Chapter 729: Saul the Merchant

Kate had never heard of “a cat’s gratitude,” but now he witnessed it.

This guy seemed to have no emotion called fear in the darkness.

He held the cat and walked on a road with no visible end, while black shadows occasionally appeared in the surrounding high-rises, gazing at the man and cat.

Despite being carried by Saul, Kate still felt waves of fear.

He curled up his limbs, eyes constantly looking left and right, as if completely forgetting he was a wizard.

What he hated most was that every time Saul passed a streetlight, he would stop and wait, using orange cat Kate’s sensitivity to fear to gather those shadows hiding in the dark.

Black shadows would quickly gather beside the streetlights, making the already dim lights even darker.

When these shadows gathered to a certain degree, Saul would use a special method to shatter the tall, thin shadows into piles of powder.

Kate didn’t know how Saul resisted the terrifying pressure created by these shadows.

He couldn’t be using his soul body to tough it out, could he?

After passing the third streetlight, Kate finally couldn’t help but speak tremblingly.

“Black Blade Wizard, are you trying to clear the enemies here this way? But I think this approach won’t work.”

The orange cat quickly glanced at the nearby high-rises.

The fear these buildings brought him hadn’t lessened one bit despite Saul killing some shadows.

“I think these shadows should be attachments to this place. Breaking them won’t affect this place.”

“Actually, I’m not breaking these shadows to destroy this place.” Saul took two more steps forward, then stopped. “Haven’t you felt that there’s always a gaze watching us?”

The orange cat stiffly straightened his front paws. “Of course there is, always has been. Since I came in, these shadows have been watching me. By the streetlights, in the rooms, and that moon in the sky! How is that a moon? It’s clearly the most terrifying eye here!”

Saul suddenly interrupted Kate, “You’re right.”

“?” Kate was first confused, then emphasized, “Right? Instead of wasting effort like this…”

But Saul looked up at the moon overhead.

“After coming in, I’ve constantly felt a sense of being watched. That gaze is different from all other existences here, very special… because it’s very rational.”

“Rational?” Kate couldn’t quite understand.

“It’s normal you don’t know, since you don’t know where this really is. What state we’re actually in.”

“You know?”

“Mm.” Saul looked up, his gaze tightly locked on the moon overhead.

The moon had become full again.

As if also meeting Saul’s gaze.

Saul said loudly, “This is actually the Inverted Tree’s replication of Caugust’s inner city. But there’s always been an existence here that doesn’t belong to Caugust City, never discovered. It exists so blatantly that I never considered it might not be a product of the Inverted Tree.”

Under Saul’s gaze, the moon overhead gradually curved.

“Right, Mr. Moon?”

Just as Saul finished speaking, the moon in the sky fell at free-fall speed.

“That, that’s not a moon?” Kate finally gained freedom, immediately jumped down from Saul’s hands, and ran seven or eight steps backward before stopping to look at the sky.

“What’s strange about that?” The moon landed directly in front of Saul, floating about a meter above the ground.

Up close, you could see this moon was actually just a light sphere shell.

But the shell suddenly grew two eyes and a mouth, immediately complaining about the orange cat.

“Is the moon you see really a moon? Just because you look like a fat cat, are you really a cat? Do you think everything around you is an illusion?”

Kate was stunned by the moon’s retorts.

Although he wanted to say he wasn’t fat, he had no chance to speak.

Seeing the orange cat had no response, the moon seemed to think he posed no threat and looked at Saul again.

“I saw you the moment you came in. I knew you were no good. You once pretended to be honest and fooled everyone, even me. Damn it, trusting strangers really comes with a price!”

Saul raised his eyebrows. He suddenly knew who this moon was.

“Wizard Shaya?”

“No need to pretend. If you didn’t know who I was, would you deliberately display your strength in front of me to lure me out?”

Shaya was having another episode.

Always thinking the worst of others.

However, it might be precisely this personality that made him an anomaly among the spirits absorbed by the Inverted Tree.

“Think whatever you want.” Saul was too lazy to explain. “I originally came here for something, but the Inverted Tree’s condition has obviously changed. So I need to figure out one thing—what’s the state of this tree now? Who exactly is this tree’s master?”

Kate, who had been confused by Shaya’s questions, couldn’t help but turn his gaze to Saul.

“What kind of person is this Black Blade Wizard? He seems to know more than Wlider.” A glint of coldness flashed through the orange cat’s big innocent eyes, then disappeared instantly, returning to a dazed state.

He tried to minimize his presence while pricking up his ears to listen to their conversation.

“Hmph, why should I tell you?” Shaya, who had become the moon, snorted coldly. “Are you also coveting the Inverted Tree? That’s not something you can aspire to!”

Saul crossed his arms and mocked back, “Why do you need to care about these things? Regardless of who it is, it couldn’t possibly be you—just a spirit that became a puppet long ago.”

The moon’s eyes suddenly narrowed. “Are you trying to provoke me? Don’t waste your effort. Just know that without my help, you’ll be forever trapped in the inverted city, forever and ever, until you also become cocoons of the Inverted Tree.”

The moon viciously threatened Saul and Kate.

“That won’t trouble you.” Saul suddenly stepped forward and reached out to touch the moon.

The moon quickly rose, reaching streetlight height in the blink of an eye.

But Saul’s speed wasn’t slow either. Moreover, the gray semi-transparent tentacles he suddenly swung were even faster, directly intercepting the moon mid-flight and quickly coiling back, tying a knot around it.

“You?” Seeing Saul act, Shaya seemed to have forgotten he had actively fallen from the sky himself. “You liar, you really want to kill me!”

Having mixed in the Inverted Tree for years, Shaya was angry but not panicked.

While cursing, he prepared to change his form and escape from the “knot” Saul had created.

So the round moon became a crescent in the blink of an eye.

But Shaya discovered that the rope binding him had shrunk along with him!

The tentacles binding him had rows of suckers firmly attached to the moon’s surface.

Saul unhurriedly pulled back his tentacles, watching Shaya try but fail to break free.

“Although your consciousness is still independent, you’ve obviously been affected by the Inverted Tree. If you say that without you, we might not be able to leave this inverted city, then without me, you’ll gradually lose yourself in disguise.”

Shaya’s struggling movements obviously slowed down.

Clearly, he understood this point too, or he wouldn’t have been so eager to reveal himself before Saul.

Compared to Saul being trapped in the inverted city, he, Shaya, was the one desperate to escape.

Shaya became a full moon again. “What exactly do you want to do?”

Saul smiled. “Let’s make a deal. I’ll help treat you, and you help me get the Inverted Tree’s seed. If it hasn’t rotted yet.”

(End of Chapter)

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