Chapter 63 – Triple Iterated Curse
Stepping out from behind the door, Cid shrugged his shoulders and didn't walk in, just hugged his arms and leaned against the doorframe.
"Yeah, it's me, but why did you forget to call Hokage again!"
Saul covered his chest with a pained expression and looked at Cid with a scowl on his face.
"You want to kill me? Aren't you afraid that Mentor Kazi will skin you?"
Cid laughed lightly, his face full of disdain, "Who said I was going to take a shot at you? It was clearly you first level apprentices killing each other, I was just passing by and was kind enough to help you collect your corpses."
"Do you think you can fool the mentors?"
"Do you think the mentors really care about a few apprentices? Or dead apprentices." He swept his gaze over a mess of lab tables and cabinets and snorted, "You tried to make an antidote? Quite an idea, but what you've been hit with isn't poison, pills won't work."
Saul held onto the conveyor belt and began to move, while Cid just stood in the doorway not coming in or stopping him.
It seemed like he was going to wait until Saul died on his own.
Saul moved to the mouth of the conveyor and grabbed the black tassel and shouted inside, "Senior! Senior!"
The bright candle flame overhead illuminated Saul's pale face.
Cid laughed again.
"You thought someone would come to your rescue? Hayden happens to be out of town today." He said mockingly, "Byron from Corpse Room One turned thirty a few days ago and has left the Wizard's Tower without finding a replacement for the time being. Right now, on the second floor of the East Tower, it's just you and me."
"What the hell did you do to me?" Saul held the teleportation table and moved to the other side, as if he wanted to go to the experiment table to find a useful potion.
"Told you it wasn't poison." The smile on Cid's face disappeared, revealing some impatience, "Hurry up and die so I can collect your body."
Seeing Saul's still not giving up look, Cid decided to extinguish his last hope.
"What you have on you is a curse, if your backer Kongsha is here, she might be able to help you undo it. But she has her apprentice test today, so even if you look for her, she won't have time to come over yet."
Saul stiffened in his movements and looked over at Cid, despair finally showing on his face.
"Whoa!"
He looked down and spat out another mouthful of black blood.
Trembling, he collapsed.
His heavy body inadvertently brought down the wrench next to the conveyor table, and the conveyor belt began to hum.
Saul on the floor twitched twice and collapsed in a heap.
A real smile appeared on Cid's face as he walked in.
He wasn't afraid of Saul playing dead, he had ways of controlling a new apprentice.
He was only afraid that he would strike too late and let the diary run away again.
Cid crouched down and reached for Saul's body.
And at that moment, behind him, a woman with only half a face burrowed a little into the black leather fringe with the conveyor belt.
The conveyor belt hummed, obscuring the low, unheard incantations.
A crystalline, cold dagger quickly took shape in the air, larger than the one Thorley had summoned with his wand, and like a real dagger, it slammed into the back of Cid's heart!
At the last moment, Cid suddenly realized something and suddenly leapt forward.
But he was still a little late, dodging the fatal wound, but was still pierced through the small of his back by the icy dagger, leaving a bloody hole that was quickly frozen.
If it wasn't for Sid's leap, the ice dagger would have pierced through his heart.
Cid couldn't turn back in time and immediately released a defense spell behind him.
A semi-transparent barrier appeared between Kong Sha and Cid, blocking the Bead of Substandard Cold that was thrown at Cid immediately afterward.
The cold air immediately condensed into beautiful ice flowers on the transparent barrier.
Before Cid could catch his breath and stabilize himself, a cold dagger silently appeared to his left again.
And Cid wasn't a simple character, his entire body unexpectedly melted like a candle.
The dagger stabbed through, taking away a part of the candle solution, but the rest still quickly converged and turned back into the complete Cid.
But the large hole in Sid's small abdomen did not heal.
This sorcery apparently only dodged damage, but did not help Cid recover from his previous wounds.
At the same time, Kong Sha's other cold dagger had already formed in the air. Cid's face was suddenly as white as death.
The reason why Kong Sha was the most powerful of the Second Grade Apprentices was because she could continuously unleash 1st Order Sorceries without fear of a certain degree of mental body fatigue.
Sid, on the other hand, after using a Defense Sorcery and a 1st Order Wax Meltdown, he would have to take a breather for a while to calm down the shock in his mental body before he could cast another spell.
Otherwise, he might fail to cast the spell and lose eight hundred of his own.
Seeing the third cold dagger rapidly forming in the air – the Pearl of Cold that had just been released could accelerate the molding of the cold dagger in the air – Sid could only take out his own treasure that he was holding down.
Only to see Cid dropping his hand, a mannequin sculpture appeared in his palm.
Kong Sha's eyes changed as soon as she saw the sculpture, and she immediately dissolved the ice-cold dagger in the air, while also suffering a brain surge from forcibly suspending the spell.
In the glass head, a single eyeball emerged, all staring at the mannequin sculpture in Cid's hand for an instant.
"How dare you wear an elf sculpture around with you? Aren't you afraid of suddenly going insane one day?"
Cid took the opportunity to calm the shock in his mental body, in this situation, it was also dangerous for him to take out the elf sculpture.
Still, Cid revealed an unruly smile, "I have my own way. If I don't take out this, I'm afraid you won't even give me a chance to talk."
Kong Sha sneak attacked him as soon as he appeared, and after that, he even made a series of killing moves, so Cid couldn't even recite the incantation in time, much less have the time to stop Kong Sha.
"Kong Sha, there's actually no need for us to fight to the death over a slave." Cid glanced at Saul on the ground, who looked pale, with a stream of black blood spilling out from the corner of his mouth, as if he was going to break in the next second.
What Syd had in mind was about to be accomplished, and he couldn't help but get agitated, "Not to mention a slave who is about to die."
"But he's useful to me." Konza said in a cold voice, "What did you do to him?"
"Just a triple iteration of the curse." Cid said full of concern.
"Triple Iteration Curse?" Kongsha spoke with her eyes still fixed on the sculptures in Cid's hands, none of them hidden from her brain, "That takes three lives ... So all three of those newbie apprentices were sent by you for Saul to kill?"
"Yes. The boy is ruthless enough to never hesitate to strike. Although the first one wasn't counted as his kill, the death aura wraps around him when he dies in front of him." Cid proudly stated his own tactics, "Now, Kongsa, do you still want to fight me for someone who will surely die?"
A few of Konza's eyes turned to Sol and back again quickly.
Seeing that Kongsha hesitated, Cid continued to raise the stakes, "I just want this brat's corpse to vent my anger, and you can have everything else."
Kongsha didn't say anything, seemingly acquiescing.
Cid cautiously held up the sculpture in his hand, his eyes fixed on Kongsha, and his footsteps slowly approached Saul.
And Saul, who was on the ground, barely raised his head to look at Cid, who was getting closer and closer to him, and looked anxiously at Kong Sha.
However, Kong Sha had all her eyes on the sculpture in Sid's hand, and didn't seem to be paying attention to Saul's pleas for help on the ground.
Cid took a step forward while staring at Kongsa.
Suddenly, the foot he had in front of him hit the ground so hard that the stone tiles on the ground were cracked.
Cid, on the other hand, utilized the force of the rebound and violently leapt backward, actually ignoring Saul on the ground and directly escaping towards the gate.
In the next instant, two ice daggers came down from above, diagonally penetrating where Sid was just now, and heavily hitting the ground, destroying two more stone bricks.
"Tsk!" Kongsa sighed softly with regret.
That Cid was really vigilant, if we let him escape today, we might not have such a chance of "self-defense" in the future.
The elf sculpture in that Cid's hand also made Kong Sha not dare to cast a wide range of spells.
Once the mental body fluctuation is too large, it is likely that the elf sculpture will fall into hallucinations without realizing it.
That would be too dangerous.
Cid, on the other hand, had a scowl on his face.
By fleeing, he wasn't giving up a near chance to pick up a corpse!
Fortunately, the diary itself was plain and unadorned. Kong Sha might not care even if she saw the hardcover book that had fallen off of Saul's body.
He still had a chance to retrieve it.
Just as both Cid and Kongsa were filled with regret, a figure suddenly appeared behind the scarlet door and punched back Cid, who was running out of the room with his head smothered.
(End of chapter)