The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Pierce looked ferocious, and suddenly raised the newly grafted green dragon head on his right hand, and attacked Elida who was chasing closely behind him.

Suddenly, the long-dead green dragon head opened its mouth strangely and blew a signature breath towards Elida!

"Sister, be careful!" Elida, as her elder sister in the distance, immediately reminded her.

In fact, she had already cast the defensive witchcraft of Shadow Shield on her sister Elida before her sister launched the attack.

When Elida saw the smelly yellow-green breath, her slender legs stopped suddenly, and she jumped sideways like lightning to dodge. The only small amount of acid splashing was also blocked by the Shadow Shield on her body.

Facing this 360-degree green dragon breath without dead angles, it was not a wise move to continue to fight.

The breath of the green dragon is a mixture of acid and poison. Although it seems not as powerful as the fire breath of the red dragon, it is actually more difficult to deal with.

If he was slightly contaminated, it would be very troublesome.

Moreover, Pierce was already seriously injured and was at the end of his strength. There was no need to risk a desperate blow from the other party and fight him hand to hand.

So after a little thought, Arida flashed and chose to return to her sister's side.

"Sister, I'll leave it to you next."

Facing such an enemy, it would be much safer to use long-range witchcraft attacks.

"Yes!"

I saw Arida silently chanting a spell, and a black cloud of 'disability spell' that Ryan was quite familiar with sank into Pierce, greatly reducing the speed of the other party's rush.

Seeing this scene, Ryan smiled and gave up the idea of ​​going forward for close combat. Instead, he chose to chant the spell quickly and raise his hand. Three giant metal nets flashing with silver light quickly blasted towards Pierce.

It was the liquefied killer move 'Metal Cutting Net'!

And Arida on the side cast the second-level shadow witchcraft 'Shadow Impact'.

"Chi! Chi! Chi!"

"Boom!"

Three silver giant nets and another black beam of light hit Pierce in turn. Although it was not fatal, Pierce was covered in blood and staggered back several steps.

"I'll come too!"

Taking advantage of this gap, the army captain Baldwin, who had just taken drugs, stepped forward with a happy look on his face.

Finally, I found a place to use my skills!

He thought that his medicine was taken in vain.

Unexpectedly, it can at least be used now.

However, just as he was about to attack with the giant ground spike technique, he suddenly felt a strong metal particle fluctuation coming from his side.

He turned his head and found that a giant thorn iron ball with a diameter of more than two meters suddenly appeared in front of Ryan.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

On the surface of the iron ball, there were dense spikes of varying lengths, rubbing against the ground with sparks flying everywhere. At a glance, you can tell that it is amazingly powerful!

As Ryan pushed with both hands, with a sound of "whoosh", the giant iron ball drew a straight line and rushed towards Pierce rapidly, accompanied by huge kinetic energy, which was terrifying.

When Ereda saw the witchcraft of her master Ryan, her beautiful eyes flickered, as if she thought of something.

She immediately stopped the third-level witchcraft "Shadow Storm" that she was performing, and turned to perform the second-level witchcraft "Shadow Grip".

Hmm?

Although Pierce was a little confused at this moment, facing such a large iron ball attacking at high speed, he naturally tried to dodge instinctively.

But just as he was about to move, his legs were firmly held in place by Ereda's Shadow Grip.

At the same time, Ryan's second-level metal witchcraft "Metal Cage" was also performed at this moment and covered him.

Although these two witchcrafts were only second-level witchcrafts, no matter how much they were amplified, their power was limited and could not restrict Pierce for long, only one or two seconds.

But this was enough. When Pierce removed the two immobilization spells, the high-speed rotating thorn iron ball came to him with sparks and lightning.

"Ah!!!"

Pierce's eyes widened, and he roared suddenly, as if he had summoned his last strength and crossed his arms to block the green dragon head and the two-handed sword in front of him.

But the next second, he was still crushed by Ryan's enhanced thorn iron ball.

The high-speed iron ball weighing several tons crushed Pierce from his hips, abdomen, chest to his face, and the iron thorns pierced into his body at the same time, instantly bringing out a row of holes with blood.

Pierce, who had become a shower, could no longer hold on. He twitched a few times on the ground and stopped moving immediately.

"Hiss~ This power. Sir Ryan, it seems that the rumors I heard about you before were still weak." Baldwin, the captain of the army on the side, couldn't help but exclaimed.

You should know that metal magic is good at attacking, and Ryan is super affinity, plus the blessing of the third level of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method, the power is so great that it has exceeded the upper limit of ordinary third-level magic.

"Sir Baldwin, you are too kind." Ryan smiled slightly and said.

Ryan naturally knew the power of his third-level magic "Thorn Iron Ball", which had reached 191 degrees before, and now it is definitely 200+.

Even compared with some third-level wizards' crystallized killing moves, the difference is not big.

"Is this the rift closer?" Ryan pointed to the box in Erida's arms and asked.

"Yes, Sir Ryan, I'm afraid I have to trouble you to accompany me to the target point." Baldwin said apologetically.

"That's right. I also received instructions from the command hall." Renn nodded and said.

At this time, Ren suddenly felt something, and he took out the thin film and looked at it.

Baldwin on the side also had a look on his face and took out the slice almost at the same time.

This made the two Ereda girls look over in surprise.

Um?

Renn looked at it and raised his eyebrows, obviously quite surprised!

I saw a message written on the thin sheet, the goddess of the underworld had entered the secret realm.

‘You’re not here for me, are you? ’

Ren couldn't help but thought to himself.

‘It shouldn’t happen, it’s most likely to destroy the foundation of the empire. ’

After thinking about it, Ren shook his head slightly and said to himself.

But Baldwin's expression changed drastically, and he exclaimed: "What! The goddess of the underworld is here too?"

These words immediately made the two Ereda women look at each other, with some worry in their eyes.

As former members of the Secret Snake Cult, although they are not Poseidon Cult, they are still very aware of the supreme power of a true god. Even if it is just an incarnation, it is extremely powerful.

"Don't worry, in the secret realm, there are limits to the strength that this goddess of the underworld can exert. Generally speaking, she is on the same level as us." Renn looked at the three of them and said with relief.

"Having said that, at the same level, humans cannot be the opponents of the incarnations of gods, even one-on-two or one-on-three." Baldwin said solemnly.

"This. This is true under normal circumstances. However, I have fought against this goddess of the underworld and her projection, and I was lucky enough to defeat her." After thinking about it, Ren briefly revealed what happened last time.

Because Renn felt that it was still necessary to cheer a few people up.

Otherwise, if you are timid before fighting, you will be passive.

"Huh?" The ereda sisters looked at Ren with their beautiful eyes, looking shocked.

"Sir, have you ever fought against that projection? And you still won?"

"We have defeated the opponent, so don't worry too much." Renn said with a slight smile.

The army commander on the side, Baldwin, was also shocked. Did he want to say something to brag?

But he recalled the fighting power Renne had just shown, and hesitated again.

Lord Ren, this is not necessarily bragging.

Under Ren's comfort, the three of them were obviously emotionally stable.

Baldwin began to deal with his injuries and the aftereffects of taking the burst potion.

The ereda sisters began to clean up the battlefield.

After a while, Alida walked over with a smile on her long slender legs, handed Ren a brown package, and said:

"Sir, this is the luggage that Pierce carries."

"oh?"

Ren took it with interest.

He opened it and saw that there were mainly bottles and jars inside. In addition, there was a bag of blood-colored crystals in the bag.

As a master of potions, Ren only glanced at them and knew that most of these bottles contained various healing potions.

As for the blood crystals, they should be blood crystals that Renne had captured twice.

"Huh? So many blood crystals." Ereda let out a light sigh.

"Can you use it?"

"It worked before, but it doesn't work anymore." Ireda shook her head slightly and said.

Renn thought about it for a moment, and his face suddenly became clear.

Before, the Ereda sisters believed in the Secret Snake Cult, but after signing a follower contract with him, the devouring snake marks on both of them disappeared. Along with this, some special cult secret techniques could no longer be used.

For example, the secret technique of snake hair is no longer available.

Of course, pure shadow witchcraft will not be affected, such as the 'Cripple Technique', 'Shadow Blast' and so on used by Eredar just now.

Since the blood crystal contains the resentment of living beings, it requires cult secrets or prayers to eliminate it. Naturally, the two women cannot use it as easily as before.

But that's a good thing!

In Renn's view, relying on external forces, especially the power of God, must come at a price.

At this time, Ren suddenly thought of something. He tentatively picked up the blood crystal. Sure enough, the system prompt sounded:

【bite! Some unknown high-quality energy that can enhance the degree of crystallization of mental power has been detected. Yes/no to absorb? (Note: Impurities can be eliminated by system absorption.)]

"As expected, remember that the system was able to absorb blood crystals before." Ren's eyes lit up.

However, Ren did not absorb it immediately. Instead, after chatting with Alida for a while, one person came behind the improved Hellfire Golem and silently said "Yes"!

Absorbing blood crystals is naturally inconvenient for others to see.

Even followers.

In addition, since Hela, the goddess of the underworld, has entered the secret realm, he naturally has to be as prepared as possible.

Even though Ren said he was very calm just now, he actually took it seriously in his heart.

According to the words of the great man, that is, ‘strategically, we need to despise the enemy, but tactically, we need to pay attention to the enemy’.

In layman's terms, it means maintaining a self-confident and fearless spirit mentally and volitionally, and not being intimidated by the enemy's powerful appearance. However, in specific battles, one must be cautious and not take it lightly.

While he was thinking about it, Ren instantly felt a burning energy rush from the palm of his hand to his mind.

The entire pack of blood crystals was absorbed by Ren at once and turned into powder immediately. At the same time, a wisp of smelly black smoke was emitted.

A few seconds later, Renn felt the solid honey-like silver liquid in his mind, and glanced at the system panel:

Spirit: 135 (Crystallized 43%)

"Not bad, it increased from 30% to 43%!"

"It's almost equal to the nearly ten years of hard work of an ordinary crystallized wizard." Ryan was delighted.

The improvement of mental power is a comprehensive increase in the power of all witchcraft, and it is very effective in improving combat power.

After absorbing the blood crystal, Ryan accidentally glanced at the box on the golem from Barnes and the other two.

After thinking about it, Ryan took the three boxes from the Hellfire Improved Golem.

Ryan first opened Reagan's box and took out the test tube containing Reagan's blood essence.

He pulled out the cork and put a finger into it.

Sure enough, the system prompt appeared:

[Ding! The host was detected to have touched the special blood essence and a small amount of absorbable dragon gene fragments were found. Yes/No? ]

(Note: After the dragon gene fragment is absorbed, the concentration of the host's dragon blood can be enhanced.)

Without hesitation, Ryan immediately chose "Yes!"

For the above situation, Ryan had expected it.

But what he had considered before was to study these bottles of blood essence carefully after bringing them back to the imperial capital.

After all, as a potion master, he still has some knowledge of blood.

He wondered if he could get a general understanding of the current blood research level of the Dragon Scale Brotherhood by studying these bottles of blood essence.

However, the situation is different now.

Since it is confirmed that Hela, the goddess of the underworld, has also entered the secret realm of the Dragon Valley.

Ryan felt that it was necessary to improve himself as much as possible.

Because the last time he fought with the opponent's projection, he was deeply impressed. If he hadn't relied on continuous recovery of physical strength, he would not be the opponent of the opponent.

After all, the opponent is a god!

After absorbing Reagan's blood essence, Ryan felt that his body seemed to be a little different.

But it seemed that because there were too few dragon gene fragments available for absorption, the blood concentration did not change much, and it was still "rich".

So, immediately afterwards, Ryan opened the second box.

This is Bronson's box.

Ryan repeated the previous action and put his finger into the test tube containing Bronson's blood essence, and the system prompt appeared again:

"."

After the absorption was completed.

"It seems that there is still a little short."

Ryan felt faintly that there was a dormant volcano lurking in his body, about to erupt.

You know, Ryan's blood concentration had been absorbed several times before, but it still remained at the "rich" level.

But now, it seems to have reached the critical point where quantitative change is about to cause qualitative change.

This made Ryan's eyes look at Barnes' box with some heat.

The box of the strongest among the three.

But strangely, the next second, Ryan suddenly looked at the east side of the forest, and at the same time, he stopped the action in his hands and slowly straightened his waist.

The changes in Ryan's movements and breath immediately attracted the attention of the two Ereda women and Baldwin.

Several people looked at Ryan at the same time.

I saw three strange figures suddenly appeared silently in the woods.

"It's them!" exclaimed sister Elida.

"But the three of them are not"

At the same time.

In the imperial capital Tamriel, the command hall on the second floor of the astrologer platform was busy.

The picture on the oval stone platform was also lingering on a messy scene where a fierce battle had just ended.

Marshal Alfred and General Augustus, at this time, naturally focused on the goddess of the underworld Hela who had just entered the secret realm.

Although the other party was in the secret realm, he would be restricted by the rules of the secret realm, and the upper limit of his strength could be exerted, that is, the peak of legend.

But the problem is that the other party is a god!

Although the hard power has been set to an upper limit, soft power, such as combat reaction, knowledge of various witchcraft, and the ability to cast most witchcraft instantly, etc., is very amazing when placed on one person.

Not to mention that these advantages are concentrated in one person.

This makes the other party at the same level, the combat power is equivalent to that of two or three top powerhouses.

Coupled with the unknown nature of the other party's goal this time.

It is difficult not to make everyone in the command hall nervous.

"According to the latest news, the mission executor, Samun from the military, encountered the goddess of the underworld in the black water swamp area in the northeast corner of the secret realm and has now died."

"Black water swamp?" General Augustus frowned.

He immediately checked the map of the secret realm to determine the location.

"Marshal, should we let the internal security team that has already placed the rift closer go to encircle and suppress the other party?" After thinking about it, Augustus suggested.

Marshal Alfred frowned when he heard this, and did not reply to Augustus immediately.

This is actually a dilemma.

Because the mission personnel who completed the task of activating the rift closer actually have another important task, which is to eliminate the adolescent dragons infected by the void beast.

But the problem now is that if the goddess of the underworld is not encircled and suppressed and allowed to act freely, the consequences are unpredictable.

The other party can kill almost anyone they want.

You can kill the lone mission executor.

You can also kill healthy adolescent dragons, etc.

In principle, Alfred also agrees with Augustus's suggestion.

After all, it is better to choose the lesser of two evils.

But the problem is

The opponent is too strong. Can the three people in the inner security team do it?

This is a question.

As the saying goes, think about defeat before thinking about victory.

Once they failed, not only three members of the internal security team died, but also the former captain of the military team, Baldwin, was also seriously injured. The only one who could maintain full combat effectiveness was the sword bearer mission team.

In other words, it will be almost impossible to continue to gather the power to confidently encircle and suppress the goddess of the underworld in the secret territory of Dragon Valley.

Therefore, if we go for encirclement and suppression, we must succeed in one go!

"Not enough! Let Agrippa speed up the placement of the second point of the rift closer."

"In addition, let the inner guard team immediately go to the second point to join Agrippa, and then go to encircle and suppress the opponent." Marshal Alfred said solemnly.

Agrippa is the captain of the sword-wielding team and a legendary peak powerhouse.

"Gather the strength of the two teams? Indeed, it is much safer this way." General Augustus immediately understood what his boss meant, nodded and said.

"As you command, my lord." Tatya responded.

However, her pretty face suddenly showed a slightly hesitant look.

Everyone present was a human being. Marshal Alfred noticed this immediately. He smiled slightly and asked: "Major General Tatia, what suggestions do you have? It doesn't matter, just say it."

"Uh, two adults, I'm wondering if I should ask Lord Ren to go together?"

"Oh? Why? After two fierce battles, Renn has already exhausted a lot of his physical strength. Now that he and Baldwin can take back the rift closure device, it is already very good."

Augustus looked puzzled and said.

"I don't know if you still have the impression. Lord Ren, you once had a fight with the projection of the Goddess of the Sea in the Cold Wind Tundra."

"Well, there is such a thing." Augustus nodded and said.

Because at that time, he was the person in charge of the investigation and asked about the relevant situation of Renne.

"Do you think that with his experience, he will be more confident?" Marshal Alfred immediately understood what Tatia meant.

"Yes, two adults." Tatya said with a slight smile.

"Let's take a look at the situation in Rennes first." Alfred thought for a moment.

"Sir Darien, I need to trouble you again."

The marshal said slightly apologetically to the great astromancer Darien on the side.

"Your Majesty Alfred, you are so polite. It's all for the sake of the empire."

As the great astrologer Darien silently recited the spell, the scene on the oval stone platform in the center of the hall changed again, and the scene of Renn at this moment appeared.

"Huh? This is..."

"Aren't these three people Barnes and the others? I remember they were defeated by Mr. Ren just now, what?" Tatya said with a surprised look on his face.

"The other party must have been infected by the void beast." Dallion, the great astrologist on the side, suddenly said.

"Huh? Doesn't the Void Beast only infect minor dragons? Why are humans also infected?" General Augustus was shocked when he heard the news and asked immediately.

"The secret realm was closed before, and no humans have entered it. Most of the people it infected were giant beasts with powerful power, so there was this misunderstanding."

"Although there are not many records about void beasts in ancient books, there are also several cases of infecting humans." Dallion explained.

"To be precise, humans with blood heritage in their bodies are more likely to attract the attention of void beasts. This is because a considerable part of the strength of these people comes from their bloodline and the body itself. From a certain perspective, they are very similar to the giant beasts. "

"I see."

"What should we do now? Do we need to send someone over immediately?"

"Huh? The twin snakes of the Secret Snake Cult have been accepted as followers by Lord Renn." Tatya looked at the message from Renn in surprise and said.

"Huh?" Marshal Alfred was stunned immediately after hearing this.

He looked at the two women on the stone platform who were clearly not surrounding but following Ren, and looked surprised.

"Wouldn't the power of the gods prevent the fulfillment of the contract?"

"It is possible in other places, but not in the secret territory of Dragon Valley." The Great Astromancer Darien thought for a moment and figured out the cause and effect.

"Then, although there are four people on Lord Ren's side, they all seem to be injured, or their physical strength has not recovered. Can they deal with the three people infected by the void beast?" Tatia couldn't help but ask.

It's not that the combat staff are unprofessional, but that void beasts have infected humans, which has not happened for thousands of years.

Without information, it is naturally impossible to make judgments and decisions.

"After the void beast is infected, the attack will mutate. Generally speaking, the combat power will be improved to a certain extent." Dali said, stroking his beard soothingly.

"Should we mobilize support immediately?" General Augustus looked at Marshal Alfred and asked.

Rennes' performance has always been excellent, and he is still young. He is now Augustus' favorite.

"Major General Tatia, please contact Renn immediately and ask for his opinion and whether you need support." Alfred thought for a while and said.

"As you command, Lord Marshal."

Tatya immediately picked up the slice and called:

"Sir Ren, do you need support here?"

A few seconds later, three indifferent words came from Ren: "No need."