Between the Venlo River and the Sidrak Mountains, there is an open wilderness covering an area of about twenty square kilometers.
For some reason, there are no towering pine-like forest seas here, nor green grasslands or bushes. Instead, there are strange broken rocks of different sizes and shapes everywhere.
These bluish-gray, hard-textured gravel rocks cover the entire wilderness, and there are no other creatures or plants except them.
Near noon, a small convoy slowly passed through 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 foods and sundries, and the remaining one
The carriage belongs to the Raghu wizard.
The convoy branched off onto a trail in the middle of the stone wilderness. The road was a bit bumpy, and the carriage would occasionally be damaged by hitting gravel half-buried in the soil. Fortunately, the mercenaries escorting the convoy were all experts in wilderness survival.
Repairing and replacing a broken wheel is also a breeze.
Finally, the convoy stopped near a pile of rocks.
The mercenary leader Jack carefully came to the black carriage in the center of the convoy, gently knocked on the carriage a few times, and whispered: "Lord Raghu, the Stone Wilderness has arrived!"
Then a low, hoarse male voice came from the carriage.
"I know, wait..."
Jack immediately stepped aside respectfully and waited silently.
A full quarter of an hour passed before the Lagu wizard who had finished his routine meditation lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage. He stood on the carriage shaft and scanned the strange stone wilderness in front of him.
After quietly sensing the concentration of magic here, he drew a strange witchcraft rune out of thin air with one hand and then let it slowly dissipate in the air.
In the blink of an eye, a hazy multicolored halo appeared in front of Wizard Lagu's eyes. The halo was as big as a human head, with a variety of constantly changing magical fluorescence floating in it, including yellow, green, blue, red, and gold.
Even without elemental vision, it can be clearly seen that the yellow color occupies most of the area in the halo, pushing the other colors to the edge area.
"Sure enough, some elemental imbalances... can allow the earth element to suppress other element particles to this 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 this space?
Does the rift lead directly to the earth elemental realm?" Wizard Lagu muttered to himself while checking the witchcraft test results.
Except for one of his wizards, the others in the convoy were all mortals, whom he hired to take care of his own life.
There is no way, I am used to living a noble life in the witch pagoda with clothes on my hands and food to open my mouth. Once I leave the witch pagoda and travel around outside, there will always be all kinds of discomfort and troubles. In the past, if the Lagu wizard chose to travel,
He will also be accompanied by two or three apprentices, who can better take care of him.
But now the family's manpower is tight, and all wizards and apprentices have been assigned a large number of tasks to travel throughout the central part of the continent. Therefore, he can only hire mortal mercenaries to solve some travel troubles for him.
Hiding far away, watching the tall and thin wizard wearing exquisite witch robes silently casting spells, all the mortal mercenaries had looks of 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 people crawling in front of wizards and struggling to survive.
It is precisely because they know their identity and status that these human mercenaries behaved respectfully in front of the Lagu wizard. They did not even dare to show off when they got a little closer, for fear that their crudeness and lowliness would disturb the wizard.
Cast a spell.
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.
He looked at the sky and continued: "It's still early now. Let others be busy here. You can 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. His whole body slowly floated up under the breeze, and flew quickly to somewhere in the distance.
"Quick, quick, quick... You lazy fools, have you heard the wizard's instructions? Get off the carriage and clean this place up. When I come back later, if you haven't set up camp yet, tonight
Don't even think about eating..." Jack, who was strong and his face was covered with scars and strips of flesh, shouted loudly, turned around and nodded the names of several mercenaries: "Thor, Ironhead
, One-eyed... You three come with me, remember to bring your tools! Let's go..."
In a hurry, they gathered all the tools, the four of them jumped on their horses, whipped their horses and galloped towards the small black spot in the sky in the distance.
Wizard Lagu is floating in the air 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 to judge the space.
The specific location of the weak point.
After changing directions four or five times in succession, Wizard Lagu finally lowered his body next to a pile of rocks. When the black crystal ball in his hand pointed at the pile of rocks, a strange earth-yellow light spot suddenly lit up in the center of the sphere.
.
"It should be here!"
Wizard Lagu circled around the pile of rocks to make sure there were no deviations, and then did nothing else. After only waiting for a short while, Jack and three other mercenaries hurriedly arrived on horseback, and their horses were
They all carry tools such as shovels, crowbars and axes.
"Dig... dig out this pile of rocks for me!"
Without saying anything, take action immediately.
In just a quarter of an hour, a large hole was dug out of the pile of rubble with a radius of about thirty meters, revealing a strange light spot the size of a soybean inside.
The light spots were slowly swimming and floating in the small pit, and wisps of earthy-yellow smoke seeped out from inside from time to time. These smokes were quickly absorbed by the surrounding broken rocks. It can be seen that the light spots
The color of the surrounding rocks is darker and more crystal clear, giving it a sense of energy and fullness.
"Sure enough, it is an ultra-small space singularity..." Seeing this, Wizard Lagu drove away the mercenaries, came forward and examined it carefully for a moment, then took out a piece of parchment and began to write down dots of records.
Got up.
However, while he was busy silently, the pile of rubble that had dug a big hole suddenly began to shake violently, and even the ground began to tremble.
"Hey, how come there are still earth elemental creatures here..." Wizard Lagu took a few steps back and looked at a medium-sized earth elemental rising up in front of him speechlessly.
This is a strange human-like earth element that is up to one meter in height. Its body is made up of broken rocks of various sizes and odd shapes. Earthy yellow sand-like particles can be vaguely seen flowing and passing slowly between the rock blocks.
"Who disturbed my sleep... I smelled the scent of the wizard. What, human wizard, why did you break into Bakala's home?" The tall earth elemental head is a piece of broken rock with a corner missing, and two yellow balls.
The halo is its eyes. Although it has no mouth, it can still communicate with Lagu silently with its strange spiritual language.
The sudden scene in front of them undoubtedly scared the four human mercenaries half to death. They quickly dropped their tools, drew out their swords and axes, and protected the Lagu wizard behind them.
The big guy stood up to each other.
"Bakala? Your name is Bakala? Haha, I really can't imagine that an earth elemental with spiritual intelligence appears in such a remote and desolate place... It seems that there is some research value here!" and the human servants
Compared with the trembling soldiers, Wizard Lagu looked calm and calm.
After all, the earth element in front of him is only a first-level primary earth element in terms of energy level, and it cannot pose a real threat to him!
"Bacara, I hereby announce to you that the land you occupy belongs to the Crimson Family. As the Crimson Wizard, I have the power to expel you back to the elemental world. Tell me, will you commit suicide or are you willing to hand it over?
The mark of life becomes my slave?"
"No... we earth elements are free and will never accept restraint! Fight, Baccarat will beat you all to death..."
Wizard Lagu's ultimatum obviously angered the earth elemental. It roared and rolled up thick waves of earth and rushed towards several people.
Jack and the others could only bite the bullet and charged forward with their swords and small wooden bucklers in hand.
The two sides are not at the same level of strength at all. The earth elemental body has no weaknesses, no flesh and blood pain and other defects, and it is also extremely powerful. Just a face-to-face encounter, the small round shields in the hands of the mercenaries were smashed to pieces by stone fists.
However, they could only dodge the attacks of stones while circling around the earth element, shouting and circling, but they did not dare to get close to each other.
Knowing that these mercenaries couldn't deal with this earth elemental, Wizard Lagu took out a silver badge from his arms and waved it gently, and a metal magic weapon with the same height of three meters appeared in front of him.
Amidst the sound of creaking metal, the metal magic machine raised its arms high, and fired an energy fireball as fast as a meteor from the black hole of the muzzle.
Debris flew and the earthy atmosphere collapsed.
The earth element that was showing off its power before was instantly beaten to pieces by the metal magic weapon, turned into a pile of rocks, and poured down, scattered on the ground.
The weak-looking Lagu wizard waded through the pile of rocks and dug through the rubble for a long time before finally finding a fist-sized stone with an earthy yellow light shining faintly.
After sealing it, he put it in his arms.
It seems that the spatial singularity here has existed for a long time, and over time, it actually gave birth to an earth element with level 1 strength. Now that I have this earth element core, I can take it back and process it briefly to make a rock imprint, which I can summon on a regular basis.
An earth elemental is also quite good as a slave.
You know, if this level 1 rock mark is sold, it will cost at least 80 magic crystals. Although the quantity is not much, mosquito legs are also meat!
Unexpectedly, a casual family mission could lead to such unexpected gains, and a satisfied smile appeared on Wizard Lagu's face. (To be continued)