Chapter 414 Isabelle's Warning <TOC> Chapter 416 Mysterious Effects
Translator: SumTLMan
“If it is indeed at the level of a wizard, then don’t even bother dreaming about it,” Angel frowned: “But I don’t think your mentor would go so far as to completely deprive you of hope or even try to kill you, right?”
While there are wizards who might mistreat their apprentices or have no interest in taking apprentices, the vast majority of wizards who have taken apprentices generally wouldn’t actively harm them. After all, with their power, they could easily kill an apprentice without resorting to such underhanded methods. However, this doesn’t rule out those with a cruel sense of humor.
But Angel believes that even the most sadistic wizards, who derive pleasure from watching people struggle in the abyss, would still leave a lifeline for those in the depths.
Because making someone completely despair, lose their will to live, and wait for death like a rotting log, clearly doesn’t align with the aesthetics of a cruel person. Only by providing a slim chance of survival, even if the odds are astronomically low, can they stimulate the human desire to fight.
So, no matter whether it’s from a positive or negative perspective, Angel doesn’t think that Shadow’s mentor would assign an impossible task. Moreover, Shadow has already reached the pinnacle of apprenticeship and is just one step away from becoming a full-fledged wizard. Even the most sadistic mentor wouldn’t completely deprive their apprentice of hope at this final stage. After all, Shadow’s advancement to a full-fledged wizard would not only enhance their lineage’s foundation but also strengthen their lineage’s power and prestige.
“I also don’t think my mentor would go so far as to completely trick me, but I genuinely can’t defeat the Naga,” Shadow agreed with Angel’s words, but after battling with the Naga for two days, he was unable to even touch a hair on its body, which was why he returned disheartened.
After pondering for a moment, Angel said: “Since you were able to leave the battlefield unharmed against a wizard-level opponent, this is probably the lifeline your mentor left for you. Now that the lifeline has appeared, think carefully about what benefits you can gain from it.”
As Angel’s words reached this point, Shadow’s thoughts began to clarify: “Now that you mention it, I might indeed be able to gain something from this…”
Shadow fell deep into thought, recalling the battles he had with the Naga over the past few days.
After a while, Shadow muttered to himself and walked out the door: “I think I have a clue, I need to go take another look.”
With Shadow gone, the spacious bedroom once again became empty.
Angel threw himself heavily onto the bed, unsure of what to do.
Go out and face Felicia? It didn’t seem like a good choice. Although he had passed out that day, he didn’t know what had happened afterward. If Felicia were to ask about his injuries again, how would he respond? Lie? There would be no room for lying in front of a full-fledged wizard.
Just leave like this? Angel didn’t want that either, as he was still worried about Toby.
Feeling frustrated, Angel decided to lie on the bed and empty his mind.
After an unknown amount of time, Angel was awakened by the sound of thunder and lightning. He got out of bed and walked to the balcony. The clear sky outside had disappeared, replaced by rolling thunderclouds and lightning slithering through the sky.
The Black Forest stretched on endlessly, with no end in sight. Apart from the occasional ghost drifting through the air, glaring at Black Castle with resentment, there was no other scenery to be seen.
Upon witnessing the reemergence of these ghosts like spring shoots after the rain, Angel suddenly recalled something.
With a flash of light in his palm, a silver revolver appeared in his hand.
Since crafting this gun, he had not yet tested its effects. According to the woman who resembled Isabelle, this gun possessed some mysterious properties. As for what these properties were, Angel decided to seize this opportunity to test it.
Angel didn’t want to alert the others, so he jumped directly off the balcony and headed towards Black Castle.
Naturally, his departure did not escape the others’ notice. As he landed, Felicia in the hall looked up, glanced through the wall at Angel’s position, but said nothing and lowered her head to continue mixing drinks.
Angel stepped out of Black Castle, following the winding path down the mountain.
Holding the silver revolver imbued with the “Prelude of Death,” he named it the “Prelude of Reincarnation.” Although “Reincarnation” was coined by Promi, Angel personally thought it suited the nature of this gun and simply adopted it. However, to differentiate, Angel added the suffix “Prelude” to it.
As he was pressed for time during crafting, the appearance of the Prelude of Reincarnation was not meticulously carved. But Angel used the magic formation patterns as decorative runes, engraving them onto the surface, from the barrel to the stock, making the gun look exceptionally exquisite.
Even though intermittent sobbing could be heard from the dark forest on both sides of the road, Angel didn’t venture into it. The forest terrain was too complicated, and the darkness made it difficult to discern possible traps.
His target was the graveyard.
There were many ghost in the graveyard, and the Prelude of Reincarnation, based on the effects of the magic formation itself, was a large-scale ghost killing spell. Choosing the graveyard was the safest option.
Upon arriving at the graveyard, Angel activated his Boundless Silence and moved to one side of the graveyard. He saw four ghost creatures, climbing a gallows and weeping with their faces covered.
Angel raised the muzzle, aiming at the gallows.
Although he now understood that these female ghost had experienced tragic pasts, their best outcome was complete annihilation since they had already fallen.
Pressing the trigger, magical power was transmitted, and the magic formation surged.
Immediately, a silent wave emanated from the gun, extending outward in a 180-degree arc. The target gallows were completely encompassed.
The “Prelude of Death” actually released an extremely low-frequency sound, causing the chaotic energy within the ghost to become unbalanced, thus achieving the goal of destroying them. Therefore, this nearly visible wave was, in fact, that extremely low-frequency sound.
According to Angel’s speculation, it was an attack similar to infrasound.
As the sound wave passed through the ghost, they had no reaction. Only the sudden gust of wind caused their sobbing to pause momentarily.
“Could it be ineffective?” As Angel frowned, the ghost’s body suddenly emitted wisps of gray-black gas, which gradually dissipated along with the ghost, turning them into debris.
It was effective. Angel’s eyes brightened, and he continued testing, moving through the graveyard. Almost all of the ghost within the range of the sound wave attack slowly turned into gray-black gas and disappeared.
According to the “Prelude of Death,” this gray-black gas was probably the chaotic energy the ghost possessed. When the chaotic energy collapsed, the ghost would dissipate.
The experimental results were the same as Angel initially imagined. However, where was the so-called “mysterious property”?
Angel walked to the edge of a large pit in the graveyard, which was a mass grave filled with decomposing corpses in various stages of decay. In addition, there was a densely packed army of ghost.
Angel raised the Prelude of Reincarnation and fired a shot into the pit.
After two or three seconds, the ghost did not emit any screams, but a large amount of gray-black gas surged upwards, almost obscuring Angel’s eyes.
At the same time, Angel suddenly felt something strange, as if a white light spot was being poured back into the gun barrel?
Was it an illusion?
With doubt, Angel continued to clear the ghost in the graveyard. At first, he didn’t notice anything, but after he eliminated a group of about a hundred ghost gathered together, he saw the white light spots pouring back into the gun barrel along with the billowing black-gray gas.
There really were white light spots?
Angel’s eyes brightened. Could this be the mysterious property that Isabelle mentioned?
In the following time, Angel paid more attention to his senses.
Soon, he discovered that every time he eliminated an ghost, a white light would pour back, but it was extremely scarce and almost invisible to the naked eye. Only when he eliminated hundreds of ghost at once could the gathered white light spots be visible to the naked eye. However, even then, the white light spots were still very small, like dust particles.
To test the effect of the white light spots, he continued to kill the ghost.
The ghost in the graveyard were almost completely cleared by Angel, but the effect of the white light remained inconspicuous. Angel thought for a moment and decided to follow the path, clearing the ghost on both sides of the Black Forest. However, to be safe, he did not plan to step deep into the forest.
Half a day later, Angel killed nearly two thousand ghosts, and the “Prelude of Reincarnation” finally changed.
The Prelude of Reincarnation had the appearance of a revolver. For a revolver, the magazine was actually the “cylinder.” Although the magic formation of the “Prelude of Death” was engraved on it, the magazine itself was not of great use. However, Angel still crafted the cylinder-like magazine.
His original intention was to load bullets engraved with “Sharp Magic Rune,” “Armor-Piercing Magic Rune,” “Flame Magic Rune,” “Frost Magic Rune,” and so on into the magazine. This would allow the revolver not only to serve as a weapon against the ghost but also to cause damage to material objects.
Initially, Angel wanted to engrave an Expansion Rune inside the magazine to hold more bullets. However, he had never learned the Expansion Rune, so he had to give up on the idea, ultimately limiting the magazine to hold only six bullets.
In any case, before he crafted any bullets, the magazine of the “Prelude of Reincarnation” was essentially just for show.
But after Angel had killed two thousand ghost, the magazine underwent a change.
The white light points that had returned all gathered inside the magazine, forming a shining white bullet that occupied one of the six chambers. Angel tried rotating the cylinder, turning it to the chamber containing the white light bullet.
To his astonishment, he could actually fire it?!
What was the purpose of this white light bullet? Could this be the mysterious special effect of the “Prelude of Reincarnation”?
Angel used his mental power to feel the only white light bullet in the magazine. He vaguely sensed an obscure, different kind of energy, but he couldn’t determine what kind of energy it was.
Only by firing it would he know.
Based on common sense, Angel believed that this bullet might also have an effect on the ghost. He looked left and right, trying to find an ghost to test the effect, but he had cleared out most of the ghost in the vicinity. Surprisingly, he didn’t see a single ghost at a glance.
Angel did not plan to enter the deep forest. He intended to return to the main road and head to the Black Forest on the other side.
When he returned to the main road, he unexpectedly discovered a lone ghost.
This ghost was not weeping with its face covered, but instead had its back to Angel, lifting its head covered in black hair and gazing in the direction of Black Castle.
Angel hadn’t seen her front, but just by looking at her back, he could sense a strong aura of hatred.
“You’ll do,” Angel murmured quietly.
He raised the Prelude of Reincarnation and aimed it at this strangely behaving ghost.
Chapter 414 Isabelle's Warning <TOC> Chapter 416 Mysterious Effects