Chapter 437 – Elf Skin and Black Iron Coffin (I)

Chapter 437 – Elf Skin and Black Iron Coffin (I)

“Sol?” A familiar voice called out to him.

Sol turned around, only to realize that it was Mentor Kaz.

The wound on Kaz’s neck had completely recovered, but his entire body still looked pale and tired, and his mental state was especially bad.

“Mentor Kaz.”

Kaz looked at Saul, his eyes looking him up and down once, just like when he first met him.

“Alas, who would have thought that you would be the first apprentice to become a full wizard?” Kaz shook his head again, “Maybe I’m not cut out to be a mentor either.”

“Mentor Kaz?” Saul walked forward and tried to assist the other party, he had always known that Mentor Kaz’s appearance was pale, but when he saw him again today, he suddenly felt that his heart was also tired.

“I’m fine.” Kaz could see that Saul was worried about him and waved his hand, looking again at the wizard tower that had turned into ruins, “I used to think that even if some of Lord Golzatha’s ways of doing things were indeed difficult, but as long as we endure for a while and complete the resurrection experiments, we would eventually be able to live well. But I still underestimated their greed and repression, and the fuelwood eventually turned into an unstoppable fire, and the funny thing is that they burned to the ground and only turned themselves into ashes in the end.”

Kaz looked at Saul again and held back, but finally whispered, “The Tower Lord still wants to resurrect Yura, he hasn’t really given up, so you have to be careful too. Maybe he’ll be grateful for your help now, but if one day he still can’t accomplish his goal, there’s still a chance that he’ll set his sights back on you.”

“I …… understand, thank you, Mentor Kaz.”

Sol understood Kaz’s concern.

Saul had thought that Golza had accomplished his goal as soon as he completed the resurrection experiment, but now it seemed that he wanted to resurrect Yura, and it wasn’t for the sake of resurrecting his beloved wife.

Because if the tower master really liked Yura, he wouldn’t see the other party suffer so much but do nothing about it.

If Thor thinks about the “kill me” he heard in the puppet three years ago, he can understand that the real Yura would not be able to bear the pain of resurrection.

At this point, Golza’s usual gentle treatment had become a suffocating cage.

While the two of them were talking, one after another apprentices came from the forest in the distance.

The number was small, less than ten.

Saul saw a few familiar faces among them, including George, a former fellow manservant, and Cullom, who liked to dance with corpses – he was even holding a complete female corpse in his arms.

None of these apprentices tended to be particularly powerful apprentices, or lone rangers like Cullom.

Originally having little presence in the wizard’s tower, they instead became the category with the most survivors.

Of course there were still some second and third level apprentices who had gone out and had not returned.

These people seemed to have taken Mentor Katz as their backbone and surrounded them with hasty faces. Only George carefully greeted Saul.

Since becoming a sorcerer apprentice, he finally understood the gap between himself and Saul. At the same time, he also realized that a sorcerer, was not a safe identity, and sometimes terror was more and more dangerous as strength grew.

This led to him not daring to get too close to Saul later on instead.

Because the breath on the other party’s body would make him tremble and feel uneasy.

“Ah! It’s Lord Saul!” There was a thumb-sized ball of flesh growing at the left side of George’s neck, and a boy’s innocent voice surprisingly came out from it.

“Shhh!” George hastily covered the meatball.

Saul nodded at him, “Is that your brother?”

George bowed, “Yes, he said he wanted a head too, so I thought I’d plant a sphinx tumor.”

“Nonsense!” Kaz let out a chortle next to him, “A sphinx tumor is highly susceptible to alienation and even contamination of yourself, who taught you to do that?”

George’s jaw dropped and he named a third level apprentice, only to find out that the other person was already dead in the wizard’s tower.

“Really!” Kaz let out a sigh, “I used to always focus on resurrection experiments, now that the experiments don’t have to be done, I’ll just discipline you fools.”

For some reason, after saying these words, the belatedly decrepit aura of Kaz suddenly diminished a lot.

Watching Mentor Kaz reprimand these apprentices in front of him one by one, Saul couldn’t help but shake his head and sigh with a smile.

When the sun set, Kaz and the others lit a bonfire by the ruins.

Borrowing this light, Kaz and the other apprentices who came back one after another began to clean up the ruins of the wizard tower.

Saul was also inside, and he was looking for the first storehouse. Because besides some materials he left there, Hayden was still lying in the sarcophagus!
Fortunately, although the Sorcerer’s Tower toppled over, it was mainly the upper part that was in pieces, and from the tenth floor down it was just broken horizontally and fell to the ground.

Below the fourth floor is even still relatively well-preserved.

However, even so, most of the butlers and servants did not survive. The collapse of the Sorcerer’s Tower had triggered a chain reaction of some sorcerous materials. These sorcerous materials were dangerous to non-witches even if they were common, so many of them were dead to the world when they were dug up.

In order to recover as much of Golza’s unwanted assets as possible, Kaz took the remaining apprentices and servants to clean up the rubble, and in the end, they were really allowed to pack up quite a lot of goodies.

However, Saul noticed that the more deus ex machina, the chief steward who ruled over all the stewards, was not here.

Neither was there a body, nor was he among the survivors.

“Could it be that he was also taken away by Golza?” Sol thought darkly.

In the early morning of the next day, Kaz found Sol again.

“We’ve basically finished clearing the ruins.” Kaz let out a bitter smile, “As a result, I realized that the items in the rooms above the 19th floor are basically gone. Presumably, they were taken away by Golza. Heh, I still wanted to see the tower master’s collection, but it seems there’s no such luck. How is it on your side?”

The first floor of the East Tower was belonged to Sol by default, no one dared to come over and steal it, even Kaz deliberately didn’t approach it.

“After the collapse of the Sorcerer’s Tower, the bronze gate also lost its activity, there is still a portion of the material in the first storehouse that has not been contaminated, I picked a little bit of the rest and left it for you.”

Kaz didn’t push back, the irresponsible tower master patted himself on the back and ran away, if he still wanted to take care of the surviving apprentices, he had to have more than enough supplies to do so.

“Second storage room ……”

“Take all you can from the second storage room. The materials there are all more dangerous, and third level apprentices can’t even use them casually.”

Saul was moved, but he really didn’t have such a large backpack, even the compressed traveling bag was only a few cubic meters of space, it couldn’t fit in a storehouse.

“The second storehouse is full of rotting corpses. There’s also a lot of material that relies on mezzanines to be divided and preserved. Part of the material fought up when I was there and lost some of it as well.” Sol described with a smile.

“I still took some of it with me, and there’s a lot more, so I’ll leave it to you, Mentor.”

“That’s also good. It’s also dangerous for you to carry it all.” Kaz took it again, and a moment later he asked, “Saul, are you …… leaving?”

“Uh-huh.” Saul didn’t deny it.

“Did you, by any chance, take all the grudges in the mezzanine?”

Saul was stunned, not expecting Mentor Katz to be able to find out, so he directly admitted, “Yes. Mentor Golza should have planned from the very beginning that he would leave when the experiment was successful, so he had said that he would leave the Sorcerer’s Tower to me …… As a result, the readymade Sorcerer’s Tower is now down. However, Golza still gave me something very important. Those grudge fragments were in there as well.”

Kaz opened his mouth, he seemed interested, but thought better of it and didn’t ask.

“Well, young man, it’s time to go out and make a name for yourself. Once I’m done packing up this place, I’m going to take any apprentices who are willing to come with me and head to the Duchy of Kemah.”

Sol froze, he didn’t expect Kaz to leave as well.

“You do not intend to rebuild the wizard tower here?”

Kaz smiled and waved his hand, “How am I qualified to build a wizard tower? Besides, this place was assigned to Lord Golsata by the Khema Duchy, I can’t afford to town it.”

“There are also some small sorcerer organizations within the Kemah Duchy, I plan to find a suitable residence and settle over there. By the way, the name of the organization will be called the Garden of Necromancy, so if you go to the Khema Duchy in the future, you can go and take a look.”

In Mentor Katz’s mouth, it seemed as if he had all but established and carried forward the organization of the Necrotic Garden.

Suddenly, a silver-colored butterfly caught Sol’s eyes, followed by Penny’s lively doll voice.

“Brother Saul, Keri has woken up.”

Saul was stunned at first, then smiled happily as he excused himself to Kaz.

“Mentor Kaz, Korie is awake, I’ll go check first.”

“Go, go!” Kaz hastily waved his hand.

Saul followed the Nightmare Butterfly and jumped directly into a large pit from the original small garden, and before falling to the bottom of the pit, there was a thigh-thick black tentacle following him below.

Saul trotted over and saw that Senior Byron was also there.

The two nodded and Sol rushed over to Kori, who was covered in a metal shell.

“Kori, you’re awake?”

Kori’s voice buzzed because of the metal armor blocking it.

“Hurry up and open some holes for me, I’m suffocating!”

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(End of chapter)