Diary of a Dead Wizard

Chapter 952: Untouchable

"Crash—" Saul directly broke through the opposite window, entering the room where Wizard Aurel was located.

Aurel hadn't sensed Saul's approach at all. Only at the moment he broke through the window did he realize someone was approaching.

"Who's there?" His headless neck turned toward the window, and his first reaction was to release the thorns in his palm.

Several black blades flashed by. The thorns attacking Saul instantly became several segments, falling powerlessly to the ground.

"It's you?" Aurel had already recognized Saul. Though very displeased with his direct intrusion, he didn't attack again. "Weren't you going to find Corey? What are you doing here?"

"To catch up with you, of course." Saul closed in, his hands transforming into gray tentacles. "Long time no see, let's shake hands."

The red worm on Aurel's neck twisted twice, pointing its mouthparts at Saul. The red worm had no eyes, only mouthparts opening and closing, seemingly judging Saul's threat level.

Wizard Aurel immediately transformed both hands into thorns, entangling with Saul's tentacles.

He seemed to think that such close combat would make it difficult for Saul's black blades to launch sneak attacks.

But he hadn't expected that the gray tentacles, upon touching his arms, instantly spat out several drops of pitch-black, viscous liquid. Those drops, just touching Aurel's branch arms, immediately turned the bark yellow.

The originally flexible and supple branches seemed to lose moisture and vitality in an instant. When stirred by the tentacles, they crumbled to the ground with a "crash."

Saul kicked out, sending the person flying into the opposite wall. Before he could fall, the tentacles directly pierced through Aurel's shoulders, pinning him to the stone wall!

Just as Aurel was about to struggle, Saul teleported directly, grasping his neck with one hand and looking at the constantly writhing red worm above. "Greetings exchanged, now for business. Are you currently Aurel, or a worm?"

Aurel, who had been struggling, was startled by Saul's words.

He was still arguing verbally, "What worm are you talking about? I don't know. You're attacking a stationed wizard of the Stargate Council. Even if you're a third-rank wizard, the Chairman won't let you go."

But while Aurel was superficially struggling and cursing, the red worm on his neck was slowly emerging from the neck opening.

"Creak creak..."

The fat worm struggled to squeeze outward, climbing up along the wall, seemingly trying to escape from Aurel's body.

Saul carefully probed the red worm with his tentacles, but touched nothing.

"Penny, Little Algae, can you see that worm?"

"Yes!"

"Eek eek!"

"Try to see if you can catch it. Be careful—it might have pollution or might counterattack."

"Little Algae, go!" Penny commanded without courtesy.

"Eek!" Naive Little Algae charged straight up.

Then crashed headfirst into the stone wall, wriggling for a while before pulling its head out.

It also couldn't touch the red worm. In Saul's eyes, Little Algae passed through the red worm, which didn't even show the slightest ripple.

Little Algae wasn't purely attacking physically. Having merged with hidden crystals, it also had the ability to touch consciousness bodies.

But this time it also missed.

"My turn!" Seeing Little Algae fail, Penny charged up second.

But the nightmare butterfly that could wander in dreams and observe others' pasts also came up empty.

Because Saul wanted to touch the red worm, he didn't stop the worm from crawling out of Aurel's neck.

By now Aurel's neck had been stretched to a full circle larger, with the edges cracking and leaving several red marks. The red worm that had crawled out was already two meters long, its head almost touching the ceiling above.

The scene was quite repulsive.

Even when Saul used his tentacles to touch Aurel's neck opening, he couldn't prevent the red worm from leaving.

The worm crawled slowly and leisurely, as if its true form didn't care about Saul's attacks and probes at all.

After crawling another ten centimeters, the fat worm suddenly contracted, and a short, thick tail also wriggled out from the neck opening.

A two-meter-long worm with a thirty-centimeter diameter completely emerged from Wizard Aurel's neck.

And Wizard Aurel, who had just been threatening Saul to release him, suddenly trembled as if shocked by electricity after the red worm left. Then his body stiffened, no longer speaking or moving.

"Brother Saul, he's dead." Penny landed on Aurel's shoulder, then immediately returned to Saul's head as if startled. "He's been dead for a long time."

Saul stared intently at Aurel's corpse and nodded. "Yes, I found no soul body in his body, not even fragments. He's not only dead, but died very cleanly."

Saul retracted the tentacles pinning Aurel to the wall. The latter's corpse fell to the ground stiff as a door panel.

Saul raised his hand, looking at the red worm that had crawled to the ceiling. The worm was still crawling through muscle contractions and extensions, seemingly heading for the window Saul had broken.

"It wants to leave? How strange. A worm that can't be touched by us, yet can walk on walls and hide in corpses while damaging them. What kind of existence is this? Not a physical entity, but not purely soul either."

Aurel was dead, his soul gone. The only thing left to interrogate was the red worm before them.

But they couldn't touch it.

"Penny, can you try to directly observe its past?" Saul originally wanted to use Penny's ability again, but just then the diary suddenly opened.

The opened diary showed no death warning, but this action made Saul understand his suggestion had been rash.

"No, Penny, you shouldn't observe creatures of unknown origin. Too dangerous!"

Saul silently admonished himself not to forget caution just because his strength had reached third-rank peak and he could advance to fourth rank at any time.

At least now wasn't the time to desperately risk others' lives.

Saul put away Penny and Little Algae, slowly raising his right hand with the palm facing the red worm almost at the window.

"Then let me see if this worm can escape observation."

All the muscle in Saul's palm retracted into the bones. An eye suddenly squeezed into the gap between his palm bones.

An eye with prismatic pupils!

The moment the star-shaped eye appeared, it immediately locked onto the escaping red worm with its pupil.

The red worm that had been crawling suddenly let out a shriek, deflating like a punctured balloon with a "hiss."

The deflated red worm was left with only a layer of skin, floating down from the ceiling. But before it could hit the ground, even that layer of skin vanished.

Before Saul could be shocked by the star-shaped eye's power, his right hand suddenly experienced intense pain, as if pressed into a frying pan. His bones sizzled, and he could faintly smell cooking meat.

But his arm showed no changes, and scanning with mental power revealed no injuries.

Yet the pain seemed to drill into his brain, making him grip his right hand tightly while veins on his forehead twitched continuously.

The intense pain lasted three to four minutes before subsiding.

When Saul recovered, he found the star-shaped eye in his palm had somehow already retreated to the consciousness platform without his urging.

"Brother Saul, what happened? What's wrong?" Penny hadn't noticed any attacks on Saul's body or soul and didn't understand why he had suddenly appeared so pained.

Little Algae was also anxious but couldn't ask, only able to "eek" nearby.

Saul held his arm, his complexion slowly recovering. "It's fine, probably suffered the red worm's dying counterattack. That worm's level could probably compare to a top-tier third rank."

(End of Chapter)