Warlock of the Magus World 1-596

by Wen Chao Gong

  Under the illumination of the red light, the black gas on Jenna’s face began to vanish. The terrifying might of the curse waned at a rate that could be seen by the naked eye.

  “The talisman to undo the curse provided by Leylin is effective, as expected!” The old woman looked at the freezer that was emitting red light, and her expression brightened.

  After having traded to Leylin the incomplete high-grade meditation technique that was inherited generation to generation in exchange for the talisman, she was able to rush back before the curse completely exploded!

  “Leylin Farlier, you sinner! You shall be punished and judged by the Mother of Peace!” The old woman made a few hand signs and prayed in a low voice.

  *Drip! Drip!*

  Droplets of blood-red liquid formed from the key and penetrated through the layer of ice, and dripped onto Jenna’s pale, snow-white neck.

  *Tss tss!* White gas rose from the area on Jenna’s neck that was covered by the blood-red liquid as it began to recover at a visible rate.

  *Weng!*

  Jenna, who had been unconscious all this time, suddenly opened her eyes!

  *Boom! Boom! Boom!* The ice coffin shattered into pieces, and strange undulations traveled throughout the ice room.

  The old woman was extremely familiar with this energy fluctuation. This was a phenomenon that happened when their guide was making a prophecy!

  “She’s going to start now?” A bewildered look appeared on her face.

  “I see countless deaths! Demon king! A demon king with toxic abilities is approaching…”

  Jenna’s eyes suddenly rolled back to show whiteness, and a low and gasping voice was heard.

  “Toxic? Demon king? Could it be…” The old woman was startled and suddenly recalled the latest news.

  *Weng Weng!*

  The blood-red key from before suddenly hovered in the air, producing glaring rays of light.

  “A tracking imprint? This is bad!” The old woman’s eyes widened!

  At this moment, outside the upside-down castle, Leylin in black robes appeared.

  “Is this the rumoured upside-down castle? It really is quite strange!”

  Leylin lifted his hood and sized up the building in front of him, sighing in admiration.

  After killing two rank 2 Magi, he knew that he would be chased by both light and dark Magi factions. Hence, he had changed his clothes and escaped out of the secret plane via another exit.

  Though there were strict testing methods at each entrance, these were all tests that picked out the aura of precious materials gathered from the Eternal River Plains’ secret plane, preventing them from being smuggled out.

  With Leylin’s abilities as a rank 2 Warlock, it was naturally effortless for him to escape.

  As for the sensing of any items, Leylin had placed them in the spatial leather pouch. With the isolation from spatial runes, even the most refined detection spell formations would not discover any traces.

  Leylin raised his right hand, and on his wrist, a red key-shaped imprint was pulsating with light.

  “It’s here!”

  Leylin grinned as he looked at the tracking imprint.

  The place where Jenna’s family was located was hard to find. It could be said that even Hyder needed the old woman’s directions in order to enter. There was no real map.

  In the trade with this old woman, Jenna’s family’s grandmother did not have good intentions and wanted Leylin to take this incomplete high-grade meditation technique and be taken over by it. Leylin, similarly, was not kind and added a tracking imprint into the talisman.

  With the help of the imprint, he was finally able to locate the nest of Jenna’s family.

  “Though the high-grade meditation technique, Sacred Flame, is incomplete, it is still unique! Its nature is extremely troublesome, and only one person in the world is able to train in it at a time.”

  Leylin’s lips curved as bloodlust overcame in. He did not have a good impression of this egocentric family. Since he’d found where they were, it was natural that he would want to get things over and done with.

  “Halt!” The two statue guards at the gate came to life and their muscles rippled as they yelled in a low tone.

  “Two magical beings? Together, their power is almost equivalent to a rank 1 Magus!” Leylin’s eyes flashed, already pinpointing information about these guards.

  “This level of defense for a Magus family is not half bad!”

  Leylin waved his arm and two large black fireballs flew out, meeting the large statue guards that had whipped out their weapons.

  *Bang! Boom!*

  The fireballs smashed into the large stone swords, and like water engulfed the bodies of the guards. The two guards immediately turned into two huge, black torches that burned furiously.

  Under the attack of Leylin’s Latent Fireball, the two statue guards that had been around for thousands of years instantly turned into a pile of black powder.

  “Enemy attack!” “Who is it?”

  Countless urgent voices sounded in the castle, and then the mournful, piercing sound of a copper bell. The runes on the surface of the castle began to move.

  For the defense of such an ancient family, even a peak rank 1 Magus would not be able to penetrate through if it was completely activated.

  “Hah…”

  Leylin let out a long sigh, and streaks of silver spiritual force extended from his body. His body then mysteriously hovered in mid-air, forming a huge silver face.

  “Toxic Bile!”

  From the lips of the large silver face, a cold incantation was exclaimed.

  The poison from the terrifying ancient creature, the Giant Kemoyin Serpent, soundlessly penetrated throughout the insides of the castle!

  The runes outside were entirely useless towards poison attacks. Every single person inside, whether it was an acolyte, servant or even official Magi collapsed to the ground, their bodies beginning to rot.

  Not only the castle but in a range of half a km away, all the plants were beginning to dry up and rot.

  Silence! The eerie silence of death! It shrouded the area, with the castle at the centre of it all.

  In this large area, no being was lucky enough to survive and sunk into the eternity of death.

  *Bang!* The old grey gate that still was still full of patterns that had an ancient aura silently toppled.

  Under the corrosion of the poison, not only the defensive formation, but even the building itself was affected by the destructive force.

  In the granite that seemed to be extremely solid, there were hundreds of thousands of little holes that were the result of the corrosion. The entire building swayed and looked on the verge of falling. Leylin felt as if at a light push, the entire castle would fall with a huge rumble.

  In the corridor that was filled with a putrid smell, rotting corpses were everywhere.

  Leylin followed the tracking imprint and advanced further, finally reaching the ice room that was far into the castle.

  He entered the ice room filled with chilly white gas and saw the two corpses.

  The old woman had died extremely painfully, holding test tubes that held all types of antidotes. Of course, there did not seem to be any use in it and her flesh was still rotting.

  As an official Magus, her resistance was obviously more powerful than a regular person. Even when dead, her body was still more difficult to destroy.

  Arrangement

  On the icy counter in the middle, Jenna’s corpse lay silently. On her face, which had mostly been eaten into, all sorts of craziness could be seen, as if the expressions of different people had been mixed together. There was even a trace of relief in her smile, which made it even stranger.

  The poison from the Giant Kemoyin Serpent had a vigorous corrosive effect, and the spirits of all the spirits residing in Jenna’s body were being eaten into by the terrifying toxins.

  “How pitiful!” After obtaining the high-grade meditation technique, Sacred Flame, Le
ylin had used the A.I. Chip and simulated the characteristics of this meditation technique.

  Gathering generations of ancestors and keeping it in the body of descendants, this high-grade meditation technique was something even dark Magi would find furtive and terrifying!

  In addition, Jenna, who was the host body, would become schizophrenic and turn into a pitiful state.

  To some extent, after training in Sacred Flame and inheriting the spirits of her ancestors, Jenna had already died.

  “What a strange meditation technique, and a pitiful family!” Leylin touched his chin.

  The properties of Sacred Flame caused him some hints of fear. Before he completely made sense of it and researched methods to evade these effects, he was not willing to go anywhere near it.

  Half a day later, Leylin left the castle.

  *Crash* After he left, little stones constantly slid off the castle, and huge cracks appeared on it.

  *Rumble!*

  The castle completely collapsed and turned into a pile of rubble. From hereon, the Botelli Family was no more…

  Dense clouds covered the sky, thunder and lightning occasionally could be heard.

  Moments later, black raindrops descended from the horizon.

  At the Teljose volcano that was not far away, a great pillar of flames suddenly erupted towards the heavens. Large amounts of volcanic ash flew to the air, and along with some man-made structures, they turned into fertilizing raindrops and descended, which provided the Teljose Plains with great vitality!

  The peasants who were farming quickly knelt by the roadside, singing praises to the Magi of Nightless City.

  With the protection of the Magi they had plentiful harvests that were enough for them to live on without fear for lack of food or clothing, even after paying the large taxes and contributions to their lords.

  A large black handsome horse streaked through the rain, and one could vaguely see the figure of a young man.

  “Hawke… What a shame…”

  While urging on his horse, he lamented inside.

  In the Eternal River Plains’ secret plane, the range of his Toxic Bile was too fast and powerful. Even Hawke, who had been kept at the edges of the headquarters, could not escape. In this attack that did not differentiate friend from foe, Leylin lost this very convenient mode of transportation.

  Leylin had needed to deal with Caesar and set up the Ten Thousand Spirit spell formation. He even needed to secretly notify Desmund, and his mind had been whirling at high speeds. The Venom Wyvern Hawke was just a pet that was a means of transportation. Without taking it into account, it had died together with the Magi on the outer layers under Leylin’s poisonous attack.

  “However, due to the limitations of its kind, the Venom Wyvern can only become as strong as a rank 1 Magus! After I was promoted to a rank 2 Warlock, Hawke’s usefulness will only decrease bit by bit. I was going to find an opportunity to set it free, but…”

  Leylin sighed, taking a moment of silence for Hawke’s unfortunate passing.

  He then tossed this thought to the back of his mind, focusing his attention on the large Nightless City that was towering in the rain, a cold smile about his face.

  He turned the horse’s head, and it diverged from its original route and galloped towards a little town inhabited by regular humans.

  Due to its huge popularity, there were tens of large towns near Nightless City where regular humans lived. Like satellites, they surrounded Nightless City.

  Everyday regular humans from all walks of life, people having the desire to become a Magus, fugitives, or even people who were only here because of their youth and adventurous nature discovered the brutality of reality. These humans were chased out of Nightless City and could only dither around in this sort of town.

  Leylin came to a town called Clint, found a bar and entered, ordered mead, and drank it silently.

  “Master!”

  Ten or so minutes later, a few people dressed in black clothes with hoods arrived, and an old man who was the leader exclaimed.

  “En! Come with me!”

  Leylin tossed out a silver coin and brought this group of people away from the bar.

  Next, the old man brought Leylin to a villa on the outskirts of the town.

  “Master! After receiving your message, we immediately tidied up the supplies and left Nightless City. We rented this house and have been awaiting your return!”

  After entering the villa, the leader removed the hood and revealed a silver-haired old man.

  This was Damien, the level 3 acolyte slave Leylin had bought, who was also his butler. He was in charge of Leylin’s property in Nightless City.

  Number 4 and Number 5, the two female Grand Knights were also around. Like guards, they were vigilant by the door.

  The first time he had met the boy and accepted Thousand Meddling Hand’s mission to be a spy, Leylin had had a bad feeling about the whole situation and passed down the order for Damien and the rest to leave Nightless City as soon as possible.

  Upon hindsight, his initial decision was the correct one. If not, Damien and the rest would have long since been taken captive by the light Magi.

  “Damien! Number 4! Number 5! Can I trust you?”

  Leylin looked grim.

  “Master! Your wish is our command!” Hearing Leylin ask this so seriously, Damien and Number 4 and Number 5 immediately knelt on one knee, chanting the reply.

  They were slaves spiritually bonded to Leylin. Like Number 2 and Number 3, they could not disobey even if Leylin wanted them to kill themselves!

  “Good! Now, I want you to cross the Death Channel and return to my hometown, the Chernobyl Islands and protect my family!”

  “Understood!” Damien and the other two immediately agreed.

  “I want you to leave inheritances on Chernobyl Islands, and make an oath that your students will continue this mission, till the end of the world…” Leylin’s voice became hoarse.

  “Understood, master!” The three spiritually branded slaves trembled and bowed their heads lower.

  “Good!” Leylin nodded. With a wave of his hand, three black streaks flew from his hand and entered the foreheads of the three people.

  *Tss Tss!* The spiritually branded slaves immediately grimaced, hands tightly grasping the ground. On their foreheads, Leylin’s own secret imprint emerged.

  “This is my blessing! Within is a magic attack that is as powerful as an attack from me going all out! With some rituals, it can also be passed down…”

  Leylin was now a rank 2 Warlock, and there were few who had this level of strength in the entire south coast! Just an attack would cause an official Magus to be seriously injured, or even die!

  The secret imprint had even more uses. The south coast had a few Magi who were proficient in divination, such as by astrology and making prophecies. With this imprint, they would be mostly immune to these spells.

  Just Leylin’s current might as a rank 2 Warlock meant that ordinary divination methods were useless against him.

  Magi were a source of terrifying radiation and pollution, and this was even more potent for a rank 2 Magus. Leylin could feel that he was like a constant energy furnace, constantly emitting frightful energy undulations that even caused the air to distort.

  At a certain level of strength, even the external world would be affected! If there was anyone who wanted to make a prophecy about Leylin right now, an ordinary rank 2 Magus was far from enough. At least a rank 3 Magus who was proficient in divination would be able to do so.

  With the protection from the imprint, the three of them could find a place to find and take care of the Farlier family.

  Leylin did not bank on them being able to withstand the attacks from dark and light Magi. All he wished for was for them to safeguard and defend the Farlier family from dangers in the Chernobyl Islands.

  Based on standard practice in the Magus world, before confirming that Leylin was dead, any dark and light Magi would not dare strike against the Farlie
r family. If not, they would be met with the crazy retaliation from a Magus who had already reached rank 2 and had a terrifying destructive might!

  This level of attack was something that not even the Lighthouse of the Night, which had a rank 3 Magus, would be willing to go up against!

  Hence, with the protection from these spiritually bound slaves, the Farlier family that was on the Chernobyl Islands were completely safe, and would also receive a huge boost to develop further!