The Old Witch heard it clearly. Her eyelids twitched wildly, but her gaze once again fell on the magic-prohibiting arrow that had broken into several pieces.

That arrow’s surface was painted black, but the main purpose wasn’t to camouflage the ice inside, but to inconspicuously mix in some black powder.

That black powder was extracted from the strange beast body Saul had brought back.

What Camus called dormant pollution source bodies.

Most terrifying was that after Saul learned all this, his first experiment was how to reawaken the dormant bodies.

“This Saul just relies on not being afraid of pollution himself!” The Old Witch suddenly felt like Saul was the world’s big villain, somewhat doubting whether hiding by his side might be too dangerous.

At this time, the wizard opposite had visibly thinned by a whole size. Her legs were weak as she fell to the ground, visibly transforming from a full-figured woman into a mummy at an alarming rate.

“Pollution sources alone can’t achieve such terrifying effects,” the Old Witch muttered quietly. “But pollution sources accelerated that key’s mutation.”

Though she coveted the key’s magical properties, seeing it almost kill a wizard before her very eyes, the Old Witch grumbled inwardly and finally decided to let Saul come retrieve the key afterward.

She stopped paying attention to the wizard and looked up toward Rhine Lake.

While she and the wizard had been fighting fiercely, the situation on Rhine Lake was also dire.

Although the wizard tower’s physical arrow array attacks had initially caught those blue-green cloaks off guard, they quickly reacted, using agile movements to dodge arrows while carefully avoiding all wounded comrades.

Therefore, when the second volley of arrows was fired, the blue-green cloaks’ casualties were reduced by more than half.

These people seemed to have no real strength, but they ran truly fast.

The wizard tower only managed to release two rounds of arrow arrays before the frontmost person had already set foot on the lake island.

But then he was immediately knocked flying by Herman, who was covered entirely in silver and moving at extreme speed.

His body split in half while still airborne.

Ann’s form also suddenly changed—her lower body directly transformed into a spider’s body, with eight spider legs sharp as knives at the tips, reflecting sunlight.

Wherever the spider legs went, there was also a spray of blood and flesh.

Agu wasn’t skilled at combat, so he mainly stood behind the other two for sneak attacks.

But despite Herman and Ann’s considerable lethality, they couldn’t handle the sheer number of blue-green cloaks, and some people deliberately avoided their positions to land on the lake island.

After these blue-green cloaks reached the island, they didn’t immediately use magic to attack Herman and the others, but instead looked up to observe the wizard tower.

They also tried to attack the wizard tower, but the butler had already retreated into the wizard tower and sealed the entrance the moment the first blue-green cloak stepped onto the lake island.

These blue-green cloaks tried to damage the gate, but suddenly several slender, noodle-like arms extended from the wizard tower walls, grabbing these people like catching chickens, then forcing them into handstands before slamming them hard into the ground.

For a moment, bodies were scattered everywhere.

The second-rank wizard hidden among these blue-green cloaked people finally couldn’t stand it anymore.

Although these blue-robed wizards’ mission was to use their lives to find the magic reservoir inside the wizard tower, if they kept dying like this, they’d probably all be dead before even seeing the shadow of the magic reservoir.

Wind Sprite’s forces were already short-handed, and this Purity Wizard Tower seemed to have some third-rank wizard’s backing. If the other party became prepared, it wouldn’t be easy to force their way in like this next time.

The second-rank wizard named Baron swept his gaze over the two consciousness bodies, found they only had about first-rank strength, didn’t take them seriously, and raised his hand to release a lightning bolt.

The lightning soared into the air, immediately transforming into chains seemingly intent on directly killing the two junior wizards.

Seeing the second-rank wizard attack, Herman and Ann moved together with perfect coordination.

Herman’s entire body turned silver, his speed instantly reaching its limit.

Though he had only been a third-level apprentice when he died, since following Saul and serving as an experimental subject several times with his soul repeatedly supplemented and strengthened, he now had first-rank strength.

Of course, he was still the weakest among the consciousness bodies.

After fusing with her enemy, Ann’s strength was already approaching second rank.

But the disadvantage of soul bodies having no magical power, combined with their body strength being inferior to living people, made it impossible to oppose a second-rank wizard.

Facing the sudden attack from the second-rank hidden among blue-green cloaks, after barely dodging the opponent’s casual strike, the two immediately retreated to the wizard tower.

Seeing this, Baron didn’t pursue too closely. He wanted to see if the wizard tower would open its gates again when facing returning companions.

But what Baron hadn’t expected was that when Ann and Herman approached the wizard tower, all their non-human limbs completely disappeared while their auras changed, actually becoming two soul bodies!

Then these two soul bodies merged into the wizard tower’s body in an instant.

No need for the Steward to open the door at all!

Baron instantly frowned, then immediately relaxed.

“Ha, I completely failed to notice they were soul bodies just now!” He rubbed his palms as several electric lights flashed. “Although I’m not very suited for keeping souls, these few should be fine, right!”

Baron became thoroughly interested in the Purity Wizard Tower.

Originally he had come just to complete Lord Wind Sprite’s mission, but now he had his own goals.

Baron continued approaching the wizard tower. The white slender arms that had just been fighting the blue-robed apprentices immediately launched attacks at him.

But a second-rank wizard didn’t care about such minor damage at all.

A spherical electric net rose around his body, instantly expanding outward before disappearing in a short time.

But this briefly appearing electric net swept away all the white arms approaching him.

Walking to where the gate had originally been, Baron raised his hand and released another lightning bolt.

The gate didn’t budge.

“This wizard tower is indeed extraordinary.” Baron sensed the feedback of his magical power hitting the gate—this absolutely wasn’t a magical building a first-rank wizard could create.

Combined with thinking about the masked female wizard currently fighting his companion.

“This first-rank can actually command second-ranks. Looks like the rumors are true—he really has a third-rank wizard backing him.”

Baron stepped back two paces. Through testing, he knew this wizard tower couldn’t be forcibly breached in a short time, and Wind Sprite had told them to fight quickly without delay.

Since that was the case, he should change his approach.

Baron looked up at the tower top, where there was a strange circular platform wider than the wizard tower’s cross-section.

“Who would build a wizard tower like this? There must be something wrong up there.”

Baron flew directly upward, his entire body flashing with electric light to guard against sneak attacks from the shadows.

However, as he got closer and closer to the circular platform, he suddenly saw a human figure appear above it.

“Could there be another second-rank?” Baron was just becoming alert when he discovered that person had no magical power fluctuations at all.

Looking more carefully, it really was an ordinary person.

Only this person had a white mushroom swaying left and right on his head, and he held a small, delicate crossbow in his hands.

The moment he saw the man, Marsh pulled the trigger in his hand.

A black arrow shot out.

At that solemn expression Baron couldn’t help but laugh.

“An ordinary person actually wants to…”

“Puff!”

The palm-sized short arrow actually penetrated Baron’s lightning protection, penetrated the static electric field protective gear he had deliberately hidden under his blue-green cloak, and directly pierced his lower abdomen.

If Baron hadn’t consciously tightened his muscles, that short crossbow bolt might have actually pierced right through him.

However, before the shock in Baron’s heart could fade, his entire person “whoosh” fell down.

(End of Chapter)

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