Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 798: The Lantern

Corey could intercept the probing of a fellow third-rank wizard from the Stargate Council, but she absolutely couldn’t stop the Tribunal’s flying horse carriage by herself.

Even if the coachman was only a second-rank wizard.

Unless Wizard Aurel, who had just left, returned and united with her to keep Saul here.

But Corey knew this was impossible.

Although she had told Saul that Wizard Aurel was dissatisfied with him because his student died in the Borderland, the root of their conflict was actually the ideological clash between the Glare Family and the Stargate Council Chairman.

Facing Saul, who was already destined to belong to the Glare faction, they certainly wouldn’t make an effort to keep him.

Moreover, the Tribunal’s approach was to invite rather than capture, making it even less likely they would clash with the flying horse carriage over Saul.

Seeing the worry in Corey’s eyes, Saul instead comforted her. “Don’t worry. I already agreed to visit the Tribunal to meet that big shot anyway. I just didn’t expect them to be waiting here.”

Saul calculated the time. “There is still half a month until the appointed time. Leaving now is a bit late.”

As for how they knew Saul would appear here… perhaps like the Glare clan leader, they each had their own ways of knowing.

While they spoke, the flying horse carriage—low-key everywhere except for the horses—had already stopped before Saul and Corey.

Even without vigorous wing flapping, the carriage could hover steadily in the air.

The wizard driving the carriage was entirely covered in a black cloak and didn’t reveal his face even when approaching Saul.

The coachman’s voice was hoarse and dark. “Lord Saul, please board the carriage. I will take you to the Evernight Royal Palace.”

Saul hadn’t expected the destination to be the Evernight Empire. “Aren’t we going to the Tribunal?”

“The Chief will wait for you there.”

Saul turned to Corey. “I had previously promised to visit the Tribunal, so this counts as keeping my appointment. Please help me apologize to Clan Leader Norton. I’ll visit again when I have the chance.”

Corey said nothing and could only quietly watch Saul board the Tribunal’s carriage.

The interior of the Tribunal’s carriage was as low-key as its exterior, even describable as crude.

Inside the carriage, apart from the most basic wooden seats, there weren’t even cushions.

The entire carriage didn’t even have a single window, but on the rearmost seat sat a lantern.

The entire lantern frame was made of brass, with a thin layer of dust already settled on the inner glass walls. The handle above the lantern had also been polished to a bright shine.

It looked like a lantern that had been used for a long time.

The internal light was stable though. Even in the bumpy carriage, the wick inside didn’t shake violently but continuously emitted a gentle glow, making this dark-toned carriage look warm and cozy.

Saul chose to sit on the right side, his gaze inevitably falling on the lantern behind him.

He thought to himself, “The Tribunal’s highest-grade carriage has no wizard tools inside, doesn’t use magic or fluorite for lighting, but chooses such an ordinary lantern. Could there be some mechanism I can’t detect?”

Saul had already swept the entire carriage with his mental power. Apart from the flying horses in front and the second-rank wizard coachman, there was no magical feedback from anywhere else.

Including the lantern before him.

But Saul also couldn’t believe this flying horse carriage was really so ordinary.

At this moment, Kate, whom Saul had casually placed on the ground, struggled out from under the cloak.

“I, I need water,” Kate breathed with difficulty. “My skin is already starting to crack.”

Fortunately, the carriage space was large enough. Saul took out a large wooden bucket from his storage device, just big enough to stuff Kate’s entire fish body inside.

He then cast a 0-rank water magic spell, directly filling the bucket with water. Only then did he see Kate poke his head out, lean against the bucket’s edge, and catch his breath.

“How are you adapting to your new body?” Saul sealed the space inside the carriage so the wizard outside couldn’t hear them talking.

“Not well at all,” Kate said dejectedly. “Lord Saul, please make me a new vessel quickly. This body has no legs, and the internal organs are very strange. I feel like I might go crazy if I stay in it much longer.”

Saul placed his hand on Kate’s head—not to pat her, but to channel magical power into Kate’s new body.

“There is indeed a lot of pollution in this body. I was planning to help you clean out the pollution once we reached the Glare stronghold, but now we’re traveling again.”

He withdrew his hand, which now held some mixture resembling soil and algae.

Saul poured the impurities in his hand into a test tube, sealed it, and put it back in his storage device.

“I’ll give you a simple cleaning for now. Try to adapt to this body.”

Kate looked up in shock. “Don’t you plan to change my vessel?”

Saul smiled and leaned back in his seat. “I was always testing your soul’s reactions while in the cat’s body. Now I have a good opportunity to see your condition in a mermaid’s body. A mermaid—what rare experimental material.”

Kate’s face twitched.

However, he also understood the rarity of mermaids. If their positions were switched, he would definitely want to study a mermaid’s body too.

Finally, he could only sigh. “Alright then, but please watch over my soul and don’t let me actually go crazy.”

After that, Kate stopped talking and quietly soaked, repairing the skin that had cracked from the previous high-speed aerial flight.

In the closed carriage, Saul couldn’t see outside and didn’t know where the carriage had flown.

After about an hour, the bumpy vehicle began to descend, followed by slight vibrations, then came to a complete stop.

The carriage door was opened from outside, and sunlight immediately streamed into the compartment, changing the originally warm yellow-toned interior to bright white.

But the coachman at the door didn’t let Saul get out.

“Lord Saul, next we’ll enter the ultra-long-distance teleportation array from Iskaper Continent to Stat Continent. You needn’t worry about safety, but during this time you also cannot mobilize magical power or mental strength.”

Saul had heard of ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays.

But…

“Why are we going to Stat?”

Stat Continent was in the northwest of the world’s existing continents, with Iskaper in the middle, while Nephret was in the east and closer to the southern hemisphere.

Saul’s journey to Nephret would normally pass through Iskaper. Who would have thought that after finally getting here, he would be taken back to Stat by the Tribunal’s people.

“Aren’t we going to the Evernight Royal Palace anymore?”

“We are. It’s just faster this way.” Before Saul could ask more questions, the coachman lowered his voice and continued, “There’s no direct ultra-long-distance teleportation array between Iskaper and Nephret.”

Had the conflict between the Stargate Council and the Tribunal deepened to this extent?

The coachman didn’t give Saul time to think and directly closed the carriage door.

His task was simply to bring Saul to Nephret. As long as Saul obediently followed him, that was enough.

After all… even if he wanted to run, he couldn’t anymore.

Sitting in the carriage, Saul suddenly felt he had lost his ability to perceive space.

Having experienced several trips to the Chaos Realm, this kind of cross-continental spatial teleportation array didn’t make him lose his composure.

At the same time, Saul firmly controlled his magical power to keep it from emerging.

But just then, with his extremely keen mental perception, he suddenly turned toward the lantern inside the carriage.

That lantern was actually still emitting stable light during spatial movement.

As if it wasn’t in the carriage at all, but in an independent space, completely unaffected by the ultra-long-distance teleportation!

Saul’s pupils suddenly contracted. In the chaotic spatial perception, in the mild dizziness, a name suddenly popped into his mind.

Frim!

Meeting the big shot.

(End of Chapter)