After mentioning that Ann was collecting bone monsters, Noah belatedly realized he had delayed Saul’s important business with his trivial matters.

He quickly said, “Master, do you have any new instructions for coming here?”

Only then did Saul speak unhurriedly, “How many bone monsters have you collected so far?”

“Currently, the only complete one is still the fish bone I gave to you. The others are all incomplete limbs, and more are just bone fragments that can’t even tell what creature they belonged to.” Noah felt somewhat ashamed because the process of searching for bone monsters hadn’t gone smoothly. After all these years, there was only one small fish, which couldn’t compare at all to Saul’s current mount.

But Saul wasn’t disappointed.

The Bone Flying Lizard he had originally found was actually because he had transformed into black bone and exposed the anchor point in his palm, which attracted the giant lizard slumbering underground.

That giant lizard had been at an unknown depth underground. Before it emerged, Saul was completely unaware of it.

When these bone monsters slept, they were as silent as real corpses. If not for the accumulated rumors and legends of local people, Noah would have had great difficulty finding even that one bone fish.

However, Saul didn’t express his true thoughts. He still hoped Noah would work harder to search for bone monsters and their remains.

“You still need to try to collect more bones. Complete monsters are best, but if there aren’t complete ones, incomplete skeletal remains are needed too.” He told Noah, “Usually you can send more people out to search, and if there are clues, send people with stronger combat power.”

Noah nodded repeatedly.

“Now, give me all the bone monsters you’ve collected.”

This was the real purpose of Saul’s hurried visit.

“Ah, because the bones aren’t good to have people guard up close, I buried all the bone fragments in Black Water City’s great cemetery.”

Burying bones in a pile of corpses was indeed not easy for people to discover.

Saul asked about the location, then directly disappeared from Noah’s room.

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He looked at the dusty magic notes in his room and sighed softly. “It seems it’s time for me to find a successor too.”

Noah, not yet fifteen years old, was making the lament of a fifty-year-old.

Saul came to the great cemetery and found it was very far from Black Water City. Except for a few guards, basically no one lived nearby.

Calling this place a great cemetery was also flattering – it could also be called a mass grave.

Obviously, due to rapid expansion and searching for bone monsters, the residents and slaves of Black Water City had also paid with many lives.

The dead here were buried underground in disorder. Some were dozens of people buried in one big pit, not much different from a chaotic burial ground.

The bone monster remains and fragments Noah mentioned were buried in the largest corpse pit.

It seemed Noah had intentionally concealed the purpose of bone monsters, only revealing the rarity of complete bone monsters. Perhaps he was afraid others would discover the bones’ special nature and compete with him for resources.

Saul casually collected the disguised and buried bones, then teleported again, returning to the Bone Flying Lizard in high altitude.

Then, according to the information Noah gave plus his own sensing, he determined Ann’s location and set off again.

Ann’s location was some distance from Black Water City. If traveling normally, it might take ten days or even dozens of days.

This time Saul had plenty of time and wasn’t in a hurry to teleport there. Instead, he flew while observing the terrain of the Chaos Realm.

To complete the tasks Saul assigned and develop Black Water City’s power, Noah had almost never actively requested Saul’s help during this period.

But just because the little apprentice didn’t speak didn’t mean the master wouldn’t help at all.

While flying, Saul memorized the terrain and tribes of nearby areas, using his powerful memory to help Noah draw a very precise map.

With this map, Noah would be more comfortable when making expansion plans and city construction.

From high altitude, Saul discovered there weren’t many tribes near Black Water City – it seemed they had basically all been incorporated by Noah.

But after traveling further forward, Saul saw a dead zone where nothing grew nearby, and strange gases were faintly steaming.

Saul had the Bone Flying Lizard go down to investigate, but unexpectedly discovered an underground darkfire vein.

Darkfire was a resource frequently used by low-rank wizards when creating magical tools. It wasn’t rare in the wizard world, but had very wide applications. Even in the Chaos Realm, it could be applied to some weapons and energy sources.

Discovering the darkfire vein gave Saul a bit of surprise, but more shock.

This was the Chaos Realm where magical elemental particles were scarce, not the wizard world – how could there be a darkfire vein?

Could this world be reviving?

Thinking of the large amounts of inertized black powder and bone remains underground, Saul frowned. If this Chaos Realm recovered magical elemental particle activity, that might not be a good thing.

However, looking at the overall world’s elemental concentration, even if the Chaos Realm wanted to recover, it would need several hundred years.

Perhaps by then, he would have already found a way to solve the black tide.

“Several hundred years – I should at least reach fourth-rank. If research in the Prismatic World goes smoothly, maybe I could reach fifth-rank. Combined with fate lines and the Dead Wizard’s Diary’s assistance, sixth-rank isn’t impossible either.” Saul thought happily. “But becoming sixth-rank seems to require killing a world… this rule is somewhat cruel! Or maybe when I reach fifth-rank, I’ll become indifferent to life and won’t care about a world’s survival?”

Some things were terrifying to think about deeply.

When you still had humanity, you’d feel losing humanity was a terrifying thing.

If you really lost all nature for the sake of becoming stronger, had you actually become stronger, or had you disappeared?

Saul didn’t know what kind of choice his future self would make.

At least the current him had to advance to fourth-rank.

Frim’s gaze was already fixed on Saul, and it was hard to guarantee whether he would discover Saul’s other special traits.

After all, the ability to absorb black tide pollution was considered very inconspicuous among Saul’s many talents.

Saul had the Bone Flying Lizard rise to higher altitude again, but before leaving, he cast Soul Blades and directly opened a gap in the darkfire vein below.

Large amounts of toxic smoke-bearing steam immediately erupted from underground.

Gray thick smoke shot straight up to the clouds.

“This way Noah’s subordinates will definitely discover the anomaly here.” Saul casually cast a purification spell so that when Noah sent people to mine, they wouldn’t be completely wiped out.

Of course, he couldn’t directly feed Noah either – benefits obtained too easily weren’t conducive to Noah establishing prestige among the people.

After doing all this, Saul continued on his way, preparing to check on Ann’s progress.

“If I can get several more complete bone monsters, I might be able to reorganize them into a more powerful existence. Releasing that against Frim would be more threatening!”

(End of Chapter)

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