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"What exactly happened?" Audrey was the one who calmed down the fastest. She asked.

"Most of Senior Trevor and other wizards stationed in our school were killed or injured this time, and only a few escaped. The reason is that many Hellfire Rock Giants suddenly appeared in the Raging Flame Canyon."

The third-level wizard apprentice calmed down and slowly told the story.

"Hellfire Rock Giants? Aren't there usually some sporadic evil fire elements that rush out? How could there be suddenly a Hellfire Rock Giant, and there are so many?" Alicia's face was horrified, and there was no trace of charm.

"Lord Alicia, I don't know the specific reason. The school should send out an investigation team immediately." The wizard apprentice shook his head and said.

Then, Alicia and Joseph asked a few more questions.

Since Ryan was not familiar with the situation, he listened quietly on the side and did not speak or ask.

However, when he heard about the Hellfire Rock Giant, Ryan's eyes lit up slightly.

Because he suddenly thought of the Hellfire Crystal mentioned by Master Mogaro before, which seemed to be bred in the other party's body.

According to the master, this kind of Hellfire Rock Giant is extremely rare, because the other party is not a creature of this world, so the related Hellfire Crystal is naturally very difficult to find.

This is why the Black Flame Cult had to use large energy devices to replace the Hellfire Crystal when imitating the Giant Axe Golem Guard, causing the power of the imitation to drop significantly, and it was also unable to use any witchcraft attacks.

"What about the master? Has Master Mogaro known this news?" Audrey asked.

"The master just knew it, but the master should have been called to a meeting by Lord Bradley now."

One day ago.

In the Raging Flame Canyon.

I saw that the originally flat ground was full of traces of battles, long and short gullies, and large and small pits.

Many pits are still emitting wisps of black smoke at this moment. If you look closely, you can find that there are fist-sized stones like burning coals, which are emitting high temperature and black smoke in the pits.

However, unlike the color of coal, these stones are a strange light green.

Following the winding canyon, looking towards the entrance, there are five or six piles of the same green stones along the way, but they are much larger than those in the pit, basically the size of millstones, or even giant stones comparable to water tanks.

Next to each pile of scattered stones, there are many corpses wearing wizard robes. Judging from the color of the outer robes, they seem to be wizards from the School of Construction.

At the same time, there are more puppet parts and broken puppet torsos next to the corpses, which seem to be telling the intensity of the battle at that time.

In addition, it also shows that the battle scene at that time seemed to be several wizards working together to deal with a hot rock creature like this - the Hellfire Rock Giant.

At this time, a group of black-robed people suddenly appeared in the Raging Flame Canyon.

They quickly came to the piles of green stones and began to bend down to search for something.

"Sir, the Abyss Fire Crystal is really useful. This time we attracted six Hellfire Rock Giants. With the Hellfire Crystal, we can directly create Golem Guards." A black-robed monk said with joy.

Since a Abyss Fire Crystal was found in a ruin some time ago, some smart people in the church came up with this idea.

Use higher-level Abyss Fire Crystal to lure Hellfire Rock Giants, so as to obtain more stable Hellfire Crystals to make Golems.

But if this plan is to be successfully implemented, it still needs to solve many difficulties, the most difficult of which is about the passage.

Unexpectedly, they actually found a gap leading to Baator Hell.

"Yes, and we don't have to kill these Hellfire Rock Giants ourselves. These people from the wizard school are really stupid. They tried their best to kill the Hellfire Rock Giants, but in the end, we got the advantage." Another person also said with a smile.

"Well, speed up the collection. It is estimated that someone will come back to check the situation soon." The chief priest named Gregory said with a smile on his face.

This time, they finally found a passage connecting to Baator Hell and found the traces of the Hellfire Rock Giant.

In terms of action, they were very secretive and did not take direct action.

Even if the two wizard schools stationed there sent people to investigate, they would most likely think that it was caused by a riot in the passage.

"You. It turned out that you were. You were making trouble."

At this time, a male wizard lying on the ground with most of his body burnt seemed to wake up after hearing the voice. He looked up and said.

"Huh? There is actually a living person here." A Black Flame monk was surprised and walked forward with a hint of sarcasm.

"I'm so sorry, goodbye!"

"Boom!" With a black flame fireball, the wizard of the school who had just woken up was buried in the sea of ​​fire.

"Okay, High Priest Gregory, a total of five Hellfire crystals have been collected, and there is a Hellfire Rock Giant that has not yet been conceived." A Black Flame monk reported.

High Priest Gregory looked at the special stone box.

He saw five irregular oval crystals in the box.

Inside the crystals, there was a green stream of flames, which was quite magical.

Gregory couldn't help showing a satisfied expression, nodded, and said: "Not bad! After a while, when this matter has calmed down, we can do it again."

When Gregory turned to leave, he suddenly thought of something and stopped to add a sentence.

"By the way, check the bodies. If there are still some who are not dead, remember to make up for it."

"Yes, High Priest Gregory."

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The Bixiu Construction School's residence.

Mogaro returned to his office after the meeting.

And a few minutes later, Ryan also entered his office.

"Ryan, I need your help." Mogaro frowned, looked at Ryan, and said seriously.

"Teacher, is it about the Flame Canyon?"

"Well, it seems you have heard about it. Trevor is dead, so I have to go there. The school has decided to send both the investigation team and the garrison personnel to go together."

"Although the surviving wizards reported that the situation this time was an accident, similar to the elemental creature riot, I personally think it may not be that simple."

"Since the sect leader is away, the investigation team this time is led by the deputy sect leader, Lord Bradley, and of course I will also participate."

"As for the garrison personnel team, there are currently no sufficient manpower in other departments of the school to fill the gap. So, Ryan, I would like to ask you to help and take Alicia and Audrey with you."

Mogaro looked at Ryan, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

"If the situation stabilizes, you can come back at any time. And Alicia and Audrey can match the combat power of a first-level peak wizard."

"Teacher, there is no problem on my side. I will prepare a little bit about when to set off." Ryan thought about it, nodded, and agreed.

It just so happened that the Sword Bearer Headquarters was recently purging the insiders, and he had no mission to do.

In addition, mentor Mogaro has always been good to him. Since the Metal Department has encountered difficulties, Ryan feels that if he can help with some things, he will naturally help.

"The time is set for tomorrow morning, and there is still half a day to prepare." Seeing Ryan agreed, Mogaro couldn't help but feel relieved.

He knew the combat effectiveness of his disciple.

With Ryan's company, the whole trip will be much safer.

"Well, there is enough time." Ryan nodded.

"By the way, this time, the school has decided to double the mission reward from the original 1,000 points per person for the garrison to 2,000 points."

"If there are any additional discoveries or situations during the garrison, there will be further rewards."

"Oh? That's a good thing." Ryan's eyes lit up and smiled.

It seems that if he is lucky enough this time, he will soon be able to collect the contribution points required for the third level of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method.

Half an hour later.

Audrey and the others were not surprised to hear Mogaro say that he was going to the Flame Canyon for investigation.

Because Senior Trevor, as one of Mogaro's favorite students, the teacher would most likely go there in person if something happened suddenly this time.

"If we are stationed, Alicia and Audrey, you two will go together. In addition, Ryan, you will also go with us."

"Huh?" Joseph's face darkened when he heard it.

Why is his name not there?

Could it be that the teacher also heard that Ryan defeated him in puppet control two days ago?

Otherwise, why did he take Ryan to learn more this time, but not him?

Sure enough, the teacher favors good students!

And Alicia also looked at Ryan with her beautiful eyes, with surprise on her face.

Is the teacher's favoritism so naked?

Audrey naturally knew what was going on.

When she heard that Ryan was going with her, her first reaction was to feel full of security.

"Joseph, some things in the department will be handed over to you." Mogaro turned around and said to Joseph seriously.

"Okay, mentor, don't worry." Joseph nodded quickly.

The next morning, after Ryan had a brief talk with Anna and his family, he came to the school's residence.

Soon, Mogaro brought Ryan and the other two to the school's airship point.

This is an area similar to an underground launch silo, and a large airship is parked in the center of the area.

"Wow~ What a grand scene!" Alicia couldn't help but exclaimed.

Although she has been in the Bixiu Construction School for five or six years, it is her first time to go to the secret realm.

Before, she also followed her mentor Mogaro and saw some of the world, but not as many people as this time.

Moreover, due to the special nature of the Bixiu Construction School, at this moment, each wizard has one or more puppets behind him, including special rock puppets and metal puppets, many of which are quite large.

So it looks spectacular.

The originally spacious airship deck was now full.

"It's spectacular, right? Some clay puppets and even larger golems are at the bottom of the cargo hold." Alicia saw Ryan looking around with interest and couldn't help but interrupt.

"Well, it's really rare to see." Ryan smiled and nodded.

Most of them were top-level wizards, and there were four second-level liquefied wizards, who were the elites and leaders of the clay, rock, and flesh systems.     In comparison, the metal system where Ryan was located seemed much "weaker", either women or new faces like Ryan.

As for Mogaro, although he has a long career, the problem is that his strength is stuck at the peak of the first-level wizard. Compared with the leaders of other departments, he is still a step behind.

The person in charge of this operation is the gray-robed wizard at the front of the team - Deputy Sect Leader Bradley, a wizard in the early stage of third-level crystallization.

"Yes, this is the first time I have seen so many people from the school go out together." Audrey also watched intently, nodded, and said.

"Alas, it seems that our metal department is the weakest." Alicia looked around and whispered to Audrey.

"Well, not really." Audrey glanced at Ryan beside her and said.

Although she said so, in her heart, Audrey actually thought that with this person in her own metal department, it would undoubtedly be the first.

However, looking at the deputy sect leader, it seems that he doesn't know the specific identity of Mr. Ryan?

Could it be that only the instructor and the sect leader know?

"Audrey, look! That's Paul Nixon of the clay system, the direct descendant of the Duke of Nixon's family!" Alicia's beautiful eyes lit up, and she suddenly pulled Audrey's sleeve excitedly and said.

Ryan looked up and saw that the other party was a handsome young man wearing a khaki wizard robe and was slightly thin. Apart from other things, this appearance was absolutely first-class.

"Hey, how can I chat with him? But it's not good to be too proactive?"

"This. Alicia, don't you think that the other party is not as handsome as Junior Ryan?"

"Well, Junior Ryan is also very handsome, but my sister is going to get married. Being handsome can't be used as a meal. I still have to find someone with strength and background. Hey, Audrey, you are still young and don't understand this."

Alicia and Audrey whispered to each other.

But how could these be hidden from Ryan's perception, and Ryan couldn't help but smile when he heard it.

As the personnel arrived, the sound of gears running sounded at the top of the launch silo, and suddenly, the ceiling slowly opened, and the airship began to rise.

After half a day, the airship arrived above the Raging Flame Canyon.

However, looking from the air, you can see a large lush forest in front, without any canyon landforms.

"Huh? Where is the Raging Flame Canyon?"

"Hehe, because there is a huge illusion array arranged by the ancient wizards here, this junior sister should be from the metal department, right? I seem to have seen her several times in the school."

At this time, a young man with a noble demeanor walked out of the cabin and smiled.

"Ah, it's Mr. Paul! Hello, I'm Alicia."

Compared with Audrey's calm face, Alicia on the side was more excited than Audrey, the person involved, and took the initiative to interrupt.

"Hello, Mr. Paul, I'm Audrey." Audrey bowed slightly and said calmly.

The number of female wizards was originally small, and both Audrey and Alicia were ranked among the top in the entire Bixiu Construction School in terms of beauty.

Especially the innocent-looking Audrey, who attracted Paul's attention when she got on the airship.

As for Ryan, Paul ignored him after glancing at him.

After all, judging from the perception, the other party was only in the early stage of level one, and seemed to be a new wizard who had just joined the school. This kind of wizard should have a good relationship with the mentor and was brought here to see the world.

However, in the next few minutes, Paul, the genius wizard of the clay system, did not get what he wanted.

He did not chat with Audrey for a few words, but was interrupted by Alicia all the time.

Ryan didn't care about Paul's attitude at all, just a little brat.

At this time, he was thinking about what Paul had just said, thinking about something.

Illusion array?

But can the terrain of the canyon be completely covered?

Sure enough, with a very slight fluctuation of witchcraft, the huge airship seemed to fly into an invisible bubble, and the scene in front of them changed dramatically.

From a lush forest, it turned directly into a long, dark red canyon.

In the depths of the canyon, at this moment, wisps of black smoke and a slightly unpleasant smell of sulfur were emitting.

Ryan estimated that although the length of the canyon was about ten kilometers, if it was to be completely covered by a witch array, even a fourth-level Dawn Wizard might not be able to handle it.

As the airship slowly descended, the traces of the battle on the ground gradually came into everyone's eyes.

Many young wizards exclaimed one after another. Obviously, the tragic degree of the scene was far beyond their expectations.

And the conversation of Alicia and others also came to an abrupt end.

As soon as they got off the airship, everyone felt a wave of heat coming towards them.

In the depths of the Flame Canyon, flames are burning all year round. Even though this place is far from the real core area, the temperature is already quite hot.

The defense of the canyon was handled by the Bishu Construction School at the southern exit of the canyon, while the northern exit was handled by the Sander School.

Ryan was quite interested in the remains of the Hellfire Rock Giant. When his mentor Mogaro and other school leaders were inspecting the scene, he also looked at it with interest.

"There were no other traces of witchcraft on the fallen school wizards. They either died from the burning of the hellfire or suffered a heavy blow to their vital parts!"

"From the traces of the battle, this is also shown."

"This situation should be an accidental incident." One of the second-level liquefied wizards expressed his opinion.

However, after Ren walked around, he saw him standing still at a certain location, frowning slightly.

He felt a familiar breath. Although the breath was very faint, it was real.

seem

This matter is not as simple as many people in the school think.

When he came to his mentor Mogaro again, the investigation team's discussion continued.

"But there is a very strange situation. According to records in ancient books, hellfire crystal nuclei are normally produced in the bodies of hellfire rock giants." Mogaro said.

"But the crystal cores in these hellfire rock giants are gone."

"Although not every hellfire rock giant will have a crystal core in its body, there are at least six remains at the scene. If there are none, this situation would be too strange."

"Is it possible that the records in the ancient books are wrong?" Another second-level wizard said after thinking for a moment.

"After all, ancient wizards may not necessarily know the specifics of alien creatures like Hellfire Rock Giants. Maybe some of the contents are just personal guesses?"

"Is it possible that other Hellfire rock giants took the Hellfire crystal core away when they returned?" someone else said.

"this."

Mogaro wanted to refute the first point of view, but when he heard the second point of view, he hesitated for a moment.

After all, he didn't know much about alien creatures like the Hellfire Rock Giant.

Some of the content he knew came from records in ancient books. He really didn't know whether other Hellfire rock giants would take away the same kind of crystal nuclei.

"Let's stay for two days to observe the situation deep in the Raging Flame Canyon."

"I will discuss with the Sandel School to send more manpower, and everyone should be more vigilant!" Deputy leader Bradley said with finality.

Immediately, the investigation team and defense personnel settled down at the station, but for three days in a row, everything was fine.

As before, one or two evil fire elements would emerge from the depths of the canyon very sporadically.

As a being that can be dealt with at the peak level of a first-level wizard, it seems too wasteful to have so many senior leaders of the school working here.

Soon, mentor Mogaro and others began to return, but deputy leader Bradley stayed behind.

Due to the special environment and conditions of the Flame Canyon, there are abundant herbs that prefer high temperatures growing inside the canyon, such as rare flame mushrooms, flame flowers, etc.

Many wizards stationed there would form teams or search for herbs on their own during their breaks.

"Audrey, why don't we go explore the surroundings together? I heard that the flesh and blood department has found many flame mushrooms for two days in a row." Recently, Paul of the clay department seemed to have launched an 'offensive' against Audrey.

I often invite Audrey from time to time to do something together.

However, Audrey often refuses, but Alicia is more proactive.

"Okay, Mr. Paul, Audrey, let's go take a look together." Alicia's eyes lit up and she said.

The price of these herbs is quite high, and if you submit them to the school, you can get a lot of contribution points.

At this time, Audrey's beautiful eyes looked at Renn intentionally or unintentionally, as if asking Renn's opinion.

Ren thought for a moment and nodded slightly.

"Okay, let's go together, Junior Ren En, and you too," Audrey said.

Although the number of people was very different from Paul's expectations, he thought that since Audrey agreed to come together, it would be considered an improvement.

After a while, the four of them walked towards the depths of the Raging Flame Canyon.

Along the way, although they didn't find the Flame Mushroom, they found two Flame Flowers, which immediately made Alicia very happy.

Suddenly, when passing a corner of the canyon, several people felt a wave of heat coming over them.

An elemental creature about two and a half meters tall, burning with light green flames and resembling a large green balloon, suddenly appeared dozens of meters away.

"It's the evil fire element, everyone, be careful!" Alicia exclaimed.

"Don't worry, leave it to me!" Paul said confidently with a smile on his face.

He was worried that there was no place to show his strength, but he didn't expect the evil fire element to come to his door.

I saw his right hand quickly reaching into his arms, taking out a crystal that exuded earth-yellow witchcraft light, and recited a spell quickly.

Soon, the crystal began to shine, and illuminated a light green inverse pentagram projection, which fell on the ground.

"Summon! Clay Monster!"

Suddenly, the ground illuminated by the projection began to flash with a large yellow light, shook violently, and bulged.