Chapter 451 Like the Night's Canter <TOC> Chapter 453 Gap
Translator: SumTLMan
Sanders’ eyes narrowed, suddenly stopping in midair.
“What’s wrong, old friend?” Canter inquired.
Instead of responding, Sanders reached out with a pale gray shadow resembling a hand, grabbing the book that had fallen to the ground during the dispute between the two apprentices.
The book was open, and the page revealed a portrait of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed individual.
“Is this… Angel?” Sanders whispered, quickly reading the news article.
After finishing, Sanders’ expression darkened. An immense pressure radiated from him, and in a place unseen by others, Sanders’ shadow suddenly opened its eyes, revealing a blood-red, sinister mouth. Countless black shadow threads spread out from him like a spider web, entangling everyone present.
All the apprentices on the ground, including the bookworm who had dropped the book during the argument, were frozen in place.
The wicked and violent pressure made it difficult for everyone to breathe. It wasn’t just the pressure; there was also an indescribable heaviness lingering in their chests, constantly expanding, expanding…
Boom—
A violent noise suddenly erupted from the crowd of apprentices.
Several low-level apprentices couldn’t withstand the pressure, their hearts exploding, sending flesh and organs flying.
Sanders’ abnormal state was immediately noticed by Canter. If it was just pressure, Canter wouldn’t have cared, but he was surprised to discover that Sanders’ shadow was actually emitting black threads, devouring the blood and desires of everyone present.
Canter’s expression changed dramatically. This place was the headquarters of Sky Mechanical City, surrounded by wizards. Sanders’ actions were a direct challenge to the city’s authority.
“Old friend, you…” Canter was about to ask a few questions, but the shadow behind Sanders suddenly revealed a bloodthirsty smile.
A terrifying thought that even Canter could sense arose in his heart.
What kind of spell was this? Canter instinctively stepped back.
Although Canter’s inquiry was unsuccessful, his call genuinely reached Sanders, who was immersed in his emotions. Sanders lifted his colder and darker face, looking around.
Seeing the black shadow threads resembling spider webs covering the entire area, he snorted coldly.
“Granting you some freedom, but you want to turn the world upside down.” As Sanders’ cold words fell, the heaviness in the apprentices’ chests disappeared, and the black shadow threads entwining the area instantly retracted.
As the shadow threads were completely withdrawn, the blood-red mouth of the shadow behind him suddenly curved into a grin: “Since my disciple has been crafted into a magic puppet, why not let me take over the body?”
“Dawn has broken, are you still lost in your sweet dreams?” Sanders pointed his wand at the air, and a strand of dark mental energy transformed into a vortex, disappearing without a trace.
When the shadow of darkness was gone from the scene, Canter regained his composure and asked quietly: “What just happened? Why did you suddenly seem off?”
As Canter asked, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the magazine Sanders was holding in his hand.
“A new puppet from Bogula?” Canter frowned, wondering how this was related to Sanders’ change in mood. Could it be that the portrait of the young man in the picture was a relative of Sanders’?
Sanders closed the book, revealing the cover titled —Sky of Truth—.
“Nothing, I just found something interesting.” Sanders’ expression remained cold and dark, but Canter detected a faint trace of sinking twilight feeling.
Something interesting? Before Canter could think more, Sanders suddenly turned and didn’t leave but flew back into Sky Mechanical City.
Canter followed, puzzled, and asked: “Old friend, where are you going?”
“To find someone.”
Sanders’ voice was cold, carrying a chilling sense of threat.
“Find someone? Who?” Canter felt there was something wrong with Sanders’ expression; it didn’t look like he was going to find someone, but rather… to kill someone.
“A red-haired brat.”
…
Meanwhile, Sabo was assigned by his mentor, Midora, to notify Bogula. However, when he arrived at Sky Mechanical City, he found it locked in a secret meeting, so he decided to wait outside.
But before he could wait long, a message from the organization made him frown.
Two wizard apprentices were fighting in the main city area, seriously violating the order of Sky Mechanical City.
This was supposed to be an ordinary matter, and the Magic Eye would enforce the rules. However, the two wizard apprentices completely ignored the Magic Eye, even smashing it to pieces.
Ignoring the Magic Eye was tantamount to contempt for the authority of Sky Mechanical City. The organization immediately issued an arrest mission to the apprentice guards.
However, these two apprentices were extraordinary in strength. No matter how many apprentices were sent, they defeated them all. In a short time, nearly a dozen wizard apprentices were beaten to a pulp. Even Sabo’s student, a peak bloodline apprentice, had all four limbs broken in a direct confrontation.
Since the apprentices couldn’t handle it, the mission fell on the heads of the wizards responsible for maintaining regional stability.
Coincidentally, the area Sabo was in charge of was where the two apprentices were fighting.
The organization demanded that he immediately deal with the situation. Receiving the message, Sabo had no choice but to temporarily leave Sky Mechanical City and head to the main city area to resolve the matter.
From the image transmitted by the communication device, it can be seen that the two people fighting should not be from Sky Mechanical City, one male and one female.
The man was wearing a pale blue robe, with magic runes shining faintly on it. He had a patch of fish scales on his forehead and stood atop a huge blue whale.
The woman was an unparalleled beauty with a pair of pure white wings on her back, wearing transparent white gauze, and exuding both sacred and seductive qualities. Sabo couldn’t tell from the image whether this woman was a humanoid or a human who had a wing implant.
When Sabo arrived at the scene, he found that the entire area had been submerged by rolling seawater. The surrounding shops, mostly run by ordinary people, had activated their defensive spells and closed for safety. The streets were incredibly quiet, except for a few apprentice guards struggling to stay afloat in the water, and no one else.
With Sabo’s arrival came the pressure of a wizard, forcing the man and woman to stop fighting and look at him.
“Mentor…” His student, with limbs bent at strange angles, pleaded for help pitifully.
Sabo’s eyes flashed with cold light.
“Beat the young one, and the old one comes.” The woman with wings on her back whispered.
“Didn’t expect the famous Sky Mechanical City to be like this.” The young man’s voice carried a hint of mockery, as the giant blue whale beneath his feet quietly blew bubbles.
Sabo sneered. He noticed that both the man and woman were only at the second-level apprentice stage. As for why they could defeat top apprentices… Sabo’s gaze fell on the blue whale beneath the young man’s feet and the wings on the woman’s back.
One was a magical pet with the pressure of a half-step wizard, and the other had wings that faintly emanated wizard-level fluctuations. Not to mention the magical pet, but those wings should have been transplanted from a formal wizard-level winged humanoid.
Sabo approached them step by step, with the intense pressure of a wizard, causing their movements to slow down.
As Sabo approached, the two seemed to see a black bear with a crescent mark on its chest roaring.
“Mad Bear, Sabo.” The woman seemed to recognize his identity, her eyes flashing with astonishment.
“I don’t care what grudge you two have. If you dare to violate Sky Mechanical City’s prohibition and cause trouble here, there is only one way to die.”
As Sabo’s words fell, the young man suddenly turned into a puddle of water and merged into the shallow expanse of water on the ground.
The woman also snorted coldly, flapping her wings and shooting countless steel needle-like feather arrows.
Sabo completely ignored the attack, and his huge fist slammed down in the air, shaking the void with the power of his flesh. The ripples instantly stunned the man and woman, who collapsed on the ground.
Even the giant blue whale was smashed to pieces by this punch and obediently turned into a puddle of blue liquid, melting into the fish scales on the man’s forehead.
In the astonished gazes of men and women, Sabo raised his fist again.
The communicator at his waist suddenly vibrated, and he received another message. The sender was still the organization’s law enforcement department, but this time the message was much shorter:
“Do not harm them, bring them back.”
Sabo sent a message back, asking for the reason with a puzzled expression. After a while, a line of text appeared on the communicator:
“Son of the Ocean and Body of Radiant Light.”
By the time Sabo dealt with these two individuals with deep backgrounds and special constitutions, it was almost dawn.
“What a nuisance, I didn’t expect all these proud children of providence to come to the opening of the Purification Garden. Causing trouble and remaining unharmed, I raised my fist, and in the end, I had to put it down awkwardly. I lost all my dignity,” he grumbled as he returned to the other side of Sky Mechanical City.
Having left for most of the day, he wondered if the meeting at Bogula’s side had already concluded.
Thinking of Angel’s matter, Sabo felt restless again.
This matter couldn’t be delayed either, after all, Master Midora had already said that Sanders seemed to have come to Sky Mechanical City. If he found out, who knows what consequences there would be.
Sabo had not yet approached Mechanical Tower when he felt an unusual atmosphere.
Due to its proximity to Mechanical Research Department, many apprentice wizards usually gathered here. When he left at dawn yesterday, there were hundreds of apprentices, but now it was as quiet as a graveyard.
He couldn’t hear the noise and clamor of the apprentices, but he could feel the mixed and intense wizard aura.
Sabo’s heart suddenly felt apprehensive.
The mysterious intuition of wizards gave him a sense of ominous foreboding: could something have gone wrong?
Sabo accelerated and flew towards Mechanical Tower. From afar, he felt the intense atmosphere of solemnity and killing intent, with two powerful auras confronting each other.
Before he could get close, a voice reached his ears.
“Sabo, don’t go any further. The battle ahead is not something you can intervene in.” The person who sent the message was a good friend of Sabo.
“Who is fighting? This is the heart of Mechanical City, who would be so bold?” Sabo quickly inquired.
“I don’t know how it happened, but Phantom Master suddenly started fighting with… Bogula.”