“That is to say, you noticed all of this, but you didn’t care?” Angel couldn’t help but slam the table: “Do you realize that if you had stopped Eulica earlier, none of this would have happened! This is all because of your inaction!”
Lyon’s eyes were also somewhat moist, but he was caught between his mentor’s lover and the subjects of his domain, struggling to suppress his emotions all along. Now, with Angel’s interrogation, it seemed as though Lyon was also venting the emotions he could hardly control.
In the Wizards’ Realm, an Apprentice confronting an Official Wizard was an insurmountable chasm. Hence, adjusting their attitude and learning etiquette were unspoken rules that every Apprentice had to abide by.
At another time, Suise might have already punished Angel for his disrespect.
But having witnessed Angel’s battle with Eulica the day before, Suise inwardly acknowledged Angel’s strength, and his Alchemy Technique was already sufficient for Suise to regard him as an equal. Thus, faced with Angel’s questioning, Suise was not angry.
Besides, Sanders was present as well.
Suise spoke calmly: “I did indeed notice Eulica’s symptoms quite early. However, at that time I could not determine the cause of Eulica’s condition, and I always thought it was due to an injury to her Spirit Sea, which led to this sudden change.”
“That’s why I tried every means to concoct a potion for the restoration of spiritual power.”
Angel: “Fine, let’s say that’s true, but knowing something was wrong with Eulica, why didn’t you restrict her actions beforehand?”
Suise didn’t answer, instead, Sanders gently patted Angel’s shoulder.
A soothing force flowed from Sanders’s palm into Angel, gradually pulling back his emotions that were on the verge of spiraling out of control.
“What’s done is done, there are no ‘ifs.’ Take a moment to calm down,” Sanders advised Angel and then turned to Suise, “I have a few questions for you.”
“Illusion Master, please ask.”
“Does the effect of the Crimson Authority drive people mad?”
Suise shook his head: “I’ve never handled the Crimson Authority myself, so I cannot confirm its exact effects. However, Eulica has used it, and according to her, it confuses people’s minds.”
Confuses people’s minds? Sanders’s eyebrows twitched, noting that it was indeed a control method similar to soul branding or thought imprinting.
“The manor’s servants in the underground cellar were affected by the red light emitted by the Crimson Authority; this is beyond doubt,” Sanders paused, “But how exactly was Eulica affected?”
Eulica and those servants exhibited similar symptoms like bloodlust and madness, but upon closer examination, it’s evident that they were two different kinds of changes.
The servants were influenced instantaneously by the Crimson Authority, while Eulica had shown signs of a change in character long before, and although the eventual result was madness, it seemed more like a gradual progression.
As Angel had pointed out earlier, Eulica wouldn’t have knowingly released the Crimson Authority upon herself, would she?
So, this is indeed strange.
Suise responded to this with his own perplexity, “I’m not sure either, the Crimson Authority is too enigmatic, perhaps this Mysterious Object possesses a kind of force field, in which one gradually comes under influence?”
Suise’s answer was, so far, the most plausible speculation. But the specifics were still inconclusive.
“That being the case, why then did you leave the Crimson Authority with Eulica?” Angel suddenly asked: “Last night, I clearly saw Eulica retrieve the Crimson Authority from within her own space.”
Suise sighed, “You’re mistaken, she didn’t take it out from her space, but from within her own body.”
“She fused the Crimson Authority into her body?”
Suise nodded: “Precisely for this reason, even if I wanted to take it away, I couldn’t.”