Warlock Apprentice

Angor sighed in frustration. He couldn’t possibly get angry with Keely’s offensive attitude since she was mentally ill. Still, even though she had an excuse, he didn’t like her manners.

Other than feeling bad, he had nothing else to do about her.

Without thinking about Keely, he tightened his hood and headed to the giant gate after everyone.

Along his way, he heard many whispers and emotional words, most of which were about their uncertain fate or how people felt furious about the unfair treatment.

Angor was also unsure of what to expect in the garden. Lawson was being vague when he said “to withstand what’s coming”. People could either do so by killing everyone in sight or find a safe spot and hide.

Also, there was another guard who mentioned how they would find the exit when “it was time”.

It meant the exit would not show up when the time was not right, which probably referred to the successful level-up of the garden.

He looked around and checked out the other parts of the fallen fish such as their fins and skin. As expected, everything more or less held supernatural properties that would work wonders in the right hands.

“Man… I should have learned Narda’s Vision so that I can learn their exact use.”

Narda’s Vision, also called the “Alchemist’s Eye”, was the level-3 cantrip that helped its user to ascertain the truth hidden within the items. However, Angor was not strong enough to study it.

Whether he could use these materials or not, he still decided to store most of the scales and fins. As for the others, he didn’t have enough space in his bracelet for them.

Next, he took some time to inspect the environment.

He was standing on the grass, and there were the faint silhouettes of mountains in the distance. However, they were too far.

He couldn’t see anyone around.

The sky was clear and bright as day. Only several occasional clouds were drifting by, which made the scenery look quite relaxing.

This meant the purification garden was pretty huge. Otherwise, he’d easily bump into someone since there were almost 100,000 people who just came inside.

He assumed that this Sorcerer’s Garden was larger than the others that he saw before. But as he recalled, at this moment, the purification garden was only a low-level Sorcerer’s Garden. This probably meant the size of a garden had little to do with its tier.

Also, such a huge area meant that people could easily avoid fighting.

Then what about the blood sacrifice?

He suddenly noticed a number of small dots in the sky. After some careful looks, he noticed he was looking at another group of flying fish that were enjoying their sky cruise in a relaxed manner.

There were at least a hundred of them this time. Also, a particularly shiny, golden one was flying among them.

Angor would not fight them now. Before getting to know what was going on, saving mana and stamina was the most important. He activated Infinite Reticence and carefully moved away from plain sight.

He didn’t know which direction to go, but he did know that he couldn’t stand still at this vast grassland where there was almost no cover.

Following his instinct, he headed toward the mountains while being as stealthy as possible.

He didn’t run into anything on the ground, but there were a lot of flying fishes above him. With different looks too. Some of them were dragging colorful ribbons behind their bodies; some had large, bulging eyeballs like goldfish; and some of them could even change their colors like shop signs. Also, not all fishes were in groups. There were the occasional “lone wolves” among them.

Their appearance more or less resembled common sea fish, but why they were all flying in the sky was beyond Angor’s knowledge.

Along his way, he saw two different groups of fish fighting among themselves. One side was a group of dolphin-like creatures who had ice-cold whirlwinds above their heads, while their opponents were a hundred ordinary-looking yellow carps.

The dolphins unleashed several blizzard storms at their enemies.

Angor shivered a little when he witnessed attacks that were as powerful as level-3 cantrips being used at the same time.

The “carps” didn’t seem to be scared at all. They somehow ignored the attack and rushed into the smaller dolphin group until the dolphins all had their bones picked clean.

Previously, Angor planned to get a better view in the sky by riding on his Gondola. He quickly decided otherwise.

There were almost no unoccupied parts in the sky. Angor believed it was quite easy for the other apprentices to run into these fish monsters.

What could they do without similar hiding skills or illusion abilities?

Or is Floating Mech City trying to slaughter 90% of us by sending all these fishes our way?