Setting aside the extremely difficult preconditions, even if Frim directly let Saul succeed him now, Saul wouldn’t want to accept.

The Tribunal was very different from Saul’s Rhine City in the Borderland. Rhine City didn’t have such complex power structures, and even if it did, it would need over ten years of development.

By that time, it was uncertain whether Saul would still be in the Borderland.

After Frim left behind this empty promise, his voice no longer sounded, and Byron breathed a long sigh of relief. “His figure has disappeared. He should have left.”

Hearing Byron also thought the other had departed, Saul suddenly turned and walked outside.

Byron didn’t understand why, but he didn’t ask and silently followed behind Saul.

Saul walked all the way to the castle entrance and pulled open the door inward to see the tall and short wizards still guarding at the entrance.

“Are you going to keep guarding here?” Saul asked them directly.

The short wizard turned back with an inexplicable smile on his face. “Yes, if you have any needs, you can tell us.”

Saul was waiting for exactly these words from the dwarf. “Very good. I just accepted Chief Frim’s commission and need to conduct some experiments. Prepare all these materials and send them in.”

Saul unceremoniously took out a parchment from his storage device, ordering the short wizard around like a subordinate.

The short wizard’s expression changed slightly, but he still took the parchment and glanced at its contents.

Nothing particularly rare.

His expression improved a bit as he nodded and put away the parchment. “Within an hour, you’ll receive the required materials.”

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What Saul wanted were some magical materials he had frequently used during his last visit to Evernight – seemingly inconspicuous on the surface, so these people wouldn’t refuse.

But in fact, these materials concealed all the components Saul needed to set up a magical array connecting to the Prismatic Channel.

As long as he could communicate with the Prismatic World, even though Saul was confined in this castle, it wouldn’t hinder his communication with the outside world or control of developments.

Before long, the short wizard delivered all the materials as Saul requested.

Byron immediately came over to help Saul prepare everything.

Before the materials arrived, Saul and Byron had toured the entire castle. Subsequently, they chose a room with huge windows as their temporary laboratory.

Saul first set up an array in the room that could block prying eyes. Byron arranged materials for creating inertization formulas according to his previous experiments.

Saul appeared to be hiding secrets for combating black tide anchor point pollution, but was actually setting up an array connecting to the Prismatic Channel inside, while Byron’s inertization formula preparation was actually to provide cover for Saul.

Shortly after Frim left, Saul had completed the array setup. Next, with Byron – whose mental power had completely surpassed that of second-rank wizards – standing guard, Saul closed his eyes and entered the Prismatic World.

On the magically stable platform casually arranged for Saul by the Death Demon, Saul immediately contacted Shaya. The rightful source is nοvelfire.net

“Shaya, how are things on your end?”

[Following your instructions, we’ve already delivered a letter to Lord Gorsa, but he still entered Kema’s royal palace. Miss Keli also hasn’t directly contacted Lord Gorsa. She seems very afraid of Lord Gorsa.]

Keli was afraid of Gorsa?

This wasn’t strange.

Back in the wizard tower, Gorsa as Tower Master was a very terrifying existence in the hearts of other mentors and apprentices.

At that time, he was wrapped in pink bandages, sleepwalking through the wizard tower every night with only a pair of silver eyes exposed, never deliberately restraining his mental pressure. In everyone’s hearts, he was simply a moody great demon king.

Only Saul was young and ignorant, and his own mental power was special, so he had never been able to feel how terrifying Gorsa’s dispersed magical radiation was, even privately calling him “Pink Big.”

Looking back now, he could only be grateful for the other’s mercy in not killing him.

But even until now, Saul had never truly figured out what exactly Master Gorsa wanted to do, what he truly desired.

However, regardless of what Master Gorsa wanted to do, his past actions had earned Saul’s trust, and the two had a strange understanding.

This time, Saul also wanted to make good use of this understanding.

Having made his decision, he turned to ask about Kira, “Keli not meeting Master Gorsa is correct. Her purpose this time is to rescue Kira, but if she acts together with Master Gorsa, the target would be too obvious and wouldn’t facilitate safely rescuing Kira. With Master Gorsa openly attracting everyone else’s attention, your actions would be like walking in shadows behind the lights, very concealed.”

Shaya’s somewhat admiring voice came through.

[You’re absolutely right. In fact, we’ve already found where Lady Kira is under house arrest. It’s just very strange – she’s not in Kema’s royal palace, but in an agricultural manor on the outskirts of the royal city. Keli and I are waiting outside the manor, planning to find an opportunity to enter.]

“Kira isn’t in the royal palace? Not even in the royal city?” Hearing this news, Saul frowned. “If Yura wants to use Kira to threaten Gorsa – though I doubt she’ll succeed – she should still keep Kira by her side or in a secretly controlled location. But she sent her outside the city?”

Sending her outside the city didn’t mean Kira’s life and death couldn’t be controlled, but there were too many variables and it was unnecessary.

There were clearly better choices.

Saul’s heart stirred. “Could Yura have moved Kira away to protect her?”

Shaya was completely confused.

How could kidnapping someone and using them to threaten Gorsa be for protection?

Saul continued analyzing: “There should be a trap in the royal palace, very likely aimed at Master Gorsa. Yura sending Kira outside the royal palace might be to prevent her from being harmed in the trap, or to prevent her from disrupting the trap. After all, Kira is also a veteran second-rank. Once she goes all out, she can cause considerable impact.”

He asked Shaya: “Have you discovered anything special in Kema’s capital city and royal palace? Especially Keli – she lived there for several years. Has she noticed any differences?”

Shaya’s side was quiet for a moment, apparently communicating with Keli.

After a while, Shaya replied somewhat puzzledly.

[Keli says many soldiers in the royal city have been replaced, and we couldn’t enter the royal palace. The person who sent us messages last time also hasn’t responded to our signals. It feels like the entire royal palace has been sealed off. Just from the outside, there don’t seem to be any special changes – buildings and decorations are all the same as before.]

“Besides people changing, nothing else has changed?” Saul found this strange. Master Gorsa couldn’t be dealt with by ordinary traps.

After thinking, Saul suddenly prompted them: “Have there been any changes or anomalies related to light or light elemental particles?”

Shaya hurriedly went to consult with Keli again.

After the two discussed for a moment, they finally gave Saul a valuable answer.

[Yes, yes, Keli says the castle rarely had lights on during the day before, but when we secretly went to look last time, we found all the visible windows had particularly bright rooms inside. At first Keli thought it was Yura being overly extravagant, requiring all rooms to have lights on, because she had always done that in her own room before. She seems very afraid of the dark.]

“Afraid of the dark? Not necessarily.” Saul had already guessed what the other wanted to do, a cold smile forming at the corner of his mouth. “I think when Yura defected to Kira, she was already preparing for this trap!”

(End of Chapter)

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