The man's hair looked like red silk with flames dancing on it.
His robe was black, but there were bright red patterns on the edge of the robe. The patterns were irregular and looked like lava flowing under the ground.
Every part of his body was a symbol of the will of fire. Even his aura was proof that he was Oderklas.
Although Oderklass's hair and robes were covered in blazing flames, his face was cold and calm. He didn't have any fire in him at all.
His face was pale, and his expression was cold.
Just like Fafnir, his pupils were also different. One of them was red like fire, while the other was blue like ice.
Oderklas' aura was supposed to be filled with fire, but Angor could always sense the presence of ice from the man's aura.
Could it be that, like Sennefer, Oderklas also had a hidden ice attribute?
Also, Oderklas was a fire dragon. Why didn't he live near a volcano? Why did he choose to live in an ice valley that never melted?
Was it because of the familiar ice aura around him? Or … was it because of this?
Angor looked at the white ice dragon on the mural.
Oderklass was also looking at the mural. He sat on the ice crystal chair under the mural and silently looked at Pina Jonas in the mural. There was an unerasable longing in his eyes.
Oderklas didn't look like a powerful Abyss Dragon at all. Instead, he looked more like a devout believer in a church.
Angor moved carefully toward Oderklas.
If he wanted to change this stalemate, he needed to find a way out. Oderklas ignored Angor's existence completely. If the mountain didn't come to him, he would go to the mountain himself.
Angor walked slowly. As he approached Oderklas, he began to think about the information he knew about Oderklas.
Oderklas was as warm as fire in Fafnir's mouth. But from what he saw, Fafnir's information had already expired. Oderklas was surrounded by flames, but none of them were emitting heat.
According to the rumors in the wizarding world, Oderklas was known as the eccentric master of Ice Valley.
Saying that he had a strange personality wasn't referring to how violent Oderklass was. The fact that Sennefer had fled to the Ice Valley to avoid being hunted down by demons was proof enough.
If Oderklas was truly cruel to humans, he wouldn't have allowed Sennefer to enter his territory.
From this, it could be seen that Oderklass was not a bloodthirsty person. The reason why he was said to have a strange temper was actually because of the curse in the ice gorge. Although he did not take the initiative to kill, he would definitely be cursed the moment he entered the ice gorge. And being cursed in the abyss was no different from dying.
Fafnir's information was out of date, but the information from the wizarding world was not necessarily true.
From what he could see, Oderklas was neither as warm as Fafnir described nor as hot-tempered as the rumors said. His expression was arrogant and indifferent, with a sense of aloofness that disdained everything. The only things that could arouse his reaction were items related to Pina Jonas.
He approached Oderklas until he was only ten meters away.
Among the rows of seats, they were only separated by the aisle in the middle of the hall.
Angor purposely made his footsteps heavier, but Oderklas still did not look at Angor.
Until Angor cleared his throat, Oderklas finally looked at Angor for a few seconds.
"You may leave now." Oderklas' spirit consciousness also carried the same cold aura as he did in the real world.
As soon as Oderklas finished speaking, he heard a loud noise behind him. The main door of the hall was opened, and a strong gust of wind rushed in.
A faint layer of fire appeared around Angor's body.
This layer of fire could resist the curse of Ice Valley. It was Oderklas' reward for treating Pina Jonas' dragon scale well. However, Angor would not tell Oderklas about it.
Angor didn't know what the fire was, but it didn't stop him from trying to figure out what was going on.
Oderklas was already "sending away" his guest.
However, he had yet to achieve his goal. How to remove Toby's curse was still unknown.
Seeing that Oderklas was about to face the wall again, Angor didn't want to waste any time. He didn't bother with small talk or modesty. Instead, he directly told Oderklas what he came for.
His straightforwardness attracted Oderklas' attention. Oderklas paid more attention to this human, whom he never paid attention to before.
Oderklas noticed Angor's disastrous aura as soon as he saw him. However, he didn't bother to point it out, nor did he want to find out.
Now that Angor told Oderklas that it had something to do with the seabird in his arms, Oderklas gave Angor a strange look.
It was also this gaze that made Oderklas sense a faintly familiar aura from Toby.
Was this the aura of "that thing"?
Apart from Pina Jonas, Oderklas also felt something else. The remnant aura on Toby's body brought him back to a thousand years ago.
The last time he saw that old thing was a thousand years ago, outside a phase gate in the bottomless abyss of the Face of Gluttony.
According to Oderklas, the old thing was trying to break through the taboo and left the Face of Gluttony. No one knew where it went.
After that, Oderklas never heard anything about the old thing again, so he assumed that the old thing died on its way to the taboo. During this long period of time, there would occasionally be a moment when Oderklass would recall this old friend of his and sigh emotionally.
Now that he sensed Toby's familiar aura, Oderklas couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
However, Oderklas had a better eye than Fafnir.
Fafnir thought that Toby was part of the old man's plan, but Oderklass only took one look and discovered the clues. Although it had the old man's aura, this seabird was cleaner than a piece of white paper. There was no trace of the old man's mark.
Even its pheromone was completely different from the old thing's.
And … Oderklas looked at Toby's pink lace pajamas.
Even if the old thing was looking for a pawn, it wouldn't use such a strange bird.
Since there was a high chance that Toby wasn't part of the old thing's plan, where did it come from?
Oderklas was no stranger to human Wizards. He had even lived with a human called "Feng" in the Ice Valley for a few years. This ice crystal palace was Feng's work. Later, with Feng's help, he painted the mural that he had been thinking about for a long time.
Because of that, he made an agreement with "Feng". As long as the humans didn't provoke him, he wouldn't kill them.
After spending some time with Feng, Oderklass had learned a lot about the system of wizards. He knew that one of the three major systems of wizards was called the Bloodline System. They could absorb the bloodline of other creatures, steal their abilities, and fuse them into themselves.
Perhaps this bird was the same. Had it fused with part of the old thing's bloodline?
However, with such a strong aura, it seemed that there was still a lot of bloodline. However, if there was a lot, why was it so weak? Had it been sealed?
Oderklas thought about it, but there was no expression on his face.
These memories would, at most, make him reminisce about them, but it was very difficult to stir up his emotions.
…
Angor told Oderklas his purpose in one breath and looked at him anxiously.
What was Oderklas' personality like? He didn't know yet.
Would Oderklas be offended by his words? That was why Angor was worried.
Oderklas didn't mind Angor's uneasiness. However, seeing that the bird and the old thing were fated to meet, Oderklas decided to speak in a casual tone.
"If you can bring back a complete Fire Relaying Stone, I can remove the curse for it."
He seemed to have said this lightly, but behind this short sentence, there were hundreds and thousands of thoughts running through his mind. Oderklas spent most of his time in the Ice Valley. The fire energy in his body couldn't be replenished at all. Instead, it allowed the cold energy to enter his body and turn it into ice fire, which was harmful to him. The damage was negligible for his current body. However, as he stayed in the Ice Valley for a long time, the accumulated damage was enough to weaken his strength.
The level of the Curse of Disaster was extremely high. If he couldn't regain his strength, he couldn't remove the curse.
There were many ways to restore his strength. For example, he could leave the Ice Valley and stay in a volcano for a few years. The accumulated cold energy would naturally dissipate. However, Pina Jonas was still sleeping here. He couldn't leave her for even a second.
Therefore, he chose to tell Angor about other ways.
There were other ways as well. For example, bringing back some fire-elemental treasures might also help him recover his strength. However, Oderklas didn't think these things were enough to ask Oderklas to remove the curse.
"Feng" once told him that there was an unspoken rule among wizards called "equivalent exchange". You had to pay for what you received. Of course, the "equivalent exchange" always referred to the "stronger party". For example, buying an orange with a copper coin was an equivalent exchange. However, this was the business rule of an economic society. In the wizarding world, there was also the law of supply and demand and the law of hierarchy.
The buyer was naturally weaker than the supplier. The stronger party would decide the amount of the equivalent exchange.
The stronger party would think that it was unfair to buy an orange with a copper coin. To them, it was like buying an orchard full of oranges with a copper coin.
Oderklas believed that this rule was very beneficial to him. If Angor could offer something that even he wanted, he wouldn't mind taking some time to help Toby remove the curse.
As for the Fire Relaying Stone, this legendary Demon Secret Treasure, it would be of great use to him.
Not only could it restore his strength, but it could also play an incomparable role in increasing his strength.
That was why he asked Angor for help. Although he didn't think that a human who was no stronger than an infant would be able to get the Fire Relaying Stone.
Oderklas didn't want to explain the countless twists and turns behind his words. He didn't need to.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
