Chapter 144: Overlooking Howlsridge
After Lampart and Rio had told us their side of the story, we concluded that it was the phoenix who knocked them out.
However, it still didn’t make sense why he didn’t kill them or take the pearls back.
The phoenix was supposedly not allowed to fight outside of Kalusia’s territory, so Lampart and Rio were pretty much screwed after being found out by him. Still, they were alive and kicking.
Don’t get me wrong. I was relieved that they were fine, but it was just making me more confused, and Vespera had no idea what was happening either.
For a moment, we thought that their black pearls had been switched with something else, but after inspecting them, we noticed they were the same as before, so the phoenix hadn’t tampered with the crate.
"It could be that the phoenix doesn’t want to work with the devil but had no other option..." Vespera muttered with her hand holding her chin.
That was the most probable situation since pretty much everyone in the country was working under Zagor because they were cursed, meaning that the phoenix was no different.
"Hmmm..." I muttered as my mind started racing with different scenarios.
The only reason why the phoenix would’ve been in a small settlement like that was to pick up the black pearls since that was the moment that Lampart and Rio had to teleport out.