Just as Nicol completed the sacrificial ceremony, the battle in the northeast corner of Tug City also came to an end! "No! How dare you mortals hurt the great Rokor!"

The third-order stone elemental lord who was originally full of vigor and vitality was now beaten like a stray dog. His hard rock body was full of pits and one of his huge rock arms was completely broken!

"Boom!!" followed by a dazzling blue beam of light flashing.

After being hit by more than a dozen weakening and defense-reducing curses, Rokor's rocky body could no longer withstand the heavy blow, and a circular hole the size of a door panel was pierced through the center of his body.

Suddenly, the third-level elemental lord Rokor entered his last moments! "The great. Rokor."

The originally strong mental fluctuations on the giant stone soon calmed down, and a third-level stone elemental lord fell into the hands of a group of second-level wizards.

Of course, this does not mean that the strength of the third-level stone elemental lord is just this limited.

The giant suppression magic array covering the entire Tug City must be ranked first in its role. The giant suppression magic array effectively limits the strength of Rokor as a third-level stone element lord.

The ability of its force field aura was restricted severely, which directly cracked the most troublesome group combat weapon of the lord-level elemental creatures.

Secondly, the concerted efforts of up to ten second-level wizards gave the wizards the opportunity to hit living targets with the giant bronze puppet acting as a meat shield.

Looking at the heart of the earth element, which was as big as a human head and still flickering with an ochre-colored light, exposed from a pile of huge broken stones, all the great wizards present were moved.

This is a third-level treasure with too many uses.

Even the stupidest way of using it, putting it into a second-order giant rock puppet, can continuously increase its activation level, thus slowly rising to the second-order limit level.

Not to mention the alchemical solution of using the Heart of Earth Elemental in combination with other treasures.

"Hey! Baghdadi, have you noticed that the souls of the fallen city guards seem to have disappeared?" A second-level wizard who is proficient in the shadow system asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Just now, he saw with his own eyes that the soul of a gray dwarf warrior of the city guard who had just died suddenly disappeared.

It stands to reason that after a person dies, the soul will slowly dissipate within half an hour, and it will never disappear suddenly like this. This is not in line with common sense.

"It seems to have been absorbed by the ground."

The second-level great wizard thought about it and added hesitantly.

The other party was a second-level wizard who was proficient in the shadow system. Naturally, Baghdadi paid great attention to his words. After all, the city guards could be said to be his direct troops, and he could not let the souls of his direct troops rest in peace even after their death.

Similarly, this incident also attracted the attention of other second-level wizards, and they all began to look around.

"Baghdadi, look here." Soon, one of the second-level wizards discovered it in a bakery nearby.

He lifted up the carpet covering the floor of the bakery, pointed at a faintly visible witchcraft rune on the ground and said, "This is the mark of the concealing witch array. Judging from the size of the mark, the range of this concealing witch array is extremely wide. It is also easy to verify. The mark of the other witch array should be over there."

When everyone rushed over to take a look, they found the corresponding witch array mark on the floor of a resident's bedroom.

This made everyone look at each other in confusion.

Who on earth had set up such a large-scale concealing magic array right under their noses?

However , no one expected that this discovery was just the beginning. Soon, several other great wizards made other important discoveries.

"Baghdadi, I have found the rune symbol of the soul-binding magic array here." A second-level wizard who has studied magic arrays in depth said to Baghdadi with a serious face.

"Is there a soul-binding magic array hidden beneath the concealing magic array?" Baghdadi muttered to himself.

After a full investigation by a group of second-level wizards, they discovered in just a few minutes that several large-scale wizard formations had been secretly set up in the entire Tug City.

After research by two Level 2 wizards who specialized in wizard formations, they found that although the effects of these large wizard formations varied, they all served one purpose—collecting souls! To be more precise, they collected high-quality souls.

After calculating the core of the witch formation, the group quickly came to a villa of a wealthy businessman, only to find that the person who set up the witch formation had already left, and the place where the soul collector was supposed to be placed was also empty.

This immediately made Baghdadi's face darken!

It seems that the mastermind behind this incident must be directly related to the broken seal of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm!

The other party's purpose was very clear. They deliberately caused the seal of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm to break, allowing a large number of elemental creatures to rush out and kill, creating conditions for them to collect a large number of high-quality souls.

The clenched fist showed Baghdadi's immense anger.

These guys who only dare to plot behind the scenes have desecrated the souls of the brave gray dwarf warriors. Their crime is unforgivable!

"Baghdadi, this seems to be the work of the Jade Fire Cult!" said a second-level wizard who cast Shadow Rewind.

"Yes, judging from the traces, they should have been left behind by the followers of the Jade Fire Cult." Another second-level wizard who was performing a trace search confirmed the former's statement.

Now, Baghdadi's anger was released instantly.

"Everyone, it seems that I need to rely on your strength again."

"On behalf of the City Lord's Mansion, I am issuing a bounty order. If you can find the traces of the Jade Fire Cult or kill the Jade Fire Cult members, the City Lord's Mansion will give you a generous reward."

"The specific terms of the reward will be issued later. I hope you can quickly convey them to your respective organizations."

"Especially for those who can kill the Bishop of the Jade Fire Cult, I will open my private secret vault and let them choose any treasure!"

Baghdadi seemed really angry and even took out an item from his own private collection and gave it away as a reward.

However, this immediately attracted the interest of the second-level wizards present.

As the city lord, Baghdadi has collected a lot of good stuff over the years. Almost everyone can find one or two treasures they need in his private secret library.

"Baghdadi, don't worry, everyone has a responsibility towards cults!" A second-level wizard immediately responded.

"That's right! I will personally arrange the personnel for this matter." - Richard Villa.

When everyone heard the three-level stone elemental lord Rokor's words, they knew that the situation in the northeast corner of the city should have been decided.

Sure enough, not long after, the city guards brought news that the broken seal entrance had been temporarily blocked and all elemental creatures had been eliminated.

This made Richard, Fana and others feel relieved, as they really couldn't afford another big battle.

Muriel, the burly captain of the City Lord's Palace Guard, also bid farewell at this time:

"You two, it looks like this place should be safe for now. I also need to report the situation here to the city lord, especially the news of Disol's sacrifice!"

"Fana! Thanks to you this time, otherwise..." Richard looked at Fana's delicate face and said with great seriousness.

"Don't say that! Didn't you also help me in the Scorched Earth Secret Realm? Since we are friends, we should help each other."

"By the way, your residence has become like this, why don't you stay at my place for a while."

As if she was worried that Richard would refuse, Fana paused and added, "Besides, the matter of the Jade Fire Cult is probably not over yet. If the two of us are together, we will at least be able to protect ourselves."

Fana's words immediately made Richard, who was originally hesitant, decide to move to Fana's villa temporarily.

Given Nicole's strength, Richard currently has no chance of winning if he fights her alone.

"Okay, Fana, thank you for your help. Please wait for a moment, I'll go to the alchemy room to get a few things, and then we'll go over there." Richard nodded and agreed with Fana's suggestion.

There was nothing particularly valuable in Richard's villa.

The only things to take with you are some materials left in the alchemy room.

Alchemical equipment?

No need to bring it at all.

Don't forget that Fana is also an alchemist herself, although her alchemy skills are not as good as Richard's.

But the equipment in her alchemy room was almost complete, and in some aspects, it was even more complete than the alchemy room that Richard had built in a short period of time. ——One day later.

In the garden of Villa Fana.

Richard was walking alone, but he was constantly thinking about something in his mind.

He decided to further strengthen his strength.

Although, no matter from which aspect, I can be said to be very strong among the first-level wizards.

But the enemies he faces are getting stronger each time!

Especially this time when facing Nicole, the opponent's top-level strength and the extremely strong body after the alienation. If Richard had not relied on the self-destruction of the Blood Bone Puppet, a high-level combat puppet, he would have been completely finished after just a few moves.

After the battle yesterday, Richard had been thinking about one thing.

If I meet Nicole again next time, how should I fight? How can I win! Considering the present, Richard can basically be sure that if he is still at the first level, even if he can collect all the materials, he can make a blood bone puppet again and summon a vengeful abomination.

But it seems that I still have no chance of winning!

The only feasible way is to make full use of the mixed black dragon blood in hand.

By burning the essence of blood, he stimulated himself to become a first-level high-level wizard.

If successful, his blood-bone puppets and vengeful spirits will benefit from his increased strength, thus giving him the combat power to compete head-on with Nicole.

Now the problem is back to square one.

How to solve the problem of igniting materials? Richard called up the inspiration panel and looked at the hundreds of thousands of energy points and the first-level crystal aggregation magic array.

He planned to try to see if he could deduce the first-order crystal aggregation wizard formation to the second-order crystal aggregation wizard formation, or some kind of mixed crystal aggregation wizard formation.

The purpose is to use a large amount of flame crystals and essence to simulate the effect of the third-order flame heart, thereby igniting the complex black dragon source blood!

Richard came to Fana's alchemy room.

The area of ​​the alchemy room was almost three times that of Richard's room. The room was fully equipped with alchemy equipment. Except for the unique equipment designed by Richard himself, it could be said that everything that was needed was there.

Richard nodded slightly and immediately ordered Fingart to guard the door and not let anyone disturb him.

[I discovered that the host was practicing an unknown witch formation. Do you consume energy to gain inspiration for practicing an unknown witch formation? ]

Richard dragged the slider to the far right without hesitation and selected "Yes!".

He used up all the energy points he obtained from the three gray-robed men at once.

After a dizzying moment, Richard's soul came to the dream space as if it was familiar with the place. This time it was an alchemy room, which seemed to be the dream space projection of Fana's alchemy room, the size and layout were exactly the same.

Inside the room, a blurry figure was constantly extending and drawing new array patterns on the basis of the first-level crystal aggregated magic array. The magic array was originally about three meters in diameter, but because of the continuous addition of new array patterns, it has now become a huge magic array with a diameter of more than six meters.

"That's good now. The magic formation has a total of locations where thirty-six crystals can be placed. I wonder if it's enough!" Richard thought to himself.

If all of them were first-order flame crystals, from the perspective of energy calculation, there would still be a large gap between the energy fluctuations of a third-order flame heart.

In this case, we can only upgrade some of the thirty-six points from placing flame crystals to placing second-level flame essences!

Then let's start by adjusting the flame crystals at the six points . Since the turbulence effect needs to be recalculated and adjusted after adding the flame essence, Richard can only use the inspiration of the massive energy points to push forward, starting from the flame essence at the six points, and constantly improve!

[Ding! The unknown witch formation attempt was successful. Could the host please name it? ]

"Mixed crystals gather into a magic formation!"

After a dizzying moment, Richard's soul returned to his body.

Finally succeeded! Richard's clenched fists revealed his inner excitement.

The main effect of the mixed crystal aggregation wizard formation is that it can gather energy through multiple first-order flame crystals and second-order flame essences, thereby achieving the energy fluctuation effect of the third-order flame heart.

According to Richard's calculations, as long as eight flame essences and twenty-eight flame crystals are placed in all thirty-six points in the mixed crystal aggregation magic formation, the magic formation will be successfully operated.

The energy reaction in its core area should be able to achieve the energy fluctuation effect of a third-level flame heart.

Of course, to be on the safe side, Richard decided to increase the number of flame essences to nine, that is, nine flame essences and twenty-seven flame crystals.

"Hiss!" Richard couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. This number, if converted into magic stones, would be almost an astronomical figure!

(End of this chapter)