The defensive array that Maria had set up earlier still enveloped this wizard tower. The half-open door had been closed.

“Lord Saul, Lady Keli, please wait here for a moment. I’ll go in and activate the wizard tower. Since Lord Saul hasn’t signed at the crystal hub, I need to act as an intermediary to control the wizard tower.”

Haili stepped forward, gave the door a gentle push to open it, then walked into the darkness.

Keli moved closer, “Do you think he has some relationship with Wizard Murphy? Otherwise, how could a wizard apprentice seem to know everything and even operate wizard towers?”

“I suspect…” Saul looked at the slender, towering wizard tower before him. “He might be a descendant of the fourth-rank wizard who died here.”

Saul had noticed that when Haili spoke about the fourth-rank wizards who died here, he didn’t speak as an outsider.

Inside the wizard tower, Haili earnestly cast an illumination spell—such a 0-rank spell was something almost any apprentice could do.

But his spell had a different effect in this wizard tower. The pale white light suddenly left his palm and drifted forward like a firefly.

Haili quickly followed it downstairs to the bottom floor where the third-rank wizard had died.

The light floated around here for a while. Haili smiled bitterly, “You want to tell me about the last third-rank wizard’s cause of death? But I can’t understand either.”

The light gave up and continued drifting forward.

Haili muttered to himself as he walked alone in the wizard tower, appearing much more relaxed, “We can only wait for Lady Maria’s investigation results. I hope it won’t affect the black tide in a few days.”

With the black tide’s arrival imminent, the sudden death of a third-rank wizard could easily cause chaos. Fortunately, the Sighing Wall now had two fourth-rank wizards stationed there, or the wizards guarding the rear towers would be in a panic. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by novel-fire.ɴet

He entered the uncleaned laboratory. The things here would be sealed and handed over to the Sighing Wall. Since the dead wizard hadn’t designated an inheritance beneficiary, the materials and supplies he left in the laboratory would later be distributed to other wizards as rewards for guarding the Sighing Wall.

Haili didn’t even glance at the materials that would be highly valuable to him, walking straight to the innermost part of the room.

In this modest-sized laboratory, a small room had been separately partitioned off.

The room wasn’t locked—Haili easily pushed open the partition door.

There was nothing inside except for a one-meter-tall crystal pillar. Looking closely, this crystal pillar’s material was similar to the central crystal at the Sighing Wall.

The light entered the crystal pillar, which glowed faintly. Then Haili stepped forward, placed his hand on the pillar’s cross-section, and injected magical power.

The next second, the entire crystal pillar began glowing, directly illuminating the whole partition.

Then, like a spark igniting a prairie fire, the entire wizard tower lit up bit by bit from the bottom floor.

Haili didn’t linger, letting the light behind him sway as he turned and quickly returned to the tower top—the entrances to wizard towers in Storm Sea were all at the top.

“Lord Saul, Lady Keli, the wizard tower has been activated. You may enter now.”

Saul turned to Keli, “See? He’s like he’s holding the switch key to this wizard tower.”

Then Saul stepped forward into the wizard tower.

This was his second time entering this wizard tower today, and it felt different from before.

Previously, following behind Maria, he had toured around like a tourist. This time he had become a temporary tenant.

No matter how long he stayed, he had temporarily become the master of this place.

Thinking that the wizard towers here were jointly constructed from black tide monsters and dead fourth-rank wizards, Saul couldn’t help but reach out to touch the walls beside him as he descended the stairs.

He only casually touched the wall, but suddenly discovered that Haili in front of him and Keli behind him had vanished in an instant.

“An illusion? Is the consequence of not signing at the crystal hub that entering the wizard tower produces illusions?”

Saul wasn’t unfamiliar with illusions.

“Penny, see where the source of this illusion is?”

“Sure thing!” The silver butterfly danced gracefully, flying two circles around Saul before saying strangely, “Huh? How is the illusion coming from you, Brother Saul?”

“Me?” Saul pointed at himself in surprise, but before he could ask, he suddenly felt something sliding down behind him.

He quickly turned around and was shocked to see a black scaled tail extending down from the top entrance.

That black tail was like a python’s tail, half a meter in diameter, rolling and sliding down the stairs, leaving drag marks on the ground.

Looking at the traces on the ground, Saul immediately thought of the friction marks he had discovered when he first entered this wizard tower.

“Not mermaids—snakes?” Seeing that thick tail swinging toward him, Saul neither dodged nor avoided, just standing in place watching.

Then the tail with sharp scales pierced through Saul’s body and continued rapidly extending downstairs.

Saul turned to look below—the tail that had passed through his body was completely unaffected.

It was indeed an illusion, and a harmless one at that.

“Could it be that I’m seeing the wizard tower’s history? Isn’t this Nightmare Butterfly’s ability?”

“It’s not my doing, Brother Saul.”

“I know.” Saul quickly chased down. “Maybe it’s not that I want to see history, but that this wizard tower wants to show me its past.”

Saul suddenly became excited. If this wizard tower truly had consciousness, would it show him the killer of the third-rank wizard?

Saul had just descended halfway when he suddenly saw the tail that had been drilling downward coming back up, and the tail’s end was coiled three times around—it had actually wrapped around a person. Discover more novels at NoveI(F)ire.net

That person was unmistakably the third-rank wizard who had died at the bottom of the tower.

At this time he was still alive, still struggling, but something seemed wrong with his body. His limbs moved with very small amplitude, yet his expression looked very strained, as if his body wasn’t obeying him.

That black tail had been carefully holding the wizard during the dragging process, as if afraid of hurting him.

“Could it be that this snake isn’t the killer?” In the historical illusion, Saul couldn’t use magical power, but he didn’t care. He widened his eyes and quickly followed the tail and third-rank wizard upward.

Was the attacker standing outside the door right now?

Saul quickened his pace, reaching the tower top before the tail.

However, when he came outside the wizard tower, he still didn’t see the killer.

That black scaled tail actually extended all the way from the tower top into the sea.

“Such a long tail.” Saul sighed, then jumped down from the high tower without hesitation.

However, the next second, he was back inside the wizard tower.

And Haili and Keli appeared beside him again.

Keli was still walking down when she noticed Saul suddenly stop and quickly braked to avoid hitting his back.

“What’s wrong?” Keli keenly noticed that Saul’s emotions had suddenly changed.

Haili, who had been walking ahead, heard the sound and also stopped and turned around.

However, Saul had no time to explain. He directly returned to the tower top, stood at the door’s edge, and looked down at the sea surface.

The waves gently yet persistently lapped at the bottom of the wizard tower.

The polluted seawater made it difficult for mental power to penetrate very deep.

From Saul’s current observation range, there was no monster with an extremely long snake tail at the seabed.

But just now in the wizard tower’s “past,” Saul had indeed seen the tail.

He tugged at his collar, stored his outermost robe, then leaped down into the seemingly calm sea.

(End of Chapter)

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