Versatile Mage: Thunderstorm

Chapter 10: Departure, Desert Plains

A month is not a long time, and it quickly came to an end in the busy training and preparation. After the magic energy assessment in the first half of the semester, the students of Tianlan Magic High School finally welcomed the long-awaited winter vacation.

That morning, Li Yu packed his bags and walked out of the apartment, then got on the car he had arranged in advance and headed to Xuefeng Mountain Station.

After being disguised, Li Yu, as a stranger, was thoroughly interrogated by the military magician guards. He even suspected that if he had more time, he would have to compile a family tree on the spot.

It was already noon when Li Yu arrived at the Xuefeng Mountain Post Station. After taking a short rest at a roadside stall, he did not stay any longer. He left Anjie and officially began his first solo journey in the wild in his life.

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Five days later.

In the quiet mountain forest, the buzzing of mosquitoes is disturbing. On the branches of tall and sturdy trees, in the dense shade, an ordinary-looking young man has one leg hanging limply from the branch, and the other leg is bent and supported on the branch, with his hands on his knees and an extremely large camouflage backpack leaning against his back. His eyes are slightly closed, and his breathing is steady. He looks like he is fast asleep.

However, whenever any animal passed under the tree, the man would quickly open his eyes, look down vigilantly, make gestures with his hands, and remain silent until he was sure it was safe before returning to rest.

This young-looking man is Li Yu in disguise. He has lived alone in the mountains for five days. It is not a pleasant feeling to be threatened by demons all the time. His growth rate is also astonishingly fast.

Perhaps Li Yu was unlucky, or perhaps God wanted him to learn a lesson. On the first day out of Anjie, he set out at two in the afternoon, and stopped at six in the evening when it was getting dark to light a fire and camp. Before he could eat any dry food, two lanterns emitting dim light appeared from the darkness. When the lanterns got closer, Li Yu discovered that they were two one-eyed demon wolves with scarlet eyes, wide-open mouths, and saliva all over the ground.

Eh hey!

Less than ten kilometers away from the Xuefeng Mountain Post Station, Li Yu could even vaguely see the two peaks of the Xuefeng Mountain Post Station. Two one-eyed demon wolves actually appeared in such a place!

For the first time, Li Yu experienced the dangers outside the An Realm.

The Thunder Seal, Crazy Strategy, delayed the attack of the Demon Wolf, and then two consecutive Thunder Seals struck the wolf's head directly. What followed was a night of fear and anxiety, and a sleepless night.

Ever since that night, Li Yu had understood that lighting a fire and setting up camp was only suitable for the hunter team's mode of action, after all, they had someone on guard duty.

A lone traveler like me is only fit to sleep on a tree. Even if I sleep on a tree, I still have to be extremely careful. I have to sprinkle a thick layer of repellent powder under the tree. The repellent powder can emit a smell that demons don't like, in order to achieve the purpose of driving away demons.

Of course, the premise for the demon-repelling powder to work is that you cannot be exposed. Once the demon is sure that there is someone here, it will be useless even if you bury yourself in the demon-repelling powder. The bloodthirsty instinct will instantly destroy the simple discomfort caused by the demon-repelling powder to the demon.

After several days of training, Li Yu can now fall asleep anytime and anywhere. What's wrong with sleeping on a tree? Didn't his ancestors do the same?
However, it was freezing cold and we couldn’t make a fire, so we had to wrap ourselves up in three layers of clothes every night to barely hold on.

On the morning of the sixth day, Li Yu woke up early and jumped down from a tree more than ten meters high. He landed steadily on the ground, stomped his numb feet, took a long breath, stretched, did some exercises to get up, and poured the cold water specially stored in the kettle into his palms and splashed it directly on his face!
Ah ~
This cold touch is refreshing!
The destination of his trip was a desert plain located inside the mountains. The map showed that the desert plain was less than 70 kilometers away from the Xuefeng Mountain Post Station. This was one of the reasons why he chose this place in the first place. It was short and convenient to travel back and forth.

In addition, the one-eyed wolf, a demon that loves living in caves and forests, actually ran to a wasteland where supplies are extremely scarce, which is unusual. If there is no inside story, there must be something fishy!
During the five days of traveling, Li Yu did his best. When he encountered a cliff, Feng Gui jumped over it. When he encountered a big river, Feng Gui rushed across it if he could, and swam across it if he couldn't.

Fortunately, we planned the route in advance and avoided the areas where the magic wolves frequently moved around. Even if there were any one-eyed magic wolves that were blind enough to bump into us, they were all turned into corpses.

Now there are less than ten kilometers left to the edge of the desert plain. Li Yu decided to try his best to reach the edge of the desert plain in half a day, and then gradually go deeper to hunt the lone-eyed demon wolves that come out to forage for food at night.

As we got closer, the surrounding vegetation became drier, and withered yellow grass and fallen leaves formed a thick layer in the wild, making a "crunching" sound with every step.

As the plain approached, the mountain became more and more gentle. In the last five kilometers, there was even a naturally formed wide and flat road, which made Li Yu, who was far away from the city, feel the glory of civilization. Finally, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yu finally walked out of the mountains. Looking at the endless white desert in front of him, he was very excited. If he hadn't been worried about the demons living here, he would have even wanted to cheer loudly.

Just as Li Yu was preparing to find a cave or a sheltered place as his temporary camp for the next ten days, a rustling sound came from the weeds in the distance.

Li Yu reacted immediately, subconsciously hiding his body behind a large rock nearby and carefully poking his head out.

then……

A wolf's paw suddenly stretched out from under the flat ground, slowly digging up the soil, revealing a dark hole. A huge wolf's head poked out from the hole, and the scarlet single eye on its forehead clearly and accurately indicated the identity of this wolf - the one-eyed demon wolf.

When you feel sleepy, I’ll give you a pillow, right?
Li Yu was excited. He was just worrying about where to live. Unexpectedly, after going through so many twists and turns, he finally found a way out. Isn't the place he wanted to live now?

Out of caution, Li Yu did not show up immediately. He wanted to confirm whether this sturdy one-eyed demon wolf was a bachelor or the pillar of the family.

An hour passed, and Li Yu witnessed with his own eyes that the one-eyed demon wolf carefully covered the entrance of the cave with weeds and left home, and then brought back a big rabbit that was half a person's height from somewhere, and couldn't wait to feast on it at the doorstep.

Very good, it is obvious that this is a single guy living alone, so he has nothing to be afraid of.

After taking a long detour, Nifeng quietly approached from behind the feeding one-eyed demon wolf and did not stop until he was fifty meters away.

The thunder magic energy in Li Yu's body was mobilized, and the thunder stars in his spiritual world quickly arranged themselves in an orderly manner according to the star tracks. The violent power of thunder whipped down towards the distance.

"Thunder Seal·Rage Strike!"

"boom!"

The defenseless one-eyed demon wolf howled and lay on the ground with its body charred black. Its huge body trembled uncontrollably as it struggled to escape from this land of death. Another bolt of lightning struck, taking away the little blood left in the one-eyed demon wolf.

After advancing to the intermediate level, the power of Li Yu's thunder magic also skyrocketed. In the past, the initial level of thunder seal attack could only barely seriously injure a one-eyed demon wolf, but now it can make the opponent lose its combat effectiveness on the spot. The smooth start made Li Yu more confident in completing the bounty.

After pushing aside the grass, a dark cave entrance was revealed with no bottom in sight. Li Yu took out a lighter, lit it and threw it down. He waited above the cave for more than ten minutes. There was no movement below, and the flame of the lighter was still burning vigorously.

Walking down the slope opened up by the one-eyed demon wolf, Li Yu was somewhat surprised to find the empty cave after turning on the lights and searching the surroundings.

The entrance of the cave doesn't look big, but the inside of the cave is a different world. The height of at least four meters makes this underground cave not oppressive at all. The spacious space can even allow an adult one-eyed demon wolf to roll back and forth.

The most important thing is that not only is there a faint glow coming through the top of the dungeon, but while it remains dry, this den of the one-eyed demon wolf does not have too strong a body odor of its original owner.

After simply cleaning the cave, Li Yu found some hay from outside and spread it on the ground, then laid a blanket on the hay. He also filled the cave with enough food and wild survival equipment to sustain survival. The only thing that was in short supply was drinking water, which he found on the way here from a natural spring.

At night, in a dark cave, lying on a makeshift bed, Li Yu was just about to take a rest for the night, when he suddenly heard a majestic and long wolf howl.

(End of this chapter)