Angor ran as fast as he could until he reached the bottom of the trench. Considering the size of the octopus, it would be difficult for it to reach this place.
Once they reached the bottom of the trench, which was less than 100 meters wide, Angor let his soul return to his body. Since he didn't have time to recover his soul energy, he quickly consumed another Soul Orb and swam toward the end of the trench with Keely.
During this process, Keely slowly regained some of her strength and was able to move on her own.
However, her face was still pale, and her lips were a little bruised. She looked quite sick.
"Are you sure you'll be fine if you fail the soul challenge?" Angor asked worriedly, "Should I carry you?"
Keely shook her head. "It's fine. I'm fine now. It's not a big deal. I've lost a Prime Flame, but I can always catch it again. "
Keely said it casually, but only she knew how difficult it would be to capture the Netherworld Lamp's Mother Flame again.
Angor didn't say anything since Keely insisted. Instead, he focused on the Duon in his hand. He sensed that the Duon was already dead. However, the giant octopus did a good job of protecting its body, so there was no sign of decay.
Angor wondered what this Duon meant to the giant octopus, and why it was carrying it around.
Keely looked over and took out an oil lamp. With the bright light of the lamp, she could see the Duon's body clearly.
This was a male Gui. Its face was very ferocious, but among the Gui totems depicted in the murals, it was already considered acceptable to human aesthetics.
The Duon's upper body was covered with a tattered gray sackcloth. Angor could see some faint patterns on the cloth.
He thought it was some kind of decoration, but Keely didn't. "It's a communication symbol. I think it's some kind of primitive ideograph."
"Let me see what it says," Keely said, magic surging in her eyes.
While Keely used her Language Proficiency to read the patterns, Angor felt lucky that Keely came to find him. Otherwise, he would have missed out on a lot of information.
If he traveled alone, he wouldn't have been able to decipher all the information.
The purification garden didn't only test one's strength and survivability. It also tested one's experience, which happened to be Angor's weakness.
A short while later, Keely rubbed her glabella and said with a tired voice, "This is a special prayer for sacrificial ceremonies. It means to sacrifice this Gui to a creature called Octopo. Most of the words are praising Oktubo's power. "
Keely gave a simple translation.
"So that octopus is Octopo?" Angor asked.
"It should be so." Keely added, "The prayer didn't give us much information. At most, we know the identity of the octopus and the name of the Duon — Kaguang Bodan."
After shifting their attention away from the prayer, they turned their attention back to Ka Guang.
As he recalled, the Duons with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish were ranked first among all the totems. In a civilization with a strict hierarchy, this Duon named Ka Guang might be one of the nobles in the Duon settlement. Unfortunately, it was sacrificed by its own kind in the end.
Finally, Angor and Keely both looked at the Duon's chest.
The Meraid's Sword was the scale on the Duon's chest.
Angor tore Ka Guang's robe open to reveal its naked chest.
Sure enough, just like what was recorded in the text, there were four sword-shaped scales on its chest. Under the bright light of the fire, the scales were golden in color, as if they were flowing with the light of colored glass.
Angor gently plucked the scales from the Duon's chest.
When he removed the heart scale, he noticed that it was actually a pair of scales. Together, they formed a Meraid's Sword.
While Angor fiddled with the Meraid's Sword, Keely looked at Ka Guang's chest. Four scales were missing, and there were four small bloody holes.
Keely pondered and said, "I remember in the totem you showed me, there are four points on the chest of the Bi Clan, which has a human upper body and a fish lower body. I didn't think too much about it at first, but now I think it means this Duon has four scales on its chest. "
Angor also recalled what he saw. "Yes, there are four scales on its chest. A Duon with the side of a human and the lower body of a fish has three scales. A Duon with the lower body of a human and the upper body of a fish has two scales. The rest only have one. If the scales are the number of scales, then we're in luck. We can make two Meraid's Swords, one for each of us."
Angor handed one of the swords to Keely and kept the other one for himself.
Keely took the Meraid's Sword and said, "It seems that the number of scales on the chest represents the class of the Duons. Also, the higher the class, the fewer Duons there are. Otherwise, most Duons only have one scale on their chest. "
Keely sneered. "The City of Floating Mech really has it all planned out. Most of the apprentices will only get one scale in the end. If they want to make a Meraid's Sword, they'll have to find more Duons, or …"
"Rob them."
…
Now that they had a Meraid's Sword, they had another problem. How should they find the Altar of Demise using the Meraid's Sword?
While Angor was thinking about how to use the Meraid's Sword, Keely suddenly stopped and extinguished the light from her lamp. While Angor was wondering what she was doing, he saw a white light flashing in the distance.
It was the place they left not long ago — the watchtower at the bottom of the sea.
Angor clearly remembered that they extinguished the light when they left the watchtower. But now that there was light again, it was obvious that another wave of visitors had appeared in the watchtower.
"Is it a Toad Skin, or someone else?" Angor asked using Voice Transmission.
"Let's go and see," Keely said.
Angor agreed. If it was a Toad Skin, they could capture it and ask how to use the Meraid's Sword. Thinking of this, the two of them secretly reached a consensus and quietly walked towards the watchtower.
Darkness was a natural camouflage, so they were able to get within a hundred meters of the watchtower.
Angor remembered that the Toad Skin noticed him from a hundred meters away when he encountered the fortress at the bottom of the sea. But this time, the Toad Skin didn't move at all. Was it not a Toad Skin?
"It's not a Dugon. It's a human," Keely said. "Luna heard someone speaking in the common tongue."
Angor and Keely lost interest if it wasn't a Dugon. But Angor still wanted to check it out. What if he ran into Nausica? He didn't know if Nausica made it to the Sea of Purification or not.
Since Keely didn't want to go, she decided to stay and rest. Meanwhile, Angor activated Infinite Reticence and slowly approached the watchtower.
As he approached, he suddenly heard someone yelling from inside the watchtower. "It's mine! Go to hell!"
Angor didn't expect it to be a robbery. Angor looked at the voice curiously. At the same time, he also felt that the voice sounded familiar.
Accompanied by a huge energy fluctuation, a miserable cry filled with resentment came from inside, "Yi! Yee! "
Yee? Angor quickly thought of a man in a cloak. It was Yee, who was in the same team as Shayaron.
Angor also remembered that the voice belonged to someone called Freud.
Fighting among themselves? From his tone, it seemed like Yethew wanted to snatch something. Angor considered for a moment and decided to leave. He could sense that there were only two people in the watchtower. They must be Yethew and Freud. He didn't know either of them, and he didn't want to get involved.
But before he could leave, Yee's hoarse voice came again. "Who's there?"
Before Angor could think about why his Infinite Reticence failed again, he sensed a strong gust of wind coming at him from behind.
Angor leaned to the side and dodged the attack. When he looked back, he saw Yee standing at the top of the watchtower.
Angor's figure slowly came into view.
When Yethew saw who it was, his pupils shrank and his brows furrowed. "It's you!"
Yethew grinned. "I didn't expect Mister Sunders' student to have a habit of eavesdropping on others. Let's forget about the incident in the wasteland. How are you going to explain this time?"
Angor didn't expect Yee to notice him either. And judging from Yee's tone, it sounded like this wasn't the first time Angor noticed him following Shayaron to their base.
Angor once again lost his confidence in Infinite Reticence.
It wasn't a big deal that Ookto and Toad Skins noticed him. Even if he could weaken his presence in the water, the bubbles and currents could easily expose his location. But he was already noticed by other apprentices before he entered the Sea of Purification. Now that Yee pointed it out, Angor felt a little embarrassed.
"I saw something here, so I came to check it out. I didn't mean to eavesdrop." Angor took a step back. The Sea of Purification was full of dangers, so he had to save as much mana as possible.
Yethew's expression softened a little when he saw Angor backing down. Yee didn't want to offend Angor either. Angor once saved his life in the lava area, and Yee knew that Angor had a powerful background.
Thinking of this, Yi Xiu said coldly, "In that case, I won't send you off."
Angor nodded and walked into the darkness. Before he could walk far, Black Cat Luna suddenly showed up from the side and meowed before stomping on his feet with its paw.
Before Angor could figure out what was going on, Luna moved its paw away, revealing a small insect with a triangular head and rainbow spots on its back.
"A level-3 Siphon?!" Angor didn't know much about magic insects, but he had heard about them before. These creatures were highly poisonous and had excellent stealth abilities. Their poison could even kill apprentices who were injected with Bloodline Potion.
If it weren't for Luna, Angor wouldn't have been able to survive the Siphon's attack.
Angor gave Yethew a cold glare. "Yethew …"
"What's the meaning of this?"
Yee also looked at Luna with a grim expression. If the cat was here, it meant that the heir of Lilith's Clan was nearby as well.
"Nothing much. It's just a precautionary measure. I didn't tell it to attack, "Yee shrugged.
Before Angor could say anything, a translucent figure suddenly ran out from the watchtower.
"Don't believe him! He found the Meraid's Sword on you!"
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