After helping Saul lure away the fake Wind Sprite's subordinates last ti, Brando left this region according to their agreent, waiting for the situation to calm down before returning.
As a result, with the fake Wind Sprite's death and the real Wind Sprite's return to position, Brando wasn't wanted by the Cliff at all.
After hiding cautiously for a while and discovering the wind seed to be shifting, he ventured back near the Purity Wizard Tower.
The result was that the Purity Wizard Tower was peaceful and tranquil, but Old Days Manor nearby had gathered quite a few wizards.
It seed sothing big was happening.
For caution's sake, Brando chose to lurk and observe the situation first.
As a result, before observing for even a few days, he discovered soone visiting the Purity Wizard Tower and taking Saul away.
It seed Saul was being constrained, so Brando secretly followed behind.
He wasn't sure if the people taking Saul were the Wind Sprite's subordinates. Only after following them to Old Days Manor and eavesdropping on their conversation in the crowd did he learn these people ca from outside and wanted to bring Saul to explore this dangerous manor together.
Since so many second-rank wizards appeared this ti, Brando ultimately chose to step forward and adventure with them.
After all, he was just one small step away from exploring Saul's consciousness space. He didn't want anything to happen to Saul at this critical mont.
As for himself, he naturally had powerful life-saving ans and wasn't afraid of taking risks.
Thus the originally 5-person exploration team rapidly expanded to 8 people in a short ti.
Seeing this, Red-beard hurriedly called a halt. He didn't want too many people going in to muddy the waters. So he refused the remaining first-rank wizards who wanted to join the team and rudely drove them away.
However, because Lucy had agreed to let three outsiders join, these first-rank wizards thought the other party was reasonable and actually pleaded while refusing to leave.
Before Red-beard could get angry, Blue-hair suddenly emitted white mist that enveloped several people.
The white mist seed slow but was actually fast. Two of them ran too late and were imdiately covered head-to-toe.
In the blink of an eye, they beca flushed red all over, as if thrown into a boiling pot, then foad at the mouth and fell dead.
This Blue-hair wizard didn't like talking, but when it ca to killing, he didn't even blink.
Looking at the corpses on the ground, Red-beard smiled contemptuously, then turned to the others.
"Well then, let's go in now."
Red-beard was the first to enter. His figure suddenly disappeared when approaching within three ters of the manor's main gate. Obviously, he had triggered Old Days Manor's rule domain.
This sudden change didn't frighten the others. Lucy walked behind Red-beard with an unchanged expression, and her figure also disappeared.
Next was Blue-hair.
When Saul prepared to follow Blue-hair inside, Kist suddenly cut in line.
He walked in front of Saul, turned back to wink at him, as if deliberately trying to annoy him.
But Saul saw Kist face him, open his mouth, and move his lips slightly, silently mouthing a word.
If he hadn't seen wrong, it was probably...
"Woof woof"?
Saul lowered his eyes as if he hadn't seen anything and silently followed Kist into the manor.
After Saul stepped across that boundary line that made people disappear, the scorching sunlight overhead suddenly changed, and the surrounding environnt beca extrely dim.
Saul looked back in shock to see behind him was an empty wilderness. The forr mountains and forests had all disappeared, with only deep mountain ranges undulating in the distance and a heavy crescent moon.
The environnt inside Old Days Manor was completely different from the outside world.
"Is this... an illusion?"
When Saul turned back around, the scene he saw was even more chilling.
The people who had entered Old Days Manor before him were all standing ahead, maintaining their forward movent but frozen in place.
As if their ti had been suddenly paused.
Red-beard, who entered first, stood on the porch with his hand raised as if about to push the door.
Blue-hair was pinching his monocle, standing not far in front of Saul, seeming to have also discovered the anomaly and was observing, but his movent was also frozen.
Miss Lucy had avoided the main entrance and walked along the corridor as if wanting to enter from another place, but she was also frozen in position.
As for Kist, who had cut in front of Saul to enter the manor, he was lying by the window next to the main door, looking inside.
The corner of his mouth was slightly raised, as if he had seen so interesting scene.
"Even Kist was frozen?" Saul didn't imdiately approach the manor, didn't even take a step, just stood in place.
He raised his hand to release Herman, the fastest, to go forward and observe the frozen people ahead.
Herman cautiously approached, then quickly returned, his face full of horror.
"Master, Master, they have no breathing, no heartbeat!"
Saul frowned deeply. "Look at their epidermis and nerve endings. Is there massive death?"
Herman swallowed nonexistent saliva and rushed over again.
Soon, he ran back. This ti the terror on his face wasn't as deep.
"No, their bodies are all active. It's like, it's like..."
Saul's face was dark as water. "Like their ti has been paused."
So there would be no heartbeat, no breathing either.
Saul looked up at the sky and said quietly: "Is this one of Old Days Manor's rules? Indeed not simple."
Could such a manor beco Dreammaker Clark's burial ground? Or would it beco the last scenery he would see?
Saul took a deep breath and stepped toward the manor.
...
Not long after this group of second-ranks entered the manor, the wizards who had just been driven away secretly returned.
However, this ti they didn't dare brazenly surround the manor, but hid in forests or underground, secretly peeping at the manor's situation.
But before they could watch for long, extrely terrifying pressure suddenly ca from the sky.
To the west, vegetation prostrated and mountains seed to shrink by half.
To the south, the earth was stained orange-red, like slanting sunset rays, yet the blazing sun was clearly still overhead radiating heat.
Several wizards who had stayed long in the Borderland imdiately realized this was the precursor to the appearance of third-rank wizards Wind Sprite and Firefly Lord.
The group's pupils dilated in shock, unable to believe that Old Days Manor's anomaly had actually alard even third-rank wizards!
This was no longer sothing they could participate in!
They got up one after another and left quietly and hurriedly like when they ca, afraid of attracting the third-rank wizards' attention.
The first to descend from the sky was Wind Sprite Pei'er, holding a little maid in her arms.
After landing, the little maid imdiately looked anxiously toward Old Days Manor but couldn't see that familiar figure.
Ann turned back to look at Pei'er, who signaled her not to worry.
After a mont, a yellow-green cloud mist rapidly approached Old Days Manor, then landed fifty ters from the Wind Sprite, instantly transforming into a bald male wizard wearing fluorescent yellow armor.
At this ti, a small wizard hiding in the soil who hadn't left ran forward, bowing repeatedly to the two.
"Lord Wind Sprite, Lord Firefly Lord, eight second-rank wizards just entered Old Days Manor. As soon as they entered, their figures disappeared, which is different from Old Days Manor's past behavior. The rules here may have changed again!"
(End of Chapter)
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