I really am a necromancer.

Chapter 244 Sealing Crisis
The Illuminati present all carried resonance stones, so Yihua didn't have to worry that everyone wouldn't be able to rendezvous with him.

Hearing Yihua's order, many Illuminati apprentices around asked for orders to act with Yihua.

Knowing that time is running out, Yi Hua bluntly said that the Illuminati apprentices present could not keep up with his speed.

Feeling Yihua's firm attitude, the rest of the Illuminati will decisively choose to obey Yihua's orders.

He carried no other items, only the cross sword "Pure Light" which was a quasi-fifth-level demonized item.

Yihua directly used the ghostly shadow of the third-class half-necromancer body to shuttle, and the figure disappeared in the sight of all the Illuminati apprentices present.
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Just when almost all the apprentices in the secret realm do not know, located in the depths of the secret realm world——

Accompanied by a huge amount of pitch-black energy, like a waterfall, it continuously flows down from the heights of this underground space.

Located in the center of the ancient witch formation that flickers on and off, and the luster is somewhat dim, the pitch-black heart is becoming more and more active.

Pfft!Pfft!Pfft!
A series of thunderous voices caused ripples on the edge of the witch formation.

Even though this ancient wizard array almost cut off all the power of the pitch-black heart, if a fifth-class wizard apprentice was present, he would still have a feeling of backflow of blood due to the subtle aura leaked from the heart.

An ordinary first- and second-class apprentice would explode and die the moment he felt the subtle breath leaking from his heart!

呲呲-pop!

Suddenly, there was a loud noise like a light bulb burning out.

I saw a witch formation node located on the outskirts of the ancient witch formation, accompanied by dazzling light, unexpectedly exploded under the impact of the pitch-black heart power in the center of the terrifying witch formation.

After a while, there was only a charred black crater where the node of the exploding witch formation was located.

The originally solid seal barrier here has become much weaker due to the damage to this witch formation node.

After a while, with the pitch-black heart beating again, some of the black air leaked from the heart broke through the seal directly, and escaped from the seal of the ancient witch formation!

The leaked black energy, after a brief pause, distorted and changed its shape, and instantly turned into hundreds of shadows of the dead, which were powerful enough among third-class people.

As if under some kind of order, these shadows of the dead in different shapes, transformed from black air, and turned into the appearance of the dead disappeared one after another, and it is unknown where they went.

The entire ancient witch formation has a total of nodes.

At this moment, most of the 36 nodes located on the outermost periphery of the ancient witch array have been eroded and overloaded by the power of the sealed jet-black heart, losing their original sealing effect.

According to the layout of this ancient witch array, the barrier formed by the outermost 36 nodes is the strongest among the five barriers made up of a total of nodes in the entire witch array.

Once the outermost first barrier is completely destroyed, it is only a matter of time before the remaining four sealing barriers are broken.

Even, judging from the current progress, it is not impossible to completely break the seal of the dark heart sealed in the ancient witch formation within three days of the apprentice exam!

Under normal circumstances, the nodes of the ancient witch formation should have an early warning effect when they are damaged.

As early as the first node was damaged, the outside world should have been noticed by the wizard responsible for maintaining the witch formation, and entered the secret world in time to repair and strengthen the witch formation.

But now, nearly a quarter of the nodes of the ancient witch formation have been damaged, and the outside world seems to have not sensed it at all, and still has not made any response to the damage of the nodes of the ancient witch formation...
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On the other side, around the giant lumenite vein where Rey, Gabriel and others were located, the battle with Melkor was still going on.

But now, at a glance, there are only mummified corpses of wizard apprentices scattered around the giant lumenite vein, and densely packed, riddled with holes and scorched grass.

Except for Melkor, who was still standing on the ground and seemed to be calm and composed, the remaining apprentices who were still alive were fully counted, and there were less than a hundred of them.

Melkor was clutching the neck of a dying apprentice.

I saw that with the force of Melko's palm, a large amount of scarlet energy gushed out from the mouth, nose and seven orifices of the dying young apprentice and merged into Melko's body.

As a large amount of scarlet energy left the body, the young apprentice who was struggling to his death, who was still strong and handsome, shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few seconds, the dying young apprentice turned into a haggard old man with age spots, thin body and hunchback.

This is not over yet, the young apprentice who has already turned into a dying old man is still aging at an alarming rate.

After a few more seconds, the young apprentice whose neck was held by Milko tilted his head and completely lost his vitality.

"Sure enough, fresh apprentices contain more power. Even if it is a dead body, the remaining power is less than half of that of fresh apprentices..."

Melkor let go of his hand, and a mummy that shrank to only half a man's height and less than one meter fell to the ground.

Snapped!
Looking at the group of apprentices who shattered and turned into dark red dry and hard fragments, who were still building witchcraft in the distance and were ready to continue to fight, their faces became even more ugly.

Ignoring the fear of the other apprentices towards him, Melko raised his head and said with a half-smile:

"156... Hehe, take your time, it will be your turn soon..."

After all, Milko reached out his hand again, grabbed a second-class apprentice from the crowd tens of meters away, and continued the previous process without any explanation.

The rest of the apprentices looked at Melko, who was absorbing the scarlet power from the corpses of the dead apprentices on the ground, and they were caught in a dilemma.

As early as the beginning, under the siege of many apprentices, Melkor killed dozens of apprentices by means of thunder.

However, after this, Melko did not continue his killing.

He seemed to have realized something, or had other plans, and stopped killing a large number of apprentices present.

Instead, one by one, like butchers in a slaughterhouse, randomly select apprentices from among the apprentices present, and kill them by devouring the scarlet power that seems to be related to life energy.

During this period of time, the apprentices locked by Melko will naturally not wait to die.

Many apprentices present, also under the leadership of Rey and others, launched several rounds of focused fire on Melko.

But with Melko's amazing speed and powerful strength, it was difficult for everyone to cause effective damage to Melko.

During this period, more than twenty third-class undead death guards under Enzo were also wiped out by Melkor like chopping melons and vegetables, at a speed that was not inferior to Yihua.

Rey, Gabriel and the others, out of fear of Melko, who is a third-class blood magician with a strong physique, did not dare to go up to close combat, and could only release witchcraft from a distance to support.

However, due to Rey's third-class soul-eating skull-flying witchcraft, the movement speed of the condensed soul-eating skull is slightly slower than that of Melkor.

As a result, even if Rey controls it with all his strength, only about one-tenth of the soul-eating skull can successfully hit Melkor in the end.However, the current Melkor seems to have even stronger defense at the soul level than before.

After surviving the five waves released by Rey and more than ten soul-eating skulls, the current Melkor is still full of energy, without any soul damage at all.

In the fierce battle, apart from Rey, Enzo, and Rapp, the last third-class apprentice present also lost the power to resist due to exhaustion of strength, and was captured by Milko. In the same way, It turned into one of the many mummies piled up around Melkor.

"Damn it!"

"How come...Melko, the monster, seems to be getting stronger and stronger!"

"That strange scarlet power... Could it be that he can absorb power from other apprentices?"

"Isn't that too exaggerated? Killing other apprentices can increase your strength? If it's really that simple, why do we apprentice wizards spend so much time meditating and accumulating spiritual power?"

"That's right, speaking of which, doesn't Melkor have the blood of the Shadow Serpent? Why isn't he using it in the apprenticeship exams today? In the previous academy competition, it seems that Melkor didn't use the scarlet power that he has now, right? "

Although, Melkor has not yet revealed the power of the shadow snake, and even the terrifying coercion of the extraordinary life that it originally carried seems to have disappeared now.

But right now, Rey had already given up thinking about this point.

At this moment, Rey looked at the scarlet power used by Melko in front of him, his pupils shrank, and he subconsciously connected what he saw and heard in Camilla City with it.

"Mirko, what you guys are using, is it the power of blood plague?"

Hearing Rey's words, Melko paused, then glanced at Rey, and said with a half-smile:
"It seems that your trash, although your strength is mediocre, your brain has not completely shrunk."

Even though Rey's hard power is not as good as today's Milko.

But at this time, Rey, as the strongest apprentice except Melkor after Enzo's strength was greatly damaged due to the lack of undead, it is not that Melkor can remain motionless and only rely on the arresting power exerted by waving. Can be easily taken.

Wanting to defeat Rey, who is desperately fighting, even Melkor, whose strength has skyrocketed compared to the college competition period, has to go through a battle.

Milko seemed to be aware of this, and planned to leave Rey as the last one to deal with.

Therefore, he did not rush to take down Rey. Instead, he slowly went from weak to strong, killing all the apprentices present one by one.

Hearing Melkor's affirmation, Rey's pupils trembled, and he recalled his previous experience and the words of Simon's mentor.

According to the information disclosed by Simon's tutor at that time, the beast tide in Fangorn Forest that attacked the college and the surrounding mortal gathering places at that time was artificially caused.

And the real culprit behind all this is a blood plague wizard!
It's a pity that the other party's fifth-class mentors from the academy went to Fangorn Forest to start the siege, and they left Fangorn Forest first.

Now, there is no news of the other party, and several fifth-class instructors in the academy have no clues about the other party's specific whereabouts.

But now, Melkor actually controls the power of the blood plague!
This does not mean that Melkor, who is a blood warlock in front of him, is the blood plague wizard.

Milkor's strength obviously couldn't match the Blood Plague wizard who was at least at the fifth-level instructor level and even reached the official wizard level at the Nine Rings White Tower Wizard Academy.

But just like Yihua and Rey's encounters in Rafael Baronie and the sewers of Camilla City, the blood plague wizard can give others the ability to temporarily control the blood plague.

Being able to use the power of blood plague, it is obvious that Melkor has an inseparable relationship with that blood plague wizard!
Suddenly, a possibility he couldn't believe flashed through Rey's consciousness.

"This...could it be said that you secretly colluded with wizards from other colleges?"

Rey's astonishing words, dozens of apprentices who survived around, including Gabriel and Enzo, all showed shocked expressions, subconsciously looking at Melko.

"Is this guy Melkor a traitor from another college?"

"What is his purpose of infiltrating the academy? Could it be to win the No.1 in the apprenticeship exam?"

"No! He is so blatant, isn't he afraid of being checked out and punished by the academy?"

"Then what is the purpose of him suddenly revealing his strength, taking the apprenticeship exam, and entering the secret world?"

Colluding with wizards from other colleges, especially wizards who are hostile to the Nine Ring White Tower, is a felony in this branch!

If Rey is true and Melkor cooperates with the enemy apprentice of the Nine Rings White Tower, then once exposed, the outcome waiting for him will definitely be death!
Obviously no one present would be left alive.

However, there is always a gap in the hundred secrets, why is Mirko so confident and uses the power of blood plague without any scruples.

Could it be that Melko deliberately chose to expose himself, or did he have a way to conceal it?

Obviously, in order to conceal the use of the power of the blood plague under the eyes of the other fifth-class mentors, there must be a fifth-class mentor or even a higher-level existence behind Melko!

Suddenly, he seemed to realize what the people present were thinking in their hearts, or they were hit by what Rey said just now.

Melkor, who was patiently devouring the remaining apprentices one by one, suddenly snorted coldly and said in a cold tone:
"I planned to let you live for a while, but I didn't expect you to like to think about it so much. It seems that in order not to be exposed, I can only completely absorb the power and get rid of you as quickly as possible!"

"you!"

Hearing that Melkor suddenly changed his mind, all the apprentices present were shocked and retreated subconsciously.

But before everyone left, Melkor's figure suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"what happened?"

"Where did that guy go?"

"Look, there he is!"

With a young apprentice pointing not far away, behind a group of apprentices.

The apprentices present looked at the position pointed by the young apprentice.

I saw that Melko, who was wearing a black robe, suddenly appeared in the group of apprentices at some point, pinching the neck of a female apprentice with long purple hair.

And that female apprentice was none other than Enzo, a third-class necromancer apprentice!

(End of this chapter)