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The cat man asked with a little interest: "You look very professional. When I was in the tribe, the best chef I saw was not as skilled as you."
"Biology is a required course. It can help us understand and perform various Transfiguration spells. My teacher has done statistics and found that students who have not studied biology have a 30% higher chance of being resisted by the target when performing malicious Transfiguration spells (*)."
Elizabeth was attracted back to the life in the Mage Tower mentioned by the king, and asked, "What do you use in the Mage Tower to test malicious transformation?"
"The target of the advanced malicious transfiguration test is the summoned Balrog. It will be considered a success if the demon's spell resistance is penetrated. The primary target is humans."
"Humanity?"
"I was once transformed into a dog by my sparring opponent. This experience later became an important reference when I transformed into a dog myself."
While speaking, Wang had already completed the dismemberment of the strange animal.
Misha Sara frowned: "This looks like..."
"A cat." Wang said with certainty, "Even if you show it to the druids, they will say it is a cat. From the dissection, what happened to them was the same as when Mark was descended. The positive energy made their limbs grow wantonly, turning them into such a strange thing."
Elizabeth covered her mouth in surprise.
The drow asked: "Is this... a good thing? After all, it is positive energy..."
The king turned to Elizabeth and said, "Your Highness, I suggest that you investigate the current conditions of the people in the city, mainly counting those who have been wounded by swords and see how long it takes them to recover without healing spells. If positive energy is universally covered, then they will recover faster."
Elizabeth: "Don't you need to investigate the disease?"
"No," Flint said on behalf of the wizard, "positive energy can't remove the disease, but it will 'heal' the disease together. Do you understand what I mean? For example, some diseases are caused by parasites, and the healing spell will benefit the parasites as well. You have to use the spell 'remove disease'."
Elizabeth nodded and asked, "And then?"
"My knowledge is not enough to determine the intentions of the mastermind. We should ask the druids."
"I'll go." said Michaela.
"No, I want to go too. Take me to the druids' society. I have something to discuss with them. And then, Elizabeth, we need to use the resurrection scroll. Mark obviously knows something."
Elizabeth sighed, "That's probably impossible. Unless I become the Duke of Langdon, I can't decide how to use that scroll."
Wang was shocked: "I knew it. We have another way. We will work together with your father to spread the news that we will use the resurrection scroll to revive Mark. If I am the mastermind behind this, I will find a way to make Mark die completely, which means I will do something to Mark's body."
Resurrection generally requires a relatively intact corpse. Even if you use the Nine-ring Great Wish to revive a person, you must first use a Great Wish to restore the person's corpse, and then use the same spell to revive him.
Conversely, as long as Mark's body is stolen or completely destroyed - or stolen and then completely destroyed, it will be possible to prevent Wang and others from using the resurrection scroll.
Elizabeth nodded excitedly: "Okay, I'll go tell my father."
"Wait a minute!" Marika interrupted Wang's plan, "If...if it's your teacher, he should be able to solve the current situation, right? Is there no way for you to contact him?"
Wang was stunned for a moment: "This... My teacher has always taught me to solve problems by myself. But you are right, I should ask him for advice. I have three super invincible good morning scrolls given by my teacher."
"What?" The most knowledgeable drow frowned.
The king had already taken out the scroll from his dimensional bag. As soon as the scroll appeared, it emitted a colorful magical aura that could be seen clearly even by non-casters.
"This is a nine-ring spell invented by my teacher. It can cross the planes and talk to him face to face."
Elizabeth: "Only with him?"
"Yes, this spell will only be directed at him, ignoring all magical barriers and plane boundaries. When he goes out on an adventure, if he has any insights, he will gather us in the auditorium, have the eldest brother tear up this scroll, and then we will all listen to his lecture together."
Wang held the scroll and frowned, "But... I don't think my teacher will help. Rather, he will just watch me struggle happily. Anyway, he can use the Great Prayer to revive me. By the way, he will definitely not revive you. He will only let me practice to the ninth ring and then pray by myself."
Chapter 26 Exam Questions
Elizabeth frowned. "You won't revive us? Why?"
"Just ask him directly." Wang shrugged and raised the scroll. "I'm going to use the scroll."
Everyone took a step back and distanced themselves from the wizard. After all, the magical aura of the scroll looked too exaggerated.
The mage tore the scroll, and the next moment, an oval mirror appeared in the air, floating in the space where the scroll had just been torn. The king threw the scroll that had lost its magic aura aside, stepped back and looked at the mirror covered with snow.
Everyone waited for a while, and Elizabeth cautiously tested: "Is the scroll ineffective?"
"No, my teacher might just be inconvenienced. After all, the speed of time passing in different planes is different. He might..."
Before he finished speaking, the snow disappeared and a very serious old man with a white beard and a pointed wizard hat appeared.
Wang squinted his eyes and stared at the small piece of background exposed on the side of the old man's pointed wizard hat for a second, then turned his head to look at Elizabeth. After carefully confirming it, he said, "Teacher, is the thing exposed behind your left back a female's secondary sexual characteristic?"
"Huh? Hey, why are you standing behind me? Go away!" The old man drove away the people behind him, and then found that the pink bed behind him seemed to expose something, so he took out an ivory carved arch model and chanted a spell loudly.
As the old wizard chanted the spell, the mirror created by the spell was filled with snow again.
Wang: "Teacher was casting the Mordenkainen Mansion spell just now. Because the mansion formed by the Mansion spell is in another independent dimension, the communication spell was interfered with."
The next moment, the snow disappeared, and the old man sat behind the desk solemnly, with his hands on the desk, fingers clasped together: "My student, you contacted me like this, I guess your adventure has finally encountered difficulties... Hmm? Why don't you feel a little vicissitudes of life? Are you still wearing the same robe you wore when you set out?"
Wang: “Because…”
The old man cast a spell, then roared, "You've only been in that plane for two days?"
Wang explained to Elizabeth beside him: "The teacher just cast a spell to measure the time distortion value of the two planes."
"Stop talking nonsense," the old man interrupted his apprentice, "I don't have such a bad apprentice! You solve it yourself..."
"I think you, teacher, don't know what kind of situation we are facing."
"Humph, provocation is useless to me. Solve your problem yourself!"
At this moment, the stains on Elizabeth's body formed by the grease spell disappeared without a trace because the spell time had expired.
The old wizard, who was still angry, suddenly stopped and looked at Elizabeth through the mirror.
King: "This is Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Lord Langdon."
Old Mage: "What? So the Duke wants to marry us? You did a good job, boy. It's only been one day! You have my style. Tell me, what problems did you encounter?"
Elizabeth stepped forward and saluted the old wizard: "Hello, I am the employer of your apprentice, and we have encountered a problem..."
Elizabeth described the present situation in detail.
The old wizard stroked his chin. "I see. Are only cats and dogs mutated under the influence of positive energy? Are there large-scale gatherings of undead creatures? Have high-level liches appeared?"
Wang was about to speak when the drow interrupted him, "It's true that there have been more requests for hunting undead creatures recently, but there have been no reports of legion-level undead creatures gathering, nor any liches."
The old wizard continued to ask: "Is there anyone selling cheap healing scrolls?"
"No." Zhuo Er answered affirmatively.
"Well, I understand. King, this is a problem you can solve yourself. There is indeed danger approaching that world, but it is still early. You have enough time to hone yourself and find the truth. This is the test I give you. Take the risk, track down the mastermind, and try to nip the crisis in the bud.
"If the final crisis unfortunately comes, you should have enough time to improve your strength, eliminate the evil behind the crisis, and then come back to report to me."
Wang nodded seriously: "I understand. So, teacher, how much time do I have to prepare?"
"About five years," the old wizard replied, "So don't worry too much. If cheap healing scrolls or even 'holy water' appear, it means the crisis has entered the next stage. If undead creatures begin to gather and liches appear in large numbers, it means the crisis is very imminent."
Wang: "I understand. Thank you, teacher."
"Also, although I gave you three scrolls, these are exam questions for you. If you continue to use the scrolls, you will lose points. This is your experience, your story, and it should be written by you."
Elizabeth suddenly interrupted and asked, "Why did you give him the scroll?"
"I just gave it to him because I happened to have the scroll. He's going out, so I should give him something, right?" The old wizard shrugged.
Elizabeth continued to ask: "Just now the king told me that if he unfortunately died, you would use the Great Wish to revive him."
"That's right." The old wizard nodded decisively.
"But you will not revive us."
"Correct."
"What if one of us forms a close relationship with your apprentice?"
"Then he has to bear the sadness of loss by himself," the old wizard said in a cold tone, "This pain and the bitterness from regret will become the best medicine for life. I have also experienced this, so I know to hold on to those important things."
Elizabeth was speechless because of the vicissitudes of life that suddenly emanated from the old wizard.
The old wizard stared at Wang and added, "As someone who has experienced this, I want to tell you that sometimes it is the most painful to survive alone. You will never be able to sleep peacefully, and you will dream about the death of your best friends again and again. You will be tortured by regret and depression.
“Even if the Great Wish succeeds in the end and brings them back, you will no longer be the same person.
"After I fulfilled my wish and resurrected them, I chose to leave the plane where I grew up because I could no longer be with them. The moment I completed the resurrection, I realized that I had actually lost them forever.
"I have to leave and seal everything in my memory."
Wang bit his lip and said, "I remember it, teacher."
The teacher stared at his beloved disciple for a few seconds and said, "No matter what, everything is your experience. You are a prophecy mage, a favorite of fate, but sometimes fate's favor is not a good thing, because all its gifts have already been secretly marked with a price."
After he finished speaking, the image disappeared, and the mirror formed by magic also shattered, turning into points of magical light that fell on the ground, and then disappeared quickly like melting snow under the scorching sun.
Wang: "Actually, there is a large part of what the teacher said that I didn't understand. Why did he resurrect his best friends but lose them forever?"
Everyone looked at Wang, their expressions somewhat helpless.
Elizabeth said, "Because he is no longer the person that his close friends knew."
Wang: "Then we can get to know each other from the beginning, and give our best friends some surprises."
Marika: "Let's talk about this incident. Your teacher seemed to give a hint, but he was actually telling you a riddle the whole time. Can you decipher it?"
"First, we found that the cats mutated due to the excess positive energy. The teacher mentioned that the sign of the next stage is the appearance of cheap healing scrolls or 'holy water'. This is also related to positive energy. The third stage is the gathering of undead creatures..."
Elizabeth: "Doesn't this contradict the first two stages?"
"It could also be that the positive energy is overflowing, causing the undead to be unable to survive. So they want to eliminate the mastermind." Wang replied, "At this stage, maybe we can join forces with the undead. I mean, those undead creatures with rationality."
Flint cursed, "Damn it, even though Cailin is a casual god, he won't be happy about his priests getting mixed up with the undead."
Marika: "Not to mention the paladin. If we find a paladin in our team, he will definitely fight to the death with the undead creatures."
Paladins view life as a trial, and destroying all evil is the content of the trial.
Wang: "Then eliminate the crisis before that stage. In fact, now as long as we kill the mastermind, the crisis will be over. According to the original plan, first find the Duke to spread false information, and then go to the Druid Association to ask them if they have any clues. Then wait for the mastermind to send..."
The king glanced at the entire team, "We need to expand the team while we wait for the mastermind to be sent forward. At this stage it has to do with critters, and I think a druid would be good."
Chapter 27 Preliminary Steps to See the Elector
"Wait a minute," Elizabeth said suddenly, "I remember that when we were underground today, your detect evil staff fell..."
"Oh, this one. This kind of staff that only contains one level of magic is everywhere in our magic tower. We mages cannot cast magic, but we can use special means to seal some simple magic into the staff.