Saka's Mind
As soon as Ness mentioned Saka, Saka walked into the cave.
Saka's usual gloomy expression was gone. He entered the lab with a smile on his face.
Ness raised an eyebrow at Saka's strange behavior. What's wrong with this guy? Is he horny? Maybe I should just leave this succubus girl for Saka to vent his lust.
When Ness looked at Saka, he suddenly noticed another young man standing behind Sunders.
The young man had a handsome face, and his blonde hair and blue eyes only added to his charm. But what Ness was more interested in was the fact that the young man was wearing a slender, close-fitting black gentleman's suit. The buttons on the suit were neatly buttoned all the way to the third button on his chest, revealing a white silk undershirt and a wine-red checkered bow tie.
Ness would not care about such traditional nobleman's attire if he saw it anywhere else. However, this young man's attire was rather interesting when compared to Sunders.
Apart from the hat, cane, white gloves, and cloak, the young man's outfit was almost identical to Sunders'. The only difference was the color of his outfit.
Nessie's mind spun quickly as he recalled the identity of this young man. He saw this young man on The Savage when he was receiving talents from the previous batch. This young man was Sunders' new student.
Is he trying to copy Sunders? There were many people who admired Sunders, and there were many who tried to copy him. He once heard from Saka that there was a man named Blackjack in the underground market who loved to copy Sunders' attire.
When Ness saw the buttons on Angor's sleeves, his eyes glinted.
No, this was not an imitation. The emblem on the buttons was Sunders' former family emblem!
So Sunders gave his own clothes to his student? Ness realized something after coming to this conclusion. Sunders seemed to like this student a lot. Angor's importance in Ness' mind rose a little bit.
As Ness pondered, Saka walked to Ness and bowed to Sunders again. He also nodded to Angor with a smile.
Angor pretended not to see it. He walked to Sunders' side and bowed to Ness as a junior.
Speaking of which, this was the second time he met Ness. This gray-haired old man was the one who led them into Brute Cavern. However, Ness did not tell them who he was because he claimed that "you don't have the right to know my name".
Ness accepted the bow with a smile and patted Saka's shoulder. "This is my good-for-nothing apprentice. You two should get to know each other."
Saka walked to Angor's side and reached out his hand with a smile.
"I'm Saka. Nice to meet you."
Saka's slender hand hovered in the air.
He shook Saka's hand in a perfunctory manner. "Me too. Nice to meet you. I'm Angor. "
Fortunately, Saka's smile didn't fade, and the others didn't mind it either.
Other than Ness's suspicions about Saka's unusual behavior, nothing else happened.
…
"How is it? My succubus girl isn't bad, right? You can have her. I'm sure you'll like her, "Ness pointed at the half-naked girl who was still looking at Sunders with a seductive expression.
"No need." Sunders snorted.
"I knew you'd say that. Just like Flora said, 'You are a stinky, hard piece of ice.' Many female wizards in Brute Cavern both love and fear you. You should change your attitude. " Sunders didn't mind Ness's nagging, which meant they were close friends.
"Since you don't want it." Ness pushed the succubus girl towards Saka. "You're the one who got the succubus' soul anyway."
Saka gently put his arm around the girl's waist and smiled when the girl looked at him shyly.
The next second, he swung his blade. The succubus girl was cut in half. Saka tossed the girl's body into the incinerator and collected the succubus' soul into a small bottle.
"I only need the succubus' soul."
Ness didn't mind. The girl was already dead anyway, and the succubus' soul only brought her body back to life for a short time.
Angor was the only one who felt a little depressed. However, it was only for a moment.
Angor's moral bottom line was slowly slipping away after coming into contact with the wizarding world again and again. Perhaps one day, he himself would be trapped in this dark swamp. Who knew?
"You haven't answered me yet. What are you doing here?" Ness asked Sunders.
Sunders glanced at Saka and released a wisp of mana around him. Saka was still smiling, as if he didn't notice the spell.
Angor, on the other hand, noticed that Saka didn't notice the presence of illusions around him.
"A simple illusion," Sunders said. "I'm here because of Angor. I don't want anyone else to know about this. "
Ness nodded. He could tell that the illusion around Saka did not harm him. It only blocked out the sound and created an illusion that he believed was real.
Sunders briefly explained the situation of Angor's soul and emphasized the "gray mist". Ness also expressed his opinion while giving Angor a strange look from time to time.
A moment later, Ness seemed to have come up with a plan. He took out several parchment papers and quickly wrote something down with a quill.
It took Ness a long time to bury the case. During this time, Sunders kept talking about some formulas. Angor couldn't understand anything, so he looked at Saka.
To be more precise, he looked at the illusions around Saka's body.
Angor recognized them as basic illusions. Angor could clearly see the nodes of the illusions. He quietly analyzed them and found that the illusions weren't difficult at all. If he had enough time, he could do it too.
The illusions weren't difficult, but there were still some things he didn't understand. For example, he sensed a strange rhythm. It felt like the rhythmic sound of a pendulum moving from side to side.
The rhythm didn't seem difficult at all. It was the foundation of Sonorous Illusion — Melodious Illusion. If Angor wanted to, he could do it with some time.
But … what was the use of the rhythm?
He could use Melodious Illusion to set up this rhythm, but he had no idea what this rhythm would do in the illusion.
Angor already memorized the notebook Sunders gave him about illusions, but he still couldn't find an answer.
He wanted to ask Sunders, but he didn't want to interrupt them since Sunders was busy discussing some data with Ness.
Another 15 minutes later, Sunders took some of Angor's bodily fluids and went back to discuss with Ness.
Angor was still observing the illusion. It looked simple, but it was full of mysteries.
If it weren't for the fact that they were in the wrong place, Angor would like to see how the illusion worked.
When he looked up, he noticed that Saka was looking at a certain direction with an affectionate look on his face.
It was as if there was someone in the illusion that Saka had been staring at all this time.
Sunders' illusion must still be the four of them in the cavern. Otherwise, Saka wouldn't be sitting quietly on the side. It must be because Ness was there that he didn't dare to act rashly.
Following this logic, there were four people in Saka's illusion: himself, Angor, Sunders, Ness, and Sunders. As for Saka's affectionate gaze, it couldn't be Ness … and neither could Sunders.
Angor suddenly felt a chill down his spine. Apart from those two, he was the only one left in the illusion.
So the person Saka was looking at with affectionate eyes was actually himself?!
If that was the case, did Saka figure out who he was?
Angor clearly remembered when he used "Baron Milk" to fight against Saka. When Saka realized that Sylvia's soul spell didn't work on him, Saka's crazed expression suddenly turned gentlemanly.
He kept talking about something like "Treasure Planet" to "Baron Milk".
That was how Saka looked at Angor back then. His affectionate and gentle gaze gave Angor goosebumps all over his body.
Angor knew that Saka wasn't interested in "Baron Milk". Angor was wearing a wizard robe at that time, and he didn't even show his face.
What Saka was interested in … was his soul.
His soul was being coveted. That was why he decided to ambush Saka outside the Sky Tower that night. He wanted to kill the pervert as soon as possible. However, he didn't succeed. Instead, he ran into the Chloe Brothers.
Angor looked at Saka's eyes in the illusion and confirmed his suspicion.
Saka must have found out who he was.
That was bad.
Angor would never be able to sleep peacefully if he was being watched by this pervert.
Angor even had the urge to kill Saka while he was still trapped in the illusion.
However, Ness was right next to him. That wasn't an option.
There was one more thing that worried Angor. Would everything be over if he killed Saka? Saka was a Soul Manipulator.
Soul Manipulators often said that death was not the end. It was only the beginning.
Killing Saka would only bring more trouble. Since killing Saka wasn't going to solve the problem, Angor had to put his plan on hold.
However, Saka wasn't Angor's number one target yet. Hookdick was the only one he had to kill.
Hookdick was also a Soul Manipulator. However, Angor knew that Hookdick had only joined Brute Cavern for half a year. Judging from the progress of his peers, Angor didn't think he had mastered Soul Manipulation yet. At most, he was still learning basic spells. Killing Hookdick's body should be enough to kill him.
Still, Angor wasn't certain. Hookdick was going to the mysterious "Soul Soil" now, so he might find something useful.
Just in case, he decided to go to Cloud Library and read up on soul spells after the Sky Tower competition was over so that he could come up with a plan.
…
Angor put the matter of Saka aside for now and immersed himself in studying the "illusion" again.
About four hours later, Ness suddenly stood up. "Alright. According to Angor's data, the experiment report on the perfect soul separation is ready. Now we just need to do it! "
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