Chapter 342 – Butterflies

Chapter 342 Butterfly
The night was already deep, and the moonlight couldn’t penetrate the thick clouds.

A light lit up on the cliff some distance away from Sol’s few people.

There was a dilapidated lighthouse, and it was unknown who remained alone on the seashore, bringing a little source of safe light to this dark sea.

Saul kept changing his position so that he was always standing with the water just above his ankles.

From time to time, he borrowed the Lingering Touch to send his soul morphing body deep into the seawater, detecting the concentration of soul fragments and other anomalies in the water.

Occasionally, there would also be pale arms that didn’t remember, coming over to hook up with him, and subsequently making a minuscule contribution to Sol’s soul energy reserves.

Andy and Parker quickly left the beach after Saul refused to cooperate and returned to the shadows under the bluff. The two figures were hidden, that seemed to be under the protection of sorcery.

All three were waiting for the tidal wave of souls to appear.

According to the description of the locals, before each soul tide appeared, the sky was overcast and the sea would blow very, very strong winds.

When many, many blurry silhouettes began to appear on the sea, it meant that the soul tide had come.

The sea would become warmer, but the clothes soaked with sea water would become heavier and heavier.

There will be many heavy breathing sounds around the snail collectors standing in the sea. If they untied the black scarf from their faces, they would realize that the breathing was actually from schools of fish emerging from the bottom of the sea.

The fish obviously cannot breathe on the surface of the water, but they stand upright one by one, push their mouths out of the water, look up at the starry sky, and emit the sound of “Hachi-hachi-hachi-hachi-hachi-hachi.

It was as if the undead at the bottom of the sea were nostalgic for the air.

At this time, if the snail collector can not escape from the fish in time, run to the shore, run far away, will gradually be assimilated by the fish around the four sides, will be high head, wide open mouth, breathing rapidly, but the air in the lungs is less and less.

Finally they deliriously followed the school of fish along with them, zipping headlong into the depths of the sea, never to be seen again.

Tonight, the wind is just as strong on the beach, and the night is unusually deep, so perhaps a tidal wave of souls is about to appear.

The local snail pickers had all left the beach before the night fell completely.

As far as the eye could see, only Sol and the other two sorcerer apprentices were still here.

It was just that the moods of the three people as they waited were also completely different.

“You’re nervous, what did you just see?”

With the shadows of the bluff looming over them so that outsiders couldn’t peer inside, it was only then that Parker opened his mouth to ask Andy, who was still shivering.

“This Saul’s spiritual power is so powerful, I’ve only ever felt this kind of pressure on a full-fledged wizard.”

Parker wrinkled his brow slightly, then let go, “It’s similar to what Jello said, did he notice your tryst?”

“I don’t think so, many full wizards are unable to detect my methods.”

“Well, your probing abilities are indeed exceptional.”

The two of them watched the sea while sweeping Saul with their afterglances from time to time.

“Why do you think he had to stand in the seawater, isn’t it uncomfortable?” Andy raised his hand to scratch the skin behind his ear.

“I suspect he’s detecting something through the seawater?”

“These apprentices with backers just have a lot of tricks up their sleeves, who knows what other treasures he has on him?” Andy licked his lips, and there was more than a little bit of chill in his voice, “Parker, can you beat him?”

“Splitting the difference between victory and defeat, I have a 60% chance of winning; fighting for his life, he’s dead.” Parker said calmly.

But before Andy could speak again, he screwed the woman’s ass hard.

“But that’s not what I take into account. The apprentices of these big powers, especially those like him who still have a second-ranked wizard as a mentor, must have life-preserving cards on them. That’s fine, we have quite a few undercards as well. But if he still has a tracking curse on him, it will be troublesome.”

“Curse?” Andy raised her head in some surprise, and she involuntarily scratched her neck again.

“I once accidentally saw two people fighting in a forbidden place, in which the slain was also an apprentice of a high-ranking wizard. The fight between them was seen by no one else but me. However, I clearly saw that after the murderer got his way, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the dead man and burrowed into his shadow.” Parker’s voice was gloomy, obviously thinking of some bad memories, “When we left the forbidden land, the tutor of that dead man was already guarding the doorway and had uncovered the murderer with a single glance. Only later did I hear that it was a form of tracking sorcery.”

Parker didn’t recall that murderer’s miserable death in the end, and continued to caution Andy, “High-ranked wizards usually don’t give their apprentices sorcery props that exceed their strength by too much, after all, that in turn may turn out to be a contamination that harms their student’s life. But this kind of tracking curse is quite safe. It helps to help them use it to keep their apprentice’s life …… or secret.”

Andy beamed, as if he saw a large treasure chest grow legs and slip away from his eyes.

Especially just now, she was shocked by the terrifying spiritual power in Saul’s body, and now in retrospect she felt a bit humiliated. Therefore the more and more she wanted to kill the other party in order to erase her shameful performance.

But hearing Parker say that, she knew there was no chance.

Was it still necessary to gamble that Sol’s mentor, Golza, didn’t care about the life of this genius?
Anyone who knew that would surely lose the bet!
“Got it.” Andy brought her hands to her hips again, feeling the place where Parker had just wrung them grow itchy. “Huh?” As she was saying this, she suddenly looked sideways to her left.

“What’s wrong?”

“I seem to have seen a butterfly flying past …… Well, how can there be a butterfly in this place, it should be that I’ve misread it.”

“Butterfly?” Parker looked around and didn’t see any butterflies, instead there were some flying insects, “Could it be that the consciousness interfering force field started to appear before the soul tide started? But how could butterflies appear, shouldn’t they be fish?”

“Maybe I’m too nervous.”

Andy could no longer find the butterflies, his skin was no longer itchy, his mood was suddenly happy, and he no longer cared about what had just happened.

She leaned her head against Parker’s chest and listened to the man’s heartbeat.

“What’s he going to do?” Parker, however, paid no attention to Andy’s ambiguous movements.

He kept a dark eye on Saul with his afterglow.

And the latter suddenly took a step forward, heading deeper into the sea water.

Andy glanced at the sound and watched the other party walk to the point where the seawater was knee-deep and stop, not caring.

She laughed softly, “It can’t be that you’re mesmerized, can it? That would be a shame.”

……

The cold water irritated his calves, and though Saul couldn’t hear the two sorcerer’s apprentices talking, he knew they would be watching him from the shadows.

As for whether they would plan to deal with him, it was hard to say.

The smarter people were sometimes the more cautious they were, and that Parker shouldn’t be too stupid since he was able to be acquainted with Jello.

After detecting the density of soul fragments in the seawater once more, Saul suddenly opened his mouth.

“What did you do to that Andy?”

Small silver butterflies appeared in his field of vision, slowly vibrating their wings, sometimes flying high, sometimes falling.

The bitter sea breeze couldn’t move its thin feathers.

“Brother Saul, she was just testing you! Hmph, you thought you were doing a good job of being so stealthy, that thing was sticky and stuck to your skin, it’s disgusting!”

Saul stepped forward while raising his hand, a small yellowish ball appeared inside the transparent skin of his palm.

Earlier, the female apprentice named Andy was secretly observing him.

The test was dispersed at the touch of a button, thinking that she was doing a very stealthy job.

But they didn’t know that Saul’s skin all over his body had been modified by Spirit Devouring Ester, and was very sensitive to the temptations of external forces, especially the ones that came with spiritual power.

The moment the twisted black shadow shattered on the surface of the sea, Saul even caught a bit of what was left of the other party’s escape.

He looked down at his palm and analyzed it one by one with the knowledge he had learned.

“Andy is most likely majoring in water-attribute sorcery. Relying on skin-friendliness for covert snooping. But there’s nothing rare about this ability except that it’s somewhat interesting to connect with the original owner’s spiritual energy.”

Sol lowered his hand disinterestedly after roughly analyzing Andy’s sorcery.

Between the flips of his hand, the pale yellow was gradually swallowed up by the gray and white, with no last dregs left.

By now the sea water had already gone past Saul’s knees, and the waves, layer by layer, seemed to be pushing him out.

He stopped again to detect the concentration of soul fragments in the seawater.

There was no difference from the shallow area.

Saul looked into the distance, and his body suddenly leapt out of the water, fixing itself in mid-air, and then, instantly flew forward again.

“Brother Saul, where are you going?” Penny, who was frolicking with the waves, flew back in front of Sol’s eyes, “Aren’t you going to wait for the Soul Tide to appear at the shore?”

“The concentration of soul fragments in the seawater hasn’t risen for a long time. At this rate, it’s impossible for a soul tide to appear this night. If I’m going to wait for nothing all night, then I might as well go over there and see for myself.”

First shift.

(End of chapter)