Chapter 1024: Sacrificing Life

“Little brother master!”

Kismet also appeared at the Sighing Wall.

Floco immediately looked warily at this man who still wore a carefree smile on his face.

Ever since Saul had asked Floco to observe all of Kismet’s movements last time, he knew that Kismet was actually Douglas’s person.

Apart from the fifth-rank wizard who had sealed Floco with a deep-sea curse, Douglas was already the person Floco most detested.

Therefore, Floco found Kismet very displeasing to the eye.

However, Kismet didn’t pay attention to Floco, and he could still smile at this moment.

“You should know what’s happening in Iskaper, right?”

“I know.”

“Then how can you remain so calm and stay here?”

Saul looked Kismet up and down. “What’s happening in Iskaper could only be Douglas’s doing. If a fifth-rank wizard teams up with a sixth-rank being, I don’t think there’s any need to struggle—might as well accept death peacefully.”

Kismet seemed amused by Saul’s words. “Don’t worry, Douglas’s target is still the sixth-rank’s demise. The reason he pulled the abyss to Iskaper is just to make both sides fight quickly.”

Saul kept a straight face. “So he sent you to tell me to hurry over?”

After the storm eyes erupted in Iskaper, Saul abnormally didn’t immediately rush back and continued fighting at the Sighing Wall. Sure enough, after a while, Douglas, eager to watch the show, sent someone to invite Saul over first.

Kismet clapped his hands. “You’re absolutely right.”

Floco approached Saul and secretly told him, “Douglas isn’t that kind-hearted. If he discovers that the wizard side’s power has grown stronger, he’ll definitely suppress you again.”

Only by maintaining the right balance could they ensure Douglas wouldn’t suppress the wizard world again.

But facing something as momentous as confronting the Abyssal Eye, how could they not give their all?

Saul looked at Kismet. “Did you know all along that storm eyes would erupt in Iskaper?”

Kismet spread his hands. “I knew. I was quite busy at the time—busy with exactly this matter.”

His nonchalant tone made people want to punch him.

But he immediately continued, “However, I couldn’t tell you.”

Kismet looked at Floco, whose gaze had already turned cold, and provocatively raised his eyebrows. “Lord Floco, if Wizard Douglas forbade you from revealing his affairs, do you think you could speak out?”

Floco, originally frowning in confusion, suddenly remembered something and pressed his lips together without speaking.

Saul glanced at Floco. Floco had once encountered Douglas and been severely injured, but only told Saul much later who had hurt him.

Could it be that his long silence about it was also Douglas’s doing?

But now wasn’t the time to consider these things.

Saul understood Douglas’s dominance. “So do you still have other things you’re hiding from me?”

“Of course!” Kismet admitted readily, but before Saul’s expression could darken, he continued, “However, I personally can promise you that as long as you go to Iskaper to confront the abyss, I will definitely help you with all my strength.”

Saul asked seriously, “As long as I go to Iskaper, you’ll help me with all your strength?”

At this moment, Kismet restrained the frivolous smile on his face. His silver curls flew back in the sea breeze as he met Saul’s gaze without flinching.

“Yes, I’ll help you with my life!”

……

Iskaper.

Above an abandoned flower bed in a deserted manor, a black sphere with a diameter of one meter floated.

The space around the sphere twisted from time to time, and the air alternated between scorching heat and freezing cold.

The flower bed below was affected—sometimes the soil cracked, tiles turned yellow, and flowers withered and fell, while other times it became a cluster of fresh flowers with a brand-new flower bed.

It was as if two worlds were constantly switching.

Just as the entire garden’s image kept twisting and changing due to the black sphere’s influence, a young woman’s figure suddenly intruded.

“There’s also a storm eye here!” the female wizard said through gritted teeth, simultaneously sending information through a device in her hand and marking a location on a map.

The companion who came with the female wizard saw the black sphere and didn’t dare enter, quickly calling for the female wizard to leave.

“Mia, let’s go quickly. The council has already issued a notice for us to stay away from storm eyes!”

“Wait a moment, I’m about to transmit the coordinates from here. If we move now, the signal will be cut off.”

Her companion grew impatient and retreated a dozen meters on his own. “Who’s still as foolish as you now? Everyone knows what storm eyes are—we can’t even avoid them fast enough. Who still cares about the task at hand!”

While the two were talking, the black sphere suddenly trembled violently.

“Crack!”

The flower bed below completely split in half, as if an invisible sharp axe had cleaved it in two.

Mia and her companion were immediately too frightened to move or make a sound, afraid that any slight change would trigger the storm eye’s eruption.

After a while, nothing seemed to happen.

Mia suppressed her voice and restrained her magic power. “According to the council’s previous observations of the Borderland, there should be half a month between a storm eye’s appearance and complete eruption. The storm eyes have appeared for less than a day now, so it shouldn’t…”

But Mia was only halfway through her words when the black sphere that had just trembled suddenly began seeping water outward.

And it was pitch-black water like ink.

The moist, salty smell of the ocean immediately filled the entire garden.

The water initially emerged like dewdrops, then accumulated more and more.

“Black tide!”

Mia finally realized what was happening. She no longer cared about sending coordinate signals and turned to run outside. Afraid that using magic power would trigger pollution, she could only rely on her slender legs to run.

The person who had originally been with Mia heard her voice and immediately turned and fled without daring to stop and wait for her.

Having stepped one foot out of the garden, Mia couldn’t help but look back.

Her eyes immediately widened as blood slid from the corners of her eyes.

The black tide that had originally been seeping out drop by drop had somehow condensed into a massive wave ten meters high, with curved foam at its front like a claw reaching downward.

It seemed that the moment Mia recognized the black tide, it shed its disguise and became a nightmare capable of devouring all living beings.

“Whoosh—”

The black wave crashed down onto the ground. The garden’s original stone bricks instantly became muddy and soft, as if transforming into a swamp.

The black tide slapped the ground but didn’t seep into the soil. Instead, it surged up again, spreading toward more distant places.

Just as the black tide surged upward again, Mia, who had just been swallowed by it, tumbled to the water’s surface with the waves.

But at this moment, she had also become soft and muddy, like a little person just molded from clay.

“Black tide… the black tide has completely erupted…”

Mia’s companion happened to look back at this moment and saw Mia tumbling to the surface, then watched helplessly as she was pulled beneath the water again.

He was immediately so frightened that he forgot the council’s instructions. Afraid of running too slowly and becoming the next Mia, he directly cast flight magic and flew into the air.

He thought that if he flew high and fast enough, he could escape the black tide’s erosion range.

But just as he flew halfway up, he suddenly felt his previously obedient magic power tremble, and the locator in his body began twisting like it had gone mad.

He wanted to run, but his body was completely out of control.

Magic power backflowed, entering his body and beginning widespread destruction. Red blood broke through his skin and poured outward.

But before long, the red blood turned completely black.

“Splash!”

Another giant wave crashed down, and the companion’s figure also disappeared.

Similar scenes played out almost everywhere in Iskaper.

Even the two storm eyes located in Olga Duchy erupted black tide at the same time.

The operation to evacuate wizards and ordinary people had just begun, and most people hadn’t left yet. When the two black tides erupted in Olga’s royal capital, they instantly swallowed the lives of everyone in the nearby districts.

And it was at this moment that Gorsa opened his eyes.

“I understand.”

“What do you understand?” Douglas suddenly appeared behind Gorsa.

Gorsa tried to get up but was gently pressed down by the other’s hand.

Gorsa looked up at Douglas behind him and smiled. “I know that Camus’s method of resurrecting the Abyssal Eye is completely wrong! His method of devouring continents can’t resurrect the abyss at all. So it’s not ‘don’t resurrect’—it’s don’t resurrect using this method, which is why Camus must be stopped.”

Gorsa looked at Douglas, whose expression hadn’t changed in the slightest, and recklessly asked another question.

“You know, don’t you? The Abyssal Eye actually… doesn’t want to devour continents at all, because…”

Douglas suddenly raised his hand to grip Gorsa’s throat and continued his words, “Because the already extremely weakened Abyssal Eye simply can’t digest any continent!”

Gorsa’s eyes suddenly widened, and the corners of his mouth turned up.

His speculation had been confirmed, which made him incredibly excited!

His understanding was correct!

The abyss was just a corpse!

Gorsa couldn’t help but laugh out loud, even though his life was currently in Douglas’s grip.

Seeing Gorsa like this, Douglas couldn’t help but flash a hint of killing intent in his eyes.

But he still released his restraint on Gorsa.

“Stop laughing foolishly here. If you don’t want Iskaper to become a dead land, go do what you should do now.”

Gorsa’s body instantly disappeared from the pink sofa and appeared facing Douglas the next second.

The two were extremely close—close enough to thrust a hand into each other’s heart.

Gorsa raised his chin as if the person standing before him wasn’t a terrifying fifth-rank wizard. “On the day the danger appears, the black tide completely erupts and transforms into the abyss, and Iskaper will immediately be swallowed by the abyss. You directly pulled the Abyssal Eye to Iskaper Continent to ensure that both Iskaper and the Abyssal Eye have no escape route!”

“If you don’t continue wasting time, Iskaper still has a chance to survive. Although there won’t be many living people left, you and Saul won’t necessarily die here.”

Douglas’s voice returned to calm.

Gorsa nodded. “Yes, the moment the abyss appears through the completely erupted storm eyes, Iskaper gets stuck in the abyss’s throat. And the red worms that return afterward become the important force for us to tug-of-war with the Abyssal Eye. They’re like a thread, pulling Iskaper so it doesn’t immediately fall into the abyss. And you’ll have more time to carefully observe a sixth-rank’s demise.”

Douglas’s tone was relaxed. “There’s also Sky City. You’ve given me a good idea. I’ll throw Sky City in before you die, giving you a little breathing room.”

He waved at Gorsa. “Now you should go. The black tide eruption has already begun. Sometimes I’m also curious—why aren’t you and Saul in any hurry? Even I, an observer, know time is pressing. If you don’t act soon, you won’t wait for the red worms to return.”

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Gorsa lowered his head, and a device suddenly appeared in his palm.

This device had a parchment map pinned with thin silver needles. Currently, one point on the map was flashing red light.

The moment Douglas saw the position of that red light, his expression immediately changed. He immediately raised his hand, his palm disappearing from his wrist but simultaneously appearing at Gorsa’s neck, gripping his throat again.

Gorsa wanted to run but found he wasn’t as fast as Douglas.

After being gripped by the other’s palm, it was as if he was wrapped in death—one movement and he would die!

Douglas’s voice had lost its warmth due to the sudden change.

“You actually found it. Good luck.” He said in a low voice, “But neither you nor Saul can make it there in time. As long as it’s not you two, whoever goes there can’t stop the black tide from completely becoming the Abyssal Eye.”

Douglas had prepared a hundred storm eyes in Iskaper. The powerful connection generated by these storm eyes was enough to directly pull the Abyssal Eye from the planet’s other side.

But only one storm eye would truly transform into the Abyssal Eye.

But Douglas hadn’t expected that they could find the storm eye that would evolve into the Abyssal Eye in such a short time.

If they could seal that storm eye in time, it would be like terminating a summoning—the Abyssal Eye pulled halfway would instantly return to its original position.

So Douglas restrained Gorsa the moment he saw him find the designated storm eye, to prevent him from teleporting over to interfere.

He wasn’t worried about Saul’s side since Kismet was with him.

As long as these two people didn’t go over, it would be useless for anyone else to go.

Because Douglas had prepared a backup plan.

Under his tutelage, Ophelia, whose strength had improved again, was guarding above the designated storm eye. She would deal with anyone trying to seal the storm eye!

As long as the Abyssal Eye appeared directly in the middle of the continent, Douglas’s preliminary plan work would be completely finished. The distance from officially beginning observation…

Only lacked one Saul.

“Don’t move around. Just let things happen honestly, or I’ll really kill you!” Douglas threatened.

If Gorsa wasn’t also important combat power belonging to the wizard world, Douglas would have eliminated this trouble long ago.

Others might be threatened by Douglas.

But not Gorsa.

His head suddenly turned ninety degrees, facing the distant sea. “No way!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the pink bandages on Gorsa’s body instantly lost support, softened into a mass, and fell downward.

But just as those bandages began deforming, countless black lines suddenly appeared on them, instantly dismembering them into hundreds or thousands of fragments.

But when the pink fragments fluttered down to the ground, Gorsa inside had already disappeared.

“His spatial transfer can actually bypass my death blockade?” Douglas slowly turned his head to look in the direction Gorsa had been gazing.

On the distant horizon, a burst of dazzling golden light suddenly erupted.

Like a rising sun.

That sun floated on the sea surface, emitting light more scorching and brilliant than the setting sun in another direction overhead.

Suddenly, somewhere on Iskaper Continent, in a dilapidated courtyard, the black waves that had already spread outside the courtyard seemed to be grabbed by something by the tail and suddenly contracted backward.

If the black tide had eyes, when it looked down, it would discover that Mia, the first person it had swallowed, suddenly had large patches of black shadow emerging from her body.

The golden light from the distance shone on the black tide, directly penetrating it and entering the black shadows within.

The black shadows became even darker under the golden light’s illumination.

Where the two met, the contrast between light and dark was abnormally distinct.

And at that boundary between light and dark, a distortion of light and darkness suddenly appeared.

This distortion generated tremendous force, suddenly leaping up to the location of the storm eye above and directly swallowing the invisible existence.

The next second, the golden “sun” on the sea extinguished, and at the same time, the black sphere in the dilapidated courtyard also disappeared.

Then, where the golden light had disappeared, the sea suddenly sank downward, seawater spinning, about to form a giant whirlpool!

Douglas slowly walked to the window. “He actually relied on his understanding of space to transfer the storm eye that was about to erupt to the sea!”

“Douglas, I’m sorry. I didn’t expect Gorsa to do this—there was no time to stop him.” A thumb-sized Ophelia suddenly crawled out from Douglas’s collar, nervously explaining, “He used himself as a channel connecting space to transfer the storm eye. He simply doesn’t care about his life!”

Douglas still showed no expression, raising his hand to pick up the little person on his shoulder and crushing her in one grip.

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“He indeed doesn’t care about his life. And such actions are meaningless.”

“Isn’t it just moving the Abyssal Eye to the nearby sea? I’ll just push Iskaper Continent over there.”

(End of Chapter)

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