Angor sighed in his mind. He couldn't blame Keely for her impoliteness since she was just a patient. But from the bottom of his heart, he didn't like Keely's attitude, even if she was pretending to be a patient.
Angor shook his head. So what if he didn't like it? Was he going to kill her anyway?
He pulled down his hood and walked toward the giant door on the mountain wall.
Along the way, he heard a lot of rumors, as well as some hidden emotions. Most of them were afraid of the unknown future, angry at the lack of information, and wondering what was going on inside the garden.
If Lawson's "survival" was what Angor meant, it was a bit too broad a scope. If he could carve out a path of blood, he would be able to survive. If he hid quietly, he could also survive.
Angor remembered the wizard guarding the door once said, "You will come out when the time comes."
It meant that no one was allowed to leave the garden until a certain condition was met. And that condition meant that the garden had to be upgraded successfully.
Angor pondered for a moment. Of course, the garden needed a blood sacrifice. But what was the method of this blood sacrifice? Could it be that the garden would be upgraded when only ten percent of its members were left alive?
Angor frowned. If that was the case, the garden would be like a colosseum, where survival was the most important thing.
The premise was that the purification garden had to be very small, so small that no one could hide in it. Or rather, it was very difficult to hide in it.
But … Dodoro's prophecy mentioned a vast ocean. Would a garden with an ocean really be small?
With this question in mind, Angor entered the garden through the door.
After staying in the dark for a while, he finally saw some light ahead of him. He quickly retracted the defensive cantrip into his mind space and leaped through the glowing exit.
Before he could get used to the bright sunlight, he saw a shadow appearing beside him. He quickly did a flip and jumped away. He quickly jumped up and created an ice wall before backing away.
After several steps, he realized that the shadow wasn't a human. It was a flying fish with wings.
It was an ordinary-looking fish with silver scales, green eyes, and a body more than half a meter long. The only peculiar thing about it was that its fins were especially large, with golden wavy patterns on the edges. Every time it swam, it could fly dozens of meters in the air.
This flying fish was not a single one. Instead, there were several tens of them. Because of Angor's sudden appearance, they all gathered around him.
"What kind of fish is this?" Before he could figure out what was going on, the flying fish suddenly fired an ice arrow at him.
Angor was already on guard against them, so he wasn't surprised by the water arrow. An Ice Wall was erected in front of him, but who knew that the Ice Arrow's attack power was far beyond its ordinary appearance. The Ice Wall didn't block it at all. It went straight through the Ice Wall, and its speed and strength didn't decrease at all.
Angor was startled. He tilted his body out of instinct and barely dodged the ice arrow.
After the small ice arrow landed on the ground, a huge crater that was at least two to three meters deep appeared on the ground. At the same time, the cold air carried by the ice arrow froze a large area of the surrounding green grass into ice.
Even Angor's black robe was covered in white frost because of the cold air that brushed past him.
"That's a powerful ice arrow." Angor's eyes widened in fear. If the arrow hit him, his body would be instantly frozen.
He dodged the arrow, but it didn't mean he was safe. More than thirty flying fish around him suddenly moved and shot ice arrows at him from all directions at the same time.
So many ice arrows were enough to turn the grass into an ice field.
Angor was so scared that his soul almost left his body. Using the sequence of gravity, he dashed away like a cloud and escaped the encirclement before the ice arrows could reach him.
Relying on the extraordinary speed of the sequence of gravity, he dragged his soul body to the other side of the grassland.
Angor looked at the flying fish a hundred meters away and sighed in relief.
However, the fishes were not going to let him go. They kept coming for him. They kept shooting ice arrows at him while swimming.
"What the hell is this? Those ice arrows are at least level-2 cantrips. Why are they shooting them like they're spitting water?! "Angor complained while dodging like crazy.
To save his soul energy, Angor moved a hundred meters away again. Before the fish reached him, he entered his body with his soul and set up several illusion nodes in the path of the incoming fish, creating a mist illusion.
The flying fish were strong, but they were still in a confused state. They entered the illusion without realizing it.
All of a sudden, a white mist enveloped the eyes of the flying fish.
The formation of the Flying Fish team, which was originally in perfect order, was disrupted in the fog. They were like drunkards, bumping into walls everywhere and unable to get out.
Angor crouched down, picked up a pebble, and threw it at one of the confused flying fish in the mist.
The pebble hit the fish.
Unable to find a way out, the fish thought someone attacked them and quickly shot an ice arrow at the direction of the pebble. However, when the cold air from the ice arrow touched a passing flying fish, it also thought that someone was attacking it, so it also spat out ice arrows.
The pebble created several layers of ripples.
In an instant, the flying fish began to fight among themselves. They all thought someone was attacking them, but their attacks were all messed up, and they only hit their allies.
They began to kill each other.
Two minutes later, the smoke was gone. Angor canceled the mist illusion and saw a giant crater, broken flying fish corpses, and frozen fish statues.
He wondered what kind of creatures they were. Phantom beasts or monsters? If Angor didn't use the illusion, he would have to use Infinite Reticence to get away.
Angor reached out a hand and touched a fish scale on the ground.
The cold energy immediately spread out, and his fingertips were covered in purple frostbite.
Angor frowned. He didn't mind a little bit of frostbite. Instead, he took out an untiered dagger from his bracelet and slashed at the scale.
Nothing was left.
"It should work as an alchemy material." Angor muttered to himself. Even if he couldn't use it for smelting, he could at least use it as an ice armor for tailoring.
He stood up and checked the other parts of the fish, such as fins, skin, and so on. They all had supernatural properties. If he used them correctly, they could become supernatural materials as well.
"Too bad I can't learn Narda's Vision yet. Otherwise, I'll know how to use it." Angor sighed.
Narda's Vision, also known as "Alchemist's Eye", could reveal the truth of objects. However, it was a level-3 cantrip, and Angor couldn't learn it with his current mana reserves.
He didn't know whether it would work or not, but he still collected the fish scales and fins. As for the other parts, he didn't have much space in his bracelet, so he gave up.
After dealing with the fish, Angor finally had time to check his surroundings.
There was a vast grassland in front of him, and he could vaguely see the shape of mountains in the distance.
There was no one in sight.
The sky was blue, and the sun was shining brightly. Clouds floated in the sky, which was quite pleasant.
Since there was no one around, Angor's assumption that the purification garden was too small was not valid. There were nearly six digits of apprentices entering the garden. If the garden was small, or like the Soul Genesis Garden, Angor should have seen several apprentices.
But there was no one in sight. The purification garden was definitely the largest Sorcerer's Garden he had ever seen. If he remembered correctly, the purification garden wasn't considered a high-level Sorcerer's Garden, but it was quite large. How did the Sorcerer's Garden measure its size?
Since the purification garden was quite large, it meant that the final victor of the battle in the colosseum wouldn't be suitable for this purification garden.
So how did the "blood sacrifice" work?
As Angor pondered, a group of small black dots suddenly appeared from the clouds in the sky. Angor looked closer and saw another group of flying fish. They flapped their fins and flew in a graceful manner.
There were at least a hundred of them, and one of them was golden in color.
Angor didn't want to fight them out of impulse. He needed to conserve his mana and soul energy before figuring out what was going on. With that in mind, he activated Infinite Reticence and hid himself.
Then, he quietly left the area.
He had no idea where to go now, and he had no idea. But he couldn't just stay here and wait for his death.
He considered for a moment and followed his instinct to the direction of the mountain range.
He didn't see any beasts along the way, but he did see more than one kind of flying fish in the air. Some had colorful ribbons on their backs, some looked like goldfish with big eyes, and some were constantly changing colors. Some were alone, while others moved in groups.
They all looked like fish from the sea, but for some reason, they were all flying in the air.
Angor was lucky enough to see a fight on one side. On one side, there was a group of dolphin-like fish with several ice vortexes above their heads. On the other side, there were hundreds of harmless looking yellow fish.
The dolphin with the ice vortexes above its head unleashed several ice storms that were stronger than level-3 cantrips.
Angor felt terrified just by looking at it from afar.
But the yellow fish didn't seem to be afraid at all. They completely ignored the ice storm and killed the dolphin in the end. After eating the meat, only a skeleton was left.
He planned to use his Gondola to check the situation from the sky, but he didn't have the time to do so. But he had to give up on that idea when he realized there were so many fish in the sky.
Judging from the density of the fish, Angor suspected that the other apprentices must have run into them as well.
He could weaken his presence to avoid the fish's prying eyes, or he could use illusions to confuse them. But the others wouldn't be able to do anything to them.
Was Floating Mech City planning to kill 90% of the apprentices with these fish?
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