At night, Angel and Dushan explained that they would be away for a few days, left some gold coins, and went out again.
The main reason he returned to Waterglass this time was to report a message. The time he had agreed with Shadow was tonight, and the location was... the Resentment Forest, the Corpse Cave.
Just when Angel stepped out and was about to leave by boat, a lonely crescent boat rowed over from the distance.
Angel stopped leaving.
Under the soft moonlight, a person's face has been exposed through vicissitudes of life.
The humid sea breeze stirs up people's slightly white hair.
"We haven't seen each other for just a few days, and the Count's face has changed a lot." Angel said in a low voice.
The person who came was none other than Leonric. Originally, in Angel's eyes, he was a energetic middle-aged man. However, in just a few days, Leonric's face was wrinkled, his temples were pale, and his eyes were cloudy.
He is an old man in his seventies or eighty.
Leonric put away his oars and got into the boat, with a helpless and confused expression on his face.
"Master Mask..." He hesitated, his voice also carrying the vicissitudes of dusk.
"You came to me alone, are you prepared for the worst?"
Leonric smiled bitterly and shook his head, "These days, I have been thinking about what to do. There is no way I would risk the lives of the people in the city to make this huge gamble."
Leonric lowered his head: "But I really want to know who that person is. I tossed and turned every day and couldn't sleep at all. When I finally fell asleep, all I dreamed about was my daughter Magda accusing me with blood and tears, saying that I was not
I am a qualified father. And those who have lost their shadows all crawled in front of me and criticized me for not being qualified to be the lord of this city."
"In this kind of torture that is worse than death, I decided to come alone. I will not go to trouble that adult, but I want to know his identity, is that okay?"
Angel looked at Leonric, who was in tears, and he understood how entangled the man in front of him was. On one side was the righteousness, and on the other was the ego. The ego wanted to sacrifice the righteousness, but secular ethics told him that the righteousness could not be sacrificed by the ego.
If Angel were faced with this problem, he might be condemned by his conscience, but he would still abandon justice and choose the ego without hesitation. He has a bottom line, but he is also selfish.
However, it is precisely because of people like Leonric that the peace and tranquility of this city can be maintained. This is what Angel admires most about Leonric.
"Okay. I happened to have contact with him recently. What do you want to know?" Angel felt no guilt for betraying the information about Shadow.
"Why did he steal the shadow?" Leonric asked the question he wanted to know the most. If he could help solve the problem of the adult, would it be possible to prevent the shadows of his people from disappearing?
Angel sorted out his words: "Criminals can be roughly divided into three categories: those who kill, those who are forced to do so, and those who cannot help themselves. In addition, there is another type of criminals whose reason for killing is because..." Angel
He stretched out his finger and tapped his temple: "I'm sick."
Leonric didn't understand why Angel wanted to talk about this, but he still followed Angel's train of thought and said: "Sir, do you mean that a madman kills people?
"Maniacs kill people involuntarily. When I talk about illness, I mean those who are mentally intact but mentally ill. There is one word that can describe this group of people: perverted."
Angel: "You ask why they steal shadows, then you can try to imagine what the murder philosophy of perverted murderers is? They will all pursue a reason to kill that can satisfy their own psychological symptoms, and the specific manifestation is... a sense of ritual or unity
feel."
Being able to transform a place with dark folk customs like Waterglass into a city where everyone is polite today shows that Leonric is not a fool. He immediately realized what Angel wanted to say: "My lord means blond hair and blue eyes."
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Angel nodded: "A pervert who is obsessed with blond hair and blue eyes takes pictures just to satisfy his psychological symptoms."
"Then... what is the fate of those shadows?"
"Probably it has become some kind of collection, just like some people's secret hobbies."
Leonric originally thought that if he could help the adult solve the problem, he might be able to get "him" to let go of the shadow. But after hearing Angel's words, he was completely desperate. A pervert could not use worldly values at all.
to convince.
That's right. Leonric thought about the books about wizards he had read. They were basically perverts. They would destroy cities and towns at the slightest disagreement... Thinking of this, Leonric glanced at Angel. Fortunately.
, although this lord was sometimes unkind, he did not regard human life as trivial. Even if Magda had offended him and Tyrell pointed his nose at him and scolded him, he would only give him a light punishment.
"What else do you want to know?" Angel asked.
Leonric: "Can you tell me who that gentleman is?"
Angel snapped his fingers, and a faint illusion covered the two of them, and the phantom of the shadow slowly appeared in front of Leonric.
"He is the person you are looking for." Angel pointed at Shadow and said, "I don't know his real name. His code name is Shadow."
Leonric was startled by the sudden figure, but he soon calmed down and carefully observed the shadow's appearance.
Shadow's appearance is extremely handsome, with thin short hair that is brown and almost black, and his facial features are very cold and hard, especially the slanted eyebrows at the temples, which are as sharp as a cold front. From the appearance, Shadow seems to have an indifferent personality.
But in fact, Shadow is more of a kind of evil spirit, which is difficult to express from the outside.
"I'll give you one last warning. He's very powerful. Just take a look. It's best not to come into contact with him. You know, perverts are actually very unreasonable, especially for ordinary people. He won't even speak to you.
There is no chance." After saying that, Angel left in the boat.
Leonric looked at Angel with a hint of pleading in his eyes. He wanted Angel to save those who lost their shadows and save his daughter, but he couldn't say it.
Angel saw this look and sighed slightly in his heart, but didn't say much.
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When we arrived at the agreed place, it was already the zenith of the moon.
However, the plants in the Resentful Forest, stimulated by the corpses buried underground, became extremely lush and blocked the sky, so that no moonlight could be seen.
Angel cast a light spell casually and jumped into the corpse cave.
Wearing a tall hat, the purification field was fully activated, blocking out the rotten atmosphere. Angel stepped over the corpses and maggots on the ground and arrived at the small stone room where the extraordinary gathering was held a week ago.
"You're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Shadow smiled, with eight puppets standing behind him, all of them pale and with weird smiles.
"Start now?" Angel asked.
Shadow nodded, "Follow me, the formation is still ahead."
Shadow led the way, and a group of puppets followed behind them.
Angel thought the end of the corpse cave was here, but as he continued to walk forward with the shadow, he discovered that there was a small gap on the other side. Behind the gap, there was an evil atmosphere, and there was no end in sight.
"The magic energy array that has been lost for thousands of years is inside." Shadow took the lead and got through.
Angel remembered that when the shadow came to the forest guard's cabin in the morning, the evil aura on his body was exactly the same as the aura behind the gap. He could be contaminated with such a strong evil aura, and he wanted to stay in it these days.
After passing this gap, there will be a deep and dark road.
Although there was no smell of rotting corpses on this stretch of road, Angel felt that it was more filthy than maggots and corpses everywhere.
Even if the purification force field is turned on, it is difficult to completely drive away the omnipresent evil spirit.
"Even if this hat is put at the auction of Sky Mechanical City, it can still sell for seven or eight thousand magic crystals." Shadow said with an envious look: "You are not the seed cultivated by the Savage Cave, are you? That's not right.
I remember there is no elite seed plan in Savage Cave, they are all free-range."
"Or are you from a wealthy wizarding family?"
Angel did not say much about this, but pointed to the puppet behind him and asked: "What will you do with these people in half a month?"
Shadow shrugged: "What can I do with it? I can't take it away, I can only let it go. And none of them meet my aesthetics. If there are puppets like you among them, I will be punished by being whipped by my mentor.
We need to bring him back to Sky Machinery City."
Angel: "I thought you were going to kill them."
"I have no interest in bullying these scum."
"My mentor once told me, don't bully young people into poverty. Maybe one day, they will counterattack, and you will become a stumbling block for them." Angel recalled some online novels stored in the holographic tablet.
, the worse the qualifications, the more likely they are to counterattack.
"Don't deceive young people into being poor. I agree with this statement. But if it is generally applied to the world of cannibal wizards, it would be a bit naive."
After walking for about ten minutes in the filthy atmosphere, the two arrived at a hidden secret room.
As soon as he stepped into the secret room, Angel felt strange auras rising from the lines under his feet.
Angel is no stranger to magic energy arrays. This is a typical activated magic energy array. The level cannot be seen, but the lines are very primitive. It should be a very ancient magic energy array.
"Did you see anything?" Shadow joked when he saw that Angel was looking very seriously. He didn't believe that Angel could see anything. The magic energy array is an extremely complex subject. According to Angel's
Even if you are learning magic energy formations at your age, you will probably stop at the magic pattern stage.
"This magic energy array has existed for at least ten thousand years."
"What's the meaning of this statement?"
"The style of writing is very primitive. The sculptor may not have learned the 'Bantu Sanjiao Technique'. Many places can actually be simplified. For example, this corner, although I don't know what this magic energy array is, but this corner is recorded in the book as
A typical useless corner can be changed into a single stroke using six stacks of magic spells to control the amount of magic." Angel pointed at one of the complicated corners and talked.
"Have you ever learned the magic energy array?" Shadow asked in surprise. He didn't know if what Angel said was true, but that was why he didn't realize how serious it was.
"No, I just read it in the book."
Shadow took a deep breath, looked at Angel and his eyes became slightly solemn. He pointed at the magic energy array on the ground and said: "This magic energy array was created thousands of years ago when the Kulakuka tribe suffered the greatest genocide disaster.
It was opened by a wizard from Castle Black, and from here he brought the Kulakuka tribe into the middle world and gave them a peaceful life."