The hunting party just left Noah’s corpse in place, not even bothering to bury it.

Just like they had treated others who died in previous exploration tests.

Anyway, there were many dangerous creatures in the Borderland that would naturally help them clean up these burdens.

However, after they left, Saul slowly emerged from the mushroom forest and came to Noah’s side.

“Is he dead?”

“Hehe, Brother Saul, watching him leave, weren’t you just wanting me to keep him? Brother Saul is really soft-hearted sometimes.”

Morden: But even if Master helps treat this child, he probably won’t live past a year. His spiritual body has been completely activated, yet he has no ability to resist magical radiation.

Saul nodded. “I know, but it’s not entirely hopeless. For instance, if he could stay in a place without magical power, he wouldn’t need to worry about magical radiation.”

Penny immediately understood what Saul was talking about.

“Huh? Brother Saul, you mean the Chaos Realm? But that place isn’t safe either, right? Won’t this little guy get eaten as soon as he goes there?”

“It’s possible. So I’ll let him choose for himself. If he doesn’t want to go, he can stay at the Purity Wizard Tower and grow mushrooms with Marsh. If he wants to go, I’ll have Ann train him first.”

Saul directed Little Algae to wrap the boy up tightly. “Let’s take him back first, then… go set up the spatial transmission array.”

Saul squinted toward the direction the others had left, indeed sensing hidden mental power residue in the distance. The other party was obviously still spying on what was happening here.

But the distance was far, so the other party couldn’t hear Saul’s conversation with the others.

“Wind Sprite making such a big fuss testing dangerous areas—there must be some anomaly in the Borderland. Unfortunately, I haven’t been in the Borderland long and don’t have stable information sources. But Jiajia Gu should be coming soon, maybe he can gather some news.”

Jiajia Gu, who Saul was thinking about, indeed visited Rhine Lake again two days later.

But what Saul hadn’t expected was that he brought someone else this time.

This person was the wizard who had clashed with Saul twice—Brando!

Marsh, who had originally been smiling to welcome Jiajia Gu, immediately changed expression, jumped back a big step, then pointed at Brando and said, “Enemy attack!”

The mushrooms beside Jiajia Gu and Brando immediately gathered around, seemingly wanting to repeat their old trick and trap both of them inside.

Jiajia Gu hurriedly raised both hands high. “Wait, wait, please let me explain.”

Although neither of them feared Marsh, and Brando had even prepared methods to deal with the mushroom forest for this visit.

But they didn’t want to start a conflict.

Marsh didn’t care at all and just kept running toward the ice layer, using Rhine Lake’s unique magic-forbidden space to prevent being killed by those behind him.

At the same time, the giant mushroom forest shot large amounts of white spores into the sky like fireworks, immediately drawing the attention of people inside the wizard tower.

When Saul was called over by the warning and rushed to Rhine Lake with the old witch, he found Jiajia Gu and Brando had already been surrounded by giant mushrooms.

However, they hadn’t fought back, only using defensive magic to avoid being squeezed by the mushrooms.

This time, Brando didn’t flee when he saw Saul either.

But looking at his eyes, he was still very tense.

Although he had successfully escaped from Saul’s consciousness space last time, it didn’t mean he didn’t understand how terrifying Saul’s consciousness space was.

That was his life-saving method, yet who knew it would inexplicably be used on a first-rank junior wizard.

Jiajia Gu saw Saul, put down the huge pack behind him, and jumped while waving at him.

“Wizard Saul, Wizard Saul, we’re here to make peace, please give me a chance!”

Saul raised his hand and waved.

Marsh was still glaring angrily at Brando, who had once cut down a patch of mushroom forest.

“Ahem!” Saul coughed lightly twice.

Only then did Marsh realize Saul was calling him, and he hurriedly communicated with the mushroom forest to make them open a gap.

Saul walked in along the path the mushroom forest had opened.

Now, Brando was already within his mental power coverage range.

He said coldly to Jiajia Gu, “Jiajia Gu, he’s not your friend too, is he?”

“Not really.” Jiajia Gu hurriedly explained. “But both of you are my important customers, and I don’t want you to truly become enemies. Moreover, Wizard Brando is also sincerely here to apologize and discuss cooperation. I hope Lord Saul can give him some time.”

Saul didn’t care about that apology.

Anyway, when people died, grudges would naturally be settled.

But the phrase “discuss cooperation” made him somewhat curious.

The Brando before him had changed from full heavy armor to chain mail. His gear was much lighter, and his body seemed to have been replaced too.

Brando’s previous corpse was still serving as a filtering carrier in Saul’s magic reservoir.

This kind of magic that only preserved the head while randomly changing bodies did arouse some curiosity in Saul.

Wasn’t this form also achieving a kind of immortality in a different way?

Saul pondered for a moment, looking at the serious-faced Brando. “No need for apologies. How do you want to cooperate?”

Brando directly said, “I want to enter once more.”

Brando didn’t specify, but Saul knew he was referring to the consciousness space.

Saul tilted his head to look at him. “Fine.”

The other party was first stunned, then immediately added, “The kind where I can come out alive.”

This time Saul didn’t respond to him.

Brando also knew that his request was actually coveting a wizard’s trump card. Normal people wouldn’t easily agree to it.

But Brando had now entered a bottleneck period himself, and Saul’s consciousness space was simply an excellent opportunity for him to break through the bottleneck.

Therefore, after his last negotiation failed, he still couldn’t help but find the merchant Jiajia Gu, who had previously introduced Langwen, asking him to mediate between them.

Jiajia Gu originally didn’t want to come, but he had no choice—both Brando and Saul were his big customers. If the two sides clashed and either one died, he would be heartbroken for ages.

So Jiajia Gu bit the bullet and came to mediate between the two.

It’s just that he wasn’t clear about the specific grudges between Saul and Jiajia Gu, so listening to their conversation left him completely confused, and he didn’t dare interrupt to ask.

Fortunately, Brando had come with sincerity this time. Seeing that Saul didn’t plan to agree to his request, he immediately showed Saul all the conditions he could offer.

“These are all the magic crystals and magical tools I can produce, plus two resource locations I control, and several magical creatures I’ve raised. If none of these interest you, then whatever you need, just name your conditions!”

Saul actually did glance at the items Brando had brought. Some were very rare items, but they weren’t what Saul urgently needed at the moment.

And trading some items he couldn’t use for the secrets of Saul’s consciousness platform… even an idiot wouldn’t do that.

The Old Witch did take a fancy to some things, but unfortunately she was very poor now and couldn’t produce what Brando wanted.

Her research into spiritual bodies wasn’t deep either, so naturally she had no way to help Brando break through to second rank.

The three people’s needs didn’t form a closed loop. Saul, for Jiajia Gu’s sake, didn’t immediately attack Brando.

But if Brando came alone next time, Saul would at least keep another of his bodies.

Seeing Saul had no interest and refused the exchange, Brando stepped forward wanting to try again, but saw several black blades had already appeared beside Saul.

Brando could only disappointedly shut his mouth tight.

Although Brando knew Saul was only a first-rank wizard, once the two sides went to war, Brando wasn’t sure whether he would be sucked into the other party’s consciousness space again.

If he went in this time, he might not be able to come out.

(End of Chapter)

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