Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 2367: Chapter 2368: The Lucky Soul

This pair of crystal glasses was given to Nausicaa by Angel when she left the Sky Mechanical City.

At that time, Nausicaa thought it was some secret weapon specially made by Angel to ensure her safety.

However, Angel denied it.

Nausicaa still remembers what Angel said at the time—

”This is not a weapon, and it’s not very useful when you’re in danger. However, if you need to inform me of anything, you can use this.”

”So, it’s a communication device?”

”You could say that, but it can only be used once, so use it wisely.”

After getting this ”communication device,” Nausicaa kept it in her pocket, never having used it or even thought of using it. More often, this single-lens glass served as a token of her friendship.

Because the reality was much like what Angel said, it wouldn’t help in the face of danger, and if there was no danger, there was no reason to contact anyone.

Even if her adventure failed, leaving her crippled or nearly dead, she never considered using the single lens to ask Angel for help.

Because she would be responsible for any choice she made, life or death.

But, at this moment, she felt like she wanted to use it.

...

On Reef Island.

”What are your plans now?” Nis looked at the pensive Angel.

Angel: ”First, find Nausicaa.”

”Do you have any way to do that?” Nis asked.

Angel fell silent. Nausicaa was swept away by currents, and no one knew where she ended up. The only way he could think of was to wait for Dororo in the Wilderness of Dreams.

But prophecies often come with risk, and Angel didn’t want to rely on Dororo for everything.

Nis: ”I knew you wouldn’t have a way.”

Angel turned to Nis: ”Sounds like you have a way to find Nausicaa?”

Nis nodded proudly: ”Of course, I do.”

In Angel’s puzzled gaze, Nis took a long, thin black skull short stick from his large sleeve. He waved the stick in the air, and invisible magic and soul forces surged out, forming a complex spirit pattern in the air.

The spirit pattern glowed, and after a few seconds, a humanoid soul with a conical head emerged from it.

Angel noticed that this humanoid soul appeared extremely old, with a hunchbacked head nearly at knee level, supported by a cane. It resembled humans, except the skull shape was different, like it wore a pointed hat.

”Who is he?”

Nis, proudly: ”The Sharp People Prophet!”

Sharp People? Angel had never heard of this race. With Nis’s explanation, he gradually gained some understanding of the Sharp People.

They are a rare kind of humanoid found in the Druna Plane, living mostly like barbarians with a primitive tribal civilization.

In the Sharp People tribes, the most exalted position is the prophet. Because prophets are versed in astrology and meteorology, they can tell the tribe when to hunt, when to sow, and when to sacrifice to the heavens...

In terms of status and function, they are somewhat akin to the witch sacrifices of the barbarians. However, while barbarian sacrifices wield some Extraordinary Power, the Sharp People’s prophets are essentially ordinary people.

Nis: ”But Diya and other Sharp People prophets are different. He has abilities similar to a Prophet Wizard!”

Diya is the name of this Sharp People prophet.

Angel, skeptical: ”If he can use Divination, why did you need Dororo for the stone slab issue earlier?”

Nis showed a somewhat bashful expression: ”It’s not the same. I only said he has abilities similar to a Prophet Wizard, not that he really is one.”

”Diya’s ability, more accurately, is a kind of divination ability.”

It can divine a vague result, like getting an answer such as ”there might be rain in the short term” from divining weather.

So, it’s much weaker than a Prophet Wizard’s abilities. Still, it touches slightly on the edges of fate.

Angel: ”Then how do you use Diya to find Nausicaa?”

”Seeking people divination. It’s Diya’s specialty type of divination. As long as you give him something the person being sought has used, he can use the stick to divine the person’s direction through the direction the stick falls.” Nis: ”How about that? It’s at least more useful than your aimless searching, right?”

”It sounds very similar to the Prophecy Apprentice’s short wand method.” Angel remembered that White Bear was skilled in the short wand method.

”It looks similar on the surface, but the core is different. They interpret fate in fundamentally different ways.”

Angel also understood, after all, the Sharp People’s prophets’ worldview and insight are vastly different from that of humans.

”It seems promising, but unfortunately, I can’t use it.” Angel: ”Because I don’t have anything Nausicaa used.”

”No way, didn’t you and Nausicaa exchange tokens of love?”

Angel gave Nis a cold glance without saying anything, though Nis understood what Angel meant to say.

”You’re becoming more and more like Sanders...” Nis muttered: ”Even if you’re not lovers, exchanging something isn’t unusual?”

Angel: ”Anyway, I don’t have it. If I don’t have it, can he divine?”

Nis shook his head.

”Then what’s the point.” After finishing his words, Angel didn’t want to say anything more and moved on past Nis, intending to talk with Reynaud again to see if he had any knowledge of the nearby islands.

Since other methods didn’t work, he’d use basic logic to speculate where Nausicaa might be. It seemed logical to Angel that if Nausicaa was alive, she’d try to find a place to land at least.

Just like Cindy and her group, who could drift at sea, but humanity’s urge to tread solid ground likely saw them landing on Reef Island.

Nausicaa would likely be similar, perhaps she drifted to a nearby island, boarded a ghost ship wandering through the mist, or, like them, rested and recuperated on some reef.

However, the answer given by Reynaud left Angel a bit disappointed.

Centered around the laboratory, there were indeed many islands. But these islands were hard to find.

Because it lay in the Mist Belt, navigating by direction was exceedingly difficult there, and even knowing where the islands lay meant getting lost soon after setting out.

Traversing undersea paths wouldn’t pose concerns of getting lost, but Reynaud wasn’t qualified to traverse such routes.

Not to mention, Reynaud was not in the laboratory currently, making judging the direction of other islands from this Reef Island practically impossible.

”So, no matter what, we still have to go to the laboratory,” Nis said with a smile. His goal was the laboratory because it involved soul-related matters; Angel’s goal was to find Nausicaa, and he might not necessarily go to the laboratory with him.

But now, in order to search for nearby islands, Angel estimated that he still had to break into that laboratory with him.

”Anyway, Ferro also went, so let’s support him. I’ll get the soul data, and you find nearby islands,” Nis said.

Angel pondered for a moment. If there were no other better options, perhaps this would be the only way.

”Do you have a way to find Nausicaa?” Angel couldn’t help but ask Reynaud again.

Reynaud still shook his head: ”I don’t know where Nausicaa is, but she shouldn’t be dead. She was just swept away by the ocean currents... Even if the people from the laboratory caught her back, Nausicaa wouldn’t die in a short time because they need a large number of experimental subjects and living sacrifices. Unless...”

Nis: ”Unless what?”

Reynaud: ”Unless Nausicaa encountered the worst situation, swept away by the ocean currents and met the magical creature at the seabed...”

”You better not speak like a crow,” Nis couldn’t help but tap Reynaud’s head with a short staff: ”Speak positively, don’t always think of the worst.”

Reynaud felt a bit wronged, wasn’t it you who asked?

”Then should I say something positive?” Reynaud thought about what good words to say: ”Nausicaa is definitely still alive, maybe we’ll see her soon?”

Nis: ”How soon is ’soon’?”

Reynaud hesitated for a moment and said: ”One hour?”

Nis couldn’t help but strike again: ”What are you thinking? You’ve been here for several days and haven’t encountered Nausicaa. Now you’re thinking of seeing her in an hour, how is that possible?”

Reynaud said wrongfully: ”I’m just saying something positive.”

Nis turned his head towards Angel: ”Don’t think too much, let’s go find Ferro first. I don’t know if Ferro managed to find the laboratory, hopefully, he won’t find it... Even if he does, he shouldn’t make a fuss and destroy the lab’s information.”

After speaking, Nis secretly thought to himself: Maybe this information holds the chance for me to step into true knowledge. Dororo, I really believe in you.

Angel thought for a moment and nodded: ”Alright.”

”Let’s set off now. Oh, right, let’s take Reynaud with us; it’ll save a lot of time.” Nis continued: ”I’m not as foolish as Ferro to charge in alone.”

With that, Nis picked up Reynaud, his figure towering as he took a stance for takeoff.

However, just as Nis was ready to leave, he looked down and saw Angel still standing there, unmoving, with a strange expression on his face.

”Hey, let’s go.” Nis flicked a soul projectile over.

Angel blocked it casually but still didn’t move.

”What’s wrong with you?” Nis asked suspiciously, ”Didn’t you want to find Nausicaa? Let’s hurry up, I need to go back and research the stone slab, just missing the final piece.”

Angel was silent for a while, then raised his head to look at Nis floating in mid-air: ”Nausicaa came to find me.”

”Huh?” Nis didn’t understand.

Angel: ”I said, Nausicaa came to find me in... the Wilderness of Dreams.”

Nis was stunned, descending from the air: ”What? Wilderness of Dreams, when did you give her a log-in device? She hasn’t returned since the New Star Tournament.”

Angel: ”At the end of the New Star Tournament, I gave her a one-time log-in device to contact me if needed.”

Later, Nausicaa never contacted Angel, and he almost forgot about it himself. Unexpectedly, just a few seconds ago, the authority of the Gate of Dreams sent a notification: the marked person has logged in.

The log-in device Angel gave Nausicaa was specially marked to prevent missing her when she entered the Wilderness of Dreams.

So, upon receiving this notification, Angel immediately immersed himself into the Gate of Dreams to observe for a while.

He discovered that the person who entered was indeed Nausicaa.

”You gave her a log-in device back then? And you said you two have no special relationship?” Even Rhein and others only learned of the Wilderness of Dreams much later.

Nis muttered a few words to himself and then said: ”Why didn’t she come earlier or later, but precisely when we’re ready to find her, she appears? This is too much of a coincidence.”

Angel pondered: ”Perhaps it’s a kind of luck?”

”Luck?” Nis squinted his eyes as if thinking of something, turning to look at Reynaud, whom he was still holding.

What did Reynaud say before?

”Nausicaa is still alive, and we’ll see her soon.”

Nis: ???

Nis couldn’t help but curse internally, did Reynaud really hit the nail on the head?

Could he really be a lucky person with innate talent?

Nis had never heard of such a ”luck” talent before.

Nis had never believed in people with lucky talents, but after experiencing the ”Schild heir” incident and Reynaud’s prophecy just now, he suddenly started to believe.

Nis’s gaze towards Reynaud instantly gleamed: ”How about not looking for a physical body and just keeping your soul form with me? I’ll find you a thousand beautiful female souls later!”

”I have all kinds of souls, fighting ones, divining ones, stitched ones, purely pleasing to the eyes... Now, I’m just missing your lucky soul!”

Nis’s eyes were fervent, a thought rising in his heart: Could this be my opportunity?

”Dororo sent me here not to look for soul data but to let me meet you!”

Nis’s gaze made Reynaud continuously retreat, but unfortunately, Nis kept holding him. Even if he tried to dodge, he couldn’t escape Nis’s increasingly approaching creepy old face.

Just as Nis’s face was about to touch Reynaud’s, a hand suddenly intervened.

”Stop messing around.” Angel said: ”I need to take Reynaud to the Wilderness of Dreams to meet Nausicaa.”

With that, Angel rescued Reynaud from Nis’s claws.

Nis: ”I’m not messing around; I’m speaking sincerely. I’m just missing a lucky soul like this.”

Angel: ”He’s still alive.”

Nis: ”It’s okay, when I find him later, he will be dead.”

Angel raised an eyebrow: ”Are you sure?”

Seeing Angel squinting slightly and his tone carrying a threat, Nis swallowed: ”I’m just saying, at worst, I’ll wait for Reynaud’s natural death. Anyway, looking at him, he doesn’t seem like a long-lived person.”

Angel was too lazy to argue with Nis. He was eager to enter the Wilderness of Dreams; Nausicaa’s log-in device was one-time use, missing this chance would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.