Chapter 64 – Senior, I'll give you a present
Cid was caught off guard and staggered back by the punch from the opposite side, a stream of hot blood trickling down his nose.
He looked up and was shocked to see a figure that shouldn't be here in any way.
"Byron? Why haven't you left the tower yet?"
"Byron?" Even Kongsa was surprised, coming down from the teleportation platform and subtly kicking Saul on the ground.
"Uh-huh." In the face of the two's skepticism, Byron, however, simply nodded.
Well, there was no use asking him.
Sid instantly realized that he had been caught in an ambush, and there was no escape.
This man is ruthless to others, but also ruthless to himself.
He even raised his hand and knocked the sculpture in his hand hard against the wall.
Byron and Kong Sha stared at the sculpture and changed their faces.
Only to see the fragile elf sculpture immediately crack in half after meeting the impact.
The head fell off and rolled to the side in a dripping manner.
The inside of the sculpture was only a finger thick, with a hollow center and nothing in it.
Yet there seemed to be something.
As the sculpture shattered, the corpse room went completely silent.
"You ... are really crazy!" Even Kong Sha lost her enchanting charm and stared viciously at Cid.
"Hm? Hmmm!!!" Byron finally realized what Cid was holding and his brows furrowed viciously.
Cid's hand holding the remaining half of the sculpture instantly dried and aged like an old man in his eighties or nineties.
He arched his back, his chest heaving, and his eyes constantly roaming between Kongsa and Byron.
"When you assassinated me, I realized that there is no reconciliation today. Since this is the case, we will all play through together!"
Cid held up the sculpture and walked towards Kongsa.
Kong Sha's eyes continued to roll, and in the end, she actually took the initiative to avoid it, revealing Saul behind her.
It was as if Cid was wearing a bomb suit, causing the two powerful second level apprentices to throw themselves at him.
When Byron tried to step forward, Cid would immediately raise his hand over again, forcing Byron to step back again.
In this way, Sid forced the two to shift their positions one after another, and in the end, it turned out that he walked to Saul's side, while Kong Sha and Byron stood at the doorway.
"Do you think you can escape?" After a long silence, Kongsha finally spoke, "It's true that none of us can move our mental bodies when the power of the elf sculpture is leaked, but you're holding it, and even if you don't move, sooner or later, you'll fall into an illusion. At that time, we can easily kill you."
"I'm sorry," Cid laughed hideously, "My family has a knightly heritage, so you won't be able to stop me without using sorcery! Stay away!"
Cid once again drank back the foolish Byron.
He was now in a sorry state, covered in blood and with an ice hole in his stomach.
But he was smug again, scaring off two powerful opponents at the same time was something he hadn't experienced before.
Cid stared intently at the two men, crouching down slowly at Saul's side.
The small servant next to him was, by now, motionless and should be dead.
He reached out to probe the servant's neck and did not feel a heartbeat.
He was really dead!
"Grandfather," Sid frantically called out in his heart, "Look, look, I'm the hope of the family! The Death Wizard's Diary you've been searching for so long will soon be in my hands! Hahaha!"
Byron saw that Cid looked different and stepped forward once again.
"Don't move!"
Although Sid was excited, he was still wary of Byron and Kongsa, and when he saw Byron making a move, he threatened in a hurry.
"Come over again and I'll let you taste the flavor of the illusion realm. Do you think that after you enter the illusion realm, Kong Sha really won't take the opportunity to make a move on you?"
However, before Sid's words fell, he suddenly felt that his stomach had been hit hard by something, and his original wound ached violently.
Cid had no choice but to lower his head before he saw that Saul, who had just been motionless, had risen up at some unknown time and had shoved something fist-thick and palm-long into his busted belly viciously.
"Senior!" Saul was grinning, his mouth and teeth black, his left hand shoving the thing dead center into Cid's wound, "A present for you!"
Cid, in pain and anger, punched Saul.
Saul rushed to block with his left hand, but was still knocked away by Cid.
Saul was knocked away but his expression was pleasantly surprised, at the same time he turned his head sideways and shouted to Konza and Byron "Lie down!"
Cid hurriedly panicked and went to pull out something in his stomach, but it was stuck dead in the ice slag ...
"Bang !!!!" There was no huge explosion as expected, even the sound of the explosion was a bit dull.
This made Saul's heart startled.
"Oh no, Keri won't trick me with a three-pronged product, right?"
His back hit the ground hard, but his head struggled to lift to look across at Cid.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Saul breathed a sigh of relief.
The grenade, ah no, the airburst of iron and fire wasn't as violent as it could have been, as if all of its power had been corralled to hit the target fighting it.
It was then that he saw Cid's entire body blown in half, and that both the upper and lower halves of his body had been impaled from the inside by pieces of iron.
"This iron and fire is so powerful, it's worthy of being a sorcery prop!"
Not a single piece of iron was wasted, and it was as if Sid had fallen into a pile of iron cacti at the moment.
He opened his mouth and the blood mixed with the end of the iron fell to the ground with a crisp ringing sound.
How could Cid not expect that he, who had threatened to hold two second level apprentices, had been backstabbed by a servant?
"How ... did you not get hit by the curse ..."
This was what Syd understood the least.
But Saul just turned away from Sid in silence, without the slightest intention of explaining.
Cid fell heavily to the ground, his eyes still staring at Saul in death.
Suddenly, a heavy hardback book appeared in front of Sid's eyes, not far away from him, just reach out and touch it.
Sid's eyes instantly went wide.
What Konsa, what Byron, what Saul, what Wizard Tower, what grandfather ...
He didn't care about any of it at this point.
The only thing in front of him was the book, the hardback book with the red exterior!
"Mine!" He spat out the two words wordlessly and reached for it.
But his hand only grasped air.
His hand passed through the hardback book, back and forth several times, before finally dropping to the floor.
Saul looked at Cid with some confusion as the latter clawed at the air for some unknown reason, not even accounting for his final defiance or last words.
He glanced over his left shoulder somewhat nervously.
The diary was still there in quiet suspension.
No problem!
Saul stood up and spat out the unpleasant black blood in his mouth, "Yuck! Sister Kongsha, Senior Byron, Sidhe's dead as a doornail, isn't he?"
Byron came over first, looked down carefully and affirmed, "Uh-huh."
Kong Sha did not come over immediately, but carefully collected the elf sculpture that was knocked in half by Cid and sealed it in a small box.
Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief as all the horrible eyeballs returned to their places.
"It was easy to make sure he was dead." Konza approached and with a passing hand picked up the saw on the console and tossed it over to Saul, "Cut the head off, damned if he ain't dead."
It was a job Saul was skilled at and Byron was not rusty.
There was a harsh scraping sound and blood splattered everywhere.
Saul put Cid's head into a box, wrapped it in pale yellow leather, and handed it over to Konza.
Kongsha took the box and breathed a long sigh of relief, "That's good, you're the one who killed Cid. All the more reason to fight back."
One eye floated up from the white pulp and turned towards Sol, and Konza suddenly crooked a smile.
"But I'm really a little curious now, why exactly did Cid have to kill you?"
Saul had already thought of a reason.
"A few months ago, when I was a servant, I saw Cid stealing from the library. It was then that he struck out at me, and I was hurt badly, but lucky to survive. Since then, he's tried to kill me a few times as he seemed afraid I'd let the story slip."
Saul had tried to tie Kongsa to the same war ship as himself with the fact that Sid had found out about Kongsa's brain stealing, but Kongsa soon realized that Saul was hiding something and intimidated him.
Now Cid wanted to kill Saul despite the danger of falling into the illusion, naturally arousing Kong Sha's suspicion once again.
Saul then simply told all the facts.
Except for the death wizard diary, he said all the facts that onlookers could see.
And the death wizard diary was invisible to anyone but Saul.
(End of chapter)