Chapter 588: Prelude

After reading the diary, Saul very wisely retreated another ten meters.

However, looking at the scattered remains of Wizard Brown on the ground, he was unwilling to leave empty-handed.

“Little Algae, have your offshoot go see if you can sweep out that pile of building blocks?”

Little Algae extended from Saul’s neck, opening its mouth wide to look at Saul, seemingly not quite understanding his meaning.

Saul pointed to the pile of fragments on the ground that had been Wizard Brown.

Little Algae’s mouth stretched into a grin—this time it understood.

With high spirits, it split off a slender black tentacle that crawled across the ground with a whoosh, forming a circle around Wizard Brown’s fragments.

However, when it tried to bring them toward Saul, it discovered Brown’s fragments were too small and would fall through to the back from above its body.

After trying twice, it still couldn’t bring the pile of fragments over.

Just as Saul was about to teach it how to split itself into a broom, he saw Little Algae’s offshoot suddenly open its mouth wide, expanding directly into a one-meter diameter circle.

Inside the circular mouth were constantly writhing tiny teeth.

It actually looked somewhat eerie and terrifying.

Before Saul could comment on Little Algae’s offshoot’s appearance, he saw it clamp its mouth down on the fragments on the ground, then its lips and front half began contracting and expanding in a writhing motion.

After a few breaths, it raised its head again, and not a single fragment remained on the ground.

Saul waited for Little Algae’s offshoot to return, then looked again at all the remaining block people in front of Old Days Manor. He raised his hand and waved, creating a strong wind that directly turned everyone into scattered fragments on the ground.

Then he directed Little Algae to send out another offshoot to stir around on the ground.

The body fragments of those people then mixed into a pile.

Now it was impossible to distinguish who was who.

Or to tell how many people there had been originally.

Finally, Saul carefully cleaned all traces of his presence and left the Old Days Manor area with Little Algae.

After walking some distance, Saul immediately said to Little Algae, “Quickly spit out those fragments. We’re not sure yet if there are other problems inside them.”

Little Algae nodded and directed its offshoot to “whoosh” and spit out all the fragments.

The fragments had experienced something unknown in Little Algae’s offshoot’s mouth—when they came out, they were covered with some crystal-clear saliva.

“Uh… I should have waited until we got back to have you spit them out.” Saul helplessly held his forehead.

Of course, he also knew that even though Little Algae was a demonic creature that fed on death energy, it still shouldn’t eat such strange things casually.

Saul used a cleaning spell to remove the saliva from the fragments, then collected all the corpse pieces in a cloth bag.

Returning to the wizard tower, Saul took out a small fragment of Wizard Brown and placed it in a crucible, adding a few drops of pure water, unpolluted soul fragments, and other essentially clean crystal debris.

Heating on low flame, in just a few dozen seconds, the originally semi-transparent white soul fragments became dotted with black spots.

Meanwhile, part of Wizard Brown’s body fragments lost their cubic shape and became a small pile of soft mud.

“Still… the same pollution as the black tide.”

Camus, even from a distance, saw Saul’s experiment. “The permeation method can only conduct preliminary testing.”

Saul didn’t turn around. “But it can already reduce the pollution in these fragments to a safe level. They can serve as filtering carriers for the magic reservoir.”

As he spoke, Saul replaced the small crucible with a large pot half a meter deep, then poured all of Brown into it.

Seeing this, Camus was somewhat puzzled. “With more carriers needing cleaning, the materials required for the permeation method will also increase exponentially…”

Before she finished speaking, she saw large amounts of pure soul fragments emerge from Saul’s fingertips.

Despite working with Saul for so long, Camus was still shocked by some of his reserves.

How did he have so many pure soul fragments?

Pure soul fragments were extremely rare and difficult to preserve. If one wasn’t careful, they would be polluted and become useless junk that couldn’t be used but was too valuable to discard.

Despite having great doubts in her heart, Camus didn’t speak. She just watched Saul restart the pot with complex feelings.

On the other side, Little Algae returned to underground level 2, burrowing back into the growing space Saul had prepared for it.

This place had already become a small black swamp. After Little Algae burrowed in, it immediately rolled around inside.

As Little Algae frolicked joyfully, black vine-like tentacles gradually emerged from the murky black swamp.

These tentacles were as thick as an adult man’s thigh, even thicker than Little Algae’s main body. But they weren’t as flexible as Little Algae and could only sway mechanically.

These tentacles weren’t pure black either—within the large areas of black, occasional thin white stripes like cow hair would appear.

As these tentacles swayed eerily, Little Algae’s main body emerged from underground again.

Its small form was completely inconspicuous among this group of giant tentacles, but the nearby giant tentacles completely obeyed its commands.

Suddenly Little Algae opened its shark-tooth mouth, and a small cube fell from between its teeth.

The small cube was black and white—impossible to tell which part of Wizard Brown’s body it was from. Little Algae stared at the cube and tilted its head.

Perhaps it was thinking whether to give the cube stuck in its teeth to Saul.

But suddenly it smacked its lips, lowered its head, and swallowed the cube floating on the swamp.

As if tasting this strange thing for the first time, Little Algae stuck out its tongue to lick its upper and lower jaws, then shook its head and burrowed back into the swamp.

…

Wind Sprite had been somewhat irritable lately.

Four of the hunting parties she had sent out had already lost contact.

Although it was normal for true wizards to have accidents in the Borderland, the wizards she sent out were all quite capable and knew to stay away from danger.

Moreover, the most dangerous tasks were done by ordinary people carrying testing instruments.

Wind Sprite began spacing out again.

The attendant reporting to her immediately lowered his head upon seeing this, not daring to speak up as a reminder.

However, since he didn’t remind her, naturally someone else would call Wind Sprite back to attention.

“Wind Sprite!” A yellow glow suddenly appeared in Wind Sprite’s cave. “How is your detection going?”

Wind Sprite was almost forcibly interrupted from her trance and felt somewhat annoyed, but when she saw it was just a firefly speaking, she could only helplessly suppress her emotions.

“No Storm Eye detected. But the Borderland is becoming dangerous—I’ve already had four teams disappear.”

“Four teams?” Firefly Lord’s voice showed some surprise. “Didn’t you warn them not to go deep into dangerous areas and to have ordinary people do everything?”

“Of course I…” Wind Sprite was about to answer when she suddenly felt like she was following Firefly Lord’s orders and unhappily shut her mouth.

After a moment, she continued, “I’ll send additional personnel. You’d better not drag your feet either.”

“Hmph.” Firefly Lord snorted lightly, and the firefly suddenly self-immolated and fell to the ground.

Seeing Firefly Lord leave, Wind Sprite closed her eyes and said to the attendant still kneeling on the ground, “How is the magic reservoir preparation at the Purity Wizard Tower?”

“Across the magic-forbidden Rhine Lake, our people cannot observe specific progress. But judging from the materials he’s purchased recently, it should have entered the final testing phase.”

“What about my magic reservoir?”

“Still… still needs about half a year…”

“I’m only giving you one month. Prepare the shell within one month.”

Wind Sprite opened her eyes again, her upturned brows revealing some coldness.

“After one month, I will personally go and bring his magic reservoir back intact!”

(End of Chapter)

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