Angel looked over at Dox, wanting to ask for his opinion.
However, Dox put on an innocent face, "I’ve already said everything I have to say before. I have no opinion on her, and I don’t know the situation behind this matter."
Dox spoke with certainty, but Angel didn’t believe him at all. Dox must have discovered something in the Princess Castle, otherwise why did he mention "immediate interests" before and urge Angel to confront the Princess?
However, since Dox was unwilling to speak, Angel didn’t press further. The truth here would eventually surface. If necessary, sending Dororo would surely uncover something.
Shortly after Dox finished speaking, Lady Melo suddenly said, "Oh, Old Porter is out."
Following Lady Melo’s gaze, Angel indeed saw Old Porter approaching from the direction of the back hall.
Angel exhaled, "Forget it. Let others investigate this. Since she dared to mess with people from the Barbarian Cave, the answer will surely come out eventually."
After a pause, Angel said to Lady Melo and Dox, "As you please, I have some matters to discuss with Old Porter."
After speaking, Angel did not say anything else, he stood up and walked directly towards Old Porter.
Old Porter saw Angel approaching, his eyes and expression filled with excitement, and his lips even quivered a bit because of it. Angel had seen this expression many times; anyone who had been in the Barbarian Cave would almost invariably show amazement. Therefore, without needing to ask, Angel knew what Old Porter wanted to say.
As Old Porter was about to speak, Angel interrupted him: "There are some things that are inconvenient to discuss here, let’s go to that secret room from before."
Old Porter immediately nodded and wanted to follow.
Angel then said: "By the way, make arrangements for these Talented Ones to come back later, I’ll go over there first and wait for you. Oh, and there are patrol guards outside, they’ll probably be here soon, so handle them. Don’t worry, I’ve set up an Illusionary Realm outside, they won’t be able to find out what’s going on inside, even if they come in, it’ll just be into the illusion."
"For more details, you can ask Lady Melo."
After speaking, Angel didn’t give Old Porter a chance to speak and left the hall first.
Although Old Porter really wanted to follow Angel, especially since he particularly wanted to discuss the Wilderness of Dreams at this moment, Angel had given the order, so he could only handle the matters here first.
Because he was eagerly wanting to see Angel, Old Porter’s actions became especially efficient, and he went to find Lady Melo to understand the situation as soon as possible.
Lady Melo was about to leave, not wanting to continue sitting at the same table with Red Sword Dox. But seeing Old Porter coming over, she paused.
As Old Porter was about to speak, Dox interjected first: "Didn’t the Transcendental Wizard say he needed you for something?"
Old Porter replied respectfully: "There are patrol guards coming this way outside, sir asked me to handle them first, these matters are more urgent. Once I finish, I’ll go find him."
Dox muttered under his breath: "Is that really the case?"
Old Porter: "Yes."
Dox looked a bit doubtful; he always felt it was strange for Angel to leave alone, but there’s nothing wrong with what Dox said.
"Forget it, I won’t think about it." Dox sighed, picked up his wine glass, and started drinking idly, his mind returning to how he could battle the Crowned Parrot.
Observing this, Old Porter hurriedly asked Lady Melo about the situation in Princess Castle, to determine how to deal with the guards.
While Lady Melo succinctly narrated the events to Old Porter, on the other side, Angel had already arrived in front of the secret room.
After pushing open the secret room, Angel didn’t enter, but casually pointed, constructing an illusion within the room.
If anyone were here at that moment, they would discover that the illusion inside the secret room was exactly Angel’s current image!
And Angel’s true body, after constructing the illusion, opened The Gate of Void, disappearing into it, quickly vanishing without a trace.
...
Dox’s suspicion was correct; Angel indeed had another agenda, which was related to Princess Castle.
However, this time, Angel did not plan to infiltrate Princess Castle again.
Instead, he came to the top of an uninhabited hill not far from Princess Castle, looking down at the distant and bustling, brightly shining castle.
Subsequently, Angel retrieved something from his bracelet.
Moments later, a ghostly shadow flickered across the hill, like a great bird sweeping through the night sky, diving directly within the range of Princess Castle...
Yet Angel remained standing on the hilltop, watching the continuously lively and brilliantly illuminated castle from afar.
...
At this time, on the third floor of Princess Castle, cries of agony kept echoing.
One servant after another was pushed into the third floor’s room by the extremely enraged Princess. Soon after, servants ran out of the room in terror.
And the Princess grabbed a servant, pouring some unknown potion into their mouth.
All the servants who were forced to drink the potion began to experience body elongation and transformation, with skeletal change and flesh writhing, causing this group of low-level apprentices to emit cries of anguish.
After wailing, came the screams.
The mutated servants did not escape death, ultimately bursting into bloody mist.
Once this batch of servants had all died, the Princess’s enraged gaze shifted, and another batch of new servants was brought up. Having witnessed the previous servants’ terrifying deaths, they trembled in fear in front of the Princess’s gaze.
The Princess, however, cared nothing for their lives, pointing at them: "Get in there, now, go inside!"
The servants’ screams could not elicit any sympathy from the Princess, only increasing her anger.
At this moment, a hand lightly tapped the Princess’s shoulder.
The Princess turned around angrily, only to find it was the Grey Crow Wizard, who had been standing silently beside her, who had touched her.
"The castle’s servants are almost all dead; if they die, no one will serve you anymore. Let them go." the Grey Crow Wizard said softly.
Princess: "No, absolutely not! If we don’t test which potion is effective, I won’t stop! If there are no people left, we’ll catch more, as the Kingdom lacks everything but people!"
The Grey Crow Wizard sighed lightly.
The Princess sneered: "Don’t think I’m doing this just for myself; your situation is just like mine. Look at your own face!"
Through the reflection in the nearby mirror, the Grey Crow Wizard could clearly see his own appearance.
The hood he had worn was now removed, as it was impossible to wear it any longer, with all kinds of spotted mushrooms covering his face and head. These mushrooms had grown all over his body, large and small, stretching his clothes to the limit.
Not only the Grey Crow Wizard, but also the Princess standing across from him, as well as the servants who had died escaping from the room, were in the same condition.
The mushrooms covered their entire bodies.
The cause of all this was the pink snake Slaikum, which had exploded when touched by the Princess.
Whatever the outsider had placed inside Slaikum was unknown, but when it exploded, a lot of mist spread out, and anyone who came into contact with it started growing mushrooms.
The first to suffer were the Princess and the Grey Crow Wizard.
And the mushrooms that grew seemed to be part of the body; cutting them off brought pain and they quickly regrew. The horrific growth terrified the Princess.
Though these mushrooms temporarily exhibited no negative effects, the ugliness was unacceptable to the Princess.
She had always pursued the most exquisite life, unable to tolerate any flaw upon her body.
Thus, she began trying all sorts of potions from Princess Town, making servants enter the room to become contaminated for testing.
But so far, none of the potions could curb the mushrooms’ growth.
As the Princess screamed in fury.
A strange laughter suddenly echoed within the now deserted castle.