When the black shadow slowed down its momentum, the spectators finally noticed that it was the bird which always accompanied Baron Milk, who just killed Parasite Queen.
And everyone was shocked into a dead silence.
A small bird just killed someone?! Not just “someone”, but THE Parasite Queen!
They quickly realized that Baron Milk muttered the name of the bird to give it orders!
Baron Milk killed Parasite Queen! When reaching this conclusion, the audience all bellowed in rage.
Judging from how the bird destroyed Parasite Queen, they also understood how Selena lost yesterday.
No wonder this level-1 apprentice had so much confidence to challenge Sky Tower. He possessed a monster bird who could wield such deadly speed and power!
…
It was completely normal for someone to die in the tower. However, it would be a big problem if the victim was the charming princess of thousands of people.
Curses and hateful glares were directed at Baron Milk. People were not sure about what happened during the match. However, they no longer cared about anything else since their beloved star just died in front of them. From what could be seen, Parasite Queen already lost consciousness on the ground, but Baron Milk did not hesitate to go for the kill! This was murder!
Baron Milk stood in the center of the stage and remained motionless under people’s cursing words. He only sneered. When Toby finally obliterated Parasite Queen’s previous shell, he was satisfied at getting the final revenge.
The raging fire in Angor’s eyes died down. He felt good and refreshed even though people were still swearing at him.
At least he was alive.
Seeing what “Angor” just did, Baroque’s expression changed drastically.
“Something’s not right!”
“What is it, Mister Baroque?” Melantha gave him a puzzled look.
“This can’t be… No!” Baroque kept shaking his head in denial. “It shouldn’t be like this. Bouy would never destroy her old host because it contained the spores of Green Velvet. Besides… Bouy never used that kind of expression in front of everyone before.”
Melantha also revealed a frightened look. She pointed at the center of hate in the middle of the arena with a trembling hand. “Do you mean—that’s—”
“He’s Angor. The original Angor! Not Bouy!” Baroque could not believe his own words but the truth already proved so. Even with Angor’s memory, Bouy could never mimic the boy’s character. Also, the familiar bird would not trust Bouy’s order so easily.
The answer was obvious.
Bouy lost the battle which no one could see. Angor survived!
Baroque stared at Angor with squinted eyes. “Well well… I underestimated you. A fresh-new apprentice who knew how to defend his soul? He can even retaliate. Sunders must have put a lot of effort into his student. This Angor kid must have something really interesting on him.”
“Sunders implanted something in Angor’s soul. This is the only explanation. Otherwise, there’s no way Bouy would fail.” Melantha grimaced at the situation. If what they thought was right, Angor was much more valuable to Sunders than they expected.
“Now I REALLY want to know the reason behind Sunders’ decision, and why he put such a powerful defense inside Angor’s soul.”
Bouy’s death more or less surprised Baroque, but the surprise did not last long. To Baroque, this spy from Floating Mech City was not much different from the other apprentices.
If Bouy did succeed, he would be glad to make further plans. On the other hand, he would not mind her failure at all. A mere spy was nothing important.
Baroque remained calm as always. Even if Angor would question why Bouy came to steal his body, the boy had nothing to drag the old man into this.
As Baroque believed, those two could not possibly communicate as souls. Even if they could, Bouy would never reveal his name to Angor.
All in all, what happened during the match was only Parasite Queen’s personal decision. It had nothing to do with Floating Mech City.
At this moment, Baroque still did not know that he could no longer keep himself out of the matter.
Maybe he did not explicitly ask Bouy to do anything. Yet he did not know anything about Angor’s special soul talent which allowed him to read clues from Parasite Queen’s emotions.
“Since Sunders placed a defense mechanism in the soul of his student, he should have already learned about what happened here. Don’t worry though. What Bouy did has nothing to do with us,” Baroque spoke in a careless tone.
Melantha still looked troubled, but she understood what Baroque said. At least, with Bouy’s death, she could not expose anything else.
“I see. Bouy is only another common fighter in Sky Tower,” Melantha replied in an emotionless voice.
…
Sunders did not put anything in Angor’s soul. Melantha and Baroque’s assumption was incorrect from start to end.
And of course, Sunders did not know what just happened to Angor. Yet.
Inside Phantom Island, Sunders abruptly looked up from his desk and toward the direction of the underground market.
“Huh… I sense something familiar,” muttered Sunders as he revealed a determined look. In the next second, his body vanished from his study.
On the arena, Angor was using all his will to keep himself upright.
He did not know how he won the battle against Parasite Queen, but he only managed to save his soul, not his body. Now that Parasite Queen’s soul had disappeared, he had regained control of his body. However, the Green Velvet spores still remained in him.
Standing up was the best thing he could do right now.