The Lord of Ashes

"Elemental fission device?" After hearing what his senior brother said, Thane was shocked.

He first thought of the alchemy experiments he had assisted his mentor Moses in the past few years.

"Yes, the ones we do in the laboratory."

"Now that there is a magic altar covering it, we can't see clearly what's going on inside."

"Actually, when we all walk in, you will find that many of the devices at the entrance and exit of the space-time rift are from our alchemy laboratory." Senior Brother Zoro said in a low voice.

In addition to this part of the inside story, Senior Brother Zorro also mentioned that it should not take too long to re-determine a safe path around the time and space rift.

Maybe in a few days, they can start exploring the magic altar and the cracks in time and space as usual.

"I just hope that those entry-level apprentices and low-level apprentices can withstand the consumption." Thain sighed softly.

Thain's lament was not for the sake of low-level apprentices and entry-level apprentices.

He did it simply because if those weak apprentices died, the next unlucky ones would be intermediate apprentices like him.

Thain is not afraid of the uncertainties associated with the exploration of alien planes and rifts in time and space. Anyway, living in a place like the Underdark, precarious life is the norm.

This kind of death was too uncomfortable. He had lived in the Black Magic Academy for more than ten years, and he didn't want to become cannon fodder and be thrown to death.

While Thain and his senior brother Zorro were talking quietly in the tent, some faint moans and the sound of corpses being carried suddenly appeared in the Valley of Shadows.

The three people in the tent couldn't help but look at each other.

It was senior sister Fei'er who reacted the fastest. She rushed to the entrance of the tent, lifted a corner of the curtain, and quietly looked out.

The Valley of Shadows looked like daytime, and dozens of tauren were already busy.

Seriously injured apprentices and some body parts were constantly being taken out of the magic altar by these tauren.

Of course, many of the tauren who entered the magic altar also came out with injuries.

In a few cases, even one arm was cut off out of thin air.

Unlike the seriously injured apprentices who were still screaming and howling, these tauren were almost all models of hard work and fearlessness of pain.

They were under direct orders from the official black magician, and no matter how badly they were injured, they remained silent.

What happened to these seriously injured apprentices?

Now, the other apprentices in Shadow Valley, including Thain, who observed this situation, could not help but secretly heave a sigh of relief.

As long as the mortality rate is not 100%, it means there is still hope of living.

However, after breathing a sigh of relief, most of these apprentices soon became concerned again.

Look at those entry-level apprentices brought out from the magic altar! Almost none of them are still intact!

The apprentices who are alive are basically missing arms and legs.

And some of the body parts that were thrown out could not even be seen clearly, they were just piles of bright red waste meat!

An old apprentice like Thain is pretty good.

When more and more flesh and blood residues were transported out, many entry-level apprentices who had just joined the academy rushed out of their tents after crying and screaming, trying to escape from the Valley of Shadows.

Naturally, the fate of these apprentices will not be too good.

Some of them directly stepped on the magic restrictions placed by the black magicians around the Valley of Shadows. They were unable to even scream and turned into charcoal or corpses.

Others were driven back by the tauren, dark creatures and Owl Academy monitors scattered around Shadow Valley.

When they were driven back, they were deprived of even the right to live in tents.

They were thrown directly in front of the magic altar. In addition to facing the strong smell of blood emanating from the magic altar, they were obviously the first ones to explore the altar tomorrow!

Thane has no intention of paying attention to the life and death of those cowardly people. These apprentices have obviously not adapted to the rules of the underground world.

Even if they are lucky enough to survive from the cracks in time and space this time, they will definitely not live long in the Dark Territory in the future.

The senior apprentices of the Black Magic Academy, including Thane and Mayfair, are focusing on the seriously injured apprentices who were thrown out of the magic altar.

What relieved Thain and others was that the superior black magicians did not make things difficult for these "meritorious people".

In addition to dividing a special tent area to house these apprentices who had escaped from death, several black magicians came there in person, seemingly wanting to get some information from the mouths of those entry-level apprentices.

Except for those entry-level apprentices, one of the first three quasi-magicians to enter the magic altar managed to come back alive in the end.

But this guy didn't escape unscathed.

Both legs were completely amputated from the root. It is not known whether this guy will have the possibility of re-amputation in the future with the methods of a quasi-magician.

Official black magician course

Master Sauron is an expert in this field. Maybe he can give this quasi-magician a new pair of legs.

The treatment of this quasi-magician who came out alive from the magic altar was obviously different from that of other entry-level apprentices. He was eventually sent to the magic tower next to the tent of Thain and others.

Senior Brother Zorro also knew this quasi-magician. According to him, the other party was Andal, whose strength was equal to his own, and he was also a disciple of a formal black magician.

Even the disciples of official black magicians are involved in this dangerous exploration of the time and space rift, which shows how crazy the black magicians in Manzobra City have become for the alien plane on the other side of the time and space rift.

Even Andal, who is a quasi-magician, had half his body amputated. Is it possible for a weaker black magic apprentice like Thain to escape unscathed?

…

On the afternoon of the second day, the exploration of the Magic Altar was restarted.

The number of entry-level apprentices who were driven into it this time was not as many as yesterday, but only a few dozen.

It seems that the black magicians do not intend to suppress all the apprentices together, or they are not willing to bear the loss of all apprentices being consumed for no reason.

But the situation was not much different from yesterday. After these apprentices were thrown into the magic altar, screams and howls soon came.

It seemed as if there were some terrifying man-eating monsters deep inside the magic altar, and the apprentices who frequently lost limbs and arms yesterday were devoured by those terrifying monsters.

The screams continued for a longer time, and the atmosphere in the entire Shadow Valley became much more depressing.

After a long time, the screams gradually subsided.

The black magicians continued to record the relevant information they obtained, and these weak apprentices who were driven into the magic altar were also taken out of the magic altar with the help of some tauren and dark creatures.

The overall casualty rate of this group of apprentices was actually smaller than yesterday.

But few apprentices have noticed this. The situation of frequently losing arms and limbs really makes too many black magic apprentices panic all day long.

That night, another group of black magic apprentices tried to escape from Shadow Valley.

This time, the black magicians no longer spoiled them.

Killed directly by dark creatures or academy monitors!

Including their corpses, half were directly swallowed by those ferocious-looking dark creatures, while the other half were entangled in spider silk and hung around the Shadow Valley as a warning.

It seems that after two days and one night of investigation and the sacrifice of hundreds of apprentices, the black magicians began to not care much about the consumption of these apprentices?