Chapter 133 The Initiative
Of course there was!
Saul nodded his head repeatedly, and a look of anticipation even appeared in his eyes.
Although the requirement of his job was to leave the East Tower before eight o'clock, since the head of the entire Wizard Tower was here, who would care about this little rule?
"Go inside and talk." Gortha lifted his chin.
Thor looked back following the tower master's guidance and realized that he and the tower master were actually back on the second floor of the East Tower together, in front of the third corpse room.
At that moment, the giant man had just opened the scarlet door and pushed the cart out of it.
As soon as he saw Golza behind Saul, his entire body immediately stopped moving, as if he had been instantly petrified.
And Saul, who was standing in front of him, could feel the giant man's emotions shifting from panic to collapse.
Golza, however, just waved his hand, signaling the giant man to continue his work.
The giant man got the order and immediately put his foot down and pushed the cart back to work.
But his movements were stiff as hell, and his limbs rusted as if they hadn't been oiled in years.
After seeing the giant man enter the depths of the corridor with an odd posture, Saul then followed Golza into the corpse room.
By the time he stepped inside, Golza was already standing in front of his lab table, eyeing Saul's lab gear and notes.
Hearing Saul walk in, Golza turned around and asked with a smile, "Is it convenient to look at your notes?"
Sol nodded his head in a hurry, "Of course."
What couldn't be shown to outsiders, he disposed of before leaving the corpse room.
Golza picked up the notes that Saul had used to record the sorcery transformation experiments and casually flipped through them twice.
Saul became even more nervous, with the apprehension of having his homework corrected by the principal himself.
Gortha quickly put Sol's notes back in their place and turned to face Sol, leaning against the table.
He laughed, "Now you've realized that souls are interesting things, haven't you?"
Interesting? Interesting for a powerful sorcerer like the Tower Lord, I guess.
Sol gave a catering smile and nodded very doggedly.
"What was originally a remodeled skin for the purpose of boosting magic power has formed a new kind of spirit ester just by adding a little bit of soul fragments. The thought process is a bit peculiar, but overall there's no major problem."
"What surprises me is that you were able to remove impurities to raise the quality of the spirit ester right now. I thought that I needed to wait until you had advanced to the second level and learned about this area before I could dabble in this field."
Golza gently clapped his hands, "Your progress is always beyond my expectations. Through self-study, you were able to complete the transformation of your sorcerous body and even upgraded and purified your spirit ester. I've heard that you're also very good at learning sorcery, and have far surpassed apprentices of your level."
In the face of the tower master's praise, Sol did not feel ashamed.
Although his success could not be separated from his diary and Komoro, it was even more inseparable from his own continuous efforts, with the courage to lay down his life.
Golza beckoned to Sol, "As a reward, you may bring up any confusion in your studies."
This time it was Sol's turn to be surprised.
However, after the surprise, his brain was confused, but he didn't know what to ask for a while.
After organizing his thoughts for a while, Saul then asked a question that had been bothering him for a long time, "Lord Tower Master, do you know that there is an evil spirit in the library?"
Who would have guessed that Golza cocked his head and denied, "There is no evil spirit in the library. I don't want the apprentices in the tower to die a meaningless death yet."
He chuckled softly, "If you're talking about the one on the fourteenth row of bookshelves ... that's your fear, not an evil spirit."
"My fear?" Saul wasn't expecting that answer at all.
He was really startled when he first saw the person lying under the bookshelf, and had followed up by checking it out again and seeing the person lying there again as well.
Saul couldn't see the person's face and didn't know if the other person was dead or alive, but still didn't dare to approach.
A little closer, he will feel his heartbeat accelerate, shortness of breath, and even shed a drop of cold sweat.
"Is it because I have a preconceived notion that there are ghosts there because I know that books about evil spirits are kept there?" Saul muttered to himself.
"Are you even afraid of ghosts?" Golza slowly turned his neck, his eyes sweeping over the corpse room where Saul was working, "This ... is somewhat unexpected."
Saul followed Golza's gaze and looked at his workroom, which was comparable to a crime scene and a classic haunted house scene, and was a little embarrassed.
Could he explain that he was afraid of the ghosts in those ghost movies from his previous life, which were simply unresolved?
But instead of mocking him for this, Lord Golsa Tower asked in a serious manner, "Saul, do you remember the definition of ghosts in the perception of all things?" "Those that cannot be fully controlled by subjective consciousnesses are ghosts, and those that are controlled by other subjective consciousnesses are monsters."
"Yes, but most importantly, it is a combination of extinct spiritual body and consciousness. I call this composite form of mental body and consciousness, the soul."
Sol listened intently, suddenly feeling that the tower master was very much like his teacher at this point, easily bringing the conversation back to the content of the lesson.
"You asked me if there were any evil spirits in the library in order to go borrow a book, right?"
"Yes." Sol admitted.
Because of his research on Spirit Ester, he needed to check out the books there, but because of the human body that was suspected to be an evil spirit, Saul hadn't dared to get too close.
He hadn't realized that the human body lying on the bookshelf was his own fear, and had always assumed that it was the Evil Spirit's knowledge that exceeded his current strength, and that's why it was acting dangerously.
Golza crossed his fingers, "Then let me ask you another question. If you do encounter an evil spirit, how do you resist?"
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"If I do meet an evil spirit, how should I resist?" Sol closed his eyes and asked himself this question once again.
He remembered that he had answered three options.
The first one belonged to breaking the enemy with force. Directly breaking down the spirit body of the evil spirit, dissipating the energy of the evil spirit itself and forcing it to dissipate.
The 0th Order Sorcery Strike Necromancy was this principle.
The second type was to obliterate from the consciousness. Letting the evil spirit's originally incomplete consciousness dissipate either actively or passively.
Some evil spirits automatically dissipate after their obsessions are satisfied for this reason.
The third way, on the other hand, was Saul's sudden idea and a combination of the first two methods.
When the evil spirit was weaker than himself, he could naturally choose either the first or the second.
But if the evil spirit was strong and unbeatable, the first one couldn't be beaten, and the second one needed time and chance, both of which made it difficult to solve the evil spirit that was close at hand.
Saul recalled his own experience of using Spirit Ester and the diary to imprison Sid's soul fragment and consciousness respectively, and guessed whether it was possible to actively lure the spirit body into the Spirit Ester and divide its consciousness and spirit body. Then find a way to destroy them separately.
This idea was just a theoretical guess, and to do it wasn't much simpler than killing an enemy at a cross-level.
However, when Golza heard Sol's third option, he froze for a few more seconds, and then began to laugh softly in a low voice, which gradually became louder and louder, and almost spread throughout the second floor of the East Tower.
It was the first time that Sol had seen such a strong change in the Tower Master's emotions.
And he was completely at a loss as to why the Tower Lord was laughing, and could only stare blankly at the other party, trying to discern whether the Tower Lord's emotions contained mockery or delight.
Even now, Saul didn't know why the tower lord was laughing so exaggeratedly.
Still, the tower lord affirmed his idea and simply said, "This scenario is difficult to reach."
That night the tower master came over, patted Saul on the shoulder, and told him, "But wizards should challenge the difficult. Your answer satisfies me, and when you are promoted to the second level, I will send you a reward."
Saul now didn't know what reward the tower master would give him, but he knew that if he couldn't solve this evil spirit today, he wouldn't see any reward.
Saul closed his eyes, and the laboratory and the tower master in front of him all disappeared.
He opened his eyes again and realized that he was in total darkness and his arms and legs were numb and unable to move.
But the good thing was that he could still sense his arms and legs.
"I'm not dead?"
"I used all my means, but I couldn't even stop the Evil Spirit's approach. Can I only say that it's worthy of being a full-fledged sorcerer-level evil spirit? Even though he wasn't complete, he was still able to kill me easily."
"But I didn't die ... he possessed me?"
"No!" Saul struggled to stretch his limbs, trying to regain control of his body, "No! It wasn't him who possessed me!"
A surge of power traveled from his brain into his body before gradually dispersing into his limbs.
Warmth restored sensation to the limbs.
Saul sat up violently.
"It wasn't that he possessed me, it was that I actively channeled him into myself! Imported into the Spirit Ester! It was I ... who actively absorbed him!"
(End of chapter)