Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 771: Completion

This time, the communication with the Water God was brief, with both parties initially probing each other’s limits.

But it didn’t matter—once Saul’s spiritual body recovered stability, he could chat with the Water God again.

After all, the white porcelain cat’s main body was right before his eyes.

Saul walked straight forward and picked up the white porcelain cat from beneath the windowsill. He intended to store it in his storage device but discovered the cat’s main body couldn’t be placed in spatial tools at all.

He instead tucked the white porcelain cat inside his wizard robes and turned to Nathan, who had no idea what had happened, “You don’t need to help the Water God distribute his replicas anymore… Suddenly I feel this guy is quite narcissistic.”

“Eh? Is it all resolved already?” Nathan had no clue what had occurred.

Being enslaved by the genuine Water God, he had just noticed the Water God could somehow affect Saul from a distance, so he immediately warned the other party to be careful.

But his warning was still echoing in the room when all the strangeness suddenly vanished.

As if the previous unease had been merely his imagination.

Nathan immediately felt the Water God’s mark that had bound him for years disappear completely!

He showed a relaxed and delighted smile, finally confirming that Saul had completely solved the Water God problem for him.

“Since you’ve fulfilled your obligation, I’ll honor my promise as well.” As someone who used causality theory, Saul naturally valued his commitments highly. “I probably won’t continue substitute teaching, so let me see your current study progress.”

The next afternoon, Nathan wobbled out of his dormitory looking for food.

His roommate happened to be on the first floor and was startled by his appearance.

“What happened to you?”

Nathan, sporting dark circles under his eyes, silently glanced at his roommate. “My brain isn’t quite sufficient. I’m going out to see what I can eat to supplement it.”

His roommate had never seen Nathan in such a state, staring blankly as he drifted past like a ghost.

Saul had actually left Nathan’s dormitory early.

He had stuffed Nathan with a pile of knowledge, explained it only once, then left him to ponder and understand it himself.

It couldn’t be helped—Nathan had always been clever and had luck’s assistance, but lacked drilling ability. This slightly advanced knowledge would help him catch up.

Meanwhile, Saul returned to the inn at dawn and saw the orange cat sleeping soundly in the room.

“There’s quite a difference between cats,” he shook his head and sat at the long table.

He took out the white porcelain cat from his robes and placed it on the table.

“This Water God is currently in a sealed state. He controlled Nathan because he wanted to use good fortune as bait to disperse the deep sea’s curse until he could break free.”

But judging from Saul’s experience visiting the deep sea, it was unclear how much longer the Water God would need to break his seal through this method.

Perhaps by the time he got out, the world would already be destroyed by the Abyssal Eye.

The Water God’s later cooperation might not have been without thoughts of asking Saul to help him break the seal.

But should he help him?

Saul hadn’t decided yet.

Before advancing to fourth-rank, Saul wasn’t confident his causality theory could restrain a fifth-rank wizard.

Although the Water God currently only had third-rank strength, who knew if he understood some high-level knowledge that could escape causal entanglement?

Moreover, Ophelia’s attitude remained a mystery.

After thinking, Saul decided not to let the Water God out to cause trouble for now, to avoid affecting his cooperation with Ophelia.

Next, he took out his diary and directly extracted the four consciousness entities from it, keeping only the black pages containing Nerela and Pei’er.

Saul then completely tore off the black page containing Crum, severing its connection to the diary.

The other party transformed from a page back into a gray soul entity curled into a ball.

After Saul gained complete control of the diary, he could completely separate souls from black pages.

Just like the operation of returning Kismet’s remnant soul.

Looking at Crum floating in the air, unconscious once again, Saul said to the others, “Next I’ll go find Ophelia and deliver Crum’s soul to her. I just don’t know why she mentioned a nonexistent second half of the Water God’s biography. Perhaps this time she’ll tell some truth.”

Agu stepped forward. “Master, could Sky City’s master be trying to stall you with this excuse?”

“Stall me for what?” Saul temporarily had no clues. “Forget it, we know too little about Ophelia. We can only wait until we meet her. During this time, you should work together and walk around, see if you can learn more about Sky City and Ophelia.”

The consciousness entities nodded one after another.

Saul turned to the orange cat, “Stop pretending to sleep. Next, just play yourself and visit the famous Academy of Knowledge and Academy of Practice here—see what knowledge they’re seeking and what they’re practicing.”

When almost completely ignorant about Ophelia, excessive speculation was meaningless. It would only lead to being caught between advancing and retreating.

“Once my consciousness platform recovers, I’ll chat with the Water God again.”

Saul had only told Agu, Ann, Herman, and Penny about the pentagram matter. Beth had observed hints of the truth herself.

Others didn’t know that besides contacting Pei’er in the Prismatic World, Saul had come to find Ophelia to construct the second vertex of the pentagram.

Saul had originally wanted to place the second Symphony of Fate on Ophelia!

But Saul also knew Ophelia was different from Shaya—the other party didn’t have a weakness of depending on Saul to survive.

So this time, Saul wanted to play the Symphony of Fate secretly.

Such a large-scale magic would definitely need an even larger magic to cover it.

Connecting to the Prismatic World was the perfect opportunity.

Although Ophelia’s attitude was unclear and she had already dug an unknown pit for Saul regarding the Water God’s biography, he hadn’t given up yet.

After resting for two days and returning to optimal condition, Saul took Crum’s soul and once again headed to the White Glass Palace to visit the fourth-rank wizard Ophelia, the city master.

This time, Saul was still led by Ona and met the beauty in the bottle, Ophelia, in the main hall.

“You actually found Crum so quickly?”

Ophelia’s beautiful head emerged from the white porcelain bottle and flew before Saul, trailing a long, winding neck.

“Less than three weeks—even if I went to find him personally, I might not be as fast as you. It seems you really are extraordinary. No wonder Kismet was willing to acknowledge you as master.”

Mentioning Kismet was somewhat awkward, since the other party had betrayed and played tricks on Ophelia.

But looking at Ophelia’s appearance, she didn’t seem to care at all.

He wondered how Kismet had managed that.

“Let me see Crum quickly,” Ophelia urged.

Saul took out a small bottle with gray mist floating inside.

When he removed the cork, gray mist emerged and gathered into a small person curled into a ball.

“His condition isn’t very good…”

Halfway through speaking, Saul was interrupted by Ophelia.

“No matter.”

Ophelia smiled and swallowed Crum’s soul in one gulp.

(End of Chapter)