Chapter 853 – The Black Tide Is Coming

Chapter 853 – The Black Tide Will Arrive
Shia: [Is anyone there? Is the signal broken? Isn’t this Mirage Channel quite sensitive? Why isn’t it too stable?

Having just finished discussing business with Floco, Saul heard Shaya, who had been locked in a small black room, yelling there.

“Alright, I just had something to discuss with Floco. Let’s talk about you now. What’s your status, have you taken control of the Inverted Tree?”

Shia’s voice was filled with exclamation.

[It wasn’t easy for me either, I was only at the first rank when I died, and barely at the second rank with the help of external forces, but now I’m trying to tame the third rank.]

Saul was also clear about Shia’s situation, it would be nice to recuperate in the Inverted Tree right now, there was no rush for him to rise immediately.

Of course, it can’t be too salty, otherwise without the ups and downs of fate, how can it provide enough power of fate to Sol.

Anyway, Saul was planning to find something for Shia to do after he adapted to the body of the Tree of Inversion.

Shia: [By the way, even though I’m recuperating right now, I did send the roots of the tree to explore the situation outside and found out one thing].

“What is it?”

Shia: [The Khema Duchy seems to be in some chaos lately. Almost all of the troops and sorcerers that were originally stationed outside of Kaukoust have left. It looks as if something big has happened with a heavy look on their faces].

“The army has been transferred, could it be that there’s another war going on? Now that the Knuckles Duchy is out of power, could it be that some other force is invading?”

However, the Kemah Empire and Sol were not that closely connected after all, and Sol naturally would not let Shaya, who was still recuperating, venture out.

“Good, if there’s anything near the Archaeust, keep an eye out for me, but don’t leave Baidong Academy. Don’t affect your body.”

Shia was surprisingly a little moved for a moment.

After slowing down he thought to himself how was he moved? Can it be that he was affected by Saul’s mind?

Before Shaya could think about it, Saul had already disconnected the connection of the phantom color channel.

Now that the time he could stay in the Phantasmagoria World was limited, it was time to leave after the business was done.

As he left, Saul once again said goodbye to Pei’er.

“Goodbye.” Pei’er’s voice was rather more emotional than when they first met, “The next time you come, I won’t be there.”

Saul understood that it wasn’t easy for Pei’er to want to survive in the World of Illusions, this was after all a place where living took a lot of effort for her.

“I know, I already have the platform space here, so I won’t bother you by coming over in the future, you can focus on yourself.”

Although he couldn’t see Pelle’s appearance, Saul could still recall Pelle’s flamboyant and somewhat stupid appearance in the land of no man.

With a sigh in his heart, he finally said, “Goodbye.”

There was no reply from the other party.

Saul disconnected and returned to the Wizard World.

After Saul left, I don’t know how long, a “goodbye” came out quietly.

Saul’s consciousness returned to the palace where he was living temporarily, and then he didn’t think about Pearle’s matter.

In fact, he and Pei’er could not even be considered lovers, it was just that at that time, each other had a crisis that needed to be dealt with, and it was more favorable for the two of them to be in the same place.

Now that Pei’er had survived the biggest death crisis and had another encounter, Saul naturally wouldn’t hold on to her.

This is also the norm in the wizard world.

“Is someone coming to see me?” Saul stood up and inquired about the wind demon and Nerilla on the side.

Wind Demon was too lazy to speak, and Nerilla was a bit more attentive.

“The squire who comes over often these days had come looking for you, but knocked on the door and left when he saw that you didn’t answer.”

Sol knew it was Xander who had come to see him.

These days he was behind closed doors and Xander could only come to him through the squire if he had anything to do.

This was also in line with Xander’s current state of slight impatience.

It was also time to go see Xander. With that in mind, Saul interrupted his multi-day seclusion, walked out of the palace, and took a ride to meet the puppet emperor of the Eternal Night.

The preparations that needed to be made were almost complete, the next step was to help Xander’s sister, Midol, get used to her new body.

If his third goal could successfully take root after this Black Tide, then Xander and Midol would no longer be mere puppets in the future.

Multiple parties were preparing intensively, and the sorcerer at the front who was in charge of monitoring the movements of the Black Tide had changed from reporting once every three days, to once a day, and finally to once an hour.

The entire southeastern coastline of Nefertiti had been assigned wizards for defense.

These wizards were to fight against the underwater monsters that came with the black tide.

Every time the Black Tide came, it was accompanied by monsters that were heavily contaminated and alienated, sometimes more and sometimes less, with no regularity. But the Ruling Court had to defend to the highest specifications every time.

In case the monsters broke through the defense line, destroying the Red Sea woods and allowing the Black Tide to come ashore, then the continent of Nephrite would be pulled towards the Eye of the Abyss.

Even if it didn’t matter if the defense was breached once or twice, no one dared to gamble the future of the entire continent on the consequences of one oversight.

By the day the Black Tide officially appeared in the defense cordon, unsurprisingly, no one assigned a mission to Sol.

Saul had originally been invited to heal the mermaids, and although he hadn’t solved the fundamental problem so far, the Eternal Night Royal Family had always provided well, and there was never a shortage of sorcery materials or magic crystals.

There was no need for Saul to consume his own stock at all.

But if Saul wanted to go to the defense line to help, then the people of Neverwinter Nights would only welcome it.

After all, it was a third-ranked sorcerer, or a third-ranked sorcerer powerful enough to seal the eye of the wind alone.

Even if he could only help out in one of the defense zones, it would still make people feel more at ease.

And Saul had long since made up his mind to show up on the battlefield today as well.

Before he set off, he went to meet Xander for a while and handed over the black tree branch that he had been harboring for a long time to the other party.

“Mithril is in there now, but she definitely has to get used to it in the next few days. You keep her company more often so she doesn’t get scared.”

Xander carefully took the branch, remembering how often he had seen Saul spinning the branch up and down with one hand before Mido’er had gotten into the black branch. Two days ago Midori was moved into the branch by Saul, and he wondered if, these days, she had been turned.

Xander was also just worried in his heart and did not show it outwardly. Whether Saul was acting out of habit or had an ulterior motive, it was not for him to question.

He was not a sorcerer, and could only be a useful person to the sorcerer in order to be stable as this emperor.

Saul handed over the black tree branch and was not worried.

Right now, looking at Mithril was a bare branch, but as long as she wanted to move, she could grow into a huge tree in an instant.

It was just that it wasn’t needed right now.

Saul left the Eternal Night Palace and went straight to the beach.

Beforehand, he had asked where the Black Flame Emperor was, and without any hesitation chose the corresponding defense zone.

When he reached the vicinity of the coast, the color of the sky was different from the inland.

It was cloudy above the palace, but it was good to see that it was daytime at least.

The further to the coast you went, the thicker the clouds became and the darker the color.

By the time they reached a high ground by the sea and looked into the distance, the sky was all gray and black, and the sunlight was completely blocked out.

The heavy clouds rolled and surged, as if countless insects and snakes were hidden inside, twisting and climbing, ready to break through the clouds and drill out.

The sea under the clouds was also reflected in the dead air, no waves were seen.

Before the big wave came, the sea water was unusually calm, even ebbing to the periphery of the red sea tree.

Originally in the sunlight brilliant as jewels of the red sea tree group, at this time as stained with blood generally hideous.

“The black tide is coming.” Saul said softly, as if he was afraid that if his voice was too loud, he would shatter the fragile calm in front of him.

(End of chapter)