The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 451 Plague Bringer

The room was relatively empty, with a magic array with a diameter of more than ten meters in the center, emitting a faint green halo, and a light green leaf was floating up and down in the center of the magic array.

Inside the wizard circle, there was a man and a woman wearing wizard robes of the school, busy with their own business.

As soon as Ryan stepped in, he felt a freshness in the air in the room. It turned out that the radiation around him was blocked outside this magic circle emitting light green light.

The controller of the magic circle seemed to be the female wizard, because she was drawing new magic patterns in a corner of the magic circle.

The other party was at the middle stage of crystallization, with a dignified profile, but he already had crow's feet at the corners of his eyes and his hair was a little gray, and it was obvious that he was quite old.

What caught Ryan's attention even more was the old man who was assembling a backpack-like device.

The other party has thick eyebrows and very bright eyes. Judging from his aura, his strength has reached the peak of crystallized wizard.

Obviously, this person should be Moria, the leader of the Bishu Construction School.

Albert bowed slightly to the old man and said respectfully, "Teacher, Lord Ryan is here."

"Oh?" Moriah and the older female wizard looked up at Ryan when they heard this, but they did not stop the work in their hands. However, they stopped the next second.

Because at this moment, the expressions of the two were exactly the same as Albert's at the beginning, with their eyes wide open and their mouths slightly open in shock.

"You...you are Ryan?!"

"You have actually reached the peak of crystallization?" Moriah stood up quickly, walked quickly to Ryan, looked him up and down, and said.

"This is impossible!"

"Mogaro clearly told me that you only became a Level 2 liquefied wizard a few months ago. This... this..."

The older female wizard also stood up at this moment, smiled at Ryan, and took the initiative to greet him, which was out of respect for his strength.

Albert, who was standing aside, was completely stunned at this moment.

Because just now he only felt that Ryan's strength was stronger than his, but he only thought that Ryan was at most in the early or middle stage of crystallization. How could he have imagined that Ryan was already at the peak of crystallization!

This guy is on par with his mentor, and even better than Moria, the leader of the Construction School.

This made Albert look at Ryan with some resentment.

With such strength, is it really necessary to join a medium-sized wizarding school?

If you want to join, you have to at least choose a large wizarding school!

Ryan had already anticipated the reactions of the few people.

Ryan naturally considered carefully whether to show his wizarding strength.

Ryan's decision was that it would be better to inform the school about his progress towards the peak of level three crystallization.

Firstly, if he demonstrated his strength at the peak of crystallization, if the school discovered the fourth or even fifth level of the Iron Heart Meditation in the ruins, he would have reason to borrow it.

He doesn't even need to take the initiative to speak up, the school will most likely open up the relevant knowledge to him.

This aspect may also include some precious fourth-level witchcraft.

You know, all the witchcraft at the fourth-level Dawn Wizard level are extremely precious. It can be said that it is the foundation of a wizard school.

Secondly, for him, demonstrating the progress of crystallization and exposing his own strength are not the same thing.

Because a large part of his strength comes from the core skills of the profession panel, such as "Dragon Soul Smash", and another part comes from the transformation of the mutant dragon bloodline and the mastery of various top mysteries.

Relatively speaking, the third-level crystallization peak wizard does not account for a large proportion in his strength composition.

Therefore, his display of crystallization progress is far from revealing his true strength.

Of course, the most important point is that Ryan's current strength is enough to deal with most people who have ill intentions or covetous intentions towards him.

So, Ryan modified the speech he had prepared long ago, such as the ancient dragon soul potion and the series of events that occurred when entering the secret realm of Dragon Valley, and repeated it.

After listening to what Ryan said, the three people, including Moria, were amazed, envious and amazed!

"I haven't seen Batalov, the dean of Winterhold College, for many years, but I know that he has been collecting materials for the Ancient Dragon Soul Potion. Unexpectedly, he finally succeeded."

"But Ryan, you actually got a bottle of the ancient dragon soul potion that Batalov treasured so much from him. That's incredible! If it were me, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to get even one bottle even with the most precious treasures."

Moriah smiled bitterly as he recalled.

"Oh, by the way, Ryan, I forgot to introduce you. This is Ms. Fiona, the deputy head of the school." After a long while, Moria finally came back to his senses. He pointed to the older female wizard beside him and introduced her with a smile.

"Hello, Ms. Fiona, nice to meet you." Ryan smiled and bowed.

"Hello, Lord Ryan. Although this is the first time we meet, I have a very deep impression of you." Fiona complimented him appropriately.

After some pleasantries, they sat down in the witch formation emitting green light and started talking about business.

Moriah introduced: "The strange radiation here has a unique and powerful effect on the stone palate monsters, but fortunately, this promoting effect will also decrease as the stone palate monsters become stronger."

"At present, the early stage is the fastest, and it will be much slower when it reaches the quasi-legendary level. It takes ten or even dozens of years of accumulation."

"As for the legendary stone palate monsters, it would be even slower to rely on this level of radiation to improve. The only way is to go deeper, to a place with higher radiation intensity."

While the sect leader Moria was explaining the story to Ryan, he pointed out the iron-barred window to the entrance on the platform below, which was crowded with stone monsters.

"So that's why. This is why so many stone monsters gather at that entrance." Ryan nodded and said.

To deal with so many stone monsters, even for him, he can only rely on the transformation of dragon bloodline. However, this will consume a lot of his attribute points.

"Yes, that's the problem."

"That is the only way we have to go to the core area of ​​the Valzig School. Although we have already discussed a way to lure away most of the stone monsters, there should still be a few left." Moria continued.

"The current level of radiation would require a wizard in the middle stage of Level 2 liquefaction to use protective magic to deal with it with all his strength."

"It's conceivable that if we are able to enter the core area, the radiation intensity we face will be very strenuous even for a level 3 crystal wizard."

"In the past six months, we have also used small puppets to detect inside the entrance. In addition to some protective magic arrays, there are also some rare war golems that can still be driven and attack foreign enemies. The power is amazing."

"That is to say, if we go deeper, we will most likely have to resist the increasingly strong radiation while dealing with various emergencies such as battles. In this case, even the mental strength of a third-level crystallized wizard will not last long."

At this time, Moria signaled to the deputy sect leader Fiona to continue the introduction.

"Lord Moria and I have thought of many ways to deal with this, and have also conducted many tests on witchcraft. We found that natural witchcraft has the best protective effect."

Fiona smiled at Ryan and continued Moriah's words.

"This is the leaf of the ancient tree. When stimulated by the witch formation, it can achieve a certain balance with the current intensity of radiation, thus avoiding the consumption of mental power to release protective witchcraft. This is also the way we can stay here for a long time."

Fiona pointed to the green leaf floating up and down in the center of the magic circle and said.

"At the same time, this also proves the feasibility of this idea."

"Of course, if we want to go deeper, we will need more powerful natural treasures. For example, according to our estimation, the 'Heart of the Ancient Tree' can significantly reduce or even completely offset the radiation damage in the core area."

"That's it." Renn nodded.

No wonder the leader of Moria Sect is in urgent need of the 'Heart of the Ancient Tree'.

"Unfortunately, something has happened to the elves recently, and the original contact has suddenly disappeared. Our exploration team originally had two people, but I have now sent them to investigate the situation nearby."

Moria frowned and sighed.

It is a very unpleasant feeling to spend a lot of time and energy to find a method, only to be unable to realize it due to the limitation of raw materials.

"Well, Lord Moria, maybe I can help with this matter. I brought the heart of the ancient tree this time." Ryan smiled slightly and took out a wooden box from his arms.

It was the wooden box given to him by the elf elder, Aldilan, the mayor of Basaran.

"Ok?"

After hearing what Ryan said, Moria and the other two seemed to have a question mark on their foreheads.

However, when Ryan opened the box, the two oval objects emitting rich natural energy fluctuations immediately answered the three people's questions.

They heard it right!
"This is really the heart of the ancient tree! There is no doubt about it. This level of natural energy fluctuations cannot be compared to other ironwood hearts or ancient tree leaves." Deputy Sect Leader Fiona exclaimed in disbelief.

"Haha, that's great! It's still two pieces, that's really great!"

"Ryan, you are really the lucky star of the school. With your coming, the biggest problem has been solved!" Moria patted Ryan's shoulder heavily and laughed heartily. At this time, Ryan felt the vibration of the thin sheet in his arms, so he bowed slightly and said embarrassedly: "Sorry."

He just walked to the side, took out a thin slice and injected a trace of mental power.

"I'm Ryan."

"Master Hao Lei, the regional plague is coming from you."

It seemed that due to the strong radiation interference here, Olena's voice coming from the other side of the thin film could not be heard at all.

"Hey?"

"Boohoo."

The call is interrupted.

However, Ryan managed to capture a few key words: 'area', 'plague' and 'messenger'.

Recalling what he had asked Olena to do before - investigating the cult dynamics near the Walzig ruins, Ryan immediately thought of something.

"Could this be the area where the Plague Cult is active?" Ryan couldn't help but wonder.

When Ryan turned around and sat down again, Moria was already working on putting the heart of the ancient tree into the backpack-like device he had made earlier.

As an ancient tree heart was put into it, the backpack soon emitted a spherical protective barrier that was visible to the naked eye. The diameter was less than three meters, but it was more than enough to protect one person.

"The heart of the ancient tree is very valuable. I thought it was great that you exchanged for one, but I didn't expect to get two. Ryan, how about you come in with me?" Moria invited with a smile.

"This." Ryan couldn't help but look at the deputy sect leader Fiona beside him. The other party spent a lot of energy in exploring the ruins in the early stage. In his opinion, she should be given priority.

However, before Ryan could say anything, the deputy sect leader Fiona smiled and said, "Sir Ryan, I can do it. Lord Moria can do it basically. And you are stronger than me, so you are more suitable."

"Okay then." Just as Ryan was about to say something, suddenly, footsteps were heard at the door.

The wall moved away again.

"Master, something bad has happened!" Two male wizards wearing the school's standard wizard robes walked in quickly and said.

"We investigated the situation and found that the nearby elven town of Rutherland has been occupied by the Plague Cult. I'm afraid it will be difficult to obtain the Heart of the Ancient Tree."

"What?" Moriah and Fiona's expressions changed, not because of the ancient tree's heart, but because the current situation was more serious than they had expected.

The scale of the cult's action this time was large.

Just as the two wizards were getting closer, Ryan suddenly frowned, stretched out his hand to stop them, and said, "Wait!"

"It seems that both of you..."

"Huh? Who are you?" The two looked surprised, obviously not knowing Ryan.

"Oh no, there is some kind of mental mark on you, you are being tracked!" Deputy Sect Leader Fiona said with a solemn expression.

"No, this is a curse. You two are cursed." Moria said with a changed expression.

At this moment, under the illumination of the light green magic formation in the room, a fist-sized, thin black mist vaguely appeared above the two people's heads.

This immediately made the two of them change their expressions, as if they had thought of something.

But before the two could explain anything, suddenly, their faces turned red, and then they began to vomit blood.

"boom!"

What followed was a loud bang!
The wall of the room near the tunnel was suddenly blown open.

"Hahaha, not bad, not bad. I didn't expect that by following two little fish, we could actually discover the ruins of an ancient wizard school." A hoarse, teasing voice came from the other end of the long tunnel.

Then, five figures wearing black robes and hoods appeared at the gap in the blown wall.

"Plague cult!" Moriah looked at the cauldron pattern with green bubbles on the other party's robe, his face became serious, and said.

"Huh? Peak of crystallization?" At this time, the hooded man in black robe who was leading the group, his expression changed when he saw Moria and Ryan, and he exclaimed in a low voice.

Obviously, he did not expect that while following two wizards in the late stage of level 2 liquefaction, he would actually run into two high-level wizards at the peak of level 3 crystallization.

However, Gelshi, one of the three plague messengers, is also at the peak of crystallization, so the battle broke out suddenly.

"Curse of the Plaguebringer!" Gershi immediately cast the spell.

"Swish!" He swung the bone staff in his hand, and five balls of black mist the size of millstones attacked Ryan and his four companions!

However, when the black mist entered the light green magic circle in the center of the room, its speed immediately slowed down. But it seemed that because of the influence of the black mist, the green leaves in the center of the magic circle also dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Too arrogant!" Moria quickly used

Ryan also raised his right hand, and a silver metal ring appeared in front of him, and flew rapidly towards the black-robed man opposite.

As if sensing the extraordinary power of Ryan's witchcraft, Gershei, who was in the lead, shouted "Get out of the way". The two men in black robes reacted quickly, but the reactions of the other two were a beat slower.

Perhaps, they thought that with the protection of the black swirling defensive witchcraft, it shouldn't be a big deal.

But with a "chi!" sound, the black vortex shields of the two people were instantly penetrated as if they did not exist. Of course, their bodies were not spared either.

"what!!!"

The two men in black robes felt the severe pain in their waist and abdomen, looked down in disbelief, and then trembled and screamed.

"Puff! Puff!"

There were sounds of two heavy objects falling to the ground, and two halves of the body fell to the ground. However, their strong vitality prevented them from dying immediately, and they continued to struggle and howl.

Seeing this scene, everyone on the scene, friend or foe, looked at Ryan in horror.

It seems to be saying, isn't the power of this silver metal ring too great?

As for the plague bringer Gershi, his heart sank suddenly!
Because he knew the strength of his two subordinates best, and before entering the door, both of them cast the third-level defensive witchcraft "Shadow Guardian".

But even so, he couldn't block the opponent's silver metal ring for even a second!
No wonder, as soon as he saw the silver metal ring used by the young man, alarm bells rang in his heart.

Just as everyone was amazed at the power of Ryan's witchcraft, suddenly, a black-robed man hiding behind the wall screamed again.

at the same time.

The wall cracked with a sound, and a horizontal crack appeared. The silver metal ring passed through and returned to Ryan again.

"Sigh~"

This scene immediately made everyone in the school, including Moria, gasp.

The power and flexibility of this witchcraft is amazing!

The key is that such a difficult sorcery must be practiced to the point where it is almost instantaneous.
"Damn it!" Galshei was furious when he saw this scene.

In just two seconds, the witchcraft performed by Ryan killed three of the elite members of the sect he brought with him, leaving only him and another person.

However, he did not think that he would lose, because their Plague Cult was not good at single-target witchcraft, but group witchcraft and curses.

"Plague Cloud!"

The skull on top of the bone staff in Gershi's hand exploded, and in an instant, a ball of dark green fog with a diameter of several meters appeared out of thin air and quickly floated towards the location of the people from the Bixiu Construction School.

The thick fog was extremely powerful. As it flew over, it directly corroded most of the already dim light green magic formation, and then continued to fly towards the crowd.

"Get out of the way!" Moria shouted and immediately dodged sideways.

He knew very well that some of the evil spells of the Plague Cult were area attacks, and were extremely vicious and difficult to deal with. Once hit, it might not be fatal immediately, but it would put one in an extremely passive situation.

"Chichi!"

The large mass of dark green fog was extremely corrosive and toxic. Although it did not hit Ryan and his companions, after it reached the end of the room, it corroded a hole several meters in diameter in the wall of the other end.

You know, the room here is like a crane arm extending out of the air, hanging right above the platform below.

In the previous six months, everyone in the school had been operating cautiously in the room, but the strong fluctuations of witchcraft energy during the battle just now had already caused a commotion among the hundreds of stone monsters below.

Even the huge stone monster chieftain, who had half-closed his eyes and leaned against the entrance railing, now opened his pair of fierce yellow-brown vertical pupils and looked towards the room more than ten meters high.

All of a sudden, thousands of pairs of vertical pupils focused in the air!
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