Meteorite Crater

Chapter 82 Meteorite Crater

"Who is in charge of this resource point?" Standing among the twenty-odd wizard apprentices at the Crimson Crow Mine was one of the ten most renowned experts from the Dark Realm Wizard Academy.

Raffi stepped forward and said, "It's me. Raffi from Blacksorta Wizarding Academy."

The wizard apprentice from the Dark Realm glanced at Raffi and was immediately struck by her stunning beauty, as if she were a proud, domineering, and willful queen sitting on a high throne. The wizard apprentice couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

After so many years of treatment, Lafite's "dry skin" had finally been fully repaired, restoring her stunning appearance as a proud queen. At the same time, after so many years of hardship, her personality had begun to soften slightly.

The powerful figure from the Dark Realm took out a map and said in a deep voice, "You will arrive at this resource point within five days with your men. Only the most basic defensive force is needed here."

"Central resource point?" Raffi was surprised for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "That alliance with twenty drops of blood is already powerful enough to fight us? I remember a few years ago, their wizard apprentices were all incredibly stupid."

"Hmph! After all these years of slaughter, we've eliminated most of those foolish wizard apprentices. If it weren't for the deterrence of those guardians, District 19 wouldn't have any resource points left. We would have hunted them down long ago, and this war might have ended much earlier," the Dark Realm expert said disdainfully.

Raffi pondered, "Oh? So, District Twelve is preparing for a final assault?"

"No, it's not us preparing for a final assault; it's them preparing for a final assault. We've captured a total of 180 resource points, exactly 30 for each academy, which meets our target. There's no need to sacrifice a large number of wizard apprentices to attack those 20 resource points. As for the reason for their final assault, according to the undercover intelligence, it's probably a last-ditch effort. The wizard apprentices over there also don't want to lose the war..."

Everyone at the Chiwu mine was shocked.

It seems that the alliance with twenty drops of blood has been fully integrated internally, forming a behemoth capable of rivaling the wizarding apprentices of District Twelve.

From this perspective, the organizational structure of the District 12 wizard apprentices also has significant deficiencies. Because there is no absolute leader, they missed the opportunity to completely defeat the District 19 wizard apprentices, allowing them to form the Twenty Drops of Blood Alliance.

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Snap, snap, snap...

Raffi, along with his team of five and eight or nine others from three other wizarding academies, ran across the desolate desert. The soft sand crunched under their feet, becoming the only melody in the desert.

"stop!"

Suddenly, Raffi raised his hand, signaling the entire group to stop. Everyone looked at Raffi in confusion, then followed his gaze to the sky above.

High above everyone's heads, in the far distance, a small black bird circled in the sky. It was so far away that it didn't even attract everyone's attention. Only Laffey, with his Eagle Eyes, noticed it.

"This bird is acting strangely. It's been following us for almost an hourglass. I suspect we're being targeted by the wizarding apprentices from District 19. There are no resource points from District 12 nearby, making this a perfect ambush location for those District 19 wizarding apprentices," Raffi said slowly.

A Time Hourglass wizard apprentice exclaimed in surprise, "No way? Wizard apprentices from District 19 are using ambush tactics now?"

Robin, perched on Steelfur, took a sip of water from the pouch at his waist, poured some more into Steelfur, and interjected, "Didn't we already say we can't judge those guys from District 19 with the same eyes we had a few years ago? They're human wizarding apprentices, not beasts. They only seemed so foolish before because of the academy system."

"Boss Raffi, what should we do now?" Joris asked.

After thinking for a moment, Raffi said, "You guys advance in an irregular direction first, and whatever you do, don't fall into the traps on the other side. I'll go kill that annoying bird and then chase after you. By the way, Binghamson, in the meantime, quickly send reinforcements to the nearby resource points. At your fastest speed, you should be able to get help in three hourglasses."

After glancing at the map, Bingham said with difficulty, "If it's three hourglasses, I'll do my best! Honey, keep in touch with the crystal ball at all times..." Slowly, Bingham disappeared into the distance.

Raffi spread his huge green leaf wings, took out his bow and arrow, straightened his body, and flew into the sky with a "whoosh," rushing towards the bird that was following him in the distance. The bird seemed to have sensed something was wrong and fled in the opposite direction.

The two black dots quickly disappeared into the horizon.

On the other side of the ground team, a wizard apprentice from Ivory Castle took out a small magic wand, casually tossed it into the air, and let it land on the ground. He said in a low voice, "Let's head towards the tip of this wand. The direction won't deviate too much. This irregular approach will happen every tenth of an hourglass. Let's see what kind of ambush they can come up with now!"

Green is immersed in his research on the intertwining and annihilation of water and fire.

At this moment, Green was completely awestruck by this extremely complex knowledge of elements.

It turns out that the so-called Explosive Flame Spell only utilizes the annihilation properties of water and fire at the most basic level. That's why it's called Explosive Flame Spell and not some kind of Annihilation Spell. It's a basic application of the annihilation power of water and fire elements. Simply put, it involves mixing a more stable water element spell into a relatively stable fire element spell, and then using the combined force after the spell's instantaneous burst to evolve a trace of annihilation power.

This crude method of energy utilization is like when the witch Elaine detonated a Philosopher's Stone during the first basic lesson at Black Tower Academy—an insult to wizards renowned for their exquisite control of energy levers.

However, this simple application of the power of annihilation was the limit of the ancient wizards' research on the power of annihilation. This was because of the special nature of the energy of the power of annihilation, which could not be collected or studied by any physical or energy method, so there was no way to talk about any in-depth utilization.

But what Green wants to say is that even with such a simple application of annihilation power, the force with which it leverages the rules is definitely more than thirty times that of basic spiritual energy! Furthermore, as wizards can create more stable water and fire elemental environments, the multiplier of the annihilation power that leverages the rules in an instant will be even greater, and it has extremely high growth potential…

Green couldn't help but feel extremely fortunate to have obtained the Undying Rare Fire Elemental Rune.

This is because this rune contains a trace of stable fire attribute properties! This provides a more perfect foundation for Grimm's research into explosive fire magic.

Immersed in immense spiritual joy, Green's face was concealed by a pale mask. He followed the group with his head down, like a mechanical wooden puppet. In recent years, Green had always been in this state, so much so that apart from Raffi and a few others who were already familiar with him, the other wizarding apprentices in the group had never interacted with Green. They only knew that this guy with the white mask was a couple with Raffi, and hadn't paid much attention to him.

After about half an hourglass's time, a travel-worn Lafite landed from the sky and said in a sullen voice, "That eagle got away."

Snap, snap, snap...

After running for a full three and a half hourglasses, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief as they looked at the reinforcements brought by Binghamson in the distance. This alliance of twenty-drop-of-blood-drainers was indeed no longer the wizarding apprentices of District 19 from a few years ago. Even without meeting them, everyone had already begun to feel a certain inexplicable pressure.

After exchanging thanks and pleasantries, Raffi led the group back towards the resource gathering point at the heart of the war zone.

One day later.

"Once we cross this low mountain range, we'll reach the Sacred Relic Valley, the very heart of the entire Sacred Relic Fall Basin. Although there are only fifteen resource points here, their total resources account for half of the entire basin! Of course, this war isn't calculated based on resource quantity," Raffi encouraged the somewhat weary group.

Two hourglasses later, the group standing atop the low mountain range sat down to rest, casually ate some dry rations, and prepared to descend. However, at that moment, those who saw this side of the low mountain were stunned.

The outer ring of the hill is just a series of ordinary-looking small slopes, unremarkable, only about four or five hundred meters high. However, the inner ring rises to over a thousand meters to the valley floor, with a slope of about forty-five degrees. The slope is smooth, devoid of any vegetation or protruding rocks, simply a smooth expanse extending to the valley floor…

The entire low mountain range forms a ring shape, with a diameter of about ten kilometers. It forms a large ring within a smaller ring with the distant Daqipeng Mountain Range, leaving a scar on the infinitely vast Wizarding Continent that cannot be erased by countless years.

Green's heart skipped a beat. This wasn't some low mountain range; it was clearly a huge meteorite crater!

Is this the very center of the area where that ancient, holy-marked wizard perished?

The fall of a Saintly Wizard caused geological changes in the Saintly Fall Basin, with the most central area being the resource-gathering point of the inner ring of low mountains, the Saintly Valley.

So awe-inspiring, Green had begun to grasp the basic outline of that supreme and immense power. Of course, the Stigmata Wizards capable of producing such an effect were most likely among the most powerful Stigmata Wizards…

(End of this chapter)