Encountered an illusion attack?
Mo Lin was shocked.
"Chip! What's going on?" Morin asked in his heart.
"Ding! The subject seems to have inhaled hallucinogenic gas!"
"Suspected of inhaling hallucinogenic gas?" Morin's heart moved, and he thought of the strange sweet smell he felt when he just came in.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and he ignored Kane and Patton who were rushing towards him, as if he didn't see them at all.
Morin slowly stretched out his hand and gently grasped the blood seal of thorns on his chest.
The Blood Seal of Thorns has the ability to cast illusions and can break illusions.
He uttered a few words.
"Von Mengayah!"
Suddenly, a faint red light emanated from his hand, spreading instantly and covering Morin's entire body.
Mo Lin felt his mind become clear, his vision blurred for a moment, and then everything became clear.
Patton and Kane who were in front of him had disappeared, and what appeared in front of him was a dark cave. In the center of the cave, there was a strange tree.
The tree looked very strange. Although it looked like a tree, it had colorful tentacles that kept swimming like an octopus, and laughter could be heard coming from it from time to time.
"whee..."
"Hahaha."
The voice of the tree keeps changing. Sometimes it is the voice of a man, sometimes it is the voice of a woman, sometimes it is the voice of an old man, and sometimes it is the voice of a child.
Morin looked at the tree and a look of confusion appeared on his face.
Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"This is... the Sodara Man-Eating Tree! The Sodara Man-Eating Tree relies on illusions to confuse travelers and pure creatures in the forest, and then grows by devouring their flesh and blood!"
Morin frowned slightly. Fortunately, he had read a lot of information in the library of the Dark Forest, so he knew about this very rare man-eating tree in front of him.
The number of man-eating trees in Sodala is very small. The most important point is that its growth method is very peculiar. It can only grow naturally and is very difficult to cultivate, or even impossible to cultivate.
Moreover, every man-eating tree will bear fruit, and the fruit of each man-eating tree has different miraculous effects.
The fruit of the man-eating tree has different effects. It may be of great use to human wizards, or it may not be suitable for the human race at all and only suitable for elves and other races in the endless forest. However, even if this is the case, it is enough, enough to make many wizards crazy about it.
Morin looked at the unripe, half-red fruits produced by the octopus and the numerous human corpses on the ground, and he suddenly understood.
No wonder Patton wanted so many living people. It turned out that he wanted to use living people to cultivate the Sodara man-eating tree.
"It seems that this Sodara man-eating tree has a very strong effect on Patton. No wonder he wants to do such a thing." Morin understood what was going on.
But I don't know if the Sodara man-eating tree will have any effect on him.
This is possible. After all, there are all kinds of wizards. Various witchcraft structures, energy erosion, body transformation, experimental conjectures, will lead wizards to different paths. Therefore, what is regarded as a treasure by some wizards may be worthless and completely waste in the eyes of other wizards.
"Let's take a look first."
Morin thought so, stretched out his hand, and slowly grabbed a branch.
Sensing someone approaching, the laughter on the man-eating tree became louder and the smell of hallucination became stronger, but Morin was not moved at all.
He slowly reached out his hand and grabbed a branch.
"Crunch!"
A strong force came from my hand, and the branch that looked like an octopus tentacle kept struggling, covered with wet mucus, like a ferocious python. If I was not careful, the branch might slip out of my hand.
The expression on Morin's face remained unchanged. His lips moved slightly, and puffs of black smoke came out of his hands, covering the octopus tentacle-like branch.
"Ah~~"
The man-eating tree let out a painful cry, and all the octopus branches on its body rushed towards Morin violently, looking very scary, but a faint halo of dark energy particles appeared on the surface around Morin, blocking all the octopus tentacles outside.
He placed the octopus tentacle in his hand in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.
At this time, the octopus branch in Morin's hand had turned into a normal branch, with a yellowish color and slightly dry, with a small light pink fruit at the top of the branch.
"Chip, analyze!"
A thin black needle condensed from dark energy particles appeared on Morin's finger and gently pierced the light red fruit. At the same time, he had an idea and gave such an order.
"Ding! Mission in progress!"
"Unknown fruit, type: unknown, effect: can greatly increase the speed of mental rune meditation and reduce the time it takes to condense the rune array!"
"What!" Originally, Morin was just listening casually, but after hearing the sound of the chip, he was shocked.
Can it greatly increase the speed of mental rune meditation? Reduce the time it takes for the rune array to condense?
This is simply the best news for Morin right now.
You know, according to the chip's estimation, it would take him nearly six years to meditate on the last twelve mental runes, condense the rune formation, and become a third-class apprentice.
But now, with the help of the Sodara man-eating tree, he can definitely advance his efforts significantly.
"I didn't expect it. I really didn't expect it." Morin murmured to himself, with unconcealable joy in his eyes.
No wonder Patton was desperate to feed the man-eating tree with living people. It was because the fruit of this man-eating tree had such a powerful effect on condensing mental runes. If other wizard apprentices knew about it, they would probably do the same, or even be more crazy.
"Chip, analyze this. If I start using the fruit of the Sodala man-eating tree to assist in meditation now, how long will it take me to become a third-class apprentice?"
Morin took a deep breath and issued such a task.
"Ding! The mission has been established!"
"Mission in progress!"
"Estimated time for the subject to become a third-class apprentice: two months!"
"Two months..." Morin whispered.
If you don't use the fruit of the Sodara man-eating tree, it will take nearly six years, but if you take the fruit of the Sodara man-eating tree, it only takes two months.
This is a fundamentally asymmetric choice.
Mo Lin's eyes lit up slightly, and he already knew what to do.
"It just so happens that there are many captives who rebelled with Viscount Feren this time. Moreover, there should be quite a few hooligans and criminals in the territory of Marquis Umas..." Morin said softly, with a resolute tone in his voice.
He didn't want to wait six years.
Looking back at the Sodara man-eating tree covered with octopus tentacles and twisting constantly, Morin's heart moved, his lips kept moving, he recited a witchcraft spell, and at the same time, he made a casting gesture with his hands.
Circles of dark energy particles emanated from his hands, surging continuously and enveloping the Sodara man-eating tree.
Then the dark energy particle moved slightly, forming a strange witch formation. After a flash of light, the surroundings became calm again, and the witch formation could no longer be seen, as if it had disappeared.
"With this simple concealing magic formation, it can at least be considered as a cover-up."
Morin looked at the Sodara man-eating tree inside, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, which could be considered a smile.
Then Maureen turned his head and looked around.
There are also Patton's things here. Patton was born in the Blue Ring and it seems that he has a high status. The things he left behind are still very valuable.
A few hundred magic stones, some basic subject knowledge, a few witchcraft templates, some strange materials, and other than that, there are some miscellaneous items.
"good."
Morin took the silk bag containing the magic stone in his hand and tossed it gently, a smile appearing on his face.
On the way here, Morin bought almost all the basic potions except for some basic essential potions for himself. Correspondingly, he got a lot of magic stones.
Including the magic stones he got from Patton this time, Morin now has about six thousand magic stones.
"As an apprentice, I should have no shortage of magic stones."
Morin smiled and sighed.
Suddenly, his eyes turned and fell on a book among those miscellaneous items.
Somehow, Maureen felt that it looked familiar.
"What is this?" Maureen picked up the book.
Wow!
The book floated in the air, glowing faintly, and suddenly opened itself.
Maureen was caught off guard and enveloped by the faint light emitted by the book.
The pages of the book were turning quickly, making loud sounds.
"Damn it, what is this!"
Morin suddenly found that there were some extra things on his body. Thin silver lines kept appearing around him.
Suddenly, those silver threads trembled, and they shot out one by one, as if they had formed substance, and then quickly rushed to his forehead.
Buzz.
The thin silver thread moved and sank into the two layers of talisman formation that had been formed. They intertwined and entangled with each other, and actually merged with the two layers of talisman formation, becoming indistinguishable from each other.
"Fuck!" Mo Lin was almost scared to death.
You know, those two layers of talisman formations were the foundation of his first-class apprenticeship and second-class apprenticeship, and they were his real foundation. However, now there were some strange silver threads fused with his talisman formations. How could he not be terrified?
"damn it!"
Mo Lin quickly concentrated his mind to sense the two talisman arrays, but he did not find anything unusual. The two talisman arrays were intact, as if nothing had happened.
"Chip, scan my entire body and clear any abnormality immediately!" Morin gave such an order with a grim look on his face.
"Ding! The mission has been established!"
"Mission in progress!"
"Ding! There is no abnormality in the subject's body!"
"Nothing unusual?" Morin's face was gloomy.
At this time, the sound of the chip rang.
"Ding! A large amount of data has been entered. Do you want to sort it out?"
"Sort it out." Mo Lin thought about it and nodded.
"Ding! Data is being sorted!"
"Ding! The first-order mission has begun. Preliminary analysis is in progress. Estimated time: 41 days!"
"First-order mission?" Morin was stunned for a moment, then he understood what the first-order mission was. It was those mysterious lines and totems related to the wizards of ancient times.
Mo Lin immediately thought of the abnormal situation just now. Those mysterious lines that appeared on the surface of his body rushed into the rune array on his forehead, and the silver lines that merged strangely with the rune array.
"It's only about forty days. I can afford to wait."
Morin was silent. After a long time, his low voice slowly came over.
Looking at the books on the ground, Maureen understood that Patton, like George, had accidentally obtained some books related to ancient wizards, but could not understand them, so he threw them among the miscellaneous items.
But unexpectedly, such books have extraordinary significance to Morin.
After looking around again, Morin turned around and walked outside.
When he returned to Viscount Ferran's base, Marquis Umas had already pacified everything. The entire base was brightly lit, and soldiers walked around with resin torches, shouting constantly, while the captives knelt on the ground, not daring to move.
"Mr. Morin."
When Marquis Umas saw Morin, his eyes lit up and he hurried over.
"Umas, I want to live here from now on and no longer be disturbed." Morin looked at Umas and went straight to the point.
"Mr. Morin, you..." Umas' heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly had a very bad feeling.
"I just want to live here."
Morin looked at Umas and smiled.
It seems that this Marquis is subconsciously suspicious.
That's right. After all, he had just helped Umas quell the rebellion. It was normal for Marquis Umas to think about other aspects.
"I just want to live here." Maureen smiled and reiterated.
Marquis Umas looked at Morin, and after a moment, he suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, Mr. Morin."
"sure."
The Marquis sounded sincere.
Many people in the territory talked about what happened that night with great relish, and they kept discussing it, to the point that different versions of what happened that night were fabricated.
After all, many people saw the Marquis' guards rushing out of Winter City overnight that night, which was really big news.
However, the most surprising thing was that after Viscount Ferran was wiped out, Marquis Umas suddenly announced that he would nominate a mysterious young man and grant him a title.
The original Viscount Ferren has disappeared, and now a new Viscount has appeared, Viscount Olson.
Maureen Olson.
Soon, people knew the name of the viscount and kept speculating why he was granted the title of viscount by the marquis.
This mysterious Viscount Olson is different from other nobles. He does not hold banquets, does not participate in various activities of the upper class, and does not like to communicate with various socialites and ladies. He just likes to stay in a mountain in his fiefdom and do some strange things.
The Marquis captured many criminals and ruffians in his fiefdom and took them to Viscount Olson's territory. No one knew what they were going to do there, but after they left, they never came back.
Some people also discovered that many soldiers who had rebelled with Viscount Feren were also missing.
Some people were dissatisfied with this and felt that it should be thoroughly investigated, but they were all suppressed by Marquis Umas with tough measures, or those who had complaints suddenly disappeared.
So no one mentioned the matter again.
Moreover, many hooligans and criminals were taken away, which made the security in the territory much better, which was also a good thing for many ordinary people.
Of course, everyone knew that all this was related to the sudden appearance of the Viscount.
A mixture of various speculations by people, gradually, Viscount Olson became mysterious in people's eyes.