Chapter 596 The Parasites Reappear <TOC> Chapter 598 Exorcism Method
Translator: SumTLMan
As soon as Douglas retracted his mental power, his gaze immediately fell on Quete.
“Quete, what do you know?” Taking advantage of everyone being attracted to the situation outside, Douglas pulled Quete aside and whispered.
Quete was initially shocked by the sudden change outside, but when Douglas pulled him aside, he was confused and impatient: “Old buddy, what do you mean?”
Douglas frowned: “Quete, I don’t want you to lie to me. You know something about what’s going on here, and you’re hiding it from me.”
“What am I hiding from you? I didn’t come out of its mother’s rectum, how would I know where these specks of light come from?” Quete couldn’t help but curse.
Douglas remained expressionless: “Professor Angelo saw something… he said you know.”
Seeing that Quete was unwilling to reveal the truth, Douglas simply fabricated Angelo’s words. Although Angelo’s suspicion of Quete was just speculation, the intuition of a prophetic wizard was sometimes very reliable.
Douglas’s deception made Quete hesitate for a moment.
At first, he didn’t really understand what Douglas wanted to ask. He genuinely didn’t know about the situation outside, so his performance came from deep within his heart.
But when Douglas brought up Angelo, Quete became suspicious.
Could it be that he really had something to hide from Douglas? The only thing he hadn’t mentioned was the “Nightmare Plane’s Aura” and the possibility of a “Nightmare Plane Passage” inside.
This didn’t really count as hiding, as speculation couldn’t be treated as fact.
Seeing Quete hesitating, Douglas felt even more sure of his deception. A glint flashed in his eyes as he glanced at the situation outside, making sure no one was paying attention to them. He discreetly linked himself to Quete with a mental link hidden in his sleeve.
“Quete, this matter concerns the life and death of our Sleepless City. Professor Angelo is already suggesting that we all evacuate. You understand what I mean?” Douglas distanced himself from Quete, seemingly focusing on the situation outside along with everyone else, but in the mental link, he questioned Quete insistently: “Once Sleepless City falls, thousands of years of foundation will be destroyed.”
Douglas’s questioning made Quete even more confused.
Had the situation become so serious already?
At this moment, a tall man with an aura of frost and snow around him strode in, and as soon as he entered the room, he withdrew his “Frost Defense Spell,” revealing a handsome and cold face.
“What’s going on, Douglas?” The man immediately focused on Douglas as he walked in.
“Has Wizard Payne arrived?” There was a rustling of whispers around them, and everyone’s attention was drawn to the man.
“Payne, have you come out of seclusion?” Douglas’s eyes lit up, and he approached him. Quete also sighed and walked over to the man.
“Those strange specks of light have invaded my meditation chamber, and all my apprentices and magic servants have turned into damned bizarre clowns. If I don’t come out now, Sleepless City will have to be renamed Circus City!” Payne was furious, and the frosty aura around him couldn’t help but spread.
All the wizards present felt a chill, as if facing a cold winter.
This was the power of “Frost Wizard” Payne, as one of the three pillars of Sleepless City. Although Payne was the youngest, his potential far surpassed Douglas and Quete.
Not yet 300 years old, Payne had already stepped onto the path of true knowledge and cultivated to the mid-rank of a second-level wizard.
As the only true knowledge wizard in Sleepless City, even if Douglas and Quete joined forces, they couldn’t defeat him. His voice carried more weight than the other two, but he was more passionate about creating spells, so he rarely appeared in public and was mostly developing new spells in his meditation chamber.
However, when it came to making decisions, Douglas and Quete had to step aside.
“Quete, you’re here too? Good, you two tell me what’s going on outside? Why has the outer city turned pitch black?” Payne asked coldly.
Douglas sighed: “It’s a long story, let me bring you into the mental link and directly transmit the information to you.”
After a while, Payne’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“Mysterious Aura? Strange specks of light?” Payne sneered: “What a perfect bait, attracting all these greedy people.”
Douglas then told Payne about Angelo’s predictions and what Angelo had said later when questioned.
Unlike Douglas, who was taken aback by Angelo’s words, Payne’s expression remained unchanged, and he coldly said: “If Sleepless City is lost, it’s lost. As long as there are people, a new city can be built anywhere.”
“However, I don’t mind changing my foothold, but I don’t want this darkness to dictate how I leave this place. I don’t want to be called a defeated rooster, fleeing in disgrace.” Payne added: “As for how to grasp this situation… it needs to be decided by me.”
Pausing, Payne looked at Quete, who was frowning and shaking his head, deep in thought: “You know something, it’s time to speak up.”
This conversation was still taking place within the mental link channel.
Quete chuckled bitterly: “I really don’t know more than you do… The only thing I know is that there is a presence of the Nightmare Plane within the Dark Domain, and that’s it.”
To prove himself, Quete opened his mind space generously, allowing them to use truth-detecting spells.
As expected, the only piece of information Quete had was the presence of the Nightmare Plane he had sensed inside. There was nothing else of use.
Payne looked doubtfully at Douglas, who shrugged and spread his hands: “I was just trying to bluff him. Professor Angelo didn’t have any solid proof.”
Hearing Douglas’s words, Quete breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Payne frowned: “Why is there a presence of the Nightmare Plane in there? Could it be as you suspected, that there is a… a passage to the Nightmare Plane?”
When they mentioned the “Passage to the Nightmare Plane,” their eyes sparkled.
“But isn’t the relationship between the Nightmare Plane and the Wizarding World a fleeting one? At most, there would only be a small entrance, which would quickly disappear…” Payne hesitated: “It probably isn’t a passage. Even if it was, it should have already closed. After all, according to the prophecy of the Crown Star Church, the power level of the Nightmare Plane is much higher than that of the Wizarding World, and the World Will of the Wizarding World would avoid having a stable passage to the Nightmare Plane, so as not to be devoured by it.”
“Anyway, I don’t know about the rest, but…” Quete paused deliberately, attracting the attention of both of them before whispering: “Sanders should know. His spells all have a hint of the Nightmare Plane. The only true knowledge wizard to come to Sleepless City this time is him. He must have some inside information.”
“But unfortunately, I’ve tried asking him multiple times, and he won’t say.”
Payne was puzzled: “The Phantom Master was here? How come I didn’t see him?”
Following Payne’s words, Douglas and Quete realized that they hadn’t seen Sanders for a while. They looked around, but there was no sign of Sanders, nor his apprentice.
“Did any of you see where the Phantom Master went?” Douglas asked the other wizards.
All they received were blank stares in response.
An idea occurred to Payne, and he quickly constructed a spell model in his mind space—Unveiling Illusion!
A faint glimmer flashed in his elongated eyes, and everything around them seemed to slow down. The movement of everyone, the opening and closing of their mouths, and the frequency of their blinking all appeared to slow down. Then, this slow pace began to rewind, as if time was moving backward. Many past scenes were recreated in Payne’s eyes under the Unveiling Illusion spell.
Among them were scenes of Sanders and Angel.
The glimmer in Payne’s eyes disappeared, and he quickly arrived in front of the Magic Hut, looking suspiciously towards the direction of the outer city.
“Payne, have you found anything?” Quete asked.
Payne hesitated for a moment: “Lord Phantom Master has entered the outer city.”
“Entered the outer city? Did he go alone?” Douglas asked in surprise.
“With his disciple.” Payne didn’t care too much about Angel, but his main concern was Sanders.
“If he dares to enter the outer city of the Sleepless City, he must have something to rely on. Moreover, from his decision to enter the outer city despite these specks of light, he must know something that we don’t understand,” Quete said with certainty.
“You should have said that earlier. It would have been useful,” Payne said coldly. “Now that he’s already gone in, what’s the point of saying all this?”
Quete stepped back awkwardly: “I was just guessing at first.”
“What do we do now?”
“If he dares to go in, so do I.” Payne narrowed his eyes: “I also want to see how big the gap between him and me really is.”
As Payne said this, Quete and Douglas exchanged glances without saying anything.
They naturally knew about Payne’s ambition, but when it came to that person… They decided not to throw cold water on it.
“It’s not good! A formal wizard has been infected by the specks of light!” At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the periphery, and a look of surprise flashed in everyone’s eyes.
“What happened? Weren’t we told to be careful with the specks of light?” Douglas asked hurriedly.
If a formal wizard only protects themselves, even if there are a large number of specks of light attacking nearby, they cannot break through their defensive spells, and the consumption of magic power and the recovery of magic power can be completely self-sufficient!
“It’s those infected apprentice wizards. They were brought into the defensive circle by some wizards to study their situation… As a result, during the dissection process, because some procedures removed the defensive spells, they were infected.”
Douglas couldn’t care less about his personal image, cursing loudly: “Damn it! Even basic operations are problematic, what kind of wizard are they?! Which wizard organization is it?”
There was some stammering from outside.
“Which one!” Douglas shouted.
“Sleepless City…”
Douglas: “…”
Chapter 596 The Parasites Reappear <TOC> Chapter 598 Exorcism Method