Kobold Wizard's Journal

Chapter 69 Magic Stone and Soup
According to the city's wizard legacy, this powerful wizard dedicated his life to researching a new and more perfect path to immortality. This surprised Ruger. The description suggested a unique wizard with near-immortality, immortality, and the so-called research on a new path meant that the old path already existed. Ultimately, this wizard, overwhelmed by an unsolvable problem, turned his attention to the world of knowledge.

The world of knowledge is a more dangerous world than the nightmare world. The more powerful people are, the less likely they are to approach it easily.

Therefore, the wizard designed this city, using its unique characteristics to guide him to the long-awaited answer. Because knowledge in that mysterious world is an abstract, living entity, it actively pursues those who might understand it like a goblin. The higher the level of knowledge one can access, the more dangerous it is to enter that world. The overwhelming amount of knowledge will crush heads and annihilate souls.

Ruger's breathing became heavier as he read. He was not frightened, but rather had a longing for that world. He really couldn't imagine being chased by knowledge. He thought it might be a beautiful scene, of course, before his head exploded.

He continued to flip through the pages. In his opinion, this thin book "The Truth of the Mysterious City Revealed" was not a revelation at all, but a crude summary of the rumors around the camp. It didn't even mention the name of the city in the end, but only vaguely called it the Mysterious City.

He finished reading it and then looked at the Demon Body spell book for a while, but the expected figure still did not appear.

He had no choice but to put the book away and return to the elves through the camp.

When passing by the camp, I saw people hiring lizardman mercenaries in groups. I guess the lizardmen around Baonte were hired here, but I don't know what the price was.

As he walked, he pondered the details of the book "Mystery City: The Truth Revealed." The Mystery City had many arrangements to guide people into the world of knowledge, such as a magical spring, said to be one of the powerful wizard's masterpieces. The book's revelation crudely explained it as a supercharged version of the expensive Spirit Heart Potion. There was also a record of a powerful insect-man who had attempted to force his way into the city, only to be shattered into pieces upon impact.

He returned to the campfire and saw the Flame Man cooking, but this time it was stew. Various mushrooms and pieces of meat were bubbling and the aroma filled the air.

Luge felt a little embarrassed. After all, they were not very familiar with each other, and it was not good to always eat for free.

"Two magic stones and a bowl of soup." The Flame Man suddenly said.

Ruger was stunned, and took out two magic stones and handed them over, and sure enough, he got a bowl of soup.

The elf rolled his eyes.

Bang! Flames exploded! The soup pot was affected, spilling two or three bowls of liquid.

Baonte walked out of the exploding flames, but the lizardman mercenaries were nowhere to be seen behind him.

"Six magic stones." The flame man stretched out his hand.

Baonte, whose face was already bad, was stunned by this action. His puzzled expression softened a little, and he took out six magic stones and handed them over without saying a word.

When Baonte sat down, he glanced at Ruger, but also said nothing.

"Ganaya, do you know that city?"

Ruger said as he handed over the pamphlet he had bought.

The elf put down his half-finished soup and took it curiously to read it.

"Give up. This city has been experiencing a lot of unusual activity these past two days. You might miss the opening of the city because of a snake."

The Flame Man handed over a bowl of soup.

Baonte took the soup and drank it silently, seeming to be lost in thought. "I caught the snake a long time ago." Baonte glanced at the dog-headed man beside him.

Ruger pricked up his ears as he chatted with the elf.

It seems that Flame Man still doesn't know that Baonte has already caught the snake, which is truly Baonte's personal matter. However, combined with the content of "Mystery City Truth Revealed", we can see Baonte's determination on this matter. After all, even if the above is half-truth, it still has considerable value. Baonte's wandering around may very well miss the opportunity as Flame Man said.

At the same time, Ruger also realized one thing. If he was not here, Baonte might not have told him that he had caught the snake. He really became an annoying dog-headed man.

"That snake, is it Kaliu's?" The flame man stirred the spoon.

The elf also looked up curiously.

"Yes, I was the one who found it for him, many years ago." Baonte sipped his soup and tossed six more magic stones to fill a bowl. "I want to bury him. After all, he was barely my only good friend in that academy."

The elf looked confused and didn't seem to recognize Kaliu.

"Kalu is dead?" said the Flame Man.

"Well, I chopped him open with my own hands. He should be dead. I can confirm this from the reaction of his familiar. But he has been cunning since he was a child," Baonte said as he drank his soup. "The moment I chopped him open that day, I was also trapped by his spell. But I think he should be dead. His familiar held his body in its mouth and ran away in front of me while I was unable to move..."

Baonte put down the empty soup bowl and glanced at the people around the campfire.

His sturdy figure, sitting here, was still the tallest, but his face looked a little gloomy at the moment.

"As a friend, I'm deeply saddened. I didn't speak of it because you wouldn't understand my judgment," he said gloomily. "I bear him no ill will, but he blocked my path to transcendence. He must die. Even if he's my only friend, I must chop off his head with the sword in my hand. The only thing I can do is sharpen my sword even more and spare him pain."

Ruger shrank his head and tilted his head to look at the elf, only to see that the elf lady also looked surprised.

"In my disgusting hometown," the elf suddenly said with a smile, "it's very common to pierce the chest of a loved one with even the crudest and cheapest knife. Although I have hated seeing such things since I was a child, no one has ever given me such a strange feeling as you do, as if someone is speaking foolishly with a dignified and serious demeanor."

Baonte pondered for a moment and nodded.

The Flame Man was still stirring the soup in the pot and adding some more ingredients. He seemed to particularly enjoy cooking and carried exquisite tableware with him, which he distributed to passers-by. Unfortunately, Ruger watched him for a while and only managed to deliver one bowl.

Luger was just about to raise his head to drink the last mouthful of soup in the bowl.

I saw ripples appearing in the soup.

He turned his head, and everyone around him looked at the mysterious city in the distance, which seemed to be floating and in another time and space.

Is this the unusual movement they were talking about? Or is it really about to open? I wonder if that little crybaby has entered, Luger thought.

He suddenly thought of a question. If this city is so good, why are all the wizard apprentices here? Why haven't those formal wizards, or even more powerful wizards, come here? Especially the wizard Nitli who still has a commission.

(End of this chapter)