Versatile Mage: A random forbidden spell every month

After the flood, the entire desert rift became silent, and some corpses buried on the surface could be seen along the way.

It seems that the debris flow is also an unpredictable natural disaster for the creatures living here.

"There are a lot of corpses ahead." said Tommy, who was in charge of finding the way.

"There's nothing strange about the corpse." said Gavin, the regiment commander.

"It's human."

"Oh, that's nothing strange."

Gavin still didn't care. It was normal to have casualties in Tianshan. Their Mailon Mercenary Group had suffered quite a few casualties.

"These people were not killed by the flood. They should have avoided the flood like us, but we don't know why they died."

Tommy glanced at the deputy leader, Kuma, and continued.

"He was killed by some demon." Gavin said impatiently.

"No obvious signs of death were found."

"Maybe it's poison." Kuma didn't take it seriously either.

"Yeah, I think so too. Since they died on our way forward, it means we may encounter them next time," said Tommy.

After the team in front stopped, Li Xingze and his group behind them had to stop moving forward as well.

"What's going on? Why did it stop for no reason?"

Jiang Yu glanced at the team in front and said with a puzzled look on his face.

“It’s likely that he encountered something.” Nanjue said.

Not long after, the team continued to move forward. After they had walked for a distance, they saw some frozen bodies.

“Did these people freeze to death?”

Zhao Manyan said something very stupid. A mage's physique is much stronger than an ordinary person, and this temperature is not enough to freeze a mage to death.

Everyone just rolled their eyes at Zhao Manyan and didn't mock him. They were also very confused.

There are no wounds on these bodies. If they didn’t freeze to death, what could have been the cause?
"The cause of death was suffocation, but I can't find what caused the suffocation."

After examining the body, Lingling looked up at Li Xingze and said.

“Poison?” Nan Jue made a guess.

"It's not poison, it's more like altitude sickness." Li Xingze said.

"what?"

Nan Jue was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and thought about it carefully. This was indeed very much like death from suffocation caused by altitude sickness.

"Everyone's physique is different. Some people cannot adapt to the climate in Tianshan. You can say it is a curse."

Li Xingze explained that this kind of altitude sickness could not be cured by healing magic. These people were most likely abandoned by the team and then buried in the Tianshan Mountains.

If it was just altitude sickness, it would be difficult to take a mage's life, but human nature cannot stand the test.

Having these few people as a burden will inevitably affect the team's speed, and they will naturally be abandoned.

“I see. I thought there really was something strange in Tianshan.” Zhao Manyan said.

After hearing Li Xingze's explanation, everyone suddenly realized that Li Xingze had been to Tianshan twice, so naturally he knew more than they did.

Following the route opened up by the flood and rock flow, everyone successfully walked out of the desert layer and began to enter the meadow layer.

After arriving at the meadow layer, everyone looked around and saw green mountains and green land, ethereal, holy, beautiful and spectacular!
The meadow layer is covered with thick vegetation everywhere, and there is no doubt that there are more creatures living there, including quite a few poisonous species.

In a place like this, everyone was eager to leave as soon as possible, because no one knew whether a demon would suddenly jump out from somewhere.

At this moment, the team in front stopped.

“Damn it! Why did they stop again? Could there be another dead body ahead?” Zhao Manyan couldn’t help but curse when he saw the team ahead stopped.

"It seems that the mercenaries ahead are beginning to suffer from altitude sickness."

Ai Jiangtu went to the front to check the situation, then returned to the team and said with a serious face.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but think of the bodies they had encountered before.

"How are they going to deal with it?" Li Xingze asked.

".Let them move freely."

Ai Jiangtu was silent for a moment, then spoke with a somewhat grim expression.

It is called free action, but in fact it means throwing them out of the team. Leaving the team under such circumstances will only lead to the same fate as those corpses.

"Isn't this just letting them die?"

Mu Nujiao frowned slightly, unable to accept this cruel reality.

"Tsk, mercenaries are mercenaries. In their eyes, the lives of their teammates are far less important than the mission."

Li Xingze said calmly, obviously having guessed this result.

“What should we do? Just let them die?” Mo Fan said.

"What else can we do? Anyway, this is the business of the Mailong Mercenary Group. We'd better not get involved."

Xu Zhaoting said very coldly.

Mages die in this world every day. Since you have chosen to join the Mailon Mercenaries and come to Tianshan to carry out this mission, you should be prepared.

“I think what Lao Xu said is right. We should just take care of ourselves.” Zhao Manyan agreed.

"Before these mercenaries came, they signed a life and death agreement. If they die on the road, their commission will be given to their relatives without any reduction. This is their own choice."

Jiang Yu also said calmly.

Ai Jiangtu sighed. Since the captain and others said so, he naturally didn't want to meddle in other people's business.

The team began to move forward, and as the altitude gradually increased, the oxygen became thinner and thinner.

“Hmph!”

“Hmph!”

Guan Yu suddenly found that his nose was blocked, so he started breathing through his mouth.

"Guan Yu, you didn't get tricked, did you? Brother Ze, should we abandon him like those mercenaries?"

Zhao Manyan noticed something was wrong with Guan Yu and made a joke out of the blue.

"I'm fine."

Guan Yu immediately became furious. He was really worried about being abandoned. After all, when he was in the Guofu team, he had mocked Zhao Manyan.

"Old Zhao, look how scared you are of him. Guan Yu, how do you feel?" Mo Fan asked.

"I'm a little out of breath. I'm so tired and it's hard to breathe."

Guan Yu's steps were a little shaky, and he sat down on the stone moss beside him, and then his lungs began to rise and fall violently.

"I'm also feeling a little uncomfortable." Ai Jiangtu said.

"Me too." Lingling said weakly.

Li Xingze immediately turned around and saw Lingling's little face was as pale as frost and snow, her little lips opening and closing like a stranded fish trying hard to breathe through its gills.

Li Xingze reacted quickly, immediately stepped forward and held Lingling in his arms, then used a horse talisman to remove the negative effects on her.

"Something came in, warm and comfortable." (End of this chapter)