Several days later, Angor and Keely had traveled tens of thousands of kilometers. The direction of the Meraid's Sword finally shifted a little, but it was still very small. From the angle of the shift and the distance they had traveled, it was easy to calculate that they had traveled more than half the distance. It would still take some time before they reached the final destination.
In the past few days, they had been attacked continuously. There were five groups of apprentices who came to steal the Meraid's Sword. Only the first group was led by ordinary apprentices, while the rest were led by elite apprentices. But even the elite apprentices were not as strong as the two of them.
This was especially true when he used nightmare illusions, which were almost unstoppable.
Before, Angor had to find a chance to use his illusions. But now, with Keely's Hellfire, he only needed to use his illusions in an orderly manner to secure victory.
Now he understood why most explorers rarely went on solo adventures. Most of them were in groups. Cooperating with each other and complementing each other, the increase in their combat strength would increase exponentially.
But that didn't mean every team was a good team.
Angor subconsciously reached his spirit feelers into his bracelet and saw a small purple flower resting quietly in a corner. Inside the flower, Freud was curled up with his arms around his legs.
No one could guarantee that every team member was a good person. Even if they had signed a contract, known each other for a long time, and even if they were from the same school, there were bound to be conflicts of interest that could cause the team to break down or even turn against each other.
Angor and Keely did not have any conflicts of interest right now, so they could form a team. But who knew what would happen in the future?
He enjoyed the feeling of cooperation, but he preferred to travel alone. Unless he had a reliable teammate. As far as he was concerned, the most reliable teammate he had right now was … Toby.
Angor moved his gaze away from the purple flower and looked at Toby, who was lying in the middle of a pile of Soul Orbs.
Ever since they left Dark Castle, Toby had been unconscious. However, Angor could feel that Toby's bloodline was growing stronger by the day. Toby's bloodline was much stronger than before. It wasn't just the strength of his bloodline that had changed. Toby's appearance had changed as well. Toby's body had grown to twice its original size. It used to be a palm-sized bird, but now it was the size of a young eagle.
The feathers on its body were also slowly changing color. From the previous grayish-white color, it was gradually moving closer to a rosy red color.
If Toby was placed in front of Sailum and his old friends, none of them would recognize him.
And these changes had all occurred in a short period of time. Even the increase in size and the change in color of the feathers had occurred in the past two days. According to Angor's estimation, Toby's first metamorphosis was about to end. Once it was over, Toby would wake up.
During these two days, he kept an eye on Toby's condition while traveling.
While Angor was thinking, the black cat Luna suddenly meowed several times.
Both Angor and Keely immediately put on serious expressions.
They had to hurry, so they gave the gray scale they got from Yethew to Luna. Luna would be responsible for keeping an eye on the scale within a hundred-kilometer radius.
Angor even believed that Luna was much more intelligent than Keely when it came to emotional intelligence. Therefore, Luna would be able to determine the scale's status by herself, whether it was a Duon or a predator.
Once Luna started meowing, it meant that something was wrong.
Keely took over the scale and quickly communicated with Luna. Angor watched them from the side. Every time he saw a human speaking and a cat speaking in cat language, he couldn't help but feel amused. Could they really understand each other's language?
While he was amused, he didn't realize that this was also the case when he was talking to Toby.
Soon, Keely looked up at Angor. "Someone's approaching us. But I don't think they're here to rob us."
"Then what are they here for?" Angor didn't understand.
Keely answered with a blank expression, "To divert the trouble."
Angor took the scale and sensed something strange about it. Dozens of miles away, there was a scale that was quickly approaching them, but at the same time, there was another Meraid's Sword chasing after it from ten miles away.
Luna called out a few more times.
"Luna said that no matter how we change directions, the scale's target is still us. It's obvious that the other party has locked onto our position. He probably wants to shift the aggro of the Meraid's Sword to us. Of course, it's also possible that they're setting us up. But I don't think that's likely. "
Angor tossed the scale back to Luna, who bit it and swallowed it.
"What do we do now? Fight?" Keely looked at Angor.
Angor didn't have a choice. For example, the Meraid's Sword didn't have any scales on it, so it couldn't detect them. They just needed Angor to eject his soul and run out of the scale's range to avoid a fight.
However, Angor could see clearly that she already knew the answer from her angry expression.
Angor shrugged helplessly. "Fine."
Keely revealed a bloodthirsty grin. She was ready for a fight.
They continued to walk towards the southeast at a leisurely pace. Luna called out from time to time, reporting the other party's location.
A few minutes later, Luna didn't need to take the initiative to report the location. They could already see the dark fire in the distance, and the fire was quickly approaching them.
"It's coming." After Keely finished talking, she lifted the oil lamp in her hand, which was full of fighting will. Beams of cold, gloomy white flame emerged from the lamp.
Meanwhile, Luna jumped behind Angor and bit his clothes. In the past two days, Keely had been on the frontline, attacking like crazy. Luna had been hiding in a sandpit to avoid being caught in the crossfire. Now it understood that staying close to Angor was actually the safest option. Besides, Angor was only using illusions at the back instead of fighting at the frontlines. Besides, Angor cherished his body so much that he didn't want to get hurt.
Angor seemed to be lazily standing behind Keely, but he was already preparing a set of defensive measures. He also set up illusion nodes in the dark current.
As the flame rushed over, Keely let out a series of laughter. She dashed forward and surrounded herself with flames, blocking all the escape routes of the enemy.
At the same time, the man also saw Keely's figure. His eyes were filled with fear. He had bumped into a tough nut again!
"Die!" The flame around Keely kept burning as she dashed towards him.
Seeing that she was about to die, Keely's expression became desperate.
At this moment of life and death, she suddenly felt the water flow behind her stop, and then her body was suddenly pulled to the other side. She saw stars in front of her eyes, and in the next second, she was standing behind Keely.
"Angor? What are you doing? " Keely looked at Angor. She didn't know what was going on either, but Angor was the only one who could save her now.
"Angor? Is that Angor Padt? "She looked at the person in front of her with joy. It was dark at the bottom of the sea, but she still saw Angor's face clearly. "You're really Angor, my dear?! Thank goodness! "
"You know her?" Keely asked. "You know her?"
"Shan, aren't you going to check on the big guy?" He pushed away the little girl who kept trying to grab his arm.
Shan wanted to use this chance to get closer to Angor, but when she heard Angor's words, she immediately remembered Gank, who was under Keely's attack.
She turned around and saw that Gank's body was covered in flames. Half of his body was frozen.
"Gank!" Shan rushed to him.
Keely frowned. She waved her hand and dispelled the cold flame on Gank. She then moved to Angor's side.
"She's Shan, also an apprentice from Brute Cavern. I met her once," Angor explained.
"That's not enough to cover the fact that she's the one who caused the trouble," Keely said.
"I see." Angor sighed. He didn't know Shan well, but she seemed to be a good friend to Nausica. Saving her wasn't a big deal.
"You're not going to stop her pursuers, are you?" Keely looked at Angor in disbelief.
He saved Shan because of Nausica and the fact that they were acquaintances. But helping Shan to get rid of her pursuers was beyond what he could do with their relationship.
Shan swam toward them on Gank's battered body. "Nausica and Shiliew are in danger. Can you save them?" Angor frowned.
Shan knew it was a ridiculous request, but she didn't have anyone else to ask for help. She had no choice but to ask Angor for help.
However, it seemed that she underestimated Nausica's relationship with Angor.
"What happened to Nausica? Where is she now?" Angor was still thinking about how to get rid of Shan when he heard the news.
"I don't know where she is. I got separated from her when we were running away. Oh right, Shiliew knows! Shiliew left her blood on Nausica. She was the one who found us by following the scent of her blood when we entered the garden. "
"Where's Shiliew?" Angor frowned.
"Tulip Palace. When Shiliew sent us away, she was still trapped by those two witches."
Keely watched Angor asking about Tulip Palace's location and sneered. So Angor was going to save Nausica now?
What a ridiculous kindness. Keely wondered if she should go with Angor if he was really going to save Nausica. She really didn't want to. But when she thought about her professor's order, she hesitated.
Angor should be fine by himself, right?
He asked Shan about the location of Tulip Palace, but he was still puzzled. "Shan, what's going on?"
"It's Jebra! Shiliew injured Jebra. I don't know what he did, but he hired a lot of people to stop us — "
Before Shan could finish her words, Keely's face suddenly darkened. She rushed in front of Shan and grabbed her by the collar.
"Who did you say?"
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