Chapter 760.
Chapter 760 – Tracking Down
Ophelia remained stoic and smiled.
Saul was sure that it wasn’t a gnashing of teeth tearing and grinding under her reddish lips.
However, the Sky City Lord remained silent for a few seconds before continuing, “Yes, Krum did find a way to circumvent my surveillance within Sky City’s White Glazed Castle.”
She looked at Pei’er who had her mouth covered, “But I’ve also thought of a way to deal with it, would you like to hear it?”
Pelle’s eyes widened and she whimpered twice.
“But I don’t want to tell you.”
Oliphia’s words made Pelle’s eyes glare once again.
Saul stepped forward to block Pelle, “Do you want me to continue helping you research the biography about the Water God that Krum read before he died?”
Ophelia shook her head, “Although you are a genius, the knowledge of the Water God is not an area you specialize in, and it would be better to find a few ordinary scholars if I asked you to help me with my research. In fact, I only found the first half of the biography on the dead Krum, while the second half was hidden by him.”
She couldn’t help but raise her head a bit, revealing the thin, soft, snow-white, curved, just-not-like-a-neck neck.
“I’m secretly searching for the second half of those biographies right now. At the same time, I’ve closed off most of the passages out of the city, and I’m monitoring the whole island for irregularities. So there’s no way I can work with you right now.”
“I understand what you mean.” Speaking of which, Saul finally realized what Ophelia was busy with right now, “Tracking down the cause of Krum’s death and retrieving the hidden biographies. After completing these, you will be able to help me contact Pelle of the World of Illusions?”
Ophelia finally nodded.
“Then, our transaction can begin.” Sol nodded and saluted, then turned around, “Please have someone take me to the location of Krum’s death first.”
Saul walked to the gate, which was opened by a pair of invisible hands.
The sunlight from outside shone in tentatively.
The Oona sorcerer who had led Saul here was still standing in the doorway, like a skillful statue.
“Oona, you will temporarily serve as Saul’s assistant. Any information that doesn’t involve the top secret level can be accessed by him.”
Oona, who had previously been able to salute naturally in the face of Ophelia’s doppelganger, shuddered for a moment before stiffly bending her knees, “Yes, Lord City Lord.”
Saul turned back, but the only thing left on the throne was the white porcelain vase, and the Sky City Lord inside was already gone.
It had probably burrowed back in.
The gate closed immediately after Sol left the main hall.
“Lord Saul, what do you need to do now?”
“I need to go see the place where the Krum wizard died.”
Oona froze, and the smile on her face wasn’t as good as it had been before.
“So the Lord of the City has given this task to you.”
Saul watched Ona’s expression, and only said when the other party was almost sweating, “Did you have anything to do with Krum’s death?”
“No, no.” Oona bowed her head, not looking flustered.
Then she was just nervous about something else, as well as, well, scared.
The place of Krum’s death was in a room inside the White Glazed Castle.
It was rather isolated, surrounded mostly by places where goods of lesser used materials were kept.
As soon as Sol and Ona approached, they felt a cool air.
He realized that a small house appeared ahead, with a thick layer of frost on the inside of the doorway. The cool air was radiating from the room.
Saul didn’t enter immediately, but looked around, “This room can be isolated from City Lord Ophelia’s monitoring, but won’t he arouse suspicion by appearing in such a remote place?”
“It won’t. There are many other places like this in the castle.” Along the way, Oona had already organized her emotions and answered for Saul with a big smile, “There are many wizards living within the White Glaze Castle. Most of them are scholars who are very good at delving into their studies, but their temperament is also very eccentric. There are times when they just like to run to strange places to study and read, saying that it inspires them. That’s why there are many rooms laid out within the castle, just to make it easier to give them places to study.” Saul nodded slowly, “Plus the City Lord can monitor the entire White Glaze Castle and even sense the entire Sky City, so she doesn’t really care where these wizards are researching. It’s just that I didn’t expect that someone would use the ice to seal the room’s surroundings and isolate her monitoring.”
Ona’s face turned slightly white and she involuntarily lowered her voice, “That’s why we’ve been secretly tracking down the cause of Krum’s death and the whereabouts of the things he stole, and this place would not have been normally accessible if I hadn’t brought you here.”
Saul thought back to the scene all the way here, but he didn’t find any facilities that prevented other people from entering, not even a spiritually suggestive prop.
However, he quickly understood how City Lord Ophelia prevented others from entering.
Because while they were talking, an Ophelia in a long navy blue dress walked out from that frozen house.
“City Lord-sama.” Ona immediately saluted.
Facing Ophelia in a dress, her emotions were not as tense as they were just now.
She seemed to have made Ophelia, who was everywhere in the castle, and Ophelia in the main hall, who only had her head and neck exposed, into two people.
“Well, you can wait outside.” The blue-skirted Ophelia didn’t smile, but it wasn’t as oppressive as the Ophelia in the white porcelain vase.
“Greetings, Lord City Lord.” Sol stepped forward and took the initiative.
The Ophelia in front of her still nodded her head skilfully, then turned around and entered the frozen room.
“Come in and talk.”
Thor followed and walked in.
The doors to the house immediately closed, turning the place back into a frozen world.
The frozen room could isolate Ophelia’s monitoring, but there was no way the other party would let Saul investigate without paying attention to his movements.
So this blue-skirted Ophelia in front of him was the one deliberately left in the room, a more precise camera probe with an independent transmission signal.
“It looks like you know why I came over? Was it your previous preparations, or was it a message passed to you from the main hall?” Sol inquired curiously.
The Ophelia in front of him didn’t have much of an emotional change, “Are you asking if the transmission of information is synchronized between different Ophelias?”
Sol held his chin and did not deny it.
“But I’m not obligated to tell you.” Ophelia said, stepping to the side of the room to make way for the space inside, also allowing Saul to see the body located in the inner lounge.
Despite having been dead for over two days, the body that fell to the floor was still fresh, and did not have that ghastly white look of the deceased’s bloodless face.
Saul squatted down and pressed Krum’s skin with his fingertips, and it was also soft and elastic, not affected in the slightest by the freezing coldness of this place.
Saul raised his hand and pressed again, and this time his fingertips turned into translucent gray skin.
The skin immediately disappeared into the dead body when it touched it, and only the bones remained outside.
The blue-skirted Ophelia stood just behind Saul, quietly watching him perform the deed, not hiding her intent to spy at all.
Saul slowly closed his eyes.
“Gulp ……”
He heard a sound of bubbling water.
After a few moments, Saul opened his eyes to regain his footing and faced Ophelia, “His body did die from drowning, but the water in his body is not the same as the water stored here.”
Saul was a bit puzzled, “The water was very salty and had some algae. It seems to be from the deep sea.”
He turned back to look once again at Krum’s body that resembled a living person in appearance.
“Only a small amount of consciousness remains in his soul, and his main body is already gone. In his remaining consciousness, I heard the sound of water.”
(End of chapter)