Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 2089: Chapter 2090: Offspring

”Since the Boiling Gentleman still needs to go to the Cross Place, I won’t disturb you any longer. I also have matters to attend to, so I’ll be leaving now.”

When Angel said these words, his eyes appeared calm, but inside, he was already excited and jubilant.

He had spent a whole day discussing the Power Furnace and the Seed of Distortion with the Boiling Gentleman.

After such a long delay, it wasn’t until the Boiling Gentleman said he was going to the Cross Place to fetch materials that Angel found the opportunity to say goodbye.

”Is Shava really leaving so soon?” Although Angel couldn’t see the Boiling Gentleman’s expression, his voice revealed his disappointment.

”Yes, there are things in the outside world that I must attend to, so I have to leave.” Angel suppressed his excited mood and spoke calmly.

Even though he was still curious about many aspects of the Boiling Gentleman’s transformation laboratory, including the Power Furnace and the Seed of Distortion, which he only had a superficial understanding of, he wanted to explore in depth; but more than studying these works, which were difficult to reproduce in the Wizards’ Realm, he now wanted to leave sooner and bring the news out.

The Boiling Gentleman was reluctant in his heart, rarely encountering someone who understood his works, and it was the respected Shava. He genuinely wanted to continue the discussion with Shava. But since Shava had said so, he had no excuse to retain her further.

The Boiling Gentleman sighed regretfully, ”Alright then, let me escort Shava out of the Mist Candle Corridor.”

Although Angel wanted to say that he could leave on his own, he didn’t say it out loud. After all, he had spent an entire day with the Boiling Gentleman, so a few more minutes didn’t matter.

The Boiling Gentleman led Angel out of the transformation laboratory, expressing along the way that the conversation with Angel today had been very fruitful for him. Occasionally, he mentioned the Light Solvent, hinting at his hope that Angel could come to the Xinnai Land for the banquet on the next Moon Sacrifice Day.

To this, Angel merely smiled and remained silent, neither rejecting nor nodding in agreement.

Back in the Mist Candle Corridor, after rounding a corner, Angel finally saw the ”degrading Seed of Distortion mother body” that the Boiling Gentleman had mentioned before.

The degrading Seed of Distortion mother body looked almost the same in appearance as the one Angel had seen in its prime at the transformation laboratory. Both were large tentacle spheres stuck in the corner of the wall, surrounded by two very small spherical entities, which were offspring of the Seed of Distortion.

”The only difference between the degrading phase and the prime phase is the color change of the mother body of the Seed of Distortion.” The Boiling Gentleman walked to the side of the Seed of Distortion mother body, reached out to touch its darkened skin, and sighed slightly, ”This Seed of Distortion mother body probably won’t last until Xinnai’s full arrival.”

When the Boiling Gentleman said this, he picked up the two smaller Seed of Distortion offspring on the ground,

”These are the last two offspring this mother body will produce.” The Boiling Gentleman sighed and dropped one on the ground: ”This one has lost its activity due to lack of energy supply.”

”This one...” The Boiling Gentleman looked at the other Seed of Distortion offspring in his hand: ”It is barely alive. Although it hasn’t completely lost its activity, it is not far from losing it.”

The Boiling Gentleman shook his head with regret, casually threw it on the ground, and continued walking forward.

Angel looked at the Seed of Distortion offspring that rolled to his feet, moved, and used his Spirit Tentacle to pick it up.

As the Boiling Gentleman had said, the inside of this Seed of Distortion offspring was entirely hollow, unlike the vibrant Seeds of Distortion he had seen in the transformation laboratory.

It was like an undernourished premature baby, now on the brink of death.

”Shava, are you interested in it?” The Boiling Gentleman, hearing the noise behind him, stopped and turned to look.

”I am somewhat interested.” Angel looked at the Boiling Gentleman and softly asked, ”If I continuously supply it with energy, can it survive?”

The Boiling Gentleman paused and nodded, ”If Shava provides the energy, it can maintain normal activity, but it’s just an offspring, besides becoming a weapon, it has no substantial use.”

”If Shava wants the Seed of Distortion mother body, I can apply to Master Nuka, and I’m sure Meina will not hesitate to offer you its useless and ugly limb.”

Angel: ”It’s alright, I just want to study it.”

The Boiling Gentleman wanted to say that compared to the mother body, the offspring actually had no research value and were just consumables.

But he didn’t say it out loud.

After all, there were many Seed of Distortion offspring, losing one or two didn’t matter. If Shava wanted one, he could have it.

Seeing that the Boiling Gentleman didn’t say anything further, Angel was delighted to know that he had implicitly agreed.

—While he did want to study the Seed of Distortion mother body, he couldn’t get the main materials, so the offspring were more practical for him.

What was a trivial weed to one person was a treasure to another. To the Boiling Gentleman, this was a useless consumable, but to Angel, it represented a very powerful loyal Puppet!

Angel input a wisp of Nightmare Realm breath into the shriveled Seed of Distortion through the green Pattern on his right hand.

With the entrance of the Nightmare Realm breath, he could clearly feel that the hollow energy inside the Seed of Distortion was slowly filling up.

Once he was sure the Seed of Distortion wouldn’t wither away and die, Angel enveloped it in a layer of Power of Nightmare Illusion, then placed it satisfactorily into his bracelet.

The Boiling Gentleman didn’t comment on this and continued leading Angel towards the entrance of the Mist Candle Corridor.

The Boiling Gentleman’s transformation laboratory was indeed very close to the Mist Candle Corridor’s entrance, taking barely a minute before Angel spotted the familiar metal Door in the distance.

This Door was the entrance to the ruins and the exit of this demiplane.

Looking at this Door, Angel’s mood surged with excitement once more. The reason he initially came to these ruins was to confirm whether there were Magic Patterns behind the Door.

Back then, on the outside of this Door, he had urgently probed for the truth behind it but to no avail; now, after a long detour, he had once again approached the vicinity of the Door, but this time, he was inside.

Angel walked to the Door, glancing at the Patterns on it.

Before falling into Duling Garden, he had already detected that there were indeed Magic Patterns behind the Door, but at that time it was too urgent, and he hadn’t seen if there was a holographic map on the Magic Patterns.

Now, he could seize this opportunity to investigate.

Although he had already made up his mind, Angel did not immediately delve into the Magic Patterns but instead slowly opened this ancient Door.

As the Door opened, Angel distinctly felt a change in the surrounding Spatial Energy, and the airflow also became abnormal.

This was the natural convection produced when a passage between the demiplane and the real world opened.

Outside the Door was a pitch-black Mist, apparently the Black Dream Tunnel the Boiling Gentleman had mentioned before.