Wizard: Starting from Escaping Another World to Pioneering

Once inside the tunnel, Matthew quickly caught up with the crystal beast.

But instead of killing it, he placed a magical mark on its body.

To eradicate this crystal beast, its lair must be eliminated.

He planned to let the crystal beast escape and track it all the way to its lair.

The underground passage wound its way through the air, and Matthew followed closely behind the crystal beast, occasionally putting pressure on it.

After an unknown amount of time, guided by the crystal beast through a winding path, he finally arrived at the exit of the tunnel.

Matthew looked at the wall and found many signs of disturbance, indicating that the Crystal Beast had recently dug it out.

Without much hesitation, he emerged from the tunnel and entered a spacious underground space.

"Clang—clang—", countless scrap metal scraping sounds entered his ears.

That was the sound of crystallizing beasts gnawing; their food source was various ores from underground veins.

Matthew's intrusion quickly attracted the attention of the crystal beasts, who all stopped what they were doing.

All eyes turned to him, their beastly pupils glowing red, determined to tear this intruder to shreds!

Matthew frowned. According to the information provided by the school, there should be a large crystal beast nest near the Moon Tear Crystal Mine.

There were only a few dozen crystal beasts in this space, far fewer than he had expected.

"Why is there only such a small quantity?"

"Could it be that the school's intelligence was wrong?"

Before Matthew could think any further, the swarm of crystal beasts had already launched an attack on him.

Several crystal beasts leaped into the air, burying their heads in their bodies, their hard crystals bulging high on their backs, and slammed down on him.

Without hesitation, Matthew immediately channeled his magic into his palm.

Thirty-six fire runes instantly appeared and quickly combined to construct the spell model.

"Crack—crack—", cracks appeared on the spell model, intertwining to form a fine crack pattern.

The next moment, a giant fiery hand radiating scorching heat burst forth from the runes.

A giant flaming hand, carrying terrifying heat, grabbed at the incoming crystal beast.

"Sizzle—sizzle—"

The crystal beasts were scorched by the high temperature, their flesh instantly turning black and emitting wisps of white smoke before crashing heavily to the ground.

Seeing this, the remaining crystal beasts not only did not retreat, but instead became even more ferocious and launched an attack on Matthew.

However, Matthew was extremely fast. He weaved through the beasts and occasionally used his magic to cast [Burning Hand].

In no time, the group of crystal beasts had been completely wiped out, turning into piles of black charcoal lying on the ground.

"This mission was simpler than I expected. I didn't expect to destroy the lair of these crystal beasts on the first day."

"All that's left is to deal with the remaining stragglers and repair the rune nodes, and this mission will be complete."

Putting the task aside for the moment, Matthew pondered what to do next.

He needs to go to the Harrison family to obtain a method for simultaneously fusing two bloodlines.

The Harrison family's residence is not in the capital, but in the province of Merle, which is quite far from here. It would take at least ten days for an ordinary person to travel there on horseback.

However, given the speed at which the alchemical spiders rented by the school could travel there and back in just one night, he planned to go there tonight.

Pulling himself out of his thoughts, Matthew didn't leave immediately. Crystal beasts feed on ores, so this nest should contain quite a bit of ore.

He looked around and then began searching the area.

【Name: Moon Tear Crystal】

【Name: Moon Silver Jade】

【Name: Vein Agate】

"Huh, there's an Earth Crystal!"

This type of moon tear crystal has good magical conductivity and is often used to be embedded in witchcraft staffs as a medium for magical power.

Matthew weighed the earth crystal in his hand. This earth crystal was worth at least 200 magic stone fragments. "What a pleasant surprise!"

Under the system's scan, he found quite a few useful magic ores here.

"It's time to go back."

After packing his things away, he leaped into the tunnel and returned the way he came.

A moment later...

"Lord Matthew!" Kaman bowed respectfully as Matthew appeared.

Matthew nodded noncommittally. "I've destroyed the Crystal Beasts' lair. You just need to stay here and clean up any remaining ones."

"Yes!" Kaman replied with a look of reverence, watching Matthew's departing figure.

The crystal beast that had caused the kingdom so much suffering was dealt with so easily. Is this the difference between wizards and mortals? Matthew returned along the mine tunnel and quickly found a damaged rune node.

He stopped to examine it and found that a small piece of the edge of the rune node had been gnawed away, which had also damaged the magic circuit on it.

However, this level of damage is not difficult to repair.

Matthew immediately took out the rune tools and began the repair work, which lasted until nightfall.

By the end of the day, he had repaired four rune nodes. According to his estimate, it would take about twenty days to repair all the rune nodes.

Late at night...

Matthew stopped what he was doing and stretched lazily.

"Judging by the time, it's already night; it's time to head to the Harrison family."

He put the rune items into his storage space and headed towards the exit.

"Clang, clang, clang—", the sound of metal being struck never stopped in the mine.

When Matthew returned along the way, he found the miners still chiseling at the Moon Tear Crystal. Their expressions were numb, and they mechanically repeated the actions in their hands.

Their appearance would probably make even the cattle and horses of Earth weep.

Matthew emerged from the mine, and the guards immediately stepped forward and saluted, "Lord Matthew!"

He nodded casually and, amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, entered the cockpit of the Metal Spider.

A gust of wind swept by, sending the guards staggering. By the time they regained their footing, the metal spider had vanished from their sight.

The information Tom provided clearly marked the location of the Harrison family mansion.

Matthew input the coordinates into the control crystal and began his meditation for the day.

The metal spider was operating at full speed, heading towards the province of Mel.

……

Two hours later...

Matthew entered the Harrison family mansion with ease.

Despite the tight security and constant patrols, no one was able to find him.

The Harrison family mansion is very large, and it would take quite a while to search it.

However, the information Tom provided was very detailed, even including markings of the internal structure of the place.

Matthew's eyes swept across the intelligence map, searching for valuable locations.

His first target was to mark the building where Eamon, a mid-level apprentice, was believed to be located.

Although the other party was only a mid-level apprentice, this was, after all, a family with a long tradition of apprenticeship.

So Matthew remained extremely vigilant, constantly on guard along the way.

At the same time, the system will open and frantically scan the surrounding environment.