Wizard Bloodline.

Chapter 73: Drowning
In just a few breaths, the sky was completely drenched in blood. The heavy and oppressive dark clouds slowly spread out like a huge solidified blood clot, and the strong scarlet color dripped down.
The Hoddam College, which was originally warm and peaceful with birds singing and flowers blooming, fell into a dark and gloomy atmosphere.

The noise and bustle in the academy seemed to disappear suddenly in an instant. Everyone in the academy stopped moving and looked up at the sky involuntarily.

Against the backdrop of scarlet blood, the faces of the tiny and fragile people are filled with astonishment and confusion, as well as the growing fear of the impending unknown disaster.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

In just a few seconds, the large scarlet blood cloud quickly surged up and soon condensed into an extremely huge blood ball, replacing the scorching sun, as if it had become a new blood sun.

"【Blood Dark Nova】!"

The cold and hoarse old voice was like a chilly wind coming from a gloomy ancient castle. At the same time as it sounded, the blood-red "sun" in the sky exploded and turned into a circular blood wave!
The rune array covering the Hoddam Academy shattered in an instant, the white core light ball of the array went out, and large swathes of blood surged down.
The entire academy fell into chaos in an instant.

Countless people were shouting and running, and in the mentor area, wizards like "little suns" flew high into the sky, with strong lights of various colors bursting out of their bodies.

A bloody giant hand dropped from the scarlet blood cloud, and figures in black robes flew out from behind the cloud.
Ronan stood in front of the beautiful little house with a blue roof, and suddenly saw the roof break open. Then a girl in a black wizard dress was dragged out and flew quickly into the sky.

The girl looked flustered and at a loss, with one hand pressing down the wizard hat on her head and the other holding a thick spell book.

The short hair was blown by the wind and scattered in a mess, and the exquisite crystal glasses slipped off the bridge of the nose.
Before leaving, she glanced at Ronan and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something to him, but she disappeared in a moment.

Even after the girl had completely left, Ronan had not yet fully recovered from the sudden change that had happened.

He was in the midst of an escalating chaos. He could smell the burning scent of magic gradually spreading in the air, and everything around him seemed very far away from him.

At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind that kept churning and rolling -

how
How come he suddenly disappeared just after he was promoted to an official wizard?

Laura stood in a huge room made up of countless brown and black vines, looking at the only narrow window above her head that let in sunlight, with an expressionless face.

"How long do you plan to keep me locked up?"

"That's up to you, Lola."

Another woman's voice was heard in the room. It sounded more mature and magnetic than Laura's, like the rustling of vine leaves in the wind.

"What did i do wrong?"

Laura's expression suddenly became ferocious, and green runes appeared on her palm-sized white face. "Is it wrong for me to avenge my dead husband?"

She yelled in one direction, "Even you don't believe me?!"

"I believe."

The voice said calmly, "The failure of that magic experiment caused your soul to be accidentally connected with Faol's.

It's normal for you to have some premonitions about his death that are incomprehensible to ordinary people."

"Then let me out now! Let me kill that despicable bug pretending to be innocent with my own hands!"

"Stop it, Lola!"

The woman’s voice suppressed Laura’s hysteria, with a hint of weariness and fatigue in her helplessness, “This accident has caused too much trouble.

You and Fao are just playing together. There is no love between you and him at all, and you are not a real couple at all.

All you have for him is a distorted desire for control and possession that was born out of a wrong bond. Have you forgotten that at first, he was the person you hated the most in the entire academy? You even felt dirty and disgusted when you breathed the same air with him.
Because of you, a large number of innocent people have died over the years, and there have been a lot of voices of dissatisfaction with you in the academy. Even as the dean, I cannot completely ignore this.

Let this all end here.

This is the best outcome for you and everyone else.”

"wrong!"

Laura listened to the woman's consoling voice and suddenly came to her senses at some point, "You hope that everything ends here. This is the result you want to see most, right?

You already knew who the real owner of the Corpse Garden was! It was you who deliberately arranged for Fao to lead the team! You did something to him.
You knew Faol would die, no matter by whose hands."

Laura became more and more emotional as she spoke, and finally turned into a loud question: "Answer me, is it true or not?!"

The rustling sound of the vine leaves in the wind stopped for a while. After a moment, the woman's voice sounded again, but this time there was less emotional fluctuation, and it became calm and indifferent.

"It seems that even if Faol dies and the connection between you and him is completely severed, the mark left on you will still take some time to dissipate."

"Shut up!"

Laura yelled to interrupt the woman, releasing extremely powerful mental fluctuations from her body. The dense green runes on her face lit up completely, her seaweed-like hair fluttered, and her whole body gradually floated in the air.

"I'm asking you one last time, are you going to let me out or not?"

"I want to avenge Fao! Anyone who wants to get close to him or hurt him must die!"

Laura's eyes were filled with coldness, distortion, and almost morbid paranoia, but her outburst did not receive any response. Only the small window above her head that let in the skylight kept closing.

"what!!"

Thick thorny vines grew out of Laura's back, madly attacking everything in sight.

After she continued to attack for a while
"Boom!"

The room she was in suddenly began to shake violently, as if it would collapse and split at any time.

This made Laura herself stunned for a moment, and an unexpected expression appeared on her face.

The next second, the entire prison-like room actually began to disintegrate, and a leaf shining with golden light flew quickly towards Laura, and she subconsciously grabbed it in her hand.

"Get out of here, Laura! No matter what you want to do, remember one thing - get out of here immediately, right now, the farther the better!"

The previously silent woman's voice sounded again, this time with a solemnity and urgency that Laura had never heard before.

Laura watched in astonishment as the vines that imprisoned her were quickly pulled away and then flew toward her head with a whistling sound.

The light from outside leaked in completely, but it was a blood-red color.

Chaotic and noisy sounds followed closely behind, and Laura soon saw with a moved expression the thick blood-red cloud covering the sky and the familiar dark green figure that had collided violently with the blood-red.

The sudden freedom, as well as the unexpected crisis and chaos, made Laura a little confused about what to do next.

But soon, the madness and paranoia that had briefly subsided came back again.

Laura's gaze became firm, with strong resentment and murderous intent emerging in her eyes. She locked onto a direction by instinct, let out a low whistle, and turned into a blurry green shadow that quickly disappeared into the sky.

"Damn you despicable bug!"

At the same time, in the chaotic academy, two figures suddenly shook their bodies and looked up at the sky, as if they had received some instructions. They left the battlefield without hesitation and chased after Laura's receding figure.

"Does a country wizard like you deserve to have the Key of Nirvana?"

"Get out!" "Bang!——"

The scarlet blood cloud covering the sky and the dark green vines that were like giant pythons collided fiercely. Countless vines were torn and stirred in the blood cloud. The energy aftermath of the spell collision lashed the ground like a huge whip, creating large areas of cracks and setting off a fierce hurricane. The sound of explosions and the angry screams of women came one after another.
Ronan looked at the horrifying scene before him that seemed to be about the end of the world. His scalp went numb. Without hesitation, he turned around and ran quickly in the direction away from the battle group.

This was a battle between powerful wizards of higher levels. Even though he was already a first-level official wizard, he was not qualified to participate.

In fact, Ronan had already seen several official wizards of the academy die at the hands of the scarlet blood cloud that blasted through the rune array.

Not only was there a mysterious person controlling the scarlet blood cloud, but there were also a large number of black-robed wizards pouring in. Fights and battles were happening everywhere, and the entire academy had now become a battlefield.
"Stay away from the center of the conflict first, and wait until things calm down before considering whether to come back."

As Ronan ran, thoughts raced through his mind.

He had no intention of "weathering the storm" with the academy. He had just been promoted and hadn't even learned a single first-level spell. It would be unwise to join a formal wizard-level melee in this state.

Moreover, he himself had no sense of belonging to the academy.

Hoddam College has always been superior to all the lower-level wizards. They regard wandering wizards as cannon fodder and drive them like cattle and horses. After joining the college, Ronan was treated coldly all the way because of his qualifications.
Just like he once said, he joined the academy just for the inheritance of becoming a formal wizard.

But he hasn't even got the inheritance yet, and you still want him to live and die with the academy and fight for it?
Go crazy.

Ronan ran quickly on the ground, his black robe and long gray hair flying behind him.

The rune formation above the academy was shattered, and the fog covering the academy also dissipated. Ronan left the academy and saw that the town area outside was in chaos. However, there was no sign of the black robes. It was just a large-scale riot caused by panic among the wandering gray robes who saw the academy being attacked.

Just like the chaotic night he had experienced.

"Why did the Forest of Death suddenly attack the academy?

Since they have the ability to directly destroy the magic circle and attack the enemy directly, how could this battle last for half a year?"

"Also, what is the Key of Nefa?"

Many doubts flashed through Ronan's mind, but at this time no one could answer them for him, and he didn't have the time to find someone to answer them.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Ronan quickly slipped into a small empty house.

He hurriedly took off his standard academy robe, put on an ordinary gray robe, and then walked out the door disguised as a wandering wizard, trying to blend in with the fleeing crowd and leave the town.

But after taking only two steps, Ronan realized something was wrong.

The area around him was completely empty. Everyone would rather squeeze into each other than get too close to him. They all walked around him deliberately with expressions of either fear or awe.

"That's stupid!"

Ronan then realized the powerful mental fluctuations that were naturally emanating from his body at all times.

It's like a shark suddenly rushing into a school of sardines. There's no way it can hide like this.

His eyes flickered, and Ronan quickly took out a magical tool similar to a broken mirror from his waist bag. He casually shone it on a level 4 wandering wizard next to him to replicate the other party's strength.

The aura of a formal wizard-level powerhouse was quickly concealed by the effect of the magic tool. This time the situation was much better. Ronan rushed into the crowd in a few steps and quickly blended in.

"call--"

A panicked figure quickly passed over the crowd, and the mighty force it carried caused the people fleeing below to look up.

"He is an official wizard of the academy."

Ronan, who was mixed in the crowd, looked at the figure quickly disappearing in the sky, his eyes slightly relaxed.

He felt relieved when he saw that he was not the only official wizard of the academy who had run away.

But before Ronan could relax for a moment, another figure exuding the aura of a formal wizard flew quickly across the sky.

As the figure passed by, a strong smell of blood was brought with it, and a spell similar to a blood ball was thrown down below.

The spell exploded in the dense crowd, causing screams and howls.

The latter saw the miserable plight of the crowd below and walked away laughing.

"It's the incoming black robes!"

Ronan gritted his teeth lightly.

The black robes that came later were obviously meant to hunt down the wizard from the academy who had escaped earlier.

It seems that being in the vortex, it is not easy to completely escape from the battle group.

Fortunately, he had just been promoted to the next level, and he chose to escape in a timely and decisive manner, otherwise he might have been targeted by others.
Thinking of this, Ronan walked quickly through the crowd with a cold face, and soon left the town. In the wilderness where countless black spots were running around like a collapsed ant nest, he randomly found a relatively less crowded direction and ran forward at full speed.

After completing the expert level proficiency of [Austerity Body Building], although he looked much older, his physique was still as strong as before, even much stronger than before.

His lean body moved as fast as a high-precision and complex machine, pushing him forward at an astonishing speed, directly raising a long wave of mud in the wilderness. If an uninformed person saw it, they might think that he was casting some earth-based spell.

As he ran, Ronan became more and more aware of the powerful vitality in his body that was hidden but difficult to release. It was nurtured in his limbs and bones, trying to break free at all times, but was firmly locked by something and could not be fully released.

Ronan ran to the edge of the wilderness, entered the forest, and ran for a while until he felt he was completely out of danger, then he stopped.

Stand in an open and high place and look in the direction you are coming from.

Ronan saw that at this moment, a large, thick blood cloud was suspended in the sky above Hoddam College. It seemed to be even bigger than before, and lightning-like blood lights kept falling from the cloud.

The dark green color belonging to the president of Hoddam College was almost invisible.

It can be seen that in this battle between powerful wizards of a higher level, the attacking black-robed wizard clearly had the upper hand.

Ronan felt heavy in his heart, not because he was worried about the academy, but because he was a little confused about what his future would be.

If he has already inherited the first-level spells and soul seals, it doesn't matter if he leaves now.

But the goddess of fate seemed to like playing tricks on him, and chose to let the catastrophe befall him at this time, even if it was three or five days later.

Grace under the blue roof, what a kind and warm-hearted little girl.
Ronan was confused for a moment. He withdrew his gaze and no longer looked at the academy.

I continued walking aimlessly into the forest, wondering where I should go next to stay for a while.

It is safe enough and can also help you understand the battle situation at the academy.
Suddenly, Ronan stopped.

The wind blew through the forest, and the leaves rustled.

Ronan slowly raised his head and saw a young man in a black robe and holding a short staff quietly floating in the air dozens of meters in front of him, looking down at him with interest.

"So, even if you are careful enough.
Did you still get targeted in the end?"

Ronan murmured softly, a few scattered white hairs on his temples were blown up by the wind, and his expression gradually calmed down.

(End of this chapter)