"This is...... Teacher's breath! ”

Almost the moment Catherine's words came out, a system prompt flashed in Zhu Lin's head.

"System prompt: Player 'Riel Olander' completes the side quest 'Shadow of the Shadow', and the task reward: Free Talent Points X1~"

The condition for the completion of this side quest is to find the whereabouts of Catherine's missing teacher, and now that Catherine feels the breath of the other party, it naturally lets the system judge that the task is complete.

Completing the task so easily and starting with a little free talent point also made Zhu Lin unconsciously mutter, after all, this was too easy to complete, and unconsciously made him feel a little ominous premonition.

However, Catherine couldn't think of these at all, after all, in her opinion, her teacher was likely to have died with the enemy in the battle three days ago, but now she actually felt the breath of the other party, which means that the probability that he is still alive is quite high, for Catherine, of course, there is nothing more gratifying news than this, so Zhu Lin, who was also ignoring the strange face on the side, took a step towards the position where the breath came from.

Zhu Lin, who seemed to have thought of something, also kept up with Catherine's footsteps with a bad face, and at the same time, all kinds of thoughts in his head quickly became active.

(The curse of the demon king is theoretically basically ineffective for magicians, as long as it is broken down with its own magic power when it is infected with alien magic, but there are no absolutes in everything, and there are precedents for magicians to be infected with the curse of the demon king, well, I hope I am wrong, otherwise, there will be a tough battle to fight next...... ）

Relying on the gain of magic, Zhu Lin and the others quickly approached the destination, but the closer they got to the destination, the more ugly the faces of the two became, because whether it was Zhu Lin or Catherine, both of them felt a sense of oppression and ominous aura, especially above the heads of the two, a large dark cloud covered the entire sky, covering the sun with nothing, with that ominous aura, there was really an indescribable taste.

Just when Zhu Lin's head was spinning with various thoughts, Catherine suddenly shouted in surprise.

"Teacher, are you really okay? That's great! ”

At the same time that Catherine shouted these words, Zhu Lin also saw a figure not far away.

It was a back figure wearing a set of black robes, observed from behind, Teacher Catherine's physique was not tall, and the slightly rickety back matched with a head of gray hair made the figure look very old, and without even turning his head, Zhu Lin had already automatically made up the other party's appearance, it must be a white-bearded old man with a wrinkled face.

Hearing Catherine's voice, the old man, who had his back to the two, moved his shoulders slightly, and then an old voice sounded slowly.

"Is it Catherine? Hehe, it seems that there is a strange little friend who I haven't seen before, because I haven't gone back for too long, so I came to find me? It's been a hard work......"

Although Catherine did not say what she meant, the old man had already guessed the truth according to her character, and when she heard the familiar voice, Catherine involuntarily approached him.

"Yes, teacher, you have been missing for three whole days, my father and I are very worried about your safety, since you have nothing to do, why don't you come back? And what about the monster? Have you wiped them out? ”

Catherine had too many questions in her mind that she wanted answers, but the old man did not answer, but raised her head slightly thoughtfully.

"It's almost time, Catherine, and that little friend who came from afar, you are lucky enough to have the opportunity to witness this great moment!"

Catherine, who was confused by the old man's words, was about to ask clearly, but was pulled by Zhu Lin, who had already noticed something on the side, with a dark face, and at the moment when Catherine's puzzled gaze came, Zhu Lin stretched out his hand and pointed to the top of the heads of the two.

Catherine followed Zhu Lin's finger and cast her gaze, only to see that between a large thick dark cloud, there was a black vortex hidden, because the color was very close to the color of the dark clouds, so Catherine ignored the existence of this black vortex just now.

However, in just a few minutes, several black breaths flew from all directions again, and all of these black breaths were concentrated in the sky above Teacher Catherine's head, where they twisted into a huge black vortex.

The ominous aura that the two of them had felt before came from this, and seeing this thing that was far beyond her own knowledge could explain, Catherine's face also became strange, and it was obvious that she had begun to sense that something was wrong.

"Teacher, what the hell is this thing ......?"

As a result, the old man did not answer Catherine's question, but slowly turned his back to the body of the two, although the magician can use magic to sense, but the magic around the old man was very chaotic before, neither Catherine nor Zhu Lin could see the old man's face, until he turned around at this moment and calmly showed his face in front of the two of them.

“！”

As Zhu Lin's initial guess, Catherine's teacher was an old man with white hair and wrinkles, but at this moment, the other party's old face was divided by the bridge of the nose, turning into two strange halves, and the left half of the face was still human, but the entire right side of the old man's face had been densely covered with a layer of fine black scales, and even the entire right eye was constantly releasing ominous blood-colored light.

"Teacher...... You're ......"

didn't care about the rather ugly look on Zhu Lin's face and Catherine's appearance that she was almost speechless from shock, the old man smiled at the two of them very calmly, but because of the terrifying right cheek, the originally kind smile became extremely hideous and terrifying.

"As you two can see, I have been completely dead in the past, and now I am about to welcome the power of the great Demon King Digacresse to usher in a new life, and you are lucky enough to be in time for this grand moment......

With that, the old man stretched out his hands to the sky with a frenzied face.

“…… Thy most faithful servant, Lord Digarex, petition thee again to show thy great strength and grant thy humble servant a perfect new life!! ”

With the lines spoken by the old man, the black whirlpool gathered above his head also spun wildly at the same time, and countless black thunderbolts continued to converge and explode in the center of the whirlpool.

The situation in front of him is obvious.,Catherine's teacher was fighting with the monster.,Although he successfully killed the monster.,But he was also seriously injured because of it.,Originally, with his strength, he could resist the curse of the demon king.,But because of the serious injury, his resistance was minimized.,So he was infected by the curse.,It's like this.。

As for the current change, Zhu Lin has also heard a little, Digarex's curse can greatly strengthen the strength of that individual by aggregating the amount of power on the body of multiple infected people into one individual, the official scientific name of this curse is called "Crazy Dragon Disease", and the change in front of him is called-

- "Dragonization! ”

In any case, Catherine's teacher can't be allowed to complete the dragonization, otherwise things will be in trouble!

Thinking like this, Zhu Lin wanted to stop it as soon as possible, but before the explosive fireball that was thrown out of the sky didn't even have time to touch the old man, it was swallowed up by the black mist gathered around him, and at this time, the black vortex in the sky exploded completely, and the overwhelming black mist rushed towards the old man in one breath, engulfing his body in an instant.

“…… Uh-oh-oh-oh!! ”

Between the rolling black mist, the old man's groans of pain were constantly heard, but with this series of bitter cries, some strange changes began to occur.

The old man's rickety body gradually became straighter, his gray hair began to gradually turn black, and the original wrinkled skin began to gradually tighten, before Zhu Lin could see all these changes more realistically, the gathered black mist burst out in one breath, and Zhu Lin, who realized that the situation was wrong, could only quickly grab Catherine beside him, and quickly retreated a large distance with her.

Just when the two of them were just standing still, the tumbling black mist suddenly converged towards the center, and in just a few breaths, it was completely absorbed and swallowed by a figure in the center of the black qi.

That person should be Catherine's teacher, but the original old man's face was about to die, but now he completely changed into a tall man who looked no more than thirty years old, and the appearance of the two of them before, only from the slight lines between his eyebrows and eyes, this man was the old man just now.

This scene of rejuvenation and rejuvenation is also Zhu Lin secretly frightened, he really couldn't imagine that the curse of the demon king still has such a use, and obviously, even the man who used the power of the curse to restore the young man was also overjoyed at this moment.

"It's successful, the power of the Demon King is really strong, youthful, and a young body that has not been seen for a long time, this feels ...... That's great! ”

The man seemed to have fallen into a state of extreme madness, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, and repeating the words "young" and "youth" in his mouth, until Catherine came back to her senses and called out his name again, and he stopped his crazy movements.

"What the hell is going on? Teacher, what exactly are you doing? ”

The question that was taken for granted was answered more naturally.

"What are you doing? Isn't this kind of thing understandable by looking at it? How about spreading the curse of the Demon King, and then sucking the power from the unlucky bastard infected with the curse to help me regain my youth? You don't need to bother to study mantras, you don't need to get up early and meditate at night, you just need a little means to gain such an amazing amount of power, it's really a good deal, right? Catherine, you are my proudest disciple, and the teacher is willing to share this strength with you! ”

Hearing this, the girl's whole body trembled, and she had roughly understood the meaning of the other party's words just now.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in this method of gaining power by harming innocent people, and I don't want to be the same kind of demon!"

Word by word, expressing his own determination, but not wanting to listen to Catherine's words, the man showed a disdainful smile on the spot.

"Sure enough, it's exactly the same answer I thought, then there's no way, you see my secret, if you let it be revealed, it will be troublesome to recruit people from the Mage Association, so, today...... You two must stay here! ”

After saying this, the magic power around the man's body instantly began to activate, and at the same time, the smile on his face became even brighter.

"So, let me show you how powerful I am when I have obtained the power of the Demon King!! ……