NOVEL NEXT Chapter 56: Reinforcement.
Chapter 56: Reinforcement.
Inside the chamber, an undead raven enters and lands on Levi's shoulder.
After a while, Levi opens his eyes. The power of a master mage is amazing, killing many monsters with one spell. If he reaches the fifth-tier mage rank, he will be equal to the master rank. At that time, he can move more freely and doesn’t need to hide in a hole. Well, hiding inside the hole is also not bad.
Adept rank is strong, but facing a monster tide is impossible. This is not a manga world where you can become strong through the power of friendship or feelings.
Jason is meditating and absorbing mana. Once he becomes an apprentice mage, Levi is going to teach him necromancy. Now how do we make Clara and Otis stronger?
"Clara, how does a primitive mage advance to master rank?"
"For me, I need to consume powerful blood and enlightenment."
"Didn’t you consume master-rank blood last time?"
"It’s not enough." Clara shakes her head. "It’s not like consuming master-rank blood can turn anyone into a master. I need enlightenment for the path of blood magic, and the master rank last time was already seriously injured and almost died before we killed him."
Levi is thinking about what will happen if he turns Clara into a Dhampir. In the end, he decided to forget about it.
Otis, how is your poison experiment on master-rank blood?"
"The blood is already weak, and I need a fresh sample to make sure the poison is effective." Master rank can remove poison from their body; even adept rank can do it if they have the skill to remove poison.
"Too bad." Levi is thinking of poisoning the master mage and wants to know how many death points he can get from a master mage. It looks like he needs to stay here a bit longer and come out when the monster tide ends. At that time, numerous carcasses and corpses were waiting for him to convert to death point.
However, once he collects enough death points, he will wait and get stronger in this world first. Because he doesn’t know what's going to happen in the next mission.
Another undead bird returned and transmitted the image; what Levi saw made him frown. Even if he sends a message to the town with the undead bird, they might become suspicious. Instead, they will think that he is the one responsible for the monster tide coming here. After contemplating, he decided not to send a warning and to continue to meditate.
The destruction of the town has nothing to do with him.
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On the outskirts of the town, goblins and gnolls are carrying a large stone slug called Stone Eater.
"Release them!" The hobgoblin order
The large stone eaters enter the snow and begin burrowing underground and making a tunnel; the monster is planning to attack from the inside. When they manage to occupy the town gate. It’s time for slaughter.
With their numbers, it’s easy to swarm the town, but the master mage is strong. Without the master-rank monster, it is better to take the townspeople hostage and make the master mage flee. Even if he refuses, it doesn’t matter.
The monster's tide had four choices when winter arrived. Invade the human kingdom for food, starve to death through cannibalism, and attack other monster nests. The monster prefers the first option.
In the past, Pondover Forest was treated as a training ground for the bordering kingdoms' army. But after the mass revolt around the continent and the creation of the federation, mage nation, and warrior alliance, Most kingdoms gradually stopped sending their armies to destroy monster nests. What happened next was like grass after the rain: the number of monsters exploded. Because of that, the monster tide occurs every winter.
"General, should we contact the king?" A goblin wearing a horned headdress asked The monsters in the violet forest had joined the monster tide. The goblin shaman who had lived in the violet forest all his life finally sees a shaman more powerful than him. If he is lucky, he can evolve into a higher species.
"No, the king is busy holding the other human master rank. Order the monster tide to attack as a distraction." The hobgoblin answered and jumped down the hole to control the stone eaters.
"Yes."
During monster tides in the past, master rank rarely made a move. But now it’s different; the number of monster nests has multiplied, and the conflict over territory has risen. The only reason there is no chaos in Pondover Forest is because of the monster tide.
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A few days later, at night, the town people, although wary of the monster tide, were not afraid. Because they had a master mage to protect them. In the past few days, there has been a monster attack. But every time the monsters retreated, they saw the magic circle from the master mage.
The elderly mage staying in his room has had a bad feeling since this morning, and he doesn’t know why. But he trusted his instinct, which had saved his life many times. He quickly orders the servant to call the mayor for a meeting tonight.
Regan and other mercenary groups are resting in the inn. When they arrived this morning, they thought that the town had already been destroyed. They found out that there was a master mage protecting the city. Now Regan's mission is to defend this town until the kingdom's army arrives.
While Regan is drinking, in front of him is another man; he is the mercenary leader that Ethan hired.
"To think I see you here, Regan,"
"Yes."
"How is your daughter?" The mercenary leader had seen Regan's daughter grow up and treated her like his own daughter.
"She dead."
"How!"
"She dies from a monster tide." Regan wants to tell him the truth. But the mercenary leader still had a family. It's better if he doesn’t get involved.
"The mercenary group that she joins is considered a B Rank."
"Even if the group comprised the most adept ranks, it was useless in front of numerous monsters."
After that, both of them drank together. This is the life of a mercenary.
Inside the mayor's mansion, the elderly mage told his old friend of his concern. Rather than dismissing the elderly mage. The mayor's face becomes serious because his friend is a master. If this is coming from someone else, he will ignore it.
"How long do we have?"
"I don’t know, or maybe I am being paranoid."
"Give me time to get ready." The mayor quickly orders the servants to pack up the important goods and treasure. Because they are in a hurry, they leave a lot of stuff behind, but they can return after the monster tide ends.
That night, a group of caravans is leaving the town; even the soldiers don’t know who they are. The mayor decided to flee with his family and go to the city. Inside the carriage, there is also an elderly mage. With this, the fate of the people in the town is uncertain.
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The next morning, people were busy inside a chamber.
Since Clara and Otis are hard to advance, he decided to give them the Blood Claw and create a poison manual from Tianxia World. Both of them get excited and begin to learn. Living inside the chamber is boring if you don’t have anything to do.
"I failed again." Jason is frustrated; he is attempting to turn a pigeon carcass into the undead.
"Start meditating and do it again once your mana is restored."
"Yes."
What Jason is doing is using mana to create the magic ritual and not using other materials as support. Although it's hard, if he succeeds, he can create undead anywhere as long as there is a dead body.
Clara tries to cover her hand with her own blood, following the blood claw manual. However, this is not the same; she needs to make her hand hard and turn her nail into a sharp claw. If she masters this technique, she can absorb enemy blood without using her own blood to attack.
Mana can’t create blood but can turn blood into a spell and weapon; the only source of blood is inside a living creature. Because of that, there is a limit to how many blood spells she can use.
She still doesn’t know how her deceased teacher stored a large amount of blood inside her old body. There was one time she saw her teacher create a giant globe of blood with many tentacles to kill a large monster.
While Clara is practicing, Levi is watching her. "I think it's better if you find monster blood to train that technique." The blood claw technique was developed by the martial arts unorthodox faction and required human blood to train. Levi thought Clara could use her blood to replace human blood, but it failed. "Let’s wait until it's saved before we go out to hunt."
Otis is concentrating on reading the information about creating poison. Although Levi had some knowledge of medicine, creating poison was not his specialty.
Levi closes his eyes and meditates. He also needs to be strong.