Magicians never make wishes

Chapter 137 Following me is just pure money-making.

"Bai Ye, are you sure it's okay?" Ba Quan asked Ronan with a hesitant expression.

After accepting the mission, he formed a mission team with Ronan and two other men in black robes, preparing to complete the mission together.

Yesterday, Ronan contacted him through the magic network, saying he had found a suitable mission.

We're one short for the three of us, so I asked him if he wanted to join.

And it guarantees safety, simplicity, and the ability to earn magic stones.

Trusting Ronan's abilities and wanting to accumulate some magic stones himself, Baquan agreed.

But seeing Ronan's imposing presence today, Ba Quan suddenly felt a little uncertain.

Although he followed the path of body cultivation, his mental strength was no worse than that of an ordinary apprentice. He could vaguely sense that the two teammates next to Ronan had dark auras and were clearly not normal people.

"Don't worry, don't you trust me?"

Ronan offered a word of comfort, but inwardly felt that the other person was making a fuss over nothing.

He wouldn't have brought Baquan along if the mission hadn't required four people.

As for the two figures beside him, they were naturally the skeletons he summoned using the "Skeleton Summoning Spell," namely, "Give Me" and another new skeleton.

The new skeleton was created by using the soul of the guild leader to generate the original soul seed, and then combining it with a newly summoned skeleton using the same method. This resulted in Skeleton No. 2, which Ronan named "Don't Move".

The name and style share the same philosophy as "Go for it," emphasizing the effect of disrupting the enemy.

After accepting the mission, Ba Quan realized that the two black-robed figures were actually skeletons summoned by Ronan.

For a moment, he couldn't understand Ronan's intentions, why he would use a summoned skeleton to impersonate a human head.

"With two fewer people, won't the reward be split a little bigger?"

"But with only two people, the danger is even greater."

"Don't worry, let my men go up first. Maybe we won't even need to lift a finger; they can handle it on their own," Ronan reassured him.

"If only that were true—" Overlord Fist clearly didn't believe it and put on some armor for himself beforehand. "Let's make this clear first, if your skeleton gets killed, don't blame it on me."

Ronan immediately became serious and said, "How could I? What's our relationship? Would I, as a buddy, cheat you?"

I feel like you're setting me up right now.

While inwardly grumbling, Ba Quan asked aloud, "Our team doesn't have enough members. What will we do when we have to submit the mission?"

"The mission has already been submitted, who cares how many people are left in your team? Can't I sacrifice some of my teammates?"

Ronan patted his chest confidently, "Don't worry, I'm an old adventurer."

Ba Quan muttered under his breath, but eventually stopped complaining.

The current task is the best one that Ronan selected from the Magic Network. Although the amount of Magic Stones given is a bit low, the amount of Willpower given is quite good.

"Acquire four Eyeballs Carrying the Plague Demon. Reward: 4 Magic Stones. Requirement: The team accepting this task must have at least four members."

Time limit: 12 hours. [Wish Power Acquired: 8]

With these wishes, Ronan estimated that he could raise his mental strength to 100.

This task seems like just a simple material acquisition task, but the restrictions are quite strange.

After careful study, Ronan realized that the Plague Demons attacked by using curses, and their eyes were the medium through which they cast these curses. Furthermore, once a Plague Demon's curse was successfully cast, its eyeballs would enter a special dormant state, requiring 12...

It will take hours to return to its original state.

"Have you read the mission requirements?" Ba Quan asked.

"Of course I looked into it. Would I dare take on such a strange mission if I didn't figure it out completely? Besides, the mission didn't specify what level of plague-carrying demon it was, so we'll just find the weakest one."

A weaker plague demon's curse attack might only cause the cursed person to bleed from the nose; but a powerful plague demon's curse attack can cause a contagious, instant-death effect.

"It's not a matter of difficulty." Baquan shook his head. "The mission specifies that four people are required. Obviously, the person who issued the mission wants four eyeballs of the plague-carrying demons that have already been successfully cursed and entered a dormant state."

Ronan was somewhat surprised, never expecting that this body-training fanatic who seemed to be obsessed with muscles could actually understand the underlying meaning of this mission.

Indeed, he had already noticed this, as evidenced by the extremely rare time limit added to the mission.

As Baquan said, the person who issued the task clearly wanted the attention of the "dormant" plague-carrying demon.

The reason it's not written directly on the quest is because if you actually do it, the reward will be much more than just a few magic stones.

The task hall will consider the difficulty and reward of the task, and only those that meet the requirements will be posted.

Therefore, the poster played a little trick, waiting for a novice to take on the task.

Unfortunately, both Ronan and Baquan would definitely try their best to find out the reason behind such a strange request.

Therefore, the publisher's intentions are quite obvious to them.

"I wonder what the person who issued the task would do if they received an eyeball that wasn't in a dormant state—"

"What can he possibly do? We're just following the mission requirements. If he has any problems, he should communicate with the academy. What does it have to do with us?"

"Wouldn't that be inappropriate?"

Ba Quan hesitated for a moment, "We're both new here, we can't afford to offend anyone over such a small amount of magic stones."

"If someone can't even afford the eyeballs of a dormant virus-carrying demon, how capable can they possibly be?"

Ronan chuckled, then reassured him, "Don't worry, following me is pure money-making; you might not even have to lift a finger—"

As the two were talking, they had already arrived at the territory of the plague demon.

This is a swamp of bones, with a very complex environment.

Various undead creatures live on the surface of the swamp, while the land beneath the swamp is the territory of the plague demon.

Ronan stood at the edge of his territory and expanded his spiritual domain.

The scope of exploration in the spiritual realm gradually expanded from the horizontal direction to the vertical direction, continuously extending into the interior of the swamp.

He was surprised to find that the swamp here was not a single continuous area, but rather a group of swamps of different sizes and shapes, with many passageways inside.

Ronan was astonished by the complex terrain beneath the swamp; he truly wondered how these plague-carrying demons managed to survive in such an environment.

Because it was on the edge of the territory, he had only found one plague demon so far, located in a small, deep swamp not far from them.

At the edge of the swamp, there were some bones piled up, and a few plants grew out of the bones, but due to the miasma of the swamp, they withered and rotted.

The creature carrying the plague resembled a reptile, yet also a fish. Its limbs were withered, and its lower body had a fish tail, making it, in a sense, an amphibious undead. Its head had human features, but its eyes occupied half of its face, making it look both human and inhuman, quite eerie.

Just as Ronan was scrutinizing the bizarre and ugly appearance of the plague demon, a conversation from another location in the distance came through his ever-expanding mental domain.

"I really don't understand why the Plague Demon is a cursed undead creature—"

"Judging from the name, shouldn't it be related to the plague?"

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