Chapter 789 - Rescuing
Personally, Angor wouldn’t mind rescuing the drowning kid.
The panicking villagers confirmed it for him, that Kumur went into the water all by himself just to spook the other kids. Kumur intentionally stayed in the water for longer. And when he decided to return, he could not.
In Angor’s view, letting the rowdy kid stay there and face the monster as a live bait seemed like a good lesson. This was why he did not move to intervene yet. He was confident that Toby could easily reach there and snatch Kumur back before the monster could do anything.
Angor was planning to wait until the last second to get Kumur out so that the naughty kid would learn how to behave in his life. But… he wasn’t expecting Tulu to interrupt his plan.
And he didn’t like it.
While it was true that there was no absolute righteousness or injustice in the wizarding world, Angor usually preferred to act as a “lawful” wizard, or white wizard, because of Jon’s education.
Still, he wouldn’t approve Tulu’s rash decision.
The monster they were looking at was obviously not an ordinary beast that could be bested using human wisdom. Tulu, as a mortal, had zero chance of defeating a supernatural monster on that fragile fishing boat. By going there, Tulu was throwing his life away with no hope of achieving anything.
Instead of celebrating his survival, he looked at the monster’s corpse and suddenly felt disheartening hollowness assaulting his mind.
Angor slowly looked back at him. “Remember what I said.”
Then he used Hand of Spell to carry Tulu back ashore.
Ralph, who was halfway in the water, heard the cheers of people and realized what had just happened.
“Man… that must be the wizard Tulu told me about.”
Unlike Tulu who just went through a terrible experience, Ralph quickly recovered from his fear and was going back to his people and hurrah with them.
But when he stepped onto dry land, he saw people had stopped talking and were all looking at Tulu, who sat in the middle of the group while covering his left ear… or what was supposed to be his ear.
Tulu no longer had a left ear. There were only bloody shreds that remained.