Versatile Mage: Choose one of three Hexes at the start

Chapter 127 Climb Up!
As soon as Chen Ying finished speaking, everyone in the room looked at her with suspicion.

Even Mo Fan, who was having a friendly conversation with Old Wolf, stopped what he was doing.

"Sister, you seem to know this place very well. You can speak your mind directly. We can all trust each other." Zhao Manyan frowned and said to Chen Ying with a serious expression.

He had been wondering why his cousin, who was studying in the capital, would suddenly contact him after learning that he was coming to Zhuoyuan.

Now that Zhao Manyan heard how much Chen Ying knew about the fire calamity, he knew that she must be hiding something.

"I...I didn't," Chen Ying stammered.

However, she clearly wasn't used to lying, which was evident to everyone from her facial expressions.

Seeing this, Zhao Manyan gestured to the group, then pulled Chen Ying aside to do some persuasion.

Not long after, Zhao Manyan pulled Chen Ying, who had been looking down, back with him.

"I'm sorry, there are indeed some things I've been keeping from everyone."

Chen Ying first expressed her apologies, and then slowly recounted what had happened, "A relative of mine, she is now disfigured."

It turns out that Chenying's mother and her father had come to Zhuoyuan many years ago. However, in order to save her father, her mother was devoured by the Heavenly Tribulation Fire. Fortunately, because she had awakened the fire element, she survived and returned home a few years ago.

However, with her appearance ruined and her lover's indifference, she contemplated suicide. After hearing that the Fire Calamity Fruit could heal her mother's injuries, Chen Ying decided to risk coming here to find the Fire Calamity Fruit.

"I learned from my mother how to calculate the time of the Heavenly Tribulation, and also that the Fire Tribulation Fruit will only appear after the Fire Tribulation, and it seems that Yan Ji is the guardian of the Fire Tribulation Fruit."

At this point, Chenying revealed something that made Mo Fan extremely excited.

"I know the approximate location of the Fire Calamity Fruit."

Chen Ying's words made a glint of light flash in Su Chi's eyes. The reason he hadn't left the team was because he didn't know the exact location of the Star Language Tree.

He knew that the Star Language Tree grew in the central area of ​​the Scorching Plains, but the Scorching Plains were too large, and the Fire Calamity had not yet occurred, so he was not in a hurry.

Led by Chen Ying, Su Chi and the others arrived at the foot of a flat-topped mountain that stood vertically.

"The Fire Calamity Fruit grows on this flat-topped mountain?" Mo Fan asked Chen Ying, who was standing beside him.

“Yes, according to the terrain my mother described to me, the Fire Calamity Fruit grows on the top of this flat-topped mountain that rises abruptly in front of us.” Chen Ying nodded excitedly.

Her mother had mentioned to her that before returning to the family, she had always lived near this flat-topped mountain.

"But how are we going to get up there? This mountain is so high and so steep, I feel like even with my Winged Magic Gear, I can't fly to the top." Zhao Manyan raised his head, his gaze following the steep cliffs to the towering summit.

“I heard from my mother that this mountain is hollow inside, and there’s a crack at the bottom that leads into the interior. Let’s look for that crack first,” Chen Ying said.

Upon hearing this, Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan were about to set out to find the crack Chen Ying had mentioned when Su Chi stopped them.

"No need for that trouble, I have a way to get you up there."

Su Chi smiled slightly, and then, amidst the slightly puzzled gazes of the crowd, began to sketch a summoning constellation. One after another, moon-white star charts appeared around him, then quickly intertwined, slowly transforming the originally two-dimensional, dazzling patterns into a magnificent three-dimensional constellation.

As the moon-white constellation shone with endless brilliance, a dimensional gate appeared before everyone's eyes.

Da da da! ! !
A series of crisp stomping sounds came first from the other side of the crack.

Immediately afterwards, a group of kobolds riding stone-armored ibex, gripping sharp spears, and exuding a strong aura of blood rushed out of the portal.

These kobolds exuded the aura of warrior-level creatures, and not only that, even the stone-armored rams they rode were all at the warrior-level.

"Holy crap! Chi Zi, you can actually summon cavalry? But what's the point of summoning them?"

Before Su Chi could speak, Mo Fan, who was standing to the side, acted as if he was making a big fuss.

"Their mounts look a bit like ibex. Su Chi-ge probably wants them to drag us up there," Ye Xinxia said with a certainty.

"Climb up?" Mo Fan was taken aback.

Su Chi ignored Mo Fan and instead looked at Xin Xia, saying, "Xin Xia is smart, unlike some guy who's like a blockhead."

"How dare you talk about your own brother like that?!"

Seeing that Mo Fan was about to act silly again, Su Chi directly instructed, "Alright, stop wasting time. The fire calamity has been over for some time now, and I believe the forces in Dunhuang City should be arriving soon."

“Brother Su is right, we need to hurry.” Zhao Manyan climbed onto the back of a stone-armored ibex and then grabbed the groove in the armor of the kobold in front of him.

the other side.

A group led by a middle-aged man with his hair braided backwards is crossing the Shawang River without incident.

Behind the man, a person wrapped in white cloth sat on a chestnut-red desert fire horse, his dark eyes gazing at the distant horizon with anticipation.

Not long after the group left, a group of mages wearing Wei Fang medals on their chests also arrived, led by a female officer with a hooked nose.

“We need to speed things up.” Female officer Nan Yu noticed some traces left behind, indicating that someone had already gone ahead of them.

"Commander Nan Yu, what exactly is the use of this Fire Calamity Fruit? Why do the higher-ups insist that we find it?" an officer behind Nan Yu asked, somewhat puzzled.

In his view, with this time, they could find countless cultivation resources such as fragments of spirit seeds.

"The Fire Calamity Fruit has many uses. The simplest and most direct use is that it can be used as a synthetic material for condensing Soul-level Fire Seeds, and it can guarantee 100% success," Nan Yu explained.

"Soul-level Flame!!"

Upon hearing Nan Yu's words, the eyes of all the officers around him lit up.

Each Soul Seed is a treasure capable of increasing the power of its corresponding magic type by at least four times!
Natural soul seeds are extremely rare. The soul seeds that circulated on the market before were basically artificially synthesized, but the success rate was extremely low. But now, the Fire Calamity Fruit can guarantee 100% success. Doesn't that mean that as long as they obtain a Fire Calamity Fruit, they will obtain a soul seed?!
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's hurry on our way, Commander Nan Yu!!"

(End of this chapter)