After holding the book next to him, Rod flipped through it, and after confirming the contents of the book, Rod put it down.

This book, like the previous one, contains a lot of knowledge about spells, but the difference is that the knowledge recorded in this book is more superficial. Although the whole book is full of all kinds of knowledge, in terms of the importance of knowledge, it is not at all comparable to the original one.

If the content recorded in the original book corresponds to the intermediate four-system magic, this one has only reached the elementary level. There are still no spells in the book.

At this point, Rhodes realizes that the mayor's spells should have a special book to record them, and that book should be carried by the mayor.

Mayor Mare obviously won't leave the magic book that contains all his spells here, and if Rhodes didn't choose to attack the mayor after entering the mansion, but instead looted items inside the mansion, once the magic book was found by Rod, the mayor would undoubtedly have his hole cards completely exposed.

As for the other books, although they contain a lot of magical knowledge, these are only the most basic in spells, and they are only of great help to apprentices, and they will not be of much use to powerful necromancers.

Mayor Mare couldn't carry all these magic books with him, and even if they were found by Rod, it wouldn't matter. Therefore, the mayor of the town left the books here.

Setting the book aside, Rhodes picked up the mayor's manuscript from the table and began to look through it.

The manuscript contains some of the mayor's understandings and thoughts on various spells, similar to those recorded in the previous books, but more chaotic, and the mayor apparently wrote down what he had learned here in advance, sorted it out, and then copied it into the spell book.

Rhodes put down the manuscript in his hand and rummaged under the desk to make sure there were no hidden compartments, and then looked at the bookshelf behind him.

Rod went to the bookshelf behind him, took a book from it, and began to flip through it quickly. After taking a few glances and confirming the type of books, Rhodes sorted the books and put them on the table.

The books on the shelves were taken down by Rhodes one by one and placed on the table, but there were also quite a few books that Rhodes put back into the shelves after flipping through them.

After sorting out all the books on the shelves, at this time, there were many books on the table in front of Rod, and Rod's was divided into several stacks according to their types.

Among them, the largest stack, these books are about the same style, but the contents of them are completely different.

Rhodes divided the books into a stack because they were the same magic books used by the rest of the necromancer's apprentices.

The spells recorded in these spellbooks were very chaotic, and Rhodes looked at them carefully, and from the previous records of the spell books, they belonged to different apprentices, and most of them were from the same magic school.

Rhodes realized that there was only one reason why these magic books from different apprentices were able to appear in the mayor's study, and that was that their owners had died at the hands of the mayor for some reason.

After learning the magic described in the book, the mayor put the magic books on the bookshelf like trophies.

Since each apprentice has different spells, Mayor Mare learns their spells after killing them. Because of this, the mayor is able to master the chaos of magic.

Rhodes flipped the magic books to the back, and the places where the magic should have been recorded were torn off, leaving only a broken gap.

At this time, Rhodes took a few more magic books, flipped to the back of the books, and found that they were all like this, with different numbers of pages torn off from the back. Therefore, for the remaining magic books in this stack, Rhodes did not try again.

Rod realized that since the mayor of the town knew that leaving spells would leave flaws, he dared to put these magic books here, obviously not afraid that Rod would learn spells through these magic books. Therefore, in these magic books, there are no spells except for some basic knowledge.

Realizing that he couldn't learn magic from the mayor, Rod sighed.

Rod picked up another stack of books and began to read them.

The book was written by the mayor himself, and it chronicles the life of the mayor. Mayor Mare took the book very seriously and placed it in a separate section of the shelf.

According to the records in the book, the mayor was originally just an apprentice of the Necromancy Academy, because he got a low-level bone vine after an encounter, and after his strength reached the second order, he applied to the academy to come here, and cultivated the bone vine while practicing spells.

Rhodes read the book carefully. According to what is written in the book, the mayor has been in the town for many years, and has dealt with many such apprentice attacks before that.

Due to the presence of the bone vines, the mayor of the town was able to survive every attack, and even killed the apprentices who came to get their magic books.

One of the most dangerous of these is dealing with an apprentice who has mastered the Dafa of Disguise, and the book details the battle between the mayor and the mayor.

The apprentice relied on the disguise Dafa to enter the mansion and came to the mayor's side, but because he did not master powerful spells, when he was close to the mayor, he only released a few magic arrows, which failed to kill the mayor, but only seriously injured him, and was finally killed by the mayor's control of the skeleton warrior.

In addition, there were many battles with other apprentices, and it was the mayor who survived in the end.

In the last few pages of the book, Mayor Mare writes down a lot of speculation about the possible future war, as well as some of the Mayor's thoughts.

After reading the book, Rhodes also knew a lot about the life of the mayor.

It's a pity that the mayor's body has been destroyed by the bone vine, if it weren't for this, with these revenant crystals in his hands, Rhodes would be able to make it into a higher-level undead creature.

At this time, only the last of the books that Rhodes had taken from the shelves had not been read by Rhodes.

Rhodes picked up the book, also written by the mayor himself, and recorded some of the habits of the bone vines.

The book is more about the mistakes made by the mayor when cultivating the bone vine, as well as some possible experience, and does not record the weakness of the bone vine at all, and the assessment of its combat ability.

After reading the book, Rhodes had read all the books he had taken out earlier.

There were still quite a few books on the shelves, they were all pure sorcery knowledge, and the importance of knowledge varied, and for Rod, these books were of little use.

Rhodes continued to search the study, trying to find some hidden mechanisms, but was unable to do so.

Walking out the door, Rhodes continued to look for the next room.

Reaching a corner on the second floor, Rhodes entered an unlocked room.

There was a smell of blood in the room, but it had dissipated quite a bit by this time. There were dark red blood stains everywhere in the room, and there were many utensils used to dispose of corpses on the tables around them.

Looking at the environment in this room, Rhodes knew that this should be the main location where the mayor of the town creates undead creatures.

At this time, in Rhodes's perception, the death energy in the room was relatively strong, although it was not as good as the position where the bone vine was, but it was much better than the other positions in the mansion.

Rhodes was engrossed in perceiving the sources of death energy around him, and according to the guidance of his perception, Rhodes came to the center of the room and took out a revenant crystal from a dark compartment under his feet.

Compared to the Revenant Crystal in Rhodes's Space Ring, the Revenant Crystal in Rhodes' hand is not too big, and even the Revenant Crystal in the Vampire Tomb is not comparable, and it can only be said that it can barely provide death energy.

Rhodes put the Revenant Crystal into the spatial ring and continued to explore the room, but found nothing valuable, so Rod had to leave the room.

After continuing his search on the second floor, and having the ghost slam the locked door open again, Rhodes made his way to the mayor's living room.

Entering the room, Rhodes rummaged around, scrutinizing all the places around him that could place items.

In the wardrobe, except for a few black robes, there were no other styles of clothing, and the mayor obviously did not redress himself.

Rhodes opened the locker next to him, and there were a lot of gold coins inside, as well as a few gems, the surface of which was glittering in the light of the fire.

Rhodes put the belongings in the spatial ring and continued to rummage, only to find nothing.

None of the treasures that Rhodes hoped for were found in the room. If it's a treasure that can be used in battle, the mayor will obviously carry them with him.

After realizing this, Rod didn't look carefully, there were still a few rooms on the second floor of the mansion, Rod quickly opened them to check, and sensed that there were no high-value items, and Rod directly withdrew from them.

At this time, Rod had already explored the interior of the mansion, except for some belongings, Rod did not get anything, and some simple gold coins were not of much use to Rod at this time.

Since the mansion had been searched, Rhodes did not continue to stay, but held the torch in his hand and began to set the entire mansion on fire.

The location of the bone vine is downstairs, but in order to make the entire mansion burn, Rod first set the second floor on fire, and on the way, every room that Rhodes searched before, Rod entered it and set fire to the items in it.

Rod walked down the stairs, and the flames burned down the stairs all the way to the first floor.

After going down to the first floor, Rhodes was still the same as before, and set fire to all the rooms he had been to before.

After Rhodes had done this, flames lit up throughout the mansion, and the flames grew fierce.

Arriving at the door of the room where the bone vine was, Rhodes did not try to enter the room, but only thought about setting the surrounding items on fire.

Rhodes knew that the bone vine had recovered a lot of strength after devouring the mayor, and the previously severed rattan had also recovered, and if he rashly entered the room in order to light the flames, he would likely be attacked by the rattan.

Just as the torch in Rod's hand was about to touch the door, Rod sensed the danger.

At this time, in Rod's sight, a rattan struck at his speed, and Rod hurriedly dodged.

Rod stepped back a distance, and even though Rod was a little far from the room at this time, the rattan still called Rhodes.

Rhodes took out his sword from the space rank and faced the rattan that struck. But rattan ignored the weapon in Rod's hand, and directly wrapped himself around the torch in Rod's hand.

The rattan quickly pulled the torch and retreated, and when the rattan contracted, the huge force generated made Rhodes unstable, and Rod had to let go.

The rattan pulled the torch into the room, extinguishing it with a few blows.

At this point, Rod realized that the rattan had significantly increased in length compared to before.

Although the strength of the bone vine has improved, it has not caused a qualitative change in the overall strength of the bone vine. Having lost the mayor's spell and facing Rod's strategy of igniting the mansion, the bone vine still had little to do with the surrounding flames.

Although the torch in Rod's hand was taken away by the bone vine, due to the flames everywhere around, the bone vine's behavior was only a death struggle.

Rod came to the rear not far away, where it had already begun to burn.

With the help of the flames on the ground, Rhodes re-lit a torch and returned to its original position, setting the ground on fire.

Although there was still some distance from the room where the bone vine was, Rhodes didn't care, because the entire mansion would be burning, and the flames would naturally be close to the location of the bone vine at that time.

Then, Rod retreated. By the time Rhodes arrived at the gate of the mansion, the interior of the mansion was already filled with flames.

The flames turned the entire mansion red, and when he searched the interior of the room, Rhodes deliberately opened all the windows inside the room, and at this time, when he exited the mansion, Rhodes did not forget to leave the door of the mansion open.

Rhodes' actions caused the flames to burn rapidly, and thick smoke rose from the inside of the mansion, like the original black clouds.

It would take some time to burn down the entire mansion, so Rhodes didn't care about the inside of the mansion for the time being, but walked towards the corpse of the previous necromancer.

At this time, outside the mansion, the black clouds in the sky completely dispersed, and Rhodes crossed the courtyard where the battle had been fought and saw the corpse of the necromancer not far away.

Rhodes went over to the necromancer's body and began searching for his belongings.

After rummaging through the rummaging, Rhodes found a magic book and retrieved a number of gold coins from the necromancer's pocket, as well as a high-quality Revenant Crystal. In addition, Rhodes also found a pendant that exuded death energy from the necromancer's body.

Rhodes put the gold coin and the Revenant Crystal into the spatial ring, then took the pendant in his hand and began to examine it.

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【Dark Shelter】

Quality: Treasure

Type: Pendant

Equipment Requirements: The user is a cemetery rank

Basic Attributes: Unleash a black cloud that will reduce the creature's field of vision, weakening perception to a certain extent. The envelope range depends on the user's strength. The number of uses is 1 day/time.

Comments: Over the years, a powerful necromancer has tried to simplify the tedious steps of creating a dark canopy, and judging by this treasure, he has made some progress.

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