Chapter 596 - Three Leaders
Douglas canceled his communication spell and immediately looked at Qetesh.
“Do you know something about all this, Qetesh?” He sent Qetesh a voice transmission when the others were distracted by the parasites outside.
Qetesh was also greatly shocked by what was going on in the area. He was rather confused upon hearing Douglas’ question. “What-what do you mean, my friend?”
“I wish you tell me the truth, Qetesh. You know full well that there’s something you should tell me, which you haven’t.”
“Huh? Well, I’m not the mother of these little shiny f*ckers! How should I know where the hell they came from?!” Qetesh was too stressed that he lost his temper for a moment.
Douglas remained calm. “Doctor Anglo mentioned something else, and he told me that you should know.”
In fact, Douglas did not know for sure whether this was the case, so he tried to alter Anglo’s words with the hope of forcing Qetesh to spill. Douglas didn’t wish to suspect his colleague, yet sometimes, the instinctual theory of a prophet was too important to ignore.
His attempt successfully scared Qetesh a bit.
“He took that boy.”
Payne wasn’t interested in the apprentice boy right now. He only wondered what Sunders was up to.
“He did so because he knew how to resist the light spots out there. There must be something in the outer city which is of great interest to him.” Qetesh grimaced.
“Well, you should have said so earlier!” Payne glared at Qetesh.
“I… I didn’t know! It was an assumption!”
“What should we do now?” asked Douglas.
“If he can survive, I can,” Payne said as he narrowed his eyes. “We’re both truth-finders, and I wish to find out how strong he really is.”
Qetesh and Douglas exchanged an uncertain look. They both knew Payne had great ambition and considered Sunders as a rival. They stayed quiet as they didn’t wish to get involved in their competition.
“A wizard is affected!” A guard not far away from them yelled and drew everyone’s attention.
“What’s the deal?! Didn’t we tell them to be wary of the flying spots?” Douglas quickly looked that way.
Even if there were too many spots, they would not break a wizard’s defense too easily because wizards usually had enough mana to sustain their protection for a long time.
“A wizard brought an affected apprentice too close so that he could examine him, then someone got careless and let a spot sneak into his body!”
“Idiot! How did someone so sloppy and foolish become a wizard in the first place?!” Douglas couldn’t help but curse loudly. “Who is it? Which organization sent that b*stard?”
The guard stuttered but did not say anything.
“Are you deaf or what? WHO THE F*CK is it?” Douglas bellowed.
“It’s-it’s one of our wizards, sir, someone from Sleepless City.”
“WHAT?!”