Having received a group of mage apprentices, Penny Sean or Papua Zos's distant relative, Pan Diesel, was in a good mood, and he walked into the residence of the wizard Zos, because of a great battle with the shadow wizard, the furnishings in this room had been distorted by all kinds of magic, and many places were soaked in shadow energy, and he rummaged through the wizard's relics, if nothing else, these things would be his own in the future.

He frowned and looked at the spell notes and travel journals left by the wizard, to be honest, there were not too many things that would benefit him, at most he would gain a little knowledge, and every mage with a methodology was unique, and at this point, the effect that spell research notes could produce was just a reference.

Because the contents of these notes can only be understood completely and thoroughly by the original owner.

And the other legacies left by Mage Zos are nothing unusual in Penny's eyes, a few half-used wands, and some magic items are said to have been stolen by the Shade as trophies, and the rest is really nothing of value, at least not on this ship.

However, Penny was not disappointed, at least he knew that the mage owned a mage tower in Bascu, a small town south of the West Gate, and it was the most valuable piece of the property left by Lord Zos.

The mage's treasures and arcane research are piled up in the mage tower, and when the mage dies, the mage tower becomes ownerless.

Penny didn't feel guilty about entering this mage tower, he didn't have to be responsible for Zoth's death, and with the death of the original owner, in the absence of a suitable heir, this mage tower was naturally inhabited by capable people, since Zoth's apprentices found him, and he was also greedy for these possessions, so there was nothing wrong with grabbing it.

Having simply made a few excuses for his actions, the mage quickly became bored, still some way from the pirate's location, and needed to find something to do.

His heart moved, and he pulled out a dangling bottle from the magic bag.

"Ah, you stupid, lowly, despicable human. The Pico spirit stared at the mage viciously.

"Soon I will be your master. The wizard didn't look angry, and he began to meditate with his eyes closed, preparing for the spell that was about to be unleashed.

I squandered almost all the spells I had prepared in the battle just now, and if I wanted to cast the spell again, of course, I had to spend time preparing again.

If an ordinary wizard were to see that Penny was able to reprepare on the same day after squandering a spell, he would probably be jealous to the point of red eyes.

The Goddess of Magic limited the amount of magic power that Mage Feren could draw from the web every day, but apparently she didn't know that anyone would eat a near-infinite Mithic core, knowing that no one had been able to do such a thing since ancient times.

Most of the existing Mither cores in Faeron have been destroyed due to the depletion of available energy and the blockade of the magic net, and the few remaining cores except for the one that has been changed by the Yin Wizard and the Dark Lady, although they still have a certain amount of power, it is difficult for people to use them, but Penny has relied on those two Imasca crystals to do this, and I believe that if Mistra learns, he will be very willing to study Penny's brain slices.

It took some time to prepare the spell, and there was no discount because of the addition of the Mither core, and it probably took more than an hour to prepare the spell for the entire spell slot.

The magic power of the Mither nucleus is infinite, but the magic that Penny can use is very limited, and a spellcaster can only ensure the stability of his power if he does not exceed the limit of the spell slot, so no matter how large his magic power is, there are only so many spells that can be prepared at one time.

Of course, he could also choose to attack with the energy of the Mithor core, but this ability was monotonous and flawed, so he still needed to prepare spells carefully.

Especially now that Penny thinks that he is always in danger, with Searle chasing behind him, and offending the Shade, although he deduces that the Shadow cannot find him for a while, but in order to deal with future troubles, it is still necessary to ensure his combat effectiveness at all times.

Now he needed a brainwashing technique to turn this Piktain into his slave, so it would only take a few minutes, but considering the above thoughts, he had prepared a few more.

"You...... What are you going to do?" Seeing Penny holding a spell book in one hand, carving all kinds of runes on the ground in front of him with the other, arranging magic rituals with various materials, and occasionally emitting some strange flashes, such a strange scene made Pike's fluff explode, it was not difficult to guess that the mage was preparing a spell to deal with him, and suddenly shouted in horror: "You despicable and shameless human, stop." ”

Penny ignored it, finished preparing the fifth spell, and was about to enter the state, and did not have time to pay attention to the little goblin's fuss, just then, at this moment, he heard a commotion outside the room, which interrupted his train of thought, he closed the spell book, and carried the cheering goblin back into the magic bag. Walking out of the hatch, he saw that the apprentices led by Rand Scarble were surrounded by a group of sailors on the deck, and they were in a stalemate with each other, while Rand and the captain of the ship confronted each other, both red-faced and thick-necked, and the argument seemed to be fierce.

"What's going on?" Penny walked over, asking Rand with an embarrassed face.

"My lord, this ......" Rand was about to explain, when he heard the captain squint at Penny and ask, "Now you're their leader?"

The disdainful, dismissive, contemptuous words came out of the mouth of the tall and thin man in his forties and burrowed into Penny's ears, causing the wizard to frown.

Now that he had taken off his mask, he revealed a slightly immature white face, which immediately stunned the apprentices who had never seen his true face.

Although it was already clear that this Mr. Diesel was not very old, none of the apprentices thought that this mysterious wizard was actually a half-grown child.

With Penny's appearance, he could not be seen to be less than twenty years old, and this coupled with that calm temperament, if you look at it roughly, the apprentices will even think that he is only about fifteen years old.

He was indeed only seventeen years old.

This also deepened the consternation of the two apprentices in the corner, especially Basdy Duncan, who was in the mood to watch the show, and said with a sarcastic smile to the young apprentice Duckland Baus next to him, "Look, Rand has found a child to be our master." ”

"Oh my God, it's unbelievable. Dacran Baus looked at the young face not far away, and the whole person was demented, only incredulous: "Is Rand really joking?"

"Of course, you see, they're going to demolish him. Basdy Duncan sneered twice.

"Listen, boy, a short drive ahead is the territory of those madmen in the Pirate Islands, and we brothers are not in the mood to accompany you to your death. The captain grinned, his smile very ill-intentioned, and his eyes, which had been reddish by the sea breeze all the year round, looked at the mage condescendingly, and the light in them was extremely disdainful.

"You mean you want to refuse to cooperate with our actions?" the wizard looked at Rand, who was not very good-looking, and knew three or four points about what had happened, and stared at the captain with a frown, and his tone was displeased.

"It was Mr. Zos who hired us, and now that Mr. Zos is dead, our contract has ended. The captain spread his hands and smiled even more blindly: "Our ship will be on its way to the Pirate Islands under the command of a little child, and I certainly won't let him make such a joke about my brothers' lives." ”

"But the ship is the property of the Society. Rand said with an unkind face: "You are just hired people, and you are not qualified to determine the course of this ship." ”

Penny held out a hand, blocked Rand, and continued to look at the aggressive captain: "So what do you want?"

"How's that? Okay. The man looked at Rand: "You're right, it's your property, and we'll take the ship back to Simon, but just by our route." ”

"It's Lord Diesel who has the final say, not you. Rand stepped forward and said emphatically, "He's the new leader we have chosen together." ”

"No kidding, new chief, the little ones should go home and nurse, now I'm up to them. The captain laughed, and stretched out a hand to pat Penny's face as a sign of contempt, but before his hand touched Penny's face, his wrist tightened, and he was already grabbed by the 'child', and before he could react, he saw the wizard's hand grasping his wrist twist lightly, and his face followed a crisp ' The sound twisted, and the next moment, a rooster's crowing scream burst out from the depths of his throat, and Penny shook off the hand that had been wrenched into four parts, and with a kick, the hundred-pound body soared into the air, flew a few yards away, and landed in the water with a pop, leaving only a lingering scream.

"You know, now I'm up to me. Penny withdrew his foot, leaned over and patted the hem of his somewhat wrinkled robe, and said in a still-unwavering tone.

The apprentices and crew mechanically shifted their gaze from the side of the ship where the captain had fallen to the little wizard's moody face, not knowing for a moment what to say.

To be the leader of a team of hired sailors is not only good sailing skills, you know, these sailors also serve as the bodyguards of the mages, and they have a strong mercenary surname, and being able to cut and kill is a basic quality, as their leader, they naturally have to be outstanding in order to win the hearts and minds of everyone.

But the leader was kicked into the sea by the half-sized wizard, and they knew very well how much strength it would take to break the arm bones of a living man.

Suddenly, all the mercenaries looked at the monster with the eyes of this little kid who had just been disdainful.

". In the corner, Basdy Duncan slammed Duckland Baus on the head.

Of course, this was vented because of a miscalculation, but the junior apprentice covered his head aggrievedly.

He didn't dare to ask Duncan why he beat him, in the Mage Tower, there were too many times when an apprentice like him was wronged, and he also somewhat understood that this was Duncan's unintentional mistake, and in his heart, he was still shocked by Penny's moment just now: "Duncan, he ......"

He wanted to say something, but his mouth opened, but he couldn't.

Pan Diesel maintained his dignity with violence, which apparently exceeded Duncan's expectations and left the other onlookers speechless.

A mage kicked a man into the sea like a ruffian.

"He didn't prove himself. Basdy Duncan breathed heavily, and his expression became more grim: "We'll see." ”

That being said, Penny's strange powers did terrify him.

The resulting frustration made him even more unhappy.

"You must expose Rand's stupidity, you can dress up as a mage with brute strength?" he nodded viciously to Duckland.

The junior shook his head in disbelief, and then followed Duncan's gaze back to the deck.

The play is clearly not over yet.

"I said, now I have the final say, so, sail. Penny held out a finger to the sluggish sailor: "Don't tell me you can't sail without the captain." ”

The sailors looked at each other, apparently hesitating, and if they did so, they would agree with Penny's leadership, which was obviously a little unacceptable to them.

Although they are accustomed to obeying authority, Penny does not show enough strength.

Brute force alone certainly can't bring people to their knees.

Penny himself knew this, and he frowned, and at this moment several sailors suddenly looked into the distance and exclaimed:

"The pirates are coming!"

Penny and the other apprentices looked in that direction, and saw two pirate ships approaching one after the other, their flags waving in the wind like the dorsal fins of sharks smelling their prey.

The mage's heart moved, and he sensed the familiar smell.

"What are you going to do, sir?" seemed to find a suitable spokesman, and the sailors pushed out a slightly shorter man, a man with bare arms and a dark complexion, a man with a much more humble attitude than the previous unlucky man who had been thrown into the water.

This was clearly the result of being deterred by Penny's silver might.

"How?" The wizard glanced at the men casually, noticing the doubts on the expressions of many sailors, and then shifted his gaze to the apprentices with different expressions, and suddenly understood.

These people are not convinced, whether it is a sailor or an apprentice, if they do not fully show the capital that convinces them, such things will happen in the future.

According to experience, if your subordinates are not convinced, as a leader, you must show your strength.

In a certain heterotopic plane, this behavior is called pretending, and if the pretending is not in place, it is natural for the subordinates to disobey.

So Penny walked to the side of the approaching pirate ship, and everyone's eyes followed him to the side, and saw him start chanting a spell, and the source power next to the whole ship vibrated violently.

These superficial apprentices did not yet have the ability to perceive the fluctuations of the source force more realistically, but the same wind direction and the constant surging tide around them undoubtedly made them more focused, and their eyes were on Penny, whose feet were off the side of the ship, and the light beside him.

...... "Boss, why are we so far behind?"

There are two pirate ships heading to the wizard's ship, the one behind is narrow, obviously a fast ship specially designed for combat, compared to it, the style of the previous ship is a little more ordinary, the two ships are under different flags, the fast ship follows the slow ship unhurriedly, and it is easy to maneuver, obviously, with the speed of this ship, it is not difficult to overtake the previous ship, and the use of this speed can only show that the leader of this ship deliberately did it.

Some of the crew members were obviously puzzled by this, because pirates have always been the first to strike, and the last to pick up the scraps of cold soup, so someone asked their captain: "In this way, let the fools get ahead of the curve." ”

"Ahead of the curve?" the young captain commanded his men to lower the spear squid's flag, turned to the inquiring crew, and said, "Tell me, Brack, what kind of idiot ship would crash into it when it knows there are hordes of pirates here." ”

The questioner was stunned for a moment, and then scratched his neck in embarrassment.

Indeed, without two brushes, it is true that few ships would stick headlong into a pile of pirates, and from this point of view, the young captain's choice is not unreasonable.

"So, captain, are we going to use the group of fools in front of us as a stepping stone to try out what that ship is famous for?" But the doubts obviously will not be dissipated by this explanation, and the profession of piracy is obviously incompetent if he does not have enough courage to do it: "But, captain, maybe the captain of that ship really doesn't know that this direction is a fool of the Pirate Islands?"

"The style of this ship is from the West Bank. The young captain shook his head: "I don't know that this place is impossible, all right, guys, we have just left the East China Sea, and we have just escaped from that unfortunate island, everyone be careful, and would rather make less money than let bad luck fall on our heads." ”

"Yes!" was echoed by many of the crew.

Indeed, they don't want to be unlucky anymore.

"Wait, Boss, look!"

Hearing this sudden exclamation, the captain and all the crew of this pirate ship turned their eyes to the ship in front.

They were not far from the ship that had been set as their prey, when with a light gust of wind, a cloud of mist poured out from the side of the side of the 'prey' ship, and the cloud gradually increased with the wind, until it was more than ten yards in size, black and earthy yellow, and there was a pale breath, and the wind floated up to the pirate ship in front of it, and a wail suddenly sounded on the ship, and people jumped from the cabin and the side of the ship into the sea for several minutes.

A corpse floated down the water to the pirate ship behind, and a sailor fished it up, and the face turned pale at the sight of the swollen and black, obviously poisoned face.

"Wizard. Like words squeezed out of the mouth of the young captain, he was pale and panting, staring at the ship that had been regarded as prey in the distance: "They have wizards, very powerful wizards. ”

This magic is obviously not something that an average magic apprentice can unleash.

The cloudy mist swept over the pirate ship completely, and more pirates fell into the sea and soon floated, apparently poisoned by the power of the fog before jumping into the sea.

"Dead Clouds. ”

Rand Scarble watched in a cold sweat as the cloud slipped into the pirate ship as Penny drove it, and muttered the name.

He knew the spell.

(To be continued)