Warlock Apprentice Chapter 930 - Deity’s Thrall

Chapter 930: Deity’s Thrall

Beals left Vifet’s place with a confused look.

The story of the Ti Thief was one of the most famous legends in the wizarding world, passed down since ancient tis. Of course Beals knew about the Ti Thief. Though he only heard about “Cassini” for the first ti in his life.

According to the story, the Ti Thief was known to steal “choices” from people like a scavenger traveling through the river of ti. Each ti soone made a choice, the Ti Thief would co and take the remaining one away.

It was said that there were certain ways to backtrack in ti and correct soone’s incorrect decisions made before. However, the Ti Thief would usually co and make sure this did not happen. He would always completely erase the other path.

Nobody could tell how the Ti Thief chose his targets. But they did know that the Ti Thief tended to abide by certain rules. For example, soone who lost a choice would get compensated in an unpredictable way. Unpredictable, but always helpful in the long run.

Secondly, the Ti Thief did not select his targets randomly. Those who interacted with the Ti Thief before all t with greater chances of becoming truth-finders in their wizarding career. In other words, soone who was yet to beco a truth-finder was very likely to reach that level if visited by the Ti Thief.

This was why lots of people regarded such visits from the Ti Thief as a blessing.

However, this wasn’t always a good thing to happen because the Ti Thief could steal the “correct choices” as well, should one fail to grasp them. If a man entered a delicate situation where he barely let a great fortune slip but was still possible to fix it, the Ti Thief would make sure the failure stayed that way.

However, those who achieved enough to actually hate the Ti Thief already went beyond common levels and joined the rank of legendary, and only people who had earned enough experience on the path of truth could realize what the Ti Thief did to them.

The southern wizarding region had not seen any new legendary wizards in a long ti. Now, common wizards and apprentices alike only wished that they earned the Ti Thief’s blessing soday.

“Cassini the Ti Thief...” Beals removed so sweat from his hands.

Telling from Gauss’ reaction, Beals knew that Angor probably once saw Cassini, or he might even be “blessed” by Cassini.

An apprentice favored by THE Ti Thief. What that signified was obvious.

Beals was already well-inford as a professional slave dealer, yet he knew less than a hundred people in history who were visited by the Ti Thief.

“Goddammit. Mister Padt spoke to the Tir Thief for real? I need to find out no matter what.”

A part of him believed that Angor did receive the blessing—this would perfectly explain how Angor was improving so rapidly.

Still, he would like to find Angor and ask, even if this might not be proper.

...

Inside Vifet’s underground chamber, the two wizards were still recovering from the big surprise.

“You can keep the Ti Thief’s na in mind, but rember, don’t reveal it to anyone,” Gauss warned.

Vifet nodded. The clue was so precious that he might even use it to find the Ti Thief or those who t with the Ti Thief.

“Pity, Beals is stubborn when it cos to protecting his team,” Vifet complained. “Maybe the custor he ntioned did not directly encounter Cassini either.”

“No...” Gauss shook his head. “Anyone who caught the slightest wind of Cassini’s na will surely hold certain connections with the Ti Thief.”

“But it doesn’t matter now. Beals won’t tell us, and it’s not like we can change his mind.”

Gauss suddenly showed a cunning smirk. “Not really.”

He tapped a finger on the desk, and under Vifet’s surprised look, a shining sphere with a human mouth on it erged from the wooden surface.

The “mouth” licked its lips using a slim tongue like that of a reptile before it spoke, “Gauss! Ya b*stard. Who are you gonna peek at this ti, huh?! I won’t help you if it’s not a lovely lady, I tell you!”

Embarrassed, Gauss cleared his throat and explained, “Pardon , I just obtained this Deity’s Thrall. Never had ti to teach it manners yet.”

“I... I see.” Vifet stared.

This strange creature, despite its na, had nothing to do with real deities. It was a tool used by a minor prophecy sect called the Wordless Deity.

It was usually known that Prophets of this sect tended to be untalkative. Though strangely, the Deity Thralls they created were all quite the blabbermouths.

“You’ll like the sll, I assure you,” Gauss said to the ball.

He waved a hand and guided an invisible air current to the thrall, which ca from Beals’ seat.

Wizards all knew how to conceal and remove their traces. But there was no absoluteness. Gauss’ Deity Thrall was a specialized life form used for detecting the tiniest trails when other trackers couldn’t.

Gauss delivered the “sll” to the desk. “Here, bodily hormones left by a sweet woman. Have a taste.”

“Don’t fool just ’cause I don’t have eyes!” the ball protested. “I can get angry, you know! You and your freaking pranks! The last ti you gave sh*t and told it was from a girl in Pleasure House...”

Vifet looked away and pretended he heard none of it.

Gauss saw Vifet’s reaction and grew even more awkward. “Ahem. Beals is our only clue right now, so... I must use what I can.”

Next, Gauss and the Deity Thrall began talking in a strange language Vifet couldn’t understand. It seed the thrall was furious when it found out what Gauss gave it, but Gauss sohow persuaded it into helping nonetheless.

A mont later, Gauss put the ball away.

“Did you get it?” Vifet was curious to find out.

“I didn’t get a na, but I got a direction, by presenting possible choices and asking for a most probable one. What I can tell for now is that Beals’ ‘custor’ possesses an alchemy tool that blocked my spell. Also according to Beals’ implication, that custor crafted the tool by himself.”

This had greatly thinned down the range of possible answers. Even among all alchemists, the number of people who knew how to counter prophecy was slim.

Also, they were looking for soone who recently traded with Ashen Traders.

...

Naturally, Angor had no idea that more wizards just got his na onto their bounty list.

He was still busy with an alchemy process in Freighting Town. He ca here after leaving Lloyds so that he could help Freud recharge the “dream launcher”.

He did not need to make anything new, but he had another problem right now, which was the capacity of the launcher. The launcher could be used 979 tis when fully powered, which seed sufficient at first, but it would quickly get depleted if Freud kept inviting more people to the dream wasteland while going in and out himself.

As for the quickest solution... Giving Freud several more launchers would do.

Angor did so experints and noticed that using better materials would not increase the capacity very significantly, while doing the opposite could easily degrade the launcher, so he had to stick to the old recipe.

He made six of them in the end. The final usage limits of the products turned out to be slightly different from each other due to uncontrollable factors. Together, these launchers would provide about 5,500 chances to enter the dream wasteland. This should be enough to support Freud until his next visit unless Freud mistakenly overused them.

Next, he spent another day summoning more construction materials to the Foundation City, to fulfill several new city expansion plans. While at it, he also made sure that Freud knew Rossum’s na so that Rossum wouldn’t get stood up if he was to co over.