The simplest and most direct way was to hide himself, use an illusion to confuse the Witch's Eye, and sneak away after taking the item.
With Angor's current strength, he should be able to do it. After all, the Witch's Eye hadn't reached wizard level yet.
However, he hesitated again before making a move.
In fact, they had been in a moving illusion all this time. In other words, everyone had been hiding their figures. The most direct solution he came up with was not much different from what he was doing now.
If Dorcas' spiritual perception were to personify him, it would definitely consider concealing him. After all, the spirit was connected to Dorcas's mind, and Dorcas himself was in a moving illusion. How could the spirit neglect this?
Now that he thought about it, the most direct way might not be the best.
He might be able to get the silver ornament this way, but it would most likely trigger the "dangerous" consequences mentioned by the spirit.
For people like Angor and Black Earl who had their own trump cards, they could easily deal with any danger. However, if they really went all out, they would be able to do whatever they wanted on their journey without any restrictions.
In the end, this place would probably become a playground for the big bosses.
The exploration this time was of great significance to him. He didn't want anything to go wrong in the end, so he had to consider everything before doing anything.
Perhaps it wasn't a good choice to go over directly while concealing himself.
With that in mind, Angor suddenly stopped walking. Instead of showing a confident expression, he began to carefully observe the Witch's Eye.
If Dorcas's spirit was paying attention to this Witch's Eye, then Angor's spirit had to pay attention to it.
This meant there was something he could do to the Witch's Eye. But what could it be?
Angor decided to observe first and make a plan.
Black Earl noticed Angor's change of expression and behavior. He couldn't help but praise Angor in his mind. Angor discovered the problem faster than he expected. In this way, Angor was very similar to Sunders.
However, just relying on observation to discover the problem before taking action would take a lot of time.
Black Earl didn't mind it too much, but Angor had been urging them not to waste time all this time. If he wasted time on an ordinary ornament, he wouldn't be able to forgive himself.
As expected, Black Earl was right.
Angor was getting more and more anxious, especially as time went by.
After waiting for half a minute, he finally moved.
"Stay here for a while. I'll set up an illusion so you won't be discovered." With that, Angor set up a fixed illusion.
Then, without further explanation, he turned invisible and disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Is he going to act now?"
"It's a pity that His Excellency has also concealed himself. I wonder where he is now?"
"I don't know where he is. Just observe the Witch's Eye. That's our final target."
Everyone was whispering to each other through their Spirit Bond, hoping that Angor would answer them. However, it seemed that Angor had already blocked the connection. No one knew what he was doing.
Even Black Earl didn't know where Angor went.
His moving illusion, Wind Elemental Ward, and Elmi's Wrapping Spell not only helped him hide his body but also erased all traces of his presence. Count Black's nose could not pick up Angor's scent either.
But why did Angor decide to act alone so soon? Did he not want to wait any longer?
"If he's going to act recklessly, we're in for a good show …" Black Earl chuckled in his mind. Like the others, he stopped looking for Angor and focused on the Witch's Eye.
…
Meanwhile, Angor, who was covered by the moving illusion, didn't move toward the Witch's Eye. Instead, he moved toward a nearby building.
As far as Angor could tell, the Witch's Eye wasn't that strong. If it could really "threaten" them, it could only come from two aspects. First, an external object. Second, someone to rely on.
An external object, such as a powerful alchemy item that could threaten their safety, or an alchemy poison.
And the person to rely on was probably the two wizard-level Witch's Eyes from the Twin Towers. Or … that Three-Eyed Blue Devil.
No matter which type of danger it came from, the prerequisite was that the Witch's Eye must be able to detect his approach first.
Although it sounded a bit unbelievable, Dorcas's inspiration, from a certain perspective, had confirmed this matter.
As long as he got close enough, the Witch's Eye would definitely notice him.
As for how the Witch's Eye did this, Angor didn't want to waste time guessing.
What he needed to do now was to prevent the Witch's Eye from noticing him.
Before coming here, Angor had done a lot of preparation. Since there were Witch's Eyes near the Stairs of Hanging Prison in the Nightmare Realm, Angor assumed that there might be Witch's Eyes in the underground maze in the real world as well. He read up a lot of information about them and even talked to experienced wizards such as Iron Granny.
As a low-level monster, Witch's Eye didn't have much to say about it. The only thing that caught the attention of wizards was how they lived and how they trained.
The Black Earl had already mentioned the specific direction of their attention. It was that after the Witch's Eye Ghost continuously merged with other shadows and exchanged information with each other, a perfect Witch's Eye Ghost could be born.
Most of the research topics he found were related to this topic.
One of them was called "A Record of the Different Postures of Witch's Eye Demons".
The other materials were all analyzed by professionals, and sometimes even Angor couldn't understand them. But this one was refreshing. It was like an illustration that recorded all the postures of the Witch's Eye Demons during their training.
He flipped through a few pages and realized that the information was written by the author for his own bad taste.
Dorcas would probably be interested in it.
There were too many postures in the book, and Angor didn't think they would be useful anyway, so he went straight to the conclusion at the end.
The conclusion at the end of the book was quite "interesting".
— There will be more updates in the future.
Angor almost tore the book into pieces when he read this sentence.
Fortunately, Angor managed to hold himself back and read a few more pages. He then realized that not all the pages were filled with illustrations. In some special poses, the author wrote down his own thoughts, personal discoveries, and annotations.
Angor didn't think it was useful at first, but he still read it patiently.
Now, he realized that none of the other research materials were useful. Instead, it was this unique piece of paper that gave him an important piece of information.
On one of the pages of the document, there was a picture. It was a picture of ten Witch's Eye Demons stacked on top of each other like a pyramid.
The author didn't say much about his personal thoughts, but he did mention something in the annotation.
"After observing more than a thousand types of fusing postures, I discovered something interesting. When the number of Witch Eyes fused with each other increased, the more defenseless they became. This is probably because a large number of Witch's Eye Demons represent a large amount of information flow, which prevents them from paying attention to their surroundings. ]
[For example, when the ten Witch's Eye Demons fuse together, their alert range is quite low. I can show up 20 meters away from them, and they won't notice me at all. ]
[The more Witch's Eye Demons there are, the more vulnerable they become. But if you think this is the best time to kill them, you are wrong. Once you alert them, you will be hunted down by a large number of Witch's Eye Demons. Unless you are strong enough to kill all of them at once. ]
[However, someone who can kill a large number of Witch's Eye Demons at once probably won't care about what I said. So, this is for apprentices. ]
[That's right, it's you. Stop looking left and right, I'm talking about you. You're the apprentice who wants to kill the Witch's Eye. ]
The author had a wicked sense of humor. Angor looked at the last line of the note and could already imagine the apprentices who were reading it. He was speechless.
The author claimed that this information wasn't useful to wizards, but it did provide Angor with an idea.
The coquettish Witch Eye Ghost outside was surrounded by so many Witch Eye Ghosts that they had piled up into a small hill. Just like the scene in the "Idol Meeting" recorded in the holographic tablet, they were all guarding this Witch Eye Ghost in a daze.
There were probably more than a hundred of them in total.
When ten Witch's Eye Demons fused together, they wouldn't notice you even if you were 20 meters away from them. So, when all these Witch's Eye Demons fused together, their alert range would be lowered to the lowest point.
This was Angor's chance.
As long as he could get the Witch's Eyes to start training, the special Witch's Eyes would be less vigilant. As long as the Witch's Eyes did not notice him, he was confident that he could steal the silver pendant without alerting the Witch's Eyes.
As for how to get the Witch's Eye Demons to start training …
All the records were similar: for them, cultivation was a natural thing.
Wizards who observed and recorded the Witch's Eye Demons' training never lacked targets. Therefore, there were no detailed records on how to get a Witch's Eye Demon to train.
He wanted to find out more about this problem by leaving the city alone.
Of course, he wasn't going to do it himself. He planned to find a lone Witch's Eye Demon and have Elmi create a shadow so that he could "fuse" with it.
The Witch's Eye Demon's Shadow Fusing was a process of exchanging information with other Shadow Manipulators. They weren't limited to the Witch's Eye Demons. Other Shadow Manipulators could also fuse with them. However, Witch's Eye Demons had a hard time communicating with other Shadow Manipulators because they were "not of the same race" or "disloyal".
In this case, the information exchanged between Witch's Eye Demons might be useless or even malicious.
Still, Angor didn't need the Witch's Eye Demon to exchange any useful information with Elmi. As long as Elmi successfully fused with the Witch's Eye Demon, he might be able to force the other Witch's Eye Demons to fuse with him.
…
Judging from the outside, the building looked like an office building. He couldn't tell what the building was used for after entering it.
There wasn't anything useful inside. Apart from the Witch's Eye Demons, the place was completely empty.
This also showed how destructive the Witch's Eye Demons were. If the building wasn't connected to the magic array, the Witch's Eye Demons would probably destroy the entire building.
Angor looked around.
He needed a place where he could avoid fighting or loud noises. Besides, there were still Witch's Eye Demons training inside. That was why he could use Elmi's Shadow Shift to force the Witch's Eye Demons to fuse with him.
The first floor didn't provide much cover, and the Witch's Eye Demons were all gathered together.
Without hesitation, Angor went up to the second floor. There were quite a few rooms on the second floor, but it seemed the Witch's Eye Demons didn't like small spaces. Most of them gathered in the hall.
There were a few Witch's Eye Demons in the hallway, and a few in the rooms. Since they weren't training, they had no choice but to give up.
The situation on the third floor was similar to the second floor. There was still no place or target to test.
Angor almost wanted to go back to the dark alley where they came from. There were several groups of Witch's Eye Demons training far away from each other. There was no magic array to separate them, but … it could still be used for testing.
Still, Angor didn't give up. He kept going up. If he couldn't find a suitable place to fight the Witch's Eye Demons, he would go back to the dark alley.
When he reached the fourth floor, he didn't see the hall he was familiar with. Instead, he saw an open balcony and a long corridor leading to another building.
Angor looked around and saw that the building had six floors. However, he didn't see any stairs on the fourth floor. Instead, he had to go to the sixth floor of another building, where there was a corridor leading back to this building. Only then could he explore the fifth and sixth floors of this building.
Angor wondered what the designer was thinking. Maybe the fifth or sixth floor was a temporary prison?
Otherwise, there was no need to take such a long way.
Angor considered and decided to keep going.
Through the corridor, he arrived at another building. The structure of this one was similar to the previous one, but there were fewer Witch's Eye Demons.
As for why there were fewer Witch's Eye Demons, it was simple. This building didn't have a staircase leading to the fourth floor. To get to the fourth floor, Angor had to go through the building he was in. There were many Witch's Eye Demons here, but only a few of them were willing to climb mountains and cross rivers to get here.
Angor was getting more and more confused about the design of this building. What did it mean? Although he had doubts in his heart, it did not stop him from continuing to climb up.
He didn't find anything on the fifth floor. On the sixth floor, he saw the familiar balcony and corridor.
However, what was different from before was that there was an additional door on the balcony.
Although the door was now open, the appearance of the door had added some meaning to it.
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