Corey showed no emotional change, but Saul could see the mental fluctuations around her trembling slightly.

Herbert and Pei’er stepped forward simultaneously.

Sealing a Storm Eye was naturally not something that could be left entirely to a second-rank wizard.

The people Herbert brought were specifically to assist with the sealing formation setup. Pei’er had also urgently transferred several formal wizards and a large number of wizard apprentices from nearby.

If not for the Storm Eye at Old Days Manor appearing so suddenly, they should have prepared more personnel for the sealing.

“This place had a fake Storm Eye appear before, and now a real Storm Eye has coincidentally appeared here as well. Be extra careful during the operation—there might still be people causing trouble.” Herbert conversed with Pei’er using secret speech.

Seeing her just nod lightly, which was different from her usual reactions, he couldn’t help asking, “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine. Focus on sealing the Storm Eye. If we fail, we still need to make a second preparation.” Pei’er raised her wrist and brushed all her hair behind her ears.

There was a teardrop-shaped tumor on her wrist. Once the Storm Eye fully erupted and Black Tide emerged, she would immediately notify Ophelia.

Currently, only she and Herbert were third-rank wizards present. If operated properly, they might be able to seize all the anchor points without having to share with others.

Pei’er’s attention was entirely on the Ice Lock formation Corey was preparing, while Herbert noticed Saul and Kismet nearby.

His figure instantly transformed into scattered fireflies, then condensed before Saul and Kismet the next second.

“If you don’t mind, could you help? Sealing the Storm Eye concerns all wizards living in the Borderland.”

“Don’t I need to avoid this?” Saul asked.

“If this were merely using theory to test your design approaches, you would definitely need to avoid it, but this is actual combat. We must go all out from the beginning.”

But there was one thing Herbert didn’t mention. As long as Saul joined the formation setup, unless Corey failed, the written test condition of “whoever submits answers within one day wins with the better solution” would no longer exist.

Because it would be hard to say whether Saul’s better solution was merely an optimization of Corey’s answer.

Even if Saul said it wasn’t, the supervising third-rank wizards might not acknowledge it.

Despite this, Saul didn’t refuse.

Kismet beside him waved his hand before Herbert could speak again, lowering his head to fiddle with his harp.

“I won’t go over. Otherwise, if you fail, you might think I was causing trouble again.”

Herbert wasn’t genuinely inviting Kismet either. This person’s reputation had already spread across the entire continent.

Saul followed Herbert to Corey’s side.

Corey was assigning tasks to those around her with a wooden expression. As the formation’s designer, she naturally knew what kind of person should control what kind of position.

Seeing Saul, she stared for two seconds. “You should also be quite familiar with Ice Lock. As Gorsa’s apprentice, your understanding of it shouldn’t be poor either. Cooperate with me in magic power circulation control.”

“Alright.” Saul readily agreed and stood shoulder to shoulder with Corey at the formation’s control center.

Although the silk paper Corey had just opened was only three meters in diameter, when she truly began to cast the Ice Lock seal, with the cooperation of numerous wizards, the entire formation was expanded twofold.

When the others were ready, Corey raised her right hand high, wearing white lace gloves, and drew a circle in the air with her index and little fingers.

Then ice crystals appeared from the circular basic formation where she and Saul stood, quickly spreading to the surroundings.

The ice crystals were like six-sided snowflakes, constantly branching and extending, then extending and branching again.

Instantly, a layer of water mist appeared above the formation, which quickly turned into tiny ice crystals, like spring snowfall.

Fine and dense, yet floating and drifting.

Herbert and Pei’er flew to the left and right points of the formation, simultaneously injecting magic power into it.

Third-rank wizards could quickly convert magic power absorbed from the outside world and steadily output it to the formation, becoming a more abundant and magnificent magic power source than magic crystals.

The two of them were the backbone and guarantee of the entire magical formation.

If the Ice Lock formation failed and the Storm Eye fully erupted, they would also compete for anchor points the moment they appeared.

Corey’s expression was unlike normally, somewhat serious. She looked up at Saul and gave him a meaningful look.

Saul looked at the white breath before him, knowing the temperature needed for Ice Lock was already low enough, and nodded to indicate he knew what to do.

He also cooperatively raised his hand, circulating his magic power and mental power frantically.

Corey watched for a moment and discovered that Saul had indeed observed how this formation should operate, becoming even more confident.

That he could quickly understand her intentions not only meant Saul understood this Ice Lock formation well enough, but also meant Corey’s approach was most likely correct.

The Ice Lock formation wasn’t positioned directly above Old Days Manor.

There was a terrifying black hole that could rotate and twist everything. If the ice sealing formation were placed there, it would immediately be twisted and rendered ineffective.

But Corey used a mirror projection method, placing the formation beside Old Days Manor and projecting the formation’s effects onto the Storm Eye through a projection device between the formation and the manor—a mirror made from large amounts of magic crystals and special mithril.

Ice crystals wrapped in cold air quickly turned the entire formation into an ice wind valley, and everyone’s faces were covered with a layer of white frost.

To ensure the formation’s stability, no one used magic for warmth.

Regardless, at the formal wizard level, their bodies weren’t afraid of this bit of cold erosion.

The formation was fully activated, with every portion of magic power operating along predetermined routes.

Saul completed his task, watching the ice and snow unique to April suddenly fall above the black void opposite through projection.

The black hole immediately began absorbing the drifting snow and ice.

As large amounts of ice and snow were twisted by the black hole, they began freezing everything they touched.

Soon, under the influence of large amounts of ice and snow, the twisting force was frozen, and even the twisted dust in the air was frozen in place.

Gradually, from morning to evening, dusk lengthened everyone’s shadows, and the shadow of Old Days Manor fell on the ground, also twisted like a vortex.

But all the twisting was now visible, like the enemy’s weaknesses were fully displayed.

He breathed a slight sigh of relief.

When Saul had understood Corey’s experimental design approach, he had already discovered her design concept was largely consistent with his.

Only some details in the design were different.

If it were him, he might choose a transparent lens in the middle of the formation instead of a mirror. But now it seemed the effect was about the same.

“If we can achieve the current effect, then barring any accidents, the entire formation can completely seal the Storm Eye by noon on the third day.”

As for what to do after sealing the Storm Eye, that was the third-rank wizards’ secret.

In any case, according to the information Saul currently had, as long as they didn’t let the Storm Eye fully erupt with Black Tide, they could buy the Borderland another few years to decades of development time.

However, things never develop as people expect.

If nothing unexpected happens, then something unexpected should happen.

(End of Chapter)

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