Saul looked up expressionlessly at the burning fireflies floating in mid-air.
Those tiny insects, no bigger than a fingertip, burned for a very, very long ti.
When Pei'er found Saul, the burning firefly clusters hadn't completely disappeared yet.
She looked at the sky in shock, then at the silently standing Saul, hesitating for a mont before landing on the ground.
"You killed Herbert?" Pei'er asked, biting her lip.
Saul turned his head. "I don't know how this happened either."
Yes, Saul wasn't as calm as he appeared.
In fact, he was almost bewildered inside.
At the final mont of sealing the Storm Eye, Camus had rged with the white anchor point and suddenly drilled into Saul's fingertip.
After that, the twisting pollution brought by the Storm Eye completely disappeared.
The white bit at Saul's fingertip remained quiet and still, as if it truly was just a section of Saul's finger bone.
But when Saul teleported beside Herbert and Pei'er, watching them fight, his left fingertip suddenly trembled lightly, sending out signals of desire toward the two third-rank wizards.
This white finger bone was originally part of an anchor point. When Camus made this part break through the seal at the last mont, she obviously still wanted Black Tide pollution to continue destroying this world.
But after erging, the white anchor point fragnt didn't imdiately erupt, instead lying dormant.
Saul wasn't too anxious. He'd heard from Pei'er that if they couldn't prevent Black Tide eruption, all fourth-rank wizards would try to seize anchor points.
Obviously these factions had ways to preserve anchor points.
Saul just wasn't sure if they'd be willing to share with him.
Regardless, he definitely wouldn't ignore it. So Saul had wanted to use his newly mastered teleportation ability to test third-rank wizards.
Who knew that the mont the anchor point contacted Herbert, it suddenly released a twisting force.
This force didn't escape outside Herbert's body, aning Herbert alone bore the suddenly erupting anchor point.
Though it was only for an instant.
It imdiately put Herbert into a chain mutation state.
"...In any case, Herbert seems to have been directly twisted by so extrely powerful pollution. He had no resistance at all."
Pei'er frowned tightly beside him. "Based on what you're saying, I can only think of one thing."
"Anchor point?" Saul turned his head, staring at Pei'er's face.
"Yes. But anchor points appearing here would an Black Tide has fully erupted." Pei'er was puzzled. "But there's clearly no twisting force here anymore."
She couldn't help looking at Saul with so concern, ntal power hovering around him without descending.
"Saul, are you certain you've completely sealed the Storm Eye? Do you need to help examine you?"
"I'm certain, but it's fine if you help examine too."
With Saul's permission, Pei'er wanted to help examine Saul's body, completely forgetting how much she'd once feared him.
The mont her ntal power touched Saul, Pei'er suddenly rembered this.
Her face turned pale instantly.
"What's wrong..." Saul asked halfway before also rembering. "You heard the stars' voices again?"
"No, I didn't..." Just as she was about to deny it, Pei'er's voice suddenly beca sharp. "No!! No!!!!"
The ntal power about to touch Saul imdiately withdrew. Pei'er covered her ears and tightly closed her eyes, not daring to look at Saul.
"Pei'er?" Saul was startled and quickly examined his left hand.
The skin still perfectly wrapped the white finger bone inside, without a trace of Black Tide pollution escaping.
"It shouldn't be Black Tide pollution. Could it be the effect of that slight pollution from before?"
Saul instantly extended powerful ntal power.
Previously, due to Pei'er's fear, he'd never had a chance to give her a thorough examination.
But now Pei'er's appearance reminded Saul of how she'd struggled in terror before falling into the starry sky in the golden page preview.
This made him not dare wait any longer.
"With just a step away from Pei'er unaffected, the reason for her terror is likely inside Pei'er herself."
But before Saul could examine her, Pei'er in front of him suddenly opened her eyes again.
Only this ti, her eyes had lost their luster.
"No good!" Saul imdiately reached out to grab Pei'er's hand.
"That's right. I shouldn't have been hiding." Pei'er murmured, as if convinced by soone. "I should go there."
Pei'er's body suddenly rose, as if pulled by reverse gravity, faster and faster.
The prepared Saul grabbed her hand firmly.
But the hand he caught stretched like rubber.
The places his fingers touched left shallow pits.
As if Pei'er had completely beco moldable clay from inside out.
Saul had to let go.
But now without Black Tide pollution's influence, Saul's magic power was abundant and he could mobilize external magic power, directly casting flight magic to its limit and pursuing.
However, flight magic had altitude restrictions too.
When Saul flew above the second cloud layer, he could no longer ascend.
Magic power here had beco sparse—even if Saul wanted to borrow power, he couldn't.
He seed to have reached the boundary of the wizard world.
But Pei'er's speed falling toward the sky didn't decrease, instead accelerating.
As if receiving a summons from beyond the world.
"Why would Pei'er still mutate? That bit of pollution was comparable to so dangerous places in the Borderland."
"Brother Saul." Penny quietly speculated from within the diary. "Could it be... what's affecting Pei'er isn't pollution."
Saul was stunned.
He hadn't even considered this possibility.
Could it be that in several golden page previews, what affected Pei'er and made her fall toward deep space was never Black Tide pollution?
"Not Black Tide—could it be the stars?" Saul even wanted to enter his consciousness space to question the stars inside.
But if he did that, he'd completely lose track of Pei'er.
Staring at that beautiful figure getting farther and farther away, Saul suddenly narrowed his eyes.
Several white thin lines appeared before him.
Most were blurry and far from his body.
Only one was clearest.
Without hesitation, Saul grasped that thin line!
The next second.
Both Saul and Pei'er's figures disappeared from high altitude.
As if they'd never appeared.
At the sa ti, on the highest mountain range between the Stat and Nephret continents on Iskaper Continent.
On the highest watchtower of this highest mountain range.
On an inverted pyramid platform floating a hundred ters above this watchtower.
This was a secret experintal base not publicly disclosed by the Stargate Council.
Except for those entering the watchtower below, no one else could see this inverted pyramid platform.
This place was secretly called the "Eye of Stars."
As a genius of the Stargate Council and capable assistant to Chairman Alick, urich was now quickly walking down from the Eye of Stars back to the watchtower.
Alick was currently sitting atop the watchtower, calmly gazing at the sky.
The gravity in the tower's top space had been modified from vertical to horizontal.
This was just to satisfy the Chairman's special hobby of constantly observing the starry sky.
When urich transferred through the Eye of Stars to the tower top, he also had to pause montarily to adapt to the gravity change.
However, this ti his excitent prevented him from adapting much before he held up his report and loudly reported to Chairman Alick.
"Lord Chairman, we just successfully captured an opened Star Gate! Though only for an instant, we successfully deployed a target object inside."
urich spoke while walking to Alick's side and kneeling on one knee. "Your speculation was correct—when the Storm Eye appeared in the Borderland, the Star Gate would briefly open once. This ti our people sent to the Borderland transmitted signals in ti, allowing us to seize the opportunity and successfully deploy the target object!"
"By the way, do you know what code na I gave this target object?"
urich looked up, his tallic telescope-like protruding eyes gleaming.
"I called it... anchor point."
(End of Chapter)
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