Chapter 477: Summoning of the Dean
Chapter 477: Summoned by the Dean
Saul rubbed his chin, “You confirmed that the evil spirit has disappeared? I was in the middle of making a move on it when you suddenly woke up.”
“Uh!” Shia stalled and his face scrunched up, “You wouldn’t have left your hand behind on purpose ……”
Shaya habitually wanted to be wary, but he shut his mouth again in the middle of his sentence not knowing what came to his mind, and then obediently took out the meditation idea of acting out the drawing from his traveling bag.
Saul took the evolution diagram and backhanded it into the storage.
In fact, if he wanted to get the evolution diagram from Shia, there were many more ways. When he left from the Sorcerer’s Tower, he had deliberately brought some lightning-attribute sorcery materials with him.
The materials in the Sorcerer’s Tower were all of high value, and it was more than enough to exchange for a meditation diagram that Shia couldn’t use.
However, Saul still wanted to see what the evil spirit in Shaya’s body was.
“Alright, the stuff is also given to you, so hurry up and leave.” Shia began to drive people away.
Saul also didn’t care that this guy used it up and threw it away.
Even if Saul cured his nightmares, it didn’t cure his paranoia of being victimized.
Saul also wanted to hurry back, however, when he was about to turn around and leave, Shia in his afterglow suddenly turned black.
But when Saul, full of wariness, jerked back to look again, the Shia behind him returned to his original appearance.
And looking at him, he didn’t seem to be aware of what had just happened to him.
“What’s wrong? You’re not going to raise the price again, are you?” Shia looked at Saul’s serious face and immediately took half a step back.
Saul squinted his eyes, and above Shia’s head, he saw a thin line bending upwards.
The end of the thin line was lost in the air and disappeared.
Saul headed out the door with a heavy heart.
Shia was the third person he’d seen who would look like something else to him.
The sorcerer’s apprentice whose head would turn into the appearance of a surveillance bird, and the commoner’s guide who would turn into the appearance of a charred corpse, as well as Shia who would turn into a dark shadow.
What was happening to these people?
Or what happened to his own eyes?
Walking on the road, Saul pressed his eyelids.
Just then, he saw two third level apprentices walking towards him.
“Lord Sorcerer Saul, Dean Pond asks you to go to the bell tower.”
The bell tower of the Baidong Academy was a slender tower located in the more central part of the academy.
Unlike the ubiquitous hourglass lamps inside the wizard tower, the academy relied on more mechanized clocks for timekeeping. Even the city of Archester outside was the same.
Sol followed the two apprentices into the clock tower, only to realize that there was something else going on here.
On the top floor of the clock tower, there was actually an oversized space hidden.
He remembered that Baidong Academy sold a kind of mobile home to the outside world, which was not big on the surface, but actually had a vast space inside.
It seemed that this kind of sorcery was applied here as well.
The top floor of the bell tower that looked no more than a few square meters on the outside actually had hundreds of square meters of space.
There were no wall decorations to hide the space here, and as soon as Saul entered, he saw Dean Pound sitting behind a long table. And on the sofa opposite to his cut, there was also a woman sitting upright.
The woman had shoulder-length black hair and a thin description. She was not too pretty, but her eyes were extremely bright.
When Saul approached, the woman suddenly raised her eyes and looked over, her gaze burning, surprisingly stronger than Dean Bond’s sense of oppression.
However, judging from the spiritual power fluctuations emanating from the other party, it should only be a first-order sorcerer.
Dean Pound smiled and greeted Saul, and seeing him staring at the woman, he first introduced the two.
“This is Beth, a first rank sorcerer just like you, but she’s about to be promoted, so she doesn’t usually stay in the academy much.” Pound’s face was full of relief when he looked at Beth, “When she succeeds in her promotion, she will be able to succeed me as the next dean.” Beth stood up and nodded slightly at Sol, looking like a quiet person.
The most common and ordinary black wizard robes amongst wizards looked empty on her.
It was obviously summer, and Beth’s collar was tied down to the top button.
The person showed only a face, and a pair of pale but equally thin hands.
Saul also noticed that when Dean Pond introduced Beth, he didn’t mention what attribute sorcery the other person majored in.
After introducing each other, the three of them sat down individually before Dean Pound brought up the real purpose of inviting Saul over this time.
“The root monster that you and Julie encountered earlier has recently appeared once more. The third level wizard apprentice who encountered it this time didn’t make it back alive.” Dean Pound put away the smile on his face.
“When Julie first reported this matter to me, I had already sent people into the underground waterway to explore, but other than finding that the soil there had become soft, there was no other abnormality, and the root monster had disappeared.”
“This time, after the root monster reappeared, another official wizard present brought back a root.”
Dean Ponder raised his hand, and a clear, sealed test tube appeared above his palm.
The test tube contained a one-finger-long white rhizome.
The white rhizome quietly floated up and down in the test tube, looking like the most ordinary white carrot whisker without displaying the slightest bizarre characteristic.
That was indeed the root whisker that Saul had once encountered, but he had dodged carefully at the time to avoid having a part of his body taken away, and did not bring back a sample of the root whisker.
“After Beth’s research, it was discovered that this root chases creatures with magical radiation. But at the same time it shows some reaction to spirits.”
“But after a few experiments, the activity of this rhizome is rapidly declining. Now it’s basically no different from a dead thing. Saul, the last time you met this rootbeard monster, did you bring back some of its tissues?”
Saul shook his head, “This kind of root whisker will be very difficult to deal with once its number becomes large. Witch Julie and I met this kind of monster for the first time at that time, and for safety reasons, our first reaction at that time was to get away from the scene.”
“Alright.” Dean Pound’s expression was unreadable, “In this case, if you encounter this kind of root monster again in the future and have the ability to bring back samples of its tissues, the academy is willing to use magic crystals or sorcery materials to recover them.”
Saul’s heart fluttered.
It seemed that Baidong Academy really cared about this rootbeard. The other party might have found something on it, only they didn’t tell Saul.
If that was the case, Saul planned to keep a portion of it for his own research the next time he encountered it, and then turn the rest in to the academy.
But on the surface, he just nodded painfully, “Yes.”
Next, Dean Pound asked Saul about the battle with the root monster at that time, then thanked Saul for his cooperation and let him go back.
And during this conversation, the female sorceress named Beth didn’t say a single word.
She just sat with her head down and her eyes hanging down, looking like she wasn’t interested in any monsters or battles in the slightest.
Saul glanced at this woman again before leaving, always feeling that the other party was not that simple.
After Saul left, Bond stood by the window to make sure Saul was far away before coming to Beth.
“How are you feeling?”
Beth looked up slowly, as if in slow motion.
Her voice was slow, too, with the languor of a sound sleep.
“He was alert enough not to notice.”
“If I wanted to keep him in Baidon ……”
“There is no possibility.”
(End of chapter)