Unexpectedly obtaining a second-rank wizard’s body, Saul finally didn’t need to venture out to gather information and rely on luck to scavenge corpses for the time being.

After calming everyone down, they immediately began constructing the final components of the magic reservoir.

Of course, transforming a corpse into a carrier capable of filtering magical power also required various processing methods and time to settle.

During breaks from experiments, Saul simultaneously initiated his second plan.

That was to find an escape route that others would never expect.

This escape route was the Chaos Realm Compass he had obtained from Sander at Blue Water Bay.

Saul had unexpectedly acquired Sander’s ancestral Chaos Realm Compass, and it was even specifically mentioned by the diary, making him immediately realize this item was extraordinary.

Especially the word “realm” suggested that behind this compass there might be a world side, or even an independent small world.

Saul didn’t dare hope for a major world.

Looking at the compass’s construction, it probably couldn’t achieve such high transmission efficiency either.

Subsequently, he took out the crying-laughing face gold coins that had previously caused the Chaos Realm Compass to react.

The crying-laughing face gold coins had the magical power to transfer positions—related to spatial magic.

If the Chaos Realm Compass could truly open a small world, it must be related to spatial magic.

These two items together might very well spark something.

Of course, to prevent the sparks from becoming explosive bombs, Saul didn’t test in the wizard tower. Instead, he took the Chaos Realm Compass and gold coins, crossed Rhine Lake, and came to a small hillside in the distance.

“Agu and the others are all in the wizard tower, but Morden and Penny are still in the diary. Little Algae is also… well, that’s enough. Besides, the diary didn’t give any death warnings either.”

He even suspected the diary was encouraging him to explore the Chaos Realm Compass, otherwise it wouldn’t have prompted him about the compass’s function the moment he obtained it.

“Then, let’s do a simple verification first.”

Saul first took out a crying-laughing face gold coin and lightly tossed it in his hand.

The originally motionless compass needle suddenly trembled.

Saul, whose eyes were fixed intently on the compass, naturally didn’t miss this change.

He activated the gold coin with his mental power and immediately sensed the other gold coin beside his hand. Now, as long as he activated the coin’s power, he could immediately transfer to the other gold coin’s location.

Of course, if he actually performed the transfer now, it would be no different from jumping in place.

Saul continued sensing changes in the compass but found that except for the initial needle tremor, there was no further movement.

Saul tried activating the other gold coin, which again only made the Chaos Realm Compass tremor once.

“Maybe the mechanism is on the compass itself.” Saul picked up the compass and examined it carefully.

This time, it didn’t take long before he discovered the compass’s back could be opened.

After opening the rear shell, there was actually a circular groove inside.

He compared the gold coin to it and found this groove could perfectly hold two gold coins.

A strong sense of déjà vu arose spontaneously.

“This… are the gold coins batteries? Then are there positive and negative poles?”

Saul tried several placement methods and finally discovered that when he placed both gold coins with their crying faces down in the groove, the compass needle suddenly began rotating at a steady speed.

Saul closed the back cover and tentatively extended his mental power into the compass’s interior.

The next second, he and the compass completely disappeared from the spot.

Because he deliberately concealed this and with Ann and other consciousness bodies’ cooperation, the Old Witch didn’t notice the anomaly.

But Camus on the wizard tower’s underground level 1 suddenly turned her head toward the direction where Saul disappeared, showing some confusion on her face.

…

Spatial array transmission could make people dizzy, but the Chaos Realm Compass’s transmission didn’t make Saul feel much discomfort.

However, when Saul regained his footing, his legs still went weak and he collapsed to the ground in a forward-bent posture.

He lowered his head, breathing heavily. Though he didn’t feel suffocated, he was still very uncomfortable.

Although Saul felt like a fish out of water at this moment, he wasn’t actually lacking oxygen.

What made him feel extremely uncomfortable was that there was no magical power in the air here!

Not even a bit!

Saul knelt on the ground, pressing his hands against the gray-black compacted earth. But when he contracted his fingers due to discomfort, the seemingly hard ground was immediately crushed to powder.

After Saul slowly adapted to the environment here, looking beneath him, what had been compacted earth had completely turned into sandy ground.

He pinched this sandy soil with his fingers, and it instantly became even finer powder.

Saul slowly changed from crawling to sitting, breathing heavily as he observed the surrounding scenery.

This place had no magical power, but it wasn’t like the technologically advanced world of his previous life either.

As far as the eye could see, everything was desolate.

The world overall presented a grayish-dark tone, as if entering a black, white, and gray space.

Fine black particles also floated in the air.

Saul raised his hand and waved it in the air a few times. Before long, his hand was covered with quite a bit of black dust.

He gently rubbed with his finger in his palm, and the black powder also became fine dust.

The same texture as the earth here.

“This should be an abandoned world. At least this corner is. I can’t see a single normal plant in this vicinity—mostly just clods and mounds of earth that crumble at the touch.”

Although Saul studied the Chaos Realm Compass to find a hiding place for himself and everyone in the wizard tower, seeing such desolation here was still somewhat disappointing.

He had fantasized about carrying a resource-rich small world with him!

“Never mind, let’s first check the return method and whether positions can be transferred.”

Saul looked down at the Chaos Realm Compass in his hand.

The compass needle was still slowly rotating.

Saul injected mental power again just like when he came.

But the Chaos Realm Compass’s feedback was that it needed cooldown time.

“Spatial traversal cannot be performed continuously. Well, this was within my expectations. I just don’t know how long it takes. If the time is too long… no, if I stay here for a long time, then when I return it will definitely delay the magic reservoir’s progress, and the diary should warn me.

Moreover, judging by the compass’s reaction, the cooldown time shouldn’t be too long.”

Saul considered whether to stay in place waiting for the compass to cool down or venture out to explore this unknown space.

He found that neither plan triggered the diary’s opposition.

“I’ll leave a mental power coordinate and go take a look.” Saul stood up, patting the soil stuck to his body.

Before the sandy soil behind him gradually expanded into a mass of gray mist, he quickly left the spot.

Because looking around, the four directions had only slightly different terrain—everything else was the same black earth and black dust.

Saul randomly chose a direction and walked away from his coordinate for an hour, but the scenery before him still showed no change.

He looked down to reassess the Chaos Realm Compass’s recovery progress.

The results were encouraging. From this hour’s changes, it should only take one to two days to return.

Putting away the compass, Saul continued moving in his chosen direction.

Without active elemental particles in the air, magical power couldn’t be replenished. Even a wizard’s body wasn’t as strong as in the original world.

Saul walked intermittently. After a full day, he hadn’t traveled very far—at least what lay ahead was still barren soil and black mist.

The compass was about to finish cooling down, but Saul hadn’t encountered a single living person or creature in this place.

“After walking for a day without reaching an end, this place doesn’t seem to be the smallest type of world fragment or world side. It should be a complete small world. However, a terrible disaster occurred here, causing the entire world to become this lifeless appearance. Maybe I’m the only living person currently existing in this world.”

However, just as he said this, the sandy soil beneath Saul’s feet suddenly trembled, then a purple-black soft fleshy tendril suddenly emerged from beneath his feet, wrapped around Saul’s right leg, and yanked downward.

Saul immediately became a head shorter as his right leg was buried up to the thigh.

“A monster?” Saul’s eyes lit up. “Finally, something alive!”

(End of Chapter)

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