Warlock Apprentice

”Hua Hua.” Angel softly responded to her call, a gentle smile spreading across his lips, ”You used to call me big brother all the time, why the sudden formality?”

The girl in the pink dress was Hua Que.

Hua Que lowered her head a bit embarrassedly: ”Lady Mollya told me, using overly intimate addresses when others are around can be very disrespectful.”

”Others” Isabel, Sanders were silent.

Angel’s lips twitched, and he didn’t dwell on the address any further, instead returning to the main topic: ”Lady Isabel said you have something you want to tell me?”

Hua Que nodded heavily, but her eyes wandered a bit and she dared not look directly at Angel.

Angel squinted slightly: ”Do you have something to tell me, or... want to see Popota?”

Hua Que covered her mouth, revealing an ”ah, found out” expression.

Angel: ”...You can make your acting even more obvious.”

Hua Que stuck out her tongue, put away the exaggerated acting, lowered her head, with a hint of melancholy in her eyes: ”I just miss my brother a bit, want to have one last talk with him.”

Angel captured some sensitive words in Hua Que’s sentence, seeming to realize something.

He thought for a moment, didn’t question the doubt in his heart, and simply nodded: ”Alright.”

During this period, Popota has been cultivating the Transforming Soft-bodied Insect in the bracelet, he seems to want to use this opportunity to cultivate some adults as a return to Angel.

So, when Angel released Popota, his pale and deformed face showed a hint of confusion.

”Sir...” Popota just wanted to ask Angel why he called him out, when he suddenly saw Hua Que’s face on the light screen, his eyes froze instantly.

”Hua, Hua Hua?” Popota took heavy steps, walking towards the mini signal tower, unknowingly, his eyes had already filled with tears.

Hua Que on her side was also very excited, if not separated by a light screen, perhaps the siblings would have embraced deeply without any barriers.

Angel watched this scene, sighed lightly, then reached out a hand and made a drawing gesture in the void, gray mist suddenly appeared out of thin air, instantly isolating an Illusion Realm Space.

This was a private conversation space Angel created for Popota and Hua Que.

Sanders glanced at the mist illusion in the room, didn’t intentionally pry, just casually said: ”You use the mist illusion too frequently.”

Angel smiled, taking it as if Sanders was praising him. Because Sanders’ previous evaluation of his mist illusion was: ”You use the mist illusion too roughly.”

This time Sanders didn’t say ’roughly’, but ’frequently’, it indirectly showed Sanders recognized his use of mist illusion.

While waiting for the siblings Popota and Hua Que to finish their conversation, Sanders continued writing in his handbook, while Angel casually picked up a magazine from the bookshelf to read.

The room was a spare study room of Zithraide, the magazines inside were Zithraide’s personal collection.

The magazine Angel picked up, coincidentally was the latest issue of ”Mirror”.

”Mirror” is the official magazine of Barbarian Cave, as Zithraide was once a wizard of Barbarian Cave, and being so close to Barbarian Cave, it was normal for him to get the latest issue.

In the latest issue of ”Mirror”, Angel was still the protagonist, it extensively talked about Angel becoming a member of the Research and Development Institute.

Meanwhile, it also encouraged Wizard Apprentices to try learning Alchemy, and provided the entry standards for Ashiliye Comprehensive College. Of course, this was something Barbarian Cave could never achieve before, it was only after Angel became a member of the Research and Development Institute that opened up this convenient pathway.

Angel flipped through the first two-fifths, it was basically talking about his own affairs. Although he often sees magazines praising him in Sky Mechanical City, and is already accustomed to it, but after all, this is ”Mirror”... Angel still felt a burst of inexplicable shame.

Angel skipped those pages and finally saw different contents—New Star Competition.

”Mirror” used about a fifth of the pages to describe the whole process of the New Star Competition, and some exciting matches and outstanding competitors within it. Of course, the largest section was dedicated to the contestants from Barbarian Cave. Among them, Xiliu naturally had the most coverage, as she ranked the highest among Barbarian Cave contestants in this New Star Competition.

Angel looked at an illustration in the inner page—Xiliu’s pale face was filled with exhaustion, her eyes hazily looking at the opponent not far away.

This was probably a scene in the New Star Competition. The artist very accurately captured Xiliu’s traits, vividly presenting her perpetual drowsiness, never awake enough look in the illustration.

Angel savored it for a moment: ”...Not bad.”

After all, it wasn’t just him being publicly penalized.

Apart from the matters of the New Star Competition, the remaining two-fifths explained some recent miscellaneous news, including topics of technical expansion discussion, publication of papers, information sharing, some private trade fairs of Barbarian Cave, etc.

Among these contents, what Angel was most concerned about was the situation in Eternal Night Country, as well as that strange relic that even troubled Lord Reine.

Unfortunately, the former only casually recorded the ”evacuation route of the Eternal Night Country’s citizens,” while the latter was not mentioned at all.

This strange sign made Angel have some peculiar feelings. If mentioned, even just a few words, it would count as an explanation; but not mentioning at all, it suggests the situation of the relic might really be somewhat dire.

Angel hesitated whether or not to inquire Sanders.

But, just at this moment, Popota came out from the mist illusion.

Angel put down the magazine and looked at Popota: ”Finished chatting?”

Popota nodded, his eyes were still a bit red, he gasped heavily and bowed to Angel: ”Thank you, sir, for allowing me to see my sister again.”

Angel: ”It was Hua Hua who actively wanted to see you, it also shows she misses you dearly.”

Popota said softly: ”I miss her too, but this might be the last meeting.”

Popota’s voice almost became as small as a mosquito in the end, as if he was muttering to himself.

However, Angel still heard his words clearly.

Angel didn’t say anything, just calmly asked: ”Do you want to go back into the bracelet now, or plan to stay outside?”

Popota was silent for a moment: ”...Outside doesn’t hold anything memorable, better go back inside. Besides, there is a Transforming Soft-bodied Insect now in hatching stage, I need to keep watch.”

Angel nodded, directly accommodating Popota into the bracelet.

After Popota disappeared, Angel withdrew the mist illusion, his gaze turned to the mini signal tower that was still connected.

Hua Que continued standing in front of the light screen, seemingly waiting for Angel.