When Angor saw Vonman walking toward him with blood all over his body, he couldn't help but frown.
Not only was Vonman covered in blood, but even Guina, who was curled up in Vonman's arms, had a few blood stains all over her face.
Meanwhile, Vonman's backpack was still dripping blood.
"You —" Angor was about to say something, but when he saw that they didn't seem ashamed at all, he sighed and changed the topic. "I'll give you some time to clean yourselves up."
"Especially —" Angor glanced at Vonman's backpack. "—"
Vonman and Guina looked at each other, nodded, and walked towards the river.
Vonman took off his clothes and jumped into the river to clean himself up. He then helped Guina clean her face as well. After cleaning up the bloodstains on his body, Vonman carefully opened his backpack. Two stacked human skins appeared in front of him.
These two human skins were none other than Yaniga and Chaila's.
While Vonman carefully cleaned the skin, Angor watched from afar and sighed in his mind.
It was normal for Vonman and Guina to mourn for their dead companions. However, Guina changed her mind. She wanted to take Yaniga and Chaila away, but they didn't have a storage space, so they couldn't carry the two corpses with them. In the end, Guina decided to strip them of their belts and leave.
"I want to make a doll out of their skins, so they can stay with me forever."
Guina's eyes were glowing when she said that. She didn't seem to think that it was a terrible idea to carry a doll around with her.
"So Vonman isn't a troublemaker. This Guina is even more troublesome …" Angor frowned. Maybe this was a common problem among all puppeteers.
As he recalled, Bogula also liked to use people as puppets. More often than not, they were living puppets.
Maybe all puppeteers had the same obsession.
When they stood in front of him again, Angor spoke in a plain tone, "It's time to leave. But before that, there's something I need to do."
"Where's Kuza?" He looked at Guina and asked, "What about her?"
…
In the forest outside of Winter Tide City, there was a dark castle in the forest.
The castle wasn't big, but it was eerie. Gray vines crawled all over the walls, and there were signs of thorns everywhere.
"So, this is Kusha's home?"
Vonman nodded. "That's right."
According to Vonman, Kuza was an evil witch who had cut off Guina's limbs and Anika's tongue.
According to Vonman, Kusha must know Ghost Summoner because Ghost Summoner took Vonman away and recommended Guina to Kusha. It was obvious that the two of them had some sort of connection.
He was worried that Kusha might be a member of the Rat Ant Society, so he came here to check.
The castle wasn't big. He sensed around and found no one inside. He walked inside and saw that the furniture was covered in a thin layer of dust.
It was obvious that the owner of this place had left not long ago.
However, he also found some messy footprints on the carpet. They looked like the footprints of a child.
Vonman suddenly spoke up. "I think I left these footprints the last time I came here."
"You did?"
"After escaping from Moonwater City, I came here to find Lady Kuza. I wanted to tell her about Ghost Summoner's death …" Vonman lowered his head. "But Kuza has Guina, so I had to come back.
"When I came back, I didn't find Kuza in the castle. Instead, I found Guina soaked in a strange liquid in the underground laboratory. She was already like this when I came back. I woke her up and tried to run away with her. Guina told me that Anika was nearby. Then I saw Anika lying in a tank with his tongue cut off. "
"Then we left."
Angor checked the basement with his senses and found many petri dishes and experiment pods. There were also some human body parts.
So this was a lab for studying bloodlines or transplants?
Angor went to the basement to take a closer look and confirmed his suspicion. There were operating tables, replacement tables, and petri dishes all used for transplants.
However, many of them were old and obsolete, and the specimens that were soaked in the liquid were all mortal specimens.
Angor could tell that Kuza wasn't very good at experimenting. She probably wasn't as strong as Ghost Summoner.
He turned around and saw that Vonman and Guina were murmuring something to each other in front of a skull. It seemed that the head belonged to a government official in Wintertide City.
Angor was more interested in the fact that the two kids didn't seem to be afraid at all.
"Do you have any of your body parts here?" Angor approached Guina.
Guina shook her head. "After Kusha cut off my limbs, she threw them to the wolves."
"You saw it with your own eyes?"
"Yes, it's her pet." Guina nodded.
Angor frowned. No matter how mature Guina was, she would still be traumatized if she saw her own limbs being fed to a pet.
He finally understood why Guina's mind was so twisted.
Angor walked around the castle one more time before leaving. Since Kuza wasn't here, he didn't want to waste any more time. He also found some clues in Kuza's study and the underground lab, which pointed to Kuza's identity.
Kuza didn't seem to be a member of the Rat Ant Society. She was probably a member of a small wizard family.
Since she wasn't a member of the Rat Ant Society, Angor had no reason to go after her.
When they left on Gondola, Guina chuckled. "It's good that she's gone. I'll go find her myself one day."
…
Angor brought Vonman and Guina back to Padt Manor and settled them down in a separate building that was a little farther away.
He didn't want to cause any trouble.
Guina's appearance was too scary. Besides, Vonman was going to start making skins in the next two days. Angor believed that Yaniga and Chaila's skins would cause a huge commotion when they were exposed to the sun. Therefore, he decided to leave them alone.
Head Maid Mana was in charge of their daily food and water. But Angor also warned them that they must put away their skins when they saw servants passing by.
Angor also told Tulu about Vonman and Guina. They were going to be apprentices in the same class, so it would be better if they could get along well.
After settling them down, Angor went to see Thewis.
"Are you sure you want to leave?" Thewis stood tall and straight with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Angor nodded. Thewis already told him to inform Angor before leaving.
"Jon is getting weaker and weaker. I don't have any other way to save him. I have to go back and ask for help."
Thewis wasn't surprised by Angor's decision. "Have you thought about it yet? Who are you going to ask to heal Jon?"
"I'm going to go back to Brute Cavern and bring the talents back. Then I'll think about it."
Eureka's eyes lit up when she heard Angor's words. She looked at Angor and was about to say something when she realized something. However, Thewis shook his head at her.
Eureka didn't know what to say, but she didn't say anything.
Thewis nodded to Angor. "I hope you can keep Jon alive. He's a rare specimen."
Thewis continued, "I won't stop you from leaving this time, but I need to give you a warning."
Angor looked at Thewis and waited for him to explain.
"First, don't tell anyone about me and Eureka. It won't do you any good," Thewis said.
Angor nodded. Besides, Leon was already Thewis' student, and Angor wasn't someone who liked to gossip.
"Second, I hope you can help me find or buy some potions that can help me recover my spirit power."
"I'll try, but I can't guarantee that I'll be able to buy them. I'm sure you know what's going on at Fey Continent.
"Third, you said you need to think about it. Do you have an answer now?"
Angor looked at Thewis' burning eyes and realized what he meant.
Thewis brought Angor to his exile space and asked him about Bloodline Retrace. If they wanted to get rid of Goman King's tracking, they had to do something about it.
However, erasing Bloodline Rewind could also damage the Crimson Crown.
Therefore, they changed their plan. They wanted to use Bloodline Retrace to find the owner of the heart blood.
But before that, they had to be sure. "Can we use the Bloodline Retrace array to find the owner of the heart blood?"
When Thewis asked this question, Angor said he didn't know.
It had only been a few days, but Thewis couldn't wait any longer.
"There's no such thing in the book. But there is a way to extract the information from Bloodline Retrace."
Thewis' eyes lit up. "You can extract the heart blood?" That would give them a lot of room to work with. Whether it was cursing or locating the target, they could do it easily.
"No. We can only extract some information from it."
"Can we find the owner of the heart blood?"
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