Chapter 498 – Black Blade Shadow

Chapter 498 – Black Blade Shadow

“Impossible!!!”

Du Mo shouted with a twisted face as he couldn’t believe it.

But just as he shouted out, the expression on his face turned into a quick smile. Apparently, An’s consciousness had begun to influence his movements.

“Impossible ……” Dumo snatched back his spiritual initiative once again, but he could feel that An was eroding his conscious high ground a little bit.

“Why? Obviously my spirit body is so much more powerful than yours …… Obviously I have Andazonia’s help ……”

The next second Dumor made a different sound.

“So this is the interior of the Inverted Tree, it’s really a big tree. Called Andazonia? What a strange name.”

This time Dumo was completely flustered, he realized that his sister had actually started to receive the memories within his consciousness.

“This can’t be possible! It should clearly be me devouring you!”

“That’s why you can’t be double-minded when studying.” Ann was still in the mood for jokes at this point, “You’ve forgotten an important piece of knowledge. Whether or not a consciousness can devour another consciousness doesn’t depend on whether or not its spirit body is strong, but on whether or not its consciousness is stable.”

But this puzzled Dumo even more.

“Of course my consciousness is more stable! I died later than you, and you are now just a spirit body driven by a minor sorcerer, while my master is a ……”

Dumo didn’t dare to say anything in the middle of his sentence, apparently the identity of his master was something that needed to be kept secret.

But while Dumo didn’t say it, Ann had read it from within his consciousness.

“So it’s a third-order sorcerer. But Dumo you are mistaken again, the stability of the consciousness is not entirely related to the strength of its owner either oh. What really matters is the method of preserving the consciousness, and apparently this inverted tree Andazonia you’re in can’t compare to my master’s preservation tools.”

Dumo didn’t want to believe it, but he had to.

Because as time passed, his sister had read more information from within his consciousness, while he was unable to read a single bit of information from within her sister’s consciousness.

If this continued, he would truly be devoured.

“Master, master, please save me!”

Dumo called out to the unknown being.

But no one responded after calling several times.

“It’s Dumo’s fault, Dumo shouldn’t have acted without authorization. But Dumo was only trying to grab back his sister’s conscious spirit body, he didn’t take action against that sorcerer ah! Please, for the sake of Duma having served you for hundreds of years, save me.”

This time the big tree finally reacted, and dozens of light-colored roots quickly grew out of the smooth jade-like trunk, which then reversed and stabbed at the human face’s five senses.

The moment these roots stabbed into the human face, the cries of pain from a man and a woman simultaneously came from within it.

The man was begging for mercy in terror, “No! Master, no!”

The woman was laughing maniacally in pain, “Hahaha, looks like your master has already given up on you, it doesn’t matter, I’ll eat you clean one bite at a time before you disappear!”

Those roots weren’t here to save the day at all!

They were like sharp knives, twisting the two spirit bodies entangled in one place into pieces.

Worse than the pain is watching yourself disappear little by little.

But Ann had no regrets.

She had realized when she chased Dumo’s decoy into the underground that she likely wouldn’t make it back alive.

But she had to do it, because it was probably her last chance to avenge the death of her entire clan.

If she let Dumo go in order to escape this time, it would be hard for her to have another chance to kill an evil spirit that had a third-ranked sorcerer as its master.

Although Ann was certain that Saul, who possessed the diary, would be able to become a third-ranked sorcerer in the future, she couldn’t confirm that she would still survive until that time.

A sorcerer’s journey of discovery was never safe and secure.

She would most likely dissipate into thin air during one of her adventures, just like the other disappearing black pages.

Therefore, the bait that Dumor had laid down earlier was just too tantalizing an opportunity in her eyes, a bait that was truly, truly too tempting for her to spit out!

Therefore, even though Ann had already felt the power of the inverted Tree of Andazonia’s main body, which was eroding her own body of consciousness a little bit, she didn’t give up on devouring Duma.

Even if it was to die, to perish, she was going to chew this guy up first!

“It’s just that I’m sorry master ……” After devouring the last piece of the body of consciousness belonging to Duma, An released the protection of herself.

Just as Duma’s voice faded away, and An’s consciousness nearly collapsed under the stirring of the powerful magic, a black blade shadow suddenly condensed from the void, transformed into a black shadow, and slashed towards those roots outside the tree at an extremely fast speed.

As the shadow of the blade fell, the originally extremely tough root whiskers were surprisingly cut off with a single slash. Subsequently, a transparent tentacle reached inside the tree, directly pulling the near-collapse spirit body out of it.

More roots reached out from the branches of the large tree that was so vast that the original appearance could not be seen, stabbing like sharp arrows at the person who had grabbed their prey halfway.

Sol retracted his hand back to his wrist, and the broken spirit body that the tentacles had curled up disappeared in an instant.

He does not tangle with these roots.

Saul remembered the last time his diary reminded him that he couldn’t let these roots take any part of himself.

He twisted his head and ran – he was now in a spiritual state as well – flying recklessly through this void of space.

And the severed root whiskers quickly regrew new ends, directly extending indefinitely in pursuit.

Saul quickly kicked his way through the layers of the mysterious space made up of the massive sorcery spells and re-entered the underground.

And the root system behind him followed without the slightest obstruction.

But as soon as they ventured through the soil, another black blade shadow fell, sharply severing a section of the foremost root.

It was followed by another knife, two knives ……

The incoming root whiskers were sliced into several sections like vegetables.

And those chasing root whiskers finally got scared and stopped where they were, not following up again.

Saul turned back and retrieved the shadow of his blade.

This black blade shadow was none other than the Dark Spirit Blade that Saul had inherited from Jasim.

This sorcery was so magical that it could not rely on the magic contained within to divide the ranks.

This was because what determined the attack power of the Dark Spirit Blade was the caster’s magic power and spiritual power.

Moreover, this sorcery was even more powerful than Saul had expected, with an extremely offensive advantage.

The light-colored roots that were difficult to get rid of with sorcery in the first place were like leeks casually cut in front of the Dark Spirit Blade.

Because the knowledge about the Dark Spirit’s Blade was directly projected into Saul’s consciousness body by Jasim, Saul grasped it very smoothly.

The time consumed was also much shorter than learning an ordinary 3rd rank sorcery.

So Saul then mastered it as soon as possible after obtaining this knowledge and confirming that there were no problems.

If it wasn’t for this sorcery, Saul probably wouldn’t have risked his life to retrieve Anne.

When Saul returned to the ground, Agu immediately escorted Saul into his body sitting on the ground.

Saul goes back to his bedroom and pretends to meditate before going to rescue Ann.

When he reopened his eyes, he first looked at the diary in his head.

Before he entered the underground, the diary prompted him to run slow or he would be caught back and eaten. Therefore after saving Anne, Saul was rushing back without a moment’s pause.

Now, when he returned to his body, the diary also stopped appearing with new prompts and re-closed.

This means the crisis is over.

“Master?”

“Bring it back.” Saul said in a cold voice.

Just because he had rescued Anne didn’t mean he forgave her for her unauthorized actions.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Ann was a Black Book Page, provided a lot of help when Saul was researching sorcery, and had been loyal in the previous few battles, Saul definitely wouldn’t have risked his life for her, even if the diary existed.

Now the person was saved, but punishment was necessary.

Otherwise the other consciousnesses would consider the price of betrayal too low and make the same mistake.

[Master, I was wrong.]

At this point, Anne, who had returned to her diary, had just come to her senses, and without any defense, she honestly admitted her mistake.

But Sol ignored her.

“Morton still out there?”

“Yes, master, a few official wizards from Baidon Academy just came over to take over the corpses outside, and are now discussing how to transport them out. Morton is guarding the door so that no one comes in to disturb you.”

(End of chapter)