Chapter 743 – One of the Five Awns

Chapter 743 – One of the Five Awns
Bestana murmured, “Is there a second path I can take?”

There was something off about Bestana’s state, her voice was muffled as if she was hunkered down in some box talking.

Her mood was unusually negative, and it was clear that the sacrifices from the outside world were still causing misery, but she seemed to have decided that she could not be resurrected.

But this was completely at odds with the way she had just decisively initiated a city-wide sacrifice.

Just now, when she was about to drag Saul and Shia to die together, there was a final determination, and when she heard Saul say that there was a second way, it was as if her entire body’s strength had been deflated.

“Anyway, there’s nothing else you can do besides trusting me, isn’t there?”

Bestana’s eyes barely rolled, “Trusting you would only turn you into your experiment, wouldn’t it?”

“Of course there’s a price to pay for the deal, but it’s different from what you think of as an experiment. You can live with your sanity, but your freedom is restricted, but I can guarantee that after a hundred years of your service to me, I will set you free.”

Bestana was still hesitant, and Sol had already quietly probed the other party with her spiritual power.

He had to be careful of what tactics Bestana was using in the dark, at the same time, this hesitant and fragile and sensitive state of the other party really didn’t look like a third-ranked sorcerer.

At this moment, as his spiritual energy swept over a piece of shadow behind Bestana that was tightly wrapped by roots, his spiritual energy suddenly felt a burning heat, as if it had been scalded by something.

“What is that?” Sol was wondering.

Who knew that Bestana would answer him directly, “It’s a wishing candle.”

“Wishing candles?” Saul hadn’t heard of this thing, but why did Bestana actually answer him?
It was hard not to believe that this guy had gone crazy.

It was only after Sol reminded her that Bestana remembered the Wishing Candle she had just gotten from Shia.

“This thing is useless to me.” She used a tree branch to hand a white candle to Sol, “And I have to bear the cost of using it.”

Sol’s mental power first swept over the ordinary-looking candle before taking it.

At that moment, the candle suddenly lit up with a giggle.

At the same time, Saul’s heart moved, opened his left hand, and a dark red thick leather book appeared in his palm.

【Solar Calendar 320, May 15, Sunny

Wishing Candle.

Cursed Object.

Every time the candle lights up.

You can make a wish.

It will summon an item from the void that will help you fulfill your wish.

But it’s not responsible for making sure your wish comes true.

But as the person who makes the wish and blows out the candle.

One of your negative emotions will be amplified.

The harder it is to get your wish.

The stronger your negative emotion.

Until your soul is completely twisted.

And finally become the heart of a candle.]

Sol looked at Shia, who was still unconscious beside him, and Bestana, who had lost her fighting spirit in front of her, and finally realized how the abnormalities in these two’s personalities were caused.

Bestana’s amplified emotion should be despair.

As for Shia ……

Probably paranoia of victimization?

Bestana has been staring at the diary since Death Witch Day appeared in Saul’s palm.

Saul closed the diary and pressed the corner of the hardback book directly against what was left of Bestana’s face.

“You don’t have time for this, if you agree to the deal, then relax and don’t resist, if not, we’ll fight to the death again.”

After saying that, Saul didn’t wait for Beth to consider and immediately used the Death Witch Diary to absorb Bestana’s soul.

After all, Bestana was once a third-ranked sorcerer, and was currently not in a state of complete death, so if she resisted, there was a real possibility that the diary would not be able to absorb her spirit.

But the diary was only slightly hindered, and soon absorbed Bestana’s soul and turned it into Sol’s fifth black page.

The loss of Bestana’s roots completely transformed the last bit of her body into tree roots.

At the same time, the inverted tree without its controller began to grow crazily, almost in just a few seconds it swept up both Saul and Shia beside him.

This tree-center space was also trembling unsteadily.

The inverted tree without Bestana’s control began to grow randomly according to its mood. If it could no longer be controlled, it might evolve into a terrifying third-order monster that went around devouring people’s souls.

“Wake up, it’s your turn next!” Sol swung up the unconscious Shia, spun twice in the air, and viciously threw it into the center of where Bestana had just been.

Shaya suddenly opened his eyes the moment before he was thrown into the center of the tree, it seemed that he had just been pretending to be unconscious, and as a result, Saul was about to throw him into the Inverted Tree without even asking.

The poor Xiaya didn’t even say a word before he was sucked in by the Inverted Tree that suddenly lost its core.

However, he did need the Tree of Inversion, and despite the indignation in his heart, he honestly stabilized himself in the tree.

Shaya opened his eyes, “I ……”

He had just uttered a single word when he was shocked to see Saul actually swinging his fist to punch him.

“You do ……”

Again failing to utter the completed word, Shaya was once again distracted by the red pillar of light on Sol’s fist.

Shia’s vision immediately turned red, and even his consciousness came to a brief standstill.

This stagnation didn’t last long, it seemed to be just a blink of an eye before the piercing red light disappeared.

When Shia looked at everything in front of him again, Saul was already standing across from him in a good position, still holding a dark red hardcover book in his hand, with elegant movements and a calm demeanor.

It was as if the one who had just swung his fist to smash someone was not him at all.

“What the hell did you just do? Did you plant some kind of explosive in my body? Or did you put a curse on me?”

Saul was not surprised by Shia’s series of questioning.

However, he didn’t immediately pay attention to the other party, instead, he didn’t raise his head until he was sure that Korie’s auxiliary spell formation had finished connecting with Shia, “This is one of my attempts at remodeling, and it’s also a way to make sure that you won’t go down the same old path as Bestana afterward.”

Shia was still staying in the core of the Inverted Tree at this point, without even a body of her own.

He had been compelled by Sol to come and grab Bestana’s Inverted Tree though, to be the reliance for his own resurrection.

But in fact, he didn’t have too clear a plan on how he would be resurrected.

A third-order sorcerer as powerful as Bestana had failed to make use of the Tree of Inversion to resurrect.

Could he, a First Order – though he considered himself a genius – really do something that even a Third Order sorcerer had failed to do?
Right now, one could only trust Saul for now.

Saul knew that Shia didn’t trust him yet, and if the other party hadn’t already been parasitized by the starry eyes, at this point, Empty Run would have already run to other locations in the Tree of Inversions to hide from Saul.

Saul took out the wishing candle, at this time the candle is not extinguished, seems to be luring Saul to quickly make a wish.

But instead of making a wish, Saul returns it to Shia.

Shia looks at Saul incredulously, thinking that no one can resist the temptation of the wishing candle, but Saul gives it to him without making a single wish.

“Can you move now? If you can’t I can also keep this candle for you first.”

Shaya hurriedly tried with all his might and finally maneuvered the two thin and silky roots to retrieve the candle from Saul’s hands.

But even after getting the candle, he had a sense of unreality.

“Why don’t you want the wishing candles that everyone tends to want?”

“Is something that you have to be cursed to lose a part of your sanity by making a wish really any good? As a wizard, being able to control your own brain and sanity is the most important thing.”

Saul had no intention of using this candle after reading the diary’s description of the wishing candle.

There was no golden finger that was more important than a sorcerer’s brain.

But Saul was interested in another thing.

“The candle is returned to you, and in return, you give me that crystal vase.”

Shia froze for a moment, he didn’t know to how Saul knew about that crystal vase, obviously Saul wasn’t even in the space at that time.

“I can give it to you, but I’m not really sure what exactly that bottle does, it all needs to be researched by you.”

Shia painstakingly used a tree branch to bring the crystal vial from before to Saul.

Sol watched as Shaya moved with difficulty.

“Looking at you like this, it will still take a long time to get used to it……. But I can’t be watching you in the tree heart space all the time.”

Taking back the most important wishing candle, Shia calmed down a lot and he was finally able to say rationally, “What do you need me to do?”

“Stop the sacrifices to the outside world, and return all the branches of the tree to their cages, and move them around a bit.”

Xiaya didn’t know what Saul was going to do, but now that he was in the same boat as Saul, he could only say, “I’ll do my best.”

(End of chapter)