"Master, can I try the remaining two sub-array patterns?"

Richard thought about it for a moment and nodded in agreement.

"Okay, try it, don't force it."

If Stephania could draw the sub-array pattern of the teleportation array, then it would be perfect for her to free up her hands to transplant the evil spirits and vengeful spirits in the double-eared black bottle into the body of the vengeful spirit abomination, thereby further enhancing the combat effectiveness of the vengeful spirit abomination.

The combat effectiveness of the vengeful abomination is different from that of ordinary abominations. In addition to the fact that the growth of height and body size will directly increase the combat effectiveness, the number of vengeful spirits inside its body, the space deep in the abdomen that Richard had previously transformed, is also crucial.

Especially this time, Richard can transplant at least two evil spirits into the body of the evil spirit abomination. This will greatly enhance the overall combat effectiveness of the evil spirit abomination.

Stephanie dipped her finger into the virtual ink and began to concentrate on outlining a small sub-array pattern in the upper right corner of the teleportation array. Richard looked at it for a while and nodded slightly.

I knew before that Stephania was quite talented in witchcraft. Although she was not as good as me, she was no worse than a third-level wizard apprentice who had studied witchcraft for five or six years.

From what we can see so far, although the magic array drawn by Stephanie cannot be completed in one go, it is relatively skillful, and there is obviously no problem in drawing the sub-array patterns.

So, Richard turned his attention to the black bottle with two ears.

Inside the black bottle with two ears, two large and one small white spirits were wandering and roaring around, and a group of faint, almost transparent vengeful spirits were trembling beside them, which immediately made Richard look happy.

It seems that even Gildarts's soul, although the total amount of soul is far less than that of a normal first-level wizard, has been successfully transformed into an evil spirit at this moment.

Not to mention the souls of Dorothy and the Dark Werewolf Chief, which were transformed into two powerful evil spirits.

Even Richard, after a brief sense, felt that it would be quite troublesome if he encountered such a powerful evil spirit in the wild.

Evil spirits are relatively easy to deal with if you know how to use targeted witchcraft or witch formations to restrain them. However, if you are not proficient in targeted witchcraft, it will be very difficult to deal with them.

Now Richard had two large and one small evil spirits in his hands, as well as a group of vengeful spirits. He thought that even if he was besieged by several official wizards, he would be able to deal with it in a short time.

At worst, if you let the resentful spirits or even the evil spirits self-destruct, you should have a very good chance of escaping!

Richard began to recite a short spell, and a huge inverted pentagram wizard formation suddenly appeared under his feet. With a flash of dazzling green light, a huge abomination over three meters and five meters tall was summoned, holding a giant iron axe in one hand and a chain ball in the other.

The summoned vengeful abomination squinted its eyes and looked around. Seeing that it did not find the enemy, it fixed its gaze on Richard the next second, and opened its mouth wide, revealing a mouthful of rotten yellow teeth and a flattering smile.

Richard couldn't help but smile. It seemed that with his own promotion, the intelligence of the corresponding undead summons had also increased to a certain extent.

Richard handed the Black Bottle with Two Ears to the Abomination and asked it to hold it in its hands. He then began to chant a spell, moving all the evil spirits and resentful spirits in the Black Bottle with Two Ears to the belly of the Abomination that had been transformed. Deep inside the belly of the Abomination was a small space engraved with a complicated witch formation.

It seemed that it knew that its master was doing this to improve its own combat effectiveness, and the vengeful spirit did not resist at all.

Led by two large and one small evil spirits, a group of vengeful spirits rushed out of the black bottle with two ears like a tide, and rushed towards the small space in the evil belly of the vengeful spirits.

Within a few seconds, the entire transfer process was completed.

Seeing this, Richard's mouth couldn't help but curl up into an elegant arc.

Now, even if he encounters a senior first-level wizard enemy, Richard has the confidence to fight against him.

It would be best if Gildarts didn't come. If he dared to come... Hehehe After Richard completed this step, he ordered the Wraith Abomination to block the entrance of the cave as a warning.

The three-meter-five-tall abomination stood at the entrance of the cave, filling it up. If Richard hadn't chosen the cave of a mountain brown bear, the vengeful abomination would probably have been stuck at the entrance.

But it's better this way. It can be said that with such a wall of evil spirits, it's hard for even a mouse to get in, except for tiny insects like mosquitoes. - Base.

On a flat open space.

A huge bat that was completely black, had a ferocious appearance, and had sharp blood-sucking fangs was crawling on the ground. On its back were two hardwood cushions similar to saddles, covered with soft black fur, and the bat's upper and lower jaws were also covered with bits.

This means that the ferocious beast in front of us has long been tamed and has become a rare flying mount.

At this moment, the giant vampire bat was enjoying the caress of its owner, Andino Neville. Its huge wing membrane was retracted at this time, so its wingspan could not be seen clearly.

The face looks very much like a mouse's head, with squinting eyes and a very anthropomorphic expression, as if to express that your touch, my master, makes me very comfortable.

Just now, Gildarts found Andino and talked about the tracking matter.

"Andino, let's go now!"

"Gildarts, my bat can't bear the weight of four people. How about you and I go first?" Andino obviously didn't think that the murderer Gildarts mentioned required a team.

First of all, it was because Gildarts’ own strength was just below his.

What's more, the opponent only killed one of Gildarts' clones in the Norman Secret Realm. It is very likely that the opponent only has the limit of the apprentice's strength, and then attacked Gildarts' clone unexpectedly.

As for the possibility that the other party is a high-ranking member of the night elves and used some secret method to sneak into the Norman secret realm and killed Gildarts, this possibility is not impossible, but it cannot explain why the other party did not go out from the secret realm gate of the night elves.

So, after listening to what Gildarts said, Andino concluded that Gildarts was killed by a sneak attack from an apprentice from one of the three major academies due to his own carelessness.

"Well." Gildarts thought for a while and felt that Andino's suggestion was not unacceptable.

Because Andino, as the captain of the team, is the strongest one and has reached the upper-middle level of first-level wizards, if he can't defeat the opponent.

Then even if two more players are added, the possibility of defeating the opponent is not great.

Of course, the main reason was time! Ever since he woke up, Gildarts could feel that the tracking mark had been moving at high speed. If he didn't ride the giant vampire bat to catch up, Gildarts was worried that by the time the four of them caught up, the other party might have reached a more remote location in the Underdark.

This is just a long night and many dreams! After all, in the Underdark, all kinds of monsters and night elves' reconnaissance teams emerge in an endless stream. The farther away from the base, the weaker the control of the three major colleges.

So Gildas nodded immediately and said, "Okay, Andino, I'll follow your suggestion."

"Don't worry, as long as you avenge me this time, not only will all the enemy's spoils belong to you, but I will also give you the bottle of corrupted blood."

"Hahaha, Gildarts, you said that yourself, I'm not taking advantage of you!" Andino grinned.

It can be seen that Andino is very interested in the conditions offered by Gildas.

The spoils of war had little appeal to Andino. After all, in his mind, the other party was just an apprentice who killed Gildarts's clone by sneak attack.

However, corrupted blood is a rare and good thing that can further enhance one's own Bile Spitter.

"Gildarts, let's go!"

Gildarts and Andino each jumped lightly onto the back of the crawling giant vampire bat and sat on the cushion, with Andino in front and Gildarts behind.

Andino gently waved the reins, and the giant vampire bat spread out its exaggerated flesh membrane. Its wingspan was at least seven or eight meters. Just a few flaps of it created a huge whirlwind, driving the giant vampire bat into the sky.

Although the flying speed of the giant vampire bat is not fast, it is definitely several times faster than ordinary land mounts. What's more, it has a great advantage: it is silent.

Unlike ordinary birds of prey that make loud air flow fluctuations when flapping their wings, giant vampire bats only need to flap their wings slightly to glide during the subsequent flight, thus approaching their target silently.

This is also one of the reasons why Gildarts agreed to let Andino and the two of them pursue on giant vampire bats.

Hidden, unexpected! ——Suddenly , Richard in the cave felt a sense of alarm.

During his time as a wizard apprentice, Richard had encountered this situation several times. Moreover, now that he has been promoted to a formal wizard, he immediately realized that there must be pursuers approaching.

"Stephanie, how much more time do you need?"

"Master, it will take about two minutes to complete the last formation." Stephanie wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead.

This job seemed relatively easy to her when she was watching Richard doing it just now, but when she did it herself, she found it extremely mentally taxing. Although it was not difficult for her, she still needed to be careful and concentrate all her energy.

"Well, hurry up. After the array pattern is drawn, you will be teleported away immediately. I will follow soon." Richard said as he handed Stephanie a high-level magic stone and several intermediate magic stones.

These intermediate and high-level magic stones were obtained as spoils when killing Gildarts's werewolf clone in the Norman Secret Realm.

What a pity! If Dorothy hadn't self-destructed, the number of intermediate and high-level magic stones on her would probably be no less than Gildarts.

"Master, are there enemies chasing us?" After hearing what Richard said, Stephanie immediately reacted and her face tightened.

Obviously, Stephanna also knew that the guys who dared to chase them this time, whether they were from the night elves or the three major academies, must be masters with formal wizard strength. If she stayed, it would not be of much use.

"Well! Don't worry, I can hold you off for two minutes. It won't be a big problem." Richard smiled slightly, which made Stephanie feel more at ease.

After Richard finished speaking, he tied up twenty Fire Dancing Stars and twenty bags of Silver Moon Dust together, added a trigger device, and buried it underground several meters away from the teleportation array.

"Be careful, don't step here!" Richard warned.

At that time, Richard, who has returned again, will step on it. Two seconds later, the bundle of alchemical bombs will explode violently, causing the teleportation array to be completely destroyed and the cave to collapse, eliminating all traces.

Even if they dig it up again, the other party won't get any useful information.

Although he didn't know how the enemy avoided the natural trigger formation he set up, it was obvious that the enemy this time would definitely not be easy to deal with.

Richard carefully cast the magic armor technique on himself first.

Then, Richard, dressed in a ferocious black bone armor knight suit and a skull mask, appeared and slowly walked out of the cave.

There was only a huge bat crawling on the ground, and next to it stood two black-robed men who looked like real wizards. The face of one of them was exactly 80% similar to the dark werewolf he killed in the Norman Secret Realm.

In an instant, Richard understood what was going on, such as how the other party avoided his green vine early warning formation, and how the other party accurately located him. When Gildarts saw the man in black armor for the first time, he was also visibly stunned. It was obvious that the other party was a first-level wizard like himself, but his aura seemed a little unstable, as if he had not recovered from his injury or something.

However, it was only the entry-level level, which immediately put his mind at ease.

"You are the one who killed my werewolf clone? Who are you?" The hatred contained in Gildarts' words frightened Richard. The resentment was so great that it might not be a matter of life or death and could not be resolved.

Faced with this irreconcilable conflict, Richard was not one to hesitate.

Judging from the breath, Gildarts's breath was obviously unstable, sometimes high and sometimes low. It was probably because after the werewolf clone was killed by himself, the original soul was also severely damaged.

In this case, Richard silently made up his mind that if he had the chance later, he would give Gildarts the real body a big beating.

It would be best if he could be injured even more and unable to track me! The other person's aura was obviously stronger than Gildarts's. His aura made Richard feel palpitations. Not only was his aura much stronger, but it also contained a smell of blood and fire. He seemed to be a senior first-level wizard with rich combat experience.

If it weren't for the fact that the teleportation array was just a little short of reaching its target, Richard would have definitely turned around and left, and would never have considered engaging in a head-on confrontation with the other party.

I hope Stephanie doesn't make any mistakes when drawing the last array pattern.

Fortunately , he had transplanted two large and one small evil spirits into the body of the evil spirit, so he still had some fighting power.

What he has to do now is to delay time as much as possible.

Andino looked at Richard in surprise. He thought he was just an apprentice who killed Gildarts's werewolf clone by sneak attack, but he didn't expect that he was actually a formal wizard.

Moreover, this was the first time he had seen the opponent's appearance. This kind of defensive magic seemed very unfamiliar. However, judging from the aura, it seemed a little unstable. Could it be that it had not recovered from its serious injury? The opponent's summoned creature was also an abomination, but its size seemed to be a newly promoted abomination!

This made Andino think that he had figured out the other party's background a little bit.

As soon as Richard heard Gildart's question, he knew that he was not completely exposed.

Apparently, after the opponent's werewolf clone was killed by himself, its soul was imprisoned and transformed into an evil spirit. Perhaps for this reason, Gildarts's original body still doesn't know who killed his clone.

Richard lowered his voice, changed his tone, and imitated the deep voice of a middle-aged man and said, "I am from the continent of Urdet."

Since he wanted to delay time, Richard would of course choose not to take action if possible.

Chatting with the other party and making up a story about yourself is obviously better than going out for a fight!

"Gildarts, why waste time talking? Just capture him and ask him, and you'll know everything!" Perhaps Andino sensed something was wrong, but he interrupted Richard's endless narration after a while.

At the same time, he waved the short staff in his hand, and a huge inverted pentagram wizard formation appeared in front of him. After a dazzling green light flashed, an abomination that was much taller and stronger than Richard's wraith abomination appeared in the center of the wizard formation.

I saw that he was at least four meters tall, with an even bigger belly, but his face was darker and his whole body exuded a foul odor that was several times more fishy than a basket of rotten eggs, and completely different from the corpse odor on Richard's body.

Suddenly, two lumps of fat, one big and one small, collided violently. In an instant, the vengeful abomination, which was at a disadvantage in height and size, was suppressed and beaten by the Bile Spitter.

"Judging from your size, your abomination has only recently reached the strength of a first-level wizard. There is no way you can be a match for a bile spitter like me."

"If you know what's best for you, surrender quickly and tell me your origins honestly, and I can spare your life!"

Andino, who was confident of victory, said with a smug look on his face.

Suddenly, there was a faint wave of spatial energy in the cave. Andino's face changed immediately and he shouted, "Gildas, the other party is stalling for time, hurry up!"

At this time, Gildarts obviously also felt the subtle energy fluctuation.

Only then did he realize that he had been fooled by the black-armored man opposite him. What he had just said about being from the Urdet Continent was probably just a lie. His pale face instantly flushed with excitement and he roared, "You dare to fool me? Go to hell!"

"Shadow Arrow!"

"Shadow Arrow!"

One on the left and one on the right, two huge arrows composed of black dark element energy shot straight at Richard.

Richard instantly launched two mental shocks. Two invisible waves caused ripples in the air, and collided with the rapidly flying shadow arrows! "Boom!"

"boom!"

Two shadow arrows exploded directly in the air, and in an instant, dark element energy overflowed!

"Huh! Mental shock?!" This surprised Andino and Gildas.

The two of them looked at each other quickly and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

You know, the two mental shocks just now were instantaneous. If they were not the solidified witchcraft of the defensive magic weapon, then they were most likely the opponent's innate witchcraft.

But as far as they both knew, among the three major academies, there was no advanced meditation method that could generate this kind of first-level spiritual witchcraft upon promotion.

But judging from the opponent's breath and summons, the opponent is obviously a shadow wizard, and there is a high probability that he is even an undead wizard. Could it be that the opponent is really a wizard from the continent of Urdet?

In this case, it would not be so easy for the other party to sneak into the Norman Secret Realm and kill his werewolf clone.

Just as the two were stunned, Richard stopped fighting and immediately retreated towards the cave.

"Oh no, the other party is trying to escape!"

"Hurry up and chase him. Capture him first. Quick!"

At this moment, the vengeful abomination that was at a disadvantage suddenly roared, and the huge iron axe collided heavily with the giant blade in the hand of the bile spitter. After retreating several meters, a vertical crack suddenly appeared in the middle of its belly, and two evil spirits, one big and one small, rushed straight to Gildarts, while a group of vengeful spirits rushed towards Andino.

That’s right, there were two evil spirits, one big and one small. Richard still had one left and didn’t plan to use them all up at once.

"Evil spirit!" Gildarts's face changed drastically. His soul was currently severely damaged, and what he feared most was the attack of spiritual creatures like evil spirits.

"Bone Shield!!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

But he didn't expect that the two evil spirits didn't fight with him at all, but exploded directly. Gildarts cursed in his heart: "Fuck, how can you fight like this!"

Obviously, the consecutive self-destruction of two evil spirits at the level of formal wizards would have seriously injured even Gildarts in his prime, let alone the current situation.

This immediately made Gildarts, who was already seriously injured, even more injured! When Andino defeated a group of evil spirits, he saw Gildarts lying on the side, completely unconscious.

This immediately made him furious. After all, accompanying Gildarts in the hunt was a mission assigned to him by the great wizard Graf.

Unexpectedly, not only did he not catch the man, but he also didn't know whether Gildarts was alive or dead. Now, even if he returned, it would be difficult to explain! "You're dead!" Andino roared, the other party had angered him.

Richard flashed and stepped on the pre-buried delay fuse. The next second, he came to the top of the teleportation array holding the three-headed snake statue.

At this time, Andino just arrived at the entrance of the cave and watched Richard's figure. With a flash of white light, the whole person disappeared without a trace.

Andino rushed forward in frustration and took a look.

"Huh, it's just a long-distance teleportation magic array, not a cross-continental teleportation magic array. Let's study it quickly. Maybe the teleportation array on the opposite side is..." Just as he was lost in thought.

"boom!"

A loud bang erupted in the cave! Because the cave was a relatively closed environment, and the alchemical bombs Richard had placed were very heavy, even the experienced first-level wizard Andino was seriously injured when he was caught off guard.

When Andino finally crawled out from the collapsed rubble, his appearance was no longer respectable. His face was ashen, his black wizard robe was mostly destroyed, and his right leg was broken. He looked extremely miserable!

Obviously, this was a failed pursuit. Not only did they end up in disgrace, but they also got nothing!

"That was such a shameless beating!"

Andino wanted to die!

(End of this chapter)