Age of Adepts

Elovis, Stone Wilderness.

Between the Venlo River and the Sidrak Mountains, there is an open wilderness with an area of ​​about twenty square kilometers.

For some reason, there is no towering pine-like forest, nor green grass and shrubs here. On the contrary, there are strange broken rocks of different sizes and shapes everywhere.

These blue-gray, hard-textured gravel rocks are all over the wilderness, and there are no other creatures and plants besides them.

Near noon, a small convoy slowly passed on a narrow road opened in the middle of the wilderness. The convoy was small, with only four carriages, three of which were loaded with various food and sundries, and the rest of the carriage belonged to Wizard Ragu.

The team forked a trail in the middle of the stone wilderness. The road was a bit bumpy, and the carriage would be damaged from time to time when it hit gravel half buried in the soil. Fortunately, the mercenaries escorting the convoy were all experts in survival in the wild, and it was easy to repair and replace a damaged wheel.

Finally, the convoy stopped near a pile of rocks.

The mercenary leader Jack cautiously came to the black carriage in the middle of the convoy, knocked on the carriage lightly a few times, and said in a low voice, "Master Lagu, the Stone Wilderness has arrived!"

Immediately, a low and hoarse male voice came from the carriage.

"Got it, wait..."

Jack immediately stepped aside respectfully and waited silently.

A full quarter of an hour passed, and the Lagu wizard who had finished his routine meditation finally got out of the carriage through the curtain, and stood on the shaft of the carriage, looking around at the strange stone wilderness in front of him.

Quietly sensed the concentration of magic here, and then repeatedly swiped with one hand, drawing a strange witchcraft rune out of thin air, and then let it slowly dissipate in the air.

In the blink of an eye, a hazy multicolored halo appeared in front of Wizard Ragul's eyes. The size of the halo is about the same as that of a human head, and there are many kinds of magic fluorescent lights that are constantly changing, such as yellow, green, blue, red, and gold.

Even without elemental vision, it can be clearly seen that the yellow color in the halo occupies most of the area, pushing the rest of the colors to the edge area.

"Sure enough, some elements are out of balance... The earth element can suppress other element particles to such an extent. It seems that the family's speculation is correct. There are indeed some tiny space cracks here. The earth element is so active, could it be that this space Is the crack leading directly to the elemental earth?" While checking the test results of witchcraft, Wizard Lagu muttered to himself.

Except for one of his wizards, the team is all mortals, hired by him to take care of his own life.

There is no way, I am used to living a noble life in the Wu Tower where I stretch out my hands to eat and open my mouth. Once I leave the Wu Tower and travel around outside, there will always be various discomforts and troubles. In the past, if Wizard Ragu chose to travel, he would be accompanied by two or three apprentices, and he would be able to take better care of him.

But now the family is short-handed, and all wizards and apprentices have been assigned a large number of tasks, running around in the middle of the mainland. Therefore, he can only hire mortal mercenaries to solve some travel troubles for him.

Hiding far away, watching the tall and thin wizard in exquisite witch robes silently casting spells, all the mortal mercenaries showed envy and awe in their eyes.

In the world they live in, wizards are the real masters of the world. And they are just a group of poor worms struggling to survive in front of the wizard.

It was precisely because they were aware of their identity and status that these human mercenaries showed respect in front of this Lagu wizard. When he got a little closer, he didn't even dare to breathe out, lest his own roughness and lowliness would disturb the wizard's spellcasting.

After confirming the purpose of this trip, Wizard Lagu turned to Jack who was waiting not far away and said in a deep voice: "Let's set up a small camp here! We may need to stay here for two days." After saying this, Lagu looked up Looking at the sky, he continued: "It's still early, you let others be busy here, you take a few people with me to see what's going on here..."

After saying that, he stopped paying attention to this obedient mercenary leader, turned around and activated the flying technique on his belt, and his whole body slowly floated up under the buoyancy of the breeze, and quickly flew towards a distant place.

"Hurry up, hurry up... You slackers, have you heard Mr. Wizard's order? Get off the carriage and clean up the place. When I come back later, if you haven't set up camp, tonight Don't even think about eating..." Jack, who is strong and full of scars and horizontal flesh on his face, yelled loudly, then turned around and called the names of several mercenaries: "Thor, Iron Head , One-eyed...you three come with me, remember to bring your tools! Go..."

Gathering all the tools like chickens flying like dogs, the four of them flew on their horses, swung their whips and galloped towards that small black spot in the distant sky.

Wizard Lagu floated at a height of ten meters above the ground, holding a translucent black crystal ball in his hand. Every time he flies a certain distance, he will cast a spell to verify the concentration of free magic energy in the space, so as to judge the specific location of the weak point in the space.

After changing directions four or five times in succession, Wizard Lagu finally lowered his body beside a pile of rubble. When the black crystal ball in his hand pointed at the pile of rocks, a strange khaki spot of light suddenly lit up in the center of the ball.

"It should be here!"

Wizard Lagu circled around the rock pile to make sure there was no deviation, and then did nothing else. After only waiting for a short while, Jack and three other mercenaries rushed to the horse, and they all carried tools such as shovels, crowbars and axes on their horses.

"Dig... dig up this pile of rocks for me!"

Without further ado, let's do it immediately.

It only took a quarter of an hour, and a large hole was dug out of this pile of rocks with a radius of about 30 meters, revealing a strange light spot the size of a soybean inside.

The light spots floated slowly in the narrow potholes, and wisps of khaki-colored smoke permeated from it from time to time. The smoke was quickly absorbed by the surrounding broken rocks. It can be seen that the color of the rocks around the light spot is deeper and crystal clear, and there is a sense of fullness with sufficient energy.

"Sure enough, it's an ultra-small spatial singularity..." Seeing this scene, Wizard Ragu drove away the mercenaries, leaned forward and examined it carefully for a while, then took out a piece of parchment and began to write some records up.

However, when he was busy silently, the pile of rocks that dug a big hole suddenly shook violently, and even the ground began to tremble.

"Hey, why are there still earth elemental creatures here..." Wizard Lagu took a few steps back, speechless looking at a medium-sized earth elemental that rose from the ground in front of him.

This is a strange human-like earth element with a height of 3 meters. Its body is composed of broken rocks of various sizes and shapes. Between the rocks, you can vaguely see the sand-like particles of earthy yellow flowing and passing through.

"Who disturbed my sleep... I smelled the smell of a wizard. Why, human wizard, why did you break into Bakara's home?" The tall earth elemental head was a piece of broken rock with one corner missing. The halos are its eyes. Although it has no mouth, it can still communicate with Ragu silently by virtue of its strange spiritual language.

The sudden scene in front of them undoubtedly scared the four human mercenaries to death. They hastily dropped their tools, pulled out their swords and axes, and protected Wizard Ragu behind their backs, facing this strange half-stone and half-earth man from a distance.

"Bakala? Your name is Bakala? Hehe, I really can't imagine that there is an earth element with spiritual wisdom in such a remote and desolate place... It seems that there is some research value here!" Compared with the trembling of the soldiers, the Lagu wizard looked calm and calm.

After all, the earth element in front of him is only a first-order elementary earth element in terms of energy level, and it can't pose a real threat to him!

"Bakara, I hereby declare to you that the land you occupy belongs to the Crimson family. As the Crimson wizard, I have the right to expel you back to the elemental world. Tell me, do you kill yourself or are you willing to hand over the land?" The imprint of life becomes my slave?"

"No... We earth elementals are free, and we will never accept bondage! Fight, Baccarat will shoot you all to death..."

The ultimatum of Wizard Ragu obviously angered the earth elemental, it roared and rolled up a thick wave of earth and rushed towards several people.

Jack and the others had no choice but to bite the bullet, holding a sword and charging forward with a small wooden buckler.

The two sides are not at the same level of strength at all. The earth element has no weaknesses in its body, and there are no defects such as flesh and blood pain. What's more, it has infinite strength. Just a face to face, the small round shields in the hands of the mercenaries were smashed to pieces by the stone fists. But they could only dodge the sweep of the stones, while shouting and circling around the earth element, but they didn't dare to get close to each other.

Knowing that these mercenaries couldn't deal with this earth element at all, Wizard Lagu took out a silver badge from his arms and waved it lightly, and a metal magic weapon with the same height of 3 meters appeared in front of him immediately.

Amidst the creaking and clanging of the metal, the metal magic weapon raised its arms high, and shot out a meteor-like energy fireball from the black hole's muzzle.

The gravel flew, and the rustic air collapsed.

The earth elemental that was still flaunting its power before was smashed to pieces by the metal magic weapon in an instant, turning into a pile of rocks and pouring down, scattered all over the ground.

The thin-looking Ragu wizard waded across the pile of rocks crookedly, and after a long time of digging through the many rocks and rubble, he finally found a fist-sized stone that was faintly flickering with a khaki-yellow light. He sealed it and put it in his pocket.

The spatial singularity here seems to have existed for a long time, and after a long period of time, an earth element with level 1 strength has been born. Now that I have this earth elemental core, I can take it back and simply process it into a rock imprint. It is also pretty good to summon an earth elemental as a servant at ordinary times.

You know, if this kind of rock imprint of Tier 1 strength is sold, it will cost at least 80 magic crystals. Although the quantity is small, mosquito legs are also meat!

Unexpectedly, there would be such an unexpected harvest in a casual family mission, and a satisfied smile overflowed on the face of Ragu Wizard.