Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 654: Byron's Mutation

“Holy shit!”

Saul’s hand shook, directly throwing Little Algae onto the ice surface and running toward Byron not far from him.

Just as he took a step, Byron, who was sprawled on the ice surface, jumped up like a monkey, then ran on all fours across the ice like a monkey.

And ran quite fast at that.

Seeing he couldn’t catch up temporarily, Saul immediately whistled, calling down the giant bird Diu Diu that had been scared into flight by the earlier sound.

At the same time, Little Algae also dropped the soul in its mouth and emerged its tentacle tip from the ice hole.

“Catch him!” Saul shouted sternly.

Although his back was to Byron, he had already realized something was wrong.

Byron’s mind must have been affected by something, causing his sanity to have problems now.

However, thinking that he initially still knew to use magic to fly, if treated promptly, the problem shouldn’t be serious.

The first to catch up was Diu Diu.

Diu Diu flew over Byron, then extended its long tentacles, trying to tie Byron up.

But Byron, who seemed mentally unclear, moved very agilely, ducking his head, jumping high, dodging left and right, actually using several complex movements to directly evade the siege of four tentacles.

But the evasive movements also slowed his speed, so Little Algae arrived next, directly opening its shark-toothed mouth, then retracting its sharp teeth and biting onto Byron’s robes.

Byron was bitten and jerked backward, nearly falling on the smooth ice surface.

But his balance was good. After shifting his center of gravity several times, he stood firm again.

However, the first thing he did after standing firm was to open his mouth wide and bite back on Little Algae’s tentacle tip.

Little Algae: ?!!!!

Little Algae’s body had no sense of pain, which was why it could split and merge at will.

However, just as the naive Little Algae was about to mock Byron for overestimating himself and competing in bite force, it suddenly felt real pain.

“Screech—”

Little Algae suddenly released its grip, opened its mouth wide, and its black tongue extended out, shaking like waves.

As if it had really been bitten and hurt.

Saul was somewhat surprised but quickly reacted.

Little Algae wasn’t really in pain but had been affected by Byron’s mental power.

At this time, Saul, three meters away from Byron, pushed off with his feet and suddenly pounced, pinning down Byron who was biting against Little Algae.

The moment Saul touched Byron, he also felt as if his neck was being bitten by some huge beast.

As if feeling muscles being torn, bones breaking.

As if feeling blood spurting from wounds, shooting three meters high.

But in Saul’s vision, nothing had happened.

No one had been bitten.

‘Tactile sensation severely affected.’ Saul endured the pain, keeping his expression unchanged as he pinned Byron to the ground.

Then, without looking at his face, he prepared to pick him up and run back.

On the ice surface, Byron couldn’t fly, and Saul couldn’t perform treatment.

The consciousness space still had some polluting properties, making him afraid to use it carelessly on Byron.

He just wanted to run back to the wizard tower first, then use tentacles to absorb the pollution in Byron’s body.

But Byron seemed very unwilling to return to the wizard tower and began struggling violently.

His head suddenly twisted 180 degrees, his eyes wide open, pupils contracted extremely small, looking very creepy.

Saul’s first instinct was to turn his head and avoid the other party’s gaze.

He knew too well how much influence Byron could have on people’s mental power after having elf skin.

However, he still underestimated Byron’s current strength.

Little Algae, which was trying hard to help Saul tie up Byron, suddenly turned its head to bite Saul.

Sharp teeth all extended out, almost able to reflect sunlight.

If bitten by this, probably an entire arm would be disabled.

“He can even affect Little Algae?” Saul released one hand gripping Byron and slapped Little Algae’s lower jaw with a “crack,” sending it flying.

Then without stopping, he prepared to go back.

However, Little Algae was deeply affected and after not flying far, turned its head again to bite toward Saul’s face.

At this time, Byron’s body also twisted like a snake, actually breaking free from Saul’s other arm.

Saul was distracted and almost got bitten by Little Algae. He quickly turned his head sideways, pressing both hands on Little Algae’s upper and lower jaws, holding its mouth shut.

When he turned back, Byron had run far away again.

After leaving Byron’s three-meter range, Little Algae suddenly came to its senses. It no longer struggled and even merged its split mouth back into a single tentacle.

Saul released Little Algae, seeing it behaving obediently but somewhat dejectedly with its head lowered, obviously incredulous about having just attacked Saul.

And a bit scared.

Saul patted Little Algae’s head, “You go back first. Senior’s mental power’s influence is too strong—you all can’t withstand it.”

After speaking, Saul continued pursuing Byron.

However, this time he changed his mind.

He would wait until they ran out of Rhine Lake’s magic-forbidden range before pinning him down for treatment.

If that really didn’t work, he’d even resort to using the consciousness space; he had to get hold of the person first.

The Borderland was no kind place.

There were many high-rank wizards here, and even more dangerous areas.

Running out like this with unclear consciousness, the outcome would very likely be death.

Byron ran out of Rhine Lake first. Fortunately, he seemed to have forgotten he could fly and continued running with his legs.

Just then, a strange flying vehicle with metal wings fixed on both sides descended from the sky.

The flying vehicle had a spindle-shaped cabin in the middle, about the size of a double carriage compartment.

In mid-air, an opening appeared on the flying vehicle’s cabin.

Then two people jumped down one after the other.

One was tall and thin, nearly two meters, with dark skin.

The other was slightly shorter, with a face that only had eyes and no other features.

The two landed and happened to encounter Byron running toward them.

“Is this the Purity Wizard Tower? Are you Saul?”

The dark-skinned wizard asked.

But Byron had no intention of acknowledging him and just wanted to run between the two.

The wizard whose face only had a pair of eyes had his pupils rotate, staring fixedly at Byron, then suddenly attacked.

The ground beneath Byron’s feet immediately extended over a dozen pale arms, all grabbing Byron’s calves.

Byron immediately counterattacked, black light surging in his hands. His first reaction was to use this mass of light carrying death energy to kill the arms on the ground.

The dark-skinned wizard laughed disdainfully, “We stopped you to talk, yet you’re attacking us?”

Then he raised his hand, and a mass of electric light actually quickly formed a spear in his palm, which he then raised and threw toward Byron’s back.

Looking at that direction, it was aimed right at Byron’s head—he was going for the kill right away!

However, Byron was being entangled by the arms on the ground and didn’t notice the danger behind him for a moment.

Just as the golden lightning spear was about to pierce Byron’s skull, a black blade came from behind and struck first, slashing the golden spear in half and deflecting it.

Byron finally heard the commotion behind him, immediately turned around, and saw the dark-skinned wizard’s murderous intent.

Although his mind was unclear at this time, his perception of people’s emotions was even clearer.

He immediately sensed this person wanted to kill him.

So his pupils, which had originally contracted to pinpoint size, suddenly dilated, almost filling his entire eye sockets.

Saul had just run near the group when he saw one of the wizards trying to kill Byron. He quickly blocked the strike for Byron, then immediately condensed the next blade, stabbing toward the dark-skinned wizard’s back of the head from his visual blind spot.

However, the dark-skinned wizard suddenly turned around, throwing himself at his companion, with two sharp electric light swords growing from his palms, swinging at his former companion.

Like Little Algae, he had been influenced by Byron and wanted to kill his own companion!

The wizard with only eyes looked calmly at all this, suddenly raised his hand, and the dark-skinned wizard running toward him to attack had his head fall to the ground with a “thunk.”

The headless body ran forward two steps before collapsing.

Only then did blood begin spurting out.

(End of Chapter)