Wizard's Journey

"Leona..."

As he hurried along, Ling kept calling out to the crystal ball, hoping to contact Yorkriana as soon as possible and determine the distance between them.

swoosh...

Suddenly, after a piercing noise from Green's crystal ball, Yorkleyana, who was also constantly sensing Green's presence on the other side of the crystal ball, finally made communication with Green, and a somewhat blurry little face appeared on Green's crystal ball.

Green asked excitedly, "Leona, how's it going on your end? Have you been able to contact anyone else?"

As Yokliana seemed to be running around, the crystal ball bounced a little, and the half of her face not covered by the mask showed an anxious expression, as if she was about to cry from nervousness.

"Brother Grin, Heinlo and I are being chased by several wizard apprentices from the Maze Academy. We just made contact with Sister Raffi and Sister Robin, and they are on their way to meet me."

Heinlo is one of Yokriana's suitors.

This wizard apprentice was of average appearance, somewhat dull in demeanor, and not very strong. Yorkriana had never agreed to be with him before, so she didn't know how the two of them ended up together this time.

Green's expression changed. "What's going on?" he asked.

"It was Heinlo who mastered a mystical spell and accidentally discovered a Moon Crying Tree. However, while digging it up, the sound it made was heard by several wizard apprentices from the Maze Academy. Ah..."

Suddenly, Lyanna screamed from the crystal ball, which flew away, and then everything went black.

Without magical support, Grimm could no longer contact Leona.

"Oh no, it's a Moon Crying Plant! No wonder I was being chased so relentlessly. Legend has it that if a Moon Crying Plant is transplanted into a wizard's meditation room and moonlight shines on it at night, the wizard's meditation efficiency can be doubled. Even some high-level wizards are very interested in this plant with its unique properties."

Green's expression turned somewhat grim. He decided to stop concealing any imprint fluctuations and summoned a wind elemental bat, riding on it as he flew forward at full speed.

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Suddenly, the ground beneath Yorkriana's feet loosened, turning into a mud pit. With a startled cry, Yorkriana's crystal ball flew out and disappeared into the mud.

"Leona!"

Heinlo is only about 1.6 meters tall, with rough, dark skin on his cheeks. He seems to have been the son of a fisherman and doesn't talk much.

At this moment, Heinlo saw that Yokliana was trapped in a quagmire of witchcraft. Yokliana's witchcraft was all of the support type, which was supposed to complement Yoklis's witchcraft, but unfortunately Yoklis was not by her side.

Heinro's sorcery leans more towards mysticism and potion-making, making it unsuitable for direct combat.

This put the two in a desperate situation almost instantly, unless Heinlo abandoned Yorkriana and continued to run away.

Behind them, six wizard apprentices from the Maze Academy caught up. One of them had a mark fluctuation of five, while the other five had no mark fluctuation at all.

The six people breathed a sigh of relief as they looked at Yokliana, who was now deeply mired in witchcraft.

"Don't touch her! Or I'll destroy this Moon Crying Tree!"

Heinlo roared and took a strange plant out of the box.

When Heinlo took the plant out and held it in her hand, the plant's roots struggled like a small child, emitting a piercing scream and cry.

For a moment, screams and cries of "woof woof" became the only melody among the eight people present.

"Threatening us? Hmph, the Sand River Society of the Mystic Academy doesn't care about your threats. If you dare destroy this Moon Crying Tree, we'll take care of you too."

  

The lead wizard apprentice felt a pang of anxiety as he looked at the Moon Cry held by Heinlo, but his words remained uncompromising.

"You...you mustn't touch her!"

Heinlo roared nervously.

Yorkriana's lower body was completely submerged in the mud, and she looked at everyone with teary eyes, appearing pitiful.

"Haha, little beauty, don't be afraid. As long as you obediently make him hand over Yue Ti, I promise I'll let you go. Besides, you're so cute, how could I bear to kill you? I still want..."

The wizard apprentice let out a crazy shout and suddenly removed the mask from Yokliana's face, causing her to swallow the rest of her words.

"She's an ugly monster, what's with the act of pretending to be innocent?"

This person's temper suddenly did a 180-degree turn. After giving Yokliana a disgusted look, he shouted at Heinlow, "What a spoilsport. I'll give you three more seconds to choose."

To hide the ugly scars on her face, Yorkriana was terrified, trembling timidly, tears welling in her eyes, a pitiful sight.

However, because of the hideous scars on her face and the eye without a pupil, Yorkliana's pitiful expression was utterly disgusting to the wizarding apprentices at the Maze Academy.

At first, Yokliana, wearing a mask, was incredibly innocent, like a beautiful, shy little girl.

But when the mask was removed, the terrible scar on her face and the dark, empty, blind eye made her look like an old witch.

What's most infuriating is that an old witch was putting on a pitiful act in front of several people!

"No! Don't kill her!"

Heinro screamed, his expression extremely panicked. He didn't care at all about the hideous scar on Yorkriana's face, as if he already knew about it. Without daring to hesitate any longer, Heinro threw out the Moon Cry in his hand.

The wizard apprentices at the Maze Academy's eyes lit up as they watched Yue Ti fly down from the sky, their joy evident.

Snapped!

A long tongue flashed by in an instant, and the moon's cry vanished.

Everyone turned to look and saw that on a tree trunk not far away, half of a wizard apprentice's body had suddenly grown out of thin air. He was looking at everyone with a grin on his face, and a long tongue was wrapped around the Moon Cry tree.

If Green were here, he would surely have discovered through his nose that this wizard apprentice who could merge his body into the tree trunk was the same guy who had been following him for almost an hourglass not long ago.

"The Bone Clock Tower Wizarding Academy!"

The apprentice wizard from the Maze Academy, who was already preparing to catch Yue Ti, saw the strange apprentice wizard appearing with a horizontal blade on the tree trunk. His chilling voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth as he opened his mouth and spat out a stream of black water at the person.

"Hehe, thanks for the compliment."

The person shrank back and merged directly into the tree trunk.

With a splash, black water splattered onto the tree trunk, instantly corroding a large hole and filling the air with a foul stench that made people want to vomit.

"He ran away? That bastard!"

Several wizard apprentices from the Maze Academy were almost driven mad with anger. They rushed to the giant tree where the skeleton bell tower wizard apprentice had appeared, but no matter how hard they searched, they could not find any trace of him.

Suddenly, one of the wizarding apprentices from the Maze Academy seemed to realize something and said in a trembling voice, "Didn't the information released by the academy say that we must pay attention to those seven people during this trial? Was that... the ghost thief from the Bone Bell Tower Wizarding Academy?"

The other wizard apprentices from the Maze Academy, who were originally going to continue their search, all changed their expressions.

Indeed, before the trial, the wizards of the Maze Academy distributed a document to all the wizard apprentices participating in the trial. The document recorded seven so-called Desperate Ones from the six academies.

These seven desperate individuals were all genius-level wizard apprentices who, upon entering the wizarding academy three years ago, were accepted as disciples by those high-ranking second-level wizards.

Among them, there are three from Blacksor Tower Wizarding Academy, whose data codes are Undying, Twisted, and Golden Eye; one from Hourglass Wizarding Academy, whose data code is Son of the Sun; and two from Ivory Castle, whose data codes are Enchantress and Mechanical Heart.

The last person was the wizard apprentice codenamed Ghost Thief from the Bone Bell and Drum Tower.

According to the information, this wizard apprentice desperately wanted to be insulted because he must have already received a great deal of benefit beforehand.

None of the students in this cohort of the Maze Academy were personally trained by those high-ranking second-level wizards. Therefore, the seven students in this cohort of Maze Academy's trials are figuratively referred to in the data as the Desperate Ones.

Gradually, the title "desperate ones" began to spread among them.

It symbolizes a hopeless enemy.

Suddenly, several imprint fluctuations appeared in the senses of several wizard apprentices from the Maze Academy, and two of them even had imprint values ​​of over ten points!

"Damn it, let's retreat!"

Yorkriana's eyes lit up in the mud, and she exclaimed joyfully, "Sister Raffi! Sister Robin! Brother Amrond!"

Five people arrived from a distance. Two of them were Raffy and Robin, who had received Yorkriana's plea for help. The other three were Amrond, whom they had met on the way, and two Bloodsail League members they were not very familiar with.

Amrond's status and prestige within the Bloodsail Alliance are truly unmatched; even Raffi, known as the "Queen of Sharp Tongues," greatly admires her.

"Hmph! How dare they touch people from our Bloodsail Alliance! Raffi, let's leave them here."

Amron said coldly.

Raffi's face was extremely grim. If they had arrived any later, Leona, who was stuck in this quagmire, might have really been finished. At that time, Yoris would definitely go crazy.

Lafite coldly replied, "Fine!"

Just as the two were about to give their all in pursuit of the wizard apprentices from the Mystic Academy, suddenly, a terrifying wave of energy appeared in their senses on the other side of the distant sky.

The mark surged like a raging flood, rushing over with overwhelming force, as if to destroy everything in its path!

Both Raffi and Amrongd's expressions changed, and they stopped in their tracks in shock.

"You guys get out of here quickly, Raffi and I will hold this guy off! This fluctuation of the mark value is so strong, it's just like Bibi Leona we met before. This level has already surpassed the level of the top ten newcomers. No wonder he is called the Despairer."

Amrond's expression turned serious as he drew the longsword from his back and held it with both hands. As he unleashed all his magic power, the magical artifact emitted streaks of silver lightning.

Lush plant shoots sprouted from Raffi's skin, and a pair of huge leaves on her back flapped like the wings of a plant fairy. Raffi's feet floated in the air, and she gently flew off the ground.

He held a longbow brimming with life energy in his left hand, while his right hand gently nocked an arrow containing terrifying energy, and one of his eyes transformed into a vertical eagle's pupil.

Raffi coldly replied, "Even the so-called 'Desperate One' mentioned by those wizarding apprentices, with this Bow of Life combined with the Hurricane Arrow, and further aided by my life magic, the terrifying energy bursting forth in an instant is quite enough to threaten him!"

Amrond glanced at Raffi with a twitching eye.

Raffi is too overbearing. He's the one who came here, the one the wizard apprentices call the Desperate One!

Ever since his brief battle with Bibiliona, Amrond knew all too well the terror of those wizard apprentices known as the Desperate Ones.

Amrond even suspected that this so-called trial was actually a killing contest specially prepared by the academy's higher-ups for these desperate people!

The purpose was to prepare these desperate people for the Holy Tower Qualification Battle seventeen years later!