Chapter 616 - Down in the Lake
Chapter 616: Down in the Lake
How to save him?
Angor did not know the answer to this most urgent problem. The golden strings were controlled by unstable power of great level, which was as potent as the power wielded by truth-finder wizards. This was not something he could meddle with.
He looked at the spotted puppy next.
It seemed Froggy really hated this creature. When Froggy assumed that Angor was going to find Yorkshire’s prisoners, he strongly recommended that Angor take the puppy along.
Angor recalled his conversation with Froggy and found Froggy’s attitude to be strange. Froggy indirectly told him that the puppy might help with his quest, but he didn’t explain why.
At first, Angor thought the puppy could help him find people like any ordinary dog.
Until now, this was mostly correct.
They floated to the bottom of the path and noticed that it did not look as tidy and peaceful as the outside. There were lots of randomly discarded junk and… rotten bodies.
They had walked on the lakebed for about a hundred meters and saw at least ten corpses of different conditions. Some had turned to skeletons, while some were still bloating.
Just like the wizarding world. When looking from the outside, the peaceful lake was a lovely tourist spot for lovers. Yet there was indescribable filth hidden beneath.
They saw another dragonfly nest at the center of the lake, which was built inside a waterproof ward this time.
Without waiting for Angor’s order, Shan moved her Light to the top of the nest.
Angor already sensed the familiar energy signature of golden strings before reaching the nest. He somewhat understood how Yorkshire placed each prisoner like this both to break their sanity and to guard them using the dragonflies.
“Nausica is here!” Shan suddenly called out.
Angor quickly looked up and was glad to see the lady he meant to find being bound by golden strings.
However, her condition looked more terrible compared to the first two victims they saw. She was not completely placed inside the water-free area. Instead, her face was drenched in the water above her. In order to breathe, she must lower her head, which would cause severe pain on her body as the simple movement would disturb all the strings inside her flesh.
Shiliew immediately helped by lifting the boundary of the water to somewhere higher, while Angor and Shan approached her.
Nausica had clenched her teeth so hard that it appeared as if she would break them at any moment. It seemed she was in no condition to sense what was going on around her as she did not respond when someone arrived.
“She’s-she’s still trying…” Shan wept again when seeing her friend safe, albeit only for the moment.
It was Angor who had his voice shaking this time. “Be gentle. Get her out, please…” He spoke to the puppy while stroking its head.
The animal understood him without a problem. After leaving several joyful barks, it used Angor’s gravity platform to move to Nausica and began chomping on the strings.
With each string broken, Nausica would moan weakly as she bit deeper into her lips until they were torn and started bleeding.
Angor’s group waited anxiously. Each time a broken string injected unbearable misery into her body, they feared that Nausica would lose like the others and gave up her fate.
It did not happen. Nausica had almost bitten off any fine flesh on her mouth, and her expression had twisted so hard that her skin looked like crumpled paper.
But she did not surrender.