Chapter 857 – Calm?
Chapter 857 – Calm Winds and Waves?
For the next three days, things went somewhat strangely smooth.
Perhaps it was because of the extra blackflame emperor and the two external helpers, Saul, the casualties had been well controlled, although there were deaths among the formal wizards, the death toll did not reach the warning line, while the apprentices did not even use up their replacements.
Therefore, Royer’s face has recovered some smiles, and can joke with Saul.
“It seems that this Black Tide is still a little baby, I just don’t know how long the next Black Tide will give us to prepare, one year? Or five years?”
Saul didn’t answer, rigorously discussing hectic issues before going off duty.
And during this period, Alfonso hardly left the bottom of the sea, but his mental power fluctuation had been stable, without any changes.
This meant that the situation at the bottom of the sea was manageable.
But even so, Royer would still enter the seabed and walk around every day, as if he was afraid that something would change on Alfonso’s side alone.
And from the fourth day onwards, the new round of black tide had a tendency to weaken. Even the monsters in the sea weren’t as dense as they were in the beginning.
Sol also suffered some minor injuries while fighting these days. It was mainly because on the third day, there were an especially large number of alienated monsters attacking the defense zone at the same time.
At that time, Royer had already been entangled in another defense zone, but at the same time, there was another defense zone being attacked by two third-rank strength alienated monsters that could barely last even a minute.
Saul had rushed all the way against the tidal wave of monsters to the defense zone at the very edge, and then hardened himself against the attack of one of the third-order monsters, first focusing his firepower on destroying the other third-order monster, and then turning around to use his tentacles to directly suck the remaining third-order alienated monsters dry, which saved the official sorcerers in that defense zone from dying out.
He, on the other hand, suffered some minor injuries to his back, and the sorcerer’s robe inscribed with a defense spell formation was half broken.
However, although Saul rescued him in time, under the attack of two third-order alienated monsters, there was still only one official sorcerer left in the entire defense zone.
In this small defense area, the sorcerer apprentices all died in the first moment of facing the third-order monsters directly.
In the end, the only remaining formal sorcerer automatically merged into the rear defense area according to the arrangement of the ruling court, completely abandoning the frontmost group of defense area.
It might seem like Saul hadn’t been able to change the outcome of one defensive zone being lost, but he had saved a second-order sorcerer, and the impact on a defensive zone was still very great.
After solving a small crisis, Saul returned along the road and helped clear out many monsters along the way.
By the time he returned to Royer, who had rushed over, even the wound on his back had completely healed.
Now, seeing that the battle was coming to an end, with the number of monsters and the height of the black tide weakening, Saul also finally returned to the shore and let out a long breath of relief.
At the same time, he habitually glanced at the surface of the sea, and Alfonso’s spiritual power was still stable.
“Is this about to end?” Saul thought silently in his mind, “Did I misunderstand the diary? The reason and occasion for the deaths of the three Third Order was not the Black Tide Defense Battle?”
He looked up and saw the Black Flame Emperor Aero again.
There was no mega-crisis that had arisen in the past few days, so this emperor had not formally taken action and had been monitoring the whole situation.
At this time, Royer suddenly returned to the shore as well, “Saul, you’ve worked hard these days, the tide is starting to ebb, now that the battle is basically over, there’s only some finishing work left, so there’s no need for you to work hard, so you can go back now.”
Saul’s heart suddenly jumped.
Could it be that the reveal of the masquerade actually happened at the end of the ball?
That’s right, the only time the masquerade ended was when the dancers unveiled their masks.
Saul’s spirit lifted, and he was even more unable to leave now!
“I’ve come all this way, I’d better stick it out until the end.” Saul shook his head.
Royer glanced at Saul and suddenly changed his tone, “Well then, with you here, these wizards are more at ease.”
During the time that Saul was there, besides killing monsters, he would occasionally save the wizards that didn’t die through.
Once the wizards in the defense zone were hit hard, they would be pulled by the monsters towards the depths of the sea. Their defenses were shattered, and they would immediately be contaminated when they entered the black tide.
There were powerful sorcerers who could still escape, but the contamination on their bodies was enough to make them lose all their fighting strength and turn them into sheep to be slaughtered.
It was these people that Saul mainly rescued.
He was only good at treating black tide contamination, and the people here needed to be treated for black tide contamination the most.
As a result, after four days of fighting and healing experiences, Saul’s reputation in the entire Court of Judgment had also reached heights that even their local third-ranked wizards could hardly reach.
It was almost on par with Royer and Alfonso.
Thus Royer’s words that the other sorcerers were more at ease were not false.
However, after he complimented Saul, he added, “Then I’m counting on you here, and when the Black Tide is completely over, some of the materials you consumed will be doubly replenished by the Court of Judgment.”
“Next I’m going to take a look at the defense regions in charge of other third-order sorcerers, anyway, there’s still Emperor Ai Luo here, where something happens it’s impossible for anything to happen here.”
Royer laughed, and without waiting for Sol to open his mouth, he directly turned into a ray of fire and flew along the coast into the distance.
Sol was confused by the other party’s sudden maneuver.
“How come I’m not going back, but Royer is gone? He left here at the last minute, could it be that he’s going to uncover the masquerade?”
Saul inhaled the stinky air and was still calm inside. He looked at the Black Flame Emperor in front of him, and then looked at Alfonso’s stable spiritual power coming from the sea, and thought to himself, “It doesn’t matter, after running away with one, there are still two more. If we really can’t participate in the masquerade described in the diary, we can also let Mithril come out after the black tide ends. By that time, Nefret will have three fewer heavyweight third-order sorcerers, and Midol’s appearance will be considered timely rain, and the subsequent Xander operation should be able to stand on its own feet.”
Having prepared alternatives long ago, Saul was not anxious about the matter of Royer’s sudden departure, and still supervised the situation in the defense region that Royer was originally responsible for.
Just then, his gaze unconsciously shifted to the waters below the Red Sea Grove.
“It seems like Royer didn’t go to the bottom of the sea today …… to check on Alfonso’s situation.”
“He went every day before, why isn’t he going today?”
Saul frowned a little, “Is it because he doesn’t feel the need to check today?”
His eyes suddenly widened as his gaze moved back to Emperor Blackflame.
“This Black Flame Emperor in front of me is most likely Stuart in disguise, so the spiritual power coming from the bottom of the sea must be the real Alfonso?”
Before when Royer checked in, Alfonso was definitely there, but this time Royer didn’t check in, does it mean that Royer knows …… that Alfonso is not there?
Saul’s brow gradually stretched as he once again swept over the entire defense area and suddenly took off from the cliff before slamming headfirst into the sea like a cannonball.
Royer had already led the way once, and this time Saul found where Alfonso was on his own without much effort.
At this moment, Saul saw Alfonso still standing in the sorcery spell, intently observing the mermaids all over the ground.
Saul quickly approached Alfonso, but just halfway through his swim, he stopped.
There was no other reason, at this distance, with Saul’s strong spiritual power, he was already able to sense something different about Alfonso in front of him.
This Alfonso in front of him was simply a fake mirror image!
The real Alfonso was long gone from the spell formation, but his spiritual power was still spreading steadily and continuously to the sea, making the illusion that he was still at the bottom of the sea.
“Such a fake mirror image is even Alfonso’s mask. Now, he has removed his mask. In other words, his death is near!”
(End of chapter)