What exactly happened during the match that day?
In fact, Angel was still felt a little fuzzy about the details himself, but Parasitic Mother’s invasion of his body was definitely premeditated.
“Mentor, do you know who Baroque is?” Angel didn’t immediately answer Sanders question but started by asking about the key figure involved in the whole event.
“Baroque?” Sanders frowned: “Why did you suddenly ask about him? Does Baroque have any involvement in this matter?”
Angel nodded and explained: “I only had four matches scheduled in my original matches. Then, when I joined the match pool, the thirteenth floor’s top contender, Parasitic Mother, suddenly drew lots to face against me.”
“Do you suspect Baroque being behind this?” Sanders asked.
Angel shook his head and said: “Even if I have some doubts, but I am very sure that Baroque must have secretly manipulated the match pairings. According to Sky Tower’s usual style. This scheduled match was bound to be promoted one week in advance. But the matching between Parasitic Mother and me seemed to be completely rushed and hastily set up. It was very strange for it to happen to be on the same day I entered the pool. The very next day, I was scheduled to compete against Parasitic Mother.”
“This is not enough to prove that Baroque was the instigator behind this event, and why would Baroque want Parasitic Mother to compete against you?” Sanders has doubts about the motive.
“He really doesn’t have any enmity or hatred against me. But his target may not be me, but you, mentor.” Angel actually doesn’t know whether Baroque was targeting his mentor or not. But judging from what Parasitic Mother said at the time, the chances of Sanders being targeted are very high.
In any case, it is an established fact that Baroque encouraged Parasitic Mother to deal with him. So he secretly eyed Baroque as the prime suspect, but this was just simply reporting what he had found. Angel still has some thoughts regarding this terrible ordeal.
Sanders asked: “What do you mean by that?”
Angel told the story of the match on that day: “Parasitic Mother’s match with me, her purpose was to invade my ** and encroach upon my soul. At the beginning of the match, I was inexplicably attacked by her and fell into a strange state…”
“…Later, I felt Parasitic Mother’s emotions, just like when I was in the Nightmare Plane when I had felt the emotions of the Demon Eating Flower. I was able to feel Parasitic Mother’s emotion also, but she couldn’t feel any of my emotions. I learned from her emotions that she knew I was mentor’s disciple. Only then did Parasitic Mother give away her hand by telling me who was behind all of this and how she learned of my ident.i.ty…” Angel paused and did not continue to speak, but looked up at Sanders.
Sanders frowned: “So it was Baroque?”
Angel nodded heavily: “It was him. He may think his ident.i.ty was well hidden. I don’t know how or why, but I could sense the other party’s emotions in that instance. Only in that state could I sense Parasitic Mother’s emotions. Her emotions will never lie. The instigator of all this is Baroque.”
Sanders brow wrinkled tightly at this moment. Baroque’s ident.i.ty is special. He stayed in the Savage Grottoes to cooperate with the senior officials for the sake of “that place.” Over the years, he has been closely watched by many wizards. This has never changed… But unexpectedly, even though he was immobile, he was still able to secretly make a small move in the dark.
If Angel’s statement is true, then he obviously wants to arrange a hidden piece to break into the core cla.s.s of the Savage Grottoes.
According to this deduction, Parasitic Mother’s ident.i.ty… He is afraid her ident.i.ty has to be marked with a big question.
“Well, Baroque’s abacus is really good.” Sanders sneered at this dark move in his heart with another idea in mind.
“Let’s table aside this discussion of Baroque for the time being. I will send someone from the internal affairs committee to investigate this matter.” Sanders lifted his eyebrow and looked at Angel: “You go on, tell me what happened after.”
Angel actually wanted to ask about Baroque’s ident.i.ty, but Sanders seemed reluctant to say much more, so he had to give up asking.
“…I was in a very strange state. I could see Parasitic Mother controlling a strange plant and releasing green pollen to the outside while occupying my **. I couldn’t resist at all. It had taken her a while before she took control over my whole ** away.” At this moment, Angel’s eyes flashed a trace of hatred again as he said.
Sanders took out a crystal ball and replayed his match with Parasitic Mother on that day.
The picture was replayed until Angel suddenly fell onto the arena floor, Sanders stopped replaying the match at that point and said:
“It should be at this point in time that your body was occupied by the taeniasis green velvet spores. Leaving you unable to control yourself and ended up falling down.”
“Is this taeniasis green velvet spores those green pollen? Is that what it is?” Angel asked curiously.
Sanders took a glance at Angel with somewhat complicated eyes as he explained: “Taeniasis green velvet is a kind of treasured magical plant. I don’t know what specific means Parasitic Mother used, but the taeniasis green velvet is actually of great benefit to the soul of a wizard. Its value is… no less coveted than that of the Demon Eating Flower Saliva.”
“Then those taeniasis green velvet spores in my body are now… what is their current status?”
Sanders did not answer but replied: “You go on with the story, I’ll answer this question later.”
After the failed struggle over his **, the following events naturally involved the struggle over his soul.
With the struggle against Parasitic Mother for his soul, Angel had many doubts over what had actually happened. What was the grey fog that scattered those strange fluctuations? Or why did Parasitic Mother suddenly disappear?
“Parasitic Mother completely surrounded my soul with the taeniasis green velvet spores. Seeing as I was about to be infected, my soul was helpless at this point. I then started releasing a strange grey fog around my body… At the last moment, the fog could not be stopped, and I was almost sucked dry… When Parasitic Mother went around my soul to attack my back. In the next second, I felt a strange itch behind my back, and then Parasitic Mother screamed out before she disappeared…”
“I don’t know what that grey fog was. Also, the itch on the back of my soul was exactly where I was scratched by that strange st.i.tched faced woman in the Nightmare Plane.”
The following events are also fully recorded in the crystal ball. Angel woke up full of resentment and let Toby crush Parasitic Mother’s head in a fit of rage. Then the match ended and the battle was over. David and Promi promptly rescued him right after.
“I suspect that the Parasitic Mother which Toby had killed at that time was not her true body, but her parasitic host body. I don’t know if her soul was destroyed because she was killed or because she had disappeared.” Angel has a faint feeling in his heart that Parasitic Mother did not really die because he had killed her body.
…
“It seems that the pa.s.sing breath of the Nightmare Plane I felt at that time was caused by Parasitic Mother attacking the wound on your back.” Sanders continued: “As for the grey fog in your soul, I don’t know what it is. I don’t have much research regarding the soul… You know what, I’ll take you to a soul wizard, and he should know something about this.”
Sanders did what he said the next moment and didn’t give Angel any time to relax. He simply took Angel directly out of Phantom Island towards the soul wizard.
Along the way, Angel was still confused and asked more questions.
For example, are the taeniasis green velvet spores still in his body?
“I helped you suppress the taeniasis green velvet spores and put them back into the Mother Body.” Sanders explained: “Parasitic Mother should always have control over the Mother Body of the taeniasis green velvet. But her soul suddenly disappeared, leaving the Mother Body of taeniasis green velvet in your body. I have put all the spores in your body back into the taeniasis green velvet Mother Body.”
“Taeniasis green velvet Mother Body?” Angel suddenly remembered his dream not too long ago in which a large area of green pollen was absorbed by the green bud in the sky. When the bud slowly opened up… He thought it was Parasitic Mother and woke up startled.
Angel told Sanders about his dream.
Sanders said with a smile: “The green bud is the Mother Body of the taeniasis green velvet, and it is still in your body.”
“Why not take it out?” Angel wondered.
“The most precious thing about the taeniasis green velvet is its Mother Body… but after it leaves the plant, it cannot survive in the outside world and can only be nurtured by a soul of a living body. If I take it out for you, the Mother Body of the taeniasis green velvet will completely be inactivated.” Sanders said while still seeing a face of worry on Angel. He patted Angel on the shoulder in a comforting way and said: “Don’t worry too much. If the Mother Body of the taeniasis green velvet is properly nurtured, it won’t do you any harm. It will nourish your soul in the future. This is actually a treasure. If you are really worried, you can also transfer the taeniasis green velvet to another creature in the future.”
Hearing Sanders explanation, Angel was only slightly relieved. Having a plant in his body still makes him feel a little weird.
After leaving Phantom Island, Angel and Sanders both sat on the huge falcon demon and flew to the other side of the Tree of Eternity.
“Mentor, is the soul wizard you are talking about Lord Nisi?” Angel asked.
Sanders nodded and said: “This is the only wizard in the Savage Grottoes who has the most knowledge and research regarding the soul.”
Sure enough, it’s him… Angel had originally wanted to tell Sanders what happened to his soul when he competed with Saka, but now he silently withdrew this idea.
This is also fate, err, maybe this is karma or his doomed fate.
There are feuds between him and Lord Nisi’s two disciples.
Hooked.i.c.k is currently not in the Savage Grottoes for the time being. Saka, another mentally deranged person, is also bothering him. He hopes he will not meet Saka during his meeting with Nisi this time.
Although Angel is quite convinced that even if he meets Saka, the other party should not know him…
“Mentor, why can I feel Parasitic Mother’s emotional fluctuations when I am in my soul state?” Angel’s face was full of doubts as he continued: “If I can truly feel the soul fluctuation of other creatures in my soul body, why was it when I encountered many magical creatures. Such as the flying skull monster, the three-eyed blue giant, etc. When I was in the Nightmare Plane, I wasn’t able to feel their emotions?”
Moreover, he could not feel Sanders emotions in the Nightmare Plane at all. But Angel did not dare say this out loud.
“This I don’t know, but I have a guess. Maybe you can feel the emotions of creatures, or creatures with a soul level lower than yours, such as Parasitic Mother. Or maybe the other party is willing to open up their emotions to you, such as the Demon Eating Flowers.” Sanders continued: “Of course, this speculation is only aimed at your talent in emotional perception. As to why you have talent in emotional perception… perhaps this is the effect of a Nightmare Soul.”
Nightmare Soul again?
Sanders paused and said: “By the way, when you go to Nisi later, you should not mention anything related to the ‘Nightmare Soul’ or ‘Nightmare Plane.’ It only means you should ask about why there is a strange grey fog in your soul. We’ll take care of the rest later.”