Chapter 244 Seal Crisis
The Illuminati present all carry resonance stones, so Yihua doesn’t have to worry about everyone not being able to join him.
After hearing Yihua's order, many Illuminati disciples around asked for orders to act with Yihua.
Knowing that time was running out, Yi Hua bluntly said that the Illuminati apprentices present could not keep up with his speed.
Feeling Yihua's firm attitude, the rest of the Illuminati decisively chose to follow Yihua's orders.
He carried no other items, only the cross sword "Pure Light" which was a quasi-fifth-level demonized item.
Yihua directly used the shadow of the third-class half-dead witch body to shuttle, and the figure disappeared from the sight of all the Illuminati apprentices present.
——Unbeknownst
to almost all the apprentices in the secret realm, located deep in the secret realm,
there is a huge amount of dark energy, like a waterfall, flowing down from the heights of this underground space. .
Located in the center of the ancient witch formation that flickers in and out of light and has a somewhat dim luster, the pitch-black heart becomes more and more active.
Plop! Plop! Plop!
Sounds like muffled thunder caused ripples on the edge of the witch formation.
Even though this ancient witch formation almost isolates all the power of the pitch-black heart, if a fifth-level wizard apprentice is present, the slight breath leaking from the heart will still cause the blood to flow backwards.
An ordinary first- and second-class apprentice would explode and die the moment he felt the subtle breath leaking from his heart!
呲呲-pop!
Suddenly, there was a loud noise like a lightbulb burning out.
I saw a witchcraft node located on the periphery of the ancient witchcraft formation. With the dazzling light, it exploded directly under the impact of the black heart power in the center of the terrifying witchcraft formation.
A moment later, only a large, charred pit remained at the location of the exploded witch formation node.
The originally solid seal barrier here has become much weaker due to the damage to this witch formation node.
After a while, as the pitch-black heart beat again, a small part of the black energy leaked from the heart directly broke through the seal and escaped from the seal of the ancient witch formation!
The leaked black energy, after a brief pause, distorted and changed its shape, and instantly turned into hundreds of shadows of the dead, which were powerful enough among third-class people.
As if under some kind of order, these shadows of the dead, which took on different forms and were transformed from the black energy, disappeared one after another, and it was unknown where they went.
The entire ancient witch formation has a total of one hundred and eight nodes.
At this moment, most of the thirty-six nodes located at the outermost edge of the ancient witch formation have been overloaded by the power of the sealed black heart, losing their original sealing effect.
According to the layout of this ancient witch formation, the barrier formed by the thirty-six outermost nodes is the strongest of the five barriers composed of a total of 108 nodes in the entire witch formation.
Once the first outermost barrier is completely destroyed, it is only a matter of time before the remaining four sealing barriers are broken.
Even, judging from the current progress, it is not completely impossible to completely break the seal of the dark heart sealed in the ancient witch formation within three days of the apprentice exam!
Under normal circumstances, the nodes of the ancient witch formation should have an early warning effect when they are damaged.
As early as when the first node was damaged, the wizards responsible for maintaining the wizard array should have noticed it and entered the secret world in time to repair and strengthen the wizard array.
But now, nearly a quarter of the nodes of the ancient witch formation have been damaged, and the outside world seems to have not noticed it at all. There is still no response to the damage to the nodes of the ancient witch formation... - On the other side, Rey
and
Jia Around the giant lumen stone vein where Bailie and others were, the battle with Melkor was still going on.
But now, at a glance, there are only the mummies of wizard apprentices scattered around the giant lumen stone veins, and the grass is densely covered with holes and scorched black holes.
Except for Melkor, who was still standing on the ground and seemed calm and composed, there were dozens of surviving apprentices, less than a hundred of them.
Melkor was clutching the neck of a dying apprentice.
I saw that as Melkor exerted his palm, a large amount of scarlet energy surged out from the mouth, nose and seven orifices of the dying young apprentice and merged into Melkor's body.
As a large amount of scarlet energy left the body, the young apprentice who was struggling to his death, who was still strong and handsome, shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In just a few seconds, the dying young apprentice turned into an old man with a haggard face, age spots, a thin body and a hunchback.
This is not over yet. The young apprentice has already turned into the appearance of a dying old man, and his body is still aging at an alarming rate.
After a few more seconds, the young apprentice whose neck was held by Melkor tilted his head and completely lost his life.
"Sure enough, fresh apprentices contain more power. Even a recently deceased corpse has less than half of the remaining power of a fresh apprentice..."
Melkor loosened his palm and the body shrank to only half a person's height. One meter of mummy fell to the ground.
Snapped!
Seeing it shattering and turning into dark red dry hard fragments all over the place, the expressions on the faces of the apprentices who were still constructing witchcraft in the distance and prepared to continue to fight became even more ugly.
Ignoring the other apprentices' fear of him, Melkor raised his head and said with a faint smile:
"One hundred and fifty-sixth... Haha, take your time, it will be your turn soon..."
After that, Melkor He reached out again, grabbed a second-class apprentice from the crowd dozens of meters away, and continued the previous process without explanation.
The other apprentices looked at Melkor, who was drawing scarlet power from the corpses of the dead apprentices on the ground, and were now in a dilemma.
As early as the beginning, Melkor was besieged by many apprentices and killed dozens of apprentices with thunder.
However, after this, Melkor did not continue his killing.
He seemed to have realized something, or had other plans, and stopped killing a large number of apprentices present.
Instead, one by one, like a butcher in a slaughterhouse, randomly select apprentices from the apprentices present and kill them by devouring the scarlet power that seems to be related to life energy.
During this period of time, the apprentices targeted by Melkor would naturally not wait to die.
Many apprentices present, led by Rey and others, launched several rounds of focused fire on Melkor.
However, due to Melkor's amazing speed and powerful strength, it was difficult for everyone to cause effective harm to Melkor.
During this period, more than twenty third-class undead death guards under Enzo were also wiped out by Melkor like chopping melons and vegetables, at a speed that was not inferior to Yihua.
Rey, Gabriel and others, out of fear of Melkor, who had a strong physique and was a third-class bloodline sorcerer, did not dare to come forward to fight in close combat, and could only release witchcraft from a distance to support him.
However, due to Rey's third-level soul-eating flying skull witchcraft, the condensed soul-eating skull moves slightly slower than Melkor.
Even if Rey controlled it with all his strength, only about one-tenth of the Soul-Eating Skull could successfully hit Melkor. However, it seems that Melkor's defense at the soul level is now much stronger than before.
After enduring five waves and more than a dozen soul-eating skulls released by Rey, Melkor is still in high spirits, with no trace of soul damage at all.
In the fierce battle, in addition to Rey, Enzo and Rapp, the last third-class apprentice present finally exhausted his strength and lost the power to resist. He was captured by Melkor. In the same way, Transformed into one of the many mummies piled up around Melkor.
"Damn guy!"
"How could it be... Why does Melkor, this monster, seem to be getting stronger and stronger with each fight!" "
That strange scarlet power... Could it be that he can absorb power from other apprentices?"
" Is that too exaggerated? Can you increase your strength by killing other apprentices? If it is really that simple, why do we wizard apprentices spend a long time meditating hard and accumulating spiritual power?" "Yes, by the way,
Mir Doesn’t Kou have the blood of the Shadow Serpent? Why can’t he use it in today’s apprentice exam? Melkor didn’t seem to have used this scarlet power in the previous academy competition, right?” Although, Melkor has not yet used it
. Revealing the power of the Shadow Snake, even the terrifying pressure of extraordinary life that it originally had seems to have disappeared.
But at the moment, Rey can no longer think about this.
At this moment, Rey looked at the scarlet power used by Melkor in front of him, his pupils shrank, and he subconsciously connected what he had seen and heard in Camilla City with it.
"Melkor, are you using the power of the blood plague?"
Hearing Rey's words, Melkor paused, then glanced at Rey, and said with a half-smile:
"It seems like you are such a waste , Although his strength is mediocre, his brain has not completely shrunk."
Even though Rey's hard power is not as good as Melkor's today.
But at this time, Rey, as the strongest apprentice except Melkor after Enzo's strength was greatly damaged due to the lack of undead, it is not that Melkor can remain motionless and only rely on the arresting power exerted by waving. Can be easily taken.
To defeat Rey who fights desperately, even Melkor, whose strength has skyrocketed compared to the time of the Academy Tournament, has to go through a battle.
Melkor seemed to realize this and planned to leave Rey to deal with him last.
Therefore, he did not rush to take down Rey. Instead, he slowly went from weak to strong, killing all the apprentices present one by one.
Hearing Melkor's affirmation, Rey's pupils trembled, and he recalled his previous experiences and the words of mentor Simon.
According to the information revealed by Mentor Simon at the time, the tide of beasts in Fangorn Forest that attacked the academy and surrounding mortal gathering places was caused by humans.
And the real culprit behind all this is a blood plague wizard!
Unfortunately, several fifth-level instructors from the other party's academy left Fangorn Forest before launching an encirclement and suppression campaign.
Now, there is no news about the other party, and several fifth-level instructors in the college have no clues about the other party's specific whereabouts.
But now, Melkor actually controls the power of the blood plague!
This does not mean that Melkor, who is a blood warlock in front of him, is the blood plague wizard.
Melkor's strength obviously could not match that of the blood plague wizard who was at least a fifth-level tutor and even reached the official wizard level against the Nine-ring White Tower Wizard Academy and caused the beast tide in Fangorn Forest.
But just like Yihua and Rey's previous encounters in Baron Rafal and the sewers of Camilla City, the blood plague wizard can give others the ability to temporarily control the blood plague.
Being able to use the power of blood plague, it is obvious that Melkor and the blood plague wizard have an inseparable relationship!
Suddenly, a possibility that he couldn't believe flashed through Rey's consciousness.
"This...does it mean that you secretly colluded with wizards from other colleges?"
In response to Rey's shocking words, the dozens of surviving apprentices around him, including Gabriel and Enzo, all showed shocked expressions. , subconsciously looking at Melkor.
"Is this guy Melkor a traitor from another academy?"
"What is his purpose of sneaking into the academy? Is it to win the first place in the apprenticeship examination?" "
No! He is so blatant, isn't he afraid of being found out and suffered? Sanctions from the academy?"
"Then what is the purpose of him suddenly revealing his strength, taking the apprenticeship exam, and entering the secret world?"
This branch colluded with wizards from other colleges, especially those who are hostile to the Nine-ring White Tower. A serious crime!
If Rey is true and Melkor cooperates with the enemy apprentice of the Nine Rings White Tower, then once exposed, the outcome waiting for him will definitely be death!
Obviously no one present would be left alive.
However, there is always a gap in a hundred secrets. Why is Melkor so confident and using the power of the blood plague unscrupulously?
Could it be that Melkor deliberately chose to expose himself, or was there a way to hide it?
Obviously, if he wants to conceal the use of the blood plague from the eyes of the other fifth-level tutors, Melkor must have a fifth-level tutor or even a higher-level existence behind him!
Suddenly, he seemed to realize what everyone present was thinking, or perhaps he was hit by what Rey just said.
Melkor, who had been patiently devouring the remaining apprentices one by one, suddenly snorted coldly and said in a cold tone:
"I planned to let you live a little longer, but I didn't expect that you like to think wildly. It seems that in order not to be exposed, I can only absorb it completely. I will use my strength to get rid of you as quickly as possible!"
"You!"
Upon hearing Melkor's sudden change of mind, all the apprentices present were shocked and subconsciously stepped back.
But before everyone could move away, Melkor's figure suddenly disappeared without a trace.
"What's going on?"
"Where did that guy go?"
"Look, there he is!"
A young apprentice pointed to the back of a group of apprentices not far away.
The apprentices present all looked at where the young apprentice was pointing.
I saw Melkor, dressed in black robes, suddenly appearing among the apprentices at some point, grabbing a female apprentice with long purple hair by the neck.
And that female apprentice is none other than Enzo, a third-class necromancer apprentice!
(End of chapter)