Chapter 365: Funeral (2)
"Can you take us with you, Master Angele?" Julie begged as she grabbed ahold of her brother and sister’s hands.
"Sorry,"—Angele shook his head slightly—"I can’t adopt you."
He knew that Cruise had many political enemies when he was alive. As a friend, he had wanted to help the man’s children, but without the intention of adopting and treating them as his own.
He also knew that it was not the first time Julie tried asking for a wizard to adopt them; however, no one wanted to become the target of Cruise’s political enemies. The best way to help the three children was to keep them out of this fight. People wouldn’t care as long as they were mortals.
Angele sighed. "Go talk to Barry and study in school. You’ll find a good job in the city after you have graduated."
After saying that, he left.
Angele would not become the department head after the death of Cruise. The headquarter would send someone else to replace Cruise, and Angele could keep doing his job as an assistant.
He declined all the party invitations from his colleagues and returned to the mansion by the Ness River.
Angele had decided to stay in the mansion and focus on practicing the Molten Core River.
The required runes and magic circles for the fourth stage were extremely hard, and he was still having trouble understanding them.
He had wanted to take his time to study the magic circles, explore the Nightmare Realm, and spend more time with Freia.
Air transportation city, by the edge of the Abyss Canyon.
Under the dim sunlight, the Abyss Canyon looked like a huge fissure in the land, with chilling air breathing out from the darkness.
The orange light from the setting sun illuminated the ground, and the ladder-shaped clouds were painted in gold.
*Crack*
A white leather boot stepped on a small rock, flattening it.
It was a woman with a huge chest and a charming face. She was wearing a long tight robe, and her face held a cold expression.
Her skin was clean, her face pretty, and her right ear was long and white, covered with grey fur.
The woman glanced around the area.
"This the last place that I detected Terry’s vital signs," she muttered.
Two men in white robes were behind the woman.
One of the men crouched and touched the ground to check the dust.
"The death wave that ended a while ago already erased all the living beings from the area and we won’t be able to locate the murderer." His brow furrowed. "Master Erwin, I think we’re just wasting time, we should find Master Julian and…"
"Are you questioning my decision?"
The woman named Erwin turned around and glared at the man.
"Yeah." The man stood up and responded in a cold tone, "Master, you’re just wasting your time."
*BOOM*
The male wizard’s head exploded like a watermelon, his brain, mixed with the shattered bones, splashed on the ground.
Erwin lowered her right hand calmly.
"It has been 500 years since someone last questioned my decision…" She turned her head around and stared into the abyss again.
The male wizard’s dead body fell to the ground. Black strings of smoke rose from the dead body and formed a human’s face. There were no nose nor ears on the face, and the scene was terrifying.
"Master Erwin! What you just did was unacceptable and I’ll report the situation to Master Phil!" The human face roared in anger and slowly disappeared into the air.
Erwin was not concerned about what the face just said—she was still looking at the abyss. The other male wizard did not react to the incident either, and it seemed like he didn’t care that one of them was just killed.
"Terry… I’ll avenge you…" Erwin spoke in a light tone.
"Master, a rank 4 wizard in the air transportation wants to speak to you through communication rune. What do you think?" the man questioned.
"No. H
e’s just a rank 4 wizard without the inheritor magic circle and I’m sure he doesn’t have any important matter. Everyone thinks that Terry and Cena were killed by the underground race, but I’m seeing something different. They were murdered by someone else," Erwin explained. "I’ll stay here for several more days. You can go back first."
"Yes, master." The man bowed and left, leaving the other man’s body on the ground.
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The Nightmare Realm, in the mansion beside the Ness River.
Angele stood quietly in the center of the living room and started thinking in front of the two matrices’ control panels.
Phoenix stood on the wooden bird stand in the corner of the living room singing in a strange voice. The bird had cleaned its feathers with its beak, and its body was a bit larger than before, surrounded by a golden glow.
The morning sunlight went through the window and dropped on the floor, dividing the living room into two areas.
With Zero’s help, Angele was able to analyze his progression: ‘My advancement with Molten Core River slowed down again. It’ll probably take me four to five years to reach the bottleneck of the fourth stage.’
Wizards needed to find their own ways to break the bottleneck, but some of them needed at least one hundred years to figure out the way. Although Angele had the help from the biochip, it would still take him a while to advance to the next rank.
‘My enemies will find me sooner or later. I’ll need to find some other ways to increase my power.’ Angele recalled the scene he witnessed in the stone room and it was making him excited.
‘Zero, is the analysis of the Frozen Wave Matrix completed yet?’ Angele asked. He had spent most of his time practicing the Molten Core River, so he had asked Zero to analyze the matrices for him.
‘Task completed. The Frozen Wave Matrix has been partially analyzed. Creating the basic model.’
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