Kaz and Rum had both deeply felt the weight of Gorsa’s authoritarianism.
Kaz also knew that what Yura said was highly likely to happen. He stroked his beard, unable to speak.
The room suddenly fell silent.
Then, a series of knocks sounded abruptly on the door.
Knock knock knock!
“ntor Rum, it’s Saul. Master Gorsa sent to find you.”
The three people in the room exchanged glances. For so reason, they were reminded of the scene from a few days ago when Byron had co by.
In the end, it was Rum who stuck his head out from his pile of fat.
“Co in!”
Before long, Saul erged from behind the thick curtain, wearing a polite smile as he greeted the three.
“ntor Kaz, ntor Rum, good morning!”
Then his eyes landed on the black silhouette sitting on the workbench with her legs dangling naturally, and the corners of his mouth lifted a few more degrees.
“Lady Yura, you’re here too.”
Yura lifted her head proudly and snorted coldly. “Hmph, I almost got killed because of you.”
Saul was briefly stunned. “What happened?”
He had interacted with Yura many tis before. Faced with her sudden reproach, he didn’t show any nervousness.
Yura jumped down from the table and walked up to Saul, her black head examining him up and down.
“Why did you erase the ntal mark I left on the puppet?”
Saul shrugged helplessly. “It wasn’t , Lady Yura—it was the elves. How could I possibly have the power to erase your mark? Besides, it was the elves’ doing. Didn’t Master already explain that to you?”
He joked casually with Yura. Although he couldn’t read her facial expression, he could sense from the weight of her gaze that she seed to have relaxed a bit.
Judging from the expressions of the ntors, they were also interested in the Elven Valley. But whether it was due to wariness of elven contamination or instructions from Gorsa, they didn’t ask for details.
Kaz clasped his hands behind his back and walked behind Saul. “A few days ago, Byron submitted a batch of Grey Matter Potion. Since you’re close with him, Saul, are you familiar with that potion?”
Saul turned to look at Kaz and nodded obediently. “I know Senior Byron was researching it. Supposedly, it can strengthen the soul. But I happened to be leaving on a trip at the ti and didn’t study it carefully. When I returned, I heard from Master Gorsa that the Grey Matter Potion has effects similar to the Blue Water Soul Potion you and ntor Rum developed, and they share the sa origin.”
Then Saul turned toward ntor Rum, who was taking up more and more space in the room—he wondered if one day the man would completely fill it.
“But I still don’t understand the exact effects of Blue Water Soul or Grey Matter. This ti, Master Gorsa actually sent here to learn about them.”
Rum has been in good spirits lately. He bead and said, “With your current ability, you’re already qualified to research with us. No need to call it learning. We’ve heard from the Tower Master too. From now on, you’ll be included in the lab experints.”
Saul offered a few more humble remarks.
Kaz, however, seed a bit anxious. “Actually, I was hoping to have Byron join the Blue Water Soul experints as well. He created a potion nearly identical to ours entirely on his own. But just recently, he suddenly applied to leave... Saul, do you know why he was in such a hurry to go? I was planning to take him to see the Tower Master.”
Saul could feel Yura’s gaze land on his face again.
But he didn’t show anything out of the ordinary. Still looking at Kaz, he gave a wry smile and said, “I’m not sure either. I saw Senior Byron leaving on the day I returned from the Elven Valley. But he didn’t say anything to —we just passed by each other. I actually had sothing to discuss with him, and I’m still waiting for him to co back.”
Kaz knew that sotis Third Rank apprentices could be delayed for months on outside missions. But the Tower Master had already given them a final deadline for the experint. If Byron really didn’t return for a few months, he certainly wouldn’t be able to join the resurrection experint.
He shook his head, and the wrinkles on his face seed to sigh along with him. “Let’s hope he cos back soon.”
Yura had grown impatient listening to talk about Byron. She hopped back onto the workbench, her legs swinging. “Let’s get back to business. Saul, I heard you’ve developed a new proposal too. I’d like to see what kind of results soone like you—so valued by Gorsa—can achieve in just a few years.”
“Actually, my proposal is more of a supplentary one. Master Gorsa wants to see if it can be combined with the Blue Water Soul.”
Rum frowned in disapproval—his brow swelling into a mound of fat.
“Combining two independently developed and completed potions by force might cause adverse effects.”
Faced with these ntor-level figures, Saul naturally didn’t co off too forceful. He just smiled and said, “That’s why I’m just trying it out first...”
Yura waved her hand. “Blue Water Soul still has a lot of room for improvent, and we don’t have the ti to start a new experint. Little Saul, if you’re not confident in your plan, it might be better to go tell Gorsa yourself—to give it up…”
“Or perhaps you could take a look first?” Saul interrupted Yura sowhat rudely, a trace of youthful pride clearly showing on his face.
A wizard apprentice hailed as a genius might remain humble most of the ti—but would never casually accept others questioning their research.
Rum and Kaz exchanged glances and smiled, likely thinking the sa thing: “Ah, the spirit of youth.”
Since the Tower Master’s favored student insisted on giving it a try, none of them would stop Saul.
But when Saul actually explained the full thought process behind his rejection-delay potion, the room fell silent once more.
As the one being experinted on, Yura was in the best position to judge the feasibility of a proposed plan.
After reviewing Saul’s experintal results, she remained quiet for a long ti before suddenly muttering, “If only you’d co earlier…”
Rum burst into loud laughter. “It’s not too late even now! Haha! No wonder you’re the Tower Master’s favorite student. If you’d shown up earlier, maybe we old ntors wouldn’t even be needed anymore!”
Kaz was the last to speak.
He’d always known Saul excelled in soul-related studies—but never expected that Saul’s breakthrough would co from modifying the vessel.
Still, identifying the root cause of rejection reactions from a cleaned corpse also owed much to his sharp sensitivity to soul bodies.
You could say Saul had walked a path completely different from the rest of them.
After hesitating for a mont, Kaz couldn’t help but ask, “Saul, how did you discover that corpses also have a rejection force similar to autonomous recognition?”
Saul couldn’t very well say it was because when his soul left his body, he would get drawn into corpses, which led him to suspect that ordinary bodies also had so capacity to identify soul bodies.
His soul was probably sowhat unique due to having traveled from another world, which made corpses especially drawn to him.
Conversely, Yura, who couldn’t stay inside other people’s corpses, might have been subject to this kind of rejection.
After thinking it over, Saul could only answer helplessly, “I just studied the ntors’ previous experintal plans and decided to try a path no one else had taken.”
Kaz’s expression clearly showed disbelief, but he didn’t press further.
If Saul didn’t want to say, he couldn’t force him.
Finally, Rum clapped his plump belly and laughed as he spoke, “Well then, let’s not waste ti. Let’s go find so new vessels now and run comparative experints. Let’s see if Blue Water Soul and Saul’s rejection-delay potion can truly complent each other!”
(End of Chapter)
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