Chapter 111 Someone is looking for trouble
Chapter 111 Someone is looking for trouble
"I don't like people being late at the appointed time." Hearing his casual words, Heidi frowned slightly.
"I don't like it either. Not only am I not very strong, but I've been asked to participate in an emergency mission. I have to be prepared. After all, I only have one life." Ivan said indifferently.
In fact, he was holding back a lot of anger. He had been busy ever since he received the task notification. He did not sleep all night last night and even used the Level 2 Light of Wisdom once.
In his opinion, if time was not tight, with his enchanting attainments, he would not need the Light of Wisdom at all to create the Green Tree Star. This was equivalent to wasting a level 2 Light of Wisdom, and he was a person who hated waste.
On the side, Gina kept winking at him, telling him not to go against Heidi.
"You're right. Your strength is indeed very low. I hope you're well prepared and won't hold us back." Heidi looked around and thought of something, so she didn't care about being late anymore.
After a while, the four of them arrived in front of the mission hall.
The hunting team had already arrived. They had five apprentices. The leader, Walban, greeted Heidi, who had not yet approached, and nodded to the others. His gaze finally fell on Ivan.
"Are you Evan Marichatton, the disciple of Wizard Toines?"
"So what?"
Ivan admitted it without changing his expression. That's what everyone thought anyway.
At this time, he is already a third-class apprentice, plus a senior knight, and has two low-level magic items. His strength is not necessarily lower than that of a senior third-class apprentice, so there is no need to give in blindly.
"You're brave enough. Let's see what happens after we leave the academy." A hint of coldness flashed in Walban's eyes.
Afterwards, the nine people registered their information in the mission hall and walked towards the entrance of the academy.
Not far from the entrance of the academy, there was an animal farm that specialized in raising animals. They received eight-legged beasts for transportation, one for each person, with a rental fee of 5 magic stones and a deposit of 5 magic stones.
The eight-legged beast is a relatively sturdy horse with a pair of horns on its head, thick hair, and eight legs. In some aspects, it has reached the level of a knight and has many similarities with a six-legged horse. It is obviously a work from a laboratory, specially bred for long-distance travel.
"Set off."
Outside the dense forest of the academy's fortress, under the leadership of Heidi, nine people rode on the eight-legged beasts and left the Mona Ant Land Hut.
Just after the nine people left, someone hurried to the outside of the academy barrier.
"Hey kid, what are you looking at? Tell me your information, or I'll hang you up." The eight-clawed black spider looked at the apprentice who was looking around with dissatisfaction.
"Lord Harun, has my sister Heidi left? How long has she been gone?" The person who came was Came. Not long ago, he found out that his sister had done something bad behind his back and dragged Ivan into a dangerous mission.
"You are so arrogant, do you think you can find out these things?" The eight-clawed black spider stared at him unkindly, and moved closer with its huge body. As a result, it smelled the scent of the green snake fruit handed over by the other party, which was their tribe's favorite food.
The eight-clawed black spider shook its long claws slightly, and the bag in Cam's hand disappeared.
"Is Heidi really your sister?"
"Yes, could you please tell me how long they have been gone, Master Harlan?"
"Since she is your sister, it's okay for you to tell her. Young man, you are late. They have been gone for more than ten minutes, riding on eight-legged beasts. They have already run away. You should go back if you are fine."
As the guardian of the academy, Harun has been guarding the gate of the academy all year round. He has long been well versed in the ways of the world and knows what to say and what not to say.
"About ten minutes?" Came looked disappointed.
Yesterday, he lost control of himself after being defeated by Ivan and was seen by his sister Heidi. Under his sister's questioning, he expressed his unwillingness. He didn't expect that his sister would do such a thing after hearing it.
It shouldn't be like this.
In his opinion, the enchantment competition between himself and Ivan was a competition, a motivation, and a growth. Isn't that what it is like between friends? It was a testimony to their friendship, but now it was destroyed by him. Thinking of what Heidi had done, he felt ashamed and didn't know how to face Ivan in the future.
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The Mona Ant Colony Huts are located in a special location and are not suitable for ordinary people to live in. There are few human settlements nearby.
The eight-legged beasts ran along as if they were walking on the wind. After two days of trekking, they had already covered most of the distance and would reach the destination of their mission - the western border of the Kingdom of Edarase tomorrow.
"Please forgive me, the situation is quite urgent and I will have to inconvenience you for one more night." Walban said to everyone.
They needed to camp in the wild that night.
For the apprentices present, going without sleep for two or three nights was nothing as long as they kept their mental strength strong, so no one objected to his request.
The campsite was chosen on a low slope near the road, with a jungle not far away.
Walban reached the low slope first. He stomped his feet lightly, and the lightning and fire particles around him were attracted by him and transformed into clusters of tiny lightning and fire. The lightning and fire passed through the surrounding thatch along the ground.
In an instant, weeds, moisture, and bugs were gone.
Whether intentional or unintentional, a cluster of lightning and fire shot out accidentally with too much force, landing in front of Ivan who was approaching, and attacked him at the same speed.
"boring."
How could this little trick of making things difficult for the newcomer possibly hurt Ivan?
At the critical moment, a wisp of frost mist formed by water particles was generated, blocking the thunder and fire. The two collided with each other, making a "puff" sound, and the energy of the two was canceled out.
"It seems that you have some strength and will not pull us back." Walban nodded, as if his behavior was not to show off his power, but to test the strength of his teammates.
After a while, the bonfire was burning and several people sat around it on the ground.
At Walban's suggestion, the two parties introduced themselves to each other, after all, they would have to work together to complete the task.
“People from Swamp Forest City reported that a strange plague had appeared there. It was highly contagious. At first, the plague only spread among wild beasts, causing them to become violent. Now, many ordinary people have developed similar symptoms. The situation is not optimistic.
In addition, wild beasts often attack caravans, which has affected the delivery of materials to the academy. If we are lucky enough, we might be able to encounter them tonight."
Wolfan simply stated the mission information. Generally speaking, this kind of situation occurred because of energy leaks from hidden laboratories, or buried experimental waste was unsealed, contaminating nearby beasts. They had dealt with this many times before.
However, the situation this time is a little special, so the people from the enchantment group were brought in.
He went on to say, "A strange pattern will appear on the head of the infected beast. It should be some kind of rune. We need the help of your enchantment team."
"We will take action."
Heidi came for this very reason, so she naturally wouldn't refuse.
On the side, Ivan looked at the two people discussing something and couldn't help but complain in his heart. There are tens of thousands of runes in the world, and one rune can be interpreted as countless kinds of line patterns according to different people's understanding. Just because they found a pattern that looks like a rune, they came here from afar. I'm afraid they have nothing better to do.
These two guys must be hiding some important information.
As the night deepened, there were sudden noises in the jungle. It was not difficult to notice that there were noisy sounds all over the jungle, and many wild animals were quickly approaching their campsite.
(End of this chapter)