Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 986: Work Handover
Thus, in the following six months, the Stargate conducted a third and fourth practical experiment.
These two experiments did not invite Saul and Douglas to participate.
But that was understandable—since the experiments had already become clear, why let outsiders interfere?
After the fourth experiment, Alick finally had to take the final and most important step before leaving.
He would detach from his original body and directly merge into the incomparably massive red worm body wrapped around the outside of the Star Observatory Tower.
He also didn’t notify Saul and Douglas about this matter.
Without the stargate research assignments, Saul went to check on the red worm queen several more times. The Stargate gradually relaxed its restrictions on Saul.
Eventually, Saul no longer needed anyone to guide him and could directly enter and exit the white warehouse imprisoning the worm queen, gradually figuring out the composition of the liquid in the pool water confining the worm queen.
However, the Stargate never allowed Saul to directly contact the red worm queen—he could only observe through the Faceless One shell from outside.
After Saul expressed his dissatisfaction several times clearly, they finally brought out Alick’s original words.Before the Stargate departed, Saul could not directly contact the worm queen!
After Saul verbally expressed his dissatisfaction, he stopped looking for the worm queen and returned to research with Douglas on how to control deactivated red worms using soul bodies.
Because of their experience with Stargate experiments, although they hadn’t obtained core secrets, the two quickly found a method to make soul bodies merge into deactivated red worms.
This soul body was naturally Agu.
Since he couldn’t see red worms, he had never known what red worms looked like. This was also the most difficult part of his merging into red worms.
The problem was that whether one could see them or not was something that temporarily couldn’t be changed, but fortunately Douglas designed a radar-like magical array that allowed Agu to discover the red worms’ location in another sense, enabling him to enter the worms’ bodies and complete synchronization.
After Agu’s successful experiment, Saul and Douglas began summarizing their experience and attempting to use ordinary soul bodies to merge into deactivated red worms.
They didn’t need these ordinary soul bodies to independently control the red worms—they just needed them to be controllable by Agu.
After Saul’s experiment also entered a new phase, the Stargate finally came to Saul and Douglas for the final handover of their agreement.
This also meant that Alick and the others were about to leave.
“This Star Observatory Tower will be left to other members of the Stargate, but the Hidden World Side can be given to you.” Alick sat in his reclining chair, like a leisurely old man.
Saul and Douglas were currently standing on the topmost floor of the Star Observatory Tower.
The gravity here was specially designed to be parallel to the ground. That is, when standing normally, one faced the sky with their back to the earth.
This seemed to be done to facilitate Alick’s observation of the stargate.
“That’s really too kind of you, to actually leave us a World Side.”
“After all, deactivated red worms are difficult to move, and that World Side actually cannot provide a complete ecological cycle—it can only serve as a relatively large experimental site.”
Saul nodded. Alick was right. This World Side located in high altitude was different from other World Sides Saul had visited before.
Other World Sides were basically miniature worlds with complete ecosystems that could normally nurture life even when completely isolated from the main world.
But the Stargate’s Hidden World Side didn’t even have gravity. Although the air contained relatively abundant elemental particles, other materials were close to none.
Everything inside had been moved in bit by bit by the Stargate Council over the years, then manufactured bit by bit.
Now the most valuable things inside were that spherical laboratory and the deactivated red worms filling the sky.
Alick looked at the two men, “As for how to divide the things inside, you can decide for yourselves.”
Douglas smiled, “No problem.”
“There’s also the underground base. The things inside aren’t very useful anymore, but I can only hand over the worm queen to you at the last moment before leaving. After all, we still need it before then.”
This time Saul didn’t respond—whether they needed it or not was just a matter of their word anyway.
“So when are you leaving?” Douglas spread his hands, “Can this be said?”
“It can.” Alick nodded readily, “Dawn on November 7th.”
Saul was startled—wasn’t that tonight?
They really were conducting the handover at the last moment!
Moreover, Alick had just told Saul and Douglas to divide the handover items themselves—wasn’t this trying to use benefit distribution that could easily cause disputes to distract the two men’s attention?
Looking at Alick’s calm appearance, it was clear he didn’t mind Saul and Douglas knowing these things.
Thinking of this, Saul no longer wanted to stay here, “Fine, then I wish you all a smooth journey. I’ll head back first.”
Watching Saul leave impatiently, Alick asked Douglas, who hadn’t yet stepped away, “Saul should be going to the Hidden World Side, don’t you want to go see what you’d like?”
The corners of Douglas’s mouth lifted slightly, “What I want isn’t here.”
Before Alick could frown in confusion, Douglas looked deeply at the image before him once more, then waved his hand, “I’m very serious about eliminating the Abyssal Eye. Finally, I wish you a pleasant journey through the stars.”
Saying this, Douglas performed a chest-touching salute, then also turned and left the highest floor.
In this room with abnormal gravity, only Alick remained alone.
He lowered his eyes in contemplation, “This Douglas isn’t simple either. With him around, Saul will have plenty of headaches in the future.”
Whoosh—
Meurich’s figure suddenly appeared in the room.
It wasn’t that Meurich had learned teleportation.
Like the current Alick, he was just an image projected by consciousness.
Their real bodies had long been abandoned, their souls near the stargate in the high sky, ready to depart at any moment.
“Council Chairman, all startup items are fully prepared. Should we depart now?”
Alick glanced at Meurich, “We’re leaving, not fleeing.”
Meurich quickly lowered his head and said nothing.
“Proceed according to the original plan. This is also the safe period we observed. Don’t let your personal anxieties affect everyone’s journey.”
As soon as Alick finished speaking, his figure suddenly disappeared from the room.
Only then did Meurich raise his head, looking toward the doorway where Saul had left, cold snorting in his heart: “Yes, we’re not fleeing. Saul, you humiliated me so much, but you still can’t do anything about me, can you? Hmph, thinking that enduring it will get you the worm queen? Ha, I want you to feel suffocated and suppressed, to forcibly endure, but in the end still get nothing!”
A triumphant smile appeared on his face.
…
The low-latitude Iskaper Continent suddenly began to snow.
Dark clouds covered the sky, and the moon and stars all hid away.
The pitch-black night sky became even darker, as if announcing that the most powerful wizard organization that had once illuminated this continent would completely disappear starting tonight.
Lunar Calendar Year 325, October 6th, 12:00 PM at night.
Saul, lying in his bedroom, suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, “It’s time.”
“Hee hee hee hee…” A young girl’s laughter rang out.
The silver butterfly burst out from Saul’s forehead, flying up and down around him, while black slender tentacles extended and split behind Saul’s head, blooming into a huge black flower.
“Let’s go send off our good friends from the Stargate!”
(End of Chapter)
