Chapter 584: Looking for the Eye of the Storm
"Is he a half-elf?" asked the second-level wizard in disbelief.
"Yeah." The third-level wizard nodded.
"Oh my god, because of the disappearance of the elves, have the remaining half-elves become so powerful? If there are more half-elves, wouldn't they be able to dominate the world like the elves?"
"Don't worry." The third-level wizard whispered, "These half-elves are also suffering from the curse of the elves. Their numbers will only decrease until they disappear completely."
Thinking of the half-elf who had just left, the third-level wizard sighed silently in his heart, "You will never know if the half-elf you met is the last half-elf in the world."
While the wizards behind him were discussing the half-elves who had entered the No Man's Land, the wizard who had amazed everyone had already stepped into a dangerous area.
He lifted his hood again, but his appearance had changed into that of an ordinary thirty-year-old man.
It turned out to be Thor's outstanding senior, Byron! Byron is now a first-level wizard.
Not only that, because of the head of the Elf King given to him by Thor, he has a little bit of the ability of the elves. Not only can he change his appearance at will, but he also has a strong ability to charm.
It’s a pity that Byron usually still maintains his own appearance.
In his opinion, even if he changed his skin, he would still be himself.
The so-called stunning appearance is similar to the use of a wizard's hand.
The feature of this skin that satisfied him most was its extremely strong adaptability to magic and mental power.
This even gave him the confidence to advance to the second level after he was promoted to the first level.
This is the most precious part of the Elf King's head, and it also makes it even more rare for Thor to give it to Byron.
However, Byron no longer feels that he owes Thor anything.
Byron exhaled and looked into the distance, "Where would Thor be?"
…
Just as Byron stepped into the Borderlands, another person who had a brief encounter with Thor also reached a turning point in his life.
Noah, the boy who once helped Thor find the nest of quicksand termites, took the initiative to join the hunting team organized by Lord Wind Demon in order to exchange money to treat his sick brother.
This hunting team is somewhat different from previous ones, as it recruits a large number of ordinary people and promises that as long as they perform well, they will have the opportunity to become wizard apprentices.
Ever since meeting Thor, Noah realized that not all wizards just stare at a candle.
It’s a pity that Thor doesn’t intend to accept him as an apprentice.
Maybe he is just too poorly qualified.
But Noah didn't give up completely.
After he moved to the new settlement with his father and brother, he had been looking for opportunities to become a wizard apprentice.
He just didn't expect that he would have to fight for his life for the only chance.
At this time, it happened that his younger brother had a high fever due to radiation sickness, which made him put aside his last worry.
His father and younger brother once gave him the only chance to live, so today he is willing to give this chance to his younger brother.
From then on, Noah joined the hunting team and left his family who had depended on him for many years.
However, when he joined the hunting team and stepped into a terrifying area he had never set foot in, he realized that he was still naive! The hunting team would indeed give them the opportunity to become wizard apprentices, but the prerequisite was that they had to survive the "danger investigation" operations again and again.
Every ordinary person is a pathfinder, and they are required to take a magic potion to temporarily enhance their mental power, allowing them to perceive secrets that they have never discovered before.
It's equivalent to becoming a temporary wizard apprentice.
But at the same time, their weak bodies will show various abnormalities due to the sudden increase in mental strength.
Noah had seen with his own eyes a woman who had just taken a magic potion for mental strength suddenly go crazy and tear out all her hair. Then she scratched her scalp in pain until blood was dripping and bones were exposed.
When other wizards saw the woman's reaction, no one came out to help her, and ordinary people didn't know how to save her, nor did they dare to save her.
Afterwards, the dying woman became the first victim before the hunting team set out.
In addition to the woman, the appearance of other people also changed to some extent. Only Noah did not change at all.
This immediately attracted the attention of several wizards.
They came over and asked Noah to hold a crystal ball and chew a leaf.
However, after Noah did as he was told, the wizards left in disappointment.
This made Noah a little depressed, as if he was really not cut out to be a wizard's apprentice.
After a few minor incidents, everyone officially embarked on the hunting trip.
However, ordinary people, including Noah, realized that perhaps dying like that woman the night before departure was the best ending.
On this day, a group of people traveled through mountains and rivers and arrived at a forest.
This was the fifth woodland they had passed through.
In the past, every time they passed through a forest, their hunting team would leave behind at least one ordinary person.
Noah didn't know what these people were doing. Anyway, the wizards under the Wind Demon would let them explore some very dangerous places. Regardless of whether the explorers could come back alive, they would not enter the place they had just explored, but leave directly.
Along the way, just like the footprints they left behind, all they left behind were corpses.
And this time, it was finally Noah's turn to be asked to walk into the forest with a set of strange and complicated instruments.
Noah's heart, which had been numb all the way, began to beat wildly. He finally had a sense of the reality of being on the verge of death.
He wanted to escape, but he knew that the four wizards behind him would not give him any chance of escape.
It may also implicate the father and younger brother in the settlement.
Noah swallowed his saliva, and was pushed by the wizard behind him. He began to move his hands and feet mechanically and walked forward mechanically.
The rustling of leaves in the wind, the chirping of birds and the buzzing of insects all turned into a chaotic cacophony in his ears.
The huge fear that death could come at any time made Noah's mind a mess.
But such a confused thought made him keep moving forward without stopping.
“Crash——”
The leaves and branches all around rustled in unison as if they had made an appointment, breaking the usual sounds of the forest.
Noah was jolted awake, and seemed to realize what he was doing.
His foot, which was about to take a step forward, was suspended in mid-air. He looked up cautiously and tremblingly, and was suddenly surprised to find that the trees around him had grown pairs of eyes at some point. Like humans, they slowly bent their trunks and stretched out their branches, as if trying to catch the humans who dared to walk in the forest.
A leaf touched Noah's head.
"Wow--"
Noah, who looked about fourteen or fifteen, but was actually less than ten years old, could no longer hold back. He screamed and ran away.
He no longer cared about the established direction and just kept moving forward.
“Plop!”
Suddenly, something came under Noah's feet and he tripped.
His eyes quickly followed the falling body. Because the speed was too fast, he had no time to react and adjust his posture.
However, when Noah fell heavily to the ground, he found that it didn't hurt at all.
He lowered his head and saw a dense patch of gray-white mushrooms beneath him.
These little mushrooms were like a soft mattress that caught Noah.
He held a mushroom with one hand, supported his body in a daze, looked around, and then realized that he had left the forest without knowing when.
There is a downhill slope ahead, and these gray-white mushrooms spread all the way to the bottom of the slope.
Further ahead are a few sparse trees, and behind the trees, a forest consisting of rows of giant mushrooms three or four meters high.
"How can there be such a big mushroom? There's no such big pot."
For some reason, Noah suddenly felt the fear in his heart lessen a lot, and he even felt like making fun of the mushroom forest in front of him.
I overslept, so I can only write the next chapter at night.
(End of this chapter)
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