Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 811: Old Acquaintance

Actually, with Saul’s status as a third-rank wizard, even the Emperor of the Evernight Empire should personally welcome him.

But Saul wouldn’t fuss over such things—after all, he might not necessarily respect the other party either.

Several ministers and nobles from Evernight stood respectfully around the perimeter, but without Saul’s signal, they didn’t dare approach.

Among the group were also several carefully selected beautiful women of various ages. While most wizards didn’t care about appearance, there were still a few who indulged in beauty.

If they could catch someone’s eye, that would mean gaining a powerful backer!

Unfortunately, this time Saul didn’t even glance at them, directly stepping on the golden carpet and boarding the carriage heading to the Evernight Royal Palace.

Saul thought he would take a carriage to meet whatever Emperor of Evernight. However, after the carriage brought him to the Evernight Royal Palace, he was directly arranged to stay in a magnificent, spacious palace.

All living necessities were provided—exquisite and expensive, as if Evernight’s finest items had all been brought for Saul’s use.

But unlike the generous material treatment, after Saul entered this royal palace, no one paid attention to him.

But the people who should have come to see Saul never appeared.

Like the Emperor of Evernight, or people from the Tribunal.

However, Saul wasn’t anxious either. After all, they had invited him to solve the problem of mermaids being polluted by the black tide, and he had prepared to stay on Nephret Continent for half a year.

Worst case, he could develop this palace into a second laboratory.

Anyway, Saul’s storage device carried large quantities of magical materials and experimental equipment.

And if any emergency required his return, he trusted Byron and Keli could make the decision to create a fake Storm Eye.

With these preparations, Saul settled peacefully into this magnificent yet empty palace.

It wasn’t until the evening of the third day that someone finally knocked on the palace door.

Saul didn’t immediately get up—he was contemplating who he could choose from Evernight as the third target for his Symphony of Fate.

Therefore, when the knocking sounded, Saul didn’t respond immediately.

The person outside was also very patient, waiting another five minutes before knocking a second time.

“Please come in.”

Saul put down his pen and paper. He hadn’t yet determined his target.

He knew too little about Nephret. Aside from Tribunal Chief Frim, he had barely interacted with anyone else.

Through contact with the line-like beings calling themselves Death Demons in the Prismatic World, he knew his chosen targets should be brave souls who could face constantly fluctuating destinies, not strong individuals already standing at the world’s peak.

So Frim wasn’t a good choice.

“No rush, I still have plenty of time to observe.” Saul looked up just as someone pushed open the palace door from outside.

Standing outside was a third-rank wizard.

This third-rank wizard had inverted triangular eyes and slightly downturned mouth corners, looking like he had a very bad temper.

But when facing Saul, he still tried to show a polite smile.

Though this smile only pulled his downturned mouth corners to straight.

“Hello, Lord Saul.”

Seeing a wizard of the same rank, Saul didn’t put on airs and stood up directly.

“Hello, and you are?”

The wizard with inverted triangular eyes then entered. “I am a court wizard of Evernight, Alfonso. I major in dark attribute elements.”

“What a coincidence, so do I.” Saul joked.

But the serious Alfonso clearly didn’t think this was a joke.

“It’s not a coincidence. We both major in dark attribute elements, which is why we’re together today to research methods for solving black tide pollution.”

Seeing the other’s personality was as serious as his appearance, Saul shrugged indifferently. “Fine, then can we start on business now? After being here several days, I was starting to think you invited me here to keep me under house arrest!”

“The Chief did say not to let you wander around.”

Alfonso actually directly revealed his superior’s true intentions.

After hearing this, Saul threw his feather pen onto the table. “What, afraid I’ll explore the Tribunal’s secrets?”

This time Alfonso didn’t speak, clearly defaulting to agreement.

Since the other was so direct, Saul was too lazy for small talk. “Did you come today because we can start researching mermaids? I brought a mermaid here—wonder how it differs from your local ones.”

Alfonso quietly waited for Saul to finish before nodding. “Your having a mermaid shows you have some understanding of this race. That’s good.”

Then he added, “But today we’re not going to the mermaids first. We’re going to see the Emperor of Evernight.”

Saul was stunned.

During his days here, he hadn’t seen the Emperor of the Evernight Empire and had thought the other party simply didn’t plan to show up.

Although it didn’t match the grand welcoming ceremony from the nobles, Saul originally had no interest in meeting emperors anyway.

Unexpectedly, after waiting several days, he was going to meet him after all.

“Could this emperor’s identity be complicated? Is he a wizard like Senior Morden?”

“Please don’t resist. I’ll take you there directly.”

Alfonso extended his left hand toward Saul, powerful magical energy surging in his palm.

Saul squinted—he actually felt spatial oscillations.

“Whoosh!”

Alfonso’s left hand suddenly burst into black flames, which then exploded.

In that instant, Saul’s vision blurred and he found the room before him had changed to another.

This room was equally exquisite and magnificent. The wallpaper patterns on the walls were woven from rare plant-based magical materials.

The floor tiles beneath his feet had dense patterns hiding magical formations of unknown purpose.

Not to mention other decorations—everything seemed to have deliberate wizard design touches.

Saul scanned the arrangements before him, thinking, This emperor is either a high-rank wizard or has some special identity.

But compared to this emperor’s identity, Saul was now more interested in Wizard Alfonso.

After all, the other party had just demonstrated teleportation magic.

Any wizard who could master teleportation before fourth-rank, even incomplete teleportation, would have considerable development prospects.

Saul was moved, ‘Would this Alfonso be suitable as my third target?’

Seeing Saul lost in thought, Alfonso waited a moment before saying, “Lord Saul, the Emperor of Evernight is behind you.”

Saul came back to his senses and nodded to Alfonso.

Though he had just arrived, he had already noticed someone behind him. But since the other party had no magical fluctuations, he had assumed it was a guard or similar role.

It seemed this emperor wasn’t a wizard and didn’t even have magical tools.

Completely incompatible with the room they were in!

Saul, with his slightly piqued curiosity, turned around and was momentarily stunned.

Upon seeing Saul’s face, the Emperor of Evernight opened his mouth in surprise.

“Lord Saul?”

“Sander? How are you here?”

Sander appeared in the Blue Water Bay soul tide storyline and was taken away by Tribunal people after the protagonist left.

(End of Chapter)