Wizard Earl

The condition of the body was as described, and judging from Connor's observation of Philo's dissipation of his soul, there was nothing particularly unusual about it, consistent with the characteristics of a normal death.

Besides the physical and spiritual conditions, there is another very important point: Philo's spatial ring is still securely worn on his right index finger, without any sign of being removed.

Considering all the circumstances surrounding Firo, under normal circumstances, it could be concluded that Firo's death was due to a mishap during his training. However, Connor doesn't agree with this, although he currently cannot find evidence from Firo to prove his point...

Based on the current circumstances of Philo's death, Connor can only obtain this much information. If Connor wants to know more specific details about Philo's death, he may need to use a soul-capturing technique on Philo and search for answers from Philo's memories.

After staring at Philo's corpse for a while, a look of helplessness flashed in Connor's eyes. Then, he flicked his wrist, and a black light flashed on the Castilian Staff. Instantly, the Castilian Protective Barrier protected Connor.

Logically, given the current bizarre situation, the best course of action for Connor, who is still unsure of what is happening, would be to leave as soon as possible, open the secret passage, and return to the surface, rather than stay here with Philo's corpse.

Although Connor was puzzled about how Philo died, he wasn't willing to take the risk for her. Unfortunately, Philo had something Connor wanted!

Previously, in front of Margaret, Connor had confidently promised her that he would obtain the Blood Moon Codex from Philo to relieve Margaret of the danger of practicing blood witchcraft.

Although Connor is not a good person, he values ​​his reputation. Once he has promised something, he will do his best to fulfill it within his capabilities and not break his promise.

Connor makes promises like this even for ordinary ones, let alone promises made to Margaret, his close confidante who has helped him so much and with whom he has a deep friendship.

Philo's soul is in a very bad state. If Connor doesn't take action now, even if it's just a minute or two later, or even a few tens of seconds later, Philo's soul could completely dissipate. At that point, even if Connor is incredibly powerful, he won't be able to get any information from Philo's mind.

So even though Connor would face considerable unknown risks if he were to use Soul Reaper on Philo in this secret passage, he was willing to do so in order to fulfill his promise to Margaret!

Protected by the Castia protective barrier, Connor sat cross-legged before Firo's corpse, took a deep breath, concentrated his mental energy, and placed his right hand on Firo's head. The next second, strands of black light, like a spider web, appeared on Connor's right hand and surrounded Firo's head.

Although Philo was already dead, as long as his soul had not completely dissipated, the defense of his divine sea would continue and would not weaken. However, despite this, Connor faced some resistance, but under the powerful force of the Soul-Seizing Technique, Connor quickly broke through Philo's divine sea defense and faced Philo's soul directly.

Although the soul was found, Connor discovered a new problem that gave him a huge headache: Philo was really ruthless to himself. He had actually placed a very hidden restriction on his own soul to ensure that it could not be searched.

Although Philo is now dead, like the defense of the Divine Sea, as long as his soul has not completely dissipated, this damned restriction will continue to exist. If Connor wants to obtain Philo's memories of the Blood Moon Codex from his soul, he must break this restriction. There is no shortcut.

Furthermore, because Philo is dead and his soul has begun to dissipate, Connor must break the seal quickly. Otherwise, even if he manages to break the seal with tremendous effort, if too much of Philo's soul has dissipated, Connor won't be able to obtain what he wants from Philo's soul...

Despite finding the situation he was facing extremely difficult, Connor had no other choice but to grit his teeth and push forward for Margaret's sake. He took the silver pendant out of his spatial ring, held it in his hand, and then, with the amplification of the silver pendant, concentrated all his mental energy into Philo's head, preparing to break through the barrier.

Just as Connor, protected by the Castilian barrier, focused on searching Firo's soul, unbeknownst to him, in a dark, damp corner of the secret passage, a pair of cold eyes were silently watching him. These eyes held no human emotion, no change whatsoever, only a deathly stillness…

After nearly a minute of arduous effort, Connor finally broke through the barrier. Only then did Connor relax, wiping the fine beads of sweat from his forehead. For both mental wizards and wizards who cultivate other energies, the task of concentrating all their mental power to break through the barrier in the soul is extremely taxing and torturous.

Don't be fooled by the fact that it was only a minute, but Connor was already soaked to the bone, looking like he had been pulled out of the water. This was only because Connor was a mental wizard with a strong will. Any other level one wizard would not have been able to last even half a minute, let alone a minute.

Because he needed to race against time to stop Philo's soul from dissipating, Connor quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead and then searched for information about the Blood Moon Codex in Philo's remaining soul memories. Although Connor acted in only one minute, it was incredibly fast to break the restriction on Philo's soul.

Unfortunately, half of Philo's soul had already dissipated by this point. In other words, Philo only had half of his memories left for Connor to continue searching.

Perhaps Lady Luck was moved by Connor's unwavering devotion to Margaret and secretly blessed him from the heavens. So even though Philo only had half of his memories left, Connor was still very fortunate to find the method for the Blood Moon Codex and some of Philo's insights within it a dozen seconds later.

Overjoyed, Connor immediately used the auxiliary chip to record all of this information and then stored it in a crystal ball he had crafted himself.