Chapter 169 The Calm before Storm!

Chapter 169 The Calm before Storm!

Chapter 169

Oliver was worried that if she was left alone, Nadia's mental state might turn into something worse.

Just the image of his mother, Ophelia, was enough to shake him.

Ophelia had long abandoned her human psyche and had adopted an inhume mentality, as far as he knew.

He could not let a little girl like Nadia become something like that.

Of course, preventing that from happening was still a far-fetched idea. He knew he wasn't capable enough to stop Ophelia from tampering with Nadia right now.

But planting some seeds of humanity in her mind was still better than nothing. The future was unpredictable, after all.

It changed continuously.

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He soon returned to his room and took out the potions he had stored in his mind space.

He then started drinking them one by one to temper his espera and refine it further.

"I am almost out of potions now. Apart from a few healing potions, I don't have anything left," he thought.

Oliver had been continuously stocking his supplies by exchanging pills and potions with others in exchange for food.

Of course, his rations had long run out of stock, but thanks to Sigfor, he could sustain.

Sigfor had told them to cook for themselves if they wanted to eat something, but since the old man didn't know how to cook despite being as old as a tree, he would eat with Oliver.

"Haah... it's too complex, I will think about it later."

He yawned and closed his eyes, he was going to sleep for some time.

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"We are ready, leader."

"Have you located the barrier's weak spot?"

"Yes, we have found it, and it should now be easy to infiltrate."

"Well done."

Outside, far from the mountain hall, stood a man dressed in pitch-black robes. He was standing idle, talking to his subordinates. He was none other than the leader of the heretic group who had come to retrieve the egg of the disaster beast.

He was behind the group, preparing a killer array to engage Sigfor, whose presence he had faintly felt. To further confirm his suspicions about the expert inside the mountain hall, he had his subordinates check on it discreetly over the weeks.

Being so close to the barrier, there was no way any of them would miss sensing the presence of such an entity. They were all carrying stealth artifacts they had received from the sect—even a Rank-3 expert might not be able to sense their presence!

"Alright then, the moment I attack the barrier and draw out the experts, you will infiltrate the hall and get the egg of the disaster beast. Remember, either you succeed or don't come back," he said in a chilling voice. There was a momentary silence on the other side of the phone before a voice responded.

"Yes, leader!"

He put the communicator down and looked in front of him. On the ground just next to his feet was a large runic array pulsing with a very dark aura. It was suffocating to look at, and all sorts of extremely complex runes were etched onto its surface. There was an occasional flash of bloody red light in the various runes, indicating its deadly nature.

No doubt this was an extremely dangerous array. Just the amount of aura gathering near it was terrifyingly huge. Even he, who was as strong as a Rank-3 exorcist, had to wait for weeks to prepare the array and supply it with the necessary aura.

"From my observations, the expert exorcist inside should also be Rank-3, but just in case, I prepared this array if they turn out to be more powerful than expected. As long as they are not a Rank-4 exorcist, they will definitely be wounded badly," the man spoke sinisterly as his eyes gleamed with black aura.

He was able to observe the massive barrier surrounding the whole mountain. "Whoever cast this barrier is definitely a high-level expert in array formations," he thought as he looked at the barrier deeply from outside.