He retreated more than ten ters down the pipe in an instant!
There was a barrier set up inside this pipe!
“Can you get through?”
“Nope!”
“The way’s blocked!”
“No candles, can’t get through!”
The few mouths around Saul imdiately started chirping noisily in response.
These mouths didn’t have brains, but they could still answer simple questions.
Just a bit noisy.
Saul waited for a while, but no one—or any ntal force—ca over to inspect the barrier that had been hit.
It seed this barrier didn’t have an alarm function.
He waited a little longer before moving in to examine it closely.
Sure enough, there was a barrier there. As soon as Saul’s ntal force spread over it, he saw the lines of a magic formation.
“It’s just a simple spirit-isolating formation. The formation surface is curved—probably a spherical isolation. There’s no other way in unless the formation is broken. But Yura likely won’t stay there for long.”
Saul waited in place for a while.
Now he could maintain soul state for a long ti. Unlike before, he didn’t need to constantly worry about not making it back in ti and getting contaminated.
Sure enough, not long after, the mouths inford Saul that Yura had already left.
Saul thought for a mont, but didn’t follow imdiately. Instead, he let the mouths follow Yura while he remained stationed outside the Anze Laboratory room.
Before long, the mouths left in place inford Saul that soone else had co out.
He waited a bit after the second person ca out, then peeked out from the pipe for a look.
The mont he saw who it was, he imdiately shrank back into the pipe.
He had seen Lokai.
The guy looked quite cheerful, walking in a relaxed manner, but just one glance, and Saul noticed faint ntal force fluctuations seeping from various points all over his body.
It was as if his entire body was hosting certain lifeforms that carried ntal force.
So the mont Saul saw him, he retreated right away.
The guy’s ntal force wasn’t stronger than his, but it was very sensitive. Saul couldn’t be sure whether the man had noticed his gaze.
“That guy’s a good actor. When I saw him just now, he didn’t react at all, still looked relaxed. But for a mont, his ntal fluctuations got noticeably more active.”
Although the diary hadn’t given any warnings, Saul had already decided to stop observing.
At the sa ti, he clearly understood one thing—this Lokai might only be a Second Rank apprentice, but his inner workings were likely far from simple.
Saul waited a little longer in place. No one else ca out.
He asked the mouths where Yura had gone, only to be told she had entered the 19th floor.
The mouths didn’t dare follow her up there.
Entering the 19th floor ant returning to Gorsa’s place—there really wasn’t any point in following further.
Saul quietly withdrew to the East Tower’s second floor, then crossed the gap again and returned to the pipe leading to the second storage room.
Before leaving, he asked the mouths that had led him the way“Why are you helping ?”
Saul rembered they used to call him "Great Demon King" and would bolt the mont they saw him.
The mouths answered very directly, “The eye listens to you, so we listen to you too.”
Then another mouth added, “Just don’t eat us.”
A third mouth said, “Vini sotis eats us.”
“A lot of tis she eats the eyes too,” a fourth one chid in.
These mouths chirped around Saul like little chicks.
“You call her Vini?” Saul had thought no one in the Wizard Tower, aside from Yura herself, would call her that.
But the mouths didn’t explain why Yura was called Vini. They seed incapable of grasping a question of that level.
“Does Yura sotis co to eat these wraith fragnts?” Saul subconsciously rubbed his translucent chin. “But she’s already a soul body on the verge of corruption. Why would she still dare to consu wraith fragnts? Isn’t she afraid the evil thoughts inside will further corrupt her mind?”
“Wait—Senior Byron also seed to witness her absorbing evil thoughts from gray matter. But instead of harming her, those evil thoughts actually helped her recover from a state of chaos and collapse.”
“Could it be that Yura feeds on evil thoughts?”
Saul believed that Yura’s condition was definitely abnormal. And this abnormality was likely kept hidden from the others.
Did Gorsa know about this?
If he did, then Yura killing Byron might have been a move to hide her consumption of evil thoughts from the rest of the Wizard Tower.
If Gorsa doesn’t know… then Yura must be hiding it from Gorsa himself!
“Diary.” Saul summoned the diary within his mind and lowered his gaze to the deep crimson hardcover book. “If I go to confirm with Gorsa about Yura devouring evil thoughts, will he kill to silence or do anything else that would harm ?”
He stared fixedly at the diary, not wanting to miss the slightest response from it.
…
Saul didn’t enter the storeroom through the bronze gate. Instead, he passed through the interlayer again.
For Saul, the interlayer surrounding the second storeroom was no longer dangerous at all.
In contrast, those noodle-like arms hidden behind the bronze gate were extrely aggressive.
For now, there was no guarantee those arms would be obedient like the mouths.
After passing through the interlayer and returning to the second storeroom, Saul imdiately took out the communication pen and sent Gorsa a ssage.
He didn’t write anything specific in the letter, in case Yura had already returned to the tower master’s side and saw he was tattling.
He only told Gorsa that he had made a major discovery in the resurrection experints.
But after the letter was sent, a long ti passed with no reply.
Saul waited all the way until dawn. The dim yellow candlelight had already turned into bright white light, yet Gorsa still hadn’t appeared.
“Could it be that since Lady Yura returned yesterday, Gorsa didn’t have ti to co find ?” Saul rubbed his temples in frustration.
He slapped his cheeks. His scheduled rest was ruined. Another sleepless night. Overthinking wasn’t ideal when preparing for an experint, but Yura’s abnormality last night left Saul deeply unsettled.
He prepared a potion that forcibly restored his ntal energy and got ready to personally test the gray-matter potion and the Blue Water Soul potion.
Although the diary hadn’t issued any warnings regarding the potions, Saul still took precautions and packed several antidotes in his compressed bag.
If he felt unwell, he’d use the appropriate antidote.
And if that failed, he had enough raw materials on hand to mix new ones on the spot.
Once ready, Saul leaned against the sofa, tilted his head back, and swallowed the gray-matter potion first.
This potion was developed by Senior Byron and had even been tested by him personally. Even if there were side effects, they shouldn’t be too serious. That’s why Saul chose to start with it.
As the potion entered his body, it began to steam before even reaching his throat. However, its boiling point was low, so it didn’t scald his mucous mbranes.
It just made Saul look like he was being boiled from the inside—smoke began to rise from his nose and mouth.
After a while, he felt even his eyes were smoking. His vision turned hazy and misty.
Everything he saw wavered in the fog.
And amidst the swaying haze, Saul faintly sensed a slight enhancent in his soul body.
Just a little.
It was probably because Saul’s soul strength had already surpassed that of most true wizards, so the gray-matter potion had only a limited effect on him.
He could also feel that if he took a second dose of the potion, the boost would be even smaller.
And by the third dose, there might be no effect at all.
“Since Lady Yura has already lost her body, her soul strength is probably weaker than that of ordinary wizard apprentices. So this gray-matter potion is still quite helpful for her.”
Thinking this, the mist before Saul’s eyes began to thin. Clearly, the potion’s effects were fading.
Yet at that mont, a new wave of gray mist—thicker than before—suddenly appeared before his eyes.
“What is this?” Saul squinted instinctively, then quickly summoned his ntal power.
When his ntal energy wrapped around that mist, he suddenly felt a powerful surge of evil thoughts.
The instant it was enveloped, the evil thoughts lunged straight at his brow, trying to force its way into his mind.
There was no way Saul would allow that to happen.
His spirit form began to resonate at high speed, and the ntal energy radiating from his body beca almost tangible, seizing the gray mist of evil thoughts as it attempted to strike back.
But just as Saul was about to guide it into a containnt vessel for soul bodies, he suddenly found the space around him plunged into blackness!
Above and below, front and back, left and right—at the very edge of his vision, a sky full of stars had burst forth!
Then, the wisp of evil thoughts he’d barely managed to seize was instantly absorbed by the stars!
The usually calm and composed Saul gradually opened his mouth in astonishnt.
“This is… the night sky and stars inside my ntal realm?”
(End of Chapter)
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