Warlock Apprentice

They didn’t get to travel far before they encountered a great number of tiny, exploding flying fish that blocked their way. Any sudden disturbance in the environment would detonate them and Angor’s group couldn’t find a way through.

“Leave them to me,” Keely said as she took out her lamp and lit it up.

“No,” Angor said as he dragged her back, “you should save your strength for important matters.”

Copying his tactic when dealing with the first of flying fishes he encountered in the garden, Angor tricked the fishes into a basic illusion. He then killed one of them from afar and caused a chain reaction that wiped out all the others.

The explosions persisted for some time, tainting the entire sky in red.

While avoiding the falling corpses as much as possible, Angor steered his Gondola away.

But another danger soon followed. They had not seen anything yet, but they were sure it wasn’t peaceful since Luna was meowing madly.

Nausica picked up a scale and frowned. “Hey Angor, there are… thirty different signals within a range of a hundred kilometers, all heading our way.”

Keely glanced at Shiliew and decided she would be more careful around this woman from now on.

Angor also recalled what Sunders told him about Shiliew before, that she was an Occult “Matter Handler” who was talented at manipulating water. But he never thought Shiliew could actually create non-water-related substances, such as lava and poison, out of water. It seemed Shiliew could change water into any liquid.

That’s cheating!

Angor tried, but he failed to think of anything that could counter those moves should he ever need to face them.

Shiliew yawned loudly and slumped against the rails.

“That’s the side-effect of her ability… the more energy she uses, the faster she falls asleep,” Shan explained while hopping down from Gank’s shoulder. She then opened up a small pouch hanging on Shiliew’s waist. When she found a pill, she stuffed it into Shiliew’s mouth. “Her professor prepared these before coming here. They’re used to forcefully wake her up.”

The pill quickly took effect, and Shiliew opened her eyes. She looked totally fine, if one did not mind the thick black circles around her eyes.

“Welp. Now I see how you pummeled Jebra as if you were bullying a helpless bunny,” Angor teased.

Shan and Nausica nodded slowly. As Shiliew’s teammate, they both knew Shiliew was strong. But not THIS strong.

Shiliew looked puzzled by what she heard and lowered her head bashfully. She wondered why people kept mentioning Jebra’s name in front of her even though she didn’t know that name.

Do I really have a second personality? But… why do I not know it? Shiliew fell into her own thoughts.

Since Jebra’s name was brought up again, Shan mentioned something else she learned about this matter, “Shiliew never falls asleep when fighting Jebra. I wonder why.”

Angor raised an eyebrow at the interesting clue. He already believed that Shiliew was some kind of natural nemesis brought upon Jebra, and now, he had another reason to believe so.

With Shiliew’s help and combined with the fact that the sea was her “home court”, they successfully fought off several more groups of offenders. Angor and Keely almost didn’t have to do anything.

Half an hour later, they were halfway toward their final destination.

Luna suddenly began to meow loudly again.

“Signals approaching from different directions,” Nausica alerted them, “more than a hundred of them. Wait…” Nausica showed a confused look. “I think there’s a single one right in front of us.”