Full-Time Magister: I can control you to death

Zhu Wang waved his hand, and Xu Fang quickly followed. The two ran quickly in the direction Wang Peng indicated.

"Fire Sizzle - Burn!" Xu Fang unleashed a flame, burning away the lush vegetation and revealing a spacious cave.

"Wind guide!" Zhu Wang blew a gust of wind into the cave to prevent the air from becoming too thin.

"Let's go." The two of them went into the cave one after the other, and Qianqian and Wang Peng immediately stood guard at the entrance.

The cave was very deep, and because of the lush vegetation, the walls on both sides were very damp, and water was dripping from the ceiling.

"This is a great burial site! We're going to make a fortune this time!" Zhu Wang exclaimed joyfully.

"There's a reason behind that?"

"Of course! Hard armor only exists in the habitat of burrowing lizards. Burrows that are left unused for a long time will dry out because there is no burrowing lizard droppings, making it difficult for plants to grow and the walls will not be moist."

Xu Fang smirked: "So, the wetter the better?"

"The damper the better!"

Damn, I feel like we're not on the same wavelength...

"Roar!" Just then, an angry roar came from the cave, and a head the size of a basketball poked out from around the corner.

"open···"

"Fire!" The crimson star trails transformed into flames, and the cave lizard's head was instantly cooked.

The air was filled with the aroma of barbecue.

"Uh..." Zhu Wang opened his mouth, caught off guard by this turn of events.

"What are you standing there for? Come on." Xu Fang called out to him, and Zhu Wang finally reacted and quickly followed, feeling inexplicably like he was there to help out.

The three lizards remaining here are all females, fighting desperately against two uninvited guests to protect their young.

Xu Fang wasn't that kind of cruel person. He took the whole family, adults and children, together, and planned to burn the father of the child there as well, so that the whole family could be together.

Soon, the two reached the deepest part of the cave.

"So many!?" Zhu Wang was overjoyed to see the armor scattered on the ground. He quickly emptied his backpack and put the armor inside.

Looking at the corpses of several cave lizards, Xu Fang asked, "Can't we use their hard armor? Or do we have to use the kind that they shed?"

"Of course not!" Zhu Wang said casually while packing. "The hard armor on the cave lizard is the real treasure, but it's too troublesome to skin it. What if a male lizard traps us in the cave?"

"That's it..."

Xu Fang seemed to be deep in thought.

Soon, Zhu Wang packed up the hard armor, and the two quickly returned along the way they had come.

Before even reaching the cave entrance, they could feel the magical energy fluctuations in the air, as well as the magical chanting of Qianqian and the others.

"Ice Vines - Freeze!"

"They're charging at us! Wang Peng, push these beasts out!"

"Okay, ground wave—slow down!"

"Fangfang, watch out! Water Guardian! Damn it, we're surrounded! Hasn't the captain come up yet?"

The rest of the team members are struggling against the demons' onslaught, but their attributes mean they don't even have the ability to perform gua sha (scraping therapy).

"Roar!"

A burrowing lizard broke free of the ice vines and roared as it charged towards Qianqian. Although Qianqian was a veteran of countless battles, her mind went completely blank when a demon charged straight at her.

"Water Control! Water Control!!!" Liu Xiao tried his best to connect to the star track, but he had just used a spell to save Fangfang and was still in a cooldown state.

at this time.

"Fire and Bone Burning!"

A fireball, moving at an incredible speed, poured into the burrowing lizard's gaping mouth. The burrowing lizard's charge came to an abrupt halt, and white smoke continued to drift out from the gaps in its hard armor.

It's Zhang San!

Fangfang cheered.

Qianqian quickly took two steps back, panting heavily with lingering fear, and looked at Xu Fang with a complicated expression.

She never expected that the person she had previously disciplined would save her life at the last minute.

Xu Fang... he was looking at the cave lizard.

"No wonder it can be used to make armor and magic tools, it's really tough." Xu Fang exclaimed. He had fed the giant-eyed rat the same way before, and that big treasure didn't leave a single rat scrap.

Killing this thing always gave Xu Fang the feeling of steaming buns in an iron pot.

"You guys leave first and clear the space," Xu Fang instructed. Without hesitation, everyone turned and left quickly.

Fire mages excel at wide-area attacks, leaving their opponents helpless and restricted.

"They've all left..."

Xu Fang turned around, looked at the several burrowing lizards that had chased after him, and smiled kindly: "Next, it's our turn to have some fun."

Chapter 23 Hot Spring

As evening approached, the sunset painted the sky red, and the Yangcheng Hunter Alliance welcomed its evening rush hour.

"How can this not be considered a vital essence? It's just slightly flawed, so why is it being counted as a remnant essence?"

"Why should we change our success rate! When we arrived at the location, his brother had already been devoured by demons. That doesn't mean our rescue operation failed!"

"I contributed the most this time, so I'll take 30% of the total bounty. No objections, right?"

"You son of a bitch! How dare you say such shameless things?"

The hall was noisy and chaotic. The hunters and their employers were arguing and bickering loudly on the surface, but in reality, they were haggling back and forth over the price.

A group of people walked in, and upon seeing them, the hall suddenly fell silent, with people whispering amongst themselves as they watched them.

"It's the Flame Squad!"

"Is that the only demon-hunting team in the entire Yang City led by a mid-level fire mage?"

"Yes, the other mid-level mages either joined the army or were recruited by the various families."

"I really want to join too..."

"Forget it. Their minimum standard for recruiting team members is Level 3 of the Beginner Rank. Do you have that kind of ability?"

Noticing the gazes directed at him from both sides, Ma Zhuang of the Fire Squad instinctively puffed out his chest. He felt a surge of pride, a feeling the Flying Tigers couldn't give him.

After Run joined the Fire Squad, although he could only do odd jobs like clearing out soldiers and saving the captain's mana, and was looked down upon and ostracized by his teammates, and the pay and benefits weren't as good as advertised... but he was free!

"My decision was right. If I had stayed in this small place like the Flying Tigers, my life would have been over!" Ma Zhuang thought to himself, straightening his back even more.

"Wow!"

"I go···"

"That's awesome!"

A gasp rippled through the crowd. Ma Zhuang instinctively raised his head, only to quickly realize that people weren't looking at him at all, but rather—behind him.

Turning around, Ma Zhuang's expression froze.

His former teammates each carried a bulging backpack and dragged two climbing ropes, the other end of which was tied with the armored armor of a burrowing lizard.

The surprise and satisfaction on his face were like that of a seasoned investor who had just landed a big fish, passing by his home three times without going in, eager to show it off to everyone.

"Hold on, hold on a little bit. There's too much blood, it's made the floor dirty. There's nothing we can do about it, these armors were all peeled off fresh. We'll clean them up later!"

Liu Xiao apologized everywhere, and everyone was internally cursing and feeling incredibly jealous.

"No, I can't carry it!" Fangfang exclaimed. "It's so heavy, I can't even use the air conditioning system anymore!"

Although the others weren't as flamboyant as these two, they also had smiles on their faces, including Ice Girl Qianqian.

"Hey, isn't this Ma Zhuang? Haven't seen you for a few days, how's it going?" Liu Xiao, with her sharp eyes, immediately spotted Ma Zhuang, whose face looked like he was constipated.

Ma Zhuang wanted to slip away, but someone called him out, so he forced a smile. He couldn't lose face, especially not in front of his former teammates!

"Every hunter in Yangcheng knows the strength of the Fire Flame Squad. But you guys..." Ma Zhuang glanced at their haul: "You were lucky. You ran into demons fighting amongst themselves and picked up a bargain."

"Hey, what bargain are you talking about?" Liu Xiao laughed loudly. "It's just that I got a more reliable fire mage. Don't laugh."

Ma Zhuang: "..."

"Liu Xiao!" Zhu Wang called out from the front desk.

"Sorry, my captain doesn't allow me to talk to strangers, so I'll be going now." Liu Xiao hurried after him, leaving Ma Zhuang in a state of helpless rage.

Front desk.

"Hahaha, you can't imagine how disgusted that bastard looked, like he'd just eaten shit. I felt so good!" Liu Xiao vividly described Ma Zhuang's expression to everyone.

Qianqian said calmly, "It has nothing to do with you. Zhang San killed all the demons."

“It’s all the same. Zhang San is one of our team members, so if you look at it that way, I’m the one who killed him.” Liu Xiao chuckled and said, “Qianqian, why don’t you just take him down? He saved your life anyway, so Zhang San will really be one of our team members.”

"Shut up!" Qianqian immediately lost her composure, her ears turning red beneath her hair.

Ma Zhuang, who witnessed all of this from afar, was even more heartbroken. He had pursued Qianqian before, but the girl never gave him a chance and always rejected him outright.

But that new fire mage doesn't seem that handsome either. With his hat and mask covering him up so tightly, he's probably ugly too!

this side.

"Our reward this time is 3.2 million. The Zhang brothers contributed the most, so they will receive 1.6 million. The rest of us will split the rest equally," Zhu Wang said.

Liu Xiao was the first to speak: "I have no objection."

"Me neither, I just happened to be there," Fangfang said with a grin.

Wang Peng and Qianqian, both quiet types, nodded without saying a word.

Zhu Wang laughed and said, "Then it's settled. Brother Zhang, send me your bank card number and I'll transfer the money to you."

"Please keep this for me first, and we'll settle the accounts together at the end." Xu Fang's card hadn't been replaced yet.

"That works too," Zhu Wang suggested. "We had a great harvest today, so I'll treat everyone tonight. Let's find a place to celebrate."

"Great! Long live the captain!" Fangfang exclaimed excitedly. "Shall we go to the newly opened hot spring hotel in the north of the city? I heard their natural hot springs are good for beauty and skincare!"