Orange cat Kate ran wildly on the ground with four legs, just like a real cat.
He cried out miserably "ow ow," tears rolling down his furry face.
"I hate ghosts! I hate ghosts!"
The orange cat, who had once had a special encounter with ghosts, desperately fled from the shadows behind him.
If he still had his original strong male body, he might have been able to suppress his fear, but now his cat instincts forced him to be completely overwheld by the fear growing in his heart, only wanting to escape this place as quickly as possible.
The surroundings grew darker and darker.
He passed one streetlight after another, but still couldn't run out of this district.
The crescent moon ahead seed to guide his path forward while also mocking his cowardice.
"What is this place? Why can't I get out?"
"The intelligence was wrong, completely wrong. Such a terrifying place definitely can't be a space created by a second-rank wizard's mutation."
At this mont, Kate deeply regretted agreeing to White Beard's request to co here together seeking the thod to push open the inner door.
Even if he couldn't beco a powerful third-rank wizard, he could still be a free second-rank wizard!
Even if he couldn't turn back into a human, he could still be a living cat!
"This road might not lead to escape. I must find other places to get out. Anomalies, anomalies—the most abnormal place might also be the exit to escape from here."
Kate widened his cat eyes, pupils dilated to the sa size as his eyes.
Using his cat's night vision enhancent, he looked left and right.
Ahead was an endless road, behind were inescapable shadows.
Kate considered that perhaps he could enter the buildings on both sides.
But when he finally managed to see the surrounding scenery clearly, he discovered in horror that after running for so long, the buildings around him hadn't changed at all.
Yet when he first observed, the buildings on both sides of the road had always been of different heights, staggered and orderly.
There hadn't been completely identical, repeating street scenes.
But now he discovered that after running for so long, it was as if he hadn't moved at all.
He rembered that about ten ters ahead on his left side, there was a uniquely shaped building, and now this building was exactly ten ters ahead on his left.
Exactly the sa position as before Kate started running!
"Could it be that the roads here are moving backward? Or has my sanity already beco problematic?"
"Then the ghost behind ..."
Kate's four cat paws were imdiately nailed in place, all his cat fur standing on end, the whole cat becoming like a spiky ball!
He wanted to look back to see if there was still a ghost behind him, but he didn't dare move or turn around.
Because he was afraid that once he turned around, that terrifying ghost would be right behind him!
But if he didn't look, didn't turn around, didn't confirm, this fear would stick to his back like a stubborn plaster that could never be shaken off!
Kate could only prick up his cat ears, first trying to listen for sounds behind him.
He heard a rushing wind.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
As if a huge cloak was being blown by the wind.
And this sound was getting closer and closer, about to reach his back and brush against the fur on his back.
"ow!"
Kate's whole body shuddered. He no longer dared to look back, but knowing that running forward was futile, he randomly chose a direction and ran toward the buildings on either side.
After just two steps, he suddenly found his feet weren't touching the ground.
After instinctively kicking his legs in the air a few tis, he realized he had been lifted more than a ter into the air.
"Found you, Wizard Kate."
The newcor?
Kate imdiately turned around excitedly.
But when he turned to see who was holding his scruff, his cat face twisted in terror!
The one holding him and speaking in Black Blade Wizard's voice... was actually a skeleton!
This skeleton was completely black with no flesh on its bones.
In the empty eye sockets of its skull, gray flas seed to burn.
Only the left hand that wasn't gripping Kate was white, wrapped in a transparent, skin-like dium.
"ow—ow—"
The orange cat cried even more miserably, desperately kicking with all four limbs, trying to escape from the black skeleton's grasp.
But the struggling orange cat Kate didn't notice that what was truly terrifying wasn't the black skeleton in front of him, but the semi-transparent tentacles extending from under his wizard robes.
Most of those tentacles extended behind Saul, wrapping around every streetlight he passed.
Only two tentacles seed to extend forward curiously, scraping against Kate's little paw pads that reached toward them.
Looking at the orange cat panicking almost to collapse, Saul was sowhat puzzled.
The other party was a second-rank wizard after all—even though he'd beco a cat—but he shouldn't be this afraid just from seeing a skeleton, right?
Seeing that the other was about to be scared into collapse and mutation, his spiritual body becoming increasingly unstable, Saul had to retract most of his tentacles and regrow flesh on his face, restoring his appearance.
"Wizard Kate, if you can't calm down, I can help you."
As Saul spoke, a black blade appeared at his left fingertip.
"Black Blade... Wizard?" The orange cat was forced to look back again. After seeing Saul's appearance clearly, he finally gradually cald down.
Of course, what really confird Saul's identity for him was the ntal power that escaped when Saul cast magic.
Kate was abnormally sensitive to ntal power in his current state.
Seeing the orange cat in his hands finally stop struggling, Saul put Kate back on the ground.
"Wizard Kate, a word of advice—solve the problem of being trapped in cat form as soon as possible, or your spiritual body will collapse sooner or later."
Kate didn't respond to Saul's advice. After being put on the ground, he secretly glanced at Saul while muttering, "Didn't turn into a shadow, didn't turn into a shadow."
Saul knew Kate must have encountered certain people or things in the Inverted Tree that had all turned into ash people.
It had scared this cat quite badly.
"Wizard Kate, I have to say, this place really counters you."
Kate originally wanted to be stubborn, but thinking of his recent performance that Saul had witnessed, he could only nod listlessly.
"Yes, my nerves are very sensitive in this state, and this place has special effects that stir up fear from the bottom of people's hearts, so I..."
He ultimately couldn't bring himself to say sothing like "was too scared."
"But from another angle, this characteristic of yours isn't bad either."
How is it not bad!
Orange cat Kate almost owed again to express his indignation.
Saul crossed his arms and looked around at the surrounding high-rises.
These buildings looked like three-dinsional structures, but after staring for a long ti, there was a vague feeling that everything was drawn on paper.
Saul looked back at the obviously unhappy orange cat Kate and smiled warmly, "Of course, it's the monster-attracting attribute."
Kate's whole body stiffened, almost letting out another ow.
"What, what are you going to do?"
"I saved you, so you should be grateful, right? Ever heard of a cat's gratitude?"
(End of Chapter)
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