Chapter 1059 (1/2)
Chapter 1059: Time passes like the speed of day and month _2
Lonco bought Magic Scrolls worth 10 million points of energy strength, which could be enhanced through the injection of Thunder and Lightning Energy, increasing the might of the Thundercloud.
The Magic Scrolls sold by Noland Lee previously were all of 100 million Thunder and Lightning Energy.
In this exchange, there was a huge difference of 90 million energy points, which meant that Noland Lee would earn a lot fewer gold coins.
Upon closer consideration, Lonco’s actions were probing the cost of Noland Lee using Wild Magic.
A Magic Scroll of 10 million Thunder and Lightning Energy is one price.
One of 100 million points is another price.
After factoring out the influence of the varying amounts of Thunder and Lightning Energy on the cost, the remaining part of the cost which does not change with the amount of energy is the price Noland Lee must pay when he casts Wild Magic.
This was equivalent to figuring out some of the details of the “Thundercloud Technique.”
Noland Lee would not let Lonco and his backer, Mingwaq Pomida, get rid of him so easily.
“I’ll handle Lonco,” he said.
After thinking, Noland Lee asked,
“Is there anything unusual in the Pollution Zone?”
“This is the fourth matter I want to discuss with you, Sir,”
Nolin said,
“In the month you were out of touch, the number of monsters in the Pollution Zone multiplied, but about five days ago, all of the monsters mysteriously disappeared. Moreover, the appearance of the Pollution Zone is transforming into a stony exterior. If you leave the Pollution Zone now, you can see the veins slowly turning into rock. In about one more month, the appearance of the Pollution Zone will be nothing but stone, with no traces of veins.”
It seems the vascular appearance of the Pollution Zone is related to the Binder of Blood… Noland Lee slightly lowered his head, scanning the ground and the walls on either side.
At some point, the dry black bloodstains had already started to crack.
They were fragmented like cracked tree bark, scattered on the ground, or barely clinging to the walls.
A slight gust of wind would scatter the bloodstains, whipping up fine red sand and gravel.
Noland Lee cast Deconstruction, nodding slowly.
Blood Binder Zudak was dead.
The Deconstruction Results showed that the consumption for deconstructing these bloodstains had plummeted, turning them into ordinary bloodstains without any Extraordinary Traits.
On their panel information, the entries related to the “Binder of Blood” were all tagged by the system as “invalid” or “terminated.”
This meant that although Noland Lee intentionally left a small portion of corpse essence for Nabby, it did not impact the final outcome of the Task significantly.
Blood Binder Zudak was already dead and didn’t survive because a portion of his corpse essence had been absorbed by Nabby.
“Just not sure if my act of dividing the corpse essence will affect the remuneration from the Assassin Angel…”
Noland Lee pondered secretly, continuing to listen to Nolin’s words.
The mutations inside the Pollution Zone had attracted the attention of both Ulnas Circle and the Grey Wizards.
The monsters within the Pollution Zone attacked the wizards from both sides indiscriminately, a vast difference from the previous immunity the Grey Wizards had from the monsters’ hostility.
Ulnas Circle thought the increase in monsters was the Grey Wizards’ doing, while the Grey Wizards believed that the monsters’ indiscriminate attacks on everyone indicated Ulnas Circle was causing trouble.
Both sides engaged in fierce combat inside the Pollution Zone.
While brutal fights were raging on the front lines, intelligence activities were thriving behind the scenes.
Both sides had planted spies within the other’s ranks.
Spies stole secrets, sending them back to their main camps.
This gave birth to intense exchanges of information, with many leads being unearthed by the spies of both sides.
First and foremost, it was confirmed that the mutations within the Pollution Zone had something to do with the Soul Shaping Society and the Shadow Death Magic Realm.
More precisely, it was the Soul Shaping Society’s doing.
This wizard force from Ulnas Circle secretly conspired with the Shadow Death Magic Realm to construct a ceremony that communicated with the Extraterrestrial Void, opening the Pollution Zone.
The Soul Shaping Society claimed they did all of this to help the Shadow Death Magic Realm solve their reproduction issue.
But in fact, they were backed by an Extraterrestrial Void Force known as the Dark Divine Cult.
Their true intention in opening the Pollution Zone was not to solve the Shadow Deathers’ propagation problems but to coordinate with the Dark Divine Cult to execute a secret plan.
What the specifics of this plan were is something both Ulnas Circle and the Grey Wizards were unaware of.
The Soul Shaping Society didn’t reveal it to the Shadow Death Magic Realm, and after the opening of the Pollution Zone, all members of the Soul Shaping Society disappeared without a trace.
The person in control of the Soul Shaping Society, the Lecturer Professor, and the founder, Gilbert Winchester, had sealed off his Sub-Dimensional Plane, cutting off all roads to and from the Sub-Dimensional Plane.