Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 584 Searching for the Eye of the Storm

"He's a half-elf?" the second-tier wizard asked incredulously.

"Hmm." The third-tier wizard nodded.

"My God, have the remaining half-elves become this powerful just because the elves disappeared? If there were more half-elves, wouldn't they be able to dominate the land like the elves?"

"Don't worry," the third-tier wizard whispered. "These half-elves are also suffering from the curse of the elves. Their numbers will only decrease until they disappear completely."

Thinking of the half-elf who had just left, the third-tier wizard sighed silently in his heart, "You never know if the half-elf you meet is the last half-elf in this world."

While the wizards behind him were discussing the half-elves who had entered the no man's land, the wizard who had amazed everyone had already stepped into a dangerous area.

He lifted his hood again, and his appearance had changed to that of an ordinary thirty-year-old man.

It was none other than Thor's outstanding senior, Byron!

Byron is now a first-order wizard.

Moreover, because of the Elf King's head that Thor gave him, he possessed a small portion of elven abilities. He could not only change his appearance at will, but also had extremely strong charm.

Unfortunately, Byron still maintained his usual appearance.

In his view, even if he changed his skin, he would still be himself.

The so-called stunning beauty is of little use compared to the skill of a Buddhist monk.

What he was most satisfied with about this outer skin was its extremely strong adaptability to magic and mental power.

This even gave him the confidence to advance to the second tier after advancing to the first tier.

This is the most precious part of the Elf King's head, further highlighting the rarity of Thor giving it to Byron.

However, Byron no longer feels that he owes Saul anything.

Byron exhaled and looked into the distance. "Where could Thor be?"

……

Just as Byron stepped into the No Man's Land, another person who had briefly crossed paths with Saul also encountered a turning point in his life.

Noah, the boy who once helped Thor find the termite nest in the quicksand, joined the hunting party organized by Lord Wind Demon in order to earn money to treat his sick younger brother.

This hunting party is somewhat different from the previous ones, as it recruits a large number of ordinary people and promises them the opportunity to become wizard apprentices if they perform well.

After meeting Thor, Noah realized that not all wizards just stare blankly at a candle.

Unfortunately, Thor had no intention of taking him on as an apprentice.

Perhaps he was just too incompetent.

However, Noah did not completely give up.

After he moved to a new settlement with his father and brother, he kept looking for opportunities to become a wizard apprentice.

He never expected that his only chance would require him to fight for it with his life.

At that moment, his younger brother happened to have a persistent high fever due to radiation sickness, which made him put aside his last concerns.

His father and brother had given him their only chance to live, so he was willing to give that chance to his brother today.

From then on, Noah joined the hunting party and left his family, with whom he had depended for many years.

However, when he joined the hunting party and stepped into the terrifying area he had never set foot in before, he realized that he had been naive!

The hunting party will indeed give them the opportunity to become wizard apprentices, but only if they survive each "danger-hunting" mission.

Every ordinary person is a pathfinder, required to take a magical potion that temporarily enhances their mental power, allowing them to perceive secrets previously unknown.

It's equivalent to becoming a temporary wizard apprentice.

However, at the same time, their frail bodies will experience various abnormalities due to the sudden increase in their mental strength.

Noah had witnessed firsthand a woman who had just taken a psychic potion suddenly go berserk and ripped out all her hair. Then she painfully scratched her scalp until it bled profusely and until her bones were exposed.

Seeing the woman's reaction, none of the other wizards came to her aid. Ordinary people didn't know how to save her, nor dared to.

After that, this dying woman became the first casualty before the hunting party set off.

Aside from the woman, everyone else's appearance had changed to varying degrees. Only Noah remained completely unchanged.

This immediately caught the attention of several wizards.

They came over and had Noah hold a crystal ball, and then let him chew a leaf.

However, after Noah did as instructed, the wizards left in disappointment.

This left Noah somewhat frustrated, as it seemed he really wasn't cut out to be a wizard apprentice.

After a few minor incidents, the group officially embarked on their hunting trip.

However, ordinary people, including Noah, then realized that perhaps dying the night before their departure, like that woman, would have been the best outcome.

On this day, the group trekked through mountains and rivers to reach a forest.

This was the fifth woodland they had passed through.

Previously, whenever they passed through a woodland, their hunting party would leave behind at least one ordinary person.

Noah had no idea what these people were doing. In short, these wizards under the Wind Demon Lord would send them to explore very dangerous places. And regardless of whether the explorers returned alive or not, they would never enter the place they had just explored, but would leave immediately.

Along this journey, like the footprints they left behind, all they left behind were corpses.

This time, it was finally Noah's turn to be asked to enter the forest wearing a set of strange and complicated equipment.

Noah's heart, which had become numb from the journey, began to pound wildly. He finally felt the real sense of impending death.

He wanted to escape, but he knew that the four wizards behind him would not give him even the slightest chance to run away.

It could also implicate the father and brother in the settlement.

Noah swallowed hard, then was given a push by the wizard behind him, and began to mechanically swing his arms and legs, mechanically walking forward.

The wind rustling the leaves, the birdsong and the insect chirping—all of these sounded like chaotic noise to him.

The immense fear of impending death threw Noah's mind into turmoil.

But even with such chaotic thoughts, he kept walking forward without stopping.

"Splash—"

The leaves and branches all around rustled in unison, as if by prior arrangement, breaking the usual sounds of the forest.

Noah was jolted awake, seemingly only then realizing what he was doing.

His foot, which was about to step out, was suspended in mid-air. He cautiously and tremblingly looked up and was shocked to find that the trees around him had grown pairs of eyes at some point, and like people, they slowly bent down their trunks and stretched out their branches, as if trying to grab any human who dared to walk in the forest.

A leaf touched Noah's head.

"Wow--"

Noah, who looked about fourteen or fifteen but was actually less than ten years old, couldn't hold back any longer and cried out, then took off running.

He stopped paying attention to the predetermined direction and just kept moving forward.

"Thump!"

Suddenly, something tripped Noah from his feet.

His gaze followed the falling body rapidly. The speed was so fast that there was no time to react and adjust his posture.

However, when Noah landed heavily on the ground, he found that he didn't feel any pain at all.

He looked down and saw a dense mass of grayish-white mushrooms beneath him.

These little mushrooms, like a soft mattress, caught Noah.

He pressed down on a mushroom with one hand, stood up blankly, and looked around, only to realize that he had left the forest without knowing when.

Ahead was a downhill slope, and these grayish-white mushrooms stretched all the way to the bottom of the slope.

Further ahead were a few sparse trees, and behind them, a forest of giant mushrooms, each three or four meters tall.

"How can there be such a big mushroom? And such a big pot?"

For some reason, Noah suddenly felt his fear lessen considerably, and he even found himself joking about the mushroom forest in front of him.

I overslept, so I'll have to write the next chapter tonight.

(End of this chapter)