Chapter 547 Vivid Blood Red <TOC> Chapter 549 Witch Town
Translator: SumTLMan
When he left the Fingernail Alchemy House, he had an additional pyramid-shaped insect nest on his hand.
The interior of the insect nest was not visible from the outside, but as long as one used mental power to explore, they would discover an ant the size of a finger joint curled up inside.
The color of this ant was black and white, separated from the center of its head.
The overall appearance was a bit like the coat Daedweia gave to Angel. However, after that coat was destroyed by the shadow, it had been piled up in the corner of the bracelet. Once he started learning alchemy clothing, he could try to repair it.
Undoubtedly, this strangely colored ant was the Dreamweaver Ant that Angel had traded for.
Angel played with the Dreamweaver Ant while walking towards the end of Monsignor Street.
However, it didn’t take long for Angel to feel as if someone was following him… Angel furrowed his brows, put the insect nest into his bracelet, and then patted Toby. Toby flew out of his pocket, circled in the air at a speed that was difficult for ordinary people to see, and then landed on his shoulder.
“Someone is indeed following…” Angel frowned, and according to what Toby said, the person following him was a short young man.
The only characteristic was a pair of protruding ears.
Angel roughly guessed who was following him.
With the help of the reflective sign on the side of the road, Angel saw a small figure, and as he expected, it was the alchemy apprentice named Little John.
His whereabouts should not have been revealed by Landis. Landis knew his identity and where he lived, so it was unlikely that he would engage in such a tracking behavior. It seemed that it was Little John’s own decision to follow the shy apprentice, hoping to find out who had traded the core technology of the energy stabilizer.
It seemed that Little John intended to follow him and find a hidden place to rob and threaten him to reveal the alchemical knowledge?
As a result, as soon as he pretended to turn around, Little John immediately covered his face and turned his back, as if as long as he couldn’t see himself, Angel wouldn’t be able to see him either.
Angel: “…”
Such a naive way of hiding, it seemed he had overestimated the other’s intelligence.
Angel walked quickly, and there was a crowded area in front of him. He took advantage of the moment when he passed through the crowd to activate Boundless Silence.
As he stepped out of the crowd, his figure disappeared from Little John’s sight.
Little John stood still, disappointed, and slumped: “How did he suddenly disappear? I wanted to ask him about the treatment method of Star Cold Dragon Bone…”
It seemed hopeless. Little John turned around disheartened and slowly walked away.
On the other side, Angel activated Boundless Silence and quickly left Monsignor Street. He had a good idea of why Little John was following him, but he had no obligation to answer the young man’s questions, and besides, he couldn’t answer them with his current level of potion knowledge.
Having shaken off Little John, Angel quickly left the city.
By the time he returned to the Blooming Manor, the moon was already high in the sky.
Tonight, Sky Mechanical City drifted into a cloudless area, with no clouds to obscure the solitary moon, casting a serene silvery veil over the quiet Blooming Manor.
Adorned with starlight and wearing the moonlight, Angel returned to his room.
As soon as Angel entered his room, he heard some noise from next door. He reached out with his mental powers and found that Babaya was leading the Kulakuka tribe in front of the mansion, dancing and singing around a bonfire.
Angel wondered, what kind of bonfire party was going on so late at night?
Upon listening carefully, he discovered that they were apparently holding their monthly Moon Festival.
Moon Festival? A look of confusion crossed Angel’s face. Had the Month of Recovery already turned the page?
In the blink of an eye, the Month of Hibernation (February) had arrived.
Time flew by quickly. Angel was still reminiscing about the Purification Garden incident during the Month of Recovery, and suddenly he found himself in the Month of Hibernation.
Angel still remembered that when Jon crossed through time and space, falling into Grud Town, it seemed to be during the Month of Hibernation, which was twenty-three years ago.
Since his birth, Angel had been taught by Jon. So, he clearly remembered that every time the Month of Hibernation came, Jon would hold his hand and go to the place where he first arrived, caressing the Heavenly Eye in his hand, hoping to return to Earth from there.
But the wish never came true until Jon threw the Heavenly Eye away in the forest.
Until Jon was invaded by the World Will and could no longer walk.
Until time aged and years passed.
Jon finally extinguished the fire of desire and stayed in the gloomy Pat Manor, never leaving again.
Unconsciously, Angel touched the Heavenly Eye on his chest, and memories of the past appeared in his mind one after another, as clear as if they had happened yesterday.
The moonlight was beautiful, shining on two adjacent houses at the same time, but illuminating two different extremes.
Bustling and cold, separated by just a wall.
…
Angel’s emotions came quickly, and left quickly. Or rather, he dared not let his emotions be completely released, and the five-year agreement with Jon set a gate for his emotions. Before the agreement was fulfilled, he dared not let his emotions flow freely.
After returning from his emotional state, Angel prepared to open the parchment left by the redhead woman.
As Angel was about to take the parchment out of his bracelet, he found something strange when he probed the bracelet with his mental power.
The pyramid-shaped insect nest was originally placed on a box filled with magical materials. But now the insect nest had fallen to the ground?
Angel sent his mental power in and found it empty inside. The Dreamweaver Ant, which had originally been cowering in fear, was gone?!
Where did the Dreamweaver Ant go if it wasn’t in its own nest? Angel began to search with confusion, as he had many precious magical plants and dangerous items in his bracelet.
Soon, Angel locked onto a location.
He saw a spherical structure like a beehive, constantly moving.
Ever since he had taken Toby and Freud out of the bracelet, there were no living creatures inside. Obviously, this “beehive” that was attacking was related to the Dreamweaver Ant.
Upon closer inspection, Angel realized that this “beehive”-sized sphere was actually a gift Canter had given him not long ago.
The Mother Nest of the Softworm.
If Angel remembered correctly, there were Softworm Eggs inside.
The sphere was still moving, and Angel sent his mental power below it, only to see the Dreamweaver Ant struggling to support the sphere, which was dozens of times larger than its body.
Angel remembered that ants could carry objects several dozen times heavier than their own bodies, and obviously, the Dreamweaver Ant proved this point.
What was going on with this Dreamweaver Ant? Instead of staying in its own nest, it went to the Softworm nest and even moved it?
After Angel confirmed that the Softworm Eggs inside the nest were not damaged, he began to observe the situation leisurely.
He was curious to see what the Dreamweaver Ant wanted to do.
In no time, Angel discovered the ant’s destination… next to a small glazed barrel.
This glazed barrel was filled with bright red, containing a barrel of blood – this was Akeso’s essence blood.
At the beginning, Akeso used his essence blood to support Totoro’s life, hanging on for a full thousand years. The entire coffin was filled with Akeso’s essence blood. Since Totoro awakened, Angel, adhering to the principle of not wasting, collected this energy-filled essence blood.
Now, the Dreamweaver Ant actually pushed the Softworm’s nest to the side of Akeso’s essence blood, what was the reason?
Angel waited for the Dreamweaver Ant’s next move.
The ant crawled onto the small barrel, dug out a small piece of the frozen essence blood that Angel had solidified, and then crawled back to the Softworm’s nest. It found a comfortable spot, hugged the essence blood, curled up… and didn’t move.
Angel carefully sensed and found that the Dreamweaver Ant had actually fallen asleep?!
Angel didn’t understand the ant’s actions at all. Was it trying to occupy the nest? It already had a nest, so why not kill the Softworm Eggs?
Moreover, it specifically pushed the nest to this position, was it just to be close to Akeso’s essence blood?
Was Akeso’s essence blood a great source of energy for the Dreamweaver Ant?
With all these questions, Angel didn’t have any answers. However, it seemed that there was no harm for now?
Angel decided to let the Dreamweaver Ant act temporarily and observe for some time.
However, to prevent the ant from running around and damaging other materials, he set up a small Multidimensional Illusion around it, completely confining it within the illusion.
After doing all this, Angel turned his attention back and took out the parchment given by the redhead woman.
As the parchment slowly unfolded, a striking red color leaped into view.
Is this… a crown?
At the center of the parchment, there is a painting of an extremely intricate and magnificent crown.
This crown has a common octagonal base, but it strangely adopts the openwork carving of the back crown.
Could it be that this is a crown used by the queen?
A pigeon blood ruby the size of a baby’s fist is inlaid in the center of the crown, connected by exquisite silver carvings, making the structure quite elegant. The orb at the top also uses the same pigeon blood ruby, but it is as small as a marble, similar to the edges of the base, with a total of eight.
Apart from the gems, the most noteworthy aspect of the entire crown is the faintly visible relief magic runes… Angel roughly counted them, and the number of magic runes exceeded six.
Clearly, this is an enchanted work, and it is also a formation enchantment.
Angel completely unrolled the parchment, and at the end of the scroll, nine pigeon blood rubies fell out. One large and eight small, corresponding exactly to the number and size of the gems on the crown.
The requirement proposed by the red-haired woman was for Angel to create an identical object based on this drawing, not seeking the same effect, but only similarity.
Angel frowned, as the similar appearance was not difficult to solve.
However, this magical formation is a challenge.