This posed no problem for Angel and the others, but the short-haired woman was terrified, collapsing on the ground and retreating constantly, trembling against a ruin.
She felt as though she’d stirred up trouble; this group wasn’t ordinary people; they had Transcendents!
In ordinary people’s eyes, wizards are usually both admired and feared, admired for their wondrous powers and feared for the very same transcendental strength. Overall, however, admiration generally outweighs fear.
But from the perspective of ordinary people mixed in The Garden Labyrinth, fear of wizards outweighs admiration because Transcendents coming here without harvests will often resort to plundering ordinary teams, and if not just plundering, some even resort to violence.
To put it bluntly, this is a bunch of Junior Apprentices flaunting power and robbing before ordinary people.
Now, the short-haired woman had mentally classified Vay and the others as such individuals.
She desperately wanted to run, but the battle’s aftermath carried an overwhelming intensity, and after her initial sprint to escape, her legs had completely given way. She could only lean against the ruins, trembling and praying that she encountered the type of Transcendent that didn’t kill.
The battle between the Ghosteye Witch and Vay continues.
Vay’s initial misjudgment not only embarrassed him in front of Dox, but he also heard the cold snort of the master from his family, which made Vay break out in a cold sweat.
In the subsequent battles, Vay dared not be so reckless and began to conform to the norms, fighting the Ghosteye Witch in the normal way.
The so-called normal way is what’s taught in the books: activate the Earth Force Field to reduce the Ghosteye Witch’s speed, find its weaknesses at equal strength, and weaken it a bit; if you’re confident of an instant kill, directly attack the single eye of the Ghosteye Witch.
The book’s teachings aren’t wrong, but they’re too rigid. Ghosteye Witches have a certain level of intelligence, and if they realize they can’t win, they’ll definitely flee; they won’t inexplicably charge into your Earth Force Field.
But this particular Ghosteye Witch misestimated Vay’s strength.
Under this "beautiful" misunderstanding, it didn’t run but instead continued attempting to approach Vay to kick him a few times, trying to break through the Defense Spell.
But upon getting close, the Ghosteye Witch found itself in trouble.
Unlike before when it could come and go freely, this time, when it got near to Vay, it was immediately sealed by a pale yellow force field, disabling its greatest talent—speed.
Without speed, the Ghosteye Witch was nothing more than a slowly moving target.
After all, Vay was a peak apprentice, and he had the ability to instantly kill this low-level monster. Three continuous Sharpstone Arrows pierced through the single eye atop the Ghosteye Witch’s head.
Amidst a flurry of dust, the Ghosteye Witch’s corpse collapsed with a roar.
Vay breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Dox, making a "done deal" gesture.
He didn’t even know why he made this gesture to Dox, probably trying to regain some dignity.
Earlier, Dox had rolled his eyes numerous times behind his back, but when facing Vay, considering his old friend’s self-esteem and the Black Earl’s intimidation, he still smiled and nodded, "Well done."
"Hmph!"
Just as Dox finished speaking, the Black Earl’s cold snort came instead, directed at Vay.
The stone slab carrying the Black Earl even flew directly off Vay.
He would rather waste energy flying than stay on this foolish descendant. It was a total disgrace to the Noah Clan!
Vay was at a loss, not knowing what to do.
At this moment, Angel suddenly spoke, as if to assist Vay out of the predicament: "Come over and take a look."
Everyone followed the voice to see Angel squatting beside the Ghosteye Witch’s body, inspecting something.
"What’s there to see? There aren’t valuable materials on a Ghosteye Witch unless you sell the whole corpse, but it wouldn’t fetch more than ten Magic Crystals. Do you need the money that much?" asked Dox.
Angel replied, "I didn’t ask you to look for treasure; I just wanted to see if you feel anything special about it. Any spiritual senses tingling?"
Angel stared unblinkingly at Dox.
Dox said, exasperated, "Are you treating me like a human detector? A dead Ghosteye Witch, what kind of impression would it make?"
Angel touched his chin: "No tingling? That’s odd."
It was Dox’s decision for them to investigate the scream, and Angel had thought perhaps Dox’s spiritual senses had been triggered.
Upon seeing the Ghosteye Witch, Angel became more convinced.
Because in the central area of the Naraku Abyss City Underground Labyrinth, which is also the most core place, the location of the Hanging Jail Stairway, there were a large number of Ghosteye Witches.
Although there are Ghosteye Witches outside the Hanging Jail Stairway in the Nightmare Realm, it doesn’t mean there would be Ghosteye Witches at the corresponding place in reality. However, this coincidence caught Angel’s attention.
"Then use the True Sight to trace back this Ghosteye Witch, see where it came from?" Angel asked again.
"Came from?" Dox wondered out loud, "Are you implying it used to live in the underground labyrinth?"
Angel: "It’s just a guess."
Dox frowned: "Couldn’t you trace it back yourself, why rely on me?"
The reason Angel wanted Dox to trace it back was still due to spiritual sensitivity, to see if it could be triggered. Yet, Angel did not answer and just gestured for Dox to get on with it.
Though full of complaints, Dox complied.
"Continue northward, at least two miles, and use the True Sight when we reach the location," Dox said.
Angel wasn’t satisfied with this answer, he persistently asked: "Still nothing?"
Dox replied irritably, "I’m a Bloodline side, don’t treat me like a Prophet Wizard!"
After hesitating, Dox’s eyes suddenly lit up, "If you really want a prophecy, isn’t the Black Earl here? He’s lived so long, surely he has dabbled in prophecy. Let him prophesy where it came from, problem solved."
With that, Dox took the lead in looking at the stone slab floating in mid-air.
Angel thought for a moment, feeling this might be an option, and so he too looked toward the Black Earl’s stone face.
The Black Earl, although aware that Dox was stirring trouble, didn’t mind, as when Angel mentioned the Ghosteye Witch might have emerged from underground, he had already begun his secret probing.
After a long pause, the Black Earl spoke, "I made a pact with a Prophet Wizard, and under the witness of the Bell of Inquiry, I can borrow his ability within limits: Lucky Choice."
Lucky Choice, a Divination from the Bell of Inquiry system, an advanced version of Lucky Sensing.
Somewhat like Lucky Detection, it can inquire about the "yes" and "no" of a matter.
However, Lucky Detection is a trick, its principle explained by Jon as "precise service provided by big data," reflecting one aspect of computing power for prophecy system wizards.
While Lucky Choice is a real transcendent prophecy spell, needing the "Bell of Inquiry’s" permission to use, and its accuracy is much higher than Lucky Detection.
"I just used up the recent usage of Lucky Choice, using the Ghosteye Witch’s corpse as a medium, I asked two questions."
The group immediately focused their attention, wanting to hear what the Black Earl discovered.
"The first question was, did it originate from the underground labyrinth?"
The Black Earl paused before saying, "The answer, no."
Angel’s brow furrowed, did he misjudge?
"The second question, can it lead to the real entrance to the underground labyrinth?"
This time, the Black Earl answered swiftly, "The answer, yes."