Chapter 278 - Crazy Compensation
“Then where did those monsters come from? Can you say it wasn’t you who brought them here?” Twilight questioned, furious.
Angor stammered. He did not know how to explain this one, and he was not supposed to tell people about anything about the Nightmare Realm.
“As I said, don’t ask things that you shouldn’t know anything about,” Sunders interrupted.
Twilight tried to hide her discontent in front of Sunders as she asked, “Then who’s responsible for the death of our guards??”
“Go to whoever killed them,” murmured Angor as he hid behind Sunders’ back and searched around for Toby’s whereabouts.
“You might not be the one who killed them, but you caused everything. You must give us an explanation,” Twilight sounded more serene this time, and Sunders did not retort again. She was right about how Angor started all.
There was no law system in this world, yet wizards tended to obey social rules according to where they were. Phantom Island had its own rules, same for the Auction House. Those who broke such rules had to be punished, and Sunders would agree to let his student answer for this one.
After making sure the bird had stable vitals, Sunders passed Toby back to Angor. The creature was still unconscious.
Angor was somewhat glad about this. Being unconscious meant Toby could not cause more trouble for now.
“Did you close the passage?” Sunders looked at Angor’s shoulder wound, which was still bleeding.
“As you ordered,” Angor chuckled. “Not only that, but I also managed to trick the wizard-level toy owl into going back. Oh right, where’s Fox and Froggy?”
When he realized Sunders was giving him a puzzled look, Angor quickly explained, “Fox is… the red fox with a harp and the green frog is called Froggy.”
“Huh. You know them well,” Sunders mocked.
“I have to join them to learn how to shut the passage!” Angor remembered how everyone saw his terrible performance and felt embarrassed again.
“They vanished. I’m afraid they already left the Nightmare Domain. Not sure if that’s going to give us troubles in the future.”
“They left? What about… them?” Angor pointed to the teacup band and toy soldiers.
The teacups responded to his gesture by yelling loudly, “Where are you, my queen??”
They sounded like children crying in sharp voices.
…
After some more hubbub, the wizards all realized that none of their attacks worked against these creatures. The attacks only bounced back at them. Also, it seemed the toy soldiers could drain energy from the attacks into their weapons and then unleash that power against whoever wanted to harm them.
“Leave these things to me. I’ll think of something,” Sunders said in the end.
By this, Sunders also prevented anyone from seizing the creatures for their experiments.
“Mister Sunders, how do we get out? Is it still dangerous?” Kooper asked politely.
“No. We’ll leave soon enough.”
Sunders sent a voice transmission the Angor next, “You created the Nightmare Domain, and you should be the one who’ll take it under your care.”
“My care? What does that mean?”