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

Chapter 37 Leaving the Team

The group walked through several residential buildings, and the municipal building came into view.

The building has three structures. The first level is the city hall and other auxiliary floors, which are rectangular in shape and occupy a very large area.

The second level is a cube stacked on a huge rectangular base, and the third level is a square high-rise building standing on that cube. Zhang Chen looked around the municipal building and saw that there were no plants at all, but rather all of them were in the lobby, and he felt increasingly uneasy.

"Leave one or two people outside, the rest of you go in!" Lu Zhenghe said to everyone. "I'll stay," Mo Fan volunteered. "Then I'll stay too," Bai Tingting followed closely behind. "You stay my ass! Mo Fan! Come in with me!" Zhang Chen saw the place Mo Fan pointed to, but he wanted to stay outside, so he said. "Okay, I'll go in," Mo Fan said, shrugging. "Leave one more person behind to protect Tingting," Song Xia said. "Then I'll stay!" Peng Liang, who hadn't said much since that night, spoke up. "Then you have to protect her well, don't get any funny ideas!" Song Xia warned, lighting a flame in her hand. "Yes, yes! I definitely won't!" Peng Liang was on the verge of tears. Soon, the sixteen figures disappeared into the somewhat eerie building, leaving Peng Liang and Bai Tingting to guard the dilapidated flowerbed outside the building.

Zhang Chen walked at the back of the group, looking at the black vines in the hall that were neither vines nor trees, and became extremely vigilant.

Lu Zhenghe led the team to the second-floor hall. "Hmm! Did that plant move just now? Was it just my imagination?"

Zhang Chen now wants to get out; there's definitely something here.

"Human—human head, dead human head!" Someone shouted from the front. At the same time, Zhang Chen saw the plant move very clearly this time, and shouted, "Watch out for the plant! It moves!"

"Get out of here first!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the plant seemed to realize that it had been discovered. It stopped hiding and a large number of black vines wriggled wildly, intertwining to form layer upon layer of plant walls, blocking their way. Some of the vines even deformed at their tips, instantly turning into sharp wooden spears that pierced towards the group.

Song Xia saw that the path was blocked and was drawing a fire-type star map, intending to blast open the plant wall. She did not notice that a sharp tendril had already reached her.

By the time they saw it, it was too late. The blade was about to pierce the abdomen when it was stopped by a transparent barrier that suddenly appeared.

He was able to unleash his intermediate-level magic on the plant wall, which was blasted into a hole more than three meters wide. However, it had little effect on the endless black vines and returned to its original state almost in the blink of an eye.

After seeing that his rear was blocked, Zhang Chen immediately clenched his transparent claw into a fist and smashed it against the plant wall, but found it was not very effective.

Seeing that the sharp whiskers were almost upon them, they decisively chose to defend, preparing for a protracted battle. Each of them formed a transparent barrier in front of everyone, which unexpectedly saved Song Xia.

Suddenly, the building shook violently. Mu Nujiao and some others lost their balance and were about to fall into the pile of vines when a series of transparent hands caught them and pulled them to Zhang Chen's side.

Zhang Chen noticed that a corner of the vines on the plant wall seemed to be missing a lot, pointed there, and shouted, "Mo Fan, bomb this spot!"

The next second, Mo Fan's voice rang out, "Rose Flame - Fierce Fist - Nine Palaces!"

The blazing rose-red flames brushed past Zhang Chen and struck the spot he pointed to. Unlike before, the vines were not quickly replaced by other vines. Instead, they were burned open by the rose-red flames, creating a path large enough for a person to pass through, just like dry firewood.

"Let's go!" Zhang Chen decisively grabbed Mu Nujiao beside him and darted into the road, with Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue following closely behind.

As soon as Zhang Chen came out, he saw a body resembling a giant lizard flapping its huge fleshy wings and flying into the distance.

"A Commander-level Lizard-Skull Giant!" Clearly, those who came out later also saw this scene. Liao Mingxuan and Xu Dalong, who came out last, hadn't seen it. Liao Mingxuan covered his thigh wound with both hands and said emotionally, "Who said they wanted to enter this building! They almost got us killed."

Actually, it wasn't as dangerous as he described. Zhang Chen's spatial protection meant that he was the only one who got pricked by the sharp whiskers when he retreated along the path he came from.

Bai Tingting, who had come from a distance, began treating him. He pointed at Mo Fan and said fiercely, "It's you, isn't it? Fine, you—"

Before he could finish speaking, someone interrupted him, "I need to go back! The information from the Demon Hunting Alliance is wrong! The danger here is far greater than the data says! A commander-level demon just flew right over our heads, it's too dangerous!"

Lu Zhenghe quickly spoke up to dissuade him, saying, "We're probably just unlucky to have encountered such powerful demons all at once. If we're careful, we should still be able to complete the mission smoothly. I wasn't seriously injured, was I?"

Liao Mingxuan and Xu Dalong looked at Lu Zhenghe strangely, not expecting him to be so bold today.

The students from Mingzhu Academy and Xiao Feng from Didu Academy glanced at Zhang Chen, who was chatting and laughing with Mo Fan, and couldn't help but feel fortunate that he was there, otherwise they might not have survived.

Zhao Manyan spoke up at this moment: "I don't think the Hunter Alliance is wrong. The fact that the hunter mages who were able to come out alive to report the situation means that they really didn't encounter any powerful demons. And those who encountered powerful demons are all dead, so of course they wouldn't have any dangerous information."

"So what do we do next?" someone asked. "Anyway! I'm not leaving!" Mu Ningxue was the first to speak up. Mu Nujiao shared the same thought as her. She knew very well that if a powerful mage couldn't withstand such a life-or-death test, it would greatly affect their cultivation.

Upon hearing their captain's statement, the students from the Imperial Capital Academy also expressed their desire to stay.

But Liao Mingxuan's hostility towards Mo Fan was inexplicably strong, and he said to Mo Fan, "Mo Fan! You'd better shut your mouth from now on!"

Mo Fan spoke up: "Come on, come on, if you want to fight, just do it! I won't give you permission—"

Zhang Chen interrupted them, asking Song Xia, "Alright, alright, stop talking. How many more exploration sites are there?"

"Seven more!" Song Xia didn't understand why he was asking this. "Give me the maps of three of the exploration sites. Mo Fan and I will go by ourselves. It's too noisy here!" Zhang Chen stretched out his hand in front of Song Xia and said. He had finally gotten this opportunity. He had wanted to leave the team for a long time.

"Isn't this inappropriate?" Song Xia subconsciously refused. She couldn't deny that Zhang Chen made them feel very safe and didn't want him to leave. "They want to leave! Let them leave!" Xu Dalong, who had been thrown off the dueling platform by Zhang Chen at the Imperial Capital Academy, said. "Give it to me quickly, I'm afraid I won't be able to resist killing them!" Zhang Chen glared at Xu Dalong, pretending to be angry, which scared him so much that he immediately hid behind the group of people from the Imperial Capital Academy.

"Alright then, since you've decided that, let's keep in touch." Song Xia glanced at Xu Dalong and sighed.