Diary of a Dead Wizard

Chapter 1008: Chaos Realm Anomaly!

Before leaving, Saul tried to enter the abyss once more, but the abyss seemed to recognize Saul. As soon as he entered, a large number of rifts immediately appeared waiting for Saul.

Saul knew that these anchor point monsters would no longer let him capture them easily. If he entered again, the roles of hunter and prey would probably reverse once more.

Saul left the death-laden abyss and said to Kismet, "We're going back."

Kismet pursed his lips and followed behind him.

After returning from the Chaos Realm, Kismet was so angry that he didn't speak the entire way back. When they reached the Purity Wizard Tower, he immediately ran to the top of the tower to lie down.

Steward Hope came out to welcome Saul's return.

"Tower Master, welcome back. During your absence, Master Keli seemed to have something to discuss with you. She came back once every other day."

Saul calculated the time. "I've been gone for three months already. Did Keli say why she was looking for me?"

"She didn't. From Wizard Keli's expression, it didn't seem to be anything urgent."

He wanted to calculate when Keli would next come out of the Chaos Realm.

"About 14 hours ago."

That meant in about ten more hours, Keli would return again.

"I'll be in the laboratory. If you see Keli return, have her come find me directly."

"As you command, Tower Master."

The steward bowed and left. Saul teleported into his laboratory, then entered the Prismatic World channel.

Under the colorful nebulae filling the sky, Saul took out the anchor point monsters from his space and contacted Floco, who was still near the abyss.

"After we came out, did Kismet have any special actions?"

Floco: [I discovered no abnormalities.]

"Did anyone else go there afterward?"

Floco: [No.]

Saul let out a long breath.

He muttered in a low voice, "I finally decided to trust him once—I hope the final result isn't disappointment."

He picked up the anchor point monster beside him. The anchor points that had been fierce and menacing in the abyss were as quiet as newborn hedgehogs in the Prismatic World.

Saul continued trying to stimulate the anchor point on the platform, wanting to see if it could still receive that vague consciousness from before.

But the anchor point had no reaction at all. Under the natural pressure emanating from the Death Demon, it only instinctively cowered with a very fearful appearance.

Saul couldn't help but look up at the threads in the sky that sometimes twisted and sometimes stretched, thinking that if the Death Demon came in person, it might also easily resolve the wizard world's crisis.

But the greater possibility was that after the black tide pollution was resolved, other people and creatures in the wizard world would all become part of the Death Demon like Pei'er.

As for whether they'd become part of the food or part of the limbs, that would probably depend on individual luck.

Saul put away the anchor point and returned his consciousness to the wizard tower.

Then he began waiting for Keli to return.

Since it wasn't urgent, it was likely that Keli had made another breakthrough in her research on the bone army.

If the bone army was completely formed and could be stably controlled, Saul would begin trying to bring this special force out of the Chaos Realm to adapt to the wizard world's environment.

However, Saul waited from dawn to dusk, then from dusk to dawn again.

But he never saw Keli's figure.

"Maybe she was delayed by something?" Saul thought this, but his intuition felt somewhat uneasy.

He stood up and took out the diary, trying to predict Keli's situation.

The diary didn't issue a death warning.

But Saul still wasn't entirely at ease.

The diary hadn't issued warnings for a long time. This made Saul feel like something was missing from his death-defying career.

He had already had prophetic dreams where the world in the dream was obviously about to be destroyed.

Yet the diary hadn't even issued a crisis warning, as if it was on strike, though its other functions were still normal.

This undoubtedly intensified Saul's unease.

After thinking it over, Saul closed the diary. "Douglas is the diary's former master—could he have a way to block the diary's warnings?"

This wasn't impossible—the possibility was very high.

Even Kismet was working for Douglas. As a fifth-rank wizard, the other party might have other trump cards.

Thinking of this, Saul looked down at the dark red hardcover book floating quietly in his palm, his gaze gradually becoming resolute.

"Since I can't determine whether the diary is still influenced by Douglas, then I simply... won't use it!"

Saul directly put away the diary and sent it to his main body's fate lines.

Due to the special nature of the fate lines, plus the closed space of the Symphony of Fate, even Douglas couldn't interfere with the diary.

Saul returned to his seat and entered the Prismatic World channel again. This time he directly called Shaya.

Speaking of Shaya, he was actually a backup move Saul had secretly left after discovering that the aperture connecting the Chaos Realm's great rift to the abyss had been sealed.

Shaya's strength had recently reached the third rank. Saul had originally wanted to send him to the Sighing Wall to help Maria with the garrison. But Floco had suddenly expressed willingness to help Saul guard the Sighing Wall, using this to secure a place where the mermaid clan could survive.

After Floco was severely injured by Douglas last time, Aqua and Coral had carried the unconscious Floco, abandoned their new stronghold, and moved toward the Stat Continent where Saul was located.

But after Floco woke up halfway, he chose to go to the Sighing Wall instead.

Then he made the decision to help Maria guard the Sighing Wall.

With Floco officially joining Saul's faction, the now-free Shaya was sent by Saul to Keli's side.

The Chaos Realm was, after all, a quite enclosed space. To enter and exit quickly, one either had to wait for the compass to cool down for a day or expend large amounts of resources for rapid charging.

In such circumstances, timely communication was very difficult, so Saul had Shaya help Keli while also serving as a communication channel between them.

So when Saul discovered that Keli hadn't returned from the Chaos Realm for over a day, he immediately logged onto the Prismatic World channel to contact Shaya.

"Shaya, has something happened on your end?"

Shaya's surprised emotions came through from the other end of the fate lines.

Shaya: [Saul, you finally contacted me. Today Keli suddenly discovered that the Chaos Realm compass had failed!]

Saul was shocked. "What?"

He immediately thought of the similarly sealed aperture leading to the abyss. Could the spatial passage between the Chaos Realm and the wizard world also have been sealed?

Wouldn't that make the Chaos Realm completely independent space now?

Could the person who sealed the aperture and the passage between the Chaos Realm and the wizard world be the same?

Douglas's name had already surfaced in Saul's mind.

If the passage on the abyss side could possibly have been sealed by Camus, then the passage to the wizard world couldn't possibly have been closed by Camus.

If Camus could do such a thing, it wouldn't have needed to use risky invasions of the Borderland long ago.

The shock in Saul's eyes gradually faded. "A fourth-rank wizard's understanding of space isn't sufficient to let them seal this spatial passage that has been stable for hundreds of years. Only Douglas could accomplish this."

Douglas must have suddenly sealed the Chaos Realm's spatial passage today. And before today, the only special thing Saul had done was take Kismet on a trip to the abyss.

Saul's fingers continuously tapped the platform floor.

Kismet, did you send a message to Douglas, causing him to suddenly seal the Chaos Realm?

Could it be for balance, unwilling to let the bone army appear in the wizard world?

"No," Saul shook his head again. "The bone army would only fight anchor point monsters in the face of the Abyssal Eye—it wouldn't affect the abyss's fundamentals."

Saul thought of another matter.

"Don't erupt, stop Camus... Could Douglas be preventing me from contacting Camus?"

Saul's continuously tapping fingers stopped, and his eyes lit up as if glowing.

"Shaya, don't tell anyone that you can contact me except for Keli and Ann."

[Alright, then what should we do?]

"Act according to what you would do if you couldn't contact me."

(End of Chapter)