Chapter 99 – Sound Grinding Fruit and the Wandering Apprentice

Chapter 99 – Sound Grinding Fruit and the Wandering Apprentice
That night, Saul slept in Ada’s house.

He slept on the table, Ada slept on the bed, and Penny slept in the cupboard.

One of the three occupied a spot.

Perhaps the interaction between Saul and Penny in the evening had spurred Ada on, and he deliberately rummaged for a piece of twine and tied it between the table and the bed, and the quilt, uncovered, hung over it as a curtain.

Saul did not fall asleep, and after the night enveloped the land and silence fell around him, he slowly opened his eyes.

He gently jumped off the table and lifted Ada’s tattered quilt.

The person inside was already asleep.

Ada had rolled to the edge of the bed at some point, one arm and one leg stretched out of the wooden bed.

Saul sat on the edge of the wooden bed and gently opened the large cabinet above it.

This time the cabinet door made no sound.

Silence Portal, a very simple 0th rank sorcery.

Inside the cabinet, young Penny was already asleep, sleeping in a much more honest position than her brother could.

Maybe it was because of sleeping in the cabinet for years.

But Saul looked closely at Penny’s eyes and realized that her eyelids had been moving, and fiercely.

It was a sign that one was dreaming.

Penny’s face was very bad, her eyebrows were slightly furrowed, her lips were pursed very tightly, and her hands and feet were curled up together, sleeping very insecurely.

Saul immediately went into semi-immersive meditation and observed Penny.

But she was clean as a whistle and saw no other abnormalities – including her eyes.

Saul reached out, gently touched Penny’s eyes, then went back and touched his own, only to find nothing different.

If it weren’t for the diary endorsement, Saul wouldn’t have been able to see any other abnormality at all, other than the fact that he thought the eyes were beautiful.

But anything that could make the diary look good was of considerable value.

Should we take Penny’s eyes?
Saul had a way to safely remove Penny’s eyes.

The other person had been blind for a long time anyway.

But he finally withdrew his hand and closed the cabinet door tightly again.

At that moment Ada rolled over, off the edge of the wooden bed and back into the center.

Thor jumped off the wooden bed and left the place straight away.

It was midnight, the full moon was high in the sky, and there were no cumulus clouds.

The town was illuminated slightly by the moonlight tilted down.

For Saul, such light was enough.

“Yesterday it seemed like it was a new moon, why did it jump to a full moon all of a sudden today?”

Saul stood on the town’s empty street and looked up.

“The little bit of memory power left behind by the original body does seem to be the case. It seems that the moon in this world is more than just a celestial body.”

It was the first time that Saul had noticed the abnormality of the moon because he had been staying in the Sorcerer’s Tower.

But now was not the time to look at the moon.

Before Saul took the carriage to Mill Sail Town, he seriously went to find out about the Ground Sound Fruit.

He hadn’t brought many books with him on his outing, and at the very least, the plant chapter of All Things Cognizant wasn’t with him.

But fortunately, in the books that Nick had left in the carriage, there was an introduction to the Mill Sound Fruit.

The Grinding Sound Fruit was a vine plant that dangled down like a gourd, shaped like a harp, and when the wind blew through it, a sound like that of a grinding wheel would come out.

The sound wasn’t unpleasant, but it wasn’t friendly enough for ordinary people. Ordinary people would be disturbed by the sound, and after a long time, they would become nauseous and dizzy, or even pass out directly.

But it was also a good sorcery material, and it was hard to cultivate and even harder to transplant.

It is for this reason that the Wizard’s Tower accepted the defection of the town of Mill Sail, which is beyond its own radius.

In the books of Senior Nick, it is recorded that the real function of the Fruit of the Ground Sound is to calm people’s emotions, which can calm the agitated people, and it also has a certain effect on the spirit body.

Like a tranquilizer.

Since it was a fruit that needed to be supplied up to the Sorcerer’s Tower, the Sound Grinding Fruit certainly wouldn’t be casually kept in the wild, it would have been carefully cultivated and guarded at all times.

However, because the Fruit of the Grinding Fruit will emit a strange sound when it encounters the wind, ordinary people can’t plant it in the open air, where there is wind. Otherwise, there is no way to guard it, and if you are not careful, you will fail to cultivate it. Saul picked the tallest building in the neighborhood to climb up and stood on top of the chimney, looking around the entire Mill Sail Town.

The town was unusually quiet at this time, and there were hardly any places still lit with light.

But that also made a few light sources in the northernmost part of the town extremely visible.

Locking onto his target, Saul tugged on the small algae used as a rope and slowly lowered himself off the roof, running towards the target’s location.

Arriving at the northern part of the town, Saul realized that the light source locations were still outside the town’s fence, so he scaled over the fence, which was simply unguarded, and came outside.

A few hundred meters away from the fence in the north of the town, there was a row of masonry houses built.

Those houses surrounded and arched over a clearing, the edge of which was surrounded by a three-meter-high wall and topped by a wooden plank roof.

Tonight, there was no wind, so many of the boards were lifted, revealing the dark green vines and leaves inside.

The vines were not densely planted, and fruits could be vaguely seen hanging down between the wide leaves.

Behind the open space, there stood a three-story tower. The tower was pitch black, and all the windows were boarded up, vaguely exuding an ominous feeling.

Saul jumped down from the city wall, carefully concealed his figure, and approached that way.

He also remembered that Nick had said that there were two first level sorcerer apprentices here. Although Nick described them as having scummy combat power, that was to Nick, and Saul couldn’t really let his guard down.

Once they realized that they were apprentices from the Sorcerer’s Tower, they would definitely try to hide the reason for the decrease in the production of the Ground Sound Fruit – if there was really something fishy in it.

Sol cast another magical trick on himself, carefully circumventing any possible prying eyes around him, and finally approached the fenced-off clearing.

It was lit with campfires and guarded by soldiers every few meters.

There were actually more of them than the guards standing guard at the town gates and patrolling the town combined.

Seeking a gap, Saul climbed onto a nearby roof.

This time he could clearly see the plants growing in the clearing.

The appearance of those plants resembled Nick’s description. It was just that the fruits that were supposed to look like flutes were wrapped in a layer of pulp paper on the outside, only revealing a bit of the tip that was connected to the stem and leaves.

Was this their way of preventing the sound grinding fruit from being blown out by the wind?

But will the fruit grow well this way?

There’s a fence to keep out the wind and paper to wrap, and this doesn’t look like a place that gets a lot of rain ……

If that’s the case, it’s normal for Saul to think that the Sound Grinding Fruit will have a reduced yield.

Could there be any other reason?

When Saul’s sight swept around, he saw a house with the same specifications behind the row of houses, but with soldiers on guard on all sides.

Saul viewed the human-monster walking map and carefully looked around the area, not finding any unusual spirits.

Even the tower with the windows sealed up was clean on the outside.

As expected, outside the wizard tower, cleanliness was the common situation.

With the effects of the magical tricks on his body still lingering, Saul drilled into the guard-guarded house through the second-floor window.

Inside the house, there were no lights, and it was dim.

Saul looked at many places and none of them were occupied.

Finally, he found an underground passage inside the kitchen on the first floor.

The entrance to the passageway was carefully hidden under a stove.

Although that cooktop was camouflaged to a certain extent, Saul still detected something strange.

The most crucial thing was that he felt a hidden magic power fluctuation from that entrance.

There were sorcerer apprentices inside and they were casting sorcery.

Saul secretly said, “This magic fluctuation fugitive value is also too high, at a glance, it is a wandering sorcerer without orthodox teaching, no, a wandering sorcerer apprentice.”

Now Saul believed Nick’s words, if it was two first level apprentices like this, he would really kill them casually.

Despite the weakness of the enemy, Saul didn’t rush in.

Nine times out of ten, the entrance to a dark room like this would have traps to prevent outsiders from sneaking in, and Saul wasn’t sure that he wouldn’t startle the people inside when he went in.

He was here to eavesdrop, not to assassinate.

Fifth shift!

(End of chapter)