Chapter 887: Xander Returns to the Stage
Chapter 874 – Xander Returns to the Stage
“Mithril?” Royer had thought of all sorts of names, what with the Inverted Shadow and the Black Sea Core, only for Saul to come up with a girl’s name.
“Well, the name comes from Alyxandrah’s sister.” Saul pulled Sandra right out.
Royer looked at Xander, his first reaction was contempt, but he thought about the new Black Sea Tree named “Midol”, and immediately asked Saul, “Are you saying that giving the Black Sea Tree a consciousness to actively control the Red Sea Tree is stuffing a human soul into it?”
Royer reacted as quickly as ever.
Saul nodded.
It’s just that Royer actually felt wrong in his heart despite guessing so.
“Even a sorcerer can’t stay inside a non-human body for a long period of time, let alone a magical creature that resembles a plant? Are you sure that this mithril won’t mutate soon?”
Sol explained, “Midol died unexpectedly when she was a few years old, and her soul has been imprisoned at the bottom of the Blue Water Bay. The fact that she was able to maintain her original will without confusion even under these circumstances is enough to prove the special nature of her soul.”
There was a certain similarity between Midol’s soul and Kate’s.
And in terms of talent, Midol was even stronger than Kate, who was a second-ranked sorcerer.
This was because she was completely ignorant of the knowledge of a sorcerer and survived simply by relying on her instincts.
If she could have become a sorcerer in the first place ……
Forget it, there was no point in thinking about what ifs.
Royer was also thinking, and he immediately asked the next crucial question.
“Even if Midol’s soul won’t be alienated within the new Black Sea Tree, will a magical creature with an autonomous consciousness still be able to keep absorbing Black Tide pollution like before?”
“A normal soul body definitely can’t. But Mithril is different.” Saul pressed his hand on Xander’s shoulder once again and pushed him forward, “But Midol and Xander are very close, and the two of them had automatically established a soul connection long before they returned to the Nefret continent. So now Midori only listens to Xander.”
Royer’s gaze fell to Xander’s slightly tense face, then shifted to the black branches of Midol that were still expanding on the surface of the sea.
The Midori had now nearly covered his defense zone, and was consciously expanding to the left and right, instead of heading out into the deep sea.
It seemed to be under the autonomous control of the Midol.
Royer’s eyes were burning.
He was very clear about the efficiency of the Black Sea Tree in dealing with Black Tide pollution. In the beginning, if it wasn’t for that fatal flaw, how could he not give up on the Black Sea Tree’s cultivation program.
But he didn’t expect that after adding a soul inside, the combination of the Black Sea Tree and the Inverted Tree could grow to such a large size and cover such a wide area.
If he can control Midol ……
However, right now, Midol is still in the growth period, so the other schemes will be mentioned later when it stabilizes.
Royer looked at Xander again, this time the gaze had less of the scrutinizing and sizing up that he had just done, and a little more importance.
He suddenly smiled and took the initiative to speak to Xander, “It seems that His Majesty Alyxandrah has surprised us once again.”
Xander suppressed his inner apprehension, knowing that he could not always rely on Sol if he wanted to rely on Midol to return to the center of power in Neverwinter Nights.
Whether he who existed a spiritual connection with Midol would get the actual power of the Royal Family of the Neverwinter Nights or become a nominal puppet once again would depend on his performance afterward.
Although Royer was talking to Xander, the other wizards were still looking at Midol in the sea.
At this time, the speed of Midol’s expansion had slowed down, the main trunk didn’t grow into a heavenly tree after emerging from the sea, and even its height wasn’t as high as the surrounding Red Sea trees.
But its branches spread very widely, and from afar it looked like a large net that encompassed all the nearby Red Sea trees.
The other sorcerers had been monitoring the mithril, and as soon as something strange happened, they would immediately step in and take control of the new Black Sea Tree to protect the rest of the Red Sea Trees. But until now nothing has happened, and the focus of their attention has changed back to “Is this Black Sea Tree only going to grow to this size?”
One of the wizards stared at the main trunk canopy of the mithril for half a day and suddenly said, “Why do I feel like this isn’t the canopy?”
The wizard beside him looked at the black branches in the seawater without blinking, “What is it if it’s not the canopy?”
“Rather, it looks like tree roots.”
“Hiss …… it does look like, only roots, no branches.”
These two sorcerers didn’t realize that there were inverted trees in the constituent materials of the mithril, but because of their subtle observation they discovered something about the nature of things.
Seeing that the mithril had stopped growing, Saul was ready to return to the temporary palace first.
Cultivating Midol was not an overnight process, and she might need years or even decades to expand her influence on the Red Sea Tree little by little in the next few years.
How to speed up this process, and what to do with the other Red Sea Trees that didn’t have Midol to absorb and deal with the pollution during this period of time, still needed to be studied.
Of course, Saul was at most providing a general idea, and the subsequent specific work would have to be left to the Ruling Court, and it was impossible for him to stay in Nefret for a long period of time.
Now that the reason why the Court of Judgment had invited him over had disappeared, and the third goal of the Symphony of Fate that Saul wanted to create had been achieved, he needed to think about how to open his mouth to say that he wanted to go back to the Land of the Masterless.
Thinking about it, Saul couldn’t help but yawn.
He went over to insert himself into Royer and Xander’s conversation, “I’ll head back first, and I’ll leave the follow-up observations to you. Also, Stuart …… you should know what’s going on, I haven’t been able to find any trace of him.”
Stuart might have died as the diary warned, but with Royer’s example in front of him, there was actually a possibility that Stuart could be brought back to life as long as his soul and consciousness remained.
And it might be Stuart’s soul that the Black Flame Emperor, Ai Luo, had asked Saul to look for.
Royer didn’t refuse, “I’ve just been fighting, there’s no way to focus on searching, I’ll send someone to the sea now.”
Royer took over to continue searching for Stuart, and Saul was not perfunctory about what he had promised the Black Flame Emperor in the first place.
Handing over the work in hand completely, Saul couldn’t care less about what other people thought, and directly made an instantaneous transfer back to the Eternal Night Palace, the temporary palace he had been residing in.
Now that the things he had to do over here had basically been completed, and because of fighting against the backflow of Black Tide monsters and healing other wizards, he had a higher reputation in Neverwinter Nights.
Now he would be able to be slightly more unrestrained in this palace.
Returning to his residence, Saul tossed the wizard robes outside and directly collapsed onto his bed.
The best way to relieve mental exhaustion was to sleep, and then take care of things afterward.
Even if Saul was now a third-ranked sorcerer, this was still the case.
Perhaps when he waited until he was at the fourth rank, and his life form was already fundamentally different from that of a human, he would be able to completely give up normal sleep.
This sleep Saul slept deeply and comfortably.
The crowd tacitly did not come to disturb him.
After an unknown amount of time, Saul opened his eyes and his heart was startled.
How …… did he lie on the floor of a long, dark corridor?
(End of chapter)