The Lake

The vast underground world, although without the sunlight of the surface world, still has tiny light sources in the environment, making this a dim place without day and night.

According to the chip's exploration of plants and soil here, the high-intensity radiation in the environment caused all substances to mutate and gave all plants and animals the ability to glow.

Therefore, the underground plant world can continue to grow and even grow more lush than the surface world.

After the grassland weasel sneak attack, Raymond and Felix became cautious. Although level three apprentices have protective force fields, slow reaction to close-range attacking creatures is a common fatal weakness.

Facing such a dilemma, Raymond finally understood why the Wizard Academy stipulated the minimum number of people. A small team of five people can usually resolve such a dilemma.

Therefore, slowing down Raymond and Felix's progress became inevitable.

But in this area suitable for level three apprentices to enter, the harvest was also exciting.

In less than a week, Raymond's backpack added many precious materials. According to his estimate, the minimum was two thousand magic stones.

Even Felix, who did not seem to care much about collecting materials before, had a bulging backpack.

The grassland weasel with abnormal body size, underground rats bigger than cats, and even the common double-headed night owls were enormous. The body size changes of all creatures appearing on this prairie exceeded Raymond's imagination.

And according to the chip's records, Raymond's current location was more than a thousand meters lower than the Crimson Wetland, and the radiation intensity in the environment also exceeded the limit that ordinary people could bear, causing slight discomfort to Raymond.

Such intense radiation caused Raymond to draw a terrible conclusion after analyzing it with the chip.

If living in such an environment for a long time, even if the body system reaches level three apprentice 1.5 and above, the lifespan of organisms will be reduced by one-third. Slight long-term headaches will also appear with prolonged stay here.

Therefore, in the face of the considerable harvest, Raymond proposed to Felix to return together.

But Felix was reluctant to face the harvest every day. Still, under Raymond's insistence, Felix had to give in because exploring on his own on this prairie was no different from looking for death.

However, on the return route, Felix insisted on changing to a new direction so that he could ensure that his backpack was fully packed when he returned.

The speechless Raymond did not have much opinion on this. Anyway, the journey was about the same. He could take the opportunity to rescreen his backpack.

But in the second week after Raymond and Felix entered the prairie without returning the same way, they had a shocking discovery the next day after changing directions!

On the vast prairie, there were many small lakes, usually the drinking places for prairie creatures. But when passing by a lake, Raymond and Felix discovered hundreds of seven-leaf clovers only one hundred meters from the lakeside!

These densely growing seven-leaf clovers were rare materials that could be refined into focusing potions. If refined by a potion master, they could even produce potions that lastingly enhance spiritual power.

Each seven-leaf clover had an acquisition price of over one hundred magic stones publicly offered by the Wizard Academy. And due to the strong demand for such materials, they were almost priceless. Even Raymond had only seen one with his mentor Edgar!

"Grayish-green leaves and pale pink pistils, these seven-leaf clovers must be at least ten years old," Felix, the first to discover the seven-leaf clovers, exclaimed excitedly without harvesting them directly. "Just pay some magic stones to take them back and guarantee my successful promotion to level one wizard!"

Facing such precious things, even Raymond, who squinted his eyes, was equally excited. The total value of these seven-leaf clovers growing together far exceeded his imagination.

And for these abnormally precious raw materials, Raymond even had the impulse to go back and refine them himself!

Felix, who laughed wildly, quickly started digging. But before Raymond walked over, a hoarse sound suddenly came from behind, alerting Raymond that something was wrong.

More than a dozen huge fish heads emerged from the lake, following the gurgling sounds. These big fish rushed over quickly from the center of the lake. They even let out hoarse and low roars from their mouths.

The somewhat startled Raymond and Felix hurriedly stood together.

But after these big fish emerged from the lake water, Raymond and Felix were dumbfounded.

"My God! They are fishmen!" Felix shouted in a panic. The energy fluctuations that surged from his body also startled Raymond.

Complete fish heads, but these big fish quickly came ashore from the water. They were also wearing crude armor. Their huge eyes were blood red. What should have been fish fins were like human arms, wielding knives, forks and other weapons!

These fishmen directly stood on the shore with their thick and short tail fins. The largest fishman waved two short knives and opened his mouth to shout loudly.

But Raymond couldn't understand this hoarse hissing language at all, and without waiting for him to consider it further, Felix had already smashed his prepared spell over.

In an instant, flames rose and enveloped three or four fishmen. Raymond, who was already prepared, immediately cast his "Death Coil."

The fishmen roasted by the flames let out painful hisses. The withered vine branches emerging from the ground also trapped the fishmen rushing up with roars.

The thick and tough withered vines entangled their bodies the moment they touched them, then tied them in place.

Felix manipulated the raging flames to quickly wrap all the fishmen. Desperate and shrill hisses echoed by the lake.

A burnt smell soon appeared in the air. The black smoke rising from the fishmen's bodies, accompanied by low and hoarse roars, made the scene of live grilled fishmen look miserable.

Carefully manipulating the withered vines, Raymond scanned the surroundings while maintaining precise control of his magic. But the more carefully he observed, the more Raymond felt that the environment here was strangely bizarre!