45 Guard at the Entrance of Howling Abyss (1/2)

As the question of whether there are apprentices of different Magi in the outpost can be considered an irrelevant question Fraser ignored the steady stream of traveling apprentices and walked towards the exit.

Since the entrance of the outpost is located at the edge of the cliff, naturally the outpost is completely submerged in the cliff.

Just as Fraser arrived at the gate towards the howling abyss and wanted to step into the howling abyss a silhouette blocked his way and spoke in a mocking tone:

”An apprentice who doesn't value his life? I am pretty sure that I didn't saw you at the gathering, so stop trying to cloth like one of those inner circle members and go back to your task.”

As if annoyed by the action of Frasers, the silhouette charged out with his open palm.

Even though Fraser was able to realize that the silhouette attacked him, he only was able to put his arms up in order to protect him from the impact.

However, the impact on his arms never came.

Through the corner of his yellow eyes, Fraser saw a black something descend and grab the palm.

An agonizing scream echoed from the silhouette.

Through the pain, the blurry silhouette slowly turned into a human being.

With a fascinated gaze Fraser stared at the silhouette who, after the pain, turned into a normal human apprentice.

'How come I saw him blurred?'

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It was a normal guarding duty which Peter took after joining the outpost at the edge of the howling abyss.

Normally he would never take such a boring task and waste his time, instead, he would explore the howling abyss in order to find interesting monsters which he would track down and kill.

Not only for excitement but also for the powers these monster would possess.

After all, some monsters or creatures would possess strong abilities which are mostly thanks to specific organs or body features they possess.

One of them was the illusion sheep which skin had the ability to secrete a liquid which would allow it to become blurred and almost make it invisible to predators in the darkness or dense surrounding.

So it was no wonder that the skin and the organ which stored the liquid became the first thing that Peter transplanted into his own body.

After all the difficulty of getting the skin and organ of an illusion sheep only consisted of finding one, which after a period of preparation of setting traps and a little bit of luck succeeded.

Sadly as this was Peters first transplantation he made a mistake and didn't considered deactivating the ability of the skin and thus the illusion effect became permanent.

Naturally, there were a few moments when the liquid would stop secreting, for example when he went to sleep or he got injured.

All in all, these were moments when his body wasn't able to sustain the skin effect due to an external cause.

But as the illusion effect of the skin saved his life many times and gave him an imposing aura in the presence of other humans or apprentices, he didn't implant a fake switch as that would cost more overall energy than letting it be as it is.

The good days in the howling abyss ended when his mentor informed his group about the upcoming monster tide and when they moved towards an outpost at the edge of the howling abyss.

As his mentor only recently became a Magus, Peter as one of the oldest inner circle members naturally had to take up duty in order to please the inner circles of other outposts.