The Lord of Ashes

The startled look in the senior apprentice's eyes was not only due to Thain's arrogance and indifference, but also because Jack had heard similar words during the last session of the Regional Holy Tower Academy.

That was a quasi-apprentice from the Thunderous Holy Tower, an existence known as the "Desperate One" during the last regional war.

The Desperate One, as the name suggests, is an existence that makes all apprentices feel desperate for it. It is simply invincible.

This desperate man also swept the five major Holy Tower Academy regions during the last war and won the first place in the regional Holy Tower War Academy standings.

I don’t know if I should say Jack is lucky.

He had a lucky escape in the hands of that desperate man.

It was also the words that the Peak Apprentice from the Thunderous Holy Tower kept saying when Jack was being hunted that year: "Weak people don't deserve to live!"

This sentence stayed with Jack for fifty years.

From the newly promoted senior apprentice after the last regional holy tower war, to the current quasi-mage with profound background.

Jack's strength and knowledge reserve had increased to an unknown extent, but his fear of the apprentice from the Thunderous Holy Tower had not weakened.

Countless times, Jack seemed to hear the cold and disdainful voice of the peak apprentice in his sleep and meditation.

And Jack, who has been paying attention to the Thunder Tower apprentice, knows that after the last regional Holy Tower Academy war, the other party was promoted to a formal magician in just two years and had a "Thunder and Lightning" The title of "Controller".

In Jack's view, Thane's previous performance in battles was still far from the lightning master's level during his apprenticeship.

But the cold evil energy cast by the two in an instant is surprisingly similar.

As he watched Thain go away and his figure gradually disappeared from sight, Jack did not dare to say another word.

Another female quasi-magician apprentice discovered Jack's anomaly and couldn't help walking up to Jack and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

The female magician's inquiry finally brought Jack back to his senses, but his body trembled imperceptibly, and his face turned a little pale.

At this time, Jack's expression was very bad, but when faced with the female apprentice's inquiry, he still managed to squeeze out a smile and said: "I'm fine. Next, we will use this medium-sized resource point as the main defensive area."

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Although the yew forest is a medium-sized resource point, Thain only gained an astonishing amount of points and the corpse of an alien creature here.

Unlike other resource points, you can easily collect some magic materials that interest you.

He couldn't put an entire yew tree, which was more than ten meters high and required several people to hug it, into his space bracelet.

From here we can also see another benefit of the regional Holy Tower Academy war for the apprentices participating in the war.

In addition to the points obtained, after the war is over, they can be exchanged for an amazing number of energy crystals or magic coins.

The various resources obtained by the apprentices in the trial space will also be handled by the apprentices themselves.

Including the corpse of the alien creature that Thain had just harvested, it was also his private property.

After the yew forest, Thane passed through two medium-sized resource points and multiple small resource points.

It seems that every medium-sized resource point is guarded by alien creatures.

Restricted by some kind of magical restriction, these alien creatures cannot leave the scope of the resource point.

It can only be treated like a training object, waiting for the Holy Tower apprentices to kill it.

Since the number of apprentices in the Holy Tower often dominates, it is impossible for these medium-sized alien creatures in resource points to withstand the magical bombardment of the apprentices.

Especially when the amount and coverage of magic reaches a certain level on the battlefield, the overwhelming elemental scene is enough to make any hostile creature despair.

During this period, Thain gained hundreds more points and grabbed the corpse of an alien creature whose strength was comparable to that of a senior apprentice.

Because he did not follow the crowd and form a team like others, Thain finally gained a certain reputation among the apprentices as time went by by virtue of his status as a lone ranger and his characteristics of quick, accurate and ruthless strikes.

Many mid-level and low-level apprentices privately call Thain "Golden Mask".

Since almost none of these apprentices knew Thain, and Thain's mask was quite eye-catching, this nickname was quite appropriate.

Until another half month passed, a winding river appeared in front of Thain.

A medium-sized resource point, the Secret Water Mine, is located under the river bed.

But what is surprising is that there are only a few middle and low-level apprentices outside the resource point, and there are no other high-level apprentices or quasi-magicians.

"Why don't any other senior or above apprentices come to mark this resource point?" Thain flew to the middle and low-level apprentices and asked.

The appearance of Thain made these Jizhiyuan Holy Tower apprentices salute respectfully.

Facing Thain's inquiry, one of the male apprentices with freckles on his cheeks replied respectfully: "Senior, there are several otherworldly water snakes guarding the secret water mine under the river bed, which is extremely difficult to deal with."

"One of our companions, Slari, was forced to activate the Holy Tower Medal and escape from the trial space early because he was poisoned by the water snake."

"As for why there are no senior or above apprentices here..." The male apprentice looked a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say or not.

However, a female mid-level apprentice next to him spoke frankly, taking over the male apprentice's words and said: "Three senior apprentices and two quasi-magician-level seniors have been here before, but they stayed here for a short time. I left and didn’t seem to have any thoughts about this medium-sized resource point.”

"Why?" Thain asked coldly.

"Because the other side of the river is the apprentice area of ​​the Shadow of Darkness Tower." The female apprentice said, pointing to the winding river in front of her.

The female apprentice's answer also stunned Thain.

"Have we arrived at the boundary of the two Holy Tower apprentice release areas so quickly? Why haven't I seen a large resource point yet?" Thain said to himself.

In fact, by observing the total number of apprentices that Thain encountered during this period, we can see that he actually went astray.

When he first arrived in the trial space, Thane decided to head east and never looked back.

This approach allows Thain to search for resource points along the way in an advancing manner without wasting time and distance.

But there is also a hidden danger, that is, the resource points in the other three directions of the landing area, especially the west area, are temporarily out of reach for him.

If the large resource points are divided equally among the five holy tower areas, there should be four or five in the area where each holy tower is located.

Even if the Blue Origin Holy Tower is weak, having too many resource points in this area is not necessarily a good thing.

But having three large resource points isn’t too much, right?

But Thain has not encountered any place so far, and he has come to the junction area of ​​two holy tower forces. This can only show that he chose the wrong direction at the beginning.