"You're here, Sunders?!" Gragg looked at Sunders in surprise.
"This is' Imp 'Gragg from Edge of Night. He's a troublemaker. Don't believe a word he says."
Before Angor could say anything, Gragg spoke up, "Hey, Sunders, that's not right. We're old friends who went through the Battle of Demon Blood together. How can you talk like that?"
The Battle of Demon Blood was a small-scale war between wizards in Shortgrave Plane about a hundred years ago. It was caused by a bottle of demon blood.
"That's why I know what kind of person you are," Sunders said in a plain tone. "You tricked more than a thousand people back then."
"I didn't lie to you, did I?" Gragg muttered.
"Feel free to lie to me if you can." Sunders chuckled.
Gragg rolled his eyes and didn't know what to say. He couldn't just admit it, could he? In the end, he looked at the girl floating in the air. "Greya? I heard them call you Greya, but I don't think Greya has such a slender figure. Your soul doesn't match your body. Did you take over someone else's body? "
Greya landed on the ground and rolled her eyes. "It's none of your business. Besides, weren't you planning to do the same thing? You even took a fancy to a little girl's body. Aren't you ashamed? "
Gragg did want to take over Greya's body, but he was too shameless. "That's what happened. Now that you're here, why don't you save me?"
Greya shook her head. "I can't do that."
Gragg looked at Sunders with a hopeful look. "You won't leave me in the lurch, will you, old friend?"
Sunders reached out a hand and released a streak of chaotic energy toward Gragg.
Gragg was startled. But he quickly realized that the energy wasn't coming for him. Instead, it was going for the golden string above his head.
"Bang —" a sound was heard.
The chaotic energy disappeared. The golden string trembled a bit but remained unharmed. The one who suffered the most was Gragg. His entire body was tied up by the golden threads. Whenever the golden threads moved, blood would spurt out from his body. Moreover, the strange runes on the golden threads were constantly tormenting his body, causing him to unconsciously scream out in pain.
Greya was also stabbed by a string before, but it was completely different from the golden one. Even if the string could suck blood, it would only cause physical pain. The golden string, on the other hand, magnified all physical pain and implanted it into one's soul and spirit.
Nausica had experienced it before, so she could sympathize with Gragg's screams. Nausica didn't want to look at Gragg's body..
. While Gragg was in agony, the rainbow dragonflies gathered around him and began attacking Sunders.
It was obvious that the chaos energy released by Sunders disturbed them.
Sunders raised a hand and prepared to destroy the dragonfly. Angor quickly ordered the dragonflies to back off.
He didn't have any feelings for Fawkes or Faelog, but he was very grateful to the rainbow dragonfly. If it weren't for the rainbow dragonfly's help, he might've been lost in the darkness forever.
The rainbow dragonfly saved his life once, so he treated the creature with more care than before.
The rainbow dragonfly obeyed Angor's order without any hesitation and retreated to the side.
Gragg didn't notice Angor's emotional fluctuations, but the other two wizards, Sunders and Greya, did.
Sunders lowered his hand and glanced at Angor without saying a word.
Greya narrowed her eyes and gave Angor a meaningful look.
After a while, Gragg's pain finally subsided, but it also took away half of his life. He looked up at Sunders with his bloodshot eyes and panted heavily. "One more and I won't be able to hold on. There's a demon trying to tempt me and stop me from falling. But I don't want to — Help me!"
Gragg was now praying for someone to help him out of desperation. And the person he was praying for was none other than Sunders.
Sunders rubbed his glove and lowered an eyebrow. "I can't save you. You should know that the energy I used was the sharpest attack I could, but the golden strings were unharmed. "
Angor gave Sunders a meaningful look.
Sunders quickly created a Spirit Bond between him and Angor without anyone noticing.
"Professor, Spotty can bite through the strings." Angor quickly spoke through the Spirit Bond.
"Spotty?" Sunders glanced at the puppy beside Angor's feet. "It can bite through the strings?"
"Yes." Angor explained how the puppy bit through the strings on Nausica's body.
"I see. But we don't need it here. You don't have to tell me."
Angor nodded. He thought Sunders and Gragg were just friends. But it seemed that wasn't the case.
"I still have some questions about the dog. Do you know who it is?" Sunders asked through the Spirit Bond.
Angor hesitated for a moment. "Maybe it's the thing that attracted the wizards here."
"You mean …" Sunders uttered the word "Mystery" without making any sound.
Angor nodded. "Maybe it's the spirit of Mystery. Or maybe it's the main body of Mystery. I don't know. "
Sunders didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he gave the puppy a strange look.
Meanwhile, Gragg's expression darkened a little. "A blank body will do. Like that woman with the best body."
Everyone knew that Gragg was referring to Nausica, but his words still made the women's expressions darken.
Gragg suddenly looked at Angor, who was holding the "Nether Demon Bloodline". "He's your student, right? I wanted him, but he's just a soul. If I want to live, I have to choose someone else. If you can save me, I'll give you a Mork's Vow. "
Mork's Vow was a complete and strict contractual vow named after the person who wrote it. The main purpose of the vow was to fulfill a request from someone while preserving one's freedom and potential.
Once Gragg made the vow, Sunders could ask for anything as long as Gragg didn't restrict his freedom. For example, Gragg had to hand over all his wealth.
Sunders grinned. "That's a tempting offer. I can accept it. But I have a container for your soul. You can stay there for now. When you find a suitable body, I'll keep an eye out for you. "
Gragg shook his head. "No way. If I could eject my soul, I would've done it already. Why don't I just find myself a body? Something's wrong with this golden thread. It's not only binding my body, but also my soul. "
"Since the golden threads can't be cut off, I can only use the light of my Soul Origin to escape the fate of death." Gragg's face was extremely gloomy as he said this.
Gragg's escape route was even worse than Greya's.
At least, Greya could still rely on her powerful soul to gain the strength of a wizard after taking over Greya's body. Gragg's choice, on the other hand, meant that he would lose all his abilities except for his memories and thoughts. He had to start from scratch.
Angor read many novels about time travel and reincarnation in his tablet, and they all dealt with similar situations.
However, he still needed to work hard to regain his memories and experience.
Sunders wasn't surprised by Gragg's words. He already knew what Gragg was trying to do when he tried to lure Nausica to him.
Gragg's soul essence was extremely fragile. Even if he was a level-2 wizard, his soul essence would vanish in less than a second after leaving Soul Space. He had less than one second to run away. That was why he tried so hard to lure Nausica to him. He even used a costly bait to lure her closer.
"If that's the case …" Sunders looked back at Nausica.
Her expression didn't change, but there was a hint of determination in her eyes.
Sunders chuckled. He knew what Nausica was trying to do. She wanted to kill Gragg as soon as his soul essence left his body.
She had a good temperament. Maybe she could become a wizard in the future.
Sunders considered and decided to let Nausica go. She was a potential disciple of Brute Cavern and a friend of his. So he turned around and asked, "How much longer can you hold on?"
Gragg hesitated. "Two minutes, tops."
"Alright. Wait for me." With that, Sunders vanished into thin air.
It wasn't hard for Gragg to figure out why Sunders left. He gave Nausica a curious look. He knew Sunders well enough to know that he wouldn't waste his mana trying to find someone.
Did Nausica have something to do with Sunders as well?
While waiting for Gragg's answer, Angor asked Greya about Yorkshire.
"He ran away. He ran to the central area. Sunders didn't allow us to chase him. He said there's something wrong there." Greya paused. "Since when did your professor create a Mystery item?"
"Mystery item?" Angor was surprised. "Are you talking about the Cursing Puppet, Lady Greya?"
The Cursing Puppet was a Mystery item bought by Sunders at Twilight Auction with seven million magic crystals. Gragg tried to borrow the puppet from Sunders many times to study it, but Sunders always rejected him with all kinds of excuses.
This was one of Gragg's small grudges.
"Yup. A ragdoll. So it's called the Cursing Puppet? That python called Yorkshire was actually scared to tears by a rag doll. I don't know what happened, but it actually ran away. "
"What about Fox? It also has a Mystery item on it. "
"That red fox was smarter. It ran away as soon as Sunders took out the Cursing Puppet. You don't know how Sunders looked when he saw it. He already considered the zither as his own. "Greya took advantage of Sunders' absence and mocked him.
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