Full-Time Magister: What kind of demonic tree is this? It's clearly a sacred tree!

Chapter 162 Miasma Lake Valley

The hazy, murky sky twisted strangely, looking like a huge, dark oil painting imprinted overhead, with an unreal quality.

The land is rugged and undulating, with towering, inexplicably abrupt mountain peaks, a dark forest stretching across the horizon, a river flowing against the current, and a long valley echoing with heart-pounding cries—

Zhang Chen looked around and felt a strange feeling that was hard to describe.

Although this environment has mountains, water, and sky, it feels like some illogical painter randomly pieced these scenes together in one place, which is very different from the visual coherence of real nature!

"This must be a private space! I thought I was in the wild!" Zhang Chen wasn't entirely unfamiliar with this strange world.

When I first entered the world beneath the Abyss of Fiends, it was just as strange and made me feel uncomfortable all over. Fortunately, the sky here, apart from looking a bit out of place, is not as composed of a sea of ​​corpses as the Abyss of Fiends.

Amidst the sea of ​​corpses and the sky, Mo Fan still felt lingering fear as he recalled the scene beneath the Abyss of Fiends!

Independent spaces all have an end. If one were to stand at a high place, one could see the end of this independent world at a glance. Furthermore, the organizers would not choose an infinitely large area for the students to use as the venue for the treasure hunt. It would be difficult for them to guarantee the safety of the students, let alone keep track of what was happening inside.

"Eating~~~!!"

A few eagle cries came from above. Mo Fan raised his eyes and glanced at the eagle circling about a hundred meters above him.

"So that's a drone equipped with a camera?" Zhang Chen looked up and gave the eagle a dashing smile.

The Eye Eagle is also a type of demonic tool widely used by the Special Operations Department. Similar to the Evil Eye Bronze Mirror, it can transmit everything the Eye Eagle sees through light magic and display it on the instrument, turning it into an image.

Since this is a competition witnessed by people all over the world, the treasure hunt cannot be left for the trainees to run around in a separate space. These eagles provide the best live broadcast effect, allowing people to see the trainees' performance here through them.

These eagles were naturally set up well in advance, and they will closely follow the trainees, serving as cameras on one hand and ensuring the trainees' safety on the other.

However, a competition is still a competition. Even though this is a very close-to-the-wild environment, it has definitely been arranged by the organizers and bears some traces of human intervention.

It's just unknown how many demons reside in this isolated space; these creatures are definitely the ones that threaten the students' lives.

Zhang Chen communicated directly with Bi Fang using his mental power, asking, "Aunt Jiang Feng, where is the most powerful demon in here?!"

There must be the most powerful demons guarding the treasures around. Presumably, the reason why the treasures before number thirty-two were not taken was partly because the guardian demons were too powerful. So, it's enough to let Aunt Jiang Feng experience the most powerful demons in the treasure-hunting area.

Bi Fang's voice echoed in Zhang Chen's mind: "There is a mountain range behind you, and the most powerful demon is at the end of the mountain range!"

But that was a monarch!

"Hmm!? Could it be that I've been here too long and gotten promoted? Aunt Jiang Feng, if it attacks me, please help me!"

As Zhang Chen spoke, pure white wings unfurled behind him, and he instantly shook off the eagle above his head, flying swiftly towards the mountains. He planned to get the Nian Stone first, and then go find Mu Nujiao and the others.

"Okay! Okay!"

Somewhere in the mountains, someone exclaimed, "Great! People from our country are so close!"

The captain of the Spanish national team, Fran, had a smile on his face, but his eyes never left the Englishman not far away.

The Englishman looked bitter. He landed and immediately joined forces with Fran. They had agreed to explore together, but they hadn't expected to encounter so many Spanish athletes as soon as they left the mountains.

"Haha, it seems we'll have a good haul this time!" The Spanish healing mage, Peris, also wore a faint smile.

"Once we get the resources, we'll make that Chinese team pay!"

The other two Spanish students said with considerable resentment that if Pinol were added, they would have a complete squad to play against the Chinese team.

The group stage consists of four matches. Winning all four basically guarantees advancement, losing one match also generally ensures advancement, and losing two matches will depend on luck.

Spain only lost the match against China, so they naturally advanced.

Fran clapped his hands twice with a smile, and all four Spanish players looked at the only outsider on the field.

"Didn't we agree to explore together?" The Englishman, Hippo, tried to play dumb and get away with it, but a faint golden light was already emanating from his body!

One by one, star charts appeared beneath his feet, with crisscrossing star trails outlining a complete constellation.

Fran sighed, gestured to the mental mage in the group to make a move, and said, "Looks like we'll have to resort to force!"

"Hey, why are there so many eagles ahead?! Is there something good in there?!" Zhang Chen had just flown to the front of the mountain range when he saw a flock of eagles, their large eyes looking down.

With a wave of Zhang Chen's hand, a surge of powerful mental energy formed a chaotic tide, instantly assimilating the weak mind of the distant Tong Ying, like pure water droplets falling into ink.

He immediately saw the scene of the four Spanish men bullying the Englishman, forcibly controlling him to tear apart his spatial scroll.

"These people are wicked! They eliminated someone as soon as they entered! These kinds of people need to be punished! As someone from a land of etiquette, I have a duty to deal with them! It's definitely not because of Prince Bauban!"

Zhang Chen spoke righteously to one of the eagles.

As he spoke, he flew above the four Spanish men. Without uttering a word, a torrent of mental energy surged forth, and the mental wall constructed by the Spanish mental mage was as thin as a windowpane, easily pierced.

The four of them felt as if they were fish on a chopping board, unable to control their own destiny.

Seeing that they hadn't acquired any resources, Zhang Chen controlled them to tear apart the spatial scroll, sending them back to where they came from.

Then, he shook off the eagle and continued on his journey to the very end of the mountain range, where a vast expanse of valleys, gorges, basins, and fissures lay, devoid of any water and hardly resembling a lake. However, above this large, interconnected basin, black miasma floated, which from a distance did indeed resemble black lake water.

This entire Black Mist Lake is not a completely flat basin lake. Some areas are valley basins, some are fissures and narrow crevices, and some places are divided into several sections by mountain peaks. Large lakes are connected to small lakes, and small lakes are connected to long mountain streams. In this mountainous area where the overall terrain is sunken, a group of dry lakes without water is formed. When you look down on this area from the top of the mountain, it is spectacular and rugged!