Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 743 The Pentagram, Part 1

Bestana murmured, "Is there another way I can take?"

Bestana seemed off; her voice was muffled, as if she were speaking from inside a box.

Her emotions were unusually negative. Even though the sacrifices from the outside world were still causing tragedies, she seemed convinced that she could not be resurrected.

But this is completely inconsistent with her decisive action of launching a city-wide sacrifice.

Just now, when she was about to drag Thor and Char down with her, she had a final, resolute determination. But when she heard Thor say there was a second way, it was as if all her strength had been drained away.

"Anyway, you don't have any other choice but to trust me, do you?"

Bestana barely managed to move her eyes. "Trusting you will only make me your experiment."

"Of course, there's a price to pay for this transaction, but it's not like the experimental subject you're imagining. You can survive rationally, but your freedom will be limited. However, I can guarantee that after you've served me for a hundred years, I will set you free."

While Bestana was still hesitating, Thor had already used his mental power to secretly probe her situation.

He had to be careful about what tricks Bestana might be using in the dark, and at the same time, her hesitant and fragile state was really unlike that of a third-tier wizard.

At that moment, as his mental energy swept over a patch of shadow tightly wrapped by roots behind Bestana, his mental energy suddenly felt a burning sensation, as if he had been scalded by something.

"What is that?" Thor asked curiously.

To his surprise, Bestana answered him directly, "It's a wishing candle."

"Wishing candles?" Thor had never heard of such a thing, but why did Bestana actually answer him?

Could this guy have gone mad?

Only after Thor reminded her did Bestana remember the wishing candle she had just received from Char.

"This thing is useless to me." She used a twig to hand a white candle to Saul, "and I will have to pay the price for using it."

Thor first scanned the seemingly ordinary candle with his mental energy before taking it.

Just then, the candle suddenly lit up with a "whoosh".

At the same time, a thought struck Thor, and he opened his left hand, revealing a dark red, thick-covered book in his palm.

May 15th, 320th year of the lunar calendar, sunny.

Wishing candles

Cursed object.

Each time the candle is lit,

You can make a wish.

It will summon an item from the void to help you fulfill your wish.

But it doesn't guarantee that your wish will come true.

But as the person who blows out the candles to make a wish

Your negative emotions will be amplified.

The harder a wish is to be fulfilled,

The stronger your negative emotions are.

Until your soul is completely twisted,

Finally, it becomes the wick of a candle.

Thor looked at Char, who was still unconscious beside him, and Bestana, who had lost her will to fight, and finally understood what caused the abnormality in their personalities.

Bestana's amplified emotion should be despair.

As for Char...

Is it paranoia?

After the Death Wizard's Day appeared in Thor's palm, Bestana kept staring at the diary.

Saul closed the diary and slammed the corner of the hardcover book directly onto Bestana's remaining face.

"You don't have time. If you agree to the deal, then relax and don't resist. If you don't agree, we'll fight to the death."

Without waiting for Beth to consider, Thor immediately used the Death Wizard's Diary to absorb Bestana's soul.

Bestana was once a third-tier wizard, and she is not completely dead yet. If she resists, the diary may not be able to absorb her spirit.

But the diary was only slightly hindered, and soon absorbed Bestana's soul, turning it into Thor's fifth black page.

The loss of Bestana's roots completely transformed her last remaining body into tree roots.

At the same time, the upside-down tree, now without its controller, began to grow wildly, engulfing Thor and Char beside him in just a few seconds.

This tree-heart space is also trembling unstablely.

Without Bestana's control, the upside-down tree began to grow arbitrarily, according to its whims.

If it cannot be controlled, it may evolve into a terrifying Tier 3 monster that devours human souls everywhere.

"Wake up, it's your turn now!" Thor swung the unconscious Char, spun him twice in the air, and threw him hard into the center where Bestana had just been.

Char suddenly opened his eyes just before being thrown into the tree's heart, as if he had been pretending to be unconscious. Thor didn't even ask him anything and was about to throw him into the upside-down tree.

Poor Char didn't even get a chance to say a word before he was sucked into the upside-down tree, which had suddenly lost its core.

However, he did need the upside-down tree, and despite his resentment, he obediently settled the tree in place.

Char opened his eyes. "I..."

He had barely uttered a word when he was shocked to see Saul raising his fist to punch him.

"You do it..."

Unable to finish his sentence, Char was once again drawn to the red beam of light emanating from Thor's fist.

Char's vision immediately turned completely red, and even his consciousness briefly froze.

This pause did not last long; it seemed to happen in the blink of an eye before the blinding red light disappeared.

When Char could see everything clearly again, Thor was already standing calmly opposite him, holding a dark red hardcover book in his hand, his movements elegant and his demeanor serene.

It was as if he wasn't the one who had just swung his fist at someone.

"What did you just do? Did you plant some kind of explosive inside me? Or did you put a curse on me?"

Thor was not surprised by Char's series of questions.

He didn't pay attention to her immediately, but waited until he was sure that Klee's support magic circle had been connected with Char before looking up and saying, "This is a modification attempt of mine, and also a way to ensure that you won't follow Bestana's old path in the future."

Char was still inside the core of the inverted tree, without even a body of his own.

Although he was seduced by Thor to steal Bestana's upside-down tree as a means to resurrect himself.

But in fact, he didn't have a clear plan for how he would be resurrected.

Even a powerful third-tier wizard like Bestana couldn't resurrect using the inverted tree.

Could a first-order wizard—though he considered himself a genius—really do something that even a third-order wizard couldn't do?

For now, we can only trust Thor.

Thor knew that Char didn't trust him yet. If Char hadn't been possessed by the Star Eyes, he would have already run to another location on the Upside-Down Tree to avoid Thor.

Thor took out a wishing candle, which was still burning, seemingly tempting Thor to make a wish quickly.

But Thor did not make a wish; instead, he returned it to Char.

Char looked at Thor in disbelief. He thought no one could resist the temptation of a wishing candle, but Thor gave him the candle without making a single wish.

"Are you able to move now? If not, I can keep this candle for you for now."

Char tried his best and finally managed to manipulate the two thin, soft roots to retrieve the candle from Thor's hand.

Even after receiving the candle, he still felt a sense of unreality.

"Why don't you want a wishing candle that everyone else is eager to get?"

"Is something that can curse you and cause you to lose a part of your sanity with every wish really a good thing? As a wizard, being able to control your own mind and reason is the most important thing."

After reading the diary's description of the wishing candle, Saul decided not to use it.

There's no cheat code more important than a wizard's brain.

However, Thor was interested in something else.

"Here's the candle back. In return, you'll give me that crystal bottle."

Xia was stunned for a moment. He didn't know how Thor knew about the crystal bottle, since Thor wasn't even in the space at the time.

"I can give it to you, but I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of that bottle of water is; you'll have to figure it out yourself."

Char struggled to use a branch to deliver the crystal bottle he had brought earlier to Thor.

Thor watched Char struggle to move.

"Judging from your appearance, it will take you a long time to adapt... but I can't keep watching you in the Tree Heart Space forever."

Having retrieved the most important wishing candle, Char calmed down considerably and was finally able to rationally ask, "What do you need me to do?"

"Stop the sacrifices to the outside world, put all the branches back in their place, and make a bigger commotion."

Char didn't know what Thor was going to do, but now that he was on the same boat as Thor, all he could say was, "I'll do my best."

(End of this chapter)