Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 1679: Section 1680 The Meaning of the House of the Heart

The Serpent Tail Insect that Shalu encountered was inevitably an Obsession Demon. Then, this meets Angel’s requirements for the experiment.

He asked in detail about Shalu’s battle with the Serpent Tail Insect inside the House of the Heart.

Angel left no detail unchecked, as Shalu’s situation served as a reference for Toby.

After Shalu repeated the events that occurred inside several times, Angel finally stopped him.

Shalu’s account somewhat relieved Angel. His biggest worry was if Toby entered the House of the Heart and faced the Extreme Resentment Thoughts, unable to defeat them, and eventually got defeated, causing damage to his original consciousness.

However, according to Shalu, he battled the Serpent Tail Insect in the Colosseum of Pillars and eventually died within its jaws. He thought he was completely dead, only to open his eyes and discover that his previous experience was just an Illusion Dream.

Being killed by the Serpent Tail Insect just meant being ejected from the House of the Heart, his original consciousness was not harmed. Thus, when Toby faces the Extreme Resentment Thoughts in the House of the Heart, he should also be unharmed.

Once assured that the House of the Heart wouldn’t cause consciousness damage, Angel started focusing on another matter.

”You said earlier, you lasted five minutes under the attack of the Serpent Tail Insect?”

”Yes, precisely speaking, I spent the first three minutes running. Only in the last two minutes did I actually fight... the Serpent Tail Insect. But it was too strong, almost subduing me in the blink of an eye,” Shalu explained.

”Three minutes running, two minutes fighting?” Frode mused, ”That seems a bit off.”

Angel nodded, ”The strength of the Serpent Tail Insect shouldn’t be like this.”

Frode opened his office desk drawer and took out a stack of reports. Shalu caught a glimpse and saw that each page of the report carried terrifying monster images with detailed text underneath them, possibly information about the monsters.

Frode flipped to a page, and the monster on it was unmistakably the ”Serpent Tail Insect with a worm-like head and butterfly-like ears”!

A surge of doubts flooded Shalu’s mind; there are so many of this kind of monster... What exactly is their origin?

While Shalu was engulfed in doubt, Frode revisited the information on the Serpent Tail Insect collected earlier.

—— The Serpent Tail Insect is highly agile, capable of Flight, and possesses some ranged attack methods.

It might be just a few words, but the implied meaning far exceeds the understanding limits of ordinary people.

Even Sir Sabel, when faced with the Serpent Tail Insect that had infiltrated and mutated Shalu, couldn’t hold on for long, let alone Shalu whose fighting capability was akin to nothing.

If going by the real strength of the Serpent Tail Insect, facing it directly, Shalu would have been instantly annihilated, not possibly having a chance to escape for three minutes.

”In other words, this Serpent Tail Insect’s strength is not as formidable as it appears. Why is that?” Angel frowned and pondered, ”Is the strength of the Serpent Tail Insect just a figment of Shalu’s imagination as his demon?”

”It’s possible, since Shalu never directly faced the horror of the Serpent Tail Insect,” Frode said.

After hearing the conversation between Angel and Frode, Shalu suddenly spoke, ”Actually, I don’t know how strong the Serpent Tail Insect is, it wasn’t fully exerting its strength when chasing me. It kept questioning me about certain... issues. Including later, when I had to fight it, it still kept questioning, that’s why I could drag it out so long.”

”What did it ask you?” Frode didn’t immediately care about the fighting power of the Serpent Tail Insect but was curious about its questions.

”It questioned me, why... did I abandon it?” Shalu paused, ”Tyson, why would it keep asking me this question?”

Frode chuckled coldly upon hearing this reply: ”Why do you think it was questioning you?”

Shalu was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Frode meant.

”You must have heard everything I discussed with the adult. So, you should also know that the Serpent Tail Insect you are facing is not the actual Demonic Fiend,” Frode quietly looked at Shalu: ”Do you still not understand? This is your inner demon.”

An inner demon is the demon of the human heart.

Just like a tree cannot grow without the earth as a basis for its roots to deeply anchor.