It only took a few minutes before the two magus began to regain their consciousness as their innate Immortal Body bestowed them the ability to continually regenerate as long as their spirit soul was still intact.
Except for the wind magus who missed out a limb thanks to Chumo’s Cursed Arrow, all other wounds on his body had started to heal.
Even though the seal Chumo applied could restrain them, to be really sure, Emery decided to take out Twik from the Spatial Space. Hearing what he was summoned for, the little buddy quickly extended its limb and used them to tightly restrain the two, making sure they couldn’t move an inch.
With Twik’s Mythical level strength and roots as durable as Tier 4 metals, coupled with the restraint of Chumo’s seal, the two magus would certainly need quite a lot of effort in order to break their shackles, even at their full strength.
When they finally woke up, loud screams immediately rang out in the air.
“Aarghhh!! You dare!! Let us go this instant!” said Conleth the earth magus, as he tried to break free from the restraints. Unfortunately, he soon found his efforts just in vain.
On the other hand, his skinny colleague remained calm and talked to him. “Calm down, Conleth.”
After seeing the burly man stop his antics, Jorah turned his head to look at the three. His gaze swept over them before eventually stopping at Emery. He then said, “What do you want? Let us go and we’ll talk about it.”
Emery ignored the latter part of those words and said, “Tell me why you guys let the Orcs breed. What are your intentions?”
The man spat to the ground and said, “Orcs? What orcs!?”
Knowing this would not get anywhere, Emery heaved a sigh and tried a different approach. “Why are you attacking us then? what are you hiding from us?”
This time, it was Conleth who responded. As he chuckled, the burly man said, “We are just trying to give you kids some lessons! What’s wrong with a senior teaching his junior!? Hahahaha”
Hearing how the two were clearly making excuses, Klea became irritated.
“They are playing with us.” She grumbled. “You know what, leave this to me, Emery!”
Klea stepped forward until she arrived in front of the two magus and revealed the artifact on her wrist.
“Let me tell you a few things about me. I am one of the best Spirit Readers of my year, and this artifact–” A wicked smile appeared on her face. “–enhances my ability which will allow me to pry everything you are trying to hide.”
A scoff was the only thing earned from her words.
“Hah! No Rank 9 can probe the mind of a magus! You’re bullshitting!”
At those words, the Egyptian Queen only answered in a calm tone. “True.. Just like how no Rank 9 could beat a magus, and look where we are now.” Her wicked smile startled the two magus.
Without waiting for the other party’s response, the artifact [Anu Bracelets] on Klea’s wrist started to emit soft light. But then, she suddenly stopped saying,
“To be honest I really hate doing this since it will burn too much of my energy. Besides, it has a chance to break your spirit and make you… you know…damaged”
Looking at the two magus, she said, “So I will offer you one last chance to speak willingly.”
Alas, the response Klea received was not one she wanted.
“Huh! Nice ice try. But don’t think you can fool me, girl!!” Jorah the wind magus said disdainfully. On the other hand, the impertent Conleth suddenly became silent. He seemed anxious.
Klea nonchalantly turned to the wind magus, looking at the look on the latter’s face, she said, “You seem very confident… Alright, you will be the first then.”
She placed both her hands on the restrained magus and without further ado, cast [Enchantment]. A hazy mist swiftly seeped into the man, and a few seconds later, Jorah’s body started to tremble. His facial expression deteriorated into what seemed to be half conscious as his mouth opened.
“I.. will… answer… My… queen”
This sight immediately made the burly Conleth panic. “Jorah! What the fuck! Snap out of it! Dammit!”
Klea glared at the big guy and said in a chilling voice, “Quiet!! You will wait your turn!”
She then returned her full attention to the wind magus and said, “Tell me… tell your Queen what you are hiding underground!”
“Orcs.. my queen… orcs… Lots…”
However, before he could finish his words, the magus’ body shook once more and he suddenly fell limply to the ground. When Klea checked him, he found that the man had lost consciousness.
“Argghhh!” A scream of annoyance escaped her mouth. “This guy can only boast, he is so weak!! Who knew his spirit would be broken so quickly!!”
Her head then snapped to Conleth, staring at the panicked magus with a piercing gaze as she said, “I’ll get back to him later. Now is your turn, big guy… Maybe you can hold on longer than your friend!”
As a result of witnessing what happened to his partner, before Klea’s hand even reached the big man’s head, the earth mage screamed.
“Wait! Wait!!!” He looked at Klea who was looking at him with raised eyebrows. “I’ll tell you what you need, so please don’t mess with my mind!”
She pulled back her hands and folded them in front of her chest. “Good.. Start talking now!”
Klea inwardly smiled as she said those words. The truth was she couldn’t probe the magus’ mind. In fact, she didn’t even try to use the Enchantment spell and the artifact to probe or read the magus’ mind.
The thing she had done was actually knock out the wind magus. With the latter’s weakened condition, Klea was able to paralyze his mind and then forced his unconscious body to say a few words for her.
That was the limit of what she could do at the moment, but it was definitely enough to fool the earth mage.
Frightened by the idea of experiencing what his partner had gone through, Conleth began to answer all the questions the group asked.
It turned out that the two of them were ordered directly by the Nexus faction’s Principal to watch over the Orc Lair, which meant that this situation was certainly known and, probably, orchestrated by the faction itself.
Apparently, he had been doing this mission with Jorah for the past two years.
“You must have known that there are millions of orcs down there! Why are you doing this!?”
The magus appeared hesitant for a second but seeing Klea’s glare he gulped and said, “I never know why… But what you said are wrong, there are actually more than a million…”
“There are more!?”
Conleth nodded his head. “Including the ones still in the cocoons, their number should be close to a hundred million..”
“WHAT?! A hundred million!”
Apparently, with that many orcs, the two magus were unable to control all. “We kill thousands of those beasts who escaped every day, but some still manage to slip and reach the colony.”
Emery calmed his beating heart and asked again. “Nexus faction shouldn’t be able to breed that many in just a few years! You’re still hiding something!”
Facing the accusation, the magus helplessly said, “As I said, I don’t even understand half the reason what I was doing. I just followed the orders. If you want to know more, all information is stored at the South Outpost!”
Emery thought that this so-called South Outpost Must be Nexus’ secret outpost as it never stated that the faction had an outpost in the Wasteland.
“Alright, we are heading to this outpost,” Emery said to his friends.
However, just as he said those words, Emery perceived multiple objects coming down from the skies.
“It’s an unmanned object, what are they?”