Chapter 480 – Hidden Monster
Chapter 480 – Hidden Monster
On the way back to his temporary residence, Saul had determined that the Scorpion Tail that had been collected into his diary had been destroyed and absorbed, and was depressed.
Previously, Saul had removed the Scorpion Tail Needle before stowing Ann in the diary. But today the situation was urgent and An suddenly lost control, making Saul wonder if the pollution attached to the scorpion tail had affected An’s sanity during the battle.
Coupled with the root monster that might continue to attack at his feet at that moment, Saul could only deal with An as quickly as possible and take the person away.
However, compared to the loss of the Scorpion Tail Needle, it was still the sudden attack on An by the root-beard monster that was more serious.
Those root whiskers looked thin and soft one by one, but in fact, they were particularly tough, and ordinary weapons simply couldn’t cut through them.
When he saw that An’s Scorpion Tail Needle didn’t work against the roots, he frowned even more tightly.
That root was not afraid of contamination from evil spirits.
The most important thing was that …… that was just the root whisker. What exactly is connected behind the root?
Is it the tree that Kismet wanted to “send” to him?
After hurriedly returning to his temporary residence, Agu hurriedly greeted him, “Master, why did you suddenly come back?”
Saul told Agu what happened in the woods today.
At this time, An also recovered.
“Ann, why did you suddenly lose control just now?” Sol asked her.
Ann was in her diary, still in some kind of trance.
[I’m not very clear, I only feel that there are suddenly many more thoughts within my consciousness …… Those tree roots seem to have something very disgusting in them.]
“Tree roots, can you be sure they are tree roots?”
[Well, when I was unconscious, I could vaguely sense that the plant attached behind the roots was a large tree.]
“Can you spot exactly where that tree is?”
[No, the tree was far away and I wasn’t very conscious at the time.]
At this point Herman, who was watching from the sidelines, said with some trepidation.
[These few roots are so powerful, if that big tree appeared, wouldn’t they all be able to reach second-order strength?]
Agu, who was sitting on Saul’s side, shook his head, ”Master met the root monster in the city, and also in the suburbs outside the city. It’s fine if that monster can move, but if it can’t ……”
Morton adds to Agu’s unfinished words in his journal.
[If that big tree can’t move, the reach of its roots is too big].
Saul understood what several people meant, according to the strength of the root whiskers, plus the range of the tree’s roots, that big tree was feared to be enough to match the combat power of a city.
If it could wipe out a city in one fell swoop, wouldn’t that mean that the big tree already possessed the strength of the third rank?
Thinking of this, Sol immediately had the urge to leave this place.
But after thinking about it, he didn’t really run away.
It hadn’t been more than a year or two since Kaukoust had built the city, and there were no rumors of any wizards having accidents because of tree monsters.
Besides, in the wizard world, it was normal for a monster to appear, could he still pick a safe place to stay specifically? A place like that also simply didn’t have enough sorcery materials for Saul to study.
Saul took a deep breath, ”It’s still unclear why the tree monster attacked An, An shouldn’t just go out during this period of time, and you too, Agu. I’ll go to Baidong Academy again to ask for information.”
Saying and doing, Saul went directly to find Shia.
People like Shia who always felt that others would harm him usually didn’t like to go out. Saul went straight to the door to find someone.
Shaya was indeed at home, only this time he didn’t let Saul in.
“…… Tree Roots?” Shaya froze for a moment before hesitantly saying, “I did hear that there was a large tree in Archester before, but that tree was set on fire many years ago.”
“Burned?” Saul was a bit skeptical that the large tree was not burned down, I’m afraid, “Then there hasn’t been any incidents of plant roots attacking people before?”
Shaya spread his hands, “Anything can attack people in Archaeust, plants, animals, monsters …… Even if there have been root attacks on people before, it’s not certain if it’s the same plant’s root system.” Saul thought for a moment and then asked, “Why are there so many evil spirits in Archaeust? Isn’t there any other way to prevent it besides capturing it?”
Being asked this, Shia’s expression was a bit off, he licked the corner of his mouth and lowered his voice, “If you really want to know, just go ask Dean Pound. The fact that Archaeust could become the prosperous shape it is now is entirely because Dean Pound took the initiative to make it happen.”
He stood in the shadows under the eaves of the room, his expression obscure, “There’s always a price to pay when you get something, isn’t there?”
Shia should have known some of the truth, but he was obviously reluctant to tell Saul.
After Saul left, he really did follow Shaya’s suggestion and went to find Dean Pond.
But he didn’t ask about the cause of the abnormality in Archaeust City, even if he did, Dean Pound wouldn’t tell him.
Saul was using his accident of being attacked in the suburbs to ask the Dean if there was any new progress in his last research on root monsters.
He noticed that Dean Pound’s expression had a moment of panic when he heard that root monsters had appeared in the countryside.
However, the other man quickly masked his panic as surprise and expressed his suspicion that the monster that appeared in the underground waterway last time had left the city.
He tells Saul that he can inform Kent of what happened. Kent was in charge of the evil spirit incidents that were difficult for the sweepers to deal with, and he would gather people, share information, and organize a concentrated attack on the small number of evil spirits that were difficult for the wizards to resist.
When Saul was informed, he asked, as if casually, “Has Kent always been in charge of the evil spirit incidents?”
Dean told Saul that it used to be another wizard, but after that wizard accidentally died in a battle with an evil spirit, it was Kent who took over.
And after Kent took over, very few wizards died in battles with evil spirits.
Dean Bond tells Saul that if he finds a threat, he can tell Kent, who is still very enthusiastic.
A wizard? Enthusiastic?
Saul thanked the Dean outwardly, but in reality, he left Byndon College with a cloud of mixed feelings.
Now he was basically sure that the dean knew about the root monster. It was even likely that Dean Pound was the one who cultivated the root monster!
Last time, when he specially called Saul to the bell tower and showed him the roots trapped in the test tube, he was most likely testing him in turn to see how much he knew about root monsters.
Testing to see if he had gotten his hands on part of the root system.
And Beth, the witch who appeared in the bell tower at that time, should also be related to this hidden monster.
There were a lot of witches in Archaeust, and Saul wasn’t the only outsider, and it was likely that they were still concerned about the Golza behind Saul when they were this wary of him.
This was also a disguised indication that the trouble hidden in Baidong Academy was not something that could be solved by a single formal sorcerer.
After this incident, Saul didn’t show any anomaly afterward, and he even went to participate in sweeper mission operations more frequently, just to collect new evil spirits.
Although the Scorpion Tail Needle was accidentally consumed without being able to build up any success, it proved that there was no problem with Saul’s thought process regarding the arming of souls.
He was going to take advantage of his time in Archaeust to collect as many Evil Spirit fragments as possible, preferably arming all four Consciousnesses!
During this period of time, I don’t know if it was because his several “complaints” had alerted the people in the shadows, but he never encountered any more root monsters.
At the same time, Saul also realized that when an evil spirit is just born, it can be taken over in the easiest way.
Since new evil spirits were always born in the archaeological center, Saul was able to break away from the police force and find his own way to find newborn evil spirits.
Thus, Penny the Nightmare Butterfly was sent out by Saul to search for abnormal spirits that nourished in the dark corners every night.
But what Saul didn’t expect was that the first one to bring him back news of the newborn evil spirits wasn’t Penny, but Xiao Zao!
Chapter 2 is still at night, it’s so tiring to go out.
(End of chapter)