"… That's the gist of it. All you need to do is control the sea creatures so that they don't swim in this direction." Reynolds briefly explained what "Ge" needed to do.
As for why, Reynolds explained that there was something dangerous ahead, and it was using sea creatures as sacrifices to increase its strength. If they didn't stop it, it would endanger all the creatures in the mist zone.
"Ge, I'm counting on you."
X3 maintained a cold expression. After listening to Reynolds's words, she snorted coldly. "Why should I believe the words of a traitor?"
Reynolds showed a bitter expression. "Do you still think I'm a traitor? Then … I don't have anything to say. But you know me better than anyone. I don't need to lie to you. "
X3 sneered. "As long as I can kill you all, I don't care if I endanger Base. You don't understand the strength of the base. No creature can destroy the base. Even if all the Sorcerer organizations in the southern region were added together, they still couldn't compare to the base. This was because the base was backed by a large organization from the origin world. Any random legendary Sorcerer could topple the entire southern region. This was a qualitative difference! Wake up, No.1! "
X3 was still mocking Angor at first, but its words were getting more and more strange. It sounded like a fanatic worshipper devoutly believing in a god called "Base". It was completely illogical and without any sense of self.
Now he understood why Reynolds said that everyone was "brainwashed" except for him.
X3's behavior was a classic example of being brainwashed. It thought it still had independent thoughts, but it had already lost its sense of self.
"You really are a lowly frog at the bottom of a well. Your vision is only as big as the mouth of the well. Do you really think you're right when you talk about the origin world? You'll become a laughingstock even in the origin world. "It was Ness who spoke. He looked at X3 with a mocking gaze.
Generally speaking, the origin world was stronger than the south. However, the origin world and the south both belonged to the wizarding world. Even if they were separated by endless space and time, the essence of the world was the same. They were both places where humans originated. If one were to look at them separately, they would all be considered heresy.
Moreover, there were many powerhouses in the Origin World that came from the four Sorcerer Worlds. Among them, there were also powerhouses from the Southern Region in the Origin World. Although they did not return to the Southern Region, if what X3 said was true, Seyi would send a legendary Sorcerer to overturn the Southern Region. When that time came, they would see if the Southern Region's great existences would not react.
"Forget about all the wizard organizations in the south. Brute Cavern alone is more than enough to destroy your base if we want to," said Ness. "As for Seiss' legendary wizards? Do you really think Brute Cavern's ten-thousand-year history is fake? "
Even if X3 heard Ness's words, she ignored them. For a person like her, her stubborn beliefs would never be broken by a few words.
They were like frogs at the bottom of a well. They would never know how vast the world outside the well was. They would only be content at the bottom of the well, thinking that the world was just a piece of sky above their heads.
To change their perception, X3 had to jump out of the well herself. It was useless for others to say anything.
"Ge, please trust me. We can't let that dangerous creature eat more sea monsters." Reynolds was still trying to persuade X3.
However, X3 was not going to listen to Reynolds.
Filo, who had been interrogating 02, walked over from afar. Behind him was Number 02, who was wrapped up in El's shadow and looked listless.
"Does Number 02 know about it?" Ness turned to ask.
Filo shook his head. "He knows nothing."
Ness sighed. It seemed this was Number 03's own secret. No one else knew about the "fruit". It made sense. Every wizard had their own trump cards. Sunders, for example, had a Mystery Item as his trump card. It was just that he did not need to use it in his previous battles.
"What should we do with him? Kill him? "
X3 raised his head and looked at No. 02, who was completely unable to resist. A complicated emotion flashed through his eyes. In her eyes, Number 02 used to be an insurmountable mountain. But now, he looked like a pitiful wretch wrapped around by an inhuman shadow.
Ness considered. "He's still useful. Let's keep him. We can give him to Mister Tree Spirit later."
There was a prison under Tree Spirit Garden, where many powerful supernatural captives were kept. Some of them could be used to extract knowledge, some could be used as bargaining chips, and some could be used as free labor. Worst of all, they still had Dumartin, who could be turned into puppets.
"Keep him trapped, El 'mi. The others are hard to control. It'll be bad if he manages to open a plane passageway."
Angor nodded. El 'mi did not need to fight for now, so he could keep an eye on Number 02.
With Number 02 out of the way, they looked back at X3.
Reynolds was still trying to persuade X3. He even begged her, but she did not relent. Angor did not want to waste any more time.
Angor didn't want to waste any more time. "X3 uses Soul Equipment to control sea monsters?"
Reynolds nodded.
"Got it." Angor looked at X3, who was trying to avoid his gaze. "One last chance. Do it yourself, or I'll force you to do it."
Angor did not mention how.
Angor's current appearance was "Sunders". Number X was responsible for collecting information about wizards in the south, so X3 knew who Sunders was.
If Sunders wanted to control someone, he would definitely use an illusion to do so, and it would be absolutely invisible.
X3 hesitated. She did not want to be controlled, but she also did not want to work for these people, even if it was just to drive away sea monsters.
Angor did not want to wait any longer. He reached out a finger and gathered nightmare energy around it. "If that's the case, let's —"
X3 sensed the strange energy coming from Angor's hand and blurted out, "I'll do it myself!"
Angor did not reply. He still sent the nightmare energy into X3's forehead.
"I'll do it!"
"Then do it. As long as you don't harbor any evil intentions, the illusion I left in your mind will not activate," Angor said in a plain tone. "But if you do something you shouldn't —"
Angor did not continue. Instead, he controlled the nightmare energy in X3's forehead and took control of X3's body.
"X3" moved her limbs and cracked her neck.
"This is what you get for doing something you shouldn't have done." Angor's voice overlapped with X3's childish female voice.
As for X3's self-consciousness, when it looked at its own body and spoke in the sea of consciousness, it felt its scalp go numb.
She had never thought that someone would be able to completely control her body like this … She could only watch in her sea of consciousness, unable to move at all.
Was this the power of a Phantom Master?
Perhaps because he sensed X3's fear, Angor did not continue to control X3. Instead, he gave her back control.
"Reynolds has already told you what to do. As long as you do your job, I'll remove the illusion and let you leave this place alive. "
"Is that true, mister?" X3 tried to look calm, but she was still afraid of death. Who would want to die if they could live?
"Do I need to lie to you?" Angor asked.
X3 did not ask further. She knew Sunders had no reason to lie to her.
"Reynolds and I will go with her. I'll make sure nothing goes wrong," Filo said.
"I'll do my best, mister." With that, X3 followed Reynolds and Filo to the open sea.
X3 could not get close to No.03, or she would be easily affected by the fruit. What she needed to do now was to drive all the sea monsters away from the open sea.
Even though Filo followed X3 to the open sea, Angor still sent a scout puppet to go with him. He wanted to see if X3 was stronger than the sea monsters heading for No.03.
Under Filo's guidance, X3 quickly reached the open sea.
Looking down from here, one could still see the black mass of sea beasts below the surface of the sea. They were all rushing in the same direction.
At a glance, there were at least a hundred sea beasts in the area.
Although none of them were huge, they were basically the size of an adult sea whale. Even X3, who had been controlling sea beasts all year round, had never seen such a shocking scene.
"This side is still small. Just now, I saw several gigantic oceanic beasts the size of islands. They were all sacrificed by that dangerous existence. Think about it. If all the sea monsters in the mist area were sacrificed, how powerful would that entity be? "Reynolds spoke in a soft voice." We have to stop it. "
X3 glanced at Reynolds. "I don't need you to remind me. I'm not going to go back on my word."
With that, X3 put away her complicated emotions, closed her eyes, and began humming a song.
The tune of this song was very light, with a very clear rhythm and rhythm.
Filo frowned. He didn't know what X3 was doing. Why was she singing at a time like this? Just as Filo was about to say something, Reynolds spoke through their Spirit Bond. "This is Song activating her Soul Equipment. That's why I named her 'Song'. "
Filo nodded in understanding and didn't say anything else.
After humming a short part of the song, X3's body slowly released some light dots. Filo could clearly sense that these motes of light contained the properties of consciousness energy. However, it was very difficult for consciousness energy to materialize before it could be used to construct spell models. This was the first time he had ever seen consciousness energy materialize while it was still in the form of particles.
The light dots floated around X3's body, which then combined into X3's Soul Equipment.
It was a white bone flute decorated with all kinds of colorful decorations and strange runes.
The bone flute was fully formed, but it wasn't completely independent. There was a band of light attached to its handle, which connected to X3's right leg.
This meant that X3's Soul Equipment actually came from her transplanted right leg.
After the bone flute appeared, X3 brought it to its mouth and took a deep breath. A melodious tune was played just like that.
This song was the one that X3 had been humming earlier. Filo was able to confirm that this song was a shepherd's song based on the cheerful sound of the flute.
No wonder X3 was wearing a shepherd's dress. She looked like a shepherd boy. It was meant to be used with her shepherd's song.
As the rhythmic shepherd's song drifted over the sea, the surrounding sea beasts that swarmed over suddenly quietened down.
It was as if they were lambs enjoying the music.
Thanks to the beautiful melody, the sea monsters' red eyes also returned to normal.
Seeing this, both Filo and Angor felt their spirits lifted.
It seemed to be working!
However, although the sea beast didn't run away without hesitation, it didn't leave either. There would be more coming in the future. If they all gathered here, X3's shepherd's song wouldn't be able to affect them all.
For now, they had to keep the sea monsters as far away as possible so that they wouldn't gather too much.
Just as Filo was thinking about how to break the news to X3, she had already discovered this loophole. Her flute music became even more vibrant, and at the same time, she began to dance. As she danced, she slowly flew off into the distance.
As for the sea beasts below, they followed the X3's footsteps and swam rapidly into the distance.
After sending away the first wave of sea monsters, new ones gathered. X3 repeated her previous actions and kept driving the sea monsters away.
Every time she played a shepherd's song, she could control more than a hundred sea monsters at once, from one point to another, and then to an entire area.
X3's efficiency was astonishing.
Of course, not all sea beasts would listen to the Shepherd's Song.
Sea beasts that had reached the level of peak apprentice or official Magi would not be attracted by the Shepherd's Song.
These relatively powerful sea beasts were in the minority among the numerous sea beasts. Angor told X3 to ignore the monsters and let them in. He and Ness would take care of them.
If there were any sea monsters that were too strong or too difficult to deal with in a short time, Angor would use nightmare illusions to control them and make them stay where they were.
As long as they didn't get too close to No.03 and become its sacrifice, they would be fine.
With X3 taking care of the sea monsters, the fruit above No.03's head began to slow down. In the next few minutes, the fruit's attraction didn't increase again. Angor's Forcefield weakened the effect of the fruit's attraction.
This meant their plan was halfway to success.
They managed to slow down the fruit's growth. But this wasn't the end.
They needed to think about how to save Kanter.
They had two choices. One was to take the fruit directly, and the other was to wake Kanter up.
While everyone was thinking, the Watcher also watched them quietly. He saw Angor's actions and knew that he had succeeded in stopping the fruit from ripening.
However, the most important problem was still unsolved.
He wanted to see what Angor's group would choose.
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