As one of the judges of the Rising Star Competition, Angor knew how strong Reynolds was.
Gossip magazines often talked about Reynolds' "luck" when talking about his matches. However, that was only one side of the story. Readers liked to read interesting stories, and ordinary battles were not as interesting as John's counterattack.
However, if one thought about it carefully, Reynolds would not be able to stay on the stage of the Rising Star Competition if he only relied on luck.
Reynolds himself also had a very powerful combat ability.
In terms of physical strength, he was not much weaker than Nausica. His final ranking was not too high, but there were some objective factors that could not be ignored.
Reynolds did not dare to use Soul Gear in the competition. Most of his fighting style revolved around Soul Gear, and without it, he would lose half of his strength.
With Soul Gear, Angor believed he could get into the top ten of the competition.
To make a comparison, Reynolds could be ranked in the top ten if he went all out, but the top 30 in the laboratory were all stronger than him … This meant that the people in the top 30, other than the official Magi, were already standing at the peak of the wave set off by the Extraordinaries.
Although they were only Apprentice Adepts, the organization behind them was not to be underestimated for being able to cultivate so many powerful top-notch Apprentices.
"Number 30 is already at the peak of the apprentice level?" Ness thought for a moment and asked Reynolds, "Is there anyone who has reached the level of an official wizard?"
"Yes," Reynolds confirmed. Reynolds said with certainty, "Number 03, Number 02, and Number 01. Although I have not seen the strength of these three before, from the attitude of the other numbered personnel around them, as well as other signs, I can tell that they have reached the level of official Magi."
Ness furrowed his eyebrows. "Three official Magi? That's quite a lot. However, if they are official Magi, they shouldn't be so nameless … Do they have official nicknames or names? "
Reynolds shook his head. "Maybe, but I don't know. We call them by their numbers."
"Then what do they look like?"
Reynolds shook his head again. "They always wore hoods. When I woke up, I never came into close contact with them … I only know that other than 03, who is a woman, the other two are men."
In the past, when he was an experimental subject, he had been in close contact with them on the experiment table. However, when he was lying on the experiment table, he basically lost the ability to think normally and could not remember the other party's appearance.
Ness said, "Three official Adepts with unknown faces. Could they be sorcerers from the southern region? Or did they come from somewhere else … Or perhaps, the numbers 01, 02, and 03 are just their private identities, and they have other identities on the surface? "
Ness could not guess the identity of the other party, so he could only give up for now and signal for Reynolds to continue.
"Apart from these three, there is one more thing that we need to pay attention to." Reynolds hesitated for more than ten seconds before saying, "I heard about this from No.11."
Reynolds gave a brief introduction of the number 11.
He was one of the few moderates in the laboratory, or at least, on the surface, he was gentle. His attitude towards experimental subjects was relatively friendly.
No.11 had a well-known hobby. He had no resistance to Mana Algae Powder.
Therefore, the tool men, whose numbers started with X, often used Mana Algae Powder to bribe No.11. From him, they learned the tendency of the recent missions, as well as which missions were more difficult and could be avoided as soon as possible.
After No.11 took Mana Algae Powder, he was like a drunk person. He basically did not have any control over his mouth and often revealed a lot of secret information.
Once, Reynolds learned a secret about the laboratory from the "high" No.11.
Above No.01, there was a No.00.
"No.11 said this himself, but after he finished, he seemed to feel that it was inappropriate and immediately shut up. No matter how we asked, he no longer spoke. "
Reynolds: "This is the first time I've heard of No.00. I've never seen it before."
"No.00, sounds like a secret existence," Ness whispered to himself.
"I don't know if No.00 is real or not. However, even if there is a No.00, he should not be in the laboratory. "
Reynolds had lived in the laboratory for decades. Whether near or far, he had seen all the numbers, but No.00 was definitely not one of them. If he didn't hear about it from No.11, he wouldn't have thought about it at all.
"If No.00 is really here, he should be the strongest of all," Ness said as he looked at No.00. "No matter what, we still need to be careful. Don't get us into trouble because of our carelessness."
Angor nodded and kept No.00's information in mind. Then, he asked some questions about the other people with higher numbers. However, Reynolds did not know much about them. The people with higher numbers rarely showed up, so he had to give up.
While they were asking and answering questions, it was already noon.
"Time's up." He closed his pocket watch. "Now let's see if the current will change."
While speaking, he reached his spirit feelers out of the force field and used them to sense the changes in the current.
However, his spirit feelers were now waving left and right like the brown algae at the bottom of the sea.
From a macroscopic perspective, the current had a general direction. However, if one focused on a single spot, the current would become chaotic. In Angor's mind, the direction of the current was like a single arrow, which was moving in all directions like dancing ribbons. There was no way to tell which direction it was going.
"That's normal. Don't worry. The current that determines the lab's location is very obvious. It won't be affected by these details." Reynolds nodded. "That's right.
"We'll sense it as soon as it shows up."
Angor felt that Reynolds' words were not natural. But when he thought about it, he realized that it was a joke to talk about the laws of nature at Devil's Water.
Besides, they were in the Mist Zone, a forbidden area of Devil's Water.
It was possible for anything to happen here. Since Reynolds was so confident, they would just wait and see.
Everyone stopped talking and used different methods to wait for the change in the current.
Time passed second by second. The change in the current had yet to happen, but the quiet atmosphere was broken … by Dankrose.
Dankros didn't say anything. He just kept wriggling around and making some rustling noises.
Angor looked at him, and the noise stopped immediately. Dankros kept wriggling around as if he was trying to make some noise to prove his existence.
Toby lost his patience and began to yell at Dankros who was still hanging on Bloody Night Shelter.
"Grrr grrr grrr!"
"Mister Toby, do you have something to tell me?" Dankros tried his best to suck up to Toby.
However, Dangros and Toby had their own language barrier, and Dangros could not understand what Toby was saying.
Angor had no choice but to help Toby translate. "It's greeting you kindly. What were you doing?"
Of course, Toby's "friendliness" was just politeness Angor used during the translation.
Dankros hesitated for a moment before saying, "I, I was …"
Before the stuttering Dankros could finish, they heard some buzzing noises coming from the distance. Angor quickly signaled Dan Grosby to keep quiet and listened carefully.
The noise didn't come from a sea monster. It was the sound of the sea.
"It's here! It's here! "Reynolds also floated up at this time and shouted in surprise in the direction of the buzzing sound.
As his voice fell, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared in the distance, rapidly approaching their location.
At first, Angor thought it was the purple behemoth coming back. But after taking a closer look, he realized that the shadow wasn't a living creature. Or rather, it was not all the creatures in the sea, but a special phenomenon of flying sand and pebbles formed when the sand and pebbles were stirred up and rolled over with the surging currents.
As the shadow approached, the flying sand and tiny Mayfly creatures came right at their faces.
"So that's the current," Angor muttered to himself. No wonder Reynolds said they could use the current to determine the direction of the lab. It was just too obvious.
"Let's go." Angor maintained his force field and moved against the crazy current.
The current was rampaging at the bottom of the sea, leaving dust and corals in its wake. It looked like a hurricane.
On the surface of the sea, huge waves were formed one after another.
It looked very crazy and very dangerous.
Still, it was nothing for Angor's group. In fact, it was not even as dangerous as the Inverted Seawall Wall he encountered earlier.
They followed the direction of the current and moved quickly.
Along the way, they ran into some sea monsters. However, they couldn't even resist the current, so they couldn't do anything to Angor's group.
The roaring current lasted for more than ten minutes before it finally calmed down.
However, even though the surface of the sea was relatively calm, the currents at the bottom of the sea were still very turbulent and could continue to point out a clear direction for them.
After about half an hour, they arrived at a dust-filled area of the Chaotic Reef Sea.
"I think I know this place. We're not far from the lab," said Nausica. It was Nausica who spoke. She was able to see her surroundings through the dim light of her forcefield. That was how she came to a conclusion.
Nausica looked at Reynolds to see if he could agree with what she said. However, Reynolds didn't seem to be in a good mood.
"What's wrong, Reynolds?" Nausica asked.
Reynolds took a while to regain his composure. "Nothing. I … I'm just thinking. We're already very close to the lab, but I can't sense anything."
Reynolds looked into the distance. He seemed to be able to see the underwater laboratory filled with steel bars and machinery through the turbid seawater. "I'm a little suspicious. Is my body really in the laboratory?"
Reynolds' question reminded everyone of the two prophecies that Witch Maya had given them in the dream wasteland.
"Your body is in a cold environment, and it might even be frozen. This kind of freezing will do you no harm. "
"I heard people talking around your body," said Nausica.
According to their deductions from the two prophecies, Reynolds's body had likely been saved by someone. Furthermore, it was very likely that Reynolds's body was in a scene similar to the Ice Coffin of Healing.
It was precisely because of this conjecture and the fact that there were no human settlements nearby that they unanimously believed that Reynolds' body should have been picked up by the people in the laboratory. After all, in the known environment of the fog zone, only the laboratory could perfectly fulfill the two prophecies.
However, they were already very close to the lab. Considering the natural attraction of a body to a soul, Reynolds should have sensed something. But the reality was that Reynolds still didn't sense anything. This was a little strange.
"… Maybe there's a rune in the lab that interferes with senses," said Nausica.
"If that's the case, then it's fine," said Reynolds.
He was afraid that they had guessed wrong and that Reynolds's body was not in the laboratory.
Reynolds shook his head and put aside his worries for the time being. Regardless of whether his body was in the laboratory or not, he had to make a trip to the laboratory in order to remove the soul imprint.
It wouldn't be too late to discuss everything after he arrived at the laboratory.
Reynolds pulled himself together, looked around, and said to everyone, "We're about to enter the patrolling area, we have to be careful."
"There aren't any guards around here, but there are some herded sea beasts patrolling the area. Don't underestimate those sea beasts. "
At this point, Reynolds let out a soft sigh. "If only we weren't discovered by the monster left behind by No. 17. We could have followed the usual pattern of herding sea monsters, avoided their route in advance, and sneaked into the laboratory."
Now that they're on guard, they'll definitely change their routes. It'll be hard to sneak in without alerting them. "
Reynolds had just finished lamenting when he heard a cold snort. "Who told you it's difficult?"
It was Ness. He glanced at Reynolds and said, "That's because you're not strong enough. There are plenty of ways to hide from the sea beasts."
With that, Ness prepared to use a Soul Manipulator's concealment ability. But before he could do anything, a ripple appeared in the air around them. Next, their bodies, scents, and all remaining information elements were all gone.
Even the faint glow of the force field was hidden.
"It's … an illusion."
It was Angor who did it.
Ness wanted to complain, but Angor didn't even look at him. Instead, he kept looking into the distance.
Ness hesitated and followed Angor's gaze.
He still couldn't see anything with his naked eyes. There was only darkness and dust.
However, through the ripples in the water, Ness clearly sensed that a rather large creature was swimming in their direction …
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