Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 1987: Chapter 1988: Young Girl Zhen

As the ocean of light around them slowly dissipated, everyone appeared near the Spirit Tree Courtyard in the Mirror World.

A group of merchants bowed to Feng Man in gratitude, familiar with the routine, and then pushed their goods toward Apprentice Town. Their main trading targets were early-stage apprentices, so they usually restocked at the shops in Apprentice Town or sold at the Underground Market.

The girl in the animal skin skirt also stepped forward with the others and bowed to Feng Man.

While others bowed, Feng Man remained expressionless, but when this girl approached, Feng Man let out a cold snort, though he didn’t make any other movements.

Clearly, Feng Man, due to Rogers’ matters, bore resentment toward this innocent girl as well.

Just as Feng Man expressed his dissatisfaction with Rogers through a cold snort at the girl, a sudden cold wind blew from behind Feng Man.

Although Feng Man didn’t sense anything unusual in the cold wind, a strong sense of crisis prompted Feng Man to react swiftly. Feng Man ducked instinctively, chanting a defense spell while flicking his sleeve, scattering hundreds of White-footed Sea Spiders around as if it were rain.

At the moment Feng Man ducked, he finally saw the situation behind him.

A man with a twisted expression and bloodshot eyes was brandishing a gleaming, sharp dagger, attacking Feng Man like a gust of wind.

The attack was unsuccessful as Feng Man ducked ahead of time. But as he curled up, he inadvertently exposed the girl in the animal skin skirt behind him.

The man seemed to have lost his reason, intent solely on killing Feng Man. He didn’t care about this trembling mortal girl. If she got caught in the crossfire and died, he felt she deserved it.

”Jen, be careful, get away!” Rogers shouted.

Rogers never expected that what was supposed to be a routine bow of thanks for Feng Man leading them into the Mirror World would suddenly turn into such a crisis.

Rogers immediately transformed into a phantom, trying to pull Jen out of the danger zone.

However, he was still some distance from Jen. Meanwhile, the man with the dagger had already reached Jen. What’s more important, this man was a bloodline-side apprentice!

Though also a late-stage Level 1 apprentice like Feng Man, the bloodline-side generally outclassed peers at the same level. Their strength, speed, reaction, and explosiveness were all formidable.

In fact, purely in terms of physical power in the Material Realm, even before integrating bloodlines, the man was slightly stronger than Rogers.

Therefore, even for Rogers, rescuing Jen at this moment wasn’t easy.

Actually, Jen could choose to duck down like Feng Man did, potentially avoiding the crisis, as the man’s main target was to kill Feng Man, not to target a mortal girl.

However, Jen didn’t react quickly enough, and... the ground was filled with White-footed Sea Spiders, originally venomous creatures that, in conjunction with Feng Man’s summoning abilities, were deadly to ordinary people at a touch.

So, Jen was nearly trapped on an island. Ahead was the man with the dagger, and behind were the sea spiders.

It seemed that death was destined.

As the man with the dagger drew closer, despair showed in Jen’s eyes.

Just as the sharp edge of the dagger was about to cover Jen, a white tentacle suddenly appeared before her. Before Jen could react, the white tentacle wrapped around her gently, pulling her out of danger, sending her in an arc behind Rogers.

Jen, still in a daze, looked confused as she lay on the ground, dust swirling around her. Only after a moment did she come to her senses.

Jen lifted her head, her vision blurry with dust, vaguely seeing a white tentacle, resembling a bone whip, slicing through the air before merging into the body of a red-haired man not far away.

”I... I was saved?” Jen murmured in a daze.

Rogers now landed by Jen’s side, and after confirming she was okay, he turned to look into the distance at the red-haired man.

However, the red-haired man wasn’t looking towards Rogers but was instead watching the battle between Feng Man and the man with the dagger with great interest.

Indeed, Angel was observing Feng Man against the dagger man. Despite it being a clash of amateurs, as Feng Man’s guide, he wanted to see what Feng Man had learned in the Barbarian Cave and how much he had improved.

He saved the girl named Jen merely in passing. Dragging mortals into a battle between Transcendents, especially in the domain of the Barbarian Cave, would truly be beneath one’s dignity.

Angel watched for a while, then shook his head. Feng Man performed satisfactorily, with strong combat awareness, although he had been grazed multiple times, none of the injuries were fatal; however, the man with the dagger, a bloodline-side, was severely lacking.

The timing of bloodline activation was incorrect, dagger use was rudimentary, even worse than Lyon’s, many battle details were superfluous, and most importantly, he was blinded by rage, impairing his judgment.

Feng Man had no obvious weaknesses, but the bloodline-side peer, supposedly most formidable, had weaknesses glaringly apparent. Angel predicted it wouldn’t take long for the dagger man to be defeated.

And indeed, less than two minutes later, as the dagger man, blinded by anger and provoked by Feng Man’s taunts, failed to notice, a White-footed Sea Spider stealthily approached his exposed ankle and bit it.

The venom invaded instantly, causing the dagger man to see stars and start to stagger.

Feng Man seized the opportunity, directing all the sea spiders to climb over the dagger man’s body. In an instant, the dagger man was covered by hundreds of densely packed spiders.

In the next second, green liquid oozed from the dagger man’s body, and he collapsed to the ground.

”Faman...” The dagger man, eyes blurred, looked at the sky, muttering a name, seemingly wanting to intertwine it with his soul and carry it into death’s abyss.

Feng Man walked up to the dagger man without hesitation, picked up his dagger, and plunged it hard into the dagger man’s heart.

As heart’s blood spurted out, the flame of life gradually extinguished.

Feng Man, covered in multiple wounds and bathed in blood, looked at the dead dagger man, the corner of his mouth curling into a smile. In that smile was cruelty, ruthlessness, and a trace of madness.

Rogers looked at Feng Man and let out a soft sigh.

Rogers didn’t judge Feng Man’s actions but instead looked toward Angel in the distance, intending to say a few words.

Yet, before Rogers could approach, Angel took the initiative and walked over.

However, Angel did not speak to Rogers but walked past him to the dagger man’s corpse.

As Rogers looked back puzzledly, he found that Angel wasn’t inspecting the dagger man but was in conversation with a figure that suddenly appeared on the scene.

And that almost unclothed figure, Rogers was all too familiar with.

One of the three Ancestral Spirits.

Tree Spirit, My Lord!

In Rogers’ eyes, Tree Spirit was already the epitome of strength, but Tree Spirit was now conversing amiably with the red-haired man.

A conversation! With implications of equality!

No need for Rogers to guess, just Tree Spirit’s attitude explained everything. Undoubtedly, this red-haired man’s status was at least that of an Official Wizard or higher.

Upon confirming this information, Rogers no longer had the urge to converse and instead pulled Jen, ready to quickly leave.

Jen, still in a state of confusion, naturally followed as Rogers pulled her away. However, before leaving, Jen turned back to look at her savior.

Against the backlight, the red-haired figure appeared incredibly tall.

Jen stared for a moment, feeling that silhouette aligns with an image from her memories.