Chapter 114 The Black Fortress
"Senior Byron, why did you turn into human skin and hang from a tree?" Looking at Byron, who was already sitting back in the carriage, Sol asked with a black face.
Just now, he really did treat Byron as a monster!
"Well ...," Byron had some difficulty in speaking, he glanced at the carriage driver who had already been healed and continued to drive the carriage, his neck cracked open with a small slit. "I just ... took a shower."
So you just hung yourself up to dry as well?
Saul was speechless.
In the middle of the conversation, they had arrived at the entrance of the Black Fortress.
Saul and Byron got out of the car in turn.
Saul looked at the chevalier who was holding a mushroom umbrella and was still a bit shriveled, and instructed, "There's basically nothing wrong with the mushroom on your head, it will fall off automatically in a couple days when it withers."
As a matter of fact, the mushroom on top of the chevron's head at this moment was no longer as full as it had just been, and it looked a bit wilted.
The chevron, who hadn't been very emotional all along, suddenly raised his head, looked at Saul with tears in his eyes, and then fiercely kneeled down and kowtowed his head fiercely.
The mushroom umbrella "thumped" into the ground.
The driver did not say anything, because it was useless for him to say anything.
Having survived so long in the Wizard's Tower, he had long since learned the rules of survival.
What works, lives.
Still, he kowtowed twice hard to Saul's back, his mushroom umbrella smashed into the ground and pulled out again, wilting more and more.
Though Thor didn't turn around, he heard the movement behind him.
"It was actually the Hokage who saved him."
"Uh-huh." Byron nodded at Sol and pointed at Sol.
Saul understood that Byron was affirming that he hadn't given up on the carny.
Byron's mouth cracked, "Chevrons are tools. When you go out, you have to be good at keeping and caring for your tools."
Byron's words sounded a bit ruthless, but this was the wizards' philosophy in the world. As long as it was useful, it could be protected in passing.
The two arrived at the slender castle gate.
The gate was also slender, one meter wide and four meters high, so a fatter person wouldn't be able to squeeze in.
Byron stepped forward, curled his knuckles and gently knocked twice.
Saul could feel that Byron's two knocks actually contained magic power.
A vertical pupil suddenly split open in the center of the gate, and a circle of rune arrays formed its pupil.
The pupil first swept through Byron's entire body, and then took in the eyes of Saul behind him.
Then the pupil closed, and the door opened automatically with a "click".
"The gate of the Black Castle can be entered when it opens outward, when it opens inward, it is the entrance for transmitting materials, don't enter by mistake."
After saying that, Senior Byron walked in first, followed closely by Sol.
The two of them walked through the gate, and the gate automatically closed again.
The interior of the black castle was not eerie, and could even be said to be opulent.
It was just that the decorations of this interior were also on the slender side.
The hall lifted up to ten meters high, and the crystal chandelier dangling from the very top could be five meters high.
Shaking, it felt like it could fall at any time.
The hall was only three meters wide, but it was dozens of meters deep. At the end was a symmetrical curved staircase, and it looked like the steps were only one meter wide.
It really didn't give the fat man a chance to live.
Just as Saul was observing the entire Black Castle, a dark green branch suddenly drilled out from the door behind him, like a hideous and ghastly dryad hand, bit by bit, wordlessly approaching the back of Saul's head.
The hand slowly changed into a claw, and was about to strangle Saul's neck.
Suddenly, a black tentacle drilled out from the back of Saul's neck, and it rolled onto the sneaky branch with a death strangle and a big whip, easily destroying the sneak attacker.
When Byron and Saul heard the commotion and hurriedly turned back, there were only dry branches shattered into several sections on the ground.
Byron saw the branches and immediately realized who was messing with them.
"Hmm?" He turned to the hall and let out a low voice.
"Ha, ha, ha, don't be mad, don't be mad."
Hearing the voice behind him, Saul turned around again and saw a long, thin man coming down the stairs. That person could be over two meters tall, but was as thin as a bamboo pole.
Byron turned a cold face to the visitor, "Well!"
"Got it, got it." The visitor still had a smiling look, he looked at Saul, both hands on his knees, and bent down, "How are you, how are you, you are Saul, right? I'm the Wizard Tower's caretaker in the Black Castle, my name is Mochi Mochi."
Saul hesitated for a moment, wondering if this person's name was Mochi Mochi, or if he simply said it twice because of his micturition.
"Hello ... Mr. Mochi Mochi."
The other man was still smiling, his eyebrows arched like two parentheses.
"Don't you get mad, don't get mad. I was just curious just now, curious as to who, exactly, was able to help Byron manage to enter the third level before he turned 30. I was thinking about him being kicked out of the Wizard's Tower and begrudgingly, asking him to come help me and watch the gate for me."
"A fluke fluke." Saul replied modestly.
Hearing Sol's reply, Mochi Mochi became even happier.
"Oh, I like you, I like you, little one. You're so skinny, you're as good looking as I am. My mentor is Mentor Anze, are you too?"
"I'm under Mentor Kazi."
"Oh, Mentor Kazi is good too, just boring."
Byron: "Huh?"
"... It's just that I'm not steady enough, haha, I'm not steady enough."
"I'll take Saul to rest, you go back." Byron could no longer listen, he saw Saul come alone, full of doubts, and didn't want to waste any more time with Mochi Mochi.
"Okay, okay." Mochi Mochi wasn't angry, stepping to the left to make way for the hall, smiling as he watched the two go upstairs.
Byron led Saul up the stairs to the right to the second floor, bringing him to a room that was also as slender as a coffin.
"What brings you here on your own, where's Nick?"
Saul hurriedly told him briefly what he had done in Mill Sail Town.
Byron's face wasn't very pretty after hearing this.
He opened his throat, revealing the sharp teeth inside.
"Saul you remember. In the future, no matter who receives the quest, as long as you haven't seen the specific content of the quest, you can't complete it for anyone else."
Saul was stunned, "Could there be something else inside this mission?"
"Think about it, the Ground Sound Fruit calms the emotions, if someone in the tower needs it, then who is most likely?"
Sol was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Nick? Why wouldn't he go himself if he needed the Sound Grinding Fruit?"
"That's the problem, it's obvious that his mission is just to make a trip to Mill Sail Town and express the attitude of the Wizard Tower. Yet he said that there was another secret mission to investigate the reason for the reduction in the production of the Grinding Sound Fruit. But whether or not there is this secret mission, you don't even know, what you have is just a letter of reprimand from Mentor Rum, isn't it?"
Saul's face was a little hard to see.
"Besides, he asked you to investigate the reason, need you to solve the problem? If you know the person who reduced the production of the Ground Sound Fruit, then what should you do with that person? None of this is known, right? Because you're not the one who took the assignment."
Saul knew he had been really careless this time.
Since the first test, he had been looked at by various instructors, not so much that he received any special treatment, but he did have a lot fewer crises in his life, and even his diary didn't come out much to predict death.
Even though Saul had admonished himself over and over again to be vigilant at all times, his vigilance had inevitably dropped a bit.
"Senior, are you saying that Nick might have deliberately lured me to Mill Sail Town? But what is his intention in doing so?"
Saul was asking, but it was actually him asking himself.
Was there any powerful enemy in Mill Sail Town, and even if he wanted to use the savages to kill him, it was unlikely.
Saul could run even if he couldn't fight.
Is Nick clear on what's going on in Mill Sail?
While Saul was thinking, Byron, who was on the side, suddenly said leisurely, "Ask Nick when he arrives."
Saul looked up in shock, and lost his smile again, "Yes, ask him first."
Saul clasped his hands to his chest, "If I hadn't temporarily upgraded to level two this time, those red-skinned barbarians would have been really hard to deal with. Nick had to pay me more to do so."
Byron: "Hmm ... hmm?"
Byron surveyed Saul once again, and only then did he notice that the little level one assistant he had found had upgraded on his own.
Then wasn't the original payment ... to Saul a little less?
(End of chapter)
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