Wizard Alchemist

Chapter 53 Unexpected Discovery
"careful!"

One of the visitor's companions exclaimed and shouted a warning.

But the man only had time to turn and swing his sword once before sparks flew.

The iron chain nimbly moved over the sword blade, slid down, and wrapped around the neck.

The man's face turned red from holding his breath, and soon his brain was deprived of oxygen. He was unable to hold on and fell to the ground and died.

The group of people behind came after them, stopped, and joined the other two people who had been chasing them earlier.

They are all in the same group!

When they saw Roy kill the two men so quickly and efficiently, they were stunned and did not dare to act rashly. Instead, they stopped and watched from a distance.

The leader asked tentatively, "Roy?"

"Pimir?" Roy also recognized the other party.

He was a senior apprentice in the tower, living on the third floor with us. We had met each other several times in the commercial street around the tower.

"So you're from the third floor, what are you hanging around here for?" Pimir said.

Roy was silent for a while, then used the tiger's skin as a banner and said, "I'm working for Senior Ou Lun."

Several people looked at each other in surprise: "We too!"

These people received the same commission, which was to help collect chalk soil in the windy hills.

Not long after, Pimir and others took the bodies of their own people and left, gradually disappearing from Roy's sight.

"Pimir, was that person also a senior apprentice on the third floor of the tower? He looked familiar to me. Did I see him on the second floor?"

One of the people in the team asked with some doubt.

"His name is Roy. He was indeed promoted in January this year. It's normal that I've seen him on the second floor before." Pimir explained briefly.

"I see... I wonder if he has the chalk soil that Senior Oren wants." Another person had a bad idea.

"They were killed just like that. We can't let their deaths be in vain!" others also said.

"Don't have any ideas. That kind of person is not easy to deal with." Pimir, who is also a senior apprentice, shook his head and said with a gloomy expression.

Killing Roy, who is also a senior apprentice, is not an easy task.

Even for him, he needs a very good opportunity to make a move in order to have a chance of success.

He was unwilling to ask for an explanation for these followers. They were expendable and there was no need to sacrifice himself for them.

The same goes for the Cretaceous Land. What happened to Oren is not enough to make him risk his life.

After thinking about it, they felt that it made some sense, so they gave up the idea.

If a conflict breaks out between the two sides, it’s not certain what will happen to Pimir, but they will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

……

After Roy confirmed that they were far away, a look of doubt appeared on his face.

"The person who just died wasn't very strong. He seemed to be just a follower who had been a low-level apprentice...

Why take their bodies away?
Judging from Pimir's expression, he didn't seem to care about them and wanted to bury them properly.

There must be something strange going on here!"

Roy didn't think those people cared about their companions. If they really cared, they wouldn't have let it go so easily.

So he led the undead warhorse and quietly chased after it.

Unconsciously, Roy followed them for more than ten kilometers and found that Pimir and others passed through a valley, threw the bodies into the valley, and then set up camp in a sheltered place at the entrance of the valley to rest temporarily.

Roy looked at the sky, then climbed to a nearby high point in the moonlight to peer into the distance. He was surprised to discover that things weren't going as planned.

"This place is actually a corpse pit! And there are stone demons guarding it!"

What you see is a natural depression surrounded by small hills, with a stone pit inside.

Four burly stone demons, as strong as two-meter-tall men, were guarding the area, as silent as statues.

They are very similar to the earth elemental puppets that Oren had summoned before, but they are made of many more stones, looking thicker and more solid, and not easy to mess with.

But what really attracted his attention was not the four stone demons, but the scene in the pit.

The cold moonlight was unusually bright, illuminating the scene below, making it appear somewhat eerie and terrifying.

There were many human corpses lying in the pool in all directions, with the flesh and blood dissolving and fermenting, and some had even swelled to the point of giant size.

What Pimir and the others had just done was to strip the two companions they had killed and throw them in, adding new ingredients to this terrible pool.

"These people are totally reckless!"

Roy secretly marveled at the origin of this corpse pit.

"This should be the work of Oren. Could it be that the puppet he wants to refine is not a homunculus, but something else from the undead side?"

Roy remembered what Olinda had told him, and a terrible guess flashed through his mind.

That is the necromancy that Nick Manshawta is good at!
As he watched, Luo Yi suddenly felt a familiar feeling coming over him.

That faint tingling feeling between the eyebrows...

It's the feeling of innate source!

It’s the same feeling as when I encountered the Murloc Lord!

A look of surprise appeared on his face, but then he became worried again.

"The valley entrance is guarded by Pimir and others, and there are stone demons in the valley. How can we get close to investigate?"

He stared at the corpse pit for a while, but even the translucent phantom panel did not appear.

"It seems the distance is too far, and the sensation is too vague. We need to find a way to get closer and investigate.

But my current strength is probably not enough to deal with the Stone Demon and those people at the same time..."

After all, Pimir is a senior apprentice, and he also masters some kind of witchcraft. It is very likely that he owns one or even more magic items!
Roy thought hard for a long time but couldn't find any solution.

As a result, while waiting, in the middle of the night, I was surprised to find that Pimir had asked his companions to keep watch and he had gone to bed early to rest.

Although adequate rest is necessary for long-term adventure travel, this relaxed attitude shows that the other party's vigilance is limited.

"That's right, wizard apprentices also grow step by step from weak to strong...

Even if you become a full-fledged wizard, you may still make all kinds of mistakes!"

Roy hid in secrecy, and with his telepathy and shielding abilities that far surpassed those of the intermediate apprentices, he quietly moved to the entrance of the valley where they were camping.

then……

He found the upwind vent and poured out the hallucinogenic drug "Orchard's Doom" he had with him.

This was an alchemical product that he had successfully blended before he was promoted to senior apprentice, and it was achieved because of his [Skilled Worker] status.

To date, this is still considered a difficult recipe for the apprentice stage, and it also has a certain effect on senior apprentices.

As a scent of alcohol like the fermentation of rotten apples wafted into the air, the eyes of the few people in charge of keeping watch in the camp gradually became blurry.

As Roy expected, he soon fell into the dream created by the potion.

(End of this chapter)