[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-diary-of-a-dead-wizard":3,"chapter-diary-of-a-dead-wizard-diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-542":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Diary of a Dead Wizard",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1380863,1828,"Chapter 542: Planting Little Algae","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-542",542,"\u003Cp>Saul marked the spot he needed, then returned to the center of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here stood a circular, dark cyan pillar covered in dim etchings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul placed his hand on the pillar, then closed his eyes and sent his mental body through his arm and into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very soon, familiar mental fluctuations fed back into his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were hundreds of soul fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mouths, eyes, and unpleasant-looking arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps the space was too cramped—these fragments were all tangled together like a mess of yarn that couldn’t be unraveled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul’s mental body slipped through the gaps between them and continued probing inward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, within a multicolored halo of light, he found a black iron box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul observed the black iron coffin for a full minute before inserting his mental body into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five minutes passed. Just as Hope was about to step forward to remind Saul, the Wizard Tower suddenly trembled slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul opened his eyes and saw that in the corner of the room, at the marked location, a square-shaped opening had appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked over and peered down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pitch black. Not even his meditation method could penetrate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this place belonged to his Wizard Tower, after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without much hesitation, Saul jumped straight down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the descent, he realized the air was incredibly dense and heavy with moisture—even breathing became difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time his feet touched flat ground again, his clothes were clinging damply to his skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it because this place extends deep underground and is soaked by Lake Rhine that the dampness is so heavy?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul summoned a small light orb, but its illumination barely reached two meters around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he summoned a few more light orbs to spin around him, finally expanding his visible range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newly opened space beneath the Wizard Tower was indeed five meters tall, but its area was only a few square meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, Saul had created this space for the purpose of planting Little Algae.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given Little Algae’s current size, this area was more than enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it grows up in the future, the Wizard Tower should have accumulated enough energy to continue expanding the second underground level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on out, Little Algae. Take a look at your new home.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A black tentacle slipped out from the back of Saul’s neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, in order to follow Saul, it had willingly abandoned its already-formed body beneath Gorsa’s Wizard Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had gladly shrunk into a tiny bean-sized blob and nestled in the back of Saul’s neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it had stayed there for four years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Saul finally had his own territory and could finally give Little Algae a home of its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This five-meter-tall underground floor—he was giving it all to Little Algae.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Play however you like!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Wizard Tower wasn’t an ordinary building—it wouldn’t collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…As long as there wasn’t a wizard war raging inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Algae dropped to the ground and quickly familiarized itself with the environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both the humidity and brightness were exactly to its liking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It bounced in front of Saul, split open a shark-toothed mouth, and stuck out a black tongue as if it wanted to lick him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul leaned back immediately and pinched Little Algae’s upper and lower jaws with one hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Squeee!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its tongue, now caught in its own bite, instantly rippled like a wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul couldn’t help but laugh. “Sorry, sorry, the position was too perfect—I couldn’t resist.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Little Algae didn’t get mad at Saul’s prank. It turned around and bounced to the center of the room, then knocked its head against the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul walked over and drew a simple sorcery formation on the ground with one hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This formation would turn the soil into a swamp, though not on the massive scale of a proper Swamp Spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the formation began to emit a faint black glow, Saul placed his palm on it, then gently pressed his hand into the mire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to his original plan, he was supposed to channel magic through his palm, then carefully control the formation to expand the swamp’s range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just as he began to implement the plan, something unexpected interrupted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hand suddenly reached out from the unseen depths below and grabbed his!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold fingers slipped through the gaps between Saul’s own and gripped his hand tightly, like a drowning person grasping at their final straw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul was startled at first, then suspected it was some wraith from beneath Lake Rhine sneaking its way up to the central island.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t afraid of wraiths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lake Rhine wasn’t rich in resources—no way it could spawn wraiths or specters strong enough to match Second Rank power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were just a common wraith sneaking in, Little Algae alone could deal with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the initial shock of being grabbed, Saul quickly calmed down. He gripped back with his other hand and pulled hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to see just what kind of wraith dared sneak beneath his Wizard Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Saul’s strength, a hand was pulled out from the mire—pale and strangely unreal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept pulling—an arm, a shoulder, then a lolling head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Herman: It’s a ghost girl!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It really was a ghost girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her skin was like rough grayish-white lime plaster. Her long hair, the same color, hung limply behind her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even standing fully upright and raising his hand high, Saul couldn’t fully haul the wraith out from underground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was at least two meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Algae rushed over to help, wrapped around Saul’s waist, and lifted him entirely into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ahem!” Saul coughed awkwardly and quickly told Little Algae to put him down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he casually tossed the wraith to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This wraith is tall, and judging by her body proportions, she was probably this tall to begin with—not stretched out from turning into a wraith.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul looked at the hand she had grabbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wraith’s grip was strong—his hand was bruised with bluish-purple marks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Saul merely shook it off. No need to even use healing magic, his arm returned to normal instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he stopped caring about his hand and crouched down, looking excitedly at the ghost-like figure on the ground, unconscious and unresponsive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Interesting. If it weren’t for the complete lack of life force, she could easily be mistaken for a living person.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul turned his index finger into an octopus tentacle and gently curled it around the wraith’s neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still no response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like someone truly passed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Strange. The feedback I’m getting from my tentacle doesn’t feel like a soul body at all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He examined other parts of the wraith as well. “Weird… she has a certain ‘realness’ that normal wraiths lack. Is it because of this gray-white skin? And how did she end up like this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul’s gaze shifted back toward the swamp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, he had the urge to go down and take a look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment that thought crossed his mind, the diary in his mind abruptly opened!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lunar Calendar, Year 318, March 3rd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curiosity drives progress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curiosity also digs your grave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just because you’re curious about how something came to be—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Must you become part of its world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You may have mistakenly believed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That the fastest way to study a strange new thing\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is to become it~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A death warning?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul didn’t expect that just from planting Little Algae in his own Wizard Tower, he’d trigger a death warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Completely absurd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who farms monsters in a safe zone, huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul casually tossed out a complaint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he understood clearly: in the Borderland, there was no such thing as a true safe zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Saul turned away, deciding to give up on exploring the swamp and instead study this strange wraith first—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agu spoke up—and left him utterly dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agu: T-This… This… isn’t this Tower Master Camus?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1307,"2026-06-05T22:22:21.061Z",1,"novelbin.me","1fab201c0a1304145fe91065e91b06d26c12ce11f6a5bf722c26e9831ab6044e","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-543","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-541",1037,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdiary-of-a-dead-wizard-cover.jpg"]