Chapter 331.
Chapter 331 – Playing Dead
The blue grains of sand fell a little bit from the top of the hourglass to the bottom.
Saul spent the entire time observing the spiritual energy he had wrapped around Herman’s spirit body, and would also use his unique semi-immersive meditation method to observe other changes in the female corpse.
After about ten minutes, Herman seemed to complete the fusion and manipulated the female corpse to open her eyes.
“How do you feel now?” Saul picked up a pen and paper and was just about to start recording based on Herman’s expression.
Who knew that the next second, Herman suddenly opened her mouth wide, “Ah ！！！！！！！！！”
That voice was extremely shrill! Extremely high-pitched!
The sound frequency was abnormally high, instantly exceeding the reception range of the human ear.
However, Saul was still able to hear the shrill sound through his extremely high spiritual power.
“Something’s wrong!” Saul forced himself to endure the torturous feeling of a knife scraping his skull, and immediately stretched out his tentacles towards the female corpse, just to suck Herman out.
However, when his tentacles touched the female corpse, a long-lost voice suddenly drilled into his brain from the outside as if it had broken through some barrier.
“Kill me ！！！！ Kill me ！！！！！ Kill me ！！！！！！！！”
Saul instantly felt as if a sledgehammer had hit him hard on his skull, and then his head shook rapidly and violently like a tuning fork.
The limits of his will were instantly breached, and at the last second, Saul was able to suck out Herman’s body of consciousness almost by the inertia of his movements.
Then, his eyes rolled over and he directly fainted.
Darkness descended.
“Wow-“
Someone gently flipped a page.
“This isn’t going to work oh brother Saul.”
“Who?!” Saul’s eyes snapped open.
What entered his eyes was an azure, cloudless sky, and as the breeze brushed by, there seemed to be grass shoots stirring his skin.
A little girl’s face appeared above him, her soft hair sweeping across Saul’s forehead.
The girl’s eyebrows were arched and her silver pupils shone with a starry light.
“Penny?”
The girl smiled.
Suddenly, her face snapped closer, her silver eyes almost pressing into Saul’s.
Originally, at this distance Saul should have been unable to see the objects in front of him. But Saul could see clearly this time.
He saw a pair of silver-colored pupils, but there were actually countless small eyes in those pupils.
Each small eye was in the shape of a square hexagon, closely arranged. These hexagonal eyes formed a large circular pupil. They were sometimes bright, sometimes dark, and when viewed from a distance, they were like stars shining.
Through these silver-colored eyes, Saul saw himself.
Each of his figures appeared in each of the other’s hexagonal eye pupils, so that there were thousands of him in the other’s eyes.
And each “Saul” in the eye was doing something different. Some were studying, some were learning, some were splitting bodies, some were meditating ……
“These seem like things I’ve done before …… Penny is a Nightmare Butterfly, is she still alive?”
“Could what I’m seeing …… now be my history?!”
Saul thought vaguely, suddenly curious about what had happened in his past.
It was strange.
When he had the amazing ability to “observe history”, he had never thought of observing himself.
Compared to his diary and Komoro, he was clearly the person he was closest to and most familiar with!
However, it was not until he met these silver eyes again and remembered the Nightmare Butterfly’s magical ability to observe history that he suddenly realized: he could also observe himself!
It was just that for some reason, it didn’t occur to him at all at the time.
Now it seemed that he finally had a chance to follow these thousands of eyes to search for his past; to search for the secret of his traveled past; to search for the truth of his death and resurrection; to search for the special uniqueness of his soul!
At the same time a hint of uneasiness, a hint of trepidation rose faintly in the bottom of his heart, but this negative emotion was quickly suppressed by the twinkling starlight, and he was left with nothing but a heart full of curiosity and a head full of impatience.
“Let me see what really happened between my death and rebirth? Show me, I’m about to find out ……”
The tension and anticipation and excitement that the truth was about to be revealed caused Saul to gradually grin.
Then it was as if he actually saw something.
Darkness and light at the same time.
The dazzling light hid the ultimate darkness.
“Closer, closer ……” he murmured.
The light began to distort and the darkness followed, the two churning together like ice cream with a refreshingly sweet aroma. “Wow…”
It was as if Saul heard the sound of pages turning, but that too was quickly muffled by the sweetness.
“Closer, closer!!!” His voice grew out of control.
“Ah ！！！！！！！”
Suddenly, a miserable hiss interrupted Saul’s frenzy.
He snapped out of it and realized that the little girl above him had moved away.
Her hands covered her temples, her expression twisted in pain to the extreme, and a stream of black pus flowed from her tightly closed eyes.
“Ah ！！！！！！！ Brother Saul!!! I was wrong! Ah ！！！！ It hurts so much ah ！！！！！”
Penny, who had silver eyes, collapsed in pain.
Saul turned his head sideways to watch the young girl tumble across the lawn.
The tender green branches that had been soft suddenly turned black and straight, transforming into sharp knife points that mercilessly left a huge scar on the tumbling girl.
Black mucus spilled out of the wounds and soon flowed all over the ground.
Saul watched as the flesh and blood on the girl’s body was churned up little by little, and watched as she rolled to a stop, no longer struggling only twitching slightly.
The girl’s face was turned towards him, her face hidden by her messy hair, only one eye visible.
The tightly closed eyelid was deeply sunken, as if something had turned into pus and flowed out of the eye socket.
“Penny.” He called out to the girl with some reluctance.
Boom-
All sound came to a screeching halt.
It was as if time was suspended, and the flying hair and hem of the clothes were frozen in place.
Saul felt a little tired.
He slowly closed his eyes.
……
“Yawn ……”
A huge yawn before his eyes even open.
Stretching his limbs around as best he could, feeling the soothing sensation of that stretch.
Saul gripped his hair with one hand and propped his body up with the other to sit up.
“Seems like I had a dream.” He rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked around, realizing that he was lying on the ground.
“Why am I sleeping on the ground? Did I sleepwalk?”
However, in the next second, the blurred memories began to become a little clearer, and Saul’s face became a little heavier.
He first lowered his head to his left hand and asked, “Herman, how are you?”
There was a black mass within his transparent palm, only it looked much more scattered than before the experiment.
Just as Saul watched, the blackness spread a little more.
Knowing that it was bad, Saul didn’t hesitate any longer and immediately asked the diary to take back Herman’s conscious body.
The black mass shadow in his palm instantly disappeared.
Saul sighed.
Originally, he was able to conduct a few more experiments, but there was an accident when he entered the female corpse for the last time, and it seemed that he had accidentally touched a certain grudge within the Sorcerer’s Tower.
But Saul’s experience after being knocked unconscious by the grudge was even more bizarre.
“Why did I dream of Penny the Nightmare Butterfly, and what else does she seem to have done to me ……”
Saul climbed to his feet with a jolt, “How did I dream of Penny?”
Ever since he became a sorcerer’s apprentice, he rarely dreamed, and every time he dreamed, it had some significance.
After entering the third level, he hadn’t dreamed even once.
After fainting this time, he actually dreamt of a Nightmare Butterfly?
Key’s encounter with Penny in his dream was not necessarily a good thing!
Saul hurriedly crossed over the three corpses beside him and ran to the depths of the shelves, where he sealed the cocoon of the Nightmare Butterfly.
However, the eyeball-shaped cocoon sealed inside the test tube was already gone!
(End of chapter)