The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 450 Radiation and Secrets

On the other side, after Ryan sent the long-distance airship carrying Anna and the pure-blood elves to a safe area, he controlled the Blood Feather halfway and flew towards the nearby Valzig ruins.

Since he had already completed his goal - ensuring Anna's safety, Ryan moderately relaxed the concealment of his whereabouts and rode on the Blood Feather to quickly cut through the sky.

He planned to land and walk when he was almost at his destination.

The speed difference between flying at high speed in the air and flying through dense forests is huge.

After only about half an hour, Ryan began to let Blood Feather slow down its flight speed. He quickly compared it with the map that had already been imprinted in his mind and began to slowly land.

"It's nearby, about three kilometers northwest." Ryan looked around in mid-air and thought to himself.

Strictly speaking, this location has already left Ferdinand Forest. Just now, when Ryan was in mid-air, he saw the destroyed elf outpost several kilometers away.

Of course, the geographical environment will not change significantly due to the division of artificial boundaries.

This is still a dense forest area with undulating hills, lush shrubs and dense vegetation. The only difference is that this is already part of the empire.

A few minutes later, Ryan looked at the dense forest in his field of vision and sighed in his heart:
"It's completely flat, and there are no signs of any man-made remains. There's no sign of any ruins at all."

"If it weren't for Master Mogaro telling me, it would be hard to believe that the underground here was once the site of a large ancient wizard school."

Suddenly, the thin film in Ryan's arms vibrated.

"I'm Ryan." Ryan took out the slice and said.

"Lord Ryan, we have received Miss Anna and her people as well as Lord Lambert. They have all been settled in." Olena's voice came from the thin film.

At the same time, Ryan vaguely heard several familiar clear female voices whispering in the background.

"Lord Ryan, I'll let Miss Anna talk to you."

"it is good."

Soon, Anna's soft and slightly shy voice came from the other side of the sheet:
"Ryan, we have arrived at Outpost No. 7. Lady Olena is very considerate and has arranged rooms, food, and medicine for everyone in advance. She is so thoughtful."

"Well, Miss Beyonce and Miss Claire are both very nice." Anna added.

Hearing Anna's familiar voice, Ryan's heart softened.

Obviously, the whispering sound just now was the conversation between Anna and Claire.

"Then you should have a good rest. If there is any problem with the tribe, ask Olena for help. I will enter the ruins later. Perhaps the signal may not be good."

"Contact me when I come out." Ryan thought for a moment and said.

"Well, Ryan, you must be careful then."

"I will, don't worry."

Inside outpost No. 7.

When Anna finished her call with Ryan, Claire and Beyoncé looked at each other, and then took Anna's white and tender little hand affectionately and said:

"Hehe, Miss Anna, this is the first time we have heard the captain speak so gently. It seems that the captain really dotes on you."

"However, a beauty like you deserves the captain's favor."

As Claire spoke, she looked up and down at Anna, who had long since returned to her true appearance.

I couldn't help but feel deeply moved at the Creator's favor to Anna.

As a half-elf, Anna is not as tall and cold as other elf beauties. Instead, she is an almost perfect blend of the cuteness and charm of a human girl and the beauty and noble temperament of the elves.

So, when she and Beyoncé heard Olena say that Captain Ryan's girlfriend was coming to Post No. 7, they were both very surprised and interested.

"Don't say that. Miss Claire, you are very beautiful too." Anna blushed and lowered her head slightly, as if a little embarrassed.

"By the way, Ms. Beyoncé and Ms. Olena are both very beautiful, too." Anna immediately added, as if she felt it was inappropriate to praise only one person.

"Giggle~"

"Ha ha!"

Suddenly, all three of them laughed.

"Ms. Anna, you are so cute. No, I plan to hold you in my arms while sleeping at night. I also want to enjoy the treatment of a captain." Claire's beautiful eyes turned and she said with a sly smile.

"Okay, Claire, let Miss Anna have a good rest first. Later, when we have dinner, Miss Anna can tell us how she got together with the captain, haha."

Beyonce, who has a hot body, also smiled evilly at this time.

The two of them sang in unison, and Anna's pretty face immediately flushed. She was at a loss.
But she could feel that the two women had no ill intentions and were just teasing.

At this time, Ryan had followed the token given by his mentor Mogaro - a prismatic crystal of the Bishu Construction School, and came to an underground cave located below the slope of the hill, vaguely covered by bushes.

Judging from the diameter of the cave entrance, at first glance, many people would think that this is just a brown bear cave.

When Ryan pushed aside the bushes and followed the instructions in the crystal, after passing through several forks and several narrow tunnels, he finally approached the meeting place mentioned by his mentor Mogaro after walking for about half an hour.

From a distance, Ryan saw a rather spacious underground hall emitting a light green fluorescent light at the end of the tunnel ahead.

However, before Ryan actually entered the hall, his nose suddenly twitched, his face became serious, and he stopped.

"Such a strong smell of blood, could it be that something happened to the school's team? No, this smell of blood is too fishy, ​​it doesn't seem to come from human blood."

"Also, there seem to be some strange particles in the air that are trying to force their way into my armor."

With Ryan's keen perception, he immediately noticed something was wrong ahead.

“This place is a bit weird!”

After a little thought, Ryan cast a steel armor spell on himself and then slowly walked inside.

The light green fluorescent hall that came into view was just like the light green emergency lights that came on after a power outage in the previous life, but it was several times dimmer.

However, with Ryan's eyesight, he could see everything at a glance. The hall was dozens of meters high, with a huge broken stone statue in the middle and dozens of stone balls with a diameter of one or two meters scattered around. What caught his attention even more was the corpses of many strange humanoid creatures on the ground.

And the bloody smell just now should have come from the blood of this creature.

Then, Ryan came to a corpse and squatted down to examine it carefully.

After some inspection, Ryan found that these corpses were quite similar to the stone monsters described in ancient books.

The Troggs are a special group of cave dwellers that look like apes, have canine teeth, and their limbs end in claws to facilitate digging. Their entire bodies are covered in petrified skin, which is thickest on the back, and is their defining feature.

But Ryan still looked thoughtful.

Because the sizes of these stone monsters do not match the descriptions in ancient books, they are much larger.

According to records in ancient books, the average stone monster should be about 1.5 to 1.7 meters tall.

But these dead stone monsters in front of him were more than two meters tall, and the hair on their skin seemed to have fallen off in large pieces for some unknown reason.

In addition, some of the corpses of these stone monsters were only skeletons, some had just rotted, and many were very fresh, having died no more than twenty-four hours ago.

Unable to figure it out for a moment, Ryan stood up and looked around the hall again.

The north and south walls of the hall show signs of damage and excavation, with multiple irregular holes.

In addition, the overall style of the hall is completely different from the previous undecorated rock tunnel. Whether it is the dome, columns or marble tiles on the ground, there are signs of a high level of craftsmanship.

Thinking back on it, it seemed that the tunnel he had just entered was dug by a later comer.

In addition, the architectural style of the hall is completely different from that of the empire. It has a contradictory feeling of being simple yet containing a certain high level of craftsmanship.

"Wow, the precision of this ball," Ryan thought to himself when he saw the stone ball next to the pillar.

The stone ball in front of me is almost a perfect sphere.

You have to know that π is not a rational number, and any production involving a circle or a sphere is very difficult. Generally speaking, the level of craftsmanship can be seen from the processing accuracy of the sphere.

"The craftsmanship level is at least two levels higher than that of our own school."

"It's worthy of being a large wizard school in ancient times." Suddenly, Ryan narrowed his eyes.

"Shh! Shh!"

Slight sounds of breaking through the air were heard all around, slowly approaching Ryan from three different directions.

"They even knew that one of them was in front of them to attract attention, and the other two were attacking from behind. It seems that they are quite intelligent."

"But this level of strength is still too weak."

Renn shook his head slightly.

The next second, Ryan suddenly left several afterimages, and the three stone monsters who were sneaking around and planning to launch a sneak attack by taking advantage of the dark environment suddenly widened their vertical pupils.

Because they saw the prey suddenly appear in front of them.

"Pfft!"

The sound of sharp blades entering the body was heard almost simultaneously from three directions.

If you look closely, you can see three identical figures of Ryan, holding a newly transformed knight's sword in his hand, stabbing it into the eyebrows of the three stone monsters.

The next moment, the three figures suddenly disappeared, and at the original location, Ryan's original body seemed to be motionless, still maintaining the previous posture of looking around.

"Puff! Puff!"

The sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground were heard one after another, and then a rustling sound came from farther away, as if the stone monster in the distance was a little frightened by what was happening before its eyes.

As the surroundings became quiet again, Ryan injected a trace of mental power into the crystal according to the code agreed upon within the school. Soon, a wall of several square meters on the north side quickly moved away, revealing a tunnel with a square cross-section like a subway tunnel.

A middle-aged man holding a short staff and wearing a wizard robe of the Bishu Construction School was looking around and at Ryan with extreme vigilance.

"Are you Ryan, who was sent by the School's Metal Department? Come in!"

The middle-aged wizard was obviously a little surprised at Ryan's overly young face. In addition, when he noticed that the surroundings were very quiet, he immediately looked puzzled and muttered:

"You didn't run into any mutated stone monsters when you came in? You're really lucky."

"But why did the Metal Department send you here? How can you be of help at such a young age?" The middle-aged wizard muttered to himself as he quickly pressed the mechanism to close the wall again after Ryan entered.

After all, the mentor asked him to pick someone up, and only mentioned that this Ryan was an imperial swordsman with a high affinity for metal and extremely high talent.

In Albert's opinion, even for a wizard with high talent, it would take a long period of time to settle down and practice hard in order to transform it into strength, and this is the case with him.

But at this moment, his eyes suddenly widened, his face showed astonishment, he looked up and down at Ryan repeatedly, and said with a slight stutter:
"You...you are actually a level 3 crystal wizard? Are you really from our school?"

Because the two of them were far apart just now, and Albert's attention was focused on observing the outside world, but now, Ryan came to his side, and he immediately sensed Ryan's surging mental fluctuations.

Albert's strength has reached the late stage of the second-level liquefied wizard.

At his age, he is considered extremely talented even in the entire empire, and in the Bixiu Construction School, he is a top-level genius.

But compared with Ryan, there is still a world of difference!

So, at this moment, he looked at Ryan with an expression as if he had seen a ghost, and was so shocked that he couldn't recover for a long time.

What's the situation with this person in front of me?
Such a young third-level crystal wizard?
Could he be a spy sent by other schools or hostile organizations?
The real Ryan has already...
Seeing the other party's slightly stiff body and the gradually rising alert look in his eyes, Ryan couldn't help but smile and said:
"Hello, I'm Ryan. I've just joined the school for less than half a year. It's normal that you haven't met me. My mentor is Mogaro."

Albert asked a few more questions before he was completely relieved, but then he became a little reserved and said:

"Hello, Mr. Ryan, I am Albert, the disciple of Master Moria. I will take you to meet the master now. I believe the master will be very happy to see you."

"OK, thanks."

Ryan could understand Albert's sense of restraint. After all, wizards were ranked according to their strength.

Albert immediately took Ryan and walked into a winding internal tunnel. The tunnel walls were covered with marble and were clean and tidy. It was obviously not dug by the stone monster.

"By the way, Mr. Albert, are those monsters outside stone monsters? They seem a little different from what is recorded in ancient books." Ryan asked casually on the way.

"That's right, so the instructor defines them as mutated stone monsters."

"As for the reason? Lord Ryan, do you feel that there is a special energy radiation in the air here?"

"Indeed, and it seems that the concentration is higher after entering here." Ryan nodded.

At this moment, Ryan could clearly feel that the energy radiation was becoming stronger as he went deeper and deeper.

However, he was currently protected by the third-level defensive spell "Steel Armor", so he didn't have to worry about this level of radiation affecting him. Abel next to him also had a protective spell on him.

"The other party was affected by this radiation, so he became like this."

"Has the cause of the radiation been investigated?" Ryan continued to ask.

"Well, according to the clues we have found in the past six months, a huge explosion should have occurred in the Walzig School thousands of years ago. As for the specific cause, we have also found it. It seems to have originated from a dangerous experiment conducted by a senior Dawn wizard at that time."

"According to the damaged diaries we found on the remains of several wizards from the Valzig School, the Dawn Wizard named Magnier discovered a metal with special energy in a certain mine."

"The other party felt that if this special energy could be utilized, it would give him a great chance to become a fifth-level Full Moon Wizard, so he began a frenzied experiment."

Ren nodded.

For any Dawn Wizard, if he finds an opportunity to become a Level 5 Full Moon Wizard, he will do his best to grab it!
"This strange metal extracted from the ore is silvery white in color and radiates strange energy. It has strong penetrating power, but in small amounts, it will not cause much harm to the human body."

Radiant? Silvery?

When Ryan listened, an idea flashed through his mind and his eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something key.

"Why does it sound so familiar? Could it be uranium mine?"

"It's the raw material used to make atomic bombs in the previous life, the radioactive isotope extracted from ordinary uranium ore, uranium-235." However, Ryan thought about it carefully and shook his head slightly.

It may not necessarily be uranium-235, it could also be other radioactive metal elements.

After all, the world is different now, and Ryan is not sure whether the periodic table is still applicable.

But even if it is applicable, he has not studied it carefully and is not sure whether there are more subsequent elements in the periodic table in this world.

Albert, who was standing by, did not notice the strangeness in Ryan's expression and continued to talk as he walked:

"After decades of attempts, the Dawn Wizard named Magnier finally found a dangerous but effective method of refining."

"Some wizards tried to make suggestions, but they were unsuccessful in stopping it. Unfortunately, one day, an experiment went wrong and a huge explosion occurred. The school was severely weakened and completely disappeared soon after."

"And the stone palate monsters we saw seemed to be because of the explosion, which caused a cave underground to be opened up, and the stone palate monsters living underground were attracted to the interior of the Valzig School."

"But what's even more surprising is that the Stone Palate Monster actually likes this extremely harmful strange radiation."

"According to what we have observed over the past six months, the stone palate monsters that were originally only at the knight level can be greatly improved to the peak of knights, or even great knights, after several months of radiation."

"For the stone monster leaders who have stronger tolerance, the increase is even more terrifying."

"Here, that's it, do you see it?" At this moment, Albert suddenly stopped and pointed towards the end of the tunnel.

At this moment, the two had reached the end of the tunnel. What caught Ryan's eyes were several horizontal iron railings as thick as his forearms, blocking the end of the tunnel.

However, through these iron railings, one can see that there is a huge platform more than ten meters below. A dense number of stone monsters are lying at the entrance of a passage on the north side, with comfortable and greedy expressions on their faces, as if they were soaking in a winter hot spring.

There was even a fight between many stone monsters because they were closer to the front, and bursts of low growls could be heard.

Leaning against the thick metal railing in the front was a strong stone monster over three meters and five meters tall, with white hair on its head. It was enjoying the best position and seemed to be in a deep sleep.

"That guy is the Stone Monster Chieftain. After being irradiated, his strength is now at the late legendary level." Albert continued.

"If it's just one guy, it won't be difficult to deal with."

"But the key problem is that there are too many of them. In the past six months, we have killed at least thousands of Stone Palate Monsters, but there are still scattered Stone Palate Monsters that continue to emerge, and there seems to be no end."

"This is one of the reasons why we have been dragged here for so long." Albert sighed.

"Sir Ryan, let's not talk about this for now. The mentor and other members of the exploration team are in the room." At this time, Albert said as he turned around and pressed the mechanism on his left. The wall suddenly slid, revealing a hidden door.

(End of this chapter)