Chapter 304 – The Difficulty of Advancing

Chapter 304: The Difficulty of Advancing

When Saul and the adjusted Byron left the lab, Korie had already completed a series of preparations and was leisurely sitting in the front room flipping through the books that the original owner, Mochi Mochi, had thrown on the table.

Hearing a voice, she looked up from her text just in time to see the two of them, Saul, who came down the stairs one after the other.

Saul, in particular, was carrying a backpack in his hand.

“You guys …… are leaving now?” She casually dropped the book in her hand on the couch.

“Yes. It’s been a long time since I’ve been back to the depot. I was thinking I’d be back in ten days or so this time out, but I accidentally stayed another half month, so I need to get back and hand over my work quickly.”

Saul knew that after he and Byron left, Korrie would be left alone in Black Fort. Although Korrie had volunteered to come over to study her sorcery. And with her character, she wouldn’t care about that, but being in the Black Castle was after all not as convenient as being in the Sorcerer’s Tower.

“I’m sorry, it’s so hard to meet and leave in a hurry.” It had been a long time since Saul had studied and researched with Korrie.

It seemed that after advancing to second level apprentice, both of them stepped into different directions.

Rather, it was Korrie who was a bit more spontaneous.

She shrugged her shoulders and said, “It doesn’t matter. If one day we always get together to gossip, that’s probably when we’re not far from death.”

She added, “I’ve left transmission rails in the registry and at Mentor Guido’s – things that communicate directly with the Black Fortress, that is. If you have anything to find me, you can go to these two places …… Oh yeah, remember to prepare enough magic crystals. Transmission rails are very magic consuming.”

“Then let’s just exchange letters.” Sol smiled and refused.

Korrie rolled her eyes and sat back down on the couch, feeling for the book she had tossed aside earlier and continuing to flip through it.

Saul said goodbye to her, “I’ll be off with Senior Byron then.”

Korrie didn’t show her face, just raised one hand and waved it casually.

Who knew that Byron suddenly spoke, “Actually, you don’t need to call me senior anymore. If I’m not mistaken, you should have already entered the third level, right?”

Saul didn’t expect Senior Byron to see it, and he didn’t deny it, “Yes.”

This half month Saul had successfully mastered the 2nd rank sorcery Abusive Touch.

He had now officially become a 3rd level sorcerer apprentice!

“Snap!”

Korie’s book slipped from her palm and slapped hard on the ground.

“You’re level three?” She stood up incredulously, “You’ve only been level two for how long? Has it been three months?”

Sol thought hard, “Almost half a year.”

“And you think about it?” Kori clenched her fists, a gritted look on her face.

She then suddenly puffed out her chest again and said with a straight face, “The next time we meet …… I’ll catch up with you.”

Her eyes burned, not thinking for a second that she was talking big.

And Saul on the opposite side also collected his smile and solemnly nodded his head, “I believe in you.”

Both of them were incomparably certain about the matter of Keri being able to advance to the third level, and only Byron on the side felt that he had been stabbed in the back.

He thought about his own age, and the age of the teenage girl in front of him, and for a while his expression withered down.

……

It didn’t take long for Saul and Byron to get on the carriage they came in.

The two carriages were much larger than the one Saul had ridden in alone, and it was unknown who had paid to rent them.

Behind them, the Black Castle had been thoroughly shaded by the trees before Saul turned back from the carriage window.

It wasn’t the parting thoughts that made people unable to resist turning back frequently, but it was that Saul secretly left something in the Black Castle before he left.

After Saul turned back, Little Algae also quietly and silently drilled out of the car window, following its master’s example and scrutinizing the doppelgangers that it had left behind in Black Castle.

Although Cori is not as easy to attract “firepower” as Saul, and she even has witchcraft props personally prepared by her mentor to protect herself, Saul knows that the relationship between Desert City and Black Castle is not as solid as it seems, so naturally he is not too worried about Cori staying here alone. Therefore, he ordered Algae to leave its doppelganger here, allowing it to seize the nutrients from the Devil’s Vine at critical moments to protect Keri.

Little Algae was a Soul Devouring Devil Swamp, originally a tier of demonic creatures with the Devil Vine. But since it followed Sol, its power was also influenced by the diary and was getting stronger.

Therefore, when Little Algae encountered the Devil Vine, it was able to easily suppress the other party, and nearly took over their lair.

I’m sure it didn’t take long for Devil Vine to discover the little algae doppelganger in the Black Fortress Forest.

Hopefully it wouldn’t cry too loudly by then.

“I really envy you guys.” Byron, who was sitting across from Saul, saw Saul finally sit up straight before he sighed quietly.

“Hmm?” Saul was still thinking about the Black Fortress and Desert City, and didn’t react for a moment.

“For you and Korie, advancing to a third level apprentice is only a matter of time. Unlike me, if I hadn’t gotten your Plastic Bone Formula, I would probably have left the Sorcerer’s Tower by now, and be out there alone hopelessly chasing the method of advancement, right?”

Sol smiled, “Actually, it’s still the senior who relied on his own wisdom to have an epiphany, that formula of mine isn’t really a solution to the problem.”

“But I have a deep understanding of how rare an opportunity for an epiphany is.”

It seemed that having solved the problem of the evil spirit in his body, Senior Byron, who hadn’t spoken for a long time, opened his words at once.

“Even for the powerful Sorcerer’s Tower, it’s very difficult to train a third level apprentice. Even Kong Sha, who had outstanding talent in the beginning, is still out there struggling to find a way to be able to advance.”

Speaking here, Byron suddenly remembered something, his face slightly sullen.

“Right, Nick died.”

Saul was stunned, “Nick senior ……”

The last time he saw Nick, he realized that the other party’s state was not right. Thinking that the other party had also helped him in the Drooping Hand Valley, Saul opened his mouth to inquire about the other party’s situation.

It was a pity that Nick was not willing to say anything to Saul, and had not come to Saul of his own accord.

Moreover, Nick majored in the light attribute, so even if Saul knew the trouble the other party was facing, I’m afraid he couldn’t help.

“How did he die? Was it an accident, or was he killed?” Thinking of Nick’s deep connection with the Ground Sound Fruit, Saul hurriedly asked Byron about the cause of Nick’s death.

“Neither. Failed to advance and suffered contamination.”

“Failed advancement ……,” Saul muttered, “really does kill you.”

Saul recalled the last time he had seen Nick.

Nick majored in light attributes, but studied sorcery that was all related to emotions. Saul never asked why emotions belonged to light.

Saul had always felt that majoring in the dark attribute was more dangerous, after all, it often dealt with death and evil spirits. The knowledge also seemed bizarre and full of chaos and evil.

But now it seemed that the light attribute might just sound good too.

Byron told Saul that Nick majored in emotions but also needed to suppress his emotions, and every time he was injured or his mental body fluctuated, the fear, sadness, and even pleasure that he suppressed would come back like a tsunami.

If he can’t withstand the emotional tsunami’s backlash, his spirit will collapse.

As a result, Nick often needed the Sound Grinding Fruit to help him get through the toughest times of the emotional tsunamis.

“These descriptions would rather match Nick’s last state.” Because of hearing the news of an acquaintance’s death, Saul’s mind couldn’t help but fluctuate a bit, “But that tense look he had at the end didn’t seem like he was merely tainted.”

Saul remembered that Nick was emotionally tense, but his sanity was not affected, and he even gave him the only remaining Sound Grinding Fruit.

Sol frowned.

The apprentice who had applied for a large amount of Sound Grinding Fruits in the registration room at the beginning had died, and the entirety of Mill Sail Town had even been terminated. Now even Nick, who was most familiar with the effects of the Sound Grinding Fruit, was dead.

The atmosphere in the carriage grew heavy.

Now, almost everyone related to the Sound Grinding Fruit was dead!
(End of chapter)