Full-Time Magister: I can control you to death.

Chapter 22 Burrow Lizard

The sun was shining brightly, and the trees provided ample shade.

"Are all the plants here growing this well?" Xu Fang looked up at the huge canopy of the tree and the surrounding grove of trees.

Bocheng, despite having a subtropical monsoon climate, is not as lush with trees as Yangcheng, a temperate city.

"They used to grow quite lushly, but in the last month or two, these plants have grown like crazy." Liu Xiao took a machete and cut the branches blocking the way in two.

Fangfang also complained, "The military magistrate organized a cleanup once, but it was completely useless. The new growths just grow back in a few days. It's so annoying!"

There's no concept of protecting plants in the magical dimension.

In this world, lush vegetation is often closely linked to thriving monster habitats, and at the boundary between cities and great forests, people often set up a vacuum buffer zone.

Xu Fang laughed and said, "What if I invented a non-biodegradable substance that would stop plant roots from growing and cause sirens to die from stagnation after eating it?"

"Then you'll become a great hero! All research institutes will treat you like an honored guest, and people all over the world should thank you for your great achievements!" Fangfang chuckled. She felt that this Zhang San was quite interesting; even his daydreams were more sophisticated than others'.

"Say less," Qianqian, the icy girl, said coldly. "We're almost there."

Everyone fell silent. Qianqian deliberately slowed down two steps to stand next to Xu Fang and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Empty talk harms the country, while hard work builds it. A mage's duty is to slay demons and monsters. Stop thinking about those non-magical scientific things."

He left after saying that, leaving Xu Fang with a twitching mouth.

Was I... being lectured?

The further they went, the more lush the vegetation became. Zhu Wang took out the demon-finding powder and sprinkled it into the air. After a few seconds, marks appeared on the surrounding vegetation.

"Here."

Zhu Wang called out and walked to a big tree. He pushed aside the weeds and found a large pile of "Oli Gei" on the ground.

He casually picked up a stick and stirred it in the porridge: "It's not very hard, like thick porridge with little water. These burrowing lizards shouldn't have gone far."

Fangfang looked distressed: "Captain, couldn't you have used a different way of describing it?"

"Haha, I'll be more careful next time." Zhu Wang put down his backpack and quickly made arrangements: "Fangfang, go lure the demons away. Wang Peng, use ground waves to sense the cave. Liu Xiao, stay on defense. Qianqian, slow down the demons' return route. Zhang San and I will go down into the cave to retrieve the armor!"

"action!"

"Wind Track - Speed ​​Boost!" Stepping on green star trails, Fangfang darted out like a wild rabbit, her shouts still faintly audible: "Ugly monsters, the young lady has arrived, get out of the way!"

Wang Peng closed his eyes, placed his hands on the ground, and infused stardust with magical energy, sensing the existence of the cave.

"Found it." He opened his eyes. "Over there!"

"Walk!"

Zhu Wang waved his hand, and Xu Fang quickly followed. The two ran quickly in the direction Wang Peng indicated.

"Fire Sizzle - Burn!" Xu unleashed a flame, burning away the lush vegetation and revealing a spacious cave.

"Wind guide!" Zhu Wang blew a gust of wind into the cave to prevent the air from becoming too thin.

"Let's go." The two of them went into the cave one after the other, and Qianqian and Wang Peng immediately stood guard at the entrance.

The cave was very deep, and because of the lush vegetation, the walls on both sides were very damp, and water was dripping from the ceiling.

"This is a great burial site! We're going to make a fortune this time!" Zhu Wang exclaimed joyfully.

"Is there a reason for that?"

"Of course! Hard armor only exists in the habitat of burrowing lizards. Burrows that are left unused for a long time will dry out because there is no burrowing lizard droppings, making it difficult for plants to grow and the walls will become dry."

Xu Fang smirked: "So, the wetter the better?"

"The damper the better!"

Damn, I feel like we're not on the same wavelength...

"Roar!" Just then, an angry roar came from the cave, and a head the size of a basketball poked out from around the corner.

"open···"

"Fire!" The crimson star trails turned into flames, and the cave lizard's head was instantly cooked.

The air was filled with the aroma of barbecue.

"Uh..." Zhu Wang opened his mouth, caught off guard by this turn of events.

"What are you standing there for? Come on." Xu Fang called out to him, and Zhu Wang finally reacted and quickly followed, feeling inexplicably like he was there to help out.

The three lizards remaining here are all females, fighting desperately against two uninvited guests to protect their young.

Xu Fang wasn't that kind of cruel person. He took the whole family, adults and children, together, and planned to burn the father of the child along with him once they got up there. His main goal was to keep the whole family together.

Soon, the two reached the deepest part of the cave.

"So many!?" Zhu Wang was overjoyed to see the armor scattered on the ground. He quickly emptied his backpack and put the armor inside.

Looking at the corpses of several burrowing lizards, Xu Fang asked, "Can't we use their hard armor? Or do we have to use the kind they shed?"

"Of course not!" Zhu Wang said casually while packing. "The hard armor on the cave lizard is the real treasure, but it's too much trouble to skin it. What if a male lizard traps us in the cave?"

"I see..."

Xu Fang seemed to be deep in thought.

Soon, Zhu Wang packed up the hard armor, and the two quickly returned along the way they had come.

Before even reaching the cave entrance, they could feel the magical energy fluctuations in the air, as well as the magical chanting of Qianqian and the others.

"Ice Vines—Freeze!"

"They're charging! Wang Peng, push these beasts out!"

"Okay, ground wave—slow down!"

"Fangfang, watch out! Water Guardian! Damn it, we're surrounded! Hasn't the captain come up yet?"

The rest of the team members are struggling against the demons' onslaught, but their attributes mean they don't even have the ability to perform gua sha (scraping therapy).

"roar!"

A burrowing lizard broke free of the ice vines and roared as it charged towards Qianqian. Although Qianqian was a veteran of countless battles, her mind went completely blank when a demon charged straight at her.

"Water Control! Water Control!!!" Liu Xiao tried his best to connect to the star track, but he had just used a spell to save Fangfang and was still in a cooldown state.

Just then.

"Fire Sizzles, Bones Burn!"

A fireball, moving at an incredible speed, poured into the burrowing lizard's gaping mouth. The burrowing lizard's charge came to an abrupt halt, and white smoke continued to drift out from the gaps in its hard armor.

"It's Zhang San!"

Fangfang cheered.

Qianqian quickly took two steps back, panting heavily with lingering fear, and looked at Xu Fang with a complicated expression.

She never expected that the person she had previously disciplined would save her life at the last minute.

Xu Fang... he was looking at the cave lizard.

"No wonder it can be used to make armor and magic tools, it's really tough." Xu Fang exclaimed. He had fed the giant-eyed rat the same way before, and that big treasure didn't leave a single rat scrap.

Killing this thing always gave Xu Fang the feeling of steaming buns in an iron pot.

"You guys leave first and clear the space," Xu Fang instructed. Without hesitation, everyone turned and left quickly.

Fire mages excel at wide-area attacks, leaving their opponents helpless.

"They're all gone..."

Xu Fang turned around, looked at the several burrowing lizards that had chased after him, and revealed a friendly smile: "Next, it's our turn to have some fun."

(End of this chapter)