The other party looked quite young, probably not yet thirty years old.

Such talent was still considered decent among ordinary wizards.

Why did Wizard Murphy say his talent was lacking and he couldn’t become a true wizard?

“Hello, Lord Saul. In the coming days, I will cooperate with you to do our defensive work well.” Haili had no expression on his face and looked somewhat rigid.

Saul secretly compared Murphy and Haili’s appearances. The two didn’t look similar—they probably weren’t blood relatives.

“Good. I’ll be troubling you in the time ahead.” Saul said politely.

Haili bowed to Maria and Wizard Murphy, then said to Saul, “If you have no other matters, let’s go directly to the Second Wizard Tower.”

Quite an eager fellow.

“I still need to bring along a friend.”

Saul was truly curious about the other party’s identity now. Moreover, he noticed that Haili hadn’t signed his name below the Second Wizard Tower either.

Could the other party use the facilities in the Second Wizard Tower without signing?

With Maria’s help, Saul quickly found Keli, who was still helping out on the Sighing Wall.

Keli was naturally willing to guard the wizard tower in Storm Sea together with Saul, even though once the battle began, it would become very dangerous there.

Keli had already changed back into black wizard robes, only with an added layer of fur trim at the edges, very similar to the local wizards’ robes.

This was Keli’s first time passing through the Sighing Wall to reach Storm Sea.

Although the sea surface had no waves, overhead the wind blew clouds about and the sky was dark and gloomy, as if enemies might appear the next second.

“This place is like two different worlds from inside the wall.” Keli followed beside Saul, gazing at the vast sea. “It feels like fighting could break out at any moment here. It’s quite different from the situation in the Borderland too.”

“The Borderland still has some ordinary people—here there are none.” Saul told Keli about encountering monsters at sea earlier. “During this time, if we act separately in the Storm Sea, you need to be careful. The bone dragon… can’t be brought here.”

The Bone Dragon coming to the wizard world would already activate its inherent pollution attributes. On land it was manageable, but in this Storm Sea filled with black tide pollution, it would be like carrying a candle into a powder magazine—one careless moment could cause an explosion.

Keli nodded like a little squirrel, “Definitely not. I took a long time to recover from the aftereffects last time.”

Controlling the Bone Dragon while using radiation magic to resist pollution was quite a burden for Keli.

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Halfway there, Saul discovered another black tide monster—very weak, barely reaching first-rank level.

The monster seemed to see they had three people and didn’t actively attack, but Saul sensed its aura and directly solved it with a Soul Blade.

Then Little Algae appeared, fishing in the water for a long time before returning wet, sighing and shaking its head.

Saul laughed, “I told you gray bones are very rare drops—it’s normal not to find any.”

Haili’s attention was immediately drawn to Little Algae. A rare surprised expression appeared on his face, “Lord Saul, your pet isn’t afraid of black tide pollution?”

Saul curved his fingers to scratch Little Algae’s chin. Little Algae was much thinner now, so he could only scratch precisely.

“It’s not afraid—it grew up soaking in black tide pollution.”

Haili’s eyes widened, and his gaze toward Saul was different now.

He was a wizard born at the Sighing Wall who had seen high-rank wizards’ battles since childhood. Even knowing Saul was a third-rank wizard from the Borderland, he didn’t find it particularly special.

He even thought third-ranks from the Borderland were all fed by the Stargate Council and Tribunal and couldn’t compare at all with third-rank wizards from the Sighing Wall.

But he hadn’t expected that even Saul’s pet could fearlessly face black tide pollution.

You should know that with the black tide about to arrive and pollution levels high in the sea, even some second-rank wizards were unwilling to enter the seabed. Yet Saul’s pet dared to, and he said it grew up soaking in black tide pollution.

Even if these words were somewhat exaggerated, they must be partially true.

Saul didn’t know that Haili looked at him with new respect because of Little Algae, nor did he care about an apprentice’s opinion.

It was just that this apprentice’s identity seemed somewhat special, and they would have to fight in the same wizard tower in the future, so he remained fairly gentle with him.

“By the way, Haili, Wizard Maria kept saying only signatures could tame the wizard towers in Storm Sea. Are these wizard towers alive?” Saul asked.

“Not alive—dead.” Haili answered. “The wizard towers here are different from the Glare Family’s. They use Giant Hearts as wizard tower cores, but the towers here are constructed from sea monster corpses, with their cores being wizards who died in battle in the first black tide. The wizard tower you’re going to now has a fourth-rank wizard as its core.”

“Wow!” Keli exclaimed quietly.

“Yes, the cores of the several frontmost wizard towers in Storm Sea are all fourth-rank wizard corpses. Only they could stand firm in the black tide for a hundred years without falling.”

Although Haili showed no expression, you could see his mood was heavy. “Lord Saul, you might not know the history of the Sighing Wall. After Desedil Continent was swallowed by the Abyssal Eye, people from other continents panicked. It was the first time facing the black tide, and to prevent Stat Continent from also being corroded and swallowed, Far North City temporarily established a defensive camp. However, although so many wizards participated in resisting the black tide, Stat still nearly fell.”

Haili raised his hand to gesture at a range.

“You see, before the black tide appeared, Stat Continent actually extended all the way to here. But after that black tide, the continent disappeared until it was blocked by Lord Murphy’s Sighing Wall, and only then did the black tide stop corroding.” ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ noveⅼfire.net

“No wonder the far north ended up becoming an acute angle.” Saul shook his head. He couldn’t imagine now what kind of feelings the wizards back then had when they first saw the black tide.

“It’s hard to imagine so many fourth-rank wizards died in battle at this place back then.” Keli was also full of emotion. Now when she looked at the slender wizard towers around them, her feelings were completely different.

Those straight tower bodies—weren’t they warriors who had stood here since a hundred years ago?

“Yes, sacrificing themselves for others. It’s hard to imagine wizards, known for their selfishness, would do such things.” Saul was also thinking silently.

“Yes,” Haili said quietly, “Such powerful wizards—why did they have to die at the very front?”

At this time, the Second Wizard Tower that Saul was going to had appeared before them, and Master Gorsa’s First Wizard Tower also showed a vague outline on the horizon.

In a trance, those two wizard towers seemed to become two tall giants, backs to Stat, faces toward the Abyssal Eye.

Haili’s voice sounded, “Lord Saul, the wizards who died here all left part of their souls in the Sighing Wall, so when you sign at the crystal hub, you’ll gain temporary control of the wizard tower.”

“Wizard Murphy didn’t let me sign.” Saul remembered how he had suddenly appeared between him and the crystal hub—such an action was clearly preventing him from signing.

Saul had been aware of it then, and now hearing Haili explain the wizard towers’ history and their relationship with the Sighing Wall made him feel even stranger.

Murphy didn’t want him to sign at the crystal hub.

Why?

(End of Chapter)

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