Chapter 130 The Real Actors

It's unclear at what stage the problem occurred, but the agents somehow lost track of Ghost.

Irenshere held his breath, thinking about the next part, and said to give everyone time to digest it. After a pause, he said that he had an irrefutable good idea.

“I know where it is and how it possessed me,” everyone turned to look at him, and Irenshere continued, “It is now in the air, the air we breathe, and it enters our bodies in this way. Everyone should gather their minds together and replicate its rhythm; it will surely be exposed at a certain moment.”

Everyone shook their heads in unison; Irenshere's point of view was utterly unconvincing.

In the end, it was White who stepped forward and presented a viewpoint that everyone could accept.

"There's nothing around here suitable for it to transform into, so it's going to go find something now."

As soon as he finished speaking, a small black dot appeared on the ground. At first, it was only the size of a small round bread, but it gradually grew larger. The room gradually darkened, and the pillars vibrated in a rhythmic manner, like the strings of a musical instrument.

"Oh, you're right, it seems to have found something incredible."

Mia and Aisha smelled a familiar scent.

"It's a wizard!"

At this moment, the obelisk seemed to fall apart, and the magic of the void appeared, with shadows and reflections of tentacles everywhere. The face of the white cube became clearer and clearer, and more and more lingering.

A cube-shaped demon!

This wizard was different from the wizards I had seen before. He had a squid-like face, and when he appeared, blackness filled the air, creating an inescapable silence.

Thinking he was undetected, White circled around behind the enemy, first concealing himself, then attempting a backstab, only to find himself missing.

The wizard's body is made of void, and his intense hatred has made him grow to an enormous size. Each tentacle has undergone a miraculous transformation, almost like alchemy, and he can take on four agents at once with overwhelming superiority.

If you cut off his tentacles, freeze them with magic, or pierce them with an arrow, wherever the blood of the void splatters, new tentacles will grow, filled with remorse and malice.

The wizard laughed, his whole body trembling with laughter, and hungrily coiled his tentacles around the pillar, causing anything he touched to decay instantly.

The wizard used radiant magic, icy magic, and even silencing spells, not to mention the pistols that were not effective against large objects. Everyone who fought against the wizard experienced varying degrees of fear.

The wizard could repel magic simply by using the pus that spewed out; he hadn't even used the more terrifying void magic yet.

Both White and Erenshere were facing a wizard head-on for the first time and had little experience, so they mistook the tentacles for the wizard's main body, resulting in more and more tentacles appearing as they fought.

The wizard's aggressiveness is constantly changing, from curse magic to enslavement magic, showcasing forbidden magic that has never appeared in other worlds and that disappeared in ancient times.

This is a boneless wizard who grows by devouring the despair of his enemies. The void abilities he acquires all actually originate from somewhere in the obelisk.

Unlike White, who only uses daggers and pistols, Erenshere is more likely to focus on negative spells. However, neither torture nor weakness spells seem to have any effect on wizards, probably because wizards are inherently negative beings and can even backfire on spells, treating them as food.

Elsa's ice magic doesn't have the penetrating power of Mia's to deliver a fatal blow, but using magic to slow down the tentacles' movement is a good option.

Suddenly, the wizard casually cast a binding spell on Irencel, completely disrupting Irencel's plans.

The other agents quickly ran out of tricks, and it was all in vain.

Just when everyone was at a loss, half of the wizard's tentacles caught fire. The projection of that fire was sometimes more dangerous than actual burning. Fire can spread everywhere; once one tentacle catches fire, the whole thing catches fire, and the rate of regeneration is not even as fast as burning.

Moreover, he mistakenly thought it was just fire magic and actually absorbed a portion of it. Now, the absorbed portion, along with the void, was ignited.

This is not magic! It's fireworks from hell!

Reinforcements have arrived, but there are only two of them.

The wizard hesitated. Although he was not a particularly intelligent being, he could sense the difference in strength. When he felt that he could not win, he would inexplicably tear a gap in the air and jump into the void.

No one intended to chase after him until he completely entered the void.

On the one hand, everyone needs to make adjustments and summaries in the calm before the final outbreak; on the other hand, the purpose of exploring the enemy's spire has been achieved, which also proves that the wizard can only be deployed alone.

The wizards' attack methods and techniques gave Irencel a certain understanding of the Void Realm. He believed that the so-called Void was the wizards' base, and the Old City was just Mora's lair. Mora summoned wizards from the Void for security purposes.

Based on this argument, Lisa also put forward her own views.

The wizard has no thoughts of his own; his thoughts are actually wandering ghosts. The obelisk is a collection of the resentment of the dead from the ancient Podrolite Empire, and the wizard happens to feed on resentment.

Irenscher also raised corresponding questions in this regard.

"It's one thing for wizards to feed on resentment, but why can ghosts possess wizards in return?"

"Because wizards won't act without a leader, and those ghosts didn't come looking for them on their own."

What exactly do you mean?

"As you've probably guessed, it's Mora who controls the ghosts."

"Why doesn't he come to us himself?"

Lisa hesitated for a moment. She had indeed missed some details. The wizard from earlier seemed different from the wizards she had seen before. What exactly was different?

Wizards used to be in mummy form, but the wizard just now was in cube form. Wizards used to have octopus heads, but the wizard just now had squid faces.

The bandages wrapped around the mummy were meant to suppress the wizard's power, but what about the cube shape?

Lisa then noticed that White was hiding in a corner, looking as if he had been struck down. Generally speaking, people who have seen a wizard would be struck down, but White must have already formed a firm belief.

Moreover, his silhouette looked peculiar, filled with a dark brown hue, and had a slightly swaying, unsavory quality.

The thoughts in his mind were stirring.

"Something's not right! That wasn't a wizard!"

White felt his mind was becoming somewhat dull and uninteresting, and now he was finally going to step forward and show everyone what a real actor was.

He successfully fooled Lisa, the smartest member of the team, and regained Irencel's trust.

Mr. White's performance made it clear to everyone that he was there to help, not to frame them.

It's clear that White has abandoned his old accent.

This insignificant minor character happens to be played by a real villain named Mora.

Suddenly, many doors appeared in the obelisk, leading to other rooms. One of these doors led to the void, a place like the universe without stars, the darkest placenta.

Something, a rather special and complex organ, constitutes the prototype of the void universe.

It operates incessantly, consuming energy through its secretions, much like a giant brain with a tumor.

How did it turn out like this?

White finally dropped his pretense and said with a smile, "You guessed it, didn't you? Who am I? I am Mora. You thought you could find my lair by using a nightmare loop? On the contrary, I used the loop. I heard every single plan you made along the way."

"When did you take control of White?"

“A long, long time ago, when I thought that Raine’s stupid brain was no longer applicable, I jumped into a new brain.”

"You don't have your own body!"

"Ah, you're right! I have no body, only mind. Aren't you reincarnated beings very good at using cover names? Mora is my cover name in this other world, and my real name is Mind Flayer."

“That wasn’t a wizard, it was just your original form.”

"You could say that. People always confuse me with wizards because we lived together in the void for a very, very long time, until the gods appeared."

"Is it the war that destroyed the Ancient Podrolite Empire?"

"To be precise, it is a war to correct the order of another world. I love the Demon King, but I love loneliness even more. I like to hide behind the scenes and use wizards to do bad things."

"You've never participated in a divine descent?"

"The other four Demon Pillars participated in the Divine Descent. I witnessed the entire process of their sealing and the Great Reboot. I was happy that the Demon Pillars were resurrected, but one of them was killed before they were fully resurrected. Therefore, I think now is the time to step forward."

"Summon your true form!"

"Huh? Didn't I make myself clear? I have no physical body, only thoughts. You live in my domain. Don't believe me? Then see for yourselves."

Everything in the landscape was exactly as it should be: the obelisk was gone, the old city was gone, the wizard was gone; only the endless void existed.