Warlock Apprentice

The brief distraction caused Angor to miss his chance of blending in with the smoke barrier.

He kept falling, and he was falling faster than he expected.

He was now dangerously close to the lava below.

With quick work, he constructed a cantrip model in his mind space, and a small tornado soon appeared at his feet.

He tried to use the tornado as a stepping stone to reach for another lump of thick smoke not far from him so that he could temporarily confuse the fishes and go on hiding.

But he made a small mistake.

The cantrip was fine. Yet his aim was a little off!

He realized he was going to crash into the magic array restraining the Lord of Tentacles at this rate.

Even in his soul form, the power carried by the howl dazed him a little.

When he could see clearly again, he saw the magic array was almost completely destroyed. Half of the monster’s body already crawled out of it.

Angor stared at the Lord of Tentacles and looked up at the fishes again. An idea suddenly came to his mind.

He had a plan, but he might need a little bit more time.

Keely already arrived at his side and yelled into his ears, “Get up, we’ll get out of here!”

Angor was surprised at how Keely completely ignored the suppressive energy used by the monster.

He wouldn’t refuse the timely help of course. Angor then quickly returned to his body and grabbed onto the broomstick.

But before Keely could ride away, Angor pointed to somewhere on top of the Lord of Tentacles.

“Drop me down over there!”

Keely gave him a puzzled look.

“Twenty seconds. I only need twenty seconds!” Angor replied with a determined look.

Keely decided not to ask and listened to Angor.

What Angor had in mind was to deploy a giant illusion that was enough to cover up the Lord of Tentacles. To do so, he had to deploy a good number of illusion nodes around its body.

He needed his body to deploy illusion, but he also needed to travel to each spot using the sequence of gravity in soul form. If Keely could help him move around, it would save him a lot of time.

Working as fast as he could, he went through four major positions and left a dozen illusion nodes behind.

Since the Lord of Tentacles had its attention on Sinehowze the whole time, it didn’t realize that another “insect” was plotting something.

The fish army was almost onto Angor by the time he was done with his illusion.

“Thanks!”

Under Keely’s surprised gaze, Angor leaped down from her broomstick.

Using his own body as the trigger, he activated all nodes he had created. Immediately, a thick mist began to expand and swallowed the Lord of Tentacles as a whole.

At the exact same time, the fishes all swarmed into Angor’s illusion.

Angor planned to let the fishes and the giant octopus fight it out inside the “arena” he created, which would give him enough time to escape. However, it would only work if he could successfully trick the fishes into going into the mist.

To achieve this, he used his talent to fool their senses.