Chapter 983
The apprentices gazed in disbelief. Everything happened too quickly. The Golem Puppet activated the trap and the apprentices thought that they would crash to their deaths from the tall height. Fortunately, Adella managed to save their lives with an emergency spell. But before they returned to their senses, another terrifying high-class demon appeared. On the other hand, Adella was struck by something and now lying unconscious on the ground.
“Is it a devil or Chaos?”
Rhode scanned Adella with knitted brows. After Celia sheathed the sword, she went up to Adella and heaved a sigh.
“It’s the devils.”
“Tsk. Those bast*rds again.”
Celestina gnashed her teeth in frustration. Demons and devils were sworn enemies. The war between the two races had been incessant since the start of this world in the underworld. The number of slaughtered devils and demons were enough to form another Dragon Soul Continent. A high-class demon like Celestina harbored deep hate toward the devils.
“I didn’t expect those guys to be this prepared.”
Rhode scoffed. In fact, he had already heard from Celia and Celestina about the situation. He wasn’t surprised that the apprentices had teleportation crystals with them. After all, it would be ridiculous for these elites to not have some life-saving means. But it seemed like the bad guys also noticed that and meddled with the crystals. As soon as the apprentices activated the crystals, they would be possessed by the devil stored within. Of course, it went without saying that the devil was stronger than them.
Rhode suspected that there was more than one demon emissary in the Mage Tower… He had a bad feeling. He sent Marlene and Alice to the Mage Tower. They wouldn’t be clashing in a battle right now, right?
In fact, the situation was similar to his imagination.
It was a total coincidence for his group to meet Adella’s team. Adella’s team was the quickest among the apprentices where they reached the end of the fifth floor. But after getting caught in the trap, they plummeted straight to the eighth floor. Fortunately, Adella responded quickly enough to save her team from crashing into minced meat. And now, she discovered that the situation was developing toward an unexpected direction.
Frey gazed with complication emotions at Rhode’s group. She realized that the teleportation crystal was meddled with, which caused Adella to be almost possessed by the devil. She imagined the consequences and shivered in fear. She had decided to head back before Celestina and the others arrived to their rescue. If it weren’t for them, perhaps her team would be tarnished by the devils and became their servants. But now…
Frey turned to the pale Adella. As she was rescued in time, she managed to survive. In fact, she was on the verge of death until Mini Bubble Gum cast a revival spell on her. On the other hand, Clark with his legs broken was also healed by her.
At this moment, the apprentices were feeling perplexed after learning the entire situation from Rhode. But they were too young and inexperienced, after all. They were totally clueless. Their mentor was conspiring with the devils and this apprentice test was premeditated by them. In this case, the teleportation crystals were no longer working and they couldn’t leave the Deepest Labyrinth. They also couldn’t contact the mentors to seek help from the Mage Tower. What exactly should they do?
Apart from following Rhode’s group, they had no other choices left. This was the eighth floor and they couldn’t head back on their own. They could only wait until they arrived at the tenth floor and find other ways to activate the teleportation ritual that would send them back. Of course, since this was part of the devils’ conspiracy, would they be able to leave even if they reached there safely?
Not only that, but there was also a high-class demon among them… Frey peered at the slender figure. What left her dubious was that they had met Rhode’s group before entering the Deepest Labyrinth and there were only six members in his group. But now, there were almost twice as many. She was sure that she didn’t see the twin elves, angel, and demon before. Where exactly did they come from? Also… What was the relationship between them? Frey couldn’t figure it out. She thought that this demon was Rhode’s captive but realized later that she wasn’t. The high-class demon’s arrogant attitude removed the possibilities of her being one. On the contrary, the Battle Angel behaved timidly around them and Frey recalled hearing her calling the demon ‘Big Sister!”.
This isn’t logical at all…
“I guess I’m close to finding out who the mastermind is behind all this, Master.”
Celestina ignored the gazes from the lowly humans. She gnashed her teeth and said indignantly.
“It must be Grazite, that shameless bast*rd. This half-*ssed imitation looks disgusting. He must be the one. Ahhh, I’m angry just thinking about it!”
“The ‘devil who most resembles demons’?”
Rhode asked. He wasn’t surprised to hear this from Celestina. Grazite was indeed an unconventional devil. He had the cunningness of demons and chaotic nature of devils where he often became nonchalant after conspiring plots. The demons detested him. Conspiracies were basically a form of art to demons. But Grazite threw this wonderful piece of art to the ground and trampled all over, disregarding its precious beauty and value. Sometimes, he would overestimate his capabilities and come up with conspiracies. To the demons, grasping one’s strength was critically important. On the contrary, Grazite didn’t care if he could reap benefits from his conspiracies or if neither side won. He was such a nightmare.
“Master, I have a plan.”
Celestina changed her tone all of a sudden and said with a smile. She took out a pitch-black crystal which was the teleportation crystal for the apprentices.
“I analyzed it while those lowly humans weren’t noticing. Even though I don’t have any concrete evidence, I guess that it should be connected to the Bottomless Abyss. Besides, if Grazite was the mastermind, I’m sure he would open the path directly to his glass courtyard. I have a plan to strengthen the signal and this way… Huhuhu. We can capture that annoying devil lord and show him who the real conspirator is!”
“How confident are you?”
Rhode didn’t disapprove of her suggestion. He felt like the situations regarding Chaos and devils were getting out of hand. Even though they had many battles with Chaos and devils at the later stages of the game, that was under a crumpled dragon soul protection. But now, the dragon soul protection was in perfect condition as he opened up a new territory as the Void Dragon. In this case, something must be wrong for Chaos and devils to be this active.
Grazite was known as the ‘devil who most resembled demons’. Based on this, there must also be some goals for his plan and it was perhaps related to the current happenings. Besides, there was a high chance that he wanted something from the Deepest Labyrinth, which was why he opened up the channel. Rhode felt pretty lucky. If he didn’t meet the apprentices coincidentally, he wouldn’t be aware of all this.
“100 percent. I’m unlike those brainless devils. Please don’t worry, Master. This time I will show that devil the art of being a true demon. But…”
Celestina narrowed her eyes at the apprentices.
“I need some bait.”
Rhode pondered in silence before shifting his gaze to the apprentices behind him.
“I’ll leave it to you.”