“So mysterious…” Saul muttered, looking around. “You’re not planning to do radiation-related experiments, are you?”

Keli’s eyes widened. “Who told you?”

Saul spread his hands. “No one told me, but what else could you perform?”

Keli wrinkled her nose. “Well, you still can’t guess what I can do.”

She stopped wasting words, afraid Saul would immediately figure it out.

Then Keli directly opened the test tube in her hand and turned the opening downward.

The soul fragment inside slid down along the glass wall bit by bit.

It looked like a piece of jelly.

When this “jelly” completely slid out of the test tube, it suddenly accelerated and fell to the ground with a “splat.”

The gray outer shell cracked like pulp, revealing the black pollution source inside.

As soon as that small mass of pollution source contacted the outside world, it unceremoniously began expanding and spreading like smoke and mist.

The ground quickly gained a black stain.

It looked like a human hand.

But with only four fingers.

The pollution on the ground spread relatively slowly, while the smoke in the air expanded rapidly, about to touch Keli nearby.

Just then, Saul suddenly felt Keli release a peculiar fluctuation.

This fluctuation was different from magical power and unlike mental energy waves.

Its frequency was denser, with higher amplitude.

Like densely arranged sharp knives carrying murderous coldness.

At the same time, Keli controlled this fluctuation, emanating it evenly outward and surrounding her body, forming a spiked “shell.”

When the spreading smoke approached the “shell,” it was immediately pierced by the sharp surface spikes.

The originally formed smoke was instantly shattered into tiny particles that fell to the ground.

Keli stepped forward, and the special radiation around her approached the four-fingered black handprint on the ground.

Strangely, that handprint seemed to come alive, moving its four fingers and crawling away from Keli.

It had the feeling of fleeing in panic.

Keli didn’t let the handprint escape. She strode forward directly and stepped on the fleeing black four-fingered handprint.

“Crack!”

The black handprint, which clearly existed on a flat surface, seemed to be actually stepped on and spread out flat.

Not only that, but it also developed many dense cracks.

Because Keli kept stepping on it, the cracks on the handprint became more and more numerous and dense.

Finally, the entire black handprint scattered into many fragments with a bang.

After doing all this, Keli turned her head to look over, chin slightly raised, her face full of pride.

“How’s that? I’m amazing, right?”

Saul’s expression was serious as he walked forward, bent down to pick up some powder, and rubbed it into even finer black particles between his fingers.

“That’s right, this is the black powder that forms after black tide inertization. Unless activated by special means, it will maintain this state permanently and lose its contaminating properties.”

Saul stood up, sighing, “Your radiation attack can actually automatically inertize the black tide, consuming only your magical power. It’s much more economical than the Inertization Formula that Byron and I researched.”

Keli habitually rolled her eyes. “What do you mean ‘consuming only my magical power’? My magical power is also very valuable!”

Saul collected the soul fragment that was writhing alone on the ground.

This soul fragment had been away from Saul for an unknown length of time, but when reclaimed, there was no rejection at all—it happily merged into Saul’s finger.

Keli watched enviously from the side.

Although her radiation attack could already neutralize black tide pollution, Saul’s modified body was even more powerful, actually able to preserve it for so long while maintaining the pollution’s activity.

Seeing Keli’s puffed cheeks, Saul smiled and surrendered. “Very impressive. I don’t have that ability.”

Keli patted her small chest, half-jokingly saying, “You admit it, right? So from now on, I can protect you too!”

The room was quiet for a few seconds.

Looking at Keli, Saul hesitated slightly but finally said, “Thank you, but you should advance to third-rank first.”

Keli puffed her cheeks again, but her eyes rolled and she put on a smile, even with some flattery.

“Either way, I’m very strong against pollution now. Could you…”

“Hmm?” Saul saw her hesitating and didn’t understand what she was embarrassed to say.

“Could you… give me a tiny bit of that white stuff? Just a tiny bit!”

Keli raised her hand, thumb and index finger almost touching but still leaving a small gap.

This emphasized that she really only wanted a tiny bit.

Saul was puzzled for half a second, then suddenly understood.

But his expression became serious, and he immediately shook his head. “No!”

He understood—Keli wanted fragments of the bone monster he had brought back from the Chaos Realm.

But while that thing had no killing power in the Chaos Realm, it had very strong pollution properties after being brought back.

Moreover, this property was very similar to the anchor points Saul had obtained from black tide pollution, just that from current experimental results, it wasn’t as domineering as the anchor point pollution.

After conducting preliminary research with Byron, Saul had immediately sealed the bone monster fragment samples within his own body. He wouldn’t let anyone study or use them alone.

Currently, only his body, which could withstand Black Tide Storm Eyes, could most safely preserve the fragment samples.

After coming to the wizard tower, Keli had certainly learned about the terrifying nature of bone fragments from Byron.

But she wasn’t afraid at all and even eagerly wanted to take fragment samples for experiments.

If Keli wanted other things, Saul definitely wouldn’t be stingy, but these bone fragments were too dangerous. One careless move could lead her down Firefly Lord Herbert’s path—immediate irreversible mutation leading to death.

Seeing Keli’s unwilling expression, Saul seriously refused again. “Even I have to handle that thing carefully. You just advanced to second-rank, and even your spiritual body isn’t stable enough. How could you touch it? One careless contact means death.”

If it were anyone else seeing Saul’s current expression, they definitely wouldn’t dare say more. But Keli was different—when it came to experimental research, her stubbornness was no less than Saul’s.

“I’m very careful. Look, I often use Alpha and Beta now and I’ve never had problems.”

(two highly radioactive alloy substances Keli developed)

Saul also understood Keli’s personality—usually carefree, but when it involved her research field, she became particularly stubborn.

So Saul turned and walked away, not giving Keli any chance to argue.

Keli was about to chase after him when she discovered her body couldn’t move.

How could she not know Saul was behind this?

Saul casually opened the door sealed by magic, halfway out he turned back. “Oh right, hurry up and advance to third-rank. I’m still waiting for you to protect me!”

“Hmph!” Keli bared her teeth at Saul like an annoyed teddy bear.

After leaving the laboratory, Saul released his restraint on Keli, but she didn’t chase after him.

She probably knew that chasing out would just get her restrained again.

The consciousness entities in the Dead Wizard’s Diary watched the entire process.

Beth first sighed.

[Saul, you’re really kind-hearted.]

Someone actively volunteered to test dangerous waters for him, yet he refused?

Pei’er coldly snorted once, then bluntly complained.

[Some people appear very kind on the surface, but once they do bad things, they have no limits!]

…

Extreme north of Stat Continent, outside the Sighing Wall.

The figure of Murphy, the strongest fourth-rank wizard here, flashed and appeared at a wizard tower built on the Storm Sea.

The tower’s outer walls were inscribed with offensive and defensive magical formations.

But these couldn’t stop a fourth-rank wizard.

The reason Murphy didn’t directly break in was because this wizard tower’s current owner was Gorsa.

A man who had just advanced to third-rank a few years ago but declared he would advance to fourth-rank.

And remarkably, no one questioned his words!

(End of Chapter)

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