Diary of a Dead Wizard
Chapter 418: Factions

He retreated more than ten meters down the pipe in an instant!

There was a barrier set up inside this pipe!

“Can you get through?”

“Nope!”

“The way’s blocked!”

“No candles, can’t get through!”

The few mouths around Saul immediately started chirping noisily in response.

These mouths didn’t have brains, but they could still answer simple questions.

Just a bit noisy.

Saul waited for a while, but no one—or any mental force—came over to inspect the barrier that had been hit.

It seemed this barrier didn’t have an alarm function.

He waited a little longer before moving in to examine it closely.

Sure enough, there was a barrier there. As soon as Saul’s mental force spread over it, he saw the lines of a magic formation.

“It’s just a simple spirit-isolating formation. The formation surface is curved—probably a spherical isolation. There’s no other way in unless the formation is broken. But Yura likely won’t stay there for long.”

Saul waited in place for a while.

Now he could maintain soul state for a long time. Unlike before, he didn’t need to constantly worry about not making it back in time and getting contaminated.

Sure enough, not long after, the mouths informed Saul that Yura had already left.

Saul thought for a moment, but didn’t follow immediately. Instead, he let the mouths follow Yura while he remained stationed outside the Anze Laboratory room.

Before long, the mouths left in place informed Saul that someone else had come out.

He waited a bit after the second person came out, then peeked out from the pipe for a look.

The moment he saw who it was, he immediately shrank back into the pipe.

He had seen Lokai.

The guy looked quite cheerful, walking in a relaxed manner, but just one glance, and Saul noticed faint mental force fluctuations seeping from various points all over his body.

It was as if his entire body was hosting certain lifeforms that carried mental force.

So the moment Saul saw him, he retreated right away.

The guy’s mental force wasn’t stronger than his, but it was very sensitive. Saul couldn’t be sure whether the man had noticed his gaze.

“That guy’s a good actor. When I saw him just now, he didn’t react at all, still looked relaxed. But for a moment, his mental fluctuations got noticeably more active.”

Although the diary hadn’t given any warnings, Saul had already decided to stop observing.

At the same time, he clearly understood one thing—this Lokai might only be a Second Rank apprentice, but his inner workings were likely far from simple.

Saul waited a little longer in place. No one else came out.

He asked the mouths where Yura had gone, only to be told she had entered the 19th floor.

The mouths didn’t dare follow her up there.

Entering the 19th floor meant returning to Gorsa’s place—there really wasn’t any point in following further.

Saul quietly withdrew to the East Tower’s second floor, then crossed the gap again and returned to the pipe leading to the second storage room.

Before leaving, he asked the mouths that had led him the way“Why are you helping me?” 

Saul remembered they used to call him "Great Demon King" and would bolt the moment they saw him.

The mouths answered very directly, “The eye listens to you, so we listen to you too.”

Then another mouth added, “Just don’t eat us.”

A third mouth said, “Vini sometimes eats us.”

“A lot of times she eats the eyes too,” a fourth one chimed in.

These mouths chirped around Saul like little chicks.

“You call her Vini?” Saul had thought no one in the Wizard Tower, aside from Yura herself, would call her that.

But the mouths didn’t explain why Yura was called Vini. They seemed incapable of grasping a question of that level.

“Does Yura sometimes come to eat these wraith fragments?” Saul subconsciously rubbed his translucent chin. “But she’s already a soul body on the verge of corruption. Why would she still dare to consume wraith fragments? Isn’t she afraid the evil thoughts inside will further corrupt her mind?”

“Wait—Senior Byron also seemed to witness her absorbing evil thoughts from gray matter. But instead of harming her, those evil thoughts actually helped her recover from a state of chaos and collapse.”

“Could it be that Yura feeds on evil thoughts?”

Saul believed that Yura’s condition was definitely abnormal. And this abnormality was likely kept hidden from the others.

Did Gorsa know about this?

If he did, then Yura killing Byron might have been a move to hide her consumption of evil thoughts from the rest of the Wizard Tower.

If Gorsa doesn’t know… then Yura must be hiding it from Gorsa himself!

“Diary.” Saul summoned the diary within his mind and lowered his gaze to the deep crimson hardcover book. “If I go to confirm with Gorsa about Yura devouring evil thoughts, will he kill me to silence me or do anything else that would harm me?”

He stared fixedly at the diary, not wanting to miss the slightest response from it.

…

Saul didn’t enter the storeroom through the bronze gate. Instead, he passed through the interlayer again.

For Saul, the interlayer surrounding the second storeroom was no longer dangerous at all.

In contrast, those noodle-like arms hidden behind the bronze gate were extremely aggressive.

For now, there was no guarantee those arms would be obedient like the mouths.

After passing through the interlayer and returning to the second storeroom, Saul immediately took out the communication pen and sent Gorsa a message.

He didn’t write anything specific in the letter, in case Yura had already returned to the tower master’s side and saw he was tattling.

He only told Gorsa that he had made a major discovery in the resurrection experiments.

But after the letter was sent, a long time passed with no reply.

Saul waited all the way until dawn. The dim yellow candlelight had already turned into bright white light, yet Gorsa still hadn’t appeared.

“Could it be that since Lady Yura returned yesterday, Gorsa didn’t have time to come find me?” Saul rubbed his temples in frustration.

He slapped his cheeks. His scheduled rest was ruined. Another sleepless night. Overthinking wasn’t ideal when preparing for an experiment, but Yura’s abnormality last night left Saul deeply unsettled.

He prepared a potion that forcibly restored his mental energy and got ready to personally test the gray-matter potion and the Blue Water Soul potion.

Although the diary hadn’t issued any warnings regarding the potions, Saul still took precautions and packed several antidotes in his compressed bag.

If he felt unwell, he’d use the appropriate antidote.

And if that failed, he had enough raw materials on hand to mix new ones on the spot.

Once ready, Saul leaned against the sofa, tilted his head back, and swallowed the gray-matter potion first.

This potion was developed by Senior Byron and had even been tested by him personally. Even if there were side effects, they shouldn’t be too serious. That’s why Saul chose to start with it.

As the potion entered his body, it began to steam before even reaching his throat. However, its boiling point was low, so it didn’t scald his mucous membranes.

It just made Saul look like he was being boiled from the inside—smoke began to rise from his nose and mouth.

After a while, he felt even his eyes were smoking. His vision turned hazy and misty.

Everything he saw wavered in the fog.

And amidst the swaying haze, Saul faintly sensed a slight enhancement in his soul body.

Just a little.

It was probably because Saul’s soul strength had already surpassed that of most true wizards, so the gray-matter potion had only a limited effect on him.

He could also feel that if he took a second dose of the potion, the boost would be even smaller.

And by the third dose, there might be no effect at all.

“Since Lady Yura has already lost her body, her soul strength is probably weaker than that of ordinary wizard apprentices. So this gray-matter potion is still quite helpful for her.”

Thinking this, the mist before Saul’s eyes began to thin. Clearly, the potion’s effects were fading.

Yet at that moment, a new wave of gray mist—thicker than before—suddenly appeared before his eyes.

“What is this?” Saul squinted instinctively, then quickly summoned his mental power.

When his mental energy wrapped around that mist, he suddenly felt a powerful surge of evil thoughts.

The instant it was enveloped, the evil thoughts lunged straight at his brow, trying to force its way into his mind.

There was no way Saul would allow that to happen.

His spirit form began to resonate at high speed, and the mental energy radiating from his body became almost tangible, seizing the gray mist of evil thoughts as it attempted to strike back.

But just as Saul was about to guide it into a containment vessel for soul bodies, he suddenly found the space around him plunged into blackness!

Above and below, front and back, left and right—at the very edge of his vision, a sky full of stars had burst forth!

Then, the wisp of evil thoughts he’d barely managed to seize was instantly absorbed by the stars!

The usually calm and composed Saul gradually opened his mouth in astonishment.

“This is… the night sky and stars inside my mental realm?”

(End of Chapter)

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