Chapter 479: Sudden Loss of Control

Chapter 479: Suddenly Out of Control
It didn’t take long for Saul, who was meditating in the other room, to come out, and as soon as he raised his eyes, he saw Anne picking at the corner of the wall like a large spider, while Penny was provocatively moving closer and farther away at times.

On the other side, Agu and Zo were watching the fun.

Thor walked to the door and put on his outer robes, “Ann, I’ll take you out of town and test for stability.”

“Yes, master.” Ann jumped down from the corner, the translucent, roughly three-meter-long tail close to her torso, then disappeared.

The room that Saul rented was in the city, not really close to Baidong Academy, but it was still convenient to go out of the city.

This time, in order to test An’s stability, he was going to stay in the countryside for seven days.

It was in the middle of the day, and there were still very few people on the streets. Most of the people who could move freely in the daytime had some relationship with wizards.

Saul asked Marsh to send them to the countryside, and the next few days food and shelter would basically be in the forest.

Marsh looked very happy, living in the city high-rise buildings always made him feel very uncomfortable.

As they entered the forest, the air became cooler and more humid. Saul asked Marsh to park the car on the side of the road and took Ann into the woods.

Ann felt at home away from the city, too, and kept sweeping the leaves on either side of her with her new tail as she went deeper into the forest.

The leaves that were hit fell in droves, drying and turning black as they fell to the ground.

This was the Scorpion Tail Needle that Saul had purposely created to focus on offense, so the contamination left on it he hadn’t completely dispelled.

And he didn’t have to worry about An also being affected over time. Because Saul could retrieve Anne’s conscious body from his diary every few days.

The diary would be responsible for cleaning her in all directions.

It was only that the scorpion tail had to be removed each time, otherwise it would be absorbed by the diary as a contaminating impurity.

“Master, you haven’t been taking on many missions to clear out evil spirits lately?” Ann spoke to Sol backwards with her hands behind her back.

“The reason I went out frequently a while ago was also to get some evil spirits, and the other was to look for new meditation ideas. Now that both have been found, naturally there is no need to go out frequently. Once your Scorpion Tail Needle is well acclimated and there are no other problems, I’ll consider making a new soul armament.”

Actually, Saul had another concern, and that was that he could see some people change from time to time.

These changes always made Saul feel that this place was not simple.

And since he didn’t plan to stay here permanently, he didn’t want to delve into the secrets behind it.

The two of them stood in a clearing.

“I’m going to unleash a few 0th-rank attack sorceries on you, so try to block them with your scorpion tail.”

The Scorpion Tail Needle was, after all, assembled from soul fragments and had no entity.

It was naturally simple to deal with ordinary people, but if it was against a sorcerer’s sorcery, one would have to see if it would be directly dispersed by the sorcery.

Strengths, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities all had to be understood clearly before one could do so.

None of them had ever been to the Masterless Land, they only knew that it was dangerous, and it was naturally best to have more means of defense.

However, the two had only just started experimenting against each other when their feet suddenly changed!

Ann was retreating, preparing to use her scorpion tail to strangle away the dark shadows randomly cast by Saul, but she suddenly felt a tightening in her ankle.

She was a body of consciousness, and her perception of containers was not as sensitive as a normal person, so it was instead Saul, who was standing opposite her, who was the first to notice the abnormality.

A thumb-thin, light-colored branch suddenly burrowed out of the soil, curling around Anne’s calf at once and yanking it downward violently.

The branch immediately tightened around An’s ankle, and then the nearby soil suddenly became soft, unexpectedly pulling An’s calf directly into the soil.

And at this time, a fireball spell in Saul’s hand had already struck directly into the soil.

“With a bang, the originally compacted soil suddenly burst open, with many plant roots and stones mixed in.

Anne was also covered in dust, but she also took this opportunity to break free from her feet.

But before An could take a few steps back, several similar branches suddenly emerged in another direction.

They seemed to recognize Ann, and they wrapped themselves around her limbs, then pulled them towards the ground.

Only this time did Saul see clearly that the branches sticking out from the ground were not branches, but simply the roots he saw in the underground waterway last time.

But why did the other party target Anne? Could it be that it was for a sound bite?

Immediately alert, Soran immediately released the Spirit Armor Technique.

However, this time he was mistaken. Because those roots didn’t pay any attention to him a few meters away, they all ran towards An.

An immediately used his own scorpion tail, which he was very comfortable with, to stab at the roots, only to find that the roots were not afraid of the pollution attached to the scorpion tail in the slightest.

The needle form of the scorpion tail did not do much damage to the roots, but the real threat was the evil spirit pollution attached to it.

However, somehow, this pollution was completely ineffective when it reached the roots.

Seeing that the root beard had no intention of striking at him at all, Saul prepared his sorcery with a head full of fog.

The roots were very powerful, and Saul was not in a position to get close to them, given the previous hints in his diary, so he decided to cast a 3rd-order sorcery to destroy the roots.

Flame Arrow.

Rootbeard monsters had a strong resistance to dark attribute elements, and Saul was worried that his Shadow Binding wouldn’t be able to truly bind the rootbeards, and would instead turn out to be a gift to his opponent.

It’s just that Flame Arrow is not Saul’s major element, both in terms of casting speed and power will be lacking, but it’s still a sorcery with a powerful attack.

Especially for wood-attribute creatures, flames are extremely restraining.

By the time Saul’s flaming arrows were ready, half of An’s body had already sunk into the ground.

Recalling the direction in which those roots that had attacked An earlier had appeared, Sol suddenly released a flame arrow at another clearing.

The huge arrow burning with bursting flames drilled into the ground in the blink of an eye.

Unlike the previous fireball spell, the arrow did not immediately explode upon entering the ground, but instead released nearly all of its kinetic and thermal energy on the target object.

More powerful energy and less energy escaping was precisely the main difference between 3rd rank sorcery and lower rank sorcery.

A few seconds after the flaming arrow entered the ground, the earth suddenly trembled, and the open space where Saul was, along with the surrounding trees, all shook.

The ground cracked open a few gaps, and a black smoke drilled out along the gaps.

After that, Saul flew to the side of An, who was “half in the ground”, and behind him, Algae drilled out and held An’s arms, pulling him out of the cracked ground.

But An did not know what kind of attack, but his eyes were closed tightly and he did not move at all.

“An? Ann?” Saul called out to her through the diary and got no response.

Just as Komo was about to hand the unconscious Ann over to Sol, Ann’s tightly closed eyes suddenly opened.

Her eyes were as black as ink, and she opened her mouth violently, her teeth becoming huge in an instant, creating an extremely strong contrast from a delicate and cute girl’s face poking out.

Saul’s outstretched hands immediately changed from a hold to a chokehold, restraining Ann’s neck and shoulders to keep her deformed mouth away.

However, a translucent scorpion tail was right behind Saul and stung him in the back of his heart.

Saul swept his eyes horizontally, sensing the strong fluctuation from behind him, but he did not dodge or avoid it.

The scorpion tail, however, did not come close to Saul, in fact, it suddenly disappeared the moment it acted.

And An, who had just been frantically trying to nibble on Saul’s arm, also went limp at the same time.

Saul slung An over his shoulder and scanned the ground with downcast eyes.

After he released the flaming arrows, the monsters underground went quiet, and there was no reaction until he subdued An.

Saul couldn’t calibrate the strength of this root monster, and after observing the spot for a few moments to make sure that there was no ambush elsewhere, he carried An on his shoulders and left the woods in a hurry.

Originally, he had planned to come out for a few days to test the stability of Ann’s scorpion tail.

However, just now he noticed that An’s state was abnormal, much like being contaminated and alienated, and without any hesitation, he instantly retrieved An’s diary.

The Scorpion Tail that was connected to An was naturally recovered at the same time.

Saul, in the end, could only carry a corpse and return to the roadside.

Marsh had just laid down on the frame, ready to sleep, when he saw Saul carrying Anne out of the woods with a grim face.

He jumped out of the car in a hurry, “Master, is something wrong?”

Saul didn’t elaborate, just got into the carriage and said, “Go back first!”

(End of chapter)