Chapter 159: Fear of What Comes
The first flamboyant man to enter at this moment stopped and looked back at Billy.
"Don't you care if your brother dies?"
Billy, however, was completely unconcerned as he continued to walk in, finding a piece of information to look through, "To care you care."
The first man touched a nail, not angry, but interestedly asked the visitor, "What's new in the tower these six months?"
"Jello, you're wondering who else died, right?" The female apprentice who approached him revealed a flirtatious smile and put her elbow on Jero's shoulder.
Jerro pushed the woman's arm down with one finger, "Come on Rita, I only sleep with dead people."
The third level female apprentice named Rita rolled her eyes, "Nothing to call a big deal these days except Bill's death. Oh yeah, Byron and Wright, who were traveling with him, brought back a windjammer and supposedly traded it for a lot of credits."
Jerro's eyes immediately lit up, "A windjammer? I like it, how many dead people can I buy it for?"
"You'll have to be quick then." Rita said, "A lot of people are interested in windjammers."
At that moment a third man walked in and removed the hood from his head, revealing a beautiful lower half of his face, and a glass head filled with white pulp.
Immediately the two third level apprentices who had been in the activity room stopped talking and turned to do their own thing.
Ignoring the others, Kong Sha twisted her waist and walked under a notice board in the activity room, looking at the name on it.
Interestedly, Jello followed Kong Sha and walked over as well.
This notice board contained the names of apprentices who were responsible for some important work in the tower.
Whenever Kongsha came back from outside, she would come here to go through all the names.
In the past, she would leave after reading them, but today, one of her eyeballs stared at a name for a long time without moving.
More eyeballs then popped up, all focusing on one point.
Jello followed Kongsa's line of sight and read out the name.
"Depot 2: Sol." He rubbed his chin, "Never heard of that name, a third level apprentice who joined from the outside? I wish I could meet him."
"I advise you not to mess with him, hee hee hee."
Another person walked into the activity room.
This time, the ones who came in were Rokai, the president of the Mutual Aid Society, and Kujin, who was tall and had just lost his job.
It was Rokai who spoke.
Jero and Kongsa turned around at the same time, only Kongsa was expressionless while Jero looked more interested.
"Oh? Is it hard to be a guy with a background like you?"
Rokai wasn't angry at being taunted, "It's the fact that you can't find out anything about your identity and background that makes it all the more scary."
He thumbed at Kujin by his side, "Now, he just got promoted to second level less than half a month ago, and he's already topping Kujin's job."
"Hmph!" The male apprentice with Rita suddenly stood up and said with a disconcerted expression, "Can all second level apprentices already casually enter the activity room now?"
Kong Sha ignored him, withdrew her eyes, turned around and quickly left the activity room.
If the people present knew her, I'm afraid they would have thought that Kong Sha was leaving out of fear of the third level apprentice's anger.
Luo Kai, on the other hand, spread his hands and smiled, "Second level apprentices are allowed to enter the activity room with a third level apprentice leading them. Senior Ferguson, have you forgotten?"
Ferguson immediately stepped forward angrily.
Rokai didn't hide, but Kukin raised his hand to stop in front of Ferguson.
Ferguson's eyes were cold as he looked at the hand that stopped in front of him and did not step forward again, turning his head to Ku Jin, he said, "First you were robbed of your job by a second level apprentice, and then you work as an escort for a second level apprentice, I see that the more you live, the more you go back to the past. In the future, don't even think about promoting to a full-fledged sorcerer, go be a dog for someone else!"
"You!" Ku Jin's face turned red and he was almost about to make a move.
However, Ferguson directly bypassed them and left the activity room as well.
Kukin looked to his left and right, and although no one was showing expressions of derision, he was still a little embarrassed.
"I'm leaving, so stay here by yourself." Kujin said and left at a quick pace.
Rokai wasn't angry about being left in the activity room, he just shrugged and sighed, "They're so affectionate."
Rita, who had just been disdainful of Kong Sha, came over at this moment and lifted her chin, "Did you get everything I asked for?"
Luo Kai's smile became bright, "Of course, we are a mutual aid society. If Rita-senpai is willing to join, I can give you a bit of a discount."
Rita raised her eyebrows, "How much cheaper?"
Luo Kai said a number.
Rita said, full of concern, "Just join then."
The two began trading immediately, while Jello once again turned his attention to the notice board.
"Sol?" He gave an interested look.
...
Back at the Wizard's Tower, the days and journals filled up again.
Studying, experimenting, working ... Oh, and the work hasn't officially started yet.
In the two days since he had taken over the work in the second warehouse, the quill had never moved.
Because of the disgusting dream he had on the first night back, Saul was a bit scandalized and hadn't slept again, but meditated instead.
He didn't want to get into strange trouble just after returning to the wizard's tower. The dream also prompted Saul that the cocoon of the Nightmare Butterfly was now going to assert its presence.
Saul had had dreams that foretold danger before, but they were all related to himself. He has never had a dream of a murder scene.
And it's a scene seen from the killer's point of view.
It instantly reminded him of the Nightmare Butterfly, the cocoon that had voluntarily run into his left eye.
The cocoon that the little girl had worn for four years had no apparent effect other than allowing her to see other people's dreams.
And therefore, Saul did not put the danger of this cocoon to heart.
But the experience of the first night back at the tower was clearly telling Saul that the Nightmare Butterfly's cocoon had undergone some sort of change in his body.
"Should I take it out?"
Saul found a mirror and held a thin, decontaminated needle to his eyes twice.
Just before he did it, he hesitated a little more.
That dream was disgusting, but it hadn't done Saul any harm yet.
Saul was also worried that if he took out the cocoon, but the cocoon ran right back into his right eye before he finished sealing it, what then?
He couldn't play hide and seek with this guy with his own body.
"Maybe I should get a helper." The thin needle twirled around between a few of Saul's fingers before settling, "Hayden!"
Before Saul left the tower, Hayden was a first level apprentice.
But he had worked in the necropolis for nearly ten years and was very good at human anatomy and preservation of materials.
Saul planned to ask Hayden to help him remove the Nightmare Butterfly.
As long as he stayed awake throughout the surgery, he wasn't afraid of Hayden making small moves in secret.
After all, Saul was now a second level apprentice, and both his strength and magic power had far surpassed Hayden's.
As soon as he thought of it, Saul picked up the surgical tools he had prepared for himself and got up, ready to go to Hayden.
But just at this moment, his chest suddenly lit up.
The bright light was emanating from his heart, a very soft, warm-colored light source.
Saul looked down and raised his hand to press on his chest.
Though he had never seen this kind of light before, in an instant he knew what it was emitting.
A soul-inducing oil lamp!
Saul slowly turned his head and saw his head hanging low.
He let out a bitter laugh, "Sure enough, by giving me this oil lamp, the tower master has made it clear that I will most likely still have an out-of-body soul."
Because it wasn't the first time, Saul wasn't as flustered as before.
He followed what he did last time and walked with his back to his body, ready to find the point furthest away from his body.
But after taking a few steps, Saul realized that the distance he had walked seemed to have exceeded the farthest distance from the last time.
Saul looked back, and his body didn't move.
Indeed the diameter of the circle had gotten longer.
Saul raised his hand to cover his forehead, "Why is it that every time I just learn something new, a deeper level of the unknown affects me? Doesn't it bring any respite?"
There was no use lamenting or complaining, Saul could only solve the problem at hand first.
He continued onward, searching for new boundaries.
With the next step, the world in front of Saul's eyes suddenly accelerated as if it was being fast-forwarded 16 times, and then when it came to an abrupt stop, a door had appeared in front of him.
It was the third door into the vault, and the innermost metal door.
Everything in front of him moved up and down, left and right, back and forth every now and then, shaking Saul to the point of nausea.
"Is it me ... transient?"
This was Saul's first reaction, however, when he wanted to move again, he realized that he could only stand in the same place, unable to move a single step.
"What's going on?"
Even trying to look down at the soul-inducing oil lamp in his chest was impossible, and Saul could only look straight ahead.
Just then, the metal door was suddenly pushed open.
The tall but unpleasant looking Kujin walked in.
"Kujin? How could he come in?"
As a former warehouseman, Kujin had lost the ability to enter doors at will.
This place was different from the corpse room, the magic formation on the metal door was the lock, and now the "key" was in Saul's hands.
Before Saul could get nervous, a small, thin man followed Kukin into the room.
After seeing that person, Saul was so shocked that his vision froze.
That was him.
Saul saw himself following Kujin into the second storehouse with a curious face!
(End of chapter)