Chapter Twenty-Two: Rebirth in the Sorcerous Array

Thanks to Louis, who managed to send away yet another patrol of guards checking the rooms, Andy felt secretly grateful for his decision to control Louis the previous day—it truly had been a wise move.

Edward’s disappearance and the theft from the secret vault had driven Viscount Colin mad, ordering soldiers to search everywhere. The entire Colin Fortress was in turmoil, and even the city of Dallas was nearly boiling over.

Unfortunately, neither the tracking spells of the advanced wizard apprentices nor the pursuit methods of the returning Grand Knight Cromwell produced any valuable clues.

Andy cared little for the chaos within Colin Fortress. He quickly tallied the night’s gains, then set his sights on the so-called "Prague Quiz Chair" as recorded.

Concerned about making noise and being overheard, Andy coaxed Catherine for quite some time before she agreed to cast a Silence spell as cover.

“Please listen to the question,” the familiar voice rang out, as if yesterday had returned.

Soon, Andy was grimacing from the electric shocks, while Catherine rolled on the floor laughing. Of course, all of this was muffled by the Silence spell, proceeding without a sound.

Andy felt both pain and joy; he sensed his mental strength growing incrementally with each electric punishment. This tangible progress gave him the stamina to endure shock after shock.

By the time the sun rose the next day, Andy finally felt his mental power break through a bottleneck. He knew he had reached the level of an