Chapter 655 - Flaw
“You don’t know?” Greya grew doubtful. “Wasn’t it YOU who hid an item in the illusion?”
Item? It took Angor several seconds to realize that Greya had mistaken the source of Mystery energy as an actual Mystery item.
“Uhh, Lady Greya, I only placed a ‘sensation’, there is no real thing.”
“Sensation? Sensation…” Greya repeated that word and slowly nodded. Earlier, she did have a theory that Angor might have done such a thing instead of showing her a Mystery item for real.
But she still could not believe it.
“How did you do that? This is impossible for you unless you’ve become a—”
Angor no longer knew how to answer Greya’s questions for he could not tell her about Spotty.
Sunders suddenly interrupted them by asking, “Care to explain what this is all about?”
Greya was already stepping into the bus. “I’m going to the Mysterious Mountain. You two want to tag along?”
Sunders shook his head. Judging from Greya’s actions, this “Mysterious Mountain” might be the final stop that held the biggest secret. Before going for it, Sunders would like to look around Angor’s illusion for a bit more.
Angor decided to stay with his professor. As a student, he certainly couldn’t escape when his teacher was going to examine his “homework”.
Greya told Cat Bus to bring her away. “I’ll be waiting there. Don’t take too long!”
After Greya left, Sunders copied her earlier action and sounded the bells as well.
Soon, another Cat Bus came to them.
“Cat Bus at your service. Where are you heading to?” The creature-vehicle looked at them using its eye-lights, which were a little bit too bright in the night.
“To Witch’s Town,” said Sunders, after checking the map.
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Sunders didn’t say anything on their way, which made Angor a little nervous.
“Professor, I, um, I didn’t copy the exact Witch’s Town to my illusion. Since you know, I didn’t get to explore that place for real, so most of the scenery you’ll see later were made-up.”
Instead of commenting on Angor’s words, Sunders began telling Angor what he observed till now.
As Greya said, there were no obvious flaws in the illusion. However, Sunders noticed something else in the mountain woods.
“These woods look similar to what is growing in Fairy World. You copied from there, right?”
Angor nodded. He did bring a small part of the landscape in Fairy World into the illusion. However, most of the elements here such as the tarred road and “ordinary” bus signs were taken from films from Earth.
“Nice observation and memory skills. I see your travel in Fairy World did more help than harm to you. Using what you learned during your journey, you can construct better and more realistic illusions. Nature is always your best teacher.”
Sunders was very content to see Angor’s capability to learn. While it was true that master Illusionists were more free with their illusions, an apprentice like Angor had to base his illusions on solid logic.
Upon sensing the rich “nightmare ambiance” in Witch’s Town, Sunders was intrigued to realize that his student had divided the illusion into different sections, just like how the Nightmare Realm worked.
They traveled through the mist-covered town while Sunders carefully inspected it.
He didn’t show it, but deep inside, he was very pleased to see Angor recreated the ambiance of the Nightmare Realm almost perfectly in an illusion. Angor was probably the only individual in this world who could do so.
Anyone, including other truth-finder wizards, would admire such an exquisite illusion should they have a chance to see it.
After generally seeing through the entire town and experiencing the “nightmare stories” like Greya, Sunders gave Angor his final remark. “Your talent allows you to seize control of someone’s emotions by using nightmare illusions. However, such a ‘change of emotion’ is based on your own experience. For example, the terror I saw earlier is based on your mental conditions and how you comprehended what ‘terror’ is. The illusion will not work as intended if you always assume someone’s vulnerability using your own.”