Gengar was pondering, Angel’s appearance had already been seen by everyone.
Daus subconsciously wanted to tease: 「So you came too,」 but before he could speak, Gengar was one step ahead and said: 「You failed?」
Angel crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against the wall: 「Judging from the result, we were all captured, and this indeed counts as a failure. However, it’s not as if we have no clues at all.」
Gengar’s eyes lit up: 「Oh? You already have a way?」
Angel smiled without giving a direct answer, and instead turned his head to look to the other side.
In the direction he was looking, there was no one at all, it was just an empty wall. However, Angel spoke to this wall that had nothing on it: 「That’s One-Eyed Second Treasure, isn’t it? Do you want to come out and meet us?」
「One-Eyed Second Treasure?」 Everyone was startled: 「It’s here too?」
Everyone looked in the direction Angel was pointing, but they still did not see anything at all. Even the Black Count, who directly looked using an energy perspective, did not discover anything.
Was Angel bluffing?
But if it were bluffing, how could he be aiming so precisely at one direction.
Angel’s gaze had never moved away, which meant that he truly believed, that in this direction there was a One-Eyed Second Treasure that no one else had seen…… One-Eyed Second Treasure.
Because they could not judge true or false, everyone looked toward Gengar, who was floating in midair.
However, Gengar did not make a sound, and no expression could be seen on him. But one second before Gengar had still been conversing with Angel, and then suddenly he fell silent, this in itself was suspicious.
After the air had congealed for several seconds, a voice even deeper than Gengar’s, sounded in the pitch-black space.
「You are very keen. I do not care how you discovered me, but I am very curious, why you chose to point me out.」
As the sound of the voice rang out, a black sphere appeared in front of that wall that had nothing on it.
Angel had originally already wanted to blurt out, A new Gastly!
But thinking of Gengar’s earlier description of Second Treasure, he still held himself back.
However, from One-Eyed Second Treasure’s first line upon appearing, it could already be seen that it was completely different from its elder brother.
By pointing it out, Angel was actually indicating that he had discovered it, which was a way of seizing the initiative in terms of advantage. If Second Treasure were to speak and ask how Angel had discovered it, the right to steer the conversation would basically be in Angel’s hands.
But Second Treasure’s counter-question, directly ignored Angel’s sense of superiority at having discovered him, and instead snatched back the right to speak.
Looking at Second Treasure’s gaze fixed on him, Angel sighed inwardly, As expected, the Sovereign of Wisdom had not been wrong, the one in the One-Eyed family who most needed to be watched out for was this deeply-minded One-Eyed Second Treasure.
Angel: 「In a room where everyone is supposedly known, if a new unknown stranger suddenly appears, no matter what you have to say something and ask, right?」
One-Eyed Second Treasure: 「You called out my name.」
The meaning was, that you knew who I was, so did this still count as the category of an 「unknown stranger」?
Angel said with a smiling squint: 「It’s just like when I first met Gengar, I guessed who it was. In the same way, with you, I’m also just guessing.」
「By the way, Gengar is One-Eyed Big Treasure, that’s the name I gave it. Do you need me to give you one as well?」
After One-Eyed Second Treasure had been silent for a moment: 「No need, my name…… is fine.」
Outwardly Angel had no expression, but inwardly he was secretly laughing, he had long known that the three Treasures of the One-Eyed family all had some opinions about their own names. But since it had been agreed to by Younus, they, as the younger generation, could only accept them.
It was precisely because he had seen this point, that Angel deliberately brought it up this way.
Sure enough, when One-Eyed Second Treasure said that its own name was 「fine」, even its tone could hardly stay steady.
「Is that so, actually I also think the name Second Treasure isn’t bad.」 Angel said with a smiling squint: 「I wonder, did Second Treasure suddenly come here also because of the interception mission that that person entrusted to you?」
At the moment when One-Eyed Second Treasure’s mentality was collapsing from being affectionately called 「Second Treasure」, Angel smoothly took back the right to speak.
And as for One-Eyed Second Treasure, because his defenses kept being broken by his name, he no longer cared about any right to speak, and only hoped that Angel would quickly move this round of name-related topic along.
Chapter 2791 Contract and Cooperation <TOC> Chapter 2793 Second Treasure Appears