Chapter 1: The Devil in the Woods

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The sunset sinks weakly into the distant mountains, and the golden afterglow shines through the layers of branches and leaves, sprinkling a few spots of light in the forest. A few uninvited guests are slowly advancing through the inaccessible Gultius Mountains.

A large hand swept away the tangled vines in front of him, and then a tall figure strode out. He shouted in a loud voice: "It's really unlucky, the old guys in the academy actually chose such a ghost place as an internship task. โ€

Behind him, three more figures walked out one after another, wearing a mage robe, and Ellie, who was holding a magic staff, also frowned, "Senior Kane is right, what is not good, but I want to come to this deep mountain and old forest." Moreover, those few wandering low-level demon clans are only witnessed by a few villagers, what if they end up busy in vain?"

Bruce, who was dressed as a warrior, poked another youth with his elbow and asked, "Dick, what do you think?"

The young man named Dick looked like another mage in the team, and he scratched his brown hair with his hand, "The territory of the demon clan is located in the southwestern part of the Miro Empire, and there is a distance between it and the Gulitius Mountains, but it is not impossible that a few low-level demons who entered the human realm to raid have lost their way and are trapped in the mountains. โ€

"Haha, the whole academy belongs to you the most learned, you said that it is possible, it is really possible, it seems that our luck is not too bad. โ€

Dick smiled.

After following the direction of the villagers who witnessed it, it gradually became dark. A few apprentices set up tents in a dry, flat place. Ellie casually released a fireball and lit a pile of firewood, and the group gathered around facing the fire with their backs to their tents. While nibbling on the dry food he carried, he chatted without saying a word, enjoying the silence of the night.

"I heard that the demon clan is all blood-red, with two horns on their heads and wings on their backs, and they are very evil and powerful, we ...... Can you beat them?" Ellie asked, hesitating for a moment, frowning.

Dick immediately smiled and said, "What you said is a high-level demon in hell, it is unlikely to exist in our plane, and most of them are only found in religious legends. And if you think about it, the Karimodan continent is full of hundreds of races, since the beginning of history, the battle between the human race and the alien race has never stopped, and all countries have a large army stationed on the border with the foreign race, how can the really powerful demon race get in? What we have to face this time is just one or two miscellaneous ones. โ€

"I'm relieved of that," Ellie patted her chest.

Dick continued, "However, even though the Terrans have a strong alchemy and magical civilization, and are blessed by the God of War, they usually have the upper hand in wars with foreign races. But there are too many alien races, as far as our Miro Empire is concerned, except for the western border with the Faun Empire and the Xiuth Empire, all other directions are alien. There are demons in the southwest, orcs in the south, undead in the north, and Sirens in the Rees Sea in the east. We can hold off the alien armies, but it is inevitable that there will be countless low-level alien invasions and raids every year. โ€

Kane immediately shouted again: "The glory of the god of war is with me! Lao Tzu's ideal is to join the army, kill all the invading alien races, and establish meritorious deeds on the battlefield!"

The rest of the people didn't bother to pay attention to this guy who was carried away by chivalry.

Bruce then asked, "And how strong are these demon clans we are about to face, don't send us a mission to die, old fellows." โ€

"They should all be junior demons, which are equivalent to third- and fourth-level magic apprentices or trainee warriors of the human race. โ€

According to the practice of the Karimodan Continent, magicians are divided into five levels according to their strength, namely: magic apprentice, magician, archmage, magister, and archmage, each of which is divided into nine levels. The division of warrior strength is also not far apart, it is also a fifth-order strength, the names are trainee samurai, warrior, high-level warrior, knight, dragon knight, and each level is also divided into nine levels.

Of course, this division is only for ordinary people. The Holy Demon Master above the Great Magister, the Sword Saint and the Paladin above the Dragon Knight, each have their own understanding of Liliang, and ordinary people can only understand it in depth except for knowing that this kind of strength is called the Holy Realm and cannot be divided into nine levels.

Bruce breathed a sigh of relief, "That's fine, it's up to me to get rid of those demons." โ€

Among the four, Kane's fifth-level trainee samurai is the strongest, and Bruce and Ellie are also fourth-level trainee warriors and magic apprentices respectively, but Dick's strength is low, only a third-level magic apprentice.

Bruce suddenly smiled and asked, "Hey, Dick, how do you know so much?" โ€

Dick smiled and said, "Haha, I'm just idle and bored and love to read, the academy's big library has all the knowledge you want, but you haven't looked for it." โ€

"And what books do you read?"

"Common sense of the mainland, historical civilization, and some art of war. โ€

"The Art of War?" Bruce laughed, "That's something Kane likes, Mo Fei Dick, do you plan to join the army after graduation?"

Dick shrugged, "Who knows, it's just my interest." โ€

At this time, Kane opened his mouth, yawned widely, and said with his eyes half-open and half-closed: "It's so late, isn't it time to go to bed?"

Dick said, "Sleep, I'm in good spirits, let me be the first to keep vigil." โ€

"Alright then, wake me up when it's time. Bruce confessed and slipped into the tent.

Seeing that his companions had all gone to rest one by one, Dick sat alone by the campfire, his eyes twinkling.

The night became quieter.

Early the next morning, the small group set off again. In the reckless mountains, the branches and leaves marched.

The Gultius Mountains stretched for hundreds of miles, like a giant dragon lying in the southwest of the Miro Empire. On the more southwestern side of the dragon is the Twelve Provinces of the Mirรณ Empire, which is a plain. And it is the front line of the war between the army of the Miro Empire and the demon clan. The standard of living of the people living in this region was undoubtedly the worst in the entire empire. Because there are no natural hazards, they are ready to face the raids of aliens who sneak across the border. It would be even worse if the Empire's armies were not fighting well on the front lines.

On the other side of the Cylitius Mountains, on the other hand, it was completely prosperous and rich, because of its proximity to the border without fear of raiding, and it was the commercial center of the entire empire. Immediately close to the mountains is the large city of Valquez. The Valkx Academy of Magic Martial Arts, where the four of them studied, is located in the city.

The sun rises high and sets in the west when it reaches its apex. It was already afternoon.

The scorching sun shines through the branches and leaves in the dense forest, and the sun makes people's heads dizzy.

However, the spirit of the four magic apprentices and trainee samurai was not affected in the slightest, for only one reason, after most of the busy day, with Kane and Bruce taking turns to clear the way, Ellie occasionally used the "wings of the wind" to fly high to survey the terrain and Dick's careful observation and identification, they finally found some suspicious traces.

"Haha, hurry up and try to find those damn demons before the sun goes down, I've never seen a demon patriarch look like before!" Kane was the most excited among the four, urging everyone to speed up.

As the group advanced through the forest, there were more and more suspicious traces, and now even without Dick's warning, everyone could spot something unusual around them.

The footprints that clearly did not belong to the beast, the remnants of food with blood left behind, and the stench in the air that had not yet completely dissipated all pointed the way.

The sun had set in the west, as another layer of shrubs was cut open by a sword. Everyone looked at the scene in front of them and held their breath.

Five small, ugly creatures sat together in a clearing in front of them, muttering words that no one could understand.

They are dark red all over their bodies and have a pitch-black tail on their backs. The body is thin and small, but the face is hideous and terrifying, there are two thick and short sharp horns on the forehead, the eyes are blood-red, there is no difference between the eyeballs and the whites of the eyes, a mouthful of sharp teeth grinds from time to time, and at the same time dripping foul-smelling mouth, it makes a sharp sound that makes the scalp tingle.

These demons don't seem to have noticed everyone yet.

"This ...... Is this really just a lowly demon?" Ellie asked, stammering with her teeth.

"What is terrible on the surface is not necessarily really powerful, and truly powerful demons are just like humans. Dick patted Ellie on the shoulder and comforted the girl in the face of such an ugly nightmare-like creature.

Dick continued, "We'll deal with that demon clan first, when we do it later." As he spoke, he pointed to one of the demons.

The demon was nothing else special, the same small stature and hideous face, the only difference was that it held a wooden stick in its right hand, and a necklace made of skulls with a large black pearl at the front of the neck.

"It is a shaman of the demon clan, who can bless his own warriors with skills such as bloodlust and rage in battle. Dick paused, then added, "That is, the equivalent of our Terran magician." โ€

Dick glanced at everyone and said, "Now let's discuss the details of the battle, and once the battle begins, I, Bruce, and Kane will be responsible for the head-to-head confrontation, Ellie, and you will unleash your magic behind us to attack." โ€

"No, Dick, you're a mage too, Weishenme, don't you hide behind?" Kane immediately retorted, and Bruce gave him a puzzled look.

To this, Dick could only smile wryly.

Ellie explained to Dick: "Senior Kane, you don't know, Dick is a dual cultivator of magic and martial arts, and he is a dual mage of time and space. โ€

The time system and the space system are recognized as the strongest two types of magic in the magic world, "time is still", "space crack", "time and space spell" and so on, are all terrifying forbidden spells that open mountains and land and change the color of the wind and clouds.

But this extreme power has also created irreparable drawbacks, time and space are so mysterious, much more profound and complex than elemental magic.

Therefore, the magic of the time system or the space system is not only more difficult to cultivate, but at the same time, the magicians of the two systems also have to face an embarrassing fact - because the strength of the low-level space-time mages is not enough to mobilize the huge liliang of time and space, there is no attack magic in the low-level space-time magic!

In other words, the strength of space-time mages only exists among high-level mages, and the strength of magic apprentice rookies like Dick is not even as strong as that of mages of the same level of the elemental system.

Of course, Ellie knew that now was not the time to explain these magical knowledge to the two warriors, so she only said briefly: "You two just need to understand that Dick's current magic strength is quite weak, so he chooses to use martial arts to make up for his own strength." โ€

"Well, now is not the time to talk about that. Dick said, "Get ready." As he spoke, he drew the sword at his waist.

"Three!"

Ellie's mouth began to chant the incantation softly.

"Two!"

Bruce gripped his sword and untied his shield from his back.

"One!"

Kane removed his two-handed greatsword from behind his back.

"Up!"

With a loud shout, the four of them rushed out of the bushes where they were hiding. Holding the giant sword, Kane took the lead, and with the light of the fighting energy on the giant sword, he rushed straight towards the nearest demon clan.

Dick and Bruce followed closely behind him, and when Kane raised his sword to attack the low-level demons, the two parted tacitly, outflanking the demon shaman who had just been pointed out by Dick. On the way to run,

Dick's lips twitched, silently chanting the time-based auxiliary magic "Time Acceleration". As Zuihou spits out a syllable, everything around slows down.

He saw a demon clan caught off guard, slashed by Kane's greatsword, and green blood "slowly" gushed out and dripped to the ground.

Ellie also completed her spell, and with the rhythm of the wind element, a pair of translucent cyan wind wings slowly condensed behind her back, and with a gentle fanning, her whole body had floated into the air as if it had no weight.

"Wings of the Wind", a very practical magic, whether used for reconnaissance or actual combat.

In the air, Ellie began to chant the incantation again. One fireball after another was summoned by her hand, throwing the demons of Xiangxia.

Suddenly, when the first demon was slain by Kane, the rest of the demons reacted one after another. Screaming and screaming, he launched a counterattack towards the four.

One of them, the demon shaman, had already brandished the wooden stick in his hand. A faint halo of light lit up from the tip of the stick. With a wave of the stick, the halo turned into a reddish ball of light and shot into one of the demons.

Accepting this pale red light, the demon's form changed drastically, and in the thunderbolt crackling bone explosion, the originally short body suddenly expanded, more than doubling in size, the muscles bulged high, and the originally red eyes were bloody. With a violent roar, he forced Kane, who was fighting against him, to take a step back.

However, the demon shaman had no chance to unleash the second "berserk technique", and Dick's body was like electricity, and in the blink of an eye, he had already killed in front of it, watching the demon shaman "slowly" try to raise his staff to resist. With a single stroke of his sword, he had already sent the demon to hell.

The battle that followed was no longer in doubt, with the three remaining low-level demons facing off against four magic apprentices and trainee samurai.

With the assistance of Dick and Bruce, the pressure on Kane, who was in the front, was greatly reduced, and everyone easily killed the remaining demons, even the demon clan who had been blessed with berserk spells, could not resist Ellie's indiscriminate bombardment in the air. In the end, he fell under the siege of everyone.

"I mean, this demon clan isn't that remarkable!" Kane Daxiao said, "It's not like we've been killed easily. โ€

Facing the corpses all over the ground, Ellie, who had removed the "Wind Wings" and landed on the ground, turned a little pale, and said, "Isn't it time for us to return to the academy now?"

The other three didn't have any opinions, and Kane, the most daring, stepped forward and cut off the left front paws of the five demon clans with a sharp sword, and then put them into a box specially blessed with light magic for embalming.

Among the three major empires in the Karimodan Continent, the Miro Empire, which believes in the god of war, has the most martial arts, and letting fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers hunt demons and use their limbs as evidence This kind of "academy practice" is absolutely inconceivable if it is placed in the other two empires that believe in the Lord of Light, but it is normal in the Miro Empire, which is fierce.

Everyone checked their bags again, and then set out on their way home to meet the setting sun.

It's just that the crowd has not left the previous battlefield not far away, and Dick suddenly said: "Wait, I still have some things to deal with, I'll be back soon......" Before he finished speaking, the man had already run to the rear battlefield. made the other three people baffled for a while.

Where does the call and cry from the deepest part of my heart come from?

Dick wandered silently among the five demon corpses alone, sometimes closing his eyes to sense the direction of the call.

Suddenly, his gaze rested on the corpse of the demonic shaman, the black pearl on the bone necklace around the corpse's neck to be exact......

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