Chapter 490 Early Sacrifice <TOC> Chapter 492 Cause
Translator: SumTLMan
“This must be Mr. Angel, indeed worthy of being the esteemed disciple of Phantom Master. As Cherie said, if it weren’t for your help just now, we might have faced dire consequences.” Suddenly, a voice came, and Angel turned around to find that the speaker was a young man standing next to a White Sand Rhino.
He initially didn’t want to pay attention, but seeing Alan lying on the White Sand Rhino, he nodded.
“It was just a coincidence, nothing more,” Angel replied politely. “Besides, if it weren’t for the arrival of Lord Rosen, I might have been in trouble as well.”
“Either way, if you hadn’t appeared, we would have been in trouble,” the young man complimented with a smile and introduced himself: “My name is Hermes, from Western Demos.”
Before the young man’s voice had faded, Loki, the naughty kid holding the White Sand Rhino’s horn, raised his hand and rushed to introduce himself: “I’m Loki, also from Western Demos!”
“This is my junior brother,” Hermes said, pointing at Loki.
Western Demos? Angel hadn’t heard the name. But it didn’t matter. He nodded at them, intending to inquire about Alan’s situation when Loki suddenly asked: “Big brother Angel, why did you attract so many fish monsters just now? Did you go to the heavens?”
Loki’s question caught everyone off guard. People instinctively looked at Loki, while Freud and Daniel exchanged glances, then followed the crowd and looked at Angel. Actually, everyone present wanted to know the answer to this question, but due to their own little thoughts, they all held back. Even Hermes wanted to secretly ask about the heavens, but he didn’t expect Loki to bring it up seemingly intentionally but actually unintentionally.
Cherie frowned. She rarely thought about things from other people’s perspectives, and had suppressed the question, only for a little kid to ask it. She disdainfully glanced at Loki and coldly said: “This is none of your business. Just be a burden and hide behind your senior brother. Don’t think your young age gives you the right to act without restraint.”
Being scolded by Cherie, Loki wanted to argue. But Tana pulled his arm, and Hermes secretly told him not to speak anymore, so Loki could only pout and lower his head, looking unhappy.
Angel didn’t expect Cherie to suddenly speak up, let alone take his side.
Although Angel didn’t think the question was difficult to answer, since Cherie had scolded Loki, he felt embarrassed to undermine her authority and simply remained silent.
With Angel not speaking, the others could only pretend that nothing had happened and continue on their journey.
They flew for more than half a day and were surprised to find that the original wasteland was covered with a layer of scorching lava that was spreading at an incredibly fast pace.
The view was filled with red lava, surrounded by smoke, and the lava had even encroached upon the prairie. Judging by the amount of lava, perhaps the entire prairie would be swallowed by it.
Their faces looked a bit grim. If they couldn’t find an exit soon, they might not even have a place to stand. They couldn’t keep flying in the sky forever, not to mention the problem of magic consumption, just dealing with the flying fish would be troublesome.
On their journey, they had already killed countless flying fish swarms. Angel witnessed their strength. If he didn’t have his gravity vein, it might be difficult to tell who would win in a head-to-head confrontation, especially Hermes, whose control over the sand and dust had reached a masterful level. Between the flying sand and rocks, the flying fish swarm was drained of blood, turning them into dried corpses.
Initially, Angel had outsmarted the flying fish swarm and defeated them with ease. However, Hermes faced them head-on and also defeated them with ease.
Comparing the two, it was hard to say who was stronger, but it highlighted that Hermes was extremely powerful.
As they continued to fly, they tried to keep up with the lava’s speed, but the lava was still corroding the prairie from all directions, and no one knew where to stop.
At this moment, Daniel stopped: “I won’t go with you anymore, let’s part ways here.”
Having said that, Daniel and Freud exchanged glances, then looked at Isio, who nodded in agreement. The three of them left together. However, before leaving, Isio said with his unpleasant voice: “Sunisha, this incident happened because of you. If you manage to leave the Purification Garden alive, I hope you can give us an explanation. Of course, I hope you die here.”
After saying this, Isio glanced at Angel, knowing that Angel was the one eavesdropping at the time. He originally wanted to mock Angel, but he was saved by him before, and even though he didn’t want to admit it, it was a fact. Plus, Angel’s strength was indeed astonishing, and he was Sanders’ disciple, so there was no need to offend him thoroughly.
So, Isio just nodded to Angel as a greeting and left with Daniel and Freud.
Isio’s words before leaving made Sunisha and Carvelyn the focus again, but they didn’t seem to care, allowing people’s gazes to sweep over them.
Julie snorted coldly: “I’ll go alone too. I don’t want to continue following you. Who knows if you’ll harm me again.” As she said this, Julie looked coldly at Carvelyn and Tana, then expressed her gratitude to Angel before disappearing into the depths of the smoke.
In the following time, everyone left one after another. In the end, only Cherie, Angel, Carvelyn, Sunisha, Hermes, and Tana remained.
Cherie also intended to leave, but she didn’t have the mood to say goodbye to others, so she directly turned her broom around and prepared to leave.
Seeing this, Angel immediately let go of her hand, took out the Gondola from his bracelet, and jumped on it.
The beautiful Gondola appeared, attracting everyone’s attention. The starry sky curtain covering the Gondola was particularly dreamy and beautiful in the night.
Cherie frowned and looked at Angel with a puzzled expression.
Angel sat down in the Gondola and shrugged at her: “If you want to go, just go. I don’t plan to leave for now.”
Cherie: “Why?”
Angel didn’t answer, as he had been pondering what the thin film in the sky meant and what the constantly flowing hourglass was trying to convey.
Did it mean that something would happen in two hours? Or was it something else?
It wasn’t until Rosen arrived that Angel vaguely grasped a clue. When Rosen dealt with the Ink Touch King, he mentioned “sacrifice in advance.” Did that mean the real sacrifice hadn’t started yet?
And was the so-called real sacrifice when the golden sand in the hourglass’s square glass sphere finished flowing, meaning it would start in two hours?
Angel had an intuition that the film overhead must be the exit. But since the film couldn’t be opened yet, he didn’t need to wander around. When it was about time, he would fly to the sky to see what happened next.
During the time waiting for the film to open, he planned to follow the main force. Hermes was quite powerful, able to handle the flying fish swarm on his own, so Angel could take the opportunity to recover some magic power under the big tree.
And most importantly,
Angel didn’t want to stay with Cherie. He had never really liked her personality, but since she came into the Purification Garden to find him and had just cooperated with him, he couldn’t say that out loud.
“I promised Mentor that I would cover you,” Cherie said coldly when Angel didn’t respond.
Cherie’s words drew the attention of others. They thought it was a bit of a joke for Cherie to say she would cover Angel, who had managed to escape a large group of demon fish and had a nearly wizard-level phosphorescent jellyfish.
“Do you think I need your cover?” Angel retorted.
Cherie was silent for a moment. She had originally thought Angel would be like Loki, a burden, but reality showed her that Angel was not only extremely strong, but also had intelligence and calmness far surpassing others in critical situations.
If they were to choose a target for sacrifice, Angel would not be on the list.
However, since she had promised Mentor, she didn’t want to go back on her word.
In the end, Cherie still didn’t leave and followed the main force instead.
Actually, Angel’s choice made others feel good too. Hermes had thought about acting separately, but since Angel planned to follow them and he couldn’t part with Tana, and on the other side, Sunisha and Carvelyn seemed to be taking it easy and going with the flow, he couldn’t bring himself to say it out loud.
Moreover, Hermes had a feeling that both Angel and Sunisha might know where the exit was. Otherwise, why would they be so relaxed and not in a hurry? Since they knew the exit, following them would allow them to find the exit as soon as possible.
With that, everyone had their own thoughts and moved in a certain direction together. As for where this direction led, no one knew.
During this time, Sunisha kept looking back at the Gondola’s appearance, apparently very fond of it. However, for some reason, she didn’t initiate a conversation with Angel.
Angel then focused his gaze on Hermes.
Hermes had been using the flight spell, consuming a large amount of magical power, and Angel signaled him to rest on the Gondola.
Hermes glanced at Tana and asked Angel if he could let her on the Gondola as well. Angel took a quick look at Tana, who smiled back at him.
Distracted by Tana’s extremely sexy “three-point” outfit, he hesitated for a moment. But thinking that Hermes had taken on the task of clearing the swarm of flying fish, he eventually nodded in agreement.
Hermes and Tana rested on the Gondola, while the White Sand Rhino stepped through the air at the side of the Gondola.
During this time, Angel secretly observed Alan, who had collapsed on the back of the White Sand Rhino. His strength was too weak, at the same level as Shalem, and he wondered why he had come to the dangerous Purification Garden.
Angel had once heard Jon mention three great joys in life. Although he didn’t understand the other two completely, he remembered one sentence very clearly: Meeting Old Friends in a foreign land.
Although he and Alan might not be the closest of friends, after spending more than half a year together since leaving Grud Town, they could be considered friends who could chat with each other.
Moreover, both Alan and Angel were from the Old Earth Continent. With this shared connection to their homeland, Angel paid extra attention to Alan.
Angel carefully looked at him and found that Alan was in a state of unconsciousness. His injuries were not severe, and it was mostly due to his weak strength and being shaken by the pressure of the Ink Touch King. He should be fine after resting for a while.
As Angel was observing Alan, Tana suddenly said: “I’ve heard Alan mention you before.”