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"Hahaha, that's brilliant. But if you kill me, there will be no one to lead the way."

Casander walked around to the front of the thief and said, "I don't think Tang would put all his eggs in one basket. There must be someone else besides you who knows the location of Erwin's laboratory. Otherwise, what if you defect? ​​Zhuoer, I think we should kill him and replace him with someone obedient to lead the guild team."

Marika: “I agree.”

"Wait a moment!"

Before the brown-haired man could finish his words, the secret door suddenly opened and several people stumbled in: "Oh no!"

Then when these people saw this scene, they were even more surprised.

Casander: "What's wrong? We are the Tang's spokesperson, at least for now. Tell us what happened."

Several people looked at each other, and finally looked at the brown-haired man together.

Brown hair: "Go ahead."

The leader then reported: "The leader, Gok, got too close to the enemy and was discovered! That Erwin used the Finger of Death! I am sure it was the Finger of Death, the green light! Gok died immediately. We retreated immediately! (*)"

Casander: "All retreated?"

"No, there are still a few people left to watch the place where Erwin can escape. But no one dares to approach him anymore!"

At this time, the fourth-ring wizard Fernie spoke up: "This is going to be a difficult problem. Finger of Death. That's a seventh-ring spell. Are you sure he cast it himself and didn't tear the scroll?"

The leader nodded. "Confirmed. He made the move to cast a spell. Gerke threw a smoke bomb when he started to cast the spell. But the smoke bomb might have been damp, and the gunpowder didn't explode very well. The smoke was slow to disperse, and he was still hit by the green light."

Verney: "We can only cast the fourth ring at best, and we will be crushed by our opponents. We have to go back and ask the Duke's chief wizard, who is also a seventh-ring spellcaster! We can't do this."

Elizabeth hesitated and turned to look at the king.

The king was stroking his chin, in a thinking pose that the princess was already familiar with.

The thief who had just been knocked to the ground shouted, "I quit! I don't dare to challenge a wizard with seven rings!"

The princess let out a weak cry and kicked the guy on the sole of his foot. Maybe she hit a nerve and it made his face twisted in pain.

Wang snapped his fingers: "I have a plan."

Elizabeth smiled, "You always have a plan."

I found that people actually like to watch my commentary. My original intention was to mark it with (*) to tell everyone that this is just something I said casually, but I didn't expect that everyone's feedback seemed to want me to explain it.

So I will explain it clearly in the author’s words later.

This time (*): In the spellbook of dnd, Finger of Death is not a ray spell, so it actually does not need to be judged as a ranged attack. After using it, it depends on whether the target can pass the immunity check. If not, then die. If it passes, it will suffer huge damage, and even those with little health may die. That's why it's called Finger of Death. This is my favorite spell in the necromancy department.

Correspondingly, this spell has no visible visual effects. Of course, some games have set up effects to showcase this spell, but it is actually not in the rule book.

Here the finger of death has been changed into a green ray, of course, to pay tribute to "Avada Eats Big Melon".

And I didn't want it to be too invincible, so I changed it to a ray spell that requires a ranged attack judgment.

Chapter 41: The Divination Mage's Careful Plan

Wang put the advanced invisibility potion on the table directly into his dimensional bag.

Brown-haired shouted, "You fellow, while you are condemning us thieves, you are more nimble than us. Those are five high-level invisibility potions! The total value is more than three thousand gold coins!"

The king poured out a bunch of wizard chess pieces from his dimensional bag.

Brown Hair: "Do you think you can pay for the value of five high-level hidden weapons with these broken chess pieces? Tang will kill you!"

Marika said impatiently: "Let's kill this man. He's too noisy."

Casander: "Your Tang himself is now the Duke's hostage. All his life-saving items are in the wizard's dimensional bag."

Brown-haired's expression changed subtly immediately, and then he smiled: "If you had told me earlier, my attitude towards cooperating with you would have been different. After all, I was just one of Tang's thugs just now, and now..."

Marika slit Brown Hair's throat, threw him to the ground, and pointed at the man who had just been in charge of the report: "You come to answer our wizard's questions. If you dare not say it, you will be like her."

Wang: "It is indeed a drow. If there is a paladin on our team, he should have activated the weapon covenant and prepared the Holy Slash."

The dwarf added: "It's not that there is no way to deal with it. We can let the bard do a sweet bluff... Oh, we don't have a bard, so it's okay..."

The king looked at the terrified wanderer and asked, "Do you know the structure of Erwin's laboratory?"

"I know. I drew the schematic."

"What about the picture?"

The wanderer took out the parchment and unfolded it on the table: "It's like this, here is the entrance, here are two vents, there is a mechanism at the front entrance, and the two vents lead to the camps of the kobolds and goblins respectively.

"It's harder to get through the kobolds because the kobolds..."

Wang: "They are more disciplined. They are lawful creatures, and they will stand guard honestly unless their morale collapses."

The wanderer nodded. "Yes, it is much easier to sneak into the goblin side. In fact, we sneaked in from the goblin side. The goblin sentries often sleep, even the big goblins. They also like to play a stone throwing game, and the stakes are mushrooms."

Dwarf: "Mushrooms? How come they are just like cavemen..."

Wang: "The goblin tribe will use all kinds of small things they can pick up as currency. The goblins living on the grassland mainly use teeth as currency. Sometimes when they don't have enough money to buy something, they just punch themselves and knock out their teeth. There should be mushrooms underground, which means there is a place where mushrooms are produced in large quantities nearby."

After saying this, the wizard looked at the wanderer and said, "Go on. Where else in this laboratory are there mechanisms?"

"There were also traps in the two ventilation holes, but we removed them. We are experts in dealing with traps. The trap at the main entrance was too obvious, and the terrain was open, and there were eternal torches created by magic, so we couldn't remove it."

Marika: "Let me try. As long as there is a little shadow, I can sneak into the past."

Wang: "Are there other guards in the lab? I mean, golems and stuff. There are always golems in a wizard's lab."

Rogue: "There are three ugly flesh golems."

The king frowned. "Why three flesh golems? A wizard who can cast the Finger of Death must be capable of creating clay golems or even iron golems..."

Elizabeth asked doubtfully, "Are the two related?"

"Yes," Wang nodded. "Being able to borrow the textbook on the Finger of Death from the textbook library means that he has passed the Level 6 exam. This means that he must have completed advanced golem making and can at least make a stone golem. An inferior earth golem can be easily made..."

Elizabeth gently stabbed the king on the head: "Don't take the situation in your Mage Tower as the general situation!"

Wang scratched his head and insisted, "I still think there is a problem. Are you sure that the wizard cast the Finger of Death himself and did not tear the scroll?"

He looked at the wanderer.

The Wanderer nodded affirmatively: "It was his own spell. He definitely has the ability to cast a seventh-level spell."

Wang: "But how can you be sure that it was the Finger of Death? Some death rays are also green, such as the Weakness spell. Your boss might have been hit by the Weakness spell, and then died directly because of his physical weakness due to excessive indulgence (*)."

The few wanderers who ran back to report the news looked at each other.

Vernie, the spellcaster in Bruce's team, looked at Wang again with a complicated look: "Are you really just a third-level spellcaster? It sounds like you are very, very familiar with Weak Energy and Finger of Death."

Wang spread his hands and said, "I watch people cast this spell every day in the Mage Tower. Of course I'm familiar with it."

Verney was shocked. "How can we join this magic academy? It's even better than the magic academy under the Austrian Federation."

"You can't join. The apprentices there are basically all the seedlings that the teachers found when they were traveling in the multiverse to collect various spell materials."

Elizabeth: "Isn't anyone in your tower married?"

"No. Even if a man and a woman have a good relationship and often travel together, they will not get married or have children. I used to find it strange, but now I finally understand why. They may all be men."

When he said this, Wang's eyes subconsciously slid down. He really didn't want to hide it.

Cassander coughed, drew the attention of the two people who had strayed from the topic, and said, "We should be lenient with our enemy. Let's assume that this Erwin can use the Finger of Death."

Wang nodded: "You make sense. Then my plan will come in handy."

He laid out the lab map on the table and picked up the wizard chess pieces he had just poured out of the dimensional bag.

"Erwin is here. Because of his fighting ability, I give him the queen chess piece." After placing the chess piece, the king asked the wanderer, "What was Erwin doing when you were discovered?"

"He's performing some kind of ritual."

“Do you use stray cats and dogs?”

"Yes, he is using a big pot to turn cats and dogs into strange creatures. This part of the lab is full of captured cats and dogs. Because he didn't take good care of them, many of them have died, and most of them are dying."

The wanderer gestured on the lab map.

"But once they are put into that cauldron, the dying cats and dogs suddenly come alive and turn into strange things! Even several different strange things!"

Wang: "It may be parasites from cats and dogs. This is normal."

The rogue continued, "He would also throw the strange things that came out of these pots to the goblins and kobolds as food."

The wizard frowned and said, "Are there no changes after eating these evil creatures?"

Wanderer: "Maybe it has become stronger, but we can't feel it. After all, it's just a small fry of this level."

Wang said "hmm" and continued to ask: "He is not doing anything else? He is not talking at this time? He is talking to himself."

"He seemed to be mumbling something." The wanderer showed a reminiscent expression, "but we couldn't understand."

Wang: "Besides the Golem, are there any other guards?"

"No, but he can summon kobolds and goblins from the vents at any time using the artifact."

"Where is the artifact? And where is the location of the golem?"

The king asked questions continuously and then placed the chess pieces in the appropriate positions according to the thief's narration.

"That's roughly the situation. Our plan is simple. I've taken all five high-stealth potions. I'll be the surprise attack, sneaking into his laboratory through the vent. You guys make a feint attack from the front, Marika will disarm the traps in front, and then find a way to defeat the golem.

“In order to avoid being hit by Erwin’s spell, Marika needs to use a smoke bomb to block his sight after dismantling the trap.

"While you guys are distracting me, I'll go through the vents and get to Erwin, then I'll use the Banshee's Wail scroll."

Fernie: "What if he gets the information and knows that you have the Banshee's Wail, and then uses the corresponding defensive spell?"

Wang: "This is a nine-ring spell. It's not that easy to resist."

Fernie: "What if he has other equipment?"

Wang: "We have to give it a try. I can give Elizabeth the teleportation ring I got from Tang. If I fail, Elizabeth, you will teleport everyone away immediately."

Elizabeth: “But…”

“When I die, my uncle-master will come. Any world-destroying crisis will be crushed by my uncle-master.” Wang spread his hands.

After a brief pause, he sighed, "It's just that I got zero points on the test, and I think my teacher will never allow me to return to this plane. He will let me go to other planes to start a new adventure. Leaving you like this will make me feel tight in my chest, but that's all.

"Princess you have nothing to lose, you can continue your journey."

Elizabeth was so angry that her face turned red. She took a step forward and slapped Wang hard in the face.