Saul still remembered Kismet’s advice from back then, treating the Stargate Council as his last stop, which was why he didn’t go with Byron.

Although Kismet was unreliable, he also possessed many secrets. Most importantly, Saul had his own arrangements.

Byron honestly told Saul, “The half-elf mentioned that something seems to have happened over there, but it might be beneficial for my advancement, so he asked me to go take a look.”

“The half-elf?” Saul didn’t like the half-elf consciousness hidden within Senior Byron’s body, but now Senior Byron needed the half-elf to guide his path to advancement.

“The Stargate Council has been suddenly quiet for so many years—they’re obviously not just researching crossing through the stargate. The situation over there is probably quite complex too.” Saul could only advise, “Be careful.”

Byron nodded.

Danger was everywhere. As long as one still wanted to walk the wizard’s path and obtain that elusive yet forbidden knowledge, one couldn’t fear danger.

In this regard, they were all the same kind of people.

After seeing off Senior Byron, Saul received an urgent letter.

Saul pinched it between two fingers, and the letter turned into fine gray dust that fell into the soil.

He turned to look at Keli, who was still waiting beside him, and said softly: “The black tide is coming soon.”

Keli nodded. “I’ll go with you.”

Saul nodded, and the two immediately prepared to depart.

This time, they weren’t going to Evernight Empire, but to the Sighing Wall.

That was also where Saul had chosen as the location for his fourth target in the Symphony of Fate.

There was no ultra-long-distance teleportation array that could connect to the Sighing Wall. Such arrays consumed too much and only the Stargate Council and Tribunal could afford them.

Although Wizard Murphy at the Sighing Wall was also fourth-rank, he hadn’t operated the Sighing Wall as a faction, so he didn’t have excess resources.

This was also why everyone respected Wizard Murphy. After the Abyssal Eye appeared, he had devoted almost all his energy to fighting the black tide.

But because of this, life at the Sighing Wall was actually quite harsh. Some wizards there needed to purchase resources from outside to conduct experiments.

Saul and Keli chartered an airship directly to rush to the Sighing Wall. Otherwise, walking slowly would take several months.

The airship captain was still an acquaintance—Captain Harry, whom Saul had encountered when he was still an apprentice.

However, while Captain Harry had dared to chat with apprentice Saul back then, now he kept his head down and didn’t dare say anything.

On the airship, Keli was somewhat nervous. This was her first time participating in combat against the black tide, and if the battle became intense, she would have to deploy the Bone Dragon. Now Keli could communicate with bone monsters like Byron, and after three years of continuous coordination, she no longer needed to constantly worry about the Bone Dragon losing control like she had at the Tribunal.

To prepare for battle, Keli locked herself in her cabin studying tactics, while Saul stood on deck discussing matters regarding the fourth target with Beth in the diary.

“My master also sent word earlier that he would depart with the monsters in the black tide when it recedes. I still haven’t decided whether to make him my fourth target.”

[Didn’t you already test this twice before? I think Gorsa doesn’t seem to mind much.]

“He’s going to the Abyssal Eye.”

Beth was somewhat surprised. Saul shouldn’t distrust Gorsa so much!

[Do you think he won’t come back?]

Saul looked down. The airship was speeding through the clouds, and from time to time he could see the dark yellow and deep green interwoven land below through gaps in the clouds.

“I once thought about entering the Abyssal Eye together with my master.” He was someone with many trump cards and was most skilled at dealing with black tide pollution. “But the outcome of doing that would be only one thing—death.”

This was the third time the diary had given a warning with only the word “death.”

The previous two times, due to accidents and advanced preparation, he had managed to get through them, but this time, Saul had no clues whatsoever.

Because he understood almost nothing about the Abyssal Eye.

Every time he thought of those words, an indescribable fear still lingered in his heart.

It was as if when you weren’t thinking about it, you didn’t feel anything, but the more you thought about it, the more you would shiver.

The most terrifying part was that Saul didn’t even understand why he was trembling.

“It’s still because of ignorance.” Saul leaned on the ship’s rail.

He hadn’t gone to the Sighing Wall for these three years, instead digesting the fate power brought by the first three Symphony of Fate targets. Now his strength had advanced further than before.

Not to mention his magical power—his soul body had also become increasingly solid. Updates are released by N0velFire.ɴet

Now if Frim threw him into the black tide near the Abyssal Eye again, Saul estimated he could cast magic normally without even needing the Mermaid’s Tear.

This alone surpassed all third-rank wizards.

At the same time, he had used this powerful mental strength to upgrade all his trump card spells.

Soul Blades had been completely upgraded to a 5th-rank spell, and when cast with Saul’s strength, it could almost instantly kill ordinary third-rank wizards.

He had also integrated all the “Touch of XX” spells he had learned since apprenticeship into his Soul Fishing, and based on his current form and abilities, transformed it into a body form that could change into having over a hundred tentacles—Ash Tentacles. The improved tentacles could not only absorb pollution from others’ bodies (no longer limited to just black tide pollution), but could also inject stored pollution into others like venom. From now on, anyone wanting to fight him would have to consider whether they could survive several rounds of pollution without mutating.

Finally, Saul had also combined the star-shaped eyes to design an ultimate killing move, which he named “Deep Space Gaze.” This technique was an indiscriminate attack that always erupted at 100% power, with eerie eyes covering Saul’s entire body until he became an aggregate of eyes.

Even Saul couldn’t perfectly control this killing move. Once deployed for extended periods, all nearby existences would begin to mutate indiscriminately. Even an ordinary stone couldn’t escape.

To research this spell, Saul had designed many experimental scenarios. These test sites were all strictly sealed afterward, and some places were cleared by Saul using Ash Tentacles then burned directly with fierce flames to prevent future troubles.

Finally, Saul found a barren area in the Chaos Realm for a simple trial.

The membrane surrounding the Chaos Realm seemed to also isolate most pollution. But even so, when Saul deployed “Deep Space Gaze” for close to a minute, the desert floor of the Chaos Realm showed a strange escape phenomenon.

The sand formed depressions in human shapes, each human form appearing to be in a running posture. It was as if real people were lying on the ground and running away.

Finally, Saul cleared the nearby area and directly burned this part of the desert into crystal before eliminating this escape phenomenon.

Besides these three most powerful trump cards, Saul had also learned some high-rank spells. With the enhancement of fate power, even spells complex enough to require a room full of books to record, Saul could quickly grasp the key points. Latest content published on N0velFire.ɴet

This was the hidden enhancement brought by fate power.

However, even having become so powerful and terrifying, when Saul planned to go to the Abyssal Eye, the diary still only gave him the word “death.”

This made him extremely worried about Master Gorsa’s situation.

Could the other party really return alive?

Or would what returned alive still be Gorsa?

(End of Chapter)

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