Chapter 138

The change in the infected caught everyone's attention in an instant. The three mages who were promoted at the last minute were distracted, giving the Anti-Mage of the Aomu Family a chance to escape.

The Anti-Mages could not care about the other family members. They did not even have time to issue a warning in the face of danger. Each of them used their last resort to break out of the encirclement.

Unfortunately, the direction they chose to break out of was the infected who were in the midst of the chaos.

The Devil took control of all the infected on the Gravel Plains and ordered fervently, "Target locked, attack!"

The elemental aura of each infected was not strong, but when multiplied by a huge number, it was still terrifying. The infected followed the Devil's orders 655%. In an instant, Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire gathered rapidly in the sky and on the ground, condensing into a huge composite elemental cluster in front of everyone. Then, under everyone's stunned gaze, it gently collided with the incoming Anti-Mage.

* Boom!!! *

Accompanied by a deafening sound, the elemental cluster exploded. The continuous shockwaves were stronger than the one before. The trial apprentices had no choice but to temporarily give up on pursuing the target and construct their own defenses to prevent themselves from dying from the magic shockwaves.

The three elemental radiances of fire, ice, and earth lit up in the shockwaves, cutting through the innate magic of the infected like three sharp blades. However, there was no trace of the Anti-Mage in front of them.

The three official mages were furious. In their minds, this battle should be their stage. It should end with them perfectly killing the Anti-Mage and obtaining Merit. But now, they had been robbed!

The loss of Merit was secondary. The drop in their hearts made them very angry.

"Merit, the Merit has been stolen by them! Kill these monsters and find the person behind them. I want to tear him apart! "

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Adam was recording the changes of the virus from its original state to its current state in the laboratory. He suddenly noticed that there were more than two thousand Merit points on his Merit Bracelet. The total number of Merit points had exceeded ten thousand, and this number was still rising rapidly.

Adam put down his pen and paper and walked out of the laboratory. He asked the Devil who was laughing maniacally, "What are you doing?"

The Devil exited the fusion state and excitedly pointed at the image on the screen. "Master, the second-generation infection is too strong. Twenty official mages were blown to pieces in an instant!"

The screen was showing an image of the Stony Plains. Anti-Mage was nowhere to be seen, and on the plains where there were no more Stony Plains, the trial apprentices were slaughtering the infected under the lead of three high-energy creatures.

"Master, those three are sorcerers who have just advanced. The infected's visual organs are unable to filter through the protective layer on their bodies."

The two of them did not express any opinions about the infected bodies that were cut up and killed like weeds. It was because these things came too easily, and there were too many of them.

"Are they the first batch of apprentices?" Adam asked softly.

The Devil sat on Garfields' shoulder and lightly patted his mount's head, then said: "This was the first batch after the virus spread, but I don't know if anyone else had advanced before that"

Adam fixed his gaze on the three new mages, but the longer he stared at them, the more confused he became.

"Although they've become stronger, it doesn't seem to have reached the level of qualitative change? Is it because the time of advancement is too short, and their souls have not adapted to Ether? "

These three mages, whose faces could not be seen clearly, could release a huge amount of magic and powerful magic with just a wave of their hand. However, from Adam's point of view, these magic were still unable to break away from the magic framework of an apprentice. It was probably because their souls could directly control the magic that made them seem more powerful. This was still a far cry from the power of an official level that he had expected.

"It shouldn't be because of the time of advancement." Adam instantly denied his own speculation. He had stayed in the stage of self-sealing for more than ten years, and if he were to advance another day, his soul would not be filled with magic immediately, and he would definitely not have to start from scratch to accumulate magic. It should be the same for the other geniuses.

Adam recalled the few times he had seen mages in action. Leaving aside the dean of Monte Carlo, the power of Mage Black's magic far surpassed the three of them. It was not only because of Mage Black's level, but also because of the way he used magic.

Mage Black seemed to be able to use a small amount of magic to move more elements.

"It seems that there's another reason why mainstream mages are so strong."

At this moment, more than four thousand merit points were added to his merit bracelet. The Devil's gloating voice sounded in his ears, "Hahaha! How interesting, how interesting! Master, all the elites of the three families have been wiped out by me. Hahaha, their expressions are so interesting! "

Even with Adam's calmness, he could not help but feel a headache coming on. He had taken the peaches of one-third of the apprentices, and the other two-thirds might have had a chance to ease the situation. But now, the Devil had basically offended everyone. It was conceivable that if they found out that he was the mastermind behind the scenes, they would not be stingy with the fifty merit points.

Adam looked at the Devil speechlessly, but he would not push the blame of his own carelessness onto others.

"If that's the case, I can only speed up again."

At this moment, the Devil also felt that it seemed to have gotten into trouble. It looked at Adam timidly and said, "Master … I …"

Adam shook his head to indicate that it was fine, and then ordered, "Eliminate all the remaining Anti-Mage apprentices in the wild, and drive the other twelve factions to converge. Do not act rashly if you encounter any apprentices in the trial."

The Devil nodded repeatedly.

"Order the infected to collect metals, whether they are in the town or hidden underground. Extract them all and send them here." Adam said as he threw the Devil two magic array blueprints filled with complex runes. "A radius of one kilometer. The outer circle will be engraved with a magnetic field and electric current conversion array, and the inner circle will be engraved with a high-temperature smelting array. I know you have collected a lot of energy stones, so don't be stingy. Use them all."

"Got it …"

The Devil was a little pained. During the process of destroying the city, it had collected all the low-level resources that Adam disdained to plunder, and buried them in different places. It had thought that it could make a fortune, but now it could only obediently hand them over. Although it was greedy, it would not be blinded by greed. It clearly knew that it could not bear the consequences of disobeying Adam's orders.

"Control the speed of these two missions, and try to do them simultaneously. I need the metals and the array to be formed when the Anti-Mage is driven to one place."

After Adam finished speaking, he turned around and returned to the laboratory. Since he had become the target of public criticism, the second-generation virus was no longer sufficient. Aside from the things he ordered the Devil to do, researching the third-generation virus was of utmost importance.