The Witcher: Son of the Planes

Time flies, and a year has passed inadvertently. Some people may feel that there is no change, and another year has been wasted, but some people have changed a lot.

The shop outside the academy has been opened, mainly operated by Nora and Rose. The Emerald Territory sent two low-level knight attendants as assistants. Simon and Matthew's trade route is mainly between the Victoria Islands and the Grimmen Island.

The shop is profitable. In addition to deducting necessary operating expenses, half of the income is transported back to the Emerald Territory, and the other half is used for Colin and Helen's studies.

With a fixed income, Colin and Helen have been freed from the numerous tasks. Except for the occasional mandatory tasks of the academy, they have begun to pursue academic breakthroughs without distraction.

One year is not much, and it is not enough for Helen to break through to the advanced wizard apprentice. It can only be said that she has continuously consolidated her foundation as an intermediate wizard apprentice and learned some new water spells, water arrows, healing, etc.

Colin's changes were not small. He had successfully broken through to an intermediate wizard apprentice and mastered several new fire spells, such as the Rain of Fire, Fire Resistant Ring, and a universal spell, the Hand of the Mage. Ha, the same name as the wizard organization in the Victoria Islands.

During this period, Colin and Connie met several times. They also found good mentors, and their knowledge reserves and theoretical levels were improved.

As the saying goes, when you are still, you will think about moving. After a year of hard training, Colin, who could not break through to a senior wizard apprentice in the short term, had the idea of ​​going out to do tasks.

After discussing with Helen, he took the initiative to contact Connie and her brother.

Connie and her brother also had the idea of ​​applying what they had learned, doing tasks, and by the way, testing the actual combat effect of the new spells. The two sides hit it off.

The next day, the two sides agreed to meet outside the mission hall, but after meeting, they found that they had brought one more person.

Colin and Helen invited Marcus to join the mission team, and Connie and her brother invited an intermediate wizard apprentice named Banta.

Since they were all trusted people, neither side said anything, and soon the six people began to browse the tasks.

Because they were all intermediate wizard apprentices, they took a big step forward in the selection of tasks, and finally chose a task to obtain the eyeball of the stone skin lizard.

This task has been pending for a long time. Low-level wizard apprentices can't do it, high-level ones don't look down on it, and other intermediate ones are too hard. The main reason is that there are not many merit points, which is just right for Colin and his friends who want to try new spells.

The activity range of stone skin lizards is relatively easy to find. There are some in the wetland swamp that Colin and his friends went to last time. The strength of the stone skin lizard itself is not high, which is equivalent to them. However, there is one attack of the stone skin lizard that they are more concerned about, that is, there is a 20% probability of petrifying people.

Although it is not permanent petrification, it is basically at the mercy of wild animals after petrification. The time to recover from petrification is definitely enough for the stone-skinned lizard to bite everyone to pieces.

However, since they have accepted this task, Colin and his team are not afraid. After all, there are 6 people. Moreover, Marcus is a major in earth magic and has a petrified skin spell, so he still has some resistance.

After some preparation, the six people went to the wetland swamp again.

Colin wanted to look for Omaha again, but he might have been a guide for others. He didn't find it, so he just found a guide to lead the stone-skinned lizard to the activity range.

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In a bush in the wetland swamp, Colin and others found traces of stone-skinned lizards.

Stone-skinned lizards mainly feed on ants, insects, mice and other creatures, and occasionally eat some plants. They mainly live alone. They only stay with stone-skinned lizards of the opposite sex for a short time during the mating period. They generally do not actively attack other creatures, but if you think it is easy to bully, you are wrong.

Colin and others followed the stone-skinned lizard back to its habitat, a low bush next to the swamp. After observing it for a while, they found that it was indeed living alone.

Colin and his friends were relieved. After observing the surrounding environment, they began to discuss tactics.

Before the battle, Marcus first cast the petrified skin buff spell on everyone.

After the battle, Marcus cast the mud-to-stone trick on the stone-skinned lizard's residence to prevent the stone-skinned lizard from entering the swamp and escaping.

The attack was mainly carried out by Colin, Connie and Banta. Helen was responsible for treatment and Marcus was responsible for vigilance.

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Ed, the stone-skinned lizard, has been feeling uncomfortable today. Although the nest of small black ants he caught was relatively delicious, he filled his stomach beautifully. Then he crawled home leisurely, but during the crawling process, he felt a little uneasy.

But he couldn't figure out where the danger came from. Although there were first-level creatures in the depths of the swamp, there were no powerful monsters in the area where he lived. Even the high-level wetland violent bear was unwilling to provoke him. At the edge of the swamp, he was basically a bully.

After returning home, Ed didn't go to bed early as usual. He looked around in all directions with anxiety, hoping to find the source of danger.

Suddenly, a spell hit the small swamp outside his residence, and soon the swamp turned into mud.

Before Ed could figure out the changes in the swamp, another flame flew towards him.

"I\u0026"

Thinking that the old man is easy to bully, who is being presumptuous here with old man Ed.

Ed quickly rushed out and found the figures of Colin and six others.

"Damn, are these two-legged monsters?" Ed thought.

It was not Ed's style to passively take a beating. Ed rushed towards Colin and the other six while releasing his signature spell - Petrifying Gaze.

Colin, who was overconfident, rushed to the front line this time, and Ed's spell hit Colin directly.

Unknown luck may be protecting Colin. In addition to the effect of the petrifying skin spell, Ed's first spell did not have a petrifying effect.

The spells of his teammates also acted on Ed, the stone-skinned lizard. Good guy, the magic resistance is not low, and it seems that Ed did not have much effect on Ed. Shaking his body, Ed continued to crawl over here.

Although Colin was not injured, Helen, who cared about her lover, had already released a healing spell on Colin.

Soon, Colin and others came into close combat with Ed. In addition to releasing the petrifying gaze, Ed's bite force on his mouth was not small, his tail could also attack, and his skin had a relatively high magic resistance, so it was not so easy to kill him.

However, the four people in the front row, Colin, all had the strength of part-time knight attendants, and it seemed that no one could do anything to anyone in a short period of time.

Marcus, who was on guard outside, occasionally replenished the petrified skin spell for people, and Helen released the healing spell according to the situation.