Full-Time Magister: I Had No Intention of Reaching the Dimensional Throne

"This is a signal for mages to assemble. All mages of intermediate rank and above need to go there."

Jiang Shaoxu stood up and saw the three beams of light rising continuously outside the window. He immediately understood what it meant.

"Something happened at Yique Fortress. What happened there?"

"It must be related to demons. Let's go!" Ding Yumin said, pulling Lingling outside. Jiang Shaoxu followed immediately.

"Yi Que Fortress is commanded by a military intelligence officer. If a blood-red alert needs to be activated, there will be at least a demon of commander level."

As she ran alongside the two, Lingling told them what she knew.

"No problem, Lingling, stay with me, I'll protect you," Jiang Shaoxu said.

The protective barrier of Yique Town has been activated, and no demons are coming from outside for the time being.

A strong magical light could be seen from the direction of the Yi River, along with bursts of roars. The crimson signal illuminated the entire fortress.

At this moment, the entire sky was still black, and the earth was also dark and gloomy. Only the Yique Fortress exuded a dark blood color, looking like a projection of the city of hell on earth.

The scattered rays of light illuminated a thin layer of shimmering water, the water that had spread from the Yi River.

Layers of indistinct, shadowy creatures swarmed in the river, large and small, with menacing claws and large tail fins. Even just their scales and claws were strangely eerie, like demonic soldiers and generals surrounding a ghostly city.

"Those must be fish demons from the Yi River; they feed on the fruits of the Seven Wonders Tree in Fragrant Hills."

Lingling saw this scene from afar and immediately identified the demons surrounding the fortress.

"They are all tassel fish demons. They don't have scales on their bodies, but instead have a lot of hair like tassels. It's very strange."

"Logically speaking, it's very difficult for these fish demons to have a leader, and Yi Que Fortress wouldn't allow even one to appear. It's probably because the group is so large that the base number of those with the opportunity to advance to leader has increased."

The three arrived at Yique Fortress as quickly as possible and soon met the tassel fish demon that Lingling had mentioned.

In Ding Yumin and Jiang Shaoxu's view, these fish demons looked very much like those cheap, fluffy goldfish plush toys, the kind that hadn't been washed for years and were still dirty.

They didn't have hands or claws; what they had seen sporadically before were just countless tassels, hairs, and feather-like things tangled together.

"If we go in, the commander is probably on the other side, wanting to destroy this fortress."

A group of lesser demons at the level of generals were naturally no match for Ding Yumin and her two companions.

Ding Yumin raised her hand and unleashed a burst of Heavenly Flame Funeral. The three of them then walked through the world ignited by the white-gold flames, leaving behind a path filled with the corpses of fish demons, and entered the fortress.

While Ding Yumin and the other two were dealing with some unexpected minor disasters, Bai Mo was recovering his magical energy on Fragrant Mountain and letting Jingwei rest as well.

Right now, the Seven Wonders Forest, stretching for over thirty kilometers, has been destroyed by the wind, and even the rotten fruit pulp on the ground has fallen into the mountains further east.

While recovering, Bai Mo also figured out what his wind needed now through this small experiment.

First, cultivation level is a given, and then, besides cultivation level, it's about strengthening the wind force.

Bai Mo discovered that when the wind blew up the rotten trees and fruits, the secondary effects of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Wind and the Origin Heavenly Wind were not very helpful; their main function was to destroy things in the wind.

But this wasn't against an enemy; it was for transporting goods. In this regard, he discovered that the heavy, yellowish winds were more compatible, and the additional effect of strengthening the rear wind was very useful.

Unfortunately, Canghuang Chongfeng was only a soul seed. On the other hand, when he tried to use the function of the Horned Token to fuse the three winds and make them exert super-doubled power, he found that the Horned Token was flashing with light, which meant that the Horned Wood Dragon was buried in Xiangshan!

However, Fragrant Hills is quite large now, but also quite unclean.

Bai Mo felt a little uncomfortable being asked to search for treasure on a mountain filled with melted Olige (a type of fried dough).

Therefore, we still need to blow everything off this mountain.

He stood up, a token spinning in his palm, and a three-colored whirlwind began to rise around him.

"Time to get to work."

*Clap clap clap clap!*

The sounds of lumps of something hitting the water were incessant, some loud, some soft, like raindrops pattering on banana leaves.

Splash! Splash!

Along with the sound of the water hitting the surface, there was also a dense splashing sound from where it fell in, as if something was vying for the sounds of the water falling in.

Moonlight shone through the gaps in the clouds, illuminating the area, where piles of unidentified objects could be seen falling from the Xiangshan Cliff into the Yi River.

The numerous fish demons resembling small boats in the Yi River are vying for these things.

As you can see, some of the fish demons that ate the leftover food expanded in size at a visible rate, and their aura also increased explosively.

Some are also gaining momentum, but they're not as terrifying.

If you broaden your perspective to the entire Yi River, you will find shadows moving rapidly in one direction throughout the river.

At the foot of Fragrant Mountain Cliff, the tasseled fish demons, whose auras and sizes had greatly increased, immediately turned around and headed towards the other side, where magical light soared into the sky and the smell of their own kind's blood was exceptionally strong.

"Ah—yawn—!"

Jiang Shaoxu let out a long yawn and looked at the mountain of tasseled fish demon corpses piled up below the city wall, including the corpses of two leaders.

At this moment, even more tassel fish demons, led by a strangely shaped tassel fish demon that seemed to have countless tentacles all over its body, rode over waves that were more than ten meters high.

Her expression changed slightly, not because of the commander-level demon, but because of Lingling's previous analysis of the Yihe River Fish Demon.

These demons, who were supposed to be working under the protection of human military mages, shouldn't have had a leader.

Two of them have appeared so far, which could be attributed to accident or oversight.

It's unreasonable for another one to appear right after the first two have died.

"Hey, Commander An, you think you're so tough? There are three commanders in the Yi River, and you didn't even see them? And you still dare to stay here guarding."

"Oh dear! Miss Jiang, I really didn't neglect my duties. I checked every day and patrolled every night, and I really didn't find any commander-level demons before."

The military intelligence officer was also covered in sweat and looked anxious. Part of it was from exhaustion due to the lack of magical energy; before Jiang Shaoxu and the other two arrived, he had been managing on his own.

Another part of the reason was fear. He was also from the Central Military Region. Not only had Jiang Shaoxu just won the Nationalist Championship, but he was also a member of the Jiang family in the Central Military Region.

How could he not recognize that face?

"No, what's going on with these demons? Don't tell me that the commander-level tassel fish demon was just a bit fatter!"

Jiang Shaoxu chuckled, finding it quite ridiculous. She was usually a carefree person, so she was unwilling to join the army.

But this doesn't mean that anyone can ignore the most basic requirements of a military mages commander in front of her.

"He's probably right. Don't you think these tassel fish demon leaders are too weak? They look like they just broke through," Ding Yumin said.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shaoxu frowned. Ding Yumin had been the one to make the moves before, and she hadn't noticed whether Ding was weak or not.

This girl, who had been hiding in Mingzhu Academy, has truly amazed her with her abilities over this period of time.

Not to mention that among people her age, she was actually able to keep up with Bai Mo. Just that curse magic alone made her feel that it was even stronger than Ai Jiangtu's.

In Jiang Shaoxu's view, the demons he had killed before were all instantly killed in one move, so he couldn't see anything special about them.

"Golden Rope!"

This time, Jiang Shaoxu took matters into her own hands and used high-level light magic.

A golden rope, dazzlingly bright in the darkness, was flung towards the tassel fish demon with a flick of her sleeve.

The golden rope, like a thin whip a hundred meters long, seemed slow, but it reached the tassel fish demon leader in the blink of an eye.

With a snap, the head of the Tassel Fish Demon Commander was shattered by the immense force of the golden rope's whip.

Jiang Shaoxu was also somewhat surprised. Although her light element was enhanced by the Soul Seed, it was not particularly adept at destruction, yet it was able to shatter the defense of a commander-level demon with a single blow.

While this is partly due to the fact that she is now a super-level light mage, it is still enough to show that the commander's strength itself is problematic.

"Capture the soul!"

Just then, a scarlet light shone from Ding Yumin's palm, and she directly captured the soul of the slain tassel fish demon leader, holding it in her palm.

In the eyes of Jiang Shaoxu, Lingling, and the others, Ding Yumin was merely a scarlet light shining from her palm.

"Since there was nothing at the beginning, something must have happened that caused this tassel fish demon to evolve. Let me see what happened."

As she slowly finished speaking, a vague outline of a soul appeared under the radiance of her scarlet palm.

A small necromantic space appeared as if at that moment, resembling a sophisticated operating room. It meticulously extracted the memories of the Tassel Fish Demon, peeling back the layers of their cocoon.

Ding Yumin closed her eyes and sensed for a while before opening them. Just then, three enormous tasseled fish demon leaders led dozens of water demons toward the fortress from the river in the distance.

"What happened? What's going on?"

Seeing this, Jiang Shaoxu basically believed that it wasn't that the Military Intelligence Bureau at Yique Fortress was inactive.

"It's related to us. These tassel fish demons ate a lot of rotten fruit that fell into the Yi River from Xiangshan."

As Ding Yumin spoke, she pondered, "The rotten fruits that keep falling into the river from Fragrant Hills are all eaten by these tassel fish demons."

"Originally, a small number wouldn't have been a problem, but after their numbers increased, something seemed to have changed. This caused them to reach the level of rulers. This advancement came at a price; their souls were not at the level of rulers, which is why they went into a bloodthirsty frenzy and launched a massive attack on the fortress."

When Ding Yumin said this, Lingling also remembered that they had heard people from those villages say the same thing before.

They used the rotten fruit on the mountain as fertilizer, which helped the crops grow better.

"Could these fruits possess some special power or vitality?"

Lingling shared her guess: "This didn't happen when the military mages cleared the rotten fruit in Fragrant Hills before. This shows that a small amount isn't enough; a large amount needs to be accumulated. Furthermore, this power needs to be accumulated in a short period of time. If it doesn't reach a certain level within a certain timeframe, it will lose its effectiveness."

"I don't know. It's difficult for anyone other than a professional researcher to determine what kind of power these fish demons consumed that caused their transformation."

"However, we can conduct an experiment to see if this improvement is permanent or only lasts for a period of time."

They didn't mention why so many rotten fruits fell into the river in such a short time.

Naturally, it's because they know that this was all done by Bai Mo in collusion with Jingwei.

The military intelligence officers on the side couldn't get a word in edgewise, nor did they dare to.

Don't be fooled by the fact that they are two young women; their cultivation levels are both higher than his. It's already good enough that they can help him resist the demons. Why are you asking any more questions?

Meanwhile, Ding Yumin had already subdued one of the tassel fish demon leaders and made it stand aside.

In the blink of an eye, golden clouds rose on the horizon, and the azure sky slowly dispersed.

After a night of fighting, the commander who was initially the subject of observation collapsed to the ground, his body deflated like a punctured balloon.

In the blink of an eye, all life was gone.

The fish demons' attacks did not stop; they were hopeless, yet they persisted relentlessly.

The sound of the giant object landing was like the sound of a drumbeat before a general offensive. Under the rising sun, more water splashed in the hundred-meter stretch of the Yi River, which was illuminated by the first rays of dawn. Layers of golden lotuses bloomed, and fish demons leaped out.

On the city walls, the military mages were all on high alert, ready to wipe out these demons in one fell swoop.

Just then, their eyes, which were looking eastward, suddenly widened, and their clear black and white pupils contracted sharply!

Then it appeared as if Fragrant Hills, which was originally just a small hill, had suddenly risen up, its dark body directly blocking out the morning light in the distance and casting a vast expanse of shadow.

The shadow covered the 100-meter-long Yi River and even the Yi Que Fortress!

Rumble rumble rumble!!!

Immediately following was a deafening clap of thunder. This thunder seemed to appear out of nowhere, without any visible thunder.

It wasn't until a gust of wind, having traveled countless meters, hit their faces that they suddenly realized it was just the sound of the wind!

The howling wind grew closer, and the thing that had been blocking out the sun finally became clear.

It wasn't a mountain that suddenly grew up, nor was it a dark cloud that suddenly fell and gathered.

It was like a sea of ​​trees and muddy rivers moving in the wind!

Half the sky is covered in mud and trees, floating in the air. Its height is unknown, and it appears scattered yet immense. As it moves forward, the vegetation of Fragrant Hills becomes clearly visible; clumps of rotten fruit, resembling the soil, are swept up and become part of the sky!

The sea of ​​trees resembled a giant, unnamed demon floating in the air, and as one approached, a familiar yet strange scent wafted over.

"No, don't come any closer!!"

"Quick! Run! Fragrant Hills has become a spirit!"

In an instant, the entire fortress descended into chaos.

Demons aren't scary; what's scary is what's on Fragrant Hills. They're all afraid that thing will fall on their heads.

People will die, won't they?!

They're not afraid of dying, but they'd rather die inside this thing.

If they were to die inside this thing, they felt it would have been better if they had never been born.

In ancient times, even the death of an emperor was recorded in history books, ensuring his lasting fame.

Although they weren't emperors, if so many people died in this way, they would probably be remembered for eternity.

This is something that the president of a certain Asian Magic Association would envy.

The terrifying event that terrified all the military mages in the city did not occur. The cloud-like forest and muddy river in the sky, after leaving the Xiangshan area, all fell into the Yi River.

This was a huge misfortune for the thousands of fish demons that had just emerged from the river. They had been quite excited after taking a large dose of the tonic.

But then came an endless stream of potent tonics, accompanied by falling trees. It was as if a latrine-like object was raining down from the sky.

The clear river water turned murky at a visible speed, and the splashes, waves and ripples grew larger and larger. Gradually, the entire section of the river was blocked. As the daylight gradually reappeared, a dam connecting Xiangshan and Yiqueshan was built between the two mountains!

"Gulp!!"

The sound of swallowing saliva echoed from the city wall. An Juntong and many military mages were all horrified when they saw this.

"The trees and all those things from Xiangxiang Mountain were blown over here?!"

As An Juntong gazed at the barren Fragrant Hills, his eyes still held a strong sense of unreality, to the point that even the overwhelming stench seemed like an illusion to him.

He felt that he might not have slept all night and was in poor spirits.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~~~!

A gentle breeze swept by, dispelling the stench, and a huge black bird appeared in the sky. Upon closer inspection, a person was standing on the bird's back.

Bai Mo looked at the filth blocking the Yi River and twitched his lips. There really was a lot.

"The Eye of Truth and Illusion!"

The mess he created couldn't just be left unresolved. The moment Ding Yumin appeared, she used telepathy to tell him about the special effects these rotten fruits would produce.

Bai Mo would certainly not allow these things to exist in the river.

His pupils suddenly transformed into a chaotic mass, and then the illusory, chaotic gaze descended, causing the entire forest and rotten fruit that blocked the river to become illusory.

From top to bottom, from outside to inside, one can even see the many demons buried inside, which gradually become an illusion, like a mirage, a dreamlike bubble.

It's as if this world doesn't exist at all. If we were to describe it precisely, we could compare the illusory forests and rivers before us to a painting on the surface of the world. It has transformed from a truly existing state into a created illusion, and thus it cannot resist reality.

Then the bubble was pressed up by the solid river water, and in an instant, the entire dam, which had been filled with a foul stench, collapsed and disappeared, completely obliterated.

Bai Mo rubbed his forehead, realizing how mentally taxing it was to play with the rules of reality and illusion.

This time he controlled it slightly, preventing the soul from disappearing as well. He put the remnant soul into the Soul Refining Pot, then put away Jingwei. With a step, he appeared beside Ding Yumin and the others with a silver light.

After exchanging pleasantries with An Juntong and learning about each other's situations, he turned to Ding Yumin and the other two and said:

"Let's go, I've found my target."

"it is good."

The group was immediately alerted as Bai Mo appeared directly on Fragrant Hills on the other side of the Yi River.

At this moment, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Fragrant Hills has been stripped bare, and its original stench is long gone.

"Eliminate them completely. If the roots of those Seven Deadly Trees aren't eradicated, they might regrow. Did you remove them completely?" Lingling asked carefully.

"I suspect that the strange changes in the Seven Wonders Forest may be related to the Horned Wood Dragon that perished here. Once we remove the source, this place should return to normal."

Upon hearing Ding Yumin's explanation of the rotten fruits' unusual nature, Bai Mo immediately connected these changes with the Horned Wood Dragon.

After all, the Seven Absolute Tree under normal circumstances does not have these abilities.

"That makes sense. So, have you found the location of the Horned Wood Dragon?" Lingling nodded.

"I had some clues. When Jingwei and I were moving the forest, we discovered that the Seven Wonders Trees in one place were exceptionally sturdy, and it took us much more effort to move them."

Bai Mo descended upon the constellation and said, "I'll take you there."

The diamond dust shattered, and the four of them appeared in a mountain hollow. This place was also barren, but unlike the others, there was a spring in the hollow.

This spring pool is about five or six meters wide, and despite the harsh environment of Fragrant Hills, it remains completely unpolluted.

The spring water is crystal clear, like air, and you can see the stones at the bottom. The springhead is located in the center, two meters wide, deep and dark, with no end in sight.

"Such a strong sense of life," Ding Yumin said.

Bai Mo nodded and carefully examined the spring pool.

He had only just discovered it and hadn't had a chance to examine it closely yet.

"There is also a powerful, nourishing energy. It seems that this is the legendary treasure land that has been surrounded by an array."

Jiang Shaoxu looked up at the sky, then at the spring pool, and suddenly pointed to the surface of the water.

"Look, why is there no reflection in this pool of water? It doesn't even reflect light."

As she spoke, she pointed her finger, and a ball of light fell into the water.

But the light shattered the moment it entered the water, as if it had been washed away.

Everyone was taken aback, and Bai Mo's expression was even more strange. He raised his hand to stop Jiang Shaoxu, who was still trying to probe.

"It's the wind, the entire spring is filled with wind."

At the very moment the light shattered, he clearly sensed a faint fluctuation of wind element.

However, this was the first time he had ever seen completely transparent wind.

"There is still a very faint sign of life."

Ding Yumin added. She is neither a healing mage nor a plant mage, but after practicing necromancy and curses, she is also exceptionally sensitive to the life force.

Just like how shadow mages and light mages are very sensitive to each other.

Therefore, the changes in the Seven Wonders Forest of Fragrant Hills are very likely caused by the life force contained within this spring.

Considering that the fruits of the Seven Wonders Forest have the effect of stimulating life potential, Bai Mo cannot be sure that the life energy in the wind is a good thing.

Therefore, the wind spirit was not summoned and absorbed. However, to find the answer, it seems necessary to go beneath the spring.

"I'll go in and take a look."

Bai Mo's gaze fell upon a deep spring, and he walked to the edge of the pool.

He was covered in a layer of aura, and then reached into the spring water.

The palm encountered resistance like the surface of water, and then easily entered the Wind Spring.

Upon closer inspection, Bai Mo found nothing unusual about his palm.

"Don't move around here, I'll be right back."

He made a gesture and immediately entered the Wind Spring.

The experience of using this spring water is no different from that of real spring water; the quality is the same.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Mo dove into the spring as if diving.

As soon as he entered the spring, he felt the water around him begin to move.

The spring water gushing up from the deeper part of him crashed against him, yet it seemed to pass through his entire being, and then through dimensions, gradually spreading throughout his entire wind-elemental star sea.

In an instant, Bai Mo was startled. Just as he was about to back away, he felt the spring water behind him also surge back.

Caught between two attacks, he was instantly pinned to the spot.

Just as he was about to summon the wind spirit to overturn the place, he felt that his star sea was not affected at all.

Instead, it seemed as if it were accepting some kind of power.

Hehe~

It seems to be a matter of chance. (End of Chapter)