The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

The room was relatively empty, with a magic array with a diameter of more than ten meters in the center, emitting a faint green halo, and a light green leaf was floating up and down in the center of the magic array.

In the magic array, there was a man and a woman wearing school wizard robes, busy with their own things.

As soon as Ryan stepped in, he felt a freshness in the air in the room. It turned out that the radiation around was blocked outside the magic array emitting a light green light.

The controller of the magic array seemed to be the female wizard, because she was drawing a new magic pattern in a corner of the magic array.

The other party was about the strength of the middle stage of crystallization, with a dignified side face, but there were already crow's feet at the corners of the eyes, and the hair was a little gray, obviously quite old.

What attracted Ryan's attention was the old man who was assembling a backpack-like device on the side.

The other party had thick eyebrows and extremely bright eyes. Judging from the breath, this person's strength had reached the peak of crystallization wizards.

Obviously, this person should be Moria, the leader of the Bixiu Construction School.

Albert bowed slightly to the old man and said respectfully: "Teacher, Lord Ryan is here."

"Oh?" Moria and the older female wizard looked up at Ryan, but they did not stop their work. But the next second, they all stopped.

Because at this moment, the expressions of the two were exactly the same as Albert's at the beginning, with eyes wide open and mouths slightly open in shock.

"You... you are Ryan?!"

"You have actually reached the peak of crystallization?" Moria stood up and walked quickly to Ryan, looking him up and down, and said.

"This is impossible!"

"Mogaro clearly told me that you only entered the second-level liquefied wizard a few months ago. This... this."

The older female wizard also stood up at this moment, smiled at Ryan, and took the initiative to say hello. This was out of respect for strength.

And Albert on the side was completely stunned at this moment.

Because just now he only felt that Ryan's strength was stronger than his, but he only thought that Ryan was at most in the early or middle stage of crystallization, how could he have thought that Ryan was already at the peak of crystallization!

This is the same as his mentor, and even the leader of the Construction School, Moria.

This made Albert look at Ryan with some resentment.

Is it really necessary to join a medium-sized wizard school with such strength?

If you want to join, you should at least choose a large wizard school!

Ryan had expected the reactions of several people.

Ryan naturally considered carefully whether to show his strength as a wizard.

And Ryan's decision was that it would be better to inform the school about his progress in reaching the peak of the third level of crystallization.

First of all, if he showed his strength at the peak of crystallization, if the school found the fourth or even fifth level of the Iron Heart Meditation Method in the ruins, he would have a reason to borrow it.

He didn't even need to take the initiative to ask, the school would probably take the initiative to open the relevant knowledge to him.

This aspect may also include some precious fourth-level witchcraft.

You know, all the witchcraft at the fourth-level Dawn Wizard level is extremely precious, and it can be said that it is the foundation of a wizard school.

Secondly, for him, showing the progress of crystallization and exposing his own strength are not the same thing.

Because a large part of his strength comes from the core skills of the professional panel, such as "Dragon Soul Smash", and another part comes from the transformation of the mutant dragon bloodline and the mastery of various top mysteries.

Relatively speaking, the third-level crystallization peak wizard does not account for a large proportion of his strength.

Therefore, his display of crystallization progress is far from exposing his true strength.

Of course, the most important point is that Ryan's current strength can already deal with most people who have ill intentions or covetousness towards him.

So, Ryan modified the long-prepared rhetoric, such as the ancient dragon soul potion, and a series of things about entering the secret realm of Dragon Valley, and said it again.

After listening to what Ryan said, the three people, including Moria, were amazed, envious and sighed!

"Although I haven't seen Batalov, the dean of Winterhold College for many years, I know that he has been collecting materials for the Ancient Dragon Soul Potion. I didn't expect that he would succeed in the end."

"But Ryan, you actually got a bottle of the Ancient Dragon Soul Potion that Batalov treasured from him. It's amazing! If it were me, I'm afraid I couldn't get a bottle even with the rarest treasures."

Moria recalled with a wry smile.

"Oh, by the way, Ryan, I forgot to introduce you. This is Ms. Fiona, the deputy head of the school." After a long while, Moria finally came back to his senses. He pointed to the older female wizard beside him and introduced her with a smile.

"Ms. Fiona, nice to meet you for the first time. Hello." Ryan smiled and bowed.

"Hello, Mr. Ryan. Although this is the first time we meet, I have a very deep impression." Fiona complimented him in a very decent way.

After some greetings, several people sat down in the witch formation emitting green light and talked about business.

Moria introduced: "The strange radiation here has a unique and powerful effect on the stone palate monsters, but fortunately, this promotion effect will also decrease as the stone palate monsters increase in strength."

"At present, the early stage of improvement is the fastest, and it will be much slower when it reaches the quasi-legendary level, which requires ten or even dozens of years of accumulation."

"As for the legendary level troggs, if they rely on this level of radiation to improve, it will be even slower. The only way is to go deeper and go to a place with higher radiation intensity."

While the leader of the faction, Moria, was telling Ren, he pointed out from the iron fence window to the entrance of the platform below, which was crowded with troggs.

"I see, that's why so many troggs gathered at that entrance." Renn nodded and said.

With so many troggs, even he could only rely on the transformation of dragon blood, but this would consume a lot of his attribute points.

"Yes, that's the problem."

"That is also the only way for us to go to the core area of ​​​​Walzig School. Although we have discussed a way to lure away most of the troggs, there should still be a small number of troggs left." Morley Ya continued.

"The current level of radiation almost requires wizards in the middle stage of the second liquefaction to use protection to deal with the witchcraft with all their might."

"It is conceivable that if we can enter the core area, even a third-level crystallized wizard will be very strenuous by the intensity of radiation we face."

"In the past six months, we have also used small puppets to detect. Inside the entrance, in addition to some protective witch arrays, there are also some rare war golems, which can still drive and attack external enemies, with amazing power."

"That is to say, if you go deeper, you will most likely have to resist the increasingly intense radiation, and at the same time, you will have to deal with emergencies such as various battles. In this case, even the mental power of a third-level crystallized wizard will not be enough. Can’t hold on for long.”

At this time, Moria motioned to Fiona, the deputy leader on the side, to continue the introduction.

"In this regard, Lord Moria and I have thought of many ways together and done many tests on witchcraft. We found that the protective effect of natural witchcraft is the best."

Fiona smiled slightly at Ren and took up Moria's words.

"This is the leaf of an ancient tree. It can be stimulated by the witch formation and achieve a certain balance of confrontation with the current intensity of radiation, thereby avoiding the consumption of mental power to release protective witchcraft. This is also the reason why we can stay here for a long time. method."

Fiona pointed to the green leaves floating up and down in the center of the witch formation and said.

"At the same time, this also proves the feasibility of this idea."

"Of course, if we continue to go deeper, we will need more powerful natural treasures. For example, according to our estimates, the 'Heart of the Ancient Tree' can significantly reduce or even completely offset the radiation damage in the core area."

"That's it." Renn nodded.

No wonder, the leader of the Moria Sect is in urgent need of the ‘Heart of the Ancient Tree’.

"Unfortunately, I don't know what happened to the elves recently, and the original contact suddenly disappeared. Our exploration team here originally had two people, but now I have sent it to the nearby area to investigate the situation."

Moria frowned and sighed.

After spending a lot of time and effort to find a method, it turns out that it cannot be realized due to the limitations of raw materials. This feeling is really uncomfortable.

"Mr. Moria, maybe I can help with this matter. I brought the Heart of the Ancient Tree this time." Renn smiled slightly and took out a wooden box from his arms.

It was the wooden box given to him by Aldiran, the elf elder and mayor of Basalan.

"Um?"

After hearing Ren's words, Moria and the three of them seemed to have question marks carved on their foreheads.

However, when Ren opened the box, the two oval objects exuding strong natural energy fluctuations immediately answered the three people's questions.

They heard it right!

"This is really the Heart of the Ancient Tree! It's unmistakable. This level of natural energy fluctuations cannot be compared to other Ironwood Hearts and Ancient Tree Leaves." Fiona, the deputy leader of the faction, exclaimed uncontrollably. stand up.

"Haha, that's great! It's still two pieces, that's great!"

"Ren, you are really the school's lucky star. With your arrival, the biggest problem has been solved!" Moria patted Ren's shoulder heavily and laughed heartily.

At this time, Ren felt the vibration of the film in his arms, so he bowed slightly and said sheepishly: "Sorry."

I saw him walking aside, taking out the slice and injecting a bit of spiritual power.

"I'm Renn."

"My lord, you, the regional plague, are the messengers."

It seems that due to the strong radiation interference here, Olena's voice coming from the opposite side of the sheet cannot be heard at all.

"Hello?"

"Boohoo."

The call is interrupted.

However, Renne managed to capture a few key words, 'region', 'plague' and 'messenger'.

Recalling what he had asked Olena to do before - investigating the cult dynamics near the Walzig ruins, Renn immediately thought of something.

"Could it be that this is the activity area of ​​the Plague Sect?" Renn couldn't help but wonder to himself.

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When Ren turned around and sat down again, Moria was already putting the heart of the ancient tree into the backpack-like device he was making before.

With the placement of an Ancient Tree Heart, the backpack soon emitted a spherical protective barrier visible to the naked eye. It was less than three meters in diameter, but it was more than enough to protect one person.

"The Heart of the Ancient Tree is very valuable. I originally thought it was good for you to get one in exchange, but I didn't expect you would have two. Ren, how about you come in with me?" Moria invited with a smile.

"This." Renn couldn't help but look at Fiona, the deputy leader, who spent a lot of energy exploring the ruins in the early stage. In his opinion, she should be given priority.

However, before Ren could say anything, Fiona, the deputy leader on the side, smiled and said: "Sir Ren, I can do it, and Lord Moria can basically do it. And you are stronger than me, naturally. More suitable."

"Okay then." Just when Ren was about to say something, suddenly, footsteps sounded at the door.

The wall moved away again.

"Sect leader, it's not good!" Two male wizards wearing the school's standard wizard robes walked in quickly and said.

"We investigated the situation and found that the surrounding elven town of Russelan has been occupied by the plague cult, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to obtain the Heart of the Ancient Tree."

"What?" Moria and Fiona's expressions changed, not because of the Heart of the Ancient Tree, but because the situation in front of them was more severe than they had expected.

The scale of the cult's operation was huge.

Just as the two male wizards got closer, suddenly, Ren frowned, stretched out his hand to stop them, and said, "Wait a minute!"

"It seems to you two..."

"Huh? Are you...?" The two looked surprised, obviously not knowing Ren.

"No, you have some kind of spiritual mark on your body, and you are being tracked!" Fiona, the deputy leader, looked solemn.

"No, this is a curse. You two have been cursed." Moria's expression changed and he said.

At this moment, under the light of the light green witch formation in the room, a thin black mist the size of a fist appeared vaguely above the two people's heads.

This immediately caused the two people's expressions to change drastically, as if they had thought of something.

But before they could explain anything, their faces suddenly turned red, and then they started vomiting blood.

"boom!"

What followed was a loud bang!

The wall of the room close to the tunnel was suddenly blown open.

"Hahaha, not bad, not bad. I didn't expect that following two small fishes, I would actually find the ruins of an ancient wizard school." A hoarse teasing voice came from the other end of the long tunnel.

Immediately afterwards, five figures wearing black robes and hoods appeared at the gap in the blasted wall.

"Plague cult!" Moria looked at the green bubbling cauldron pattern on the opponent's robe and said with a solemn expression.

"Huh? Peak crystallization?" At this time, the leader of the hooded black-robed man also changed his expression when he saw Moria and Renne, and shouted.

Obviously, he did not expect that following two wizards in the late stage of second-level liquefaction, he would actually bump into two high-level wizards at the peak of third-level crystallization.

However, as one of the three plague messengers, Galxi was also at the peak of crystallization, so the battle broke out suddenly.

"Curse of the Plaguebringer!" Galxi immediately cast the spell.

"Whoosh!" With a wave of the bone staff in his hand, five black mists the size of millstones came towards the five Rennes!

However, when the black mist entered the light green witch formation in the center of the room, its speed immediately slowed down. However, it seemed that due to the influence of the black mist, the green leaves in the center of the witch formation also dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Too arrogant!" Moria quickly used

And Ren also raised his right hand, and a silver metal ring appeared in front of him, flying towards the man in black robe opposite him with a whoosh.

It seemed that he sensed the extraordinary power of Ren's witchcraft. The leader, Galxi, shouted "get out of the way". The two men in black robes reacted quite quickly, but there were still two others. , but it was a beat slower.

Perhaps, they thought that with the black spiral shield-shaped defensive witchcraft protection, there should be no serious problems.

But just listen to 'Chi! ' With a sound, the two people's black whirlpools were penetrated instantly as if they didn't exist. Of course, their bodies were not immune.

"ah!!!"

The two men in black robes felt the severe pain in their waists and abdomens, glanced down in disbelief, then trembled and screamed.

"Plop! Plop!"

The sound of two heavy objects falling to the ground was heard, and two half-body bodies fell to the ground. However, the strong vitality prevented the two people from dying immediately, but continued to struggle and howl miserably.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the scene, whether friend or foe, looked at Renn in shock.

It seems to be saying that the power of this silver metal ring is too great, right?

As for the Plaguebringer Galxi, his heart suddenly sank!

Because of the strength of his two subordinates, he knew best, not to mention that before entering the door, both of them used the third-level defense against the witchcraft 'Shadow Guardian'.

But even so, it couldn't block the opponent's silver metal ring even for a second!

No wonder, as soon as he saw the silver metal ring cast by the young man, alarm bells rang in his heart.

Just when everyone was amazed by the power of Ren's witchcraft, suddenly, a man in black robe who hid behind the wall heard another scream.

at the same time.

The wall chirped, and a horizontal crack opened. The silver metal ring suddenly passed through, and returned to Ren's body again.

"Hiss~"

This scene immediately made everyone in the school, including Moria, take a breath.

The power and flexibility of this witchcraft are incredible!

The key is that such a difficult witchcraft needs to be practiced until it is almost instantaneous.

"Damn it!" Galxi felt angry when he saw this scene.

In just two seconds, the witchcraft performed by Ryan instantly killed three of the elite members of the cult he brought with him, leaving only him and another person.

However, he did not think he would lose, because their Plague Cult was not good at single witchcraft, but group witchcraft and curses.

"Plague Cloud!"

The skull on the top of the bone staff in Gershi's hand exploded, and in an instant, a dark green fog with a diameter of several meters appeared out of thin air and quickly floated towards the location of the Bixiu Construction School.

The fog was extremely powerful. Along the way, it directly corroded most of the already dim light green witch formation, and then continued to fly towards everyone.

"Get out of the way!" Moria shouted and immediately dodged sideways.

He knew very well that some of the evil spells of the Plague Cult were range attacks, and they were extremely vicious and difficult to deal with. Once hit, it might not be fatal immediately, but it would fall into an extremely passive situation.

"Sizzle!"

The dark green fog was extremely corrosive and toxic. Although it did not hit Ryan and his men, it corroded a hole several meters in diameter in the wall of the room at the other end after it reached the end of the room.

You know, the room here is like a crane arm extending out of the air, hanging directly above the platform below.

In the past six months, everyone in the school had been operating carefully in the room, but the strong fluctuations of witchcraft energy during the battle had already caused a commotion among hundreds of stone palate monsters below.

Even the huge stone palate monster chieftain, who was originally half-closed his eyes and leaning against the entrance railing, opened a pair of fierce yellow-brown vertical pupils at this time and looked at the room more than ten meters high.

For a moment, thousands of pairs of vertical pupils focused in the air!

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