Warlock Apprentice Chapter 496 - Chaos in the Garden

Chapter 496: Chaos in the Garden

The painting showed figures that looked like rmaids, but the figures were not the kind of rmaids that Angor saw at Twilight Auction.

These “rmaids” shown on the wall all had freakish looks. There were deford scales all over their bodies, and other than their tails, they had different body parts that resembled fish.

One grew a fish head, while another looked like a fish but only on his left side. There was also an entire fish with human limbs. Angor didn’t know if such creatures existed in this world. For now, he would consider them a sub-species of the well-known rmaids.

The paintings described how the rmaids morphed into “Toad Skins”, who were then performing a series of strange rituals by kneeling, carrying strange payloads or wielding harpoons.

At the end of the “story”, the previous strange rmaids showed up again and took the Toad Skins to a bright place.

The Toad Skins praised and danced before the rmaids disappeared again.

Angor assud that the art was used by Toad Skins to worship their god, the rmaid.

There were other elents shown here such as the daily lives, hunting tradition, and the beginning of the civilization of the Toad Skins. Each painting was accompanied by characters that consisted of dots, lines, and pictures as if a kid were drawing stick figures. Angor could not read them though.

He tried, but he still couldn’t understand a thing from the clues. In the end, he gave up.

His instinct told him that there was an important ssage hidden behind the illustrations, but there was nothing he could do now. The level-2 cantrip “Discern Letters” would help with such a case, but he had not learned it yet.

The cantrip wasn’t sothing he could grasp overnight. Such cantrips like “Discern Letters” and “Discern Language” required huge amount of knowledge achievent and the ability to comprehend ideograph, phonogram, and pictorial logic.

This was one great setback for Angor as he gained levels too fast. For common level-2 apprentices, these basic subjects should be sothing that they already mastered. Wilderness survival, exploration, plane expedition... All these required soone to be able to read foreign letters.

Angor decided to note down the pictures and characters for now. Maybe he could find soone and ask about them later.

He searched around, but he didn’t find a secret compartnt or sothing alike. The fortress only had two rooms with simple furniture. Also, he found no food.

Since there was nothing else to gain, Angor simply left the building. He believed that if he could manage to find the gathering spot of Toad Skins, he would be able to learn sothing useful.

But where to find them?

The end of the paintings showed how the Toad Skins were led to sowhere bright with sunlight.

So they went to the surface? But why did that single one stay in the sea?

For now, he would keep exploring the surroundings. Sothing told him that there were more secrets to see here.

He rembered hearing the captured city apprentice ntioning “to fight for our chance from the worst danger”.

The peaceful surface above the sea didn’t seem dangerous... unless all Toad Skins gathered there and that these strange creatures were as deadly as the monster fishes.

But Angor didn’t know where to find them yet. The one he just killed was his only clue right now. He decided to keep looking underwater.

With that great ambition in mind, he kept swimming deeper.

...

While Angor went through his deep, lonely, and dark adventure, the garden world occupied by flying fish had taken on a completely different look.

Nausica was injured during a battle—badly. She was now leaning against a tree, sulking over her failure.

She looked at the tir in the sky and huffed. There was only one hour left, and she had no idea where to find the “Sea of Purification”.

She already guessed that it was up in the sky. Yet she couldn’t fly. The best thing she could do was to use wind tornadoes to jump higher.

Besides, she was wounded.

Just now, she unleashed a “spinning wind cannon” despite the lack of mana to fend off attackers, and a small magic backfire hit her hard. Her potions could heal her, but before she was completely healed, she couldn’t move around freely.

Even if the goal weren’t on the sky, she didn’t have the mobility to look for it.

She chuckled helplessly for being a burden to her team.

She felt the ground shaking a little as if sothing big was walking nearby.

Must be Gank coming.

As expected, a giant figure blocked her view.

“What happened, Nausica?” Shan jumped to the ground anxiously. Nausica told them that she would go ahead and look for the Sea of Purification. But she had not returned in a long ti. Shan decided to go look for her and was terrified to see Nausica in such bad shape.

“Soone... got ,” Nausica smiled and shook her head.

“Who is it?!” Shan hopped in place in rage. “And where did he go?”

“I chased her away. I said soone’s watching before entering the garden, right? Soone not friendly.”

“The sa a*shole ca just now?”

Nausica nodded. She still didn’t know who the woman with a large rain hat and a well-developed body carve was, or why soone like that hated her so much and followed her all the way here.

“Damn it. Hey, tell how she looks and I’ll kill her the mont I find her!” Shan moved to carry Nausica onto Gank’s shoulder.

Nausica pushed her away. “Just leave . Take Shiliew with you. I can’t... keep up...”

Shiliew suddenly interrupted her by yawning loudly on Gank’s shoulder.

She looked down and saw both Nausica and Shan giving her strange looks.

“Um... Good morning?”

...

The horizon was brightly lit by a new dawn. Yet this beautiful sight might as well be the last dawn this world had to offer.

Only 30 minutes left. The simple numbers in the sky were changing slowly but surely like Death itself was warning people to welco its embrace.

As the countdown got nearer to its end, the apprentices who had yet to find the exit were panicking.

People who were determined but not smart enough would tread in one place and welco their doom, while those who could read the situation clearly were all attempting to figure out how to ascend to the sky unhard. And most of them weren’t courageous enough to advance first.

A good number of apprentices chose to vent out their final dread by using violence on whatever they could catch.

The ground trembled, shattered, and gave way to lava, which hastened the destruction of what remained.

Flas, hurricane, storms, maddened apprentices, and monster fishes all took part in the final symphony of the massacre.

A single blue whale was floating in the sky, and a man with a scale-like tattoo on his forehead watched the terrible bout joyfully.

A woman in a large blue robe moved to him, and in a charming voice, she asked, “Not leaving yet, Jebra?”

“Heh. This is such a rare sight to behold. I can’t afford to miss the fun.”

The woman moved to the whale’s head and took off a red whelk-like object from the creature’s horn. “I’ve recorded everything. You can always watch it again later.”

“Nah. I love being INSIDE while watching them suffer. This is the best. But... you’re probably right. This isn’t worth any more of my ti.” Jebra turned around and said, “Let’s go, it’s almost ti. Soon, sothing bigger will co and bathe the entire southern region in terror.”

The robed woman raised an eyebrow. “What do you an?”

“You know the calamity from ten thousand years ago, em?” Jebra chuckled and ordered his whale to fly away.

Occasionally, there would be apprentices or more flying fishes entering the dinsion barrier.

When Jebra arrived, there was a giant ray trying to get inside. Jebra’s whale discouraged all monster fishes from bothering him, but that particular ray ignored such convention and casually floated into the barrier while completely ignoring Jebra.

“Did you see sothing?” the woman accompanying Jebra asked when she saw the man glancing at the disappearing ray.

“Huh... A dude was sitting on that thing... But he doesn’t have any arms or legs. Interesting.”