The sudden visit of the rainbow-colored dragonflies, like the Twilight Well, brought a subversive disaster to Pocratee.
Without warning, almost all the villagers were infected by the parasites. As a village where almost everyone was a doctor, they managed to save countless lives, but they could not save themselves.
Even though the parasite could absorb nightmare energy to keep the host alive, the parasite would not die. However, humans were not adepts. Their bodies could get sick if they did not eat vegetables for a long time. They could not live on energy forever.
In the following years, the villagers of Pocratee began to die one by one.
These were all deductions he made based on his own speculations. Based on the serpent's nodding and shaking head, he managed to piece together the story. Angor could not find out the details, such as why there were so many corpses along the way, but the serpent rejected all of them.
And why the man in the coffin did not die after a thousand years. The serpent did not seem to know the answer either. The giant python didn't even know the name and identity of the person in the coffin. It only knew that he was a native of Pocratee.
Angor believed that the serpent was so determined to keep the bloodline of Pocratee alive for thousands of years, which it did not even know the name of. According to the serpent, no one from Pocratee managed to escape. The man in the coffin was the only one who survived.
Angor also asked about the outside world, but the serpent still shook its head. It had not left this place for hundreds of years, so it knew nothing about the outside world.
It seemed he had asked enough questions. He could only hope that the person in the coffin could answer the rest of the questions after waking up.
"Should I take him away now?" Angor tried to ask.
The serpent did not stop him. It looked at Angor with gratitude.
Angor sighed in relief. He closed the coffin again and cast a Bind spell to bind the coffin tightly. Then, he put it into his space bracelet.
Thanks to the Hollow Weed he found in the plane passageway, his space bracelet could now store living things. There was even a large surplus of Void Floating Weed.
After putting the coffin into his space bracelet, Angor was about to leave.
The serpent slithered its body and blocked Angor's way. To Angor's confusion, the serpent signaled him to follow with its eyes.
After resting for a while, the serpent seemed to feel better and led Angor away from the place. He thought the serpent was going to send him on his way. However, after walking for a while, the serpent took him into a hidden cave.
It was a much smaller cave.
Angor found some man-made traces in the cave, such as a large stone bed and some sewer pipes. From the traces of the stone bed, as well as the strong aura emanating from this place, it was obvious that this was the habitat of the giant python.
The serpent bent its body and brought Angor to the back of the bed.
To his surprise, he saw the snake's skin, fangs, and scales behind the bed.
"Here's your reward."
The serpent took out a black snake skin and a white snake fang and tossed them to Angor.
Everything on the body of a wizard level magical beast was extremely precious. As far as he could tell, the molts, fangs, and scales were all mid-tier materials. They were priceless!
Angor only got a piece of skin and a tooth, but he was very satisfied. Saving someone's life was a piece of cake, and these things were a complete surprise.
Seeing that Angor had accepted the reward, the serpent waved its tail and signaled Angor to leave.
Angor thanked the serpent and slowly walked out of the cave. Before he left, he suddenly turned around and asked the serpent, "May I know your name, mister?"
The serpent raised its head and looked at Angor with its golden vertical pupils.
After a while, it spoke in a low voice:
"My name is Akeso."
…
About half an hour after leaving Akeso's cave, Angor reached the end of the cave.
Another body of water.
However, Angor noticed that there were some creatures in the water. They were just some eyeless fish and shrimps, but they still made his eyes widen.
A month ago, Toby's dried fish had run out, and the two of them had been eating Magic Bread for a whole month. Even Angor himself could not bear this kind of life, let alone Toby.
Looking at the sea of fish and shrimps, Angor felt as if he was looking at a grand banquet.
"No, I have to hold it back. At least I have to leave this place first. Not now. " Angor told himself in his mind. However, when he got into the water, he still could not help but grab a few prawns, blanch them with hot water, and toss them into his mouth.
The meat was smooth and tender. It had been a long time since Angor tasted meat, and he was so touched that he almost shed tears.
Toby was also urging him on. Compared to Angor who rarely ate fish and shrimps, Toby, a fish lover, felt like he was in heaven.
Angor had no choice but to swim along the water while catching fish and shrimps.
Maybe because this was Akeso's territory, there were only small fish and shrimps in the water. There were no other ferocious fish, which made Angor feel a little better.
After swimming in the water for about ten minutes, Angor finally saw the light of the sky before night fell.
He was in a dense forest. The evening glow from the horizon dyed the whole world golden red. Birds flew in the forest, and leaves rustled in the wind. The light from the water painted a beautiful and peaceful scene.
When he climbed out of the water, the first thing he saw was the splendid view of the forest.
He turned around and looked at the beautiful and tranquil little lake behind him.
Who knew that the lake that looked like a tranquil virgin was connected to an underground village that had been sealed for a thousand years?
Angor could not tell where he was right now, but that was not important. The most important thing now was … to have a good meal!
With the evening glow of the setting sun, the beautiful lake, the green mountain as the seasoning, and the green forest as the wine. Angor and Toby had a good meal with the help of the fish and shrimps in the water.
The food was tasteless, but Angor was satisfied enough to eat meat.
After the meal, the sky gradually turned dark. Starlight replaced the sunset, and the crescent moon drove away the setting sun. Angor was not sleepy, so he decided to travel through the night.
He did not know where he was or where he was, but as a level-2 apprentice, it was not hard for him to survive in the wild. Besides, he had Toby's help.
Toby flew into the sky and circled around a few times before telling Angor about the surroundings.
There was no need to worry about the direction of the mountain. The other directions were all dense forests, but there were some differences between them. According to Toby, the further southeast they went, the fewer trees there were, and the more short-leaved forests there were.
Although short-leaved forests did not represent the outer edge of the forest, most of the trees in the outer edge of the forest were shorter.
Since he did not know which way to go, Angor did not care. As long as he could still measure the ground with his feet, he would meet someone.
As for asking the person in the coffin, Angor did not think about it yet. Based on the perception of a Magus, they could see everything within a hundred miles. Now that he was outside, Angor did not know if Akeso was watching him with supernatural powers.
In order to escape, Angor was worried that Akeso would turn against him if he saved the person in the coffin, so he lied that only Sunders could restore the person.
So, just in case, Angor did not plan to save the person in the coffin here. He should at least be a hundred kilometers away.
Angor walked toward the southeast.
Every once in a while, Angor would ask Toby to check the direction in the sky. It did not work, but it was better than nothing.
Walking was too slow. Even with Haste, Angor was still going around in circles in the forest after two days.
After another day, Angor looked at Toby who was happily flying in the forest with envy.
"Can you carry me, Toby?" Angor looked at Toby with a pitiful look.
Without hesitation, Toby flew to Angor's side and grabbed Angor's collar with its claws. However, Angor did not move at all. Toby used the sequence of gravity and threw Angor into the sky like a firework.
Had it not been for Angor's "Tornado", he would have been smashed into a pile of meat on the ground.
It seemed that Toby could not carry him now. Back in the plane passageway, Toby could only carry him because of the change in gravity. Now that he was back in the wizarding world, everything was back to normal.
It was a pity that the materials in his bracelet were basically all high-grade precious materials, and there weren't many basic, unranked materials. Or he would make a flying vehicle on the spot. Although he did not know how to do that yet.
Two days later, Angor found a river.
Normally speaking, humans would live along the river. Angor thought that he might find some people if he followed the river. Since there were fish in the river, and Toby loved fish, Angor decided to walk along the river bank.
Angor walked for several days. He encountered some wild beasts along the way, including a forest tiger, but they all ended up in Angor's stomach.
It was the second day of the Month of Looming Frost when Angor finally found his first human.
He still did not leave the forest. Instead, he found a hunter's hut by the river bank.
The hut was built casually. The walls were made of several wooden planks, and the roof was covered with hay. It could provide shelter from wind and rain, but not from heat and cold.
Angor pushed the door open and saw only a bed, a wooden table, a bow hanging on the wall, and several tanned animal skins.
However, everything was covered in a thick layer of dust. No one had come here for years.
Perhaps the hunter's hut had been abandoned for a long time.
Still, it was a good sign. At least, it meant that normal humans could hunt in this area. The end of the forest was not far away.
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