“The Inverted Tree, Beth, and the ambush by Shaya he mentioned. I remember when I left, Shaya was already controlled by the Inverted Tree, but he seemed to still have his own consciousness. Could it be that his consciousness influenced the Inverted Tree?”

This Wizard Shaya was really extraordinary. Although he had severe paranoid delusions, his strength was truly unfathomable.

An Inverted Tree and a second-rank wizard had actually been harmed by him to the point of losing control.

Of course, whether things were really as Jonah described was still uncertain.

It wasn’t that Jonah would lie, but everything he knew might also be inaccurate.

But now they at least knew that the Inverted Tree’s condition had problems, and Bayton Academy was obviously plotting something using extreme methods.

“People pierced by tree roots were all sealed in wax-like resin. What happened after that? Why did the entire city become ruins? Why do the people in the outer city still live as before? Do they know what happened in the inner city?”

Jonah smiled bitterly. “I don’t know the rest. I, I’m looking for…”

He suddenly became somewhat confused, seeming unable to understand where he was now or what he was doing.

Saul understood that if Jonah realized his real body had become a broken shell, he would probably immediately realize this was a dream.

Saul immediately asked, “Since you saw what happened to those people, do you know what the dean planned to do next? I heard you say the dean complained there weren’t enough cocoons. Did he kill all the remaining people in the inner city? Where are Beth, the dean, and those people who became cocoons now?”

Saul’s string of questions made Jonah somewhat dazed. He stared blankly at Saul.

Just when Saul thought his brain was overloaded, Jonah suddenly grabbed Saul’s arm with such force he almost broke it.

“You won’t find them. They’re no longer in this world.”

Saul let Jonah grip his arm tightly, like a drowning person clutching the only lifeline.

“Then… where are they?” Saul asked softly.

“They’re in… where you can’t find… hehehe…” Jonah suddenly laughed eerily. “I remember now. At the last moment when the big tree disappeared, I sacrificed my limbs and some organs, successfully escaping from the wax. I remember now.”

He slowly released Saul’s arm, his face showing an expression between crying and laughing. “But I still lost the most important thing. I must find it back.”

The scene around Saul began to gradually blur, as if someone was adjusting the pixels of the world in his eyes.

The blocky feeling became heavier and heavier.

The world also became more and more fake.

The dream began to collapse.

The building blocks that composed the dream were collapsing and spilling.

Along with the room, Jonah’s complete and healthy outer skin was also peeling away.

When flesh-colored and black block particles fell from Jonah’s body, what was revealed inside wasn’t the incomplete human body Saul had seen in the outside world.

But a human figure composed of ash.

“We should go, Brother Saul.” Penny’s voice also became serious. “We must leave here before the dream awakens, or the exit will become a maze like tangled yarn.”

Although Saul still had some questions without answers, he could only nod.

In the dream world, third-rank wizards couldn’t borrow external magical power.

Because here there was only mental power, no magical power.

Two silver wings suddenly emerged from behind Saul.

With a mighty flap of the wings, the entire world began to rapidly retreat.

The ash figure in front quickly moved away.

The world gradually darkened, then became bright in an instant.

But this brightness also carried gloom.

Saul opened his eyes and saw Wizard Jonah in front of him curled up on the ground like a baby.

His head was pillowed on his fingerless arm to the right, his thigh with missing calf curled inward as much as possible.

Huddled in a ball.

His face still had no features.

What Saul had given him was only eyes in the dream.

But on this face with nothing, Saul saw a trace of peace.

He was dead.

The moment he realized it.

Saul slowly walked forward and gently patted Jonah’s back.

This man, who had struggled for who knows how long in Caugust’s inner city, collapsed like the ash of a mosquito coil, crumbling at the slightest touch.

He turned into familiar gray powder, adding another cloud of dust to this messy room.

“Oh dear,” Penny had no sentimental emotions toward others. She just calmly narrated, “It seems he didn’t really survive that massacre.”

Saul stood still for a while, causing Penny and Herman to not dare speak later.

They didn’t know what Saul was thinking.

After another while, when the entire inner city became even more dim, Saul finally moved.

He left this house, returned to the room across, raised his hand and waved, sweeping the dust in the room to the corners.

Although the entire room wasn’t completely renewed, at least it wouldn’t be covered in dust.

Saul walked to the dining table in the hall of this house, pulled out a chair and sat down.

A huge quill pen appeared on the table in front of him, along with several unused parchments.

Saul picked up the exaggeratedly large quill pen, shook it lightly, then began writing on the parchment.

“Keli, I need you to help me do several things outside…”

…

The package on Keli suddenly vibrated. She looked down and pulled out a parchment with exquisite lace trim from a delicate small leather bag, spreading it on her thigh.

“Hmph, doesn’t take me inside but makes me do so many things.”

She complained verbally but had a smile on her face.

Although she and Saul had always been friends, she couldn’t involve herself in any of Saul’s affairs.

He progressed too quickly. She could only watch from behind, and any bit of help Saul provided benefited her greatly.

This made Keli, who considered herself a genius, feel anxious inside.

This was also why after awakening under the collapsed wizard tower, she hadn’t followed Senior Byron to find Saul.

With her strength, going would only be a burden.

So when Grand Duke Kira came to invite her to the royal capital and promised to help her advance to true wizard as soon as possible, Keli agreed without hesitation.

It wasn’t entirely for her family.

Being able to help Saul today finally gave her some comfort.

She jumped down from the tree, and only then did Ann and Agu come over.

They had already left the original town and were hiding in the forest outside.

“Is it a message from Master?” Ann was very curious, her eyes involuntarily glancing at the parchment in Keli’s hand.

Agu beside her was very honest, not peeking at all, just looking at the huge quill pen in Keli’s hand.

“A communication pen?”

Keli giggled. “Yes, after Gorsa’s wizard tower collapsed, both Saul and I took one. This pen can’t be used over too great a distance, but Saul has strong mental power and modified it, so it can barely be used at this distance.”

Ann wasn’t interested in the communication pen. She anxiously asked, “Does Master have something for us to do?”

Keli’s smile faded. “He wants us to help set up several magical formations outside. This formation is strange—I’ve never seen it before.”

Keli spread out the parchment for the two consciousness bodies to see.

With permission, both Ann and Agu came closer.

On the yellowed, soft parchment, below several lines of text, five complex miniature formations were drawn.

These formations had intersecting lines between them.

They clearly formed a pentagram.

(End of Chapter)

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