Chapter 190: Awakening
Chapter 190: Awakening
However, Saul finally returned to the normal timeline.
“Victor?” He searched for his brother.
But there was still no one to answer him.
Saul returned to the front room once more.
There was no one in the antechamber, the door was open, and the tiles in the doorway had pooled with rainwater.
The door was shaking, like the quivering soul of a man.
Lightning descended, and Saul saw the kneeling knight once more in the white light, this time he saw the knight’s face.
Sure enough, it was Olaf.
This Olaf was not as composed as he had been half a month ago, his face was full of panic, and blood dripped from the corners of his eyes and nostrils, dripping down onto his dull armor.
But compared to David, well, at least his features weren’t missing.
“What happened to them?”
“Viktor ran off somewhere too.” Even back in the present, there was no sign of his brother, and Saul was a little anxious.
“I’m the one who has to ask where you ran off to.” As a result, a familiar voice sounded behind him.
Saul turned around and saw Victor who was thumping down the stairs.
Victor ran to Saul’s side and circled around him. Making sure there were no wounds on him, he let out a sigh of relief.
“Where have you been? Just disappeared in a flash of lightning, is there some kind of sorcery trap here?”
“I just suddenly arrived at the timeline of half a month ago, I don’t know if it’s a hallucination or if there’s really a time and space dislocation, and I even saw the group of soldiers that entered here half a month ago.”
“Space-time dislocation? That can’t be possible, right? Even a third-order sorcerer can’t do that.” Victor waved the harp in his hand, “Why don’t we just leave this place, it’s too dangerous! Maybe that treasure is not fated to belong to us.”
“Baby …… “Saul pondered for a moment, “No, it’s not time we must exit yet, although the time and space are disoriented, I haven’t met any substantial danger.”
Victor looked at his brother sadly.
“Silly brother, what other treasure is more important than your life?”
Even so Saul had no intention of quitting, he had come here with great difficulty and had to find the treasure to do so.
“What are you holding in your hand?” Victor pointed at the small bottle that Sol was holding tightly in his hand.
Saul raised his hand to show Victor, “It’s something from that group of soldiers, it’s called Holy Water, and it’s somewhat useful for ordinary spirits.”
Victor looked at it.
“An inferior product, not half as good as the Holy Light spell. What poor fools, they don’t even know what they’re dealing with, stepping into a jackal’s lair with a weapon made of straw. What do you keep it for?”
“If I can meet a spirit in a while, I’m going to try it out with it.”
“You want to see if it’s an illusion?”
“Not exactly.” Saul explained, “This thing isn’t in a stable state, it evaporates easily, and ordinary people don’t have the appropriate means of storing it. If it was a prop brought in by that pair of knights half a month ago, it should have expired by now. If it hasn’t expired yet ……”
Victor indistinctly continued, “Then it means that you did bring back an item from half a month ago.”
“Then this place is horrible.” Thor licked his dry, cracked lips and lowered his voice.
Despite the scary words on his lips, Saul still had no intention of quitting.
“Where did you just go? How did you get down from upstairs?”
“I went back to the front room immediately after you disappeared, and that old wizard and the boy heard that you had disappeared and were kind enough to help me look for you together. We went in separate directions, though, so I don’t know where they’ve gone now.”
“Hmph, looking for someone is a lie, looking for a treasure is the real thing, right?” Sol was immediately alerted and hastily pushed Victor, “Let’s hurry up too, don’t let the others snatch the treasure away.”
The two came to the staircase across the room.
The stairs here were made of stone, and the red velvet carpet extended from the stairs all the way to the hall.
But because it had been left untended for so long, the bright colors had now receded.
Ascending the steps, there is another spacious porch with a spacious semicircular balcony on one side.
Through the dense floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see the flowers on the balcony that are being ravaged by the wind and rain.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared, and Saul saw in a trance a slender figure fall over the balcony railing.
It was a fall not a tumble.
Because the figure fell headfirst. Seeing Saul stop and look at the balcony, Victor stops too.
“What’s wrong?”
“I think ……” Saul shook it off, “No, nothing. Still looking around here.”
On the other side of the porch were rows of rooms.
The doors of the rooms were beautifully carved, only a little broken at the locks.
“I wonder if there are any of my treasures hidden in these rooms, let’s split up and look for them.” Sol suggested.
But Victor was a bit hesitant, “If you disappear again ……”
“Even if we move together, this time and space should still be misplaced.” Sol spread his hands.
Victor didn’t say anything.
It wasn’t until a clap of thunder made both men look out the window at the same time that he agreed with Saul’s title.
“Alright then, let’s split up.”
Saul nodded and instantly entered a house in the middle of the hallway.
He looked around inside and didn’t find anything. When he came out, however, he saw Victor still standing expressionless in the hallway.
“What’s wrong?” Saul looked at him blankly.
A smirk appeared on Victor’s face, “Nothing, just seeing if you’re still going to disappear.”
After saying that, he walked into the room next to Sol’s.
Saul waited for the other man to go inside before turning to the room on the other side.
After entering, Saul casually covered the door, leaving only a small gap.
He hid behind the wall, through suppressing his voice, and slowly exhaled a large breath.
Saul’s pupils fluttered gently, and a cold sweat that had been suppressed for a long time stirred between his pores.
He took several deep breaths in succession, deadening his body’s instinctive fear response.
“This Victor ……” he still couldn’t help but gulp, “Who the hell is it?”
Saul tilted his head sideways, his eyes crossing over his left shoulder and quickly squaring up again.
“The diary didn’t hint at it. Viktor and I are inexplicably brothers, and I’d completely forgotten I’d seen each other when I just met the Kron wizard. Was this influenced by the manor, or was someone behind it? Could it be Sid’s grandfather Ralph? Is he the danger the Tower Master spoke of?”
When Saul sniffed over the wall of Ralph’s manor ten minutes ago, his cognition suddenly underwent a serious misalignment as he landed his feet on the soft grass.
He actually felt that he had entered the manor in order to steal a treasure that was very important to him.
But other than feeling that the treasure was important, Saul didn’t even know what the treasure was. It was like a drowning person desperately trying to grab a life-saving straw, but not knowing what he could actually grab.
But the most frightening thing was that Saul actually felt that there was a senior second level apprentice named Victor traveling with him, his own brother.
Ridiculous, Saul had never even met this person before he landed over the wall.
At first, Saul didn’t notice at all.
It wasn’t until he entered the sun-filled hall for the first time that he realized there was a misalignment in his consciousness.
Not only had he forgotten his true purpose for being here, he had also forgotten his identity.
To eliminate the trouble left behind by Cid, and in the process find clues to the diary of the death wizard.
It was by remembering the name of the diary that Saul’s fuzzy consciousness and cognition gradually came back on track.
What about Victor? Is he the culprit of all the chaos, or is he a victim like Saul?
“Saul?”
Just as Saul was thinking, Victor’s call came again from the hallway.
Sol got up and casually glanced around the room, “Yes?”
“…… Nothing, just checking to see if my poor brother has disappeared.”
Keeping his original tone of voice demeanor, Saul walked out of the room and waved his hand at Victor, who stood a short distance away, looking over his shoulder, “Come on, let’s find the treasure and get out of this hellhole sooner.”
(End of chapter)