But the tree heart space began to boil.

The rootlets that had been quietly hanging in the center swayed gently, like willow branches by a river.

But in the gloomy tree heart space, this scene wasn’t beautiful.

A decaying and dejected mental power spread outward from Shaya as the core, gradually extending beyond the tree heart space.

Though invisible, Saul could sense that the micro-formations he had left inside the Inverted Tree and in Caugust’s inner city had all gone silent.

Obviously, the chaos outside was beginning to subside.

However, forcibly stopping the sacrifice that had already begun made the Inverted Tree, already weakened by Bethstana’s torment, even worse off.

Only because Shaya was still in the tree heart trying his best to comfort it did the Inverted Tree not erupt.

Even so, the constantly swaying rootlets showed the Inverted Tree’s restlessness and unease.

Losing the souls gained from sacrifice was like making someone who had been hungry for three days and had just eaten half a steamed bun stop eating.

It was simply inhumane.

After a moment, the irritable Inverted Tree gradually calmed down.

The howling sound that had always existed in the darkness also gradually stopped.

“You’re picking this up quite quickly.” Saul praised.

For Shaya, a first-rank wizard, to calm the Inverted Tree so quickly obviously showed exceptional mental power talent.

Shaya’s weak voice came through, “I’ve already retracted all the tree roots and confined them within Bayton Academy. Now from the outside, this place looks like a withered and dense evil forest. As long as you don’t burn down this forest, people outside the city won’t be able to see whatever you do.”

Saul nodded with satisfaction.

Then he restrained his smile, his expression becoming solemn. He crossed his ten fingers in front of his chest, then quickly pulled them apart to both sides.

Ten red lines of light were drawn from his palms.

With a light shake of his wrists, the light automatically formed a pentagram pattern in mid-air.

The formation took shape and began flashing intermittently.

The frequency grew faster and faster. Between the light and dark flashes, it nearly blinded Shaya’s “eyes.”

Unable to continue watching the pentagram formation in the air or see Saul behind it clearly, he simply closed his external visual perception and quietly waited for Saul to operate.

As time passed, Shaya gradually felt an indescribable force connecting him with that pentagram formation.

Though he wasn’t looking, the appearance of the pentagram formation was clearly displayed in his mind.

At the same time, his lifeless spirit body suddenly became full, as if he had truly resurrected.

After an unknown amount of time, Shaya slowly opened his eyes.

This time he truly opened his eyes.

The feedback from muscle and nerve involvement was so clear.

It was a reality that spirit body state lacked.

Shaya looked down and saw his torso and limbs. He actually had a body again!

Shaya looked up at Saul excitedly, but saw the other party shake his head.

“You haven’t completely resurrected yet. You’re just borrowing the Inverted Tree to reshape your body.”

Shaya’s body was actually different from a normal person’s.

Most obviously, he had roots.

Behind him, several rootlets connected to his body like blood vessels.

This was what others could see.

But inside Shaya’s body, there were “thin threads” that others, including himself, couldn’t see.

These threads ran through all the important organs of his body, then emerged from the cracks in his skull, with some connecting to the Inverted Tree.

But one special thread connected to Saul.

This thread was intermittent, seemingly broken but actually connected by invisible force, like a dotted line drawn in the air.

This dotted line was different from the lines extending from Byron, Kismet, and others toward Saul.

Others’ fate lines extended to within reach near Saul. By reaching out to touch them, Saul could sense some of their information or directly teleport.

But they weren’t directly connected to Saul’s fate lines.

The dotted line extending from Shaya, however, was wound around Saul’s fate line.

And this was precisely the result of Saul using the pentagram formation just now.

Saul had connected his fate with Shaya’s in a one-way link.

This connection method came from the method the original owner of the Dead Wizard’s Diary used to advance to fourth rank—the pentagram formation “Death Weaving.”

But Saul hadn’t completely replicated Death Weaving.

Death Weaving essentially involved selecting five special locations in the world, first using the diary’s ability to perceive fate to link these five places together.

Then at the right moment, create massive destructive disasters, turning these five places into living hells all at once.

The large number of death spirits created by the disasters would become increasingly powerful under the mutual influence of Death Weaving, while simultaneously feeding back to create greater disasters and more deaths.

Finally, the repeatedly refined death power would be transmitted to the diary along the channels created by Death Weaving, and ultimately feed back to the diary’s owner.

If Saul followed the diary’s original owner’s advancement route exactly, he would definitely need to slaughter over a million people.

This wizard world wasn’t Saul’s previous life with population explosion—the death of several million people would be enough to cause massive upheaval in this world.

Saul… was unwilling.

Moreover, Saul had once used the Nightmare Butterfly’s power to see part of the diary’s history.

In that history, the diary’s original owner advanced to fifth rank with corpses piled like mountains beneath his feet.

But he was also stuck at a certain level with no hope of advancement.

Finally, he had no choice but to abandon even the Dead Wizard’s Diary.

Therefore, after studying the advancement principles of Death Weaving, Saul decided to combine his own ability characteristics and his spirit bodies that could be called monstrous in this world to transform Death Weaving.

He gave his new advancement method a name: Symphony of Fate.

The biggest difference between Symphony of Fate and Death Weaving was that fate wasn’t just death.

Changes in fate, new beginnings, and endings all produced enormous energy.

This energy could only be perceived by Saul’s fate lines.

He called it causal energy.

Saul connected his fate lines to specially chosen objects through the pentagram, forming a one-way channel for transmitting energy.

Shaya, who had become the new core of the Inverted Tree, was a very suitable candidate.

The Inverted Tree gave Shaya a guarantee of survival, and the Wishing Candle gave him means to solve difficulties.

Combined with Shaya’s own talent, methods, and character, Saul believed he would definitely live a very exciting life.

The more turbulent Shaya’s fate, the more vigorous the feedback energy to Saul would be.

Theoretically, if Saul completed five associated objects and used the pentagram formation to link them all together again, these five objects would also interact with each other, giving him extremely powerful causal force while not bearing the entanglements of this causal force.

The key to all this lay with Saul. This Symphony of Fate advancement method couldn’t be replicated by others.

Of course, all this was still just imagination on paper. Saul couldn’t even guarantee that the first experiment on Shaya would succeed. Everything still needed time to verify.

Currently, this experimental process was going smoothly without any sudden problems.

After Shaya finished admiring his new body, his face showed unstoppable joy, and he became increasingly trusting of Saul.

However, Shaya soon had new troubles.

“Ugh! The pollution inside the Inverted Tree is so terrible. How did Bethstana endure it before?”

Before he could be proud for long, a pain like being soaked in strong acid drilled in from every pore of Shaya’s body.

Making his expression twist with agony.

“If this continues, I’m afraid it won’t be long before I’m polluted, mutated, and turn back into a monster!”

Shaya was very anxious. Having finally gotten a chance at life, he never wanted to taste death again.

“Don’t worry. The severe pollution now is because Bethstana just launched a city-wide sacrifice, and the Inverted Tree absorbed a large number of living souls. I’ll help you clear the pollution in your body. After that, as long as you don’t use the Inverted Tree to absorb souls in large quantities again, you won’t produce so much pollution. As long as you recover your strength quickly, you can withstand low levels of pollution.”

Shaya nodded repeatedly. Although he was still very uncomfortable now, as long as there was a solution, he wasn’t afraid.

“I really admire Bethstana now. Having stayed here so long, she only went mad rather than insane.”

Shaya didn’t know he was already much luckier than Bethstana.

Saul looked down at the diary in his palm. “You have something to say?”

[Saul, I have clues about fate lines. Could you grant me freedom in ten years rather than a hundred?]

(End of Chapter)

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