Chapter 791: Spiritual Baptism
Chapter 791 – Spirit Baptism
Saul sat inside a giant hourglass.
The entire hourglass was made of brass mixed with secret silver and magic mirrors, with many nebulae patterns carved in openwork, allowing air and sunlight to penetrate inside the hourglass, but ensuring that the inside of the hourglass could not be seen from the outside.
The hourglass was originally used for timekeeping, and when it lost the ability to observe the gravel inside, the ability to keep time was naturally discarded.
The location where Saul was currently located was inside a large experimental chamber in the Sky City’s practical courtyard.
Some time ago, Ophelia personally gave an order for the Inquisition Academy and the Practice Academy to help Saul raise his magic power and spiritual power as soon as possible.
The enhancement of magic power had already been initially completed. Saul himself was a third-ranked sorcerer, and others had limited means of trying to help him raise his magic power.
After taking some potions and doing a few boosting experiments, the Practice Academy finally took out the big killers they used to boost an individual’s spiritual power.
It was the huge hourglass that Saul was currently in – the Blood Sand Funnel.
The preparations took two weeks before Sol was called over.
From the heartbroken look on the face of Shaquille, the dean of the Practice Academy, one could tell that their resource pool had really hemorrhaged in order to prepare for this experiment.
“Knock knock.”
Someone gently tapped on the hourglass outside, and the echo reverberated inside.
“Lord Saul, we’re about to release the sand, please sit in the center shaft and don’t move.”
“Okay, I’m done.”
Saul had been sitting in the center shaft since he came in and hadn’t moved while the others were getting ready.
“Okay,” Shaquille concluded with a final admonition, “when the bloody sand is completely over your head, you may begin to meditate. You should not use your magic during this time, or the hourglass will stop immediately and the entire experiment will not continue. And in the short term, the amount of blood sand remaining in our hands is not enough to conduct a second experiment.”
“I know.” Saul’s voice was smooth.
Shaquille stepped back, all the way to the outside of the experimental chamber, and ordered the chamber to be closed in its entirety.
This was to prevent anyone else’s magic from entering the experimental chamber and causing the apparatus to be forced to terminate its operation.
In fact, in order to guarantee that the experiment went smoothly, it was normal that the sorcerer sitting inside the hourglass should be given a forbidden magic lock ring. But after all, Saul was a third-order sorcerer, and was also a guest of Lord Ophelia, so no one dared to mention this before the experiment.
Even if they ended up wasting a large amount of blood sand, it was still better than being held in grudge by a powerful third-order sorcerer.
When the experimental chamber finished closing, Shaquille commanded his subordinate sorcerers and maneuvered a huge metal lever, pulling open the valve that released the sand.
As the metal lever was pulled down, inside the experimental chamber, a pipe above the metal hourglass was opened.
Crystalline red delicate gravel fell from the pipe into the upper part of the hourglass.
Once the upper half was almost filled, the pipe stopped dropping sand.
Then, a huge mechanical arm panned over, grasping the lid of the upper half of the hourglass in its mechanical claws and gently lowered it.
The lid and the hourglass as a whole were tightly fitted and finally fixed with screws.
Only when everything was completed did the sand begin to fall downwards inside the hourglass.
“Sand sand sand sand sand ……”
A large amount of bloody sand fell down from the hole in the center of the sand opening, landing directly on top of Saul’s head before rolling down his lapel to the ground.
Each piece of gravel that fell and struck the top of Sol’s head was as if there was a small hammer that smashed directly within Sol’s soul.
Although he was meditating, the world within his mind had changed from pitch black to a sea of red.
And he himself had turned into a small boat struggling for survival in a huge wave.
As the blood and sand didn’t pass over Saul’s body, the small boat was also slapped head-on by a large wave and disappeared below the surface of the sea.
The body seemed to fall apart as the fishy, salty seawater poured into his body, blocking out the air.
Saul, who had experienced many illusions and spiritual attacks long ago, was not frightened, and he calmly adjusted his spiritual body, not trying to resist the huge wave, but letting himself transform into a small fish, so that even if he was swept by the huge wave and kept rolling in the sea water, he wouldn’t suffocate because of it.
Once he regained his balance, he could swim freely in the sea.
At this time, the blood-red gravel in the hourglass also didn’t reach the top of Sol’s head. Shaquille, who had been cautiously observing from outside, immediately ordered, “Invert the hourglass!”
Several strong sorcerer apprentices struggled to pull up the two brass chains.
The chains made a “clattering” sound, driving the gears above their heads to keep turning.
The huge hourglass in the chamber slowly turned upside down.
Finally, it flipped up and down, and Saul also came from below the hourglass to above it.
However a magical scene happened.
Obviously, no magic power was used, and there were no fixed facilities, but Saul was still sitting in his original position, and even though he was upside down, he didn’t fall down.
On the other hand, the sand and gravel covering his body followed gravity and fell downward.
As the gravel on his body peeled away little by little, Saul felt as if he was an onion, being peeled off layer by layer.
In the end, he was no longer a small fish in the deep sea, but his own completely clean self.
There were no red waves around him.
There was only a quiet space and time.
There was no gravity, no sound, as if there was no concept of space or time either.
Sol was silently suspended in this clean and dry world, and surprisingly, he didn’t feel the loneliness in the extreme stillness either.
“It turns out that this step is the most important and the one that can enhance one’s spiritual power in this Blood Sand Funnel.”
This thought flashed through Saul’s mind and was quickly emptied again.
This was an extremely rare experience of purifying the spiritual body. He had to cherish every minute and every second, thinking too much would instead affect the effect.
It would be better to let himself return to being a little baby, not thinking about anything, completely emptying his spirit and receiving a complete baptism.
This Hourglass experiment had continued for five days, far beyond Shaquille’s initial plan of a day to a day and a half.
Almost all of the wizards in the Practical House suspended their original work because of this experiment.
But seeing that Saul was slow to come out, Shaquille couldn’t let the entire Practice Academy just wait around, so in the evening of the second day, he let the others go back while he himself, as the organizer of the experiment, personally guarded the outside of the experimental chamber.
And it wasn’t until the evening of the fifth day that Saul came out from inside the hourglass.
Because all the blood sand had been thoroughly utilized and turned from blood sand to black sand, Saul didn’t have to worry about the rule of not being able to use magic power, and directly made an instantaneous transfer and came outside from inside the hourglass.
How to instantly move?
Naturally, he first released the Nightmare Butterfly, and then went outside to become the coordinates of his positioning.
Because of the appearance of a powerful magic fluctuation, the gravel that had already turned into black sand suddenly crackled and split one by one.
As Saul’s figure appeared outside the hourglass, the inside of the hourglass rumbled as if thousands of firecrackers had been lit at the same time.
“My hourglass!” The corners of Practical Academy Dean Shaquille’s mouth twitched, his heart dripping blood.
Even though he knew this step would happen before the experiment, he couldn’t help but feel heartache when he actually depleted the hourglass.
Saul stepped out of the experimental chamber, his entire body refreshed, his mental body and physical magic reaching a new balance. Some of the hidden dangers from the previous contamination seemed to have been cleared away.
At the same time, being alone for a long time also gave Saul a deeper knowledge of his own power.
In short, his gains, like the time he spent using the Blood Sand Funnel, far exceeded those of the others.
It was just that this was unknown to anyone but himself.
Looking up at the twisted face of Shaquille, Saul smiled apologetically, but he quickly put away his smile again and said to the dean in front of him, who was also a third-ranked sorcerer, with a serious face, “Dean Shaquille, please speak to City Lord Ophelia, and in three days’ time, I’ll go look for her.”
The promised group of friends to add more, although half a month late, but still did it!
(End of chapter)