Because there is an illusion magic array blocking the view outside, it is impossible to see from the outside that the inside is so exotic.

However, the next second, Richard suddenly realized that this must have been done by Ophelia, after all, she had some elven blood.

The furnishings and decorations throughout the rest area are filled with the concept of coexistence of elves and nature.

In this small fantasy magic circle, Ophelia used her expertise in plant manipulation to transform it into two exquisite green vine huts and a small courtyard.

The fence surrounding the yard is made of tightly intertwined thorny vines, as dense as a thick wall. I believe that even if the illusionary magic formation outside fails, this more than two-meter-high thorny vine wall will still provide good concealment and protection.

As the four people walked in, the thorny vine wall seemed to sense Ophelia's order and opened a gap in the middle that was one person wide, allowing several people to pass through.

After passing through, it closed again quickly, like a living thing.

After entering, the cottage that came into Richard and Stephanie's sight was also made entirely of vines, but it seemed that the vines used as fences were quite different in type. The vines that built the cottage had no thorns, but had a special herbal fragrance, and had a subtle insect repellent effect.

Green leaves grow on the dense vines, and under the morning dew, the leaves are so green that they almost glow.

This makes the two vine cottages look like the residences of flower fairies in fairy tales.

Between the two vine cottages is an open-air courtyard, which is not only planted with a variety of colorful flowers, but also has several rattan chairs and a thick wooden stool used as a table.

The rattan chairs here are also made of green, still-growing vines, and can be changed in size and style at will.

Unlike ordinary rattan chairs used by humans, the chair seats are made from cut down vines, with the bark scraped off and then dried and woven into a woven fabric.

The wooden block seemed to be the remains of a dead tree, with a diameter of two meters. It was not known whether it died of natural causes or broke accidentally, but it should be under the influence of Ophelia's natural witchcraft that it felt like a dead tree coming back to life, and several tender buds had sprouted on the small branches around the wooden block.

There were some fruits placed on the wooden stool. Each of them had a moist surface and bright color, as if they had just been picked, making people want to take a bite. Li Jue felt that the reason they were so fresh was probably because Ophelia used some kind of natural preservation witchcraft.

When Richard sat down, the green rattan chair automatically adjusted its size slightly, making Richard feel more comfortable. The height of the rattan chair also changed to the right position, allowing Richard to comfortably reach the fruit on the wooden stool.

Richard was in high spirits because he had found Meiluo and Ophelia. He picked up a bright red fruit, put it in his mouth and took a bite.

It's sweet with a hint of sourness, but very refreshing.

"Ophelia, your natural witchcraft is truly magical. My impression of natural witchcraft is still stuck on the plant battle team you summoned during the freshman qualifying match." Richard praised.

Ophelia smiled softly: "In fact, these are the normal uses of natural witchcraft. Only a very small part of natural witchcraft can be used for combat."

"In the freshman ranking competition, I mostly used shadow magic, such as mutation growth and so on."

Richard deeply agreed with this. Elves are a peace-loving and nature-loving race. Therefore, the purpose of creating many natural witchcrafts is not to fight, but to live in harmony with nature.

Looking at the pleasing green, Richard couldn't help but have an idea in his mind: if there was such an elf girl as a gardener in his castle garden, it would be very pleasing to the eye! But the fantasy did not last long, and was driven out of Richard's mind.

"Meiluo, didn't you say you would not enter the secret realm? Why did you suddenly come in this time?" Richard couldn't figure out this question, so he turned to ask Meiluo.

"This was an accident. After we arrived at the base, we followed the instructions."

As Meiluo continued to tell the story, Richard nodded from time to time.

Meiluo was really lucky this time. When she encountered the sudden attack of the Demon Spider Knights, she immediately chose to run towards the depths of the Norman Secret Realm instead of heading towards the supply point, thus buying herself a chance of survival.

The second time he encountered the Spider Knight, he was lucky enough to get help from Ophelia, and was able to escape the disaster! "Ophelia, thank you for helping Meiluo." Richard smiled at Ophelia.

"Richard, we are friends, aren't we? There's no need to say thank you. Besides, I feel very guilty about what happened to you last time."

"Puchi! The two of you, one feeling grateful, the other feeling guilty, it's really interesting." Meiluo couldn't help herself and burst out laughing.

This made Ophelia blush, her pointed ears tremble slightly, and she stopped talking out of embarrassment.

However, after a moment, he couldn't help but ask doubtfully: "Richard, what is your current level of strength?"

After all, when Richard competed with her in the freshman ranking competition half a year ago, he was already at the peak of the first-level wizard apprentice. Now even she is already a second-level wizard apprentice. It is impossible for Richard to remain where he is.

Although, judging from the surface, Richard is only at the peak of the first-level wizard apprentice.

"I was just promoted to a third-level wizard apprentice some time ago." Richard touched his nose and gradually released the effect of his breath-suppression, remaining at the level of a beginner third-level wizard apprentice.

Feeling the change in Richard's breath, Ophelia stared at Richard with her bright big eyes, her bright red mouth opened into an O shape.

"Your improvement speed is too fast!"

In just one year, she was promoted from a first-level wizard apprentice to a third-level wizard apprentice. Even though Ophelia had studied in two academies and was knowledgeable, she had never heard of any wizard apprentice in either the Ring of Noth or the Ignis School having such a fast promotion speed!

Meiluo was also staring at Richard in amazement. She still clearly remembered that half a month ago, Richard was only a second-level wizard apprentice.

But after just a few days of not seeing him, he has already reached the level of a third-level wizard apprentice? Only Stephanie knew clearly how strong her master Richard was. At this moment, she was looking at the shocked expressions on the two women's faces and laughing at the side.

However, to be honest, in recent days, even she has found it difficult to see through the strength of her master.

It seems that the master's strength is getting stronger every day.

Every time I thought that this was the limit of the master's strength, it would be refreshed during the next intense battle.

From this perspective, it seemed that he had never seen or even heard of such a perverted wizard apprentice like his master!

However, logically speaking, the master's strength had already reached the limit of a wizard apprentice when he fought against the senior spider woman Shadra a few days ago.

It shouldn't be that serious! "Ahem" Richard coughed, bypassing the topic and turning to introduce the deployment of the night elves and the three major academies in the Norman Secret Realm.

This immediately made the two women excited, although they didn't know why Richard knew so much about the deployment of both sides.

After all, it is understandable that Richard could understand the plans of the three major academies, but it is very puzzling that he is also so clear about the deployment of the night elves!

However, before the two of them asked, Richard took the initiative to say, "Melo, Ophelia, I will go to the original material supply point with Stephanie later to open up this passage out of the Norman Secret Realm."

After these words were spoken, Meiluo and Ophelia looked at each other.

"Richard, are you and Stephanie going alone? Why don't you take Ophelia and me with you? With more people, you'll have helpers, right?" Meiluo looked at Richard and Stephanie with concern and a hint of suspicion.

Ophelia also said: "Richard, last time you let Andrea and I go first, I think I should go with you this time."

Whether it was Ophelia or Meiluo, Richard knew very well that it would be difficult for them to help him with their current strength.

But if I bring both of them with me, I will need to pay extra attention to them during the battle, which will become my weak spot and vulnerability.

If they were targeted by the enemy, not only would the two women be in danger, but he would also be put in a passive position, so Richard would never take the two women with him.

Richard has already had a preliminary idea. Not only can he open up the channel, but he can also take this opportunity to collect a wave of high-quality spirits to prepare for the abomination transformation he is about to embark on.

Richard planned to storm the three original academy material supply points that were currently being protected by the Demon Spider Knights.

Because only there, the opponent will be forced to fight with you in a specific area, so that your ghost collection magic array can take effect . However, if you encounter a battle with the Demon Spider Knights in the wild, even if the opponent is defeated, they will flee everywhere, making it impossible to collect the ghosts.

Even if the senior spider woman Dolores is still stationed at the supply point, he might be able to collect a vicious spirit! Unable to defeat? This is almost impossible. The key to Richard's plan is that once he has set up the witch formation to collect the evil spirits, he will choose to directly promote to a formal wizard.

Then he used his strength as a formal wizard to slaughter the night elves.

So what if every member of the Demonic Spider Knights is as good as a top third-level wizard apprentice?

By then, it can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack! Even if the senior spider woman Dolores has some backup plan, after being promoted to a formal wizard, Richard, who has two innate witchcrafts, thinks he has more than 90% chance of defeating the opponent.

Although he will be squeezed out of the Norman Secret Realm soon after his promotion, he will eliminate all enemies before being squeezed out of the secret realm.

This clears the way for Meiluo, Ophelia, and Andrea and other wizard apprentices whose lives or deaths are currently unknown to return home.

After hearing the two women's request, Richard's face straightened and he shook his head and said, "You two are not strong enough. It's too dangerous to go with me!"

"I will leave a mark here. Once I succeed, I will use the bone bird to send a message to you. At that time, as long as you are a little careful on the road, you can leave the secret realm smoothly."

"But why can Stephanie go with you, but we can't?" Meiluo stammered for a long time with her red lips, and finally said what she had been holding in her heart for a long time.

"Hehehe!" Stephanie burst out laughing and her whole body was shaking with laughter.

As an experienced woman, she could of course see that her master's pretty girlfriend was obviously jealous of her.

This made Richard's face darken, and he immediately said, "Don't laugh, Stephanie, show off a little bit, but remember not to use witchcraft that is too powerful and destroy this place."

"Yes, Master, ladies, as long as you feel you can withstand my attack, I think the Master will agree to let you go together."

Stephanie bowed slightly to Richard, took two steps forward gracefully, and took away a small basket of fruit from the thick wooden stool.

Suddenly, one of her fair and tender arms instantly turned into a dark and sharp knife-like arm.

“Swish!”

The black blade arm lightly swept across the wooden block with a diameter of about two meters.

Just like cutting tofu, a round piece of wood as thin as a cicada's wing was cut off without any obstruction in the process.

"Ah!" Meiluo saw Stephania's fair and tender hands instantly turned into terrifying knife-like arms. Her beautiful eyes widened and she couldn't help but scream in fear.

Ophelia, who knew well how hard the wooden block was, was even more shocked. The opponent had such attack power with just a casual wave of his hand. She was afraid that the protection of the bloodthirsty devil vine that she was proud of would not be able to withstand a few swings from the opponent.

No wonder Richard was unwilling to bring himself and Meiluo with him. Judging from the strength, even this so-called follower was much stronger than they had expected! The strength of this follower seemed to be far beyond that of an ordinary third-level wizard apprentice.

Because Ophelia had also come into contact with many third-level wizard apprentices, but none of them seemed as good as Stephanna in front of her.

After letting the two clearly see the difference in strength, Richard paused and said, "Another reason why I don't want you to go is that as one of my few good friends, you are my weaknesses and soft underbelly. You don't want my weaknesses to be exposed in battle and targeted by the enemy, right?"

These words made the two women, who were originally somewhat unwilling, look at each other and no longer insist.

That's right, even if I can't help, I can't let Richard be distracted by taking care of them during the battle.

If this is really the case, then we are not helping Richard, but harming him instead.

After leaving behind a lot of combat potions and alchemical bombs, Richard and Stephanie said goodbye to Meiluo and Ophelia, and headed quickly towards the daily material supply points of the original three major colleges.

But not long after, the two of them actually met a group of wizard apprentices led by Donato in the dense forest.

(End of this chapter)