Above The Sky
Chapter 610 - 610 579 Huai Guang Rescue Team 33

610: Chapter 579: Huai Guang Rescue Team (3/3) 610: Chapter 579: Huai Guang Rescue Team (3/3) [The Sharp-tongued Kid]

Chancellor Moze’s eyes shimmered with a dark purple light, “Don’t think you can escape.”

“Wait here and vanish along with this Subspace Labyrinth.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Chancellor Moze’s projection slowly dissipated—after all, this was the Subspace Labyrinth, and he wasn’t physically present.

A remote projection simply couldn’t exist for too long in this distorted Domain of Void.

Right at that moment, Ian suddenly sensed a new mark on himself.

It was incredibly covert, but who was Ian?

Even the Fae had to marvel at his Spirit Energy talent, and he quickly noticed it, “Interesting, is this Chancellor Moze’s Spirit Energy?

It seems to be some kind of curse or mark…”

Most people can’t remove a mark because they can’t detect it, and even if they did, they wouldn’t know the method.

But Ian was a genius!

“Silver Chip, identify!”

[Foreboding Mark]

[The marked individual will share perceptions and a portion of surface thoughts with the marker.]

“I see, so this chancellor is indeed a man thirsting for knowledge—sharing perception and thoughts even, it gives one the feeling of peeking at the answers.”

Without the slightest hesitation, Ian used his Spirit Energy to remove Moze’s mark.

This thing, as long as it wasn’t discovered, couldn’t be removed, but once found, removing it was as easy for Ian as dusting off his hands.

However, one must admit, this Spirit Energy was indeed quite powerful, even Ian felt a bit envious.

Think about it, if he just needed to look at someone, leave a mark, and then share that person’s perceptions, how much information could he gather?

If he had enough marked individuals, the amount of information he could collect might even rival a Prophet!

Similar to this Spirit Energy ability is Weyges’s Whispering Winds.

He too can hear the surrounding sounds with his Spirit Energy, but that’s just sound.

Compared to the all-encompassing perception, even sharing parts of thought like Foreboding Mark, it is far inferior.

It’s enough proof that Chancellor Moze is essentially a madman.

But then again, who isn’t?

“Things are gradually becoming clearer.”

Ian stretched his limbs; after changing into his previous life’s appearance, some details also needed to be changed…

such as weapon handling habits, certain postures during fights, these all needed adjustments.

—The biggest BOSS in the Subspace Labyrinth was clearly the ‘Deceased Monarch.’

He was currently resting at the exit of the labyrinth, healing his serious injuries inflicted by the Fiery Flame Land researchers while preventing everyone else from leaving.

—Then, there was the only remaining researcher faction, the ‘Duke of Solin’ lineage.

They must still hold significant power to be able to deter the Deceased Monarch and not be destroyed by him.

—Next, Sio and the Spirit of the Fairy, their whereabouts are still unknown.

Ian felt it was likely near the Deceased Monarch, but it could also be elsewhere; he would use Foresight View and the information from the monitoring room to locate these friends and the friends of his friends.

—Lastly, there was the Huai Guang Rescue Team.

Ian was certain that the Huai Guang faction must have grasped some intelligence—Lubeck, the former mercenary, was a member of Huai Guang.

Although not officially joined, anyone acknowledged by Huai Guang definitely had their special traits.

Finding him might also yield a portion of the information.

This was Ian’s current plan.

“Frost Butterfly, do you feel anything?”

While accessing the monitoring room’s surveillance to find any abnormal or peculiar areas, Ian asked the genuine Little Fairy, “Do you sense the presence of other Fae?”

“Hmm…”

Although Frost Butterfly had previously been somewhat listless due to transforming into a shadowy fairy, upon hearing Ian’s question, she lifted her head and seriously sensed the surroundings, then slightly shook her head, “Nope.

The aura here…

is very chaotic and noisy.

Frost Butterfly can neither hear nor sense the presence of other fairies.”

“Hmm, it seems they aren’t nearby.”

Ian nodded slightly.

He ruled out the group of miniature gardens closest to the monitoring room, then continued to observe, “Let me see…

The fight was really fierce, and though there indeed are some survivors, their situation isn’t much better than in Azure City.”

“It’s just that most of those in Azure City were innocent civilians, whereas many here died with much on their conscience.”

Regrettably, no traces of a fairy or Sio were found in the Spirit Wisdom Institute’s monitoring area.

However, that didn’t mean there were no discoveries.

“This is…”

Ian saw that in a miniature garden about eight choices away from the monitoring room, there was a Demihuman cat-person’s corpse that hadn’t been dead for long.

In itself, this wasn’t anything special; after all, teams from other forces were continually converging toward the labyrinth, so the appearance of one or two bodies wasn’t out of the ordinary.

If he hadn’t been strong enough when he walked through the door, he would have been just another corpse.

But Ian, with his extraordinary vision, noticed a mark on the body.

It was the emblem of Huai Guang Church.

“Huai Guang Church.”

Ian murmured softly to himself, “They fought here…

and suffered losses.

Surprising, with Redemption Light and Glorious Sword leading the team, they should have been able to handle Third Power Level, right?

Yet people died…

Could there be another Nightmare Spawn?”

His mood was actually somewhat somber—everything else aside, those willing to join the rescue team were essentially good people.

Whether it was the elf archer’s phantom he had seen outside, or the cat-person’s phantom that appeared on the monitors, they were all good people trying to use their power to prevent more deaths.”

Another good person gone…

He shook his head gently.

Ian exhaled sharply, turned, and walked towards the exit of the monitoring room, “Just in time.

It’s my turn to make an appearance under this new identity.”

Meanwhile.

On the edge of Avak Domain, just outside the Subspace Labyrinth.

A dusky purple mist of Spirit Energy gathered, sparkling with dust-like stardust, finally coalescing into the form of Chancellor Moze.

This scholar, always with intellect in hand, was now frowning deeply, looking in the direction of the Central Research Laboratory.

“To think they removed my mark so promptly…

intriguing.

Which major force’s elite is this, to prepare in advance against my Spirit Energy…?”

The elder with purple eyes narrowed them, then smiled.

His laugh was hearty, without a hint of the anger from learning about the annihilation of the Spirit Wisdom Institute investigators, “Very well, things have finally gotten a bit interesting.

I was wondering why it was going so smoothly, worried it might be some sort of trap.”

“Split, is this your hidden play, or perhaps from the keepers of knowledge in the City of Knowledge?

But it doesn’t matter.”

“I didn’t plan on winning anyway… As long as you can’t win, it’s the biggest gain for me.”

He looked up at the thunder and sun above the clouds.

Chancellor Moze shook his head gently, “The vigor of youth…

His Majesty Inaga’s legacy, huh…”

“If it really is His Majesty Inaga’s legacy, then the scale of this incident is definitely going to be beyond what anyone can imagine.”

At the same time.

The black-haired Knight girded with a Longsword and Alchemical Firearms, the Charged Water Gun as a sign of Ian’s identity, naturally couldn’t be used casually, so he took a few spares from the belt of a Spirit Wisdom Institute guard he had taken down, selecting the ones he felt most comfortable with and that had plenty of bullets.

The Entangling Void Armor was now covered on the surface with a Rock Armor Laminate for disguise, so others could only tell that he might be an Earth Ascender at most.

The almost invisible Frost Butterfly hid in Ian’s waist pack, with only a pair of little fairy eyes observing the surroundings.

Everything was ready.

It was time to go and help the good friends of the Huai Guang Rescue Team.