"There's no way I'll let you save Diablo so easily." Felicia's lips curled into a smirk. A black butterfly emerged from her hand and flew off into the distance.
The third floor of Dark Castle.
Angor was following Venees in secret. The more he walked, the more scared he felt.
Venees rarely took paths that were out in the open. For example, there was a right turn at the end of the hallway. Instead of going there, she would open a hidden space behind a wall and go to another path.
Instead of going through any door, Venees would go through all kinds of strange paths that even Angor was left speechless. For example, when she opened a book, there was a joystick in the book. When she pushed the joystick open, she found a path. Or when she walked into a hall, there were four or five exits around, but Venees ignored all of them. Instead, she used a certain frequency to pull down a chandelier, which slowly dropped down. There was a short-distance teleportation array engraved on the back of the chandelier.
There were all kinds of strange paths.
Angor didn't know what would happen if he took the paths he could see with his eyes. But if Venees didn't use those paths, there must be something wrong.
Angor was glad that he didn't confuse Venees, or he would've been on the right path by now.
This was why he was getting more and more scared.
If that was the reason why Shadow was captured, Angor could understand it a little. Even though Shadow was much more observant than Angor, he was still an apprentice. It was hard for him to see through these hidden traps.
The entire Dark Castle was filled with Expansion runes. When Venees opened a door from inside a potted plant, Angor was completely speechless. Behind the door was an ordinary bedroom decorated in light red. There were all kinds of princess dresses and dolls. Angor guessed it was a girl's room.
Venees dragged "Diablo" to a brown bear doll that was half the size of a grown man.
Is the passage behind the doll? Angor wondered. "Is the passage behind the doll?"
As it turned out, Angor was still too naive. Venees picked up the bear and moved it from the front to the back. She then unzipped the back of the bear and revealed a small opening that was half the size of a grown man.
Venees went through the small opening and arrived at a majestic hall.
Angor fused with "Diablo" on the ground and followed her inside.
After entering the hall, Angor's real body slowly moved to the side.
The hall was empty except for a statue of a goddess praying in the middle. It looked very similar to Hippocrotee's statue. If he wasn't mistaken, it should be Isabelle's statue.
Venees knelt down in front of the statue. His forehead was still touching the ground, and he didn't raise it for a long time.
A minute later, a door of light suddenly appeared in front of the goddess statue. The door led to a dark cave. If there were no accidents, the passage would be this light gate.
However, he didn't go in. He remained behind Venees. Venees, on the other hand, was still kneeling.
After a while, the scene behind the door changed from a dark cave to a room made of ice and snow. Venees shivered as a cold wind blew from the other side of the door.
She still didn't look up.
Another long hallway, a greenhouse filled with strange plants, and a narrow space … Angor finally realized that it wasn't that Venees didn't want to go in. It was just that the correct path hadn't appeared yet.
Angor couldn't help but admire the creator of Dark Castle even more. Puzzles and obstacles like this were hard to come up with without a certain level of creativity. Also, some of the obstacles involved psychological deception. For example, if Venees didn't show him the way, Angor wouldn't know that there were more wrong paths behind the light gate.
As Angor was enjoying the view, a pitch-black butterfly suddenly descended from the sky.
The Netherworld Butterfly appeared and disappeared, dancing gracefully in the air.
Venees, on the other hand, didn't notice the butterfly above her head. Angor, on the other hand, was startled. As soon as the butterfly showed up, the illusion he created began to crumble.
The butterfly flapped its wings and released some glittering scale powder.
As the scale powder danced in the air, the illusion nodes on Diablo began to collapse on a large scale.
Angor's heart skipped a beat. Someone with a "God's View" must have done something.
Angor wasn't sure if someone was watching him earlier. But after seeing the butterfly attacking his illusion, he was sure that someone with a "God's View" was watching him ever since he entered Dark Castle.
Judging from the butterfly's attack, Angor was sure that "Diablo" was discovered. But did that "entity" notice his clone as well? Angor guessed that they must have noticed it as well.
But most importantly of all, had his real body, which was hiding behind "Diablo" and "illusionary clones", been discovered by that person?
Angor decided to test it out.
As more and more scale powder fell from the sky, "Diablo" was about to crumble. Angor channeled his mana to create new nodes on "Diablo's" body, which helped him maintain the illusion.
As the butterfly continued to drop scale powder, Angor continued to create new nodes. He could wait until Venees brought Shadow to the blood prison, and that would be his victory. As for whether Venees would notice the butterfly or not, Angor didn't care at all. He would never let her see it.
Angor and the butterfly remained in a stalemate.
Venees had no idea that a silent battle was taking place behind her while she was worshipping Lady Isabelle's statue.
Inside the main hall on the first floor, Felicia also saw what was happening through her crystal ball. She sneered and began to move her fingers. It was as if she was using an invisible string to influence the butterfly on the other side.
As she did so, the butterfly in the hall suddenly split into two.
The black butterfly continued to sprinkle its scales, but from its body, a bright white light suddenly drilled out. The white light reformed into a white butterfly in the air.
The butterfly didn't pay any attention to Diablo on the ground. Instead, it fluttered its wings and flew toward a hidden spot.
When it reached its destination, it circled around in the air several times before crashing into Angor's body.
Angor screamed in pain as he was knocked out of his invisible state while spitting out blood. He tumbled several times and slammed into the wall behind him.
He lay on the ground while coughing up blood.
Now that Angor was no longer invisible, no one could maintain the illusion nodes on Diablo's body. Under the rain of scale powder from the butterfly, Diablo's illusion slowly crumbled.
The rope that bound Diablo also fell to the ground.
Felicia sneered. "You're overestimating yourself."
At the same time, Venees seemed to have finished her ritual as well. The light door in front of her changed, revealing a winding staircase that led to an unknown destination.
"Alright, the blood prison is down there. Once I put Diablo back inside, I'm sure Madam Butterfly will appreciate me. Maybe she'll even give me some wine! " Venees was overjoyed. She picked up the rope on the ground and slowly walked into the light door while dragging a cloud of air behind her.
Felicia, who was still in the main hall on the first floor, was surprised when she saw Venees.
What's going on? Why didn't Venees notice that she was holding onto a rope that had nothing on it? Didn't she notice that the person she tied up was gone?
Also, the fight was so loud that the young apprentice was knocked out of his stealth state. Why didn't Venees look back?
Felicia couldn't believe that Venees didn't hear it.
At this moment, Felicia turned her attention back to the young apprentice who was injured by Ming Die.
But the young apprentice was gone?!
"He's gone?" Felicia murmured. This was too strange. Venees didn't hear the fight, nor did she see that there was no one on the other end of the rope. She just walked into the blood prison with a happy look on her face.
On the other hand, the young apprentice who was attacked by Ming Butterfly was still spitting out blood. How did he disappear? She knew how powerful Ming Butterfly's attacks were. Even if Ming Butterfly held back a little, there was no way the young apprentice could just disappear like that.
Felicia frowned. She reached out her finger again and flicked it in the air.
Another black and white butterfly came out from Phantom Butterfly's body.
The new one fluttered and landed on the floor. There was a puddle of blood on the floor, and the butterfly was circling around it. Shortly after, a wave of Mana spread out from the butterfly's body. Soon, a white vortex appeared above the puddle of blood.
At the same time, a white vortex appeared in front of Felicia.
Felicia reached her slender hand into the whirlpool.
Like a teleportation array, Felicia's hand reached out of the white vortex. She wiped the blood off the floor and pulled her hand back.
Felicia thought that the level-2 apprentice was too strange. She wanted to use the blood to find out more about the level-2 apprentice.
However, when she was about to analyze the blood on her fingertip, she smelled something sour and sweet.
As a gourmet adept, Felicia immediately knew what this sweet and sour taste meant.
Sour red persimmon.
The blood on her fingertip wasn't real blood. It was just the juice of a mortal ingredient.
Felicia's face turned gloomy. She didn't expect to be fooled by an apprentice.
After a while, Felicia suddenly laughed.
"Interesting. Since you've gotten past me, I'll let you go. But you'll have to pay a price for fooling me. "
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