Chapter 851: Xilian City (Three Chapters in One)
When Senior Wizard Julien and Senior Wizard Carnegie forcibly used 'teleportation' to rush towards the outside of the city, before they reached the outside of the city, they saw another white light flickering in front of them, and then a strong sense of oppression came to their faces.
"Eighteenth level high wizard!" Senior Wizard Julien and Senior Wizard Carnegie let out an exclamation in their hearts at the same time, and their bodies couldn't help but pause, and then they were locked by the city's defense array, and a huge force locked them firmly in place.
The seventeenth-level high-level wizards are the main combat power of the wizards of the Central Continent, most of the battle wizards are at this level, while the eighteenth-level high-level wizards are much fewer, and they are generally the small leaders in the wizarding organization.
Although there is only one level of difference, it is extremely difficult to advance at this level, and the eighteenth-level high-level wizard can be said to be the real backbone among wizards.
The sixteenth-level high-level wizard is the preparatory battle wizard in the various wizarding organizations, and its status is too far from the eighteenth-level high-level wizard.
It is precisely because of this that the horror in the hearts of Senior Wizard Julien and Senior Wizard Carnegie when they perceive the eighteenth-level Senior Wizard can be imagined.
You must know that in normal times, they would not be like this, but the 'Soul Light' rose outside the city, and a high-level wizard died outside the city, in this case, how could they not be afraid when they encountered an eighteenth-level high-level wizard who was enough to kill them.
That eighteenth-level senior wizard was none other than Senior Godwin, and he had no time to pay attention to the two wizards at this time, all he knew in his heart was to hurry up and go to the teleportation circle and leave here early.
He originally didn't dare to return to Onnux City, but he found that Abel didn't set out to chase him, and because his right hand was broken, although he took the potion, his strength was greatly reduced, and he would only be safe if he returned to Frost City immediately.
So he 'teleported' to Onnu City, completely ignoring the city's defense array, this level of defense array had no effect on him, even locking oppression could not suppress him.
He almost suddenly appeared from the side of the two high-ranking wizards, and then suddenly disappeared.
It's just that in less than half a second, the two wizards have seen the tragic situation of Senior Wizard Godwin, and their hearts can't help but be full of horror.
Who injured the eighteenth-level high-level wizard like this, could it be Abel?
The two wizards couldn't help but glance at each other, and their eyes were secretly glad that if they had a conflict with Abel in the City Lord's Mansion just now, then the consequences were really unimaginable.
Maybe for ordinary people, the right hand being cut off only affects life, but for a wizard, the disappearance of the right hand is not as simple as affecting life.
Wizards begin to practice right-handed spell casting from the beginning of learning spells, and after becoming a full-fledged wizard, they will learn to cast spells with their left hand after they have a combat heritage, but in most cases, the right hand draws spell patterns much faster than the left hand, unless the opponent is left-handed.
The loss of the right hand will cause the wizard to lose half of his combat power, and combat wizards are generally accustomed to casting spells with both hands, so as to save their lives in complex combat environments.
But after losing a hand, you basically say goodbye to the career of a battle wizard, even if you become an alchemist or a magic circle master, it will be difficult to get started because of the loss of your important right hand.
Of course, the loss of the right hand is not impossible to make up, the dwarves have mechanical hands that can make prosthetic limbs, and the priests can also use other people's arms in other ways.
But either way, it is impossible to form combat effectiveness without decades of recovery, and it is basically impossible to fully recover combat effectiveness, and no matter what kind of prosthesis, it cannot be compared with your own arm that is truly flexible.
Watching the eighteenth-level high-level wizard disappear, Senior Wizard Julien and Senior Wizard Carnegie breathed a sigh of relief.
It was already very unlucky to be oppressed by the city defense array in the city, and at this time, it was even more unlucky to see an eighteenth-level high-level wizard who was fleeing for his life, and he could kill them with just one blow.
The two high-level wizards raised their momentum and mobilized their spiritual power, and only then did they barely have the ability to activate 'teleportation' from the oppression of the defensive array.
Of course, this is because Onniu City is a small city, and the power of its defensive array is not strong, if it wasn't for the sudden appearance of Godwin's senior wizards just now, then they would not have been suppressed.
In just a few seconds, the two of their high-level wizards had already arrived outside the city, and they felt a sense of relief on their bodies, and it was really uncomfortable to rush out against the defensive array.
"Could that eighteenth-level senior wizard just now kill Wizard Abel?" asked Senior Wizard Julien in a deep voice.
Although he also knew that the senior wizard of Carnegie did not know the result, he couldn't help but say the idea.
"Probably not, looking at the appearance of the eighteenth-level high-level wizard chasing his life, someone should be chasing him!" The high-level wizard of Carnegie shook his head and replied.
"Let's take a look!" said Senior Wizard Julien, looking in the direction of the 'Soul Fire'.
"Go and see!" replied the senior Carnegie wizard.
In fact, the two senior wizards are emboldening each other, and the appearance of the 'soul fire' means that a senior wizard has died, in this case, the next is to see if there is any gain, and the second is to know whether it is the Abel wizard who died.
Soon the two high-level wizards came to the place of the 'soul fire', and at a glance they saw the corpse of the high-level wizard of Marsin who fell to the ground, although they didn't know it, but the wizard badge on their chest could clearly tell their rank.
"It's not Wizard Abel, it's a seventeenth-level high-level wizard, I don't know who killed it?" Senior Wizard Julien stepped forward to look through the corpse, found no gains, and said with some disappointment.
"Didn't you notice? This High Wizard is very similar to the robes of the escaped High Wizard, it must be the same organization!" said the High Wizard Carnegie, pointing to the robes on the corpse.
"That's true!" said Senior Wizard Julien as well as at the corpse, then recalling the robes of Senior Wizard Godwin.
Two high-level wizards, one eighteenth-level high-level wizard and one seventeenth-level high-level wizard, this kind of strength is actually one death and one injury in this small city, which is too terrifying.
"Let's go back to the city to see if Wizard Abel is there, I have a guess if Wizard Abel killed them!" Senior Wizard Carnegie said in a deep voice.
He instinctively thought of the situation where Abel cast a lightning high-level spell, and he needed to determine if Abel had done all this, and if so, then he had to report to the Burning Valley to prevent the organization from making a wrong decision.
"This can't be done by Wizard Abel, I guess Wizard Abel is still in the City Lord's Mansion at this time!" Senior Wizard Julien shook his head and said.
High Wizard Carnegie didn't say anything more, and he immediately 'teleported' in the direction of the city gate.
Senior Wizard Julien looked around, and a creepy feeling rose in his heart, the person who had killed a seventeenth-level high-level wizard and wounded an eighteenth-level high-level wizard and fled might still be here.
Thinking of this, he also used 'teleportation' to teleport towards the city gate.
When they arrived at the city gate, their two high-ranking wizards did not use 'teleportation' anymore, but directly asked the minotaur guarding the city to prepare two good horses and rode into the city.
When he came to the City Lord's Mansion, the housekeeper of the City Lord's Mansion hurriedly came out to greet him.
"Butler, is Wizard Abel in the mansion?" asked Senior Wizard Julien hurriedly.
"Lord Wizard, Lord City and Lord Abel have gone out of the city together!" replied the butler's voice a little frightened.
At this time, many people in Onniu City saw the 'soul light', and the steward already had a bad feeling in his heart when he saw two high-ranking wizards come to inquire about the city lord.
"How long have you been gone?" asked the Carnegie High Wizard.
"Just half an hour ago!" replied the butler, after a moment's thought.
The senior wizard of Carnegie had already determined that the seventeenth-level high-level wizard who died outside the city should be related to Abel, and the timing coincided, but he couldn't understand how Able could hurt the eighteenth-level high-level wizard.
You must know that if you want to injure an eighteenth-level high-level wizard, just breaking through the defense of an eighteenth-level high-level wizard is a troublesome matter.
What he didn't know was that in order to set a trap to lure Abel into the 'Trapped Dragon Array', he didn't dare to bless himself with defensive spells, in fact, he also thought that there was no need to bless, because once Abel entered the 'Trapped Dragon Array', with Abel's sixteenth-level strength, he would not have the power to fight back at all.
Who knew that as soon as Abel started his hand, thousands of crossbow arrows attacked like a storm, and the crossbow arrows were generally only used on the battlefield, not for ordinary battles.
And the same is true of the resentful High Wizard of Massin, because to hide himself, he also did not cast defensive spells, of course, if he was confident that he could ensure his own safety.
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The death of the lord of the city, Viscount Ebenezer, made Abel not want to return to Onnyu, so he summoned Baiyun, checked the purchased map, and flew towards the nearest big city, Helian.
And soon after, the carriage of the city lord Viscount Ebenezer was discovered, and the broken body of Viscount Ebenezer was also found, which should have been a big deal, and the Stan Empire should have sent someone to investigate it in detail.
However, at the same time, a seventeenth-level high-level wizard also died not far away, which made the Stan Empire extinguish the idea of inquiring about the reason, even if it was a viscount city lord who died.
The status of Viscount Ebenezer is noble, but it is only noble among ordinary people, and the life and death of a viscount is really insignificant for the battle between high-level wizards.
And the two wizarding organizations in the Land of Ice Mist and the Burning Valley also received reports from Senior Wizard Julien and Senior Wizard Carnegie, and immediately conducted an investigation through the intelligence system, and finally determined the cause of the incident.
It is precisely because of knowing what happened that these two organizations have also raised Abel's status a lot, from a newcomer senior wizard in the subcontinent who can be recruited, to a real combat wizard with strong combat power.
Battle Wizard is the Central Continent's general name for wizards who specialize in killing evil knights, because the evil knights are extremely strong in combat and have a strong restraint on wizards, so wizards who can fight evil knights are called battle wizards.
And the average battle wizard is a level seventeen or above high-level wizard, like Abel, killing a level seventeen battle wizard and injuring an eighteenth level battle wizard is also considered by the two wizarding organizations to be like this.
Later, various wizarding organizations that wanted to recruit Abel also appeared in Onniu City, but due to Abel's departure, these wizarding organizations did not even see him in person, so they left in disappointment.
It looked like a short distance on the map, but it allowed Bai Yun to use the teleportation ability to fly for two hours, which was already an extremely long distance, and when he saw Xilian City, it was already dark.
Not knowing if the hunt from the Icewind clan was continuing, Able took out a hooded robe from Wallaya's Ring and put it on his body, covering his head.
Then he took the rune grammar staff 'Leaf' in his hand to show that he was a wizard, and put away the white cloud in a hidden place outside the city gate, and walked slowly towards the city gate.
The guards at the gates of Helian City are also orcs, but they are the most powerful bears among the orcs, with a height of more than three meters and a body of nearly two meters wide, reflecting their terrifying strength.
At the gates there was a group of ten bearmen, armed with heavy weapons such as giant axes, watching everyone who entered and exited the gates, or orcs.
Yes, when Abel walked to the city gate, he had already noticed that this city was very different from the previous city of Onny, there were people of various races who entered and exited the city gate, and its huge gate showed that the city was much larger than the city of Onny.
Although it was getting late, there were still a lot of people entering and exiting the city gates, and the city did not seem to have a fee for entering and exiting the city gates, so there was no congestion, and of course the passage for the nobles still existed.
Abel walked directly to the passage of the Honorable One, and there were almost no people walking like him in the passage, almost all of them were riding mounts or carriages.
The bear-man guarding the door just glanced at him, paused for a second on the staff in his hand, and said nothing.
This kind of thing is very common for a wizard to hide his identity, and the bears don't want to bother a wizard, as long as the wizard doesn't make trouble here.
At the city gate, Abel called a carriage waiting to solicit business at the city gate.
"Coachman, I need to exchange powerstones for some gold, do you know where to get them?" said Abel to the coachman who was casting an inquiring glance at him as he got into the car.
He only had powerstones in his hand, and he didn't have the gold coins of the Central Continent, which was very inconvenient, and as soon as he came to this big city, he thought of exchanging some gold coins that were common to the Central Continent.
"My lord, most of the shops are closed by this time, and only the auction house is open, and everything is accepted there!" replied the coachman.
"Okay, then send me to the auction house!" Abel commanded.
Except for the light of the street lamps, most of the shops on both sides of the road were closed, and the carriage traveled along the road for about ten minutes until it came to a building.
"My lord, the auction house has arrived!" said the coachman, outside the carriage.
"Wait for me here!" Abel said to the coachman, jumping out of the carriage.
The coachman bowed respectfully, did not speak, and sat back on the wheels of the carriage.
Able pushed the door open, and then the door rang with a 'ding' sound.
This auction house seems to be very large-scale, and the lighting uses the extravagant lighting method of lighting the magic circle, you must know that the lighting circle is activated by magic stones in the absence of magic towers.
This shows how rich this auction house is, and how luxurious it is, which gives Abel some confidence in the strength of this auction house, and perhaps this is the result that the auction house needs to show to the guests who enter.
"Lord Wizard, welcome to the Moses Auction House, is there anything we can do to help you?" a middle-aged man in a gorgeous robe walked over and glanced at the staff in Abel's hand, then bowed and saluted.
Although the middle-aged man's demeanor was very decent, Abel still saw at a glance that he was not a nobleman, at least not a inheritance nobleman, and his etiquette was deliberately learning from the nobleman, but he exposed himself from the subtle finger movements.
"I need to exchange this for some gold!" Abel casually took out an intermediate powerstone and handed it over.
Seeing that Abel took out an intermediate powerstone, a trace of disappointment flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes, but he still took the middle-grade powerstone and carefully observed the light.
The middle-aged man is the manager of this auction house, and the reason why he personally received Abel was because he saw the staff in Abel's hand and knew that Abel was a wizard, and he thought that there would be some big business, but who knew that it was just an intermediate powerstone.
Although an intermediate powerstone is already a good item, for the Moses auction house, a medium-grade powerstone is really not a big business.
"Master Wizard, this is an intermediate powerstone, and the standard exchange price is to exchange an intermediate powerstone for 10,000 gold coins!" the middle-aged man looked at Abel and said.
Abel knows very well that although an intermediate powerstone is generally said to exchange 10,000 gold coins for an intermediate powerstone, in fact, if you want to buy an intermediate powerstone for 10,000 gold coins, no one will sell it.
It's just that what he's short of now is gold coins, so he nodded.
"Do you want to give you gold coins, or do you want to transfer money to your magic card?" the middle-aged man asked, putting away the intermediate magic stone.
Although Abel didn't know what the magic card was, he could guess that it should be an item similar to the magic gold card.
"Give me the gold!" replied Abel.
He came here to exchange for gold coins, and besides, he didn't have a magic card if he wanted to transfer money.
"Wizard, wait a minute!" the middle-aged man turned around and entered the room, and soon he walked out with two attendants, who carried a box in front of Abel.
Abel swept his mental power and found that there were exactly 10,000 gold coins inside, and casually put them into the space bag on his waist.
"Do you have alchemical materials for sale at your Moses Auction House?" Abel then asked.
"Lord Wizard, my name is Golden Lake, I am the manager of the Moses Auction House Helian City Branch, our Moses Auction House is the largest auction house in the Stan Empire, and there are branches in major cities in the Empire, if we don't have what you need here, we can also transfer goods to various branches of the Empire, as long as it takes a day or two, it can be ready for you!" Kim Lake replied with a smile on his face.
At this time, the smile on his face was much thicker than at the beginning, you must know that each piece of alchemy materials is very expensive, and it is definitely a big business to be able to make a business of alchemy materials.
"I need these materials!" Abel took out a piece of parchment and quickly wrote out the names of a bunch of materials on it, many of which were substitutes, these materials were 'soul nourishing potions' and 'gecko potions'.
There are two formulas for 'Soul Nourishing Elixir' and 'Gecko Elixir', one is the original formula and the other is the improved formula.
This is also one of the few master-level formulas that can improve the strength of alchemists now, even if he asks the elves to help collect them in the Holy Continent, he has not received many materials for the improved formula, let alone the materials for the original formula.
Just now, Abel saw that this auction house actually used the lighting circle used by wizards in the Holy Continent, and he had some trust in the strength of Moses' auction house, so he wrote a bunch of material names.
"José Alchemist, please!" Jin Laike took the parchment, and there was a blank look on his face, he had never even heard of many of the material names here, so he shouted to the attendants on the side.
"Wizard, please wait in the VIP room!" he said, turning around and bowing to Abel with a lame handbow.
Abel didn't point out the mistake of etiquette, and followed him to the VIP room, where coffee was soon served by an attendant.
He didn't touch coffee, and as his strength grew stronger, he became more and more attentive to food, and coffee, a drink that had an effect on his spirit, he would not normally drink.
An old man with a gray beard walked in, his expression was a little arrogant, and Able could clearly see the alchemist badge on his chest, which was an intermediate alchemist badge.
"Jinlaike, what did you call me for? I still have to refine potions over there?" The old man was José's alchemist, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he complained that Jinlaike had disturbed his work.
"José Alchemist, do you have any materials on this list?" Jin Lake, who seemed to be accustomed to José's alchemist attitude, handed over the parchment in his hand with a smile.
José alchemist reluctantly took the parchment, glanced at Abel with a hood and couldn't see his face clearly, and then looked at the parchment in his hand.
His expression slowly changed from reluctance at first to amazement, and finally to extreme horror.
"Master Wizard, are you an alchemist?" asked José Alchemist in a respectful tone.
"José Alchemist, is there anything wrong with the materials I want?" Abel said in a deep voice.
Although he didn't answer directly, José Alchemist immediately knew the meaning of his words.
"Master Wizard, are you a high-level alchemist?" asked José alchemist next.
"Is it possible to verify the identity of the materials purchased at the Moses Auction House?" Abel asked in displeasure.
"I'm sorry, Lord Wizard, you wait a moment while I talk to José Alchemist!" Jin Lake said busily as he pulled José Alchemist aside.
"José Alchemist, what's wrong with you, it's against the rules of the Moses Auction House for you to ask like this!" Jin Lake said in a deep voice.
"Jin Lake, don't you know, most of the materials here are materials that must be handled and used by high-level alchemists, and even ordinary high-level alchemists are difficult to handle some of these materials, what does this mean, do you know?" said José alchemist excitedly.
"What do you mean?" asked Kinglake, puzzled.
If it is a business, he is very powerful, and the fact that he can manage this auction house shows this, but it is not his specialty to let him know about the alchemist.
"If these materials are used by this wizard master himself, then this wizard master is at least at the peak level of a high-level alchemist, or higher!" José alchemist said in a deep voice.
Jin Lake's mouth opened wide, no matter how he didn't understand, he knew what a high-level alchemist represented, and it could be a higher level.
"José Alchemist, do we have this material at the Moses Auction House?" Jin Lake was also a little excited, befriending a senior alchemist was a very important matter for the auction house, he asked hurriedly.
Because there are many varieties of alchemist materials, only alchemists can distinguish them, so what alchemy materials are in the warehouse, if Jin Lake wants to check it himself, he has to rummage through the accounts and compare them one by one, and José alchemist can directly judge how many of them have materials in the warehouse.
"Don't look at it, it's impossible to have the materials in Xilian City, you can only go to the headquarters to transfer the goods, you must know that the value of these materials is extremely high, but the users are very few!" replied José Alchemist.
"Master Wizard, I need a day or two to verify the materials you need before I can get back to you, these materials are very precious, are you sure you have enough money to buy them?"
Abel certainly knows how precious the materials here are, because most of them have harsh growing conditions.
"I will stay in Xilian City for two days, please rest assured in terms of financial resources!" Abel said with a wave of his hand, and thousands of intermediate powerstones suddenly appeared on the table in front of him, and then quickly disappeared.
"Don't worry, you can come over tomorrow afternoon, and I'll give you accurate news!" Jin Laike's eyes flashed at the pile of intermediate powerstones that had just suddenly appeared, and he was stunned for a moment before continuing.
Abel was sent out of the Moses Auction House by the enthusiastic Golden Lake, and José Alchemist was not in a hurry about his alchemy work, and also came to see Abel together.
"Master Wizard, are you a high-level alchemist?" asked José alchemist softly after Abel boarded the carriage and chased after him.
Abel thought for a moment, and the mental power control transformation necklace suppressed the aura of the alchemy pattern in the body to the extent that it was a high-level alchemist, and it spread out of the body.
"Coachman, find me a good hotel!" Abel instructed the coachman.
José Alchemist stared at the departing carriage, although he guessed that Abel was a high-level alchemist, but after really feeling the breath of the high-level alchemy pattern, he was still stunned.
Alchemist is a profession that is rare for human beings, no matter which continent it is, and high-level alchemists are even rarer to the point that there is only one in the entire Stan Empire, and that high-level alchemist is also a royal worship, and he does not refine potions at all.
How did Abel know that the high-level alchemists in the Central Continent would be so rare, if he knew that he would not leak the aura of a high-level alchemist, the most important reason why he leaked the aura of a high-level alchemist was to let Moses Auction House rest assured that he would find alchemy materials for him.
In fact, alchemists are also very rare in the Holy Continent, but when Abel came into contact with alchemists, he was the elven clan with the most alchemists, and rarely had contact with human alchemists, so he didn't feel the rarity of alchemists at all.
Arriving at a very nice inn, Abel stayed, and he didn't think that his unintentional leaking aura would have much effect on him.
"José Alchemist, what did you just say to that wizard?" Jin Laike couldn't help but ask when he saw José Alchemist standing there in a daze after saying a word to Abel.
"Golden Lake, that wizard is a high-level alchemist!" José alchemist said as he came back to his senses.
"José alchemist, are you sure?" asked Kinglake.
"Of course, it's certain that he has just revealed the aura of a high-level alchemy pattern, and anything can be faked, but that aura is impossible to fake, I didn't expect that I would see a high-level alchemist with my own eyes!" José Alchemist nodded affirmatively and said, he was like a crazy fan at this time.
"I'm going to report to headquarters, I'm going to report this now!" said Kinglake with an excited look on his face.
He was different from José's crazy attitude, he just knew what it meant to be a high-level alchemist, and how much benefit he would get as a hero if he could tie this high-level alchemist to the Moses auction house.