Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 3279: Chapter 3280: Mind Beast Remains

”Cat, Kitty Brother is a good person!” Little Red’s eyes sparkled with light, so excited that she couldn’t speak clearly.

She stretched out her arms, excitedly hugging the nearest cat-shaped white pillow, her head buried in the fluffy pillow and rubbing back and forth, seemingly expressing her inner joy.

Little Red was happy by herself for quite a while, until two minutes later, she slowly came back to her senses from excitement.

Little Red stood up somewhat embarrassed: ”Thank you, Kitty Brother.”

Angel gently smiled, indicating it was no problem.

Little Red secretly glanced at Angel, making sure Angel wasn’t laughing at her, then confidently stepped out from between the pillows: ”I’m going to prepare delicious food now, as well as the dog brother’s fine wine.”

Although Little Red stepped out from the cushions, she was still holding a mini fox pillow in her hand. It was obvious from her eyebrows and eyes that she was fond of this pillow.

Little Red hugged the little fox, ran over to the adjacent hall, and brought out quite a few of her so-called ”delicious foods”—colorful ring pops.

Dozens of lollipops of various sizes were placed on the soft cloud table, like a rainbow, stretching endlessly.

Little Red specially selected three lollipops that she thought were the tastiest and handed them to Angel and the others.

Angel initially wanted to refuse, but seeing Little Red’s glistening eyes filled with anticipation, he still accepted them.

Perhaps seeing Angel take the lollipop, Luigi and Laplace hesitated for a moment, but then accepted them too.

Little Red happily smiled with squinty eyes.

According to what the book says, this is probably... the joy of sharing?

Next, Little Red began busying herself preparing wine for the Dog Deacon and arranging a suitable large mirror for this beautiful fairytale-themed small house.

Although the mirror she used previously for corpse hiding could also be used, it was too narrow and rectangular. Since everyone was staying here for the display, naturally the larger the mirror, the more expansive the view.

While Little Red was busy preparing, Angel and Laplace naturally sat on the sofa.

Luigi, like a big kid, jumped into the pool filled with colorful balls, like taking a bath, with his legs crossed. After enjoying himself for a while, he seemed unsatisfied and took a colorful ball from the pool, aimed at Angel’s head, and threw it along a parabola.

However, as the ball arrived above Angel’s head, before it touched him, it stopped in mid-air. Then, rapidly flew back in the opposite direction, heading straight for Luigi’s forehead.

”I dodge!” Luigi giggled and tilted his head, avoiding the direct hit of the ball.

While Luigi was feeling proud, he didn’t notice the ball behind him make an abrupt turn and hit him hard on the back of his head.

With a ”bang,” Luigi’s head plunged, hanging into the ball pool.

After a while, Luigi hummed and sat up: ”I didn’t even use much force when I threw it...”

Angel mocked in return: ”If I had used force, you wouldn’t still be sitting here quietly.”

Luigi pouted: ”I just wanted to ask you, you seem to care a lot about this Little Red?”

Angel: ”You can directly ask via Mind Ribbon, don’t do unnecessary things.”

After pausing, Angel then told Luigi through the Mind Ribbon: ”I pay more attention to anyone whose heart is pure.”

Jon’s childhood teachings included respect for the elderly and love for the young. However, this idea isn’t a rigid doctrine; all concepts exist within the heart.

Anyway, Angel accepts the concept of ”loving the young” as long as the person isn’t an annoying child.

Little Red belongs to the kind of pure, innocent child, not annoying. Angel pays extra attention to this type of child.

”Then I don’t see you paying attention to me.” Luigi muttered: ”My heart is quite pure too.”

Angel turned away, took out the rainbow lollipop Little Red just gave him, and shoved it into his mouth, lazy to respond.

As the lollipop melted, sweet juice spread throughout the mouth.

To say it’s delicious? It doesn’t reach that level. But Angel understands this is a flavor kids like... sweet, purely sweet.

Luigi also opened the candy wrapper, lying in the ball pool, and started sucking the lollipop.

Unlike Angel’s silence, Luigi from the inside out reviewed the flavor of the lollipop.

Undoubtedly, it’s still one word: sweet.

”Suddenly feeling Little Red seems quite pitiful, saying she’s preparing delicious foods, but only prepared a bunch of lollipops with just a sweet taste.” Luigi sighed.

Angel: ”If you want, I can prepare a dish for Little Red?”

As Angel’s voice fell, Luigi instantly shut his mouth, and Laplace gave a curious look.

”You mean to make...”

Laplace didn’t finish her sentence, but her gaze already spoke the name of that ”forbidden dish.”

Angel nodded without hesitation: ”That’s right, Magic Bread. Just so happens I’m currently blessed with the Evil Wizard’s Blessing, so I guess the flavor won’t be bad.”

Luigi: ”...Did you forget about before?”

Angel: ”Didn’t forget, that time was just an accident.”

Luigi wanted to argue, but he thought of the Secret Ceremony Box indeed having examples of accidental occurrences, and he didn’t know what to say.

Laplace calmly said: ”If an accident happens here, it’s definitely not good. Also... I feel like the probability of an accident occurring with food you make isn’t low. Better not make food here, wait until we’re back in the Heart Space; you can try whatever you want.”

Laplace has seen Angel use the Secret Ceremony Box twice, both times resulting in mutations.

If only results are considered, the mutation probability is one hundred percent. This is somewhat different from other records of the previous owners of the Secret Ceremony Box, but perhaps Angel has special mutation techniques. Anyway, Laplace strongly suggests Angel not use the Secret Ceremony Box here.

If it’s Luigi’s advice, Angel might not listen, but since Laplace spoke up, he thought about it and accepted her suggestion.

However, although Angel gave up on making Magic Bread, he didn’t give up on preparing food.

He still has quite a bit of food on him, among which the most unique in taste is Magic Marrow Meat.

Angel took a plate of Magic Marrow Meat from his bracelet and placed it on the table.

Luigi and Laplace also saw Magic Marrow Meat; although they hadn’t tasted it before, they’d seen Angel use Magic Marrow Meat as an ingredient to make Magic Bread.

At the time, they thought it was just an ordinary ingredient, but apparently Magic Marrow Meat can be eaten as food!

However, despite knowing Magic Marrow Meat can be eaten, neither Laplace nor Luigi reached out to take it because... they’re scared.

It was actually Little Red who came out from the side room carrying two pots of wine and, under Angel’s coaxing, tried a small piece of Magic Marrow Meat.

”Delicious!” Little Red’s eyes sparkled with surprise: ”It feels soft and elastic to touch, but it’s crispy and tender to eat, there’s a very strange sensation in the mouth, but it’s very tasty.”

Little Red’s praise made Angel very proud, and he took out two more plates from his bracelet.

Then he took out three pieces of Magic Marrow Meat, each the size of a fingernail, and used energy to activate them. In an instant, the fingernail-sized Magic Marrow Meat grew hundreds of times until it filled three plates.

Magic Marrow Meat, judging by its appearance, looked somewhat like a white sticky ball. And within these three plates, although they were all white, their colors were light white, pure white, and milky white respectively.

”Are these three different kinds of Magic Marrow Meat?” The question came from Luigi.

Perhaps Little Red’s previous praise had piqued Luigi’s curiosity about the taste of Magic Marrow Meat, so he stepped out of the colorful ball pit and looked closely at the Magic Marrow Meat on the plates.

Angel shook his head: ”No, they’re all Magic Marrow Meat, just different ages.”

Curious, Luigi reached out and poked the Magic Marrow Meat, finding that its exterior was indeed as Little Red described—slick and smooth, soft and elastic, like lard or some kind of gelatin. The surface had a certain memory effect, as the poked hole could return to its original expanded form shortly.

”What Little Red just ate is the Magic Marrow Meat from the plate on the left, which is the tenderest one, with an age of about fifteen to sixteen years, making its taste relatively fresh and sweet.”

”The Magic Marrow Meat on the middle plate, aged around a hundred years, compared to the fifteen to sixteen-year-old meat, is more palatable and chewy.”

”As for the Magic Marrow Meat on the far right, its age is close to two hundred years, resulting in a drier, chewier taste.”

Under Angel’s introduction, even Little Red, Luigi, and Laplace couldn’t resist trying different ages of Magic Marrow Meat.

In the end, the Magic Marrow Meat received unanimous praise from everyone.

Although Luigi and Laplace had eaten better food, considering the Magic Marrow Meat was presented by Angel... if comparing Magic Marrow Meat with the previous Magic Bread made by Angel, then this Magic Marrow Meat was simply the ultimate taste.

Perhaps due to age differences, their taste preferences varied as well, with Little Red preferring the fresh and sweet style, Angel liking the chewy one, while Luigi and Laplace favored the drier texture.

According to Luigi, the drier it is, the more meat-like it tastes.

Simply put, it’s all about loving meat.

Because Magic Marrow Meat possesses the growth trait, as long as a little bit is left during eating and then nourished with any energy, it will regrow, so no one needs to worry about the Magic Marrow Meat being completely eaten, allowing them to eat boldly and freely.

Especially when watching the projection in the mirror that takes up an entire wall while munching on meat, it feels very leisurely.

Although the presentation hasn’t started yet, the projection in the mirror is just a misty white fog.

But hints of shadow gathering on the main presentation stage can be seen, indicating the presentation will start soon.

While waiting for the presentation to begin, Angel and Little Red chatted a bit.

They mainly talked about Everything House information and Little Red’s daily work.

However, Little Red’s understanding of Everything House seemed superficial; most of her days are spent cultivating by the Dog Deacon’s side. As for her work, it relies on her ability to analyze information about the Empty-hearted People.

When talking about her talent ability, Little Red didn’t shy away, actively sharing a lot of information about the Empty-hearted People or Empty-hearted corpses she discovered through her ability.

This included the fragmented Empty-hearted body she had observed earlier.

”Big Sister Head-hair just analyzed very accurately, from that fragmented corpse’s heart, I also sensed the scent of Telekinesis infiltration, indicating it’s a Mind Beast.”

”Furthermore, deep within its brain, there is a scent of confusion. This scent corresponds to entry 231 - lost.”

”This suggests it likely fell into the Mirror Domain because it got lost.”

”Besides the scent of confusion, I also perceived another scent which fills its subconscious. This scent matches entry 937—domestication.”

”This indicates it might not be a wild Mind Beast, but rather a domesticated one.”

Little Red’s analysis was not limited to this; she seemed to mark many scents numerically and record them as entries to extract deeper information.

Aside from lost and domestication, she also deciphered ’darkness’ and ’ten-star tenacity’ entries.

”Darkness” means the attribute of that Mind Beast possibly leans towards darkness.

”Ten-star tenacity” implies its thick skin and endurance, comparable to a ten-star commission in terms of toughness.

Everything House has twelve star levels of commissions, and ten-star commissions are typically not taken by investigators. Even Deacons dare not touch ten-star commissions.

If compared with Wizard levels, the difficulty of a ten-star commission could probably be handled by a third-level Wizard.

Similarly, it indicates the pre-death rank of the Mind Beast’s remnant could have reached third-level Wizard level.

This is very intriguing.

It’s known that the strongest on the surface of Hante World are the five Three-Star Mind Masters.

Three-Star Mind Masters can, at most, be equivalent to ordinary third-level Wizards, who can barely tackle magical beasts or Mind Beasts of the same level.

Yet Little Red says this Mind Beast, comparable to third-level Wizards, had an owner.

Three-Star Mind Masters definitely can’t reach the level of taming Mind Beasts.

Could it be the legendary Four-Star Mind Master?

Angel had once heard gossip about Four-Star Mind Masters from Laplace, but it was a matter of thousands of years ago.

In the past hundred years, there hasn’t been any information on Four-Star Mind Masters.

Yet now there’s someone capable of domesticating Three-Star Mind Beasts.

According to the pattern, it is highly likely that only Four-Star Mind Masters can tame Three-Star Mind Beasts, does this indicate a Four-Star Mind Master has existed in recent years?

If this is true, it’s bad news for the Southern Domain.

The Southern Domain and Hante World have always been in contention; a Four-Star Mind Master joining the fray might cause catastrophic damage to the Southern Domain’s front.

It could even lead to an invasion of the Southern Domain itself.

Of course, this might just be Angel overthinking, but it’s not impossible.

Angel thinks it’s necessary to give a small reminder to fellow Wizards.

How to remind them? Angel has a plan. First, inform Lord Rhein with the intelligence, then log it into the Wilderness Traveler News supplement three—Intelligence Section, and when the Tea Party begins, the matter should spread out.

However, whether outsiders believe it or not, that will be irrelevant to Angel.