Chapter 214 A stranger has mixed in with us
An ox that plows the fields will die of exhaustion, and the same goes for a horse that runs.
The ghost horse, which had been running at full load for a long time, finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell down just before arriving at the town in front of the academy.
The saddest one was Roger. He thought he could capture a new monster. Just when he was about to take out the Poké Ball, the Pokemon abandoned him.
After his grief, he wanted to replicate the scene of the knight burying his horse, but the other party turned into ashes after his death.
This seems to be a stupid thing since he has dug half of the hole.
In contrast, the others were not interested in whether the ghost horse was dead or alive. The only place they were interested in now was the Rhea Lukalia School of Magic.
But before venturing into the academy, Japar suddenly asked to sit by the campfire for a while.
Although Tulsi and Hudes did not quite understand the significance of this behavior - after all, their fast and furious journey basically did not consume any physical energy and they did not need to rest - they still chose to respect Gapar's opinion.
So after a long journey, everyone returned to the blazing bonfire in front of the college, using the warm flames to dispel the coldness on their bodies.
The one who felt the most comfortable and relaxed beside the campfire was naturally Gapar, followed by Roger. Both of them could claim to be familiar with the Sen dungeon.
Whenever the former failed to get a teardrop larva, he would run to the campfire and sit for a while to cheer himself up. The latter was often chased and beaten while studying the monster ecology, and would run to the safe campfire to catch his breath.
Therefore, the campfire means comfort and safety to the two of them, or the same feeling to most adventurers.
Unconsciously, the Sen Dungeon has left some people with behavioral habits.
Tulsi and the others didn't feel anything, they just thought the campfire upgrade mechanism was very interesting.
She moved closer to observe the campfire, but suddenly found something unusual.
"Is this a bone?"
The flames of a campfire can be touched, and they seem to be no different from normal flames, except that they will burn people.
To be safe, Tulsi picked out a burnt black bone from the bonfire with her magician's hand. She looked at it carefully and suddenly asked:
"Did any of you eat the barbecue?"
This question is very confusing because everyone is together and the food they eat is nothing more than dried meat and stamina potions. If someone were to barbecue, they would be discovered immediately.
The fuel for every campfire is exactly the same, ashes and firewood, as if these things will never burn out. Every time people enter the dungeon, they will take a look and find that the ashes and firewood inside will not change at all.
So why are there bones in the bonfire? This is quite interesting.
"This is the bone of the bone and meat tree." Japar suddenly said, "It is a specialty of the gourmet area. It is a tree that grows large pieces of meat with bones. It tastes exactly like ordinary barbecue."
"Ah, that." Tulsi had heard about this. The Magic Association had already received information about the ingredients in the gourmet area, which included information about the Bone and Flesh Tree.
This is something that is enough to confuse botanists and alchemists, and scholars have argued for a long time over whether to classify it as an animal or a plant.
Botanists are puzzled as to why plants grow meat. No matter how they analyze it, it is meat.
What the alchemists couldn't understand was how the physical transmutation they had spent their entire lives studying could inexplicably grow on trees?
Alchemy no longer exists! (Sad)
The chefs were very happy because the taste of the bone and meat tree was just like ordinary barbecued meat, nothing special. It would not threaten their survival and allowed them to reprocess it and sell it in the restaurant.
For Japar, these were quite convenient foods. When he got tired of killing monsters in the dungeon, he would pick a few and eat them, so he recognized the bones at a glance.
By the way, his favorite is the rice bowl fruit that can grow various kinds of rice bowls. Every time he opens it, he feels like opening a blind box.
"We don't have any flesh and blood with us, so..." Tulsi stood up and looked around, and everyone understood what she was going to say.
Something had come to the town in front of the academy not long ago, ate a piece of meat with a bone by the campfire and threw the bone in as fuel!
"Could it be a monster or something?" Roger said, but he rejected the idea the moment he said it.
Because monsters cannot enter the town in front of the academy at all, the place with warm firelight is the monster's restricted area, and how could the monsters from Lake Lienia get the specialties of the food area?
Then there is only one truth, an answer that makes everyone feel very strange.
"Is there anyone else here?"
But how could this be possible? When they came in, they didn't notice any strangers straying in. Could it be an intruder? But they didn't receive any warning of being invaded.
No matter how that person or people got in, they had no intention of hiding their whereabouts, because Japar found several empty potion bottles in an intact house, and these things were definitely not here before.
"There are at least four people on the other side. No, five." Tulsi's eyes lit up with a faint light of magic, and then she shook her head regretfully: "The footprints have been more than half an hour, and the tracking magic is useless."
A strange feeling appeared in everyone's heart.
But I just felt it was strange and didn't understand how these people got in. Most people would be scared if they found strangers in their home, but
Roger glanced at the Sword Master and the professors and felt that it was these strangers that should be afraid.
This little episode made everyone a little more alert to the surrounding situation, and Roger even tried to find Kelly to ask if he had seen any strangers.
As a result, the other party stared at him straight, as if to say that you are strangers.
Well, there's no hope for Curry here.
Before setting out for the Magic Academy, Tulsi hid a concealed photo stone next to the campfire, which, combined with transmission magic, was enough for her to achieve real-time monitoring of the place.
It would be great if there was a familiar that could share vision, so we wouldn't have to bother with setting up the image stones.
"Are you ready? Let's go."
This time, Gapar once again stole the ghost rider's favorite horse, and the four people and four horses once again staged a show of speed and passion, and followed the planned steps to conquer the mountain road to the Magic Academy.
This time, the ghost rider whose horse was stolen still sent monsters to chase everyone, but when they saw everyone approaching the magic academy, the monsters stopped at the same time, as if they did not dare to get any closer.
“Ping pong pong.”
The sound of fierce fighting was accompanied by the enemy's roar, and everyone rushed forward again.
"Strange, why does it feel like the number of soldiers here is the same as before?" Roger asked.
The consistent rule of the Sen Dungeon is that as long as you are not dead, then no matter how far you run, the monsters you killed will not be resurrected and you can only wait until the next day.
The last time they came here, they had clearly cleared out all the enemies, so why are they here in full force again now?
It's weird. Many details of Lake Lienia are different from the original areas of the Sen Dungeon. What's going on?
【College Pyroxene Key】
[The key to open the magic seal of the Rhea Lukalia School of Magic]
[The pyroxite will automatically remember the user. Each key can remember up to five people. The academy does not want too many strangers to get close.]
The maximum number of people that can be remembered is five, and they have four, so they are lucky.
Japar walked in front holding the key, and everyone followed closely behind him. When the pyroxene key emitted light, they successfully passed through the seal.
This time, there was no black screen when passing through the seal. It was a seamless loading process, an achievement that would make "Starry Sky" envious to tears.
What appeared before everyone was an extremely wide square with a bonfire in the middle.
Roger's eyes lit up, and he lit a bonfire while muttering "Thank you Sean for your mercy". If he died in the magic academy and was teleported to the town in front of the academy, he would be so angry that he would greet Sean's family in the dungeon, even though he had no family in the dungeon.
This should be the main entrance of the academy. No wonder it is so large. It also symbolizes the face of the magicians.
An idea suddenly occurred to him. He felt that this place would be very suitable for adventurers and invaders to fight. With such a large area, they could move around anywhere.
Wait, why do I have such thoughts?
“It’s so beautiful.”
Tulsi exclaimed. Standing here, one can overlook the entire scenery of Lake Lienia and take in the spectacular beauty.
After coming in, Japar was observing the scene. To the left was a rather large elevator, and to the right was a broken bridge.
He suddenly realized that this broken bridge was the broken bridge leading to the high mountains in the east that Kale mentioned. Upon closer inspection, he found that there was indeed a similar broken bridge opposite the bridge, which was connected to the high mountains.
Wow, the maps are connected, that’s great.
It seems that there is only one seal at the entrance of the entire magic academy, and no one has seen the other one yet.
It seems that you can go to both sides, but in fact, you can only go to the left side. The broken bridge on the right does not seem to be worth exploring.
"Gulp gulp."
The elevator carrying everyone slowly ascended.
Just when their sight was completely out of the area at the main entrance of the academy, a man in strange clothing suddenly appeared.
He wore a helmet that concealed his face and had an eye painted on his armor. He waited quietly in front of the mechanism, waiting to pull down the elevator after Gapar and the others left.
Is he following these people?
What is his purpose?
Why was it that Gapar and the others, with their keen perception, did not notice this person?
If we tell Japar now that someone is following them, they probably won't be in the mood to care at this moment.
Because when the elevator finally reached the top, they saw a high staircase.
And ten pyroxene magicians were standing by on top of the stairs.
The magicians can't wait for their [Pyroxene Swift Gravel]!
(End of this chapter)
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