Chapter 453 – Silver Pocket Watch
Chapter 453 – Silver Pocket Watch
After getting out of Xander’s rented place, the carriage slowly traveled through the streets of Bluewater City.
Sol, on the other hand, was thinking in the car.
Actually, the evidence for Xander’s claim that the sorcerer named Caron was suspicious wasn’t very strong.
Because for a second level who hadn’t been promoted to a third level apprentice after dozens of years, it was normal for him to want to find a safe and quiet place to retire.
As an ordinary person, Xander also could not have imagined that sorcerer apprentices were also able to predict the coming of soul tides a certain amount of time in advance.
Just a second level apprentice, could he really predict the tidal changes a day or two in advance?
Saul gently shook the page of record paper that Xander had given him.
It was a string of numbers that Xander had written down from his memory.
Before Saul had arrived, he’d only dared to keep the information in his head, not write it down at all.
In that case, Xander’s memory was quite good.
It was just a pity that Xander was already in his thirties, or else he could really be tested to see if he could become a sorcerer’s apprentice.
There were already too many guys around Saul, and he naturally wouldn’t take on any apprentices. Mentor Katz probably wasn’t in the mood to accept new apprentices at this time either.
However, there were some other sorcerer forces nearby, and the biggest one was the Baidong Academy in Archaeust City.
But since Xander was already in his thirties and approaching 40, it was all just a regrettable pipe dream.
In addition to this paper Xander also gave Saul a family heirloom that was said to have been left to him by his grandfather before he died.
His stepmother hadn’t married into their family at the time, and the only people who could have gotten a gift from his grandfather were him and his sister, Meadowlark, and the gift Meadowlark got was the golden hair card.
What Xander had gotten, on the other hand, was a rusty silver pocket watch.
The case of the watch was rusty and the hands inside were moving randomly, even though his grandfather had told Xander that it was a family heirloom, Xander still had no way to use it, and just kept it close to him as a reminder.
But since Meadowlark’s hair card had such mysterious abilities, then perhaps this pocket watch wasn’t simple either.
The rusty silver pocket watch was nevertheless a representation of Xander’s identity, Xander simply didn’t dare to take it out and use it outside and couldn’t find any special power in it, so he might as well give it to Saul as the only possibly valuable payment he could give.
The original reward he had prepared for Saul was not this pocket watch.
But after Saul had brought Mithril here, he no longer knew how else to repay the kind sorcerer-sama.
Saul had already memorized the contents of the paper, and a string of fire emerged from his palm to burn the white paper to ashes.
He then looked to the rusty silver pocket watch.
The ability of Midori’s hair card did interest him, except that it had been the last support of the poor girl’s soul, and Saul did not make a move to snatch it.
Instead, it was the Nightmare Butterfly that had been urging Saul in his mind to kill Xander and snatch the pocket watch and the hair card so that no one would know that the pocket watch was in Saul’s possession.
Such behavior was indeed in line with the Nightmare Butterfly’s usual way of dealing with the world, only to be rejected by Saul.
Saul shook the dust from his hands and once again turned over the rusty silver pocket watch that Xander had given him.
Agu sat across from him and looked over with considerable interest.
“Master the pattern on this pocket watch is very special, I suspect it is not from the Solstice Chronicle.”
As a soul who used to roam the library, Agu read a lot of books and suffered a lot of injuries as a result. Nonetheless, he also insisted on absorbing new knowledge and looking for a chance to escape the Sorcerer’s Tower.
“If it’s not an item from the Solstice Era, wouldn’t it be at least three hundred years old?”
If that was the case, the rust on the pocket watch was rather considered to be much less, and it had been well preserved.
“What chronology was before the Solstice Calendar?” This was Saul’s knowledge blind spot.
In the past, in order to survive and be promoted, the knowledge he learned focused on the practical present, and he actually didn’t know much about history, geography, and other knowledge.
“Before the Solstice Era was the Dark Moon Era. There are also very few records in the book, it just says that wizards were often at war with each other at that time, but it doesn’t state the reason why. At that time, there were usually only two or three empires on a continent. Unlike nowadays where empires are rare, most of them are kingdoms with limited size and power, or even smaller principalities.” Agu smiled, “Actually, the Kemah Principality is already considered a relatively large territory within the many principalities. There is a piece of land not much bigger than the territory of the Khema Duchy in the southwest of the Stat Continent, where a total of seven small duchies exist.”
“That’s normal.” As a well-informed traveler, Saul wasn’t surprised.
Saul swept over the rusty pocket watch with his spiritual power and didn’t find any magic fluctuations on it. He kept turning over the pocket watch, even uncovering the back cover and undoing the chain, and still didn’t find anything that fit the abilities of a witchcraft prop.
It just felt that the pattern on it was rather special.
And the hands of this pocket watch did walk haphazardly, one second Saul was looking at the time on it as 3:15 PM, and after turning it over and back again it became 9:22 AM.
Saul continued to watch how fast the hands walked with the time change, not finding a pattern, or of course, maybe not for a while.
“It’s kind of interesting how perfectly it’s hidden.” Saul put away the pocket watch, “We’ll all work on that later.”
As a sorcerer who carried 6 consciousness bodies as well as 2 pets with him, Saul wasn’t worried that he didn’t have enough research assistants, he was only worried that the supplies he possessed wouldn’t be able to keep up with the speed of their consumption.
He thought about it, if he really wanted to go to the Lordless Land to establish his own wizard tower, then he had to be prepared for the dangerous situation there.
At the same time, after successfully building the tower, he would have to establish his own subject, no longer doing research for others, but focusing on his own learning, abilities, and talents.
As for the subject matter, the main thing was definitely still the research diary. There was also his own soul, which had no fear of the repulsive force of other people’s bodies, which was also well worth studying.
The carriage continued traveling through Bluewater City, but not in search of shelter.
Saul did not intend to stay in Bluewater City, so the order given to Marsh, the coachman, was to leave directly for the airboat station – the wool left behind by Mentor Golza was not to be gleaned for nothing.
Even if he suspected that the owner of the broken wine glass might be that Caron wizard, there was no need to actually confirm it.
After all, the other party’s goal might just be Mentor Golza’s resurrection experiment.
And indeed, their plan had succeeded. Lady Yura had not been resurrected, and the mentor had left the western part of the continent.
Saul now planned to go to the Land of the Lordless, but before that, he had to make preparations.
This includes, but is not limited to, continuing to improve himself and learning about the Land of the Undiscovered.
It was impossible to just barge in headfirst without knowledge.
Even with the reminder of the Death Sorcerer’s Diary, there were dangers that could not be circumvented even with foreknowledge.
Saul’s current intention was to go to the rumored very rich and prosperous Archaeust City.
The culture of the city there was very special, and the sorcerers had put their heads down and created many sorcery props that facilitated people’s livelihood. And the social system was also different from the duchy. In particular, they would also sell to the public some sorcery props that Saul had been interested in for a long time.
This special city culture was the real reason why Baidong Academy took root and rose rapidly after coming out of the Lordless Land, right?
Just then, the carriage slowed down and came to a slow stop.
Sol and Agu looked out at the same time.
And on the street outside, two or three pedestrians on the street also stopped to gaze in the direction of Sol’s carriage.
A man dressed as a servant had just suddenly stopped the carriage.
And the servant who had been rampaging through Blue Water City for many years did not expect the other party to slow down slowly instead of stopping the carriage urgently after seeing someone stopping it.
When the cart came to a complete stop, the tall horse pulling the cart lifted its lips and just sprayed spittle all over his face.
Marsh’s mind was reeling, how could he possibly shake Lord Sol for a roadblocker?
“Yes?”
The servant then realized that he had just displeased the other party with his hasty act of stopping the car.
He was so frightened that he hastily took two steps back and slumped to the ground.
“Please inform the sorcerer lord in the carriage that Blue Water City’s City Lord Macken as well as Sorcerer Caron have prepared a sumptuous dinner as well as a comfortable residence and invite your lord to go.”
Marsh bristled, this attitude was more or less the same.
He turned back to the doorway and repeated it in a whisper.
“That Caron wizard actually offered to invite me? Could it be a trap?” Thor looked to the diary in his head.
The diary floated quietly, lazily turning over.
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