Chapter 327 – Soul Tide

Chapter 327 – Soul Tide
“What?”

Hearing Sol’s words, Xander froze in place, and it took three breaths before he asked again in disbelief.

“Do you remember anything special happening before you got off the ship?”

“I ……” Xander’s eyes kept fluttering.

The long buried truth was coming back to light and he was about to strain himself.

“Calm down, don’t you want to know exactly what Midori died of?”

Xander sniffled with effort and said in a shaky voice, “I remember, I remember, there was a soul tidal wave in Bluewater Bay before the ship docked, so we waited out at sea all night before docking early in the morning.”

“What’s a soul tide?” Saul hadn’t heard of this term.

“It is said that many years ago, there was a tragic war on this side of the western continent, with so many countries being caught up in it, and an empire, too, nearly perished because of it. At that time, there were two armies that clashed in Blue Water Bay.”

“Who knew that during a night battle in which both sides gave their all, the waters of the Blue Water Bay suddenly rose and engulfed all the soldiers, with only a few officers commanding from the rear escaping. After that, many people were inexplicably swept away by the waves in Bluewater Bay every year, and it wasn’t until the end of the war, when a sorcerer lord came to govern once, that this phenomenon of unexplained mass deaths stopped. But occasionally, there will be a large number of blurred figures accompanied by the high tide came ashore together, and accompanied by the falling tide recede together phenomenon. The residents of Bluewater Bay call it the Tide of Souls.”

“Whenever there is a soul tidal wave, people would go missing, so the captain informed us to stop at sea for a day and wait for dawn before docking. Could it be that night?”

“Did Meadowlark appear any different that night?”

“No. Being tired from the journey, I waited until she was in bed, and then leaned back in my chair and fell asleep too. Oh, yes!” Xander seemed to remember something and snapped his head around to stare at Saul, “In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard my sister calling for me, but when I woke up, she told me to go back to sleep, saying that there was nothing wrong. I thought she was playing a prank, plus I was too sleepy at the time, so I went back to sleep.”

“If I’m not mistaken, she died before she got off the ship.” Saul softened his voice, feeling like the Xander in front of him was a small figure made of sand, ready to be blown away by a gale.

“It can’t be, I obviously spoke to her before we got off the ship.” Xander waved his arms in agitation, “And I was the one who watched him get into the crate and sealed it with my own hands.”

He looked like an overwhelmed child at this point, having forgotten to honor the Sorcerer Lord.

“Maybe what you saw was a vision, maybe Meadowlark still had her own consciousness at that time, but a person who is smothered would not have her skin in the state it is in now.”

“Not …… smothered ……” Xander stared at his sister in awe, she was just as she was now as she had been a few years ago, like she had just fallen asleep, not died.

Saul lowered his eyes, propped his hands on his knees, and slowly stood up, saying, seemingly absently, “Anyway, she wasn’t accidentally smothered by you.”

Xander looked up suddenly, his already dry eyes suddenly reddening.

His lips trembled slightly, but he couldn’t say anything.

Saul didn’t let him say anything either, and directly interrupted, “Alright, I’ve inspected the house, and you’ve found the missing items, so let’s not procrastinate any longer and sign the sublease agreement now.”

Xander hadn’t calmed down yet and could only nod vigorously.

Repacking the suitcases, the two of them made their way back to the wagon outside the house and signed the agreement.

Afterward Saul had the mushroom wagon driver take the men back to the outpost town and returned to the lake house himself.

“Blue Water Bay, Soul Tide …… If that’s the case, there should be a lot of soul fragments and grudges there, on this scale, and maybe a few evil spirits.”

Sol closed the door and stood back up in the center of the hall, where the chest had just appeared.

“In the next couple of days, we can go over there to replenish our soul energy, it’s easy to milk ourselves dry by always sitting on our asses.”

Speaking here, Saul suddenly stomped his foot, “But before that, let’s solve the problem in this room first. Will you come out by yourself, or will I pull you out?”

There was no response from the room.

Saul wasn’t in a hurry, and a black tentacle stretched out from the back of his neck and hung down to the ground, roaming around the ground like a black python. “A rattan box suddenly appeared to make us leave as soon as possible?”

The head of the small algae stopped at a corner of a wall, and finally it extended upwards, crawling along the wall, traveling straight then making a right angle, finally traveling straight and making a right angle again.

Saul walked over and watched as the algae drew a square on the wall with its body.

“Well, the one controlling the box’s appearance doesn’t seem to be a conscious mind.”

Instead of finding the spiteful spirit he originally thought was hiding here, he found a strange passageway, and Saul rubbed his nose in a flash of embarrassment.

He motioned for Algae, who was extremely sensitive to the scent of death, to come back and went up to inspect it himself.

“An extremely well hidden dark room.” Saul’s hand brushed against the wall and did not feel any unusual touch.

He closed his eyes and recalled looking at the size of the cabin from the outside.

“There is indeed a secret room, but it should be small, is it to hide something?”

Saul’s hand pressed against the wall grew transparent, and his fingertips suddenly passed through the wooden wall.

But he didn’t go deeper and quickly pulled his hand out again.

The moment the hand was withdrawn, a grayish-white tentacle could be vaguely seen transforming into a human palm.

“There’s nothing inside, not even a defense sorcery.” After briefly exploring, Saul directly followed the square that Komoro had drawn earlier.

His magic power was released from between his fingers, transforming into a black overriding touch.

The corrosive power quickly broke through the spells on the walls, and a hidden door was revealed.

When Sol opened the door, he saw the sorcery spell formation inscribed behind it.

“What a complicated spell formation.” Saul only glanced at it, and with his current mental strength, he actually felt dizzy.

However, when he began to run the meditative thoughts, the dizziness was much lessened, and when he flipped through the journal again, the negative mental effects caused by the spell formation on him were all eliminated.

“This spell focuses on hiding the fluctuations, using a formula that I’ve never seen before. What was the original owner of this house trying to hide?”

Saul walked in and found that a layer of dust had fallen inside, he used his sorcery to remove the surface dust and finally saw the pattern on the floor that had been dusty for I don’t know how many years.

“Another spell formation? Using a spell to hide a spell?” Saul did not approach immediately, but instead peered to both sides of the room, waiting to make sure there were no more spells in the room before carefully approaching the spell.

“Hiding a house with a mountain forest, hiding a dark room with a witchcraft haunting similar to a blindfold, and hiding a spell formation with a dark room …… I’d like to see just how rare this hidden thing is.”

Saul scrutinized the entire spell formation, his brows gradually furrowing.

“Why does this spell formation look somewhat familiar?”

A light snapped on in his head, and his puzzled expression gradually changed to one of surprise.

In order to reconfirm his memory, Saul hastily searched through the notes he had brought with him.

He took out a notebook that was of little importance, but recorded rare and uncommon knowledge of sorcery, flipped to the first few pages, and settled on one of the spell formulas.

It was a …… sorcery spell formation for extracting souls that he had once gotten from a wandering sorcerer in Mill Sail Town!

And the sorcery spell formation for this so-called haunted house was clearly an upgraded version of the former!
(End of chapter)