Chapter 937: Something That Shouldn't Exist
He acted extremely quickly—from attacking to eliminating the black tide monster took only a few short seconds. It wasn’t until he entered the wizard tower that the massive black tide submerged the First Wizard Tower.
Saul raised his hand to put the Mermaid’s Tear in his mouth while releasing the Nightmare Butterfly from his diary.
He watched the black tide about to engulf the Second Wizard Tower, mentally reciting the key points Gorsa had taught.
“First, kick the monster out of the black tide.”
He suddenly raised his hand. All his muscles instantly disappeared, turning him back into a black skeleton wearing a black cloak.
This skeleton was equally agile, charging out like a cannonball. Like his instructor, he rushed into the towering waves about to crash down head-on, directly knocking a black tide monster hiding within out from behind the waves.
Then the black tide covered the wizard tower.
But the tall, slender wizard tower still stood firm in the huge waves, just as it had for the hundreds of years it had endured.
At the same time, a real cannonball fired from the wizard tower’s gun turret.
The iron-gray shelled cannonball relied entirely on physical force to charge out, moving forward unstoppably through the thick moisture, dodging the twisted monster limbs and directly hitting the chest of the monster below Saul.The cannonball immediately exploded, scattering shell fragments.
This was a hollow shell hiding Keli’s real weapon inside—a Black Tide Inertization scroll.
This scroll was activated under the explosive force’s guidance. After hitting the monster’s chest, it immediately spread out hundreds of steel needles that pierced the monster’s surface. The monster’s chest visibly accelerated its decay, with gray bones fading like bleached color to light gray, then to white.
Positioned at the monster’s head, Saul took advantage of the creature being stunned by Keli’s Inertization scroll hit. He immediately transformed his right hand into a massive tentacle one meter in diameter, coiling around the black tide monster’s head like a python, directly sealing its eyes and ears.
Black tide warfare was a prolonged battle with almost no rest time, so Saul didn’t transform his entire body into tentacles—only converting one arm.
The dense suckers on the tentacle opened their mouths, biting down on the monster’s head, then began sucking the black tide pollution from within the monster.
This was different from treating others—extremely fast, with no consideration for tolerance. Soon the huge monster’s head was sucked flat, like a deflated balloon.
After removing the head, Saul flipped downward. Countless black broken blades appeared behind him like a shockwave, smashing the monster’s chest that Keli had just inertized.
His first black tide monster opponent was eliminated just like that.
However, it was merely one of the monsters hidden in the first wave.
Gorsa had intercepted the largest one, Saul had selected another of similar size, but dozens of monsters were still being carried by the black tide toward the far north. Most of them would also be intercepted by other wizard towers standing in Storm Sea.
Third-rank wizards were in good condition, but second-rank wizards needed to coordinate with wizard tower defenses to fight the massive black tide monsters.
Maria, as a patrol wizard, moved between various wizard towers. Whenever she saw someone in danger, she would go help.
During such battles, the second wave also appeared before them.
This time, Gorsa didn’t appear again.
Saul transformed two more tentacles. The moment the second black tide swept over the Second Wizard Tower, his three tentacles each coiled around three monsters, intercepting them from the waves. Then he repeated his tactics, cooperating seamlessly with Keli to eliminate the three rotting black tide monsters one by one.
Haili, hiding inside the wizard tower and controlling it, watched Saul’s battle through the observation port, stunned with amazement. Although he was only a third-level wizard apprentice, he had witnessed many high-rank wizard battles. No one could so easily eliminate three monsters in the black tide.
Not even Gorsa from back then!
He suddenly realized that this Saul, who had become a third-rank wizard in the Borderland, was completely different from the kind of third-rank wizards he thought were raised by the Tribunal and Stargate Council.
He was not only skilled in combat but also extremely good at… dealing with black tide monsters!
Such a person was practically born for the Sighing Wall!
Haili gripped the crystal pillar tightly, thinking that once the battle ended, he must suggest to Wizard Murphy to keep Saul directly.
As for the Borderland—at worst they could send two more third-rank wizards there. With Saul’s strength, one for two would definitely be no problem!
Haili’s experience was still insufficient. He didn’t know that at the Tribunal, Saul had single-handedly blocked hundreds of wizards, including several third-rank wizards!
The Tribunal had completely suppressed this matter for stability and reputation. Saul and the Glare patriarch hadn’t spoken of it publicly either. They still needed Wizard Elo to help them imprison Frim and maintain the stability of Nephret’s coastline, so they naturally had to consider some of the Tribunal’s interests.
Each black tide battle generally lasted three to five days, occasionally exceeding seven days. Battles lasting over seven days brought greater losses, with casualties mostly occurring at such times.
After the first few waves passed, Saul alone had eliminated thirteen black tide monsters.
Afterward, the black tide slowed slightly. Haili informed Saul that the next large-scale black tide would arrive in about half an hour.
Saul and Keli quickly took this opportunity to rest briefly, replenish magical power, and calm their spiritual bodies that had been constantly agitated during battle.
Haili originally wanted to take the opportunity to chat with Saul, but Saul only sent in a gray sphere for Keli to carefully guard, with no intention of entering the wizard tower to rest.
This left Haili, who had just been shocked by Saul and was eager to talk with him, somewhat disappointed.
Thirty minutes passed quickly, and hundred-meter-high black tide waves appeared again.
Saul stood up from the wizard tower top, stretching his limbs. This time, he prepared ten tentacles for the monsters in the black tide.
Others came to Storm Sea wizard towers to prevent monsters from approaching the Sighing Wall, but he wasn’t here for that.
According to Master Gorsa’s words, he was here to experience life.
Since it was experiencing life, naturally he had to challenge limits.
The current him couldn’t even enter the Abyssal Eye, so naturally he had to properly train his ability to resist the black tide.
These corrupted black tide monsters before him were just the beginning. He wanted to learn from Keli, gradually breaking through his own limits of pollution tolerance and developing calluses on his spiritual body!
He believed that someday, he could arm-wrestle with anchor points.
The black tide had already approached the First Wizard Tower and would soon reach Saul.
But just then, a massive monster so rotten that barely any flesh hung on its body suddenly actively walked out of the black tide. It headed straight for the First Wizard Tower, as if it had suddenly identified its target.
Master Gorsa didn’t appear, seemingly not caring about the enemy at all.
The black tide monster lowered its head and charged at the First Wizard Tower like a mad bull. However, the wizard tower bent like tough grass without breaking. When the monster’s impact weakened, it suddenly rebounded, directly shooting the tall rotting monster back into the sea.
The monster seemed enraged. Opening its mouth that was nothing but bones, it suddenly roared.
Saul didn’t hear any sound, but he saw a mass of black smoke spew from the monster’s mouth.
Just as the black mist was about to envelop the wizard tower, a smaller white object drilled out from the black mist like a hummingbird, hitting the First Wizard Tower at extremely high speed.
Unlike the rotting monster that was bounced back, it actually penetrated directly through the wizard tower, emerging from the wall on the other side!
Saul’s ten tentacles suddenly spread open, surrounding his body in an instinctive self-protective response, because he had seen something that absolutely shouldn’t appear here!
A living anchor point!
(End of Chapter)