Chapter 230: Ancient Legends and the Reality of Advent

In the main plane of Eloxia, a new city rebuilt on ruins and full of vitality.

A boy named Chuck was having a heated argument with his friends.

"Wizards are real! My grandfather's father saw it with his own eyes!" Chuck's face turned red, and he argued loudly to several children around him who were taller than him.

"Come on, Chuck!" A child curled his lips in disdain. "Your behavior is truly childish! Wizards? Those kinds of things are simply made up by adults to scare disobedient children!"

Another person echoed, "That's right! If there really were wizards who could fly and breathe fire, would we still need the city guards to protect us?"

But Chuck was extremely determined that his grandfather would not lie to him.

In that distant time... said to be more than a hundred years ago, during the dark ages of war and chaos, when his grandfather's father was still a young soldier, he must have witnessed those wizards who descended from the sky like gods!

Arguments between children often lack logic and rationality.

In the end, it inevitably ended with mutual pushing, increasingly fierce quarrels, and even fights.

"Stop it! You little bastards!"

Fortunately, a patrolling team of city guards soon discovered the dispute here.

They first stood aside with their arms folded in interest. After watching the excitement for a while, one of the city guards, who looked to be the captain, walked forward with a stern face and stopped the chaotic fight with a majestic voice.

Because the other side had more people and more power, Chuck lost the fight and returned home with a bruised face, which drew a burst of heartbroken complaints from his mother.

However, strangely, Chuck, who lost the fight, did not look depressed at all.

Even deep in his eyes, there was a hint of indescribable pride.

At dinner, looking at the sky outside the window gradually turning orange as dusk approached, he quickly finished the last bite of his meal, said goodbye to his parents, and prepared to go out.

“Come back soon!”

With his parents' concerned words behind him, he left his warm home with a piece of hard black bread that he secretly took from the kitchen.

Soon, relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he deliberately avoided the city guards who were still patrolling the streets and came to an abandoned area on the edge of the city, close to the suburbs.

In a dark and damp alley filled with debris, Chuck finally saw the person he had agreed to meet - a hunched figure huddled in the darkest corner of the alley, wearing a tattered black robe.

The other person's face was completely hidden in the shadow cast by the hood and could not be seen clearly.

Coupled with his hunched and deformed body and the strange smell that emanated from him, like that of a rotting corpse, it was easy to tell that this guy was definitely not a good person.

But Chuck's expression became happy at this moment.

He quickly stepped forward and greeted him expectantly, "Master Wizard! I'm here!"

He still clearly remembered that a few days ago, he accidentally saw this strange figure nearby, and the other party's strange ability to casually create a ball of black flame out of thin air in order to drive away a wild dog.

That scene made him absolutely certain that the person in front of him must be the real "wizard" in the legend!

The child's curiosity was so strong that it overwhelmed everything, so he instinctively ignored the disturbing and strange temperament of this "wizard".

In particular, after discovering that this "wizard" seemed easy to talk to, Chuck became completely obsessed with him as if he had found a treasure.

Finally, after several days of coaxing and begging, the "wizard" promised him that as long as he could bring food, he would teach him some real "witchcraft" today!

He looked at the "wizard's" dry hand, which reached out from the shadows and took the black bread he had brought.

Chuck began to uncontrollably imagine what kind of witchcraft the other party would teach him.

Is it a Spitfire?

Or flying?

He had even begun to imagine how he would teach those friends who didn't believe in him a lesson after he learned witchcraft.

The "wizard" took the bread and stuffed it into his mouth as if no one was around, making a teeth-aching chewing sound.

After eating, he raised his head and looked at Chuck. The corner of his mouth hidden in the shadows curled up into a strange arc, revealing his sharp white teeth.

"Very good, little one... Let me think... What kind of witchcraft should I teach you..."

As he spoke those hoarse and unpleasant words, he stretched out his hand, which was as dry as a chicken claw, and slowly reached towards Chuck's tender neck.

"stop!"

At the critical moment, an angry roar came from the alley like thunder!

Chuck looked back in surprise and found that the person who came was the captain of the city guard who had just stopped them from fighting during the day.

Seeing Captain Chen Weijun and the entire fully armed city guard squad following behind him, the "wizard" made a dissatisfied "tsk" sound, seeming to be very annoyed by this sudden interruption.

He turned around and quickly ran deeper into the alley.

However, the captain of the city guards did not rush to catch up.

He walked quickly to Chuck and lectured him sternly with a serious face: "You little bastard, come with me to meet your parents later! I'm going to let them scold you! Don't you know that someone with a mysterious background and a secretive nature like this is very likely a child trafficker?!"

At the same time, before the "wizard" could run far, a group of city guards holding sharp blades emerged from the exit on the other side of the alley.

The city guards on both sides blocked his escape route.

Seeing that the "human trafficker" was about to be caught, he surrendered.

The opponent who was trapped in the center suddenly let out an angry roar that was not like a human voice.

Then, a fist-sized black fireball instantly condensed in his palm and slammed towards the slowly approaching city guards!

"careful!"

The captain of the city guard glared at this!

He shouted loudly, exerted force from his waist and abdomen, and threw the steel spear in his hand out like lightning.

The spear hit the dark fireball accurately, causing it to explode prematurely in mid-air!

Boom!

The violent shock wave generated by the explosion still caused the walls on both sides of the alley to collapse. Even the city guards on the captain's side were blown to the ground by this violent shock wave.

I saw that an even more dangerous black fireball was condensing in the opponent's hand again.

The captain of the city guard, who had already fallen to the ground in a mess, gritted his teeth and pulled Chuck beside him without hesitation, holding him tightly under his body, ready to use his own flesh and blood to withstand this fatal blow.

The "wizard" was just about to continue his attack and completely kill these troublesome mortals in front of him, but he suddenly had an inexplicable feeling of being spied on.

He suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky, and then saw a scene that he couldn't believe!

Just above his head, in the dim sky, there were two figures floating there quietly and silently.

It was as if they had been there since the beginning.

And those two people were constantly looking at him with interested eyes, as if... they were looking at some magical creature that he had never seen before.

Benjamin was floating in the air, looking at the guy in the black robe below and the fiercely burning fireball containing negative energy in his hand, and tilted his head with curiosity.

He turned around and said to David beside him with emotion: "I thought he was just an ordinary child trafficker, but I didn't expect that there was something unusual."

David was not as relaxed as Benjamin.

He looked at the abnormally hunched body of the man below, and his arms that were as dry as a dead person but could still control the elements, and his face became extremely ugly.

He said in a deep voice, "This guy's mutation shows signs of artificial modification... The situation is worse than we expected. That illegal wizard definitely didn't just steal a broken meditation method!"

Benjamin nodded in agreement. "He's clearly not a wizard, yet he can wield such power. That illegal wizard... must have mastered the knowledge to grant power to others!"

When the "wizard" heard the conversation coming from the sky, he felt as if he was poured with ice water, and his twisted mind was finally occupied by boundless fear.

He couldn't help but scream, and suddenly threw the fireball in his hand into the sky. At the same time, violent flames erupted from his body, and he was "blasted" away into the distance in an instant like an out-of-control thruster!

Unfortunately, he was facing two real second-level wizards.

Benjamin just casually extended a finger.

A tiny, almost invisible ray of energy flashed by.

Most of the guy's body was accurately destroyed, leaving only a head with a terrified expression on its face falling from the sky.

"Thank you for your help, Master Wizard!"

After escaping death, the captain of the city guard immediately reacted with the team members around him, and excitedly knelt down to salute the two people in the sky, thanking them loudly.

Benjamin just glanced at them indifferently and ignored them.

These city guards are all man-made humans mass-produced by the Noren Workshop.

The various emotions of excitement and gratitude they are expressing now are actually procedures that were set in advance to maintain social stability.

Although it is very anthropomorphic, it is actually fake after all.

He stretched out his hand and pointed, and the head that had fallen to the ground automatically floated to his hand.

He handed it to David beside him and said, "Analyze it and see if there is any useful information in this guy's soul."

After doing all this, Benjamin turned his gaze with interest to the boy, Chuck, who had been staring at the two of them in the sky with a dull look from beginning to end.

The child's face was a mixture of fear from escaping death and shock from witnessing the "witchcraft" showdown with his own eyes.

His pupils contracted sharply due to the huge emotional impact, and his mouth opened unconsciously, as if he had even forgotten to breathe.

That young face was now filled with the purest and most primitive awe and worship for the unknown world!

Jieming looked at him, feeling a little surprised.

"Interesting..." He stroked his chin, a look of amazement. "I never thought that after just over a hundred years, after preliminary bloodline optimization, a 'human' like this little fellow, born with innate talent close to that of a second-level wizard apprentice, could be naturally born."

"It seems," he calculated silently in his mind, "that within a few hundred years, the Norn Academy branch on the Erosia plane will be able to officially begin recruiting qualified wizard apprentices on the mainland."

Without staying any longer, Benjamin and David left without hesitation after analyzing the information in the head.

Looking at the two figures that turned into meteors and disappeared into the sky, Chuck, who was unable to recover for a long time, had an eternal yearning for the existence of "wizards" in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)