Kist didn't know that the "that person" Saul ntioned referred to the person he had seen in the "past" sitting on the mountain of corpses. He thought Saul was referring to the forr master of the diary.
He told Saul, "Douglas used to be accustod to observing to gain true knowledge. In order to advance further in the realm of death, he observed the deaths of many, many people. So this ti when he suddenly returned to observe the death of the world, his gains will definitely be much greater than before."
Douglas was not soone who advocated for the natural order. To observe the deaths of many, many people, he would inevitably create a great deal of slaughter.
"I ca to help you because I want to help you develop quickly. If the wizard world is swallowed by the abyss without any resistance, it would have no observational value for Douglas."
"Currently, the wizard world is at a disadvantage against the Abyssal Eye, so for now, your goals and his are aligned."
For now...
That also ant that once the wizard world beca too powerful, Douglas might even turn around to help the abyss.
Though it didn't seem likely given the current situation.
A flash of inspiration struck Saul's mind. Wait, if Douglas really wants to play a balancing manipulation ga, he would definitely observe both sides simultaneously. The sudden closure of the aperture on the Chaos Realm side—could it be related to him?
Could it be that Douglas had already made contact with Camus?
Saul looked up at Kist. "I'll consider your suggestions carefully. If you're truly here to help, I still have many things to entrust to you."
Saul planned to deduce the situation on the abyss side and wanted to dismiss Kist first.
Kist stood up accordingly, but said one more thing before leaving.
"I'm definitely sincere about wanting to help you. This is helping you and also helping myself, so I'll spare no effort, no matter what you want to do, no matter who you want to oppose."
When Saul looked up upon hearing this, Kist had already left the laboratory.
Through feedback from the remnant souls in the wizard tower, Saul knew that Kist had run to the top of the tower to gaze at the sky again.
When he had been recuperating at Saul's place before, he would lie on the roof when he had nothing to do, claiming to watch the stars whenever asked, regardless of day or night.
It seed his true nature hadn't changed. Even with the arrival of the diary's forr master, Kist's wish was still to journey to the starry sky.
But he seed to still be bound by sothing, unable to beco Saul's fifth target.
Could a fourth-rank wizard without autonomous destiny possibly advance to the fifth rank and reach the place where the starry sky was located?
Were Kist's current words about "for himself" and "sparing no effort" related to the abnormality in his condition?
Saul felt there must be things he didn't know about. And his intuition told him this matter was very important.
Saul lowered his head, and a dark red hardcover book appeared in his palm.
"Since I can't enter the abyss from the Chaos Realm, what if I follow Master Gorsa's old route to the abyss?"
This ti, the diary still gave no death warning.
"Last ti when I wanted to enter the abyss from the Chaos Realm, the diary gave no warning. I thought it was because the aperture was sealed, preventing from entering the abyss, so there was no crisis. But if entering from outside is also the sa..."
Saul decided to make a trip to the abyss.
...
Three months later, Saul returned from the Chaos Realm.
At this ti, the numbers of the bone army had increased again.
Since the source of bone monsters was mostly in the great rift, Keli had Saul's little apprentice Noah lead all the able-bodied mbers of the tribe down into the rift to collect bone fragnts.
Although wizards were more efficient at collection, they had more important work to do. Fortunately, the Boulder Tribe had already absorbed nearly half the population of the Chaos Realm, providing Keli with abundant labor.
Quantity compensated for quality.
After Saul handed over the once-again improved Soul-Fixing magical array to Keli, there was nothing left in the Chaos Realm that required his presence.
At the sa ti, both the Sighing Wall and the Tribunal were thodically setting up new defensive arrays at the continental edges where they would be eroded by the black tide.
Even better news ca from Master Gorsa's red worms. Through Byron's efforts and Douglas's guidance, the half-elf had finally completely mastered the red worm queen and was controlling the queen's body to rapidly lay eggs.
But unlike the original Alick, Gorsa had no intention of using wizards' lives to cultivate red worms.
After all, Alick had originally planned to take only dozens of third-rank wizards with him, while Gorsa wanted to bring thousands of wizards against the Abyssal Eye.
Douglas seed to also approve of Gorsa's approach. Although the two had once had conflicts, as a strong individual, Douglas was still "magnanimous" enough to provide the Stargate Council with so useful information.
After confirming that several factions in the wizard world were thodically preparing for war according to plan, Saul finally made ti for himself to head to the abyss!
And for this trip to the abyss, he called Kist along too.
After all, Kist was currently the only idle fourth-rank wizard he knew of. Moreover, if Kist was Douglas's person, and the closure inside the Abyssal Eye was also related to Douglas, then Kist might know so inside information that would benefit their adventure.
"Kist, co with to the abyss." Saul leaned against the laboratory window looking up, saying these words in a tone like "co with to buy groceries."
Kist was truly surprised when he heard that Saul wanted to go to the Abyssal Eye and bring him along.
But he agreed almost without any hesitation.
"Of course, no problem." Kist jumped down from the tower top and tucked the harp in his hands behind his back, seemingly placing it into a storage space. When he brought his arm back, his palm was already empty.
"Last ti when Master Gorsa went to the abyss, he almost couldn't return. You should still be prepared."
Kist smiled. "Little master brother, are you worried about ? If we really encounter danger, could you also let hide in your diary?"
"If you die, I'll try my best to recover your soul. So you must persist and not let your soul beco mutated."
"Although I'm a fourth-rank wizard, you also know that I have Douglas behind . At worst, I'll ask him for so resources. After all, on the surface, I'm also helping him with his work."
Kist shrugged, completely unconcerned about himself.
But while Kist said he would ask Douglas for support, he didn't contact Douglas at all until he set off with Saul.
The two headed north to the Sighing Wall, chartering an airship directly to save ti. After resting for a day in Far North City, they bid farewell to Wizard Maria, who was currently in charge of the Sighing Wall, and entered Storm Sea.
Since it wasn't the ti for black tide attacks, storms raged continuously at sea. To conserve magic power, the two directly hid inside the belly of a large fish to advance.
With their extrely strong sensory ntal power, they could accurately proceed toward the Abyssal Eye's direction without needing to observe the outside world.
The fish's belly was sowhat bumpy, but it had no effect on the two fourth-rank wizards.
Kist sat in the soft belly of the hollowed-out large fish, occasionally tearing off a strip of fish at from the fish's body and putting it in his mouth.
"Saul, what's your purpose for going to the abyss this ti?"
Saul was ditating with his eyes closed. Hearing Kist's words, he opened his eyes and glanced at him, then closed them again.
"Asking about my purpose only after we've co this far—isn't that a bit late?"
Kist fell over with the bumping motion and lay on his side with his arm as a pillow. "Don't worry, I won't flee from battle. I just want to determine my action plan based on your goal."
Saul answered with his eyes closed, "First, try to et soone. If I can't et them, then capture so anchor point monsters to bring back."
(End of Chapter)
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