After Saul realized the Storm Eye had separated from his body and appeared in the outside world while still rapidly expanding, he immediately moved away from the formation's center.
"Saul! Over here!" Pei'er, who had already descended to the formation's edge, immediately reached out toward Saul.
Almost simultaneously, Saul felt a force wrap around his waist and directly lift his entire body up.
When Saul cast flight magic again, his traveling speed more than doubled.
With his feet landing outside the formation, Saul had no time to thank Pei'er and directly said to Corey standing on the platform, "Ice Lock seal!"
Corey immediately nodded and took out the mirror that hadn't been used during the last Storm Eye sealing.
Saul turned back to look at the others. "Immediately terminate the formation and cut off the energy supply, or the Storm Eye will erupt quickly!"
The wizards from the Stargate Council had good quality. Although the suddenly appearing Storm Eye shocked them, once someone began commanding, they immediately started acting in a well-trained manner.
With experience from the last Storm Eye sealing, Corey directly placed the mirror near the Storm Eye this time.
This time, Saul volunteered to place the mirror.
Byron beside him frowned. "Let me go instead."
Saul looked at the Storm Eye in the formation. After the formation was terminated, the Storm Eye stopped expanding.
Saul also breathed a sigh of relief and was in the mood to joke with Byron, "Senior, you can't run as fast as me now."
Byron knew Saul was right, but he still frowned tightly.
Last time when the Storm Eye appeared, Saul hadn't let them go, so Byron was seeing a Storm Eye for the first time.
This terrible vortex didn't look very impressive, but it was said that when it truly erupted, it could kill most of the Borderland's residents.
So when the Storm Eye appeared, everyone would drop everything and seal it at the fastest speed.
Although the Storm Eye had stopped expanding, Byron still felt uneasy.
Unable to argue with Saul, he could only join the team arranging the Ice Lock formation, hoping to speed up progress.
Saul also noticed Byron's nervousness.
Since replacing his locator, Byron's mental power talent was completely on par with Saul's.
Therefore, Saul also valued Byron's intuition highly.
But sealing was urgent, and besides Saul, others didn't have the chance to start over.
Moreover, this Storm Eye was closely related to Saul. Although he didn't know when or how it entered his consciousness space, Saul understood that as long as this Storm Eye wasn't sealed, it would always be a huge hidden danger for him!
When carrying the mirror to the designated location, Saul walked very carefully.
The Storm Eye was temporarily quiet but might be disturbed, so when Saul entered the formation range again, he didn't use magic.
All magic power stayed obediently in his body.
Only his mental power kept watching the Storm Eye's movements.
Until Saul reached the corresponding position and set up the mirror, the Storm Eye remained motionless.
"Excellent!"
Some people cheered quietly behind him.
Saul's mouth also curved into a smile.
Confirming the angle and position were correct, Saul immediately turned around and ran frantically.
The sooner he left the formation sealing range, the sooner Corey could activate the Ice Lock seal.
However, just as he ran two steps, Corey's expression suddenly changed.
What could make a constantly expressionless doll show emotional change?
It must be related to the Storm Eye.
Saul's steps didn't stop, but his head twisted back as much as possible.
He was shocked to see that the Storm Eye, which had just been motionless, suddenly began spinning rapidly.
And streams of black smoke "banged" outward from the vortex's center.
Like someone had detonated a bomb.
"How could this be?" Saul's eyes widened, but his steps didn't dare stop at all.
"Just now, in the instant I looked back, I seemed to see a white shadow drilling underground?"
Although he vaguely discovered the abnormal cause, Saul didn't dare approach the Storm Eye now.
Only after completing the sealing could he investigate that white shadow's trail.
But Saul had only run back two steps when he suddenly heard the sound of surging tides behind him.
He directly stopped running and turned back to look at the Storm Eye.
"Too fast!"
Clearly there was no energy input, but the Storm Eye still completely erupted within seconds of starting to spin again.
Saul witnessed firsthand what powerlessness felt like before nature.
Being closest to the Storm Eye, he was also the first person swallowed by the black tidal waves.
The instant he was swallowed by the tide, Saul struggled to float upward.
He didn't use magic power or spells because he knew that using magic power in the Black Tide was tantamount to accelerating his own mutation.
But despite this, when Saul finally surfaced with great difficulty, he found his vision had lost color again, becoming black, white, and gray.
Looking down, sure enough, there wasn't a single piece of good flesh on his entire body.
Only this time he surfaced faster, still hanging some internal organs and skin, but these tissues were also melting at extremely fast speed.
Like putting a snowman over fire to roast.
"Damn!"
Saul cursed in frustration.
He knew this crisis preview was about to end in failure.
But he still tried hard to look around, attempting to find clues for breaking through a third time.
But the scene before him soon made Saul grit his teeth.
The Black Tide's spreading speed simply couldn't be matched by ordinary wizards.
Even though many people chose to run outward the moment the Black Tide appeared, they only bought themselves a few minutes.
More terrifyingly, even before the Black Tide spread to their feet, the horrible pollution it emitted had already begun causing people to mutate.
These mutations all looked extremely painful, making even someone like Saul, who considered himself mentally resilient, feel heart-wrenching suffocation.
Especially when he saw Byron suddenly become a drained "fruit" and gradually sink underwater.
Watching Pei'er cry out in panic, but suddenly lose her mind as if looking at the sky, then fall toward the gray sky like falling into the deep sea.
Watching the powerful Herbert also burst into flames almost instantly, fire spreading across the western sea surface.
Watching the consciousness bodies still desperately struggling to save Saul, but one by one being torn apart, quickly becoming twisted evil spirit fragments.
Saul felt all his bones trembling.
"Clatter clatter clatter clatter..."
His upper and lower teeth were also violently colliding, as if someone had stripped off his clothes in an instant and thrown him into an icy river!
He was now absolutely certain that it must be that suddenly appearing white shadow that affected the Storm Eye.
And all of this was premeditated!
Someone knew another Storm Eye would appear!
Someone knew this Storm Eye was on Saul's body!
"Crack!"
The scene froze and shattered into countless pieces, as if crushing that last trace of luck in Saul's heart into powder.
Saul opened his eyes again.
Before him were all his friends and strangers with smiles still on their faces and hope still in their eyes.
"Wizard Saul, may we begin?" Corey still inquired expressionlessly.
"No!" Saul took a deep breath, then said, "I no longer need the advancement formation's assistance to push open doors."
Everyone else looked at Saul in confusion.
"I can already complete the advancement on my own."
Saul calmly met everyone's gaze.
After all, including two golden book page previews, he had already pushed open the doors within his body three times.
If he still couldn't do it, fate should abandon him!
(End of Chapter)