Chapter 628 - Back to Pocratee
Angor and Sunders left Sleepless City together on Angor’s Gondola.
Angor glanced back at the dark dome that covered the outer city. “Professor? But we only saved about half of them…”
He meant to ask why they left so soon while leaving so many possessed behind, but he wasn’t sure whether this was a proper question.
“Those are apprentices from organizations that did not join our agreement. Saving them does not grant us any profit.”
Sunders’ reply was quite expected. Before entering the Purification Garden, Angor once asked Nausica about the situation in Midnight Sovereign. Her answer was, Midnight Sovereign had returned to being the “relatively peaceful city” where citizens enjoyed their lives.
Angor knew what she meant, that after he went missing, Sunders removed all parasites from the common citizens.
But Sunders would not help the remaining apprentices in this case, which confused Angor.
Angor came out from the water and realized that the abandoned village did not look very different than before. Not that it could get any more desolate.
Even the rainbow dragonflies greeted him by praising him joyously like last time.
When Angor told the insects not to annoy Sunders, they comprehended the order and moved away from Sunders as far as they could.
While Angor waited near the nest, Sunders traveled around the underground area before he returned to the village.
“Telling from the traces I saw, this place was already deserted one thousand years ago. I’m afraid our visitors from the Nightmare Realm caused this.” Sunders rubbed his forehead. “So the nightmare passage has been here for a thousand years? But there was no record about this. Who placed the passage here and what do they want?”
Angor wondered if this was another of the queen’s “outposts” mentioned by Yorkshire.
“Leave this matter aside,” said Sunders, “let’s go to that plane passageway first.”
They walked around the dragonfly nest and saw a portal behind it.