Wizard Immortal

Chapter 178 Moonlight Garden

"Kate, are we there yet?"

In a primeval forest, the faint glow of bioluminescent mushrooms illuminates the surroundings and lights the path ahead.

On the road, several men in linen robes were walking, and one of them, a blond young man, asked another.

"According to the terrain marked on the map, we are almost there, but we haven't found a way in yet."

Beside the blond man, a young man named Katt, dressed in a black linen robe, held a map in his hand and was carefully studying the terrain. He then turned to the man who had asked the question and spoke.

"Hmm, that should be right."

Beside Keger, the blond youth who had spoken earlier nodded: "According to the clan's records, the Moonlight Garden can only open when the light of the glowing mushrooms envelops the entire forest and is about to disappear. Although we have now found the exact location, it should still be some time before it opens."

"We should at least wait until the glimmer of light in the forest disappears."

He pointed to a patch of glowing mushrooms beside him that were emitting a faint light, and spoke to his companions.

"who!"

Suddenly, he let out a loud shout, and immediately drew the long sword from his waist, looking in a certain direction ahead.

From that direction, a faint sound of grass and trees trembling could be heard, followed by another voice coming from that direction.

"Chesim, your intuition is still so sharp..."

As the sound came, several figures emerged from the other side.

They were several tall men, also dressed in black linen robes, but with swords at their waists, making them inconspicuous.

Leading the way was a burly, middle-aged man with a thick coat of hair. His muscles made him appear very imposing, and he was expressionless as he sized up the people in front of him.

"Shalo, you're following us!"

Looking at the burly man leading the way, the blond man named Chesim gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with hostility.

"Following us? We came from the other side squarely and honestly."

Under Chesim's gaze, the burly man opposite him sneered: "Just a map of Moonlight Garden, nothing special. You think you're the only ones who have it?"

"Alright... let's all keep quiet." Another voice came from the side.

From the corner, a young man in a white robe quietly emerged with two attendants. He looked at the two people in front of him and said, "The legend of Moonlight Garden isn't known to just one family. Every time the results are in, many people come. There's nothing strange about it."

"Let's wait quietly for the garden to open. Once inside, whether we can obtain the Moonlight Fruit depends on our own abilities."

As they spoke, the young man in white robes walked to one side with his entourage.

The other two groups stared at each other for a moment, then each went to their own side without saying another word.

About three or four hours later, the faint glow emitted by the bioluminescent mushrooms in the forest began to weaken.

"They're out!"

At this point, the crowd couldn't help but let out shouts of surprise.

Before them, a dilapidated iron gate appeared silently, seemingly weathered by time, covered in deep rust.

"The passage has just appeared; we cannot go in immediately. We must wait a while longer."

Looking at the gate that appeared before him, Chesim stood still and muttered to himself, a hint of fervor in his eyes: "Knight..."

Standing there, looking at the gate in the distance, they waited for half an hour before finally trying to go inside.

Walking along the road, the three groups sent out three people in total as the first batch of explorers to go in first.

"No problem!"

After they safely went inside, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief and turned to speak to the people behind them.

Seeing this, the people behind him no longer hesitated and strode inside.

After they left, a cloud of shadow particles gently spread from the corner behind, and then a figure walked out.

It was a handsome young man dressed in a light black robe. He was looking up at the gate in front of him, appearing calm and composed.

"This unique and mysterious energy fluctuation... it's related to wizards here..."

Standing there, looking at the gate that had appeared in front of him, Adir was somewhat surprised.

After a while, when the surrounding light had completely disappeared, he stepped into the door, ready to go in and try to explore.

Upon entering, a surge of dense energy particles immediately enveloped Adir, which he could clearly sense.

Before me lay a large garden, and in the distance, a very tall tree stood out, appearing to be at least ten meters high, making it quite conspicuous in this small area.

All around were patches of flowers and plants, most of which looked very vibrant, as if they had just bloomed, and were extremely beautiful.

However, Adir could detect a unique aura in these flowers.

Many of these are materials used by wizards; while most are quite common, a few are rare and precious.

Looking around, they are almost everywhere. If they could all be taken out, they would probably be worth a considerable amount of magic stones.

However, Adir didn't seem to care about this.

Strictly speaking, he wasn't actually lacking in magic stones. Having mastered the resources of an entire world, even if he had only stayed for a few years, the wealth he accumulated was astonishing. If he were to exchange it for ordinary magic stones, the amount would be absolutely terrifying.

As I walked quietly through the garden, I heard a crashing sound ahead.

Ahead, the first few people who had entered earlier were standing in front, with several corpses piled up at their feet.

Opposite them, a group of three-armed, fish-headed, human-bodied monsters emerged from the nearby pond and fought fiercely with the knight apprentices.

The battle was fierce. In general, the two sides were evenly matched. It was just that the fish-headed monsters were too difficult to kill, so the fish-headed monsters had a slight advantage and pushed the group of knight apprentices to the back of the road.

Adir shook his head slightly. He had no intention of interfering in the fight between the apprentices and the monster. He simply flashed forward and used magic to cover his tracks.

He was enveloped in shadow particles, and the distorting force field on his body surface was fully activated at this moment, concealing all his aura in order to deceive something lurking in the garden and sneak around to the tall ancient tree in front of him.

Only then did Adir get a clear look at the ancient tree.

The ancient tree is about ten meters tall and has a metallic sheen, like an iron tree.

On the branches of the ancient tree, a dozen or so fruits were hanging, but only three of them emitted a faint glow.

"According to those people, only the fruits that emit a faint light are edible Moonlight Fruits. As for the other fruits, because they are not yet ripe, eating them will cause immediate poisoning."

Thinking about what those people had said before, Adir looked up, gently stretched out his arm, and immediately activated the spell "Binding of Mana".

On the cycad, two fruits began to sway gently, and under the influence of an unknown force field, they began to fly automatically toward Adir's location.

Only one of the two fruits was ripe, emitting a faint glow in the darkness. The other was the color of black iron, looking like an iron ball, and was completely inedible.

Looking at the two fruits in his hand, Adir showed an interested expression and immediately began a preliminary examination using the chip.

The test results disappointed Adir.

This moonlight can indeed improve a person's physique, but the effect is not as good as rumored. Let alone making an ordinary person a knight, it's difficult even to make a knight apprentice a knight. It can only have a slight improvement effect.

The greatest use of this Moonlight Fruit should be for those knights who are about to activate their life seeds, so as to achieve the effect of activating the life seeds.

Based on the preliminary analysis of the chip, Adir discovered that this Moonlight Fruit contains a special active substance. Although it is quite effective in improving physical constitution, it is also very effective in activating the life seed.

If a prospective knight who is about to advance to the Seed of Life consumes this fruit, he/she can indeed advance smoothly without too many setbacks.

"I guess this is where the rumors came from; the actual effect is probably just like this."

Looking at the two fruits in his hand, Adir thought for a moment and then put them away before walking to the other side of the garden.

In the direction Adir was heading, a raven perched quietly on a tree, its scarlet eyes fixed on Adir.

Without stopping along the way, Adir walked into another garden and then stopped.

Unlike the previous place, the residual force field here is the strongest in the entire garden, and it has not completely dissipated even now.

There were several skeletons on the ground, still wrapped in the clothes they wore when they were alive.

After searching through the belongings left behind by the deceased, Adir walked to the side and began to examine them.

"They're mostly things used by wizards... and depending on the situation, even the oldest one is only about thirty or forty years old."

While casually flipping through what he had found, Adir also found a blueprint for crafting enchanted items.

This is an enchanted item called the Stone of Defense. According to its registration, it is already considered a medium-grade enchanted item. Moreover, because it is a defensive enchanted item, its price is comparable to some high-grade enchanted items, making it a decent gain even for a formal wizard.

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(End of this chapter)