I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 63 Mutated Giant Monster

The mutated mountain monster was not in its lair, but Helena and the others were very good at tracking it.

After getting to know each other, Helena learned that Roland had just started school today and started calling him "junior" again.

Roland laughed and didn't care.

When the group passed by a swamp, they encountered a group of zombies, several "Rotten" with the strength of low-level knights, and a Rotten Knight with the strength of a medium-level knight.

Helena and the others worked together very well, and their magic tricks and daily spells were varied.

Everyone first separated the Rotten Knight from other monsters. After killing the other monsters, they worked together to kill the Rotten Knight.

After the performance, Roland sheathed his sword and exclaimed, "Your magic is truly impressive. Each of you knows at least twenty or thirty spells."

Everyone blushed, and Helena said, "Senior Roland! We wish we were like you. Who would use so many tricks when they've mastered one magic trick and one sword trick?"

Helena started calling Roland "senior" again.

Roland asked, "What level are you among the freshmen of this year's Baiqi Academy?"

Helena blushed as she spoke, "We at the White Chess Academy are different from you. You start by learning combat skills and only focus on practicing one or two moves. But we only learn formal magic in our second year. You may not be better than us in a year."

After a pause, she continued, "And don't be so arrogant, Senior Roland. The descendants of our Baiqi family are all very strong, but they just like to keep a low profile. You, you can't even be elected as the team leader this time!"

Roland nodded. He understood. Helena was the low-key descendant of the White Chess family, known for their hidden strength. She felt inferior to him, and she planned to run for the freshman group leader.

Roland was a typical Black Abyss apprentice, uninterested in anything other than killing monsters, stealing treasures, and cultivating. He wouldn't participate in the freshmen's playful games.

But he believed that after entering the academy, he would meet apprentices who had been enrolled for many years, or elite apprentices from large families in the Black Forest.

Helena's words gave him an assessment of the elite apprentice's strength.

"The Baiqi apprentices are fine. Like Helena, they probably know some remarkable magic and likely possess rare artifacts. But they lack the experience of life and death. But the brothers and sisters of the Old Black Abyss School have all risen from the dead, and they're not much worse than me. The Old Black Abyss apprentices from the great families possess a full range of strange magic, rare artifacts, and magical servants."

"Wallace warned me that my fellow apprentices are ruthless. If I run into them in the wild again, it will be very difficult."
Roland felt a sense of crisis.

With the help of the yellow-brown fern forest, he obtained rare objects, and gained knowledge and magic from his senior sister. He already had a lot of trump cards, but he still lacked truly useful magic servants.

I wonder if I can find a good one in the Black Forest today. Roland doesn't have high requirements; a potential Level 1 monster (low-level apprentice-level monster) will do. I can ripen the best potions myself. After knocking it out and bringing it back, I can slowly train and cultivate it.

"Hush, Helena, I can't find any trace of that giant monster—come here and look at this."

A classmate who was in charge of tracking was squatting beside the swamp with an excited look on his face.

Everyone walked over curiously and found that the classmate was staring at a pile of feces.

Just as Roland was stunned, Helena came over, pointed her finger at a small amount of feces, and then closed her eyes.

"What are you doing?" Roland looked stunned.

Adam explained, "Brother Roland, Helena is a real witch. She knows how to remotely view things. As long as she makes deep contact with something, no matter where the owner of the item is, she can see his location and what he is doing." Roland: "???"

At this moment, Helena opened her eyes: "I saw it!"

Roland was horrified after hearing this. He grabbed Helena's hand and asked, "How can we defend against this?"

Everyone had a strange look on their faces.

Everyone's first reaction was, "How come someone's spying on you every day?" The second reaction was, "Senior Roland is so pitiful! His fiancée is being too controlling!"
Helena blushed and pulled Roland's hand away. She said, "I, I don't know how to defend myself. I just know how to look for it in the library. Maybe it's there?"

Roland kept this in mind.

Soon, everyone followed Helena and came to a strange abandoned camp.

There are many tattered tents, broken wooden boxes, and a lot of discarded debris here.

The mutated giant monster was rummaging through a pile of debris, apparently looking for something to eat.

This guy's body is covered with a thick layer of resin, soil, and even many mushrooms have grown on it.

This guy seemed to be wearing a helmet and armor, and the armor was so thick and tough that ordinary swords could not cut it, and ordinary spells would be ineffective on it.

There was a reason why Roland had thought this thing was tricky before - the giant monster's 'earth shell' was insulating, its body fat was too thick, and the bones in its head were extremely hard.

Its size is extremely terrifying, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a behemoth.

As it stood up and rubbed its body against the tree, Roland couldn't help but think of Anna. However, Anna was very slender and weighed only half a ton. But this giant monster must weigh more than a ton.

This mutated giant monster looked very healthy and mentally normal, without any of the ugly appearance of other creatures after mutation.

Everyone covered up their smell so they were not discovered by it. After observing for a while, everyone came to a distance and communicated the hunting plan.

Lawrence used magic to detect detailed information about the giant monster and shared it with everyone.

"We're incredibly lucky. After its mutation, its strength, endurance, and vitality far surpass those of creatures of its weight. However, its resistance to magic has been weakened. Therefore, as long as we break through its armor, magic will be very effective against it."

Someone added: "Don't be careless because it's said that someone saw it tearing two werewolves into pieces in the Dark Forest."

Lawrence finally said, "As for the remaining plan? Our original battle plan can be modified. It doesn't need to be so complicated now because we already have the most labor-saving method - the Wind Prince restrains all monsters that have no brains and only use brute force!"

Everyone looked at Roland, their hesitant eyes seemed to be asking - does Prince Wind need to consume magic stones?

Roland said, "Just use magic."

Everyone was delighted: "Great, this battle can be fought!"

Roland thought to himself, "Prince Wind is truly formidable in dealing with monsters like this. Perhaps I can come to the Black Forest more often in the future."

(End of this chapter)