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The expression on Nur's face became extremely solemn. He knew that he was most likely in danger today. He stepped back step by step, quietly reaching his right hand behind his back and gently hooked out a copper rod.
【Magic - Barrage】
Lin En, who had been paying attention to the other party's actions, naturally noticed the other party's unusual movements very quickly. After several sailors moved away, he raised his hand and dozens of [Magic Missiles] appeared in the void.
"A formal wizard?!" Nur's pupils shrank slightly. Although Lin En only cast zero-ring magic, such a large number was obviously not something an apprentice could handle.
Realizing this, Nur threw the copper rod in his hand out without hesitation. The runes on the rod lit up one after another, and then suddenly exploded. The hideous iron pieces attacked Lin En like a rainstorm.
The moment Nur threw the copper rod, he turned around and ran without even looking at the result. He opened a secret door on the wall and went straight in.
He understood that this move might cause some hindrance, but it would never kill a formal wizard!
Sure enough, the next moment, the secret door behind him was blown open along with the earthen wall, and the violent shock wave directly blew Nur away.
After rolling on the ground for a few times in a panic, Nur struggled to stand up, reached into his waist pocket, took out a bottle of dark green potion, and then poured it directly into his mouth with a grim determination!
This is a bottle of modified magic potion, which he prepared himself according to the recipe he secretly glimpsed over the years as an assistant. It has significant side effects. He had been thinking of finding an opportunity to resell it at a high price, but now he obviously can't care so much.
He knew very well what would happen to him if he was caught!
The moment he drank the potion, Nur felt his body becoming hot and hot, as if he had been thrown into a furnace, and he let out painful roars.
【Magic - Barrage】
Several magic missiles whizzed past and hit various parts of Nur's body with incredible precision. Although they did not attack the vital parts in order to keep him alive, they did create cuts in the joints of his hands and feet.
If a normal person were to be attacked like this, he would have lost the ability to resist long ago.
However, Nur was different. Under the power of the potion, his skin gradually turned dark green, and the wounds on the joints of his hands and feet healed rapidly.
Nur's eyes were red as he stared at the culprit who had forced him into such a situation, and a strong anger surged in his heart.
The transformation process after taking the potion is irreversible, which means that he will continue to live in this ugly posture in the future.
But as a reward, Noor also felt that every cell in his body was filled with huge magic power...
He is so powerful now that it is unimaginable!
Chapter 88 Magical Transformation
Hulk?
Lin En, who had just entered, was also frightened by Nur's appearance, but he soon realized that he was overthinking, because the other party looked in very bad condition. His height had expanded to more than two meters, his right shoulder was swollen, his chest was heaving violently, and water was constantly flowing from the corners of his mouth. He looked like a deformed monster.
So... is it the result of magical transformation?
Lin En immediately thought of the deformed people he had seen in the South City before, the so-called defective products...
While he was thinking, the angry Nur had already rushed over and covered the distance of several meters in just three or two steps.
Lin En stretched out his fingers, and a ray of fire appeared at his fingertips. It then quickly expanded into a raging flame and collided with Nur who was running towards him.
The scorching flames continued to burn Nur's green skin, but the latter ignored it, let out a painful roar, faced the fire wave head-on, and swung his right fist towards Lin En.
Nur knew very well that close combat was his only chance of winning.
Except for wizards who are proficient in plastic arts, the fragile bodies of other wizards are not much stronger than those of ordinary people!
Facing this powerful punch, Lin En dodged sideways, and his strong right fist left a heavy fist mark on the earthen wall beside him.
His strength and speed were far inferior to those witch hunters who had taken the [Divine Grace Potion]... The most important thing was that Nur's punches were completely random, and he obviously didn't have much experience in close combat.
But the recovery speed is quite fast...
Lin En keenly noticed that the other person's burned skin was falling off and healing rapidly.
The pain brought by the burning flames all over his body made Nur fall into frenzy. He glared at Lin En in front of him with red eyes, roared again, and rushed forward like an out-of-control tank.
Seeing this, Lin En did not use magic, but drew out the long sword at his waist. At such a close distance, it was too dangerous to use white phosphorus fire. Even the [Liquid Nitrogen - Ice Field] could not kill instantly in a short time.
What's more, he needs to keep someone alive...
Seeing that Lin En was actually planning to fight him with a sword, Nu suddenly felt that the wizard in front of him might have lost his mind in panic.
He had already seen that the other party was not a wizard from the school of plastic arts, otherwise he would have used magic to transform him when he was close to him.
But what can the other party do if a mage gets close to him?
A smug grin appeared on Nur's face. Perhaps he would be the first apprentice to kill a formal wizard in a head-on battle!
However, Nur soon discovered that things seemed not to be what he thought. The opponent was not strong or fast, but he could always avoid the attacks by a hair's breadth. His body seemed to be actively sent to the opponent's blade. In a moment, deep bloody marks had been cut on his green skin.
Although these injuries always healed within seconds, Noor's expression became somewhat uneasy.
Nothing comes without a price, and the same goes for his healing ability. As a wizard apprentice, the little magic power in his body is being rapidly drained, and it won't be long before he is completely drained.
Thinking of this, Nur's attack became more and more frantic, but this only made the flaws in his attack more obvious.
Lin En on the other side immediately noticed that the opponent's strength, speed and recovery ability were gradually weakening.
it's time……
Lin En narrowed his eyes and lowered his head to avoid Nur's sandbag-sized right fist. Then he turned around and slashed at the dark green calf with a sword, cutting off the tendons of the leg muscles. Nur's huge body instantly lost balance and fell to the ground.
Without waiting for the other party to react, Lin En swung the sword again and stabbed it from the side and rear, accurately getting stuck in the gap of the spine.
Nur roared and was about to stand up and fight back, but he was soon horrified to find that he had lost control of his entire lower limbs. His body collapsed powerlessly on the ground, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not change the current situation.
What kind of magic is this?
Nur was completely panicked. The ravaged ground beneath him quickly cracked and turned into fine sand, swallowing his body. After a few seconds, it solidified into shape again.
He recognized these two magics, they were [Turn Fossils into Mud] and [Turn Mud into Stone]...
In just a few moments, most of Nur's body was embedded in the ground, unable to move.
"My Lord Wizard...you can't kill me...otherwise Lord Radak will never let you go. And as for the [Bloody Thorns], you don't understand their power..." Nur shouted in horror.
What answered him was a sharp sword that pierced his shoulder from top to bottom!
Noor's scream was immediately replaced by a wail of pain.
Lynn pulled out his sword, this time pointing it at Noor's head, and spoke very concisely.
"I ask, you answer! If you shout for one more second, I'll chop you one more time!"
Noor's wailing was suddenly stuck at the corner of his mouth. He could only endure the pain and look at Lin En in fear.
"Nur, the ninth batch of students recruited by Yieta Academy. Six years ago, he failed to pass the test of elements and shaping subjects and was forced to leave. The following year, he joined the Bloody Thorns..."
Lynn slowly told some of the information he had learned from Lord, destroying the other party's psychological defenses, and then looked at Noor and continued speaking.
"I know you very well, Noor, so you'd better not try to lie to me... Otherwise, you won't want to know the consequences."
"Now tell me, where were you and what did you do on that morning three days ago?" Lin En asked.
"I was in the Broad Axe Tavern when the halfling named Ralph found me and wanted to exchange the blueprints of the airship for a bounty..." Nur's eyes flickered and he spoke stutteringly.
Lin En's eyes suddenly turned cold, and this time he swung the sword directly through Nur's right arm. The intense pain immediately aroused a howl of pain.
It's obvious that the other party is lying.
Because Ralph had just conducted a flight experiment the day before his death, Bloody Thorn would not issue a bounty until the afternoon or evening at the earliest. And that afternoon, the halfling was helping to fly the airship, and was on guard at night, so he had no time to gather such secret information.
I'm afraid you're not kidding me...
Lin En looked at Nur, who was still a little dishonest, and said playfully.
"Do you know? In our place, there used to be a very interesting punishment called Lingchi, which was to cut off the prisoner's flesh piece by piece with a knife..."
"But don't worry. The executioner's skills are definitely better than you think. They will avoid the major arteries and ensure that the length and thickness of each piece of meat cut off are exactly the same... In order to prevent the executioner from falling unconscious, they usually pour some salt water on the knife..."
Chapter 89: I heard that high temperature is very effective in stopping bleeding!
Lin En vividly described to Noor the punishment known as lingchi.
Nur broke out in a cold sweat as he listened to this. He looked at the sword that kept drifting in the other person's hand, as if the next moment he would be chopped down on his body by the sword as his words said.
After hearing that the other party would sprinkle salt on the executioner's knife, Nur couldn't help but shudder. He knew very well how painful it would be to have salt sprinkled on the wound. It would be like being unable to live or die.
Noor even felt that compared to the wizard in front of him, Lord Ladakh, who used the poor to conduct various magical experiments, had become an extremely kind person!
Even the demons in hell couldn't think of such a punishment!
"My skills are naturally not as good as those of the executioners. It often takes less than a hundred cuts to kill someone... But fortunately, your recovery ability is very good. I believe it must be very useful for training?" Lin En said with interest, and then touched the pocket of his robe and said with regret.
"It's a pity that I seem to have forgotten to bring a bag of salt!"
Nur's almost collapsed sanity eased a little, at least he could die without much pain, but the next moment he heard the devil speak.
"But direct quenching seems to work... I heard that high temperature has a miraculous effect on stopping bleeding!"
As Lin En spoke, he placed his right hand on the sword, and a tongue of hot fire gushed out, burning the silver-white sword red.
Nur's body was shaking constantly, and at the moment the sword fell, he finally couldn't help but shout.
“Wait… wait, it was me… I took the initiative to find Ralph… ahhh~”
Before he could finish his words, the red-hot sword had already pierced into Noor's shoulder, cutting off a piece of flesh...
Noor was going crazy, staring at Lin En with red eyes, and couldn't understand why the other party was still unwilling to let him go even though he was willing to tell him.
"Too slow, keep talking! I hope your words can be faster than my sword this time!" Lin En put the sword back and continued to quench it to prevent it from cooling down.
Faced with such a cruel and unscrupulous demon who would cut people into pieces at any time, Noor completely collapsed and began to tell the story in a trembling voice.
The story began five days ago, when he accidentally heard a few halflings in the Broken Axe Tavern bragging that they were making a very large alchemical machine that could fly into the sky and did not require any magic.
Not only him, but the other drinkers in the tavern also did not believe this. They just regarded these remarks as bragging by these halflings. After all, when they helped Lydia build various flying machines in the past, they also boasted about it, but the flying machines all fell down without exception.
It was not until Lynn conducted a shocking flight experiment in public that Noor realized that this was all true.
So when he learned that a wizard in the Bloody Thorns was willing to spend 500 magic gold coins in exchange for the blueprints of the airship, he immediately became interested and waited patiently near the Broken Axe Tavern every day. He knew that these wine-loving halflings would come sooner or later...
Nur spilled everything like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube. He knew very well that once he had revealed all the information, he would no longer be of any use and would probably die in the end. But that was better than being slowly chopped into a bloody skeleton by a scalding sword.
"So you targeted Ralph who was alone, and after your use of the sleeping fog failed, you killed him?" Lynn said with a sneer.
Noor's face was full of regret. He didn't regret attacking Ralph, but he regretted that he wasn't careful enough and didn't expect that Quran wine would affect the coma effect of the withered grass powder. Otherwise, his actions would never have been discovered.