After Saul explained Noah’s future tasks to him, he became a hands-off boss.

He handed the little boy over to Agu and other consciousness bodies for learning, while he once again left the wizard tower.

This time when leaving, he brought Herman, who had regained peak speed through soul armament.

Because this time he had new corpse-scavenging ideas.

Through the body stripped from Brando, Saul had completed the trial run of the magic reservoir.

The entire array operated smoothly and could already produce pure magical power, though the efficiency was low and output was small.

To increase output, he needed to input large amounts of magic-rich items into the magic reservoir. Such as magic crystals, magical materials, and even some powerful magical tools.

Saul had these things, but not nearly enough.

And to improve magical power conversion rates, he needed more corpses of first-rank wizards and above.

Previously, corpse-scavenging in the Borderland was very difficult, and recently even fewer people ventured out for adventures.

But Saul discovered that the hunting party Noah had belonged to was an excellent corpse-scavenging target.

First, they operated independently, and second, they went to quite dangerous areas.

Although the wizards in the team would hide outside while sending ordinary people to take risks, who could say clearly what the safe distance from dangerous areas actually was?

Moreover, they were Wind Sprite’s people.

Wind Sprite had sent people to test Saul several times, and later killed Justin who had already confessed to Saul. This made Saul increasingly feel strong danger.

Although the other party had been quiet recently, Saul wouldn’t relax because of this.

So Saul didn’t mind scavenging corpses from Wind Sprite’s subordinate hunting parties.

He didn’t even mind actively creating some himself.

Saul followed the direction the hunting party had left two days ago, deliberately avoiding some hidden mental power markers along the way.

Wind Sprite’s hunting party had tasks to complete and needed to waste ordinary people’s lives for detection, so they definitely couldn’t move very fast.

After chasing for a day, Saul saw the lead wizard Brown outside a rather dangerous abandoned manor not far away.

Saul had also visited this abandoned manor before.

It was said to be where a mutated wizard had died. Later, someone wanted to occupy the manor’s location and cast spells to clear the remaining damaged buildings.

But several months later, when others passed by and came to check, they discovered this place had somehow returned to being the original abandoned manor.

Even the collapsed walls and scratches on the walls were exactly the same.

Since then, this manor had a new name—Old Days Manor.

When Saul entered this manor, he hadn’t encountered any anomalies, but when he tried to destroy the rooms here, he received a death warning from the diary.

So he understood this place temporarily couldn’t be provoked.

However, this manor didn’t seem to object to others entering to visit.

Saul sealed his magical power fluctuations and mental power fluctuations, hiding behind the chaotic bushes around the manor’s perimeter, watching the group inside from afar.

Wizard Brown and four other apprentices stood expressionlessly outside the manor’s main gate.

But from their occasional glances toward the entrance, one could tell several people had been waiting for some time and were somewhat impatient.

At this time, there were still four ordinary people in this team.

And Noah had told Saul that when they set out, the team had a full twenty-four ordinary people.

In just over a month, so many people had already died.

To prevent being discovered by others watching him, Saul observed the wizards’ movements through the bronze pillars in front of the manor buildings and the glass windows on the walls.

Just as he shifted his gaze to the window again, he found there were no longer any human figures reflected in the glass.

Saul’s eyes narrowed. He didn’t act rashly, only confirming again that his mental power and magical power were completely sealed before slowly shifting his sight to the main gate.

But strangely, Brown and the other wizards with four ordinary people still stood at the gate, without even changing their postures.

Saul frowned and carefully shifted his gaze to the window again.

However, there was still no reflection of anyone in the window.

“What exactly went wrong?”

Had the abandoned manor’s windows suddenly lost their reflective ability?

Or was that hunting party… not actually there at all?

Saul hid in place for a while longer.

This time, regardless of exposure, he directly observed the group standing in front of the manor’s main gate.

These people weren’t completely motionless.

They would also shift their weight, scratch their hair, and so on.

But as time passed, Saul discovered that although these people moved, not one of them had moved their feet.

“Indeed, there’s something wrong with these people!”

Saul raised his hand, aiming at Brown.

A silver butterfly the size of a grain of rice suddenly flew from his fingertip.

This butterfly first rested on nearby leaves for a moment, then fluttered toward Brown.

After approaching the group, the butterfly didn’t land on anyone’s shoulder but flew in a circle around them before returning to Saul.

“Brother Saul, you guessed right. Those people, oh no, they’re no longer people. I think your corpse-scavenging plan might have hit a snag.”

Saul extended his index finger to support Penny and stood up from the bushes.

When he revealed his form and exposed his magical power fluctuations, the people standing in front of the abandoned manor didn’t turn to look.

Confirming that all the people before him had problems.

And the problems weren’t small.

He even suspected whether these people were all already dead.

Saul slowly walked over, constantly monitoring the diary’s movements.

When he walked all the way to Wizard Brown’s front, the diary still hadn’t warned him of mortal danger.

So Saul finally discovered the anomaly in Brown and the others.

When Saul looked from a distance, he hadn’t noticed anything wrong with this person.

But when he approached, he found these people looked somewhat strange.

Their resolution was slightly low, not appearing as clear as real objects.

Saul squinted and observed carefully, only to discover these people were actually composed of millions of tiny squares!

When they moved, those squares composing their bodies would appear even more blurred.

Saul kicked up a small stone.

The stone struck Brown, who immediately scattered to the ground with a “clatter.”

“The rules have changed,” Saul thought silently.

Not all rule changes would be as gentle as Rhine Lake’s.

Most of the time, it meant needing to use human lives to pile up again and crack new rules.

The Brown wizard before him was at least a first-rank wizard. Perhaps it was because their testing journey had been too smooth—anyway, only ordinary people died—that they had relaxed their vigilance.

Suddenly, Saul felt a chill surge through his heart.

He suddenly jumped backward, instantly retreating ten meters.

The next moment!

“Bang!”

The Old Days Manor’s main gate suddenly made a huge noise, as if someone inside had heavily crashed into the gate!

The gate was slammed outward with a shock. Only because it was secured with several layers of locks, it merely opened a small crack before bouncing back.

Saul, who had been staring at the gate, saw a black shadow behind the door in that instant.

But the crack the door opened was too narrow, and Saul couldn’t clearly see what was behind the door.

“Brother Saul, very strong resentment is coming from behind the door,” Penny’s voice also became serious.

Saul nodded. The moment the door was slammed open, the diary had opened in his mind.

Lunar Calendar Year 319, May 27th,

Even abandoned manors have days of restored glory,

Terrifying shadows are merely the master’s invitation,

When you approach,

They will enthusiastically pull you in,

Remember to bring your gift,

Such as the fresh life of a first-rank wizard?

(End of Chapter)

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