Mark's groundless fantasies cannot change the fact that he is about to face the mastermind behind the creation of the dark and light mutant monsters.

Even if Monica's second profession can soon break through to the intermediate level, his and Anna's strength will be slightly improved.

But this little improvement is not even enough to qualify him to exchange with the man in black robe.

The only thing that made Mark feel a little relieved was Xiao Mu's improvement.

Although I don't know why, Xiao Mu's level seems to be bound to myself.

It had reached the maximum level of lv. 20 a day ago, but Xiao Mu was stuck at level 20 just like him and could not improve at all.

However, although Xiao Mu's level has not been upgraded, his strength has made great progress.

During the three days of collecting ghost mushroom spores and heading to the poisonous fog swamp, Xiao Mu led them to find large colonies of ghost mushrooms several times.

This is not because Xiao Mu has any special sensitivity to ghost mushrooms, but because it has a special sensitivity to the undead energy scattered in the Rotten Bone Swamp.

After careful searching, it found several magic crystal fragments of similar size and quality to those it encountered on the first day.

Without exception, these magic crystals contain extremely rich undead energy.

After absorbing these undead energies, Xiao Mu's third pair of wings grew completely on his back.

The newly grown wings are translucent blue-gray and feel cool to the touch, like thin ice.

When Xiao Mu flapped all six wings, it flew so fast that it left an afterimage in the air.

When the distance is far enough, it can even catch up with the arrows shot by Anna.

Speed ​​is just a small ability of it. It seems to have the same ability as the ghost mushrooms that grow on undead energy.

It can also act autonomously by controlling bones and corpses.

Just give a simple command, and the corpses will be able to act independently according to the command. There is no need for Xiao Mu to inject magic power into the corpses afterwards!

It’s a pity that Monica couldn’t identify Xiaom’s specific information, and they couldn’t be sure whether the corpses controlled by Xiaom could only survive in the special area of ​​the Rotten Bone Swamp, or whether they could only maintain this activity within a certain range from Xiaom.

Because they were still thinking about the six men in black robes and the mysterious ritual, they didn't have more time to test Xiao Mu's abilities.

However, one thing is certain, the corpses controlled by Xiao Mu can serve as the first wave of bait for them in the next mission.

This is the ability that can make a real difference in helping them complete their mission.

If he wasn't worried that the six men in black robes might complete the ceremony quickly, Mark would even want to find a few magicians to carve surveillance arrays, self-destruct arrays, and sacrificial arrays on these corpses.

Unfortunately, time is running out and there is no real magician in their team of three.

The next task still depends on them to complete it themselves!

After entering the poisonous fog swamp, the main reconnaissance mission can only be completed by Xiao Mu.

Because the miasma in the Poison Mist Swamp is three times thicker than that outside the Rotten Bone Swamp.

Here Mark must put on the "Holy Light" shield for the three people.

With this shield on, it is like a beacon in the darkness in the poisonous fog swamp. It is simply a pipe dream to sneak up on the black-robed man's ceremony site.

On the contrary, Xiao Mu, who is not afraid of the poisonous miasma, does not have to worry about this problem. With its speed and the ability of undead energy to blend in with the poisonous miasma, it is difficult for even a mid-level professional to detect it.

That is, on the day when Xiao Mu entered the poisonous fog swamp, it quickly found the place described by Mark and took them to lurk on the hillside on the side of the ritual valley.

The dark green miasma swirling in the depths of the poisonous fog swamp condensed into a thick curtain in the moonlight.

In the valley, six small hills made of beast skulls are arranged in the shape of a hexagram. The mithril powder sprinkled on the skulls reflects starlight in the moonlight.

The dark blue phosphorescent fire that Mark had seen through Xingyue's magical vision was exactly what was floating out from the six skull hills.

Just like the mithril magic circle in the Wolf King's lair, phosphorescent fire floated above the mithril powder, connecting the six beast skull hills together to form a magic circle that occupied the entire valley.

In the center of the magic circle stood the skeleton of a giant white beast more than five meters tall.

Because the distance was too far and there was a poisonous miasma, Monica could not identify what kind of creature the skeleton belonged to.

However, even without identification, any creature that can grow to such a size on this Holy Dragon Continent is definitely not an ordinary beast.

After all, it is so weak but has so much meat that it would have been eaten by other monsters long ago.

I don’t know if the magic circle of the black-robed people was taking effect, as they carefully lay on the top of the mountain and looked down.

The surface of the giant beast's spine was currently wrapped with a slowly flowing and pulsating blue-black rune chain, and six dim rays of light containing the aura of holy light were slowly advancing from the six skull hills towards the center.

Every time the holy light advanced, the rune chains on the giant beast's skeleton trembled, as if some ancient life was about to awaken.

"This magic circle is indeed the same as the one in the Phantom Wolf King's lair."

Monica stared at the top of the mountain for a long time before speaking.

"Although the area is larger and there are a few more bone piles, the rune type and array structure are the same as the previous array. The person who can set up this kind of magic array must be at least a high-level array professional."

This was not information Monica obtained through identification, but rather information she inferred based on the knowledge she had learned.

Similar to Mark's profession, the appraiser's profession and skill advancement cannot be achieved by simply piling up faith points and experience points.

Instead, you need to have a certain level of knowledge in a specific field.

In fact, this is also the reason why high-level pharmacists can distinguish and identify the components of many medicines, while appraisers can often only identify the specific name, effect and other information of the medicine.

One is a professional expert, and the other is simply a golden finger given by the Creator God.

And acquiring more knowledge reserves means further developing the golden finger.

As for how far the identification technique could be developed, Monica had no idea. She only knew that one of her ancestors had successfully acquired the abilities of a high-level pharmacist and a high-level formation master as an appraiser!

So before leaving home, Monica read almost all the books in the house in order to improve her appraisal professional experience and faith value.

Regardless of whether she understood it or not, at least she remembered it all firmly in her mind.

As for the formation in the valley below, although her identification technique did not give any relevant response, she was sure that it was created by the same person as the formation in the Ghost Wolf King's lair!

At least the designs of the two formations were drawn by the same formation master!