After You Shang entered the hut, he stood there obediently, silently waiting for his memories to be modified.
For others, memory modification was something terrible and unacceptable. But for You Shang, it did not matter as long as he could stay alive. Furthermore, the altered memories were insignificant, so it didn't matter at all.
As for the secret hidden in his memory … well, everyone had their own secrets. You Shang was not surprised. However, he was confident that even if his secret memories were searched, it would not attract the attention of an official Magus.
He was not afraid at all. In fact, he was looking forward to it.
Angor noticed You Shang's expectant look. "You first," he said after considering for a moment. "You go first. I'll modify your memory of today. You may be unconscious for a while after the modification. "
You Shang nodded in understanding. If he didn't stay unconscious for a while, he would become suspicious when he saw them again, which would expose the fact that he had altered his memory. Therefore, they had to stay unconscious. When they woke up, they would forget who they met today.
You Shang was not worried about whether the modified memory would cause any dissonance. Since the wizard was confident enough to modify their memory, they would not feel any dissonance when they woke up. Why did they faint? Why did they meet a Magician here? Everything was self-consistent. Angor believed that the wizard was capable of such a feat.
You Shang took a deep breath and walked to the front. He closed his eyes and prepared to accept the modification.
However, before You Shang could do anything, Angor spoke again, "Your memory will be modified by this mister."
Before You Shang could react to whether "Sir" was an honorific, he saw a stone slab slowly fly up and point its tall nose at You Shang.
"Come here. Don't waste my time. Do you want me to go find you? "
A cold voice came from the slab.
You Shang looked at it in confusion and felt his heart was about to jump out of his chest.
Even though there was only a nose on the stone slab, and there was no aura coming from it, Angor still felt his heart palpitating. This was not a wizard's intuition, nor was it a spiritual sense. It was a primal and instinctive feeling deep in his bloodline — the fear of the strong.
Without a doubt, the owner of the unknown nose was a powerful supernatural being.
This time, he was completely wrong. He thought that there were only two official Magi.
Who would have thought that there was an even more powerful existence hidden inside?
With such a lineup, even if the traveling merchant organizations were to mobilize all of their forces, they would not be able to put too much pressure on them.
At the thought of this, You Shang could only sigh with emotion and rejoice. Fortunately, he did not hold back from the beginning to the end and did not have any other thoughts. Otherwise, it would be hard to predict what would happen today.
You Shang hurriedly ran to the front of the stone slab. "My, my lord …"
"Stop talking nonsense. Close your eyes. I'm going to start."
You Shang quickly closed his eyes. When he closed his eyes, the nose on the stone slab turned to look at him.
Angor sensed something and nodded at the stone slab.
In the next second, You Shang felt an unstoppable Spiritual Energy enter between his eyebrows. The moment the Spiritual Energy entered his forehead, his thoughts came to a halt and he fainted …
On the other side, the demonic craftsman also looked at the stone slab floating in midair in bewilderment and various conjectures surfaced in his mind.
But before he could think of anything, he heard Angor's voice. "Stop looking. It's your turn."
The Demon Craftsman was stunned for a moment before he fell into a state of chaos and soon lost consciousness.
Two minutes later, Count Black exited the traveling merchant's memory first.
Angor, on the other hand, left the memory ten minutes later with a frown on his face.
"Done?" Dorcas asked.
Seeing that Angor nodded, Dorcas did not ask any more questions about memory modification. Memory modification was easy for wizards, and it was not difficult to create a self-consistent logic.
"So, did you learn anything?"
Angor did not answer right away. Instead, he glanced at Count Black, who only moved his nose a little. Angor seemed to have understood something.
"We'll talk about that later. Let's get out of here first. Did you take care of the civilians? "
"Kael did it. Also, the demonic craftsman used the Oblivion Contract to erase most of their memories. Don't worry. "
"Good. Let's go."
As soon as Angor finished speaking, Speed Ling cast a Wind Buff on everyone. Several seconds later, everyone was gone, except for two unconscious people sitting on chairs. They would wake up soon. However, when they woke up, they would not have any doubts. Instead, they would continue their argument.
Yes, argument. In their memories, they did not lose consciousness. Instead, they were arguing all the time. One second, they only blinked their eyes in the next.
And the target of their argument was … Miss Red, whose memory was altered by the Oblivion Contract.
…
With the help of Wind Buff, everyone quickly returned to the cellar. Even Ma Qiusha did not fall behind.
The first thing they saw was Colo, who was still wearing his small "lightning" suit. He was curled up in a corner, looking drowsy. Clearly, Colo had been waiting for his mother's return.
Hearing the noise outside, Colo's eyes widened. His vigilance slowly turned into joy.
The scene of mother and child hugging each other was very heartwarming.
It would be even better if Dorcas did not interrupt them.
"The child is waiting for his mother. Where's his father? He doesn't care about his son, and he didn't come to welcome his wife. Tsk tsk … I think I know why Colo is dressed like this. "
Dorcas had no intention of avoiding suspicion. Ma Qiusha and little Colo both heard it. Colo did not dare to speak. Ma Qiusha felt a little embarrassed. "You misunderstood, sir. Crow loves Colo and me. He's just not good at expressing his feelings."
"Well, I can't say anything if you believe it yourself." Dorcas shrugged.
Ma Qiusha smiled awkwardly. "Sir, now that we're back, there's nothing else for me to do, right? Do I need to erase my memory? "
"I'll block that part of your memory, but I won't erase it."
With that, he pointed at the air with his index finger.
The nightmare aura seeped into Ma Qiusha's brain and blocked out all memories of Ma Qiusha going out with them.
Ma Qiusha also noticed that she had forgotten all her recent memories. However, unlike the magician and the wandering merchant, she clearly knew that her memories had been blocked by the wizard in front of her.
Ma Qiusha did not ask why Angor only blocked her memory. She bowed to Angor and said, "Colo has been waiting for a long time. He must be tired. I'll take him back to rest."
With that, Ma Qiusha held Colo's hand and led him to the underground corridor.
Angor and the others did not leave the cellar right away. Instead, they used their eyes to communicate with each other. In the next second, a Spirit Bond appeared and connected them.
Without a doubt, Angor was going to tell them about the memory of the Magician.
But before that, he used their Spirit Bond to talk to Dark Earl first. "Did you find anything, Earl Dark?"
"I checked all the memories related to the Oath of Death without violating it. I did find something," Dark Earl replied.
Dark Earl's words were simple, but they contained something that no one else could do.
Being able to distinguish the memories that were related to the Death Oath without violating the Death Oath was something that no one present could do except for the Black Earl.
It required a lot of experience and extreme precision.
Dark Earl's nose was not that strong, but he still inherited the memories and experience of the original Dark Earl. Only Dark Earl could do something like this.
Angor knew that Dark Earl could do this, which was why he asked Dark Earl to check Traveling Merchant's memories to see if he could find any useful information.
"We found two things. First, the Traveling Merchant set up a ritual in the Garden of Labyrinth, which is used to detect high-energy reactions."
"A large-scale ritual? Covering the entire Garden of Labyrinth? "
"It's not a large-scale ritual. The Bilos Family does not have enough resources to do such a thing. It's just a small ritual using the Eight Rites. Also, the eight nodes of the ritual were not placed inside the Garden of Labyrinth. They were placed outside the Garden of Labyrinth and roughly covered it.
"The ritual is nothing special, and the effect is average. However, the Bilos Family will know if there are any high-energy ripples in the Garden of Labyrinth. "
Dorcas rubbed his chin. "Really? What's the standard for high-energy ripples? "
The Black Earl said, "As long as that sandworm of yours did something abnormal again, it would have reached the standard of high-energy waves."
"So it's as powerful as a spell?"
"You can say that. But high-energy ripples are not just destructive power. If the underground magic array is triggered, it'll also produce a large amount of energy ripples."
This also meant that they had to be extremely cautious in their actions.
They were not afraid of being discovered by Bilos, but they did not want to be disturbed during their exploration.
"What's the second point?" Angor asked.
"The second point is about the real entrance to the Underground of Labyrinth. According to Traveling Merchant's memories, the organization did know the location of several entrances. However, only the core members know the exact location. Traveling Merchant is not a core member. "
Not to mention the core members, Traveling Merchant could be quite rebellious. However, Dark Earl did not mention this because it had nothing to do with it.
"As I thought, the Traveling Merchant Organization does know the entrance."
It made sense. This ruin was basically the backyard of the Bilos Family. After so many years of exploration, it was only natural that they knew the entrance.
Other wizards who explored the Garden of Labyrinth might also know something about the entrance.
But even so, it was pointless. This was because the valuable items in the underground labyrinth had already been emptied by the Magi back then thousands of years ago.
Now, apart from some magic materials that grew later, there were only monsters left in the Underground of Labyrinth.
"Still, this is good news. We can use it as a backup plan," Angor muttered.
Everyone understood what he meant by backup plan. If they could not find the entrance here, they could just kidnap a core member of the Traveling Merchant Organization and find the entrance.
However, it would be best if they did not have to do that. The entrances controlled by the Traveling Merchant Organization must be guarded. If they wanted to enter those entrances, they would have to force their way in, which meant they had to face the Traveling Merchant Organization head-on.
Facing them in advance would not be beneficial for their exploration.
Dark Earl: "I don't have anything else. Do you want to know about the Traveling Merchant's secrets or hobbies?"
Dorcas' eyes lit up. "What hobbies?"
"It should be something similar to what you're thinking," Dark Earl said.
Dorcas gave Angor a strange smile. "You know what I'm thinking right now? Let me give you a hint about what we've experienced together. "
Angor knew Dorcas was thinking about what happened in Princess Maudia's room. However, he did not want to answer such pointless questions.
"Let me tell you about me. I didn't look into the other memories of the Magician because I don't want to trigger the Oath of Death. I only looked into the memory of the table.
"The Magician lied a little bit. He did study the runes and patterns on the table, but he didn't find anything. But in the end, he didn't get anything, so he used the table as a material to refine it. "
"But the lie did help me. It allowed me to see all the details of the table in the Magician's memory more clearly."
Because of this, he was much slower than Dark Earl when it came to revising his memories.
"You can see for yourselves."
Angor did not explain much about the table. Instead, he used an illusion to show the table to everyone.
Just as they thought, the table was a "lectern" used for preaching.
There were three fences about five centimeters wide on each side. The center was wider and could be tilted slightly. This was where the scriptures or teaching materials were placed. This was also where the "runes" were located.
As for the "runes", they were located right above the table. Only the preacher could see them.
Angor guessed that these runes were similar to those students who cheated in exams and copied answers on the table in advance.
The runes were complicated and messy, which meant they were used to remind people of their words during preaching.
But he did not know whether it was true or not.
He did not recognize any of the runes.
In fact, he had never seen such runes before.
He had already tried to translate it with Language Proficiency, but there was no reaction. This meant that the runes were from a language system he had never seen before.
"Character Proficiency" was a level-2 cantrip. One should not assume that learning Character Proficiency would grant one the ability to read every language in the world. One needed to accumulate knowledge and learn more language systems to be able to translate them faster and more accurately.
To put it bluntly, this was the collection, calculation, and application of big data. It tested a wizard's knowledge, brain power, and calculation ability.
Angor could not translate the runes. He looked at Dorcas and Dark Earl. Maybe they knew something about this language system in Character Proficiency?
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