Chapter 158 – Soul-Inducing Oil Lamp
Sol slowly clenched his teeth.
Such a cold truth made his breath stutter. But deep inside him, another voice told him that this was how the world was supposed to look.
Vinnie didn't seem to be satisfied with how much the truth hit Saul, as she approached Saul once again, her dark shadow leaning forward and lingering on his ear.
A tiny voice rang out, "Do you realize how many years it's been since Golza stayed at the peak of the Second Order?"
"If you don't understand the meaning of that sentence, let me give you an example. Do you know why a second rank who cannot advance to a third rank apprentice by the age of thirty will be expelled from the tower?"
"Why would the Sorcerer's Tower let them go instead of crushing people to death?"
"Because those who stay at the peak of their rank for a long time are known to be unceasingly tainted by the unknown of the upper levels. Leaving those second level apprentices in the tower, sooner or later they will be contaminated and turned into monsters. You work in the corpse room, you should know that anything that is contaminated is sent to the landfill. Even as powerful as Golza, he's not willing to risk using it."
Sol vaguely felt a sweet breath blowing into his cheeks, but the sweetness was followed by extreme bitterness.
Vinnie was still continuing, "Do you think Golza ... is getting more and more like a monster?"
Saul finally couldn't help but take a huge step back, his back knocking against the table, pain and fear causing him to breathe heavily.
"Ho... ho..."
Saul couldn't help but think, if the tower master had turned into a monster, how many living people would be left in this wizard's tower?
Just as Saul was plunged into the terrifying future described by Vinnie,, a gentle voice suddenly sounded in the doorway.
"Yura, don't scare Sol."
Sol and Vinnie turned their heads at the same time, and saw Golza, clad in a reddish-brown cloak, walking in style from the middle of the corpses.
And those corpses would automatically move aside to the sides as Golza passed by, waiting for the person to walk by and then go back.
When he reached Vinnie and Sol, Golza opened his arms and lifted his cloak, revealing his body wrapped in pink bandages underneath.
"Come back."
Vinnie's dark shadow, however, only stayed in place.
But Golza was extremely patient with her and added, "Come back ... good boy."
Only then did Vinnie look at Sol, and her red eyes couldn't tell what she was thinking.
She walked over, opened her arms and embraced Golza, then like rain dripping down a lake, she merged into each other's bodies and disappeared.
Thor drifted back to his senses, and as Vinnie left to look back at him, it was as if he saw the face of a beautiful and cool woman.
Golza withdrew his hand, and the wide cloak swung gently, once again covering his body tightly.
He lowered his head and said softly to Sol, "You don't need to pay attention to Yura's words, especially about the resurrection part, I'll tell you all about that when you're promoted to the third level."
Sol couldn't help but step forward, "Tower Master, the spirit body just now, was it really Lady Yura?"
Golza nodded, "It was her."
He let out a low chuckle, "Did she tell you that she was just a replica and named herself Vinnie?"
Sol didn't know how long his conversation with Vinnie had been overheard, but there was no point in hiding it, after all, Vinnie herself had been sucked into someone else's body.
He nodded.
"She's like that every time. When she's happy, she says she's Yura, and when she's not, she's Vinnie." The corners of Golza's eyes curved, but then quickly dimmed, "I've done my best to preserve her conscious body intact, but she was still more or less contaminated by the outside world while replenishing Yura's soul energy. That's why her cognition has been affected as well."
"There's nothing that can be done about it for the time being, a body of consciousness is an existence that's even more fragile than a soul. Sometimes an insignificant shock from the outside world, or a change in one's own thoughts, can cause the body of consciousness to be greatly harmed. From one extreme to another."
Golza stretched out his right hand from under his cloak, carrying an old, rusty oil lamp with a light layer of oil in it at his fingertips.
"The body is the bedrock of the soul, don't play with your soul away from your body if you're not doing anything."
Sol stalled and reached out to take the oil lamp.
The oil lamp was so small that he could hold it in one hand.
The wick was a tiny noodle thread head that was burning steadily.
Did the Tower Master see that he had once had his soul leave his body? Or had Vinnie, who was following him, told the Tower Master?
"I don't know why I just suddenly left my body last night. It scared me, but luckily I went back later."
Thor explained a sentence, trying to show that he wasn't actively seeking death.
"You carry this soul-inducing oil lamp with you, and put a few drops of fingertip blood and saliva in the oil. It will mention help you return to your body if you are ever passive souls away from your body again."
Saul gripped the oil lamp tightly, so the tower master thought the soul leaving his body would happen again?
"Thank you. But do you know why this happened to me?"
"You already have a guess in your mind, don't you, go and verify it instead of listening to others." The corners of Golza's eyes curved up gently again, "If you want to thank me, grow up as quickly as possible. At the very least, you have to reach level three before you can help me."
Sol nodded his head in a hurry, "Yes, Tower Master, I will definitely try my best."
Golza smiled, and his entire person abruptly disappeared in front of Sol's eyes.
The large storehouse was now finally left with only Saul alive.
Without the worry of possessing an evil spirit, he didn't have to go looking for help.
Saul held the spirit-inducing oil lamp and took a few steps back to the table to sit down.
He was lying on the table with his arms around his face, and at this point no one could see his expression at this moment.
Before three o'clock in the afternoon, Saul moved all of his experimental materials from the corpse room on the second floor of the East Tower, to the storage room on the first floor of the East Tower.
He then took advantage of the lunch hour to go to Senior Byron, intending to transfer the contributions exchanged for the wind sailboat to Byron as repayment for saving his life.
Unsurprisingly, Senior Byron did not push back and directly accepted Sol's gratitude.
"When did you return?" Byron counted his due portion and returned some more credits back to Saul.
"Actually, I came back yesterday." Saul laughed bitterly.
Byron glanced at Saul, but assumed that Saul had not returned to his dormitory after returning to the tower, and was with the tower master, so he didn't ask too many questions.
"What are you going to do about Wright?"
Saul knew what Byron meant and said with a smile, "At that time, what he did was actually the norm in the wizarding world, instead, Senior, you went back to me, which really surprised me."
"I also had some certainty before I made my move." Byron's expression was light, not thinking that what he did was much of a surprise, "If you die, I will immediately flee, and I will not avenge you."
Saul shook his head, "Does the Hokage even take this saving grace to heart?"
"I just did some assistance, you can survive by yourself. As for that bit of favor ...," Byron lifted the ledger in his hand, "offset."
Sol smiled nicely, there is no need to hang on to such things as favors.
"By the way, where does Senior Wright live?"
Looking at Saul's seemingly innocent smile, Byron silently mourned for Wright in his heart, and then reported Wright's dormitory number and the lab he frequented without hesitation.
The intelligence was very meticulous.
But Saul didn't go to Wright, this matter was not urgent.
He moved while he still had a little time.
Corrie next door hadn't come back yet.
He was a little sorry about that, but that was the normal routine of going out on a mission, who would be back in a few days like he was.
With no time to rest, Saul exchanged some things he needed and returned to the second storehouse.
...
While Saul was busy, the news that he had replaced a third level apprentice and become the treasury administrator had already spread amongst the senior apprentices.
On the twelfth floor of the East Tower, a free room dedicated to the exchange of third level apprentices.
There were usually not many people here, but the third level apprentices who came back from outgoing missions would basically come here to walk around.
They would exchange their harvests and insights from outside, or inquire if there was any new news in the tower in the near future?
Today, the door of the activity room was once again pushed open, and three people came in together from outside.
Two men and one woman.
The first man had a flamboyant demeanor, the second had a shady look, and the third woman just wore a large hood to cover the upper half of her face, only revealing a fair-skinned, beautifully defined chin.
There were originally only two people talking in the activity room, and when they saw the three people coming in, they stopped talking at once.
They looked at each other and one of the women stood up and walked towards the people who had entered.
"Billy, I heard that your brother, Bill, died on this outing."
The man with the grim expression looked up and returned a faint, "Oh."
(End of chapter)