Chapter 261: Aftermath
As the light halo contracted and the figure inside disappeared, the Star Gate completely closed, leaving the scene in dead silence.
Only Karl’s provocative actions and voice remained.
“Was that him?”
Daniel’s voice was dry, his expression complex:
“Karl?”
“Whether he’s the Karl you’re talking about, I don’t know.” Lisa’s expression was cold as she spoke sternly:
“But he’s definitely the murderer who killed Barn and Baden!”
“Karl was among the first to come from the Eastern Kingdom Continent, he only came into contact with the wizarding world in his twenties, arrived here in his forties, and is currently only in his sixties.” Vulcan’s face was gloomy:
“He has never been exposed to top-tier wizardry, nor has he obtained a good inheritance, he only has the cultivation of an early First Circle.”
“A First Circle?” Lisa scoffed:
“Even a Third Circle wizard would need to cultivate bloodline magic to withstand my Soul Centipede.”
“He didn’t die, his physical body is already quite extraordinary!”
“You attacked him?” Vulcan was startled, then shook his head:
“It seems someone disguised themselves as Karl, using our passage here to go to the Eastern Kingdom Continent.”
“For him, only there is the safest.”
Daniel opened his mouth.
He wanted to say it probably wasn’t a disguise, but thinking of the consequences of saying that, he immediately shut his mouth.
If it wasn’t a disguise, then they have a problem.
“How malicious!”
Daniel said fiercely:
“Deceiving our feelings!”
“Hmph!” How could Lisa not see through their thoughts, but she didn’t intend to waste time on that, and directly asked:
“Can the Star Gate be opened again?”
“No.” Vulcan shook his head:
“It must be ten years before it can be opened again, and even if people go through, I’m afraid… there’s no way.”
The Eastern Kingdom Continent has the protection of the gods, the strength of wizards will be suppressed to an extremely terrifying degree.
Even a Third Circle wizard wouldn’t be effective.
“Hmph!”
Lisa scoffed again, glancing at the two:
“The murderer was let go by you, you better think carefully about how to explain this to the Tower.”
With that, she fiercely swung her sleeves, stepping out, her face extremely ugly, her eyes filled with anger.
How dare he provoke me?
And my Soul Centipede!
Damn it!
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Eastern Kingdom Continent.
Black Swamp.
Accompanied by a burst of starlight, a figure was thrown out, and before the others could recover, they saw the figure enveloped in lightning and soaring into the sky, disappearing after a few flashes.
“What happened?”
“What’s going on?”
“It seems someone came over from the other side? But would any wizard still be willing to come here?”
“……”
The group of wizard apprentices looked at each other, unable to figure it out for a long time, and finally could only helplessly disperse.
…………
Not long after.
Not far from a certain battlefield.
“Ugh!”
Karl grunted, falling from mid-air to the ground, cold sweat dripping from his forehead, he had forcibly activated the Divine Domain Fragment.
“Swish!”
The absolute rationality of the Divine Domain Fragment instantly suppressed the chaos brought by the pain, and his consciousness returned to normal.
“Unexpectedly, I could still be hit in such a short time, it can only be said that he is worthy of being a Third Circle wizard?”
Looking down at the position of his heart, Karl’s face showed lingering fear:
“Luckily the connection was severed, otherwise this thing would definitely have taken my life, it’s actually a Third-Order construct.”
At the position of his heart, something the size of a finger, shaped like a centipede, was frantically tearing at his flesh.
His Saint Demon Transformation’s sixth-level physical body couldn’t withstand this thing’s casual tearing, and there were even toxins that penetrated deep into his nerves and consciousness, attacking his body.
And that was only relying on its instincts.
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If someone were controlling it, Karl estimated that he wouldn’t even have the chance to return to the Divine Domain Fragment.
Just as the Star Gate closed, he suddenly felt a pain in his heart, and then this thing appeared inside his body.
“Hah…”
Letting out a long breath, Karl’s body swayed, directly transforming into the Abyssal Giant Squid, and at the same time, six wraiths flew out.
Ten Thousand Buddha Hands—Subdue the Dragon!
Layers of palm force, separated by his flesh, bombarded the construct, followed closely by the wraiths and the Abyssal bloodline.
With his current cultivation and strength, he could ensure that his power exploded within an inch without harming his own body.
“Bang!”
The finger-sized construct shuddered from the impact, then stretched out its body, connecting to Karl’s bloodline like a spider web.
Accompanied by the attack.
“Pfft!”
Karl spat out a mouthful of blood, his spirit instantly weakened, he looked at his body with a helpless expression:
“Third Circle wizardry’s life sharing?”
If this thing was injured, he would also be injured.
With Karl’s methods, he could kill the construct at the cost of serious injuries, but he would probably need to lie in bed for a hundred years to recover.
“The key is that this thing could turn on me at any time, if it suddenly backstabs me while I’m fighting with someone else…”
“If I don’t solve it, it will always be a problem.”
Even if a Third-Order construct doesn’t have intelligence, it still has a certain ‘program’, it’s definitely not an inanimate object.
That could be seen from its reaction just now.
When it lost its master’s control and received a sufficiently fatal attack, it chose to activate life sharing.
“It seems there’s no way to take action in the short term.”
After pondering for a moment, Karl sighed helplessly.
Constructs are a relatively obscure subject in wizardry, and even he doesn’t know much about them.
Trying to solve it from that aspect would be like trying to climb to the sky.
“Two ways!”
“One is for my physical body to become stronger, breaking through the Saint Demon Transformation to the seventh level, then I can destroy it at the cost of a minor injury.”
“The other is to cultivate the Third Circle wizardry, Life Spring, so that I can continuously recover my life force, or lock a part of my life, while it cannot, then I can try to forcefully remove it.”
Saying there were two ways, there was actually only one.
That was to break it with brute force.
Moreover, only these two methods wouldn’t distract Karl, and he could still proceed according to the original plan.
Name: Karl
Constitution: 40.3
Mental Power: 25
Source Essence: 21
Level: Second-Order Holy Knight, Second-Circle Wizard
Abyssal Bloodline Fusion Rate: 61%
Looking at his data panel, Karl’s face showed contemplation.
“Life Spring is a Third Circle wizardry, even with the Divine Domain Fragment’s blessing, it would still require at least thirty points of mental power to successfully construct the spell model, and I…”
“I’m still a bit short!”
As his thoughts turned, the value in the Source Essence column suddenly disappeared, and then his mental power increased to 27.1.
Based on past experience.
If his constitution exceeds fifty, each point would probably require twenty points of Source Essence, and the key is that even if the value is pushed above fifty, it doesn’t mean that his cultivation has reached the Third Order, it’s just a simple increase in the numerical value.
But cultivation is different.
The seventh level of the Saint Demon Transformation is a genuine Third Order, and not a weak one at that.
Since that’s the case.
It’s better to stack mental power.
Cultivating the Third Circle wizardry, Life Spring, can lock his health and allow recovery. As long as he isn’t killed in one hit, he will have a chance to recover, and it can also provide a huge amount of energy for the Saint Demon Transformation’s cultivation, it can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
“First find a place, then go into seclusion for a few years, and come out only after solving the problem with my body and my strength has greatly improved.”
Karl pondered for a moment, and said:
“I need to notify Mevia.”
