Warlock Apprentice

The lava lake began to erupt as a whole as lava streams surged high up into the air, followed by the mighty aura released by something extremely powerful and violent.

At first, they only felt uncomfortable. But as the roaring continued, they quickly noticed the pressure getting worse.

As the weakest apprentice among all, Alan couldn’t take it anymore; he collapsed on the back of Alby while coughing up blood.

The howling was getting louder and deadlier.

The energy ripples carried by the rage spread to the burning land around the lake and created craters and fissures under their feet.

Next, they saw a monster’s head emerging from the abyss.

The Lord of Tentacles, which already retreated to its pit, appeared again, albeit much angrier this time. Its pale skin glowed with an ominous red color while its blood veins bulged and released white vapor.

The monster’s head also began to grow bigger like a balloon. Soon, it reached its limit as if it was going to explode.

To make sure he didn’t run into unexpected trouble, he chose to follow the exact path through which he came.

Normally, predators would give up on their prey after a long chase in order not to waste stamina. However, it was obvious that the hunting fishes weren’t ordinary animals. It seemed they were determined to taste Angor’s flesh no matter what.

Angor also realized it and tried to think of another way of escaping rather than waiting for the fishes to go away.

He knew where he was going. As he remembered, the lava zone didn’t have many roaming fishes, which meant it was a perfect spot to hide.

But first, he needed to do something about his wounds. Otherwise, his blood would keep attracting more hungry monsters.

To achieve this, he had to occasionally return to his body, cast Heal, and eject his soul again. His wounds were slowly closing up, but the intervals also slowed him down quite a bit. In fact, it prevented him from shaking off the pursuers.

It was only until he almost reached the lava zone that he fully healed up his body.

While at it, he discovered a small chunk of fish meat clung to his hood. It seemed this bloody piece that probably came from a bomb fish earlier was the culprit that gave his position away to the sharks, thus breaking his Infinite Reticence effect.

He didn’t check the condition of his physical body when flying around as a soul, which ultimately caused the series of events.

He sighed in distress as he just learned another flaw in his skills.

Since he had no time to wash his robe, he simply tossed it inside his bracelet.

He already saw thick smoke in front of him as well as the glowing land beneath. As planned, he would get back inside his body under the cover provided by the environment.

After doing so and losing the effect of the sequence of gravity, he began to free-fall quickly. First, he immediately used Cleanse to remove the remaining smell on him. After that, he prepared to activate Infinite Reticence before the fishes could see him.

But an ear-piercing bellow caused him to stop his action.

He felt dazed for a moment. When he recovered and checked what was below, he saw a large, red “octopus” unleashing its deadly tentacles to a group of people.

Of course, they were the survivors from earlier. The egg thief Sinehowze, Carveline. Even Alan was among them.