At the same time, the lava in the lake began to explode. Lava splashed dozens of meters high into the air. While everyone was still confused, a powerful and violent aura began to spread out from the abyss.
At first, the aura was still bearable, but as the roar continued, the aura grew stronger and stronger. In the end, everyone felt extremely uncomfortable. Alan, the weakest among them, even spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed on top of the rhinoceros.
While everyone was still in shock, waves of roars came from the abyss again and again, shaking the sky.
Not only did the lava explode, but the scorched earth was also shattered. Smoke and dust were everywhere.
When the roar reached its climax, a head suddenly popped out from the abyss.
The Lord of Tentacles, who had fallen into the abyss, jumped out again. It seemed to be extremely angry. Its skin was turning red, and its blood was flowing backward.
In addition to the change in its skin color, its head was also constantly expanding like a balloon. In just a few moments, it had expanded to its limit.
It was obvious that the Lord of Tentacles was enraged. But why would he suddenly get angry?
Everyone looked at each other in confusion. In the end, they all looked at the bag in Sinehowze's hand.
Sinehowze was going to show them the egg, but when she saw the strange look on everyone's face, she subconsciously put the bag into a beautiful butterfly necklace around her neck.
"A space storage?" Everyone looked at Sinehowze in surprise. They did not expect a gourmet apprentice to have a space storage, which many wizards did not even have.
Sinehowze grabbed Carveline's arm and said, "Run! It's going crazy!"
With that, the two started to run. The others also felt that something was wrong. At first, the aura only made them feel uncomfortable. But as the color of the Lord of Tentacles' skin changed, it became more and more uncomfortable. Soon, the aura had reached the level of an official wizard. Everyone started to panic.
Everyone quickly followed Sinehowze and flew out of the lava lake.
"Roar!" The Lord of Tentacles seemed to have noticed that everyone was running away. It let out an angry roar filled with energy waves.
Everyone stopped when they heard the roar. It was not that they did not want to run, but they could not.
The intense energy fluctuations not only caused the surrounding air to stagnate, but also caused everyone to feel as if they had fallen into a swamp. Their movements became sluggish, and some even fell into the lava.
Yethew looked at Sinehowze with a dark expression. "It must be because you stole its egg. Give it back, or we're all going to die."
Sinehowze looked impatient. "What does it have to do with me? Who knows if it's angry because of the egg? Besides, it's going to lead the army when the blood sacrifice starts. I'd rather it's my egg. "
"Anyone's egg, no one's egg, you know what? You tricked us into attacking the Lord of Tentacles, and now you're putting us all in danger. "" What? It was Chocolate who spoke. She was jealous of Carveline for what she did to Sinehowze. She was blaming Carveline and Sinehowze for everything that happened in the wasteland.
"In any case, I'm not going to return it. At most, we can just fight! Whoever has the bigger fist has the right to speak! "
"It's not about who has the bigger fist. We're all going to die!" Yethew pointed at the Lord of Tentacles, which was now half a size bigger. "We can't move now. It's going to kill us sooner or later."
"What are you worried about? There's a magic array under the lava lake. The Lord of Tentacles can't go more than a thousand meters away from the abyss. We can just run." As soon as Sinehowze's voice trailed off, a magic array covered in strange patterns rose from the lava lake. Countless beams of light shot out from the array and trapped the Lord of Tentacles like a cage.
"See?" Sinehowze pointed at the magic array. "With that, we don't have to worry about —"
Before she could finish her sentence, the Lord of Tentacles roared again. It swung its giant tentacles and kept hitting the light pillars at the edge of the magic array. Every time its tentacles touched the light pillars, the magic array would either restrain them or cut them off. In just a short time, the Lord of Tentacles had lost dozens of tentacles. However, it didn't seem to feel the pain. It kept waving its tentacles and glaring at Sinehowze and the others.
Its skin was turning red, its body was growing bigger, and its power was increasing.
Suddenly, a "Crack" sound came from the magic array below. Everyone looked down and saw one of the light beams shatter. A crack appeared on the magic array as well. As the Lord of Tentacles moved, more and more cracks appeared.
The magic array was on the verge of collapsing. If the Lord of Tentacles broke through the magic array, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Why don't you give its eggs back?! Do you really want us all to die here?! "Yethew yelled.
Sinehowze hesitated as well. If they didn't give the eggs back, they would all die here. It was just a few eggs. Why was the Lord of Tentacles so angry?
"Even if we give them back now, can we really appease the Lord of Tentacles?" Carveline asked.
The others hesitated. Judging from the current situation, it was hard to say.
"But if we don't give them back, we'll die. If we give them back, we might still have a chance to live, "Chocolate said coldly.
…
When the magic array shattered, Lawson suddenly frowned and said, "The magic array holding the Lord of Tentacles back is broken."
Everyone was still watching Angor's escape. Lawson's words didn't make sense to them yet.
Lawson turned the screen to show what was happening on the lava lake. When everyone saw the Lord of Tentacles, which was twice as big and as red as blood, they were all stunned.
"Is it … angry? Why would there be a problem at this time? "Other than Muse and Lawson, no one else knew what happened at the lava lake.
Muse squinted his eyes. "It looks like they really did steal the Lord of Tentacles' egg. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so angry over a few ants."
"The Lord of Tentacles has gone berserk. Its power is increasing rapidly, but it's not normal. Once it calms down, it'll become weaker." At this point, Lawson sighed. "The Lord of Tentacles is the main sacrifice. Due to the unnatural increase in power, its foundation will be shaken. When that happens, the main sacrifice's power will decrease and the number of auxiliary sacrifices will increase."
Lawson meant that they might need 90% of the apprentices as sacrifices, but now they needed more.
"Well, it'll be interesting if we end up using 100% of the apprentices," Muse said with a smile.
"The only thing we can do now is to kill the Lord of Tentacles and let its life energy enter the purification garden, or find a way to calm it down," Lawson said. "We can't use 100% of the apprentices as sacrifices. Too many things are involved. Fine, I'll go stop the Lord of Tentacles now."
With that, Lawson prepared to leave the tower.
"Wait. Keep watching," Muse said. Muse pointed at the screen and changed it to Angor's point of view. Angor was now rushing toward the lava area with a large number of fish in tow.
…
Back in Angor's view, he managed to break out of the encirclement at the cost of some serious injuries. Then, without hesitation, he began to fly downward.
Maybe it was his intuition or his experience, but the path he took to go down was exactly the same as the one he took to get here.
Angor left a trail of dust behind him as he carried the fish tide.
According to the law of survival, if the prey didn't succeed for too long, they would usually give up and change their target. However, the fishes behind Angor didn't care at all. They wouldn't give up on Angor at all.
Angor couldn't rely on the fishes to give up on him. He had to find a way to get away.
He knew that the lava lake was right below him. There weren't many fish monsters around, and the thick smoke made it the best place to escape.
However, to get rid of the fishes, he had to heal his wounds first. Otherwise, the smell of his blood alone wouldn't be enough to get rid of them.
To heal his wounds, Angor had to run for a while, return to his body, use Heal, and use Spirit Whisper again. This method did heal his wounds faster, but it also meant that he couldn't run as fast as he could, which meant he couldn't get rid of the fishes behind him.
He only fully healed his wounds when he was about to reach the lava lake.
During this time, Angor also found a small piece of flesh under his hood.
Looking at the small piece of flesh with broken scales on it, Angor realized something. At that time, the reason why he was discovered by the sharks in the sky was because the flesh and blood of the fried fish had splattered everywhere. One of the pieces had stained his clothes, and the bloody smell of the fish had attracted the attention of the sharks.
Angor was in his soul form at the time, so he didn't notice it at all. In the end, Infinite Reticence lost its effect.
Angor sighed. Infinite Reticence was good enough to make him invisible even to wizards, but it had many flaws as well.
He had no choice but to put the cloak into his bracelet.
Angor could already see the red glow of the lava lake on the ground. He planned to return to his body while the smoke was still thick.
His soul returned to his body as soon as he entered the area.
When his soul returned to his body, the sequence of gravity was gone. His body naturally fell. After he steadied himself, he immediately used Cleanse to get rid of all the filth and smell on his body. Then, he planned to release the Mist Illusion, reactivate Infinite Reticence, and enter stealth mode.
But he suddenly heard an angry roar.
Distracted by the angry roar, his eyes were in a trance. He inadvertently looked down and saw a huge red "octopus". It was angrily reaching out its tentacles and attacking in another direction.
Angor looked back and saw that the "octopus" was attacking a group of apprentices.
Not only Carveline and Sinehowze, but also Alan, Lucien's old friend, was among them as well.
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