Chapter 303 – Absorbing Evil Spirits

Chapter 303: Absorbing Evil Spirits
The most difficult step in becoming the master of the Black Castle was to establish a spiritual connection with the Devil Vine.

Only by establishing a good connection with the Devil Vine could one be sure to grasp the entirety of the Black Castle as well as the Black Castle Forest. It could attack and defend.

That was why the Devil Vine was the centerpiece of the entire Black Castle established away from the Sorcerer’s Tower.

After Korrie completed this step, she didn’t need Sol’s guidance for anything else – Sol wasn’t as clear as she was yet.

So Saul left Korie alone on the ground floor, and after politely and deliberately saying goodbye to the Devil Vine, he went up to the third-floor laboratory alone.

Senior Byron was already waiting in the lab.

When Saul arrived at the door, he saw that the door to the lab was open. The senior was standing quietly inside, obviously still breathing, but like a corpse.

It was closer to death than the dishonest corpses in the second storage room.

The promotion to full wizard seemed to be more dangerous than Saul had imagined.

“Senior, are you okay?”

Hearing Saul’s voice, Byron slowly twisted his head. The skin on his neck stretched and squeezed, forming several deep creases.

Like clothing, more than like skin.

Byron didn’t say anything, but Saul had already guessed what he had come over to see him for along with Kori.

Saul backhanded the door shut behind him, and a dark green vine grew quickly from the corner, sealing the door and spreading throughout the walls of the room, turning it into a green prison.

Byron’s neck followed the demonic vine in a circle, then popped back to the front and looked at Saul suspiciously.

He couldn’t speak now, but his eyes had expressed him well.

“Kori has established contact with the Devil Vine.” Saul rubbed his nose, “It’s just that I’m on better terms with the Devil Vine, and it’s willing to help me on occasion.”

Byron stared at Sol for a few seconds, then nodded silently.

Byron: line bla.

Byron had once purchased the method of absorbing evil spirits from Saul, but this method Saul could not use even if he taught it to Byron, the latter could not use it. So Saul then promised that he could help Byron absorb the evil spirits in his body.

Now that he saw that Byron hurriedly followed Keri along to find himself instead of waiting in the Sorcerer’s Tower, he knew that the senior’s state should have already reached its limit, and that he must absorb the uncontrollable evil spirits as soon as possible.

So after he made sure that Korie was able to establish contact with the Devil Vine, he left Korie behind and hurriedly came to check Byron’s state.

Now that he saw that the other party didn’t even dare to speak, Saul knew that the absorption of the evil spirits must be carried out now.

This was his first time absorbing an evil spirit for someone else, so he had to be careful and cautious.

Therefore, Saul had the Devil Vine blockade the entire room to prevent outsiders from entering. On the one hand, it was to prevent Cori from suddenly entering and disturbing his progress, and on the other hand, it was also to protect Cori from being affected.

After the Devil Vine obediently blocked the entire room, Saul walked up and carefully observed the evil spirit inside Byron.

“Senpai, are you still able to slightly let go of the evil spirit inside your body now? I need to confirm which position to start from.”

Byron hesitated for a split second, but quickly nodded his head as he took off his outer robe and the linen tunic inside, revealing a slightly swollen body.

Immediately afterward, his torso jolted and jerked up two times, vaguely resembling the human balloon he had been in at the Valley of the Drooping Hands in the first place.

But this time, unlike back then, Byron’s bulging body did not uniformly expand into a sphere, but more like a meteorite with a pitted surface.

Saul noticed that a horrible human face appeared on the other’s skin from time to time.

The pupils and mouth were sunken, the nose and cheekbones protruded.

Each face had a hideous expression.

They were charging outward in a desperate attempt to break through the constraints Byron had placed on them.

The Hokage’s expression also became distorted, and it was obvious that maintaining such a state was already very taxing for him.

Thor narrowed his eyes and quickly swept them around the Senior.

Suddenly, he threw out his hands, and the skin on his fingertips melted and distorted, gradually elongating, and living from a pair of arms into two thick octopus-like tentacles.

Byron, who had been keeping an eye on Saul’s movements, was stunned into staring at the change before him.

His eyeballs were shaking unceasingly, as if they would fall out of their sockets at any time.

“Senior, don’t move.” Saul instructed, then raised his hand and jutted forward, two tentacles stabbing at Byron’s throat and heart respectively. Both of them were the vitals of a normal person.

Facing Saul’s attack, Byron subconsciously wanted to dodge. However, when he thought of what Saul had just said, he suppressed his body’s instinctive reaction and stood still.

In the next second, the two tentacles directly pierced through Byron’s skin.

However, to Byron’s surprise, he did not feel any pain.

Or rather, there wasn’t even any feeling.

Those two grayish-white tentacles were like an illusion, just overlapping with his body.

Before he could figure out the principle, a suction force so powerful that it was terrifying directly penetrated Byron’s entire soul.

Byron also majored in dark attribute sorcery, so he wasn’t unfamiliar with this kind of attack that acted directly on the spirit body.

However, he had never seen an apprentice sorcerer capable of performing such a terrifying soul attack.

What was even more terrifying was that he realized that he seemed unable to resist the enormous suction force.

Due to the instinct to survive, Byron immediately ran his spiritual power, desperately suppressing the soul’s dissension and trying to make the soul bond with himself more firmly.

It was like a cat that stretched out all its claws and desperately pawed at the sofa.

Saul looked up at Byron and did not stop Byron from running his spiritual energy.

As a matter of fact, Sol was already satisfied that Senior Byron held back from launching a magical attack.

Because it was the first time he had absorbed an evil spirit for someone else, a lot of things were groped for.

Saul found Senior Byron’s actions to stabilize his own spiritual power to be beneficial.

He was now like tearing off the plaster that had been on Byron’s body for a whole day. He told Byron not to move in order to make it easier for him to exert himself.

Byron’s subconscious action of stabilizing his soul was to increase the strength of his “skin”.

This is very necessary, otherwise Saul in tearing the plaster at the same time, may also tear off a layer of skin on Byron’s body.

Finally, under the continuous efforts of Saul and Byron, the evil spirit hiding in Byron’s body was finally absorbed by Saul’s tentacles.

In Saul’s mind, there was a sound like a “tingling” sound.

A great success was accomplished!

Saul withdrew his tentacles, and no wounds appeared on Byron’s body.

Looking at Byron, whose expression gradually calmed down, Saul smiled and asked, “Senior, how do you feel now?”

Byron closed his eyes and felt the changes in himself, and in the middle of the day, a slit opened in his throat.

“Very good.”

“It’s been a long time since it’s been this good.”

Saul also breathed a sigh of relief. He was worried that his absorption of the evil spirits would cause other burdens for Byron.

However, Sol’s tentacles seemed to have discovered Senior Byron’s secret while absorbing the evil spirits.

“Senior, your body …… Is your locator ……”

Byron opened his eyes and nodded without hesitation.

Saul said seriously to Byron, “Don’t worry, I won’t say anything to anyone about this matter.”

For apprentices who hadn’t yet become full-fledged wizards, the locator was their Achilles’ heel.

It was a hidden secret that could never be leaked.

However, Saul had just helped Byron absorb the evil spirits in his body, and inevitably detected the presence of the other party’s locator.

This was probably why Byron chose to seek help from Saul, right?
Byron wasn’t surprised by Saul’s promise, and he nodded calmly.

“Uh-huh.”

(End of chapter)