Noah was extremely happy to see Saul. If it weren’t for the fact that he and a boy with leather wrapped around his waist were standing on tiptoes squeezed together on a stone spike, he probably would have jumped up with joy.

Seeing Saul about to land, Noah quickly called out a warning, “Master, be careful! There’s a monster underground!”

Saul’s figure came to an abrupt stop three meters above the ground. He scanned the ground but no attacks appeared.

He looked at Noah and found him standing with a very thin boy on a one-meter stone spike, with what appeared to be whip marks around the stone.

The stone looked large but wasn’t solid. All around, especially the lower end near the ground, there were many deep, long grooves.

Several grooves had already extended thin cracks, obviously the stone couldn’t support them much longer and would split apart.

Saul’s mental power spread along the stone down underground.

At first, he found nothing.

His mental power could only sense soil, rocks, and some dried plant root systems.

However, comparing the marks on the stone, his mental power immediately locked onto that dried plant.

A black blade appeared from his right side, quickly transforming into an indiscernible black gleam that drilled underground.

With a “splurt” sound, the black blade left a thin crack in the ground. After a while, the ground began to tremble.

The two people standing on the stone swayed precariously.

Then a withered yellow plant suddenly burst from the crack in the ground, whistling as it tried to attack Saul. However, Saul’s position was too high, and the plant that had lost its front half couldn’t reach him at all.

The angry plant then lashed violently toward the two people on the stone, but a transparent barrier appeared around Noah, blocking the withered plant’s strikes.

That was an armor spell scroll Saul had prepared for Noah. It could be activated with just a bit of mental power and a magic crystal.

Unable to strike the two people, the plant could only futilely leave another deep mark on the stone.

With its attack unsuccessful, the plant swayed on the ground like an arm full of unwillingness.

Saul now clearly saw the entire plant’s structure and condensed another black blade.

This time the black blade shot forward swiftly, starting from the top of the plant that hadn’t had time to retract underground, splitting the entire dried plant in half from top to bottom, from head to root.

The black blade followed the dried plant’s meridians deep into the soil, not dissipating until it had cut through the entire plant’s main root system.

In Noah’s eyes, the terrifying plant monster that had just been so formidable now lay collapsed on both sides like a skinned snake, soft on the ground.

He and the boy beside him both looked at Saul with worship.

If Scorpion had thought Saul looked like a divine being descending when he first saw him, particularly handsome, then now the other party had demonstrated a kind of powerful strength that both awed and attracted him.

“He must be the God great-grandfather spoke of, right?”

Seeing his master appear and easily eliminate the monster that had troubled him for half the day, Noah looked at Saul with eyes constantly sparkling with little stars.

He never expected Saul to appear today, when it hadn’t even been half a month since his last visit.

Originally, his magic crystals had scattered all over the ground when he was escaping with the boy, and all he held was a scroll that could only activate one armor spell.

But that plant-like monster kept chasing them relentlessly. Even though it could never break through the armor spell’s defense, it didn’t leave.

In fact, the armor spell’s time limit really couldn’t last much longer.

Just as Noah was starting to think about how to fight the monster after the armor spell failed, Saul’s fireball suddenly shot up into the sky.

Noah was immediately overjoyed and, not caring about saving some magic power for defense, directly cast his most skilled small fireball.

This also saved their lives.

Saul easily killed the monster but didn’t relax his vigilance. He swept the soil around the monster with his mental power, including near its root system. Only after finding no more mental power fluctuations did he slowly land on the ground.

In the Chaos Realm, there was no magic power to replenish, so he had to be careful about consumption when casting spells normally.

“It’s fine now.”

Hearing Saul’s voice, Noah pulled the thin little boy and prepared to jump down from the big stone.

Just as they were about to jump, they heard two “crack” sounds, and the one-meter-tall big stone shattered into countless pieces.

Noah and Scorpion, who were staring intently at Saul, one fell forward and one leaned backward, both about to hit the ground.

Little Algae immediately appeared to catch Noah who almost fell face-first, but it didn’t help the unfamiliar little boy.

The little boy seemed about to fall head-first, but suddenly twisted his waist in mid-air. Something hand-like emerged from beneath the leather around his waist, pressed against the ground, and actually supported the boy’s body, preventing him from falling on the sharp stone fragments.

“This child indeed has problems.” Saul wasn’t surprised and just watched quietly.

The boy had what appeared to be a charred black arm growing from his tailbone area, connected to a palm with only three fingers. Each finger was short and had no joints.

When Saul had just used his mental power to check the safety around the two, he had discovered the little boy’s mental power was somewhat abnormal. It wasn’t to the degree of pollution, but it was also different from normal people.

His mental power was even comparable to Noah, who had taken enhancement drugs twice.

Yet such a boy had been playing the role of someone who needed protection in front of Noah.

Watching Little Algae bring Noah to his side, Saul asked Noah, “Who is he?”

Noah looked curiously at the deformed arm beneath the boy, and hearing Saul’s question, quickly answered truthfully.

“He says his name is Scorpion, or Blood—something like that pronunciation. We don’t speak the same language. I just saw him digging holes in the ground looking for food. I thought it was rare to meet a living person, so I went to talk to him. But after just asking two questions, we were chased by a monster that suddenly burst from the ground. He kept running away. I didn’t expect he had such… uh, abilities?”

Noah obviously saw that Scorpion was hiding his strength, but because Saul appeared, he wasn’t angry. Instead, he immediately entered wizard perspective, re-examining the boy before him with a research mindset.

Saul suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Then a white light emerged from Scorpion’s head and drilled into Saul’s forehead.

“Master, what are you doing?” Noah asked in amazement.

“First-rank magic, Comprehend Languages. You can learn it once your internal magic power accumulates to 50 Joules.”

“50 Joules?” Noah’s mouth gaped wide.

In this world where there was no way to absorb elemental particles through meditation, the number 50 was simply despairing to him.

Saul wasn’t just painting pie-in-the-sky dreams for Noah.

Although this world had entered the apocalypse due to Black Tide pollution, a world’s resources were no joke.

As long as the right methods were found, even the black powder in the soil could potentially become rare resources.

After reassuring his little apprentice, Saul looked again at the boy who had been stunned speechless by the white light just now.

Saul’s brain worked rapidly, organizing the new knowledge he had gained, then spoke, “Your name is Scorpion?”

At first, when Scorpion saw the white light appear above his head, he thought Saul was going to kill him too.

Although his hidden arm was very powerful, that was only against ordinary monsters.

This terrifying man before him could kill the Withered Ghost Vine with one strike.

But after discovering that Saul hadn’t harmed him and even spoke their language, Scorpion finally realized what kind of existence he had encountered.

Saul didn’t know what the dark, thin boy across from him was thinking. He just watched in amazement as Scorpion suddenly ignored the stone fragments all over the ground, prostrated himself on the ground, turned his head to the right side with his left cheek against the ground, spread his limbs on the ground, and arranged his entire body into a big character shape.

“God, please save Scorpion! Scorpion is willing to become your slave!”

Saul: “…”

Noah: “?”

(End of Chapter)

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