Chapter 731 The Rat Ants <TOC> Chapter 733 Gunshots and Flames
Translator: SumTLMan
“Just now, it seems we hit the wrong person…”
“Was it Little Eight?”
“Little Eight, are you okay?”
No one responded, as if Little Eight had disappeared from this world. The faces of everyone turned pale, and their stable emotions suddenly began to fluctuate.
“Little Twelve, what about you? Are you all right now?”
Little Twelve also remained silent. Everyone immediately realized that what had happened earlier was undoubtedly a conspiracy.
“Are you all fools? Don’t take any action until the illusion nodes are destroyed!” The harsh voice of the hunchback echoed through the entire mist.
Everyone cringed at the sound, as the hunchback was the most powerful among them. His strength had reached the peak of a third level apprentice. It was said that he was once a seed apprentice of a wizard organization but was expelled due to some evil deeds. However, his inheritance made him far more powerful than anyone else present.
“Who’s attacking me? Ah—” Another scream was heard.
“Third Brother, what’s wrong?”
“That kid is sneakily attacking me. Don’t act, I can hold on. Be careful not to fall for any traps.” Third Brother’s voice was filled with panic.
Everyone could only listen to Third Brother’s constant screams, but they dared not act rashly. In the end, Third Brother’s voice grew weaker and weaker, and when they tried to call out to him again, there was no response.
The third person disappeared into the mist, whether fallen or captured, nobody knew.
Moreover, they hadn’t even caught a glimpse or heard any sounds from the enemy so far.
“Mixing truth with falsehood, reality with illusion, playing this game with us.” The hunchback’s expression changed: “The rest of you prepare your defenses and then do your best to find the illusion nodes. If anyone else has a problem, I’ll deal with it myself.”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
However, as the hunchback’s words fell, there was a long period with no reports of anyone being attacked.
The hunchback’s eyes darkened. Since the enemy was temporarily inactive, he needed to find the weak point of this misty illusion quickly.
However, after a while, the hunchback clenched his fist suddenly: “This illusion is too powerful. The Barrier Breaking Eye can’t see through the mist at all.”
How was it possible? It was just a basic misty illusion, but he couldn’t see any flaws. The deeper the hunchback delved, the more alarmed he became. He was sure they were now in the eye of a hurricane, with the mist seemingly swirling on a large scale along with the hurricane. Yet, he couldn’t find any sense of direction.
From time to time, the wind came from the east, but when he went there, it came from the west again. It was as if they were not in a hurricane but rather, inside a tornado.
“Big brother, I was attacked by that guy!” As the hunchback was still searching for a way out, Little Seven’s voice reached his ears.
Without any hesitation, the hunchback rushed to save Little Seven. However, as he charged forward with great momentum, he couldn’t see Little Seven’s figure. In fact, ever since he entered the Misty Illusion, he hadn’t seen anyone else, only faintly hearing their voices.
Gradually, the hunchback seemed to realize, “This isn’t just visual fog; this illusion is also messing with our sense of direction!”
No wonder earlier, when Little Twelve called for help, the others attacked Little Eight instead; they had misjudged their direction. It was all because Angel had been toying with their sense of direction.
The hunchback even thought that perhaps their opponent hadn’t lifted a finger from the beginning, and by just manipulating the fog and their minds, he had played them all.
The hunchback immediately shared his speculation with everyone else.
However, after a while, he didn’t get any response from the others. Doubtful, he wondered if everyone else had already been affected?
But then, a voice suddenly rang out, “I’ve found the illusion node! Follow my directions and attack at the same time, and we can definitely break this damn illusion!”
This statement received a flurry of responses.
“Great!” “Big brother, we’ll do whatever you say!” “Let that guy taste the power of our Rat Ant Thirteen Brothers.”
The hunchback’s face turned pale; the voice speaking just now wasn’t his!
It was Angel! He was imitating his voice!
“Don’t believe him!” The hunchback immediately shouted. He regretted not connecting everyone with a mental link before the battle, which would have prevented such a passive situation.
The hunchback’s cries went unanswered, and after a while, a series of powerful energy fluctuations erupted within the illusion.
With accompanying screams, the hunchback’s expression grew darker and darker. He knew that things had finally reached an irreparable point. No wonder Angel had shown no concern for them from the beginning, as he possessed the power to crush them all.
At that moment, a figure suddenly appeared in front of the hunchback.
“It’s you!” Standing before him was Angel. Without thinking, the hunchback immediately used his strongest Green Poison Erosion to seize the initiative and try to cut Angel down.
His attack was fierce, but Angel didn’t move, not even trying to dodge. The hunchback was about to succeed, but his expression showed no joy. The enemy was overly confident, and something must be amiss!
Indeed, when the pervasive green mist enveloped Angel, the one who screamed in agony was not Angel.
As the mist slowly dissipated, the figure of Angel in front of him vanished completely, revealing his other twelve brothers…
Amid the hunchback’s horrified expression, a faint voice suddenly sounded behind him.
“Crescent Linking Blades.”
The hunchback was engulfed by endless wind blades before he could turn his head.
Crescent Linking Blades, merely a first-level trick, and he was defeated by such a trick!
The hunchback realized that no matter how many people they had, it seemed useless against illusion spells. Angel could control their speech, their sense of direction, and even their emotions.
There were many ways for Angel to toy with them and possibly eliminate them one by one.
However, he only employed a mist illusion and a few small tricks. All thirteen brothers perished here. Such a person was beyond their ability to kill… Thinking back to their previous confident words, it seemed like a joke now.
Regretting, the hunchback fell into a dark, sweet illusion.
At this time, Angel dispelled the mist, and within a short time, these people perished in mutual slaughter.
Shaking his head, Angel observed the corpses suspended in mid-air by Toby’s Gravity Lines. After a brief examination, there wasn’t much to gain, even poorer than when he first entered the Savage Grottoes. Only on the hunchback did he find a one-time use spatial capsule containing the supplies of all the others.
How pitiful and impoverished.
Angel cleaned up the remnants and threw their corpses into the sea. As for their souls, when they would be born again was an unknown. Angel had no interest in waiting, so he let them drift in the Devil’s Sea.
In the end, he only left one person alive – the hunchback. He was not dead, just heavily injured and unconscious.
Keeping him alive was only to obtain information about the Rat Ant Underground Society.
He originally intended to spare more lives for more comprehensive information, but in the end, they were all poisoned to death by the hunchback. It could only be said that their fate was not in their own hands.
Having effortlessly dealt with these people, Angel prepared to return to the Cloud Conch ship. On the vast ocean, nothing could be seen around him, only the rolling waves stirred up by the hurricane.
Angel pondered for a moment, struggling to sense the energy mark he left on the Cloud Conch ship amidst the hurricane.
The hurricane was too strong, causing the surrounding natural energy to be chaotic. It was difficult for Angel to pinpoint the exact location of the Cloud Conch ship, only vaguely sensing its general direction.
“Northwest, quite far away,” Angel thought to himself, carrying the unconscious hunchback, and directing Toby to fly forward.
Angel worried that Toby’s speed was too fast, and he might rush straight into the core area of Summer Dew Ridge without permission, trespassing on an official witch’s core territory, which would certainly offend Summer Dew Witch. So, he only maintained Toby’s speed at a certain level, having the strength of the hurricane to borrow from without even needing to use Gravity Lines.
Ten minutes later, to maintain his griffin form, Toby had already consumed a Magic Replenishing Flower.
Angel could clearly sense that they had entered a new course. Not only were there no Death Jellyfish, but the atmosphere around them had also begun to change. However, the hurricane still continued without pausing and blew further inward.
Five minutes passed.
Angel looked at the suddenly pitch-black sea area, a trace of doubt flashing in his eyes.
Was this Summer Dew Ridge? According to the sea chart he had seen, Summer Dew Ridge seemed to have many rocky islands. Moreover, the Cloud Conch had not slowed down. Wasn’t it said that they should only circle the outer perimeter of Summer Dew Ridge and not enter the inner area?
After a while, he had already left the hurricane’s enclosure.
At the same time, he suddenly felt a strange atmosphere emerging around him. This chilling coldness, like maggots gnawing at a person’s vitality, slowly eroded away.
Angel had already sensed that something was wrong. Would a place so full of the aura of death be Summer Dew Ridge that the Cloud Conch had always traveled to? Absolutely not!
Perhaps, something unexpected had happened midway, and the Cloud Conch had entered another sea area.
It was often said that terrifying sea areas were filled around the Death Ring. Angel’s best choice at this time was to turn back, but even if he did, it would be difficult to leave this sea area without someone to guide him.
So, Angel pondered for a moment, decided to have Toby speed up, find the Cloud Conch first, see what the situation was, and then talk about other things.
Following the energy mark he sensed, Toby quickly reached the location of the Cloud Conch.
Before Angel could board the ship, he could already feel that the Cloud Conch’s current condition was very bad… because it had run aground.
It was a small island, about a kilometer in diameter, with no mountains or buildings on it, only pitch-black plants that looked like vines.
The Cloud Conch was entangled in those vines and dragged ashore.
Not only that, the Cloud Conch was now being stared at by countless dark eyes. Those eyes, hidden in the dark vines, were filled with malice and fierceness.
Moreover, Angel faintly felt a familiar aura within those malicious gazes.
Chapter 731 The Rat Ants <TOC> Chapter 733 Gunshots and Flames