Chapter 518: Black Vortex

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Angor quickly descended toward the depth of the sea while Luna stayed close to him by hanging on his clothes.

They saw the black vortex again. Angor tried to stay really far this time so that he could observe it. He could see nothing. Both the vortex itself and the area around it were hidden in total darkness.

The signals came from inside that thing Angor couldnt make up his mind about whether or not he should enter the vortex since it might be too dangerous.

Luna saw Angor having trouble with a decision and went for the vortex on its own.

Angor watched as the kitten disappeared into blackness.

A moment later, it poked its head out and meowed at Angor.

So we can get back out again?

Since Luna already did a little test, Angor immediately followed her example. Time was very precious now.

He entered the vortex and immediately felt the pulling force gone. When he looked back, he could still see the exit behind him.

Since escaping wasnt an issue, he calmed down and moved deeper inside.

There was almost no light in here. He saw some unknown substance that released light they absorbed from the environment, but their number was growing thin as he moved downward.

He couldnt cast Light in his soul form. When looking at the complete darkness underneath, he hesitated again.

Luna suddenly spat two small Inferno embers that released dim blue light around them. By referring to what he had seen in Keelys battles, Angor knew that these embers were used for freezing things.

Most of the light was dimmed by the unknown substance around them, so they could only see half a meter away.

Luna controlled the embers and moved around. It allowed Angor to see that they were still in seawater, which didnt look much different compared to the outside. There were occasionally tiny fish swimming in the area but they werent supernatural monsters.

The only thing worth noticing was the exceptional darkness and illusion nodes with unknown purposes.

Angor tried to attack one of the nodes and broke it without any trouble. But almost at the same time, a new one appeared at the same spot.

He still couldnt tell the nature of the illusion nor which subfield it belonged to. Also, he wondered why the illusion didnt affect Luna. Maybe it only meant to trick humans.

Using Lunas firelight, they kept moving deeper.

Common fishes were soon replaced by terrible looking deep-sea dwellers, which was made worse by Lunas dim, pale light. Thankfully, these ordinary creatures could do nothing more than giving them an initial fright.

As they moved further, Angor began to see creatures with supernatural powersthe same ones that belonged to the original garden world. He didnt wish to waste time and strength on these things, so he tried to avoid their detection.

But his attempt soon failed when he was blocked by a winged shark. Those werent actual wings but really long fins with ice shards on them. No doubt they could help the creature with both flying and unleas.h.i.+ng attacks.

Angors sequence of gravity was now as powerful as level-3 apprentices at the summit of their condition. He dealt with the shark within seconds.

But something was troubling him. During the entire battle, the shark chased his soul while completely ignoring his body that was being dragged along. Also, it shattered to pieces and disappeared upon death. There was no corpse left behind.

Is it some kind of spirit or something created by illusions? Angor looked around carefully. He was sure that none of the supernatural monsters had actual bodies. Only the common creatures were real.

Is this really something done by an Illusionist apprentice? The enemies are fake?

No not exactly.

After going for two minutes, Luna meowed again and gave Angor the Duon scale.

Angor sensed the signals and found out that the separate scale had reached his teammates.

The other signals werent moving at all, which meant Keely and others were still sleeping.

Then whoever just caught them wasnt going to be nice

Realizing this, Angor maximized his speed and headed to the signals as fast as he could without minding the monsters.

He suddenly felt as if he pushed through a soft barrier. After that, he could no longer see water around him.

Using the Inferno embers to look around the strange place, he saw several of his teammates lying on the ground.

Luna suddenly meowed at something.

Angor looked that way and saw a shady figure carefully moving away while dragging Nausicas body.

Who is it?! Angor yelled out while unleas.h.i.+ng a gravity bullet.

The shadow jumped, dropped Nausica, and quickly turned tail. Angor failed to catch up with the individual, but he knew that his gravity power successfully landed a hit when the shadow screamed in pain.

Whoever it was tried to feign a gruff mans voice, but Angor still noticed that it was probably a woman.

The shadows body definitely seemed human, not a Dugon or Duon.

Is that the person who created the illusion? But why would she run away so fast?

Instead of going after the enemy, Angor checked on Nausica first.

Mmmf Aw

Angor turned around at the noise and saw Luna slapping Keelys face with a paw. It successfully woke up its owner after leaving several paw prints on her cheeks.

Luna? Keely rubbed her aching face and looked around. Where am I?

So the illusion is gone? Angor returned to his body and did not feel the hypnotic effect again. But he could still sense the illusion nodes. Also, he felt something familiar from the nodes but he couldnt tell why.

Keely moved to wake the others.

When everyone came to, Angor explained what happened earlier.

A vortex? Keely rubbed her temples. I dont know about that. Guess I fell asleep for real.

Never mind then. Fifty minutes left and we gotta move! Angor asked them to stand up so that they could get away ASAP. There was no time for them to explore this strange place.

Nausica had been keeping her head lowered. She hesitated and finally decided to speak, My Meriads Sword is gone.

When her words attracted their attention, Shan suddenly yelled out, What happened to your face, Nausica??

n.o.body saw her face earlier. Now that they had time to check, they all saw a large, b.l.o.o.d.y scar starting from Nausicas forehead and reaching all the way to her right cheek.

Nausica looked up as she could no longer hide it. I dont know. The wound is here when I woke up. Its pretty shallow, I already treated it with Heal.

That woman did this? Angor mumbled.

Which woman?! Shan quickly grew furious. She ruined Nausicas face! Im going to kill her!

Angor described the unknown woman he saw earlier. Thats probably the culprit who hurt Nausica AND took her sword.

I gotta find her!! Shan spoke and quickly grew confused. But my sword is here why only Nausica? Did an old enemy of hers come to the garden too?

Old enemy? Nausica went over her memories and shook her head. I dont think I offended any woman ever since I came to the wizarding world.

There is one. The large rain hat, remember? She even attacked you before, said Shan.

Nausica widened her eyes as she remembered something.

Yes, there was a strange female who openly showed hatred toward her even before entering the garden. And when they were exploring the fish-infested garden world, the same woman came and wounded her.

But I dont know who she is at all.

Well, like I said, Ill skin her alive the next time I see her! Shan stomped her foot.

Its fine though. Luna still has one gray scale, same for Nausica. We can still get another Meraids Sword, said Angor as he let out a sigh. Whoever that was, we dont have time to catch her. We have to move.

The others nodded to agree, while Nausica gave them an apologetic look. Sorry for the trouble again.

Well, its not you to blame. Angor smiled at her. Easy, we understand. We still have enough swords for each of us.

They prepared to move back to the surface.

I think I went through some kind of barrier to get here. We can get out again by going up. In case you all get affected by the sleeping effect out there, Ill drag you away using gravity power.

With that, Angor ejected his soul and began to fly upward.

But instead of reaching the said barrier, he found himself trapped in mist.

Oops. Wheres the exit? Angor grew puzzled and checked on the others, only to see that no one was following.

The way back took way less time than he expected. When reaching the ground, he saw everyone looking around with their own puzzled looks.

Something confused me and I found myself back at square one, said Keely.

Its the illusion Angor realized that this new trick could now affect his soul form as well.