Fire Mage (Web Novel)

Chapter 563: Mindworm

As Charles and others stepped into the yard, Charles turned his gaze towards Oliver and spoke.

"Oliver, stay outside and notify us if any soldier from the security department arrives."

"Yes, My Lord." Oliver nodded his head, turned around, and quietly walked back to the carriage.

'What about him?' Jessie glanced at Marvin and asked telepathically.

'Marvin has to come with us. I have a suspicion that someone is watching our every movement through his eyes.' Charles spoke as he moved closer to the front porch.

'Someone is controlling him? If so, why aren't you killing him?' Jessie's face turned stiff. She knew how dangerous these mind-controlling spells were and felt warier inside.

On the other hand, Charles shook his head and answered.

'It won't solve the root problem. I want to know who is spying on us. We can also learn more about Arayn by bringing Marvin inside. If Secret Witch is smart and powerful like everyone says, she will notice every anomaly and might reveal the culprit's name.'

'Right!'

Jessie nodded in understanding, then thought of something and asked.

'But what if the one spying on us is Fate Professor?'

'I have already checked it. If Marvin were controlled by Fate Professor or any of his subordinates, we would have met a lot of trouble on Dew Street itself. It's a completely new person.'

In truth, he had been stealing some memories of Fate Professor from time to time through his 'Purple Word' spell and knew what the other party was doing.

'Surprisingly, his wisdom power is only around 200. Otherwise, my spell wouldn't have activated. Currently, he is dancing on my palm.' Although all those memories were random and useless, they were enough for Charles to guess his next move.

'A new person...' While Jessie was in deep thoughts, the trio arrived in front of the wooden door and waited for the other party to open the door.

Soon, a young woman in her twenties opened the door from inside and welcomed them inside.

She had long brown hair, fair skin, greenish emerald eyes, and a lean body. Currently, she wore a red-lined white sheath dress and held a unique brown-covered book in her hand.

"Please come in, Mister. We've been waiting for your arrival."

'Hmm? She already expected my arrival?' Charles raised his eyebrows, activated his [Wisdom Sight] skill, and tried to look at her status.

But he couldn't see through her status at all. Not even her physical attributes were shown on the blue screen.

'Genesis, do you have any clue about this anomaly?' While asking, Charles took a step forward and entered the building.

[Yes, Host. Her wisdom is higher than yours. Not only that, but she also seemed to have mastered the skill of hiding her information from any prying power.]

As Genesis spoke in Charles's mind, Secret Witch Sylvia walked into the reception room, moved towards the nearby Lawson Sofa, and sat comfortably on it.

Then, she raised her hand, pointed her finger towards the opposite chesterfield sofa and chairs, and spoke.

"Please take a seat, Guests."

"Are you Arayn?" Jessie sat down on the sofa and went straight to the point.

Charles also sat next to Jessie and waited for the Secret Witch's answer.

"Hooooooo!"

Meanwhile, the black owl suddenly flew from the second floor while hooting, arrived above Secret Witch, and slowly landed on her shoulder.

Meanwhile, the Secret Witch raised her hand, stroked the owl's head, and answered.

"I'm Sylvia. She is the one you are looking for."

'This strange Owl is Arayn?'

Charles shifted his gaze towards the black owl and stared at it in silence.

"Arayn? Why do I feel your name appears similar to Goddess Nyara's name?" He frowned a bit and soon shook his head.

"Saying this name in reverse does indeed represent 'Nyara.' But you aren't Nyara, are you?" His question surprised the black owl.

Still, the owl didn't say a word and silently sat on Sylvia's shoulder in silence.

Meanwhile, Sylvia sighed deeply and spoke.

"She rarely talks-"

Before Sylvia could respond, the black owl named Arayn made a strange hooting sound and spoke.

"Brilliant. But don't worry; this name trick is to fool the Lawful Gods." Arayn paused for a moment and added.

"I know why you came here, Charles. Your goal isn't to save this city but to get something, right? Though you have been in this city for around 2 hours, you know too much information about this city. Have you developed an advanced skill to predict the future? What puzzles me is why did you even go to Langdon Street?"

"How did you know?" This time, it was Jessie who asked this question.

At that moment, Sylvia cleared her throat, calmly folded her hands, and answered instead of Arayn.

"There is some black rust in your hand, Miss Jessie. These kinds of black rust are formed only when the black silver metal remains in contact with the air for too long. "I sense something unusual in that guy's head." She paused before raising her hand and snapping her fingers.

In the meantime, Marvin's face suddenly froze, and his pupil started to enlarge.

Simultaneously, Charles and Jessie felt countless gazes from every direction and were startled.

'It's not an array. I feel this gaze coming from different parts of this city.'

Charles activated his left eye, peeked into the future at that moment, and asked.

"Worm?"

Just as he asked, a black illusionary worm came out of Marvin's forehead, hovered before his face, and started to materialize.

It had hundreds of strange white eyes all over its body and white rings roughly the size of a thumb, and it looked eerier.

"Yes, it's called Mindworm, only found on that particular street due to the remnant power of Dark God Ringer." Sylvia paused, moved her hand, and pulled the Mind Worm towards her telekinetically.

Soon, she caught the worm, put it inside a strange glass tube, and stored it in her space ring. During this time, Marvin grew pale and touched his forehead in shock.

'It came out of my forehead? Someone is controlling me?' Fear gripped his heart.

On the other hand, Sylvia turned her gaze to Charles and asked.

"We want to know why the Security Department Director is after you guys?"

'Sylvia... As expected of the Secret Witch, she has long gathered information about us. Well, I don't plan on hiding anything anyway.' He let out a deep sigh and spoke.

"Long story short, he killed your Teacher. And, if I don't kill him sooner, he will kill you today at 4.15 P.M."

Alas, not a single trace of surprise appeared on Sylvia's face.

She closed her eyes, made countless possibilities with the information she had gathered, and even peeked into the future.

"Even Demigod Rafael will die, right? Did you see the future? But how did your 'Time' spell bypass the city's 'defensive' system?"

At that moment, Arayn suddenly spoke up.

"It's not an impenetrable defensive system, Sylvia. It must be the 'Time Recall' spell. I heard that a youngster named Udnir created such a spell to peek into a distant future. But even I didn't expect to see it here."

'Does Udnir seem like a youngster to you? How old are you?' Charles couldn't help but be shocked inside.