"Who can tell us what's going on?" said a female wizard at the side.

"Respected Master Graf, fellow wizards, we suddenly heard a shrill scream coming from Wizard Gildarts' room, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. We immediately felt that something bad might have happened."

"After knocking on the door repeatedly without any response, we immediately decided to push it open. The first thing we saw was the wizard Gildarts lying on the ground, unconscious."

"We will report this situation immediately. By the way, Wizard Gildarts fell into a coma about twenty minutes ago." The wizard apprentice thought for a moment and said with certainty.

Great Wizard Graf nodded and said to the official wizards around him, "Let's go in and take a look at Gildarts's physical condition first."

After entering the room, Great Wizard Graf gently stroked Gildarts and said, "Your soul power has dropped significantly. Although you can still barely maintain the level of a formal wizard, it will take more than ten years to recover, even with the precious soul repair potion."

"It seems that the secret rescue plan we set up earlier is not going well!"

This made all the official wizards look solemn and silent.

At this time, a formal wizard of Gurus Academy suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "Respected Great Wizard Graf, a very strange thing has happened. I sensed my deflected magnet."

"Both are here, right inside our base!"

"What? How is this possible?" exclaimed wizard Linda on the side.

"Yeah, didn't you give the deflection magnet to the rescue team? How could it appear at the base? Could it be..." another official wizard blurted out, but he glanced at Gildarts who was still unconscious, obviously a little puzzled.

Since the wizard clone of Gildarts, the leader of the team, was killed, could it be possible that a wizard apprentice would emerge in the Norman Secret Realm to turn the tide and defeat the night elves?

This is a bit unbelievable!

At this moment, hurried footsteps were heard in the corridor outside the door. Judging from the sound, it was the footsteps of a wizard apprentice, and they were a bit hurried!

"Wizard Gildarts, Stefan." The wizard apprentice was stunned when he saw the situation in the room, and he couldn't finish the words he had just said.

Like a drake with its neck strangled, his face was flushed red, looking quite funny.

"Hello, Great Wizard Ggraf, and Wizard Linda"

When the wizard apprentice saw so many important people in Wizard Gildarts' room, including the top leader of the stronghold, Wizard Graf, he suddenly became flustered and panicked.

You know, if wizard apprentices don't follow the proper etiquette towards formal wizards, they will be in trouble. They may be punished at any time by formal wizards who have a bad temper or are in a bad mood.

"No need to salute, just keep talking!"

Great Wizard Graf waved his hand, signaling the wizard apprentice not to worry about the red tape and continue speaking.

The wizard apprentice was obviously stunned, but he reacted immediately, his face flushed with excitement, and he continued to tell the story, obviously wanting to leave a good impression on the top leaders of the stronghold.

"It's like this. Nine wizard apprentices were just teleported over from the secret realm teleportation array. They should be the first batch of wizard apprentices teleported back from the Norman Secret Realm in the past few days. One of them is Stefan, who is a member of the same rescue team as the wizard Gildarts's clone."

"I originally wanted to tell Wizard Gildarts about this situation, but I didn't expect..." The wizard apprentice glanced at Wizard Gildarts lying motionless on the bed, and said nothing more.

"You said that nine wizard apprentices have returned?" said a formal wizard with an expression of disbelief on his face.

Just now everyone was discussing that the secret realm rescue mission should have been basically a failure as Gildarts' clone was killed!

But...but what is the situation now? "Are the nine wizard apprentices this time members of the rescue team sent out a few days ago?" Wizard Linda asked a question that several people were concerned about.

"Well, that's not the case. Except for three members of the rescue team, the remaining six are wizard apprentices who were originally trapped in the Norman Secret Realm." After thinking about it, the wizard apprentice said with certainty.

"Gather these wizard apprentices immediately and go to the conference room. We will ask them about the situation in person." Great Wizard Graf made the decision immediately.

"Also, arrange for Nymphadora the wizard to come over and treat Gildarts."

Before leaving the room, Graf gave instructions to the people around him. - As soon as Stefan and the other nine wizard apprentices walked out of the teleportation array, someone came over and took the nine people to the base meeting room.

When they saw more than a dozen official wizards sitting in a row waiting for them, especially the one in the center, who was the second-level wizard Graf whom they could not normally touch, their hearts could not help but twitch violently, and a large amount of blood pumped out in an instant.

The nine people had no idea what was going on and were all confused at this moment.

However, their instinct reminded them, and they quickly bent down and stammered, "Respected Great Wizard Graf, and all the adults!"

"Sit down, make yourself comfortable!" Graf said kindly.

Seeing that a surviving wizard apprentice was able to return to the base alive, Graf felt much better, because this at least showed that the situation in the Norman Secret Realm was not as bad as he had imagined.

"Come on! If you have any questions, just ask first." Graf turned his head and looked at the official wizards from the three major academies on both sides and said.

Maybe it’s because of the principle of ladies first.

The female wizard Linda was the first to speak: "Apprentices, let me ask a question first."

"What is the current situation in the Norman Secret Realm?"

Just now, Wizard Linda took a quick glance and knew that her direct descendant was not among these people, so he was either still trapped in the Norman Secret Realm, or... Her direct descendant had excellent wizard qualifications and was one of the future wizard seeds of the family that she valued.

People always have hope for an unknown future, and wizards are no exception.

So, after asking this question, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

But after hearing this question, the reactions of the wizard apprentices shocked Linda and other formal wizards.

The nine wizard apprentices looked at each other in confusion and their companions beside them, and the entire conference room suddenly became quiet.

It was such a simple question, but not a single wizard apprentice took the initiative to answer it.

Stefan stammered twice and said, "Lady Linda, in the Norman Secret Realm, we should have the upper hand right now, right?"

"What do you mean by should? If it is, it is. If it is not, it is not." Obviously, Linda was not satisfied with Stefan's answer and she frowned.

"That. Didn't the wizard Gildarts's clone come back? He should have arrived at the base before us and informed the adults of the details, right?"

As soon as the words fell!

Stefan felt the pressure on him suddenly increase, and he realized that all the wizards, including the great wizard Graf, had their eyes fixed on him.

This made his face turn pale instantly.

My mind started to race, wondering if I had said something wrong.

"Gildarts' clone did not return to the base, and it is almost certain that his clone was killed in the secret realm." A wizard from the Ring of Noth who knew Stefan came to his rescue.

"So, I really want to know what's going on when you say we should have the upper hand."

"What! How is this possible!" Stefan couldn't help but blurt out with an expression of disbelief.

This made Graf frown slightly. Things seemed to be getting interesting. It seemed that the third-level wizard apprentice in front of him was not lying.

"Steven, don't be nervous. Just tell us in detail what you saw and heard." The wizard who was also from the Ring of Noth said softly at this moment.

The comfort from his fellow wizards made Stefan less nervous. He immediately began to recount what happened after he entered the camp: "I can't remember the camp battle, but from the scene, the number of casualties on the night elves far exceeded ours."

".A large number of spider knights died in the center of the camp."

Stefan also emphasized the dense circle of corpses of spider knights to show that he was not just guessing.

At this time, other wizard apprentices also responded: "Sir, it is true. I was the first one to wake up, and the scene I saw was just as Stefan said."

"Indeed."

"Yes, I saw this scene too."

At this moment, the door of the conference room was suddenly opened, and Gildarts, who looked pale, appeared at the door and said, "Great Wizard Graf, the tracking mark of my clone has been triggered. It is not far from here!"

"What!"

This stunned everyone present, and the entire conference room fell silent.

If before it was just the guess of the great wizard Graf, now it has been confirmed by the person involved himself.

However, it is not said that the night elves killed Gildarts's clone. If it was killed by the night elves, how could the other party suddenly appear in their control area?

"According to my perception, that person is heading north and moving away from us quickly. Great Wizard Graf, I request that the second combat team accompany me in the pursuit." Gildarts said gritting his teeth.

Obviously, the heavy loss of his clones in this battle was beyond his expectations.

The worst situation was even worse than he had expected.

As for why he wanted the second combat team to accompany him, it was because the three wizards of the second combat team were all from the Ring of Noth and were old acquaintances of Gildarts.

The team leader, Andino Neville, is his good friend and even more powerful than him.

Unlike him, Andino is particularly good at abomination transformation, and he has a very powerful transformed abomination - Bile Spitter.

While retaining the strong physical attack power of an ordinary abomination, Andino also modified its internal body, mixing several highly poisonous substances into bile, and putting it into the abomination's gallbladder.

This gives this abomination a very strong long-range attack capability.

Since bile is highly toxic, once it is sprayed, an enemy with weak defense will be corroded instantly. Even if the enemy has strong defense, the toxin will quickly penetrate into the opponent's body and cause poisoning.

Gildarts had personally witnessed the enemy's abomination - the Bile Spitter, which in a battle sprayed a torrent of bile that instantly corroded the seven or eight high-level murloc warriors who were besieging it into a pool of pus.

The combat power is quite strong! The most important thing is that the opponent also has a giant vampire bat, which is a rare flying mount.

Although the giant vampire bat's combat power was very average, with this mount, it was obvious that the pursuit by them would be much faster, and there would be absolutely no chance for the opponent to escape.

Graf nodded and said, "Then let the Second Combat Team go with you."

"Ahem. Thank you, Great Wizard Graf!" Gildarts was delighted.

"Gildarts, your body"

"Don't worry, Master Graf, I must see with my own eyes who killed my clone." Gildarts's knuckles were clenched white, showing his anger. At this time, Richard had come to the dense forest in the north and occupied a mountain brown bear's nest.

In the dense forest several miles away, Richard had also set up some early warning formations in advance, such as the green vine formation, which blended in with the vines in the dense forest, but as long as a high-energy creature passed by, it would cause a shock, allowing Richard to sense the other party at the first time.

These formations have no offensive power and only have warning functions. They are gifts from Ophelia and are simple formations belonging to the nature system.

Precisely because of its simplicity and the fact that this place is in a dense forest, the natural warning formation is very difficult to be detected.

Even for a formal wizard, if the search is not very detailed, it can be easily triggered, thus achieving the warning effect.

The formation can be considered the simplest type of wizard formation, which generally has only one or two simple functions, so the formation structure is extremely simple. Many second and third level wizard apprentices will come into contact with and learn some introductory formations.

In the lair of a mountain brown bear.

After Stephanie had simply cleaned up, Richard quickly took out a teleportation array blueprint that he had copied long ago, and a bottle of ethereal ink, dipped his finger in it, poured his mental power into it, and began to draw a hexagram magic array on the ground. The internal patterns of the entire magic array were almost exactly the same as the teleportation array patterns in the blind fishman tribe.

Stephanie was watching Richard drawing the teleportation array intently. She knew a thing or two about it, but it was almost impossible for her to draw the entire thing. However, she could draw a few simple array patterns.

(End of this chapter)