Chapter 248 The real secret of the academy!
This also means that the information that Pétain left on his own floor and claimed that he left is false.
Its purpose is most likely to delay and extend the time to investigate the truth after Simon and others notice the anomaly.
"Audlina and I saw with our own eyes before that Petain never left the academy tower after he entered it. If that's the case, how could Petain and the fifth-class apprentice of the Merchant Marine disappear out of thin air?"
" Could it be that... Oh no, Petain, Audlina, you contact Selena and Canon immediately, I will go to the secret world first!"
Seeing Rudolph and Audlina, they were a little surprised. With a look in his eyes, Simon didn't show off, and his words came out like a barrage of words:
"According to the information previously obtained, the apprenticeship exam is the time for that guy Pétain to take action. He and the fifth-class apprentice from the merchant navy have disappeared. It's impossible. There is no purpose, Pétain must have quietly entered the secret world through some method!"
Hearing Simon's statement, Rudolph and Audlina's doubts became even more intense.
The importance of the secret world is even higher than that of the Nine Rings White Tower Branch itself!
According to the settings when the academy wizard array was constructed.
Apprentices who are not the seven fifth-level tutors in the academy, unless most of the fifth-level tutors in the academy have died and the other party completely controls the academy's wizard array, there is no possibility of entering the secret world.
Even one of the seven fifth-level instructors in the academy would have difficulty sneaking into the secret world without alerting the other fifth-level instructors.
How could Pétain sneak into the secret world quietly without alerting them?
"But if you want to enter the secret world quietly, even if it involves the power of a formal wizard, you may not be able to do it. After all, the academy witch formation has also reached the level of a formal wizard." "Yes, open the passage to the secret world
. At least two golden badges are needed. If you want to quietly open the passage to the secret world, they must also include the golden badge of Larov, the branch dean who has the greatest authority of the academy's wizardry... Wait, you It means!"
Suddenly, Rudolph and Audlina were stunned.
The next moment, the two of them suddenly lost their composure and showed frightened expressions.
Seeing the expressions of Rodolfo and Audlina, Simon, who knew that they had already reacted, said with a gloomy face:
"Yes, Pétain's plan had been laid out several months ago. I still remember three months ago." Was he ever seen acting with Petain before Branch Dean Larov left the college and disappeared?" "
If nothing unexpected happens, something has happened to Branch Dean Larov now. The golden badge of Dean Larov has also fallen into the hands of Petain!"
Two gold badges are enough to open the passage to the secret world. If Petain gets the golden badge of Dean Larov, with the cooperation Some unknown secret techniques may really be able to sneak into the secret world without anyone noticing.
For the three fifth-level instructors, all the above exchanges only took a moment.
After explaining, Simon immediately sent a message to Audlina on the side:
"Audlina, in order to avoid being ambushed by Petain, after opening the secret world passage, you and I will enter the secret world together and lock Petain as soon as possible. Current position."
"Rudolph, you immediately contact the remaining two fifth-class apprentices in the academy!"
Knowing that there was no time to hesitate now, after hearing Simon's arrangement, Rudolph's figure flashed and immediately rushed into the room in front of him. Among the towers.
Audlina on the other side took out her golden badge.
With the golden badges of her and Simon, in just a few moments, the space passage above the tower that was reduced by more than half compared to the previous apprentice exam was opened again.
Simon and Audlina looked at each other and instantly crossed hundreds of meters and rushed into the secret world.
When the two of them came back to their senses, they were already in the darkness of the secret world where they could barely see their fingers.
Coming from the depths of the secret world, the source of the strange power seems to have sensed the existence of two people who are fifth-level wizard apprentices.
The moment Simon and Audlina appeared in the secret world, the surrounding darkness seemed to have gone crazy and converged towards the two of them crazily.
Mixed in the dense darkness that gathered, there were even more shadows, and countless pale and translucent figures of the dead emerged.
With the death of a large number of apprentices, the shadows of the dead in the secret world today are even better than the daytime period that the apprentices in the secret world faced before!
Any Shadow of the Dead has a third-level high level, which is not inferior to the strength of a talented third-level wizard apprentice like Rapp.
Compared with Rey and Enzo, who is a third-class necromancer, these shadows of the dead are not much inferior now.
At this moment, appearing in front of Simon and Audlina, two fifth-level instructors, there were as many as hundreds of shadows of the dead with such powerful strength!
The essence of the darkness in the secret world is not the absence of light, but an overly rich and strange power that obscures the perception of the wizard apprentices who exist in it.
Therefore, ordinary light cannot illuminate the darkness at all, and only a strong enough force can squeeze out and disperse a small amount of darkness.
But for Simon, who is a fifth-level wizard apprentice, and Adelina, the strange strength of the power in the secret world cannot block their sight.
Both of them can easily maintain a sense of terror for thousands of meters around them in the dark area of the secret world.
The moment they saw hundreds of shadows of the dead appearing in front of them like a tide, Simon and Audrina were about to kill them.
But at the next moment, the expressions of the two people who felt the power of the shadows of the dead in front of them changed drastically.
It's not that the two of them, as fifth-level wizard apprentices, can't cope with these shadows of the dead.
But the strength of these third-level high-level Shadows of the Dead has far exceeded the two's expectations.
Under normal circumstances, the apprenticeship exam will only be held during the "steady period" of the secret world.
During the "steady period" period, the strange power in the secret world is at most the level of a top first-class apprentice, and even the level of a second-class apprentice is difficult to break through.
It is simply impossible to exaggerate to the current third-level high-level level!
"There is indeed a problem in the secret world. Audlina, let me get rid of these flies first. You can quickly sense the number of surviving apprentices in the secret world!" When
outside the secret world, the outside world can only respond to the existence of the secret world. In the world, there are also badges with points for perception.
But if you are a fifth-level mentor with authority over the secret world, you are directly in the secret world. That would allow you to directly bypass the apprentice badges and detect the life reactions of the apprentices in the secret world.
Compared with the former, the latter is more accurate and can directly reflect the true number of apprentices surviving in the secret world today.
Having said that, Simon ignored Audlina who immediately followed the instructions and sensed the apprentice through the authority of the secret world.
Simon, who was dressed in fine clothes and carrying a huge coffin on his back, had a faint light from his golden monocle.
A group of illusory crows that were pitch black and had scarlet compound eyes sprang out from the bodies of the shadows of the dead that were attacking from all around.
Along with a cold snort, a series of dense explosions like exploding beans sounded.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of pieces of black mist covered the current location of the approaching shadow of the deceased.
A few seconds later, when the black mist dissipated, the hundreds of third-level high-level shadows of the dead that had previously tried to attack the two people had all dissipated!
If it were other apprentices in the secret world, if they wanted to fight against a Shadow of the Dead that now possesses third-level high-level strength, they would have to gather dozens of first- and second-level apprentices to barely compete.
Even Yi Hua, faced with hundreds of shadows of the dead, could only rely on the third-class half-dead witch body and holy light beads to slowly consume them by flying kites.
Even if he did not summon the fourth-level dead men and horses, but only summoned twenty third-level faceless shadows, it would take Yihua several minutes to completely eliminate these shadows of the dead.
But now, as a fifth-level apprentice of a sorcerer, Simon, who has recently improved his strength in seclusion, killed hundreds of shadows of the dead that were comparable to third-level apprentices with just a wave of his hand!
Just a few seconds after Simon eliminated these shadows of the dead, there was a steady stream of shadows of the dead from all directions, attacking the two of them again.
Looking at the scale, the number of shadows of the dead that are attacking now is no less than the batch that Simon just wiped out.
Just when Simon was about to take action again, Audlina opened her eyes.
Different from when she first entered the secret world, Audlina's eyes were now bloodshot.
She looked haggard, as if she were mourning and said:
"I wonder if there is something wrong with my perception. I have just sensed it several times, but the results are the same every time - the number of apprentices in the secret world now is less than a thousand!"
Simon's pupils shrank when he heard Adelina's reply.
What I just saw from the outside world, the number displayed on the real-time standings - more than 3,000 people, is still in line with the past rules.
After all, less than half of the time for the apprenticeship exam has passed.
After the initial mass elimination period, the remaining apprentices will be eliminated at an increasingly slower pace.
You must know that according to the estimates of the fifth-level tutors, the number of apprentices who have passed this apprenticeship examination is at least a thousand.
But now the apprenticeship examination has only been over for one day, and there are less than two days until the end of this apprenticeship examination. How could there be less than a thousand people left?
If this trend continues, when the exam ends in two days, won't there be only about a hundred people left in the secret world?
Doesn't this mean that almost all the apprentices trained in the past three years were lost in the apprenticeship examination?
Seeing that Adelina still had some distrust in front of him and kept trying to re-perceive the number of apprentices in the secret world, Simon immediately reached out to stop her.
At the same time, he looked at the massive shadows of the dead that had reached the third level of power and analyzed them in a cold tone: "The
elimination speed of the secret world is too exaggerated! The time for the apprentice examination is not the time for the mysterious power of the secret world. During the outbreak period, it stands to reason that during this period, there will not be too many apprentice losses in the secret world!" "
But now..."
The purpose of the apprenticeship examination is to select outstanding apprentices, not a death game!
In fact, it was just as Yihua had learned from Sophia and others.
The apprenticeship examination is in a period when the strange power in the secret world is stable. The strange power in the darkness can at most compete with the second-class apprentices, and is generally only at the level of the top first-class apprentices.
Such a strong strange power can not only ensure that the environment of the secret world itself is dangerous, but also can test the apprentices in it.
It can also ensure that the strange power in the secret world will not pose a fatal threat to most apprentices in the secret world.
Now in the secret world, the strength has exceeded the third level. The strange power that can easily produce shadows of the dead in batches that are as strong as the third-level apprentices has been completely out of the control of the outside academy!
"Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the secret world in a stable period to emit such terrifying and strange power, unless - the secret world enters the explosive period in advance." Suddenly, Simon and Audlina seemed to realize
something and looked at each other. At a glance, his pupils shrank, and he said with great horror:
"No! We must go immediately to check the sealing witchcraft formation of the 'Egg of the Evil God'! Petain's real goal is probably to destroy the sealing witchcraft formation and release the sealed 'Evil God' Egg!"
In the minds of most apprentices of this Nine-ring White Tower Branch, they actually don't know the importance of the secret world, they just think that it is just a wizard academy.
In the eyes of a small number of advanced apprentices, the secret world used as the venue for previous apprentice examinations is the most important and valuable thing in the academy.
But located at the top of this Nine-ring White Tower Branch, the seven fifth-level instructors as managers knew it in their hearts.
The branch of the Nine-ring White Tower established here, whether it is to train apprentices or to occupy this immovable secret world, is not the real purpose of the Necromancer Tower Master of the Nine-ring White Tower on the mainland.
In fact, as a barren land in the eyes of wizards, under normal circumstances, few official wizards would set their sights on this Star Tree Islands.
Even if there is a secret world, the Necromancer Tower Master, who is considered a strong one among official wizards, will not go to war.
In the secret world, the "egg of the evil god" sealed by the ancient wizard tens of thousands of years ago is the purpose of the tower master to establish the Nine-ring White Tower branch here!
The original intention of establishing this Nine-ring White Tower Branch was just to cover up and suppress the "Egg of the Evil God" that was sealed in the secret world.
The origin and nature of the "Evil God's Egg" has long been impossible to verify, but Simon once heard the tower owner of the Nine-ring White Tower mention that the "Evil God's Egg" was the enemy of the ancient wizard tens of thousands of years ago!
In fact, the biggest role of the academy wizard formation responsible for protecting the Nine Rings White Tower Branch is not to defend against foreign enemies.
But inward, as the second insurance to restrain the "Evil God's Egg" and completely escape after the ancient sealed wizard formation was accidentally broken by the "Evil God's Egg"!
(End of chapter)