If he ignored the dangers brought by elves and only looked at the benefits, Saul would be drooling.
Although his own mental strength was abnormally strong among his peers, that was still just among his peers. If he could truly obtain all the elves' mental power, he might be able to increase the Symphony of Fate's binding targets from the previous mere five people to hundreds!
In that case, as a fourth-rank existence, Saul's fate would be bound to almost all high-rank wizards in this world. Unless the world was pletely destroyed all at once, his immortal body would be unbreakable.
By then, Saul would also bee someone who gathered the fate power of the entire world.
Unfortunately, while imagination was beautiful, reality was very cruel.
Even if the one undergoing elfification was Saul himself, he had no confidence he could resist the elves' pull.
"Lord Floco, how can we prevent Byron from being pulled into the world barrier by the elves?"
"Sir, how should I utilize the elves' mental power?"
Saul and Byron spoke simultaneously, but they asked about pletely opposite things.
Floco was more familiar with Saul, and the other party was the one who had helped break his seal, so naturally he answered Saul's question first. "Stability! Stability of the spiritual body—it can't exceed the limits one can bear, and the spiritual body also can't enter an extremely exhausted, dried-up state. A small sapling will be blown away by strong wind, but a stable, healthy century-old giant tree won't be."
"As for borrowing the elves' mental power..." Floco shook his head. "Wait until you bee a second-rank wizard. In your current state, don't think about using elven power."
Byron could only sit back dejectedly.
He only had the possibility of continued advancement after obtaining the Elf Spring Water, but until today, he had just begun attempting advancement.
Saul asked Floco for several more points of attention before chatting with Byron about serious matters.
"I encountered some accidents during my trip and only returned now. How has your progress in the Chaos Realm been?"
Giving the Chaos Realm pass to Byron and Keli was mainly to facilitate their study of the Inertization Formula.
Now knowing Byron's condition, Saul could only say the Chaos Realm and Inertization Formula were too suitable for him.
"We went three times and brought back quite a few experimental materials. We also made contact with your little apprentice." Byron's expression was strange. "Anyway, what Noah is doing... is quite interesting."
Saul also thought of the "Death Judge" title Noah had given him and his mouth twitched with inexplicable embarrassment.
"Oh right, Noah said that after they stabilized, they started collecting remains of other bone monsters. He also said he wanted to ask you to visit once—it seems he's made some discoveries."
Saul only had three days to return and handle affairs. Since the Chaos Realm was mentioned, he might as well make a trip.
After all, the round trip would take at least a full day.
"By the way, where's Keli?"
Because he had once instructed the two not to separate when going to the Chaos Realm, Saul knew Keli shouldn't be in the Chaos Realm now. But he'd been here so long—why hadn't she e over yet?
"Keli recently advanced to second-rank and has been in her room stabilizing her mental power this whole time."
This was also the fundamental reason they had only gone to the Chaos Realm three times in half a year.
With extremely unstable mental power, spatial teleportation wasn't suitable.
"In that case, let's just go with the few of us."
Byron packed up the things in his hands and directly took out the Chaos Realm pass he kept close to his body.
"Let's go."
In the blink of an eye, Saul and Byron landed on the black desert.
Nearby was Noah's former stronghold.
But now that Noah wasn't in the black desert long-term, this had bee Keli and Byron's temporary laboratory.
The magnificent gate that Noah had built for show still stood beside the laboratory. It now had some real magical formations added to it—probably inscribed by either Byron or Keli.
Saul first followed Byron around their laboratory, then brought Floco underground to visit the bone lizard monster he had captured.
Saul's original intention was to ask if Floco had any understanding of these bone monsters that appeared at the end of the black tide.
However, the moment Floco saw the bone monster, he was immediately shocked. "There's almost no magical power here. How could undead clan monsters appear?"
Saul frowned. "This monster is pletely different from undead clan records in books, and it doesn't understand Undead Whispers either."
Undead Whispers was one of the monly used magical languages in the wizard world, evolved from the undead clan's language.
When Saul had tried municating with the bone monster, he had used several languages he knew, but the other party couldn't understand any of them, so he could only use force.
Floco observed the bone monster before him again. It had been in a sleeping state ever since Saul sealed it.
But Floco was also very careful when approaching, seeming reluctant to touch the other party.
"This is indeed quite different from the previous undead clan. Looking at the characteristics on its body, I believe it underwent fundamental mutation after being polluted by the black tide. However, if we go by the previous racial characteristic definitions of the undead clan, it could still be considered a new type of undead and classified within the undead clan."
Saul nodded in understanding. "So they're not the original undead clan, which is why it couldn't understand when I used Undead Whispers."
But Floco shook his head. "If you really used current Undead Whispers to municate with historical undead clan members, they wouldn't understand either."
He smiled. "Besides textual evolution caused by the times, it's more because the undead clan, especially lower undead, don't municate through language. Their bodies e from rotting earth and can't support overly plex, delicate movements, so munication relies more on direct mental transmission."
"Direct mental transmission of information is delicate work." Saul didn't disbelieve Floco, but direct mental munication required very high control over mental power.
To achieve this, one would need to be at least a second-rank wizard.
The undead clan couldn't possibly have even their lowest skeleton frames be second-rank existences, right?
That would be too terrifying.
Even more exaggerated than elves.
"Only higher undead need precise munication. Lower ones lack sufficient intelligence—they're only responsible for receiving simple mands."
Hearing this, Saul looked thoughtful. "So do you think this bone lizard can receive mentally transmitted signals?"
Floco wasn't very optimistic. "Although it's large, it doesn't have many fine structures and looks like just a powerful enforcer. I estimate it can understand some things, but execution might need a discount."
Despite Floco's pessimism about munication prospects, Saul was still somewhat tempted.
This bone monster could be considered top-tier bat power in this world with abnormally scarce magical power. If he hadn't mistakenly entered this world, the bone lizard wouldn't have been sealed here.
But then again, without his appearance, this massive skeleton would probably still be sleeping underground.
Saul directly sent Floco back to the surface, then returned alone to the underground seal.
Standing before the massive bone lizard, Saul's skin disappeared like water drops into a desert.
A black skeleton appeared.
The bone lizard that had been sleeping across from him shook its head and slowly raised it up.
(End of Chapter)
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