Diary of a Dead Wizard

Chapter 996: Conditions for Resurrection

But in Saul's view, having confirmed the reason, he now had a targeted direction.

He first found Keli and Brando, who were waiting outside. Although the two had continued their experiments according to Saul's requirements, they were somewhat absent-minded. So when Saul called for them, they immediately put down their relatively unimportant work and hurried over.

"You have a conclusion so quickly?" Keli, being very familiar with Saul, naturally asked first.

"The specific action plan hasn't been finalized yet. But the overall direction is still primarily focused on increasing the number of bone armies under our control."

No matter how strong individual bone monsters were, they couldn't be stronger than anchor points. So they wouldn't be the ones directly confronting the abyss.

Keli and Brando were confused, but still quite straightforwardly followed Saul's command.

Meanwhile, Saul found a place to lie down, closed his eyes, and entered the Prismatic World.

...

Prismatic Channel, six people gathered.

This was the first time since Saul's advancement to fourth rank that all Symphony of Fate targets had assembled.

Gorsa: [This is your information transmission channel? Interesting, it can directly transmit consciousness information without information loss.]

Master Gorsa couldn't perceive that Saul was communicating with them from outside the wizard world, but could sense that information transmission had almost no obstacles.

"Master, this is the Prismatic Channel, where I communicate with four other friends through the connections we previously established."

Shaya: [Master, haha, Saul, why are you calling the fifth person mentor?]

Gorsa: [Inverted Tree?]

Shaya: [... Just remembered something. I'll withdraw then.]

Shaya naturally didn't have the ability to actively exit the chat platform, so could only huddle to one side pretending not to exist.

"I've invited everyone here today because there's something very important to discuss with everyone. This concerns the Abyssal Eye, so I hope everyone can analyze it together."

Upon hearing about the Abyssal Eye, everyone fell silent.

This time Saul directly informed everyone about the Chaos Realm and the abyss outside it, and shared his speculations.

"Seeing the scene inside the abyss, I believe Master's view that the abyss is actually a corpse is correct. And Camus's words represent that this corpse now wants to resurrect! So the key to us preventing the black tide eruption lies in how to prevent the Abyssal Eye from resurrecting."

After Saul finished speaking, no one else spoke immediately.

Saul wasn't in a hurry either, giving them time to digest this information.

He had known about the relationship between the Abyssal Eye and Chaos Realm for several years and had long passed the shock phase, but the others, except for Master Gorsa, were learning this for the first time.

Master Gorsa had stayed in the Chaos Realm for a while, but he wasn't clear that outside the Chaos Realm was actually the interior of the abyss that had nearly caused his complete aberration and madness.

After a while, Gorsa spoke first.

Gorsa: [The Abyssal Eye I saw was different from what you saw. But this also suggests your speculation is very likely correct. Because what you saw was the abyss interior, while I saw the outside. I just didn't expect that the abyss, which doesn't look very large, could actually contain an entire world inside.]

Saul said in a low voice, "This is the sixth rank we still can't understand."

Saul already had some understanding of fifth rank, after all, he had used Pei'er as a coordinate to reach the Prismatic World, and later relied on the platform the Death Demon created for him to travel back and forth several times.

Now Saul had some practical insights into world barriers and world traversal. The Death Demon also seemed quite happy to let Saul travel frequently.

Floco: [The gap between sixth and fifth rank is much larger than between fifth and fourth rank. If fifth rank begins the wizard's transition from exploring their inner self to understanding the external world, sixth rank transforms this understanding into power.]

Master Gorsa didn't know Floco, so Saul privately informed him of the others' identities.

But what somewhat surprised Saul was that even after learning Floco was an injured fifth-rank, Gorsa didn't show much interest.

He was actually more interested in Shaya, who was about to advance to third rank, and Mido, who had become third rank in complete bewilderment.

As for the Sighing Wall, Saul could only control it but couldn't communicate with it.

Floco didn't know about Saul and Gorsa's private conversation, but upon learning that the abyss might erupt within a few years, he began generously sharing the information he knew.

Floco: [The power attribute of sixth rank is destruction. They see clearly the essence of how the world operates and know how to make that essence deteriorate. So when true sixth-ranks destroy worlds, it's not crude demolition but making them collapse from within. Therefore, merely pursuing the upper limits of power cannot lead to sixth rank advancement.]

"Wizards go from pursuing knowledge to pursuing power, then back to pursuing knowledge." Saul sighed, everything had returned to the starting point.

Shaya finally spoke up in the serious discussion atmosphere.

Shaya: [But don't fourth-rank wizards achieve immortality? Why would sixth-rank wizards still die?]

This time Master Gorsa answered him.

Gorsa: [No life can exist eternally. Fourth-rank immortality is only immortality under certain conditions, and resurrection when the foundation is undamaged. When the source of your power collapses, your life will enter its final act. Like Wizard Murphy, and Patriarch Norton. He also only has one or two years left now. Heh, I wonder if he wants to see the day of world's end.]

Death was always a heavy topic.

Floco supplemented.

Floco: [Fifth rank is the same. Even in terms of life level, the difference between fifth and fourth rank isn't that great. We just have broader vision. The knowledge we can pursue is also more abundant and mysterious. But such pursuit is also extremely dangerous, even more dangerous than when wizard apprentices first encounter knowledge. Because in the vast world, what you consider truth can be overturned at any time. Every intelligent being you encounter might want to overturn your knowledge system to verify their own. Each verification means progress in knowledge and also means taking a step closer to sixth rank.]

Hearing this, Saul felt as if a light bulb suddenly lit up in his mind.

"Wait, Floco, do you mean that among fifth-ranks, as long as one overturns another's knowledge system, they can destroy the other?"

Floco: [You could say that. When traveling through different worlds, the operating rules of most worlds are different. Fifth-ranks are those who can persist in their own inherent rules without being destroyed or assimilated by other worlds, thus maintaining self and continuing their journey. But if one's own cognition fails, fifth-ranks will also completely mutated. Their physical bodies might continue existing due to their robustness, but their inner consciousness will go completely mad.]

"It should be like this. When one's worldview is destroyed, the person naturally goes mad too. For wizards, existence without rationality is no different from death."

Saul felt his heartbeat accelerating, though in the Prismatic World, he didn't need a heart at all.

"Then sixth rank is very likely similar to fifth rank. His death came from the collapse of essential cognition, and if he wants to resurrect..."

"Then he must rebuild his understanding of essence!"

(End of Chapter)