Full-Time Magister: Dark Throne

Yuanshan Village, a once remote and backward village, recently gained fame for the clear spring flowing from the rocks in the mountains, becoming a well-known tourist destination near Bocheng.

As for the spring water that suddenly flowed out of the rocks, there are many different opinions.

Some say that this is a divine spring bestowed by the mountain god, and those who drink from it will remain young forever and live to be a hundred years old. If a child drinks from it, he may even become a noble magician in the future!

Some say it's the work of evil spirits; drinking the spring water will cause one to be plagued by diseases, covered in festering sores, and ultimately die with their eyes wide open in disbelief!

On the narrow path leading to the sacred spring in Yuanshan Village, a team of fully armed hunters were slowly but steadily making their way towards the spring.

All the rumors here are irrelevant to them; they are simply a hunter team that has come to investigate on a mission.

Since a clear spring began flowing from the rocks here, not only have more and more tourists come to visit, but strange things have also been happening in the village.

First, the village dogs started barking wildly in the middle of the night, then many villagers mysteriously disappeared.

The village chief of Yuanshan Village was a novice mage who had studied in the city for a few years. He suspected that some kind of demon was lurking in the area, so he went to the Hunter's Hall in Bo City and spent a lot of money to issue an investigation mission.

The Huangfeng Hunter Team, led by Huang Kai, a novice fire mage, was invited to take on this investigation mission. Their team members were all veterans who had been in the hunter community for several years, and their mission completion rate was quite high. They were also quite well-known in the Bo City area.

"Brother-in-law, do you think there really are demons here?" a thin young man in the group asked cautiously.

"When working, use your job title! Call me Captain!"

The team leader, Huang Kai, was speechless.

"Okay, brother-in-law, so are there really demons here?"

"..."

Huang Kai sighed and rubbed his forehead in exasperation. He shouldn't have brought this idiot out with him.

He An, hidden in Huang Kai's shadow, listened to their conversation with great interest.

After casually getting first place in the entire school during the final exams at Tianlan Magic High School, he went back to his old ways.

Since the other mission he had taken on was not far from the Divine Spring in Yuanshan Village, he used the Shadow King's ability to hitch a ride along the way.

"Captain, the soil here is acting strange!"

After entering the area of ​​the Divine Spring, the analyst in the team noticed some details and shouted to Huang Kai.

Huang Kai stopped his hunter training lesson for his brother-in-law and began to examine the surrounding soil with a serious expression.

Outside of Anjie, nothing can be taken lightly; the slightest mistake could result in total annihilation!

The Huang Feng squad's cautious approach is one of the reasons why they have not suffered any major casualties in the many years since their establishment.

After observing the soil, Huang Kai found nothing wrong with it, but trusting the analyst, he still asked a member of the team to take out the equipment to test it.

"Hey Green Hair, aren't you making a mountain out of a molehill? It's normal for the soil to be a little damp after it rained," the fat guy in the group complained as he pulled out his professional equipment.

"There's definitely something wrong with the soil here!" The green-haired youth, known as Green Hair, persisted in his opinion.

"It's not the kind of soil that's just been rained on; it's a very special, rare type of soil..."

The fat man clearly had no patience to listen to Green Hair's introductory course on magical geology. He pursed his lips and took out the instrument wrapped in a special animal hide.

The instrument looks like an ordinary black ballpoint pen, except that it has a small round tip attached to the head.

This is a simple environmental detector that, once inserted into the soil, can quickly analyze the elemental content of the soil and a small amount of evidence of demonic activity.

"Don't touch it! It's very expensive!"

The fat man expressionlessly slapped away the captain's brother-in-law's unclean hand. This instrument was his lifeline; even if the King of Heaven himself came, he couldn't touch it!

"what?"

Just after the fat man inserted the detector into the soil, the small round head of the environmental detector suddenly started flashing violently, jumping between brown and blue.

This indicates abnormal fluctuations in the earth and water elements in the surrounding environment!

The fat man had heard from the old hunter who sold him the equipment that such signs usually meant...

Spirit Seed!!!

Fatty, Green Hair, and Huang Kai simultaneously looked away from the detector, met each other's eyes, and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

My goodness, there was an unexpected bonus!

I thought it was just an ordinary investigation task, but I never expected to receive such a windfall!

Even if they don't personally retrieve the spirit seed just to be on the safe side, simply selling the news would be enough to make Huang Feng's team a fortune!

"We've struck it rich, Captain!"

The fat man was so excited that he could hardly contain himself and shouted in a trembling voice.

This is a spirit seed! Even just a small share of the intelligence fee would be enough to wash my feet countless times!

"Shut up, Lao Wang! There are outsiders here!"

Green Hair cursed in a low voice, while glancing at the man in black at the end of the line out of the corner of his eye.

"Don't spread this around for now. It's best if only the three of us know about this. Let's complete that investigation mission first, and then sell the information through the Hunter's Alliance when we return to Bo City."

As the team leader, Huang Kai quickly made a decision.

Keep moving forward, and don't reveal anything unusual.

The wilderness is far too dangerous, especially the human heart, which is the most unpredictable!

Huang Kai suffered a lot of losses because of this.

As the sun began to set, Huang Feng's team arrived at the location of the sacred spring, as indicated by the village chief, before sunset.

This place has been transformed into a small square by profit-driven businessmen, with food stalls and shops around the sacred spring.

Not far away, there is a small crevice about the height of a person among the rocks, from which the divine spring flows out.

After carefully exploring the area, Huang Kai led his team to squeeze into the narrow crevice of the divine spring.

As the team ventured deeper into the area, the members' expressions gradually became dazed, and even Huang Kai himself felt his consciousness suddenly becoming blurred.

So sleepy...

I really want to take a nap here...

"Sizzle!"

Captain Huang Kai's expression changed, and he decisively drew a small knife from his waist and plunged it into his thigh. A stream of bright red blood seeped from the wound, and only then did his eyes regain a sliver of clarity.

He pulled out a knife and slashed open his trousers. His entire lower leg, down to his knee, was covered in a purplish-black toxin that was spreading upwards at an extremely rapid pace!

This is a special mixed toxin from swamp monsters like the Evil Eye Swamp Demon, and neither water-based nor earth-based antidotes can achieve a therapeutic effect.

If he doesn't take the special antidote in time, he will face amputation or even death!

"Damn it!" Huang Kai cursed under his breath.

Because of the cold weather, they were all wearing long sleeves and trousers, and due to the special numbing effect of the toxin, they did not notice anything for a moment.

"It's the Evil Eye Swamp Demon! We've been bewitched!"