Chapter 1068: Section 1069 Monty’s Obsession
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While everyone was still engaged in a boisterous discussion, Monty’s peculiarity went unnoticed by most due to the cover of his mask.
Only Sanders shot Monty a disdainful glance.
Although Sanders appeared aloof from the vortex of conversation, he was, in fact, observing the movements of everyone, especially Lord Monty.
Others may not be privy to the inside story, but as someone marked by the Thief of Time just like Monty, Sanders had a good understanding of some of Monty’s thoughts.
Indeed, the vast majority of those marked as “seeds” by the Thief of Time initially shared the same stance towards him.
Sanders was unwilling to be constrained by the Thief of Time and even held a loathing for him.
Initially, Monty felt the same way.
As a natural-born genius with lofty goals, truth was their sought-after shore; why would they allow the Thief of Time to steal their choices away? Even if it was a choice they would not have used.
But when did Monty start to change his train of thought?
Was it when he had exhausted the resources of the Frostmoon Alliance without being able to further advance? When he glimpsed the higher ranks of the world but found them out of reach? Or was it when during a particular cultivation session, he made that expedient choice and saw the Thief of Time flashing a satisfied grin, never to appear again?
Yes, Monty had not seen the Thief of Time again since that cultivation session.
That time, the Thief of Time took another choice away but also gave him ample compensation, allowing his combat strength to directly reach the pinnacle of the Southern Domain. Yet from that moment, he seemed unable to progress any further, and he never saw the Thief of Time again, despite making many life-changing decisions intentionally; the Thief of Time never reappeared.
He knew that the Thief of Time had completely given up on him.
Once the Thief of Time abandoned his “seed,” there were only two reasons: either the seed itself lacked ambition, or the seed’s “true choice” had been stolen from him.
Monty knew he was the latter.
From that day on, Monty no longer detested the Thief of Time and instead was eager to meet him once more, but to no avail.
Hence, the reason why he decided to breakthrough Legend using the method of Blood Soul Sacrifice from the Demon God’s descendant was precisely because he hadn’t seen the Thief of Time in so long.
It was only when there was no hope on the path ahead that he chose to take an unorthodox approach.
Therefore, his emotions were particularly complex upon hearing about the Thief of Time now.
Sanders could infer Monty’s psychological changes, but he actually sneered at Monty’s morbid mentality.
Monty never considered that his original choice might not have been wrong. The Thief of Time’s absence could just be leading him to make mistakes.
After all, the Thief of Time is an utter bastard.
He claims to fairly take the choices you abandon, but in reality, he’s always psychologically manipulating you, guiding you to make the decisions he wants.
That’s why Sanders was so outraged upon learning that Angel had been marked by the Thief of Time.
However, it seems Lord Monty has fallen completely into obsession, and even if you told him that his choices weren’t wrong, but it was the bastard Thief of Time who was wrong, he probably wouldn’t listen.
Obsession and inner demons have always been the roadblocks on the path to Legend.
Sanders lowered his brows, his gaze growing dark. As the voices around him grew louder in their discussion about the Thief of Time, he finally spoke up, “The matter of the Thief of Time, whether good or bad, is unpredictable. The more you speculate, the more you drive yourself mad. Besides, is now the time to talk about such irrelevant things?”
Sanders raised his head: “Lord Monty, the information you mentioned earlier, aside from the unstable energy and Abyssal Awakening, also mentioned a mysterious shop. What does that mean?”
Sanders’s words successfully shifted the focus of the wizards present.
Indeed, the Thief of Time was too remote for them, at most being a topic of casual conversation. The more pressing matter at hand was the situation in Lassudral, given that their lives were now tied to the hip with the entire Frostmoon.
“The mysterious shop, could it be that of Baltica in the Land of Rest?” Sinafa mused quietly.
After a moment of distraction, Monty finally regained his thoughts. He gave Sanders a long, deep look, sensing the hidden message in Sanders’s words, but it was already too late.
Then Monty shook his head at Sinafa: “The Resurrection Witch’s shop is not considered mysterious in the world of Demons.”
“The mysterious shop I’m talking about, I don’t know the exact details either. It seems to be a new shop that suddenly opened in Lassudral in the past two days. In a short time, this shop has stirred up a storm and caught the attention of countless great Demons.”
Monty’s words drew sideways glances and discussions from the wizards.
“There’s such a shop in Demon City? Mysterious shop, indeed it sounds very mysterious.”
“Could it be the work of some Mysterious Object?”
“Does this mysterious shop have any connection with what Lord Monty mentioned earlier, the Abyssal Awakening?”
The group began to discuss the shop, but without any means to get more information about Lassudral, all their discussions and speculations lacked a factual basis.
In the end, everyone’s gaze once again converged on Monty.
Monty himself didn’t have much information either, as his “eye” in Lassudral was none other than Morheim, or to be precise, Morheim’s left eye.
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An intermediate-rank demon from Morheim, how could it possibly fight against Monty for so long? It was simply Monty laying out his plans.
The left eye of Morheim, which was Monty’s hidden chess piece, would only show itself when Morheim’s main body was dormant or had lost consciousness. However, Morheim had no intention to rest, for the information he had was still too scarce.
But that wasn’t to say there was none at all.
“There’s another piece of information.” Monty hesitated for a moment, “That mysterious shop rumored to be deep within, its name is called—’Dreamy Fantasy’.”
“Dreamy Fantasy?” Everyone pondered the message, without any clues, it left them completely baffled.