Chapter 1376: Stone Wilderness
Elovis, Stone Wilderness.
Between the Venlo River and the Sidrak Mountains, there is an empty wilderness of about twenty square kilometers.
For some reason, you don't see towering pine-like forests, green meadows and shrubs. On the contrary, there are strange broken rocks of all sizes, completely different shapes, everywhere.
These blue-gray, hard-textured gravel rocks filled the wilderness, and there were no other creatures or plants.
Towards mid-afternoon, a small convoy slowly passed down a narrow road carved out of the middle of the wilderness. The convoy was small, consisting of only four wagons, three of which were loaded with various food and miscellaneous items, while the remaining carriage belonged to the Wizard of Ragus.
The convoy forked a trail in the middle of the stone wilderness, and the road was a bit bumpy, and the wagons were occasionally damaged by hitting rubble half-buried in the dirt. Fortunately, the mercenaries escorting the convoy are experts at survival in the wild, and it is easy to repair and replace a broken wheel.
Eventually, the convoy came to a halt near a pile of rubble.
Jack, the leader of the mercenaries, cautiously came to the black carriage in the center of the convoy, knocked lightly on the carriage, and whispered: "Lord Raghu, the stone wilderness has arrived!"
Immediately, a low, hoarse male voice came from the carriage.
"Got it, wait for ......"
Jack immediately stepped aside respectfully and waited silently.
Half an hour had passed, and the Raghu wizard had finished his routine meditation before he got out of the carriage and stood on the wheel of the carriage and looked around at the strange stone wilderness in front of him.
Quietly sensing the concentration of magic here, he swiped with one hand, drawing a strange witchcraft rune out of thin air, and then let it slowly dissipate into the air.
In the blink of an eye, a hazy halo of multicolored light appeared in front of Wizard Raghu's eyes. The halo is the size of a human head, and there are a variety of ever-changing magical fluorescents floating in it.
Even if there is no elemental vision, it can be clearly seen that the yellow in the halo occupies most of the area, squeezing the rest of the colors to the edges.
"Sure enough, there is something out of balance...... To be able to allow the earth elemental to suppress the particles of other elements to such an extent, it seems that the family's speculation is correct, and there are indeed some tiny spatial rifts here. The earth elemental is so active, could it be that this spatial rift leads directly to the earth elemental realm?" muttered to himself as he checked the results of the witchcraft test.
Except for one wizard in the team, the others were mortals, all of whom he had hired to take care of their lives.
There is no way, I am used to living a noble life in the Witch Tower, once I leave the Witch Tower and travel outside, there will always be all kinds of discomfort and troubles. In the past, if Wizard Raghu chose to travel, he would be accompanied by two or three apprentices, and he could better take care of and serve him.
But now the family is short of manpower, and all the wizards and apprentices have been assigned a large number of tasks, rushing through the central part of the continent. Therefore, he can only hire mortal mercenaries to solve some travel troubles for him.
Hiding far away, watching the slender and tall wizard in a beautiful witch robe silently casting spells, all the mortal mercenaries had a look of envy and awe in their eyes.
In the world they live in, the wizard is the true master of the world. And they are just a bunch of poor creatures crawling in front of wizards struggling to survive.
It was precisely because they knew their identity and status that these human mercenaries were respectful in front of this Raghu wizard. If you get a little closer, you don't even dare to come out, lest your rudeness and lowliness disturb the wizard's spell casting.
After determining the purpose of his trip, Wizard Raghu turned to Jack, who was waiting not far away, and whispered, "Let's set up a small camp here! After saying this, Raghu looked up at the sky, and continued: "It's still early, you let others be busy here, you can bring a few people with me to see the situation here......"
After that, he no longer paid attention to the mercenary leader, turned around and activated the flying technique on his belt, and his whole body slowly floated under the support of the breeze, and flew quickly towards a place in the distance.
"Hurry, hurry...... You slackers, who didn't hear the wizard's orders, hurry down from the carriage for me and clean up the place. When I come back, if you haven't set up camp yet, you won't want to eat tonight......" Jack, who was stout and covered with scars and stranded flesh, shouted loudly, turning his head and calling the names of several mercenaries: "Thor, Iron Head, One-Eyed...... You three come with me, remember to bring your tools......!
The chickens and dogs jumped and took all the tools, and the four of them flew on their horses, whipped their horses and whipped towards the small black dot in the distant sky.
Wizard Ragu floated in the air ten meters above the ground, holding a translucent black crystal ball in his hand. Every time he flew a distance, he would cast a spell to verify the concentration of free magic energy in the space, so as to determine the specific location of the weak point in the space.
After changing direction four or five times in succession, Wizard Raghu finally lowered his body beside a pile of rubble. When the black crystal ball in his hand pointed at the pile of rocks, a strange spot of earthy yellow light suddenly lit up in the center of the sphere.
"It should be here!"
Wizard Raghu circled around the pile of rubble, and after making sure there was no deviation, there was no other action. After only a short wait, Jack arrived in a hurry with three other mercenaries, all of whom were carrying tools such as shovels, crowbars, and axes and chisels.
"Dig ...... Dig up this pile of rubble for me!"
Without saying a word, let's do it immediately.
In just a quarter of an hour, a large hole was dug into the pile of rocks, about thirty meters in circumference, revealing a strange spot of light the size of a soybean inside.
Spots of light floated slowly in the narrow craters, and wisps of earthy yellow smoke seeped from them. The smoke is quickly absorbed by the surrounding rocks, and it can be seen that the color of the rocks around the light point is deeper and more crystalline, and there is a sense of fullness with sufficient energy.
"Sure enough, it's a super-small spatial singularity......" Seeing this scene, Wizard Raghu drove away from the mercenaries, stepped forward to examine it carefully for a moment, and then took out a piece of parchment and began to brush the bits and pieces of writing and recording them.
However, while he was silently busy, the pile of rubble that had dug a large hole suddenly shook violently, and even the earth began to tremble.
"Hey, how come there are still earth elemental creatures here......" Wizard Raghu took a few steps back, speechless as he looked at the medium-sized earth elemental that was rising from the ground in front of him.
It is a strange humanoid earth element that reaches 3 meters in length, and its body is made of large and small oddly shaped broken rocks, and the earthy yellow sand-like particles can be faintly seen flowing and passing through the rocks.
"Who disturbed my sleep...... I sniffed the scent of a wizard. Why, human wizard, why did you break into Baccarat's home?" the tall earth elemental skull was a broken rock with a broken corner of it, and two yellow halos were its eyes. Although it has no mouth, it can also communicate with Raghu silently with strange spiritual words.
The sudden occurrence of this scene in front of him undoubtedly frightened the four human mercenaries half to death. They hurriedly threw down their tools, drew their swords and axes, and protected the Wizard Raghu behind them, confronting the strange-looking half-stone, half-earth man from afar.
"Baccarat, your name is Baccarat, hehe, I really can't imagine that such a remote and desolate place can have an earth elemental that is full of wisdom...... Looks like there's some research value here, too!" compared to the trembling of the human mercenaries, Wizard Raghu seemed to have a calm expression and a calm attitude.
After all, the earth element in front of him was only a first-order primary earth element in terms of energy level, and it could not pose a substantial threat to him!
"Baccarat, I hereby declare to you that the land you occupy belongs to the Crimson family. And I, as a Crimson wizard, have the power to banish you back to the elemental realm. Tell me, are you self-defeating or are you willing to hand over the mark of life and become my slave?"
"No...... We, the earth elementals, are free and will not accept bondage!Fight, Baccarat is going to shoot you all to death......"
The Raghu Wizard's ultimatum clearly angered the Earth elemental, and it roared and swept up a thick wave of earth towards several people.
Jack and the others could only bite the bullet, holding their swords and holding small wooden round shields and rushing forward.
The two sides are not at the same level of strength at all, and the earth elemental body does not have any weaknesses, nor does it have any defects such as flesh and blood, and it has infinite strength. Just by looking at the face, the small round shields in the hands of the mercenaries were shattered by the stone fists. However, they could only dodge the sweeping attack of the stones, and shout and circle around the earth elemental, but they did not dare to get close to each other.
Knowing that these mercenaries couldn't deal with this earth elemental at all, Wizard Raghu took out a silver badge from his arms and waved it lightly, and a metal magic weapon with a body size of 3 meters immediately appeared in front of him.
With a crunching metallic sound, the metal magic weapon raised its arms high, and shot a meteor-like fireball of energy from the muzzle of the black hole.
Rubble flies, and the earth collapses.
The earth elemental that had been showing off its might before was shattered to pieces by the metal magic weapon in an instant, turning into a pile of rocks and pouring down and scattering all over the ground.
The thin-looking Raghu wizard walked crookedly through the pile of rubble, digging through the many rocks and rubbles for a long time, and finally found a fist-sized stone faintly shining with an earthy yellow light, and simply sealed it and put it in his arms.
It seems that the spatial singularity here has existed for a long time, and over time, it has actually given birth to a first-order strength earth element. Now that you have this earth elemental core, you can take it back and simply process it to make a rock mark, and it's usually quite good to summon an earth element as a slave.
You must know that if this kind of Rank 1 strength rock imprint is sold, it will cost 80 magic crystals to say the least. Although there are not many of them, mosquito legs are also meat!
Unexpectedly, there would be such an unexpected gain from casually going out on a family mission, and a satisfied smile spread across Wizard Raghu's face.