Chapter 264: You’d better go

Chapter 264: You’d better go now
“Ah…”

“Ah… yah…”

The rest of the Knaus Union team finally reacted after the head knight commander left the crowd behind and fled.

They let out wails of fear while scattering in all directions to escape.

Some of those who reacted slowly were slapped by the red wave before running a few steps. They immediately let their eyes go blank and fell to the ground. More currents then covered his body.

These currents greedily surrounded the body, even pausing to spread in all directions for this reason.

And as a result, a portion of the lucky ones escaped extinction for the time being.

……

A few minutes ago.

Saul and Mochi Mochi had just stepped into the small, dilapidated courtyard where Ada lived.

“Why did you come here first? Why?” Mochi Mochi asked suspiciously, not seeing how this small compound was special to the town as a whole.

“I wanted to confirm something first.”

The gate to the small courtyard that had been broken the last time was tilted and hanging off to the side, still unrepaired.

Saul stepped into the small courtyard and raised his eyes to the room belonging to Ada directly across the hall.

Then, between the cracks in the boards of the window, he saw a silver eye that shone like the Milky Way.

Mochi Mochi saw Saul stop and curiously stepped around him, “What’s wrong? What’s the matter? Has an enemy appeared?”

Saul raised his index finger in a gesture of silence.

“I’ll go over and see, it looks like someone I recognize.”

Could it be Penny and Ada back again?

No, Penny’s eyes had long since ceased to be the silver color of the stars, and there was no way that they could still be in Mill Sail Town with their status and abilities.

Unless someone forced them to do so.

Mochi Mochi raised a thin eyebrow and thought, “Could there be other sorcerer apprentices coming in as well?”

He was instantly a little anxious in his heart, “Also, with such an obvious spell-assisted ceremony outside, except for Saul and others like him who are still not too familiar with spells. If there are other third level sorcerer apprentices who see it, I’m afraid that not many of them will be able to hold back their hearts.”

Mochi Mochi looked into the courtyard and didn’t find a single living person, nor did he see anything out of the ordinary.

“I’ll wait for you outside.” Mochi Mochi simply exited the small courtyard.

Saul kept an eye on the diary’s movements and didn’t object.

“After entering the town, it seems that I don’t need to move with Mochi Mochi. It should be the case that that guy will take the initiative to tackle the curse in the town, drawing the enemy’s firepower, so the safety is greatly improved as well.”

Regardless of what caused the diary to no longer issue death warnings, Saul was happy to split up with Mochi Mochi.

It was just the silver starry eyes in the small courtyard that made him a little uneasy.

Had it been another hallucination?

“Ah… ah —-“

At this moment a sharp shriek broke the silence between Saul and Mochi Mochi, Mochi Mochi’s eyes twitched and immediately said to Saul, “I’ll go over and take a look.”

He tossed Saul a gold coin with a lift of his hand.

Saul took a look and could only distinguish that it was an ancient coin.

Both sides had the exact same design of a smiling, beautiful face.

And the side of the coin was engraved with miniature sorcery runes.

The necromantic runes on this are in the most versatile language that Thor has mastered.

Sol rolled the coin around in his hand and immediately deciphered the basic information of connection, perception, and summoning on it.

This seems like it should be a sorcery prop for communication from the same source. “When you need to call me, tap your ear three times with the gold coin and you can speak into it.”

Without waiting for Sol to reply, Mochi Mochi bent his knees and slammed his legs into the ground again, “whoosh” jumping to the next block.

He then hopped like a rabbit to some rooftop every now and then, darting closer to the source of the sound.

Saul wasn’t sure what was going on over there, but he didn’t want to get involved at this point.

He turned back to look once more into the room where Ada had been, and the eye had disappeared.

“Penny and Ada should have already left this place, and the silver eye that was just there was probably an illusion. After all, Mochi Mochi said this is a cursed area, it’s only natural that there would be weirdness that could affect my consciousness.” Saul lifted his chin a bit, “Komochi, go over there and take a look.”

Algae answered and without any hesitation scurried over to that window.

However, it did not break the window. Instead, it split into an even tinier doppelganger and drilled in along the window crack.

After a while, Little Algae’s doppelganger shrank back and reintegrated into the main body.

It returned to Sol and shook its head, signaling that it had found nothing.

Saul let the little algae go back and squinted at the hut, and in his semi-immersed meditation, he didn’t notice any residual contamination from the spirit either.

It was unusually clean, just as it had been on his last visit.

But last time it was because there were wandering witches here who purposely collected spirits, and this time it was because of what?
Did this town’s curse target spirits as well?
Considering the silver starlight eye that was the same as the cocoon of the Nightmare Butterfly, Saul decided to go over and take a look anyway.

Other things he could care less about, but the Nightmare Butterfly …… Saul intuited that that thing was important to him!
He walked forward, and a spherical shroud of light appeared once around his body.

Even though Algae said it hadn’t found anything, Saul opened his Spirit Armor Technique defense before approaching the hut where Ada originally lived.

The door to the hut was not locked, and with a gentle push, the old doorway made an unpleasant creaking sound.

Saul entered the hut and walked around, also checking out the small cabinet where Penny had lived in the first place.

Whenever Ada was out, Penny would look outside through the small gap between the cupboard and the window.

Even though she couldn’t see anything, she seemed to sense the presence and emotions of others.

This was probably the only joy in Penny’s boring childhood.

But after searching around the room, Saul found nothing.

“Could it really be my hallucination?” Saul was in no hurry to leave, “It’s possible.”

“It’s just that with my current spiritual power, it should be difficult to be affected by an illusion. Unless the person who inflicted the illusion has reached the level of a full-fledged sorcerer.”

Despite having enough mental power to match that of a formal sorcerer, Saul was not blindly arrogant.

“But since Penny and Ada have already escaped from here, I don’t need to stay any longer. Climb up to the roof in a while and see if there are any other visions in the town, then …… try to avoid them and look for the residence of those two sorcerer apprentices.”

If there was any place in the town where there were still grinding sound fruits remaining, it must be the residence of the two wandering sorcerer apprentices.

However, when Sol was just about to step out of the hut, a voice suddenly came from behind.

“Brother Saul.”

The muscles in Saul’s entire body instantly tightened up, even so tightly that the veins at the corners of his forehead could be clearly seen pulsing.

He slowly turned around and saw Penny’s little head with a cute smile that had just poked out of the cabinet.

Her arms were folded, resting on the lower edge of the cabinet tilting her head, her head pressed against her arm, staring into a pair of starry eyes, once again looking exactly in the direction where Saul was.

“Penny?” Saul didn’t risk attacking until he was clear on the danger of the visions.

“Brother Saul, you should go.” Penny was still smiling, even the arc of her smile was the same as before, “Listen, the red tide is coming. If you don’t leave, you won’t be able to leave.”

As if a certain switch had been flipped, as soon as Penny’s words fell, Saul suddenly heard the sound of a wave hitting the reef.

“Wow……wow……wow……wow……”

(End of chapter)