Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 784: Paul Seeks Help

Saul cooperated with the Academy of Practice in examining his body and spiritual entity, inexplicably feeling like he was being measured for wedding clothes.

A single command from Ophelia mobilized all third-rank wizards from both the Academy of Practice and Academy of Knowledge to come research how to help Saul grow stronger.

These people didn’t know Ophelia’s reasons for doing this, but instinctively understood the principle of “fortune and misfortune are interdependent,” so they didn’t envy Saul’s treatment.

After all, prisoners also get a final meal before the gallows.

Saul now spent his days at the Academy of Practice cooperating with physical measurements and custom improvement plans, returning to his temporarily rented two-story building in the evenings.

He returned to the building mainly to communicate with Nathan about the white porcelain cat matters.

“The cat’s gratitude” had now spread widely among Sky City’s lower levels. Although Nathan had several consciousness entities helping him, he was somewhat losing control.

Fortunately, Saul didn’t expect Nathan to maintain stability for too long. Now Saul needed to spread the Water God’s influence to high-rank wizards, which Nathan definitely couldn’t handle alone. So he began returning in the evenings to oversee the situation.

As for Ophelia’s side, Saul had already figured it out.

The other party deliberately dragged out the Prismatic World connection experiments to once a month because she was currently trying to advance using the Water God’s methods, so she had limited energy to spare for Saul.

But she was still unwilling to give up on the Prismatic World, so before successfully attempting to establish stable connections to the Prismatic World, she wouldn’t let Saul leave either.

Therefore, to complete the experiments as quickly as possible, she chose to be frank with Saul—even if he was unwilling, she would replicate Pei’er’s successful experience of remaining in the Prismatic World.

The plan was quite good, unfortunately, Saul was unwilling.

A week later, Saul closed his eyes in meditation, adapting to how the new potions enhanced his magical power.

It was very difficult for third-rank wizards to improve magical power. Although third-rank wizards could borrow external elemental particles when casting magic, the more personal magical power they had, the more external magical power they could leverage. Therefore, self-improvement remained very important.

At this time, someone approached Saul’s bedroom.

“Saul.” Beth’s voice sounded outside the door. “Nathan brought someone over.”

Perhaps because she believed she would definitely leave the diary, Beth still hadn’t acknowledged Saul as Master.

Saul didn’t care about having one more or fewer servants.

Besides, he didn’t really treat Agu and the others as servants either.

Hearing Beth’s words, Saul stopped meditating and teleported, appearing behind Nathan.

At this moment, Nathan and another man were standing in the first-floor living room.

Nathan was still comforting the other party, “Paul, don’t worry. The Instructor is very capable—he’ll definitely help you find Mina.”

The person Nathan had brought was Paul, the third-level wizard apprentice Saul had met twice before.

Paul, who usually wore a gloomy expression, was now full of anxiety. On this cool autumn night, several drops of sweat had actually appeared on his forehead.

“I don’t know if Lord Saul would be willing to help me.”

Nathan opened his mouth but didn’t dare guarantee anything for Saul.

Bringing Paul here this time without asking Saul’s permission first was already quite risky. If Saul got angry about this, he might face punishment.

Hearing this, Saul finally spoke, “What happened to your daughter?”

Nathan and Paul’s bodies instantly stiffened, then they forced themselves to relax and slowly turned to look at Saul.

“Instructor!”

“Lord Saul.”

Saul waved his hand, indicating they didn’t need to bow, then looked at Paul. “Was Mina taken away?”

Paul was startled, then quickly nodded. “A second-rank wizard saw Mina on the street and took her directly. My friend Nero knows him and went to plead for me, but hasn’t returned until now.”

Actually, counting everything, Mina had been taken away for less than 10 hours.

But the one who took the little girl was a second-rank wizard—who knew what he might do to Mina during this time?

Paul didn’t know Saul was a third-rank wizard. It was just that Nathan had suggested he could seek Saul’s help, plus Saul had once said he could come find him if there were problems, so Paul came with his last shred of hope.

Otherwise, among the people he knew, there was no one who could contend with a second-rank wizard.

Paul only hoped that Saul, who was currently well-regarded at the Academy of Practice, had sufficient connections and ability to bring Mina back.

After hearing Paul’s account, Saul nodded knowingly. “That second-rank wizard has good judgment. Mina’s constitution is indeed special, though ordinary people can’t tell.”

Paul’s hands hidden in his sleeves suddenly clenched tightly.

He had always been aware of his daughter’s special nature, but the child was still too young to begin studying magic. Before Mina became a wizard apprentice, her talent was actually her hidden danger.

Such tempting mental power talent would definitely attract wizards competing to crack open her skull.

So Paul had always carefully hidden Mina, trying not to bring her to places with many wizards. This was also why he had taken the job of escorting ordinary people on airships—work without much profit.

But he hadn’t expected Saul to disguise himself as an ordinary person and ride the airship, and to have already recognized Mina’s special nature.

Of course, he had even less expected that after bringing Mina to Sky City, they wouldn’t be able to return.

While Mina had been hiding at Nero’s house for several months, she finally couldn’t resist going out to play for a while, only to be accidentally spotted by a passing second-rank wizard.

And that second-rank wizard happened to be very skilled at mental power analysis. Discovering Mina’s special nature, he took her away right on the street.

“I seem to be lacking some luck recently,” Paul said with a bitter smile.

He hadn’t expected Saul to already know about Mina’s special nature, so he could only hope the other party wouldn’t target Mina.

“It’s fine. There are quite a few luck-changing magical tools on the market now—you could try them.”

Paul was stunned, not expecting Saul to mention such things. But right now, besides wanting to rescue Mina as quickly as possible, he had no mood to think about luck.

Saul didn’t say more either—these hints would come in handy later.

He asked the two, “Since you know who took Mina, lead the way.”

Paul’s gloomy face finally showed a hint of smile.

…

Nero couldn’t smile at all.

He was currently standing outside the main gate of 11 Flower Sea Street.

This was the most beautiful district in all of Sky City.

Pink and white whisper flowers covered the exterior of every exquisite house.

The floral fragrance was refreshing and had some special mind-clearing effects.

But as a wizard who grew up in Sky City, Nero understood too well what these beautiful flowers used as fertilizer.

Because his family had some influence, Nero had grown up relatively smoothly. Recently, with the help of the lucky white porcelain cat, he had successfully advanced to formal wizard status.

But even so, when helping his friend Paul rescue his daughter, he was still thrown out of the room by Wizard Parin.

This was even after the other party showed restraint out of respect for Nero’s family.

Otherwise, Nero should be lying on the ground right now.

Nero was also very anxious—he could be said to have watched Mina grow up.

But if he really couldn’t rescue her, he could only go back and advise his friend… if worst came to worst, have another child.

Just as Nero was hesitating whether he should leave to avoid angering Wizard Parin, a hand suddenly rested on his shoulder.

Nero had completely failed to notice someone standing behind him. Startled by this hand, he turned around in shock.

“Instructor Saul?”

(End of Chapter)