[{"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-717":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},1381238,1828,"Chapter 717: Wizard Jonah","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-717",717,"\u003Cp>Saul flew at low altitude, weaving through the towering ruins while also searching for any other suspicious items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Still a bit further ahead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny was directing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Over there, should be in that building.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Saul stopped on the roof ridge of a three-story building, looking at another building of the same scale across the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Caugust's inner city. Unlike the northwest area with its high-rise buildings, this area mostly had low but exquisite small buildings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had once been where wizards and wizard apprentices lived, along with some ordinary people of relatively high power and status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The buildings here weren't that tall and weren't as severely damaged as the high-rise district.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most buildings hadn't collapsed, only the windows and doors were basically broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everywhere within sight was empty and deserted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at this moment, there was a black shadow writhing in the room across from Saul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This shadow appeared to be a person, wearing a cloak covered in dust and in tatters, seemingly bent over searching for something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul didn't approach immediately but observed his movements from across the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you think he's looking for?\" Saul asked his two companions in the diary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Food?\" Herman asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doesn't look like it.\" Penny immediately disagreed. \"Look at where he's searching—it's not where normal people would keep food at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul had noticed this too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black shadow in the house across didn't seem to be looking for food, nor for tools or valuables.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just carefully feeling around on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if there might be something on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The dust on the ground across from him looks like it hasn't been stepped on for a long time. He should be entering that room for the first time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the time Saul and his companions were observing, the person across hadn't noticed their presence, but inadvertently turned around, letting Saul see his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\" Saul raised his eyebrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow!\" Penny exclaimed, but her cry held no terror, rather more mockery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Saul, this person has no face!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Penny, to be precise, he has no facial features. But I happen to know this person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Saul, you're amazing! Even changed to this state, you can still recognize him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul leaped from the rooftop where he stood and went directly through the window of the room across.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he chose a less dirty place to land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wizard Jonah.\" Saul called out the name of the person crawling on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jonah, one of Bayton Academy's original instructors, specialized in dark attribute magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he usually holed up in laboratories with his apprentices, Saul's only impression of him was that he cared a lot about credits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The type who could instantly become stingy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't expected that when he saw him again, he would already be in such a wretched state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting closer, Saul saw that his body under the cloak was also damaged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers only had their first segments remaining, with uneven wounds that seemed to be caused by corrosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from the outline of his clothes, his calves were similarly only half remaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, these injuries weren't much for a first-rank wizard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What really made him incredibly wretched was the abnormality on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A face with no eyes, mouth, or nose—only ears and hair remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The places where his features had been weren't smooth and round like a boiled egg, but uneven like his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From chin to a bit above his forehead, it was all this horrifying appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow!\" Penny exclaimed again. \"I can already imagine how he got injured.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He must have been hung by his waist, then lowered to dip into some corrosive solution. Just like using a piece of bread to dip into tomato soup.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just talk without bringing food into it.\" Saul complained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nightmare Butterflies didn't need to eat, so they ruined food descriptions without mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even at this point, Wizard Jonah across from him paid no attention to Saul, still searching on the ground by himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had now crawled from the dining room to under the living room table, and when crawling forward, he knocked over a chair, stirring up a cloud of dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Herman transformed into a silver light, flew forward quickly, and returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reported to Saul, \"No good, the ears are just for show too—they're rotten inside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul frowned, asking in confusion, \"Who was so vicious? And so pointlessly, so...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you hate someone, just kill them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you're really not satisfied, torture them first, then kill them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But turning someone into this state and then letting them wander—they might encounter some opportunity to turn things around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having searched the nearby area for a long time, Saul was certain there was absolutely no second living person in this region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward and patted Jonah's shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The latter immediately jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, facing Saul's direction with his back arched like a wild beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally encountered a living person, but how to communicate like this!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jonah in this state, even if his rationality remained, was already in a highly nervous mental state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He probably wouldn't bother trying to understand Saul's meaning at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And most magical communication required the use of eyes, ears, and other organs during casting and receiving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person across happened to have none of these.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should I have Penny find another person? Then I could use the time to communicate with him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just thinking of this, Saul changed his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, since it's difficult to communicate with Jonah in reality, I could try communicating with him in dreams!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as someone wasn't born without the five senses, they should miss their complete life in dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny laughed mischievously and naturally cooperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A butterfly seemingly woven from silver threads flew lightly from Saul's brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul slowly closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver butterfly landed on his back, suddenly curled up, then spread out in the next second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver butterfly wings expanded in an instant into giant butterfly wings nearly two meters long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With one gentle flap of the wings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark world Saul saw after closing his eyes immediately filled with colorful blocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These blocks were like building blocks—square and with clear edges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their numbers were enormous, falling from the sky like a torrential downpour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These building block-like squares fell to the ground and automatically assembled into the world's original appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gradually, the blocks became smaller and smaller, while the objects they constructed became clearer and more detailed. Finally, the world transformed into a new appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul seemed to instantly arrive in a comfortable bedroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One wall of the bedroom had built-in shelves filled with various magical books.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other wall was filled with bottles and jars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously another case of someone who only conducted research at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Former instructor Jonah, who once had a crooked mouth and slanted eyes, stood at his experiment table, holding a small wooden box and rummaging through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wizard Jonah. Hello.\" Saul greeted again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jonah was startled and turned around abruptly, revealing a face with only one eye remaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Penny was somewhat disappointed. \"That's it? I couldn't possibly be afraid of this face!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1201,"2026-06-05T22:22:29.650Z",1,"novelbin.me","98a9de97fca66239212791c7f520e9188423a8342589f166bb057b68cea193f3","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-718","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-716",1037,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdiary-of-a-dead-wizard-cover.jpg"]