Chapter 526: Escape
Chapter 526: Exodus
There were only three days left.
But Ochili wasn’t going to escape until the last day.
“This, this, and this,” in the evening, Ouchli had to prepare his escape plan in advance, he told Saul a few ingredients, “When you prepare the potion tomorrow, remember to keep a little more of these ingredients and sneak them to me. I’ll be dispensing a new potion tomorrow night.”
“Tomorrow night?” Saul pretended to hesitate, “But I’m not sure about tomorrow night ……”
“We don’t have time for that. If you can’t complete the Approximate Second Order tomorrow, when you escape, it will be up to me to take more risks.” Ochili said helplessly.
Saul lowered his eyes and seemed a little frustrated, “Then …… it’s all on you.”
The next day, the old witch was still sitting in a corner of the laboratory, supervising the two people’s experiments.
Because the main person in charge of the experiments was Saul, Ouchli could only play a hand, so many of the potions were also formulated by Saul.
Saul took a little bit more of each according to the materials that Ouchli told him yesterday, only that Ouchli needed a little bit more types, which made Saul’s movements inevitably a little bit bigger, and he couldn’t use the storage device, or else the sudden fluctuation of magic power would immediately be discovered by the old hag who was staring at them closely.
Fortunately, the old hag was no longer standing behind them, so it was easier to move some small tricks.
Saul noticed that Ochre had taken a little bit of the potion he had already prepared as well.
The two of them cooperated with each other and covered for each other, so they were able to sneakily hide some of the ingredients.
But in order to transfer the remaining potion materials in his hand to Ouchli, Saul had to often get together with him and pretend to discuss them.
More times than not, it also aroused the old witch’s suspicion.
“What are you two doing always coming together to mutter?” The old witch raised the wooden stick in her hand, thought about it, and finally landed on Ochili’s calf.
“Well!” Ochili’s calf instantly lost a piece of flesh.
He held back his scream, a face suffocated in red.
Saul looked scornfully at the wooden stick in the old witch’s hand, but still took the initiative to explain, “Ochili was too nervous, and there are some things he always does wrong.”
“Well!” Ochili’s eyes widened and he didn’t squeak, but a face turned even redder.
The old witch snorted coldly and sized up both Saul and Ochili, but not knowing where Ochili had hidden the materials, the old witch surprisingly didn’t notice, “I don’t care what you’re doing, if you dare to play tricks, I’ll peel off all your skins!”
Since they were being watched, it was only natural that some of the small maneuvers would have to stop. Fortunately, Saul had already handed over all the potions that Ouchli needed to him, and the two of them were able to continue their experiments in a big way next.
The old hag had been standing at Saul’s side since then, but no more abnormalities were found in the two.
It was time for another break, and the old hag’s suspicions that had risen during the day had not subsided. Instead of letting the two spend the night in the lab again, she locked them back in their suffocating cages.
Saul was watched by the old hag as he got into the wooden cage and looked somewhat uneasily at Ochili in the other cage.
Ochli there seemed to have shrunk into a ball out of fear.
Saul looked back just in time to see the old witch staring at herself, a pair of bulb-like eyes, half-squinted still oozing.
“If you can complete the transformation experiment on Ochili tomorrow, I will make an exception and accept you as my apprentice. If you can’t, you will become my slave!”
Saul wasn’t really interested in either of those identities, but for now he could only watch as the old hag turned away, the severed limbs behind her drawing a half-circle in the air.
Once the old hag was gone, Ochili sat up with a start, “You didn’t really think the old hag would take you on as an apprentice, did you?”
“No.”
“That’s good.” Ochili took another look in the direction the old hag had left and a hint of joy appeared on his face, “I didn’t think she’d put us back in the cage tonight.”
Saul was puzzled, “Locked back in the cage, we can’t use witchcraft, why do you still look quite happy?”
Ochli kept his eyes on the door to the room and grinned, “Because her putting us in a cage means that she has no time to watch over us now. Now she’s either out of here or in deep meditation.”
“Either way it means that no one will be coming to disturb us anytime soon tonight!”
As soon as Ochili sat up, he immediately took out the potion he had hidden on his body and began to dispense it.
Because he didn’t have the means to bring back the various experimental instruments tucked into his clothes, he could only configure the potion in the most primitive way on the ground. There was a sort of hand-crafted beauty to it.
Before long, Saul smelled a peculiar odor on Ochre.
“There.” Ochre lifted his hand, cupped the sticky, black as mud potion on the floor, and applied a little bit of it carefully to the bars of the cage.
The miniature spell formations drawn on top of the wooden bars were then covered.
Saul watched carefully from the sidelines.
The mud-like potion didn’t simply cover the spell formation, it suppressed the effects of the spell formation without destroying it.
This was a bit of a novelty for Saul.
“If we directly destroy the spell formation, it will immediately be discovered by the old witch outside. But this way ensures that the warning will not be triggered.” Saul nodded and took note of Ochili’s maneuver.
At this time, Ochili had already covered all the miniature witchcraft spell formations and easily opened the cage door, drilling out from inside.
At this time, he could actually just leave Saul behind and escape.
After all, it looked like Sol currently had no more use for him.
But without the slightest hesitation, he held the rest of the potion and ran to Sol’s side to help him leave the cage.
This made Saul somewhat surprised.
Herman: [Thought he’d run off on his own.]
Ann: [Heh, I don’t think it’s that simple.]
Ochili quickly opens the door to the cage and holds out his hand to Handsor, “Come on out!”
Instead of grabbing Ochili’s hand, Saul lowers himself out of the cage.
Halfway through the drill, Ochili said impatiently, “Hurry up.”
He grabbed Saul’s arm and dragged the man out, half holding him up.
“By now, the effects of the love gumbo on us should have almost worn off. Will you still feel disoriented now?”
Saul cooperatively raised his hand and looked at it, “I have no more problems.”
Ochili nodded, “Then let’s leave now!”
Sol frowned, “How do we leave? The old hag should be in those outermost rooms.”
“The old hag has a habit, every time she locks us up, she will definitely enter deep meditation. At this time, if we go out directly, as long as we are a bit more stealthy and collect our magic and spiritual power, we won’t be noticed by her. And tomorrow is crucial, she will definitely take a good rest.”
The old witch had used this cage to lock up Ouchli and the others for many years, so she naturally trusted it. She probably wouldn’t have thought that Ouchili had actually found a way to escape the cage long ago, and had just been waiting for someone to appear who could cooperate with him.
“The worst that can happen is that the old hag didn’t enter deep meditation.” Ochili looked at Saul seriously, “That’s when we need to put up a fight. Raise your strength to near second rank just for this moment. Remember, don’t tangle, and run outside immediately when you find an opportunity!”
Ochili raised his hand, letting Saul see the little bit of potion left in his palm.
“The spell at the entrance of the cave can’t stop us.”
Saul felt that Ochli’s plan wasn’t quite perfect, but now that they had escaped the cage, they had to put up a fight, even if the plan wasn’t perfect.
The most crucial thing was that Ochili was running out of time.
“Come on then.” Saul asked one more time, “Can I bring my driver?”
Ochli waved his fist, barely able to hold back from swinging it out, “You might as well mind your own business now!”
Saul made a difficult face and nodded, “Alright then.”
(End of chapter)