Chapter 362 – Finish your speech before you go crazy.

Chapter 362 – Finish Your Words Before You Go Crazy
Mark was silent for a moment, seemingly pondering how he was going to explain his change.

“Just tell him the truth, do you really want to stay here forever?” Suddenly, Mark’s palm made a sound.

Saul had known for a long time that the split mouths of Mark’s hands were conscious, only now it seemed that the consciousness was quite independent and sane.

“Are you a disgruntled spirit from the candle pipes?” Saul asked suddenly.

Mark was startled and looked at Saul, “How do you know?”

“Yes.” Mark’s mouths on both hands answered at the same time, the voices not quite in unison, with an echoing staccato quality.

Saul nodded and replied to Mark, “I’ve seen the other guy who ran out of the trash can.”

Ann shifted her feet, but Saul wasn’t looking at her, so she pretended she didn’t know anything.

“Okay.” Mark said helplessly, “You’re the Tower Master’s apprentice after all, this wizard’s tower shouldn’t be a secret to you anymore.”

Mark lowered his voice, “Actually, what you saw outside wasn’t the complete me, it was a part of my severed spirit body. Currently, the Elven Valley is closed and there is no way for anyone to leave. Kongsha said that only your spirit power among the apprentices might be able to solve the problem here. The others either don’t dare to come over or won’t care about the lives of the people here.”

Sol crossed his fingers, “But when Kongsha asked me to come, she only mentioned the Cryptocrystalline Plasm, and didn’t say that you were in trouble.”

Mark stared again, “Impossible, the Cryptocrystalline Substance is just a payment we can afford to pay, the most important thing is the message for help. I remember that Kongsa should have used Monroe’s seeker alter ego to ask you for help, is something wrong with Monroe?”

“If he just asked me for help, I most likely wouldn’t have come over.”

Mark drifted off, “That’s true too. That’s a lot of trouble when you hear it like that.”

He looked at Sol and wondered if the other man had any regrets at this point.

Sol, however, was thinking of something else, “You mean Monroe has two bodies, one within the Elven Valley and one in the Sorcerer’s Tower, and the minds of both are able to pass on information?”

“I’m not exactly sure of the specifics of his ability, only that it relates to his locator, and is the root cause of his ability to learn so many sorceries at the second level.”

Mark let out a bitter smile, “It’s also the root cause of his inability to advance to the third level so far.”

He looked at Saul, undisguised envy and jealousy showing in his eyes.

“Saul not everyone is as smooth as you, or I’ve never seen an apprentice as smooth as you.”

Saul lowered his eyes.

He understood that based on time alone, an outsider would only think he was going from level one to level two to level three, smoother and faster.

But the truth was that the hardships he had encountered as well as the enemies he had faced were not at the heights that he should have been exposed to at his level of strength.

The reason why it took more than two years to go from level one to level two was still because he had so few means at the time that he could only increase his magical power through sorcerous body modifications and improvements in sorcerous body modifications. Other than that it was just the study of the basics and the raw accumulation of spiritual power plus magic power.

After laying the foundations, he encountered a succession of bug-esque existences like Morton, Ralph, Kismet, and Penny.

Even in the Sorcerer’s Tower, he was coveted by all sorts of spiteful spirits in the mezzanine.

If it wasn’t for the diary’s death prompts, he would have died long before his bones turned to ash.

But high risk also meant high gain, and every time he survived a major disaster, his spiritual power would be given all sorts of chances, thus increasing substantially, and his magic power also completed its initial accumulation along the way.

Resulting in the sorcery he learned always failing to keep up with his magic power value and spiritual power value.

Even when he was clearly on the verge of critical mass, he had to go against the grain to learn the basics that this tier should have mastered first.

It could be said that he was being pulled up to grow. Whether there were any hidden dangers in the future, and how big they were, he himself couldn’t say.

Only onlookers who were not clear about the pros and cons of it would be so envious, right?

Saul didn’t want to explain anything.

There was no use.

Those who hadn’t experienced it couldn’t empathize; they wouldn’t even believe it. Mark also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and he coughed twice to retell his line of experience.

“Back when Kong Sha obtained the key to the Elven Valley, she brought two highly powerful second level apprentices here. It’s just that in the end, only she left alive. After that, she gathered a dozen more people to come in together for the adventure.”

“A dozen people?” Sol found it a bit bizarre, “Don’t you all care about the elven legends?”

If it wasn’t for the diary informing Saul that he had to come over, he wouldn’t want to get involved with elves at all.

Mark looked up as he said with some difficulty, “Know. But what can you do if you know? Konza is smart enough to find people like her who are soon to be thirty, but have no hope of advancement as second level apprentices.”

“Unless we really resign ourselves to our fate and prepare to enjoy ourselves for a few years after turning thirty and then die of an inexplicable alienation, anyone would want to struggle one last time, right?”

“I see.” Saul nodded, “So why did you guys ask me for help? And how did you get a message to me through Monroe?”

“Actually, these will be clear to you after you meet Konza. But if I don’t tell you anything at all, you won’t come with me.”

“I’ll make it short.”

“After we entered the valley, we started searching for the Cryptocrystalline Mass that Kongsha was talking about. But I knew that Kongsha was still looking for the elf’s relics, which seemed to be related to her promotion. At the same time, I also knew that there were others who were also coveting the elf’s stuff. The more dangerous something is, the more powerful it means. And wizards have always loved adventure.”

“Following Kongsha’s route last time, we found two cryptocrystalline masses and then nothing else, and how could two cryptocrystalline masses be enough for us to share? So we headed deeper into the forest. Although there were some weird things happening during the adventure, there weren’t really many dangers, which made us inevitably a bit lax, thinking that the Elven Valley was actually nothing more than a harder adventure journey.”

“But no one expected that as we were about to leave, we suddenly found the palace of the elves.”

“Elf …… palace?”

Didn’t elves revere nature? Would they still build palaces?
Sol shook his head.

The elves in this world were different from what he had seen in the books before. He didn’t know enough to follow all of his impressions.

Saul gestured for Mark to continue.

“We were just as surprised as you were. Of course that palace was very elven, almost all of it was converted from plants, and even the tables and chairs inside were decorated with plants that were still growing. They all grew according to the established plan, very …… delicate, and there was no sense of overgrown barrenness.”

“Everything seemed very serene and peaceful, except that we wandered all over the palace and didn’t find anything of value, not even a single elven relic. As a result, just as we were disappointed and ready to leave, everything in the space came to life.”

Mark shivered, and his entire body actually stayed there in a daze without speaking.

“Mark! Mark! Mark!”

His hands began to call out to him, one by one, more and more poignantly, but it never brought him back to consciousness.

Saul sprang to his feet.

Mark’s state was clearly a result of a mental body abnormality caused by falling into memories. I’m afraid that I can’t be awakened through sound alone.

At this time, Herman suddenly spoke, “Master, let me do it.”

Herman was not wanting Saul to use his spiritual power casually.

It was impossible to calm the spiritual power shock here, so sorcery had to be used where it mattered.

On the other hand, their conscious bodies instead didn’t have this concern, and when there was really a risk because of the mental body shock, they could just let Saul take them into the diary directly.

“Use the most basic awakening of consciousness first, if that doesn’t work, I’ll use consciousness revival.”

Agu also came over, they knew that the information Mark mentioned now was important, and they had to wake the person up for it to work.

Even if they had to go crazy, they had to finish their sentence before going crazy.

Mark’s hands dropped, the two mouths in his palms trembling, feeling the immense pressure.

(End of chapter)