Agu looked completely bewildered by the question. Seeing Agu's expression, Fiona imdiately realized sothing was wrong.
Agu looked like he had no idea what red worms were!
Her expression changed, and her previous seriousness turned to impatience.
"Caught the wrong person again. Can't those surveillance people be more careful?"
A wizard beside her walked over to comfort Fiona, "After all, the surveillance people don't understand the actual situation either. Misunderstandings are normal."
"Then what do we do with this one?" Fiona pointed at Agu. "They spoke so confidently that I was already giving them passwords."
The other wizard disdainfully glanced at Agu. "Then just..."
But before he could finish speaking, he was suddenly interrupted.
"Then let's invite him in as a guest."
Fiona and the other wizard froze, turning to see the newcor and quickly bowing respectfully.
"We'll take care of this guest. You can go back now."
Saul noticed the newcor was also a third-rank wizard who looked very strange—he had actually modified both eyes to look like telescopes, and from their structure, they seed able to extend and retract.
"You two, I'm urich. Please follow ."
urich first glanced at Agu, then moved his gaze to his shadow.
Saul clicked his tongue, then erged from Agu's shadow. "How did you discover ?"
urich actually took the initiative to bow to Saul first. "Your combat ability is very strong, and your dical skills are even more superb. Fortunately, your concealnt ability isn't first among third-rank wizards, or how would others survive!"
"Brother Saul, he's insulting you!" Penny was shocked. "Didn't you say sothing about... honeyed words and daggers?"
"You got it wrong." Saul told Penny to shut up.
"Huh?" urich across from him was confused.
Saul turned to urich with genuine praise. "Your eye modification is really impressive."
"You flatter ." urich raised his hand and tapped his eyes with his index finger, making them retract sowhat to look slightly more normal. "Please follow . There are too many people here with loose tongues—there are so things they're not suitable to know yet."
Saul followed urich with Agu, though Agu was reluctant to leave and couldn't help glancing at Fiona nearby.
Fiona behaved obediently in front of urich, but when she noticed Agu looking at her, she still glared back fiercely.
Agu couldn't help but smile nostalgically, leaving behind a bewildered Fiona and hurrying to catch up with Saul.
The three entered the largest building in the center of the underground base. Such a large room had no other people in it.
After urich closed the door, he naturally invited Saul to sit.
When urich raised his hand, vines suddenly grew from the ground, quickly forming chairs and a coffee table.
Three tulips blood in the center of the coffee table, their petals opening to reveal amber liquid inside.
"This is flower tea that's very popular in the Stargate Council now. Would Lord Saul like to try so?"
Saul wasn't afraid of any tricks from urich. He sat down directly, picked up a flower bud, and tasted it.
The flower's stem automatically extended when Saul picked it up, then retracted to the coffee table when he let go.
"The fragrance is very rich, and it has special mind-refreshing effects." But it was too sweet—Saul didn't like it. "So you're people from the Stargate Council. I wondered who could run a secret organization near the Stargate Council. But why is the Stargate Council acting so secretively?"
urich maintained a polite smile until Saul finished asking, then began to speak.
"Since you specifically ca here, you must also be here about the red worms, right?"
Saul tilted his head without answering.
urich imdiately felt pressure and curved his fingers. "Actually, the Council acts this way for stability. The Stargate experint has been ongoing for over four years. Currently, the gate is maintained in a state that allows wizards to enter. As long as the Council is prepared, we can send more people to break through the world barriers and reach beyond the stargate. But in recent years, we've discovered other external species entering through the stargate."
"These external creatures are very difficult to perceive through conventional thods, so the gatekeepers didn't discover them at all."
Saul rested his hand against his chin. "Can't you close the gate?"
urich smiled bitterly and spread his hands. "It took us sixty years to open the stargate. If we close it this ti, who knows how many years it will take to open it again."
"Red worms can even devour third-rank wizards, and you're just letting them run wild?" Saul didn't directly tell urich about the giant worm he had seen outside the Star Observatory Tower, but probed, "Do you know what level the most powerful red worms have reached? Could they beco world-destroying existences like the black tide?"
urich's eyes protruded ten centiters outward. "You don't need to worry about that. This world had no hope to begin with. The stargate will take qualified people away from this world dood to destruction."
The Stargate Council people just want to run away.
Saul suddenly rembered this phrase. It seed outsiders' evaluation of the Stargate Council was completely accurate.
If only qualified people could leave, what did the Glare family, also part of the Stargate Council, think about this?
Saul asked, "What kind of people count as qualified?"
"You are certainly qualified. As for others... People who can see red worms without external assistance are also qualified."
urich smiled at Agu. "Of course, the qualification I'm talking about is just being able to join the Stargate Council's migration team. I'm not saying people who can't see red worms can't leave this wizard world. It's just that the Stargate Council's capabilities are limited—we can only bring people we're confident we can take."
Agu said nothing, just silently lowering his eyes. Regardless of escaping or leaving, he would ultimately follow his master anyway.
As for Fiona, she seed to be a qualified person, so he didn't need to worry too much.
Saul thought of Corey, who had disappeared in the port city. Her ntal state seed to have problems due to the red worm on her head, but it was still better than Wizard Aurel, who had been devoured by a red worm.
Since Corey had only disappeared rather than leaving behind a corpse—which would have been more convenient to handle—Corey was very likely still alive and was a qualified person.
"You judge qualified people based on red worms—is it so characteristic of the red worms? How much do you understand about red worms?"
"Worthy of Lord Saul, you imdiately hit the key point." urich seed to be good at flattery. "The Council has indeed conducted in-depth research on red worms. In fact, Chairman Alick discovered their existence when red worms first entered the wizard world. But at the sa ti, we also discovered that the special concealnt abilities of red worms can help us hide ourselves in the world beyond the stargate and avoid danger."
"You may not know, but the wizard world is currently sealed. The bad thing is that the path from fourth to fifth rank is closed, but there are benefits too—our world basically won't be affected by pollution from the starry sky. But we will eventually have to leave, so how can we, who have been in a safe environnt for so long, adapt to the outside world?"
"We can only first borrow others' power and talents."
"So we divide people attacked by red worms into the parasitized—those who couldn't withstand the red worms and were devoured. The opposite of that is the immune. For example, Wizard Corey, and your friend... Wizard Byron." Google seaʀᴄh novèlfire
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