Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 99 The Sound-Grinding Fruit and the Wandering Apprentice

That night, Saul slept in Ada's room.

He slept on the table, Ada slept on the bed, and Penny slept in the closet.

The three of them each occupied one spot.

Perhaps it was Saul and Penny's interaction in the evening that provoked Ada, because he deliberately found a hemp rope, tied it between the table and the bed, and hung it on the table as a curtain instead of using a blanket.

Thor was not asleep. As night fell and all was quiet, he slowly opened his eyes.

He gently jumped off the table and lifted Ada's tattered blanket.

The person inside was already fast asleep.

Ada had somehow rolled to the edge of the bed, with one hand and one leg sticking out of the wooden bed.

Thor sat on the edge of the wooden bed and gently opened the large cabinet on top.

This time, the cabinet door made no sound.

Silent Portal, a very simple 0th-tier sorcery.

Inside the cupboard, young Penny was fast asleep, her sleeping posture much more peaceful than her brother's.

Perhaps it's because I've been sleeping in the closet for years.

But Saul looked closely at Penny's eyes and noticed that her eyelids were moving constantly and intensely.

This is how people behave when they are dreaming.

Penny looked unwell, her brows were slightly furrowed, her lips were tightly pursed, and her arms and legs were curled up together, indicating that she was sleeping very insecurely.

Thor immediately entered a semi-immersive meditation to observe Penny.

But she was perfectly clean, and there was nothing else unusual about her—including her eyes.

Thor reached out and gently touched Penny's eyes, then touched his own, finding no difference.

If it weren't for the diary, Saul wouldn't have noticed anything unusual about the eyes except that they were beautiful.

However, anything that a diary finds interesting must be of considerable value.

Should we take Penny's eyes?

Saul has a way to safely remove Penny's eyes.

Anyway, the other party can't see it anymore.

But he eventually withdrew his hand and closed the cabinet door again.

At this moment, Ada rolled over, turning from the edge of the wooden bed back to the center.

Thor jumped off the wooden bed and left.

At midnight, the full moon hung high in the sky, without any cumulus clouds.

Under the slanting moonlight, the town was slightly illuminated.

For Thor, this light was sufficient.

"Yesterday it was still a new moon, how did it jump to a full moon today?"

Saul stood on the deserted street of the town, looking up at the sky.

"The fragment of memories left behind by the original owner seems to confirm this. It appears that the moon in this world is not just a simple celestial body."

Because Thor had been staying in the wizard's tower, this was the first time he had noticed the moon's anomaly.

But now is not the time to look at the moon.

Before arriving in Mofan Town by carriage, Thor made a point of learning about the Mofan Fruit.

He didn't take many books with him when he went out; at the very least, the section on plants, which covers the knowledge of all things, wasn't with him.

Fortunately, there was information about the Grinding Fruit in the books Nick left in the carriage.

The millstone fruit is a vine that hangs down like a gourd and is shaped like a vertical flute. When the wind blows, it produces a sound like a millstone.

The sound wasn't unpleasant, but it was certainly not pleasant for the average person. It would be irritating, and prolonged exposure could cause nausea, dizziness, or even fainting.

However, it is also a good material for witchcraft, and it is difficult to cultivate and even more difficult to transplant.

It was for this reason that Wizard Tower accepted the surrender of Sailtown, which was beyond its own radiation range.

According to Nick's book, the true function of the Sound-Grinding Fruit is to soothe people's emotions, calming agitated individuals and also having some effect on spirits.

It's like a tranquilizer.

Since these fruits are meant to be supplied to the Wizard's Tower, the Grinding Fruit certainly wouldn't be left to grow in the wild; someone would be carefully cultivating and guarding it at all times.

However, because the Grinding Fruit makes a strange noise when exposed to wind, ordinary people cannot grow it outdoors in windy places. Otherwise, it would be impossible to supervise, and cultivation would easily fail.

Thor chose the tallest building nearby, climbed up, stood on top of the chimney, and looked around the entire town of Sail.

The town was unusually quiet at this time, and almost nowhere was lit.

However, this also makes the light sources in the northernmost parts of the town extremely bright.

Having locked onto his target, Thor, using the algae he was using as a rope, slowly lowered himself off the roof and ran towards the target's location.

Upon arriving in the north of town, Thor discovered that the source of the light source was still outside the town's walls, so he climbed over the unguarded wall and came outside.

A few hundred meters from the northern wall of the town, there is a row of brick and stone houses.

The houses surrounded and protected an open space, which was enclosed by a three-meter-high wall and topped with a wooden roof.

There was no wind tonight, and many wooden planks were lifted up, revealing dark green vines and leaves inside.

The vines were not planted densely, and the fruits could be vaguely seen hanging between the large leaves.

Behind the open space stood a three-story tower. The tower was pitch black inside, all the windows were boarded up, and it exuded an ominous feeling.

Thor jumped off the city wall, carefully concealing himself, and approached that side.

He remembered Nick mentioning that there were two first-level wizard apprentices here. Although Nick described them as weak in combat, that was only in Nick's opinion; Thor couldn't afford to be complacent.

Once they discover that you are an apprentice from the Wizard's Tower, they will definitely try their best to conceal the reason for the reduced production of Grinding Fruits—if there is really something fishy going on.

Thor cast another spell on himself, carefully avoiding any possible prying eyes around him, and finally approached the fenced-off open space.

There are campfires burning here, and a soldier stands guard every few meters.

Their numbers were greater than the combined number of guards standing at the town gate and patrolling the town.

Finding a gap, Saul climbed onto the roof of a nearby house.

This time he could clearly see the plants planted in the open space.

The plants looked very similar to Nick's description. Except that the fruits, which should have been flute-like, were covered with a layer of pulp paper, with only the tip, which was connected to the stem and leaves, showing.

Is this how they prevent the mortar from making a sound when the wind blows through it?

But will the fruit grow well like this?

We need to build a wall to keep out the wind, and we also need to wrap paper around the area, which doesn't seem like a place with much rain...

If that's the case, Thor thinks it's normal for the production of Grinding Fruit to decrease.

Are there any other reasons?

Thor scanned the surroundings and saw a house of the same size behind the row of houses, but with soldiers on guard all four sides.

Thor visualized the human-monster walking image and carefully observed his surroundings, but found no unusual spirits.

Even the tower with its windows sealed off was clean on the outside.

Sure enough, outside the wizard's tower, it was generally clean and tidy.

Taking advantage of the fact that his magical abilities were still active, Thor slipped through a second-floor window into the guarded house.

The house was dark inside, with no lights on.

Saul looked around, but there was no one there.

Finally, he discovered an underground passage in the kitchen on the first floor.

The entrance to the passage was carefully hidden under a stove.

Although the stove was disguised to some extent, Thor still noticed something was wrong.

Most importantly, he sensed a faint magical fluctuation from that entrance.

There were witch apprentices inside, and they were performing witchcraft.

Thor thought to himself, "This magic fluctuation value is too high. He's obviously a wandering wizard who hasn't received proper training. No, a wandering wizard apprentice."

Now Thor believed Nick's words; if they were two first-level apprentices like that, he could kill them at will.

Despite the enemy's weakness, Thor did not rush in.

Nine times out of ten, the entrance to a hidden room like this will have a trap to prevent outsiders from sneaking in. Thor wasn't sure he wouldn't alert the people inside when he went in.

He came to eavesdrop, not to assassinate.

Fifth update!

(End of this chapter)