The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 503 Discovery
Ryan recalled the part about the prison in the floating city design in his mind.

On both sides of the corridor in front of him were the detention areas for extraordinary beings. The rooms were larger and the prisons were more secure. For example, they all had special energy limiting devices and strong alloy grilles to deal with melee combat.

The unknown existence made Ryan more alert.

But Ryan did not stay any longer. He just walked slowly inside.

The sound that sounded like breathing became louder. It should be about 20 meters in front of him, coming from the fifth cell on the right side of the corridor.

Moreover, he heard other noises coming from the prison farther away.

"Huh? More than one?"

"Also, the air temperature is starting to rise."

As Ryan thought about this, he slowed down his pace a little.

Because the change in air temperature at this moment was already quite obvious, he only moved a few meters closer, and the temperature rose by at least five degrees.

This temperature change naturally would not cause any physical discomfort to him, whose mutant dragon bloodline had reached 'super'.

However, this shows that the sound of airflow he just heard was most likely not from humanoid creatures, but more likely from high-energy creatures like dragons or dragonborn creatures that have their own burning breath.

"Can it survive for thousands of years? Could it be a dragon?" A gleam of light flashed in Ryan's eyes.

He was not afraid of giant dragons, even those that were thousands of years old, unless the opponent was a demigod like the 'Red Dragon King' Strahza.

Otherwise, with Ryan's current sixth form of dragon vein transformation, although he cannot guarantee victory, he is not afraid of fighting.

As Ryan slowly approached, the air heated up and it became more and more obvious.

"Hey, something's wrong. The air temperature is almost 70 to 80 degrees. Even for an ordinary dragon, normal breathing would not cause such a big temperature change in the surrounding area when it is not using its breath."

"Is it a special fire dragon?"

Ryan couldn't help but think of the ancient fire dragon 'Anguskin' that jumped out of the crater.

But he still did not stop. He just continued to approach slowly with a little doubt. The change in perspective allowed him to see one side of the prison. At this time, he suddenly discovered that the fifth cell was emitting a faint red light.

"This"

Finally, Ryan stopped.

Because he was very sure that no matter whether it was a red dragon or a fire dragon, the skin and scales on their bodies would not emit such a bright red light.

At this time, he was already in front of the first prison where the extraordinary people were imprisoned.

Ryan glanced.

The cell was empty, and there were no skeletons or anything like that on the ground.

This seems to indicate that not all cells in the prison area hold prisoners, which is normal.

After thinking about it, Ryan continued to move forward.

There was a skeleton on the ground in the second cell. Judging from its length, it seemed to be a transcendental goblin. Its clothes were so tattered that it was impossible to tell who it was.

Ryan took a few glances and after confirming that the other party was not human, he passed by again.

At this time, Ryan's sight could already see part of the fifth cell on the right.

In that room, there was a monster that looked like a naga, but had four sharp horns of different sizes on its head. It was more than three meters tall. In addition to the flames on its body, Ryan also found that there was a black gas lingering around its head.

Ryan had a feeling that the black energy seemed to have the same origin as the black bugs in the goblin's mummy's head.

This is the instinctive perception of a Dawn Wizard.

The other person's body seemed to look very "fresh". Yes, fresh! The skin was not as dry and wrinkled as the goblin mummy. Although it was a little dry, it did not look weird. Instead, it looked quite strong.

However, when Ryan thought back to the goblins infected by black bugs, he understood.

Because whether it was the goblin manipulator or the goblin engineer, the subcutaneous tissue was merely shriveled and not completely corrupted, or in other words, due to the black bugs, the corruption was curbed to some extent.

As Ryan got closer to the other party's cell and looked at him carefully, the other party seemed to sense Ryan and immediately adjusted his gaze from the side to the front, scolding him:

"How dare the despicable goblin imprison Les"

Ryan noticed the other party's speech error immediately.

Goblin?

The next moment, he saw that the other person's eyes had no pupils at all, and were all a reddish white.

And judging from the other party's intermittent words, he seemed to be unconscious, or only had some instincts left.

Ryan looked at the other party and lost the idea of ​​taking the initiative.

Because the other party didn't seem to be carrying any valuable treasures, no necklace, no ring, not even a thin armor.
He came to find the leader of the Walzig School, or at least the other party had to be human.

The humanoid creature in front of him was not one of his targets.

However, the opponent's strength seems to be quite strong, roughly at the late legendary to peak legendary level.

Ryan didn't know whether the opponent's original strength was stronger or weaker than this, or whether it was caused by the black mist covering the opponent's face?
"boom!"

Suddenly, the red light on the opponent's body became brighter, and a wave of hot air swept over.

"Bang!!!"

The Naga-like monster rushed towards Ryan and slammed heavily into the steel grille!

"The despicable goblins won't let go."

Obviously, the other party had a grudge against the goblins, and with his confused mind and blind eyes, he mistook Ryan for a goblin.

The opponent's attack had no chance of hurting Ryan due to the distance.

"You can't even see, yet you're still thinking about revenge." Ryan couldn't help but shook his head.

But the next moment, he suddenly discovered that the thumb-thick alloy grilles in the opponent's prison were actually melting!
"Huh?" Ryan narrowed his eyes and looked inside the prison.

He discovered that the intricate lines on the floor of the prison where the other party was imprisoned, which was originally some kind of wizard formation structure that restricted strength, had been damaged for some unknown reason. No wonder the other party was able to destroy this grille.

In other words, the prison's suppression of the opponent's strength has become ineffective.

Moreover, unlike the relatively stiff and rigid steps of the previous goblin mummies, the opponent's body shape and speed when sliding were very coordinated. It seemed that the black mist had a different effect on the strength of this guy than on the goblins?

"The black energy actually preserved the opponent's strength?"

As Ryan's thoughts drifted away, he raised his hand, and six buzzing serrated metal rings appeared in front of him.

It was the third-level metal magic 'Serrated Ring'. The opponent's strength was not epic, and Ryan's Serrated Ring, whose power was almost as powerful as the Dawn Magic, was enough to deal with it.

Although he had no intention of taking the initiative to attack, if the other party dared to take the initiative to attack, he would naturally not hesitate to kill the other party.

Moreover, this is also an opportunity to observe the changes in the black mist.

For Ryan, the black mist was what he feared the most. As the metal grille melted, the opponent raised a red arm with sharp claws, and a group of flaming vortices with a diameter of several meters suddenly appeared on the ground around Ryan.

These swirling flames, with white tops, were obviously extremely hot and were expanding rapidly.

At this time, Ryan had already dodged and retreated, and at the same time, he stretched out his finger and pointed at the other party.

"go with!"

As Ryan pointed, six high-speed rotating metal rings drew different bright arcs from different angles and instantly hit the naga-like monster.

"Chi! Chi!"

The third-level witchcraft 'Serrated Ring', which had been doubly blessed by Ryan's Iron Heart Meditation and Super Metal Affinity, was as powerful as the beginner's Dawn Witchcraft. The six metal rings cut straight into the opponent's light red scaly body like cutting tofu.

Suddenly, he cut the opponent into several pieces!

"No!"

All that was heard was a roar from the opponent before his death, and then a strong fire shock wave shot out from his shattered body to all directions!
"He's probably at the peak of legendary strength. I wonder what role this black energy plays in this." Ryan thought to himself as he looked at the other person's body that was cut into several pieces.

But just as the opponent's body was broken into several pieces, it fell heavily to the ground.

Sudden.

A ball of black mist suddenly emerged from the opponent's corpse and quickly changed its shape in mid-air, presenting various hideous shapes. Sometimes it looked like some kind of insect, like a giant mantis, and sometimes like a giant centipede with sharp claws.

The next moment, black mist suddenly attacked where Ryan was.

"Shh!"

Facing this sudden attack, Ryan was already prepared. He just hooked his finger and six buzzing metal rings flashed past from behind the black mist.

I saw the black mist surging violently, but the opponent seemed to have no substance, and the serrated metal ring was like hitting a cloud of smoke.

After only delaying the opponent for a moment, the black fog continued to attack Ryan like lightning!
However, before the battle, Ryan had already thought of a complete plan to deal with this strange black energy.

His neck suddenly became thicker, with dark silver scales appearing on it, and his head turned into a ferocious and huge dragon head. He suddenly exhaled a breath of dragon towards the black twisted fog that was less than two meters away from him in the air.

"Roar!!!"

The flame in the mouth was a small beam at first, but then it spread and expanded into a cone shape, instantly covering the constantly twisting and deforming black fog.

"Buzz!"

A sound like hot water being poured on a soldering iron was heard!
At the same time, Ryan also vaguely felt some kind of shrill scream mixed in it, as if something was roaring at the end of its life, which was chilling!

As a faint fishy smell wafted over, Ryan's transformed dragon eyes still vigilantly scanned the interior of the prison. After making sure there was no remaining danger, he returned to human form.

Just now, he used part of his body to transform into a dragon and performed the dragon's breath, successfully killing the strange and twisted fog.

However, he was not very optimistic in his heart.

"As expected, this thing doesn't seem to be a physical entity."

Ryan had this guess as early as when he saw the black deformed beetle, and now it has been further confirmed.

"No, to be precise, it seems to be able to transform between the physical and mist states. In fact, the larger the total amount of black mist, the more strange changes there may be."

"But one thing seems to be certain. As the volume of the black fog increases, the opponent's aggressiveness also seems to increase sharply."

Ryan frowned and thought, and soon summed up some experience.

The black beetles were not so difficult to deal with before, but as the size of the black fog increased, it became immune to physical attacks, which was still very tricky.

However, the above can only be regarded as experience, and the sample size is too small to be summarized into a rule.

"Bang! Ding-ding!"

Suddenly, the noise deep in the corridor intensified!
Ryan turned quickly and focused his attention on the dimly lit corridor.

It seemed that the noise of his fight with the monster just now caused a reaction from other things in the prison.

He heard a lot of stiff footsteps, thumps, and the sound of metal hitting grates.

It sounds like there are more than one or two, at least four or five.

This made Ryan's face change slightly, and he looked at the changes in the cells on both sides of the corridor in a serious manner.

"Oh!"

At this moment, a prison grille in front of his right was twisted and deformed by some huge force, and suddenly bounced out. A black upright hoof at least as thick as an adult's waist stepped out.

The other party was a minotaur over three meters and five meters tall, with eyes as big as copper bells and white eyes. One of the two horns on its head was broken. The mane extended from the top of the head to the back. His body was muscular, but his skin was cracked, giving him a rough rock texture.

The minotaur's upper body was also surrounded by black air, especially his face, which was extremely dense.

Obviously, this was another prisoner invaded by the strange black fog.

"The extinct minotaurs of ancient times?"

"I didn't expect to see this here." Ryan immediately guessed the other party's origin from his special appearance.

But it's not over yet.

In a cage on the left side in front of Ryan, a dry and wrinkled hand touched the metal grille, and then the metal grille began to deform and twist rapidly.

"Metal Transfiguration?!" Ryan's eyes widened.

Unlike the previous monster that used fire magic, the magic and energy fluctuations cast by the mummy in front of him were extremely familiar to Ryan. They were metal-based energy particle fluctuations.

A human mummy wearing a wizard's robe walked out with a slightly unsteady gait.

"Ancient human wizard? This kind of dress! Can't be wrong." Ryan's eyes flashed with a gleam.

He had seen this kind of wizard robe at the ruins of Walzig. It seemed to be the standard wizard robe of the ancient wizard school Walzig.

Because of the special wizard patterns engraved on it, this wizard robe on the human mummy has not been completely damaged after thousands of years, and its unique decorative features can be roughly distinguished.

In other words, even if the owner of this mummy is not the leader of that school, he must be a wizard from the ancient Walzig school!

"It seems that my previous guess was correct."

Ryan suddenly became a little excited!
"Crench!"

At the same time, suddenly, there was a sound of a door opening behind Ryan.

I saw that a hidden door near the entrance of the corridor was also opened.

Ryan had seen this door when he came in just now, but he didn't pay much attention to it. It seemed to be the guards' lounge. At that time, he wanted to check the prison first, so he just passed it directly.

A short female goblin corpse wearing tight dark leather armor but with a black aura lingering all over her body came out. Ryan noticed that there was a whip tied around her waist.
"Interrogator?"

"Two in front and one in the back, does this count as being surrounded?"

(End of this chapter)