Chapter 72

Chapter 72 Corpse Explosion (4477)

Gabi was sitting in a carriage driven by an ordinary human driver she hired.

This way, you don’t have to pay expensive magic stones, you only need to pay this ordinary person a certain amount of gold dragon coins.

The Golden Dragon Coin is just a gold coin issued by the Golden Dragon Empire, the largest empire under the jurisdiction of Lilith’s Hut. It has limited purchasing power and is just a pile of waste for wizards. But for mortals, it is the most valuable trading currency besides magic stones.

At this moment, the ordinary human coachman suddenly stopped the carriage, which forced Locke’s carriage following Gabi to stop as well.

The three Centaur drivers looked ahead in confusion. “Why did the wizard’s carriage stop?”

At the same time, Gabi was also puzzled. She lifted the carriage curtain and looked at the human driver impatiently. Gabi was not as friendly to mortals as she was to Locke. “What’s going on?”

The next moment, the driver turned his head, a scarlet light flashed in his right eye, and his left eye flashed with a crazy look.

Gabi was so frightened by the man’s madness that he was stunned for a moment and even forgot to chant the spell. The next moment, the mortal driver rushed towards him, chanting “Kill you monster”, and then threw himself into Gabi’s arms and pressed Gabi Montoya down.

Gabi’s first reaction was not to fight back immediately, but to wonder, “What’s wrong with this person?”

He was just a mortal, and his attack was insignificant to Gabi.

However, at the moment when the coachman pounced on his employer, suddenly, there was a series of “bang” sounds from the floor of the carriage, and vampires crawled out from the ground, scaring the horse pulling the carriage so much that it raised its hooves and let out a terrified cry.

The five apprentice wizards from the Blood Curse Court, their eyes flashing with calculation and deadly threats, laughed heartily as they stretched out their bloody claws and pounced on Gabi. They laughed rapidly, saying,

“These white wizards from Lilith’s Hut are truly useless. They only hypnotized a mortal with hypnotic magic, and they actually scared her so much that she forgot to recite the spell.”

“What’s the use of a wizard apprentice who can’t fight?”

“Killing this kind of wizard apprentice is even easier than killing a pig. Hahahahahaha…”

“Kill her first, take her head, and shock that second-class wizard apprentice named Locke Augustine. Then we can easily take his head!”

The five vampires threatened Gabi one after another, further reducing Gabi’s reaction ability. Gabi was so frightened that he stood there in a daze without even having time to recite a spell.

At the same time, these apprentices who transformed themselves into vampires were obviously deliberately putting psychological pressure on Locke, who was in the car behind, to create panic in a very short period of time, so that Locke would panic and make wrong judgments, and then make mistakes step by step, and then kill Locke at a very small cost.

But the next moment, the five vampires, whose speed was so fast that their afterimages were about to merge into one, screamed one by one. They looked down and found that the mandrake vines covered with blood-colored patterns had wrapped around their bodies at some point, restricting their movements.

“when?”

“How is that possible? If those useless wizards in Lilith’s hut used spells, how could we not notice them given our combat experience?”

“Hurry and break free. This magical vine is very fragile.”

However, the blood claws of the five vampires fell on the level 7 Omen Mandra vine, but it was futile and it was difficult to destroy Locke’s magic vine.

The Ominous Mandrake Vines can sense hostility, so the moment they discover an enemy nearby, they lock onto the wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court hiding underground. The moment they launch an attack, they use their invisibility to quietly wrap around them.

At the same time, Locke’s magic pressure spread along the Mandra vines to the two second-class wizard apprentices and three third-class wizard apprentices.

The faces of these wizard apprentices from the Blood Curse Court suddenly changed.

Invisible pressure fell on every inch of their skin.

That is demonic pressure!

“It’s the magic pressure. He’s not a second-class wizard apprentice, he’s a first-class wizard apprentice.”

“How is this possible? Nine months ago, he was still a second-class wizard apprentice.”

“Run! The intelligence is wrong. We can’t kill him, but we’re losing our lives.”

Locke’s eyes flashed with a violent emotion caused by the Scarlet Echo Potion. “It’s too late to run now.”

“Just leave them all to me.”

It turned out to be a wizard apprentice who had lurked here from the Blood Curse Court and was trying to kill him on the way. This place was indeed the only way to return to the school’s headquarters.

I have been very careful, but I didn’t expect that I would still be targeted by the Blood Curse Court.

From what the other party knew about his situation nine months ago, he could infer that the other party must have been targeting him when he was still on patrol nine months ago. It was just that he had passed the breeder assistant certificate at that time, so he left the patrol team, which made them wait for nine months without finding any opportunity to ambush him.

Until recently, I took on a mission to investigate magical plants and went out, leaving the school headquarters.

This gave them the opportunity.

“I’ve been very careful, but I didn’t expect the Blood Curse Court to try to kill me just because I advanced within a year.”

“Luckily, Teacher Sophia reminded me and asked me to withdraw from the patrol team in advance. If I had encountered them nine months ago, I would have been in great danger.” Locke reacted.

At this time, two second-class wizard-level vampires, relying on the extreme speed and blood claws brought by the vampire blood transformation, as well as their excessive combat experience, barely cut off the restraints of the Mandrake vines, and then fled in two directions.

Locke sneered and found that his Mandrake Vine was still dark red. If the opponent really wanted to escape, then the Omen Mandrake Vine would not be able to sense the deep hostility at this moment, because the color of the lines would become much lighter.

But now, the ominous Mandrake vine is still red and purple.

These dark wizard apprentices are really interesting. Faced with such a huge power gap and intelligence errors, they still maintain such a strong fighting will.

In comparison, the combat performance of Gabi, one of the traditional wizard apprentices in Lilith’s Hut, is really far inferior.

Two second-class wizard apprentice-level vampires used their inherent extreme speed to change directions more than a dozen times while fleeing, and it seemed as if they were really looking for an opportunity to escape.

But the two of them suddenly looked at each other from a distance.

There was madness in the eyes of both of them. Wasn’t it just a wizard of a higher rank? In the Blood Curse Court, it wasn’t like they hadn’t killed a White Wizard before. Although at that time, they were only third-class wizard apprentices, they relied on their combat experience to forcibly kill a second-class wizard apprentice White Wizard.

Every wizard apprentice in the Blood Curse Court has fought his way out of a sea of blood and corpses.

If they could kill Locke for the Blood Curse Tribunal, they would receive a huge reward from the school, and perhaps even be transferred back to headquarters, freeing them from the burden of being cannon fodder undercover!

That was their only hope of survival!

The next moment, the two vampire apprentices who were still pretending to escape suddenly turned sideways and pounced towards Locke.

The two vampires’ thinking was very simple. They believed that as a newly promoted first-class wizard apprentice, Locke’s spell library must be insufficient and his magic level was not that of a true first-class wizard apprentice. Moreover, Locke used magic vines to attack, so they would definitely be at a disadvantage in medium and long-range combat and would certainly not be able to fight back.

Therefore, the only chance is close combat!

By deceiving himself, he got close to Locke, and then, relying on the speed and strength gained from the transformation of his second-class wizard-level vampire bloodline, he decided the outcome of the fight in close combat.

But their hearts gradually sank, because they found that Locke, who saw this scene, did not look surprised or panicked.

It was as if he had expected them to do this.

Locke said, “Hypnosis is a spell from the Enchanting School, right? You have spells from the Enchanting School, and I have them too.”

Ominous Mandrake Vine’s sense of hostility spell ability is, in essence, a cantrip spell from the enchantment school.

The next moment, Locke’s Mandrake vines plucked off the heads of the three previously trapped third-class wizard apprentices and vampire apprentices, and then used the vines to gather death energy towards their heads!

The skull exploded, killing one person, gathering one person’s death energy, and casting a spell.

Originally, this spell required at least touching the skull with one’s own hands in order to cast it.

But a first-class wizard apprentice possesses magical pressure, which can be transmitted through the air. In other words, many of the first-class wizard apprentice’s spells no longer need to be cast in person.

The demonic pressure followed the Mandrake vines, transmitting magic power and death energy, and entered the heads of the three vampires that Locke had just picked off, and then threw the vines at the two vampires.

The three heads flashed with a strange green light, and then screamed, forming the first wave of mental damage, causing the two second-class vampire wizard apprentices to pause.

Then comes the second wave of negative energy which is extremely compressed, forming a negative energy explosion.

Two vampires were blown away.

One had a leg blown off, and the other had half of his right hand blown off.

Both of them were covered in blood.

They didn’t expect that Locke would use the third-class wizard apprentice they brought with them as spell materials to cast spells and attack them.

Are these still those ‘kind’ white wizards!

Locke’s Mandrake vines quickly followed, transforming into drills and cutting off their limbs, further reducing their combat capabilities.

At the same time, Locke whispered a spell and used poison berry catapult on a vampire apprentice. Amid the explosion of more than twenty dark purple raspberries, the vampire burst into laughter and rolled on the ground.

I can’t control myself at all.

Locke glanced at the vampire. “After all, the skull explosion is only 0.3 ring. Even if I cast it, the maximum power is at 0.4 ring. Plus, they are vampires, immune to the third wave of corpse poison damage, and reduce the second wave of negative energy damage, so they didn’t die from my spell.”

“But the laughter toxin I developed apparently also works on vampires. However, the vampires these two apprentices transformed into seem to retain a large portion of their human anatomy, so this may be why it works.”

Locke looked at the other vampire apprentice and said, “Once you’ve been poisoned by my spell, your muscles and nerves will itch intensely. No matter how hard you scratch, the itch won’t go away. You’ll laugh non-stop until you die. It’s extremely painful.”

“However, if you are willing to tell me whether you have other accomplices in Lilith’s cabin, I can let you live for a while.”

The vampire apprentice’s eyes had become extremely terrified.

Although Locke’s fighting skills were still relatively inexperienced, the methods he used, including necromancy and magical poisons, were just like those of the academy’s top wizard apprentices.

It’s so torturous.

This was completely different from those “kind and simple” white wizards, so at this moment, the second-class wizard apprentice no longer had the intention of killing Locke to gain merit, and became very panicked.

“I…I said…no…I can’t tell you. The school has a special restriction on me…”

The second-class vampire wizard apprentice who had already given in because of fear suddenly had red eyes and started yelling like a madman.

Locke noticed that a large amount of negative energy particles were actually converging towards his heart. At the same time, his level 7 Mandrake vine felt a deep malice.

That was the malice of a first-class wizard apprentice from the Blood Curse Court.

For a moment, Locke felt a strange sense of being monitored, as if the first-class wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court were observing him through the spells he cast on these second-class wizard apprentices.

“Ah, no, I don’t want to die. My lord, please let me go, let me go.” The vampire apprentice shouted with the last bit of his sanity.

The next moment, Locke threw out the two second-class vampire wizard apprentices he had captured.

In less than half a second, two huge balls of blood mist bloomed in the air.

A huge air shock wave spread out in all directions, sending sand and rocks flying everywhere.

The mortal coachman and three mortal centaurs on the country road were all blown away by the gust of wind.

Gabi could only lie on the ground, holding her head.

Only Locke stood still. He used Green Poltergeist to control the rapid growth of the branches and leaves of the Mandrake vines, forming a parasol to block the air wave.

Locke’s wizard robes rustled in the wind. “This is… a Corpse Explosion of around 0.5 to 0.6 rings. If my Mandrake vines hadn’t detected it the moment it was activated, I would have definitely been within the blast range.”

“They actually cast this delay spell on their own school’s second-class wizard apprentices, treating them as human bombs. The moment they lose their usefulness and are about to betray the school, they will self-destruct against the enemy.”

Locke shook his head slightly.

The society of dark wizards is really crazy.

Locke thought of the hypnotic magic that vampires cast on mortals. He was afraid that the timed activation device of the corpse explosion was realized by hypnotic magic.

By hypnotizing the apprentices’ minds, it explodes the moment they actually think of betraying the school and are about to take action.

Locke thought of the first-class wizard apprentice who used magic to observe him from a distance, but it didn’t matter. He was also a first-class wizard apprentice anyway and was not afraid of him.

As long as he doesn’t leave the school headquarters, it will be difficult for the other party, as a first-class wizard apprentice, to enter Lilith’s hut headquarters.

After all, the difficulty for a second-class wizard apprentice to sneak in is incomparable to that for a first-class wizard apprentice to sneak in.

The traces of black magic on the first-class wizard apprentices are too heavy and very conspicuous. They themselves may be the key surveillance targets of Lilith’s Hut, making it difficult for them to sneak in.

Therefore, it was not a big problem that he was targeted by that first-class wizard apprentice.

Locke glanced around, confirming that the Mandrake vines had turned back to dark purple, and said, “The scene is quite tragic.”

“The side effects of Scarlet Echo are truly significant. Even after I finished, I felt a sense of exhilaration, as if my long-repressed nature had finally been released. This definitely wasn’t my own feeling; it must be a side effect of the potion.”

“I’m not a Dark wizard.”

“I’m a white wizard, huh.”

(End of this chapter)