Chapter 489 Self-Inflicted Carnage <TOC> Chapter 491 Meeting Old Friends
Translator: SumTLMan
Against weaker opponents, Angel had a great chance to twist or deceive their perception. But against this school of fish, along with the powerful phosphorescent jellyfish that were nearly at the level of wizards, Angel had no confidence.
However, he didn’t need to control the powerful fish school, like the first battle he encountered after entering the Purification Garden.
These fish schools were not impenetrable, and sometimes, all that was needed was to pry open a crack, and the water would slowly widen it, making it larger and larger.
What Angel had to do was to open this gap.
As soon as he entered the illusion, Angel felt like a fish in water, with a sense of having everything under control. With a thought, mysterious power surged in the illusion, confusing the flying fish’s perception.
After a while.
As Angel had predicted, less than a tenth of the fish school, which were weaker than him, had their perception confused. Slightly larger fish were not affected.
But to Angel’s surprise, the Ink Touch King, the most powerful in the field and whom he thought would never be deceived, actually showed a hint of confusion in its eyes.
This confusion lasted at most half a second, but during this half-second, the Ink Touch King’s tentacles flailed wildly, hitting many flying fish. This included the phosphorescent jellyfish, which was only slightly weaker than the Ink Touch King!
What Angel initially thought to be a low-success-rate plan, due to the theft of the Ink Touch King’s eggs and its resulting rage and loss of rationality, actually achieved great success!
The number of confused fish increased, and the Ink Touch King’s misattacks made the situation even more chaotic.
The phosphorescent jellyfish counterattacked immediately after being hit by the Ink Touch King. Each of its attacks caused a large number of fish to die. In the end, even some whales slightly weaker than the phosphorescent jellyfish started to attack the Ink Touch King!
Angel took the opportunity to use Boundless Silence and then had his soul leave his body to reach the edge of the misty illusion.
He couldn’t leave the mist, or the confusion effect would be lost, so he had to carefully dodge attacks while secretly expanding the range of the mist to give himself more space to evade.
The battle between the phosphorescent jellyfish and the Ink Touch King became more intense. The jellyfish seemed to be fueled by anger, slowly growing stronger, and its surrounding phosphorescence turned most of the flying fish into bones!
The originally pink transparent jellyfish eventually turned red from anger, its color nearly matching the Ink Touch King’s skin.
Their strength had also almost reached its peak, both achieving the height of wizard-level.
The attacks were earth-shattering, and it didn’t take long for nearly half of the tens of thousands of flying fish to fall!
Angel’s goal was almost achieved, but at the same time, he became more frightened. A careless move, even just a slight scratch of chaotic energy, would result in his immediate death.
Illusion nodes were shattered amidst this chaotic energy, and the Mist Illusion slowly faded away. The fish swarm, caught in the verbal sparring of two powerful beings, fled into the sky as soon as they realized the mist was disappearing, leaving Angel alone.
In an instant, only the phosphorescent jellyfish and the Ink Touch King remained battling in the lava lake.
After the Mist Illusion vanished, Angel immediately escaped from the battlefield. Cherie then picked him up, and they flew away on a broomstick.
On the other side, due to the aggressive provocation of the phosphorescent jellyfish, the Ink Touch King had to focus on dealing with it. Sunisha and the others took advantage of the distraction and escaped the oppressive area, fleeing outward. Seeing this, the Ink Touch King wanted to chase them down, but the enraged phosphorescent jellyfish wouldn’t let it go and continued to entangle it.
Watching its eggs being taken away by Sunisha, the Ink Touch King’s eyes were filled with bloodshot rage. It roared and suddenly doubled in size, its blood gushing from its skin as its strength rose to an unimaginable level!
The oppressive area also expanded several times in an instant, and those who had already escaped far away were once again suppressed.
Everyone’s faces turned ashen, as hope turned back into despair once more.
At this moment, a cold and emotionless mechanical voice suddenly echoed in everyone’s ears: “Power reaching its peak, sacrifice ahead of schedule.”
Hearing this familiar voice, everyone turned to look.
At some point, Rosen, clad in a black robe, appeared above the lava lake.
Rosen looked down at the Ink Touch King and the phosphorescent jellyfish, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. He didn’t expect Muse’s prediction to be accurate, and Angel truly turned the tide in the end.
Of course, with Angel’s strength, even if he were to take on both the Ink Touch King and the phosphorescent jellyfish, he wouldn’t gain any advantage, merely managing to escape unscathed.
However, his actions pitted these two magical fishes, which originally had their territories and didn’t interfere with each other, against one another. The strength of the phosphorescent jellyfish even rose to the wizard level due to this fight.
At the same time, the Ink Touch King’s power also reached an incredible level due to the attacks from the phosphorescent jellyfish and having its eggs stolen. Although this was an abnormal strength that would plummet once it calmed down, perhaps even falling to the mortal realm, it didn’t matter; Rosen was here now.
As long as he sacrificed both the Ink Touch King and the phosphorescent jellyfish at the peak of their powers, the benefits gained would be even more useful than the original sacrifice!
Rosen even calculated that because of the strength increase of one main sacrifice and one deputy sacrifice, at least 20% fewer sacrifices were needed!
That is to say, before, perhaps 90% of apprentices were needed for sacrifices, but now only 70% are needed! It can be said that Angel’s move saved nearly 10,000 people.
Although Rosen didn’t care how many apprentices died, if fewer died, it would be easier to explain to other wizard organizations. This was also good for the Mechanical City itself.
…
With Rosen’s appearance, a violent whirlpool emerged in the pitch-black sky. When Rosen said “sacrifice ahead of schedule,” a giant metal hand hundreds of meters long extended from the whirlpool, covering both the Ink Touch King and Phosphorous Jellyfish.
Even if the strength of the Ink Touch King and Phosphorous Jellyfish had reached their limit, they still had no resistance against Rosen.
Instantly crushed into a meat patty, the energy and flesh that escaped fed the heavens and earth.
After Rosen had done all this, he took a deep look at Angel and then his figure slowly disappeared into the air.
Everyone watched Rosen disappear, felt the energy in the air return to normal, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Loki, who had been lying on the White Sand Rhino, sat up at this time and exclaimed: “It’s finally safe. There shouldn’t be any more incidents, right?”
But as soon as the words fell, they heard a rumbling sound coming from the ground. Looking down, they saw that the scorched earth of the lava area had completely collapsed, with magma erupting upward and occasionally splashing hundreds of meters high. At the same time, a large amount of black smoke formed, making the lava area a forbidden area for life once again!
“Shut up you jinx!” Hermes slapped Loki on the head and said to Tana: “This is not a place to stay for long; let’s leave quickly.”
Tana looked at Alan, who was in a semi-conscious state, and nodded: “Alright.”
Although there had been unpleasant experiences between them before, they had now reached a consensus, flying away from the lava area. While escaping, no one spoke, but their eyes occasionally glanced at the young man hanging on Cherie’s broom.
Their eyes were filled with indescribable emotions.
Although it was Rosen who finally solved the two wizard-level magical beasts, they knew in their hearts that it was this young man who facilitated everything.
At first, they regarded Angel as a coward who did not live up to his reputation, but who dared to bring such a large school of fish on a stroll? Which apprentice dared to scheme against a wizard-level power? Most importantly, he succeeded!
This shows that Angel not only lives up to his name, but his strength is even more formidable than what was written in gossip magazines.
Angel, who was secretly glanced at by everyone, was still trying to catch his breath while hanging on Cherie’s broom.
Facing a wizard-level battle, Angel hadn’t felt too much at the time, but after everything was over, he felt a lingering fear. At that moment, even a slight mistake could have led to his demise, and perhaps even his soul wouldn’t have escaped.
Thinking back on it now, it really sent shivers down his spine.
At this moment, Angel suddenly heard a faint “meow” in his ear. He turned his head to see Luna, the black cat that had been sitting on the end of the broom handle, had jumped onto his shoulder and was softly calling to him.
Perhaps sensing that Angel’s emotions were a bit chaotic, Luna stuck out her pink tongue and licked Angel’s cheek.
Angel was taken aback, and the lingering fear in his heart actually diminished quite a bit.
“Luna is thanking you,” Cherie said indifferently.
“Thanking me?” Angel didn’t understand her meaning for a moment.
“She thinks that without you, we would all probably have died just now, so she is thanking you.”
For some reason, Angel felt that Cherie’s voice didn’t sound as cold as before, and there was a hint of unknown emotion.
Angel nodded noncommittally: “I was just trying to save myself, who knew it would end up like this.”
Cherie originally wanted to ask Angel why he had attracted so many schools of fish, but for once, she considered things from another person’s perspective and felt that asking this question now would be inappropriate. So, she put the thought aside and concentrated on directing the broom forward.
Angel, on the other hand, reached out to pet Luna’s head, trying to express friendliness.
However, one moment Luna was licking Angel’s face, and the next, his hand was scratched with three bloody marks. Angel cried out in pain, and Luna’s tail slapped his face before she jumped back onto the broom without looking back.
“True to its nature as a cat, its temper is so capricious!” Angel cursed in pain and then used a healing spell before glowering at Luna, who looked innocent.
“Luna doesn’t like being touched by others. If you want to pet her, it has to be when she is very happy,” Cherie said.
Angel glanced at the black kitten Luna and asked: “Is she unhappy now?”
“She’s somewhere between happy and unhappy,” Cherie paused for a moment and then suddenly reached out to stroke Luna’s chin: “Now she’s happy.”
Angel: “???”
The black cat’s expression didn’t change at all! How could you tell if she was happy or unhappy? And her mood changed so quickly? Can happiness and unhappiness switch within seconds? Who would know if you were happy or unhappy?
“I know,” Cherie seemed to read the meaning in Angel’s expression: “I understand all of Luna’s emotions.”
Angel secretly complained in his heart, as expected, pets follow their owners, and both their personalities were weirdly tense.
Chapter 489 Self-Inflicted Carnage <TOC> Chapter 491 Meeting Old Friends