Gildarts was about to remind Halley to retreat, but before he could open his mouth, a shocking roar was heard in the cave!

The next second, a giant lizard monster with a body length of more than 20 meters and covered with dense golden scales rushed out of the cave like a golden lightning!

"It's a golden-scaled lizard! Run!"

The opponent was moving so fast that Gildarts had no time to rescue him and could only shout out a warning.

Harley, who was closest to the cave, had never expected this scene to happen. His face turned pale in an instant and he was extremely frightened. It seemed that he was imprisoned by the powerful aura of the golden-scaled lizard. Harley stood there in a daze, unable to move even a finger.

"Ah!!!" A miserable scream was heard!

Harley was like a standing spicy stick, and was instantly bitten by the golden-scaled lizard, which bit off his spine in one bite. Then, the bloody mouth shook, the head tilted back, and with a "gulp", Harley was swallowed into the stomach! ——Just as Gildarts encountered the golden-scaled lizard, his son Donato was also busy, and was fighting fiercely with Richard.

Donato flew back rapidly, and with his right hand he quickly pulled out a crooked pure white bone staff from his arms. The next second, he held the short bone staff and swung it forward. A huge green inverted pentagram array quickly lit up on the ground, and three humanoid creatures suddenly appeared in the witch array.

I saw three humanoid creatures, with hunched bodies and ugly appearances like rotten corpses, but their limbs were strong and powerful, and they had a pair of extremely sharp claws.

At this moment, three pairs of blood-red eyes were staring at Richard, which was chilling!

"Ghoul!" Richard couldn't help but be a little surprised. This was the first time he encountered this extremely famous undead monster.

Although it was the first time Richard fought against this ghoul, as it was also a member of the undead creatures, Richard was quite familiar with it. The ghouls had poison on their claws and moved very quickly. They mainly used physical attacks such as a pair of claws or biting with their mouths. A very small number of them would have a natural witchcraft.

However, the three ghouls in front of me seemed a little special. The claws on their hands were much longer than the ordinary ghouls described in the "Illustrated Book of Undead Creatures".

The claws of these three zombies are estimated to be at least thirty centimeters long!

A flash of inspiration came to Richard's mind. Could this be a mutant among ordinary ghouls - the Claw Ghoul?

As for the Claw Ghoul, Richard tried to recall that the Claw Ghoul was almost identical to the normal Ghoul, except for one thing - super strong physical attack power! "Oh! This is interesting, my Abomination is also mainly physical attack, and so is the opponent's Ghoul. This is going to be a tit-for-tat!" Richard thought to himself.

Sure enough, as the fat abomination strode forward, the attention of the three sharp-clawed ghouls quickly shifted from Richard to the attacking behemoth.

The three sharp-clawed zombies showed no sign of weakness at this time and rushed fiercely towards the huge abomination.

"Bang!" The Abomination directly chopped a Claw Ghoul away with a giant iron axe.

Although the Clawed Ghoul blocked the attack with its pair of sharp claws in time, the overwhelming force of the Abomination was definitely not something its small body could withstand. The claws on one of its hands were broken, but thanks to the block, it managed to save its life from the Abomination's attack.

But the other two Sharp-Clawed Ghouls quickly approached the fat abomination and scratched its body several times the moment their companion was knocked away.

“Swish, swish, swish!”

In just a second or two, several long cuts several inches deep appeared on the disgusting fat body. If it were a normal person, his internal organs would have been taken out by now.

Fortunately, Richard's abomination was particularly fat, but at this time, white fat mixed with yellow pus was scratched out on its fat belly.

Obviously, these wounds deeply hurt the Abomination, making it extremely angry! "Roar!"

The huge chain ball swept across the area, and the two clawed zombies were instantly knocked several meters away, but the zombies were also undead creatures with thick skin and flesh. Although they were injured, they were not fatal.

At this time, the Claw Ghoul that had just been knocked away by the giant axe also rushed up, waving its broken claws.

Suddenly, the two sides fought each other, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. It was difficult to tell who was better at once, and for a short period of time, it felt like the two sides were evenly matched.

"You are really good. No wonder Joachim died in your hands. But the game should be over here!" Donato saw that his clawed ghouls could not do anything to Richard. His face changed and he shouted fiercely: "The power of blood amber!"

Donato quickly took out a jade-like object that was sparkling with enchanting blood light from his arms with his left hand, and a short spell rang out. The next second, three streams of blood-red liquid gushed out from the blood amber in Donato's left hand and shot at the three clawed zombies.

Suddenly, the three sharp-clawed zombies were surrounded by blood. Their original height of 1.9 meters increased sharply to more than 2.2 meters. The waving claws became faster and more powerful, and the attack speed was at least 30% faster!

This time, the three sharp-clawed ghouls beat the abomination back step by step, roaring continuously!

"Give up, Richard! As long as you are willing to surrender and tell me the whole story of your relationship with the Spider Woman, I can guarantee your safety." Seeing that he was sure to win, Donato smiled and began to persuade Richard to surrender.

Richard raised his eyebrows and ignored Donato's question. Instead, he also took out a piece of blood amber from his arms and exerted the power of the blood amber at a faster speed than Donato!

As a blood-red liquid as thick as a baby's fist was poured into the abomination, the abomination's body suddenly grew larger, its attack speed increased greatly, and every chopped blow seemed to have the power to split mountains and crack rocks.

Now, Richard's hatred in turn suppressed Donato's three clawed zombies!

"Blood Amber Power!" Donato was astonished as he watched Richard display the Blood Amber Power more skillfully than he did. He was so surprised that he could not say anything more! "How do you know this witchcraft? This is one of the unique secrets of our Ring of North."

Richard rolled his eyes at Donato and said, "Don't you think you talk too much?"

"And what makes you think I'll tell you the answer?"

Just as Donato was choking with shame and anger at Richard's words, Richard turned his head and shouted to Stephanie from a distance: "Stephanie, stop playing and end the fight quickly!"

"Hehe, yes, master!" Stephanie immediately flew back and quickly cast a spell. A huge inverted pentagram magic formation glowing green appeared under her feet. The next second, a human-faced demon spider as big as a bull was summoned.

Stephanie jumped up and gently stood on the back of the human-faced demon spider, muttering silently: "Merge!"

Amid the stunned expressions of the wizard apprentices, they saw the graceful Stephanina slowly sinking from the back of the human-faced demon spider into its body. The man and the spider actually merged together!

Donato was also extremely surprised when he saw this scene. For the first time, he felt that this battle was somewhat out of his control.

The original confidence in victory began to waver a little at this moment!

After the fusion, Stephana's blade arms changed from two to four, and her movement speed increased again. It was so fast that you couldn't see her figure clearly. You could only see a black shadow flash by, and she had already rushed out more than ten meters away! "Shua shua shua!"

Even though the two third-level wizard apprentices were holding up the dark element shield, they could only hold out for a second. In the second, they were instantly broken by the rapidly swinging sword arms.

When the others looked carefully again, they found that the two men were suddenly broken at the waist, and their organs mixed with blood were all over the ground.

"ah!!!"

Hiss! Stephanie's blade chopped at such a fast speed that the two of them didn't even feel any pain when they were cut in half.

Instead, a second later, when his upper body slid down the cut on his waist, he reacted and immediately let out a miserable wail! In fact, this was the result of Stephanie showing mercy!

Show mercy?

That’s right, this is because Stephanie followed Richard’s request and kept her breath!

Otherwise, this extremely sharp blade would not have chopped horizontally, but from top to bottom, and the two wizard apprentices would have been chopped into two symmetrical halves by Stephanie!

The third-level wizard apprentice had extremely strong vitality, and even with such a fatal injury, he could hold on for a few minutes. At this moment, he was wailing on the ground, holding his lower body with both hands, trying to piece himself back together.

This bloody and tragic scene dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the remaining four wizard apprentices!

Among them was a female second-level wizard apprentice from the Ring of North who was wearing hunting clothes and had a curvy figure. Her originally innocent face was now almost distorted with fear, as if she could not bear the horrible pressure. Her legs kept shaking, and there was a faint wet line running from her crotch to her heels.

A foul smell came. Stephanie looked at her with disgust and disappeared in an instant.

When she appeared again, the female apprentice had her limbs cut off and turned into a human pig, left dead on the spot.

This made the remaining three people unable to bear the pressure of being killed one by one, and they collapsed and shouted: "Sir Donato, save us!"

“Save us!”

Donato also frowned at this moment, feeling quite troubled. The strength of this Richard was okay, but the strength of this Spider Woman was really too strong.

But he had to save them. If Spider Woman successfully killed these three people, she and Richard would form an encirclement against him.

Extremely unfavorable!

So, Donato quickly took out a scroll from his arms and tore it open in the direction of the three wizard apprentices. In an instant, three white bone shields appeared out of thin air above the three people.

"Bone Shield!"

"Level 1 Witchcraft Bone Shield!"

Seeing this, the three of them couldn't help but shout that the bone shield was a first-level witchcraft, which had particularly high defense against physical attacks.

This instantly relaxed the expressions of the three of them, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There are quite a lot of good stuff. Richard knew at a glance that Donato had used a group bone shield scroll! This thing is hard to buy even with magic stones.

As expected, he is the offspring of a formal wizard!

However, Richard immediately seized the opportunity when Donato was distracted from casting the scroll and shouted two words to Stephanie: "Joint attack!"

Since your official wizard-level protective scroll was used on someone else, who else should I kill if not you? Stephanie immediately turned her cold eyes to Donato. The next second, the soil on the spot exploded, revealing a half-meter-deep depression.

Suddenly, Donato's heart was filled with alarm and he thought something was wrong.

Richard cast spells continuously, and in less than half a second, he used the slowness spell and the weakness spell on Donato. Since Richard's control over these two level 0 spells had already reached the limit, the casting time of each spell was only 0.2 seconds.

All of a sudden, Donato felt weak all over and his movements became extremely slow.

He reacted instantly and realized that within half a second of taking out the potion, he was hit by the slowness and weakness spells successively.

This shocked him! The speed of casting was too fast! But it was not over yet. After casting the spell, Richard quickly performed the shadow dance.

Richard's whole body seemed to be covered with a layer of gray dark gauze in an instant. He moved as fast as a ghost, extremely swift. He drew out the Ice Guardian with his right hand and held the knight's sword transformed by the mimicry wristband in his left hand. With a speed that was no less than Stephanie's, he rushed towards Donato at high speed with two swords in hand!

Block all attacks from both of them!

But before Donato could catch his breath, he discovered that the energy of this black spherical force field was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The originally rich black energy is now gradually fading and turning into gray.

"How can you have such a high attack power!" Donato's eyes bulged out! "This is a first-level witchcraft scroll - Skechers Shield!"

It was no wonder that Donato was so surprised. A defensive first-level sorcery was broken by two wizard apprentices in just seven or eight seconds. No one would believe it if he told anyone! What Donato didn't know was that Richard's two swords were continuously performing high-frequency vibrations, and the four blade arms of Stephana and the human-faced demon spider were swinging at high speed, which made the attack he endured almost no less than that of a formal wizard! No wonder this black spherical force field deflated at a speed visible to the naked eye! Donato was so scared that he quickly took out a bottle of unknown potion from his arms and drank it down.

Suddenly, a strong red light flashed on his body again.

This made Richard frown, and he thought to himself, the descendants of a wizard family have too many good things!

“Bang!”

Skechers shield broken!

Below is the red shield!

Donato's face was filled with horror. He ran away while shouting, "Stop! Richard, this is a misunderstanding!"

Richard completely ignored it and instead increased the force of his chopping.

"High frequency vibration!"

"Cross Slash!"

Stephanie also cooperated very well, and the four blade arms swung out at the same time! "Pah!"

The red shield is broken! "Sizzle!"

Donato only felt a chill in his waist. He looked down and saw a thin line of blood on his abdomen. After a dizzy spell, he found himself lying on the ground, but his legs were still standing, and blood was gushing out of the cut.

Instantly, he realized what had happened and howled in disbelief! "Ah!!!"

It turned out that the coordinated attack of Richard and Stephanie just now not only directly broke the red shield, but Richard's cross slash also cut Donato's waist in half! Ignoring Donato's wailing, Richard thought for a moment and swung his sword again.

“Swish!”

He cut Donato's tendons cleanly and neatly to prevent him from taking anything out of his arms again.

At this moment, the three wizard apprentices who were protected by the first-level defensive witchcraft - the bone shield, were huddled together and trembling.

Like a nest of quails in the cold winter! Even with the protection of the bone shield, the three of them felt a chill rushing straight to their heads! More than ten seconds later, a battle without suspense ended! Richard began to carve the ghost collection magic array under the feet of Donato, who only had half of his body left.

Seeing Richard's meticulous movements, Donato couldn't help but feel frightened, and said with difficulty: "What are you going to do?"

"Draw a magic formation." Richard said calmly without raising his head.

"What are you going to do with us?" Donato raised his head with difficulty and looked at the graceful Stephanna, who was dragging the bodies of several apprentices who had helped him in the hunt but were killed in return, and threw them casually beside him.

Looking at the appearance of these people, they are all half dead and only have half a breath left.

"I just want to make some use of the waste, otherwise it would be such a waste!" Richard said in a calm tone.

Looking at the miserable faces of the wizard apprentices who were besieging with him and were about to die.

Donato shuddered. "You don't really want to kill us, do you? Richard, I tell you, this is really a misunderstanding. Let's stop here, shall we?"

"I can swear and sign a contract. You must believe me."

Seeing that Richard continued to draw the magic array without being moved, Donato's face became more and more terrified! "Li Richard, it's not too late for you to stop now!"

"If you want to kill us, you will die too. Do you know who my father is?"

Seeing that begging for mercy was useless, the timid Donato suddenly became anxious!

"Your father is Gildarts, right?" Richard replied to Donato casually while accurately carving the magic circle.

"How do you know that?" Donato's eyes widened.

Only then did he realize that the direction of the whole thing from the very beginning had exceeded his expectations.

"I knew it from the beginning. That's why I wanted to avoid you. Otherwise, do you think that with your strength, you are qualified to let me avoid you?" Richard asked back.

"this"

At this moment, Donato felt infinite regret in his heart!

After all this time, it turned out that the other party already knew my background.

Moreover, he had misunderstood Richard's retreat as cowardice, and had chased him all the way, even using a low-level wizard weapon - war shackles, leaving Richard no way to escape! He really regretted it!

Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in the world.

Seeing Richard stand up, Donato knew that this meant the magic circle had been completed, and his face turned pale on the spot.

Richard looked at them deeply again.

The next second, a giant black palm slapped down heavily.

There was a loud "crackling" sound, and the eight or nine people in the witch formation who were already seriously injured and dying suddenly had their bones and tendons broken and turned into meat patties, deader than dead.

In an instant, four tracking marks of different colors were imprinted on Richard and Stephanie.

However, Richard didn't care at all! He had anticipated this outcome when he started.

"Fortunately, I was able to control my strength pretty well. I almost destroyed the magic formation I just drew."

Richard took a look at the magic circle on the ground and found that the patterns were still intact, so he whispered the spell to control the evil spirits to collect the magic circle.

The next second, the vengeful spirits gathered in the witch formation, a red light shone brightly, and seven or eight souls with hideous faces and extremely unwilling deaths were pulled out from the corpses and quickly sucked into a small black two-ear water bottle.

Richard nodded with satisfaction. The first wave of vengeful spirits was collected successfully!

"Master, what should we do with the few fish that have escaped the net?" Stephanie said in a tender voice.

"Or else just kill them all. It's a good opportunity to make good use of them. Haha." Stephanie glanced at several wizard apprentices who were watching their fight from afar but did not dare to intervene.

Richard thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Forget it, just knock him out!"

Richard thought that he was not a bloodthirsty person. He felt that there was no need to be so cruel to the wizard apprentices who did not obey Donato's call from the beginning and came forward to surround and kill him and Stephanna.

If he was worried that some of these people might tip off Gildarts or leak some information to the three major academies, Li Ce felt that he could at most cast a spell of forgetfulness on them.

Although the aftereffects of this amnesia may be somewhat serious, it will damage the hippocampus on the medial temporal lobe of the brain, causing a person's wizarding qualifications to decline.

But...it's better than dying!

Who made them love to watch the fun?

There is always a price to pay for watching the fun.

In an instant, Stephanna, who was carrying out Richard's order, was like a tornado, quickly sweeping towards the people watching in the distance!

"No, run!"

“Run away!”

"Run in separate directions!"

Several people turned pale in an instant, panicked, and began to flee in all directions.

I couldn't help but feel regretful. What the hell was he doing here? In the end, no apprentice could escape Stephanie's clutches. They were knocked unconscious one by one and then carried back.

After Richard cast a spell of forgetfulness on each of them, he and Stephanie quickly packed up the spoils and left the scene.

When they woke up again, they looked around with confused expressions. After staring at each other for a long time, they asked each other: "Where am I?"

"Yeah, why am I here?"

"What happened just now? I remember I was hiding in the cave before!"

After a while, an apprentice wizard exclaimed: "Why has the power of my magic decreased so much!"

"Me too!!"

“Oh my god!”

(End of this chapter)