Chapter 296: Old Stories
"The little algae...was also planted by Madam Youla?"
Xiaozao seemed to hear Thor calling it, and slowly came out from the back of Thor's neck. It looked left and right, and found that Thor was just standing there, as if in a daze. So it turned to Thor and stuck out its tongue at him.
Thor quickly raised his hand and pinched Xiaozao's upper and lower jaws, accurately making its mouth clamp its tongue. He watched the black tongue twitching, and this time he chuckled and let go of Xiaozao.
Xiao Zao's grimace was interrupted by force, and Thor played tricks on him, so he shrank back in anger. Before he shrank back, he did not forget to distance himself and stuck out his tongue at Thor again.
While playing with Xiao Zao, An told Thor: The Soul-Eating Swamp is essentially a demonic creature with earth attribute. It is not quite accurate to say "species", but it was indeed one of the "dowry" brought by Lady Youla.
Agu, who used to be a librarian, came out to testify.
Agu: [That's indeed the master. Soon after Mrs. Youla came to the Wizard Tower, she opened up an underground laboratory and cultivated many magical creatures, but most of them failed to be cultivated successfully. Later, after Mrs. Youla died, the underground laboratory was abandoned. ]
An was not willing to be outdone and turned the page of Agu's book.
An: [Master, I was still a living apprentice at that time, and happened to experience the dark period when Madam Euler died. That day, the tower master suddenly lost his temper...hiss...]
Saul could see that Ann still felt fear when he recalled the past.
An: [Many people died that day. There were wizards from the Principality of Kerma, and some wizard apprentices... We have never seen the tower master lose his temper so badly. It was not until the evening that we heard that someone saw the tower master carrying Mrs. Youla out of the underground laboratory.]
An: [But Mrs. Euler's head was gone. The tower master was holding only a headless corpse. Since then, the underground laboratory has been abandoned. ]
Thor touched his chin and suddenly said, "Xiao Zao had been staying in the underground laboratory before, and has stayed there since the laboratory was abandoned. Do you think it knows how Mrs. Euler died?"
The topic has shifted from whether Mrs. Youla deliberately tricked Thor to the cause of her death.
But this is not off topic.
If we knew the cause of Mrs. Youla's death, perhaps we could understand what she wants to do now.
Maybe we can also find out what Gorza wants to do next.
Thor knew that his remaining ability to "observe history" would not last for a few days.
He originally wanted to use the last bit of his ability on his diary, but later he thought about using it on Xiaozao, who was close to him.
Now, after suspecting that Xiaozao might know the cause of Euler's death, Thor made up his mind to observe Xiaozao after cleaning up the Black Castle! Anyway, the ability of "observing history" might not show anything when used on the diary again.
Thor has given up on the history of the third observation diary.
However, in addition to observing the history of Xiaozao, Thor has another way to understand the reason why he was attacked tonight.
"We have already welcomed the first guest tonight and caught the second guest, but I don't know if there will be a third guest."
Thor carried the body of the land boat attacker and walked down to the underground wine cellar step by step, and then entered the underground passage leading to the underground rhizome of the devil vine.
【Hello again, Master Thor.】
As soon as the devil vine sensed Thor's approach, it quickly sent out a greeting.
At the same time, black tentacles as thick as thighs grew out of the wet and muddy ground. They swayed as if greeting Thor.
"Devil's Ivy, how many years have you been under the Black Castle?"
[My concept of time is not that clear.]
"Then do you know how the Black Castle communicates with the Wizard Tower?"
【I’m sorry, I don’t know.】
Thor was not disappointed. He threw the attacker's body on the ground and leaned it casually against the wall.
He ordered in his mind, "Diary, let the black page of the sneak attacker come out."
The diary unfolded in his spirit body and turned to the fifth black page.
"Who are you and what's your name?"
[My name is Cadis, I am a third-level wizard apprentice of Land Boat. What is this place? Strange, I have no memory of how I got in. ]
"What is the purpose of your coming here?" Thor had no intention of keeping Caddis.
Maintaining these consciousnesses requires Thor's mental power.
If we don't ask questions to the consciousness in the black pages, we can keep them alive for a little longer. But if we can't ask questions, why would Thor keep an unimportant consciousness?
Moreover, Cadis's functions were basically the same as Herman's, but it was obvious that Herman, who had become the captain of the frigate, was more valuable and knew more information.
[I accepted the task from my mentor and came here to mark a quasi-level 3 apprentice named Thor. But my task seems to have failed. How should I explain this to my mentor when I return?]
"A quasi-third-level apprentice?" Thor turned his wrist. "Not many people know this news. Madam Youla is one of them. Grand Duke Kira should be able to see it. Those third-level wizard apprentices in the Principality of Kerma may have also been discovered by others."
After all, third-level apprentices are different from second-level apprentices. Not only do they have locators, but they can also perfectly integrate the locators with their own spiritual bodies.
The stability of their spiritual bodies is much stronger than that of ordinary second-level apprentices.
After thinking for a while, Thor continued to ask: "Do you know why Thor was marked?"
【The instructor said I didn’t need to know the reason.】
"Are you really just cannon fodder? You don't even know the purpose of the operation. Then how are you going to mark them?"
[Just let the seeds of the Lost Soul Flower come into contact with his spirit body. ]
"After planting the mark, did your instructor tell you what to do after the mission is successful?"
[The instructor said that if my mission is successful, I will leave a mark at the entrance of the Black Castle Forest. Then, someone else will come to take over the mark. It's strange, I clearly planted the mark, why did it become ineffective later? Could it be that the energy of the seed has been exhausted? ]
Is there a third person? But this time the diary did not remind me.
However, Thor soon figured it out.
In order to bring out the third person, he needs to be marked by the seed. However, with the diary, the mark obviously cannot be preserved. In other words, the mark will not be successful, and the third person will probably not appear anyway.
But because Thor can learn the whole story from Cadis, even if the third person does not show up, things will not develop in a bad direction.
Thinking of this, Thor finally felt a little relieved.
He has not yet conducted statistics and experiments on the new type of diary prompts, so he does not know what kind of adverse consequences will ultimately trigger the diary prompts.
It is very likely that the death will occur after a longer period of time. However, this longer period of time is only slightly longer than the crisis that would have occurred within a few minutes before.
Saul felt that, judging from the previous characteristics of the diary, the crisis would evolve from a few minutes to a few hours at most.
"If the mark is taken over by someone else, what might he do?" Thor suppressed the idea of starting research now and continued "interrogating".
[…I don’t know. This is also the first time I have taken over the seeds of the Lost Soul Flower. I was only a third-level apprentice with the lowest status before, and was recently promoted by my mentor.]
Thor rubbed his forehead.
"How come this Caddis doesn't know anything? Why did his mentor promote him? To be a cannon fodder?"
I actually forgot to post last night!!! I really didn’t develop the habit of updating at night, so I went straight to bed…
(End of this chapter)
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