Chapter 174 174. Just a fourth-level mage
As a fourth-level mage, Zell has never been to the barren north of the kingdom, let alone traveled such a long distance in such cold weather. .
Of course, he was not directly hit by the peas falling from the sky...
After finally getting out of the carriage, his expression was as ugly as possible, and he glanced coldly to the side. of Estner.
Estner was naturally aware of the cold gaze, but had no reaction at all. Instead, he smiled.
He really hoped that this guy would do something to him.
Zel's heart was hurt by Estner's smile and he withdrew his gaze.
He was even more angry.
If this guy wasn’t so troubled, how could he be forced to come to the North? How could he suffer such suffering?
His hatred for Estner at this time even exceeded that of Croya.
However, he himself is a huge beneficiary of the identity of a mage, and he knows that it is easy for a high-level mage to suppress a low-level mage.
He didn’t even dare to resist Celesti’s order.
So the only hope left...kill Croya.
As long as he can kill Croya, it doesn't matter if he apologizes after the death, even if it means using up all his life savings.
People in the association should also advise Celesti.
After all, everyone is dead. It is obviously not good to deal with another fourth-level mage. Celesti should not kill them all.
'As long as I can kill that little mage..."
Zell quickly stabilized his mentality and straightened out his somewhat wrinkled mage robe. The magic patterns on it were in the ice and snow. There is still a light golden halo inside.
Seven golden rings of different sizes are embroidered on the skin of the Star and Moon Whale using arcanium as silk thread, as if they are shining brightly on the sky of stars. The sun.
There is no such thing as hate in the world.
There are times when a person needs to die, certainly to prevent certain things from being exposed.
......
"Lord Estner."
The person who came out to greet the few people was the knight Samir.
He saluted Estner respectfully and then invited: "My lord is already waiting for you on the island. Please come with me."
The knight completely ignored the two people next to him. The confidence given to him by the mage Croya made him fearless even when facing a powerful mage.
"Oh?"
Estner took a deep look at the tall knight. As a battle mage, he actually felt a hint of threat in this guy. sex.
This is his intuition, which has saved him from danger countless times.
Even though he believed that his level and strength were higher than Samir's, he did not underestimate the knight, but just nodded slightly.
"Then you lead the way."
As he said this, he also greeted the two people behind him.
"Stein, Master Zell, come together."
Estner's tone was very casual, not at all respectful when facing a mage more powerful than himself, but Maintained a small amount of respect.
Zel had regained his composure at this moment, and after winking at his apprentice, he followed him.
Unexpectedly, there was no boat after arriving at the seaside. The young knight walked straight towards the seaside in a daze.
The moment he was about to step into the sea.
There are ethereal and dreamy sounds echoing in the sea water.
The originally calm sea water was instantly split in half by this force, forming an undersea passage large enough for two carriages to pass side by side.
“Uh.”
Not only Estner was surprised, but Zell, a fourth-level mage, and Stein, who had seen the world, were also surprised.
They can see that the dolphins are maintaining the sea water. The problem is that the power of maintaining the sea water... is it too strange?
The power that is integrated with the ocean and can suppress the ocean...
There is another haze in the hearts of Zell and Stein.
The three of them walked down the steps built by the seaside without speaking. When they reached the bottom of the sea, they were even more shocked by the surrounding situation.
Because...in front of them was a long, straight road under the sea, with huge bubbles holding up the sea water, and there were magic lamps and coral trees decorating both sides of the road.
The bright light from the lamps shines on the flawless white road, coupled with the decorated coral trees on both sides and the slightly dim environment of the seabed, it is simply brilliant.
It’s like arriving at the mermaid kingdom under the sea.
“It’s so beautiful.” Estner said with emotion.
He instinctively felt that these bubbles might be supported by something, but the magic power on the seabed was too chaotic to clearly discover what it was.
"This is the road built by the lord."
Samir's tone was full of pride, and he took out a sun badge surrounded by seven-color light and distributed it to the three of them.
"Please take this badge with you, otherwise you will not be able to embark on this path."
"Humph!"
Stein took the badge and was cold. He snorted, threw the badge to the ground, and laughed: "He is a little mage, how can he say that he can't step in?"
"Do you really think of yourself as some kind of noble archmage?"
He walked directly towards the bubble, with a fire elemental shield burning on his body, and excitement in his eyes - he wanted to see what it would look like when the bubble was popped!
Estner originally wanted to stop him, but when he saw that there was no change in expression on the face of knight Samir, he immediately felt relieved.
If Croya was not prepared to deal with it, the knight would not be so sure, and he might even have a bit of a good show in his eyes.
What happened was just as he expected - Stein wanted to hit the bubble hard after getting close to it, but the result was...
"Bang!"
The bubbles resisted this uninvited guest unceremoniously, and directly bounced Stein away with stronger elasticity. Stein, who was wrapped in a flame element shield all over his body, looked like It was shot far away like a fireball.
If the expressionless Zell hadn't caught his shameful illegitimate son and disciple with magic, he would have been thrown into the sea water to "play" with the sea dolphins.
As for bubbles? People are still staying there well.
Able to carry such a huge amount of seawater and adapt to the complex and chaotic magical environment on the seabed, the toughness of the bubbles produced by air corals is actually beyond imagination.
"Just wear it honestly." Estner laughed sarcastically, took the lead in putting on the badge, and walked straight into the channel formed by the bubbles.
Although Stein was reluctant, under the pressure of his father and mentor's eyes, he wore the badge honestly.
The three of them successfully passed through the more than ten kilometers long air coral channel under the leadership of knight Samir. After walking up a staircase, they officially arrived at Hanjiao Island.
During this process, Zell had prepared all his trump cards and planned to attack Croya the moment he saw him.
But what he didn't know was that Croya thought the same way.
Just when the three of them had just walked onto the territory of Hanjiao Island and looked at the surrounding flat land and neatly trimmed trees with a little surprise——
“Whoosh——”
A crimson beam of light appeared from the sky. It was extremely fast. One second it was still on the horizon, and the next second it had reached the top of Zell's head.
It does not seem to have any violent magic power, and the red light is not threatening. But this does not mean that it has no power, but that the fluctuations of magic power have been suppressed.
Of course, the sunflower elf who was engraved with the "Red Song" can also flexibly use the power of Serenade.
There was no violent magic power and no obvious sound and light effects. This beam was only discovered by Zell when it was close to him.
The latter was slightly startled and didn't care when this thing appeared. Without thinking, he cast a magic shield and cast a flying spell for himself, intending to dodge directly.
But some intertwined thorns suddenly appeared under his feet, ignoring the magic shield on his body and directly nailing him to the spot.
Of course, flames are the best way to deal with magic plants. Zell is a level four magician after all, so he must have enough experience.
As he took out his staff, the energy-gathering crystal on the top of the staff made of star iron shone, gathering the surrounding magic power.
He planned to thicken his magic shield and spread flames with his hand to burn all the hot wind thorns.
But a strange scene happened.
The magic around him did not obey his command at all, like a child having a tantrum, and was extremely chaotic.
The flames that were barely released did not even damage the skin of the thorns, and were directly absorbed by the thorns - it was a mutant magic plant catalyzed by the red dragon's magic power.
Such a little flame is like feeding him.
Zel's eyes were startled, and then he looked around. Magic power was flashing in his eyes, and he could see that there seemed to be countless extremely obscure magic flows swirling around him.
A subtle and huge symphony is vaguely formed. It was these magical movements that suppressed the elemental magic spreading between heaven and earth, preventing him from mobilizing magic.
“How is that possible!”
The fourth-level mage shouted out the classic villain’s sayings.
Able to mobilize the magic power of nature, what level of mage is this? Could it be that Celesti came in person?
Time obviously did not allow him to think any more.
Because of a moment of confusion, the rays from Sunflower that had been accumulated for a long time directly penetrated his magic shield and penetrated his body.
When these terrifying magic powers penetrated his body, even his internal organs were directly vaporized.
“!!!”
Before he could even shout out the pain, a row of flaming stump peas suddenly appeared in the woods nearby.
They turned their guns, pointed them at Zell, and fired a volley.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
A continuous sound of peas being fired sounded.
Countless flaming resin peas shot towards him, drowning him in an instant. When the sticky resin exploded, he was stuck inside like a mosquito.
Immediately afterwards, several more crimson rays penetrated his head, and the robe engraved with the sun emblem that he had placed high hopes on had no effect at all.
Even... still suppressing his magic power.
"..."
Let alone a fourth-level mage, even a fifth-level mage has to weigh whether he can withstand such an offensive.
What's more, he underestimated the enemy.
The fourth-level mage Zell fell softly into the flames of resin and closed his eyes forever.
The head and body were pierced by red rays, and only the robes shone brightly in the flames.
Until his death, he did not see his enemy.
Estner and Stein were both shocked - the former was lamenting how long it had just been before Croya could kill a fourth-level mage so easily; the latter was horrified and both His legs were trembling, and he almost collapsed to the ground.
Stein's first reaction was to run away.
An illegitimate son who is gifted in magic and is good at flattering people, of course he has many treasures in his hands. For example, he has taken out a magical creation that looks like wings.
He poured his magic power into it, and the wings wrapped directly around his body, flapping to take him away from Hanjiao Island.
At this time, he was facing the cold wind at high altitude, and he was even thinking about his dead father's treasure in his heart. As long as I can get those treasures, it doesn't matter if I escape abroad and become a wild mage.
But how could Croya let him go?
I saw a bamboo... that looked like a warrior suddenly sprouting out of the shadows of the woods on the side.
Its roots leaped directly into the sky with a single effort, jumping out of a height of more than thirty meters. A long sword made of white thorns extended from the bamboo leaves and branches, pointing at Sta Because it is a jumping chop.
It is a very simple and unpretentious jumping chop action.
Just the moment they touched the wings, the bamboo leaves and branches instantly extended, blocking the magic node.
This bamboo made by Titan has a very keen sense of magic nodes, and it can easily cut off the magic supply to the wings.
The wings lost their magic power and instantly shrank back to their original size. They were just wrapped by its bamboo leaves, and the shield on its other branch pointed at the panicked Stein.
The force was just right, knocking him unconscious.
Then, the bamboo carried Stein and fell to the ground very steadily. Even the snow on the ground did not shake. It was extremely light.
After giving Estner a knightly salute, he carried Stein as if carrying a sack and left calmly.
Estner: "..."
His face was not only surprised, but also showed a trace of admiration - it was precisely because he was well-informed that he knew that he could How exquisite control is required to instantly cut off the magic nodes without damaging the magic weapon itself.
As a result, a bamboo did it so easily?
This friend he hadn’t seen for a while seemed to be much more powerful than he imagined.
"Long time no see."
While he was still hesitating, Croya's figure appeared in a burst of light, looking at "his" friend and sizing up the former .
Estner's appearance is not much different from what he remembers, except that he is much sharper and full of aggression.
"You're out." Estner came over naturally and gave Croya a hug.
To be honest, Croya was not used to this kind of hugging etiquette. His body was stiff for a moment, but he recovered immediately.
Because he felt Estner's joy, which was very pure, the joy of seeing a friend.
In fact, after being here for so long, there are really not many people who can be friends with Croa Adam, and Rob is the only one who can be counted on.
People are always a little lonely, even a solitary magician.
"Your body's magic power is a little weak." Croya hugged Estner back and patted the latter's back, "Let's go, I have prepared food and am waiting for you. It’s here.”
“I haven’t eaten food at the seaside. Is it any different from the food in the capital?” Estner became interested.
"Of course, come with me."
Cloya took Estner away from here, completely ignoring Zell's body wrapped in flame resin, but After they left, Rob personally took people to collect the body.
It was temporarily placed in a coffin made of ice, and he would deal with it after Croya was done.
...
Inside the castle.
The current castle is now Croya's private residence, and has been transformed by him, full of mystery and beauty belonging to the mage.
The exquisite and gorgeous magic lamps are placed on transparent crystal, as if they are floating in mid-air, like a river of lights, and the light they emit illuminates the entire restaurant.
The carpet is made of verdant green grass, and there are also some colorful indoor decorative flowers growing on it.
On the wall next to it are hung photos "taken" by Mu Yaoqu Teng Wang in his free time. Some show huge waves, some fish leaping, and some show rising sea fog.
The long table is filled with all kinds of delicacies - crabs, lobsters, squid, shark fins, scallops...
The delicacies and gifts from the sea are filled with The whole table.
This is the benefit of being a lord.
You can do whatever you like on your own territory. The output of the entire territory belongs to the lord himself. What the Mage Association only cares about is whether it can deploy its forces in various places.
Estner looked left and right, and his eyes were a little warm.
"Cloya, your life here is really good, otherwise I should also apply to go out to be a lord?"
Of course he said this casually, although he likes farming very much. , but if he is really allowed to farm, he really can't bear it.
Besides, his mentor would never allow it.
Kloya shook his head and began to vomit bitterly: "When I first came here, the islands were almost deserted. I spent a lot of time researching and cultivating them, and even gave birth to family heirlooms. Sold.
Fortunately, my efforts were not in vain, and I successfully established a territory with magic plants and monsters."
"...Is it so hard?" Estner said immediately. Waving his hand: "Then I'd better forget it."
"By the way, this thing."
He said and took out something from the space magic weapon.
It was a piece of parchment with the imprint of the Mages Association on it. It was the contract left by the bet between "Cloya" and Stein.
"Now one of them is dead, and the other one has been captured by you. As a notary of the Mages Association, I declare... that you have won the bet."
In a very casual tone, Esterna said He took out a seal and pressed it lightly against the Mage Association's brand mark on the contract.
The contract immediately burst into flames.
A ball of light flew out from inside and slowly landed in front of Croya.
Cloya raised his eyebrows and looked at the ball of light.
As the light gradually dimmed, a very beautiful magic plant appeared in the light ball.
It looks like a banyan tree, about half a meter high. The crown of the tree is shining with dots of spiritual light. The hanging aerial roots are made of clear moonlight, surrounding the tree roots to form a mouth. well water”.
There are strands of water gathering in the small well.
There is no doubt that this is the bet that Stein made when he made a bet with the original owner, the legendary elf magic plant Moonlight Spirit Dew Grass.
But... the appearance of this thing looks more like a Moonlight Spirit Dew Tree, right?
(End of chapter)