Chapter 305: Not Too Strong

Chapter 305: Not Too Firm
Almost all of the apprentices associated with the Sound Grinding Fruit are now dead.

“There’s still me left.” Sol silently put this in the back of his mind.

To this day, he didn’t feel that the Sound Grinding Fruit was such a rare material. However, it was undeniable that in certain places the Sound Grinding Fruit did play a role in stabilizing emotions for a short period of time.

However, as a person who had experienced it firsthand, Saul was fully cognizant of the degree of importance that the Sorcerer’s Tower placed on the Sound Grinding Fruit.

It could provide shelter, but it was not a strategic material.

Therefore, that series of conspiracies and tactics around the Mill Sound Fruit and the town of Mill Sail are …… abrupt.

“I was just unintentionally involved in Mill Sail Town, and I witnessed its demise and destruction. No, it’s not right!” Saul’s face slowly sank, “Not unintentionally, it was Nick who led me to Mill Sail Town in the first place. Sure enough, just like what Senior Byron said, he actually left halfway in the first place on purpose!”

Sol raised his head to look at Senior Byron, who had also fallen into silence, “Senior, did Nick really die from a failed advancement? Has anyone seen his corpse, or who spread the news?”

Byron looked at Saul’s expression that became solemn, and also sat up slightly straighter, his throat cracking.

“It was a failure of advancement, he was so contaminated that Mentor Katz personally dissected the body.”

“Is that so? And has the Tower Master been paying attention?”

Byron didn’t expect Sol to mention the Tower Lord, a hint of awe flashed in his eyes, “No. In the end, it was Mentor Rum who took away Nick’s remnants. It was too contaminated to be used or buried properly.”

“Mentor Rum ……,” Sol repeated silently.

He originally just wanted to sneak into Mill Sail Town, then grab a little bit of Mill Sound Fruit and run, but he didn’t expect things to end up expanding to such a point.

Now I’m afraid that no one wouldn’t know that he ran to Mill Sail Town, right?
After returning to the tower, I’m afraid that it would attract even more attention.

I don’t know if there is anyone who is secretly looking forward to his return.

“Senpai, does anyone else know about the fact that you and Korie came out to replace me?”

Byron said in a deep voice, “We didn’t deliberately publicize it when we came out, but this matter isn’t a secret either.”

Saul slumped back and leaned against the soft cushions of the carriage.

……

After five days of running around, the carriage finally returned to the familiar gray tower.

The ancient and majestic building was colored with a layer of orange light under the setting sun’s afterglow. If it was paired with the deep night sky in the east, it looked like it was burning again.

The carriage quickly entered the first level entrance of the Wizard Tower that was specialized in passing vehicles.

Normally, after going through a simple inspection, trainees going out on a mission could leave the carriage and return to their dormitories or laboratories with their loot.

But today, the inspection for the carriage seemed to be a little too slow.

Only the people waiting in the carriage remained quiet, seemingly not caring about this waste of time.

Finally, the second level apprentice in charge of inspecting the carriage warily stopped, “Hello, there is no problem with the vehicle, you can come down now.”

At the same time, in the direction of entering the Sorcerer’s Tower, two figures appeared.

One was the president of the Mutual Aid Society, Luo Kai, and the other was a third level sorcerer apprentice with a teasing face, Jero.

“I’m afraid we need to wait a little bit.” Luo Kai stepped forward with a worried look on his face as he said to the carriage with its doors closed, “Saul, although you managed to escape from Scarlet Town’s cursed realm, we need to take you for another full body checkup just in case.”

Rokai finished and cocked his head.

But the only thing that responded to him was the slightly uneasy rattling of the horse’s nose.

Rokai narrowed his eyes and reconfirmed the spiritual power present on the carriage.

One was Byron and the other was Sol.

Although the second mental power fluctuation was weaker, Rokai could be sure that it was Saul’s fluctuation.

To him, confirming an identity through mental power fluctuations was much more accurate than through a face.

“Saul, you don’t have to worry, the one I invited over is Mentor Monica’s most outstanding apprentice, Senior Jero. You’ve seen it before, he’s very proficient in the sorcery of resisting curses.” The people on the carriage still didn’t respond, and the smile on Luo Kai’s face slowly dissipated.

Instead, it was Jero’s shoulders that were twitching as he stood at the entrance, “Are you sure that Saul is on this carriage?”

“Of course,” Rokai said with certainty, but the prolonged silence of the carriage made his certainty sound less than convincing.

“Then what are we waiting for?” Jerro finished, the open smile still hanging on his face, and went straight to the carriage, “Open the door!”

The carriage door opened in response, and the man inside looked over sideways, a mouth splitting open on his slender neck, revealing a row of sharp teeth inside.

“Jello.”

“Hello, Byron, when are we going out on a mission together?” Although Jerro’s mouth was talking to Byron, his eyes kept sweeping around the compartment.

And in the carriage, besides Byron – there was no one else in sight.

“Where’s Saul, it can’t be that you’ve hidden him, right?” Jerro opened his mouth wide and made a big swallowing motion.

Byron ignored Jerro’s flirtation.

He looked at Rokai, who had also made his way to the car door with a grim look on his face, “Are you looking for Saul? He’s not in.”

“Impossible, I felt his spiritual power in this car.” Luo Kai was still confident in his judgment.

The spiritual energy he felt was active. This kind of fluctuation was not something that could be simulated by a carry-on item, or a sorcery prop.

Others might not be able to distinguish it, but he could.

Now Rokai guessed that Saul might be hiding somewhere.

It wasn’t as if there weren’t sorcery props that could be made to hide.

Now it was a matter of how to find the person out.

Rokai put a smile back on his face, “Saul, you’d better come out. Let us check it out so that we don’t bring anything unclean back. It’s not good for you, or the other apprentices.”

But there was still no one in the carriage to respond to him.

“If you still don’t come out, then don’t blame me for using forceful methods to invite you out.”

As soon as Luo Kai’s words fell, Byron stood up from the carriage, “You guys keep searching, I’m going back.”

Luo Kai originally didn’t want to pay attention to Byron, but when Byron got down from the carriage, he was shocked to find that the source of Saul’s spiritual power fluctuations had also gotten down from the carriage.

“Wait, Senior Byron,” Rokai reconfirmed with some disbelief, “Why does the source of Saul’s spiritual energy overlap with you? Could he be hiding in you?”

Byron had always been a loner, and Rokai didn’t know much about him, only that he had heard that he had some instincts on him. Although he had just become a third level apprentice not long ago, his locator was very special and suited him perfectly. So as soon as he entered the third level, he became one of the top group of existences.

This was the importance of the locator.

A third level apprentice who advanced through an unsuitable locator was a third level with hidden dangers all over his body. Those who had problems and were contaminated abounded.

The third level that advanced through an ordinary locator could only become ordinary third level apprentices, and becoming a full-fledged sorcerer became a dream that they only dared to dream of when they lay under the covers at night.

Therefore, in front of Byron, who possessed a special locator, Rokai was always cautious.

Byron didn’t show any dissatisfaction in the face of Luo Kai’s suspicion, he even nodded.

“If the concept of what you call Saul is broader …… he is partially in me.”

Hearing Byron’s words, Rokai frowned, while Jello was excitedly hooking up the corners of his mouth.

Only Byron stretched out his hand, and in his palm was lying peacefully a small grayish-white thumb.

Looking at that thumb, Rokai gradually widened his eyes.

“Saul’s little thumb fell off and was temporarily put away by me. He told me that his pinky hasn’t been too strong since he came back from Tutor Anze last time.”

(End of chapter)