Diary of a Dead Wizard

Chapter 1018: No Way Back

Camus wavered.

But after a moment, it forcibly cast this wavering thought behind itself.

"You telling me these things has no meaning whatsoever."

It stiffened its neck, forcibly suppressing all doubts in its heart.

"The abyss is about to open its eyes, and then I'll personally tell you who's right and who's wrong."

Saul looked deeply at Camus. "I never thought I could directly stop you, but I also hope that if you have even the slightest hesitation in your heart, you'll leave yourself a way back."

Camus stared straight at Saul, his gaze seeming to penetrate through his body and fall on the distant starry sky.

"There's no way back."

...

Camus couldn't stop his coming and going. But Saul also couldn't stay in the abyss too long.

That place was, after all, a very special location—inside the dead body of the abyss. It would instinctively repel existences like Saul who couldn't be polluted and assimilated.

Just like when Saul and Kismet entered the Abyssal Eye together, the anchor points in the abyss would instinctively first try to pollute Saul, but after discovering complete failure, they would immediately begin trying to repel him.

It seemed that letting Saul and Kismet enter the abyss's interior was a very dangerous thing for them.

After returning to the Chaos Realm, Saul was more confident in his original speculation.

Looking up, he found Keli and the other two were in the middle of a massacre. However, most anchor point monsters were being shattered rather than killed.

"If anchor points can't be completely killed, the destroyed parts can only be stored separately, otherwise when they're together they'll begin automatically reassembling, and after reaching a certain amount they'll regain mobility and become new monsters."

Saul thought while stepping forward. However, as he moved, gray tentacles gradually grew from beneath his wizard robe.

These tentacles, upon seeing anchor points on the ground, pounced like hungry pythons, completely enveloping the anchor points.

The anchor points struggled to spread pollution, but after being captured and entering Saul's fate line space, they instantly became docile. Besides their fusion instinct remaining, they could no longer muster any thoughts of resistance.

Soon, the ground Saul had walked over became clean, and the bone monsters that had been fighting in close combat lost their enemies and stood dazed in place, not knowing what to do next.

Keli and the others nearby also quickly noticed that the anchor points on the ground were decreasing in large numbers. Replacing them were python-thick gray semi-transparent tentacles.

Soon the tentacles became an existence covering the entire bottom of the rift, looking... even more terrifying than the anchor point monsters.

Fortunately, the tentacles could distinguish between friend and foe, only devouring anchor points while not touching any of the bone army or wizards.

Soon Keli and the others discovered there were no more enemies before them.

The three stood in the clearing surrounded by densely layered tentacles.

Keli puffed out her cheeks and simply sat on the ground, supporting her chin without any image. "He eliminated all the enemies we fought for two months by himself. Are fourth-rank wizards this powerful?"

Brando looked down at Keli with a complex expression. "Yes, fourth-rank wizards are already not the same species as us in terms of life level."

Keli had grown up together with Saul, and there was no status barrier between them. When Saul faced Keli, he also showed no airs of being a high-rank wizard, which led to Keli often not realizing what fourth-rank wizards truly meant.

But Brando was different. Although he lived in the Borderland, he had originally offended the former chairman of the Stargate Council and was forced by a single glance to no longer be able to stay on Iskaper Continent, which led him to risk coming to the Borderland on Stat Continent.

Only in the Borderland, where several major wizard factions mutually constrained each other, would a small fry like him be affected the least.

But precisely because he had once had friction with a fourth-rank wizard, he understood better how terrifying the fourth rank was. This was why Brando's expression had been so stiff after seeing Saul advance to the fourth rank.

In his view, existences who entered the fourth rank could already be called gods in ancient times.

The number of tentacles on the ground began decreasing, finally returning to nothing. When the tentacles disappeared, those restless anchor point fragments on the ground also vanished.

Saul's figure walked out from the depths of the valley rift.

All along his path, the bone monsters retreated one after another without anyone controlling them, like neatly arrayed soldiers making way for their king.

A fierce wind carrying yellow sand blew past, lifting Saul's black wizard robe and fiercely striking several people with that indescribable aura of a strong individual.

Even Keli couldn't help but stand up, watching Saul approach her.

She blinked, feeling that Saul had suddenly become so unfamiliar at this moment.

Saul walked very slowly. He had just absorbed all the anchor points in the great rift into his space. At this moment, over a hundred anchor points were fusing with each other in the space.

This also placed considerable psychological pressure on Saul.

But at the same time, what disappointed him was that the newly fused anchor point monsters no longer emitted any information.

As if the previous sentence had been a consciousness's final cry.

Walking before the several people, Saul's expression remained heavy.

"How many bone army members are left?"

Keli immediately reported a number. "Although the numbers have decreased due to battles during this period, the remaining bone monsters' combat capabilities have improved by one level compared to before. So I don't think this can be considered a bad thing."

"Bone monsters that have experienced battle can level up?" Saul smiled. When he showed a smile, the terrifying aura on his body finally diminished somewhat. "But let's continue creating new bone armies. Don't worry about magic crystals—I brought many this time, and I'll try to send you some in the future. However, if nothing unexpected happens, more anchor point monsters will appear soon. Under the premise of preserving your own survival, resist as much as possible."

Keli twisted a strand of her hair. "What happened? Aren't you taking the bone army out?"

"Unfortunately, currently I can only manage to enter and exit here myself." Saul shook his head. "However, if my speculation is correct, the bone army can serve very important purposes in the Chaos Realm too."

As long as it could be useful to Saul, that was fine.

Keli breathed a sigh of relief. What she feared most was that after working hard for several years, she couldn't help with anything.

"Whatever you need us to do, just say it."

"Try to contain the anchor points entering this side as much as possible. I just received some not-so-good news. The abyss has probably entered its final eruption stage. The final moment is now less than a month away, and its progress can no longer be halted."

The three wizards across from him all shuddered.

Everyone knew that black tide pollution would definitely affect the entire world, and the abyss's eruption was just a matter of time.

But this time had previously been calculated in centuries. Who would have thought that now Saul was telling them there was less than a month left.

Could they really survive this black tide apocalypse?

Even if they could survive, how many people would be left in the wizard world afterward?

Would it become the next Chaos Realm?

(End of Chapter)