Chapter 353: Break it
Chapter 353 – Shattering It
Senior Byron, getting stronger again!
Seeing that the eavesdropper was Byron, the vigilance and anger in Sol’s heart instantly dispersed for the most part.
At the same time, he sighed as the other party got closer and closer to being a full-fledged sorcerer.
Keri had just walked past him, and surprisingly, she had not noticed it at all.
And judging from the change that Byron could already speak freely, the other party should be able to solve the problem of the locator’s spiritualization right away.
Because he no longer needed the evil spirits to put pressure on him.
Maybe in a couple months, the Sorcerer’s Tower would have one more official sorcerer.
Saul was genuinely happy for Byron.
“Is it customary on your side to receive gifts for birthdays?”
Senior Byron surprisingly uttered receiving gifts with a feeling of being forced.
“It’s a custom from when I was a kid, and Korie and I actually just give them to each other for fun and to make a scene.”
“Hmm.” Byron nodded, then took out a threadbare note from his arms and handed it to Saul, “A birthday present for you.”
Saul froze for a moment, and before he could ask what it was he saw Byron bow his head.
“Well, not a birthday present, but actually my research notes on gray matter. Offset against the credits I owed you earlier. The notes are worth three hundred credits in my opinion, so you now owe me seventeen credits backwards.”
Byron added after a pause, “Then consider the seventeen credits a birthday present.”
Saul shook his head and sighed, “Your senior will always be your senior.”
Saul didn’t make it easy on Byron either, as he took the obviously well-organized gray matter research notes and roughly flipped through them.
Gray matter, was the mysterious substance that Saul and Byron had picked up at the bottom of Blue Water Bay. This thing could emit a strange kind of magical fluctuation.
At that time, Byron wondered if it was this stone, and this fluctuation caused the soul fragments to change, causing them to gather together and form a soul tidal wave.
Subsequently, Saul and Byron each collected a portion of it and brought it back for study. It was only because Saul had mainly absorbed soul fragments in the past, and because the research and study tasks in his hands were just too heavy, he put the gray matter on the back burner just like he did with the Nightmare Butterfly back then.
Unexpectedly, half a year later, Byron actually handed over his research results directly to Saul.
“Senior, could it be that the change in you now is brought about by the gray matter?”
If the gray matter was something ordinary, then Byron definitely wouldn’t have designated it as three hundred credits and sent it to himself on purpose.
“Hmm.”
Saul also didn’t think that the accidental discovery in the first place had just solved Senior Byron’s promotion problem.
He quickly found the key point in his notes. It turned out that it was the gray matter that could simultaneously raise the upper limit of the spiritual body and physical body’s ability to accommodate dark attribute particles and shield a certain degree of influence from distracting thoughts.
Byron used the gray matter as a material to make a potion.
And it was also written at the end of the notes that it could enhance the spiritual power of the person taking it to a certain extent, and would be helpful in breaking through to a full-fledged sorcerer.
Seeing that Saul had quickly flipped to the last page, Byron explained, “My current spiritual power has already reached the requirements for a formal sorcerer. The magic power value arrived long ago. Only the spiritualization of the locator is still short of the final step. It’s estimated to be another half a year to a year ……”
Byron didn’t say the last sentence.
He was not of a nature that would show off before doing anything, so even though he was already quite sure of entering the official wizard, he swallowed the latter half of the sentence.
But Saul could already understand what he meant and couldn’t help but feel happy for Senior Byron once again.
“Take it back and read it slowly, and if you have any questions, you can go to the dormitory and find me. I shouldn’t be going out again until I’m promoted.”
“Good.” Saul smiled and answered.
After so many years, it was not easy for a third level apprentice to be promoted to full wizard. It was thought that Tower Master and Instructor Katz would also pay more attention to Senior Byron.
After the business was finished, Byron left.
Saul was in a good mood and was still flipping through the notes in his hand on his way back to the second storeroom.
“At that time, I guessed that the gray matter wasn’t ordinary, but I just really didn’t have the time to conduct any more research. I didn’t expect Senior Byron to get so much information from it.”
If Saul wanted to make use of the gray matter, he could actually create a potion similar to the one created by Byron without knowing the composition and principles of the gray matter by virtue of the warning properties of the diary.
But ever since he entered the third level apprenticeship, he had constantly cautioned himself to never utilize the diary to make potions, construct spell formations, and the like again unless it was absolutely necessary.
Otherwise, he would be wasted sooner or later if the basics were not solid and he could only rely on blindfolds. However, it could also be seen from Byron’s notes that although he had discovered the properties and uses of gray matter, he had not yet parsed out the reasons for its formation.
This was also the most difficult step.
But Saul surmised that it must have required a lot of death.
What Saul didn’t tell Byron was that his mental power had long ago reached the level of a full-fledged sorcerer, even as if it had. It was only the magic power that was still a bit short.
While the locator problem that caused a kind of third level apprentice the most headache, he had solved it long before he was promoted to the third level.
According to his current progress, as long as there were no accidents, he would also be able to reach the minimum requirements of a formal sorcerer in about half a year.
The reason why he was able to progress so quickly was actually thanks to the blessings of the Blue Water Bay sea.
At the time of the winter snowfall, Saul made two more trips to Blue Water Bay to collect soul fragments. Twice, he also entered that magical state of being wrapped in countless distracting thoughts and met the thin thread that could string everything together.
It was just a pity that both times the diary filtered out all the distracting thoughts before Saul touched the thin thread, and also pulled him back from the edge of being contaminated by distracting thoughts.
However, after experiencing these two invasions of distracting thoughts, Saul’s magical power and spiritual power both increased once again. It also drastically reduced the daily accumulation time he needed to advance to full-fledged wizard.
The only thing that made Saul regret, or feel strange, was that he had not encountered a soul tidal wave during these two trips to Blue Water Bay.
He even learned from the locals that the soul tides in Blue Water Bay hadn’t appeared for more than half a year.
That is, a month before Saul’s visit until now, Blue Water Bay had regained a calmness that hadn’t existed for a hundred years.
However, this was good news for the locals.
When Saul traveled to Blue Water Bay for the second time, he once again saw Bambu, a young snail collector.
Bambu’s life seemed to be getting better and better as well because of Soul Tide’s concealment. The clothes and shoes on him were noticeably cleaner and sturdier than when Saul first saw him.
Saul only watched the boy’s hard labor from afar and did not deliberately go up to greet him.
Not being from the same world in the first place, Saul finally left in silence.
After leaving Blue Water Bay for the second time, he did not travel there again.
The main reason was that the soul fragments that glowed were pretty much absorbed by him.
The last reason to attract Saul was lost there as well.
The recollection ended, and Saul also held up his notes to the second vault.
“Senior Byron developed the gray matter into a potion to take, and it seems to have boosted his mental power quite a bit as well. Traveling to the Elven Valley in a couple days, I can try to make this potion as well. It would be even better if I can boost my spiritual power some more again.”
Although Saul’s spiritual power had already exceeded that of most full-fledged wizards, who would mind having a high strength?
This birthday was a rare happy occasion.
In this horrible wizard world, in the high-pressure wizard tower with his life at stake, he could still meet two simple people, two sincere friends …… It was really, unbelievable!
Saul’s left hand thread nail notes, right hand Alpha necklace.
He even childishly used his index finger to hang the pendant chain and spun it in a circle.
But after two turns he reclenched it with a hook of his index finger.
“This isn’t a normal necklace, the pendant is glass after all, it’s not good if it breaks.”
Saul didn’t want to test Kori for poison himself.
But the next second, Saul’s footsteps stopped.
The ring finger of his right hand gently turned the glass ball in his palm.
“Break …… it?”
His pace slowed and he elbowed open the vault door.
Once inside, he saw Nick at the forefront of the corpses.
The other man’s body was still transmitting mental cues.
[Wrestle it …… Wrestle it …… Wrestle it ……]
Today is a bit rushed, it is too late to catch the bugs, and I will revise it in the evening.
(End of chapter)