I have a wizarding world

A black, grotesque bird cut through the gloomy sky, landing beside a rotting corpse. Its feathers were entirely black, save for its head, which was crowned with a repulsive fleshy crest. It was a carrion-eater from another world: a carrion vulture.

The carrion vulture tore at the decaying flesh with its sharp beak, completely disregarding the stench and the stagnant fluids within the corpse's putrid abdomen. A glance around revealed a landscape littered with similar bodies and countless carrion vultures; clearly, this place had become their breeding ground.

Not far off, a dilapidated and scarred city wall stood tall – the wall of Black Orchid City.

Black Orchid City was once the capital of the Nova Principality, that is, if the Nova Principality still existed.

Now, Black Orchid City was a ruined wasteland. The once-imposing city walls were riddled with breaches; almost every few dozen meters, a massive gap yawned. Within the city, buildings were either collapsed or stained with dark, macabre marks.

These black marks were the result of old bloodstains, layered with dust over time.

On this day, the deathly quiet of Black Orchid City was broken by an uninvited guest: a man, standing at 1.9 meters tall, slowly walked into the city.

He had broad shoulders and wore a linen grey robe. Strangely, he wore a large black leather hat that almost completely obscured his face. If the hat were removed, a hideous, black, centipede-like scar would be visible on his left cheek.

This man was Renault, separated from Fang Cheng for a long time.

After Renault escaped alone, he did not choose to hide. Instead, he rode his horse all the way to Black Orchid City in the Nova Principality.

But the place was completely different from the last time he'd seen it, when he fell on the battlefield. It was just like himself. He gently stroked the scar on his face with his left hand, his right hand clenched into a fist.

"Who's there?"

"Clang!" Renault abruptly drew the knight's longsword from his waist, his eyes fixed on the front.

"Roar!!!"

In the distance, a figure burst out of a ruined building. The figure was fast, probably almost twice as fast as an ordinary person.

As the figure drew closer, it was clear that it was not a person, but a ghost. The 'person's' face was completely twisted and decayed, but the muscles of its limbs and torso were highly developed. The red muscles, because they were so developed, had torn through the skin and were exposed to the air.

Small, grey scales dotted its arms, and its hands were completely distorted, turning into sharp, tree branch-like claws that looked hard and sharp.

If Fang Cheng were here, he would have shouted out: 'Isn't that a zombie?'

Indeed, this thing looked very much like the zombies in movies and TV shows, but it was clearly much more powerful. It was the monster that the apprentices in the mission castle called a living corpse.

"Not these monsters again!" Renault gritted his teeth, his heart filled with anger.

As he traveled, he discovered that the territory of the Nova Principality was overrun with these monsters. If he didn't have the strength of a formal knight, he would have fallen to these monsters long ago.

"Shhh!"

A flash of sharp sword light streaked across the living corpse's head.

"Thump!" The living corpse, propelled by inertia, lunged forward two steps before collapsing to the ground. A rotten head rolled far away, and black blood splattered on the ground, looking disgusting and gruesome. These monsters only stopped moving when their heads were cut off; this was the experience Renault had gained in his battles over this period.

"Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!"...

The sound of the battle seemed to have awakened the slumbering living corpses. The living corpses quickly surrounded him. Seeing this, Renault's expression changed drastically!

Crap!

He cried out in his heart and turned to run.

Fortunately, he was a formal knight after all, and his physical fitness was many times greater than these monsters. At full speed, he quickly broke out of the encirclement and widened the distance between himself and the living corpses.

"Huff, huff!"

Renault stood dozens of miles outside Black Orchid City, panting heavily, his eyes fixed on the direction of Black Orchid City in the distance. This place had also been occupied by those monsters.

Renault felt a little desperate. He had originally come back hoping to revitalize the Nova Principality and restore the glory of the Watson family, but the reality before him was too different from what he had imagined.

He felt a little disheartened and stood there blankly for a moment.

"Look! Grace, look what we've found! I told you we'd have good luck this time, but you didn't believe me."

A shrill, owl-like voice startled Renault. He quickly turned around and drew his longsword with a "clang!"

"Oh, oh, oh, the little guy is angry!" The person with the shrill voice was still teasing.

Standing before Renault were two strange people wearing black wizard robes. The robes were embroidered with a black flame symbol, indicating that they were apprentices from the Necromancy Academy.

"Come and cut me with your sword, little darling! Heh heh heh!" As he spoke, the person let out a strange laugh.

"Lorraine, stop your perverted laughter." The apprentice named Grace was different from his companion. His face was like an unyielding block of ice, chillingly cold.

Hearing Grace's words, Lorraine didn't dare to continue teasing. He looked at Renault and said, "Little darling, are you going to surrender or resist?"

Hearing this, Renault felt a chill in his heart, seemingly losing all courage to resist.

"Shhh!" The longsword in his hand drooped to the ground, the tip stuck in the dirt.

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"Grace, I told you."

"Careful!"

"Bang!!!"

A loud noise.

Renault struck the grey shield with his sword. It was the zero-level spell, Shadow Shield, that Albert had cast before. Obviously, the apprentice who called out to Lorraine had used a spell scroll.

"You damn thing! I'm going to skin you alive!!!" Lorraine let out a shrill cry.

"Weakness!" As Grace uttered the last sentence in Moby's language, a black halo appeared out of thin air and landed on Renault, causing his eyes to roll back and faint.

Lorraine saw Renault faint, as if not relieved of his hatred, wanting to go over and finish him off.

"Lorraine, this is my trophy." Grace's tone revealed no room for doubt.

"Tch! Damn thing!" Lorraine heard this, spat on Renault lying on the ground, and didn't dare to disobey Grace's will.

After all, Grace was an intermediate wizard apprentice at the Necromancy Academy, while he was just a low-level apprentice.

The two of them were the black wizards Mel had mentioned. They had originally come to Black Orchid City to collect souls tortured to death for experimental materials, but they didn't expect to run into a big fish halfway.

The body of a formal knight was a very good experimental material. Their bodies were much stronger than ordinary people. It wasn't always possible to buy a formal knight slave when you wanted to.

Grace was in a good mood to be able to pick one up today.

Fang Cheng, who was thousands of miles away, including Renault's sister Irene, knew nothing about what was happening in Black Orchid City.

At this time, Fang Cheng was checking the information about the Nova Principality. He did have the idea of going to the Nova Principality to collect wraiths, but that would have to wait until he became an intermediate apprentice. Before that, he still had too much preparation work to do and couldn't be reckless. This was a principle Fang Cheng had set for himself after encountering danger in another world many times.

This was also the reason why he was desperately developing cloning technology.

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