Chapter 628 Echoes of the Dungeon <TOC> Chapter 630 End of the Matter and Return
Translator: SumTLMan
After leaving the underground city, Angel took out the Gondola and left Sleepless City with Sanders.
It wasn’t until they boarded the Gondola that Angel gradually came to his senses. Hovering among the clouds and watching the dark shadows and the buildings fading into silhouettes behind them, Angel slowly regained his senses.
“Mentor, nearly half of the people in the underground city have not woken up yet…” How could we just leave like this?
“Those are scattered apprentices and apprentices from wizard organizations that have not had bilateral talks with me. Saving them would be a waste of effort and yield no benefits,” Sanders said coldly.
Sanders’ answer was reasonable, but Angel remembered that before the Purification Garden was opened, he had asked Nausica about the current state of Shadow Demon City in Sky Mechanical City.
Nausica’s answer was: Shadow Demon City had already regained order, and the people had returned to their peaceful lives.
Perhaps Nausica didn’t know the implications of this statement, but Angel understood. Since the people of Shadow Demon City had returned to their peaceful lives, it meant that Sanders had saved all the ordinary people who had been infected by parasites in Shadow Demon City.
Sanders could save the ordinary people of Shadow Demon City, but he coldly abandoned these apprentices in Sleepless City.
This made Angel suspicious.
Not understanding, Angel asked his doubt.
After listening, Sanders said indifferently: “Shadow Demon City is near the Savage Grottoes. Also, the mission hall issued this mission, so I can benefit from saving them. That’s why I went to save them.”
Angel listened to Sanders’ answer and thought silently for a moment.
It was still a matter of interest. However, Angel believed that even if the mission hall of the Savage Grottoes had issued a related mission, the rewards probably wouldn’t be that great. But Sanders still went to save the ordinary people of Shadow Demon City, presumably because of a principle: no matter what, if you want me to save people, you have to pay a price. The amount of the price is another matter.
Speaking of saving people in the underground city, Sanders suddenly asked: “How did you get rid of the parasites?”
Sanders arranged several rescue areas for him, and they divided the work. At first, Angel’s rescue speed wasn’t very fast, but as it went on, his speed became astonishingly fast. He would enter an area and leave within a few seconds, and each area had hundreds of people!
At that time, Sanders was also busy with his area and didn’t ask immediately. He felt that Angel hadn’t opened the Nightmare Domain, but without releasing the Nightmare Domain, how did he expel the parasites?
Angel scratched his regrown hair: “I just went in, shouted for them to leave, and then they flew away.”
Sanders’ expression froze for a moment, then he said after a while: “You just went in and shouted a single sentence, and they obeyed you?”
Angel nodded. At first, he had been honestly using the Nightmare Domain Exorcism Method, but later he suddenly remembered that when he was in the Dark Domain, Frogg expelled the parasites from Coral and Hilary’s bodies by directly cursing them away. Angel was astonished at the time, not expecting such an exorcism method. Later, in the underground city, he tentatively used a similar commanding language to make the parasites leave, and it turned out to be successful.
After that, the exorcism speed naturally increased, as he only needed to use language commands, without the need to individually check if the exorcism was complete.
After listening to Angel’s account, Sanders shook his head and sighed after a long while: “I estimate that the creatures in the Nightmare Plane also have different ranks. Lower-ranked ones find it difficult to resist orders from higher-ranked ones. Your rank in the Nightmare Plane must be higher than these miscellaneous pawns, so they naturally dare not resist your command.”
After Sanders finished speaking, he glanced at the right hand covered by Angel’s glove.
Shava, under the crown. Sanders gently muttered in his heart, wondering when he would solve the mystery of “Shava.”
As Sanders fell silent, Angel also recalled the events in the underground city not long ago.
Sanders’ willingness to save people actually had its own benefits. And Angel being taken by Sanders to save people seemed like working for free, but it wasn’t really.
There were several special areas in the underground city where no one was near for hundreds of meters. The people who were parasitized inside were all formal wizards.
Sanders and Angel went to this area together, but it was Angel who actually exorcised the parasites from these formal wizards. Each time he exorcised a formal wizard, it was equivalent to these formal wizards owing Angel a favor. Regardless of whether this favor would be useful in the future, Angel knew that the value of these favors was extremely significant.
Sanders left the favors of these wizards to Angel, which was well worth the reward for Angel to accompany him on this rescue mission.
It could be said that this was Sanders paving the way for his own future.
The Gondola leisurely glided across the sky. Their current location was already tens of miles away from Sleepless City’s range, and the sky had completely cleared up. Only occasionally could a few parasites be seen flying nearby.
The parasites in Shadow Demon City did not have this ability at the beginning. When not parasitizing, they would completely lose their vitality as soon as they left the misty range of Shadow Demon City.
But now these parasites had flown tens of miles away from Sleepless City. Had they mutated?
With curiosity, Sanders caught a parasite and placed it in his palm for observation, discovering that the parasite could fly so far away from the Nightmare Plane’s aura thanks to an unobservable golden speck on its body.
Using a special experimental device, Sanders magnified the golden speck and found that it was actually a small piece of golden thread residue, on which one could faintly see some peculiar runes.
It was these runes on the small piece of golden thread that emitted a strong Nightmare Plane aura, ensuring the parasite’s survival time. However, this aura would gradually decay over time.
The owner of this golden thread was without a doubt.
“It turns out that Yorkshire is responsible for the change in the parasites’ habits, allowing them to go further afield,” sighed Sanders.
Speaking of Yorkshire, Angel asked curiously: “Is the problem of Sleepless City completely unsolvable? Will Yorkshire always stay there?”
“Maybe.”
“That semi-passage connecting to the Nightmare Plane is still there. If the Queen comes through the passage to the Wizarding World, wouldn’t that…”
Before Angel could finish, Sanders naturally understood and sighed lightly: “The sky in the Southern Region will have more and more gloom, so there’s no point in worrying about that.”
After saying something ambiguous, Sanders turned to Angel and said: “Moreover, if the Nightmare Queen really wants to come to the Wizarding World, she could just as easily enter through the planar passage that extends to Hippocrates, as you mentioned.”
“If she hasn’t chosen to come, there must be something stopping her.”
As for what could hold back such a being, no one knew. It might be another giant figure in the Nightmare Plane who was restraining her, or it could be the World Will. Of course, she might not care about the Wizarding World either.
There was no use in guessing the specifics.
This was not something for Angel or even someone of Sanders’ power level to consider.
For a while, the two on the Gondola were silent.
An hour later, Angel broke the silence when he noticed that Sanders was steering the Gondola away from Paramjit Plateau.
“Mentor, aren’t we going back to Savage Grottoes now?”
“Not for now. To unravel the secret of your right hand absorbing the Nightmare Plane’s aura, we need to find a place with a large amount of Nightmare Plane aura,” Sanders looked at Angel: “We’re going to the Fairytale World. The planar passage that initially allowed you to rapidly increase your strength should contain the target we’re looking for.”
…
They first went to the Twilight’s Edge, then transferred to Sky Mechanical City, and finally flew to Silent Hill.
In less than half a day, they went from Sleepless City to the Fairytale World.
From the middle world back to the surface world, they once again boarded the Gondola and flew towards the place in Angel’s memory.
When they found the lake connected to the underground water area, Angel was slightly worried. If Sanders encountered Akeso, would he kill it?
Thinking of the prices of materials on the wizard-level magical beasts at Sky Auction, Angel was somewhat uneasy.
However, when they passed through the water area and came to the cave where Akeso was initially, Angel discovered that Akeso was nowhere to be found, and even the peculiar stench of snakes in the air was not detectable.
Nevertheless, the cave dug out by Akeso for the deceased people of Hippocrates was still there.
Sanders stayed here for a while, confirmed that they were all ordinary human remains, and then lost interest.
They passed through another water channel and came to another lake filled with the stench of decay and greasiness. This lake was the Dead Water Lake near Hippocrates Village.
Half a year later, Angel returned to Hippocrates. Without any waves, the abandoned village had not changed at all.
Including the nest of the colorful dragonflies, it was as it was when he left. When Angel arrived, the few colorful dragonflies in the nest excitedly expressed their admiration through emotions.
After experiencing many things, Angel was no longer as fearful of these nightmare creatures as he was initially. He tentatively ordered them not to provoke Sanders, and they understood, mostly avoiding Sanders when they saw him.
This was also in line with Sanders’ initial guess: the hierarchy in the Nightmare Plane was very clear.
Angel stayed near the nest, while Sanders circled the small underground space. After a while, Sanders returned to the central location.
“Judging from the time, this village should have been abandoned for a thousand years. The cause of the abandonment is probably these uninvited guests from the Nightmare Plane,” Sanders said, rubbing his brow. “So, a thousand years ago, there was a passage connecting the Nightmare Plane here? According to the time-space distance cycle theory of the Nightmare Plane, there should have been close contact between the Nightmare Plane and the Wizarding World a thousand years ago, but why has no relevant record been passed down?”
“And besides, what was the purpose of the Nightmare Plane setting up such an area here a thousand years ago?”
Sanders’ doubts were also Angel’s doubts. What was the purpose of the Nightmare Plane setting up this situation? Was it, as Yorkshire said in Sleepless City, an outpost for the Queen’s Tour?
They couldn’t find the answers to this series of doubts.
“Forget it, let’s not think about these things for now. Let’s enter the planar passage first and solve your problem.”
As he said this, Sanders directly took Angel and flew into the plane located behind the nest.
Chapter 628 Echoes of the Dungeon <TOC> Chapter 630 End of the Matter and Return