Saul and the Old Witch arrived at the wizard tower exterior with great momentum. At the Rhine Lake shore, they saw the pseudo-melee wizard Brando, who had previously relied on his mount to charge straight into Rhine Lake, now carefully wandering in the mushroom forest.

Every time he passed a mushroom tree, large amounts of spores would fly into the air as warnings.

Clearly, the mushrooms here were still traumatized by this knight wizard who had previously rampaged through and destroyed many mushrooms.

Finally seeing Saul, Brando immediately commanded the Gallows Beast forward, but stopped after seeing Saul and the Old Witch’s expressions.

“Please wait!” Brando shouted loudly across half the lakeshore. “I’ve already discovered Langwen’s corpse in a nearby valley and know you didn’t do it. So I came today mainly to apologize to you.”

“Apologize?” Saul didn’t stop walking, his cloak fluttering behind him. “If my strength had been insufficient, I would have already died at your hands last time. Were you planning to apologize to my corpse, or to the mushroom forest you destroyed?”

Though the Old Witch was a head shorter than Saul, her speed wasn’t slow either. She cackled maliciously and shouted, “I don’t need your apology—just let me kill you!”

Brando’s expression under his helmet changed slightly, feeling somewhat troubled.

The Saul and Old Witch across from him actually began running simultaneously.

Brando’s face changed, knowing these two had no intention of listening to him speak right now, so he could only turn to leave.

But as soon as he turned around, he discovered that the originally sparse mushroom forest had suddenly become dense.

As if they had grown legs, blocking his path.

At the same time, several black tentacles emerged from underground. They didn’t confront Brando head-on but focused on endless entanglement, maximally reducing his escape speed.

To leave quickly, Brando couldn’t care about offending Saul again and raised his spear to strike.

But he hadn’t expected that this time, the mushroom forest blocking him… couldn’t be pierced?!

The mushroom body struck by the sharp spear tip caved in extremely softly, but when the spear tip was pulled out, Brando discovered there wasn’t a single wound on it.

It was like punching a sponge.

In the distance, Marsh, hiding behind several mushrooms, chuckled maliciously. “Hehe, for cutting my mushrooms, this is specially customized for you!”

Brando’s eyes darted around, constantly searching for weaknesses in the mushroom forest.

He possessed this violent body powerful enough to directly resist second-rank attacks, paying the price of being unable to cast other magic.

However, Brando wasn’t unprepared. He pulled out two black iron tubes from his chest, aimed them at the giant mushroom in front of him, and fired violently.

Tremendous noise accompanied by firelight and black smoke—the mushroom in front of Brando was easily blasted with a large hole. Moreover, sparks were spreading around the hole’s edge.

This large hole almost penetrated the entire mushroom forest, causing the frantically running Old Witch to brake sharply.

“Is that gunpowder? No, judging by appearance, it should be gunpowder combined with magic.” Saul didn’t reduce his speed, but Little Algae had already emerged behind him, ready to help Saul dodge quickly at any moment.

Saul and the others were surprised by the weapon Brando produced, while Brando was also surprised by the mushrooms’ resistance.

“This fire thorn cannon originally had an ignition effect, but these mushrooms have too much moisture. Except for the pierced areas, other parts only turned slightly yellow and couldn’t be ignited!”

Without turning around, Brando could already hear the sound of Saul stepping on the ice layer.

From this series of arrangements, he had already sensed Saul’s determination to capture him.

If he was pulled into the consciousness platform again this time, he probably wouldn’t get out so easily.

The mushroom forest ahead was already beginning rapid recovery, even willing to overdraw its life force to delay him for a few more seconds.

Brando knew well that even if he broke through the mushroom forest’s encirclement at maximum speed, he absolutely couldn’t maintain a safe distance from Saul before Saul ran out of Rhine Lake.

And judging from his previous encounter with Saul, this Saul’s spiritual body was quite powerful, likely not weaker than his own.

Then his mental power’s range of influence would definitely be very wide.

Thinking of this, Brando made up his mind. He suddenly reached back and yanked his own head off his neck.

The flesh at the neck that had just grown solid tore apart again.

It still hurts.

But Brando couldn’t care about that now. He leaned back with his upper body and arms, then forcefully threw upward, actually hurling his own head out over the mushroom forest.

This body with tremendous strength almost instantly threw his head to the distance, nearly beyond everyone’s line of sight.

And that wasn’t all—an eagle with a human face suddenly descended from the sky, grabbed Brando’s head, and immediately flew toward the sun.

Saul had finally left Rhine Lake but could only watch Brando’s head disappear in shock.

The fully armored body left on the ground crashed down after the head moved beyond a certain distance.

Only then did the Old Witch catch up.

She stood on her tiptoes, waving her fists at the sky. “Running before even fighting—are you even a wizard!”

Saul shook his head. He had been so close just now.

Maybe he really should capture a flying magical creature as transportation.

Though one couldn’t rely on magic to fly over Rhine Lake, creatures using their own bodily characteristics to fly were still fine.

“Perhaps I could make a glider myself? As long as I take off from the wizard tower, even if I lose magical power over the lake surface, I could easily cross Rhine Lake.”

Saul looked back at the huge circular platform atop the wizard tower. “Though the area is a bit small and the distance a bit short, I can use magic to solve that.”

“He got away again. I’m afraid he won’t come back next time.” The Old Witch was very disappointed.

“We prepared traps to prevent his escape, but he also came prepared. Throwing his head and the human-faced eagle in the sky obviously weren’t spur-of-the-moment decisions.”

Actually, Saul had been just a hair’s breadth from catching Brando.

If the opponent hadn’t abandoned his body so decisively, Saul definitely had confidence to forcibly pull him into the consciousness platform before he escaped his spiritual body’s control range.

As long as he trapped Brando’s consciousness for half a minute, the Old Witch could take the opportunity to directly kill Brando’s head.

“Sigh, I bragged too much.” Saul touched his cheek, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

He glanced at the Old Witch still cursing at the sky and thought, “Indeed, most wizards in the Borderland still have brains. They’re not so easy to deal with.”

Although he still hadn’t managed to catch Brando this time, Saul had inadvertently obtained exactly what he urgently needed.

He stepped forward to pick up Brando’s body, carefully examining it to confirm this was indeed a second-rank wizard’s body, then was overjoyed.

Though missing the head, it didn’t affect its function as a filtering carrier for the magic reservoir.

Such a filtering carrier was much stronger than multiple first-rank wizard corpses.

“If he could leave behind such a body every time he comes, I wouldn’t mind letting him leave next time either.”

Saul carried Brando’s body, looking toward where he had departed.

Now Saul no longer considered Brando an enemy.

With proper planning, this could be an inexhaustible source of leeks!

The priceless kind!

(End of Chapter)

韭菜 = Leeks (slang for someone who can be repeatedly exploited)

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