Saul walked down to the first floor in two steps and went to open the door. “Hello, I’m Saul.”

Outside the door stood an elderly wizard with white hair and beard. His face was full of wrinkles, looking like a centenarian among ordinary people.

He wore a gray fleece-lined robe and had a gentle smile on his face, with an aura like an ordinary person.

Saul frowned slightly, looked him over, and asked hesitantly, “Lord Murphy?”

The other party’s smile brightened a little. “How did you figure it out?”

I guessed from context. Saul thought to himself.

Of course he couldn’t answer that way, so he only said, “My master mentioned you.”

“He would mention me?” Murphy stroked his beard and looked up to see Keli behind Saul. “Hello there, you must be Saul’s friend?”

Saul turned back to call Keli over. This fourth-rank wizard before him was still very worthy of respect. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ nοvelfire.net

“Oh, I know you—the amazing little girl who destroyed the Maze Corridor.” When speaking of this matter, Murphy was still smiling, without any intention of defending Frim.

He seemed to not care at all that a fourth-rank wizard’s dignity had been offended by a second-rank wizard.

After greetings, Saul invited Murphy into the room, but Murphy had come personally to invite them to ascend the Sighing Wall.

“Although you just arrived and should be allowed to rest first, with less than a month until the black tide strikes, I still want to hurry up and have a good chat with you.”

“Alright, business comes first.”

Neither Saul nor Keli had any objections.

Murphy raised his staff and tapped it lightly on the ground. The surrounding environment instantly changed, and all three appeared simultaneously on a magnificent and towering gray structure.

This structure resembled a high tower, standing thirty meters tall, already exceeding all buildings in Far North City.

However, to the left of this building was a towering wall high enough to reach the sky, shooting straight into the clouds.

Saul raised his head and felt as if heaven and earth had been inverted in an instant. Wind came from overhead, blowing on the ground and stirring up a patch of snowy mist.

But when the white mist dispersed, he discovered it was just an illusion caused by the overwhelming majesty of the wall before him.

“It’s truly… magnificent.” Saul closed his eyes and seemed to hear sounds of fighting and waves from behind the high wall.

Wave after wave, mixed with the noise of burning flesh and collapsing ice peaks.

But when he opened his eyes, everything around was still quiet, with only the breathing sounds of the two people beside him.

Murphy watched Saul with a smile, while Keli seemed somewhat bewildered—she appeared to have felt nothing.

“What is this?” Saul asked in confusion.

“These are the memories of the Sighing Wall.” Murphy stepped forward and touched the gray wall with his hand.

His hand was dark yellow and aged, with wrinkles covering the knuckles.

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One person and one wall, full of the flavor of years.

“This is the testimony of the Sighing Wall.” Wizard Murphy’s expression showed a moment of sadness, but he quickly restrained his emotions, turned and knocked the wall with his knuckles, producing a dull sound. “Unfortunately, only those whose mental power approaches fourth-rank can see this kind of phenomenon. Otherwise, I’d really like to set up a paid experience, letting wizards who want to train their soul bodies come and feel it. Two thousand magic crystals per session—it would instantly solve the financial problems of the far north.”

The mysterious and towering fourth-rank wizard suddenly became a shrewd merchant. Keli opened her mouth wide, momentarily unable to accept it.

Saul smiled and helped Wizard Murphy with an idea, “Even if they can’t feel it, you could still charge for the experience. At worst, make it cheaper per session. I believe many people would come to try. After all, everyone has that ‘what if’ expectation.”

Just like buying lottery tickets.

“That’s a good idea. I’ll have them plan it out.” Murphy laughed heartily and struck the ground once with his staff. The platform they were standing on suddenly began rising rapidly.

The wind instantly changed from gentle to fierce, and their clothes immediately pressed against their bodies.

They rushed into the clouds within minutes.

The platform’s rapid ascent stopped abruptly. If not for Saul and Keli’s powerful abilities, they probably would have been thrown off by such an “emergency brake.”

“This is the highest level of the Sighing Wall.” Murphy led them from the platform to the top of the gray city wall.

Here was a passage ten meters wide, with alternating high and low merlons on both sides. At regular intervals were protruding platforms with magical arrays that stayed lit year-round.

More than a dozen wizards stood guard in sections here, with the weakest being second-rank wizards. There were actually four third-rank wizards as well. The density was much greater than at the Tribunal.

Saul had seen the coastline topography of the far north. He knew the far north was like an acute triangle, and the Sighing Wall was right at the tip of this triangle.

Therefore, the Sighing Wall’s length couldn’t compare to the Red Sea Tree forest, but because it was closer to the Abyssal Eye, the area of enemy contact would actually be smaller.

But the enemies were more powerful.

Murphy led Saul and Keli on a tour of the Sighing Wall, walking while introducing them to its history.

“…The Sighing Wall was established in the third year after the Abyssal Eye appeared, the second year after Desedil Continent was swallowed. Although they all say I created the Sighing Wall, that’s actually just exaggerated praise to flatter me.”

Murphy smiled, carelessly revealing his own shortcomings in front of Saul and Keli.

“Although I could create such a large wall—you know I major in earth attributes—I really had no way to guarantee that while maintaining the volume, this wall would also possess strength sufficient to resist the black tide. So besides my magical power, this place also represents the efforts of many fourth-rank wizards from Far North City.”

Many fourth-rank wizards?

Saul and Keli exchanged glances. But wasn’t Murphy currently the only fourth-rank wizard in Far North City?

Could it be that those previous fourth-rank wizards had all…

Murphy saw their confusion and laughed heartily again. “Haha, you’re young and don’t know that before the Abyssal Eye fell into the wizard world and the black tide sealed this world’s advancement paths, there were still double-digit numbers of fourth-rank wizards in the world.”

“But now there are only six fourth-rank wizards left—no, counting my master, it’s seven.” Saul calculated and suddenly felt desolate.

“Yes, advancing to fourth-rank is becoming increasingly difficult. Fortunately Gorsa succeeded. However, it will soon return to six people.” Murphy shook his head, his face full of emotion.

“Are you referring to Lord Norton?” Saul also felt melancholy. Fourth-rank wizards normally were immortal. They all had their own life cornerstones—as long as the cornerstone didn’t perish, even if they died they could resurrect.

Saul’s foundation would be established on the powerful destiny power woven by the Symphony of Fate. This would be a secret known only to him. Even the consciousness bodies in the diary didn’t know the true purpose of his Symphony of Fate arrangement.

The only one who knew some inside information was Kismet, but the Symphony of Fate was also not completely the same as the Death Weaving that Kismet had given him—it was Saul’s improved plan based on the fate line forms of the Prismatic World.

In the wizard world, only Saul himself knew the secrets related to fate lines.

But fourth-rank wizards with life cornerstones weren’t completely immortal either.

At least Saul now knew that when a wizard’s advancement path reached its end and he had no way to open new paths, his existence would fall into saturation. When the moon is full it wanes—when wizards fall into saturation, they would finally disappear.

Just like ordinary people dying of old age.

(End of Chapter)

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