After Saul left the tower where Corey was located, he immediately said to Little Algae, “Did you notice…”

Saul wanted to ask Little Algae if it had noticed anything, but before he could finish asking, he saw Wizard Aurel walk out from the main building in the center of the castle.

The other recognized Saul but showed no intention of coming over to greet him, turning his head and walking into the tower on the other side.

Saul stared fixedly at Aurel’s retreating figure and said to Little Algae, “Little Algae, did you see?”

Little Algae nodded, equally serious.

“I remember Wizard Aurel had no head, and above his neck was originally some kind of plant, right?”

Little Algae continued nodding seriously.

“I remember what originally grew on his head wasn’t a red worm head, right?”

Little Algae seriously shook its head.

“Come on, let’s go chat with Corey again.” Saul turned and headed back to the tower he had just left.

Wizard Aurel’s head had become a huge red worm. The worm’s diameter was thicker than his neck, and after squeezing out from his neck’s opening, it expanded by a circle, looking more like a human head.

Saul quickly climbed the tower and knocked on Corey’s door.

But this time, after several seconds, no one answered and no one opened the door.

Saul placed one hand on the door handle, using magical power to roughly open the door and charge straight in.

“Corey, I think we still need to have a good chat—”

His voice came to an abrupt halt because there was no sign of Corey anywhere in the room.

Saul’s mental power swept through the entire room like a storm, then the entire tower, finally expanding to the whole castle.

He had even sensed other people in the castle, including that Wizard Aurel with the insect head, but still found no trace of Wizard Corey.

Corey had disappeared.

“We were only downstairs for about a minute. In that one minute, where could she have gone?”

Saul looked around the entire room. “Thinking about it now, her behavior before we left was already somewhat abnormal. She seemed to want to say something but didn’t have time.”

A silver butterfly emerged from Saul’s forehead, quickly circling the room once.

“No dreams from Corey. She disappeared very cleanly.”

“I didn’t sense any anomaly. How could a second-rank wizard suddenly just disappear? Could it be because of me?”

Beth: [Saul, actually, to make Wizard Corey disappear without alerting you, there are only two possibilities. One is that she went willingly. The other…]

“The other is that the person who made Wizard Corey disappear has stronger mental power than me.” Saul already knew what Beth was going to say. “I’m not being arrogant, but in the wizard world, there are only two or three people with stronger mental power than mine.”

[Heh, you’re absolutely right.]

Since returning from the Sighing Wall, Saul’s mental power had surged again.

Beth couldn’t understand it—was Saul’s method for advancing to fourth rank perhaps too powerful?

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It made Beth wonder if Saul had some other means of enhancing mental power.

Since he couldn’t find Corey for now, Saul began examining the entire room to see if he could find any clues Corey had left behind.

After a circuit, besides the usual items and some documents about the city and border defense, Saul found nothing else. Then he began searching the house for mechanisms.

Sometimes purely physical mechanisms without magical power involvement could have blind spots that escaped wizards’ eyes.

This time, Saul finally made another discovery.

Not a secret passage, but some ashes in the fireplace. These ashes all had white edge remnants. Saul poked through them with his hand, confirming they were the same type as the paper on Corey’s desk.

The fireplace in the tower had a large capacity, but as a tool used by wizards, it wasn’t for burning wood or coal for warmth. Only a flame array was placed at the bottom. Therefore, the entire fireplace contained only paper ashes.

A thick layer—who knew how many sheets of paper Corey had burned here.

“Penny, can you try to see the past of these papers?”

“I can! Brother Saul, as long as no one deliberately erased them or covered them with mental power…” Penny’s voice grew smaller and smaller.

Compared to those nightmare butterflies decades or centuries old, she really was just a child.

Saul smiled carelessly. “It’s fine, just try your best.”

Penny flapped her wings, landing on the peak of the small ash mountain, then suddenly vibrated her silver openwork wings. The edges of that pile of ashes rose into the air.

When they fell again, the gray fragments had actually turned into white pieces.

These white paper fragments fluttered down, actually piecing together into a complete sheet.

There were several lines of text on the paper, constantly twisting like little worms, splitting and recombining, finally slowly stabilizing.

Saul looked down, his face gradually showing a grave expression.

“Corey discovered problems with Wizard Aurel years ago, but her reports never got sent out. In the end, they were all burned? Who did it?”

Wizard Aurel didn’t specialize in light or dark attributes and wasn’t skilled at mental control of people. Moreover, the person to be controlled was Corey, a second-rank wizard.

After Penny restored the letter, she didn’t stop casting. The letter slowly flew out of the flames, floating in mid-air.

As if someone was holding the letter standing there.

Two pale fingers slowly appeared at the paper’s edges, then evolved into complete palms, finally expanding until an entire person appeared out of thin air.

It was… Corey!

“So the person writing the letter was Corey, and the person burning the letter was also Corey?”

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Penny’s voice was straining. Following Saul and lying flat in the diary, she hadn’t exerted full effort in a long time!

Saul continued watching Corey, discovering a touch of red suddenly appeared above her head.

This touch of red, like Corey’s fingers that had just appeared, slowly grew from a small dot into a complete body.

It was a red worm.

However, unlike Wizard Aurel, Corey hadn’t been replaced by the worm in body and head. The red worm just quietly lay on top of Corey’s head, like her pet.

“When I just saw Corey, there was definitely no red worm on her head. There’s no reason I could see the monster on Aurel but not the one on Corey. I was in contact with Corey for much longer.”

“Brother Saul, this is the most complete past I can see,” Penny said softly.

“Very well done.” Saul didn’t spare his praise.

The scene before them gradually disappeared, with only the ashes in the fireplace proving Corey’s former struggles.

“It’s fine. Corey is gone, but there are still other people here, aren’t there?” Saul temporarily set aside investigating Corey and shifted targets. “Wizard Aurel is in the tower across the way. Let’s go say hello.”

(End of Chapter)

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