The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

On the other side, after Ryan sent the long-distance airship carrying Anna and the pure-blooded elves to a safe place, he controlled Blood Feather halfway and flew towards the nearby Valzig ruins.

Since he had already completed the set goal - to ensure Anna's safety, Ryan moderately let go of the concealment of his own tracks and rode Blood Feather to quickly cut through the sky.

He planned to land and walk when he was almost at his destination.

There was a huge difference in speed between flying at high speed in the air and shuttling through the dense forest.

About half an hour later, Ryan began to let Blood Feather reduce the flight speed, and he quickly compared the map that had been imprinted in his mind and began to slowly land.

"It's near here, about three kilometers northwest." Ryan looked around from mid-air and thought to himself.

This location, strictly speaking, has left Ferdinand Forest. Just when he was in mid-air, Ryan saw the destroyed elf outpost several kilometers away.

Of course, the geographical environment will not change significantly due to the division of artificial boundaries.

This is still a dense forest area, with undulating hills, lush shrubs and dense vegetation. The only difference is that this is already the territory of the empire.

A few minutes later, Ryan looked at the dense forest in his field of vision and sighed in his heart:

"It's flat, and there are no traces of artificial creations. There is no sign of any ruins at all."

"If it weren't for Teacher Mogaro telling me, it would be hard to believe that the underground here was once the site of an ancient large wizard school."

Suddenly, the thin sheet in Ryan's arms vibrated.

"I am Ryan." Ryan took out the thin sheet and said.

"Lord Ryan, we have received Miss Anna and her people and Mr. Lambert, and they have all been properly settled." Olena's voice came from the thin sheet.

At the same time, Ryan also vaguely heard several familiar crisp female voices whispering in the background.

"Lord Ryan, I'll let Miss Anna talk to you."

"Okay."

Soon, Anna's soft and slightly shy voice came from the other side of the sheet:

"Ryan, we have arrived at Post No. 7. Lady Olena is very considerate and has arranged rooms, food and medicine for everyone in advance. She is so thoughtful."

"Well, Miss Beyonce and Miss Claire are both very good." Anna added.

Hearing Anna's familiar voice, Ryan's heart softened.

Obviously, the whispers just now were the conversations between Anna and Claire.

"Then you have a good rest. If there is anything on the tribe side, ask Olena for help. I will enter the ruins later. Perhaps the signal is not necessarily good."

"Wait until I come out and contact you." Ryan thought for a while and said.

"Well, Ryan. Then you must be careful."

"I will, don't worry."

In Post No. 7.

When Anna finished her call with Ryan, Claire and Beyoncé looked at each other, and then took Anna's white and tender hand affectionately and said:

"Hehe, Miss Anna, this is the first time we have heard the captain speak so gently. It seems that the captain really loves you."

"However, a beauty like you deserves the captain's love."

Claire said while looking up and down at Anna, who had long since restored her true appearance.

She couldn't help but feel deeply that the Creator favored Anna.

As a half-elf, Anna is not as tall and cold as ordinary elf beauties, but is an almost perfect blend of the cuteness and cuteness of human girls and the beauty and noble temperament of the elves.

So, when Olena heard that Captain Ryan's girlfriend was coming to the No. 7 outpost, she and Beyoncé were very surprised and interested.

"Don't say that, Miss Claire, you are also very beautiful." Anna blushed, lowered her head slightly, and said as if she was a little embarrassed.

"By the way, Miss Beyoncé and Ms. Olena are also very beautiful." Anna immediately added, as if she felt that it was not appropriate to praise only one person.

"Hehe~"

"Haha!"

All of a sudden, the three of them laughed.

"Miss Anna, you are so cute. No, I plan to hold you to sleep at night, and I also want to enjoy the treatment of the captain." Claire's beautiful eyes turned and she smiled slyly.

"Okay, Claire, let Miss Anna have a good rest first. Later, when we have dinner, Miss Anna can tell us how she got together with the captain, hehe."

The hot Beyoncé also smiled wickedly at this time.

The two of them sang in unison, and Anna's pretty face immediately flushed with two blushes, and she was at a loss.

However, she could feel that the two women had no ill intentions, they were just teasing.

At this time, Ryan had already come to an underground cave entrance located below the slope of the hill and vaguely covered by bushes according to the token given by his mentor Mogaro - a prismatic crystal of the Bixiu Construction School.

Judging from the diameter of the cave entrance, at first glance, many people would think that this is just a brown bear cave.

When Ryan pushed aside the bushes and followed the instructions in the crystal, after passing through several forks and several narrow tunnels, he walked for about half an hour before approaching the meeting place mentioned by mentor Mogaro.

From a distance, Ryan saw a rather empty underground hall emitting light green fluorescence at the end of the tunnel in front of him.

However, before Renn actually entered the hall, his nose suddenly twitched and his face became solemn, but he stopped.

"With such a strong smell of blood, could it be that something happened to the school's team? No, the smell of blood is too fishy, ​​and it doesn't seem to come from human blood."

"In addition, there seem to be some strange particles in the air that are trying to force their way into my Iron Armor Technique."

With his keen sense, Renn immediately noticed something was wrong ahead.

"This place is a bit strange!"

After thinking for a moment, Ren cast another steel armor spell on himself before slowly walking inside.

The light green fluorescent hall that comes into view is like the light green that the emergency lights came on after a power outage in the previous life, but it is several times dimmer.

However, with Ren's eyesight, he could see clearly. The hall was tens of meters high. There was a huge broken stone statue in the middle, and dozens of stone balls one or two meters in diameter were scattered around. What caught his attention more was the ground. There are many corpses of strange humanoid creatures on it.

The smell of blood just now should come from the blood of this creature.

Immediately, Ren came to a corpse and squatted down to examine it carefully.

After some inspection, Ren found that these corpses were quite similar to the troglodytes described in ancient books.

Troggs are a special group of cave dwellers that look like apes, with canine teeth and claw-like ends of their limbs to facilitate digging in the soil. The petrified skin covering their entire body, with the thickest on their back, is their iconic feature.

But Renn still looked thoughtful.

Because the size of these stone jaw monsters does not match those described in ancient books, they are too big.

According to records in ancient books, the average stone palate should be about 1.5 to 1.7 meters tall.

But the dead troggs in front of them were more than two meters tall, and for some unknown reason, the hair on their skin seemed to have fallen off in large areas.

In addition, some of the corpses of these stone jaw monsters only have skeletons, some are just decomposed, and many others are very fresh, and the time of death is no more than twenty-four hours.

A little confused for a moment, Ren stood up and looked at the hall again.

There are signs of damage and excavation on the north and south walls of the hall, with multiple irregular caves.

In addition, the overall style of the hall is completely different from the previous unmodified geotechnical tunnel. Whether it is the dome, columns and marble tiles on the floor, there are signs of a higher level of craftsmanship.

Thinking back on it, it seemed that the tunnel he had just entered was dug by a latecomer.

In addition, the architectural style of the hall is completely different from that of the Empire. It has a contradictory feeling of being simple but containing some advanced craftsmanship.

"Hey, how accurate is this ball?" Renn thought to himself when he saw the stone ball next to the pillar.

The stone ball in front of me is almost a perfect sphere.

You must know that π is not a rational number, and any production involving circles or spheres is very difficult. Generally speaking, clues to the level of craftsmanship can be seen from the processing accuracy of the spheres.

"The level of craftsmanship is at least two levels higher than that of our own school."

"As expected of a large wizarding school in ancient times."

Suddenly, Ren's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Whoa! Whoa!"

There was a slight sound of breaking through the air all around, slowly approaching Renn from three different directions.

"I also know that one is attracting attention from the front, and two are sneaking up from behind. It seems that the level of intelligence is not low."

"But this level of strength is still too weak."

Renn shook his head slightly.

The next second, several afterimages suddenly flashed out of Renn, and the vertical pupils of the three stone jaw monsters that were sneaking just now, intending to use the dark environment to launch a sneak attack, suddenly widened.

Because they saw their prey suddenly appearing in front of them.

"Pfft!"

The sounds of sharp blades entering the body were heard from three directions almost at the same time.

If you look carefully, you can see three identical figures of Ren, holding a newly transformed knight's sword in their hands, piercing the eyebrows of the three stone jaw monsters.

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The next moment, the three figures suddenly disappeared, but at the same position, Ren's original body seemed not to move, still maintaining the posture of looking around before.

"Plop! Plop!"

The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was heard one after another, and then, a rustling sound came from further away. It seemed that the stone jaw monster in the distance was a little frightened by the scene in front of him.

As the surroundings became quiet again, Renn injected a trace of mental power into the crystal according to the secret code agreed within the school. Soon, a wall of several square meters in the north moved quickly away, revealing a square cross-section like a subway tunnel. tunnel.

And a middle-aged man holding a short staff and wearing a wizard robe from the Bixiu Construction School was looking around and at Ren with unusual vigilance.

"Are you Ren, sent from the metal department of the school? Come in quickly!"

The middle-aged wizard was obviously a little surprised by Ren's too young face. In addition, when he observed that the surroundings were quiet, he immediately looked confused and muttered:

"Didn't you encounter any mutated troggs when you came in? You're really lucky."

"But why did the metal system send you here? How can such a young man help?" The middle-aged wizard muttered, and after Ren entered, he quickly pressed the mechanism and closed the wall again.

After all, the mentor asked him to pick him up, only mentioning that Ren was an imperial sword wielder with a high metal affinity and extremely high talent.

In Albert's cognition, even if a wizard has high talent, it takes a long time of precipitation and hard work to transform it into strength, and he is in this situation.

However, at this moment, his eyes suddenly widened, his face was shocked, and he looked up and down at Ryan repeatedly, and said with a slight stutter:

"You... you are actually a third-level crystallization wizard? Are you really from our school?"

Because the two were far apart just now, and Albert's attention was focused on observing the outside, but now that Ryan came to him, he immediately sensed Ryan's surging mental fluctuations.

Albert's strength has entered the second-level liquefied wizard.

At his age, even if he looks at the empire, he is considered to be extremely talented, and in the Bixiu Construction School, he is a top-level genius.

But compared with Ryan, there is still a world of difference!

So, at this moment, he looked at Ryan with an expression as if he had seen a ghost, and was so shocked that he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

What's the situation in front of him?

Such a young third-level crystallization wizard?

Could it be a spy sent by other schools or hostile organizations?

The real Ryan has actually been.

Seeing the other party's slightly stiff body and the gradually rising alert look in his eyes, Ryan couldn't help but smile and said:

"Hello, I am Ryan. I have just joined the school for less than half a year. It is normal that you have not seen me. My mentor is Mogaro."

Albert asked a few more questions before he was completely relieved, but then he became a little restrained and said:

"Hello, Mr. Ryan, I am Albert, the disciple of Lord Moria. I will take you to meet the mentor now. I believe the mentor will be very happy to see you."

"Okay, thank you."

Ryan could understand Albert's restraint. After all, wizards are ranked according to their strength.

Albert immediately took Ryan and walked into a winding internal tunnel. The tunnel wall was covered with marble, clean and tidy, and obviously not dug by the stone palate monster.

"By the way, Mr. Albert, are those monsters outside stone palate monsters? They seem to be a little different from what is recorded in ancient books." Ryan asked casually on the way.

"Yes, so the instructor defines them as mutant stone palate monsters."

"As for the reason? Mr. Ryan, do you feel that there is a special energy radiation in the air here?"

"Indeed, and it seems that the concentration is higher after entering here." Ryan nodded.

At this moment, Ryan can clearly feel that this energy radiation is stronger because of the deeper and deeper.

However, he is now protected by the third-level defense magic "Steel Armor", so he doesn't have to worry about this level of radiation affecting him, and Abel next to him also has body protection magic on him at this moment.

"The other party is affected by this radiation, so he becomes like this."

"Have you investigated the cause of the radiation?" Ryan continued to ask.

"Well, according to the clues we have found in the past six months, thousands of years ago, there should have been a big explosion in the Valzig School. As for the specific cause, we have also found it. It seems to be caused by a dangerous experiment conducted by a senior Dawn Wizard at that time."

"According to the damaged diary found on the remains of several Valzig School wizards, the Dawn Wizard named Magnier at that time found a metal with special energy in a certain mine."

"The other party thinks that if this special energy can be used, it will give him a great chance to enter the fifth-level Full Moon Wizard, so the other party began a fanatical experiment process."

Ryan nodded.

For any Dawn Wizard, if they find a chance to enter the fifth-level Full Moon Wizard, they will definitely do their best to grab it!

"This strange metal extracted from the ore is silvery white, and there will be strange energy radiation, which is extremely penetrating, but in small quantities, it will not cause much harm to the human body."

Radiation? Silvery white?

When Ryan listened, a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, and his eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something key.

"Why does it sound so familiar? Could it be uranium ore?"

"It's the raw material for making atomic bombs in the previous life, the radioactive isotope extracted from ordinary uranium ore, uranium-235." However, Ryan thought about it carefully and shook his head slightly.

It may not be uranium-235, it may also be other radioactive metal elements.

After all, the world is different, and Ryan is not sure whether the periodic table is still applicable.

But even if it is applicable, then in this world, whether there are more subsequent elements in the periodic table, he has not studied it carefully, and he is also not sure.

Albert, who was standing by, did not notice the strangeness in Ryan's expression, and continued to talk as he walked:

"The Dawn Wizard named Magnier, after decades of attempts, finally found a dangerous but effective method of extraction."

"Some wizards tried to suggest it, but failed to stop it. Unfortunately, one day, an accident occurred in the experiment, and a huge explosion occurred. The school, which was greatly weakened, disappeared completely soon after."

"And the stone palate monsters we saw seemed to be because of the explosion, which caused a cave somewhere underground to be opened up, and the stone palate monsters living underground were attracted to the interior of the Valzig School."

"But what's even more surprising is that the stone palate monsters actually like this extremely harmful strange radiation very much."

"According to what we have observed in the past six months, the stone palate monsters that were originally only at the knight level can be greatly improved to the peak of knights, or even great knights, after several months of radiation."

"And for the stone palate monster leaders with stronger tolerance, the increase is even more terrifying."

"Well, that's it, see?" At this time, Albert suddenly stopped and pointed at the end of the tunnel.

At this moment, the two have reached the end of the tunnel. What caught Ryan's eyes were several horizontal iron railings as thick as forearms, blocking the end of the tunnel.

However, through these iron railings, you can see that there is a huge platform more than ten meters below. A large number of stone palate monsters are lying at the entrance of a passage in the north, with a comfortable and greedy expression on their faces as if they were soaking in a winter hot spring.

Even because many stone palate monsters were a little closer to the front, they had a fight, and bursts of low roars came.

Among them, leaning against the thick metal railing at the front was a strong stone palate monster with a body size of more than three and a half meters. The hair on his head was white. He was enjoying the best position alone, and seemed to be in a deep sleep.

"That guy is the chieftain of the stone palate monsters. After being irradiated, he is now at the late legendary level." Albert continued.

"If it was just one guy, it would not be difficult to deal with it."

"But the key to the problem is that there are too many of them. In the past six months, we have at least eliminated thousands of stone palate monsters, but there are still scattered stone palate monsters that continue to emerge, and there seems to be no end."

"This is also one of the reasons why we have been dragged here for so long." Albert sighed.

"Sir Ryan, let's not talk about this for now. The mentor and other members of the exploration team are in the room." At this time, Albert turned around while talking and pressed the mechanism on his left. The wall suddenly slid, revealing a hidden door.