They landed near a church, which was very close to the south gate of Sleepless City.
"Do you know how to get out of here, Angor?" Nausica was leaning against the wall of the church while holding a silver pipe in her left hand. Her voice was hoarse and blurred in the smoke.
"I don't know. Let's see if the dog can bring us another miracle." Angor shrugged. "By the way, I don't think I've seen this pipe before."
Nausica exhaled a puff of white smoke that carried a faint floral scent. She then pointed at the church and said, "I just took it from there. I don't know where my pipe is. Speaking of which, it's a high-quality Silverscale Rose. A roll of it costs at least ten magic crystals. I don't have the money to smoke something so expensive. "
"You just took something from there? Aren't you afraid that it's not clean?"
Nausica didn't mind at all. "I washed it with water. You taught me how to create water. I've never stopped practicing it. "
Shan's eyes suddenly lit up. "Sleepless City is completely empty now. Does that mean we can … take whatever we want?" Nausica's words reminded her of Shan's idea.
"Well, I'm sure there are protective measures for rare supernatural items." Angor pointed at a bookstore across the street. "You can try it if you don't believe me."
Shan wasn't going to listen to Angor's advice. She walked into the bookstore while mumbling something about how she was going to be rich.
"You're going to let her in too?"
Nausica flipped her hair and gave him a bright smile. "She won't give up until she tries."
"Alright. There are no parasites around here. Wait here while I go check the south gate." With that, he beckoned the puppy to follow him and headed to the south gate of Sleepless City, which was about 50 meters away from them.
It happened to be daytime when the darkness covered the entire city. Therefore, the tall and majestic South Gate was not closed, but wide open. However, it wasn't the outskirts of the city. Instead, it was a dark mist.
Angor asked the puppy to stay put while he walked into the mist.
A moment later, he returned to the south gate in a daze. After entering the fog, regardless of whether he walked straight or circled around, he would always end up back at the starting point.
He crouched down and whispered to the puppy, "Hey, Spotty, can you get us out of here?"
The Dalmatian was very puzzled by the name "Little Dalmatian." It tilted its head for a long time before it realized that it was being called.
It barked a few times as if to express its dissatisfaction.
Angor did not notice it at all. He was still asking if there was a way to leave.
The spotted dog lowered its head and sighed. Then, it accepted its fate and walked into the black mist while wagging its tail.
Angor quickly followed him. The Dalmatian walked in a strange way. It kept moving around in circles instead of in a straight line. However, the more he followed the dog's steps, the thinner the black mist became.
"Why do I feel like I'm walking through a maze?"
The dog suddenly stopped moving and sat down in the gray mist. Angor didn't stop. He took a step forward.
And this time, he found himself outside the black mist.
A few hundred meters in front of him, an Adept was laughing shrilly. She was holding a long whip full of thorns, and she was mercilessly whipping the parasitized apprentices around her.
It was "Whip Witch" Rak 'Ksa, whom Angor met not long ago.
Angor's sudden appearance attracted Rak 'Ksa's attention. She was surprised at first, but soon became excited. With a seductive smile, she put away her whip and dashed toward Angor.
Seeing this, Angor quickly stepped back into the mist.
When he entered the mist, he could still hear someone yelling angrily, "Damn you, little bastard!"
Angor was now at the south gate of Sleepless City. The puppy was sitting beside him obediently.
"Whew …" Angor sighed in relief. He almost had to face a wizard. Thank goodness he reacted in time.
He was still a little nervous, but he was still in a good mood. At least he was sure that the puppy could take them out of this place.
"How's it going, Angor? I saw you walking around in the mist. Are you sure you can get out? "
Along with the scent of roses, Nausica walked toward them, her body shrouded in smoke.
Instead of answering right away, Angor looked at Shan, who was holding Shiliew in her arms with a gloomy look. She looked like a wilted flower in the end of autumn without any energy left in her body.
"How's it going, Princess Shan? Did you get what you wanted?" Angor smiled.
Shan rolled her eyes at Angor. "You knew it already, didn't you? There's a strange magic array in there. I can only read the book cover, and I can't see anything inside. I'm so pissed. "
"Most magic arrays can be destroyed by brute force. But shops like this one usually set up self-destruct runes. They'd rather destroy the books than let thieves see what's inside," Angor explained.
In fact, he didn't say that this kind of magic array could also be broken, but the time it would take would be many times more. Besides, he didn't have a physical body to rely on right now, so it was basically impossible for him to break them. Even though Angor knew that the entire Sleepless City was defenseless, he didn't want to go there and "loot" the place.
Of course, there were also shops that didn't set up magic arrays or had not been activated yet. However, there were only a few shops in the entire Sleepless City, so there was no need to waste a lot of time and energy searching for them.
Shan couldn't help but curse when she heard about the self-destruct runes. "These shops are all dogs!"
However, her fierce scolding was met with the dalmatian's dissatisfied growl.
Shan quickly changed her expression. "I'm not talking about you! I'm talking about other dogs. Other dogs. "
Angor and Nausica exchanged a look when they saw Shan's playful expression. They finally relaxed a little. The incident with Gank might stay in Shan's heart for a long time, but at least for now, her mood was gradually recovering.
"So? Can we get out of here? "Nausica asked.
Shan also looked at Angor. This place was full of danger, and it was also a place that hurt her a lot. More importantly, she could only look at the empty shops and not touch them. How could she endure this? If she could leave, she would naturally choose to leave this place.
Angor nodded. "The mist is like a maze. Spotty can take us out of here."
"Really?!" Shan exclaimed in surprise. "Are you sure it's called Spotty and not Omnipotent Dog?"
Nausica also chuckled. She didn't seem to be worried at all. Because even the last bit of obstruction seemed to have been removed.
Shan kept thanking the dog until the dog growled at her impatiently. "Can we leave now?" She asked Angor.
Angor frowned. "Yes. But it's very dangerous out there. There are both parasites and humans. I ran into 'Whip Witch' Rak 'Ksa just now. If I didn't move fast enough, I would've been taken away by her. "
Nausica pondered for a moment. "You said that no one has left the darkness yet. But you showed your face, and Rak 'ksa saw you … That will surely alert the people outside. Maybe they've already sent someone to the edge of the mist to keep an eye on you."
"I don't think it's a good idea for us to leave right now," said Nausica with a grim expression.
Shan nodded. Although she was a bit eccentric, she was still the oldest person in the room. She knew a lot about the wizarding world. "You're right. If we leave now, the wizards outside won't do anything to us. But we won't get away with it either. Besides, they're after the Mystery item, and we just left this place. This means … we might get involved in a fight. "
Angor considered for a moment. "Let's stay here for now. We'll leave when the professor comes to us."
The three of them reached an agreement. In the wizarding world where strength was everything, having someone as powerful as Sunders around would help them a lot.
"If I'm a wizard, I won't have anything to fear. I can come and go as I please." Shan sighed.
"Work hard then. I don't want to see you getting old in a hundred years," Nausica said.
"Judging from your tone, are you sure you can become an Adept?" Shan gave her a sidelong glance. "I don't doubt Angor. As for you … I don't know."
"Of course. I'm going to become a wizard," Nausica said without hesitation.
"Who's gonna believe that?"
Listening to their argument, Angor, who was leaning on the side, was dumbfounded. He sighed in his mind. Sisterhood is nothing but paper …
…
Time went back to the inner city of Sleepless City.
Rak 'Ksa reluctantly told Sunders about her encounter with "Angor".
She was planning to capture Angor and force him to tell her how to get out of Sleepless City so that she could find a way to get her hands on the Mystery item. Unfortunately, she saw a Wizard's Eye nearby. She couldn't tell who it belonged to, and she couldn't tell how much it could see.
Therefore, Rak 'Ksa decided to tell Sunders about her encounter with "Angor" as a favor to Sleepless City.
Inside Monsoon's Zone.
Rak 'Ksa's news caused another round of suspicion among the wizards.
Not long ago, "Plucker" Professor Anglo forcefully plucked a string and saw what was happening inside Sleepless City. Angor was the one who created the terrifying energy storm.
If that energy storm could continue, the darkness outside Sleepless City would be gone.
But Sunders stopped Angor.
And now, Angor was the first one to leave Sleepless City? It was important to note that no less than twenty adepts had perished in the Darkness Domain!
What right did an apprentice have to stir up such a storm?
Did Angor really have some kind of special alchemy item?
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