Wizarding Age: I can analyze everything

Chapter 207 The Shrinking One, Lopal: The Birth of the Shadow Dragon

Rumble!

The deafening roar echoed through the low-lying basin, accompanied by incessant shouts of battle and screams of agony.

Countless dark elf warriors wielding longswords and scimitars swarmed forward, engaging in a fierce battle with the hideous and grotesque monster.

The priestess behind them unfurled scroll after scroll, layering various forms of protection for herself and her companions, while simultaneously casting spells to kill any who slipped through the defenses.

Looking down from above, the vast basin was teeming with dark elves and monsters, like a swarm of ants crawling all over it.

"Ant swarming." The word suddenly popped into Liz Byfie's mind.

The new matriarch of the Garza family was fully armed, her agile body wrapped in a suit of fine gold chainmail and a protective cloak, her short silver hair fluttering in the wind, making her look imposing and valiant.

Her mount, an eight-legged lizard the size of an adult horse, lay docilely beside her, a spear hanging from its saddle, awaiting its master's command.

As for the former mistress, because she refused to listen to the vampire wizard, she had long since been turned into the excrement of the Loss Beast.

Looking at the dark elves falling one after another in the distance, Lizbyfe's eyes flashed with extremely complex emotions, with a hint of fear mixed in.

The Great Lolth enjoyed watching the infighting among the dark elves, but she was absolutely unwilling to see a dark elf family controlled and enslaved by other races.

Even if the Garza family survives this battle, they will likely be hunted down by other families under the orders of the Great Rose!

As for her, the new matriarch, her ultimate fate will likely be to be sacrificed as a ritual offering to the great Rose.

The fear of death constantly haunted her, to the point that Liz Byfe sometimes couldn't help but think that since she was going to die anyway, she might as well fight that vampire wizard to the death.

"What are you daydreaming about?"

A calm voice suddenly broke through Liz Byfie's thoughts.

She turned around and met those deep, blood-red eyes, and couldn't help but shudder.

"N-nothing." Liz Byfie lowered her head slightly involuntarily.

Annie gave her a deep look, a look that gave the latter the illusion that she could see right through her.

"Don't be so pessimistic. At least you're still alive, aren't you?" Annie said meaningfully. "After this battle, you can escape the Underdark. Rose probably won't have the energy to deal with a mere dark elf. That way, you can save your life, which is better than dying now, right?"

Liz Byfie nodded stiffly, her will to fight back completely gone.

Thinking back to the thought that had suddenly crossed her mind, she couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

The vampire wizard on my side didn't seem to respect Rose much when he talked about her; he might actually be a rule-based wizard.

I must have lost my mind to think of fighting to the death with such a being.

"It's time to make a move," Annie said calmly, interrupting Liz Byfie's daze.

Liz Baifie snapped out of her daze, took a deep breath, mounted the octopus lizard, drew her longsword, and charged swiftly into the distance.

Hundreds of royal guards followed closely behind, and led by Liz Byfell, they were like sharp spears, tearing apart the monsters' formation.

The scales of victory gradually tipped in favor of the dark elves.

"Are you alright?" Gu Lin appeared beside Annie at some point, frowning as he watched the battle in the distance. "Is the monster we're looking for really in that cave?"

Annie nodded slightly, her tone resolute: "That's right, I've already sensed the aura of the abomination. There's an infected monster inside, and it's a first-generation infected monster at that. Once we find it, we'll know what kind of abomination has appeared this time."

The monsters fighting the dark elves are actually monsters transformed from infected monsters.

Only the first generation of infected monsters were personally infected and transformed by the divine abomination.

Therefore, their power far surpasses that of other infected monsters, making them the most formidable, and they all possess distinct characteristics similar to those of the Divine Abomination.

Often, by simply observing the physical characteristics and power type of the first-generation infected monsters, one can basically determine the origin of the divine abominations behind them.

Gu Lin nodded thoughtfully, said nothing more, and watched the battle quietly.

The monsters' resistance grew weaker and weaker, and the battle line had advanced to within a hundred meters of the cave when an extremely piercing shriek suddenly rang out. Immediately afterward, a black shadow rushed out of the cave, smashing away several infected monsters blocking its path, along with the dark elves, like a chariot.

While still in mid-air, the skin and flesh of the infected monsters and dark elves visibly withered rapidly, their life energy drained in an instant, turning them into dried corpses that fell to the ground.

With the help of the dim light emitted by the surrounding fluorite, everyone present was able to see the true face of the newcomer.

It was a monster that resembled a human baby, but its body was damp, wrinkled, and swollen, its head was hairless, and its eyes were empty and lifeless.

Its exposed skin was a pale, corpse-like color. Its arms were very thin and long, with sharp, vicious claws at the ends. Its legs had completely atrophied and hung down like useless, lifeless objects, floating in the air.

Upon seeing the monster's face clearly, Annie's expression changed slightly.

Noticing the change in her expression, Gu Lin asked curiously, "Have you figured out what the divine abominations behind these monsters are?"

Annie said solemnly, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be the Shrinking One, Ropal."

"The atrophied?"

Gu Lin frowned in thought, but he could not recall ever hearing this name before.

Of course, in reality, she didn't know much about the Divine Abominations either.

"Is it that powerful?"

"Among the abominations of the gods, the Shrinking One, Ropal, is considered to be of above-average strength," Annie said solemnly. "It is said that Ropal was born from a stillborn child born of a god. It is adept at manipulating negative energy and absorbing life and energy, and possesses extremely strong regenerative abilities, making it a very troublesome abomination."

Gu Lin was secretly astonished upon hearing this.

A stillborn child born of a deity?

The origins of divine abominations are indeed very strange.

"What are you planning to do?" Gu Lin asked.

Annie turned and left without hesitation.

"Let's go. Now that we know which divine abomination it is, there's no need to continue the investigation."

Gu Lin was stunned for several seconds before he reacted. He quickly caught up and asked in confusion, "You're just giving up like that? You were clearly very interested in the Divine Abomination before."

"I'm also very interested now. If possible, I hope to obtain some of Ropal's body tissue to conduct some experiments. Its ability type is very similar to ours vampires, which is of great research value to me."

"Why?"

Without turning her head, Aini interrupted Gu Lin and said calmly, "Divine abominations are extremely dangerous beings. I don't know how much power Ropal has recovered. If we rashly confront it, we could easily be caught off guard and suffer a crushing defeat."

"Besides, I don't need to take action; there are others who are more anxious than me."

Gu Lin immediately understood what she meant: "You mean the Spider Goddess?"

"That's right. The Shrinking Ones hate living things. They habitually kill all life in the surrounding area. If Rose doesn't stop them, the entire Underdark will become a death graveyard. At that time, having lost her followers, she will also fall into a deep sleep until she perishes."

Hearing this, Gu Lin understood Annie's plan.

This is a prelude to the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind!

If you're lucky, you might not only get the body tissue of the abomination, but also kill the god!

Upon thinking about this, Gu Lin immediately became excited.

That's god-killing!

Back in the Turin plane, although she had seen the killing of gods, she had only observed it from a great distance and had not even seen a single moment of the fight. Now, however, she had a chance to experience it firsthand. How could she not be excited?

In the distance behind, a new round of fighting, or rather, a one-sided massacre, has broken out once again.

Faced with the first generation of infected monsters, the dark elves were no match at all. They were wiped out in a single encounter and scattered in all directions.

Gu Lin glanced back at her with a hint of pity in his eyes, then looked away and quickly caught up with Annie.

As Yin Xue walked through the courtyard filled with rare plants and stepped onto the corridor, a middle-aged man with a smile walked towards her.

"Second Uncle, it's been a long time." Yin Xue stopped and greeted him.

The person who came was Yin Guang's father, Yin Xing, who was also her uncle.

"Oh, it's Yin Xue. Are you going to see your father?" Yin Xing said with a smile.

He dared not truly regard his niece, whose talent was the most outstanding among the younger generation of the family and whose strength was even comparable to his own, as a junior.

"Yes, Father suddenly summoned me." A hint of doubt flashed in Yin Xue's eyes.

I just met with my father yesterday, but I suddenly have to see her again today. I don't know what's going on.

Yin Xing smiled and said, "Perhaps I have good news to tell you."

Yin Xue's heart skipped a beat, sensing that Yin Xing seemed to know something, but before she could ask, Yin Xing waved his hand.

"Go quickly."

Yin Xue had no choice but to suppress her doubts and bid farewell to Yin Xing before leaving.

Watching Yin Xue walk away, Yin Xing's face showed a sentimental expression.

"A 21-year-old elemental wizard, not even from a bloodline family or a chosen one, is truly remarkable!"

Walking through the corridor, Yin Xue went straight to the innermost room on the third floor.

A humanoid creature, entirely white, stood in front of the door, seemingly made of ice and snow, emanating a faint white chill.

It has no facial features; its face is completely smooth. The only way to tell that it is female is by its undulating body shape.

"Miss, you've arrived! Please come in; the master is waiting for you inside."

It opened the door solicitously and gestured for Yin Xue to come in.

"Thanks."

Yin Xue nodded slightly to it, then stepped into the room.

In the spacious and bright room, a man in his prime sat behind a desk, smiling as he watched Yin Xue walk in.

"Father."

"Okay, sit down."

Yin Yongqin gestured for Yin Xue to sit down. After she was seated, he looked at her carefully for a few more moments, a smile playing on his lips.

"It seems you don't know yet."

Yin Xue paused, then asked, "Know what?"

Yin Yongqin said with a smile, "Just yesterday, Pei Ze successfully advanced to the Elemental Wizard level."

The words that came out of Yin Yongqin's mouth were like a thunderbolt, stunning Yin Xue on the spot, leaving her speechless with wide eyes.

It took the girl quite a while to recover from her shock, and she looked incredulous.

My junior has advanced to the Elemental Wizard level!

Yin Xue was deeply shocked.

She didn't doubt her father's words; he would never joke about such a thing.

But this is truly astonishing!

How long has it been since Pei Ze advanced to the third level of wizard?

It's been less than two years at most!

He's already advanced to the Elemental Wizard level? That's unbelievable!

Although she already knew that Pei Ze's speed of improvement was always astonishing, Yin Xue was still deeply shocked at this moment.

Yin Yongqin was not surprised at all by his daughter's performance.

After all, even this old fellow who had lived for over a thousand years was taken aback when he heard the news.

"There are quite a few elemental wizards in their twenties in the Astral Alliance, and even some under twenty, but without exception they are all chosen ones. There isn't a single bloodline wizard, let alone an ordinary wizard."

A sigh crossed Yin Yongqin's face.

"Pei Ze's performance this time exceeded many people's expectations, and even the old guys in the council were alarmed."

"In a few hundred or a thousand years, our Dawn City may have another rule wizard."

Yin Xue was startled.

This is quite an evaluation, especially coming from the mouth of the dignified head of the Yin family.

If this gets out, it will definitely cause a huge uproar in the wizarding world.

But on second thought, my father's assessment wasn't too exaggerated.

Pei Ze's performance so far has been remarkable, and it is no exaggeration to call him a prodigy.

It might take hundreds or thousands of years to become a rule wizard!

As she was pondering this, Yin Xue suddenly heard her father say, "You and Pei Ze are quite close, aren't you?"

Yin Xue was slightly taken aback, and said in a low voice, "We are senior and junior brothers, so of course we have a very good relationship."

Yin Yongqin glanced at his daughter with a half-smile and said, "You know that's not what I meant."

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

"Several family elders and I are very optimistic about Pei Ze's future. If you can get together with him, the family will definitely not object."

Even though Yin Xue is calm and usually very generous, her face still turned red when this was mentioned to her face.

Yin Yongqin, however, didn't seem to mind at all, and said with a smile, "There's nothing to be shy about. I see that you have a good impression of Pei Ze. Being with him is a good choice for the family and for you, isn't it?"

Yin Xue gently scolded, "Father, isn't it too early to talk about this now?"

"It's getting late. The Pei family has been destroyed. Pei Ze can now be said to have a clean record and no ties. In addition, with his talent and potential, many wizard families want to recruit you. If you don't act now, you may be recruited by other families soon. Don't regret it then."

Hearing her father's increasingly exaggerated remarks, Yin Xue couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

"Why are you, a level six wizard, worrying about this kind of thing?"

"Don't forget that I am also a father."

"Alright, I understand. I'll decide this myself. You should think more about how to handle things in the Turin plane."

After saying this, Yin Xue took her leave.

Watching his daughter leave in a hurry, Yin Yongqin shook his head with a wry smile.

"You're still too young; you don't understand the principle of getting your hands on good things as soon as possible."

"Fine, let the young people handle their own affairs."

The mansion, the meditation room.

Pei Ze sat cross-legged on the ground, his eyes closed, his mind focused entirely on the elemental fire deep within his sea of ​​consciousness.

Amidst the flickering white flames, mysterious patterns are slowly taking shape.

It took nearly three months to finally complete the improvement of the dragon pattern.

Pei Ze immediately imprinted the new dragon pattern into the elemental fire.

As the last stroke of the pattern was completed and the profound dragon pattern was fully formed, the elemental fire trembled violently. In the next instant, the surrounding lightning elemental energy, centered on Pei Ze, seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, rushing towards him and merging into the elemental fire.

The white flames suddenly intensified.

After an unknown amount of time, when the elemental fire began to feel full, Pei Ze slowly opened his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief.

He then summoned the All-Knowing Eye.

[Elementalization (Lightning): 1.69%]

[Elemental Origin: 1.69]

"Increased by 0.01%."

Pei Ze nodded in satisfaction.

It took him nearly three months to increase the elementalization progress by 0.03%, but after engraving the new dragon pattern, it only took him one day to increase the elementalization progress by 0.01%.

The efficiency difference between the two is simply too obvious!

"At this rate, without any external assistance, it will take at most 22 years to increase the elementalization progress to 80%."

Under normal circumstances, it would typically take a century for a level 4 wizard to increase their elementalization progress to 80%.

There are even many elemental wizards who have spent thousands of years to achieve this goal.

In comparison, Pei Ze's achievement of reaching the breakthrough standard in just twenty-two years is already quite remarkable.

Of course, he would definitely need to raise his elementalization to 100% before considering a breakthrough and advancement.

However, the final 20% of elementalization will definitely take even longer.

"However, I still have fragments of the stone tablet and divine blood, so it won't take twenty-two years."

"Furthermore, one can seek out rare items such as elemental cores to accelerate elementalization."

Pei Ze wore a thoughtful expression.

"It will take about three more months to decipher the patterns on the stone tablet fragments, and we don't know when we'll be able to get our hands on the divine blood."

"The agreed time with Tinin was two or three months, and now that time is almost up. It's time to go to the Ancient Forest Plane."

Pei Ze quickly made up his mind and decided to make preparations in the next few days before setting off for the Ancient Forest Plane.

As he was deep in thought, Pei Ze suddenly realized something and abruptly looked up outside.

"This aura is..."

His eyes flashed slightly, and he suddenly transformed into a bolt of lightning, rushing out and arriving outside a room in no time, startling a water sprite.

"Master, Master!" The water sprite bowed respectfully as soon as she saw who it was.

Pei Ze glanced at the magic stone coins she was holding.

That's the material prepared for the dragon egg to absorb.

The dragon eggs, engraved with improved dragon patterns, have a significantly increased efficiency in absorbing energy particles. The energy absorbed naturally is no longer sufficient to meet the needs of the dragon eggs, so magic stone coins must be added to the magic circle every day for the dragon eggs to draw energy from.

"Go down." Pei Ze waved his hand.

The water sprite was somewhat puzzled, but still obediently turned and left.

Pei Ze pushed open the door and entered the room.

What you see is that the once perfectly round dragon egg has disappeared, replaced by a lizard-like creature that is gnawing on the eggshell fragments scattered on the ground.

Its entire body was wet, and its scales were pitch black like deep shadows. They looked a little soft, but as it ate, the scales hardened rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. A pair of small, pitch-black fleshy wings were also tucked up on its back.

It was a newly born dragon!

Hearing the noise, the dragon beast turned around and looked at Pei Ze. It felt a strange sense of closeness and subconsciously walked up to Pei Ze and gently nuzzled him with its head.

The newly born shadow dragon was only 1.67 meters tall, and its head touched Pei Ze's chest.

He smiled slightly and reached out to pat the dragon's head.

Before the dragon egg hatched, Pei Ze had already imprinted a contract rune on it, so that the dragon beast after birth would be his servant and would never betray him.

This is also a common method used by wizards to enslave dragons.

"From now on, I'll call you Moying," Pei Ze said.

"Woo woo." Mo Ying cried out a few times, conveying her hunger and desire to eat.

Dragons have a varied diet, but newborn dragons thrive best on energy-rich foods. Pei Ze simply tossed out a magic crystal.

Mo Ying snatched it in one bite, crunched it up, swallowed it, and let out a satisfied hum.

Pei Ze led Mo Ying out of the room and happened to run into Ning Fu and Xiao Yi, who had sensed the commotion and rushed over. He then introduced them to each other.

"This is Mo Ying, the newest member of the mansion."

Ningfu glanced at Moying with some fear—even a newly born dragon was a very powerful being to a water sprite—before looking at her master with a face full of admiration.

To treat even dragons as pets, what a worthy master!

Xiao Yi had somehow gotten close to Mo Ying and curiously reached out to touch the latter's scales, only to be rudely shoved away by the latter. Xiao Yi was immediately furious and yelled, baring her teeth and claws, intending to teach the other party a lesson about respecting her senior.

However, Mo Ying ignored her completely.

Even a newly born dragon has its own pride.

How dare a tiny, powerless creature climb onto its head and act like a tyrant?

wishful thinking!

Ignoring the two little ones' antics, Pei Ze casually took out a piece of parchment, wrote down a list, and handed it to Ning Fu.

"I'll be away for a while. During that time, please prepare food for Mo Ying according to the list."

"Yes, Master." Nymph carefully took the paper.

Pei Ze thought for a moment and decided to keep Wu Yu as well.

The evolution 'recipe' given by the All-Knowing Eye has been nearly 90% consumed by Mistfeather, and only less than 3,000 Raven-type magical creatures are needed to complete it. Now is the crucial moment.

Since the mist feathers can't be of much help to him right now, he might as well stay and devour the crow-type magical creatures in peace, and try to evolve to level four as soon as possible.

After arranging everything, Pei Ze went to the underground hall, took out the materials, and began to set up the dimensional teleportation array.

The improved dimensional teleportation array by the All-Knowing Eye is highly effective, easy to set up, and, most importantly, inexpensive in terms of materials.

All the materials for a dimensional teleportation array, when added together, only amount to a little over 100,000 magic stone coins.

For an elemental wizard, a hundred thousand magic stone coins is really nothing.

After all, even building the most basic wizard tower requires millions of magic crystals, which translates to hundreds of millions of magic coins.

"Once we return from the Ancient Forest Plane, it's time to put the construction of the Wizard Tower on the agenda."

(End of this chapter)