Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 292 Counter-tracking

"Knock knock knock!"

"Knock knock knock!"

The door, surrounded by dozens of long-necked heads, remained tightly shut, and the excitement in the eyes of the guests waiting outside was slowly fading.

They shook their heads, their expressions gradually turning ferocious.

In the dark corridor, a rustling sound could be heard as more and more people arrived from afar, wanting a share of the spoils.

If someone were to enter Blackburg at this moment, they would see countless human heads entangled in dark green vines on the walls, along with long necks extending from their mouths.

The walls of Blackburg have been completely covered with alternating shades of gray and dark green, making it impossible to see what it originally looked like.

If this person continues to walk further in, they will discover that all the heads eventually point in the same direction—to the laboratory on the third floor.

At this moment, nearly a hundred people had gathered outside the laboratory door.

They were huddled together, face to face, neck to neck. Their noses were pressed against the door and deformed from being squeezed.

Since there was no more room to knock on the door with their heads, these head-visiting visitors opened their mouths one by one and stuck out new, round-tipped tongues to knock on the door in their place.

"Da da da..."

"Da da da..."

"Da da da da da da..."

The sound was rapid and sharp.

Another minute passed, and the door was covered in grooves.

Suddenly, as if receiving some kind of command, the heads stopped moving, looked at each other, and then slowly retreated.

After retreating about a meter, it surged forward again.

"Bang!"

After the massive impact, the already damaged door shattered, and countless heads mixed with splinters of wood from the door squeezed into the bright room.

However, the figure in the room remained with his back to everyone. A slight tremor beneath his cloak suggested he was still diligently writing.

"Hehehehehe..."

The crowd, who had been suppressing their laughter for so long, burst into strange laughter and swarmed forward. They wanted to teach this guy who ignored the guest a lesson about the consequences of being rude!

The hairless heads slammed into the figure sitting steadily in the chair, but the moment they touched the figure, the figure vanished into thin air!

Dozens of faces slammed onto the long table, instantly shattering the books, ink, and even the table itself.

This is enough to illustrate the enormous destructive power brought about by the impact of these heads.

However, when some fragments landed, they did not feel the soft yet resilient feedback that comes with impacting flesh!

Before them, all that remained was a tattered cloak, scattered among the fragments of the table.

The person inside the cloak vanished in an instant!

The heads retreated half a meter in confusion, one of them approaching the shards of the table with a distressed expression to examine them closely. However, his mind couldn't quite grasp what was happening, so he could only retreat helplessly again.

找！

At that moment, a signal suddenly came from outside Blackburg.

The confusion on everyone's faces vanished instantly, and the heads became excited again, their mouths opening and closing incessantly, as if saying, "Hide and seek is the most fun!"

One by one, they exited the laboratory in an orderly fashion and began searching the entire castle along the corridor.

Soon, the invaded laboratory returned to peace, with only the mess left to tell others of its tragic fate.

Meanwhile, Thor, hiding in a crack in the wall, was pressing an eye to the crack, watching the entire process of the heads entering the laboratory and destroying the cloak he had left behind.

Yes, Thor wasn't in that cloak in the first place.

He used the simple yet practical 0th-order sorcery, Magic Trick, to fix his cloak in place and make it twitch occasionally.

The moment Thor put on his cloak, he slipped into the crack he had previously pressed against the wall.

Thus, he not only witnessed the entire process of those eerie heads breaking through the door, but also clearly saw a blurry black shadow fly in through the window, bringing those heads back to life.

Once all the heads had left the room, Thor immediately jumped out from the crack.

There was a clear indentation on his right eye that could not be removed even with level 0 healing for minor injuries, and this indentation would remain with him for a day.

As soon as Thor left the enclosed space, he quickly closed the gap, then pushed against the window with one hand and jumped out.

The algae stretched out rapidly, splitting into two, one hanging on the window and the other shooting out to clear a path for Thor.

While Thor was suspended in mid-air by the algae, chasing after the dark figure, he still had time to think, "Once I've researched the second-tier sorcery, Torture Touch, and officially advanced to the third tier, I must put the flight spell on my agenda."

He was good at using coordinate methods to analyze runes. Although the higher the level of the rune, the less effective the coordinate method would be, it still allowed him to master more magical arrays than others in the initial stage.

As he pondered, Thor realized he had lost track of the dark figure, but he wasn't worried. He landed lightly on the ground, and his mental energy spread outwards. Immediately, countless roots broke through the soil and burrowed towards him.

These are the roots of the devil vine that have been buried deep in the soil over the years. They may not cover the entire Blackburg Forest, but they can certainly affect most of it.

"Those heads in Blackburg are definitely still looking for me. Tell those vines to stop pretending and start fighting back. Otherwise, the enemy has already stormed our doorstep and we're still unaware. Won't it be obvious that something's wrong?"

Some of the roots have receded back into the soil.

Thor then transferred his mental energy to another part of himself.

"There were definitely some unfamiliar magical fluctuations outside Black Castle just now, and they couldn't be too far from here. Immediately activate all the roots in the forest to find this person, but don't alert him."

Another portion of the root system has retreated back into the soil.

These Devil Vines' roots naturally don't understand human speech, but Thor had thoroughly invaded the mental realm of the Devil Vines' main vein, giving him unprecedented control over it, enough to command these roots to do some simple things.

Besides, fighting and searching for people are the very reasons why this vine was planted here.

It could even be said that this devil vine was the real reason why Mochi Mochi dared to guard Black Castle alone.

However, it now has no choice but to obey Thor's orders. Even if Black Castle gets other owners in the future, they may not be able to completely take away ownership of the Devil Vine.

After all, Little Algae had somehow gotten into the Devil Vine and was acting like a bully, demanding and taking advantage of the situation to strengthen itself. If Thor hadn't restricted it from leaving some for others, it wouldn't have left!

At this moment, a tiny root emerged from the soil again, its tendrils neatly pointing in one direction.

Thor stopped and let the little algae silently hoist him into the air.

"Let's entertain our guests properly." As he spoke, Thor's hands fell to his sides, gradually deforming and becoming transparent, like octopus tentacles, dangling in mid-air.

(End of this chapter)