Chapter 373 – Planet of the Witches
Chapter 373 – Planet of the Sorcerers
“The stairs on the left lead to the normal second floor, and the stairs on the right look like they lead to an abnormal world.”
Sol added after a pause, “Of course it could be the other way around.”
The so-called normal world was only relative to the entire Four Seasons Forest.
The reason why it wouldn’t be all dead ends was, of course, because the diary didn’t prevent him from entering the palace.
But when Saul stood in front of each of the two staircases ready to go up, the diary didn’t even send out a reminder.
“Is the danger not on the surface?”
Saul chose the oddly shaped staircase that ended up in the right wall first.
Because of his previous experience, Saul didn’t use sorcery to get up there, but chose to climb straight up, and the entire hall’s lifts were only five or six meters anyway.
Agu, who had difficulty moving, stayed in place to steer.
Although Saul hadn’t learned how to climb much, he was now far more physically fit than normal and had greater arm strength. He planned to walk to places where he needed to be parallel to the ground or even upside down, and just use his powerful arms to pull himself over.
However, when Saul stepped onto the strangely shaped staircase, he found that as he traveled, he felt that the direction of gravity was actually changing with the plane of the staircase.
By the time Saul entered the next floor before, his entire being was already completely upside down relative to the room.
He lifted his head just in time to lock eyes with Agu, who was standing below, also looking up.
Saul gave Agu a nod, then took a step into the next level.
When Saul stepped into the next level, Agu immediately lost him.
It was as if Saul hadn’t entered the next level, but had entered another dimension.
Agu stood silently, waiting for Saul to come back or calling for him to enter.
However, something suddenly hit him in the crook of his leg, and then a chair appeared behind him, forcing him to sit on it.
Agu was startled, and just as he was about to stand up, another footstool flew directly over to frame his legs, followed by the chair’s chair cover tassels curling around Agu’s arms and legs to drag him up and take him away.
Agu first tried to struggle, but found that these chairs and tassels are very sturdy, and he could not break free with his current strength alone.
Just as Agu decided to risk his sorcery, his movements suddenly froze, and then his whole body went quiet, sitting on the chair in slight surprise but helplessness.
Allowing a chair and stool to move him away.
On Saul’s side, when he entered the next room, it was as if he had entered a world where gravity was different.
The forms of everything here were abnormal and out of the ordinary.
Some of the tables and chairs here stood on the walls, some floated in the air, and the staircase under Saul’s feet stretched all the way to the next room without ever breaking.
And the next room was above, which was normal to the point of being somewhat abnormal.
Sweeping through the entire room, Saul’s mental power gave him the feedback that everything was normal – the same mental power could be used here, and there was no need to worry about the shock not being able to be calmed.
He didn’t linger here, and quickly walked into the next room.
If the second room was just a mis-orientation of the object’s presence, the third room was even more bizarre.
Everything here was no longer in its original form. Furniture, decorations, and other things were all in pieces. It was as if the entire room had been turned into a jigsaw puzzle that had then been randomly put together.
Chair backrests branched out from the walls, the carpet was one piece to the left and one piece to the right, and the lampstand and candles were not in the same place.
Even the flames of the candles were split into upper and lower sections.
Only the steps under Saul’s feet maintained their original appearance.
The fourth room was underneath the third room.
Saul stepped on the ladder in the air, spun around, and then entered the next room.
And so he went on until he reached the ninth room.
And by the time he entered the sixth room, Saul had closed his eyes.
He could no longer look directly at the things in the room, and he wasn’t even sure if he was walking in the room. Prolonged gazing at the unusual presences had caused his mental body to start vibrating erratically as well.
In order to explore more of the area, Saul then closed his eyes.
Although the darkness was equally disturbing, gazing at the diary within his mental body, Saul’s spirit gradually stabilized.
During this time, he had been carefully sweeping the area around his body with his mental power, so as to avoid any unusual fluctuations that he wouldn’t be able to detect.
When he entered the ninth room, the steps under his feet disappeared, and the round wooden handrail was also gone.
Saul probed with his feet, and in front of him was a flat area, and judging from the feedback on the soles of his shoes, it appeared to be carpeted.
He slowly opened his eyes, and his diary did not signal. There was indeed a red carpet leading straight ahead under his feet. At the end of the red carpet was a white throne. The backrest of the throne was strewn with flowers and thorns, and in the center of the seat back was a small woven painting.
Other than that, there was nothing here.
There were no rooms around it, just an empty expanse of white light.
The white light wasn’t blinding, but when Saul looked into it, his thinking became sluggish, and he had no doubt that if he looked at it for too long, his entire being would enter a state of dementia from which he would be unable to break free.
Saul quickly shifted his eyes back to the throne at the end of the red carpet, and it was as if a call came to his ears.
He frowned and raised his steps.
The red carpet was steady under his feet, as if it were actually laid on some flat surface.
Saul gradually approached the white throne, and the call from above became clearer and clearer.
“ξγυθσρ……γγζ……”
It was impossible to understand the words inside, but Sol somehow felt that it was an invitation for Sol to sit on it.
It seemed that if he sat on it, all his problems would be solved.
Saul reached out his hand and gently rested it on a half-scented white flower.
“ξγυθσρ……γγζ……”
“ξγυθσρ……γγζ……”
The voice from the white throne became lower, but still encircled Sol, unbroken.
A strange sense of staring came from behind him, and Saul jerked back, surprised to see that the red carpet behind himself had disappeared.
He was stepping on the white base of the white throne, and below him, surprisingly, was a starry sky.
Starry skies were common, and Saul could see them every night as long as he left the Sorcerer’s Tower.
But the starry sky in front of him was different.
Directly across from Sol, or the throne, there was a planet made of black, white, and gray.
Like a sketch, but a solid planet that was slowly rotating.
It was very similar to the planets that Saul had seen on TV in his previous life, except that the distribution of continents and oceans on it was not quite the same.
However, Saul saw one of the very large land plates that resembled the entire land map where the western continent was located that he had once seen on the Sorcerer’s Basic Perception of All Things.
The entirety of the Western Continent was located to the west of a much larger continental plate that went by many names, Staat, Binsning, and so on.
Still, those on the Western Continent more often than not call it the Statt Continent.
The continent of Statt is also divided into the northern and eastern continents.
However, these three continents were separated by a huge area in the center that ordinary people could not travel through. One could only travel to the other continents by air or sea transportation around the coastline.
That huge area, on the black and white planet here and now, showed a black color.
Saul knew that it was known as the Land of No Man.
It was also jokingly referred to as the burial place of wizards.
As for why it was called the Land of No Man, it was not something Saul could know right now.
On the planet, there were two other continents besides the Stat continent.
The Basic Everything Cognition book mentioned their names.
The Nefret continent and the Ethkelper continent.
“So our world looks like this.” Saul was like an astronaut going up to the sky for the first time, his heart overwhelmed with shock.
“The northernmost part of the Stat Continent is surprisingly a huge mountain range that stretches on and on. So high! You can also see it very clearly from this viewpoint.”
“Huh, why is the end of the mountain range so neat? It’s like tofu cut by a knife. Outside the mountain range, it seems to be seawater.”
“This row of mountain ranges seems like a high wall……. Could it be the ‘End of the North, Wall of Sighs’ written in the book?”
Further north of that mountain range, there wasn’t any land. There were no arctic continents or patches of icebergs on the sea either, only boundless seawater remained.
The white waters stretched to the end of Sol’s line of sight, flowing towards the back of the planet that he couldn’t see.
Saul: This world is so beautiful!
(End of chapter)