Chapter 735 – Dean Pound

Chapter 735 – Dean Pound
“Meow! We’re back!”

Kate felt Thor release the back of his neck and immediately jumped to the ground.

Immediately after Sol released the orange cat, he looked around, “The white-bearded wizard hasn’t come out yet?”

However, he had wandered around the city at night for a long time without finding Whitebeard, and thought that the other party had already found the exit.

In fact, Saul wouldn’t have needed to stay inside for so long if he wasn’t looking for a chance to steal the tree seeds.

“Aiya, you don’t have to worry about Wilde, he’s a very thieving person, he won’t die inside.”

After being brought out by Saul, Kate obviously fawned a lot.

The black liquid just now made his heart palpitate.

He was afraid that Saul would bare his face if he was unhappy.

“Wilde?” Saul heard this name and said indistinctly, “It’s unlikely that it’s a rename, I can’t imagine that the captain of the land traveling boat is hiding here. Does he already know who I am?”

While Saul was thinking, Kate was still sighing.

“Baidong Academy has become this appearance, I guess their dean has also become a flower bone, what we want to find …… Huh?”

Kate stopped in the middle of his words as he realized that a person suddenly appeared on the originally empty and hollow large tree stump.

An old man with a cloaked, wrinkled face and confused eyes.

“Dean Bond.”

Even though it had been a long time since he had seen the other party, and even though the other party’s appearance and aura had changed drastically, Saul still recognized the other party’s identity at the first moment.

Baidong Academy, Dean Pound.

“He is Dean Pound?” Kate was overjoyed and was about to go over, but stopped when she saw something behind Pound, “Those are those roots we encountered!”

Behind Dean Pound, there were unexpectedly dense and slender root whiskers growing.

These root whiskers were in turn connected to the center of the stump.

The slender root tubes were as if they were human blood vessels, and one could vaguely see something inside being transported towards the pale Dean Pound.

“How did these root whiskers appear here?”

Saul slowly walked up, “These are originally the roots of the Inverted Tree, it’s normal for them to appear both inside and outside. You shouldn’t get close yet.”

After saying that, Saul walked up and came in front of Pound, “Dean, do you still remember me?”

The bewildered Dean heard Saul’s voice, raised his head a little, and quickly sank down again.

“Is he like those dark shadows in there that are no longer self-aware?” Kate was obviously concerned about Dean.

He was expecting to get a way to open the door from Dean.

Saul also wanted to have a good conversation with this Dean Bond.

Although the other party was not the actual controller of Baidon Academy. But he had led the academy for so many years, so he definitely knew more about Beth, and about the Inverted Tree.

Although he had already asked Shia to steal the tree seeds, it didn’t stop Saul from making another effort through the channel of Dean Baidong.

To ensure success, he didn’t mind making a deal with the Dean as well.

“Can you hear me?” Saul dispersed a stream of spiritual energy, scanning over Dean Pond’s entire body.

Surprisingly, the other party’s physical state was very good, so good that it was almost comparable to a sorcerer at the top of the second rank.

But there was definitely something wrong with Dean Pound’s mental state.

When Saul scanned him with his spiritual power, his mental body didn’t even have the most basic stress response.

“Maybe the spirit body is inside the Inverted Tree and only the body remains outside?” Saul raised his hand and his index finger transformed into a tentacle-like shape, pointing at Pound’s brow.

After a moment, Saul let go of his hand, “Strange, the spirit body is still there, and there’s no overload of contamination.”

Saul took two steps back and observed for a few more moments, then suddenly laughed, “It’s because I’ve encountered so much pollution lately that my brain has stiffened. It’s not an effect caused by pollution, it’s witchcraft.”

He casts a 0th level “Mind Clearing” on Dean Pond.

Although it was only a 0th-order sorcery, when cast by a 3rd-order sorcerer like him, the effect was almost comparable to a 3rd- or 4th-order sorcery.

A few moments later, the numb Dean Pound suddenly shivered and almost fell down, but was pulled back by the root that stabbed into his body.

Bean-sized sweat immediately broke out on his face, and it was obvious that although Saul had brought him to his senses, he had also restored his senses and was being tortured by the root whorls behind him.

But Dean was also a ruthless man, and although he was nearly knocked down by the sudden pain, he quickly adapted, bracing himself against the pain behind him and looking up to face Saul.

“It’s you?” A smile surprisingly appeared on Pound’s face, “I heard that you went to the Lordless Land, I didn’t expect to see you again, but you’ve already been promoted to a second-ranked sorcerer, not worthy of being Golza’s student.”

Sol looked sideways behind Dean Pound, “Don’t you need to care about your own state?”

Pound turned back slightly to look at his back, but his neck was just halfway twisted and immediately hurt.

Even if he was already an old wizard with a lot of experience, it was a little too much to bear.

He laughed miserably and said, “It’s better not to care, it will ease the pain a bit.”

Since the other party wasn’t even worried about his body, then Saul didn’t talk nonsense, “Beth turned the bodies of everyone in the inner city into ashes, was it to cover up the fact that she absorbed the spiritual bodies of these people?”

Pound immediately penetrated a pained expression.

Even Saul couldn’t tell if this emotion was true or false.

“I was trying to save her …… but she lied to me, she is no longer the original Bestana, she even disregarded the legacy of the academy in order to be resurrected.”

“Legacy? You mean the Inverted Tree? Beth’s act of resurrection also harmed the Inverted Tree, didn’t it?”

Pound laughed bitterly, “Although I don’t know where you learned about the Tree of Inversions from, however, you’re right. Forcibly resurrecting Beth would consume a large amount of the Inverted Tree’s origin, which would cause irreversible damage to the Inverted Tree, and would even cause the tree to wither. In the past, we had always deliberately slowed down the resurrection progress to safeguard the Inverted Tree from too much damage.

But when that madman Shia stole the tree seed, both Beth and the Inverted Tree suffered heavy damage. At this time, according to our original plan, the first thing to do was to protect the Inverted Tree, but Beth, she, she chose to protect herself in the first place, almost overdrawing the Inverted Tree’s origin!”

Speaking here, a look of pain once again appeared on Dean Pound’s face, “She clearly wasn’t such a person in the original, she clearly sacrificed herself in order to protect the Academy’s inheritance.”

Time could change a person, and so could experience.

Saul was also someone who had died once, but he had forgotten the process of death.

Now that I think about it, that was probably lucky for him.

However, Saul didn’t have time to lament Pound’s encounter, he frowned and said, “What Shaya stole was the …… seed of the Inverted Tree?”

Behind him, the whiskers at the corners of Kate’s mouth trembled, forcing him to hold back laughter.

Seeing that the person who suppressed himself was unlucky, Kate was very pleasurable, “He also made a deal with the other person, healing the other person first, and as a result, the thing he wanted right on the other person was not even given to him! Compensation, right?”

Pound nodded to confirm Saul’s suspicions.

Saul rubbed his chin, “It shouldn’t be.”

He narrowed his eyes, confirming that the causality theory had been reached, the other party was only a first-order strength, even if he had become a second-order within the Inverted Tree, he would not be able to resist the guidance of the Destiny Thread Causality Theory.

“Since the causality theory has been reached, either Shia doesn’t know that what he stole was a tree seed. But that’s not very likely. Either that or in the state he was in at the time, he was unable to hand over the Tree Seed to me.”

Thor wasn’t angry as he thought to himself, “Fortunately, I’m also in the habit of keeping my hand in.”

He then smiled at Pound once again, “Dean Pound, let’s make a deal, huh?”

(End of chapter)