He tested and found he could still teleport to Keli's side.
Others worried about black tide pollution, but he wasn't afraid.
Just as Saul was about to teleport, he suddenly saw a figure flying over hurriedly.
It was the patrol wizard Maria who had just parted ways with him.
"Lord Saul, did you see Wizard Gorsa?" Maria looked sowhat anxious.
"Mm, I just ca out. My master is conducting experints. Do you need to find him?"
Maria breathed a sigh of relief. "Ah, then there's no need."
Saul: "Hm?"
She asked about him but then didn't need to find him?
Maria quickly explained, "While investigating the black tide monster invasion, I discovered that a third-rank wizard has gone missing!"
"What?" Even though he wasn't from the Sighing Wall, Saul could understand Maria's tension.
That was a third-rank wizard—how could they just disappear casually?
At this ti, three more wizards flew over from the distance. Their expressions were relatively calm, which made the nervous Maria feel sowhat reassured.
"Lady Maria," a female wizard approached Maria's side. "Currently no other wizards are missing."
Maria had already guessed from their expressions. She turned back to Saul, "We need to go check the missing wizard's tower. Saul, will you return to the Sighing Wall first to choose a wizard tower to guard, or... co with us to take a look?"
"I'll go with you." Saul said imdiately.
He followed Maria in their actions and discovered that the direction they were heading was toward the tower closest to Master Gorsa's wizard tower.
Although close, it was still quite far from Master Gorsa's wizard tower.
Accommodating the speed of the second-rank wizards, they arrived beneath that wizard tower.
From the outside, the wizard tower before them showed no signs of damage whatsoever, only that the door was half-open, revealing a dark gap inside.
After approaching, the group didn't imdiately enter but instead spread out and very skillfully began setting up magical arrays.
Saul observed the door and discovered several dried water stains on it. The stains were yellowish, and from their outline they looked like sothing had wriggled across the ground, with slight dragging marks.
At this ti, the other wizards had finished setting up the magical array. The array used the three wizards' bodies as nodes, projecting three light pillars that spread evenly. The overlapping portions ford an even brighter area that perfectly enveloped the slender wizard tower.
"We can go in now." Maria said, then took the lead entering the light-shrouded wizard tower.
The door was pushed open and actually made a "creak" sound.
Saul glanced sideways at the door crack, where there were already traces of rust.
"Normal doors wouldn't be like this." Maria said. "It should have been caused by the intruder."
"The intruder probably ca from the sea." Saul said, casually releasing several illumination spells to light up the ground. "Look at the traces on the floor."
The areas illuminated by the light all had so slight scraping marks.
Maria crouched down and very carefully ran her hand over the traces on the ground. A bit of fla rose from her fingertips and quickly extinguished.
"These are... scale marks?" Maria furrowed her brow, her expression sowhat heavy.
A wizard behind them seed to rember sothing and quickly said, "Could it be rmaids?"
The others also chid in, "There were indeed reports of rmaid sightings in Storm Sea recently. I heard that when they fled from the Red Sea, they caused big trouble for the Tribunal and nearly destroyed their Red Sea Trees. Looks like they've now co to cause trouble beneath the Sighing Wall."
These people only knew a rough outline about rmaids. Saul shook his head, "Individual rmaids aren't that strong—at most they're equivalent to first-rank wizards. The rmaid aberrant at the Red Sea back then was a fusion of over a hundred thousand rmaids, and it also utilized the pollution brought by the black tide assault to cause large-scale destruction."
The three wizards beside them all looked over suspiciously.
"This is Wizard Saul. He was present when the rmaid uprising occurred." Only then did Maria introduce him to the group, using her gaze to warn everyone. "Wizard Saul is a third-rank wizard and also a guest invited by the Sighing Wall for temporary guard duty."
The wizards were startled. They hadn't expected the wizard before them to actually be third-rank. He hadn't externally projected ntal power and looked very young—they hadn't imagined he was already a third-rank wizard.
These wizards were all second-rank. In other places they would already be very formidable and could serve as leaders of factions, but at the Sighing Wall they were the backbone—aning very common existences.
They stopped talking and waited for Saul to speak.
However, Saul had no other clues either. He had just arrived today and wasn't familiar with this place. Besides discovering that there were indeed scale dragging marks on the ground, he had no other ideas.
Seeing that Saul had no other clues, Maria stood up, "Alright, let's continue deeper to take a look."
On the way, Maria told Saul that during her normal patrol, she had discovered that the third-rank wizard here hadn't responded for a day, and his signature left at the Sighing Wall had also disappeared. She had quickly had her subordinates contact all the wizards guarding wizard towers to see if anyone else had lost contact.
The good news was that currently only one third-rank wizard was missing, but the bad news was that according to intelligence, that missing third-rank wizard should have been in the wizard tower.
Losing contact under such circumstances ant the other party was very likely in grave danger.
The group activated defensive magic while descending the stairs. When they reached the final floor, Maria, who was walking at the front, stopped again.
Saul hadn't yet turned the final stair corner when he heard Maria sigh and say, "Found his body."
Saul quickened his pace and saw a corpse lying at the bottom of the staircase.
The body looked as if it had been gnawed by wild beasts, with bones exposed in many places.
"The eaten areas are mostly parts with more flesh and fat. The internal organs are all gone too." Another second-rank wizard said. His face was sowhat pale—obviously an enemy that could devour a third-rank wizard could easily devour him as well.
Saul approached and saw Maria crouch down again to examine the body. He also took the opportunity to observe.
The dead third-rank wizard was thin, with only his thighs, buttocks, and abdon having much flesh gnawed away. His arms and chest ribs showed little change, only so scratches. The flesh from the deceased's cheeks had also been bitten off, exposing his teeth. But his forehead had no wounds.
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Maria stood up, cleaned the blood from her hands, and furrowed her brow even tighter. Her two slender eyebrows almost seed ready to tangle together.
"From the bite marks on the edges... these are human teeth."
The other wizards in the room instantly fell silent.
"Humans? Could it be that so wizard has mutated?"
Maria's facial skin was taut, "The black tide is about to strike. I hope it's not so wizard causing trouble at this ti."
Maria sealed and stored the corpse, "We'll take the body back to the Sighing Wall first. I rember soone there specializes in retrospective magic and can deduce the death scenario. Also, we need to find another wizard to guard this tower."
"This is almost the front line. Only third-rank wizards can guard here. Who would be willing to co at short notice?" A nearby second-rank wizard said with difficulty.
At this ti, Saul raised his hand and said quietly, "I can temporarily fill in."
(End of Chapter)
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