Chapter 62 Goodbye Linus, Corpse Garden
"I'm here to participate in the mission selection."
Ronan walked up to several academy wizards and handed over the bronze medal he had registered before.
The latter glanced briefly, then tested Ronan's mental strength, and quickly nodded: "Okay, seventh-level apprentice. Go and wait over there."
Ronan hummed and walked aside quietly.
Under the robe, his slender fingers were casually playing with a broken mirror-like magical tool, and his mood at the moment was quite strange.
This is the first time Ronan has used the effect of this mirror tool fragment.
Unlike the two people named "Francois" who deliberately disguised themselves as high-level apprentice wizards to bluff people, he instead copied the aura of an ordinary seventh-level apprentice wizard and used the mental power of his ninth-level apprentice to fluctuate. Hidden.
Ronan didn't know if this operation was useful, but it was always right to keep a low profile when going out.
Just like the day when the town fell into chaos, the reason why he was targeted by two black robes was not because among the low-level gray robes on Water Drop Street, the strength of his senior apprentice was as conspicuous as a light bulb in the dark night.
After waiting for a while, there was a faint voice coming from the direction of the college.
"Coming."
The college wizard present reminded everyone, and those who came to see him off immediately moved aside obediently.
Soon, a group of people appeared in front of everyone.
They are all dressed like college wizards. The leader is wearing a silk robe with the green vine logo of Hoddam. He has fair skin and handsome appearance. His hair is meticulously combed back, and he wears exquisite silver jewelry on his forehead.
In Ronan's eyes, this handsome middle-aged wizard was like the sun in the sky, emitting "dazzling" light all the time.
Compared with his aura, everyone in the field seemed "overshadowed".
"Officially a wizard-level powerhouse!"
Although he was mentally prepared for the difficulty of this mission, Ronan still couldn't help but feel a look of concentration on his face when he saw that an official wizard-level expert from the academy was leading the team.
"Lord Fao!"
After the handsome middle-aged wizard appeared, the college wizards in gray robes immediately greeted him respectfully.
Ronan took this opportunity to look behind the official wizard named Faao. The five academy wizards were all high-level apprentices, and they had the aura of "the proud ones" that was different from the wandering wizards.
Suddenly, Ronan's eyes paused and stopped on an academy wizard.
He was a young man with an indifferent expression. He was quite handsome, but the arrogant look between his eyebrows gave people a feeling that he was not easy to get along with.
"Linus"
Ronan started, surprised.
The person in front of him turned out to be the young wizard Linus who left alone after coming out of the forest.
After not seeing each other for such a long time, Linus unexpectedly joined Hoddam Academy. Not only did his strength rise from apprentice level five to apprentice level nine in one go, but his broken arm was also reattached.
When Ronan recognized Linus, it was obvious that he also recognized him.
There were obvious waves on his face, but he soon regained his composure and looked away indifferently.
Naturally, Ronan had no intention of going up to him to catch up with him, and the two of them had nothing to talk about.
After all, Linus's departure was not honorable.
Ronan lowered his head and thought silently for a while, and suddenly felt probing eyes falling on him.
He suddenly looked up and met a pair of jewel-like eyes, which stung Ronan almost to tears.
When the "light" dissipated, Ronan saw Linus looking at him indifferently, whispering something into the ear of the official wizard Faol, who smiled at him with an unknown meaning, and scanned the After one glance, he slowly turned his gaze away.
At this moment, Ronan felt as if he was being targeted by something, and for a moment he even had the urge to quit the mission immediately.
He didn't know what Linus said to the wizard Faol, but he always felt that it wasn't something good.
Could it be that he wanted Faao to help him avenge himself?
Why does he, a little apprentice wizard, call an official wizard?
Ronan doesn’t feel that he has ever offended Linus. Seriously, he has saved Linus’ life
He can’t just because he knows his true character. Are you trying to kill yourself?
For a time, Ronan had countless thoughts rolling through his mind, and his thoughts were numb.
While weighing and tangled, Faao's voice sounded on the field.
"Since everyone is here, there is no problem, let's set off."
Faao's voice was like a breath of fresh air, with an unquestionable majesty, and the entire team started to move.
Ronan's expression changed, but he finally moved forward with the crowd.
There were too few opportunities to obtain the Burning God Potion, and there was no way he would give up just because of some concerns about not knowing the truth.
Otherwise, the investment in these five days of preparation will be in vain.
The group of people walked forward for a while and came to an empty small square. There was a magic airship parked in the square. Everyone boarded the airship under the leadership of Faao.
Most of the wandering wizards in the team were riding this small magic airship for the first time in their lives. They were all somewhat uncontrollably excited. They didn't look like they were about to go on an unknown and dangerous mission. Like a group outing.
The young wizards at the academy looked at the reaction of the wandering gray robes with cold eyes, as if they were looking at a group of bumpkins who had never seen the world.
The wizard Faao always smiled and made people feel quite friendly.
Only Ronan stood alone in the corner, observing everything on the airship with an expressionless face.
There are a total of five senior apprentices in the academy, and the number of wandering gray robes here, including Ronan, reaches twenty-five.
Being able to reach the level of senior apprentices, this group of people can be considered the leaders of the wandering wizard group.
The strongest among them is a ninth-level apprentice, followed by four eighth-level apprentices, and the rest are seventh-level wizard apprentices like Ronan.
The magic airship shuttled through the clouds and mist, crossing large expanses of wilderness and forests, getting farther and farther away from the town.
At a certain moment, the official wizard Faao called everyone together and Wen Yan said: "Okay, there are some things about this mission that I need to explain to you..."
All ears pricked up.
"..The main goal of our trip is to destroy a resource point for cultivating potions in the Forest of Deathrattles. The resource point is located in a small secret space.
At that time, you may encounter resistance from the black robes of the Forest of Deathrattles, but don't worry, I will remove those apparent obstacles.
All you have to do... is just destroy any potion resources you see..."
"The mission is completed. Gather at the designated location and come back by airship. Each person will be rewarded with a burning potion."
"I hope that when I come back, everyone here will be safe and sound."
Wizard Fao's tone was relaxed and a bit humorous. The nervous mood of the apprentices on the airship also relaxed, and smiles appeared on their faces.
Ronan looked on with cold eyes. He would never believe that a mission that would reward the academy wizards with a God-burning potion that was extremely precious to the academy wizards would be as easy as Fao said.
Everyone returned safe and sound?
I’m afraid half of them will be able to return safely by then, and I’ll be thankful to God.
Afterwards, Faao specially explained the meaning of "small secret space" to a group of wandering wizards.
It is probably an independent space created by powerful wizards in the wizarding world through space spells. The principle is somewhat similar to a storage waist bag.
The uses of secret spaces are generally magic experiments, resource cultivation, and living. Some secret spaces are naturally formed, and there are often many incredible things in them.
The secret space is almost common sense to the college wizards, but it is surprising to the wandering gray robes.
The magic airship landed in a hidden valley, and everyone disembarked with Faao.
Ronan didn't know how far the airship flew, but it should be far away from the town.
Opposite the landing point was a hole similar to the entrance of a tomb, and Faao took the lead in striding forward.
The five academy wizards followed closely, and then Ronan and his group of wandering gray robes. Ronan quietly observed the whole process and found that Linus had a particularly close relationship with Faol among the five academy wizards, and seemed to be highly valued by Faol.
I don’t know why, but his character is obviously not lovable.
When walking into the entrance of the tomb, Ronan saw some fragments of stone slabs scattered on the ground at the entrance of the cave, with some strange and unfamiliar words engraved on the fragments.
Ronan couldn't identify it, but he heard someone in the team whispering.
"What's written on it?" he read out the content.
"Well, it seems like a corpse garden."
The whole process of entering the secret space was not at all as bizarre as Ronan imagined.
They just followed Fao and walked forward along a long corridor for a long time.
When they walked out of the corridor, they realized that the sky outside had turned dark. In fact, they had entered the so-called secret space.
“Group of three, split up.
As I said before, everyone just needs to try their best to destroy all kinds of resources seen on the road that you think may be useful to the black robe."
Faao made a few brief explanations, divided everyone into groups, and then watched each group leave with a smile.
Until now.
This task feels just like what Faao said. There are no big requirements and no dangers. Everything will go smoothly, simply and easily.
"You two, remember to follow my instructions later."
Not long after leaving the main force, the eighth-level apprentice wizard with a slightly aquiline nose in the same group told Ronan and another person quite forcefully.
Ronan said nothing, but the young wizard Reni who happened to be assigned to a group with him was quite unconvinced.
"Why? I didn't say that you have to lead the team!"
"Just because I am stronger than you."
The hook-nosed wizard sneered and said: "I don't want to be in danger or lose the reward because of the stupid behavior of you two. If you don't want to, just leave the team. After the mission is over, I will report to Master Faao that someone deliberately obstructed the operation. "
"you"
Reni's fair and handsome face instantly turned red, but after a few seconds he could only hold back the tone bitterly, as he accepted the fact that the hook-nosed wizard was leading the team.
The latter smiled contemptuously and glanced at Ronan, who had always been extremely "obedient and cooperative". Then he put away his expression with satisfaction and walked forward calmly.
The air in this space was filled with the smell of dust and decay. The three of them walked forward for a while along the gray brick path covered with dead vines, and came to an empty cemetery.
The field of vision was filled with flowing phosphorus fire, and there seemed to be the sound of souls singing in the ears, and the atmosphere gradually became eerie and terrifying.
"A dirty place."
The leader, the hook-nosed wizard, frowned and cursed in a low voice. He kicked a few bones away from his feet in disgust, and then cautiously walked towards the grave closest to the three of them.
His eyes fell on the broken tombstone erected in front of the tomb, as if he wanted to study the words on the tombstone.
The young wizard Reni was always vigilant, while Ronan's lips moved, a faint white light appeared in his eyes, and he began to look around.
The [Detection Technique], which he has mastered to the level of proficiency, not only reduces the casting time to less than one second, but also allows for much more information and traces to be detected after it is cast.
In Ronan's eyes, the cemetery at this time turned completely black, and a large number of negative energy particles belonging to the undead and dark elements filled the entire tomb like black smoke.
And in this black, bright green penetrated everywhere, like transmission pipes, faintly forming strange patterns.
Ronan squatted down, and spread the black tomb soil with his long white fingers. Soon he touched something hard.
His expression changed suddenly.
"Don't touch that thing...go!"
Ronan quickly stood up and shouted coldly to the hook-nosed wizard who had almost reached the tombstone.
He has a lot of inherited knowledge of undead spells, including a detailed introduction to the process of refining and cultivating undead slaves and the required materials.
As soon as I used the detection technique, I noticed something was wrong. I pushed aside the soil under my feet and took a look. There were all related things underneath!
The hook-nosed wizard heard Ronan's reminder and turned to look at him coldly, then continued walking forward.
Ronan glanced at Reni next to him and saw that he also looked unmoved. He shook his head and ran quickly towards the other end of the cemetery.
That is, after a few breaths.
"Click——"
A sound like something breaking sounded clearly in the quiet cemetery.
Immediately after the ground shook, the tombs of each grave began to rise upward
"Bang!"
The hook-nosed wizard had just approached the tombstone in front of him, and before he had time to study what was engraved on it, he saw the grave behind the tombstone exploded, and a white bone hand poked out from it.
His expression suddenly changed, and then he realized that what Ronan said before was true. He quickly activated his magic tool, put up an energy shield, and then ran away.
Reni's reaction was much faster than him, and he already realized something was wrong when the ground shook.
But the tomb mutated too quickly. Skeleton warriors crawled out of the tomb one after another, with faint green fire burning in their empty eye sockets, holding rotten axes or swords in their hands, and gathered in a crowd. Rushing towards the two of them.
"Bang!"
The gleaming ax hit the ground hard, causing cracks to appear on the path paved with gray bricks.
Ronan held the staff and raised his robe. He jumped high on the ax handle like a dexterous bird, dodged a heavy blow from the skeleton blocking the road, and landed on the ground easily.
Looking back, I saw that Reni and the hook-nosed wizard who were traveling with him were already locked in a bitter fight.
Reni held a scimitar with flashing runes in his hand. He kept chanting spells in his mouth, and made slashing movements from time to time. Then, the scimitar shot out half-moon-shaped yellow energy light blades, slashing around. A piece of bright yellow and bone fragments exploded from the skeleton.
The hook-nosed wizard kept waving his staff and chanting to summon fierce winds. Although it was not lethal, it caused the skeletons around him to stagger.
As senior sorcerer apprentices, both of them had decent combat capabilities. They had obviously experienced some battles, and at least they were not so panicked that they couldn't even cast spells in this situation.
However, the methods of the two men lacked effective damage to the skeleton warriors who were generally above the intermediate apprentice level. After one operation, instead of being able to escape, the surrounding skeleton warriors gathered more and more, and they were about to be submerged.
"call--"
Ronan let out a breath, his brows furrowing and then unfurling.
The skeleton that had just escaped had turned around now, holding the ax high in both hands, making a chopping gesture towards him.
Ronan didn't seem to see it at all, there was only calmness in his lake-blue eyes.
He raised the staff with one hand, his gaze penetrated the gaps between the white ribs of the skeleton warriors, and firmly focused on the position where Rennie and the hook-nosed wizard were locked in a fierce battle.
They formed a straight line. Long term.
The next second, the air and light at the top of his staff began to distort.
A large number of energy particles gathered generated an invisible wind all around, blowing the hem of Ronan's robe and the long hair tied with a silver rope behind his back.
A huge blue-black light ball that was as large as several human heads condensed and formed.
"go!"
"Bang——"
Following Ronan's quick short sound, his robe suddenly fluttered backwards.
As if a terrifying cannonball was fired, the huge blue-black light ball roared out, setting off large waves of bricks and mud along the way, smashing the bodies of bones and skeletons one after another, and advancing rapidly forward
(End of chapter)