Chapter 116: The Rambling Mountain
After descending to the bottom of the steep slope of rolling rocks, Wood Spider, under Byron's command, placed a few tents in a place some distance away from the foot of the mountain.
If there were no surprises, they would be spending the next month, or even longer, here.
After quickly setting up the tents, Byron called on Sol to start setting up the experimental apparatus.
Because in order to capture the evil spirits, the general location of the evil spirits must be determined first.
What Byron was building now was the Soul Fluctuation Perception Instrument that was moved out from the Sorcerer's Tower.
Saul had never seen, much less used, this kind of instrument, and could only pass some things and play on the side.
Not needing to use his brain, Saul handed out materials while observing the surroundings.
"Senior Byron, why are there so many holes in the ground here and at the foot of the mountain? I see that some of the holes in the ground should have been dug by hand."
"Yes, the original ground here is actually underneath this land. It is said that back then it was a third level sorcerer who directly moved half of a large mountain here, burying all the enemy reinforcement sorcerers inside."
"Half a mountain?" Saul was appalled, unable to imagine how one would have to mobilize spiritual and magical power to lift a large mountain.
His sorcerer's hand could only lift a chair at the moment.
"There were sorcerers who were crushed under the mountain but didn't die, so they dug holes and ran upwards, but even after escaping from the ground, most of them didn't survive. Later on, others came here to hunt for treasure, trying to find valuable materials. Over time, the place was dug up with holes everywhere."
Saul saw a hole nearby that was no more than ten centimeters in diameter, and wondered what kind of people ran out of the ground or hunted for treasure.
At this time Nick, who had gone out to explore, returned.
"I made an initial check, and I can barely sense spirits here, so if you want to catch evil spirits, you have to go a little deeper."
Byron patted the dust on his hands while asking, "How far deeper?"
Nick unfolded a map with a swish.
The map didn't need to be supported by the table and automatically floated in the air.
Saul also went over and saw that the map depicted the area around the steep slope of the entrance to the Valley of the Drooping Hand.
"Are we going to search around here? Do we act together, or do we split up the work?"
Byron and Nick looked up at Saul at the same time.
"What?"
"Nick and I will just take care of the search, Saul you stay and guard the equipment." Byron spoke first.
Nick also chimed in, "After all, you've only become a second level, and your mastery of sorcery is unskilled, so it's better to stay here and brush up on your knowledge."
"Alright ...," Saul thought that he had become a second level apprentice halfway through and could participate more in this quest.
At this time, Byron also put the Perceptron in place, "This will be fine, and it's easier to move around."
"Has anyone captured souls here before?" Saul looked at the mirror-like presence in the middle of the Perceptron and walked over to look at it.
The mirror didn't seem to be flat, and it reflected Saul's twisted and distorted face.
Seeing Saul's interest, Byron gave him a brief introduction.
"The mirror is not flat, and the people reflected on it are all twisted and distorted. When I activate the apparatus, the flat human forms it reflects are all spirits."
"Can I try it?" Saul wondered at the silent mirror.
Oddly enough, the mirror was smooth to the touch.
Could it be that the silver coating inside was uneven?
Byron gave Saul a demonstration, "Here is the adjustment of the wavelength, you can try it yourself later. But be careful not to exceed this threshold."
Saul looked down at the scale marked in red above, "What happens after this?"
Nick put away the map, reached out and gestured a blossoming gesture in front of Saul, "There is a possibility of seeing things you can't, maybe it's a good thing, maybe it's a bad thing."
Wizards were always efficient.
Byron and Nick quickly decided on a direction to explore and left their temporary base.
After the two left, Saul wasn't idle either.
It just so happened that he had just promoted to the second level and absorbed so many soul fragments – although soul fragments couldn't be kept for a long period of time, they could influence the spirit ester, thus raising Saul's magic value – he still didn't know how much his magic value had reached now.
It just so happened that the temporary base was well equipped with all kinds of instruments, so Saul took this rare opportunity to give himself a full body check.
This checkup was a series of surprises.
His magic power value directly reached 53 jiao!
Spiritual power could not be accurately estimated with numerical values, but Saul could vaguely feel that his spiritual power had condensed again.
That Shelly sorcerer had saved up his grievances for who knows how long, and wouldn't utilize them, so he just accidentally cheaped out on Saul.
But let Saul learn from Shelly to create spirits, he is not willing. Even if the soul fragments of these spiteful spirits could give Saul a huge boost, the impurities in them might make the boost come with terrible consequences.
For example, Sonel or something.
After testing his body, Saul was basically sure that this promotion hadn't negatively affected his body, and let out a sigh of satisfaction.
If an apprentice's promotion caused the body or spirit to be traumatized or even contaminated due to various accidents, it could be remedied as long as the extent was not too serious.
But Saul didn't want, either, to mess up his body after only his first promotion.
Putting down the black crystal, Saul once again made sure no one was around before taking out a small silver-colored ball from his arms.
The small ball was no more than half a centimeter in diameter, with occasional starlight shining inside.
That was precisely the cocoon of the Nightmare Butterfly that Saul had taken out of Penny's eyes.
What Saul took out from Penny's eyes were two silver-colored hemispheres.
But when he held the two hemispheres in his hand, they automatically merged into one sphere and could not be separated again with his bare hands.
Saul had never heard of the Nightmare Butterfly before.
After this rendezvous with Senior Byron, he flipped through the butterfly-related books in his hands and didn't find any records related to the Nightmare Butterfly.
This was clearly not knowledge that a first level apprentice could access, but Saul was again very curious about Penny's ability to enter other people's dreams.
"I wonder how this cocoon has to be activated to give me the chance to enter the dream world as well."
Saul gently read the silver cocoon with his fingertips, while his other hand recorded his inspiration on a piece of paper.
"Swish swish swish ..."
1, the simplest, hold the cocoon to sleep. You can start by putting a few ordinary people around to ensure the safety of the experiment.
2, Embed eyes and fall asleep. Replicates Penny's experience, but it's a bit costly, and healing sorcery to restore limbs is more expensive, but it's not impossible to try when you have the money.
3, use spiritual power to sync with the cocoon through meditation, as a way to try to activate the cocoon's ability ...
"Snap, snap, snap ..."
Saul suddenly stopped his pen and straightened up.
He seemed to have heard something.
He pressed down on his desk and was just about to stand up when he suddenly saw a dark figure pass under his desk.
Saul looked down and immediately stared incredulously.
A head.
A head on two feet, snapping, snapping, snapping, snapping, snapping, snapping, snapping, snapping under the table in front of Saul.
It was the head of a middle-aged man, his mouth humming idly.
A head that grew directly on top of a pair of feet. The necks of the feet were short and walked like a penguin or a duck.
There seemed to be something funny about it, but Saul couldn't laugh because there was nothing cute about that human face.
Before Saul could react to this, he heard another voice.
"You're being lazy again." Another head came out from under the tent.
It was the head of a middle-aged woman with long chestnut-colored hair that trailed on the ground and curled up.
But the woman's head was oblivious to this; she was only focused on chasing after the man's head.
"Lord Morton is forming up, we'll be leaving in a few moments."
But the man-head didn't pay any attention to the woman-head, and went out from the other end of the tent on his own.
The woman's head also went out after him.
From start to finish, the two heads that grew on their feet didn't pay Saul any attention for a moment.
When he came, Byron hadn't mentioned at all that he would see such a monster in the Valley of the Drooping Hand.
Saul felt vaguely uneasy in his heart.
He walked to the tent and lifted the flap with one hand.
With that, Saul felt goosebumps flinging from the soles of his feet all the way to his hairline.
Outside the tent, the mountains were full of human-headed monsters with only two feet!
(End of chapter)