Chapter 487 Fury <TOC> Chapter 489 Self-Inflicted Carnage
Translator: SumTLMan
At the same time, the magma of the entire lava lake began to explode in large quantities, with splashes reaching dozens of meters high. As everyone was puzzled, an extremely powerful and violent oppressive force began to spread from the abyss.
The pressure was bearable at first, but as the roar continued, the pressure grew stronger. In the end, everyone felt extremely uncomfortable, and the weakest among them, Alan, even coughed up blood and lay gasping on the white rhino’s back.
As everyone was astonished, the roar from the abyss came in waves, shaking the heavens.
The intense sound waves not only caused the magma to explode but also shattered the scorched earth, with smoke and dust rolling in.
When the sound waves reached their peak, a head suddenly emerged from the abyss.
The Ink Touch King, which had fallen into the abyss, suddenly jumped out again. It looked extremely furious, its skin constantly turning red, white steam rising, and blood flowing backward.
In addition to the change in skin color, its head also kept swelling, like inflating a balloon, and reached its limit in just a few moments.
The situation was evident – the Ink Touch King was furious, but why did it suddenly become angry?
Everyone looked at each other, and finally, all eyes settled on the bag in Sunisha’s hand.
Sunisha originally planned to show off the Ink Touch King’s egg in the bag, but seeing everyone’s eyes, she instinctively put the bag into an exquisitely beautiful butterfly-shaped necklace around her neck.
“A spatial tool?” Everyone looked at Sunisha in astonishment, not expecting that a gourmet apprentice would have a spatial tool that many wizards didn’t possess.
Sunisha grabbed Carvelyn: “Run, it seems to be going berserk!”
With that, the two prepared to flee. Everyone else also sensed something was wrong, as the pressure initially only made them uncomfortable, but as the Ink Touch King’s skin color changed, it became increasingly unbearable, even reaching the level of a formal wizard’s pressure. Under the continuously rising pressure, they became somewhat panicked.
Everyone followed Sunisha, flying out of the lava lake.
“Roar—” As if noticing the escape of everyone, a roar filled with energy fluctuations emanated from the Ink Touch King’s mouth.
Everyone stopped in their tracks at this roar, not because they didn’t want to run, but because they couldn’t.
The intense energy fluctuations not only made the surrounding air stagnate, but everyone also seemed to be trapped in a quagmire, their movements slowed, and some even fell into the lava due to this.
In such a situation, Isio glared at Sunisha: “It’s definitely because you stole its egg. Hurry up and return it, or else we’ll all die.”
Sunisha looked impatient: “What does it have to do with me? Who knows if it’s angry because of the egg? Besides, by the time the Blood Sacrifice begins, it’s going to be in the front line anyway. The egg would be better off with me than staying there!”
“Anyone’s offspring being stolen would drive them mad. You tricked us into attacking the Ink Touch King before, and now you’re endangering all of us.” The speaker was Juli, who resented Carvelyn’s actions in the wasteland and now directly blamed Carvelyn and Sunisha for everything.
“Anyway, I won’t give it back. We’ll just have a fight! Whoever has the biggest fist has the say!”
“It’s not a matter of who has the biggest fist, it’s that we’re all going to die now!” Isio exclaimed angrily, pointing at the Ink Touch King, which had already grown significantly: “We can’t move now, it’s going to play us to death sooner or later.”
“Don’t worry, there’s a magic formation beneath this lava lake that limits the Ink Touch King’s movement. It can’t leave the abyss within a thousand meters, and we can slowly escape.” As soon as Sunisha’s words fell, as if to prove her point, a magic formation with strange runes rose from the lava lake. Numerous light columns rose from the magic formation, like a cage, trapping the Ink Touch King layer by layer.
“See?” Sunisha pointed to the magic formation: “With it, we don’t have to worry…”
Before she could finish the word “worry,” the Ink Touch King roared again, waving its massive tentacles and striking the light columns at the edge of the magic formation. Each time a tentacle touched a light column, it would be restrained or cut off by the magic formation’s power. In a short time, the Ink Touch King lost dozens of tentacles. But it seemed to feel no pain and continued to wave its tentacles, glaring at Sunisha and the others with rage.
Its skin was turning red, its body was growing, and its power was increasing.
Suddenly, a “crack” sounded from the magic formation below. Everyone looked down and saw a light column shattered, with the magic formation cracking along a rune. The cracks grew more numerous and larger with the Ink Touch King’s movements.
Seeing the magic formation in danger, if the Ink Touch King were to break through, the consequences would be unimaginable…
“Aren’t you going to return its eggs now? Do you really want everyone to die here?” Isio shouted.
Sunisha hesitated a bit. If she didn’t return the eggs, they might really be done for. Just a few eggs, why was this creature so furious?
“If we return them now, can we really quell the Ink Touch King’s rage?” Carvelyn asked.
Everyone hesitated, looking at the current situation, it didn’t seem certain.
“But if we don’t return them, it’s a dead end. If we do, there might still be a chance to live.” Juli said coldly.
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At the same time the magic formation shattered, in the top hall of Mechanical Tower, Rosen suddenly frowned: “The magic formation restricting the Ink Touch King has broken.”
Everyone was still watching Angel’s breakout, and when Rosen spoke, they didn’t quite understand the situation.
Rosen switched the screen to the lava lake, and when everyone saw the larger, blood-red Ink Touch King, they were all stunned.
“What… has it gone berserk? Why did this happen at this time?” Except for Muse and Rosen, no one else knew about the events at the lava lake.
Muse’s eyes narrowed slightly: “It seems that they really stole the Ink Touch King’s egg, otherwise it wouldn’t be so angry over a few ants.”
“The Ink Touch King has gone mad, and its power is rapidly increasing, but this kind of increase is abnormal. When its anger subsides, there will definitely be a decrease in strength.” Rosen said, and then sighed slightly: “As the main sacrifice, the Ink Touch King’s unnatural power increase will inevitably shake its own foundation. When the main sacrifice’s strength decreases, the number of auxiliary sacrifices must increase.”
What Rosen meant was… originally, perhaps 90% of the apprentices were needed as sacrifices, but now, even more might be necessary.
“If in the end, a hundred percent of the people become sacrifices, that would be interesting.” Muse said with a smile.
“At the moment, we should either kill the Ink Touch King immediately, allowing its life force to be absorbed into the Purification Garden, or find a way to calm it down,” Rosen said: “We can’t use a hundred percent of the people as sacrifices. There’s too much involved… Well, I’ll go in now and stop the Ink Touch King.”
As Rosen was about to leave the mechanical tower,
“Wait a moment, have another look.” Suddenly, Muse spoke up. He pointed lightly, and the target of the screen changed, switching to Angel’s perspective. They saw Angel, with a swarm of magical fish, rushing towards the lava area.
…
Returning to Angel’s perspective, under the attack from both sides, he suffered injuries to his body and finally managed to break through the encirclement. Without stopping, he immediately flew downwards.
Perhaps it was intuition or experience from his previous journey, the path Angel took was the same one he had taken when he first arrived.
With the rolling fish tide, Angel left a trail of dust behind.
According to the survival rules of animals, if a hunter fails to catch its prey for a long time, it will usually give up and change targets. But the flying fish swarm behind Angel didn’t care about reason; they were determined to follow him and not give up.
Under these circumstances, Angel couldn’t rely on the fish swarm giving up; he needed to actively seek an opportunity to escape.
He knew that there was a lava lake below, and he remembered that there weren’t many fish monsters around the lava lake. The thick smoke would provide the perfect cover for his escape.
However, in order to completely shake off the fish swarm, he needed to first deal with his injuries. Otherwise, the smell of blood alone would make it difficult to get rid of the flying fish.
To treat his injuries, Angel could only run for a while, then return to his physical body, use a healing spell, and then cast the Mysterious Soul Whisper to detach. This method did speed up the healing process, but because he couldn’t run at full speed, it was difficult to shake off the fish swarm behind him.
It wasn’t until he was almost at the lava lake that Angel fully healed his injuries.
During this time, Angel discovered a small piece of flesh under his hooded cloak.
Looking at this small piece of flesh with broken scales, Angel suddenly realized why he was discovered by sharks in the sky. It was because the blood and flesh of the exploding fish splashed onto his clothes, and the bloody smell of the fish attracted the attention of the sharks.
At that time, Angel was in a mental state and completely unaware of this. The result was the failure of his spell, Boundless Silence.
Angel sighed. Although the invisibility of Boundless Silence could sometimes make it difficult for even official wizards to detect, it also had many flaws.
Feeling helpless, Angel simply put the cloak directly into the bracelet.
As he approached the haze of white smoke near the lava area, Angel could vaguely see the red glow emitted by the ground lava lake. He planned to return to his physical body while the smoke was dense.
As soon as he entered the smoke zone, his soul returned to his body.
Without the gravity network after the soul returned to the body, his body naturally fell. After stabilizing his figure, he used a cleansing spell to remove all the dirt and smell from his body. Then he planned to release the Multidimensional Illusion and restart the Boundless Silence to enter a concealed state.
But at this moment, Angel suddenly heard a roar.
Distracted by the roar, his gaze inadvertently looked down and saw a huge red “octopus” angrily stretching out its tentacles, attacking in another direction—
Angel turned his head and found that the target of the “octopus” attack was actually a group of wizard apprentices.
Among this group of apprentices were not only Carvelyn and Sunisha, who had initially plotted against the Ink Touch King’s egg, but even his old acquaintance, Alan!