"An old friend?"
"Yes." Iron Granny sighed. "To be more precise, it's the body of an old friend." She looked a bit sad.
An old friend? It took Angor two seconds to realize what Iron Granny was trying to say. He stretched out his finger and lightly tapped the table. A large number of illusion nodes gushed out from his fingertips and constructed an illusion on the wooden table.
The illusion showed what Dodoro saw when he was still alive.
In the pitch-black Catacombs, there were a large number of containers on the rectangular stone platforms around the altar, as well as various organs stored in them.
Among them, the most eye-catching organ was the female arm that was contained in a long liquid container.
"Is this it?" Angor pointed at the arm, which had black and red patterns on it. Compared to all the other organs, this one stood out the most.
"Yes." Iron Granny stared at the arm for a while and nodded. "I'm not mistaken. It's the right hand of the Night Butterfly."
"Night Butterfly Witch …" Angor quickly searched his memory. "Are you talking about 'Crimson Night Butterfly' Jenny Watson, Granny?"
Iron Granny nodded. "Looks like you're doing something good. Yes, that's her. I've seen the pattern on her arm before. "
"Oh, it's her? I don't think I heard anything about her recently. But I've seen a lot of gossip about her in old magazines from the last century. "
"Crimson Nightbutterfly" Jenny Watson was a level-1 wizard from the Watson Clan. The Watson Family was quite famous two thousand years ago. They were one of the top three families in Vinsbiers' forces. Unfortunately, after the "Bloody Night Butcher" incident, the Watson Family fell into obscurity along with Vinsbiers' fall. In the last thousand years, the Watson Clan only had one wizard, and that was Night Butterfly.
Angor didn't know much about Night Butterfly. He only knew that she was a fire-element wizard. Due to her beautiful face and bold personality, many male wizards were attracted to her. Of course, most of the male wizards were apprentices.
Because of this, Jenny was a frequent guest in gossip magazines.
However, that was only limited to the last century. There wasn't much news about Jenny in the last hundred years.
"There's no news about her because Jenny left the southern region a hundred years ago," Iron Granny said softly.
"He really left the southern region? I once heard that Jenny owed a certain adept a debt of love, but she couldn't beat him, so she fled the southern region. " It was Ness who spoke. As a typical "gentleman", he seemed to be quite interested in gossip and knew more about it than Angor. At least, he had never heard of such a thing.
"Is that true?" Angor looked at Iron Granny curiously.
"Boring." Iron Granny glanced at Ness and said to Angor, "Don't listen to him. He doesn't look like a wizard at all."
Ness felt wronged. "Didn't the rumors spread like wildfire back then? I wasn't the only one who said it."
Iron Granny put down her teacup and said, "Jenny did leave the southern region because of something, but it wasn't because of a love affair."
Iron Granny knew Jenny like the back of her hand, so she knew what happened a hundred years ago.
According to Iron Granny, Jenny was different from how she was portrayed in the magazines. She was bold, but that was only because she didn't think before she spoke and expressed her feelings too straightforwardly.
To put it simply, Jenny spent all her time on cultivation and didn't care about worldly affairs. She was no different from those brainless brutes who only cared about their muscles.
The reason why people still gossiped about Jenny was that she was too beautiful.
Given Jenny's personality, the rumor that she was avoiding him because of love was a lie. The reason she had left a hundred years ago was because of an irresolvable conflict with a witch from the Bliss House. That witch had once been good friends with Jenny.
Iron Granny didn't go into details, but Angor was sure that it wasn't love.
"Jenny once fused with the bloodline of a special flaming butterfly, which is called 'Crimson Nightbutterfly'. The beast's bloodline gave Jenny great power, but it also brought her a lot of trouble in the future. It's exactly because of these troubles that Jenny has never been able to embark on the path of truth. "
"At the time, Jenny didn't want to face her old friend, and she happened to hear that the Moon Frost Alliance had discovered a butterfly similar to the Slender Red Night Butterfly during a planar expedition. She wanted to see if she could find this butterfly to solve her problem, so she left the southern region."
"That's all I know." Iron Granny sighed deeply. "Jenny and I met at a tea party three hundred years ago. She's one of my close juniors. She even came to Brute Cavern to visit me before she left, and I agreed to let her go. Who would've thought that Jenny wouldn't return after she left? And this is what I heard about her after so many years. "
She always thought that Jenny was still looking for a truth-finder, or had gone to an origin world to train. She didn't expect that the next time she saw Jenny, it was because of Ness.
She didn't know what happened to Jenny, but her arm was placed inside a transparent container, which looked both beautiful and tragic.
Angor could tell that Iron Granny really felt sorry about Jenny's fate. He considered for a moment and said, "So far, we can't confirm whether it's Night Butterfly's doing or not. Even if it's Night Butterfly's hand, it's only an arm. It doesn't mean that something bad happened to her. "
"I can tell whether it's her hand or not," Iron Granny said. "Jenny's bloodline came from her hands, which can turn into butterfly wings. You can say that her hands are the most important part of her body, even more important than her heart. The patterns on her hands are a manifestation of her bloodline, which is very difficult to replicate. "
If such an important hand was cut off, the consequences would be obvious.
"Gosh … I didn't think Jenny would end up like this." Ness sighed. After all, Jenny was someone he once fantasized about.
Iron Granny glanced at him. "Angor is right. Jenny might not be dead yet. It's too early for you to think about her fate."
"Fine." Ness shrugged. "I don't care if Jenny is dead or alive. I'm more curious about one thing. How did Jenny's hand end up in an underground cavern in the Land of Revelation?"
"Shouldn't you be the one to answer that question? Didn't you hear about those people who carved words on their faces? "Iron Granny looked at Ness and asked.
According to Dodoro's prophecy, the ones who created the altars in the underground cavern all had numbers on their faces. If they wanted to know why Jenny ended up in the underground cavern, they had to find out who created the altars first. And Ness was the only one who knew about these clues.
Angor looked at Ness as well. "You've been thinking about it for days, Wizard Ness. Can't you figure it out yet?"
When the topic turned to him, Ness's expression was a little awkward. He hesitated for a while before saying, "I have thought of it, but it might be a little different from what you think."
Iron Granny raised an eyebrow. "If you've thought of it, just say it."
Nessie sighed and spoke slowly.
"Thirty years ago, I left Brute Cavern to collect more undead souls. At that time, I was even tricked by that old man, Wallace, and was forced to accept a guiding mission … "
It was the year 7347 of the new calendar.
After gathering the necromancers he needed in an ancient graveyard, Ness made another trip overseas. It took him half a year before he managed to gather five talents, which was the minimum requirement for the guidance mission. After that, he boarded the White Clam Shipping Company's cargo ship and returned to Fey Continent.
Since he had nothing else to do, Ness decided to enjoy this rare moment of leisure.
As for how to enjoy it? Ness was only interested in two things. One was undead souls, and the other was beautiful women. He already had an undead soul, so he enjoyed the company of beautiful women.
Coincidentally, there was also a guard from Floating Mech City on the ship. She was a beautiful female apprentice named Mia.
Of course, Ness went to her.
During that time, Ness lived a happy life.
One night, when Ness went to find his new lover, he saw two new talents in Mia's room. They were reporting something about their hometown to Mia.
The report was about a group of men with number tattoos on their faces.
However, Ness only cared about his new lover at that time. He didn't pay attention to the two talents at all. Even when he heard the news, it didn't leave a deep impression in his mind.
It was also because he didn't take the words of those two talents to heart that although he had this impression in his mind for the past two days, he still couldn't recall it. After a few days of sorting out his memories, he gradually recalled this matter.
"Oh? A talent told you that? " Iron Granny wondered. Ness had asked her the same question before. She tried to recall the past but couldn't recall any supernatural with a tattoo of numbers on their face. She didn't expect that a talent who hadn't officially joined the wizarding world would find something like that.
"Yes." Ness recalled: "I remember that the two talents seemed to have encountered some supernatural event and felt that something was off, so after they were guided to become talents, they told Mia about it"
"What kind of supernatural event?" Angor asked.
Ness said, "When I went to look for Mia, they had already told me part of the story, so what I heard was the edited version. There seemed to be a group of people chasing after a person. Flames and smoke were everywhere along the way, and a few mountains were even burned down. At that time, they happened to see that group of people flying in the sky. "
"Both the pursuer and the one being chased have number tattoos on their faces."
"And then?"
Ness shrugged. "Then nothing happened."
"Is there a way to contact Mia and the other two talents you mentioned?"
"Ever since I left the freighter, I haven't contacted Mia. I don't know how she is now. If I want to contact her, I can only use the mini signal tower. But Mister Rein isn't in Brute Cavern right now, so I can't do anything about it. "
When Angor left Brute Cavern, he gave the mini signal tower to Mister Rein. Now that Mister Rein was in the Tidal Realm, Ness had no way to contact Floating Mech City.
Iron Granny suddenly spoke up. "I have the mini signal tower."
"Huh?"
Iron Granny said, "Rhine gave me the mini signal tower before he left."
"Then I'll go offline and find you, Granny." Ness was interested in the altar in the first place. Now that an old friend of Iron Granny's was involved, he had to do something to earn Iron Granny's favor.
In the next minute, Ness and Iron Granny logged off, leaving Angor alone in the attic.
Since he had nothing else to do, he planned to talk to Torras about his Soul Trick training. However, when he looked down from the second floor, he saw Torras and Mandhela chatting happily.
Angor glanced at the strange atmosphere between them and decided not to go down right away. Instead, he took out the Mother Tree Communicator and killed some time.
About half an hour later, both Ness and Iron Granny came online at the same time.
Angor noticed that Iron Granny and Ness both had strange expressions on their faces. "How's it going? Did you contact Mia?"
Iron Granny sighed. "I'll let Ness tell you."
"Yeah … I got in touch with the people from Floating Mech City. Unfortunately, they're all dead."
"Dead? What's going on? "
"Mia died more than 20 years ago. She tried to break through to become an official Magus several times but failed. She died from the backlash in the end." Speaking of this, Ness felt a little regretful. After all, he and Mia were once in a relationship. He still felt a little sad when he heard about her death.
"As for the other two talents, they only died a few years ago. Maybe you've seen them before."
"Me?" Angor pointed at himself with a puzzled look.
Ness nodded. "They died in the Garden of Purification."
Angor immediately understood what was going on. Back then, Floating Mech City sacrificed thousands of apprentices in order to upgrade the garden.
A large number of apprentices died in the Sea of Purification.
Many of them were students of Floating Mech City. The two talents Mia brought to Floating Mech City happened to be in the Garden of Purification.
Angor only managed to escape at the last moment. He didn't know the names of the two talents, but it was possible that he met them before.
"Death is always with us when we walk the path of wizardry." Niss sighed. Be it the Night Butterfly Witch, Mia, or these two talents, they were all the same. Choosing this path meant that there were many more dangers than living a normal life.
Angor sighed. "Since they're dead, can we find out more about them?"
"They're dead, but Mia had a habit of keeping records. She wrote down everything the two talents told her in a notebook."
"Floating Mech City has found Mia's letter for us," Angor said.
[Yes.] [Yes.]
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