He assumed that something accidentally gave away his position. In this case, using an illusion could help him be fully hidden again.
The “fake Angor” followed Shadow’s footprints and walked to one side of the castle openly while pretending that he didn’t care about being discovered.
Angor moved behind his image under the effect of Infinite Reticence. By this, even if someone could found his location from afar, they would only see his illusion instead.
And that meant a chance to get away in case of danger.
Even though the atmosphere still felt suppressive, Angor felt as if his mental pressure had mostly disappeared. Maybe because of the lack of undead presence.
The footprints ended at a drainage pipe along the castle wall. Angor looked up and saw a window on the third floor left open where its curtains were flapping in the wind.
Did Shadow climb this pipe?
But there was no way anyone could sneak into a wizard’s residence by such simple means.
Angor asked his illusion to put a finger on the wall and received a very weak mana feedback. There were magic arrays inside the wall, but they weren’t activated.
Shadow did say that Isabella agreed to shut off all wizard-level mechanism in the castle so that Shadow could do his personal challenge. There were only several apprentices left behind.
This would explain the unprotected entrance.
Angor asked his phantom to climb the pipe first just in case. A moment later, he went up after making sure nothing was wrong.
Before going into the window which led to a hallway on the third floor, Angor sensed energy ripples.
It seemed someone or something was hidden behind the window. Since he could sense it so easily, it was either something weak or something pretending to be weak.
A good choice was to use his illusion to scout ahead.
Sunders’ nightmare illusions helped him wield illusions unlike anything known to this world. For example, he could create a girl’s room so real that they became a physical reality in Flowey’s view. Her toys, her books… even if she was a soul now, Angor could let her feel anything she wanted.
Also, Angor had read about “virtual reality” from several books in his tablet, which even imitated other senses such as taste, smell, and bodily pleasure. However, he wasn’t strong enough to create such illusions right now.
But now, he could still easily use an illusion to scan for traps.
The “fake Angor” jumped into the window when a woman covered in blood immediately came out of hiding and attacked with a machete in her hand, obviously going for the kill.
“Fake Angor” grinned at the woman and blinked away to the other side of the hallway.
“How… A spell? Or physical skill?” The woman was surprised for a brief moment, and with her weapon raised, she quickly went for “Angor” again.
With another shift, “Angor” reappeared behind the woman.
The real Angor had already entered the window in the meantime. Together with his illusion, he went for the woman’s nape area with a mana-enhanced karate chop.
She collapsed with a yelp.
Angor reactivated Infinite Reticence and walked into the shadows while his illusion began to examine the strange woman.
Now that the brief battle was over, Angor noticed that this one was also naked, but her body was fully covered in bloodstains.
Did she have something to do with the undead spirits outside? Maybe she was also the “victims”.
However, a further examination didn’t reveal any wounds on her except for her swollen neck, which was from the previous attack.
That wasn’t her own blood?