Could it really be trying to seek revenge against the top three numbered wizards? But judging by some details, that theory was rather implausible.
As Angel’s thoughts swirled, he finally reached the external corridor of the first floor.
Because the external corridor was already connected to the fifth floor, there was no need to take a specific path. Angel could simply walk forward to reach the entrance of the fifth floor.
Upon reaching the fifth floor, Angel was immediately hit by a pungent, acrid burnt smell.
It was the odor emitted when certain compounds were scorched and melted.
Angel hurried forward, rounding a corner where he saw the still-raging fire not far away.
It was precisely the corridor bar seen earlier in the Authority Eye.
From the naked eye, there was no sign of the Fire Scale Summoned Demon near the bar. Angel worried that it might have already made its way to room 02, so he quickly ran forward.
As he passed by the burning area, Angel didn’t look into the fire, but Dangross, hanging on the Blood Night Shelter, glanced over with a puzzled look.
Dangross felt puzzled not because there was something wrong with the flames, but because it seemed to catch a familiar scent.
Where had it smelled that before? Dangross couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.
Through the main control node, Angel was already quite familiar with the fifth floor, and he rushed straight towards room 02 without pausing.
Upon reaching the corridor of room 02, Angel saw the Fire Scale Summoned Demon, having finished burning a potted plant, looking at the door to room 02 with a puzzled expression.
Seeing this, Angel breathed a slight sigh of relief; it seemed the Fire Scale Summoned Demon hadn’t entered room 02 yet.
"Hey, look over here!"
Angel called out to the Fire Scale Summoned Demon, who was concentrating intently in the distance.
The Fire Scale Summoned Demon was startled by the sudden voice, jumped up from the ground, fell, hurriedly crawled back up, and struck a battle pose, jumping around blindly until it finally faced Angel’s direction.
"Dili, gulu, keke." When the Fire Scale Summoned Demon saw Angel, it made some unintelligible noises, then its ugly face went from surprise to doubt before quickly putting away all expressions.
The sudden expression change baffled Angel.
What the Fire Scale Summoned Demon did next left Angel even more bewildered.
The Fire Scale Summoned Demon turned its back to Angel, bent down deliberately exposing some indescribable part, and shook its bony hips.
Angel initially didn’t understand what the Fire Scale Summoned Demon was doing, but when it stood back up and beckoned him with a finger, Angel suddenly realized.
He was being provoked.
Regarding being provoked, Angel felt indifferent, merely finding the scene in front of him extremely absurd.
However, through the Fire Scale Summoned Demon’s absurd behavior, Angel faintly discerned some answers.
When faced with the researchers on the fourth floor, the Fire Scale Summoned Demon showed escape and scapegoating. But when it saw Angel, it showed provocation.
Angel wasn’t consciously concealing the pressure of being an Official Wizard. So, the Fire Scale Summoned Demon wasn’t bullying the weak and fearing the strong; its real purpose was provoking Angel.
Angel didn’t know the Fire Scale Summoned Demon prior to this, so forming a feud through grievances was impossible. Therefore, the best explanation seemed to be: The Fire Scale Summoned Demon had mistaken his identity.
Perhaps it mistook Angel for one of the top three-number Wizards on the fifth floor.
Angel’s speculation wasn’t baseless; he recalled the three expressions the Fire Scale Summoned Demon showed upon seeing him, starting with delight.
Why delight? Because it saw its target... Its rampant destruction on the fifth floor might have been to lure out the Wizards from the fifth floor.
The following expression was doubt. The Fire Scale Summoned Demon clearly focused on Angel’s face back then, perhaps wondering why Angel had no number marked, which puzzled it.
Finally, retracting all emotions. That coincided with when Angel’s pressure arrived; the Fire Scale Summoned Demon sensed the pressure and realized the newcomer was an Official Wizard. In the laboratory, the only Wizards on record are the top three sequences.
After this series of emotional changes, the Fire Scale Summoned Demon seemingly decided Angel was its target.
As for whether this speculation was correct? Angel didn’t know, but the Fire Scale Summoned Demon certainly had some understanding.
So, he might as well ask directly.
"Are you wrecking things here looking for me?" Using Universal Language, Angel asked. Typically, with the Fire Scale Summoned Demon’s intelligence, it surely couldn’t understand, but this particular Fire Scale Summoned Demon doesn’t fit "typical circumstances."
The Fire Scale Summoned Demon’s expression told Angel it understood.
Yet, it didn’t respond to Angel.
Instead, it displayed an ugly and eerie smile, then did another provocative move, and swiftly...
It turned around and ran like the wind.
...
Showing off and then fleeing, perhaps for the Fire Scale Summoned Demon, is quite thrilling.
Its emotional fluctuations grew increasingly exaggerated due to this thrill, with peculiar "keke" laughter incessantly echoing.
However, this thrill began to change as it noticed something strange.
The Fire Scale Summoned Demon realized that the more it fled, the closer it somehow ended up to Angel.
Most importantly, Angel wasn’t even pursuing; Angel remained stationary, quietly watching it. That expressionless expression made the Fire Scale Summoned Demon feel like it became a joke.
By now, it wasn’t laughing anymore, but instead growing uneasy, speeding up; it certainly didn’t want to be caught by Angel.
The Fire Scale Summoned Demon’s speed was distinctly different from a typical Fire Scale Summoned Demon.
Its speed was so fast that even an afterimage couldn’t be captured; even some Official Wizards would struggle to reach such levels.
Yet, this terrifying speed didn’t distance the Fire Scale Summoned Demon from Angel, who remained standing nearby.
Angel hadn’t moved throughout, evident from the unchanged corridor layout beside him.
This was clearly abnormal.
Recognizing this, the Fire Scale Summoned Demon suddenly halted.
Like a dog, it sniffed the surrounding air, and suddenly, it seemed to have caught a scent...
At that moment, Angel also raised an eyebrow, realizing this Fire Scale Summoned Demon’s capabilities surpassed mere intelligence; it could discern Magic Patterns and even detect Illusion Nodes hidden in the shadows.
Indeed, Illusion Nodes.
From the first glance at the Fire Scale Summoned Demon, when Angel called "look here," he also set up numerous Illusion Nodes using Echo Illusion around the area.
The reason the Fire Scale Summoned Demon couldn’t escape was because illusions guided its direction.
And now, upon realizing something was off, the first thing the Fire Scale Summoned Demon did was sniff around, ultimately successfully detecting Illusion Nodes.
That surprised Angel.
While Angel hadn’t deliberately concealed the Illusion Nodes, catching them amid the swirling surrounding energy was no ordinary feat.
This left Angel even more curious about the origins of this Fire Scale Summoned Demon.