Warlock Apprentice Chapter 978 - Veiled Coast

Chapter 978: Veiled Coast

“Are elental creatures rare?” Angor asked, after hearing the argunt between Dokibell and Sennefer.

Madelyne answered him, “Not really. You can find plenty of them in the wizarding world because wizards can create them out of certain familiars, given enough ti. However, it’s not easy to find naturally-occurring ones. This calls for strictly coordinated environntal factors.”

Angor nodded—this was also what he learned from books. Though he was hoping to know sothing else.

“Is there a place, or a plane, that only has elental creatures as its inhabitants?”

“What? Not that I heard of. There probably is such a wonderful place hidden at the far edge of the wizarding world where people have yet to explore.” Madelyne chuckled. “If we do find it, it will soon get overwheld by wizards from all over the world. I’m sure of it.”

“Why? Is that... good?”

“Let’s just say, wizards and elental creatures have a peculiar connection between them...”

Slowly, Madelyne explained what it ant to “own” an elental creature.

First and foremost, having an elental creature to help could greatly improve one’s studies of elental arts. Most wizards, no matter which art they focused on, should at least learn a few useful elental spells. And an elental creature could save them a lot of effort.

Secondly, wizards could use an elental creature as a dium to cast powerful elental spells. Doing so would consu a fraction of the creature’s energy, but it would gradually recover, as long as the wizard did not exhaust the creature in one go.

Also, an elental creature could beco a deadly weapon if trained properly.

“This is also sothing you should consider once you beco a wizard. And if you can sohow capture an existing elental monster living in the wild, you will not need to waste all that ti cultivating one yourself. But note that ‘artificial’ ones and wild ones each have their pros and cons...”

An elental creature that received long-ti care since its birth was, of course, more loyal to its master. On the other hand, it was harder to bend the will of a wild one. Not to ntion that it was already difficult to find an elental slave that went well with one’s skill tree.

“Now you’ve heard it. If people ever learned that there’s a place where you can run into elental creatures everywhere, they’d scramble there without a second thought.”

Angor just rembered that he saw Bogula’s fire sprites, which were probably Bogula’s personal elental slaves. And he just had another question in mind.

“Erm, Miss Madelyne? Since it’s so hard to find these things from nature, why did you kill that snow enchantress instead of keeping it?”

“That’s because you don’t easily ta a monster who lives under the effect of all the chaotic energy in the Abyss throughout its life. Did you feel the fierce aura of malignance from that thing? It’s better if we get rid of it sooner.” Madelyne glanced at Angor. “So you’re interested in elental monsters? That’s a bit too early for you, isn’t it?”

“Just curious is all. That was the first one I ever saw.”

“Well, they’re pretty rare, but you can still find them with enough effort. The next ti I run into one, I’ll lock it up and bring it to you so that you can take a good look.”

“Uh, no, there’s no need. But thanks, ma’am.”

Angor asked these questions because what happened just now reminded him of the Torrent Plane. He never intended to hunt for elental monsters.

Dokibell resud its travel while grumbling annoyingly, whereas the team had retreated inside the chapel to rest.

Angor was a little frustrated that he just found another secret he had to keep. If what Madelyne said was true, then the Torrent Plane was a hidden treasure vault full of valuables in the views of wizards. Should anyone hear about this, he was sure to get bothered by all manners of visitors who sought to go there.

The only thing he knew about this Torrent Plane was that a strange map he found at Shannon Palace ntioned it. For now, he was not so sure about the credibility of the map yet. Perhaps he would check out the place first before deciding whether he should fully share the information with other people.

...

Two hours later, Dokibell walked away from the mountain zone and reached a body of water.

That was the Veiled Sea, a large body of brine constantly haunted by an eerily nacing aura that told people not to get too close.

Legend had it that a Grand Demon from the deeper levels perished here. Later, Mister Monkey ca and deed the story as baseless. Even so, he did warn people that there were deadly monsters lurking beneath, including ones that equaled legendary wizards.

Thankfully, most of these monsters would not climb out of the water to hunt for food from the land. Even if they did, they could not use their full strength when away from their natural habitat.

In other words, travelers should be safe to pass as long as they steered away from water.

Angor glanced at the broken cliffs and empty stones at the edge of the sea and wondered how “safe” their journey ahead truly was.

“We should be running into coastal monsters by now, yet we found not a single one of them.” Vifet scouted the surroundings with a serious look. The lack of monsters was an ill on rather than a good sign.

“We’ll keep moving. Everyone, stay on alert.” Sennefer ordered, before speaking to Brofen, “Ready that potion of yours. Use it on Dokibell as soon as you see trouble.”

The bear moved slightly faster, probably because it felt unusual danger lurking nearby as well. To avoid attracting potential enemies, Dokibell also tried its best to walk as silently as it could.

Seeing this, the apprentices in the chapel all grew stressed again.

Dokibell was running almost twice as fast. But it wasn’t comforting enough, because they would spend at least half a day in the coastal area.

Slowly, the apprentices grew jumpy, until they beca badly paranoid. Even the slightest sound of wind could scare them for good.

“What’s that bumping sound? Oh, it’s soone’s heart...”

“You just heard your own heartbeat, didn’t you?”

“Why-why did the wind stop? This place is dead!”

“Because I closed the window!”

When more and more people began to spread terror among themselves, even those with sturdier minds were getting affected.

Brofen glimpsed at the trembling apprentices, then looked at Angor, who looked much, much better.

“Damn it. How old is Angor again? A freaking teenager’s more daring than these adults. No wonder these fools had to co here and gamble for a destiny.”

“Hey, did you hear that?”

Brofen got tired of all the rambling and was going to scold whoever just said that, only to see that it was Sennefer who sent that alarm.

It was unlikely for Sennefer to tell jokes in such a situation. Besides, she looked rather serious.

Vifet tapped his cane on the floor and unleashed a circle of ripples around him, while his sand rat’s ears suddenly grew bigger and helped him listen to the environnt.

“Indeed... There is sothing.”

However, Vifet couldn’t tell what exactly was that noise, as it sounded both like low-pitched mumbling and breeze blowing over.

“Wait. I heard a bird.” Brofen frowned.

Vifet gave him a side-glance. “Ahem. That’s Angor’s familiar.”

“Huh?”

Brofen looked that way and saw Angor “talking” to a gray seabird.

Angor finished his conversation and spoke to everyone, “Toby just told that soone’s singing out there.”

“Singing??”

“Yeah. Not a song, but so kind of humming.”

“I agree.” Sennefer nodded. “It doesn’t contain any magic signature though.”

“Either way, it ans sothing’s nearby,” said Brofen. “Do we find it or avoid it?”

The sound was getting louder as Dokibell moved, which ant whoever was “humming” was right in their way.

Vifet shook his head. “I’m afraid evading is not possible anymore. Our unknown friend has found us.”