The swamp dragon is obviously much cooler than the giant bat, and its combat effectiveness is also a level higher.

But for Richard, who has already reached the advanced level of level one, he pays more attention to the load-bearing capacity and speed of the swamp dragon. After all, the load-bearing capacity of the giant nocturnal bat is just right at the moment.

If there was one more person, like Stephana, or if there was more luggage, the giant nocturnal bat would be overwhelmed.

Richard walked up to the man in black robe, used the mimic metal to transform into a long sword, and started to turn the corpse over.

Soon, he found a metal ball, a palm-sized emblem, a high-level magic stone, more than ten intermediate magic stones, and several bottles of potions in the other party's waist bag.

With Richard, the master of pharmacy, he could easily see that the bottles of potions from the other party were all emergency potions, such as mental recovery potions, fog potions, various poisons, etc.

To him, it's better than nothing.

However, Richard soon discovered that the metal ball was actually mimicry metal, and its weight reached about 800 to 900 grams.

As Richard injected mental power into it, the metal ball instantly transformed into a sharp dagger.

Something like mimic metal, if the first form is set in the metal core in advance, it can change rapidly once mental power is input.

Of course, if you want to change into other forms, you can do so. You can change at will with the input of mental power, but the speed of change will not be as fast as the first form set in advance. At the same time, the mental power consumed will also be greatly increased.

However, the dagger form is obviously useless to Richard.

Richard played with it for a while, and soon decided to find time to break its core later and reintegrate the mimicry metal into his original mimicry wristband.

As the amount of mimic metal increases, Richard will be able to transform into more weapons, such as two-handed swords, tower shields, and other huge weapons or shields.

Looking at the pale silver metal emblem on his hand, which was engraved with a giant black hand, Richard pondered in silence.

Of course he knew what this symbol meant. This was a well-known assassin organization on the continent of Bias.

"It seems that someone has commissioned the assassin of the Hand of Death to kill me."

When Richard came to the giant nocturnal bat again, he hesitated.

"Something must have happened to me. I haven't been to any other places except the classroom and the alchemy room recently. So, the most likely culprit is this newly purchased giant nocturnal bat."

Thinking of this, Richard's eyes fell on the giant nocturnal bat beside him.

"But if I give up directly, my plan to quickly reach the capital of the Kingdom of Heron - Pentos will be a failure."

Richard hesitated for a moment.

"Since the other party has tracked my flying mount, I can try to lure him out."

"If the other party is always plotting in the dark, then for safety's sake, I have no choice but to give up this flying mount."

After making up his mind, Richard returned to the battlefield and piled up the bodies of the wyvern and the men in black robes.

Then, Richard pulled out a glass bottle filled with light yellow liquid from his arms and poured it on the corpse. The smell of kerosene immediately spread everywhere.

As a spark popped out from Richard's finger, the pile of corpses was instantly engulfed in flames.

After doing all this, Richard stepped into the woods again and hid his entire body.

He planned to wait for two hours to see if the mastermind would show up.

If the other party does not show up, then he can only go to the Black Forest Wizard Market ahead, sell the giant nocturnal bat, and buy a land mount at the same time.

He had been to the Black Forest Wizard Market before. Most of the items there were useful for wizard apprentices. All mounts were land mounts, and there were no flying mounts for sale. ——Because Raymond had tampered with the giant nocturnal bat.

So, Richard knew it as soon as he left the Ignis School residence.

In order to avoid being discovered by Richard, Raymond rode his horned hippogryph and followed far behind. The distance was so far that it could be called beyond visual range tracking.

In other words, within Raymond's field of vision, he couldn't see Richard at all. Naturally, Richard didn't know that there was someone hanging far behind him.

At this moment, Raymond was controlling the distance with a small gray mouse-like animal the size of a fist in his hand.

At this moment, the gray mouse is holding a walnut-sized nut and chewing it happily. The closer it is to the target, the more excited the gray mouse becomes and the faster it chews. The farther it is, the more excited it becomes and the slower it chews.

However, when he tracked to the Black Forest, he suddenly saw a huge swamp dragon rising from the woods in the distance. He immediately realized that this must be Gildarts's backup plan.

And his previous series of operations were for this moment.

This couldn't help but make Raymond a little excited.

As for what the patriarch said, he naturally kept it in mind, so he came up with this workaround.

Don't take action yourself, and don't ask others to take action.

But he would reveal Richard's whereabouts to Gildarts. As for what would happen to Gildarts? That was not something he could control! A few days ago, when he thought of this method, he was quite proud of it.

This not only prevented him from violating his family's wishes, but also enabled him to use Gildarts to avenge the loss of his son.

Kill two birds with one stone! Unfortunately, in order to avoid being exposed, I can't go forward to watch the battle.

Tsk tsk! I really want to see how this kid Richard died!

Not long after, Raymond sensed from afar the strong elemental energy fluctuations erupting in front of him.

"It seems like we should have a fight!" Raymond was delighted.

So he immediately pulled the reins, causing the horned hippogryph under him to stop and hover quietly in mid-air.

Less than a minute later, with a roar of a beast, the energy fluctuations quickly stopped.

Raymond couldn't help but shake his head and murmured, "He's really weak!"

"But this is normal. How much combat power can a little guy who has just been promoted have?"

After a while, Raymond felt that the time was about right, so he began to control the Hippogryph and slowly flew towards the place where the energy fluctuations had just occurred.

This time, he didn't look at the tracking mouse, but collected it and put it in a leather bag.

Since Richard is dead, the giant nocturnal bat will most likely be killed as well, destroying the body.

No more tracking necessary!

Richard is a new wizard and teacher of the Ignis School. After his death, his body must be destroyed.

By then, even if the Ignis School conducts an investigation, it will not be able to find any useful clues.

However, if Raymond had been more careful and hadn't put away the tracking mouse so early, he would have noticed that the little thing was chewing the nuts faster and faster, and it was obviously getting more and more excited.

The horned eagle was moving very fast, and soon he saw a flicker of fire in the dark forest at the end of his sight.

Raymond's face immediately lit up with joy, as this direction and approximate position matched the location of the energy fluctuations he sensed.

Obviously, in Raymond's opinion, the fire must have been caused by Gildarts's men destroying the bodies after finishing their mission.

The cautious Raymond immediately stopped the horned hippogryph, thought for a moment, and waited for a few minutes. After confirming that there was no movement, he flew towards the fire.

After a while, Raymond arrived above the fire.

"This giant nocturnal bat stinks when it burns!"

Raymond covered his nose.

"But now that I'm here, I have to go down and take a look!"

After circling for a while, the horned eagle prepared to land.

However, when Raymond descended to a few meters above the ground and saw the burning object through the blazing fire, his pupils shrank immediately! "This! No! This is not the body of a giant nocturnal bat at all!"

"This corpse is much bigger!!"

At this moment when Raymond was stunned.

A thumb-sized black beam suddenly burst out from somewhere in the forest, heading straight for his heart! Raymond's heart was immediately alarmed. At this critical moment, the necklace on his chest suddenly burst out with a black light film, covering his entire body.

But Raymond still felt unsafe and tried his best to avoid it.

However, the black beam attack came in an instant, and he only had time to dodge to the side.

“Puff!”

The light film was like a bubble in front of the black beam, and it broke with one blow! After piercing the film, the black beam further pierced Raymond's right arm, and blood splattered everywhere!

This was the result of his timely avoidance.

Otherwise, you will definitely be killed in one blow!

"Death ray!!" Raymond cried out in horror while covering his wound with his hand.

"Could it be that the one who died was not Richard, but Gildarts's people?!"

In an instant, several possibilities flashed through Raymond's mind, but the most unlikely person was firmly fixed in his mind! Almost at the moment when the previous black beam attack ended, a transparent wave attacked from the forest again.

This made Raymond look terrified and he immediately jumped off the horned beast.

If he was still sitting on the Hippogryph, he would be a sitting duck in mid-air before the Hippogryph accelerated.

Raymond had just stood firm after landing when he heard heavy footsteps and the sound of branches breaking in the woods.

“Boom boom boom!”

A four-meter-tall abomination holding a giant iron axe and a meteor hammer laughed and rushed towards Raymond.

"Crash! Crash!"

The little hand behind his back immediately threw two thick black iron chains towards Raymond, and the curved hooks on the top flashed sharp cold light.

This immediately made Raymond's face solemn. He waved the short staff in his hand, and three white bone shields appeared on his body.

The next second, the iron hook hit the bone shield.

“Ding ding!”

Sparks flew everywhere, showing how powerful it was.

"I was ambushed and injured. It's too risky to continue fighting now. We have to evacuate immediately!"

Raymond glanced at the rapidly approaching Abomination.

As Raymond chanted a short spell, a huge inverted pentagram formation flashing with light green light appeared under his feet. As the green light became brighter, ten skeleton guards holding swords and shields and marching in neat steps appeared in front of him.

Suddenly, the skeleton guards discovered the evil spirit and rushed towards it like an ant discovering its prey.

“Crash!”

The vengeful spirit laughed evilly and swung the giant axe in his hand. Like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves, it knocked the two skeleton guards who were in the front more than ten meters away, and seven or eight broken ribs fell from the air.

Although these skeleton guards were different from the ones Richard summoned during his apprenticeship and were more powerful, they were still no match for the evil spirits.

But Raymond seemed to have known this for a long time. Looking at the skeletons who were defeated, he remained calm.

It seemed to be waiting for something there.

The next second, the air flow surged, and his flying mount, the Hippogryph, left, circled in the air, increased its speed, and then flew quickly towards Raymond from behind again.

Looking at the horned hippogryph that was about to reach him, Raymond's expression relaxed.

It turned out that the skeleton guardian he had just summoned was only to help him resist a wave of abomination attacks, so as to buy him time so that he could jump onto the horned beast and escape from the battle.

Seeing this scene, Richard, who was wearing a black mask in the forest, smiled.

His right hand quickly pulled out a pair of iron shackles from his arms and threw them directly at Raymond on the back of the horned eagle in the air.

Following the sound of a short spell, the shackles expanded rapidly in mid-air, emitting a dazzling purple light.

Raymond covered his wound, jumped onto the horned hippogryph, and his face finally showed joy, but in less than half a second, his happy expression froze.

The whole person seemed to be struck by lightning, and was stunned on the spot! Because suddenly a huge shadow like shackles flew out from the air.

The shadow at one end of the shackles shot rapidly towards Richard in the forest, while the other end shot towards Raymond on the horned hippogryph, tightly linking the two together in this way.

As the horned eagle flapped its wings and flew forward rapidly, Raymond was suddenly restrained by the shadowy shackles, staggered, and fell down again.

"War shackles!"

Raymond, who was well-informed, immediately identified what the phantom that restricted his movements was.

But it was after he identified it that his heart began to sink!

At this moment, a three-meter-tall, strange-looking skeletal creature rushed out of the woods and rushed towards him at an extremely fast speed.

Almost at the same time, the sound of violently surging water was heard behind him. Raymond took a quick look with his peripheral vision and his face changed drastically!

The tall abomination was seen spewing a large amount of light blue liquid from its mouth. The surrounding vegetation affected by the liquid quickly withered, and his skeleton guards could not withstand this liquid which was both highly toxic and corrosive.

The hard white bones made a hissing sound and light blue smoke quickly emerged.

After a while, almost all of his skeleton guards were killed. Some had their leg bones corroded, some had their heads gone, and some had their arm bones melted. They all fell to the ground.

After spitting out the vengeful abomination, it swung its meteor hammer 360 degrees.

“Crash!”

A meteor hammer swept across with a radius of at least three meters, breaking bones in an instant.

The field was suddenly empty! The entire battle situation turned into a situation of being attacked from both sides by the Blood Bone Puppet in front and the Wrathful Spirits in the back.

(End of this chapter)