Chapter 164 – Soul Drift
"Ah…" accompanied this scream.
The pleas for help suddenly became shrill, and "help me" turned into a mindless hiss.
His eardrums shook with pain, and Saul hastily took a few steps back.
The sudden shouting came to an abrupt end.
Saul looked up and realized that Lady Yura's face was gone, but he also discovered something even more breathless.
His body fell to the ground with a plop right in front of Saul.
He looked down at his chest, and to his surprise, the spirit-inducing oil lamp lit up again.
His soul was directly shaken out of his body by Mrs. Yura's hiss.
Sol couldn't help but hold his forehead, "So just how unholy my body and soul are right now! It will fall off when I walk, and it will fall off when I'm hissed at."
Luckily, he was mostly alone now, but in the future, if he were to suddenly have his soul leave his body in front of people and his body fall to the ground, it would be troublesome.
For the disfigured face he just saw in the mirror, Saul's heart palpitated.
"This situation has seriously affected my life and must be resolved as soon as possible."
As for how to solve it?
Saul looked sideways at the diary over his left shoulder, "You'll be in trouble again for the next while."
After the last time his soul left his body, Saul didn't find the furthest distance he'd left his body, and returned to it through the circle he'd walked.
So this time he simply used the lavatory as a range and prepared to walk a smaller circle.
As Saul took a step, he immediately felt a tugging force between himself and his body.
It was true that if you wanted to return to your body, you didn't need to find the point furthest away from your body, as long as you completed the movements on the erosion chart you could go back without any problems.
But after taking two steps, Saul stopped again, and that gravitational force immediately disappeared.
"Maybe I can find a closer distance, a closest distance."
Saul walked to a spot so close to his body that he almost stuck to it, then turned sideways and tried to walk back to his body in just two steps.
But this time the gravitational pull between him and the fingertips of his body did not appear.
"No, is it too close?"
Taking advantage of the fact that he was now in the comparative safety of his bedchamber, Saul fumbled a little, trying again and again.
Only by being clear about the situation of his body could he avoid being at a loss when real danger came.
Saul a little bit backward, every step backward sideways began to walk clockwise, feel wrong, immediately stop and pull away again.
Another backward finish, Saul less than two meters from the body.
This time when he learned to walk on the same day as the erosion map, he once again felt the connection between the body and the body.
One, two, three, four, five, eyeing the sixth step he could return to his body.
But this first step Saul was slow to take.
"It's still a short time, maybe I don't need to rush back." Saul thought to himself, "This is the West Tower, the dormitory area, the dangers are relatively low, and I can still find the furthest distance from my body this time."
Using his body as a starting point, Saul felt his way along that invisible archetypal barrier, trying to find the maximum range he could leave his body this time.
After only a few steps, he felt certain that the circle had grown larger again.
"If this continues, maybe one day this circle I'm in will come into contact with some taboo. At that time, even if my soul doesn't travel that far, I might be harmed by the domain contamination."
In the midst of his thoughts, Sol walked out of his chambers and went next door.
There were no occupants here, and the room was only lit by a candle lamp that gave off a dim light.
The table, and the floor were empty, as there was no human scent, like a secluded tomb.
Saul continued out, stepping into the next bedchamber just as the circle was about to bend and turn into the corridor.
It was brightly lit by candlelight, and it was inhabited.
Saul stood in the corner of the bedchamber room and looked up.
The layout of the dormitory room was exactly the same as Saul's, not only was there little furniture, even books and lab supplies were scarce, and it was as cold as a prison cell.
On the diagonal opposite of Saul, there was a large bed with a girl sitting curled up against the wall in the corner.
The girl's face was covered with tearstains, and her body was constantly shaking from sobbing.
Surprisingly, it was Angela!
Saul hadn't even noticed when she had been promoted to level two, and was completely unaware that she lived right next door to him. Suddenly Angela looked up with a low voice, "Get out!"
Saul froze, could Angela have spotted him?
Before he could try, he heard Angela continue to cry, "Get out of my body, you demon!"
After shouting, she buried her head between her knees and whimpered.
Yet Angela's left hand lifted up and gently stroked her hair, as if someone was actually standing beside Angela, soothing her sadness.
"Angela didn't notice me. But is this a split personality or is she being haunted by a spirit?"
Saul wasn't interested in digging deeper into Angela's secrets, nor was he going to be enthusiastic about helping her out of her troubles.
Eyes, arms, souls ... Saul had a whole lot of trouble of his own!
He moved on, out of the dormitory and into the hallway.
The hallway was quiet at this point, not a soul in sight to the left or right.
Suddenly there was a gray shadow that walked in from the ramp at the end of the hallway.
He was fast, like he was running. But as the shadow got closer, Saul realized that the shadow was really just a shadow and didn't have a body.
As it brushed against Saul, Saul realized that the shadow was still a two-dimensional plane.
The gray shadow ran past Saul and then suddenly stopped, its head swaying from side to side as if it was searching for something.
Seeing this, Saul hurriedly retreated back into his chambers.
Counting several times inwardly, he stepped into the corridor once again.
At this time, the corridor was empty, and the gray shadow from just now was nowhere to be seen.
"Sure enough, although walking in my soul state makes me invisible to most people, some anomalies may still sense my presence. Even walking in the West Tower requires more caution."
Although he had only explored a distance of a dozen meters or so, Saul had also roughly determined the range he could now move in through the change in the arc of the circle.
He walked back to the lavatory and prepared to return to his body, but at the door he stopped again.
"Strange ...," Saul rubbed his chin, "I'm now in the state of a soul and can go through walls, but why am I still being borne by the ground?"
Saul stomped his foot and tried to send his foot down, and was shocked to find that his foot could actually reach into the floor.
"So I'm not standing on the ground, but in the air."
Thinking this, Saul lifted one foot and made a motion to go up the steps, then he took a step up.
"I can fly?" Saul's eyes lit up, "No, it's I can float!"
He lifted his foot and walked up the invisible steps one at a time, until his head, emerged from the ground on the thirteenth floor.
"This floating motion is a bit awkward, it should be because I haven't mastered the true essence of spirit movement yet."
Saul's head swiveled from side to side, and his body followed suit as he burrowed out of the ground.
There was something familiar about this bedroom.
"Isn't this Kongsa-senpai's room?"
Ever since Saul had given her a few headshots, Kong Sha had begun to frequently apply for outgoing missions.
Saul couldn't see her more than a few times a year, and the head delivery deal naturally ceased.
And at this moment, the lights in this dormitory room were brightly lit, and the sound of clattering water came from the washroom.
"Kong Sha is back? Taking a bath?"
Kong Sha's figure was very evocative.
Saul, a pseudo-teenager, couldn't help but start imagining the scene inside the lavatory when he heard the sound of the other party taking a bath.
"That picture must be very beautiful ... just can't look upwards. Kong Sha is also a ruthless person, so beautiful half of the face said don't want it."
Saul shook his head to shake off these things that were affecting his willfulness.
He lifted his head and looked up at the ceiling, further up was the fourteenth floor.
There was the dormitory area for third level apprentices.
Saul turned his head sideways to Diary and said, "Want to go up and take a look?"
Get in the car and go home! Say good morning to everyone!
(End of chapter)