“Your eyes… are so beautiful…”

Wizard Jonah, who had turned around, seemed not to recognize Saul at all, just staring straight at his eyes.

After a few seconds, he even reached out his hand toward Saul.

Saul raised his hand and knocked away Jonah’s extending fingers.

As a result, he actually knocked off the other’s fingers.

“Uh, Brother Saul, I’m in Wizard Jonah’s dream right now, so you can’t be too fierce to him.” Penny quietly reminded from the side.

“I actually didn’t use force.” Saul rubbed his chin with his other hand. “His body is extremely fragile.”

Jonah across from him saw his fingers fall to the ground. First he looked at his palm in confusion, then at the severed fingers on the ground.

“Ah!”

He suddenly seemed to react, quickly getting down on the ground and feeling around on the floor bit by bit with his hands.

Perhaps the interference from having only one eye affected his distance judgment. Even though the severed fingers were right at his feet, Jonah fumbled several times before finding them, then tremblingly tried several times before pressing the fingers back on.

As if the severed surfaces were coated with glue.

He pressed them on, twisted them a bit, and the fingers returned to his palm, able to move flexibly again.

“Did you see his movements just now!” Herman said loudly as if he had discovered something.

“I saw it.” Penny also said excitedly. “The same movements as when he was groping around in reality!”

Saul finally concluded, “He’s searching for his own body.”

After reattaching his fingers, Jonah acted as if nothing had happened and continued being infatuated with Saul’s eyes.

“Your eyes are so wonderful.”

This time, Saul didn’t refuse Jonah’s approach. Instead, he raised his hand to press on his right eye, and when he lowered it, there was already a round eyeball with a black pupil in his palm.

“Let’s make a trade.”

“I’ll give you this eye, and you tell me what happened at Bayton Academy.”

Jonah immediately nodded excitedly. “Good, good!”

Seeing the other party agree, Saul didn’t waste words and directly threw the eyeball over.

Jonah’s single eye kept staring at Saul’s eyes. He raised both hands high, carefully caught the eyeball, then directly dug a bloody hole in his face and stuffed the eyeball in.

When stuffing it in, the position was wrong with the pupil facing inward, so he used his blood-stained hands to gently adjust the position.

Saul watched speechlessly as the other party stuffed the eye he had given away above his single eye.

He became a strange face with two eyes arranged in a row.

It looked even worse than when he had only one eye!

However, after Jonah installed Saul’s eye on his face, Saul saw a semi-transparent thin line extending from his body to Jonah’s forehead.

But this fate line flickered on and off, seeming ready to disappear at any moment.

“Is that you?” After putting on Saul’s eye, Jonah seemed to become more lucid. He actually recognized Saul in front of him. “You actually dare to come back?”

“What, in your impression, did I leave Caugust because of being chased away?” Saul sneered.

“Brother Saul, we really were chased away from here back then.” Penny mercilessly exposed Saul’s words.

“Shut up, Penny.” Saul communicated with Penny in his mind.

Jonah across from him didn’t know about Saul and Penny’s secret communication, just murmuring, “Fortunately you left so early back then. Did the dean already have problems at that time?”

“What exactly happened?” Saul pressed for answers.

Jonah hesitated for a moment, but finally told Saul truthfully.

“Not long after you left, the dean suddenly went mad.”

“Mad?” Saul raised his eyebrows in confusion but didn’t interrupt Jonah.

“I don’t know what specifically happened. You know, I usually stayed in the laboratory with my apprentices.”

“But one day, the dean suddenly ran out of the office building in terror, holding Miss Beth’s corpse in his arms… Oh, you might not know Miss Beth. She was the next dean designated by the dean.”

“No, I know this person. Please continue.”

“Miss Beth’s body had undergone severe mutation. Her hands and feet had turned into trees. Her hands were long, hard, and rough branches, and her feet were gnarled and dense tree roots. But her body was still a normal person’s body, still looking soft.”

“The dean said someone had ambushed him and Miss Beth had saved him. The dean was disheveled at the time with terror all over his face. I had never seen the dean like that. He said Wizard Shaya had harmed Miss Beth. But Wizard Shaya had been missing for many days. We all suspected he had actually escaped with you.”

“The dean carried Miss Beth’s corpse to the academy’s largest plaza, then had all wizards and apprentices assemble. He said something concerning the life and death of the entire academy had happened. So I had to leave my laboratory and come to the plaza.”

Terror gradually appeared on Jonah’s face.

Most eerily, of his two eyes, the one that belonged to him showed fear, while the black eye from Saul was actually smiling.

Saul somewhat guiltily looked away.

“As a result, when everyone from the academy, including wizards who were out, were called back, the dean suddenly planted the long-dead Miss Beth in the soil in front of everyone. Really planted her—he used magic to create a big pit, then buried all the tree roots under Beth’s feet.”

“Beth stood there with closed eyes, still very beautiful…” Jonah became somewhat lost, but then fear occupied his features again. “Someone asked the dean what he was doing. The dean said he was planting a tree, then he shouted like a madman that after planting trees you need to water them, need to water them…”

Jonah’s whole body shuddered.

“When he said it for the third time, a large number of tree roots suddenly emerged from the plaza’s ground—so many, so sharp. I had never seen such a scene.”

Jonah’s fingers pressed on his face, scratching bloody marks.

“Immediately after, those tree branches pierced through every wizard and apprentice present!”

Hearing this, Saul suddenly leaned forward. “Tree roots? Could it be the Inverted Tree attacking Bayton Academy people?”

The Inverted Tree was an extremely powerful demonic creature cultivated by Bayton Academy. If it suddenly attacked its own people, could it have been polluted by something?

The Inverted Tree was Saul’s target this time. If it had really been polluted, then he would have no way to use it to awaken Little Algae.

Just as Saul’s heart rose with concern, he suddenly thought of another possibility.

“No, it might not be that the Inverted Tree had problems. The first one to have problems was clearly Beth, this future academy successor.”

“What happened after the piercing?” Saul’s voice was cold, forcing Jonah to recall that day’s terrifying scene.

Jonah struggled for a while but soon gave up, saying powerlessly, “The tips of those tree roots that pierced people suddenly produced large amounts of sticky juice. That juice sealed people inside like wax, leaving only their heads exposed. I heard the dean say he needed more cocoons.”

Cocoons…

What relationship did cocoons have with big trees?

“Brother Saul, I think the Bayton dean said cocoons, but it’s more likely some kind of nutrient solution.” Penny immediately speculated. “Wasn’t he very sad about Beth’s death? Could he be trying to sacrifice others to bring Beth back?”

(End of Chapter)

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