Lord of Mysterious Wizard-Chapter 191 - Discovery (3rd Update)
Chapter 191 -191: Discovery (3rd Update)
Chapter 191 -191: Discovery (3rd Update)
On the edge of a desert highway, travelers were scattered atop several mounds, gazing into the distance at a small town at the end of their line of sight.
The expected desolation did not occur, what caught their eyes was lush greenery, a vibrant oasis that, even at dusk, promised to hold breathtaking beauty. The only oddity seemed to be that the trees within were all too tall and appeared to have been stained with a layer of black.
Encircling the oasis were exquisitely-built houses scattered in an orderly fashion, forming the scale of a small town.
But now, it was devoid of people.
As the night grew darker, everyone’s visibility deteriorated.
And several minutes had already passed.
The guide of the sightseeing bus began to count the number of people, ready to move on to the next destination.
However, when counting Tang Qi and McGraw, the guide and others seemed to see right through them, skipping over without notice.
The effect of the Illusion Spell!
Although Red could achieve the same effect, it would undoubtedly be wasteful.
Soon, the guide reached the quartet.
Under Tang Qi’s interested gaze, the one who acted from among the four was not the Banshee who excelled at bewitching others, but the Otaku Secret Alchemist.
The young man took out a bottle of pink potion from his bosom, popped the stopper, and poured it downwards. Yet, upon contact with air, the pink liquid vanished into an invisible gas that diffused instantly, similar to when Tang Qi was just counted.
The guide paused, as if trying to recall something, but ultimately he just scratched his head and turned away.
Amidst the rising dust, the sightseeing bus sped away.
On the highway, only Tang Qi and McGraw were left, along with the four’s strange assembly.
It’s just that the latter couldn’t detect Tang Qi and McGraw’s existence. An Illusion Spell might seem simple, but it depended on who cast it. With the immense spiritual power of Tang Qi, even though he had just started using the “Illusion Spell,” the illusion he crafted was not something the four young people could see through.
“Let’s go. Getting the Mutated Giant Troll’s heart sooner will allow Seth to advance to apprentice earlier. Who would have thought their family’s School would be so twisted; were giants roaming everywhere during the Dark Age? No wonder it declined,” grumbled the Demon Hunter.
Unsure from where, he produced an axe and slung it over his shoulder, leading the way towards Sleeping Town.
The three exchanged glances, showing resigned expressions, apparently used to the Demon Hunter Big Man’s acerbic tongue. As they followed, the black-haired woman with the Profession of gunfighter said, “According to some Mysticism texts, there weren’t many giants in the Dark Age, but there were quite a number of Biological creatures related to the Giant Bloodline.”
After undermining her own point, she added, “Our original target was merely a Human with a weak Giant Bloodline, but due to an accidental encounter with an entrance to an Exotic Realm, unknown aura Pollution activated the bloodline.”
“According to the Underground Market’s intelligence, that entrance to the Exotic Realm has closed. There are no other dangers; we only have to face a bloodthirsty Mutated Giant Troll and a Night Beast.”
“In fact, based on my calculations, the Night Beast is a purely Domain-based Extraordinary Creature. It has clearly made Sleeping Town its territory. Even though it is still in its Juvenile phase, its growth rate is astonishingly fast; it might surpass the Mutated Giant Troll as an opponent tonight.”
“By then, we just have to observe the Combat and then come out to clean up the aftermath.”
“Great!”
“Let’s do that!”
The other three seemed to have great faith in the black-haired woman. After listening, they all sped up, darting towards Sleeping Town amidst the oasis.
None of them noticed that behind them,
Two faint Human Figures were following. The words spoken by the black-haired woman had all fallen into the ears of Tang Qi.
The information became clearer.
So the “Truth” within Sleeping Town turned out to be due to the appearance of an entrance to an Exotic Realm, causing a young person to mutate into a bloodthirsty giant demon, along with a Night Beast still in its Juvenile phase that also passed through the entrance into town, driving the villagers away.
Thus, the town became a battlefield over territory disputes between the Night Beast and the giant demon.
The quartet’s idea of profiting as opportunists was quite normal.
Clearly, unlike Tang Qi who had purchased an entire Sheepskin Scroll of information, this team probably acquired all details about Sleeping Town separately from that so-called “Underground Market,” or maybe they learned through another channel about a Mutated Giant Demon residing here.
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It wasn’t long before both the quartet and Tang Qi stepped into Sleeping Town.
From the outside, nothing seems amiss, but once inside, a sense of desolation and darkness immediately overwhelms. The houses are empty, covered in webs and dust, nightfall casts its gloomy shadow overhead, and the overly tall, dark trees and pitch-black waters make the place seem like a ghost town.
But soon, this atmosphere of horror is replaced by another kind of terror.
Boom!
The quartet hadn’t even found a suitable spot to watch from when the troll appeared without warning.
The ground was shaking.
Boom, boom, boom!
Amid such noises, a creature nearly three meters tall emerged from the far end of the town.
It seemed to have completely shed its humanity, devoid of any sign of clothing, its skin a bizarre dark red. Its torso so thin that its robust ribs were clearly visible, yet its hands and feet were grotesquely swollen. Carrying a lamp post, it stamped its swollen feet upon the earth.
The mutation was evident in its head as well—no hair, just a layer of skin tightly wrapped around its skull, with a pair of nauseating yellow eyes and a maw as wide as a blood bowl.
As the giant demon began to move about, the quartet quickly hid in an empty house and even used Secret Medicine to mask their scent.
Tang Qi, however, remained standing at the street corner, watching the demon.
The Illusion Spell could mimic scent and some signs of life, so naturally, there was no worry about being discovered by a monster that had lost its humanity.
Tang Qi was about to concentrate his gaze to check the information about the Mutated Giant Troll when…
“Buzz”—
Abruptly, another incident occurred.
Tang Qi’s gaze suddenly focused on the top of the troll’s head.
There, a shadow appeared out of nowhere.
A pair of pitch-black hooves, as if shrouded in the flame of darkness, suddenly stepped out of the void, directly onto the back of the troll’s head.
Boom!
The nearly three-meter body seemed to encounter some sort of gravitational crushing, thundering to the ground.
Its already ugly head smashed straight into the earth before it could even roar, its mouth forcibly stuffed with mud.
At this moment, the full figure of those pitch-black hooves also manifested.
What first drew Tang Qi’s attention was a pair of completely black, massive wings that, once spread, could entirely envelop the upper body of the troll—and then its strange head, the rest of the body covered in black scales.
Only its face was covered with a bone-like mask extending towards the back of the skull, growing two dragon horn-like protrusions, its eyes, indeed as described in the Sheepskin Scroll, devoid of whites and even pupils.
Inside, there was pitch-black darkness.
But this didn’t seem to affect its vision at all. After forcefully stomping the troll into the ground, it immediately flew up, just in time to dodge the clutches of a pair of giant hands.
“Roar!”
The robust lamp post, like a fearsome club, descended on the Night Beast in the sky amid an angry roar, carried with the crushing force of anger. Just as a battle between the Abnormality and the Extraordinary Creature was about to commence, the quartet hiding in the abandoned house all started to buzz with excitement.
But just at that moment, the Night Beast in the air suddenly moved, gracefully dodging the lamp post—it didn’t pay any attention to the troll below.
Instead, it suddenly turned its long slender neck, and a pair of dark, profound eyes looked in a direction.
The direction where Tang Qi was located.
