Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 470 Waterway Battle

In a large city like Archibald, if the infrastructure is inadequate, life there must be extremely difficult.

Fortunately, the city's inhabitants paid considerable attention to these hidden architectural features.

When Thor and Julie entered the underground sewers, they immediately saw the magical artifacts used for diversion and filtration in the main pipe.

On one side is clear water, and on the other side is a muddy swamp.

"It should be this way," Julie said, pointing to the pipes flowing with clear water.

Saul nodded as he spotted black particles resembling soot near the water pipes.

Two members of the security detail came down with Saul and Julie.

They held up cylindrical lamps, the light of which had a certain repelling effect on the evil spirits. The two of them weren't there to fight, but rather to provide support.

One of the team members, holding a communicator, exchanged a few words and then looked up at Thor and the other two, saying, "Sir, all the water valves along this main road have been shut off, and the purification facilities have been turned on."

Having read the "Guidebook," Saul knew that this purification facility was not a water purification device, but a magical tool to prevent pollution from flowing back into the superstructure via the waterway.

Although this device can only solve the problem of simple pollution transmission, it is already a reassuring facility for the residents living upstairs.

Julie tilted her head at Thor. "Let's go."

As soon as she finished speaking, Julie's fair skin truly began to glow. When she jumped into the water pipe, she floated on the surface of the water like a colorful soap bubble.

Thor jumped down, and suddenly seven or eight black tentacle-like vines grew from the back of his neck, stretching out in all directions and suspending him in the air.

Like a giant spider, Xiao Zao crawled forward using all her legs. Taking advantage of her long legs, she was extremely fast and caught up with Julie, who had set off earlier, in no time.

Julie sensed a shadow behind her, turned around, and exclaimed, "Wow! Every time I'm with a wizard who specializes in dark magic, I can never tell who the evil spirit is that should be hunted down."

Thor thought to himself, "You haven't seen what I look like when I transform."

The two ran frantically and finally found the evil spirit just before the pipe was about to flow into the underground reservoir.

The evil spirit was a woman dressed in blue-black overalls, with long hair flowing down her back, giving her a very ghostly appearance.

She was holding a man's head in her palm, and the two were whispering, seemingly discussing what to eat for dinner.

Upon seeing the man's head, Thor said softly in surprise, "It's him?"

Although several days had passed, Saul still recognized the real estate agent who had introduced him to the house.

I never expected that the other person would change so much when we met again.

While Saul was observing the intermediary John, Julie had already pushed off the water with one foot and darted forward.

The evil spirit, who was having a heart-to-heart talk with her boyfriend, finally noticed the movement behind her. She turned around, and her expression instantly changed from sweet to ferocious, as if blaming Julie for disturbing their private time.

The woman's mouth opened wide in an instant, empty except for a twisted red tongue.

Julie instantly conjured a dazzling ball of light in her palm and threw it directly at the evil spirit.

The orb of light emitted an even more dazzling glow in mid-air. The light fell upon the evil spirit, scorching her body until it emitted black smoke.

The evil spirit immediately covered its face in distress, and the man's head, which had been in its palm, fell into the water with a "plop".

Just as Saul was about to go help, Julie shouted, "That man's got a problem too! Go after him!"

On his first mission, Thor didn't insist on taking the lead. Since Julie had asked him to chase after that man, he must be confident that he could deal with the woman's evil spirit on his own.

Thor immediately raised the algae to a higher altitude to observe the water surface, and soon discovered an unusual ripple.

He swooped down, ready to scoop the head out.

Saul initially thought John's head was just drifting along, but upon closer inspection, he realized that the guy was actually seriously paddling.

From the gruesome severed end of his neck, tiny legs, like those of a centipede, began to grow, thrashing desperately in the water.

It looks like they want to run to the deep pool.

But swimming is nowhere near as fast as flying. Thor took off, and a black tentacle burrowed down into the water.

As soon as the algae enters the water, it opens its mouth and heads straight for people's heads, so there's no need to worry about refraction.

But at that moment, several twisting, claw-like black shadows suddenly emerged from below the head, breaking through the underwater resistance and rapidly approaching the small algae.

"There are evil spirits too?" Thor immediately recalled the algae and pushed his other hand underwater. Similar tentacles extended from his palm, but this time the tentacles were light gray and semi-transparent.

However, when his tentacles first touched those ghostly claws, they simply burrowed through them.

"Not an evil spirit? Not even a spirit?" So, raising his eyebrows, the tentacles remained in the same direction, still reaching for the human head, while those ghostly claws suddenly extended several sharp nails, viciously grabbing at Thor's translucent soul hook.

The ghost claws, which had just been unable to stop the soul fishing, now directly tore several five- or six-centimeter-deep gashes into the gray, translucent tentacles.

It nearly tore Thor's tentacles off.

"Instantly switching between physical and spiritual attacks? What kind of creature is this?" Thor immediately became alert, and a black, cruel touch instantly replaced the Soul Fishing technique.

The ghost claw continued to reach for Thor's tentacles, but was sizzling and smoking from the corrosive damage inflicted by the tormenting tentacles.

"I can transform between matter and spirit, too."

Since discovering that Soul Fishing is affected by Gudo's soul toxins, Thor took advantage of this period of peace to develop a little trick.

That is to let the soul fisherman inflict abuse on the target the moment it is targeted, taking the attack in its place.

Soul fishing is essentially an extension of Thor's spirit, and naturally, it can also involve witchcraft.

At the same time, a burst of destructive force also eroded their bodies along the ghost claws.

However, the painful corrosive power disappeared shortly after entering the ghost claw, never to return.

Thor frowned. "This thing is huge."

Thor ventured closer to the water's surface and finally discovered that the ghostly claws were not the hands of evil spirits or monsters, but something resembling tree branches—no, tree roots.

Tree?

Thor suddenly rose up, his back pressed against the top of the water pipe. The instant he left the water, a gnarled tree root pierced through the surface.

Several thin, grayish-white roots sprout from the rough main root.

Like a human hand, it made two grabs in the air before slowly retracting back to the surface of the water.

At the same time, a long-untouched diary was suddenly opened.

[May 15th, 317th year of the lunar calendar]

You have met a warm and hospitable host.

He really wants to invite you to his home.

If you are not careful...

He took her away a little while later.

Since then,

You will gradually go from being a guest to a slave.

]

It's a crisis warning!

It's written very clearly; we can't let him take us away... Hmm? A little?

Thor suddenly lunged forward, moving ten meters horizontally to the bottom of the water pipe in front of him.

Turning around, I saw several slender tree roots extending from the gaps in the pipes above.

The roots formed claws, seemingly trying to grab Thor.

"The pipes are full of tree roots, how come they're not leaking?" Even in his nervousness, Thor still had the mood to make a sarcastic remark.

He began to use flight, the algae constantly shifting their position, and the gray-white tree roots continuously piercing the water pipes and grabbing at Thor.

Soon the pipes were filled with grayish-white tree roots and small black algae.

Although the small algae's segments are easily pierced and torn apart by the grayish-white roots, as these black vines become more numerous and entangled more tightly, even the strongest roots cannot easily break free from the small algae's grasp.

Thor seized the opportunity to slip out through the gap left by the algae, while holding a wet human head in his hand.

It was John's head.

At this moment, the insect legs growing from the wound below John's head were still twitching, as if trying to climb up Thor's arm. However, Thor simply used a small fireball to burn these insect legs to ashes and seal up John's wound.

Despite being chased and nearly killed by tree roots, Thor did not forget his mission to capture them.

He glanced again at the vines and roots behind him that looked like a ball of yarn, and decisively ordered Xiao Zao to cut off the branches. He then grabbed John by the hair and ran away!

(End of this chapter)