Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 327 Soul Tide

"What?"

Upon hearing Saul's words, Sander froze on the spot. After three breaths, he asked again in disbelief.

"Do you remember anything unusual that happened before you disembarked?"

"I..." Sander's eyes trembled incessantly.

The long-buried truth has been brought to light, and he is on the verge of losing control of his emotions.

"Calm down. Don't you want to know exactly why Midor died?"

Sander sniffed hard and said in a trembling voice, "I remember now, I remember now. There was a soul tide in Bluewater Bay before the ship docked, so we waited on the sea all night and didn't reach the shore until dawn."

"What is the Soul Tide?" Thor had never heard of this term before.

"It is said that many years ago, a fierce war took place on the western continent, affecting many countries, and even nearly destroying an empire. At that time, two armies clashed at Blue Water Bay."

"Unexpectedly, during a fierce night battle where both sides were fighting with all their might, the sea at Bluewater Bay suddenly rose, engulfing all the soldiers. Only a few officers commanding from the rear managed to escape. After that, every year, many people in Bluewater Bay would be inexplicably swept away by the waves. This continued until the war ended and a wizard came to govern the area, at which point the mass deaths stopped. However, occasionally, large numbers of blurry figures would appear, rising ashore with the high tide and receding with the low tide. The residents of Bluewater Bay called this the Soul Tide."

"Whenever the soul tide occurs, people go missing, so the captain told us to stay at sea for a day and dock at dawn. Could it have been that night?"

"Did Midor show any unusual behavior that night?"

"No, because I was tired from the journey, I fell asleep leaning against the chair after she lay down on the bed. Oh, right!" Sander seemed to remember something and suddenly turned to stare at Saul, "In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard my sister calling me, but when I woke up, she told me to go back to sleep and said it was nothing. I thought she was playing a prank, and I was too tired at the time, so I fell asleep again."

"If I'm not mistaken, she was already dead before she disembarked." Thor lowered his voice, feeling that Sander in front of him was like a little man made of sand, who could be blown away by a strong wind at any moment.

"Impossible! I clearly spoke to her before we disembarked!" Sander waved his arms excitedly. "And I watched him climb into the suitcase with my own eyes, and I sealed it up myself."

He was like a bewildered child, having forgotten to respect the wizard.

"Perhaps what you saw was an illusion. Perhaps Midor still had her own consciousness at that time, but if a person suffocates, her skin wouldn't be in this state now."

"No...suffocated to death..." Sander stared blankly at his sister. She was just like she had been years ago, as if she were simply asleep, not dead.

Saul lowered his eyes, placed his hands on his knees, and slowly stood up, saying seemingly casually, "Anyway, she wasn't accidentally suffocated by you."

Sander suddenly looked up, his already dry eyes suddenly turning red.

His lips trembled slightly, but he couldn't utter a word.

Thor didn't let him say anything, interrupting him directly: "Alright, I've already checked the house, and you've found the missing items. Let's not delay any longer and sign the sublease agreement now."

Sander was still not calm and could only nod vigorously.

After repacking their boxes, the two returned to the carriage outside and signed the agreement.

Afterwards, Thor had the mushroom driver take the people back to Outpost Town, while he returned to the lakeside cabin.

"Blue Water Bay, Soul Tide... If that's the case, there should be many soul fragments and vengeful spirits there. Given its scale, there might even be a few evil spirits."

Thor closed the door and stood back in the center of the hall, where the box had just appeared.

"I can go there in a couple of days to replenish my spiritual energy. If I always just sit around and do nothing, I'll easily drain myself dry."

At this point, Thor suddenly stamped his foot. "But before that, we need to resolve the issue in this house. Are you going to come out on your own, or should I drag you out?"

There was no response in the room.

Thor wasn't in a hurry. A black tentacle extended from the back of his neck, dangling to the ground like a black python.

"Did the sudden appearance of a wicker basket mean they wanted us to leave as soon as possible?"

The little algae's head stopped at a corner of the wall. Finally, it stretched upwards, crawled along the wall, went straight, then turned a right angle, went straight again, and turned another right angle.

Thor walked over and watched as Xiao Zao drew a square on the wall with her body.

"Well, it seems that the one controlling the appearance of the box isn't a conscious being."

Instead of finding the vengeful spirit they thought was hiding there, they found a strange passage. Thor touched his nose, a fleeting moment of embarrassment passing by.

He summoned Xiaozao, who was extremely sensitive to the scent of death, back so he could examine her himself.

"A very well hidden dark room." Thor's hand brushed lightly across the wall, but he didn't feel anything unusual.

He closed his eyes, recalling the size of the wooden house he had seen from the outside.

"There is indeed a secret room, but it seems to be quite small. Is it used to hide something?"

Thor's hand, pressed against the wall, gradually became transparent, and his fingertips suddenly passed through the wooden wall.

However, he did not go any deeper and quickly withdrew his hand.

The moment the hand was pulled out, a grayish-white tentacle could be vaguely seen transforming into a human hand.

"There's nothing inside, not even any defensive magic." After a brief exploration, Thor went directly to the square that the little algae had drawn earlier.

His magic was released from his fingertips, transforming into a black, cruel touch.

The corrosive power quickly broke through the magic array on the wall, revealing a hidden door.

Thor opened the door and saw the magic circle engraved on the back of it.

"What a complicated magic array." Thor only glanced at it, and even with his current mental strength, he felt dizzy.

However, when he started practicing meditation, his dizziness lessened considerably, and when he opened his diary, all the negative mental effects of the magic circle on him had been eliminated.

"This magic array is focused on concealing fluctuations, and the formula it uses is one I've never seen before. What was the original owner of this house trying to hide?"

Thor went inside and found it covered in a layer of dust. He used witchcraft to remove the surface dust and finally saw the patterns on the floor that had been sealed away for who knows how many years.

"Another magic circle? Using a magic circle to hide another magic circle?" Thor did not approach immediately, but looked around the room. Only after confirming that there were no other magic circles in the room did he carefully approach the magic circle.

"Hidden houses in the mountains and forests, haunted rooms with magic tricks that resemble illusions, and magic arrays hidden in the rooms... I want to see just how rare this hidden thing is."

Thor examined the entire magic circle, his brows gradually furrowing.

"This magic circle looks familiar."

A light suddenly flashed in his mind, and his puzzled expression gradually turned into surprise.

To confirm his memory once again, Saul quickly searched for the notebook he carried with him.

He took out a notebook that wasn't particularly important, but contained rare and precious knowledge about witchcraft. He flipped to the first few pages and stopped at one of the magic circle formula diagrams.

That was a soul-extraction magic circle he had once obtained from a wandering wizard in Sailtown!

The so-called haunted house's magic circle is clearly an upgraded version of the former!

(End of this chapter)