Chapter 514 - Second Countdown
Keely was gazing at Jebra excitedly like a tiger that just caught a helpless goat.
Jebra was still trapped in Angor’s illusion and couldn’t see Keely’s exact location. In his view, there were countless Keelys slowly moving to him, and every one of them looked real.
“You… psycho!” Jebra sounded pretty weak now.
“On the day my parents died, I SWORE that I’ll kill everyone related to Flunza, EVERY, SINGLE, ONE! And you shall be the first!”
Keely did not drag any longer and unleashed a giant ember at Jebra.
Jebra felt terrible. Half of his blood was on fire while the other half was slowly corroding his body like poison. Shiliew said something about “boiling the sea and turning it into poison”, and she diligently followed through.
His inner flame already scorched and burned off all his body hair, and his skin was of a dim purple color because of the effect of the poison. His once nobleman-like image had turned miserable.
“What… what do you want?” Jebra coughed up some more blood.
“Three swords. Give me three Meraid’s Swords and I’ll take Keely away AND lift the illusion.”
Before reaching Jebra, they already detected over a hundred signals coming from the man’s location. This was why Angor asked for such a thing.
Jebra plundered an entire Dugon tribe, which gave him enough swords. He knew how to reach the altar in time, on the condition that Angor stuck to his promise and free him.
Since the exchange seemed reasonable, Jebra chose to agree. “Okay… Hope you don’t go back on your words.”
Jebra took out six gray scales from his horned whale. He then combined them into three Meraid’s Swords before handing them over to Angor.
With a swift move, Angor canceled his illusion.
Jebra quickly hopped onto his whale and left this area with Feshie. Keely didn’t say anything about it. She knew that Angor could kill Jebra for real, yet she was in no position to request so.
Killing Jebra meant provoking the entire Song of the Deep including “God of Seas” Flunza. Keely would not want to drag Angor into this. And besides, she was always determined to finish her quest by herself, which was why she interfered with Shiliew earlier.
Angor nodded to Keely and returned to Shan, who was still sulking badly.
“Hey, get up,” Angor said as he tossed a sword at Shan. “Do something to wake Shiliew and let’s go find Nausica.”
“Heh… so what? Three hours… there’s no hope…”
“Stop wasting everyone’s time if you still want to live! I can do something but you need to help me first!”
Shan didn’t feel any happier, but a part of her decided to place her trust in Angor.
Shan went to Shiliew, who was looking left and right with a plain expression.
“You’re still going for Nausica? You sure you’ll make it?” Keely asked.
Angor didn’t answer. He was trying to calculate and arrange the available time so that his next plan would work. He would admit that going for Nausica was a great burden to their schedule, yet he couldn’t convince himself to abandon Nausica like this.
He prayed that Nausica would act heroically again by going back to Tulip Palace to look for Shiliew. As long as Nausica was there or somewhere nearby, Angor was confident that he had enough time to rescue her.
But if not…
“Shiliew sensed her. Nausica’s right at Tulip Palace! I think she went back there to help Shiliew.” Shan had finished explaining the situation to her friend.
Angor’s eyes brightened up. “Let’s move. That’s where we will go.”