[{"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-755":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},1381026,1828,"Chapter 755: Stay Away from Places with Water","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-755",755,"\u003Cp>After leaving the upper floor room, Saul was preparing to return to his cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he saw a little girl at the corner of the staircase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tiny thing, about four or five years old, biting her left thumb while looking up at Saul with round eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Big brother, are you a bad person?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul hadn't seen such a small human child in a long time. He crouched down to look at the little girl. \"I'm not a bad person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not a bad person, then why did you go into that room?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If big brother was a bad person, he wouldn't have come out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl's mouth immediately formed a perfect circle, looking as if she had suddenly understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul found it amusing, patted the little girl's head, and stood up to go downstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul froze, then looked down to see that the little girl wasn't calling him, but someone behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned around and was surprised to see Paul, the wizard apprentice who had just interrogated him, standing expressionlessly in the hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The adorable human child ran straight to Paul's side and hugged his knee. \"Daddy!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Apprentice Paul remained standing in place, motionless. It looked as if he wasn't being hugged by a little girl, but rather wrapped by a giant python.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Saul could tell that when Paul faced the little girl, it wasn't fear but a kind of nervousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extreme nervousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Really is a father.\" Saul tried hard to control himself from showing an amused expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem,\" Paul cleared his throat, suddenly covered the little girl's ears, then said to Saul, \"I'll give you a piece of advice—don't trust the cat's gratitude. People who encounter it may become lucky at first, but they all end up drowning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drowning?\" Saul thought of Mike's death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That man who died in a thin layer of washing water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Paul bent down and carefully but stiffly picked up the little girl like handling cream, no longer communicating with Saul, and turned to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl hugged Paul tightly, resting her chin on Paul's shoulder while blinking her big eyes at Saul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul waved at the little girl and silently mouthed \"goodbye.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl didn't respond, just buried her head in Paul's shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the first time I've seen a wizard apprentice with a child.\" Saul leisurely returned to his room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merchant Mike's death seemed to be deliberately suppressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the rest of the journey, Saul heard no one discussing death, nor did anyone else have accidents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the airship flew steadily and boringly through the sky for a month, it finally reached Saul's destination—Sky City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is Sky City.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they were about to dock with Sky City's skyport, most travelers had packed their luggage and stood in the corridor on the top floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although passengers still weren't allowed on deck before docking, the top floor corridor had windows for viewing the scenery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul stood here for the first time, looking at the landscape ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two people stood beside him, one of whom seemed to have been to Sky City before and was introducing it to the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sky City was originally an island on the sea, then the City Lord cast magic to move it into the sky.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other person cooperatively expressed admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow! Like a place where gods live.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul followed their gaze and saw, in a clear blue sky, a small island floating on clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire island was quite large, with its lower half completely obscured by impenetrable clouds, as if floating on a sea of clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The upper half of the island was a city built around a circular volcano.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gray road wound spirally upward, leading directly to a water-blue castle at the highest point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mountain peak was capped with snow, while the foot was submerged in a sea of flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White and pink petals were blown by the wind, swirling into local residents' homes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even viewing through a window layer, one seemed to smell the floral fragrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It does look like a paradise.\" Saul praised silently, but his gaze fell on the lower half of the island completely shrouded in clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distance was somewhat far, and he couldn't see clearly what was beneath the clouds now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew that lifting an island would definitely require quite powerful magical formations for support and continuous resource consumption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually completely unnecessary.Saul shook his head secretly.Expending massive magical power to lift an island—could it really be just for looks?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Appreciation aside, Saul didn't approve of such wasteful use of magical power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless there were other hidden circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes later, the airship shuddered gently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two attendants came to open the door leading to the deck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please disembark in an orderly fashion, no crowding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who could afford airship travel all had some wealth or status, and no one pushed or shoved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people were even still in their rooms, planning to wait until most others had left before departing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul, like an ordinary person, carefully carried his heavy leather suitcase in one hand and the orange cat in the other, stepping onto the not-very-wide gangplank and walking off the airship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After following the crowd to the square outside the skyport, he didn't leave immediately but found shade under an awning outside a random shop and waited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Saul, what are you waiting for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kate was placed on the suitcase to facilitate their conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were already quite a few wizard apprentices walking around here, so the weak magical fluctuations from their secret speech wouldn't attract others' attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Waiting for a cat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Meow?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul's lips didn't move, but his voice reached orange cat Kate's ears. \"After the wizard apprentice on the airship discovered Mike's body, he didn't find the white porcelain kitten. Only after I mentioned it did he become serious. Before that, he might have just treated Mike's death as an ordinary murder. What does this indicate?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kate smacked his lips. \"It indicates someone took that white porcelain kitten before Paul saw the body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to look at Saul. \"You're so interested in that kitten—why didn't you take it back then?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because I wanted to observe objectively.\" Saul smiled. \"Look, just like observing that attendant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attendant who had once guided Saul onto the airship and brought him to Paul for interrogation was now hurriedly coming down from the airship, also carrying a suitcase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Saul was about to follow, someone suddenly approached him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newcomer was a wizard wearing a water-blue cloak with several flower petals on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cloak was inscribed with concealment formations, preventing outsiders from determining the person's strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when Saul's mental power swept over, he immediately detected that the other party was a true wizard—a second-rank true wizard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person raised her head, revealing a beautiful face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome to Sky City, Lord Saul.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saul touched his face and asked without any pretense, \"How did you recognize me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female wizard smiled brilliantly. \"Your cognitive blur magic is cast very skillfully—others can't recognize you at all. I only knew you were here under the City Lord's guidance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"City Lord Ophelia? She actually pays attention to the skyport.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female wizard who came to meet Saul smiled. \"In Sky City, the City Lord is everywhere.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1216,"2026-06-05T22:22:30.047Z",1,"novelbin.me","3fa790956d59502420df1c0baa86d2560b3bc517f6c6c72e85cc220439c0a433","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-756","diary-of-a-dead-wizard-chapter-754",1037,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdiary-of-a-dead-wizard-cover.jpg"]