Chapter 196 - Parasite Queen
The sun was setting. The gentle, red aura slowly shrank along with the tips of the mountains in the distance.
Angor sat in his garden and stared at the disappearing sun. His mind once again returned to his faraway home back at Old Earth.
What’s Leon doing at this hour? Already had dinner? Did he have a birthday party?
Without Angor, and with Jon ill, everything in Padt Manor had fallen into Leon’s hands. Maybe he already forgot about his own birthday?
Angor raised a glass of… milk, and toasted toward the direction of his home.
Spacial distance could not separate the bond of brothers.
“Happy birthday, Leon.”
Almost every apprentice yelled out at the same time. They came to check an “unlikely rumor”, but they did not expect it to be real!
The silence was instantly broken by loud cheering.
“Parasite Queen! Parasite Queen!!”
“My heroine has come! I’m getting a ticket! NOW!”
“VIP seat, please!”
“Haha! I was right to come. Maybe I can get a VIP ticket as well!”
“Too bad we can only buy one. Otherwise, we can make a fortune by selling them to others… Hey, hey you! Mortals! Take these magic crystals and go buy tickets, then give them to me! One silver coin for each!”
No one was interested in the other matches now. Everyone swarmed inside the tower hall just to buy a better seat. Some of them even thought about being ticket scalpers.
Even the two witches who came for Fox Master had forgotten about him. They both followed behind everyone.
Only several apprentices who could not afford a ticket remained outside.
Still, they knew well about seeded players in the tower, so they all knew about Parasite Queen’s name.
On the other hand though…
“Who’s Baron Milk? How did he get matched against Parasite Queen?”
“And why didn’t Sky Tower advertise the match earlier?”
“Something’s not right…”
Someone in a white bear costume came out of the sky tower after getting his ticket before everyone else. When he heard the remaining apprentices talking, he silently chuckled in his mind.
“Because they know that this match won’t look so fun in the way you expected.”
Somewhere far from them, a figure hidden in a black robe appeared from the shadow.
The figure stared at the schedule and at the name he had been thinking about all these days. He grinned.
“My precious… I can’t wait to see you again…”
It sounded like someone speaking to his long-lost lover.
Also, there were other people who paid extra attention to Baron Milk, or rather, the mysterious alchemist behind Baron Milk.
Prome also received the information while working in his personal laboratory.
“Parasite Queen? Dave’s little friend met some bad luck today. I still need to know who that alchemist is. I hope he stays alive.”
After thinking about it, Prome decided to go watch the match. Parasite Queen was his acquaintance, so he might as well go and tell her not to slaughter Baron Milk yet.
Dave heard about it too, and he already got himself a ticket. However, his attention was not on Angor for now.
…
About ten at night, Angor acquired his schedule from the mortal he hired.
He had five matches tomorrow. There was one additional match apart from the four ones he already expected.
It had to be a match when someone came and picked his name in the lottery.
“Parasite Queen…” Angor went through the data he saw before. Dave wrote a lot of information about Parasite Queen like how she was extremely beautiful, cool, and awesome. Everything showed Dave’s absolute admiration toward this individual.
There was no useful description. Her skills, no. Her expertise, no. Dave only expressed all kinds of meaningless compliment.
Since he did not have any idea who Parasite Queen was, Angor could only wait till tomorrow and see.
He checked the timeline again. Two matches in the morning, three in the afternoon.
Something caught his attention though — Angor would fight against Fox Master in the first match.