Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 825: Bloodline

Who would destroy a mermaid’s soul body?

Or rather, why would someone make an already unintelligent species even more stupid?

It must be someone who didn’t want Pearl to have autonomous abilities.

“Could it be Alfonso?” Saul speculated.

But he quickly overturned his previous guess. “No, Alfonso’s mental strength isn’t as strong as mine.”

Saul still had that much confidence.

“And Floco said the other party’s method of destroying Pearl’s mental strength nearly fooled even him.”

This was confidence in the Water God.

“Frim?”

“Frim destroyed Pearl’s soul body, possibly because Pearl herself has some special quality. But this special quality would hinder Frim, so he directly cut off any trends unfavorable to himself.”

Saul took one last look at Pearl, who had once again forgotten her fear and was pressed against the glass staring at Saul and Floco.

Looking left and right, she seemed overwhelmed trying to watch both.

“Let’s go. I’ve gotten what I wanted.”

Saul didn’t go find Sander again, but returned to the palace entrance, found the attendant who had been waiting for him, and went back to his temporary palace residence.

Once no one was around, Floco sighed. “It seems in this world, my bloodline has nearly been severed.”

None of the several atavistic mermaids had shown any bloodline passed down from Floco.

Saul said, “It’s quite a coincidence. Only that one smuggled mermaid possessed your bloodline.”

Floco returned to the fish tank. He had just used his power, and this mermaid body had been affected by the overloaded force—the surface skin had begun to crack and urgently needed water replenishment.

Hearing Saul’s words from the water, he poked his head out again. “It’s not a coincidence.”

His face showed natural certainty. “Mermaids with my bloodline are destined to be stronger than other mermaids. This mermaid must have stayed away from Red Sea Trees and the Tribunal’s surveillance, which is why it could be captured by wizards from other places and sold to Sky City.”

He sighed again. “Because of excellence, it knew the danger of Red Sea Trees and actively escaped, but wasn’t strong enough. After escaping, it fell into others’ hands instead. Apart from the Tribunal, other people who obtain mermaids probably use them all as magical materials.”

Success through excellence, failure through excellence.

Those who were mediocre and ignorantly unaware actually survived at the bottom of the Red Sea until now.

By this comparison, mermaid princess Pearl was probably also singled out and imprisoned separately because of her excellence, and finally had her soul body destroyed.

Saul lowered his eyes, couldn’t help thinking Before I advance to fourth-rank, I can’t tell anyone about the true nature of Symphony of Fate.

He also made a decision that before advancing to fourth-rank, the consciousness bodies in the Dead Wizard’s Diary couldn’t leave the diary either.

Even if this might violate his agreement with Beth, he couldn’t free her before fourth-rank.

Not everyone was willing to let geniuses grow.

Saul didn’t consider himself an absolute genius, but the talents he’d gained through his experiences had definitely exceeded the upper limits of this wizard world.

Floco was the second target of Symphony of Fate. Although he wasn’t clear about what exactly Saul had done, with his fifth-rank strength, he could vaguely sense that he and Saul already had a certain connection.

After seeing Saul’s style of action, Floco didn’t oppose this connection. He even came over from time to time to help Saul strategize during critical moments of power recovery, actually wanting to actively deepen his connection with Saul.

Although Saul was currently only a third-rank wizard.

But don’t forget, he had deep connections with those chaotic fellows.

Floco’s thoughts stopped here.

He was unwilling to think deeply, afraid of attracting those fellows’ attention.

Now that he had helped Saul once, he didn’t need to stay by Saul’s side for long periods.

After all, Floco’s most important task now was recovering his fifth-rank strength.

This might take several hundred years.

Floco didn’t want to wait that long.

Who knew how long this world could exist under the Abyssal Eye’s influence?

He needed to prepare some major tonics for himself.

For example, a certain powerful existence who specialized in water elements and was fourth-rank.

“Alright, I need to go back now. This body probably can’t withstand my next possession either. Saul, you can extract Azure Scale Clan bloodline from this mermaid body—it’s definitely stronger than the royal bloodline the Tribunal keeps.”

After telling Saul the optimal method for extracting bloodline, Floco returned to Sky City to continue preparing for his recovery.

After Floco left, Kate slowly woke up.

“Yawn… ah, I’m back.”

He looked somewhat confused.

Floco’s possession had also created great pressure on Kate, who was stored in the mermaid body.

This caused Kate to actively lose consciousness due to his body’s self-protection mechanism.

As soon as Kate woke up, he saw Saul very close by, examining his body up and down.

He instinctively covered his chest, realized there were still four exposed outside, and could only lie flat and lower his arms in resignation. “Boss Saul, are you going to use me for experiments? Could you be gentle?”

Seeing Kate like this, Saul suddenly had an urge to braise him in soy sauce.

“This body of yours probably can’t be saved.”

Kate’s whole body shivered as he looked at Saul in terror.

“But before that, I want to take you to the sea first.”

Although Floco said there probably weren’t any descendants of his bloodline here, Saul still planned to take Kate to search the sea.

What if they found some?

Who would complain about having too many Azure Scale Clan bloodlines, such powerful magical materials?

However, going to the Red Sea should still be done with the Tribunal’s permission.

Saul was very conscious. Before Alfonso or Royer came looking for him, he didn’t run around randomly. Instead, he obediently continued his research in the temporary palace along with a bold hypothesis.

Three days later, Alfonso was still the first to come find Saul.

“Long time no see, Lord Alfonso.” Saul looked up from thick steam, the crucible in his hands nearly burnt, but he was still increasing the heat. “Why did you leave in such a hurry that day? Did something happen?”

Alfonso still had a stern expression, looking very gloomy, and today his face carried an additional three parts exhaustion.

“The Chief had business with us. Almost all third-rank wizards went over.”

Alfonso mentioned it briefly but didn’t explain the specifics.

Saul didn’t press further, burying his head to continue his experiments.

“Oh.” Alfonso hadn’t expected Saul to just give such a perfunctory greeting and then ignore him.

Now he was the one with something to say, but it was difficult to speak.

He held back, couldn’t hold back, and stepped forward. “That day… you didn’t do anything to Pearl, did you?”

Saul stood up, pointing at Alfonso’s hem.

“You came in such a hurry that you didn’t even completely remove the water vapor from your clothes. You were just checking the mermaid princess’s body, weren’t you? Couldn’t you tell whether I did anything or not?”

(End of Chapter)