Chapter 24: The Wizard's Path I
It was getting dark, and at this rate, it would be completely dark in another hour or two.
However, the Steel Shield camp was bright at this time.
The city wall from the mouth of the gourd to the steel shield camp was about a hundred meters, and at this time this hundred meters completely turned into a sea of fire, the light of the fire lit up half of the sky, and the smell of meat and the smell of burnt hair mixed together, emitting a disgusting smell that filled the space.
Mu Yan leaned against the edge of the back section of the city wall, slightly tired.
He stayed on the walls all afternoon, his only job was to wait for the Grand Commander's orders, then shoot a rain of burning arrows downwards, and then continue waiting.
It's not a lot of work, it's easy.
Although his archery skills are as bad as his marksmanship, and every arrow he shoots can always shoot to a place he can't imagine, but it doesn't matter, he just shoots the arrow.
Even if there is a raging sea of fire in front of him, the wolves will not be afraid to fill it, so wherever his arrows go, they will shoot at the wolves, and then the raging flames will quickly spread to other wolves, and then to more wolves.
The wailing of pain has not stopped since the afternoon, and Mu Yan's head is a little swollen when he hears it.
Countless wolves poured in from the mouth of the gourd, rushing to the burning slaughterhouse one after another, even though they knew that there was no way back, but none of the wolves flinched (the retreating ones had already been trampled to death by the wolves behind in front of the mouth of the gourd).
From the shock at the beginning to the calm to the numbness, in Mu Yan's eyes, these wolves with crazy eyes seemed to have turned into firewood that was constantly being put into the fire, and there was no other use than to make the fire burn bigger.
The firelight is beautiful because it is a flame that is lit with life, and the firelight is also deadly because it is a flame that consumes life.
It's a big funeral, and the wolves are the ones who light its fireworks.
Mu Yan rubbed his head, this was not physical tiredness, but mental exhaustion, there were miserable images in his eyes and screams in his ears, which made him a little at a loss.
This is not to say that he has any affection for the wolves, he has always had only a deep hatred for these wolves that he chased and almost died, and in his eyes, these things are not too much to die.
Just watching these fresh lives rolling in the flames, listening to the screams gradually disappearing, and personally participating in this one-sided massacre, he inevitably felt a little unspeakable and inexplicable anger in his heart.
On the high platform of the city gate, the Grand Commander looked at the sky, and then at the wolves who had stopped attacking and were about to retreat, and said to Havemer on the side: "How are you preparing?" ”
"Almost!" Havemer's hand rested on his wand as if sensing something.
"Well, give them a parting gift!"
After saying that, the commander turned around and walked down the high platform, the big hammer on his shoulder, swaying and swinging.
Havemer nodded, a sneer on his lips, and pulled out the wand from his waist and inserted it into a groove in a stone pillar in front of him, as if it had been specially designed for this wand, and the wand was inserted just right, revealing only the dark green crystals that swirled and twisted at the top of the wand.
The awkward incantation came out of Harveymer's mouth, and the tone froze, and the dark green crystals gradually lit up.
Mu Yan's eyes widened violently as he leaned against the wall, and a familiar and unfamiliar power appeared in his perception with the sound of the spell.
"This ...... Is this also perception? ”
"...... no! It's not just perception! Perception is only part of this force! Mu Yan's eyes lit up brighter and brighter, "...... I see! I see! ”
Havemer's spell was like a finger piercing a window, lighting up the path ahead for Mu Yan, who was struggling in the dark.
It turned out that he couldn't move the elements, not because he didn't know the point, but because he was wrong from the starting point.
In fact, every wizard apprentice will naturally awaken this ability when they awaken their talents, which they call "spiritual power".
Even if there is no one to guide them, many apprentices can master this power after a few explorations, which is not a difficult task in itself, at most it can be regarded as the excavation of their own talents.
And Mu Yan has not been able to master this power for a long time, on the one hand, it is due to the lack of basic knowledge of wizard power, and secondly, because the first two times he slept in the dark space and habitually used perception to explore the surrounding environment, so after awakening, he was still accustomed to using this method to perceive the surrounding elements.
In fact, this is not wrong, every caster who wants to perceive the surrounding elements will use this method to perceive, but perception is only a part of the "spiritual power", it can feel the elements, but it does not have the ability to move the elements, and if you want to move the elements, you can only use mental power to solve it.
Spiritual power actually existed for Mu Yan, but one aspect of the power he had been using had not been fully used, and now after Havimer's "break", he immediately found the true way to use it.
But he didn't choose to try now, with Havemer by his side, since he could sense Havemer's mental power, then Havemer could also sense his mental power, and he didn't want to attract Havemer's attention too much right now.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Mu Yan moved his gaze in the direction of Havimer.
The dark green crystals were already fully lit, and the light continued to extend downward along the strange patterns on the stone pillars, and soon the entire stone pillars were lit up.
Havimer pulled a red hedron out of his pocket, a look of pain on his face, and pressed it against the top of the staff with a gritted tooth.
Upon contact with the glowing dark green crystals, the color of the red crystals gradually darkened at a rate visible to the naked eye, eventually turning into a grayish-white patch with no luster.
Then Mu Yan seemed to feel something, and suddenly turned his head in the direction of the mountain wall.
I saw that on the uneven mountain wall, strange runes lit up one after another, or twisted, or smooth lines extended rapidly, and soon surrounded the entire gourd mouth and the city wall!
The boar people actually turned this space into a huge magic circle!
The surging power overflowed from the circle, and the raging flames in the field were gradually crumpled together as if controlled by an invisible hand, and squeezed together with the charred wolf corpses to the mouth of the gourd.
The fireball is getting thicker and smaller.
Then in the frightened gaze of all the wolves outside the mouth of the gourd, a pillar of fire burst out of it!
Looking over the plain, a line of fire cut through the Kuroshio in an instant, and screams continued to be heard everywhere it went, and then quickly disappeared, and it was a full ten seconds before the line of fire was submerged by the Kuroshio again.
The mouth of the gourd was calm again, as fresh and clean as ever, except that the mountain wall was a little darker, and the rest of the place was no different from usual.
"Let's go, go to sleep, this smells so bad......" Cora patted Mu Yan on the shoulder and walked down the city wall first.
"Just leave it alone?" Mu Yan turned his head in surprise.
In his opinion, the night is a good time to raid, take advantage of this time to put a fire or two in the wolf pack, those monsters will definitely be happy to help them clean up these wolves who don't pay attention to forest fire awareness.
"What do you think the wolves have been doing these days?" As if knowing what Mu Yan was thinking, Cora replied angrily, "Those monsters around have already been driven away, otherwise you think these guys dare to appear here so swaggeringly, wolves have no wisdom, but it doesn't mean that werewolves are also stupid, not to mention that there is a wolf witch this time." ”
"Wolf witch?" Mu Yan got up and quickly followed Cora's pace, "What's that?" ”
"What's that?" Cora glanced at him, "You know how werewolves evolved. ”
"Isn't it a wolf?"
"Yes, a common wolf, to be exact!"
"Ordinary wolves?" Mu Yan paused, "You mean...... Shadow Wolf?! ”
"That's right, ordinary wolves evolve into werewolves, and shadow wolves evolve into wolf witches! The shadow wolf, which has a certain degree of control among ordinary wolves, also has a certain amount of control over werewolves after evolving into a wolf witch, so it can be said that the wolf witch has a supreme position in the wolf clan. ”
"And just like an ordinary wolf will awaken a talent when it evolves into a werewolf, a shadow wolf will also have an awakening process when it evolves into a wolf witch, but what they awaken is not a talent, but the manipulation of shadows in the bloodline!" Speaking of this, Cora's face was faintly ugly, "In a blessed environment like the Shadow Forest, the power of shadow witchcraft can almost be magnified by two to three times!" ”
Like a basin of cold water poured down from his head, Mu Yan's face froze, and the laxity brought about by the slaughter in the afternoon was instantly extinguished, he finally knew why the battle situation was so good but no one dared to relax, and there was such a big enemy who had not yet shown his fangs!
"Then it's ...... compared to Harveymer"
"Havemer?" Korra snorted, "He's something!" Not to mention him, even if it is our human race, we can't come up with a few existences that can independently fight against the wolf witch! ”
Mu Yan gritted his teeth, didn't say anything, and followed Cora straight to the Ten Thousand Food Hall, the already unattainable power in his eyes suddenly became vulnerable, which made him a little unacceptable, but he didn't think too much, these things were too far away from him, and besides, there was a tall man on top of the sky falling, now solve dinner first.
After dinner, Mu Yan went to the city wall again, a few scattered boar people on the city wall are still guarding with dedication, it is estimated that it is because of the game some time ago, seeing that Mu Yan also greeted him very warmly, Mu Yan also responded with a smile, although he estimated that these wild boar warriors did not remember his name for a long time, but it didn't matter, now this place only has two relationships: their own people and enemies, and everyone does not count so much if they are their own people.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the plain outside the gourd mouth was green again, but it was not the green of the grass, but the light of a pair of green eyes!
The wolf clan, which was supposed to be the best at nocturnal activities, was now lying on the grass and did not dare to act rashly, and everyone had already expected this scene.
Although the surrounding monsters have been driven away, but look at the fire in the afternoon, you can feel the light and heat from afar, attack at this time, don't let the wild boar people burn the jade and set fire again, if it is seen by a passing monster, then this war will not have to be fought.
It's better that the boar people are protected by the city wall, these wolves who stay on the lawn without shelter can only be slaughtered at that time, and in front of these monsters, the number alone is far from enough!