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Chapter 8 The Skeleton Warhorse (for further reading)

When Li Cha went downstairs wearing a light leather armor, he found that his brother, father, and mother were already accompanied by a black-robed man holding a crystal ball scepter.

The man in the black robe has a handsome face, and the black hair looks very young, but the deep eyes make people feel that he has rich experience, and his temperament is unique and mysterious. There is a very striking mark of white skulls on the left chest of the robe. Li The police guessed that this should represent the school or level to which the man in black belonged.

The man in black spoke, with a slightly feminine voice: "You are Richard? I am Seles, a wizard from the Ignis School, and your grandfather once saved my life!
Your father has already told me about your situation, I can accept you as a disciple, but
Before starting, I still want to remind you that the path of a wizard is far more difficult than you imagined, especially since your aptitude is not very good at present.

So, Li Cha, it's too late for you to regret it now. "

"I don't regret it!" Li Cha shook his head firmly, seeing that Seles, who should be his grandpa, even older than his grandpa, was so young.

Li Cha became more determined to become a wizard. Judging from Seles' appearance, this would at least allow him to live for more than a hundred years.

If you don't fight for it, you'll be in vain!

Upon hearing this, Celes, the black-robed wizard, smiled slightly, as if there was some kind of approval.

"Then we're off!"

As soon as the voice fell, Seles began to recite the spell softly. At the same time, the fist-sized crystal ball on the top of the short staff in his hand instantly emitted a dazzling green light. After projecting on the ground, it directly showed A huge inverse pentagram circle.

A few seconds later, a tall skeleton horse emerged from the ground!
The skeletal warhorse has a complete skeleton, showing a warm and jade-like luster. After being summoned by Seles, it even rubs against Seles's robe intimately.

There is a circle of green phosphorous fire burning on each of the four bone hooves, and it kicks twice from time to time, and then there is a long hiss, the god horse is abnormal, like a living thing!
This stunned the baron's family present.

And Li Cha's mother, the baroness, almost fainted from fright.

Li Cha's heart trembled when he saw it. He had never eaten pork, so he hadn't seen a pig run away!

Skeleton horse, this is clearly a necromancer.

The black-robed wizard Seles in front of him is humble!

But no matter what department, Li Cha has already boarded the "thief ship".

While looking envious, Li Cha also thought to himself, when will he reach this level!
When Li Cha came back to his senses, Seles was already sitting on the tall skeleton horse, and stretched out his hand to Li Cha, "Come on."

"Okay, Your Excellency!" With a leap, Li Cha dexterously climbed onto the skeleton horse, and sat firmly behind Seles.

The baron stuffed a heavy bag into Li Cha's arms, "Take this."

When Li Cha touched it, judging from the raised shape of the bag, it was obviously gold dinars. The bag was full, at least a hundred pieces, and he was inexplicably moved.

Father as a mountain!

"Hurry up, we're leaving." Seles waved his hand to greet Richard's family.

On the other hand, Li Cha firmly grasped the corner of Seles' clothes, turned his head and said to his family: "Father, mother, brother, take care, I'm leaving!" Out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see his room on the second floor , that familiar figure was also standing by the window watching him.

The scene of parting with family members is always sad!

As the skeleton horse began to accelerate gradually, after running out of the castle gate, the speed increased rapidly.

At first, Li Cha could still feel the tremor when the skeleton horse was running, but after a while, he couldn't feel it anymore.

Li Cha was amazed and looked down. It turned out that the skeleton horse, the four horseshoes burning with green phosphorous fire, had actually been about to centimeters off the ground.

It turned out to be running in the air, no wonder it was so smooth!
As time passed, the skeletal horse was like a flash of lightning, and the sound of the wind in Li Cha's ears became louder and louder. His eyes observed the scenery on both sides, and he retreated backwards like flying.

After an unknown amount of time, the black-robed wizard Seles drove the skeletal horse to slowly slow down.

It was only now that Li Cha could see his surroundings clearly. They had already arrived at a dark forest filled with mist. The ground was densely covered with shrubs, vines and weeds, and there were also small swamps from time to time.

"Li Cha, we will be there soon. Not far ahead is the residence of the Ignis School. It is also one of the places with the highest concentration of dark elements in the mud swamp. It is very suitable for the practice of shadow and undead wizards."

"The silt swamp? Teacher, is it said to be the site of the First World War more than 1000 years ago, the silt swamp that gradually evolved from the bloody ancient battlefield?" Richard asked curiously.

Before that, Li Cha saw a description in a bard's travel notes, which was about the mud swamp.

"Hey, I didn't expect you to know. That's right, this place used to be an ancient battlefield." Seles turned to look at Li Cha approvingly.

As the two walked and chatted, the environment in front of them became worse and worse. If it weren't for the skeletal horses knowing the direction to go, ordinary people might have fallen into the swamp and quagmire on the side.

From time to time, in the swamps on both sides of the path, there would be wild beasts such as sharp-toothed crocodiles watching them.

Perhaps the beast's keen perception sensed that the man in black was not easy to mess with, and after following the road for a long time, he voluntarily gave up.

Li Cha thought in his heart that it would be best if some wild beasts could attack him secretly, so that he could see Seles' combat power as a necromancer.

Occasionally, there are gray figures, flashing past in the gray forest in front, at an extremely fast speed, like a ghost, if ordinary people see it, they will definitely be terrified.

After a while, the two of them passed through a gray forest, and what they saw was a large pile of rocks.

The black and gray smog in the sky shrouded the entire area like a ghost.

"We have arrived."

After speaking, Seles jumped off the skeleton horse first, and Li Cha also dismounted immediately.

I didn't see what Seles did, only heard the neighing of the skeleton war horse.

On the ground where it was standing, a green pentagram circle suddenly appeared, and the entire body of the skeleton warhorse slowly sank into the ground until it disappeared completely.

Celes walked in front of a big rock, probably feeling a creature approaching, and the stone instantly came to life.

For a moment, Li Cha was taken aback!

A mouth with fangs suddenly protruded from the surface of the stone, and it shouted loudly in the common language: "If you want to enter, just say the password or put your hand in, let me lick it!"

"Shadow of Ignis!" Seles said in a deep voice.

The big mouth of the fangs suddenly enlarged further, forming a hole with a diameter of about three meters, and Celes stepped in with his legs raised.

Li Cha immediately followed suit and entered smoothly.

After entering, Li Cha discovered that there was something hidden inside.

It seems that the pile of rocks he saw outside should be some kind of phantom witchcraft or blinding magic circle.

As Li Cha walked and watched, he found that the entire Ignis School occupies a vast area, and there are continuous buildings on the ground, most of which are made of a black-gray facade material similar to marble.

The overall style is very simple and solemn, and the architectural style is a bit similar to the Roman style of Richard's previous life, a little more square.

Li Cha kept turning left and right following Seles while looking around by himself.

Everything in front of me is so novel.

It is very likely that he will live and study here for quite a long time.

Along the way, I hardly met anyone, probably because it is already late at night, and it will be dawn in a while.

In the end, Richard followed Seles to a two-story building.

The facade of the small building is also the same as other buildings of the school, all of which are black and gray marble.

Seles raised his hand and waved lightly, and in an instant, more than a dozen wall lamps in the corridor on the first floor were automatically lit.

"Li Cha, you go to the second room on the first floor to rest. Tomorrow morning, someone will take you to go through the entrance test and related procedures. Go and rest."

After speaking, Seles went up to the second floor.

"Okay, mentor." Li Cha leaned forward slightly in greeting.

Long before he came, he had expected the situations he might encounter in the dark wizard school, such as the mentor's eccentric personality, indifference or tyranny, and so on.

But from the current point of view, the mentor in front of him is very good.

Judging from Richard's previous life experience, he feels that Seles is not the kind of tyrannical necromancer, but the kind of wizard who is obsessed with his own research.

The other party's expression is indifferent and not good at talking, maybe it's just because he doesn't care much about people or things that have nothing to do with research.

(End of this chapter)