Could the tail that killed a third-rank wizard also kill Maria?

That wouldn’t do!

She was the target he had just selected!

But chasing after them now, carrying a struggling big tail, he might not make it in time.

“If I can’t get there, then I’ll have them come here!” Saul immediately sent out a signal.

This signal was originally prepared by Maria to notify Saul after diving underwater, but now Saul was using it to summon Maria and Delen.

One person’s speed was hard to catch up to another tail, but with two people moving toward each other, it could shorten the distance he needed to chase.

After sending the signal, he immediately received feedback from Maria, who said she would rush over immediately.

Saul then swam toward Maria’s direction.

The long tail entangled by him was still struggling desperately. Saul turned back and glared at it coldly.

“I know you have consciousness. If you don’t want to live forever in this tail form, you’d better cooperate obediently.”

The long tail that had been struggling violently suddenly went limp, but when Saul wanted to swim over, it struggled a bit again.

It seemed to be torn, unsure whether it could trust Saul.

Saul simply took out his diary and lightly tapped it on the long tail. The diary immediately issued a summons to the consciousness within the long tail, though Saul suppressed it so it couldn’t absorb its soul.

“Feel that? I can let you leave this mutated body at any time, and I can also destroy your soul at any time.”

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The tail entangled by Saul finally behaved.

Saul used several tentacles to drag the boneless tail and continued accelerating forward until he sensed Maria in the distance, and she seemed to be in combat. He immediately stopped and changed form, turning back into a black skeletal frame.

With a “splash,” Saul burst from the sea surface and immediately saw that Delen was nowhere to be found, while Maria was wrapped by a black long tail.

That tail was the one Saul had seen in the wizard tower’s past.

At this moment, Maria for some reason wasn’t using magic attacks. Her face showed a pained expression, and her entire body was trembling.

The long tail was trying to drag Maria into the seabed, but a red halo emanated from Maria’s body, automatically resisting the tail’s pulling.

If not for this halo, Maria would probably have been dragged underwater before Saul arrived.

And now, her persistence during this time had also saved Saul the trouble of chasing in the sea.

Saul immediately commanded Little Algae to guard the already captured long tail and directly charged into the opposing battlefield.

“Saul… be careful, it can cause pollution…” Maria saw Saul coming and spoke with difficulty to warn him.

Her voice was very small, fortunately Saul’s mental power had already enveloped the area and he clearly heard her warning.

“Pollution?” Saul thought about how when he captured the smaller long tail, he hadn’t encountered any significant pollution. Could this be a unique ability of Robin’s long tail before him?

Since the ability was pollution, Saul wanted to see for himself. He had no intention of retreating and directly came to Maria’s side. The equally black Soul Blades directly pierced into the torso wrapped around Maria, preparing to cut it off and first rescue Maria, whose condition was obviously abnormal.

But strangely, the Soul Blades that had always been his offensive weapon seemed to sink into the ocean when they entered the long tail’s torso, disappearing without a trace, while the long tail seemed to suffer no damage at all.

“It really is pollution, and black tide pollution at that!” Saul flashed to avoid the tail attacking from behind, his expression constantly changing. “Black tide pollution at a certain concentration can indeed disrupt elemental particle movement, causing magical power to fail. Their transformed bodies can actually contain such powerful black tide pollution and use it to neutralize third-rank wizard attacks! No wonder the long tail encountered almost no resistance when attacking third-rank Lawrence last time—with magical power sealed, what was there to fight with?”

The tail tip that had just flashed past appeared again, heading straight for Saul’s chest, seemingly wanting to pierce through him.

As Saul flashed again, that pointed tail suddenly opened like a flower, revealing seven flesh petals and exposing the gray, spiral-muscled hole inside.

Then that opening suddenly spewed out a large cloud of black smoke. The environment around the smoke became twisted and distorted in an instant, as if the world itself had been polluted by that black smoke.

What spewed from the tail’s opening was extremely concentrated black tide pollution. The black smoke was just its external manifestation. Saul quickly felt fluctuations similar to radiation.

“This form of black tide pollution fluctuation is more obvious in air, clearer than black tide in water, soil, and human bodies!”

Saul immediately realized this was an excellent opportunity to deeply study black tide pollution.

He must capture this tail alive!

He no longer held back. His entire being transformed again into a massive collection of tentacles, with only the black skull still quietly watching Maria.

Maria gasped. She recognized Saul from that skull, but she strongly suspected whether Saul had already mutated.

Even if he hadn’t mutated, she had to report to Lord Murphy to monitor Saul’s condition at all times, lest during battle, their ally suddenly turn against them.

That would be a big trouble!

Now being stared at by Saul’s gray, misty eye sockets, Maria felt it was even more terrifying than being entangled by the long tail, injected with black tide pollution, and unable to struggle.

But she didn’t know that although Saul’s face was turned toward her, his gaze had long since shifted to Robin, whose tail was still mostly in the sea.

Those gazes came from Saul’s countless tentacles.

Robin, who had originally been entangling Maria, saw Saul in this form and with a twist, actually abandoned Maria directly and jumped into the sea.

“Want to run?” Saul released four tentacles, forming the four corners of a square, plunging straight into the water like a cage chasing Robin.

Those tentacles that entered the sea were completely unaffected by the pollution in the seawater. In places Maria couldn’t see, the tentacles’ suckers opened, but this time what was revealed wasn’t mouths with dense teeth, but eyeballs with iridescent pupils.

Being stared at by the eyeballs, even with the dark seawater refracting light, Robin couldn’t resist at all. A pollution different from black tide pollution—more powerful pollution—spread rapidly through Robin’s tail like ink dropped into clear water.

Soon, Robin, who had been desperately fleeing, gradually lost momentum and drifted helplessly in the water like seaweed.

Seeing this, Saul retracted the eyeballs from his tentacles. The four tentacles coiled and fished the limp black tail up from the ocean depths.

On the other side, the other tail under Little Algae’s watch, which had been somewhat restless, trembled and no longer dared to think of escaping.

Meanwhile, because Robin had fled and she couldn’t recover her magical power, Maria almost fell into the sea. Fortunately, Saul was still watching her and used another tentacle to wrap around Maria’s waist.

Of course, Maria might have preferred falling into the sea.

Saul was very careful, only letting the tentacles that entered the seawater to track open their star-shaped eyes, while other tentacles remained as they were. Otherwise, he’d have to worry about an eye appearing on Maria’s forehead too.

“Saul, are you… are you still conscious?” As Saul was fishing up the long tail, Maria asked in a trembling voice.

Saul turned his head. His body began gradually returning to human skeletal form, with only the five tentacles holding Maria and the long tails remaining outside.

“I’m alright.” Saul thought for a moment and gave a somewhat vague answer.

(End of Chapter)

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