Chapter 139

Chapter 139 Collaboration with Shapeshifters

Locke rode on Engel’s spinning snail and entered the alley. His magic pressure was as obvious as a lighthouse in the dark night. The powerful magic pressure was like a small stone thrown into the river, causing ripples in the small lake of Upside Down Alley.

Many second-class wizard apprentices looked at Locke with surprise and respect, and took the initiative to greet him.

Upside Down Alley is a small lake that cannot accommodate big fish.

There are basically only second-class wizard apprentices here, so these second-class wizard apprentices are all wondering what happened that attracted a first-class wizard apprentice to enter Upside Down Alley so aggressively.

Locke nodded slightly to them, and then found Gabi Montoya at No. 231 who was attracted by his magic pressure.

Every wizard’s magical pressure has a specific natural frequency, so it is relatively easy to identify.

When a first-class wizard apprentice is hiding, he needs to restrain his magic pressure; when he is looking for someone, or wants others to find him, he needs to release the magic pressure as much as possible.

Locke said to Gabi, “Gabi, come on. I’ll hire you again for 70 magic stones. I’m looking for a third-class wizard apprentice named Pierre.”

He handed Gabi a leaf from the Ominous Mandrake vine. “Can you help me find him by the scent of this leaf? He has a leaf like the same one on him.”

Locke explained briefly, “He’s in extreme danger right now. I need the fastest speed.”

Upon hearing this, Gabi immediately and carefully took the leaf of the Ominous Mandrake Vine, and then her face changed into an appearance with the characteristics of a black cat, which was a partial application of the Civet Cat Transfiguration.

She sniffed deeply, then transformed into a black cat and ran on the ground for a while. Then Gabi breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Locke and said, “Senior Locke, I can smell his faint scent in the air.”

“I can find him. Senior, should we leave immediately?”

Locke smiled. “Good. Let’s go now. Jump on this snail and follow me. You show me the way.”

Engel’s Spiral Snail is a wizard who specializes in animal training in the academy. It is created by crossbreeding and modulating the bloodlines of different magical creatures. It not only has a 0.3-ring drift spell, but also has amazing endurance. The natural spells on its body are passive and consume extremely low power, which is different from the principles of wizards’ spellcasting.

Therefore, even if a wizard uses magic to temporarily increase his speed to surpass the Engel’s Speed Snail, he still cannot compare with the Engel’s Speed Snail, which can use the drift spell throughout the journey, when traveling long distances.

Gabi transformed into a black cat and jumped onto the back of the snail. Then the snail began to run quickly in the direction Gabi pointed.

Gabi sat on the back of the snail, continuing to sniff the special smell in the air. The civet is a magical creature with amazing agility, sense of smell and tracking ability.

The combat capabilities of low-level shapeshifters are usually limited, so their learning direction will generally expand towards exploration, tracking, and reconnaissance.

The medium-level magical creature that the shapeshifter chooses to transform into basically possesses all the abilities of this magical creature, and may even be better.

Because the one who is deformed is the average of this race.

However, using the method of blood transformation to transform the blood of magical creatures such as civet cats into one’s own body can only obtain some of the civet cat’s abilities. Moreover, generally no wizard would choose to transform his or her body with the blood of a civet cat.

The needs are different.

Five minutes later.

Gabi transformed into a black cat and stood on the snail’s head, her eyes brightening. “It’s getting closer, right in the mountains ahead, but I can smell blood, and yes, the smell of the dead…”

“There should be another third-class wizard apprentice next to that third-class wizard apprentice. They should both be injured.”

“Senior, you’d better hurry up, otherwise they will all die.”

Locke frowned and took a look at the three invisible Omen Mandrake vines wrapped around his right hand. The Omen Mandrake vines had turned very red, turning into a black and red color.

This means that the enemy is indeed nearby.

But the color is wrong.

Locke thought for a moment, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes. Whoever dared to touch his experimental data would die.

He said to Gabi, “Gabi, turn yourself into an owl and fly up to the sky and observe over there.”

“You should have learned the secret language of the Transfiguration School, right? Always listen to my instructions.”

Gabi proudly replied, “Senior, Secret Languages is a core skill for us shapeshifters during our apprenticeship period. Of course I learned it.”

“At least I know the secret language of single-body transformation.”

The so-called secret language technique is to transform the magic power into a channel for whispering information. It can establish a communication channel between two wizards. During the battle, both parties can convey instructions and information at any time.

Powerful shapeshifters have extensive research in the field of multiple-transformation cryptography, and can even perform magic transformation on multiple people by themselves, establishing secret communication channels.

Locke learned this in his Everything class.

At that time, the dark elf Sassari also carefully explained to him the differences, similarities, advantages and disadvantages between the four spell systems: the [Secret Languages] of the Transfiguration School, the [Voice Transmission] of the Illusion School, the [Language Code] of the Prophecy School, and the [Mind Interference] of the Psychic School.

It can only be said that the field of magic is extremely vast. Except for the early primitive period of magic, when some wizards could learn many fields and become almighty kings, the white wizards at this stage now emphasize mutual cooperation, learning from each other’s strengths and weaknesses, and division of labor.

This will be more efficient.

…

In the mountains, Lawn and Pierre were covered in wounds. They were panting, and their magic power, which was already limited, was almost exhausted.

They were surrounded by undead creatures, and there seemed to be even more stinking corpses hidden behind the trees in the woods.

Laun said tiredly, “Why are there so many zombies?”

The two of them had originally listened to Locke’s words obediently and refused to accept the mission issued by the academy to go out and destroy the undead creatures, because Locke told them that there was a group of spies from the Blood Curse Court outside the academy recently, who were hunting down the apprentices of their Lilith Cottage.

But they didn’t have long to endure, as they were attracted by the mission issued by the academy to destroy the undead creatures, with a reward of up to 15 magic stones per mission.

You know, this is not a small reward.

Gabi’s salary for conducting an initial investigation into an unusual incident was only 25 magic stones. Although that mission did not require her to fight, Gabi was a second-class wizard apprentice.

So, Pierre was tempted by Laun several times, and then the two of them took on the academy mission together and went out.

Who would have thought that the two of them were different from others, and were besieged by a large number of zombies as soon as they went out.

Pierre regretted, “Lauren, Locke told us not to go out. I should have listened to him earlier. He is a first-class wizard apprentice and must know more inside information than us.”

Laun raised his sword and swung it, forcing a ghoul back. He wiped the sweat from his face and said, “It’s too late to say anything now.”

“Pierre, I’ll try to use my knightly strength to fight my way out with you… maybe there’s still a chance…”

As soon as Laun finished speaking, a burst of laughter, louder and louder, arose from the dense forest.

“Hahaha… these two rookie wizards are so stupid. They fell into our trap and are trying to break out.”

“That’s ridiculous.”

“Hurry and kill them both, especially the wizard apprentice named Pierre. He should have an important potion being experimented on. Killing him will slow down the speed at which those drug dealers are developing new potions.”

Under the desperate eyes of Laun and Pierre, seven second-class wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court appeared in the woods. They were either hanging upside down on the trees or standing under the trees.

Just as Laun was about to move, a vampire apprentice appeared in front of him the next moment. With his extreme speed, he teleported to his side, and then his bloody claws pierced through both of Laun’s shoulders.

The vampire apprentice said with a mixture of sarcasm and cruelty, “Don’t move, or both of your arms will be crippled.”

“Now let me ask you a question. Would you rather have both arms disabled now, or have both arms disabled later?”

Pierre and Laun’s faces turned pale. They hadn’t expected to encounter the second-class wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court!

Elsewhere, a vampire apprentice grabbed Pierre’s head with his bloody claws. The five fingers of the bloody claws, as if crushing stone, pressed into Pierre’s head, leaving five fingerprints on his skull.

Pierre screamed in horror, but this scream only made the vampire apprentice, who had become psychopathic due to the long-term oppressive environment of the Blood Curse Court, even more excited.

“Hehehe… Little White Wizard, don’t you know that pain and fear are the source of the power of our curse magic?”

The vampire apprentice began to chant the paralysis spell in Pierre’s ear.

For so-called curse magic to be successful, a curser must cast a spell and hit another person. The cursed person needs to have some fear in their heart, or at least an emotional vulnerability. Then there must be contact between the two parties, or physical damage, before a direct curse can be carried out.

None of the three conditions can be missing.

Of course, this applies to the same level. If the difference in magic level is too great, these three conditions are not necessary.

So the curse is not very effective against opponents of the same level, but it is a great weapon for bullying weak opponents.

Amidst his screams of terror, Pierre gradually discovered that his body was becoming less and less under his control. His breathing began to lose rhythm and became weak.

His limbs seemed to have lost all feeling.

Pierre and Laun were like two lambs caught in a pack of wolves. They had no ability to resist and could only be tortured by the teasing wolves.

(End of this chapter)