The Last Alchemist

Chapter 244: Illusion Labyrinth (33)

Dockside Market.

The red-haired old man walked quickly towards the fountain. When he came to Rosen, he took out a small bottle from his waist bag: "This is a dormant potion that can relieve the destructive toxin, but it will put the person who takes it into a state of suspended animation, and if the toxin is not resolved, the person who takes it will never wake up."

Veronica looked at Rosen: "You seem to know him?"

Rosen shook his head: "I have seen this person before, but I don't know his specific identity, but he should be someone from the Magic Academy, and a senior executive."

At this time, Mobius said: "No need to guess, he is Max, the famous thunder messenger."

"It turned out to be you!" Rosen was surprised.

"The toxin has begun to spread. If you believe me, take the medicine quickly!" Max urged.

This is the only choice.

Rosen and Veronica looked at each other, and Veronica said: "Give me the medicine!"

Max immediately handed the bottle over.

Veronica pulled out the cork, tilted her head back, and drank the whole bottle of medicine. After a few seconds, her body softened and fell into Rosen's arms. Not only did she completely lose consciousness, but even her breathing and heartbeat became vague.

Rosen immediately looked down at the wound on Veronica's waist. The black skin around the wound was still there, but it had basically stopped spreading.

Max turned and walked towards the alley before, saying as he walked: "Come with me, this is not a place to talk."

Rosen immediately carried Veronica on his back and followed Max's footsteps. Mobius also hurried a few steps and followed.

Max was very cautious. As he walked, he used magic to clean up the traces behind him. He explained: "Our opponent is the Destroyer Tree Demon Donasis. This guy is a very patient and very sharp devil. In front of him, any negligence will lead to failure!"

"Destroyer Tree Demon?" Rosen was stunned.

"What is a devil?" Mobius was also confused.

Max sighed and said, "It's hard to explain right now. I'll explain it to you in detail when we get to a safe place."

He began to quicken his pace, leading the two of them around in the narrow and dark alley.

Rosen followed him for a while and felt like he had entered a strange maze. He thought carefully about the way he had come and found that he couldn't find any road signs to help him remember.

In other words, he was now lost.

Mobius obviously felt the same way: "Max, what kind of a path are you taking? How come I've never been here before?"

Max shrugged: "Of course you haven't been here, because there is no such place in the dock area."

Rosen's heart moved when he heard this: "Is this an illusion?"

Max looked at Rosen with appreciation and praised: "Young man, you are much smarter than the bald undead."

Mobius was shocked when he heard this: "Max, when did you know I was an undead?"

"I knew it when you first entered the academy."

Mobius was even more shocked: "Then you let me enter and leave the academy freely, aren't you afraid that I will cause trouble?"

Max shook his head: "I'm not afraid."

"Why?" Mobius was even more puzzled.

Max turned his head and glanced at the stunned Mobius, and smiled faintly: "Because you have neither the courage nor the power, and of course, you don't have the will. In fact, the real opponent of the magic academy is not the rational aliens like you, but those aliens who have fallen into the devil's lackeys, or the monsters who have lost their minds in endless time. But..."

"But what?" Mobius asked hurriedly.

"But, you and I are both mortals. In the long time, the rationality of mortals is very fragile. The longer you live, the easier it is to go crazy. Therefore, every alien is a potential unstable factor. Rosen, you have to remember this, and try to stay with aliens as little as possible in the future, so as not to hurt yourself."

At the end, Max's face was full of earnestness.

Rosen spread his hands, feeling like he was being shot.

Mobius opened his mouth and wanted to refute, but he felt that what Max said made sense, and he couldn't find any reason to refute it for a while. There was no other way, he could only mutter in a low voice: "It's useless for you to say it, Rosen is also an alien."

"What did you say?" Max didn't hear clearly.

"Nothing." Mobius curled his lips.

Max snorted in dissatisfaction and stopped asking. After walking for a while, he stopped. In front of him was a solid and tall stone wall.

He raised his hand and pressed it on the stone wall. After about three minutes, a wooden door suddenly appeared on the stone wall. Max pushed forward gently and the door opened.

He stood by the door and stretched out his hand to invite: "Come in."

Rosen walked in first, and he found that there was a very huge dark space inside the door. This was a very wide underground hall, seven or eight meters high, hundreds of meters long and wide. In the hall, there was a huge stone pillar every 20 meters as support, and there were hundreds of such stone pillars.

What surprised Rosen was that the hall was full of people. Judging from their clothes, these people should be residents of the dock area. He roughly estimated the number and found that there were at least 10,000 people here!

Mobius at the side also noticed it. He suddenly realized, "No wonder there are so few bodies at the dock. It turns out that everyone is here!"

Max glanced at him and shook his head slightly: "The situation is not as optimistic as you think. On the night of the God's Blessing, more than 20,000 people gathered in the dock area. I roughly counted it afterwards, and the number of deaths that night exceeded 7,000. This is just the situation in the dock area. There are also the college area in the west of the city and the residential area in the north of the city. In this catastrophe, the number of casualties was at least 20,000!"

Rosen listened carefully to these data, and his heart moved, and asked: "Sir Max, according to what you said, you have returned to Nirogard on the night of the God's Festival, so why did you..."

Max raised his hand to stop Rosen from talking: "This is not a place to talk, come with me, I will answer your questions."

He continued to walk deeper into the hall. When he reached the end, another heavy wooden door appeared. He walked forward, stretched out his hand and knocked gently, paused for a second, knocked three times in a row, paused again, knocked three times in a row, and then began to wait.

About ten seconds later, the wooden door disappeared and turned into a long staircase.

Max waved to Rosen and Mobius: "Follow me, don't look around."

He walked up the stairs first, and Rosen followed closely.

He kept his head down and looked straight ahead. He walked along the stairs for more than ten minutes. Finally, the stairs reached the end and a magnificent hall appeared.

When he walked into the hall, Rosen pretended to look back casually, and found that there was nothing behind him, no stairs, no wooden door, only a smooth wall.

He thought to himself: 'This should still be an illusion. '

There were several benches in the middle of the hall, and two people were already sitting on one of the benches, one was a gray-haired old woman, and the other was a petite young girl.

When the old woman saw Rosen, she smiled at him, and the young girl lowered her head nervously.

Before Max could introduce them, Mobius had already begun to salute the two women: "Sage Niya, Illusionist Wei Ge. You are still alive, this is really good news."

Sage Niya smiled faintly: "You too."

Max walked to the side of the hall, pointed to a stone table and said to Rosen: "Come, put her here."

Rosen did as he was told.

After placing Veronica, Rosen immediately asked: "Sir Max, how can I save her?"

Max pointed at Niya: "I can't do anything about this, you have to ask the sage."

Rosen immediately looked at Sage Niya.

Niya stood up, walked quickly to Veronica's side, and began to carefully examine the wound on her waist. After about five or six minutes, she turned her head and looked at Rosen, wanting to say something but stopping.

Rosen was startled and felt something was wrong. He asked carefully, "What should I do?"

Mobius also hurriedly said, "Sage, you must save her!"

Sage Niya sighed, "If the Tower of Wisdom was still there, it would be very simple to save her. But unfortunately, the Tower of Wisdom has been destroyed, and all the connections between me and the gods have been severed. In this case, there is only one very cruel way to expel the destructive toxin."

Rosen immediately asked, "What method?"

Mobius also said, "Sage, don't keep me in suspense, tell me quickly."

Niya looked at Rosen again and whispered, "We need someone, a powerful magician, to serve as a link to connect the power of the gods. And I will use the body of this magician to guide the power of the gods, and use the power of the gods to expel the destructive toxin for this dragon girl. The cruel thing is that the power of the gods is very violent. Once the magician who acts as a link can't support it, his body will explode and die on the spot!"

Mobius was stunned for a moment and said in surprise, "Isn't this a life for a life?"