Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 970: The Prophetic Dream Appears Again
He hadn’t dreamed in a long time. And every time he dreamed, it seemed to have certain omens.
He used to not understand why he could have prophetic dreams, but now he had guessed that those star-shaped eyes that originally belonged to him had observational abilities.
This observation even included observation of the future.
Now the star-shaped eyes were once again letting Saul see the future.
He looked down and saw the Abyssal Eye beneath his feet – a huge, sunken vortex that made the ocean gradually change from azure to dark blue, then to darkness that devoured everything.
The sound of seawater reaching Saul’s ears seemed to pass through layers of glass, everything was so blurred, so distant.
The bottomless whirlpool beneath his feet was as remote as the starry sky overhead, making one dizzy when looking out.
He should be maintaining flight magic at this moment, but the magic power in his body was precarious, as if it would fail at any moment.
And once the magic power failed, he would fall toward the center of the abyss.
“Why am I dreaming of the Abyssal Eye?” Saul tried hard to open his eyes wide, wanting to see all the details around him clearly and deduce the current time and the cause of events.Before him was an endless ocean, above his head were heavy, deep dark clouds. There was nothing else in front of Saul except a huge vortex.
But when Saul turned around, he suddenly discovered there was a massive object rapidly approaching him.
Prosperous coastlines, towering sea cliffs, familiar seaside cities… Saul quickly recognized that the coastal continent rushing toward him was Iskaper.
However, the continent was moving very fast.
By the time Saul realized this, the islands at the very front of Iskaper Continent had already entered the whirlpool of the abyss. Islands without sufficient land area were like fallen leaves thrown into a whirlpool – they had no resistance, couldn’t leave, and could only spin as they were pulled by dark currents into the depths.
The frontmost small islands had already been swallowed by seawater, swallowed by darkness. Next, the edge of Iskaper Continent also entered the vortex zone and suddenly dropped downward.
Then, as Iskaper further entered the range of the Abyssal Eye, the entire continent began to tilt slightly downward. Although it was only a slight change in tilt angle, buildings and rocks on the ground began to slide and tumble.
Then the entire continent began to accelerate its tilt under gravity’s influence. The first fracture appeared – the frontmost land suddenly separated from the continent’s main body and accelerated into the abyss, quickly disintegrating again in the turbulent vortex before finally disappearing.
Seeing the fate of the continental parts that entered the abyss, even Saul standing in the air felt his heart skip a beat.
However, when he turned back to look at Iskaper again, he was even more shocked to discover that the area of Iskaper closest to the Abyssal Eye had entirely turned black.
The coastline that had originally been covered with soil, forests, mountains and towns had now completely become black, mud-like substances.
Only from the vague outlines above could one tell what these black muds had originally been.
“Buzz—”
A strange and piercing buzzing sound suddenly rang in Saul’s mind. His brain felt a sharp pain, and he could no longer focus on observing other places, curling up while holding his head.
…
“Hah!” Saul immediately opened his eyes. The pain from the dream just now was so clear, as if he had already experienced everything once.
But when he broke free from the nightmare, the pain in his memory and the fear in his heart began to recede like a tide. In less than a minute, the torment he had just felt disappeared completely, as if it had never happened.
Little Algae had somehow emerged from Saul’s neck, using its black little tongue to lick the sweat beads seeping from Saul’s forehead.
Saul pushed Little Algae away with mixed feelings, “Thank you, Little Algae, but don’t eat random things.”
His body had undergone three wizard body transformations and was no longer an ordinary human structure. The sweat was more of a stress secretion from his soul body being stimulated. It represented a loss of control.
If an ordinary person touched it, their body would probably rot into a puddle of thick juice within minutes.
Although Little Algae could withstand large amounts of black tide pollution, it was better not to eat other things randomly.
“Brother Saul, did you have a nightmare?” Penny also flew out, circling around Saul.
As a Nightmare Butterfly, Penny could vaguely sense the content of Saul’s dreams, but couldn’t see clearly.
It also didn’t dare to see too clearly.
“It’s fine, it’s not the first time.” As he spoke, the sweat beads on Saul’s forehead had already been automatically reabsorbed by his body.
He let himself slowly calm down.
The nightmare just now was probably a scene of Iskaper being swallowed by the abyss. Only at the end, something had affected Saul’s spirit, causing his pain to exceed his tolerance and directly break free from the prophetic dream.
“If what the dream showed was a scene of the world’s end, was I seeing this scene when I was preparing to flee this world after failing to resist the black tide?”
“What entered the abyss was Iskaper. Does this mean Stat Continent and Nephret Continent have already… been swallowed?”
“So when continents are swallowed by the Abyssal Eye, they all turn into black mud. This way, if the Chaos Realm is indeed the first disappeared Desedil Continent, then all the topography there being changed makes sense. After all, everything from the past has disappeared, leaving only a bit of crust and sand and gravel dried by the black tide.”
Saul slowly closed his eyes.
Seeing scenes of the world’s end had a tremendous impact on Saul. After quite a while, Saul could continue thinking.
“My prophetic dreams generally don’t occur too long before events actually happen. However, my mental power has now improved significantly, so the scenes in dreams could happen as far as three to five years from now. But time is already very urgent.”
But Saul didn’t understand – although he was also clear that the complete eruption of the black tide was just a matter of time, it shouldn’t happen in three to five years!
In the calculations of the Tribunal and Stargate Council, even if the black tide were to completely erupt, it should still need thirty to fifty years, and this was estimated using the most extreme and pessimistic methods.
But in the dream, why did the apocalypse arrive so early?
“There must be other important factors that appeared and affected the entire apocalyptic process.” Saul began searching for details in the prophetic dream, “Did we overlook something?”
“Right, red worms didn’t appear in the dream. My plan should be to use red worms to offset the Abyssal Eye’s pollution. Was it because it failed and consumed all the red worms, so even the last red worm didn’t appear?”
The intelligence Saul saw in the dream was still insufficient.
“If only I could have prophetic dreams again.”
The power of prophetic dreams came from star-shaped eyes, and star-shaped eyes were actually Saul himself. So he should also be able to control his own dreams.
But the current him still couldn’t manipulate the power of star-shaped eyes.
“I still need to advance to fourth-rank wizard as soon as possible. Otherwise, facing the black tide apocalypse, being merely third-rank, even if it’s top-level third-rank, the power is still too weak.”
Saul directly put away Little Algae and the Nightmare Butterfly, “Don’t come out for now. I need to find a red worm to verify my thoughts.”
The next second, Saul’s figure disappeared. When he reappeared, he found he couldn’t see the Star Observatory Tower in any direction – he should have already left Olga’s capital.
“Is this another city? I don’t know if I’m still in Olga Duchy.”
Just as Saul thought this, he heard a voice behind him.
“Saul! How did you come here too?”
Saul turned around and saw Jeffrey with a face full of surprise, completely unsurprised.
(End of Chapter)
