Chapter 452 – Transforming Fish

Chapter 452 – Transforming Fish
Xander stared blankly at the small fish that kept fluttering inside the water sphere.

Well, it seemed kinda cute after looking at it for a long time.

Saul also walked over and looked down at the unusually active little fish and smiled, “She remembers you and is excited to see her brother.”

Xander’s throat shrugged a bit and suddenly turned around with the water balloon in his arms and walked into the bedroom.

Saul heard a clanking and banging in the bedroom before Xander came running out again, holding the water balloon in one hand and dragging his heavy, huge suitcase with the other.

The heavy suitcase practically flew off the ground as he yanked it up, and when it hit the floor hard, the bottom wheel snapped off and flew off, rolling off into who-knows-where.

Not caring about the damage to the suitcase, Xander simply set it down and unlocked it with a shaky hand.

The lid of the box opened, revealing the young girl with messy hair inside.

Xander lowered his other hand and let the water balloon come up close to the young girl’s body.

“Come back, Midori.”

But the sphinx didn’t react, just continued to swim merrily through the water globe, occasionally burrowing its head out.

“Come back, Meadowlark, this is your body.” Xander was a little anxious.

“You may have misunderstood.” Saul said from the side, “Meadowlark is already dead, and the souls of the dead cannot return to their corpses. The fact that she can now survive in this bizarre form is entirely due to the use of some special power. And this power has been cut off from its supply, the residual energy can only allow her to hold on for a little while longer.”

Xander raised his head in bewilderment, his lips trembling as he said, “But you see, Midol’s body is still intact. Legend has it that after the soul is retrieved, isn’t it possible to return to her original body?”

“You know that’s a legend too.” Agu couldn’t help but interject, “For ordinary people, the soul of the living and the soul of the dead are different. The moment she died, the soul was already broken and deteriorated. Even if you forcefully resurrect it, what comes back may not be the original her. It would be better to cherish these last moments.”

Agu looked at the eerie-faced sphinx, a slight look of frustration appearing in his eyes.

“Huh?” Suddenly, Saul looked down and noticed something, he squatted down and reached out to touch Midori’s original body, “There is a magical power within Midori’s body that is supporting her from decaying. But now that power is starting to weaken.”

His gaze shifted to the golden hairpin in Midori’s hair, “Is it running out of energy?”

Just as Saul’s words left his mouth and both Xander and Agu’s eyes shifted to the hair card on the girl’s head, the golden hair card suddenly turned into a stream of light and injected itself into the sphinx’s brow.

And the girl’s corpse, which had lost the golden hair card, unexpectedly turned into dark and withered bones in an instant.

“Meadowlark!!!”

Xander couldn’t help but shout as he watched his sister’s body disappear.

Over the years, this body of his sister that hadn’t half decayed had been his spiritual pillar, and now that it had suddenly turned into white bones, it suddenly struck Xander hard.

However, in the next second, the small fish in Xander’s hand leapt with force, unexpectedly completely detaching itself from the water balloon. With a twist in mid-air, its tail swept and lashed at the tip of Xander’s nose.

Xander froze, the grief that was about to erupt suddenly and awkwardly frozen in mid-air.

Saul chuckled, “She’s telling you she’s here, not there.”

“That …… that ……” Xander was half torn, his shoulders suddenly slumped and his brow stretched, “That’s quite all right. ”

He then looked up at Saul with a serious expression, “Should I get a fish tank or something? What does Meadowlark eat? Can she eat cake or fruit?”

Saul’s expression also became serious.

The Meadowlark that was originally possessed by the fish didn’t need to eat anything.

The fish eating didn’t provide energy to Midol in her residual soul state.

She simply couldn’t survive for too long.

Even if she maintained the minimum consumption, she would only last seven or eight days. But when the golden hair card entered the fish’s body, the unstable soul body inside the sphinx seemed to be much firmer.

“The sorcery structure inside this golden hair card seems to be more complicated than I guessed.”

But now that the sorcery on the hair card had acted on the fish’s body, it looked as if it was a sorcery prop that stabilized the soul and physical body.

The energy of this sorcery prop wasn’t very large, and it could only lock onto a remnant soul like Midori’s.

A stronger spirit body, on the contrary, it couldn’t bind.

With the help of the hair card sorcery prop, Midol’s spirit body could be continued through some simple means of replenishing energy.

It was just that the energy basically came from the sorcerer’s materials, and that meant expensive.

And judging by Xander’s attire and residence, he didn’t have much savings at all.

Seeing that Saul hadn’t said anything, Xander tensed up.

He seemed to have thought of the answer, and his face turned green and white once again.

He opened his mouth, but didn’t dare to voice his guess.

Saul finally decided to let Xander decide for himself.

After all, it was also Xander who wanted to raise Midori.

“Midol is in an unusual state right now, and based on the rate at which her energy escapes, she can last about half a year with the golden hair card. But after that she will completely dissipate.”

Seeing that Xander’s body was starting to shake, Sol continued, “Unless you can replenish her energy on a regular basis. But either type of energy material is very expensive. You have to be mentally prepared, or you might end up losing both your money and your people.”

Saul took out a pen and paper, pranced around and wrote the same material and a rough price on it, then iterated it with two fingers, pinched it between his thumb and forefinger joints, and handed it to Xander.

Xander looked down at his sister, who was carefree and frolicking in the narrow sphere of water, and still gritted his teeth and extended his hand.

Just as Xander was about to touch the white paper, Saul suddenly flipped his wrist and dodged his opponent’s hand.

Xander looked at Saul uncertainly.

“What’s that you said in your letter, about the secret of Bluewater Bay? I need to see if it’s worth what’s on this piece of paper.”

A wizard’s knowledge, naturally, was worth a lot.

Xander pursed his dry lips, “I’ve been relying on managing paperwork files for the city lord of Bluewater City to earn money for a while. Although it’s just some unimportant records, I will also look through them when I’m organizing them ……”

“I found a record of the city lord’s mansion’s entrances and exits,” Xander subconsciously lowered his voice, “I found out that there was a sorcerer lord who had stayed in the city lord’s mansion before Blue Water City’s relocation, and after the other sorcerers had left Blue Water City one after another, he had remained here.”

These clues didn’t sound like they could be analyzed, but Saul thought of the broken wine cup he had just obtained and had yet to find its original owner, and hurriedly asked, “When did Blue Water City relocate?”

“About twenty years ago.”

“But I remember you said it was more than ten years ago or by boat.”

“Yes. At that time, Bluewater City had to move farther away near the barren area next door to prevent the townspeople from being killed by the Soul Tide. But even though Bluewater City moved away, the docks remained for a while. It wasn’t until almost 10 years had passed that it was gradually abandoned because there were barely a few freighters in the harbor.”

“So, is there anything else suspicious about that wizard?”

“There’s one other thing that’s particularly suspicious. I checked the City Lord’s Office’s temporary outing program and found that that sorcerer’s soul tides would occur shortly after he left Bluewater City every time. And he would wait until the tide ended before returning.”

Ahhhhhhhh!!!
I finished it last night and didn’t post it ！！！！

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My full attendance!!!

(End of chapter)