Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 957 The Immunizer

Agu looked completely bewildered by the question. Fiona, seeing Agu's expression, immediately realized something was wrong.

Agu clearly had no idea what a red worm was!

Her expression changed, and her previous seriousness turned into impatience.

"They arrested the wrong person again. Can't those people in charge of oversight be a little more careful?"

The wizard next to Fiona walked over and comforted her, "After all, even the people in charge of monitoring don't know the actual situation, so it's normal for there to be misunderstandings."

"What about this?" Fiona pointed at Agu. "They were so confident, I even started chanting their slogans."

The later wizard glanced at Agu disdainfully, "Then..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was suddenly interrupted.

"Then let's invite him in as a guest."

Fiona and the other wizard were stunned. When they turned around and saw the newcomer, they quickly bowed respectfully.

"We'll take care of this guest; you may go back now."

Thor noticed that the newcomer was also a third-tier wizard, with a strange appearance. He had modified his two eyes into the shape of telescopes, and judging from their structure, they seemed to be able to extend and retract.

"Gentlemen, my name is Murridge. Please follow me."

Murridge glanced at Agu first, then his gaze moved to his shadow.

Thor clicked his tongue, then emerged from Agu's shadow. "How did you find me?"

Murridge surprisingly took the initiative to bow to Thor first, saying, "Your combat strength is formidable, and your medical skills are even more superb. Fortunately, your stealth ability isn't the best among third-tier wizards, otherwise, how would others survive!"

"Brother Thor, he insulted you!" Penny exclaimed in shock. "Didn't you once say something like 'a honeyed sword'?"

"You misspoke," Saul told Penny to shut up.

"Huh?" Murridge on the other end of the line was taken aback.

Thor turned to Murridge and sincerely praised him, "Your eye modification is truly amazing."

"You flatter me." Murridge raised his hand and tapped his eye with his index finger, making it shrink back a little and look a bit more normal. "Please come with me. There are too many people here, and there are some things they shouldn't know yet."

Thor led Agu to catch up with Murridge, but Agu was reluctant to leave and couldn't help but glance at Fiona beside him.

Fiona behaved well in front of Murridge, but still glared back fiercely when she noticed Agu looking at her.

Agu couldn't help but chuckle nostalgically, then left a bewildered Fiona behind and hurriedly caught up with Thor.

The three entered the largest building in the center of the underground base. There was no one else in this large room.

After Murridge closed the door, he naturally invited Saul to sit down.

As Murridge raised his hand, vines suddenly sprouted from the ground and quickly formed a chair and a coffee table.

Three tulips bloomed in the middle of the coffee table, their petals opening to reveal amber-colored liquid inside.

"This is a very popular herbal tea at the Stargate Council. Would you like to try some, Lord Thor?"

Thor wasn't worried about Murridge playing any tricks. He simply sat down, picked up the flower bud, and took a sip.

The flower bud's stem automatically elongated when Saul picked it up, and then retracted back into the coffee table when Saul let go.

"The fragrance is very strong, and it even has a special invigorating effect." But it's too sweet; Thor doesn't like it. "So you're from the Stargate Council. I was wondering who could possibly have a secret organization operating near the Stargate Council. But what's the Stargate Council doing, hiding like this?"

Murridge maintained a polite smile until Saul finished asking his question before speaking.

"Since you've specifically come here, it must be for the red worms, right?"

Thor tilted his head but didn't answer.

Murridge felt the pressure and curled his fingers. "Actually, the council is doing this for stability. The Stargate experiment has been going on for more than four years, and the gate is currently in a state where wizards can enter. As long as the council is ready, more people can be sent to break through the world barrier and go outside the Stargate. But in recent years, we have discovered that other external species have entered the Stargate."

"These external creatures are difficult to detect using conventional methods, so the gatekeeper didn't notice them at all."

Thor rested his chin on his hand. "Can't you close the door?"

Murridge spread his hands with a wry smile. "It took us sixty years to open the stargate. If it closes this time, who knows how many years it will take to open it again."

"The Red Worms can devour even third-tier wizards, and you're just going to let them run rampant?" Thor didn't directly tell Murridge about the giant worm he'd seen outside the Stargazing Tower, but instead probed, "Do you know how powerful the most powerful Red Worms are right now? Could they become a world-destroying force like the Black Tide?"

Murridge's eyes bulged out ten centimeters. "You don't need to worry about that. This world was never going to have any hope. The Stargate will take qualified people away from this doomed world."

The people from the Stargate Council just wanted to escape.

Thor suddenly remembered this sentence. It seems that outsiders' assessment of the Stargate Council was entirely correct.

If only qualified individuals can leave, what do the Radiant Family, who also belong to the Stargate Council, think?

Saul asked, "What kind of person is considered qualified?"

"Of course you are qualified. As for others... those who can see the red worm without external help are also qualified."

Murridge smiled at Agu. "Of course, what I mean by 'qualified' is only to be able to join the Stargate Council's migration team. It doesn't mean that people who can't see the Red Worms can't leave this wizarding world. It's just that the Stargate Council's capabilities are limited, and we can only take those we are confident we can take."

Agu said nothing, only silently lowered his eyes. In any case, whether he escaped or left, he would ultimately follow his master.

As for Fiona, she seems to be a qualified person, so he doesn't need to worry too much.

Thor then thought of Corey, who had disappeared in the port city. Her mental state seemed to be affected by the red worm on her head, but it was still better than that of the wizard Ole, who had already been devoured by the red worm.

Since Corey simply disappeared instead of leaving behind a corpse—which would have been easier to handle—it's highly likely that Corey is still alive and, moreover, a qualified person.

"You judge qualified individuals based on the red worm. What trait of the red worm is it? How much do you know about the red worm?"

"As expected of Lord Thor, you've hit the nail on the head right away." Murridge seemed to be a master of flattery. "The Council has indeed conducted in-depth research on the Red Worms. In fact, Speaker Alec discovered their existence as soon as they entered the Wizarding World, but at the same time, we also discovered that the Red Worms' special camouflage abilities help us hide ourselves in the world outside the Stargate and avoid danger."

"You might not know this, but the wizarding world is currently sealed off. The bad thing is that the path from fourth to fifth rank is closed, but there's also a benefit: our world is largely unaffected by interstellar pollution. However, we will eventually have to leave, so how will we adapt to the outside world after living in such a safe environment for so long?"

"Then we'll have to rely on the strength and talent of others first."

"Therefore, those who have been attacked by the red worms are divided into the parasitized, that is, those who cannot withstand the red worms and are devoured. The opposite of them are the immune ones. For example, Wizard Corey, and your friend... Wizard Byron."

(End of this chapter)