The familiar froze for a second or two after discovering the illusion nodes. Then, it began to yell "waaahhh!" and hopped around on the spot in anger.
After sulking for a while, the fire-scale familiar began to do some seemingly random actions to escape, such as burning down the nodes, or ramming into the surroundings in an attempt to break out of the illusion. But it was useless. In the end, the familiar gave Angor a vicious glare.
Another round of "waaahhh!". Several seconds later, the familiar mustered up its courage and charged at Angor with its spear in hand.
The reckless behavior was only the beginning. When it came to Angor, it changed completely.
Cunning!
When Angor wasn't paying attention, it stabbed the spear into the ground and created a cloud of sparks that obscured Angor's vision.
Someone shouted from above. Angor looked up and saw a Fire Scale Familiar leaping into the air and swinging its spear at his head.
With a gentle sweep, the flaming spear was thrown away. However, as Angor raised his hand, another familiar figure rushed out from the cloud of sparks. The familiar was aiming at Angor's chest with its spear.
A slash from the top and a stab from the middle. Angor had to pay attention to the top, but he had to ignore the middle.
Just as the Fire-Scale Familiar was about to succeed, a tentacle-like illusory limb formed from white gas blocked the spear in the middle. Then, with a penetrating force, it pierced into the Fire-Scale Familiar's chest.
However, the tentacle-like limb did not draw any blood. The familiar in front of Angor and above him simply turned into smoke and disappeared.
As the smoke attracted Angor's attention, he sensed another threat coming from behind.
The familiar showed up behind Angor without him noticing and aimed its spear at Angor's back with a creepy smile.
However, Angor's back was the easiest place for a tentacle-like limb to grow. A new tentacle-like limb quickly formed and blocked the attack.
The familiar shrieked and hid behind the sparks. In less than half a second, three familiar figures attacked Angor's head, back, and lower limbs at the same time.
Two of the Fire-Scale Familiar Demons had dull eyes, but the Fire-Scale Familiar Demons attacking the bottom lane had cunning and quick-witted eyes.
Without hesitation, Angor created several more tentacle-like limbs. Two of them were used to deal with the dull-looking ones, while the rest attacked the ones below.
The two Firescale Familiars in the middle and top of Angor's body turned into flames and disappeared. Meanwhile, the Firescale Familiar on the bottom moved swiftly and dodged the phantom limb's attack. Then, it used the rebound force to stab Angor's back even faster.
Out of instinct, he tilted his body and dodged the attack. But at this moment, a flaming spear pierced into his eyeball and directly broke open his head!
Angor realized what was going on. The Fire-Scale Familiar that was attacking him from behind was still made of flames. The so-called intelligent eyes were also fake. The real Fire-Scale Familiar was hiding in front of him and silently assassinating him.
With a successful strike, the Fire-Scale Familiar revealed a triumphant smile and landed not far away with a somersault.
However, Angor's joy didn't last long. Angor slowly turned around to look at the familiar with the fire spear in his eye sockets. This time, he was wearing the same creepy smile as the familiar.
The familiar finally realized that something was wrong.
It only took half a second before it realized that it was an illusion.
Without hesitation, it stomped on the ground and turned into a raging flame that exploded in the air. Ten familiar figures scattered and fled in different directions.
The eyes of these Fire-Scale Spirit Demons were dull and lifeless. It was hard to tell where their real bodies were at first glance.
However, he suddenly heard a young voice. "Run over here. The one on your left is the real one!"
The fire-scale familiar that was exposed was stunned. Before it could react to who was speaking and how it was exposed, several illusory limbs that looked like white silk rushed out from the darkness and tied it up tightly.
The fire stopped, and the sparks fell.
Finally, he slowly walked out and stood in front of the Firescale Familiar.
The familiar tried to break free, but the tentacle-like tentacles tied it up tightly. Even its shriveled head was tied up, leaving only its eyes, ears, mouth, and nose exposed.
"It's going to attack you again. I can feel the power of fire gathering in its eyes!"
The voice came from Angor's shoulder. The familiar looked over and saw a severed hand with facial features crawling onto Angor's shoulder.
Anyone who saw such a strange severed hand would be surprised and try to guess what kind of creature it was. However, the familiar did not hesitate. As a fire-attribute monster, it recognized the severed hand right away — a Fire Elemental Spirit.
When it saw the severed hand, the familiar finally understood why its real body was exposed. A Fire Elemental Spirit could naturally sense the changes in fire.
It was a piece of cake for the Fire Elemental Spirit to tell whether it was a fire clone or the real body.
"I'm Dangros. What's your name? There's no use glaring at me. He's the one who tied you up, and he's the one you need to deal with. But are you sure this person in front of you is real or fake? "
As Dankros spoke, he kept staring at the Fire-Scale Familiar. He felt that the Fire-Scale Familiar had a strange aura, especially when the Fire-Scale Familiar was in a daze and during the previous battle.
The fire-scale familiar was stunned by Dankrose's question.
The human in front of it looked alive, and his aura was exactly the same as when it sensed him. However, the illusions it saw during the battle were exactly the same. Therefore, the familiar could not tell whether this was real or just an illusion.
"Dara! Guh! Kill!" A strange voice came out of the familiar's mouth. Angor couldn't understand what language it was speaking, but judging from its angry eyes, it was probably cursing at Angor, the disgusting illusionist.
"You can understand Dangros' language, which means you know the common tongue," Angor said. "How about we talk?"
The familiar humphed and closed its eyes to show that it was not going to cooperate.
"So you don't know what a captive should do." Angor began to control the phantom limb to tighten it.
The Fire Scale Familiar's face was deformed by the powerful pressure produced by the Phantom Limb.
It also cried out in pain.
Angor relaxed a little. He planned to ask more questions. If the familiar refused to cooperate, he would have to resort to other means, such as … using nightmare illusions.
Before Angor could say anything, Dangros, who was standing on Angor's shoulder, suddenly shouted, "I remember it now! It has the smell of the strange energy we encountered on the first floor! "
Strange energy on the first level? Angor knew what Dangros was talking about. When they were looking for the main control node, Angor sensed a strange energy point in a corridor. It was a remnant energy, which was very strange.
Not only was the energy mixed together, but it also carried a strange smell that Angor had never sensed before.
At the same time, there was also space energy. Angor often used the Gate of Illusion, so he was quite familiar with space energy. He was sure that there was some residual energy left by someone who traveled through space.
Back then, Angor wondered if someone inside the lab used Space Travel and left some residual energy behind. But when he thought about how the magic array was always active, he realized that something was wrong.
Since he was in a hurry to find the main control node, he did not investigate further and left the lab.
Now that Dankros mentioned it again, Angor tried to recall it again. But he was still confused because he did not sense such energy coming from the Firescale Familiar.
Dangros noticed Angor's confusion and explained, "Maybe the fire blocked your energy perception. Also, the energy on the familiar is very subtle. It was only during the battle and when I was in a daze that I felt some fluctuations. "
"Fighting and spacing out?"
"Yes, I feel that when it is thinking, it will have this kind of fluctuation. But not when it's not. "
Angor did not know if Dangros was telling the truth, but he was willing to trust the old man's judgment.
He looked at the familiar. "You didn't escape from the monster garden? Did you teleport in from outside? "
The familiar did not answer. Instead, it gave Angor a strange grin.
Next, the familiar's body began to expand. However, the illusionary limbs were too tight around its body, so the force of the expansion was mostly directed to its head.
Its face grew bigger at a speed visible to the naked eye, like an inflated balloon, which expanded to five times its original size in the blink of an eye.
However, the strange grin on the familiar's face did not disappear.
Until … Boom!
The head of the Fire-Scale Familiar exploded. Blood, brain matter, and bone fragments flew all over the place.
The familiar's aura completely disappeared, which meant that it was dead.
Following its death, Angor finally sensed the strange energy ripples coming from it.
The strange energy came from a cloud of mist that came out of the familiar's head. Angor could not see what was inside the mist, but he could vaguely see a large number of sparkling star-like light spots inside.
"Heehee, heehee …" Strange laughter came from the mist. Angor did not know what it meant, but he sensed provocation again.
Without hesitation, he controlled the illusion nodes to surround the mist and shadow.
However, the mist had no intention of dealing with Angor at all. It turned into a half-transparent state and scattered into countless specks of light before disappearing.
"W-what's going on? Where's the mist? " Dankros sensed the presence of the mist through the sparks that were still lingering in the air.
"It's gone," Angor said in a small voice.
As the one who set up the illusion, he could clearly sense that the strange energy was quickly moving away from him. Even the illusion did not stop it from leaving. It was as if the illusion did not exist at all. After leaving the illusion, the strange energy retracted all of its aura and disappeared.
"It ran away?" Dankros had a look of disbelief on his face. "Isn't the normal plot for it to reveal its true form and then reverse the situation? Why did it run away? "
Angor did not care about Dankros's ridiculous idea. He went straight to the corpse of the familiar.
As for looking for the mist, Angor did not plan to do so. He could tell that the mist was not in a physical form. Otherwise, the illusion would have reacted to it. It was not something that could be done in a short period of time to capture a non-physical, semi-ethereal being.
Moreover, before capturing the other party, they had to find the other party first.
It was harder to find the half-transparent form than to deal with it.
It was obviously impossible to find the shadow in the fog who was focused on escaping in such a short time. In that case, he might as well study the Fire-Scale Familiar that had been manipulated by that existence first.
He crouched down and looked at the headless Fire-Scale Familiar.
He tried to find the residual energy of the mist inside the monster's body so that he could try to locate it.
However, the monster's body was completely clean. There was not a single trace of strange energy left inside.
Angor was disappointed, but he could tell that the monster was a cunning one.
Angor continued to study the monster's body and did not find anything else. Dankros, on the other hand, pointed out that the fire energy inside the body was very pure.
If all Fire-Scale Familiars had such pure fire energy, they would not be at the bottom of the food chain.
Angor was sure that this Fire-Scale Familiar was a special case.
But was this special case congenital, or was it modified by the invasion of the Dense Fog and shadow? He could not be sure.
Personally, he believed that the mist did this to the monster.
If the mist traveled through space and came to Angor's lab, then this Fire-Scale Familiar should be the one from Monster Garden. As for the Fire-Scale Familiar in the Magical Beast Garden, Reynolds had a better understanding of it. That was definitely not a special case. That was why Angor assumed that the shadow was modified by the mist.
If it was really modified, then judging from the effects of the modification, this Fire-Scale Familiar was pretty good.
At least from the previous battle, this Firescale Familiar should be comparable to the contestants of the first class in the Rising Star Tournament, whether it was its energy level or its cunning during battle. The Fire-Scale Familiar should be as strong as Leon before he joined Angor's class.
In other words, the mist transformed a low-leveled apprentice into a peak-level one.
That was unbelievable.
Was this a unique ability of the mist? Or did it really know how to modify creatures and energy sources?
He could not find an answer for now. Either way, he still had a question. Why did the mist attach itself to the Fire-Scale Familiar?
There should be plenty of monsters in Monster Garden, including powerful sea beasts. Why did the mist attach itself to a low-leveled monster?
Was it because there was a limit to how it could attach itself?
If so, why would it attach itself to someone else?
"Or is it because it can't affect the material world when it's in a semi-intangible state?"
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