Chapter 948: A Corpse

“Master, you’ve regained consciousness?” Saul didn’t care about what Gorsa said about saving or not saving, but was delighted that he still had consciousness.

It was like seeing a colander that still held quite a bit of water.

“…The abyss is… a corpse.”

Gorsa obviously didn’t have the strength to explain how he managed to retain some consciousness while his soul body was mutating.

He directly told Saul his most important discovery in the abyss.

The information he transmitted was extremely weak, and only Saul, crouched beside him, could receive it.

“A corpse?” Saul thought of those grayish-white skeletons inside the abyss. Those were indeed corpses. But they didn’t match what his master was saying.

Saul suddenly widened his eyes. He remembered the starry sky he had seen when drilling from the Chaos Realm into the abyss, and combined with various plot devices he had read in novels, he suddenly had a hypothesis.

Could the Abyssal Eye be… a dead world?

But thinking about it, if it were a dead world, Master Gorsa probably wouldn’t use “corpse” to describe it.

So it must be at least a powerful existence that could in some degree compare to a world.

Sixth rank destroys worlds, seventh rank creates worlds.

Both levels of existence were possible.

But Saul thought the abyss being sixth rank was more likely.

Seventh rank would be an existence more terrifying than the Death Demons of the Prismatic World. And Saul believed that if the Death Demons truly wanted to destroy the wizard world, they wouldn’t use such gentle and prolonged methods.

Yes, the black tide crisis that had lasted over a hundred years was probably just a gentle killing method in the eyes of Death Demons.

But if the abyss truly was the corpse of a sixth-rank existence, how could they resist it?

Even though the current sixth rank was already dead, the remaining influences were slowly destroying the world.

No wonder Camus said the apocalypse was irresistible.

At this moment, Gorsa, who seemed to have rested for a few seconds, transmitted another sentence to Saul.

“The corpse doesn’t want to feed…”

This sentence left Saul completely puzzled. Of course corpses don’t need to feed. But master definitely wasn’t speaking randomly, so what special meaning did this contain?

However, Gorsa, who had finally transmitted two sentences of information, seemed to enter a weakened state again. Even the mental power Saul had gathered together showed signs of dispersing.

Having no choice, Saul could only use the Soul-Fixing magical array for treatment and repair again, spending another five days before Master Gorsa improved somewhat.

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But Gorsa seemed never to regain consciousness again, providing no other information to Saul.

Looking at his master, so weak and walking on the edge of soul body collapse, Saul made a decision.

He found Patriarch Norton and said straightforwardly, “Lord Norton, I want to take master away from here, to a place with almost no pollution.”

Norton naturally wasn’t very willing. If possible, he still hoped Gorsa would inherit Glare. Saul was just his second choice.

No matter how suitable Saul was to inherit Glare, how could he compare to Gorsa, whom he had carefully cultivated since childhood?

Their feelings toward Glare were completely different.

Ever since Gorsa showed signs of improvement under Saul’s treatment, Norton’s mindset had changed again. So even someone as powerful as fourth-rank wizard Norton had thoughts similar to ordinary people in some aspects.

This time, it was Edgar who persuaded Patriarch Norton.

“Lord Patriarch, I trust Wizard Saul. After all, if he wanted to harm Lord Gorsa, he could simply not treat him seriously, and none of us could say anything about it. After all, we ourselves couldn’t do it. So since Wizard Saul wants to take Lord Gorsa away, let’s agree. How much worse could it get anyway?”

Edgar also said, “Moreover, World Sides aren’t as stable as the main world. We have quite a few pollution sources here too. It’s better to let Lord Gorsa return to recuperate.”

It must be said that Edgar, being the backup heir besides Gorsa, did have capabilities.

Just slightly lacking in strength.

Under Edgar’s persuasion, Norton finally agreed to Saul’s request. And to help Saul better treat Gorsa, he prepared quite a lot of magical materials and freely gifted a spatial artifact.

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This spatial artifact had been personally modified by Norton and was stronger than the one Saul was still using. Not only was it stable with large internal space, it was also well-hidden.

It was made to look like a traditional name tag, could be carried personally or implanted in the body. Saul ultimately chose to have Little Algae hold it.

Then, under Norton’s reluctant gaze, Saul left Glare’s World Side with Master Gorsa.

When Saul left Glare’s World Side, he found a seaside cliff, opened a temporary cave, and after confirming no one was following nearby, he took out the Chaos Realm Compass he had retrieved from Keli and brought Master Gorsa to the Chaos Realm world, which had almost no magical power or elemental particles!

Here, without magical interference, was the most suitable place for recovering mental power.

Although Gorsa’s body was also severely injured, the urgent priority was still saving his soul body.

After arriving in the Chaos Realm, Saul set up the Soul-Fixing array again in the black desert, using magic crystals throughout for energy along with magical materials given by Glare.

This time, Saul only activated the Soul-Fixing array once before hearing Master Gorsa’s voice again.

“I need… Yura.”

Saul was somewhat shocked. What was this? A prodigal’s return?

That wasn’t right either—Master Gorsa wasn’t a prodigal.

Could it be a late bloomer?

Recalling Master Gorsa’s behavioral patterns, Saul felt there must be other hidden circumstances. He’d better wait for the compass’s cooldown period to pass and bring Yura over to see.

A day later, Saul returned from the Chaos Realm to Iskaper’s northern shore, connected to the prismatic channel and had Shaya find someone to escort Yura to the ultra-long-distance teleportation array near Dwarf Valley, while he provided support on the Iskaper side.

To prevent Yura from escaping midway, Shaya simply used the Inverted Tree to control Yura’s consciousness, making her unable to operate her own body.

So when Saul saw Yura again, she was in an unconscious state.

Shaya, escorting Yura over, asked Saul somewhat curiously, “You’re bringing your Master’s wife over—does your master know?”

Shaya had already witnessed Gorsa’s power and cunning in Kema Duchy and worried that Saul might do something inappropriate to anger Gorsa.

“Although she’s an ex-wife, although the two have grievances, you’d better not interfere…”

Seeing Shaya’s worried expression, as if he wanted Yura for improper purposes! But for Gorsa’s safety, Saul couldn’t tell others about his master’s whereabouts.

So Saul just rolled his eyes at Shaya and casually gave a reason, “It’s Glare who wants to see Yura. I don’t know the specific situation either.”

“I see.” Shaya didn’t seem entirely convinced.

Saul actually hadn’t lied, just deliberately blurred the truth. Even so, seeing Shaya’s expression annoyed him. “By the way, strip off a main branch of the Inverted Tree for me.”

Shaya immediately covered his chest. “What are you going to do?”

“For research, of course. I used up the previous ones—give me some more.” Saul had previously promised to give his master some Inverted Tree samples, and he also wanted to keep some for experiments.

Shaya looked miserable. “Any more plucking and I’ll go bald.”

But he was powerless to resist.

After sending Shaya away, Saul had Little Algae wrap the unconscious Yura into a cocoon shape. The next day, he brought her back to the Chaos Realm to see Master.

(End of Chapter)

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