Chapter 327 Soul Tide
"What?"
Hearing Sol's words, Sander froze in place, and after three breaths, he asked again in disbelief.
"Do you remember anything special happening before you disembarked?"
"I… …" Sander's eyeballs trembled incessantly.
The long-buried truth resurfaced, and he was about to lose control of his emotions.
"Calm down, don't you want to know why Miel died?"
Sander sniffed hard, and said in a trembling voice, "I remember, I remember, before the ship docked, a soul tide occurred in Blue Water Bay, so we waited on the sea for a night before docking in the morning."
"What is a soul tide?" Sol had never heard the term.
"It is said that many years ago, a tragic war broke out on the Western Continent, involving many countries, and an empire was almost destroyed because of it.
At that time, two armies clashed in Blue Water Bay."
"Who knew that in a night battle where both sides were doing their best, the seawater in Blue Water Bay suddenly rose, engulfing all the soldiers, and only a few officers commanding in the rear escaped.
After that, many people in Blue Water Bay were inexplicably swept away by the waves every year, until the end of the war, when a wizard came to manage it, and this phenomenon of mass death for no reason stopped.
However, occasionally a large number of blurry figures would appear along with the rising tide, and retreat with the ebb tide.
The residents of Blue Water Bay call it the soul tide."
"Whenever a soul tide occurs, people disappear, so the captain notified us to stop on the sea for a day and wait until dawn before docking.
Could it be that night?"
"Did Miel show any abnormalities that night?"
"No, because I was tired from the journey, I waited for her to fall asleep on the bed, and then I fell asleep leaning against the chair.
Oh, right!" Sander seemed to remember something, and suddenly turned his head to stare at Sol, "In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard my sister calling me, but when I woke up, she told me to go back to sleep, saying there was nothing wrong.
I thought she was just playing a prank, and besides, I was too sleepy at the time, so I fell asleep again."
"If I'm not mistaken, she was already dead before disembarking," Sol said softly, feeling that the Sander in front of him was like a little man made of sand, who could be blown away by the wind at any time.
"Impossible, I clearly spoke to her before disembarking," Sander waved his arms excitedly, "And I personally watched her get into the box, and I personally sealed the box."
He was like a helpless child at this moment, having forgotten to respect the wizard.
"Maybe what you saw was an illusion, maybe Miel still had her own consciousness at that time, but if a person is suffocated to death, her skin wouldn't be in this state."
"Not… …suffocated… …" Sander stared blankly at his sister, she was just like she was a few years ago, as if she was just asleep, not dead.
Sol lowered his eyes, propped his knees with his hands, and slowly stood up, seemingly casually saying, "In short, she was not accidentally suffocated by you."
Sander suddenly raised his head, his originally dry eyes suddenly turning red.
His lips trembled slightly, but he couldn't say a word.
Sol didn't let him say anything, interrupting him directly, "Alright, I've checked the house, and you've found the lost items, let's not delay any longer, let's sign the sublease agreement now."
Sander hadn't calmed down yet, and could only nod vigorously.
After re-packing the box, the two returned to the carriage outside the house and signed the agreement.
Afterwards, Sol asked the mushroom coachman to send the person back to the outpost town, while he returned to the lakeside cabin.
"Blue Water Bay, soul tide… …If that's the case, there should be a lot of soul fragments and wraiths there, and with such a large scale, there may even be a few evil spirits."
Sol closed the door and stood back in the center of the hall, which was where the box had appeared just now.
"I can go there in a couple of days to replenish some soul energy, always sitting idle and eating, it's easy to squeeze myself into a dried-up person."
Speaking of this, Sol suddenly stomped his foot, "But before that, I have to solve the problem in this house.
Are you coming out yourself, or am I going to drag you out?"
There was no response in the room.
Sol wasn't in a hurry either, a black tentacle stretched out from the back of his neck, hanging down to the ground, wandering on the ground like a black python.
"A rattan box suddenly appeared, is it trying to make us leave as soon as possible?"
Little Algae's head stopped at a corner of the wall, and finally it extended upwards, crawling along the wall, going straight and then turning a right angle, finally going straight again and turning another right angle.
Sol walked over, watching Little Algae use its body to draw a square on the wall.
"Okay, it seems that the one controlling the box's appearance isn't a clear consciousness."
He didn't find the wraith he originally thought was hiding here, but instead found a strange passage.
Sol touched his nose, a flash of embarrassment passing by.
He let Little Algae, who was extremely sensitive to the aura of death, come back, and went forward to check himself.
"A very well-hidden secret room," Sol's hand gently brushed over the wall, not feeling any unusual sensation.
He closed his eyes, recalling the area of the wooden house from the outside.
"There is indeed a secret room, but the area should be very small, is it to hide something?"
Sol's hand pressed against the wall gradually became transparent, and his fingertips suddenly passed through the wooden wall.
But he didn't go deep, and quickly pulled his hand back out.
At the moment his hand was pulled out, a grayish-white tentacle could be vaguely seen transforming into a human palm.
"There's nothing inside, not even a defensive wizardry," After a simple exploration, Sol directly followed the square that Little Algae had drawn earlier.
His magic power was released from his fingertips, turning into a black touch of torment.
The power of corrosion quickly broke open the magic circle on the wall, and a hidden door appeared.
Sol opened the door and saw the wizardry magic circle engraved behind the door.
"What a complex magic circle," Sol only glanced at it, and with his current mental strength, he actually felt dizzy.
However, when he started running the Meditation Technique, the dizziness was greatly reduced, and then flipping open the diary, the negative mental impact caused by the magic circle was completely eliminated.
"This magic circle focuses on hiding fluctuations, the formula used is something I've never seen before.
What is the original owner of this house trying to hide?"
Sol walked in and found that a layer of dust had accumulated inside.
He used wizardry to remove the dust on the surface, and finally saw a pattern on the floor that had been sealed for who knows how many years.
"Another magic circle? Using a magic circle to hide a magic circle?" Sol didn't approach immediately, but observed both sides of the room.
After confirming that there were no other magic circles in the room, he carefully approached the magic circle.
"Using the mountains and forests to hide the house, using ghost stories similar to illusions to hide the secret room, using the secret room to hide the magic circle… …I want to see just how precious this hidden thing is."
Sol examined the entire magic circle, his brows gradually furrowing.
"Why does this magic circle look a little familiar?"
A light bulb "popped" on in his mind, and his puzzled expression gradually turned into surprise.
In order to reconfirm his memory, Sol quickly rummaged through the notes he carried with him.
He took out a notebook that wasn't very important, but recorded rare and uncommon wizardry knowledge, and flipped to the first few pages, freezing on one of the magic circle formula diagrams.
That was the wizardry magic circle for… …extracting souls that he had once obtained from the vagrant wizard in Mofan Town!
And this magic circle in the so-called haunted house is clearly an upgraded version of the former!
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