Wizard Alchemist

Chapter 12 Apple Orchard
This time, in order to avoid having to guard against strangers in the wild, Roy, Renien and others decided to huddle together for warmth.

Just four people signed up to form a team, waiting for the senior apprentice assigned by Wuta to take his position, which is a standard task force.

What made them happy was that he was not an ordinary senior apprentice.

She is powerful enough to deter villains.

But what worries me is, will Wuta assign a simple task to Sophia and let her go on an outing with a group of rookies?
No matter how you look at it, this is a configuration for a difficult task.

And, to put it bluntly...

Maybe the one in the most danger is the senior!

But now that things have come to this, there is nothing anyone can do to change anything and they can only passively accept it.

Early in the morning, they arrived at the entrance of the Witch Tower. Many apprentices had already set out, and most of them had sad faces, as if they were going to die with difficulty.

Roy and the others had similar expressions after reading the mission instructions.

Only then did they realize that the mission location assigned to them by Wuta was at a level zero resource point nicknamed "Apple Orchard".

It turned out to be a mission location marked as difficult.

However, the resource point...

Roy suddenly became thoughtful.

While checking the details, Renien reminded: "Portning is here!"

The other party came up to Roy and showed a bit of coldness: "Roy, you didn't take my words to heart at all. You just ignored them."

Roy already possessed knight-level strength at this time, and he felt a little more confident.

However, he did not show it, and said calmly: "Lord Portning, what do you mean?"

Portning said, "How dare you secretly sell that soothing perfume all this time! Trides has already told me."

Roy frowned.

It's that kid again!
Trides's social circle overlapped too much with mine, so it was not easy to keep it completely secret.

He had no choice but to use the tiger's skin as a banner and said, "Our leader this time is Senior Sister Sophia!"

Porter Ning sneered, "I know that this mission is led by a senior apprentice, but she can't protect you forever. Sooner or later, she will deal with you!"

……

"Huh, finally leaving!"

"Roy, you have to be careful. This guy might really hold a grudge against you."

Not long after, Portning left, and his companions breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Roy.

Roy looked calm: "It's okay, just get stronger as soon as possible."

Renien looked at him in surprise, as if he had noticed something.

This calmness...

It was as if he was not the one being threatened!

After a long time, Sophia finally arrived.

She was actually accompanied by another person, who was none other than Celine, the girl with pigtails whom she had seen before.

"Are you from the Apple Orchard Investigation Team?"

"Yes, Senior Sophia, my name is..."

Renien came closer, trying to get closer.

But Sophia interrupted: "If so, let's go."

Renien was embarrassed and didn't dare to say anything more.

Roy watched with great interest as Sophia touched the ring and summoned two balls of light from the treasure that looked like a magical storage device.

Immediately afterwards, its body expanded and transformed into two giant wolf puppets, each about ten feet long, appearing in front of everyone.

It was a flesh and blood puppet made from the corpse of a demonized creature. It had a gloomy aura of death, but its appearance was so lifelike that if you didn't look carefully, you would really think it was a living thing.

"Everyone, come up."

Sophia asked several people to climb onto the back of one of the giant wolves, and she took Celine and rode on another wolf.

Along the way, the giant wolf ran wildly, shaking everyone badly. Roy had to hold on to its fur tightly to prevent falling off its back.

This journey was definitely not comfortable, but it was convenient and fast. In just over two hours, we arrived at the mission location marked by Wuta, the "Apple Orchard".

Sophia asked everyone to get off the wolf's back, and she led the team inside.

The two giant wolf puppets followed on the left and right wings to provide protection, and only retracted when they reached a narrow area inside.

What appeared before everyone was a wild garden in a valley. The walls built in the past were still tall, but they were already covered with ivy and moss.

The garden is lush with vegetation, and winding paths lead deep into it, flanked by fruit trees that resemble apple trees.

"This is the so-called apple orchard..."

"It doesn't look anything surprising."

"But these fruits are really strange. At first glance, there are some snake scale-like patterns on the skin. If you don't pay attention, you might think there are snakes coiled around them!"

"I almost lost my sight just now."

Everyone looked around with different expressions.

Roy seemed to be thinking about something.

Although low-level apprentices rarely have the opportunity to travel outside the tower, they have learned about some things in the outside world in the past years.

The seven wizard towers of the Seven Towers Alliance are all concentrated on a continent called the Mysterious Island. It is the place where the wizarding world's magic power is concentrated and various materials are produced.

After the great wizards stepped out into the starry sea and conquered other worlds, they brought back a lot of good things from outside to feed back to the will of the world, thus being able to continuously train lower-level wizards as a reserve army.

"Apple Orchard" is such an artificially created resource point.

Normally there are guards here, but now, I'm afraid the situation is very dangerous.

"Hahahaha……"

While I was thinking, an inexplicable laugh came from the wind.

"The tree... the tree is smiling!"

"No, it's the fruit on the tree!"

Everyone looked over in surprise.

Sophia was quite disdainful of the fuss made by several intermediate apprentices: "It's just a snake fruit, what's the point of making such a fuss?"

Everyone suddenly remembered that they had learned related content before.

Snake Fruit is a magical fruit that can arouse human inner desires and has hallucinogenic effects.

Some alchemists extract its juice and brew it into a potion called "Sweet Dreams"...

Although it doesn't have much effect, it is still quite popular.

This is a fruit-based potion with relatively high economic value among low-level materials.

Roy recalled the knowledge in his mind and gradually turned his gaze to the depths of the orchard, which was shrouded in a layer of fog like miasma.

“The radiation pollution from witchcraft energy is far more serious than expected.

It seems that the previous accident has begun to pollute the earth veins, and the fruit trees and fruits there may have undergone some kind of mutation."

The sky and the earth were dark above the huge orchard. It should have been noon, but it felt like night was about to fall.

But the orchard below seemed to have its own spiritual light and was still as bright as day.

"Wait, something's not right."

Sophia stopped and stared into the distance, as if trying to penetrate the fog.

Roy's heart tightened when he heard this.

He heard a hint of caution in Sophia's tone.

"What might be hidden inside..."

Sophia's voice became ethereal.

The fog spread silently around.

Before they knew it, they were gradually lost in the crowd.

(End of this chapter)