Chapter 292: Countertracking
Chapter 292 – Counter Tracking
“Knock, knock, knock!”
“Knock knock knock!”
The door to the room surrounded by dozens of long-necked heads remained closed, and the excitement under the eyes of the guests waiting outside the door was slowly receding.
They shook their heads, their expressions gradually becoming hideous.
In the dark corridor, pattering sounds were heard as more and more heads arrived from afar, wanting a piece of the pie.
If someone walked into the dark fortress at this moment, they would see countless heads entangled in dark green vines on the walls, as well as long necks extending out of their mouths.
The walls of the Black Castle had been completely covered in alternating gray and dark green, and it was impossible to see what it originally looked like.
If the person continued to walk inside, he would further realize that all the heads ended up stretching in the same direction – the laboratory located on the third floor.
At this moment, nearly a hundred heads had already gathered outside the lab’s main door.
They were huddled together, face to face, neck to neck. The tops of their noses were squeezed out of shape against the door of the room.
Because there was no more room to continue knocking on the door with their heads, one by one, these head visitors opened their mouths and stuck out new, rolled tongues with rounded tips, knocking on the door in their place.
“Da-da-da-da ……”
“Da da da da da ……”
“Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da ……”
The sound was swift and sharp.
After another minute, the door to the room had been littered with grooves.
Suddenly, as if they had received some kind of instruction, the heads stopped moving, looked at each other, and then slowly backed away.
After retreating for about a meter, they once again blasted forward.
“Bang!”
After the huge impact, the gate that had long been darkly wounded shattered, and countless heads mixed with the wood shavings of the gate squeezed into the bright room together.
However, the figure in the room still had its back to the faces. The underside of his cloak shook gently, as if he was still writing furiously.
“Jiejiejiejiejiejie ……”
The heads of the people who had been suppressed for a long time let out strange laughter and swarmed up, they wanted to let this guy who ignored their guest taste what it meant to be the price of rudeness!
The hairless heads slammed into the figure sitting steadily on the chair, however, the moment they touched the figure, the other party unexpectedly disappeared in thin air!
Dozens of faces slammed onto the long table with a bang, and the books, ink, and even the table itself were instantly smashed to smithereens.
It was enough to illustrate the tremendous killing power brought about by the impact of these human heads.
However, when some of the fragments fell to the ground, they didn’t feel that kind of impact on their flesh, the soft yet resilient feeling of feedback!
In front of their eyes, all that was left was a tattered cloak that was scattered and mixed in the table fragments.
The person in the cloak had disappeared in an instant!
The heads retreated half a meter in confusion, and one of them, with a sad face, came over to the table’s fragments to examine them more closely. But his brain wasn’t very capable of comprehending what was happening now, and he could only back away again helplessly.
Looking!
At that moment, outside the Black Fortress, a signal suddenly came.
The confusion of the faces instantly disappeared, and these heads became excited again, their mouths kept opening and closing as if saying “Hide and seek, most fun.” One by one, they exited the laboratory in an orderly manner, and began to follow the corridors and start searching all over the castle.
Soon, the invaded laboratory returned to peace, with only a mess to tell the others about its miserable encounter.
Meanwhile, Saul, who was hiding in a gap in the wall, was pressing one eye to the gap and admiring the whole process from beginning to end of the heads entering the lab and destroying the cloak he left behind.
Yes, Saul was no longer in that cloak to begin with.
He’d utilized Magic Trick, a simple yet practical 0th level sorcery, to hold his cloak in place and make it jiggle twice every now and then.
Thor himself, on the other hand, got into the crevice he had stuck to the wall earlier in the day the moment he covered the cloak.
Thus, not only did he see the whole process of those weird heads breaking through the door, but he also clearly saw a blurry black shadow fly in through the window and reactivate the heads.
When the heads had all left the room, Saul immediately jumped out of the crack.
His right eye had a clear indentation at this point, which could not be removed even by using the 0th-order Healing Light Injury, and this indentation could stay with him for a day.
As soon as Saul left the closed space, he smoothly put away that slit, then he braced the window with one hand and jumped out directly.
The small algae flew out and split in two, one hanging on the window and one popping out to clear the way for Saul.
Saul was hanging in mid-air by the small algae, chasing after that black shadow just now, and in his heart, he still had the time to think, “Once I’ve researched the 2nd rank sorcery Abusive Touch and officially advanced to the 3rd rank, I’ll make sure to put flying on the agenda.”
He was good at utilizing the coordinate method to parse runes, although the more advanced the runes, the less useful the coordinate method could be, but at least it would allow him to master more sorcery spells than others in the initial stage.
Thinking about it, Saul realized that he had already lost the trace of the black shadow, but he was in no hurry, lightly landing on the ground, his spiritual power swept out in all directions, and immediately countless roots broke through the soil and drilled towards him.
These were the roots of the Devil Vine that had been buried deep into the soil for so many years, not to mention covering the entire Black Fortress Forest, it could still reach most of it.
“Those heads in the Black Fort must still be looking for me, let those vines also stop pretending, it’s time to resist resistance, or else the enemy is hitting the door of the house and still unaware of the situation, won’t it be seen as abnormal at a glance?”
A portion of the roots retracted back into the soil.
Saul transmitted his spiritual power to another part.
“There must have been unfamiliar magical fluctuations just outside the Black Fortress, and it can’t be too far from here, immediately mobilize all the roots in the forest and find this person, but don’t startle him.”
Another part of the root system retracted back into the soil.
These Devil Vine root systems naturally couldn’t understand human language, but Saul had once completely invaded the Devil Vine’s main vein’s spiritual realm, and had unprecedented control over it, enough to order these roots to do some simple things.
Besides, fighting and searching for people was originally the fundamental reason why this vine was planted here.
It could even be said that this Devil Vine was the real reason why Mochi Mochi dared to guard the Black Fort alone.
Now, however, it already had to listen to Saul’s orders, and even if the Black Castle would welcome other masters in the future, it wouldn’t necessarily be able to completely take away the ownership of the Devil Vine.
After all, Xiao Zao this guy did not know when to run into the devil vine inside, like a bully to eat, take, take, take, take the opportunity to really strong itself once, if not Saul limit it to others to leave some, it is not willing to go!
At this time, a very small root once again drilled out of the soil, the whiskers neatly pointing in a direction.
Saul stopped dead in his tracks, letting the algae silently hoist him into mid-air.
“Let us entertain our guests.” With that, Sol’s hands dropped down, gradually morphing and becoming transparent, like the tentacles of an octopus, dangling in mid-air.
(End of chapter)