“You react quickly.”

The voice came from overhead.

Saul immediately looked up and discovered that what had been a sealed ceiling was now opened like a lid.

A massive face that looked sixty or seventy years old, somewhat aged but full of malice, appeared above his head.

“Many people die without ever knowing where they died.”

“But that’s all there is to it. Since you’ve entered my consciousness space, there’s no way I’ll let you leave alive. Suddenly losing the magical power you’ve always relied on feels quite uncomfortable, doesn’t it?”

“Let me help you find relief.”

A massive palm pressed down from above.

The five fingers were menacing, seemingly wanting to crush Saul.

“Your sneak attack magic is quite impressive. Did you use this same magic to kill Langwen back then?”

Saul couldn’t dodge in time and was grabbed by the opponent!

The massive fingers transmitted irresistible force, instantly making Saul groan in pain, as if his entire being was about to explode.

“I… I didn’t… kill any… Langwen. I don’t even… know him…”

Saul spoke intermittently, his face contorted with pain.

“It’s too late to say you haven’t seen him now. When he said he wanted to bring Halima’s love letter to find you, I should have stopped him!”

Halima’s love letter?

Saul finally remembered.

Langwen should be that man with the pearl bracelet who had asked him to cleanse the pollution from the bracelet.

Or rather, the wolf head on that man’s chest.

“I didn’t… kill him…” Saul immediately explained with difficulty. “I refused him… he left…”

“Hmph, do you think I’ll believe that? He usually hides, and the only time he might reveal his true form was when he came to find you. And you’re the only one around here who could have killed him.”

“I really didn’t… aren’t you afraid of killing the wrong person…”

The head above showed a sorrowful expression. “Wrong or right, I’ll kill anyway! I won’t spare any possible enemy!”

“Remember, the one who killed you is the Retribution Knight, Brando!”

After Brando finished speaking, his palm suddenly exerted force.

Though first-rank wizards weren’t exactly weak, their mental power couldn’t compare to second-rank wizards.

Especially a first-rank wizard who had suddenly lost magical support—in Brando’s view, he was barely stronger than an apprentice.

He stared fixedly at Saul, anger and sorrow alternating in his eyes.

That was his only friend, and Langwen had wanted to remove the pollution from the pearl bracelet to help him!

But the other party never returned!

Use force! Use force! More force!

Brando waited to see Saul’s consciousness dissolve into a mass of unconscious slime in his palm and then explode!

However…

Use force! More force!

Brando, who continued exerting force trying to crush Saul’s consciousness, gradually showed confusion.

“Why? You’re still alive?”

Seeing Brando’s doubtful expression, Saul, who had been grimacing in pain, suddenly dropped all expression.

He stared coldly at Brando overhead. “So, is that your entire reason?”

Brando was startled, and his grip on Saul unconsciously loosened slightly.

“I thought you were sent by Wind Sprite or Dreammaker…” Saul muttered. “To think it really is an undeserved calamity!”

“You?” Brando finally realized something was wrong. “You were pretending?”

Saul’s lips curved into a mocking smile. “Just cooperating with your performance. I’ve already seen your consciousness platform—quite crude! Want to see mine?”

As soon as Saul finished speaking, a small circular stone slab appeared beneath his feet.

The stone slab inscribed with complex arrays began rapidly expanding after appearing.

When its edges touched the box confining Saul, it effortlessly burst through it.

As the circular stone platform enlarged, Saul’s body also grew larger, becoming the same size as the giant-like Brando in almost an instant.

The surrounding black curtain was completely torn apart, and rapidly blinking stars like eyes emerged.

Brando felt that in the blink of an eye, Saul, who had been in his grasp with life and death in his hands, had become an equal existence.

His withered palm naturally couldn’t hold the opponent anymore and was even directly shaken open by the powerful impact of the other’s enlargement!

Saul used his own consciousness battlefield to turn the tables, pulling Brando into his home field!

“Your body in the outside world has always been close combat, making people think you excel at hand-to-hand fighting, but who would have thought your real trump card would be consciousness space battles?”

To deploy a materialized consciousness space required a wizard’s spiritual body to be very stable and supported by powerful mental strength.

Brando in the consciousness space was no longer just a head. But his body wasn’t as powerful as the knight outside either.

He looked more like a withered old man.

He had now recovered from his shock, and his gaze toward Saul no longer carried the previous hatred.

“So you were lying to me all along.” His gaze swept around. “For a first-rank wizard to have such powerful mental strength, such a complete consciousness space. It’s not strange that Langwen was killed by you.”

Saul tilted his head. “I’ll say it one last time—I didn’t kill Langwen. Whether you believe it or not doesn’t matter to me, but I’m quite curious: are you really here to kill me for revenge for Langwen?”

Brando’s palms, hanging at his sides, suddenly clenched, and two rapiers appeared in his hands.

“No need for more words. If you think having a powerful consciousness space means you yourself are powerful, then you’re gravely mistaken!”

“My consciousness space isn’t as complete as yours, but that doesn’t mean my spiritual body is weaker than yours! The more powerful and complete a consciousness space is, the more likely it is to harbor dangers. Your blind pursuit of space power is suicidal behavior!”

Brando placed his twin swords before his abdomen, silently crossing them. “I’ll show you what real consciousness combat is.”

“Here, I am the most powerful knight!”

Sensing the opponent’s overwhelming presence, Saul also nodded slightly, becoming serious.

His hands began softening and deforming, gradually splitting into countless semi-transparent gray tentacles.

The tentacles grew larger and longer, soon hanging to the ground in a pile.

The tentacles covering the ground twisted and turned, quickly spreading in all directions, forming a scene that made one’s hair stand on end.

At the same time, another pair of eyes suddenly opened below Saul’s eyes.

Those eyes were deep and cold, as if devoid of any emotion.

When those eyes looked at Brando, there was no difference from looking at the stone slab beneath his feet or the starry sky above.

Brando didn’t move.

Not because he was gentlemanly waiting for Saul to finish transforming.

But because the moment the eyes below Saul’s eyes appeared, he felt indescribable fear.

Even when facing third-rank wizards, he had never felt so helpless.

“Ahhhhhhh!!!”

He suddenly roared, suppressing the fear in his heart, using his waist and abdomen to drive his shoulders and upper arms, throwing the rapiers in his hands toward Saul’s head, one left and one right.

The sword points were aimed directly at those extra eyes!

Saul: “?”

This is what you call real consciousness combat?

Throwing away your weapons right off the bat?

Though he found it somewhat incredible, Saul still treated it cautiously.

After all, anything could happen in consciousness space.

Those thrown rapiers might even suddenly turn into bombs and explode.

Two gray tentacles suddenly shot up, each wrapping around a thin sword.

The sharp, smooth thin swords were corroded the moment they were wrapped by the tentacles, becoming dull.

With a slight exertion from the tentacles, both thin swords turned into black smoke and completely disappeared!

Saul effortlessly blocked this attack.

It was so easy that he was rather puzzled.

“What other tricks are hidden in this move of yours?” Saul vigilantly returned his attention to Brando, then was stunned…

A vertical crack less than two meters long had appeared beside Brando at some point, and Brando was desperately trying to squeeze into the crack.

When he saw Saul looking over, he actually panicked and exerted force, making a “squish” sound as his entire body drilled into the vertical crack!

The next second, the vertical crack snapped shut and completely disappeared!

“This is…” Saul was stunned for a moment, then his expression twisted as he said incredulously: “He ran away?!”

(End of Chapter)

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