A moment later, the nightmare hand turned into a bubble of light and disappeared.
"Is he okay?" Dangros poked his head out of the window and asked.
"His body's condition isn't too good, but fortunately, I didn't sense any abnormalities in his body."
In other words, the shadow was either hidden so well that he couldn't see it, or it had already left his body.
Angor believed it to be the latter.
The shadow's consciousness wouldn't be affected by the senses of its possessor.
The sensory effects here included the sense of pain and the brain's self-protection. In other words, even if Reynolds' body fell unconscious due to self-protection, the shadow could still control him and move freely.
At that moment, Reynolds' physical body had clearly lost its ability to move and judge, and there was no consciousness to control it. Judging from this, it could be seen that the fog and shadows had left Reynolds' body.
As for why it left?
The answer wasn't complicated. Even if the shadow wasn't affected by its possessor and didn't care if Reynolds was injured, anyone with eyes could see that there was something wrong with Reynolds' body.
A series of coincidences caused a chain of misfortune. This wasn't normal. If the shadow didn't believe in "coincidences", what would it think of?
There's a certain
This kind of power was interfering with one's luck.
And this kind of power clearly involved the indescribable level of fate.
Even Angor felt a chill down his spine when he didn't know what was going on.
The shadow wasn't an idiot. It would worry too.
Right now, Reynolds was the target of misfortune. But what about the future? Would a stronger misfortune affect the shadow's body in the future?
Furthermore, the shadow in the fog could also see that the misfortune only appeared after it possessed Reynolds.
There was something wrong with Reynolds' body.
Thinking about it, it made sense. Why would an ordinary apprentice's body be hidden in such a secret room by 01?
Under such circumstances, the shadow of the mist could either take a gamble and hope that the misfortune would not affect its main body and continue to possess Reynolds, or it could leave Reynolds immediately.
Did the shadow have something to do with Reynolds? It didn't seem to be the case.
Therefore, it was impossible for the shadow of the fog to continue possessing Reynolds while bearing such great psychological pressure. The wisest choice was to get rid of Reynolds as soon as possible.
There was another reason why Angor made this decision.
If the shadows of the fog wanted to affect the material world, they would definitely need a physical body. When they were on the fifth floor, the shadow in the fog had no choice but to choose Reynolds' body because there was only one usable body there.
But it was different on the first floor. There was a Magical Beast Garden on the first floor. The Fire-Scale Familiar that the Shadow of Mist had initially controlled came from the Magical Beast Garden.
The shadow could simply go to the Monster Garden and pick a new body.
Most importantly, this place was very close to the Magical Beast Garden. It could be seen that the original route of the fog shadow was running towards the Magical Beast Garden.
It was very likely that the Shadow of the Mist had already arrived at the Magical Beast Garden and possessed a new body.
Which was a good thing.
At the very least, they were no longer worried that Reynolds' head would explode from the shadows of the fog. And the person who solved this hidden danger was not an outsider, but Reynolds himself. Angor wouldn't be able to do anything if he had to do it himself. Reynolds' body was the best choice.
After figuring out the general situation, Angor decided to collect Reynolds' body first. Then he would decide whether he should go to the Monster Garden to look for the shadow.
However, before collecting Reynolds' body, he still needed to treat it a little.
The backlash of misfortune also caused a lot of damage to Reynolds. If it wasn't treated, it wouldn't take long for him to wither and die.
Angor carefully placed Reynolds' broken body on the ground and checked it. Then he cast two level-2 cantrips, Isolation and Vitality Stimulation.
Neither of these two cantrips was actually a conventional healing spell. They were used because Reynolds' body was not suitable for direct healing. There was still a large amount of energy left in his body.
Using Isolation, Angor decided to separate the energy and toxins from the body first.
As for Vitality Stimulation, it was to use the consumption of life essence to delay the body's exhaustion. However, Vitality Stimulation had a side effect — it would consume one's lifespan. It was hard to quantify lifespan, but it was a fact.
The side effect was severe, but Angor didn't have time to worry about it. Losing lifespan was better than dying. Besides, lifespan was the essence of life. The essence of life was not static. When the essence of life was improved, it would continue to grow. For example, becoming a wizard.
Angor took out a magic scroll called "Ice Coffin of Healing" and put Reynolds inside.
Next, he stomped his foot on the ground, and the shadow around him began to move. Soon, a head slowly emerged from the shadow.
It was Elmi.
Angor decided to put Reynolds in Elmi's place first. There was still a small chance that the shadow did not leave Reynolds. Just in case, he couldn't leave the bracelet here. Elmi was the best choice.
Elmi nodded. Without saying anything, he spread out a layer of shadow on the ground and began to devour the ice coffin on the ground.
Before the ice coffin sank into the shadow, Dankros suddenly muttered, "Why are Reynolds' cheeks so puffy? They look like my little traveling frog friend. "
Angor turned his attention to Reynolds' face out of instinct.
He didn't pay much attention to Reynolds' face before because … it was too horrible to look at.
Reynolds' handsome face was nowhere to be found. His charred skin, flesh, and yellow-green mucus were all over his face. It was really unsightly.
This was the first time Angor took a good look at Reynolds' face.
Angor quickly noticed something strange.
"Elmi, wait." Angor stopped Elmi from devouring Reynolds. He walked to the ice coffin, opened the lid, and gently pressed on Reynolds' puffy cheeks.
The skin was brittle and fell off. However, under his skin, there was a hard layer of feedback.
It didn't feel like a muscle.
Angor hesitated for a moment before he opened Reynolds' mouth.
With a light twist of his finger, something was taken out of his mouth.
"Done." Angor closed the coffin lid and spoke to Elmi. Elmi quickly summoned a shadow and swallowed the transparent ice coffin.
When the shadow returned to its normal state, Angor picked up the item he got from Reynolds' mouth.
It was a small, transparent bottle.
The bottle wasn't big, so Angor could hold it with his hand. There was some cold, yellowish liquid inside, and a purple-black crystal was soaking in the center.
"Why does this look so familiar?" Dankros was also looking at the item in the bottle. The crystal gave him a strong sense of deja vu as if he had seen it somewhere before.
"Hmph. Caw caw caw caw." Toby gave Dankros a sidelong glance. Even though Dankros couldn't understand Toby's language, he could tell that Toby was looking down on him.
"Toby's right." Angor saw Dankros' confused and sad expression and said, "The thing inside should belong to Schiz."
The Schiz cub they met outside had a lot of purple crystals growing out of its body. The one in the bottle had a darker color, but the overall appearance was the same.
Angor assumed that this item belonged to Schiz.
However, what caught Angor's attention was not the crystal. It was the bottle and the cold liquid inside.
This wasn't the first time he saw this kind of cold liquid. Every organ container in the showroom had the same kind of cold liquid.
He wondered if it was a transplantable organ as well.
But if it was an organ … Didn't Schiz cub not get caught yet? How did they get it?
One had to know that if one wanted to peel off an organ with supernatural characteristics, it wasn't as simple as just breaking off the crystal on its body. It required a special spell. Bloodline Sorcerers and Biological Alchemists all had similar spells.
It would be strange if there was a transplantable organ inside.
Or were there two Schiz cubs? One was already captured?
That shouldn't be possible.
Angor couldn't figure it out, so he put it aside and looked at the cold liquid inside the bottle.
This was the first time he saw the real thing. But not long ago, he saw the indentation of this bottle on a piece of velvet cloth in Hidden Room 01.
Angor waved his hand and summoned an illusionary box in front of him.
It was the same box he found earlier. It was divided into two parts, each of which contained a different item. However, the box was already empty when he found it.
He quickly compared the bottle with the indentations in the box.
Sure enough, it matched one of the indentation.
This bottle must be one of the two missing from Hidden Room 01.
The shadow must have stolen it. It couldn't affect the material world directly, so it had to be on Reynolds.
As for why it was in Reynolds' mouth instead of on him … Angor guessed that the shadow was worried that it might be affected by bad luck, so it was better to keep it in Reynolds' mouth.
If that was the case, the shadow must be very interested in the item inside the bottle as well.
"Could it be that the target of the shadow in the fog is actually this bottle? Then why did it set fire on Level 5? "
Angor didn't know what the shadow was doing. But when he looked at the bottle in his hand, he had a different idea.
If the shadow cared about this bottle so much, would it come back to Monster Garden to take it away after possessing a new creature?
Angor wondered if he should go to Monster Garden to look for the shadow. But now it seemed that he didn't need to do that. He could just wait here.
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