This is the most basic spell of the undead system, called Soul Eater, this mist condenses into skeletons, which does not cause any physical damage, but consumes the souls of enemies. If this basic spell is practiced to the peak, it can be obtained in the world with such a move, but the skeleton conjured up by this magic apprentice is illusory, even a little pale, and at most it can make people dizzy.

Although Adi is not a magician, he is a master of magic, and there are tens of thousands of insightful research notes on various departments of magic in the "Magic Data Edition of the Royal Library" treasured in the memory bank of the Magic Emperor.

"Don't panic, two magicians, these are mercenaries introduced by Cady, the owner of the Snow Mountain Monster Bar, and I just had a little allergic reaction. ”

The two magic apprentices looked a little better at this time, the taller ones put away their magic staffs, and the other one also dispersed the soul eater. They each sat down with a cold snort.

Prince Robin suddenly had a thought: "Although these two magic apprentices are not very good, they have a lot of experience in actual combat, and they all say that the strength of the Skull and Bones Society is much inferior to that of the Silver Moon Holy Order and the Gem Church based in Yanjing, which may not be true." I've never heard of the Skeletons going over to any of the forces in the Empire, and if they can be used by me, it will be a great help for me to restore my country. ”

Prince Robin understands that he is in an embarrassing situation now, and he really has no qualifications to recruit this magic sect, and even these two magic apprentices who don't know if they have a chance to advance to the real magician may not be willing to take refuge in the end of his life. So the thought was just a thought, and then it was extinguished. But the seeds of Yu Wang were deeply buried.

Prince Robin's military power is completely outnumbered by his brother Hakon, and if he wants to seek stronger support, he can only target the magical sect. However, the three major magic sects in the empire never intervene in political disputes, and it will be very difficult for Prince Robin to win over the Skull and Bones Society, and it is extremely difficult to have the luxury of success.

The magic apprentice who took out the magic staff just now said in a very soft tone: "Mr. Shabak, don't call us magicians, we are only two magic apprentices, and we are still a long way from a qualified magician. If only you could call us Raymond and Lafite. ”

Without waiting for Shabak to answer, he turned to Prince Robin and said, "Hello brave mercenaries, I am Raymond, and this is Raffi, my fellow disciple who worshipped with me in the Skull and Bones Society. We're going to go through a trial to find the remains of ancient monsters, but we can't protect ourselves in the dangerous environment of the tundra plateau, we need some safe companions, are you willing to accept this job?"

Raymond was a young man in his early twenties, of medium height, except for a somewhat pale face, which was the skin color peculiar to undead magicians, and looked more like a clerk or something. Rafi is a little younger than Raymond, about the same age as Adi, but with a more arrogant look, looking much more difficult than Raymond.

Prince Robin smiled reluctantly and said, "We are willing to accept this job." I'm Robin Hood, and I'm my deputy, Adi, and a few other people are my men. ”

Raymond looked at this mixed mercenary group with some doubts, he didn't expect that the bar owner Cardy actually introduced such a miscellaneous team, there were actually three women among the nine people, even though Raymond thought he was generous, he couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

As a last resort, Raymond asked implicitly: "Uncle Cady is my family's family friend, since he introduced your mercenary group to me, he must be trustworthy." However, he said that your mercenary group only has five people, and it is not very convenient for us to have it, and we will not increase the remuneration because of the increase in numbers. Do you want to leave some people in Yorktown?"

Prince Robin hadn't thought of this question just now, and couldn't find a suitable answer for a while.

Adi said quietly: "We have just negotiated the merger with another mercenary group, and it just so happens that they have a job to go to the tundra plateau to find dragon scale grass, anyway, it won't delay your business, so we plan to go together." You don't have to worry about increasing the fee, our Green Forest Mercenary Group is still very credit-conscious. ”

The red-haired female swordsman Melissa heard that Adi had merged her dragon and flame mercenary group into the Green Forest mercenary group without authorization, and her anger immediately rose, and she was about to stand up and reason with Adi, the girl named Na Xiaobai waved her hand lightly and gave her a subtle hint. Although Na Xiaobai didn't know how to fight, Melissa believed in her wisdom very much, so she held back her anger and took a step back, wanting to wait for no one to ask Na Xiaobai to understand why she didn't turn against Adi, the guy who openly swallowed up their strength.

"Oh!" Raymond nodded lightly and said, "I see, the search for the Dragonscale Grass does not conflict with our purpose, and we can indeed go together." He smiled and said, "Anyway, we're just wandering around the tundra plateau without a goal, and maybe we'll be lucky to have other things." ””

Although Raymond was only an apprentice in magic, he spoke very well, so much so that Adi became liking. However, Rafite, who had never spoken, immediately snorted coldly when Raymond's voice fell: "Raymond, we still have one more thing to forget, that is, we haven't tested the strength of these mercenaries, if they are silver wax spearheads at all, our trip will be very dangerous." ”

Raymond smiled apologetically at Prince Robin and said, "Although Rafite's words are a bit rude, but this is also a necessary procedure, we would like to know your ability, in the next few days, in case of danger, we can cooperate with each other." ”

Prince Robin was very unhappy, no one had ever dared to doubt his strength since he was a child, and these two magic apprentices dared to question this aspect? There were three rank players in his team, (Prince Robin didn't know that Seleuci was also a rank shooter, so he counted one less.) Even if it was enough to help a king and save the queen and princess from the Great Demon King of the World, two little magic apprentices still had so many requirements?

Despite the reasonableness of Raymond and Rafi's request, Prince Robin's face darkened.

Adi coughed and asked for Prince Robin, "I wonder what kind of way the two respected gentlemen plan to test our combat effectiveness?"

Rafi snorted coldly and said, "As long as you can support three snapping fingers under my Soul Eater Technique, you are considered qualified." ”

The Turtle King has always wanted to perform, but he didn't have a chance, and when he heard that as long as he supported three snapping fingers under the Soul Eater Technique, he immediately stepped forward with great joy: "Then I'll come first!"

Raymond gave Raffi a hint with some embarrassment, and he understood that Raffi actually meant it: "As long as one of these mercenaries can support three snaps of fingers under the Soul Eater, they will recognize their strength." "I didn't expect this swarthy teenager to think that everyone wanted to be like this, and he was very worried that Rafe would not be able to get off the stage.

Although Soul Eater is the lowest level of undead spells, it can only exert its true strength in the hands of a formal necromancer, and as a magic apprentice, their Soul Eater can stun people for a while at most, and cannot do substantial damage. Despite this, being able to resist the Soul Eater for a while, as long as they are considered a knight with a fairly good cultivation, this strength is enough to protect them from exploring the tundra plateau. But Rafi's skills were not enough to control such magic, he could only launch three or four soul eaters at most, and he had to rely on meditation to restore his magic, and there was no way to test nine people so many.

However, the words of the turtle chieftain angered Rafe, he didn't think about it, he stretched out his index finger and quickly swiped in the air, and it was a skeleton formed by a mass of black gas condensation, he was enraged, this magic was a little faster than usual, and the power was a little greater, Rafite's ambitious soul devouring technique was sent out, and he could see the turtle chieftain being hit by the black skeleton and turning over and falling. Unexpectedly, Tu Yuan lightly put his hand on it, and crushed this skeleton with condensed magic power lightly, and said with a smile: "Mr. Adi, it's your turn." ”

Rafi's face turned pale, and he couldn't understand why this country-looking boy could crush his Soul Eater at will, which could not be shattered by physical attacks at all, which was something beyond the common sense of magic.

Adi shrugged his shoulders and casually replaced the turtle chieftain, Rafi gritted his teeth, and said secretly in his heart: "Could it be that these people are all freaks? ”

When he unleashed the Soul Eater technique again, Adi shook his long sword lightly, pulled a sword flower the size of a bowl, and an extremely thin faint golden glow flashed on the blade, and the black skeleton's energy was instantly dissolved into nothingness. He only used an ordinary steel long sword, and did not use his own magic lightsaber, so as not to be too shocking, but the seven-colored light and fire fighting spirit of the Sun Elf clan is the best at restraining the spells of the undead system, and the soul devouring technique can only be dim under the light of the sun's true fire.

This is just a small test, and Adi also deliberately restrained the strength of his fighting spirit. But this swordsmanship still made Raymond, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, tremble wildly.

The cultivation of a magician is a long stream, and even ordinary people can have meager magic power after hard work. It's just that it is extremely difficult to accumulate enough magic power, break through that layer of invisible boundaries, and become a real magician, from a magic apprentice to a full-fledged magician is a gradual process, but the magic apprentice of the tenth ** cannot break through the critical point of quantitative change to qualitative change.

At the beginning, Adi was able to emit a "firework" after practicing fire magic hard, but he had no hope of entering the ranks of magicians for the rest of his life. Most magic apprentices are in a much better situation than Adi and can work hard to master a few half-finished magic, but the vast majority of them stop at this level in their lifetime.

But the knight's cultivation is much simpler, and the breakthrough of the fighting spirit is only a matter of a moment. If you can't break through, you won't be able to have even the slightest bit of fighting spirit. As long as there is a seed of vindictiveness, it is only a matter of time before he becomes a regular knight.

Raymond's vision was not enough for him to distinguish the difference between a knight and a shooter, and Adi deliberately suppressed his strength and made him misjudge. But he knew in his heart that he could use his fighting spirit, even if it was very weak, this person was also a future knight, at most, he was not tempered in time.

Although Rafi was inferior to Raymond and couldn't even see the faint light on Adi's sword, he suddenly thought of the only possibility after two consecutive defeats. Thinking of the strength these people possessed, he didn't dare to use the Third Soul Eater Technique no matter what. It was Raymond who made a round and said with a smile: "I didn't expect your strength to be so amazing, it seems that Uncle Cardy takes good care of me and actually helps me find such a powerful warrior." We're in a hurry to go, so there's no need for the quiz below, and I've got a rough idea of what you're capable of. ”

Prince Robin's face looked better and said, "We're ready." ”

Raymond smiled and said a few words to Shabak, the richest man in Yorktown, who immediately had the family drive out six pack horses. The official magicians were all wealthy, but the two magic apprentices had a shabby net worth, and they couldn't even afford to use the means to travel on their behalf, and the six pack horses were only used to transport the remains of ancient magical beasts that might be found. Moreover, these six pack horses are still sponsored by Shabak, and they have not yet been able to afford them.

As an important strategic material, horses are not at all something that ordinary people can raise, even if Shabak, the richest merchant in York Town, has six pack horses that are already the limit of financial resources. He spared no expense to curry favor with Raymond and Rafite.

Prince Robin, Adi, and Li Keli are all good at Soma, and they can all see that Shabak's six horses are not qualified to go to the battlefield at all, and can only be used for hard work. Especially Prince Robin, he has seen many good horses in his life, and he has also raised two magical beasts as mounts, so his vision is extremely high.

He said lightly to Na Xiaobai: "These six horses are too ordinary! But you have no combat effectiveness, unlike us, let's ride a horse." Na Xiaobai smiled sweetly and said, "Then follow Mr. Robin Hood's kindness." ”

Raymond and Raffe, after seeing the strength of this group, did not say much about Prince Robin's behavior of taking possession of a pack horse. After all, these six pack horses have not yet been loaded with goods, and they are walking empty, and they themselves have to ride two horses.

After the group of eleven people left Yorktown, Prince Robin and Adi walked ahead. As mercenaries, they were supposed to find their way ahead. However, they are not familiar with the topography of Lunanxing Province and the permafrost plateau, and it is difficult to find a ferry that can safely cross the Berlusconi glacier.

The north bank of the Berlusconi glacier is hundreds of meters higher than the south bank, but it is not without gentle terrain, and crossing the river is not too much of a problem as long as you can find a gentle place. On the Berlusconi Glacier, there are huge ice blocks floating all year round, and even some sections of the river are completely frozen, and the river water rushes under the ice, and it is definitely not a problem for a few people to walk on the ice that has not melted for hundreds of years.

Before the original Meng Jiu proposal, the barbarian warriors on the tundra plateau often crossed the glacier on foot, and plundered the province of Lunanxing, and this glacier had no effect on stopping it at all.

Prince Robin was helpless about the pathfinder, and he pinned all his hopes on Adi. Fortunately, when Adi drove the Magic Emperor from the northern foothills of the Berlusconi Mountains over the entire mountain range, he used the Sensing Magic Eye to scan a section of the terrain of the Berlusconi Glacier, and vaguely remembered that more than a hundred kilometers to the east, there was a gentle slope, so he took the lead and showed everyone the way.

Although there are four strong combat rank members in the team, there are also physically weak people like Na Xiaobai and the two magic apprentices, who can't travel tirelessly even if they ride horses. Li Keli and Melissa, the red-haired swordswoman, were both unqualified to ride horses, they were just as tired, and in this respect they were not even as good as the two barbarian warriors, they were natives of the tundra plateau, and they had a long endurance for long journeys.

Originally, Melissa wanted to drive them away, but Adi dissuaded her, and only these two barbarian warriors were familiar with the permafrost plateau in this group, so how could such a guide stay.

Na Xiaobai and Raymond tried to invite Seleuci to ride with them several times, and they were worried that the fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl would not be physically exhausted, but it turned out that Seleuci was far more powerful than they thought. This elven girl is a fourth-level elven archer second only to the Earth Turtle King, and her rank is higher than that of Prince Robin, plus the elves are naturally light, if such a journey is walked by Seleuci herself, the time will be shortened by twenty times.

At Adi's suggestion, both the Turtle Chieftain and Seleuci concealed most of their strength, and even Prince Robin only thought that Tu Yuan was a first-level earth ranker, and Seleuci's skills were not bad. Raymond and Raffi are ordinary magic apprentices, and they don't have the eyesight to see through the true skills of these "mercenaries".

In one afternoon, they had only covered more than fifty kilometers, and at Raymond's suggestion, the adventurous party began its first rest.

Li Keli was originally the lowest-ranking person in the team, but now he had two plateau barbarians to send, and he consciously improved his status and transferred the regiment commanded by the two plateau barbarians. These two barbarian warriors were free laborers that Na Xiaobai had deceived by some means, and she was very afraid of this girl who was just reading books, so she didn't dare to resist Li Keli's exploitation of their labor.

As a bonfire was lit and everyone sat together, Na Xiaobai asked with some curiosity, "Mr. Raymond, why are you looking for the remains of ancient demonic beasts?"

Raymond smiled and said, "A spell that Rafe and I practiced needed something more strange like this. ”

Raymond made it clear that he didn't want to continue the topic, although Na Xiaobai wanted to ask more details, but Rafe snorted coldly and stopped her, and said lightly: "You ordinary people don't understand the matter of our magicians, and it's useless to ask." ”

Na Xiaobai frowned slightly, a little dissatisfied with Rafi's arrogance, but she also knew that what she asked might be a little excessive, so she smiled and moved on to another topic.

Adi watched coldly, he was a magician. After obtaining the soul binding of the Hades Emperor, the young man also has the qualification of an undead magician. Although Adi didn't have the heart to master the undead magic for the time being, he still knew a lot about the undead spells, and from Raymond's answer, he had already analyzed what they were going to do.

These two magic apprentices must have completed the study of summoning skeletons in the introductory spell of the undead department, and wanted to find materials to summon skeleton soldiers. Summoning Skeletons and Soul Eater are both introductory spells to undead magic, and the higher the quality of the bones that can be collected, the stronger the first skeleton soldier will be.

Most of the apprentices of the Sect of the Undead, after learning this spell, will look for the bones of some ancient warriors to complete this spell, this time the bones of ancient warriors are hard, if you are lucky, you can still remember the one and a half moves before death, which is naturally much more powerful than ordinary skeleton soldiers. But Raymond and Raffi are obviously more ambitious, and they want the bones of ancient demonic beasts as substitutes, and the skeleton beasts summoned in this way must be more powerful than the skeleton soldiers summoned by ordinary human skeletons.

The first skeleton soldier will be the most powerful combat power of the undead mage in a long time.

An undead scholar who has just been promoted to a mage, if he has a slightly inferior qualification, he will not be able to have a second skeleton creature for ten years, and they simply do not have enough magic to support the fight of more than two undead creatures. This is true for all formal magicians, let alone magic apprentices, and with only one skeleton guard, two magic apprentices can't be too cautious.

However, Adi is not optimistic about their plan to find the remains of ancient demonic beasts, the stronger the life, the stronger the soul after death, once it is summoned, and the summoner's mana is not too strong, it is easy to make these undead soldiers with no surname go berserk.

In some knightly novels, an evil undead master can summon a mountain of skeletons with a single call, which is entirely an artistic process. A necromancer of that level only exists in fiction at all, and if there really was such a powerful necromancer, the humans on the entire Ice Continent would have died a long time ago. Skeleton soldiers are not consumables at all, but need to be cultivated and strengthened over many years to become reliable helpers.

In fact, even the Hades Emperor of Adi can only summon a maximum of 7,000 skeleton soldiers, which is only equivalent to an ordinary human army at most, and he is completely unable to crisscross the continent and kill to the point of a river of blood. You must know that every skeleton soldier is the lifeblood of an undead mage, and it will take a long time to cultivate after being summoned before you can go from a skeleton of bones that can be scattered at the touch of a touch to a flexible undead warrior.

There are no undead magicians willing to put into battle the skeleton soldiers who have just been summoned and awakened and have not yet been strengthened.