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Chapter 104 The Power of the Ancient Dark Merman

Yes, if conditions allowed, who wouldn't want to continue the clearing missions and earn more points?

Moreover, with this third-level wizard apprentice from her own school present, even if Jenna's backer has some suspicions about her in the short term, they will be hesitant to act against her without concrete evidence.

Therefore, cooperating with this third-level wizard apprentice from their own school is also a good thing for the safety of the three of them.

Richard clearly understood the main purpose of this third-level wizard apprentice from his own school seeking cooperation: the other party did not want to excessively deplete his mental energy on those mid-level or lower-level merman warriors.

After all, in terms of cost-effectiveness, killing thirty ordinary murloc warriors is far less rewarding than killing one high-level murloc warrior.

Richard and his two companions exchanged glances briefly before readily agreeing to their third-level wizard apprentice's invitation to cooperate.

Before they could travel far, a violent energy fluctuation came from not far ahead.

"Oh no, I'm too late! I'll go first!" The third-level wizard apprentice from his own school seemed to have thought of something. As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly cast a level zero wind element spell.

Suddenly, several visible wisps of pale blue energy swirled around his calves, and with a swift movement, he shot forward like an arrow.

Richard and his two companions were startled and followed closely behind, immediately heading in the direction from which the energy fluctuations were coming from.

A short while later, a shallow sandbar covering an area of ​​about a hundred square meters appeared in front of them, where two large groups of people were confronting each other.

On one side were several third-level wizard apprentices and more than twenty first- and second-level wizard apprentices, one of whom was a purple-haired boy. On the other side was a large group of fishmen, numbering nearly a hundred, who were in a standoff.

The energy fluctuations just now were probably some kind of probing exchange.

Among this large group of murlocs, an elderly murloc dressed in tattered robes and holding a fishbone staff was clearly the leader, surrounded by several high-level murloc warriors and a group of mid-level murloc warriors who guarded him in the center like stars around the moon.

Upon closer inspection, one can discover that the elderly fish-men are highly evolved. Apart from their fish heads and dorsal fins, the webbing on their hands and feet has degenerated, making them not much different from the hands of ordinary humans. The scales on their bodies are also exceptionally fine, almost indistinguishable from fish scales.

Its facial features are also more human-like, with wrinkles and beard clearly visible.

The sharp-eyed Richard also noticed that directly behind the large group of fishmen, there seemed to be a depression in the rocky cliff of a shallow beach, about thirty or forty square meters in size, with several braziers burning in one of the corners.

In the center of the brazier, a circular magic circle about four meters in diameter could be vaguely seen. Inside the circle, more than ten magical runes were intertwined and complex, each pattern emitting a distinct red glow, indicating that the magic circle was continuously operating.

But what surprised Richard the most was that it seemed to be a sacrificial magic circle, because at least seven or eight human wizard apprentice corpses were placed haphazardly in the center of the circle.

Each corpse had a cut made in a specific area, such as the inner thigh, armpit, or carotid artery. Richard glanced at the cuts and saw that they were mostly in the aorta, suggesting that the purpose of these cuts was to accelerate bloodletting.

But the next second, Richard's pupils contracted and his fists clenched!

It turned out that Richard, a master archer, had exceptional eyesight and could see the patterns on the chests of the gray wizard robes worn by the corpses that were facing upwards.

There were bone clubs, devil flowers, and plague worms, and each pattern had more than two of these symbols; Richard even saw a pattern with three symbols.

This means that several Level 3 wizard apprentices and many Level 2 wizard apprentices from the three academies have died at the hands of these fishmen.

Instantly, a bad feeling welled up in Richard's heart!

However, strangely, the mysterious statue in his arms did not seem to be pointing in the direction of the large group of fishmen in front of him. They were at the twelve o'clock position, but the statue was pointing in the nine o'clock position.

But when Richard looked closely in that direction, he saw that it was the other side of an underground river, surrounded by thick rock walls with nothing else in it.

Richard was immediately puzzled!

"It seems that almost everyone has arrived. You young people must be the elite among the human wizard apprentices. I wonder if the human wizards will feel heartache if we eliminate you!" The old fishman's words shocked all the wizard apprentices present.

Because the other party was speaking Akkadian, a wizarding language widely spoken in ancient times.

At this moment, the expressions of many wizard apprentices in the scene turned grim. It seemed that the old merman in front of them might be much more difficult to deal with than expected, since he could speak Akkadian.

Then, a sinister and wicked smile appeared on the old fishman's wrinkled face: "Now that the food is all here, the main course can begin!"

"Old man, you think you can kill us? Dream on!" A third-level wizard apprentice from Gurus Academy retorted disdainfully in Akkadian. Judging from the old fishman's mental energy fluctuations, although he was very powerful, he was definitely not at the level of a formal wizard; he was only at the level of a top-tier third-level wizard apprentice.

However, there were no fewer than five level-three wizard apprentices from the three major necromancer academies present. He didn't believe that so many people together couldn't deal with the old merman alone.

Suddenly, the old merman began chanting some ancient incantation in Akkadian. Richard vaguely understood it; translated, it was: "Great merman lord, please accept the sacrifice of the blind merman race and grant some help to your lowly servants!"

"No! Interrupt it! The other party is making a sacrifice!" Obviously, Richard could understand, so it was even easier for the third-level wizard apprentices present to understand, and they immediately shouted to stop it.

Unfortunately, before the numerous wizard apprentices could unleash their spells, the sacrificial circle suddenly emitted a dazzling red light, and a terrifying fish-man, over three meters tall and wielding a large sword, abruptly appeared on the circle.

The giant merman was shrouded in black mist, with long, sharp spikes around its enormous head and a massive dorsal fin. Suddenly, it roared to the sky, and the next second, a visible shockwave radiated outwards in a ring shape.

Instantly, the level three wizard apprentices in the arena began to be surrounded by colorful protective shields.

The second-level wizard apprentices were basically blasted away, coughing up blood. Only a few managed to barely withstand the terrifying merman's opening act by using their trump cards, such as transforming into werewolves.

The only second-level wizard apprentice who remained relatively calm was the purple-haired boy, but even he looked extremely pale. Like the other third-level wizard apprentices, he spoke almost simultaneously: "Ancient Dark Merman!"

(End of this chapter)