Chapter 89 Ant Tide
Lucian's current state is definitely what every third-level wizard apprentice dreams of.
After all, as long as this step is taken, it will make the difference between cloud and mud. From then on, he will be able to become the absolute top within Ashbone Academy, and even if he accumulates some time, he can directly create a new wizard family and name the family name after himself!
But Lucian only hesitated for a moment, and then gave up the idea of being promoted immediately. Instead, according to the mental power manipulation techniques in Ashes Meditation Method II, he manipulated his mental power to begin to strengthen and suppress his own spiritual sea.
Soon, under Lucian's suppression, a new spiritual rune was reinforced in his spiritual sea, but it temporarily bound part of Lucian's spiritual power inside the spiritual sea. It's like using your hands to push a float that's about to surface back into the water.
Then came the second one, the third one...
With each additional spiritual rune he condensed, Lucian could feel his body's faintly suppressed desire for breakthrough. However, these spiritual runes were suppressed in the spiritual sea by him according to the method described in the meditation method. Relying on this almost self-sealing method to condense more spiritual runes.
"It's not the time yet." Lucian opened his eyes and whispered in his heart.
For formal wizards, the wizard apprenticeship stage is an important period of laying the foundation. Every time a spiritual rune is solidified during the wizard apprenticeship period, the foundation on the wizard's path will be stronger in the future and one can go further.
Perhaps for the vast majority of wizard apprentices in Ashes Academy, being promoted to a formal wizard is their ultimate goal. To this end, they have to suppress their own spiritual sea, overdraw part of their lives, and even transform themselves into some kind of weird existence. No matter what.
After all, in the three-thirds of an acre of Ashbone Academy, the official wizard is already at the pinnacle, and the illusory level of the dean is simply unattainable. Even many apprentices are skeptical about whether the so-called Dean is still alive. After all, nearly 100 years have passed since his last public appearance!
One hundred years is a long time span for a formal wizard. Perhaps the legendary dean had long since turned into a corpse. In their eyes, the normally aloof official wizards and the academy committee composed of formal wizards are already an insurmountable mountaintop.
But Lucian was different. He was not willing to stay in Ashes Academy for the rest of his life, and he would not only focus on the level of an official wizard.
On a larger scale, he wants to live comfortably according to his own ideas, wants to change Ashbone Academy, and even wants to radiate to further areas. To achieve this goal, he must at least have the strength to crush an official wizard, or even be stronger!
It is difficult for thin branches to bear fruit, and a good well must be dug deeply. If he wants to have the strength to sweep through a group of formal wizards, then Lucian needs to have a background far beyond that of ordinary formal wizards!
What's more, just when he felt that he could be promoted to an official wizard, Lucian could also feel the faint suppression and rejection of him by this secret realm.
Obviously, intruders from the official wizard level are not allowed in this secret realm. It is very likely that if Lucian breaks through the bottleneck and is promoted regardless of the suppression conveyed from within the ruins, it will most likely trigger countermeasures within the secret realm.
At that time, Lucian will either be excluded from the secret realm, or he will be expelled or even killed by the guard force inside the secret realm. This is completely unacceptable to Lucian.
"But even if I don't break through, my current strength will definitely be enough inside the ruins." Lucian lightly clenched his fists and looked in the direction of Lilia.
After experiencing the recent mental transformation, Lucian's mental strength was now infinitely close to that of a formal wizard. Even compared to some formal wizards with weak foundations, Lucian's mental power may be much more refined. According to Lucian's own speculation, his current mental strength can even bear some formal witchcraft with a smaller burden.
Relying on this level of mental power alone, Lucian's combat power has reached the threshold level of an official wizard. He will not be weaker than the goblin leader who has reached this level by relying on his blood. Even in terms of sustained combat, Lucian is slightly more powerful. Better.
As for Lilia, who can fight against the goblin leader with the help of special witchcraft?
Although it may be a bit troublesome to deal with, if you really have to do it, it may be easier than dealing with the goblin leader.
After all, Lilia's own strength is only at the normal level of a third-level wizard apprentice. Her strength relies entirely on the special doll-shaped witchcraft tool named Adeline.
Perhaps the official wizard hidden behind the doll is very powerful and difficult to deal with, but after all, he has not personally entered the ruins. He only relies on a little bit of mental power stored inside the doll and some means arranged in advance. It is relatively difficult to crack it. Easy.
"As you said yourself, that ritual badge...just put it with you for the time being." Lucian looked at Adeline who seemed to have grown up in Lilia's arms, and then took it back. His eyes turned to look at "himself" beside him.
Lucian couldn't help but smile.
This was a sudden idea he just had. But now it seems that the camouflage effect of this transformation technique achieved with the help of Kuka spores is very good.
Although this kind of transformation is more like a high-level "disguise" or a "blindness" rather than a more special "body change". However, on some special occasions, this kind of disguise can also have excellent results.
"It seems that we can collect more. Maybe we can improve it slightly in the future. Maybe we can have better effects, such as simulating the mental fluctuations of deformed objects..." After removing the disguise, Lucian took it from the storage ring. He took out a storage wooden box and carefully began to collect some spores as samples for later cultivation.
But just as he was collecting the samples, there was a commotion not far away. Then some half-goblins screamed in panic, and there were even fluctuations of magic energy produced when witchcraft was activated.
"Huh?" Lucian turned his head warily and saw two half-goblins fighting fiercely with a giant insect that looked somewhat similar to an ant.
This giant ant is more than 1 meter tall, and its body is a bright black color with a metallic luster. The most striking thing is a pair of blood-red curved jaws extending from its head, and there are also The irregular spikes look particularly ferocious.
This kind of ant seems to be the original inhabitants of this giant mushroom forest, and the purpose of its appearance here is to expel Lucian and other "uninvited guests".
It's just that the owner of the forest doesn't treat his "guest" politely.
After all, Lucian saw blood still flowing on the arm of one of the half-goblins. It was obvious that he had suffered some losses when he had just dealt with this ant for the first time.
"Looking at the combat power it has exerted at this time, it should be at the level of a second-level wizard apprentice." The appearance of this strange monster made everyone a little nervous, fearing that they would encounter the same kind of encounter with the giant frog Cooks before. Tragedy.
However, after careful observation and testing, I discovered that this seemingly ferocious giant ant was only as strong as a second-level wizard apprentice.
Many wizard apprentices had relaxed smiles on their faces, but the goblin leader and Lucian's expressions were a little solemn. As the two people with the strongest spiritual power present, their spiritual power could be perceived more clearly, and at this time, the energy emanating from the ground That kind of fluctuation made their minds think of the worst possibility.
"Run!" The goblin leader waved her hand and released wooden thorns to pierce the head of the giant ant. Then she roared and urged her tribesmen to run in the direction of leaving the mushroom forest.
But there is no need to explain anything at this time, because as many giant Kukas "tremble", giant ants have crawled out of the surface from the hidden channels at the roots of Kukas. They have gathered with each other and moved towards Lucian and others launched a pursuit.
There were even a few giant ants, but at this time they gathered around the corpse of the same kind that had just been killed by the goblin leader, and began to chew and devour it quickly.
Click, click, click… The harsh sound made by metal friction makes people shudder. At the same time, these seemingly clumsy giant ants are not slow at all, chasing them all the way.
"No, there are a lot of them ahead!" A half-elf running at the front of the team relying on his bloodline talent was the first to see the giant ants blocking the front, and couldn't help but remind him aloud.
"Charge over!" the goblin leader roared, and with a flip of his hand, he took out a wooden staff from the storage equipment, quickly waved it and summoned four slightly illusory tree puppets to block the front of the many half-goblins.
The methods used by the wizard apprentices were more direct. With the attacks of fire, ice, thunder, acid and other witchcraft, many giant ants blocking the front were quickly killed or seriously injured.
But the number of giant ants is really too much! This also resulted in the fact that neither the half-goblin's methods nor the wizard's apprentice's advance attack could 100% clear out the giant ants blocking the way. The next moment, the team had a head-on confrontation with the ant colony. collision.
"Rush over!"
"ah!"
"help me……"
"Get away!"
At the first moment of the collision, an unlucky half-goblin had his thigh pinned down by a giant ant, although he immediately killed the giant ant that bit his thigh. , but the severed head of the giant ant still bit his thigh, and the two jaws were deeply embedded in the flesh, making him stagger a little while walking.
After barely sprinting for a few steps, he was bitten by another giant ant again. But this time, the thigh was cut off directly by the sharp mouthpart, revealing a section of dense white bones.
(End of chapter)