For example, when posting tasks, if they are ordinary apprentice-level tasks, these tasks will be immediately transferred to the task hall dedicated to apprentices.

At the same time, wizards can also issue tasks for formal wizard levels at supply points.

Task types can be trading, purchasing, or exploring ruins, etc.

The information that Richard posted at the school's supply point two days ago about purchasing any flying mount was soon learned by Raymond Soto.

At the same time, Raymond also passed the news to Gildarts as soon as possible. Eventually, the news that Richard might go out was passed on to the killer organization Hand of Death.

However, Richard naturally did not know the inside story.

During these two days, Richard was busy completing the puppetry course for the past six months, while also making some preparations, such as making arrangements for Lina after he left.

The Ignis School's residence.

Inside an office.

"Todd, did you capture a giant nocturnal bat recently? How is the training going?"

Raymond Soto, a middle-aged man with a sinister face, asked a middle-aged wizard in black robes beside him.

The giant nocturnal bat is a mutant species among nocturnal bats. After the mutation, it can be said to have barely reached the lowest level of extraordinary creatures.

The body length of an ordinary nocturnal bat is generally only about half a meter, while the giant nocturnal bat is two meters long, with a wingspan of about four meters. It is gray-black in color and its load-bearing capacity is not strong. It may be a bit difficult for it to carry a fully armed and heavily armored knight, but carrying a wizard in a black robe is no problem at all.

Mainly because the nocturnal bat population is widely distributed in the mud swamp and there are many of them, so wild giant nocturnal bats can often be found, so the price is not particularly expensive.

"We just finished training two days ago, do you need anything?"

"How about transferring it to me?"

"Raymond, don't you have a flying mount, the Hippogryph? Why do you need my giant nocturnal bat?" asked the wizard named Todd in surprise.

You have to know that the strength and coolness of the Hippogryph is a whole level higher than that of the giant nocturnal bat.

"I am useful. By the way, I heard that you are looking for fire flowers recently. How about ten fire flowers in exchange for your giant nocturnal bats?"

"make a deal!"

Todd's face lit up with joy! Normally, the giant nocturnal bats he had trained were worth at most eight flame flowers. Raymond was willing to pay a premium for it this time, which was naturally a good thing.

As for what Raymond bought it for, it was naturally not his business.

After a while, when Raymond saw the giant nocturnal bat with a body length of nearly two meters in front of him, he nodded to Todd, and he started to think in his mind.

"The giant nocturnal bat is worth at least five thousand magic stones, and there is no market for it. Richard's purchase price is only three thousand magic stones. He will definitely not refuse this deal."

After Todd left, Raymond quickly took out a small glass jar filled with gray powder from his waist bag.

After opening the stopper of the glass jar, Raymond walked around the giant nocturnal bat several times and sprinkled all the gray powder on it.

Since the body color of the giant nocturnal bat is also gray-black, after the gray powder is sprinkled on it, it cannot be seen from the outside.

Moreover, the powder does not seem to have any particularly obvious smell. It is completely undetectable under the cover of the giant nocturnal bat's own body odor.

Raymond did not cast any witchcraft on the giant nocturnal bat because many wizards were very sensitive to the subtle fluctuations of witchcraft and he did not want to be detected in advance.

After doing all this, Raymond quickly passed the news to Gildarts.

It was exactly as Raymond expected.

When Raymond finished all this and entrusted a wizard from a better school to conduct the transaction with Richard, Richard, who had been posting the purchase task for three days, immediately agreed to the deal.

This was due to Richard's momentary negligence and he took it for granted.

Because he had only spent one thousand magic stones when purchasing the mutant winter wolf before, the price he posted for purchasing the flying mount this time was three thousand magic stones.

But in fact, with three thousand magic stones, you can’t buy even the cheapest flying mount.

So naturally, no one took the order after a few days. —— Two days later in the afternoon.

After completing all the preparations, Richard said goodbye to Ceres, Lina, Ophelia and others, and set off for the "City of Griffins" Pentos.

Leaping onto the back seat of the giant nocturnal bat, Richard pulled the reins.

Suddenly, the bat's huge fleshy wings began to flap, creating huge upward momentum.

A few seconds later, a gray-black shadow rushed straight into the sky! Richard looked down at the rapidly shrinking Ignis School station, and couldn't help but feel a little excited.

This was his first time riding a flying mount, and it felt like he had ridden an airplane in his previous life.

Only half an hour later, Richard left the mud swamp and arrived at the Black Forest area.

If this had happened before, it would have taken about half a day to get here.

This speed is almost five to six times faster than the previous land mount! While Richard was enjoying the scenery below, he was thinking about some matters after arriving in Pentos.

“Wow!”

Since giant nocturnal bats mainly rely on gliding, their flight is almost silent. Richard keenly heard the sound of the wings flapping in the wind from the side and rear.

Richard immediately turned his head and looked behind him.

A small black dot appeared above the horizon where the sky and the Black Forest met, and it was approaching Richard quickly.

Although the distance was far, Richard's sharp eyesight enabled him to see that the other person was a man in a black robe, riding a swamp dragon.

This immediately made Richard feel surprised. Could it be an accidental encounter? Richard's giant dark night bat was good at gliding silently and circling and turning in various ways. It was an agile flying mount.

In terms of speed alone, it is not that good. At least compared with the swamp dragon, there is still a certain gap in flying speed. The opponent is getting closer and closer.

Richard immediately controlled the giant dark night bat to adjust its direction, shifting forty-five degrees to the right.

If the other party's target is him, then the other party will definitely adjust the direction accordingly.

Sure enough, within a few seconds, after observing that Richard adjusted his flight direction, the other party immediately adjusted its direction as well.

This made Richard immediately certain that the other party's target must be him.

Gildarts?

Or is it the Soto family?

Several names of enemies popped up in Richard's mind.

Also, how did the other party know that I was out and track me down so quickly?

You have to know that the mount you are riding this time is a flying mount. If it weren't for some kind of mark, it would be almost impossible to be tracked.

Richard immediately realized that his newly purchased mount might have been tampered with.

"This is my first time riding a flying mount, and my flying mount is obviously one level lower than the opponent's swamp dragon. It is not wise to directly engage in an air battle."

Taking another look at the swamp dragon that was becoming clearer and clearer behind him, Richard decided that if he had to fight, he would choose a favorable place.

"If you want to fully exert your combat power, the ground is still the best."

I saw a small lake in the dark forest ahead, reflecting the setting sun in the evening, presenting a golden light.

Richard rode the giant nocturnal bat and dived towards the lake. Soon, he disappeared into the black forest beside the lake.

Richard immediately placed the giant nocturnal bat in a hidden place nearby as his flying mount for long journeys. It would be troublesome if it died in battle.

At this moment, Richard was standing leisurely in the woods with dappled light and shadow, waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

Suddenly, he looked up at the sky above the forest.

The sky above him suddenly darkened.

A swamp dragon with a wingspan of nearly ten meters appeared above him.

Suddenly, the air flow surged, and because the trees in the forest were tall and the leaves were lush, the air flow was just a breeze on Richard's face.

"Hey~ He's not running anymore!"

A hoarse male voice sounded from the flying dragon mount.

Since Richard was still under the effect of the fluctuation suppression potion at this time, in the eyes of the man in black robe, Richard was just a weakling who had just been promoted to a formal wizard.

The fluctuations emanating from his body were completely consistent with the level of a first-level beginner wizard as stated in the mission information.

Therefore, he felt that Richard's behavior of standing in the woods and waiting for him to come was undoubtedly an act of suicide.

I saw a man in black robe jumping down more than 20 meters from the swamp flying dragon. He was agile and landed silently.

This kind of outfit, with a black robe on the outside and leather armor on the inside, does not look like a wizard in the general sense, but more like an assassin.

"What a pity! The genius of the Ignis School will die today!"

The man in black robe glanced at Richard and said something to himself, his words full of absolute confidence in himself.

It seemed that in his eyes, Richard was already a dead man.

"Who sent you?" Although he knew the other party would not answer, Richard still asked. He heard clearly what the other party said to himself just now.

This means that the other party must have been commissioned by someone or an organization to kill him.

However, as Richard expected, the man in black robe completely ignored Richard's questions and instead launched an attack directly.

Suddenly, a black smoke appeared around the man in black robe and became thicker and thicker. The next second, it condensed into a huge black skull in mid-air and quickly attacked Richard not far away.

Richard saw a green inverted pentagram formation flashing under his feet, and a three-meter-tall, newly made blood-bone puppet appeared in front of him.

Coincidentally, Richard also wanted to take this opportunity to test the combat effectiveness of the new puppet.

As soon as the blood and bone puppet appeared, it rushed towards the black skull.

The man in black robe seemed to sneer when he saw Richard actually using the physical attack of the undead summoned creature to resist his own black mist skull.

Sure enough, when this black skull encountered the blood bone puppet, it dissipated again and turned directly into several strands of black mist. After passing through the blood bone puppet, it gathered into a black skull again and continued to kill Richard.

"Mental shock!" Richard muttered to himself.

Suddenly, a transparent energy wave shot from in front of Richard towards the black skull.

"boom!"

The black skull seemed to let out a scream, and then died along with the transparent energy wave.

"Hey! He actually blocked it!"

The man in black robe seemed to find it a little unbelievable that his witchcraft did not work at all. Finally, he began to look at Richard seriously.

"What! He's actually a high-level wizard!"

Because Richard cast a spell, the effect of the fluctuation suppression potion he had taken before naturally dissipated, and the aura of a high-level level one was undisguisedly presented to the black-robed man.

The black-robed man immediately looked horrified! "Charge, use the Bone Blade Storm!" Richard gave the Blood Bone Puppet an order.

“Swish!”

The sharp bone blades on the blood-bone puppet's elbows, knees and other joints quickly shot out like switchblades.

The blood-bone puppet stretched out its arms and placed the bone blade on the outermost side. Its entire body spun rapidly like a top, forming a bone blade storm that directly killed the man in black robe.

Suddenly, the man in black robe became flustered. He tore open three scrolls in succession and threw protective witchcraft at himself one after another.

At the same time, he quickly pulled out two black corrugated daggers from his waist and started fighting with the blood-bone puppet.

“Ding ding dang dang!”

Sparks flying!

Although the man in black robe waved his two daggers and tried his best to resist, the colorful protective magic on his body was still quickly broken one by one in the face of the bone blade storm of the blood bone puppet.

Moreover, the black robe on his body was quickly torn apart. The shattered black robe was like fluttering butterflies, flying all over the sky. Soon the black robe was completely shattered, revealing his dark tight leather armor.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! How can the power of your summons be so strong?!"

The black-robed man's calmness and composure at the beginning had already disappeared at this moment, and he was cursing in his heart.

"The information channel of the Hand of Death is shit!!"

"You actually said that the other party was just a newly promoted first-level wizard! Whose newly promoted wizard is a high-level first-level wizard?"

Originally, the man in black robe thought that if he exerted all his strength, he would be able to defeat Richard even if Richard was at the high level of level one.

But unfortunately, before he even fought the real enemy, he couldn't even defeat the opponent's undead summon.

“Hiss!!”

The sound of the bone blade quickly cutting through the air was heard!

A few more seconds passed.

There were a few more bloodstains on the black-robed man's body. This was because he had been training hard for many years and was agile in his movements.

If it were any other mid-level first-level wizard, he would have been torn to pieces by this terrifying undead summon.

But when the situation reached this point, the man in black robe naturally had neither the intention nor the confidence to continue fighting.

Unfortunately, he couldn't take out the smoke bomb from his arms, nor could he whistle to ask the swamp dragon above his head to come to pick him up.

Because at this moment, if he was distracted for a moment, he would end up dead.

But if he doesn't take action, he will run out of energy and die accidentally.

The black-robed man had a distorted expression on his face, as if he was making some kind of decision.

The next second, the double black ripple daggers in his hands collided heavily with the bone blades of the blood bone puppet, and the puppet flew back several steps due to the impact force, giving him a little opportunity.

But this time, four blood holes suddenly appeared on his body, which were caused by the bone blades in other joints of the Blood Bone Puppet. At this moment, blood was flowing out!

"call out!!"

He put his right little finger with the back facing upwards into his mouth and blew it quickly.

A sharp whistle sounded! Richard noticed that the huge black shadow in the sky began to move and quickly swooped down towards the position of the man in black robes.

Obviously, the opponent's whistle was to let the swamp dragon in the air fly over quickly to respond.

Richard looked at this scene, his expression did not change at all, instead he showed a slight hint of joy.

"It's a good time to try out new witchcraft!"

Following a short syllable sounded.

A fist-sized black energy ball appeared at the tip of Richard's right index finger, and it continued to absorb the dark element energy from the surrounding area.

The swamp dragon just happened to lean over and fly past the man in black robe.

The black-robed man quickly leaped onto the cushion on the dragon's back, which immediately made him look relieved. He looked at the blood-bone puppet that was unable to stop him a few meters away and laughed loudly, "Richard Clavier, you hid it really well. Unfortunately, your secret will be revealed soon."

“Puff!”

A black beam instantly pierced through the belly of the swamp dragon and came out from its back, but it wasn't over yet. The black beam, which had shrunk slightly, immediately pierced through the chest of the man in black robe, severely injuring him as he was speaking out! This witchcraft with extremely strong penetrating power was exactly the witchcraft Richard had just learned at the Ignis School - the death ray! Its super strong single-target damage and penetrating power had been verified in actual combat.

“Ah!!”

After the swamp dragon let out a wail, it was no longer able to flap its pair of ten-meter-long flesh wings. It rushed directly into the woods with the black-robed man behind it, following the inertia of the dive.

Suddenly, a bunch of trees were broken! "Crackle!"

As the sounds of more than ten tall trees breaking were heard, a dragon and a man were now lying on the ground in a mess. The surroundings were in a mess, and broken trees were scattered all over them.

Richard walked forward slowly.

At this moment, the hood on the black-robed man's head had disappeared, revealing a pale and handsome male human with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth. He covered the big hole in his chest with one hand and supported the ground with the other hand, still trying to get up.

But after trying several times, he fell to the ground. "Who sent you?"

The same question rang in the black-robed man's ears again, but this time, the impact on the black-robed man's heart was completely different from the last time.

"If you tell me, I can make your death more painless! Since you know that I am from the Ignis School, you should know that this is one of the necromancer schools on the continent. Even if you commit suicide, I can torture your spirit in many ways."

The man in black robe glanced at Richard's calm face and felt a chill in his heart.

Thinking of the shitty mission information from the Hand of Death, resentment built up in his heart. His bloodless lips stammered twice and he said, "Someone has issued a mission on the Hand of Death to kill you! And I am the killer of the Hand of Death."

"That's all I know!"

The next second, a black beam of light pierced through the black-robed man's head.

Richard gave the other party a quick death! "It's a pity for this swamp dragon, otherwise, I could have changed it for a mount."

(End of this chapter)