Diary of a Dead Wizard

Alfonso was somewhat surprised. He had originally thought Saul had given up on the mermaid treatment plan.

These days, Saul had also been researching new mermaid royal bloodline fusion experiments with Royer. Although no news of successful trials had come through, it was still better than his side having no progress at all.

“I thought you had already given up on treating mermaids,” Alfonso said bluntly.

“How could I? Isn’t this the task I came here for?” Regardless of what he thought inside, Saul was very responsible in his words.

Alfonso glanced at the letter Saul had already begun folding and sealing.

“Are you going to send it to Wizard Gorsa now? He should be at the Sighing Wall at this time, also preparing to deal with black tides.”

The black tide crisis from the Abyssal Eye naturally wouldn’t only target Nephret Continent.

The crisis at the Red Sea Trees would naturally also affect the northernmost Sighing Wall simultaneously.

Even if Gorsa could receive this letter before the black tide, he might not have the energy to study the data Saul provided, let alone reply.

“You should have long-distance communication methods, right? Can you help me send an express delivery?” Saul smiled and directly handed the letter to Alfonso.

Alfonso took the letter without looking at its contents. “I can only guarantee the letter will reach where Gorsa is within three days. But when he’ll see it and when he’ll reply, I can’t guarantee.”

“That’s already very appreciated.” Saul moved closer to Alfonso. “Regarding this magic for transmitting information between different continents, do I have permission to learn about it?”

Saul thought that if he needed to communicate with his five Symphony of Fate targets in the future, he couldn’t rely entirely on telepathic connections. It would be best if they could communicate directly through methods.

However, Alfonso shook his head. “Currently, major wizard factions basically all have long-distance communication methods. But they won’t publicly announce communication methods. Because once communication methods are discovered, it could lead to internal information leakage.”

Saul was somewhat disappointed. “Isn’t there a public information channel? We could completely make information channels public but encrypt the information!”

Alfonso thought for a moment but still shook his head. “Encryption by low-rank wizards is too easily cracked by high-rank wizards.”

Hearing this, Saul wanted to mention physical encryption. But thinking carefully, physical encryption would require something like a codebook. But such things only had value when undiscovered—if found by someone, it would be public information.

In a wizard world where souls and memories could be searched, codebooks really couldn’t be kept secret from high-rank wizards.

Saul thought about it and simply gave up on establishing physically encrypted information channels.

If it wasn’t important information, he could completely have other wizard factions help transmit information. For particularly important information, he’d need to find a way to establish his own information transmission channel in the future.

The most crucial aspect of such a transmission channel was secrecy.

Saul thought about it and planned to visit the Prismatic World again before the black tide arrived.

If he could establish a channel in the Prismatic World…

Though the consumption would be greater, it would definitely be secret!

These thoughts only circulated in Saul’s mind without revealing any external signs.

Seeing Saul remain silent, Alfonso thought he had given up on establishing information channels.

Thinking that Saul still hadn’t given up on treating mermaids, he finally said, “If you need to transmit information in the future, you can use the Tribunal’s shared information channel. I’ll give you information permissions.”

“Thank you very much.”

Having finished discussing the letter, Alfonso remembered he had come to find Saul about the black tide assault in a month.

“Since you haven’t given up on treating mermaids, I plan to conduct the last treatment experiment before the black tide arrives the day after tomorrow. Do you want to participate?”

Saul had always believed Alfonso didn’t truly want to cure the mermaids. Although he had also proposed and practiced many experimental plans, in Saul’s view, they all treated symptoms rather than root causes.

This so-called treatment might not even be that important originally.

Atavistic mermaids had lost their high resistance to black tides, and their pollution mutations from black tides would significantly infect other mermaids.

So the fastest treatment plan now would be to first isolate all atavistic mermaids. If there were no treatment methods, just kill them directly—most simple.

Alfonso focused his main attention on how to prevent atavistic mermaids from being polluted, or how to make their pollution symptoms non-contagious.

The experiments Saul could participate in on his side were only single mermaid treatments. Whether Saul wanted to research atavistic mermaids or mermaid royal bloodlines, Alfonso intentionally or unintentionally prevented or delayed him.

In short, the other party didn’t want Saul to truly research in depth.

Most importantly, when Saul observed the source of pollution on Coral, the mermaid with rose-red hair, he discovered an interesting phenomenon.

He found that the body parts where pollution appeared on Coral were actually exactly the same places each time.

As if pollution wasn’t spreading from the sea to the mermaid’s body, but rather some part of the mermaid’s body had developed a pollution source!

Just considering Coral’s life, Saul’s experiments were limited. Such repetition might be accidental due to insufficient sample size.

But Saul was very sensitive to black tide pollution, so even just one instance of pollution appearing in the same location was enough for him to note carefully.

After discovering this point, Saul wasn’t as active in treating mermaids anymore.

Since Saul began researching bloodline fusion experiments with Royer, Alfonso had also received orders to suspend mermaid treatment research.

But why bring it up again today?

Could there be other unavoidable reasons?

“Sure!” Saul readily agreed.

As long as circumstances allowed, he wouldn’t miss any experiments related to mermaids and Red Sea Trees.

Time flew by and it was the third day.

Saul followed Alfonso to the clear water deep pool beside the Red Sea.

This time when Alfonso came over, he actually brought along mermaid princess Pearl, who had never left the palace.

Pearl lay on Alfonso’s shoulder. Seemingly leaving water for such a long time for the first time, she looked somewhat wilted, but her pair of pearl-white pupils still curiously examined the surroundings, like a child leaving home for the first time.

Beside the clear water pool, two people were already standing.

Royer and third-rank wizard Stuart from Black Flame Empire.

Seeing Stuart, Alfonso was somewhat surprised and also a bit displeased.

After all, he hadn’t invited Stuart to this experiment.

“Hi!” Royer first raised his hand to greet them both.

But due to the new bloodline fusion experiments continuously going poorly, his smile was no longer as brilliant and cheerful as before.

Alfonso pursed his lips. Given Stuart’s status, he ultimately didn’t directly tell him to leave.

He placed Pearl by the water pool but used magic to set up a restraint, allowing Pearl to enter the water but not leave more than three meters from the restraint.

Then Alfonso directly pulled Royer aside and began communicating using secret speech magic.

Saul was here with the mindset of watching drama and stealing intelligence anyway, so he didn’t care about other people being present. Instead, he actively approached Stuart to greet him.

“Wizard Stuart, will you wait here until the black tide arrives to participate in battle?”

(End of Chapter)