Chapter 533 – Negligence or Deliberate

Chapter 533 Negligence or Willfulness
In order to prove that he did have the ability to help Dodge remove the contamination, Saul first allowed a demonstration of how to use Soul Dropping to suck the contamination out of the evil spirit’s body.

However, he stayed back and didn’t remove the contamination cleanly.

He also didn’t want to expose all his strength, especially since the old witch was still around.

Seeing Saul help remove the contamination from the evil spirit, Dodge was more or less convinced that the other party could indeed remove the contamination.

This time, he didn’t hesitate and even took the initiative to take out the contract scroll.

In Dodge’s opinion, although Saul was unable to remove all of the contamination from his body – so as to match his perception – as long as the contamination was reduced to half of its original level, it would be able to buy him another twenty years of time.

As long as he could advance to the second rank during those twenty years, he could rely on himself to suppress his own contamination.

What’s more, the terms of exchange also included the Hidden Crystal Quality. With the Hidden Crystal Quality, Daoqi’s certainty of advancing to the second rank would be even greater.

After Dodge signed the contract, he didn’t talk nonsense and immediately went back to pack his things.

Three days later, they met at the same location.

This time when they met, Saul directly stepped in and helped Dodge suck out about four-fifths of the contamination. The remaining contamination was faint and not very evenly distributed within Dodge’s spiritual body.

Completing the transaction, Saul handed Dodge the cryptocrystalline substance.

Suppressing the excitement on his face, Dodge took the cryptocrystalline substance and carefully stuffed it into his eye socket.

Apparently, he also knew how to preserve the Cryptocrystalline Plasm.

Dodge also didn’t care about the blood on his half-faced face, and finally looked at Saul and the short second rank whose appearance he didn’t know beside him, as well as the commoner in the back whose face was covered with mushrooms, and let out a soft smile, “Thank you for honoring the contract and completing the deal. Next, I will leave Lake Rhine, and as for the rules on the lake, you will have to rely on yourself to figure it out.”

Saul didn’t say anything, just glanced at the diary in his head that was so quiet it looked like it was sleeping, and nodded.

“No problem.”

Such a painful answer made the old hag on the side a bit dissatisfied.

However, she suddenly remembered that when they signed the contract three days ago, the other party only promised to give up Lake Rhine, and did not attach the matter of informing the rules on the lake, so any further dissatisfaction could only be dismissed.

“Isn’t this Saul very smart? How come he didn’t find the loophole in the contract this time?”

Thinking about how he was pitched by the other party and had to temporarily cooperate with him, and now Saul appeared to have been pitched by Dodge.

This made the old witch’s heart complicated.

And cool, and not cool.

Dodge returned to the lake and put away the white feathers.

The feather immediately shrank to the size of a normal feather quill as it left the lake.

“I’ll take this with me, it’s not much use, but after carrying me for so many years, I’m still quite sad to part with it.”

Saul was self-effacing.

“Good luck, then.” Dodge, all relaxed and refreshed, waved the feather in his hand goodbye, then turned and flew into the air for a quick departure.

Saul noticed that a sorcerous shield suddenly popped up on the man as he left. Apparently, he was worried that Sol would strike out at him after the deal was done.

Saul rubbed his chin and thought.

Seeing that Saul hadn’t moved his place in half a day, the old witch said with some impatience, “Aren’t you going in yet? What are you dawdling about?”

Only then did Saul slowly turn around, “Going in is going in. But I just realized a problem.”

“What?”

“We agreed in the contract that we couldn’t intentionally leave traps on the lake island, and we also agreed on a lot of regulations to prevent the other party from playing tricks in the deal. But we didn’t say what else to do after completing the deal.”

The old hag thought nothing of it, “The time period after completing the deal is infinite, so how could he have agreed with you to conduct himself for that long?”

“But we can totally add a time agreement. For example, no reneging for a year after completing the deal.”

The old hag snorted, “Hmph, now you’re thinking about it? What were you thinking before you signed the contract? And you forgot to have the other party tell you something as important as the rules. Where did all the wisdom from counting on me before go?”

Sol gave the old hag a helpless look, “He didn’t make the rules either. Accepting someone else’s answer directly would probably cost me the chance to get in touch with the essence.”

The old hag rolled her eyes, thinking that Sol was just being tough-talking. “Let’s leave this aside for now. Did you notice that he put a shield on himself as he walked away?” Sol asked.

“It seems he, like you, only remembered after the contract was signed that he was missing the protection he had at the completion of the deal.”

Saul was still rubbing his chin, “But why do I get the feeling that he had already thought that he should have made a pact after the deal was finalized that they would not attack each other within the time limit? After all, he’s guarding Lake Rhine, but he’s already using it as a marketplace for trading grudges. Such a person who often needs to sign a contract, but forgets the last safeguard …… always feels like it is intentional.”

“Deliberately what?” The old witch actually vaguely thought of something, but she didn’t bother to continue thinking about it and asked in passing.

“Deliberately waiting for the deal to be completed and then reversing it.”

The old hag laughed and crossed her arms, and with her size, without looking at her face, crossing her arms was a very cute gesture.

“Then you don’t have to be afraid, if he dares to back out, I’ll let him have it!”

The old hag had grown more comfortable with her escorting duties.

Saul decided not to remind her of this, lest the other party get annoyed.

“We’d better go in first. At the very least, it’s good to get a general idea of the rules here before the other party comes back.”

The old witch immediately flew up, “Then what are we waiting for?”

Sol helplessly said, “Actually, I guess that if you want to enter the lake island, you can’t do it by flying, you have to take a carrier and paddle across the lake to get there.”

The old witch’s eyes rolled, and this time she did not try to be brave.

Saul raised his hand and nodded his neck, and a black vine flew out, quickly weaving a raft.

The raft floated steadily on the lake.

Once Saul and the old witch stepped onto the raft with Marsh, several tentacles drilled out from the corners of the raft and started paddling like oars.

“That’s an ugly boat you’ve got there.” The old hag muttered.

She remembered the rules that Sol had just discovered and kept her eyes forward.

Saul nudged the raft with his toes, “It’s not as elegant as the Dodge Witch’s feather, but it’s better because it’s fully automated and doesn’t need to waste magic.”

“Fully? Fully automatic?” The old witch bristled, “You always manage to come up with strange words.”

“Don’t worry about those details.” Saul looked ahead.

The small algae rowed fast, and he could already faintly see the island in the center of the lake in the gray mist.

Despite the fact that he was about to have a landing place of his own in the Masterless Land, he couldn’t afford to take things lightly until all the troubles were resolved.

“After we get to the island, we must set up the Sorcerer’s Tower as soon as possible!”

……

After leaving Lake Rhine, Dodge flew carefully for three days in the Masterless Land, dodging dangers all the way to a withered forest.

In the center of this withered woodland, however, was a giant tree with a gorgeous wooden house built into it.

Whether it was the ridge or the eaves, there were strings of milky-white wind chimes hanging.

It was just strange that when the breeze passed by, the wind chimes swayed with the wind, but did not make a sound.

Dodge carefully walked to the bottom of the tree house, took out the same type of dream chime given by the Dream Maker from his bosom, and said loudly, “Honorable Master Dream Maker. I have found a new Nightmare Butterfly for you!”

“Ding bell …… ding bell …… ding bell …… ding bell …… ding bell …… ding bell …… ding bell …… ding bell …… ding bell ……”

“Jingle …… jingle …… jingle …… jingle ……”

“Ding bell …… ding bell …… ding bell ……”

All the milky white wind chimes, instantly made a ring.

Crisp and pleasant sounds instantly resounded through the heavens and earth.

(End of chapter)