Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 342 Butterfly

Night had fallen, and the moonlight could not penetrate the thick clouds.

A light appeared on the cliff some distance away from Thor and his companions.

There stood a dilapidated lighthouse, and no one knew who still stood guard there alone on the shore, bringing a sliver of safe light to this dark sea.

Thor kept changing his position so that he always stood where the water was just above his ankles.

He would occasionally use the torture to plunge his deformed soul into the seawater to test the concentration of soul fragments and other anomalies.

Occasionally, a pale arm, forgetful of the rules, would come and try to seduce him, subsequently making a negligible contribution to Thor's soul energy reserves.

After Thor refused to cooperate, Andy and Parker quickly left the beach and returned to the shadows below the cliff. Their figures appeared and disappeared, seemingly under the protection of magic.

All three were waiting for the soul tide to appear.

According to locals, before each soul tide occurs, the sky is overcast and a very strong wind blows across the sea.

When many blurry figures begin to appear on the sea, it means that the tide of souls has arrived.

The seawater will warm up, but clothes soaked in seawater will become increasingly heavy.

Standing beside the snail gatherers in the sea, you'll hear many heavy breaths. If they remove the black cloth covering their faces, you'll find that the breathing is actually from schools of fish rising from the seabed.

Fish cannot breathe on the surface of the water, yet they stand upright, stick their mouths out of the water, look up at the starry sky, and make "ha-chi-ha-chi" sounds.

It's like the spirits of the dead at the bottom of the sea longing for the air.

At this time, if the snail collector cannot escape the school of fish in time and run to the shore or to a far place, he will gradually be assimilated by the fish all around him. He will raise his head, open his mouth wide, and breathe rapidly, but the air in his lungs will become less and less.

Finally, in a daze, they followed the school of fish, diving headfirst into the depths of the sea without looking back, never to be seen again.

Tonight, the wind is strong by the sea, and the night is unusually deep; perhaps the tide of souls is about to rise.

The local snail collectors had all left the beach before nightfall.

As far as the eye could see, only Thor and two other wizard apprentices remained.

However, the three of them had completely different feelings while waiting.

"You seem nervous. What did you just see?"

Under the shadow of the precipice, where outsiders could not see what was happening inside, Parker finally spoke to Andy, who was still trembling with fear.

"This Thor's mental strength is so powerful. I've only ever felt this kind of pressure from a formal wizard."

Parker frowned slightly, then relaxed his gaze. "It's pretty much what Jero said. Did he notice your probing?"

"Probably not. Many formal wizards are unable to detect my methods."

"Hmm, your investigative abilities are indeed exceptional."

The two gazed at the sea while occasionally glancing at Thor out of the corner of their eyes.

"Why do you say he insists on standing in the seawater? Doesn't it hurt?" Andy raised his hand and scratched the skin behind his ear.

"I suspect he's testing something using the seawater?"

"These apprentices with powerful connections have so many tricks up their sleeves. Who knows what other treasures he might have?" Andy licked his lips, his voice turning sinister. "Parker, can you beat him?"

"If it comes down to a win or a loss, I have a 60% chance of winning; if it's a fight to the death, he's doomed," Parker said calmly.

But before Andy could speak again, he pinched the woman's buttocks hard.

"But that's not what I'm worried about. These apprentices from powerful forces, especially someone like him with a second-tier wizard as his mentor, must have some trump cards to protect themselves. That's fine, we have plenty of trump cards too. But if he also has a tracking curse on him, that would be troublesome."

"A curse?" Andy looked up in surprise, then unconsciously scratched her neck.

"I once witnessed a brutal fight between two people in a forbidden area. The victim was an apprentice of a high-ranking wizard. No one else saw their struggle except me. But I clearly saw a dark shadow suddenly emerge from the victim's body and disappear into his shadow after the murderer succeeded." Parker's voice was somber, clearly recalling some unpleasant memory. "When we left the forbidden area, the victim's mentor was already waiting at the door and immediately identified the murderer. Later, I heard that it was a kind of tracking magic."

Parker didn't recount the killer's gruesome final moments, but continued to warn Andy, "High-ranking wizards generally don't give their apprentices magical artifacts that are far beyond their capabilities, since that could, in turn, become a contamination and harm their students. However, this tracking curse is quite safe. It helps them protect their apprentices' lives... or secrets."

Andy pouted, as if he saw a large treasure chest grow legs and slip away right before his eyes.

Especially since she had just been stunned by Thor's terrifying mental power, and now, thinking back on it, she felt somewhat ashamed. Therefore, she wanted to kill him even more to erase her shameful performance.

But after hearing what Parker said, she knew there was no chance.

Are we really going to gamble on whether Thor's mentor, Gorza, cares about the life of this genius?

Everyone knows they're going to lose the bet!

"Okay." Andy reached for his buttocks again, feeling the spot where Parker had pinched him getting increasingly itchy.

"Huh?" As she was speaking, she suddenly turned her head to look to the left front.

"What's wrong?"

"I think I saw a butterfly fly by... Well, how could there be butterflies here? I must have been seeing things."

"Butterflies?" Parker looked around but didn't see any butterflies, only some flying insects. "Could it be that the consciousness interference field started appearing before the soul tide began? But why are there butterflies? Shouldn't it be fish?"

"Maybe I was too nervous."

Andy could no longer find any trace of the butterfly, and his skin was no longer itchy. He felt instantly happy and stopped worrying about what had just happened.

She rested her head against Parker's chest, listening to the man's heartbeat.

"What is he going to do?" Parker didn't notice Andy's suggestive actions.

He kept a close eye on Saul out of the corner of his eye.

The latter suddenly stepped forward and walked into the depths of the sea.

Andy glanced at the sound and watched as the other person stopped when the water reached knee-deep, but he didn't seem to care.

She chuckled softly, "Could you have been bewitched? That would be embarrassing."

……

The icy seawater stung his calves. Although Thor couldn't hear the conversation between the two wizard apprentices, he knew they were watching him from the shadows.

As for whether they will plan to deal with him, that's hard to say.

The smarter a person is, the more cautious they are sometimes, and since Parker is able to know Jero, he shouldn't be too stupid.

After testing the density of soul fragments in the seawater once again, Thor suddenly spoke.

"What did you do to Andy?"

A small silver butterfly appeared in his field of vision, slowly fluttering its wings, sometimes soaring high and sometimes falling.

The biting sea breeze couldn't budge its thin wings.

"Brother Thor, she was just testing you! Ugh, she thought she was being so discreet. That sticky stuff was all over your skin, it was disgusting!"

Thor stepped forward, raising his hand as he did so. A small, pale yellow ball appeared inside the transparent skin of his palm.

Previously, a female apprentice named Andy had been secretly observing him.

The initial probing was quickly dispelled, despite the individual's belief that they had done a very discreet job.

But what they didn't know was that Thor's entire skin had been modified with Soul Eater, making him extremely sensitive to external probing, especially probing with mental energy attached.

In the instant the distorted black shadow on the sea shattered, Thor even managed to grab onto a remnant of its escape.

He looked down at his palm and analyzed each point using the knowledge he had learned.

"Andy most likely specializes in water-based witchcraft, relying on skin-to-skin contact for covert spying. However, aside from the interesting connection with the original owner's mental energy, this ability isn't particularly remarkable."

Thor roughly analyzed Andy's witchcraft and then put his hand down without interest.

As the palm turned, the pale yellow was gradually swallowed by the gray-white, until not a trace remained.

By this time, the seawater had reached Thor's knees, and the waves seemed to be pushing him outwards.

He stopped again to check the concentration of soul fragments in the seawater.

It is no different from the shallow water area.

Thor looked into the distance, then suddenly leaped out of the water, hovering in mid-air before flying forward again in an instant.

"Brother Thor, where are you going?" Penny, who was playing with the waves, flew back to Thor's side. "Weren't you going to wait for the soul tide to appear on the shore?"

"The concentration of soul fragments in the seawater hasn't increased for a long time. At this rate, a soul tide is unlikely to occur tonight. If I'm going to wait all night for nothing, I might as well go and check it out myself."

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