Chapter 582 - Icy Ace
Gondola brought three people to Starlight Island, and when it left, it only took two of them away—Dodoro remained behind.
Angor thought about keeping Dodoro with him, but Maya came to him and suggested that she should be the one to provide Dodoro with basic wizardry lectures. After some consideration, Angor listened to her advice.
Since Dodoro would be staying with Maya, Angor left Dodoro’s “luggage” on the island as well, which included the water bowl with the serpent mark. Angor didn’t think he was going to discover anything from the object, so he simply returned it to Dodoro.
To Angor’s surprise, Dodoro took everything else and gave the bowl back. He said that he wouldn’t entrust the item to anyone else.
Angor used voice transmission to ask the reason for it, yet Dodoro couldn’t manage to give him an answer. “Something told me this is very important” was all Dodoro could say.
Most wizards were pursuers of solid knowledge, but they still trusted instincts and impulse because those worked wonders at times, just like how Angor’s “instinct” helped him escape from danger many times.
Since Dodoro considered the bowl to be important, Angor believed that the item did contain the answer to Dodoro’s secret. Angor agreed to keep it for now. He would return it when Dodoro was strong enough to protect it.
Despite feeling rather reluctant, they still bade farewell to each other.
After leaving Dave, Angor took a detour to Bartterfly Pub and bought another piece of information.
About Hookdick.
However, it was basically useless. It seemed Hookdick never returned to Brute Cavern after the garden challenge.
So what did Nausica find out? Or did they leave for another reason?
Since there was nothing else to go by, Angor could only put this matter aside.
He returned to Phantom Island and enjoyed another tiring yet exciting fight with Toby.
When he dragged his sore body back to Sunders’ house, he saw someone that he hadn’t talked to in a long time—Flora.
He once asked Sunders about Flora’s whereabouts. Sunders told him that Flora was busy dealing with a “blood dissolve epidemic” at Parmigi Highlands. The incident had been solved, but the culprit of it—a certain virus called the “Blood Melter”—remained a mystery, and Flora had been going after this wonderful virus that could easily kill powerful wizards.
Because this might be her chance to find the “path”.
Nobody had seen Flora in a long time since she was always busy doing research. Angor was quite surprised to see the witch in a shiny, red bubble skirt floating out of Sunders’ study while carrying that adorable umbrella.
Even though she was constantly occupied with her research, Flora managed to hear rumors about Angor, which she obtained from various sources. Despite that, she never trusted the unreliable gossips that were passed around multiple times.
However, she was VERY surprised when she saw Angor in person.
They had been apart for almost a year. When they met last time, Angor was a fresh level-1 apprentice who just started to learn wizardry.
But now… he was level-3.
To become a top-level apprentice within a year! Even Sunders was a little frightened by Angor’s amazing progress, much less Flora.
After getting over her initial shock, she felt depressed knowing that someone’s talent had bested hers so thoroughly.