Chapter 254: The Master
Chapter 254 The Master
This Herman was the same as the one Saul had seen in the Valley of the Drooping Hand, his body and even his clothes were nearly transparent, and he could easily see through him to the opposite stone platform.
The person also looked a bit goofy.
It was completely different from the aura of the living Herman.
“Herman?” Saul called his name.
Herman did react to his name, but merely looked at Saul in a mute manner.
“While still conscious, it is also very fuzzy and nearly dissipated.”
“Sure enough, if I had continued to talk to the black page of the book and Herman before, I’m afraid that page would have disappeared just like Bill.”
Looking at the walking corpse-like Herman, Saul thought of the other two and hurriedly pulled off the second black book page.
As soon as that page hit the ground, it took on the appearance of Morton.
And Morton’s appearance was even stranger.
He was also nearly transparent, only a little more solid than Herman, and apparently about to run out of energy and dissipate as well.
But it was his appearance that really surprised Saul.
While Morton’s upper body was still normal, his lower body had five human legs!
Each leg was completely different in thickness and size.
Totally from a different person.
“Lord Morton?” Sol asked tentatively.
Morton on the opposite side was in a trance for a moment, but he quickly reacted and looked at Saul, saying with some surprise, “You? You are Saul? So it’s you!”
He recognized the teenager who had once been possessed by himself, but after being stunned for a moment, he was not annoyed, “Although I had been communicating with you before, my consciousness was blurred, and I don’t remember dying or the experience of turning into an evil spirit.”
Morton looked down at his hands, “Even now I can feel that I am being controlled, only getting a brief moment of freedom of thought.”
He looked at Saul’s eyes were incredibly complex, and suddenly changed his address, “Your ability …… is more powerful than I thought.”
“I’m only a second level apprentice at the moment. It’s not as powerful as you think.” Saul didn’t explain too much, the information involving the diary was still good for him to know alone.
Seeing that Saul did not want to say more, Morton did not pursue the question, after all, now he was under the control of others, and even survival or not was but a matter of his thoughts.
Morton tried to hide his inner fear.
He didn’t even dare to think that if there was no limit to Saul’s ability, then could he use it to control all souls?
What was this?
The Lord of Death?
Or to change it to a commoner’s foolish name – God of Death?
Morton had just thought of this and immediately noticed that his state was a little unstable.
The points of light around the stone platform, which were originally as quiet as the starry sky, in an instant actually exuded an incomparable fearful pressure.
This pressure quickly condensed into substance, causing Morton to instantly feel the immense pressure of having his internal organs squeezed out.
Looking at Morton’s momentary hideousness, the unaware Saul narrowed his eyes, “Lord Morton?”
Morton was jolted, as if he was awakened from a nightmare, and immediately collected his thoughts, no longer thinking much.
He understood that this was not an ordinary world, and thinking would also invite terror.
“I am in a more lucid state than before. Is there something you need me to do?”
Morton looked a little nervous.
“Not for now.” Saul smiled, looking down and tearing out another page that belonged to Agu.
Agu’s body appeared a little faster than Morton’s.
“The more conscious a person is, the faster they appear.” Saul summarized his findings in his mind.
When Agu came out, he didn’t open his mouth to ask anything at first, but instead looked around vigilantly.
Looking at the huge stone platform under his feet, the pitch-black void, and the light source in the void that looked suspiciously like a star.
He could not hide the surprise in his heart, “Could this be the world side?”
“World side?” Saul’s heart stirred, he had heard Billy also talk about the world side, but that seemed to be related to elves.
When Agu heard Saul’s voice, he hurriedly turned back and respectfully bowed to Saul.
“I’m sorry, master.”
He noticed that his body was translucent, while Saul across from him was no different from a real person.
This second-ranked sorcerer who had several hundred years of life experience and had also worked as a librarian for the Golza family for a long time immediately understood his situation. He didn’t think anything at all about being able to move freely for a while.
Because he understood that sometimes, the freer one seemed to be, the more one would actually be bound invisibly.
When Agu saw the five-legged old man beside Saul, he hurriedly ran to stand in front of Saul’s side with a wary face.
It was a bit closer than Morton.
“Master, are they the spirits you took in?”
“Master?” Before Saul could say anything, Morton responded first, “Yes, in fact, I should also call you master.”
Without the slightest regard for the difference in strength between himself and Saul, he respectfully bowed down slightly and saluted.
Herman, who was standing in the distance with a stagnant face, suddenly followed suit, “Master.”
Saul opened his mouth, originally wanting to tell them that they didn’t need to be addressed in this manner, but when the words reached his mouth, he swallowed them.
There was no need to tell them the truth, so it was better to let them make up their own minds.
The experience of his previous life shows that self-deception is the most frightening.
The most conscious Agu and Morton locked eyes on each other, and where their gazes met, there were hidden electric sparks flashing.
Seeing this, the corner of Saul’s mouth rose slightly, and he thought: ”It’s not wrong to say that it’s the master. After all, the survival and demise of these people is just between my thoughts.”
Regardless of the hidden fight between the two people around him, Saul looked towards Herman, who was shaped like a demented person, “It always feels like if I don’t care about him anymore, I’m afraid that he’ll disappear before I can wait for my next question.”
Transforming into a humanoid spirit seems to consume energy as well, and right now Herman is even more transparent than when he first appeared.
One hand was almost invisible.
Just now, Herman had only said one sentence, and his body was vaguely on the verge of collapsing.
Within the space of consciousness, the depleted consciousness would turn into fine snowflakes, either scattering into the endless starry sky around them, or being gripped and absorbed by the diary.
“Let’s try to see if we can help Herman replenish his energy first. It’s just as well that he’ll be a guinea pig, and it won’t hurt if he disappears.”
Saul took the initiative to walk towards Herman.
The two spirit bodies behind him hurriedly followed.
It really had the posture of a master.
Arriving in front of Herman, Saul stretched out his right hand, “In the world of consciousness, my actions are the most intuitive manifestation of my consciousness. So if I want to channel energy to Herman, then I’ll do so directly!”
His right hand suddenly softened and morphed, transforming into an octopus tentacle in the blink of an eye.
And after the originally stupefied Herman saw Saul’s tentacle, his already transparent face instantly turned pale and his entire body trembled.
The opponent’s instinctive reaction immediately made Saul stop.
“Not right.” The tentacle that Saul retracted, “In my conscious perception, tentacles are transformed to facilitate feeding. I need to preserve Herman’s body of consciousness right now, and if I make contact with the tentacle, I’m afraid that it will automatically just eat Herman.”
A different approach is needed.
“Since I was able to turn myself into an octopus form for faster absorption. Then it should also be possible to turn into other forms to transfer energy in the opposite direction.”
“What form is to provide energy to others? It has to be in line with my perceptions, otherwise it forms a deviation, which also creates a different effect.”
Saul’s first thought was a battery generator, but these things were too complex in construction, and there was no way he could transform the form based on his imagination alone.
“Powering someone else …… to save Herman ……,” Saul pondered.
Behind him, Agu and Morton looked at Herman, who was about to dissipate, and were all in a state of mind, and did not dare to make a sound to disturb Saul.
Suddenly, Saul threw out one arm and stretched it out again, and the front of his hand had actually turned into a syringe.
The inside of the syringe swirled with dots of starlight, as if snowflakes were flipping in the wind.
The front end of the syringe was gathered in one place, turning into a slender needle.
Behind them, Morton and Agu, watching the two changes in Saul’s arm, couldn’t help but look at each other, their hearts rippling.
The master was able to change his ideology at will, wasn’t he afraid of alienation and contamination?
Outside of incredulity, they felt even more trembling from their souls.
Agu looked at the lower half of Morton’s body that had turned into five human legs and gave a probing wink, while Morton just smiled bitterly and shook his head, signaling that his situation was completely different.
(End of chapter)