Wizard's Journey

Chapter 439 Blood Crystal Stone (Second update to make up for yesterday)

"Such a large mining area?"

Hundreds of meters away from the blood crystal mine, Green, who was lurking, muttered to himself.

A crater, tens of kilometers in diameter and over two thousand meters deep, spirals downwards like a cone driven into the ground.

Although the mining area is now abandoned due to the invasion of the Wizard's Shadow, it is evident that it took at least tens of thousands of miners working together for hundreds of years to reach such a scale.

"Grimm, you've never been to the truly massive energy crystal mining areas of the wizarding world, have you?"

"Credia asked from the side."

After thinking for a moment, Green asked doubtfully, "Do the mining areas in the Stigmata Crater during the Wizard Apprentice Regional Academy War count?"

"Of course not!"

Kredia immediately rejected the idea, saying, "Those mining areas are for rare crystals like the Bloodstone in front of us. They require careful selection by hand, and their scale is nothing compared to truly large mining areas."

Seeing Green's thoughtful expression, Kredia knew that her explanation had worked.

"That's right. Any crystal mining area that requires such careful selection by humans will inevitably not produce large-scale crystal formations and will belong to a rare crystal area. Therefore, it's best to give up on the idea of ​​promoting this vassal state's blood essence stone cultivation method for abyssal moss on a large scale in the Flame Soul World."

"Um."

After nodding, Green walked to the edge of the mine and suddenly said, "Since we're here, let's go down and take a look, and collect some ore samples."

Although the method of cultivating abyssal moss on a large scale, as seen in this vassal state, has been discontinued, this blood crystal is still worthy of further in-depth study by Green.

Since the crystal contains the rich blood energy of this world, unless it is due to the evolution of the world's rules, it must mean that some wars occurred in the ancient times of this world, which led to the accumulation of blood energy.

Two "whoosh" sounds.

Green and Kredia flew down into the mine and landed halfway down in the pit.

This place has been meticulously searched by many miners, so naturally there shouldn't be any blood crystals there. However, as wizards, Green and Kredia's methods for finding energy crystals are not limited to their eyes that can sense light sources, but also include their perception of the forces of nature.

In just a short while, both Green and Kreta made some gains.

Under the sunlight, these blood crystals from the Flame Soul World were a vibrant, rich red, perfectly matching the aesthetic standards of that world.

This is likely one of the reasons why the Locust People were able to invest a lot of labor and energy in large-scale mining of this area.

After melting the blood crystal in his hand with the power of nature and drawing out the blood power within, Green carefully sensed the energy composition within.

After a while, Green seemed to have figured it out.

"The blood crystal stone contains approximately 25% to 35% of the locust people's blood. Among the remaining blood energy, there are two other clearly identifiable biological entities, as well as some other scattered and difficult-to-detect components."

Considering this isn't a laboratory, it's quite impressive that Green was able to obtain such data.

Suddenly, a flash appeared on Green's shoulder, and Little Eight appeared.

"Young Master! You finally called me out! How long were you going to make me wait inside? Waaaaah..."

Little Eight pretended to be very aggrieved, and Green tossed two of the blood crystals he had collected to it, comforting it, "Alright, alright, you'll be fine in a few more days. Here, take these blood crystals and play with them."

"Waaaaah, we agreed on a few days!"

With the Bloodstone in its mouth, Little Eight glanced at Green with teary eyes and a resentful look on its face before returning to the dimensional gap.

"Hehe, Lord Grin, your soulmate is quite interesting."

Cretia covered her mouth and chuckled.

Green shook his head and continued walking down into the mine, seemingly to collect samples from different areas to ensure the comprehensiveness of the experimental data.

"Um?"

"what?"

Suddenly, Green and Kredia both exclaimed in surprise and quickly flew towards a certain direction in the mine, because they clearly sensed that there was a magic circle fluctuating there!

"It seems he is the highest achiever of the Abyss Moss in this vassal state."

Cretia smiled and said that this seemingly unexpected discovery was entirely reasonable.

Cultivating and spreading Abyssal Moss in each vassal state is a Level 3 Honor Medal mission. Often, a dozen to thirty Witcher Wizards will take on the mission together, but only the Witcher Wizard with the highest achievement will receive the Level 3 Honor Medal.

While the abyssal moss in other vassal states is still in the latent growth and dispersal stage, this vassal state is already in a stage of large-scale proliferation. The biggest reason for this is that a demon hunter wizard used blood crystals to replace the energy crystals of the cultivation magic circle.

The two arrived in front of the magic circle and easily opened it after a short while. At the same time, it seemed to have triggered some warning mechanism, but the two did not pay attention to it.

The hidden cave was filled with the light of magic lamps.

"roar!"

The guardian soul slave, with a strong body resembling a canine creature, roared at Grin and Kredia. As the two subtly mobilized their natural power, the slave monster sensed their wizard identities and immediately became as docile as a kitten, hissing and trying to please them.

"whee."

Kredia smiled, tossed a magic stone to the soul slave, which was then snatched away. Green, meanwhile, walked step by step, watching as locust-men in the depths of the cave looked at him excitedly.

"We're saved! We're saved! A brave locust has found us!"

"Waaaah, finally I can leave this place..."

Hundreds of locusts came running over, some in tattered clothes, and many more completely naked, all weeping as they approached Green, who was disguised as a locust warrior.

They spoke in turns, and Green couldn't quite hear what they were saying, but he knew that these locust people were begging him to rescue them and escape the cave.

"Cough cough."

Green cleared his throat, signaling for everyone to quiet down, and then asked in a deep voice, "Who imprisoned you here?"

A locust-like man in front of Green looked up.

"The wizard! A powerful, brutal, and evil wizard! We've been here for a long time, and he comes every now and then. If we don't hand over enough rubies, he'll randomly kill some of the locusts."

Among these locust people, the most prestigious male locust person spoke sadly, his eyes fixed on Green with longing.

"Huh? An evil wizard!?"

Green, looking furious, asked, "How many rubies did he demand from you?"

"Five hundred dollars, not a single dollar less. For every ten dollars less, one of us will be killed!"

The voices of the locust people were filled with hatred.

"So how many rubies do you have now?" Green asked with a look of lingering fear and worry.

After a brief commotion, the locust-men produced over four hundred locust-men pieces. Their leader lamented, "We're still short a dozen or so. We're frantically searching, but according to usual schedule, that evil wizard should be arriving soon. My lord, please hurry and save us from here! We'd give you all these rubies!"

As he spoke, the locust-men knelt down.

Green didn't touch the rubies, then suddenly asked in a strange voice, "Didn't you ever think about saving yourselves, about escaping from here?"

"Of course there is, but who knows how long it will take to dig through that secret passage, and that monster..."

The locust-man and his leader, who were talking to Green, suddenly froze, pointing behind Green and trembling with fear, saying, "Witch... Wizard, sir, behind you, a wizard!"

The locust-man leader spoke incoherently, his fear seemingly ingrained in his very bones.

However, to the astonishment of all the locust people, the suddenly returning wizard bowed respectfully to Grimm and exclaimed with delight, "Master!"

In fact, what the locust people saw in the eyes of this middle-aged female wizard was an expression of extreme honor.

The witch seemed to feel fortunate to be able to speak to Grimm at close range.

Green nodded to the witch with a satisfied expression and said, "Not bad, you did a very good job on the Abyssal Moss Spread mission. I will submit a mission report to the operations command and give you an additional reward."

Amidst the disbelief of many "locust people" (a derogatory term for people who are perceived as "locust people" or "warriors"), Green, acting as both a "locust person" and a "warrior," actually uttered such words.

"Thank you, Master!"

The witch said with delight.

"Um."

Green nodded indifferently and left the cave with Kretia, not looking at the imprisoned locust people again.

"A wizard...you, you're a wizard too!"

The locust-men leader howled and roared at Grimm, but all that awaited him was a snicker from the middle-aged witch, her expression sinister: "Since you're still short ten rubies, then you can die!"

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I had a high fever yesterday and couldn't update anymore. Sorry, I'm making up for yesterday's missed update today with the second update.

(End of this chapter)