The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

At this time, everyone began to feel around in fear.

Soon, everyone in the ‘Black Sword’ team found that except for the deputy captain, the wizard Ante, who seemed to be protected by his innate witchcraft at all times, he was not infected with this mysterious fungus.

Even the strongest captain, ‘Black Sword’ Guerrero, the peak knight, had a lot of white catkin-like fungus spores on his body at this moment.

The other three team members who were not as strong as Guerrero had even worse physical resistance. At this time, they had grown a mature white fungus, which was the mushroom that looked like a flat mushroom just now.

“Quick! Let’s leave here first!” Guerrero commanded immediately, and at the same time, the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became stronger.

Just as the team members turned around quickly and planned to leave.

Suddenly, everyone felt the ground of the tunnel shook violently!

Then, a low roar that had never been heard before, but with a strong deterrent, came from the forbidden door.

Instantly, everyone felt a sudden chill in their hearts, as if they were trapped in an ice cellar. Even moving their legs was much more clumsy than usual!

Out of instinct, the members of the Black Sword Squad turned their necks slightly stiffly and looked at the forbidden door behind them.

Two brown lights suddenly appeared inside the forbidden door.

"Boom~Boom~"

As the ground vibrated rhythmically, the two lights got closer.

The stench became stronger.

When the other party approached the area illuminated by the light spell, the members of the Black Sword Squad saw clearly that these were not lights, but a pair of dragon eyes.

This dragon was extremely ugly. The smooth scales that should have been on the skin of a normal dragon were not seen on this one.

The surface of the body was full of wrinkles with pits, and even pus-filled skin, as if the body was emitting some strong, corrosive energy from the inside out.

"Go!!!"

Guerrero finally understood the source of the strong uneasiness in his heart.

The Corrupted Dragon in front of him must be the strange creature that was originally sealed in the Forbidden Gate.

Although the other party has been sealed for thousands of years, the remaining breath is still extremely powerful. Guerrero immediately felt that this was a monster that only the Imperial Guardians could deal with, and it was not something that their Black Sword Squad could resist at all.

Although they heard their captain's almost hoarse screams, at this moment, everyone was like being trapped in a swamp, and their running speed was less than one-third of the usual speed.

"Ang!!!"

The Corrupted Dragon roared!

Then, a cylindrical yellow-green mist-like breath violently spewed out from its big mouth.

In the narrow tunnel, this was almost impossible to avoid the damage!

The last person in the team was the first to be hit by the mist-like breath, and the mushrooms on his body grew wildly. In just a few seconds, all kinds of gray, green and colorful fungi covered his whole body and face.

Although he was still running, in the eyes of others.

Perhaps, it is more appropriate to call him staggering.

The second one.

The third one.

The wizard Ante's body protection magic was also broken instantly, and fungi began to grow rapidly on his body, and the 'Black Sword' Guerrero was no exception.

Seeing that the whole team was about to be wiped out, Guerrero stopped and suddenly turned back, slashing at the breath with all his strength with the black sword!

At the same time, a low roar came from behind:

"Ante, try to spread the news!!"

As soon as the voice fell, he saw the whole person bursting with the light of the Force mixed with a trace of will, waving the black two-handed sword in his hand, like an arrow from the string, rushing straight to the corrupt dragon chasing him.

"Black light!"

A black arc of light flashed, and the elbow of the corrupt dragon's front paw, as thick as a stone pillar, was immediately cut open by the 'Black Sword' Guerrero.

Yellow-green pus spurted out.

Just when ‘Black Sword’ Guerrero thought that maybe he could hold out for a little longer, or even have a slight chance of escaping.

But the next second!

“Boom!”

A huge and sharp claw slapped down from top to bottom, and slapped ‘Black Sword’ Guerrero into a pulp!

“Captain!!!”

At this moment, the wizard Angte had just finished chanting a spell, and a light blue whirlwind was wrapped around his body, taking him forward rapidly, but he saw his captain died tragically in front of him.

“Hurry up, hurry up! I want to survive! I have to pass on the message!!” As a wizard, Angte lost his composure for the first time, and he was furious!

But it was too late.

It was not the corrupt dragon behind him that caught up.

But he was infected by his breath, and at this moment, various fungi on his body began to grow rapidly.

At the same time.

Near the entrance of Adachi Mine.

A third-level wizard apprentice in a gray robe and another big knight holding a sword and shield were chatting idly.

Both of them were new members who had just joined the Black Sword team, so they were arranged by Guerrero to be at the entrance of the mine to be responsible for vigilance and communication.

"It's been two hours and ten minutes. Why haven't the captain and the others sent a message yet? Could something have happened?" The Sword and Shield Knight opened his pocket watch, looked at the time, and frowned.

According to the agreement before departure, the team in the cave will send a message to the two of them every two hours.

This is also the standard procedure for the Sword Bearer team to carry out exploration missions.

"No, Captain Guerrero's strength has reached the quasi-legendary level, and with Vice Captain Ante, a formal wizard, it's just an investigation mission, how could there be any accidents!" The gray-robed apprentice shook his head and said.

"Wait, Medeiros, did you hear the sound?"

"It seems to come from the mine." The Sword and Shield Knight Luka turned around alertly and motioned his companions to listen.

"I heard it, but... could it be the sound of the wind?" Medeiros, holding a short stick, listened for a while, but couldn't tell where the sound came from.

Because they were at the Dragon Tooth Pass at the moment, there were strong winds all year round, which was why they chose to ride short-legged horses suitable for mountain travel instead of the Empire's small airship.

"Ah~"

At this time, a scream that was obviously human came from the mine!

This made the two look at each other and immediately alert.

"Hurry, hide behind the hillside." Medeiros immediately called out.

The two quickly hid behind the hillside dozens of meters away from the mine and hid.

Their mission was to guard and communicate, not to fight. This was the clear order given by Captain Guerrero to the two men before they set out.

A few minutes later, a monster in the form of a human staggered to the entrance of the cave, roared, and turned around again, returning to the depths of the mine.

"What kind of monster is this?"

As a great knight, Luka had never seen such a strange humanoid monster covered with fungi.

Medeiros stared blankly at the scene in front of him, motionless.

"Medeiros?" This made Luka a little strange. Logically, Medeiros had rich combat experience and was a formal member of a gold-level team before, so he would not be scared by monsters like this.

"It's over!" Medeiros said in a state of despair.

"It's over! The captain and the others are all over!"

"Luka, that was not a monster just now, it was the deputy captain, the wizard Ante!"

Medeiros' words, like a thunderbolt, rang in Luka's mind!

"What! How is this possible?"

"Really, did you notice the amulet on the opponent's neck? I'm very familiar with that amulet. It's a witchcraft item that seals the water film technique."

Immediately, Luka was stunned. He recalled that there was indeed something reflective on the neck of the humanoid monster just now.

"Because I also have this item, which I exchanged in the exchange hall of the branch." Medeiros pulled out the prismatic crystal amulet on his chest and showed it to Luka.

This made Luka believe Medeiros' words at once.

I saw Medeiros muttering something in his mouth after a trance for a while, and quickly took out a piece of paper from his arms and wrote it with a feather pen.

"Report to the branch immediately!"

Just half a minute later, a blood falcon flew straight into the sky.

——

The next morning.

Munster, the study room of Ren's new mansion.

At this moment, Ryan was sorting out the three rare metals, magic thorium, hardened adamantium and glow ingot, which he had brought back from the branch yesterday.

However, when Ryan fixed his eyes on the magic thorium, he suddenly raised his eyebrows, as if he had thought of something.

He first took out a part of it to transform into two kite-shaped shields, and then used the remaining magic thorium to quickly transform the various plate armor parts according to the style of the mithril carved plate armor on his body.

With the "armor casting expertise (passive)" of the armor forger and the "inscription expertise (passive)" of the great armor forger, Ryan only took less than half an hour to complete a set of magic thorium plate armor engraved with "primary defense inscriptions".

Looking at the slightly matte silver plate armor set in front of him, Ryan couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.

"This set is equivalent to a magic resistance suit. With the magicized silver and the primary defense inscription, the damage effect of the enemy's magic on you will be at least reduced by more than half."

"The only inconvenience is carrying it."

But immediately, Ryan thought of the Blood Feather Hippogryph that had just entered the mature stage.

"You can't carry it with you, but you can put it on Blood Feather. Before the battle, you can change the plate armor suit at any time."

Although Ryan has the innate magic of "Metal Transfiguration", if it is just a breastplate, it can be covered on the chest in a very short time.

But if you want to transform into a knight's plate armor suit with inscriptions and complex parts, it is impossible to complete it in an instant.

After completing the above matters, Ryan focused his attention on the parchment scroll he had just exchanged - "Floating".

Floating is not difficult to learn as a first-level magic that is not difficult.

After a while, the system prompt appeared:

[You have learned the floating technique, and the relevant comprehension has improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill - Levitation]

[Your skill Levitation is improved, experience +1]

At the same time, at the bottom of the Warhammer Wizard (Legend) panel, next to the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation, there is a new icon.

The pattern on the icon is a person floating in the air, with a cotton-like white cloud under his feet, which seems to represent the meaning of white clouds lifting.

There is a line of small words below the icon:

Levitation lv1 (1/100)

Levitation lv1 effect: Consume a certain amount of mental power to use a specific witchcraft model to induce surrounding wind energy particles, causing the host to float in the air for one minute.

(Note: The operation time is 3 seconds.)

"That's right, you won't have to worry about accidents when riding a blood feather!" Renn couldn't help but nodded, feeling happy in his heart.

"But the three seconds of operation time is still a little long."

Just as Ren was considering whether to add points to the Levitation Technique or practice to improve it on his own, he suddenly noticed the icon of the Advanced Meditation Technique, Iron Heart, beside him.

Iron Heart Advanced Meditation (Incomplete) lv1 (1/100), with special effect 'Metal Control lv1'.

"Hey, by the way, what is the effect of this advanced meditation method?"

Ren thought about it and realized that he really didn't know.

Because he didn't need to consider this issue when he was learning the basic meditation method. He had successfully completed the practice of the basic meditation method by adding points of mental power.

This made Renn curious.

After thinking about it, Ren glanced at the five remaining skill points, couldn't restrain his curiosity, and invested a little in the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method.

As the Iron Heart advanced meditation method moved from lv1 to lv2, a torrent of training memories about Iron Heart poured into Ren's mind.

Ren closed his eyes and stood there, carefully feeling the memory fragments of these advanced meditation methods in his mind.

When he opened his eyes again, it was as if he had gone through several years of hard training in the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method in a mysterious space.

Immediately, Ren started running the Iron Heart advanced meditation method again.

After a while, he was pleasantly surprised to find that in the spiritual sea, the process of visualizing and outlining the first layer of the Heart of Steel model was actually much smoother than before, and the outlining efficiency was nearly twice as fast!

What is this concept?

This means that within the same meditation time limit of about half an hour per day, he could only outline twice with mental power. Now, he can visualize and outline four times.

what does that mean?

This means that Ren's mental power atomization process can be greatly accelerated!

Renn also knows a thing or two about the time it takes to atomize mental power.

For other first-level wizards, no matter how amazing they are, if they want to achieve an atomization level of more than 90%, they still need to improve in years.

For most wizards, from the beginning of the process of mental atomization, even if they can successfully break through the bottleneck without any obstacles along the way, it still takes almost twenty or thirty years.

And within ten years, any first-level wizard who can complete this mental power atomization process can be called a wizard genius.

Within five years?

I'm afraid it's very rare in the entire Dragon Empire.

This couldn't help but make Renn suddenly excited.

"Now it's twice as fast, but apparently it can be faster!"

After pacing back and forth in the room and thinking for a moment, Ren decided to continue adding some advanced meditation techniques.

With the addition of points, the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Technique moves from lv2 to lv3

A few minutes later, Renn tried to activate the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method again. Sure enough, his visualization and outlining process accelerated again, and he was able to complete six visualization and outlining cycles in almost half an hour!

"At first it was two times, now it's six times, which is three times the original speed!"

"lv3 is three times, then wouldn't lv4 be four times?"

Suddenly, Ren's eyes brightened!

Immediately, he tried again to add points to the Iron Heart advanced meditation method.

At this time, the system prompt suddenly appeared:

[Failed to add points! The Iron Heart Advanced Meditation (Incomplete) limit has been reached. 】

"Um?"

Ren frowned slightly.

"This represents the first level of the Iron Heart advanced meditation method. Can I only reach three times the speed at the fastest?"

"Okay, if it's three times the speed, that means three years for others and one year for me?"

"Although it still feels a bit slow, I can barely accept it." Ren, who was quite greedy, thought to himself.

"No. I can also add points to the mental attributes. It has been proven before that if the mental power is strong enough, the atomization process will be further accelerated." Ren's eyes lit up, and he thought of something in an instant.

This is why, for most wizards, various drugs that can enhance spiritual power are extremely precious.

A drug that can increase the speed of mental atomization?

There may be, but Lane hasn't heard of it yet.

"Perhaps it's time to put the search for drugs that enhance mental power on the agenda."

"Through Jennifer's auction house channel? Or through the Munster branch of the Royal Apothecary Society?" Renn immediately thought of two paths.

After all, for Renne, he has a "Breaking Bad" career panel and is a top pharmacist himself.

The reason why he didn't consider making potions by himself before was because for him, it was obviously more cost-effective to spend his time on improving his extraordinary combat skills.

But now, if it is a potion related to improving mental power, it is not impossible to consider making it yourself.

"By the way, when I killed Adams, the third-level wizard apprentice, in Goldsmith Town, I seized a spiritual book, which detailed the production method of a mysterious potion. The effect of this potion It can improve mental strength.”

"It's just that the material is quite difficult to find. Jennifer can try to find it through the auction house." Lane recalled.

As for why it was not made at that time, it was also because the materials were difficult to find.

"But. This is not urgent at this time. Perhaps, I should study puppetry first."

As for the improvement of mental power, Ryan was not in a hurry because he had the advantage of adding points to improve it. Instead, he was quite interested in the puppetry given to him by Teacher Mogaro.

Ryan took out the heavy book "Principles of Puppetry" given by Mogaro from the drawer and read it carefully.

Opening the title page, Ryan saw on the next page that almost the entire page was filled with the number of revisions, revision time and revision content.

"Huh? It seems that the school attaches great importance to the content of the book "Principles of Puppetry". It has been revised many times."

"Yes, this book is probably as important to the school as the Xinhua Dictionary in the previous life. Although it is basic, it is of extraordinary significance."

Ryan first spent some time reading the overview, and then, according to the instructions of Teacher Mogaro, he turned directly to the chapter on metal puppets.

For Ryan, metal puppets are highly compatible with him.

And his extremely high affinity for metal elements can also give full play to the combat effectiveness of metal puppets.

As for other types of puppets, such as clay puppets, rock puppets, and flesh puppets, etc., it is not too late to slowly understand them after he has mastered the production of metal puppets.

After all, beginners should not bite off more than they can chew.

". For puppets with low intelligence requirements, the activation technique can achieve the goal."

". If it is a medium or high-level puppet with high intelligence requirements, it is necessary to adopt the method of adding a control core."

Looking at this paragraph, Ryan fell into thought.

"Intelligence?"

"Activation technique?"

"Control core?"

"Control core is about medium and high-level puppets. Don't worry about it for now, look at activation technique first." Ryan quickly made a choice.

It didn't take much time for Ryan to find the record of activation technique at the last few pages of the principle of puppetry.

As a first-level witchcraft, the activation technique is actually not easy to master.

However, for Ryan, a wizard with a mental power of 60 points, close to the middle and late stage of the first level, it is not difficult.

Just like when learning the floating technique, after a while, the system prompt sounded:

[You have learned the activation technique, and the relevant understanding has improved! ]

[You have learned a new skill - activation technique]

[Your skill activation technique has been improved, experience value +1]

At the same time, a new icon appeared below the Warhammer Wizard (Legend) panel, next to the witchcraft metal barrier.

The pattern on the icon is a cane gently tapping on the head of a clay doll, as if the cane is giving the other party some wisdom.

Ryan focused his attention on the new icon, and saw a line of small words below the icon.

Activation technique lv1 (1/100)

Activation technique lv1 effect: consume a certain amount of mental power, induce mysterious side energy particles, give a certain humanoid or animal-like dead object activity, so that it has primary wisdom and simple action ability, lasting for half an hour.

(Note: This witchcraft is a guided witchcraft. The casting time and mental energy consumption depend on the complexity and size of the object.)

"It's done!"

Ryan's face lit up.

"Huh, imitation of human or animal form?"

"Duration of half an hour?"

"Guided witchcraft?"

Ryan immediately noticed a few key words.

After thinking about it, Ryan used the simplest entry-level puppet in the principle of metal puppets. No, it's not a puppet yet. According to the book, it's called a moving metal dummy.

You just need to transform any metal ingot, such as iron ingot, copper ingot, etc., into a metal block with a human-like appearance.

For other metal wizards, this is also a very simple thing. It can be done in a minute at most. For Ryan, who uses "metal deformation" as a natural witchcraft, it takes only one second.

In an instant, a half-human-high metal puppet appeared in Ryan's hand.

After Ryan placed it on the ground, he cast the witchcraft "activation" that he had mastered.

As the spell sounded, Ryan gently pointed, and a yellowish-brown light beam as thick as his little finger shone on the metal doll.

About three seconds later, Ryan found that there was a small light spot in his spiritual sea.

As the "stand up" command was issued, the metal doll slowly stood up and walked automatically.

"Hiss~ Interesting!" Ryan raised his eyebrows and said.

At the same time, perhaps because his affinity for metal elements was high enough, he hardly felt too much mental power consumption.

This also means that he can try to activate a larger mobile metal dummy.

"Knock, knock!"

A knock on the door suddenly sounded.

This made Ryan smile slightly, as if he thought of something, and he gave the command "open the door" to the mobile metal dummy.