Diary of a Dead Wizard

Chapter 993: I'm Testing You

Now the Stargate Council was basically Saul's allied force, so using their facilities required no worry about conflicts of interest.

Moreover, the underground base was fully equipped, and the personnel were familiar with the worm queen—it was a ready-made research facility that would be wasted if not used.

Because of the half-elf, Byron would also likely be stationed at the underground base permanently, so the house they had originally rented was given to Saul.

Using teleportation to leave the underground base again, Saul appeared beside Gorsa.

At this time, Gorsa was leaning against his pink sofa, listening to several second-rank wizards temporarily selected by the Star Observatory Tower report on matters.

Since they were facing Gorsa, when Saul instantly appeared on Gorsa's right side, the reporting wizards immediately saw him.

"Ah, Wizard Saul, you..."

But halfway through their greeting, they suddenly realized that Saul's aura was completely different from before. Standing beside Gorsa, the mental pressure emanating from both of them was equally powerful.

The wizards below immediately fell silent.

Gorsa turned his head to look at Saul, "Your teleportation ability is quite interesting."

The Star Observatory Tower itself had magical arrays for defense, as well as countermeasures against spatial magic. Especially the council chamber where Gorsa was currently located had several additional isolation arrays.

Otherwise, if enemies could easily teleport in and infiltrate their headquarters, it would cause massive damage.

But Saul had still entered with just a simple teleportation, without even triggering the Star Observatory Tower's defense systems.

"I've seen your teleportation ability before. It seems even more powerful after your advancement—I didn't even detect spatial fluctuations."

Saul nodded, "Strong mobility, but many limitations too."

Gorsa didn't ask what the limitations were, "Who doesn't have those? Fourth-rank wizards have only developed themselves to the limit, but control over the external world is still limited."

He waved his hand at the wizards below, directly teleporting them out.

This was showing off his teleportation ability to Saul, who had just become a fourth-rank wizard.

Saul also paid attention to Gorsa's magic power and mental force changes, discovering that when Gorsa cast teleportation magic on others, there was more commotion, allowing Saul to observe more.

"Is it transfer using shadows?"

Saul discovered that these people were first transferred into their own shadows, then disappeared along with the shadows.

If his master's teleportation also had limitations, it might be that there must be shadows, and shadows that had already been controlled by him.

This would explain why when Master Gorsa came to pick up Saul before, he teleported in segments. At that time, he not only needed to teleport within shadows under his control, but the teleportation distance was also limited. It's just that as his strength increased, this distance became longer and longer, making it easy to overlook the changes.

"How are things with the worm queen?" Gorsa asked.

"Everything is going smoothly so far. The half-elf has already suppressed the worm queen's consciousness, but to completely control it still requires time. I've asked him to complete it within one year."

"Within one year?" Gorsa slightly widened his eyes, "My estimate should be that there are still 20 years left. Do you mean the Abyssal Eye will completely erupt within a few years?"

Saul sighed lightly, "Yes, I have methods to learn that there may only be a few years left before the abyss completely erupts. It's just that I haven't been able to calculate the exact number of years in detail."

Gorsa was silent for a moment. This news was quite terrible for him too.

"Only a few years left? It seems our methods need to be even more forceful."

He suddenly stood up from the sofa.

"I'll pull out all the Glare clan members hiding in the World Side to add some high-rank wizard personnel. I'll also utilize the Soul-Fixing magical arrays you left behind last time."

Gorsa raised his hand, and a huge three-dimensional map immediately appeared before them. Saul immediately walked to the map, looking at several places his mentor had marked.

"I looked around and found that because Iskaper Continent doesn't often face the black tide directly, the defenses against pollution here are quite lax. Didn't you set up many Soul-Fixing magical arrays in the Borderland? I also plan to move them over and set them up in these coastal areas."

Saul looked at one location—exactly the corner of the continent he had seen being sucked into the Abyssal Eye first in his dream—so he pointed there and said, "Add a few more Soul-Fixing arrays around here."

"This is the place on Iskaper closest to the Abyssal Eye." Gorsa immediately understood Saul's intention, "Are you worried this place will be attacked by the black tide?"

"It's also to make defensive arrangements for the future. If someday Iskaper Continent needs to directly face the Abyssal Eye, this will be the first line of defense. It's also where we'll lead the red worms to attack the Abyssal Eye."

This was even more severe than Gorsa had originally speculated.

There was no helping it—who told Saul to have prophetic dreams?

Although the wizard world also had prophetic magic, both accuracy and clarity were touching. Wizards who preferred rational analysis didn't rely much on prophetic magic.

However, Gorsa trusted Saul completely. Now, aside from Saul's several consciousness bodies, only Gorsa should understand Saul's special nature the most.

Gorsa still held a fragment of Saul's soul.

"Good, I'll add personnel to these places."

Watching Gorsa's composed manner, although knowing he could definitely control all the remaining personnel of the Stargate Council, the speed still exceeded Saul's imagination.

"The Stargate Council has no problems now?"

"They've personally shattered their own hopes of leaving the wizard world. Now they can naturally only change their thinking and resist the black tide."

A group of people who had fantasized about escaping, upon discovering they couldn't run, could naturally only fight with their backs to the wall.

Gorsa's timing was also perfect, and he quickly rallied their hearts.

"Then I'll return to the Borderland first. I'll leave things here to you." After thinking it over, Saul reminded Gorsa once more, "There's a Wizard Douglas who researched red worms together with us. He appears to be a third-rank wizard on the surface, but he might not be that simple. You should also be careful when dealing with him."

Upon hearing this name, Gorsa's eyes flashed slightly, and he nodded, "Cooperation is cooperation, but vigilance can't be lacking, right?"

Saul nodded.

"It's best not to let him see that we're being vigilant against him." Gorsa continued.

"Uh..." Saul could only continue nodding.

"Ah, the Stargate Council is really lacking high-rank wizards now. So I'll formally test him—if he passes, he can enter the Stargate Council's core management. What do you think?"

"Whatever you say goes." Saul silently wiped away non-existent cold sweat.

Master Gorsa was using the excuse of testing people to openly be vigilant against Douglas, and even if Douglas saw through it, as long as he remained "third-rank," he couldn't say anything.

Alright then.

When it came to scheming against people, Saul didn't need to worry about Master Gorsa.

(End of Chapter)