Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 72

Chapter 72 The Second Olive Branch

What is this? Is it the soul sealed in the body?

Seeing that the head was about to break free from the body, the golden runes suddenly turned into layers of chains to seal the seven orifices of the head, and tried to pull it back.

The head was gradually exhausted, and it was about to be pulled back into the body of the male apprentice by the golden rune chain.

Suddenly, it quickly retracted and rushed towards Thor.

Between the contraction and pulling, a small gap was left, and a tearing roar came from the head’s taut lips.

“Save me–“

The golden rune chain tightened again, and the sound stopped abruptly.

It seemed that the cry for help consumed all the strength of the head, and the golden rune chain finally succeeded in restraining it back to the back of the male apprentice.

“Hmm?” Rum snorted lightly, and his fingers suddenly picked up a huge feather pen from the laboratory table next to him.

The tip of the pen was dipped in a thumb-sized ink bottle next to it. When it was lifted up, a little sticky golden liquid hung on it, and it would not fall off.

Rum moved quickly, adding a few more lines on the male apprentice’s back.

The male apprentice lying there twitched twice, and a painful expression appeared on his side face.

But because of this change, he looked more like a living person than a puppet.

As the rune array gradually strengthened, the male apprentice’s face regained its calm.

Thor, who had been observing from the side, also stopped meditating.

After drawing, Rum threw the feather pen back on the table, asked the male apprentice to stand up, and re-examined his body.

“Observe for a while, then go out. Call the next one in.”

The third apprentice came next, and there was no abnormality this time.

It was just that the process was very fast, as if it was just a formality.

After the three of them went out, Rum pondered for a moment, and suddenly waved for Thor to come closer.

Thor walked over with some trepidation, not knowing how Rum would test him.

Unexpectedly, after Rum stretched out his arm and grabbed Thor’s shoulder, the first thing he said was…

“Have you been having nightmares these two days?”

Thor’s mind instantly floated through the dream of lying n*ked on the teleportation platform, looking for the sound of his own footsteps, and the dark bottom of the teleportation platform.

Mentor Anze said that he was haunted by a vengeful spirit. Is this nightmare a manifestation of being haunted by a vengeful spirit?

But why didn’t Mentor Kaz see it all the time?

“Yes.” Thor showed some uneasiness appropriately.

“Cid’s vengeful spirit is entangled with you. It seems that you made him die very aggrieved.”

“I am defending normally… It means I was forced to fight back.” Thor hurriedly explained.

Rum laughed and stretched his neck forward, and it really stretched out a long way.

“How about it, do you want me to help you get rid of Cid’s vengeful spirit?”

Thor was stunned, and finally understood what the other party meant. He thought to himself: “Teacher Rum, are you Cid’s mentor or my mentor? Did you get the wrong enemy?”

The other party was just complaining that Thor killed his assistant, why did he take the initiative to ask for help now?

Although he felt strange, Thor was honest most of the time.

“I want to!”

Rum was very satisfied with Thor’s straightforwardness.

“If you want to, then do it well. Kaz said you have an excellent soul talent. He rarely uses the word “excellent” to describe a person. Let me see how excellent you are. Tell me, what did you see on those three second-level apprentices just now?”

Thor pondered for a moment, sorted out his words, and told the scene he saw truthfully.

Rum looked at Thor deeply, and his expression became more and more serious as Thor told the story.

“You can’t call this a talent… it should be called soul intuition.”

He stretched out his hand, pulled Thor’s arm, and asked Thor to turn around in front of him.

Then he took his hand back and put it on his belly.

The belly was like a lake with ripples.

“You haven’t mastered the knowledge of magic circles and runes yet, and you only have a superficial understanding of witchcraft, but you can see through the surface and directly see the essence.” Rum suddenly pointed his five fingers inward, and pulled it hard, tearing a piece of meat directly from the belly.

After the piece of meat was separated from the body, no blood flowed out of the wound. Instead, some fat flowed out to block the wound.

Rum kneaded the meat in his hands.

The meat was like clay and could be shaped at will.

A doll-like doll soon took shape in Rum’s hands.

He then used his little finger to hook two black loach-like worms from a bottle and placed them on the doll’s face.

The loach went into the puppet’s eyes, leaving two holes.

Then, the puppet gradually changed color and turned into the light brown color of wood.

Isn’t this the puppet that the apprentices used to test their mental power?

Only then did Thor know that the material of the puppet was not wood at all. He had borrowed one to study for a few days, but he didn’t find that the material was wrong at all.

Rum threw the finished eyeless puppet into Thor’s hands.

“Look at it, and then tell me what you hear.”

Thor took the puppet and glanced at Rum. He was a little confused, but he still followed his words and lowered his head to look into the puppet’s empty eyes.

“Save me, save me… I want you too… Save me…”

The cry for help sounded again, sometimes mixed with other sounds.

As time passed, Thor’s face gradually turned pale.

Slowly, he could no longer focus on the puppet’s eyes intentionally, but he couldn’t look away.

This freshly baked puppet seemed to be more powerful and terrifying than the puppet in the cabinet.

Rum never called for a stop.

“… Kill me! Kill me!! Kill me!!!”

The sharp roar sounded again, and Thor felt his eardrums hurt and his brain spun in his skull.

He thought Rum would call for a stop, but the latter still did not move.

Thor’s mental strength was stronger than when he first became an apprentice, but it was limited, so he felt black in front of his eyes again and was about to faint in the next second.

Finally, the puppet in front of him was taken away.

The sharp roar stopped instantly.

Thor’s legs softened and he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he reached out to support himself and stabilized his center of gravity.

Wait, what did he just support?

Thor quickly retracted his hand, and if he was slower, he would have sunk into Rum’s fat body.

Rum didn’t pay attention to Thor’s little action, and threw the puppet into the wooden barrel beside him, and asked: “What did you hear?”

Thor took a breath, and felt that his brain was about to turn into brain matter.

“At first, someone asked for help, saying save me.”

Rum didn’t respond.

Thor continued, “Then there were some other sounds, like I want it too, it hurts too much, etc.”

Mentor Rum nodded slightly. He was about to speak, but found that Thor had not finished yet.

“The last one was a few sharp sounds… kill me.” Thor recalled the sound, raised his hands to hug his arms, and felt goose bumps all over his skin.

Rum was about to nod, but his face suddenly changed. He stretched out his hand and tightly held Thor’s right arm.

“What did you hear last? Kill me?”

Thor’s right arm was in great pain, accompanied by a “click” sound.

His facial features wrinkled together and he cried out in pain.

This Rum really wanted to take the opportunity to deal with me!

But the next second, a white light flashed.

Thor’s right arm recovered as before, the pain was so short that it seemed like an illusion, and even the headache subsided a lot.

“Did you really hear kill me?” Rum’s eyes and the fat on his face were twitching.

“Yes.” Thor pinched his arm, and the bones were not dislocated.

“Is it a man’s voice or a woman’s voice?”

“A woman’s,” seeing that Rum seemed to be very concerned about the voice, Thor added another descriptor, “It sounds very painful.”

Rum stared at Thor with a dazed expression, as if he saw someone else on his face.

“Ha…hahahaha…hahahaha!!!!”

He suddenly started laughing wildly, like he was having a seizure.

His two hands kept slapping his fat belly, making a “bang bang” sound along with the laughter.

He gradually laughed so hard that he fell forward and backward, his flesh did not move, but his head swayed back and forth.

Thor was terrified and could not help but take two steps back. He was afraid that Rum would explode like a balloon.

Rum laughed for about ten minutes, and suddenly shook forward, stopped laughing, and stared at Thor.

“Do you want to transfer to my name to study?”

(End of this chapter)