Warlock Apprentice
chapter-177

Chapter 177: Stalked

When Blackjack was gone, Angor began thinking about his previous match. It appeared to be easy, but if Blackjack chose something else to use at the beginning, such as using an attack based card, the result might be different.

All four cards were Quickened spells, and they all had strong effects.

Blackjack lost his chance to retaliate due to his carelessness and the fixed approach he used in the other fights, and it allowed Angor to gain experience instead.

“I wonder which branch Blackjack is studying. Those cards were good. They’re as powerful as magic scrolls,” Angor thought to himself. Next time, he would go to Sunders and ask about this, considering how Blackjack really looked like Sunders himself.

The second match, Baron Milk VS Ashen Warrior.

The name suggested that this one was a Bloodline apprentice. Bloodline wizards were relatively strong compared to the other wizards of the same level, but they had to absorb a strong bloodline to strengthen themselves first. Ashen Warrior was only a level-1 apprentice who had not found a suitable bloodline yet. He only knew basic punches and kicks. Angor only needed a Frost spell to control the field and easily defeated him with the alchemy weapon.

The victory against Ashen Warrior won Angor 13 merit points, which was totally neglectable compared to his winnings from Blackjack.

Angor proceeded with the third match which was to fight against an Element apprentice adept at Frostfire spells. And he triumphed easily.

His three consecutive wins caused all the participants waiting in the backstage to completely change their attitude. His tactic was a little dirty, true, but owning an alchemy weapon was still considered to be someone’s strength, so no one really questioned Angor’s victories.

However, most of the fighters grew really curious about Angor’s alchemy weapon.

People guessed that his weapon could be something like a bow since they all saw the small golden arrows coming from under Angor’s sleeve. But… could someone use a bow with only one hand?

There were also assumptions that Angor was using a blow dart of some sort since it could be manipulated remotely.

Blow darts, however, were usually weak. In the end, someone concluded that Angor was using a fast and powerful weapon like a small crossbow.

These guesses were all in the right direction, but none of them were accurate.

After his three victories in the first day, Angor’s match point ended up at 9.

With the arenas closed for the day, all the players scattered and headed their own ways.

Angor tightened his robe and left Sky Tower. But very soon, he noticed someone was following him.

He frowned a little. He had already expected someone to get greedy, but not so soon.

Angor sighed and kept walking, without minding his stalkers.

With Toby to alert him, every movement of those people was completely obvious to him. Angor was planning to head home straight away, but since someone was following him, he chose to take detours in the complicated paths of the underground market instead.

There were many shops and human crowds here. Angor was confident that the stalkers would not dare to attack him openly in the market, so he boldly chose crowded paths and moved quickly, hoping to shake them off.

Ordinary people would lose Angor’s tracks at this rate sooner or later. But this time, Angor underestimated the abilities of supernaturals. Even level-1 apprentices might possess certain useful tricks.

Among his stalkers, there was such an apprentice who could use canine summoning spells. With the animal’s sharp sense of smell, it was difficult for Angor to get away just by running.

After realizing that he could not get rid of the offenders by running around the market, Angor shook his head and decided to give up. The golden arrow was not his only creation. With the other stronger weapon and Toby’s help, he knew he could take on two or three people at the same time as long as there were no level-3 apprentices or someone stronger.

With that in mind, Angor stopped hiding and walked toward the surface.

The people following behind also noticed Angor’s change in behavior. They also gave up being all cautious and walked just about ten meters behind Angor without bothering to conceal their arrogant and violent looks on their faces.

Angor noticed four people. Also, he recognized them since he saw these people in the participant waiting room at Level 1, which also meant they were merely level-1 apprentices at best. Angor grew more confident.

Upon reaching Apprentice Town Eight, Angor headed to the woods near the town rather than his villa. He had to fight them anyway, so he might as well pick somewhere vacant.

The Mirror World might look like a small paradise to outsiders… on condition that people only stayed low-profile for their entire lives.

The Tree Spirit Garden was never a safe place. Apprentices fought among each other very often; to live or die could be determined by a simple decision. Every inch of the ground might be hiding the corpse of someone beneath.

Angor walked fast, and so were the four people stalking him. Angor even heard them discussing how to divide their loot after killing him.

Disorder. The true side of Brute Cavern.

After entering the woods, Angor was soon surrounded by the stalkers.

“Baron Milk, eh? Give us your alchemy weapon, and we MAY consider sparing your life.”

The speaker was a bearded man wearing a bandanna. A hound with white and yellow coat crouched at his heel.

There was a hot-looking woman who had a laced, folded fan in her hand. When talking, the two giant objects in front of her chest area flipped up and down like two overfilled water balloons.

“Hey, handsome… I really like that weapon. So… pretty please?”

The last two people were twins. One of them wore his standard black robe, while the other was in a white one. They looked almost identical apart from some small details. The man in the white robe had an ocean-colored earring, while the black-robed man wore a flame-colored one.

“Your weapon is so good on my big brother. I’ll use it as his birthday present tomorrow,” said the white-robed twin.

“Your weapon is so good on my little brother. I’ll use it as his birthday present tomorrow,” said the black-robed twin.

“Big bro!”

“Little bro.”

The twins looked at each other affectionately.

“To hell with you all. Come and get me if you want,” said Angor. He did not intend to waste any breath on these people or learn anything about who they were.

Angor signaled at something. A swift shadow descended from the sky and rushed at the bearded hound user in a blink of an eye.

At the same time, a number of golden arrows came from Angor’s sleeve in a shower of light beams.

“Why you—”

That was the only thing the hound user managed to say before the black shadow tore his throat open. He fell dead on the ground, along with his dog.

Naturally, it was Toby who just displayed the perfect combo attack with Angor.

Toby did not rest after its attempt. The bird used the corpse of the hound user as a leaping stone and shot himself toward the sexy woman next.

Angor left Toby to its own job. His targets were the twin brothers in front of him. His instinct told him that these two were harder to deal with.

Under the attacks of countless golden arrows, the brothers held each other’s hands tightly like a pair of newly-married couple. Under Angor’s troubled gaze, a fire wall came from the elder brother’s body while a water wall came from the younger brother. The two conflicting elements somehow existed in harmony and fused into one.

The golden arrows could only pierce the first layer of the fused barrier and were completely bounced away by the second.

“Brothers of one mind! Water & Flame Barrier!”

“Brothers of one mind! Water & Flame Barrier!”

Angor felt really uncomfortable when he heard the brothers yelling in unison. Seriously, why would people announce the names of their skills like that anyway?

He did not stop his action though. He still had two hundred bolts. There was no way that the barrier could hold on forever.

The twins needed their mana to sustain the barrier while Angor simply needed to move a finger. “Let’s see who’s gonna give up first.”

As Angor released his arrows continuously, a woman’s scream came from behind, along with the booming noise of an explosion.

Angor glanced away. The twins also spared some effort the check out the battle in the other direction.

They saw the hound user already dead, and the sexy woman was pushed into the ground by a black shadow. The explosion was caused by the woman’s body when it broke the ground open.

“What’s that? Baron Milk’s familiar? What’s the deal with that strength?!” The white-robed twin exclaimed in shock.

“I saw it, little brother!” The black-robed twin yelled.

“It’s a bird!” They both shouted.

Angor, on the other hand, felt as if he was watching a drama display.

The water-and-flame barrier created by the twin brothers was quite sturdy, and Angor could not penetrate it. Toby already finished its own fight really fast. The bird was now rushing toward the brothers like another bolt.

“This is bad, little brother. My mana is spent!”

“Me too!”

As Toby was about to reach the barrier, someone else suddenly spoke in a puzzled tone.

“To—Toby??”

Toby halted in the air and along with Angor, they looked at who just called his name.

They saw a young man with a pockmarked face, who was wearing a pair of goggles over his forehead. The young man was carefully following behind another middle-aged, elegantly-dressed man, who had just emerged from a narrow path in the woods.

“Dave?” Angor realized who had come.

It was Dave who just called Toby. Angor did not recognize the middle-aged figure beside him.

The appearance of Dave distracted Angor and Toby’s attention on the twin brothers.

“Master Prome? The alchemy weapon of Baron Milk was made by Master Prome?”

It seemed the twins knew the identity of the man. They quickly exchanged a look and nodded at the same time.

“Run!”

They ran in opposite directions. One toward the depth of woods while the other headed outside the woods.

When Angor noticed their actions and looked back, they were already at a good distance away. Toby pointed a wing at them and asked Angor if it should chase them.

Angor considered for a bit and shook his head in the end.