Chapter 528 – The choice is yours

Chapter 528: The Choice is Yours
Even to his death, Ouchli couldn’t figure out why Saul didn’t run.
Of course, before he died, he also fought back, but despite the temporary “explosion” and disregard for life, he was still no match for the old hag.

In other words, he still died under the old witch’s witchcraft prop, the mirror of Byzek.

In the end, Ouchli was covered in blood, as thin as a bamboo stick.

The old witch waved the dirt and buried the bodies of the three.

She glanced scornfully at the cluster of tents in the distance and quickly left the area before anyone else arrived.

The old hag had had doubts in her mind when she came out to track down Ochili.

Although Thor had returned of his own accord, no one could be sure that he would not escape again while he was out tracking Ochli.

At one point, she had wanted to waste Saul before coming out.

But before doing so, she hesitated.

Now there was only a little bit of progress left to complete in her perfect body transformation. But this was something she still didn’t have any certainty of completing independently.

There was no other way, she could only use her sorcery to temporarily trap Saul and follow his request to be trapped in the lab.

It was only after realizing that someone had already been able to escape from the magic banning cage that she became less confident in her way of confining people.

So after taking care of Ochili, who had potentially compromised her whereabouts, the old hag immediately departed for her return.

Without the need to search for anyone, and with only one mind on hurrying, she made it back to her hidden underground residence in just one day.

When the old hag returned to the residence in a hurry, Saul was still in the lab and was fully concentrated on his experiments.

The old witch’s heart was first relieved, but when she saw the messy laboratory, the heart that had just been put into her stomach almost came out of her mouth again!

“What are you doing?” The old hag ran to Sol in two steps and pushed the man away with an elbow.

Saul took a step back and dodged the elbow strike before his opponent could get his hands on him.

“I was thinking that Ochili had run away and I would be next on the lab bench, so I modified the previous formula a bit more.”

The old hag looked at the “dough” on the lab bench, which had turned into a gray, translucent, and trembling spherical object, and suddenly remembered a food called “pudding” that she had eaten a long time ago.

But no matter how delicious it looked, it was completely different from the original transformation substrate.

“You …… you ……” the old witch was so angry that her little finger behind her was twitching, “Did you think you would die for sure, so you thought of wasting my witchcraft materials as a way to get back at me?”

The wooden stick in the old witch’s twitching hand was dangling right in front of Saul’s eyes, as if it would whip his cheeks off in the next second.

Saul reached out his index finger and gently pressed it against the edge of the old witch’s wooden stick and slowly pushed it away from his face.

“If that’s the case, why don’t I just run away? Even if you would have gotten me back, well, I’d still have half a day of freedom, wouldn’t I?”

The old hag could also tell from Saul’s calm and collected appearance that the other party wasn’t in the mold of someone who was hysterical and wanted to ruin his experiments after being hopelessly out of control.

She was just overly distressed about those rare materials in the lab.

“So, you’re ready for the lab bench?”

Saul nodded, “Yes. I’m not entirely sure, but I’m willing to risk it for my own learning.”

In the old hag’s eyes, Saul had completely become a representative of reading books for brains.

“Then you go up.”

“Please wait.” Saul raised his hand and took out a piece of parchment from his side, “Given that I’ve been remodeling the materials rather drastically over the past few days, the experimental process is also different from the original.” Saul handed the parchment to the old hag, “There are only two of us left in the lab at the moment, which means that you are the only one who can come and run the experiment. I need to tell you the specific steps and precautions first, so as not to cause the experiment to fail due to mishandling. Then I will die an unjust death.”

“Here, there are two places to start. Because the new dough, oh, that is, the base material of the perfect body has strong penetration and adhesion, we can directly apply it all over the body here. However, for better absorption, I suggest that we can remove the top layer of skin before covering the whole body ……”

As the old hag listened, her already huge mouth could almost swallow a watermelon.

She had always felt that her operations such as dismembering living bodies and dissolving grease were cruel enough, but compared to the steps involved in Saul’s experiments, at the very least, it was still a good way to die.

She stared at the young man in front of her with wide eyes, wanting to open up his brain and see what exactly was inside.

Did he not realize that the cramping and skin-breaking operation on the parchment was to be applied to him?
Looking at the eloquent and timid Saul, the old hag suddenly felt a sense of being insulted by contempt.

“Enough!” She snatched the parchment from Saul’s hand, “I can understand this little bit of stuff, so lie down on the lab table for me now!”

Saul looked at the parchment in his hand, which had only a fragment of a corner left, and shrugged his shoulders, letting go of his hand and letting the parchment float down.

“Okay.”

He volunteered to lie down on the lab table.

Looking at Saul’s honest appearance, the old hag’s heart was weird. She always had a sense of dislocation in her heart, as if the person who was actually lying on the lab bench at this moment was herself.

Taking a deep breath, she walked over to the new dough and carefully read the contents of the parchment again.

Most of what was on there she could read and understand, only a handful of it wasn’t quite clear to Harakiri. But with the old hag’s knowledge, it felt like the logic was flowing again.

The only way to know if it was the perfect body she was after or not was through experimentation.

The old hag decided to suppress the weirdness in her heart for the time being, and picked up the gray transparent “dough”.

When she was about to use a wooden stick to peel off the skin of the boy on the experimental table, she suddenly thought of an incredibly critical issue that she had almost overlooked.

“Wait! How many times can this base material be used?”

Saul, who was already lying on the lab table with his eyes closed, opened his eyes sideways at the words and revealed a smile, “There is only one measurement for a full body transformation.”

The old witch’s hand trembled, “Then is there any other base material?”

“Uh ……” Saul lifted his neck and looked around at the wreckage, “If you have a second lab and storage room …… “

The old hag’s grip on the barrel trembled once more, and the barrel snapped a corner raw.

“Well, I say, why are you so self-conscious? Are you determined that your formula is fine and you intend to take my research?”

Sol, however, didn’t show the slightest bit of embarrassment of being caught in his small mind, he just asked with a serious face, “If you don’t want to part with these materials, you can also lie down on the lab bench and I’ll do the maneuvering.”

Now, the difficult problem was pushed to the old hag.

Was it to use up the only materials on hand to conduct an experiment with a relatively high success rate, but in the end, she wouldn’t get anything and would have to risk her life again to gather the materials?

Or was it to take the field herself and take the risk of the transformation failing?

Seeing that the old hag could not decide for a moment, Saul simply lay down peacefully on the cold lab table and closed his eyes to fake sleep.

In order to rush to complete all of his experimental designs before the old witch returned, he really did not rest at all in these four days.

When the perfect body base that was as transparent and soft as pudding was completed, he knew that no matter what the old witch chose, he was sure to win anyway!

(End of chapter)