The soul body inside was very weak and blurred. If he hadn't been pressed against the glass, Saul would have even overlooked that there was life inside.
But this should be exactly the effect the Stargate Council was pursuing.
Hidden, and able to withstand starlight pollution.
After ignoring urich for a mont, Saul turned around to first look at the experintal data.
But as soon as he turned around, the first person he saw wasn't urich with his telescope-like eyes, but Douglas standing further back.
Douglas was looking at Saul. Only when their eyes t did he nod nonchalantly and shift his gaze to the experintal data nearby.
Saul walked to the side naturally and began looking through the experintal data on the table, but he multitasked - recording each experint's process and results while speaking ntally with Nightmare Butterfly in the diary.
"Penny, was Douglas staring at just now?"
[Ah? I didn't notice.]
Penny seed sowhat frustrated.
[I was also attracted by that big glass cylinder and forgot to observe the surroundings.]
"It's fine." Saul comforted her. "I also didn't notice he was watching ."
This statent surprised even Beth in the diary.
[Beth: You're less than ten ters away from him, yet you couldn't sense his gaze? Your current ntal power is equivalent to a fourth-rank wizard's!]
After the first four targets of Symphony of Fate took shape, Saul had received a large amount of destiny force feedback and could even advance to fourth rank imdiately. But pursuing greater power, Saul had been suppressing himself.
Beth was initially surprised, then beca sowhat excited.
[Saul, do you want to make him your fifth target?]
A powerful and mysterious third-rank wizard who hadn't suffered any losses even when negotiating with the Stargate Council.
Indeed a candidate for a target.
"No rush." Saul responded ntally. "This guy... I have a feeling I can't quite control him. Let's observe first, and preferably get his agreent to cooperate."
For so reason, Saul hadn't felt this uncertain even when selecting the imprisoned fifth-rank water sprite Floco.
His intuition neither told him there was danger nor that everything would go smoothly.
Facing Douglas, Saul always had a feeling that the person before him wasn't actually there.
This uncertainty didn't scare Saul away, but rather made him more interested in Douglas. He had even entrusted the initiative to cooperate with the Stargate Council to him.
It was difficult to protect one's own interests in front of the advantaged Stargate Council, and equal cooperation was also difficult. But sohow Douglas had completed the cooperation agreent before he returned, without even revealing his trump card.
After thinking, Saul ultimately didn't take out the Soul-Fixing Needle.
Since his temporary partner was so capable, he'd keep his trump card hidden.
Perhaps it would be useful in so unexpected place later.
No longer minding the seemingly harmless Douglas behind him, Saul continued reading the experintal materials on the table.
"So the Stargate Council really plans to abandon their human bodies."
After reading the experintal data, Saul couldn't help shaking his head. "With the elves' example before you, you're still planning to completely abandon your bodies. I can only say I admire your courage."
But urich smiled and said, "The elves' failure was because they didn't have a stargate. Wanting to leave the wizard world but unable to find a way out, more and more soul consciousnesses got trapped in the world barrier's interlayer. Until the nurous chaotic ntal powers ford a gravitational field specifically targeting the elf race, causing the remaining elves to disappear overnight."
"But we won't make such mistakes." urich continued, even walking very close to Saul's side with a punchable smile on his face. "We have a stargate that can cross world barriers without consumption. We also have red worms to carry our consciousness, plus shells made by Faceless Ones with extrely strong concealnt. Naturally we can safely leave this world without a future."
Saul glanced at urich and suddenly swung out a semi-transparent gray tentacle.
The tentacle was extrely fast. Just as urich was about to dodge, all the lights in the room suddenly dimd, changing from pure white to purple-red.
This purple-red light imdiately bathed everyone in the laboratory in the sa color sche, but urich's color was deeper and seed to surge outward in waves.
Under the colored light's illumination, the color on urich's body ultimately couldn't break through his body's constraints.
Looking at Saul, although he had struck first, his body color was the sa as others. Even his left hand that had transford into a tentacle showed no abnormality.
"So it also suppresses ntal power through fluctuations? But my transformations don't require ntal power!" After Saul finished speaking, his extended tentacle had already bound urich tightly.
"Saul, don't kill our research partner on the first day." Douglas leaned against the wall. Although his words were diating, his body honestly didn't move at all.
"He's not our partner!" Saul continued waving his tentacles, tossing urich up and down like playing with a toy.
Almost no lethality, but quite insulting indeed.
urich went from initial surprise to anger, finally to grudging endurance. Only when he saw Saul lower his head to look at experintal data again with no intention of releasing him did he speak with suppressed anger.
"Lord Saul, have you had enough fun?"
Saul turned a deaf ear, and the tentacle's movents beca even faster. urich was being shaken so much in his hands that he was almost becoming a blur.
"Saul, do you want to shake urich to death and then beco my assistant yourself?"
Finally, Alick's voice, which hadn't appeared, rang out from outside the laboratory.
Only then did Saul put urich down.
The latter staggered a step after landing, looking sowhat theatrical.
"I don't have Wizard urich's abilities." Saul turned back to look at Alick walking in from outside. "I can only hope that the leftover materials you leave behind can help survive in this world."
When Alick appeared, Douglas also straightened up and smiled in greeting. "I thought the chairman wouldn't have ti to co out recently."
Alick nodded to Douglas as well, obviously valuing this third-rank wizard highly.
"If either you or Saul is willing to join the migration plan, I can give you urich to play with."
Douglas both waved his hands and shook his head. "No way, I don't have your courage to dare leave before advancing to fifth-rank wizard."
Douglas's words also had so teasing aning, but Alick didn't mind at all. "There are also first-rank and even below first-rank existences in the starry sky. Like these red worms - if not for their special survival thods, how could they freely traverse the starry sky? We're now using knowledge to change destiny."
Alick finally looked at Saul. "Saul, your ntal power is both strong and special. You're actually more suited for the starry sky than all of us here. Won't you really consider leaving with us? I can reserve a spot for you."
Douglas's eyes flashed, but he quickly lowered his gaze, hiding the light in his eyes.
Saul politely asked in return, "Your research on red worms is so effective against pollution, won't you really consider staying to fight the black tide?"
Alick withdrew his gaze and stared at his feet. "Between known terror and unknown terror, I'd rather choose the unknown."
(End of Chapter)
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