Following All the Way
The shackles that prevented him from improving again!
Richard sighed inwardly, finally reaching the limit of his body, and he had touched the natural barrier of a formal wizard.
Next, the question is how to overcome this chasm.
He called up the inspiration panel and saw that the information displayed on the panel once again showed that his mental power had reached its limit.
[Name]: Richard Clavel
[Attributes]: Strength 7.9, Agility 8.2, Constitution 8.1, Spirit 29.9
After taking a bath and flirting with the maid Selina as usual, Richard said goodbye to his family, left Clavel Castle, and began to track down the traces of the monsters' retreat yesterday.
Many signs indicate that the monster's traces originated from the depths of Silver Pine Forest.
However, before going deep into the Silver Pine Forest to investigate, Richard made a detour and cleared out all the remaining monsters within a ten-mile radius of Silver Pine Town. This was to ensure safety and at the same time, he could gain a small amount of energy points.
Afterwards, Richard began to gradually go deeper into the Silver Pine Forest according to the monster's footprints. In Richard's impression, the Silver Pine Forest, which was full of birdsong and flowers, was inexplicably silent at this moment, and there was a strange and evil atmosphere everywhere. As Richard went deeper, the number and types of monsters he encountered began to increase.
Monsters that would never appear in Silver Pine Forest in the past, such as Dark Fang Spiders, Crystal Web Spiders, etc., were now and then spotted by Richard.
Richard frowned. It seemed that the person behind the scenes was quite powerful. However, Richard was not afraid of these monsters. He could even be said to be a little happy.
Because once he investigates the source of the monsters, these remaining monsters will represent a large amount of energy points for him, which makes Richard smile a little, and reminds him of the good times in the Grey Fern Wilderness.
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night before, in the hall of Earl Harris's castle in Rosby City, the ice wizard Daenerys was accompanied by the Earl and the Knight Vincent, talking with the wizard apprentices and demon hunters who had just returned.
Although the rescue teams were confused when they received the Earl's urgent order to return to the county town immediately, they still returned in accordance with the order of the chief executive of Rossby County.
After returning with a lot of doubts, many apprentices were about to ask Earl Harris about the situation, but they saw Daenerys, who had a powerful aura, sitting on the first throne.
Many apprentices were shocked on the spot!
Obviously, they understood that this kind of momentum was a symbol that only formal wizards possessed.
Therefore, even if the wizard apprentices and demon hunters present had many dissatisfactions and doubts in their hearts, they could only swallow them back at this moment.
After all, whether they are demon hunters or wizard apprentices, they all know what being a formal wizard means.
Earl Harris coughed and introduced: "My fellow wizard apprentices and demon hunters, let me introduce you to Her Royal Highness Daenerys from the royal family, who is also a formal wizard of the Hydrashia Wizard Academy of the Commercial Alliance. The one next to him is His Excellency Vincent, the Griffin Knight of the Kingdom of Heron."
At this time, Daenerys's slightly cold voice sounded, and the first sentence was earth-shattering, as if it rang in everyone's ears like thunder: "I have already explored it yesterday. The source of the monsters is an underground crack deep in the Silverpine Forest, and the mastermind behind the scenes is in this crack."
Everyone below was extremely surprised and started discussing among themselves in whispers. The general idea was that it turned out that this tide of monsters was not formed naturally, but there was a mastermind behind it.
Suddenly, the empty hall became as noisy as a vegetable market.
Count Harris's face turned serious, and he knocked heavily on the table and said, "Silence!"
After the scene returned to calm, Daenerys's cold voice rang out again.
"This time, I called everyone here because I need your help. The person behind the scenes is very powerful."
"For wizard apprentices from different wizard academies. I will contact your academy directly, and the academy will reward the participating wizard apprentices in the form of mission rewards."
"For the demon hunters, I would like to entrust you with this mission in the name of the royal family of the Kingdom of Heron. The reward will be generous."
"Finally, with your assistance, I will personally lead the team into the rift to kill the mastermind behind this."
"Your Highness Daenerys, you..." Earl Harris's face suddenly changed. You know, the content of the last sentence was inconsistent with what Daenerys had told him at the beginning.
As agreed before, the team would be led by the great knight Vincent!
Daenerys's few words instantly made the discussion among the crowd louder again.
After all, the official wizards have said that the opponent is very strong. Obviously, the so-called mastermind behind the scenes cannot be just a wizard apprentice.
But if the opponent is a real wizard, these wizard apprentices will probably have no way back.
Perhaps this level of danger is not great for formal wizards, but for these wizard apprentices, it is dangerous enough.
For these sophisticated and selfish wizard apprentices, the request of the strange wizard before them was a little unacceptable to them.
One of the wizard apprentices tried to ask: "Respected Master Daenerys, there is something urgent that needs to be dealt with at the academy. Can I go back first and come back later?"
Daenerys glanced at the wizard apprentice and said coldly: "Excuse me, what important matter do you have? Can you tell me and I will tell your academy immediately!"
This immediately made the wizard apprentice feel like a balloon that had been punctured by a needle, and he collapsed listlessly on the chair.
When the other wizard apprentices saw this, they immediately shut their mouths and stopped saying anything.
The demon hunters seemed to be doing the exact opposite. They elected a burly representative with two swords on his back to speak for them.
The double-sword demon hunter stood up and said cheerfully, "Your Highness Daenerys, we demon hunters have no objection. As long as you pay the corresponding reward, we are willing to go even if the risk is great. What's more, killing monsters is our duty."
As soon as these words were spoken, the wizard apprentices beside them immediately felt ashamed, and many of them said angrily:
"What a bunch of reckless men who are not afraid of death!"
"If you want to go, you guys can just go by yourselves."
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"By the way, Princess Daenerys, when are we setting off?" The double-sword demon hunter asked loudly, ignoring the whispers of the wizard apprentices beside him.
"We will set out early tomorrow morning. Please get ready. The meeting is adjourned!" Daenerys was the first to stand up and leave the hall, followed by the Great Knight Vincent and Earl Harris.
As soon as they left, the remaining wizard apprentices and witchers also left, but many wizard apprentices still stayed.
"Ah? Setting off early tomorrow morning? But we just came back, shouldn't we at least take a day off to adjust our condition?" muttered a wizard apprentice.
"Yes, is there any need to be in such a hurry?" another wizard apprentice echoed resentfully.
"Forget it, stop talking and go prepare the potions and alchemical bombs."
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So, just as Richard set out from the family castle and began to track the monster's trail, a team with Daenerys and the Great Knight Vincent as the core, and many wizard apprentices and demon hunters as the main force, set out from the county town of Rosby in a mighty manner.
In fact, Lord Harris himself wanted to participate. He thought that if something happened to Daenerys in his jurisdiction, he would be blamed. If he went with her, he could persuade her to return if she encountered danger. However, Daenerys asked Lord Harris to stay in Rosby and take charge of government affairs and logistics.
After all, so many small towns in Rossby County were destroyed by the army of monsters, and the pile of aftermath matters are actually very troublesome.
Lord Harris was still very worried when he saw that Princess Daenerys did not agree to go along, and immediately sent ten elite knights to accompany her, although this seemed meaningless to others.
Tigers don't need cats to guard them!
But in the eyes of Earl Harris, this move was of great significance. At least it showed his attitude to the royal family.
The mixed bag of wizard apprentices from various wizard academies felt relieved when they saw that the team was so large and there was a formal wizard leading it.
After all, if you really can't win, you just need to run faster than the person next to you.
And the wizard Daenerys also promised that if everything goes well, they will be awarded a letter of commendation from the Kingdom of Harron and will be given a certain amount of compensation.
The reward was obviously not gold dinars, but at least magic stones or other rare potions or even witchcraft props, etc., so when they thought of these rewards, they reluctantly shut their noisy mouths.
The group entered the Silver Pine Forest in a mighty procession.
Such a large group entering the forest would inevitably attract the attention of the mastermind.
Look, even before they reached the rift, they had already had several conflicts with monsters.
Many problems were also exposed!
Although these monsters are generally not very strong, the strongest one is only at the level of the mutant crab monster, but the large army is a mixed bag and their strength is even weaker.
The combat power of some first and second level wizard apprentices was really dismal, but the combat power of the demon hunters made Daenerys feel enlightened.
Originally, Daenerys was holding on to the small fry and letting the small fry deal with them, and the leader had his own ideas.
But when the third wave of monsters launched an attack, Daenerys could not hold back, because if she did not take action, there would be casualties. So, she directly took action and killed a troll mantis with ice cone magic in seconds.
However, surprisingly, perhaps because the people in the team saw the powerful strength of the official wizard, their morale was boosted, and they performed better in dealing with the next few waves of monsters, and did not force Daenerys to take action again, which made her feel relieved.
At this moment, many wizard apprentices in the team have already been cleansed, saying that those who complained before were short-sighted. Following the wizard Daenerys is not only safe but also allows them to collect a lot of rare monster materials.
However, two third-level wizard apprentices remained silent, because they had noticed that each batch of monsters that came was stronger than the previous one.
It is conceivable that among the latest batch of monsters, the strength of some monsters is already equivalent to their level, so the strength of the mastermind behind the scenes must be even more terrifying.
This bunch of first and second level wizard apprentices have never seen how terrifying the battle between real wizards is.
It can be said that as long as you are touched or bumped by the first-level witchcraft, your life will be gone. These people are still focusing on the raw materials of these monsters. It is really stupid!
Although Richard and Daenerys' teams were heading straight towards the rift.
But because Richard was alone, he made very little noise, and in order to avoid unnecessary mental energy consumption, he deliberately avoided fighting with some monsters.
Because the main purpose of Richard's trip was to investigate.
Just as he was wondering why he encountered fewer and fewer monsters after reaching the core area of the Silver Pine Forest, he soon heard the faint sound of fighting coming from afar.
Therefore, although Richard was not as strong as Daenerys, he discovered this large army from Rosby County before Daenerys discovered him.
Richard was sneaking at a very fast speed in the dense forest. When he saw the large army in front of him through the mottled shadows of the branches, he was quite shocked.
This mighty team of 40 to 50 people must be the official investigation team from the Kingdom of Heron! Especially the cold young woman leading the team, holding a strangely shaped icicle staff, immediately attracted Richard's attention.
Because this is obviously a wizard, and seems to be an extremely rare female ice wizard.
Although there was another knight next to her, who was nearly two meters tall and wearing exquisite knight armor, Richard's first impression was that this knight was merely the woman's bodyguard.
This can be verified from the knights' respectful attitude towards women.
The power of the female wizard was unfathomable. Richard just stared at her from a distance for a while, which seemed to have aroused her instinctive response. Her beautiful eyes looked over here.
This greatly surprised Richard, and he immediately retracted his head and looked away.
Richard immediately concluded that this woman must have the strength of a formal wizard, otherwise, it would be impossible for her to have such keen insight and detect such a subtle gaze from him when surrounded by so many monsters.
You know, I have already reached the limit of the third-level wizard apprentice.
However, Richard changed his mind and was immediately overjoyed. With such a large army leading the way in front, it seemed that all he had to do now was sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
You can continuously gain energy points without having to kill monsters yourself, which is simply a blessing in disguise.
Sure enough, I called up my inspiration panel and saw the following pop-ups appearing on my panel:
[Gain 71 energy points.]
[Gain 72 energy points.]
[Gain 228 energy points.]
[Gained 4489 energy points.]
Huh! Richard's eyes lit up. More than 4,000 points. It seems that the large army in front killed a large monster!
Tsk tsk, Richard's current mood can be described in three words: wonderful!
This is like taking a free tour to Silver Pine Forest. Not only is it free, but you will also be treated to delicious food and drinks along the way, and in the end, you will even be given a sum of money!
Therefore, Richard brought the breath-concealing effect of Rodrigo's meditation method to the extreme. At the same time, he maintained the shadow dance state from time to time, circumventing monsters and avoiding battles by moving at high speed, thus successfully staying far behind the main force.
(End of this chapter)