Full-Time Mage: Starting from Obtaining the Mysterious Ancient Tree

Chapter 23 Cursed Pool
Fall outside the city.

In the woods.

Under the moonlight.

Fang Yu and Leng Qing stood under the tree, looking at the buildings in the distance.

That's where the mountain temple is located.

There's an entrance through which you can vaguely see inside, but so far there's been no unusual activity.

"It might be midnight," Fang Yu said.

Leng Qing left a trail of chaotic air in his wake before leaping onto the tree trunk.

"That's too ostentatious," Fang Yu thought to himself, but immediately shut up.

moment.

Leng Qing summoned her magical artifact, and a dark aura surrounded her. Fang Yu felt a blur before his eyes, as if she had vanished into a void of darkness.

Magical artifact, shadow magic—etherealization!
Block perception!

Leng Qing didn't want anyone to find out, and no one else could.

at night.

Moonlight streamed down from the sky, instantly covering the once-dark forest in a silvery veil.

Fang Yu looked up at the moonlight, then looked down at the mountain temple.

The mountain temple was discovered to be emitting a faint fluorescent glow in the moonlight.

It shimmered like a reflection on the water's surface.

At this moment, he noticed someone approaching the mountain temple building.

"coming."

under the moonlight.

Leng Qing stood on the tree trunk, gazing into the distance.

Standing under the tree, Fang Yu always felt that Leng Qing was a ghost in the darkness.

Slightly creepy.

After the commotion, Fang Yu ignored Leng Qing on the tree and stared at the direction of the mountain temple.

His location was fairly obvious, but Leng Qing cast a spell again, and the dark aura surrounding her flowed, enveloping Fang Yu.

The shadow magic shield proves that this place will not be noticed.

"Behave yourselves, or you'll suffer less."

In front of the mountain temple, four adult men were escorting a group of young people wearing black hoods. Fang Yu observed them carefully.

Nine young people and five adults.

Of the five adults, four escorted them, and the fifth walked at the back.

Based on Leng Qing's suggestion.

Of these five people, the first four are at the beginner level one, the first at the beginner level two, and the first at the beginner level three.

The man at the very back, with sharp, sword-like features and an imposing presence, was named Zuo Lan and was a wanted criminal.

That's the cultivation level of a mid-level mage.

"Are you so strong?"

Fang Yu was somewhat surprised.

These five people are somewhat stronger than him.

However, he wasn't the only one here.

"What is this going to do?"

Fang Yu muttered to himself, subconsciously glancing at the woman in the tree, and asked, "Shall we make a move?"

"You don't need to look at me, make your own decision. If you want to make a move, then make a move."

"I won't interfere with you, nor will I help you." Leng Qing said to Fang Yu, bowing slightly.

This answer left Fang Yu at a loss.

Acting alone.

There are intermediate-level mages here, as well as four beginner-level mages, and who knows if they have any hidden tricks up their sleeves.

He'll be cool for no more than three seconds before he falls from grace.

"It seems these people aren't the mysterious woman's target. So what's the point of coming here? Or is there someone else hiding?"

"Is she going to wait for the final person behind the scenes to appear before she comes out?"

"Would it be too late to act then? Those young men were clearly forced into this situation; who knows if their lives are in danger?"

He frowned slightly and subconsciously touched it.

Difficult to handle!

At this moment, the nine youths were led to the stone pillar of the mountain temple. Because their heads were covered, their ages and identities could not be determined.

"Stand still and don't move. You won't die. It's easier to die if you struggle."

A man kicked the young man and said.

Fang Yu seemed to hear the young man trying to hold back his sobs from afar.

But he didn't make a move; instead, he waited quietly.

After they had tied up all the young men, they took out daggers and began to cut their wrists.

As they watched their knives about to slit their wrists, Fang Yu felt a flash of light streak across the distance.

"You scum of the Black Vatican."

The one who made the move was a woman in blue.

Fang Yu was surprised. Wasn't this the woman in blue he had encountered when he first hunted the giant-eyed ape in Bo City?

I still remember her name was Lan Jin.

How did she end up in Luocheng?
As for the other party's insults against the Black Vatican.

This is understandable; the Black Vatican's actions are indeed devoid of conscience and abhorrent.

Anyone can punish him.

If discovered, they will most likely be attacked by the entire group.

However, the Black Vatican is adept at hiding, concealing itself among various organizations under the name of the Black Vatican, which is why it has not been eradicated to this day and is even more infamous.

Fang Yu finally understood why the mysterious woman had appeared here.

It turns out the root cause of this is the Black Vatican!
The instant Lan Jin made her move, two other people nearby launched surprise attacks.

"So you had companions after all."

Fang Yu thought that Lan Jin was overestimating herself and had come alone, but he didn't expect that the other two had also come.

It was Fang Jin and the woman in white at that time.

Fang Jin injured a beginner level 3 mage at top speed. Although it wasn't a serious injury, he would have the advantage in the subsequent battle.

The same was true for the woman in white; that beginner-level second-tier mage seemed far inferior to her.

just
Zuo Lan's group didn't just consist of these people.

Instantly.

Two dark shadows that were slowly crawling on the side of the mountain temple suddenly darted out with incredible agility. Their exceptionally long and sharp forelimbs were like two scythes, slashing towards Fang Jin and the woman in white!

With a demonic monkey face and a deformed body, its entire body is so black that it looks like it's wearing some kind of tight leather coat. It's incredibly ugly, and this is the symbol of the Black Church: the Black Beast Demon!

With the sudden entry of these two black beast demons into the battlefield, Fang Jin and the woman in white could no longer maintain their advantage and were locked in a stalemate.

Meanwhile, Zuo Lan was bleeding each of the young men.

Leng Qing watched without moving.

The mastermind behind this hasn't come out yet, so we can't rush things.

Not being able to do it all at once has a significant impact.

Boom!

The aftershocks of the magic blasted open a corner of the building, exposing the entire interior of the mountain temple to the moonlight.

This is…

pool!

The entire pool is constructed of volcanic rock, and heat radiates from the honeycomb pores in the rock, warming the entire mountain temple.

However, the pool inside the mountain temple was not clear hot water; it was filled with black, bubbling cursed water, as if it had been melted down from many corpses, making one feel nauseous just by looking at it.

In the black pool, a person was soaking. From the person's shed skin, fallen hair, and the body that was severely rotten and cursed, it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman!
He's supposed to be human, but he looks like a skinless ghost!

The important thing is that she had already lost all signs of life.

Fang Yu witnessed this scene from the side, his face filled with disbelief.

Cursed Pool.

It's the place where the Black Vatican refines Black Beasts and Cursed Beasts!

It can turn a human being raised in a civilized society into a vicious, cold-blooded demon, devoid of humanity.

This cruelty is truly beyond words.

The corpse in front of us is likely a product of a failed metamorphosis.

Fang Yu's face was gloomy.

Now I understand. The Black Vatican's purpose in capturing those nine youths was to turn them into black monsters.

at the same time.

Zuo Lan entered the mountain temple and was throwing one by one the weakened youths who had been bled out into the cursed pool.

(End of this chapter)