After leaving the underground city, Angor took out his Gondola and left Sleepless City together with Sunders.
Angor was still in a daze when he got on the Gondola. He only regained his senses when he saw the dark barrier and buildings getting farther and farther away from him.
"Professor, about half of the people in the underground city are still unconscious …" Angor asked, "Why are we leaving like this?"
"They're all independent apprentices, or apprentices from organizations that didn't negotiate with me. Saving them is a waste of time. You won't get anything out of it."
Before the purification garden was opened, he once asked Nausica about the current situation of Midnight Sovereign in Floating Mech City.
Nausica told him that Midnight Sovereign had regained its order, and the people were living in peace again.
Perhaps Nausica didn't know what she was trying to say, but Angor did. Since the citizens of Midnight Sovereign were able to live in peace again, it meant that Sunders had saved all the infected civilians in Midnight Sovereign as well.
He could save the civilians in Midnight Sovereign, but not the apprentices in Sleepless City.
This made Angor suspicious.
Since he couldn't understand, he decided to ask Sunders about it.
"Midnight Sovereign is located near Brute Cavern. Besides, the questing hall gave me a quest, and I'll get something out of it if I save them. "
Angor pondered for a moment.
It was still a matter of profit. But he didn't think Brute Cavern's questing hall would reward him with anything good. However, Sunders still went to save the mortals from Midnight Sovereign. It was a matter of principle. He could save them, but they had to pay something in return. As for how much, that was another story.
"How did you get rid of the parasites?" Sunders suddenly asked. "Yes, sir."
Sunders arranged several areas for Angor to save the mortals, and they each went to work. In the beginning, Angor did not move fast. But as time went on, his speed reached an astonishing level. Every time he entered an area, he would come out in a few seconds. There were hundreds of people in each area!
Sunders didn't ask Angor about it because he was busy with his own area. But how did Angor get rid of the parasites without using his Nightmare Domain?
Angor scratched his newly grown hair. "I went in and told them to leave. Then they flew away."
Sunders was surprised. "You went in and said something, and they listened to you?"
Angor nodded. At first, he was going to use his Nightmare Domain to expel the parasites from Shan and Shiliew's bodies. But then he remembered how Froggy scolded the parasites away with his words back in the Darkness Domain. Angor didn't know there was such a way to expel the parasites. Later, in the dungeon, he tried to use a similar command language to get the Parasites to leave, and it worked.
After that, he was able to expel the parasites much faster. He didn't need to check if all the parasites were expelled.
Sunders shook his head and sighed. "I think the monsters in the Nightmare Realm are also divided into different levels. Weaker ones can't disobey the orders of higher-level monsters. You must be a higher level in the Nightmare Realm, so they won't go against your orders. "
He glanced at Angor's right hand, which was covered by the glove.
Shava, Your Majesty. Sunders muttered in his mind. He wondered when he could solve the mystery of "Shava".
Angor also recalled what happened in the underground city not long ago.
Sunders was willing to save the mortals because he had a vested interest. Angor was asked to do the job for free, but that wasn't the case.
There were several special areas in the underground city where no one dared to approach within several hundred meters. This was because the people inside were all official Magi.
Sunders and Angor went to the area together, but Angor was the one who removed the parasites from the wizards' bodies. Every time he expelled a wizard, the wizard would owe him a favor. Angor didn't know whether the favor would be useful in the future, but he knew how valuable it was.
Sunders gave Angor the favor, which was more than worth it for Angor to accompany him to save the mortals.
Sunders was paving the way for Angor's future.
Gondola flew across the sky leisurely. They were now dozens of kilometers away from Sleepless City, and the sky was clear again. Only a few parasites could be seen flying toward them.
The parasites in Midnight Sovereign didn't have this ability. Without the parasites, they would lose their vitality as soon as they left Midnight Sovereign's mist-covered area.
But now, these parasites were already dozens of kilometers away from Sleepless City. Did they mutate?
Puzzled, Sunders grabbed a parasite and placed it on his palm. He noticed that the parasite was able to fly so far away from the nightmare aura thanks to a tiny golden dot on its body. The dot was so small that it was almost invisible to the naked eye.
Using a special device, Sunders zoomed in on the golden dot and found that it was actually a small segment of a golden string with strange runes engraved on it.
The runes on the golden string were emitting a strong nightmare aura that ensured the parasite's survival. However, the nightmare aura would slowly fade away as time went by.
There was no doubt about the owner of the golden string.
"So it's Yorkshire who changed the parasites' habits. Using this method, the parasites can go farther away." Sunders sighed.
"Is there really no way to solve the problem of Sleepless City?" Angor asked curiously. Yorkshire, will you still be here? "
"Perhaps."
"That half-passage that leads to the Nightmare Realm is still there. If the queen comes to the wizarding world through it, then …"
Sunders understood what Angor was trying to say. "The sky of the southern wizarding region is going to get darker and darker. We don't have time to worry about that."
Sunders turned to Angor and said, "Besides, if the Nightmare Queen really wants to come to the wizarding world, she can just use the plane passage that leads to Pocratee."
"If she didn't come, something must be stopping her."
As for what could stop that existence, no one knew. Perhaps there was another overlord in the Nightmare Realm who was trying to stop her. Or maybe it was the world's consciousness. Or maybe she didn't care about the wizarding world at all.
But there was no point in guessing.
This was not something Angor, or even Sunders, should be concerned about.
Sunders and Sunders remained silent for a while.
An hour later, Angor finally broke the silence when he saw Sunders steering the Gondola away from Parmigi Highlands.
"Aren't we going back to Brute Cavern, professor?"
"Not yet. We need to find a place with a large amount of nightmare aura to solve the mystery behind your right hand." Sunders glanced at Angor. "Let's go to Fairy World. The plane passage that helped you grow so fast should have something we need."
…
They first went to Edge of Night, then to Floating Mech City. From there, they flew to Silent Hill.
In less than half a day, they arrived at Fairy World from Sleepless City.
Once they returned to the surface world, they boarded Gondola again and headed toward the place Angor remembered.
When they arrived at the lake that led to the underground water, Angor was a little worried. Would Sunders kill Akeso if they ran into him?
When he thought about the price of materials from wizard-level monsters at the Sky Auction, he felt a little uneasy.
However, when they arrived at Akeso's cave, Angor noticed that Akeso was nowhere to be found. He couldn't even smell the snake stench in the air.
However, the cave that Akeso dug for the dead people of Pocratee was still there.
Sunders stayed there for a while to make sure they were all mortal corpses and lost interest.
They went through another waterway and arrived at another lake that reeked of rot and grease. This was the Stagnant Lake near Pocratee Village.
Half a year later, Angor returned to Pocratee. There were no ripples, and the abandoned village didn't change at all.
Even the Rainbow Dragonfly's nest was the same as when he left. When Angor arrived, the few rainbow dragonflies in the nest immediately praised him with their emotions.
After going through so much, Angor no longer feared these nightmare monsters as much as he used to. He tried to tell them to stay away from Sunders, and they all understood and avoided him whenever they saw him.
This was in line with Saunders' initial guess: the Nightmare World had a clear hierarchy.
Angor stayed near the nest while Sunders circled around the small underground space. A moment later, Sunders returned to the center of the space.
"Judging from the time, this village should have been abandoned for a thousand years. I think it's because of these uninvited guests from the Nightmare Realm. " Sunders rubbed his forehead. "So, there was a passage that connected to the Nightmare Realm a thousand years ago? According to the Nightmare Realm's space-time cycle theory, there should have been close contact between the Nightmare Realm and the wizarding world a thousand years ago. But why are there no records about it?
Also, why did the Nightmare Realm set up such a place a thousand years ago? "
Angor had the same question as Sunders. What did the Nightmare Realm want by setting up such a trap? Could it be the outpost of the Queen's patrol, as Yorkshire said?
They didn't know the answer to these questions.
"Never mind. Let's not think about it for now. Let's enter the plane passage first and solve your problem."
With that, he took Angor and flew into the plane passage behind the nest.
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