Warlock Apprentice

I’ll just go check the sky myself.

Angor decided. The flying fish weren’t going to see his soul nor his body that was hidden by Infinite Reticence.

As for the pit in the lava lake, he decided to wait until later. He’d try his luck that way if there was nothing else above him.

After checking his remaining soul energy, Angor began to gain altitude.

When he left, another lady wearing a giant bow-knot and dance shoes, both of which were of bright red color, wandered inside the lava zone while following behind a black cat.

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As he climbed higher, the hot air was soon replaced by chilly air.

Wait… the sea?

He thought about the painting of Dodoro’s prophecy.

He wanted to break the barrier and see what was inside, but the moment he put his hand on it, a strange message suddenly appeared in his mind. He saw a strange place. Everything was dark while a glowing hourglass floated in the center. The object had a bronze frame and strange symbols on it. There were fish, water, sun, moon, and an altar with something placed on top of it.

Inside the hourglass was fine sand which was slowly flowing to the bottom.

Angor examined what was left on the upper half and used his “mind overdrive” to work out the remaining time shown by it, which was 3 hours.

But what do all these mean?

The fish behind him weren’t going to give him much time to think about it. By spending a good portion of his soul energy, Angor unleashed a powerful gravity attack at the barrier.

It didn’t work.

From the looks of it, Angor believed that he wasn’t going to break the barrier even if he could amplify that attack ten times.

With nothing else to do, he kept running in another direction. The whole area above his head was blocked by the impenetrable barrier, so he moved along it while trying to see if there was an entrance.

Most of the fishes behind him were significantly large ones, which only suggested their deadly strength. Each time they saw a chance, they would hurl different attacks toward Angor. Blizzard, ice arrows, wind blades, visible howls, and shock waves…

Angor could feel their power as well. Those were definitely as powerful as level-3 cantrips, which meant that his body wasn’t going to be able to endure them.

It was only due to his sequence of gravity that he managed to keep his distance just fine.

He stopped after flying for about another three minutes because he saw a giant jellyfish floating not far. It stretched about several hundred meters in all directions and blocked all of his routes ahead. Also, there were blue embers floating around its transparent body.

A stray flying fish moved too close to the embers and instantly became burnt bones.

Angor sighed and chose to dive down. There was no way to go forward now.

But there were too many fishes beneath him! He didn’t think that he could just dash past them unharmed. Some of the attacks were enough to kill him even if they only hit somewhere close to him.

His only chance was to throw something into the fish swarm.

He made a quick decision and returned to his body.

He immediately felt awful because of all the wounds he gained earlier. Without sequence of gravity, he began to free-fall, which only made the terrible feeling worse.

He tried his best to concentrate. Soon, the model of a cantrip was made in his mind space.

A small lump of mist that reflected the moonlight and stars appeared in his hand, which grew larger until it covered the area around him.

The mist successfully hid his form from the predators. To find their food, the fishes all rushed into the mist without stopping.

Using the time when the fishes couldn’t see their target, Angor ejected his soul again and flew toward the ground.

Some of the smaller fishes, who were too slow to go inside the mist, saw him and attacked.

Using his speed, he evaded most of the attacks. However, several of them still managed to create several bleeding gashes on his skin.

His soul was still unharmed.

He had no time to treat those wounds right now. After making sure there was no fatal injury, he took out a healing potion, plugged it into the mouth of his unconscious body, and dived.