Chapter 736: Sacrifice

Chapter 736 Sacrifice
Doubt flashed across Pound’s face when he heard that Saul wanted to make a deal with himself.

“What else can I trade with you in my current state?”

“I help you find Shia, and you arrange for me to meet with Beth?”

Bond froze.

Kate in the back froze too.

Not realizing Saul’s teammate-selling operation, Dean Pond could only reply, “You asked me to contact Beth for you?”

Saul shrugged his shoulders, “Even though you’re acting in pain, it’s Beth’s manipulation that you’re standing here, right? I assume you have a way to get in touch with her.”

Bond gritted his teeth, “I don’t know why she singled me out and left me behind, but I can’t reach out to her. If you really want to look for her, you can just go out of your spirit body and go to the tree heart space of the Inverted Tree, she must be there. You are a sorcerer who majors in the dark attribute, this shouldn’t be difficult for you.”

“Indeed it’s not difficult, but to give up your home field advantage, go to the tree heart space that is completely controlled by Beth, and then face both a former third-ranked sorcerer and a magical creature that is still currently third-ranked? Going to gamble that they still have enough sense not to come up and get me?”

Saul lifted his hands and pressed Dean Pond’s shoulders, regardless of the pain showing on his face, “Or you could send a message to Beth. I’m going to make a deal with her, and if she’s willing, I can help her through the resurrection.”

Kate in the background could hear no more.

This Blackblade wizard, he thought, was simply odd.

Kate admitted that the other party was very powerful, but that was a third-order sorcerer!
He was so bold as to say that he would help resurrect Beth.

“Wait, just now the dean of Baidon said that he was a student of Golza? Could it be that he can invite Golza?”

Kate didn’t know Saul’s identity, but Golza’s great name had resounded throughout the Western Continent in these hundred years.

There wasn’t a single wizard who had lived here who didn’t know about his power and dominance.

Yet this man was also known for not caring about anything.

Even if the sorcerers in the Golsa Sorcerer’s Tower were out in distress and were being victimized, he would never stand up for his men.

Could such a person really be invited by the Blackblade Wizard?

But this Black Blade Sorcerer wasn’t simple either, he was simply a treacherous businessman!
In less than half a day’s work, how many people had he made deals with?
And to turn around and sell his former partner Shia, there really wasn’t any hesitation at all.

Kate originally wanted to follow Saul to find a chance to get some benefits. Now she thought it was better not to.

He may not be able to defeat Saul.

Thinking this way, the orange cat began to slowly back away.

The enemies of the Baidong Academy had now become two third-ranked, this was not a fight he should be involved in, slipping away was the best plan.

Cat’s decision was very wise.

Just after he silently withdrew a dozen meters, Saul and Dean Pound suddenly fell apart!
Only to see Dean Pound, whose expression was still very painful just now, suddenly raise his head, and a hideous smile unexpectedly appeared on his face.

Two long, thin roots poked out violently from both of his shoulders and quickly locked onto Saul’s arms.

At the same time, branches as thick as a python grew out in the blink of an eye from the front and back of Saul’s location.

They were like the bars of a prison, enclosing Saul and Dean Pond within them.

Pound stared at Saul’s face, and for the first time, the color of greed appeared in his gaze.

“Don’t bother, Lord Bess already has a way to resurrect her.”

As he spoke, more branches and roots wrapped around Sol’s body.

Saul tried to struggle a bit, but realized that these roots were exceptionally tough, and surprisingly stronger than the ones he encountered within the Inverted Tree.

Not only that, the moment these branches and roots wrapped around Saul’s body, they began to emit a natural fragrance of grass and trees after the rain.

Even with Saul’s sense of smell, he narrowly missed detecting this odor.

“Poisonous gas?”

Saul realized that this gas would burrow into his body even when it touched him, and it was clear that closing his breath wouldn’t stop the poisonous gas from entering his body. Seeing that Saul had failed to break free several times, and that the “prison” around him had completely closed, and that the “sprout” had begun to take effect, Bond was finally free of his disguise.

The wrinkles on his face became deeper textures, and his white hair and beard thickened and lengthened to resemble the roots behind him.

His skin turned into brown bark, and his eyes, mouth, nose, and other features turned into holes in the tree.

Dean Pond was surprisingly already a tree man!
Saul sighed, ”So you have long since fused with the inverted tree, no wonder there are so many roots attached to your body. But why did you help Beth? Aren’t you afraid that she will really kill the Inverted Tree? You wouldn’t be able to survive that way either.”

Pound, however, didn’t explain, he was just incomparably excited, “Originally, we only wanted to lure some greedy second-order wizards, but we didn’t expect to catch such an arrogant newly promoted third-order like you, what an unexpected pleasure, with you as her sustenance, Lord Beth will definitely be able to successfully resurrect!”

Saul was just about to say something when suddenly a great blasting sound attracted his attention.

The sound came from outside the closed tree branch cage, and it wasn’t just one sound, it was a dozen or more in a row.

The loud blasting sound was getting farther and farther away, from the inside out, and seemed to be a series of explosions centered on the inverted tree.

The sound didn’t stop for a long time, and along with it, the ground shook, becoming more and more powerful and terrifying.

Saul could already brainstorm the tragic scene in the outer city of Archaust.

Even if he was trapped in the branches of a tree, he could think of what kind of horrible disaster was happening outside!
He turned back and said in surprise, “You’re going to sacrifice the outer city? Sacrifice the entire Archaeust?”

Pound just laughs openly, rejoicing that the plan is going well, and doesn’t answer Saul’s question at all.

Saul sighs, “Hey …… it looks like you guys aren’t going to make this deal with me.”

Suddenly, his complexion changed and his gaze blazed.

“Rites first, since the talks have fallen apart, let’s start the fight.”

His arms shook, and the branches that had just been wrapped around him in a death grip seemed to hang down loosely as if they had suddenly lost their recipients.

Those roots that had pierced into Sol’s palms also snapped off inch by inch, and the remnants that fell to the ground looked as if they had been highly corroded.

Pound’s laughter caught in his throat, his wood-like eyes almost cracking.

Saul looked up again, his face was devoid of skin and flesh, transformed into a black skeleton.

“Isn’t it just mind manipulation and pollution corrosion? I’m pretty good at that one too.”

After saying that, large pieces of gray tentacles violently drilled out from under his sorcerer’s robe, like a peacock opening its screen, instantly shooting into the branches of the surrounding inverted trees, immediately piercing holes in the closed “prison”.

The sunlight shone in and fell on Saul’s face, and a black mist appeared in the column of light instantly.

It instantly made Saul look like a messenger from the abyss.

The smile on Pound’s face completely disappeared, and large new shoots suddenly appeared on his bark-like rough face, which rapidly grew brown leaves.

Leaves in groups of two or two, the edge of the leaves are like sharp teeth, between opening and closing the leaves hit each other, emitting a metallic clash.

Afterwards, a large number of leaves seemed like mad dogs biting at Saul and the tentacles around him.

Bite on the tentacle blade immediately pierced the tentacle surface skin, but the tentacle was bitten through the place but also outflow of black liquid, direct corrosion of the blade.

But more blades also then pounced on Sol.

The blades that bit into Sol’s bones failed to leave the slightest trace on them.

Bones that could withstand the corrosion of the Black Tide wouldn’t be hurt by a few magical leaves.

But at the same time, Sol was also imprisoned by the leaves’ attack.

Pound was slightly relieved when he saw that Saul was once again trapped by him.

“Despite trapping him, I still can’t absorb his soul. It’s a pity that we can’t turn him into Lord Beth’s sacrifice for the time being. However, when Lord Beth completely sacrifices the entire city and fuses the Inverted Tree to become the new locator, she will be able to truly resurrect! At that time, this boy will become the first tonic for Lord Beth’s resurrection!”

A smile, once again, returned to Tree Man Pound’s face.

(End of chapter)