Chapter 705 – Grumpy Little Algae
Chapter 705 – Grumpy Little Algae
After Sol’s promotion to the third rank, if there was a partner that had changed the most, it was the small algae that he had planted under the ground of the Pure Spirit Sorcerer Tower.
In the Golden Book Page’s preview, Little Algae had once mutated into a giant tentacled monster due to Black Tide contamination.
In actuality, the Black Tide had not erupted on a large scale because of Saul’s seal.
However, when Saul finished dealing with things outside and dragged himself back to the Pure Spirit Sorcerer Tower, he was greeted by a room that was packed to the brim with giant black vine-like tentacles.
Small algae …… rioted?
It was only after Saul’s emergency rescue that Hope, the housekeeper, who had almost been squeezed into a pulp, was saved.
The first thing Hope said when she came out was “Camus ignited the algae”.
Saul drilled through the gap of the huge thick tentacles, and finally realized the meaning of “ignition” after he managed to squeeze into the second basement.
There was no real flame in the second basement.
But a large number of pale souls seemed to be mesmerized as they went forward and backward to squeeze into the root system of the small algae.
And every time a soul entered the body of the small algae, the black tentacles would grow by one point.
A small basement had long since been unable to accommodate a dozen or so tentacles that were nearly a meter in diameter.
The land sank, the floor was torn apart, and the laboratory on the first floor was like a storm passing through, with everything scattered all over the place.
The fragile glass instruments were even shattered.
Saul couldn’t afford to feel sorry for his scrapped resources and searched for the main body of Kohlrabi among several rioting black tentacles.
Only when Saul found it, the formerly cute and droll demonic creature opened its huge shark-toothed mouth at Saul and bit down hard.
Luckily, Saul, who had advanced to the third stage, could already borrow external magic power and use sorcery to harden the violent and crazy algae.
Afterwards, Saul used his own flesh and blood to turn into tentacles and tangled with the algae.
The suckers on the translucent tentacles greedily absorbed the spirit of the dead inside the algae.
However, the small algae itself fed on death, and the spirit bodies that entered it were quickly digested.
Sol could also only suck up the souls that had just burrowed into the body of the small algae.
In the end, Saul had no choice but to combine the influence of the Nightmare Butterfly as well as the Consciousness Space to quiet the rioting Kohlrabi.
However, the body of the algae could not return to its original size.
It was as if a stomach that had been stretched out by eating had lost its elasticity and was enlarged several times.
Detaching himself from his memories, Saul went to the corner of the laboratory on the underground floor and used his spiritual power to open the sealing spell on the floor.
The pitch-black spell formation that was integrated with the ground rotated clockwise and cracked an entrance in the center.
Saul jumped in through the entrance and landed lightly on the soft bullet’s tentacles.
In order to accommodate the insanely small algae, Sol used sorcery to expand the second underground level tenfold.
But even though the space became much larger, the small algae could still only coil inside, and even moving around was difficult.
Even though the space was already so tight, the algae still “greeted” Saul at the first opportunity after he jumped down.
A tentacle burst out from the gap of the vines, then opened its mouth and tried to bite off the intruder’s head.
Saul raised his hand and a black barrier appeared between them.
The small algae’s sharp teeth only bit on the barrier a few times, and the magic barrier began to make a “creaking” tearing sound.
But Saul’s backhanded hand closed, and the hemispherical protective barrier flipped over and covered Algae’s head.
Facing the concave circle, even the algae’s sharp teeth had no way to bite.
The angle was so tricky that it couldn’t even bite on it.
This was what Saul had researched, a way to get along that wouldn’t hurt the kohlrabi without being attacked by it.
In essence, it was putting a cage on the manic Koho.
After realizing how it couldn’t bite Sol, the huge black tentacle finally quieted down.
After quieting down, a little bit of sanity returned, and Algae finally recognized Saul.
Its head rubbed against Sol’s chest through the magical barrier, then wilted and collapsed onto its body. Saul squatted down, stroked Little Algae’s body, and comforted it, “It’s okay, I’ll heal you.”
Although such a small algae was too much stronger than before, a demonic creature that lost its mind would only turn into a complete monster.
Sol would never allow that to happen.
“I’m sorry, it was obvious that you were showing signs of irritability before, but I didn’t seriously track down the cause.”
Algae, who was trapped in the magical barrier, flung the tips of her tentacles and comforted Sol in turn.
Saul told Zoë, “I’ve made new progress in my research. Let me find out what your problem is.”
The diary reappeared in Saul’s palm and quickly flipped to a blank page.
Komoro cocks her head, wondering what Saul is doing.
To an outsider, Saul was just quietly holding a dark red hardback book at the moment.
However, in Saul’s eyes, the world’s operation suddenly became traceable.
The crowded room, the huge black tentacles, and the obscured underground …… all became cubes wrapped in countless lines.
These lines intersected above the pages of the diary and projected into lines of text.
[Solstice Calendar, April 5, 320
If the roots of suffering are not addressed.
then tragedy will only continue to flow.
But when you try desperately to get closer to the truth.
But then you realize the truth is more than you can bear.]
Saul looked at the words on the diary and frowned, “Too abstract.”
After taking control of the diary, Saul turned the completely passive death warning into a kind of death exploration.
But precisely because it was a quest that lacked a goal, the answers he sought became even more vague.
Saul made adjustments to the diary and ended up re-including information from all around.
He thought of the “source” in the journal, and his eyes fell on the algae below him.
The many souls that had invaded Komoro at the beginning had come from the underground, but they were not the undead from Lake Rhine.
They came from deeper underground, just like Camus.
These souls were not as powerful as Camus, but they were numerous, and they were all tainted with black tide inside.
Using themselves as sustenance, they invaded the kohlrabi, seemingly intending to turn them into monsters.
After Saul took control of the kohlrabi in the first place, there was still a steady stream of undead coming out of the ground.
It wasn’t until Byron and he used the inerting formula and teamed up to seal the underground that the chlorella wasn’t continuously contaminated.
“It seems that the origin that affects you is still underground.”
But whenever Saul tried to go underground to find out what was going on, the diary would send out a death warning, preventing him from taking the risk.
Even though Saul had once broken the diary’s death warning, it was only out of necessity and after trying a variety of methods that he found a glimmer of life in one of the many death endings.
But now, naturally, he wouldn’t just take unprepared risks with his life.
Saul adjusted his diary to attach more of its power to the ground.
This time, the words on the diary changed.
[April 5, 320th year of the Sol Calendar
The tower is built on top of a cliff that’s about to collapse.
Danger is destined to befall.
But if you don’t touch the devil’s box with the key.
It will at least not be opened so quickly.
Until you’re ready for the antidote.
Go and grab the tail of a poisonous snake.
You’ll die a surprise death~]
(End of chapter)