Chapter 23

Chapter 23: The Bone Cult

Chapter 23: The Bone Cult

Lawn Guerrero suddenly shouted to Locke, “Locke, behind you!”

“careful!”

At that time, the zombie group had completely separated the wizard seedlings on the wizard ship. Most of the wizard seedlings spent all their time studying, so they did not have much practical experience.

Only dark wizards would cultivate the wizard seedlings’ actual combat capabilities from the very beginning, rather than starting with learning ancient languages.

At this moment, Locke just turned around and saw a zombie with blue skin and only whites in its eyes rushing towards him. It hit his chest with its head. The huge impact force knocked him from one side to the other, and was about to knock him off the deck of the wizard ship and into the sea.

“Klaus~” At the critical moment, Locke forced himself to recite the spell and activated the vine hand. The five branches of the Mandrake vine wrapped around his right hand came out from the cuffs of his coat like vine pythons.

The two branches were inserted into the deck of the wizard’s ship, fixing its body.

Three branches followed his arms and wrapped around the body of the zombie that was holding him, slightly separating it from himself, and then wrapped around its head. With a “click” sound, the zombie’s head and body were separated by himself.

Before Locke could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw that the headless zombie was still able to move. His right hand stretched towards his neck like a pair of pliers.

“I’m completely stupid.” Locke reacted. “This thing is originally a corpse controlled by necromancy. What’s the point of me just taking off its head?”

Locke glanced at the gold rings with navy blue orbs worn on his right thumb, index finger and middle finger. With three navy blue orbs, he had 30 more magic points than the average third-class wizard apprentice.

Now is a dangerous time, so we naturally cannot cherish our magic power.

Locke recited the spell twice in succession and used the Hand of Vine twice in a very short period of time. The Mandra Vine, as the carrier of the spell, was equivalent to obtaining the magic power of the Hand of Vine twice in a very short period of time.

This temporarily increases the Mandrake’s mobility.

The five branches of the Mandrake Vine transformed into a giant hand, grabbing the body of the zombie in front of it, then separating him from itself and creating distance.

Then, with a “click”, the zombie’s entire body was caught by the mandrake vines, and some fractures occurred in its body.

The limbs and spine were twisted and fractured, and the patient lost the ability to move.

Locke breathed a sigh of relief, but saw that the deck was full of zombies, which were besieging the wizard seedlings.

He didn’t kill him.

But many wizard seedlings have been pushed into the sea by the zombies and kidnapped by the black wizards in the black fog in the sky.

Now, there are more blue-skinned zombies rushing towards him. There are at least five of them in sight.

Sweat dripped down Locke’s forehead. ‘These zombies were cast here by the dark wizards. Perhaps they were cast here by the real wizards.’

“There are so many of them, their bodies are stiff but invulnerable, and each one is a strong man. It takes a lot of effort for me to deal with one of them.”

A zombie that was attacking Locke was caught by Lawn Guerrero, and the silver cross sword hit its back. The zombie screamed immediately, and its back was melting quickly.

Lawn Guerrero brandished the two-handed cross sword in his hand, like a spinning whirlwind, and slashed the back of the zombie blocking his way more than ten times. Soon the zombie fell to the ground, and the runes on its body gradually melted.

Lawn Guerrero rushed to Locke’s side and said, “It’s hard for one person to protect himself in this situation. Let’s go together.”

Locke stood back to back with him, facing the siege of the remaining four zombies together. “That makes sense.”

“Thank you, Lawrence.”

Locke glanced at the silver cross sword in Lawn’s hand, which was shining with silver light. This sword should be the magic item mentioned in the book.

A masterpiece of the alchemy school, it is a treasure that can best increase the combat effectiveness of wizard apprentices before they become official wizards.

Every magical item is the crystallization of alchemy.

But there is not a single enchanted item on Corfu.

The first time Locke saw this thing was from Lawrence, a prince from Schleswig Island.

It seems that although both are mortal worlds, there is still a big gap between Corfu and Schleswig.

Relying on the magic items in his hands and his physique as a great knight, Lawn fought back and forth with the two zombies. Locke also used his magic power that exceeded that of an ordinary wizard apprentice to drive the vine hand, turning the mandrake vine into a giant vine hand, which kept hammering the two zombies, preventing them from getting close to him.

Locke glanced at the glowing silver sword in Lawn’s hand and said, “Laun, the sword in your hand is very lethal to zombies.”

Laun cut a hole in the chest of a zombie with his sword. The wound of the zombie immediately began to rot and quickly disintegrated under the silver light of the cross sword.

Laun quickly said to Locke, “Well, my sword is a magic item. It has an enchantment school trick [Minor Undead Resistance Ward] on it, which specifically restrains undead creatures and negative energy spells. That’s why it’s so effective.”

“Unfortunately, there are too many of them, they are powerful and fast. Even with this sword, it would be difficult to clean them up.”

Locke suddenly knelt on one knee, squatting on the deck, ignoring the two zombies charging towards him and the new zombie that had joined. “Then let’s change our thinking and we’ll find the optimal solution.”

He chanted a spell and punched the ground with his right fist. Immediately, the five branches of the Mandrake vine drilled into the wooden floor. Then, they suddenly emerged from the surrounding wooden floor and tied themselves to the left legs of five nearby zombies.

The five zombies were immediately controlled by the vines and stayed in place. No matter how they jumped, they could not break free from Locke’s Mandrake vines.

During the battle, Locke became more and more adept and proficient in using the Vine Hand trick.

Locke said to Lawn, “Now, Lawn, kill them.”

After a moment’s pause, Lawn burst into laughter. “Okay, that’s much easier. I’ll kill them all with one sword.”

He raised the silver sword and stabbed it directly into the chest of a zombie that was controlled by the vine hand. The zombie roared like a beast.

Then, the runes on the zombie’s body quickly dimmed one after another, and it lost its ability to move.

After killing five zombies, Lawn smiled. “Locke, if that’s the case, you and my two wizard apprentices can join forces and we won’t have to be afraid of these zombies anymore.”

“I think the wizard mentor on the ship will rescue us soon.”

When Lawen turned around, he saw Locke’s serious expression. He was stunned for a moment. “Locke, what’s wrong with you?”

Locke pointed in front of him and said, “Look around…”

At that time, there were at least thirty zombies surrounding Locke and Lawn.

This is an absolute difference in numbers!

The dense numbers were enough to make most of the third-class wizard apprentices lose the idea of resistance.

Laun swallowed his saliva. “This…”

A black mist fell from the sky and hit the deck of the wizard’s ship like a meteor. From the black mist walked out a witch wearing black leather high heels, a black robe, and a whole fox fur on her shawl.

On the witch’s chest hung a pentagram badge, inside which was a white skeleton skull, and in each of the skull’s eye sockets was another pentagram pattern.

That badge was very strange.

Witch Barbara smiled and said, “Two little ones, we of the [White Bone Cult] have taken a liking to you. One of you is very experienced in actual combat, and the other is growing rapidly and making decisive judgments. You are exactly the talents we of the [White Bone Cult] need.”

“So, I…Witch Barbara Wayne, invite you to give up resistance and join our [Order of the Bone]. You two, if you follow those hypocrites, you will achieve nothing. The dark world is the final destination for all of you.”

(End of this chapter)