dark witches rise

Chapter 157 Meeting Ceremony, Seed of Life, Casting Holy Foundation
The two walked among the forest of knight steles.

Stepping on the winding road covered with dead leaves, the dead leaves shattered and deformed, making a crisp sound of crackling.

The trees on both sides of the road stand quietly.

In this forest where there is not even a little wind, I walked all the way for more than half an hour, and I didn't even hear the swaying of the branches, let alone the calls of animals and insects.

Dead!

The two seemed to be walking in the death passage leading to the nether hell.

As they went deeper into the forest of knight steles, the trees became taller and taller.

From the three-five-meter-high trees at the entrance, it becomes ten meters, 20 meters, 30 meters...

In the end, there were thick old trees with trunks so large in diameter that ten people could hold them hand in hand.

If the surrounding area is not too quiet and dead, this place must be an excellent place for sightseeing. Just looking at these towering trees will already pay off.

In this dark forest where the leaves blocked the sunlight, the two walked for an unknown how long.

When they passed through a wild forest full of thorns.

Suddenly, the overflowing fragrance of flowers came to the nostrils, the fragrance of green grass drifted with the wind, the singing of small animals and insects reached the ears, and the leaves rustled under the breeze.

The whole forest looks so vibrant.

They looked forward, and there was a simple shed made of branches under an unknown huge ancient tree, and vines full of vitality were climbing on the shed.

Inside the shed, an old woman with gray hair, wrinkled face, rough gray clothes and no decorations on her body was sitting leaning on an ancient tree.

Is this the mandolin wizard?
That crazy, cruel, evil mandolin wizard?
Roja's face remained calm.

Weiss showed a surprised expression.

Weiss looked at the mandolin wizard carefully, then looked sideways at Roja.

Those bright eyes clearly said: "Could we have gone to the wrong place? Or is it that the Mandolin wizard really asked us to stop the plague, and the spread of the plague was not done by the Mandolin wizard?"

Weiss has this doubt, she can only say that she is too young.

Just because you found out that the person on the other side looked like an amiable person, did you immediately change your mind?

Roja glanced at Weiss, "It's still too young and naive."

When Roja was about to kneel down to greet the mandolin wizard.

The mandolin wizard waved at them lightly, and said with a smile, "Don't be so reserved, just treat me like an ordinary old woman, come and sit down."

After Roya and Weiss looked at each other, they entered the wooden shed and sat on the ground in front of the mandolin wizard.

"Come on, this is the tea I planted myself, let's see if it suits your taste." The mandolin wizard personally poured two cups of tea for Roya and Weiss.

Weiss looked at the steaming teacup, wondering whether she should drink it or not.

Roja on the side naturally picked up the teacup and took a sip. He could only feel the fragrance in his mouth, and he felt much refreshed.

"Good tea."

After Roja nodded, he drank the tea in the cup in one gulp.

"Haha, as long as you like it." The mandolin wizard stared at Roja, "You are Roja, right? I didn't expect that you, who just passed the wizard trial for two years, were able to kill Kukashi and Marvin."

"It's just a fluke." Roja said modestly.

"It's not a fluke, it's strength!" The mandolin wizard drank tea and said with a smile: "You have completely learned the witchcraft returning to the source of phantom, and you have the perfect spell-casting materials obtained from the Ten Thousand Devils' Cave. They are strong, and they are not wronged when they lose."

"It's just that I lost when I didn't expect to lose. That kid Marwen, who was good at escaping, died in your hands."

"Tsk tsk, it's not luck that you can achieve what you are today."

Regarding Roja's killing of her two students, the mandolin wizard didn't show any blame on Roja.

The mandolin wizard asked Roja, "What do you want from me?"

"Do you want to be my student? Learn to become stronger under my guidance?"

"Do you want to obtain medicines and props that can speed up your cultivation, and become a third-class apprentice faster?"

"Or do you want to use my connections to let me recommend you to a certain big shot?"

"Tell me what you want."

The mandolin wizard was smiling, waiting for Roja's answer with great interest.

Weiss on the side also stared at Roja with wide eyes.

Which one to choose?
Official wizards are much more powerful than apprentice wizards, and they have too many treasures.

A little thing casually given by an official wizard can greatly improve the strength of a wizard apprentice.

For example, before Roja relied on the seven-leaf scale god flower sent by the mandolin wizard to step into the second-class apprentice realm. If he worked hard on his own, it would take at least one or two years.

How many years can there be in one or two years?

The casual gift from an official wizard has reaped so much for him, and the things he can get from this official meeting must be even more precious.

If Roja was more courageous and ambitious, maybe——

After Roja closed his eyes and thought for a while, when he opened them again, there was no confusion in his eyes.

He ignored the mandolin wizard's other proposals and said exactly what he had already decided he wanted.

"Master Mandolin Sorcerer, I hope you can grant me the cultivation skills of the Paladin." Roja lowered his head and begged.

"Paladin skills? This thing is quite rare for ordinary people, but with your strength, it is not difficult to get it. Is it really okay to waste such a good opportunity? I especially allow you to change it." Manduo Wizard Bell suggested.

"I believe that in the land of the Six Kingdoms, no one is more proficient in the understanding and cultivation of paladins than you, and there is no place more suitable for paladins to cultivate than Manhualin here." Roja said firmly.

"..."

The mandolin wizard took a deep look at Roja, and then smiled happily.

"Since you want it, I'll give it to you."

The mandolin wizard stretched out his hand, and the surrounding branches swayed without wind, and leaves fell from the trees one by one, flying towards the mandolin wizard.

The leaves flying in the air were continuously decomposed and reshaped, and when they flew into the hands of the mandolin wizard, they had already turned into emerald green pages.

In an instant, the mandolin wizard had created a thick book from scratch on the spot.

Both Roja and Weiss were amazed by the amazing skills displayed by the mandolin wizard at will.

The mandolin wizard handed the book to Roja.

Roja raised his hands and took the book cautiously, "Master Mandolin Wizard, can I have a look?"

After getting the affirmation of the mandolin wizard, Roja put the book in front of him and read it.

At first glance, it is naturally the cover.

I saw that on the cover there were several large characters full of vitality that looked like climbing vines——"Seven Trees Sacred Flower Garden".

Looking at this name that doesn't look like the title of a book, Roja stared at it for a long time.

Seeing Roja's doubts, the mandolin wizard explained: "The "Seven Trees Sacred Flower Garden" is the strongest paladin technique from another country outside the Six Kingdoms, the Holy Tree Kingdom."

It was found that Roja was still at a loss.

The mandolin wizard continued to explain: "Just as the land of our Six Kingdoms is the territory of the black wizards of Wanmoku, the Holy Tree Kingdom is ruled by the green-robed wizards of the tree of life."

"The Kingdom of the Holy Tree is a country of knights, a country of holy knights. There are billions of people in the country, all of whom practice knight swordsmanship and vitality."

"There is no such thing as blood in the Holy Tree Kingdom."

"For them, it is an evil way to become a great knight by cultivating their blood..."

The mandolin wizard stopped in the middle of the conversation, looked at Roja who had a questioning face and said, "Do you have a lot of questions?"

"Yes." Roja nodded.

"for example?"

"If you don't awaken your bloodline, you can't even become a great knight, right?"

"The essence of a great knight is a knight who can stimulate vitality, not a knight who awakens his bloodline, and becoming a great knight by awakening his bloodline is just a shortcut, not necessary."

Roja naturally knew that he could become a great knight without awakening his bloodline. He used this question to ask his teacher Barney witch doctor, and he also got the answer from Barney witch doctor.

It is possible, but the difficulty is tens or hundreds of times greater.

Even with the shortcut of blood, the number of great knights is still so small.

If you only rely on yourself to practice, I am afraid that the total number of great knights in the entire land of the Six Kingdoms will not exceed 100.

But the question Roja really wants to ask is not this one.

What he was really puzzled about was——

"Since people in the Sacred Tree Kingdom don't practice bloodlines, don't they have wizards in the Sacred Tree Country? Isn't the Sacred Tree Country the territory of the green-robed wizards?" Roja asked doubtfully.

"Haha, kid Roja, you asked a very good question." The mandolin wizard showed a happy smile.

"What do you think a wizard is?"

Before Roja could answer this question, the mandolin wizard began to explain on his own.

"Wizards are a group of people who pursue the truth."

"In order to pursue the truth, are they willing to do anything and do anything?"

"It doesn't matter whether it's magic power or vitality, whether you have blood or not, it doesn't affect the wizard's exploration of the truth. It's better to say that these are just a certain method of exploring the truth, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior in essence."

Looking at Roja's calm face, the mandolin wizard smiled slightly,
"Haha, do you think my statement is too formal, too fake?"

"Then let me change it to a more down-to-earth statement."

"Wizards do pursue the truth, but how many wizards work purely for the truth?"

"truth?"

"No matter how much you say, isn't it just for power?"

"Truth is power!"

"Power is truth!"

The mandolin wizard looked up at the blue sky, his eyes as deep as the sea.

"Humans are an inherently weak race."

"In the eyes of other powerful races, human beings at the beginning were just low-level creatures like goblins, and they were just weak beings that could be ravaged and enslaved at will."

"Human beings who are unwilling to accept such a cruel fate want to gain great power."

"Since the human race is inherently weak and cannot become strong, then learn from other races, integrate the flesh and blood of other races, analyze the innate talents of other races and find a way to reproduce them."

"The so-called pursuit of truth by wizards is essentially to analyze the innate abilities of other races, and integrate these abilities into themselves, so as to obtain power beyond the limits of human beings."

"This is the wizard."

"As the wizards continue to become stronger, the vision of the wizards becomes higher, and finally they set their goals on the innate demon god."

"The wizard learns from the innate demon god, analyzes the innate demon god, and finally obtains the power comparable to or even surpasses the innate demon god."

"Whether it's the black wizard in the Ten Thousand Devils' Cave, the white wizard in the Nine Ring Tower, the green wizard in the Living Tree Realm, or the red wizard in the Bloodcloth Temple, all wizards are learning and analyzing the innate demon gods to gain power."

"Do you think that the green-robed wizards in the tree of life study life force, which belongs to our human power, so they don't rely on blood?"

"It's not!"

The mandolin wizard waved his hand, "It's just that their 'blood' is slightly different from that of our black wizards, because the innate demon gods that the green wizards learned and comprehended are the source tree of life!"

"The final form of the legendary tree of life, the ninth-level demon god that gave birth to all life in the world!"

"The bloodline of the green-robed wizard is—"

The mandolin wizard stretched out her hand, and an ordinary-looking seed appeared in her palm.

But Roja can feel the incomparably pure and huge vitality contained in the seeds.

"Why are many geniuses at the peak of the great knight stuck in the realm of the great knight all their lives?"

"Why are all the paladins in the Land of the Six Kingdoms wizards?"

"Because if you want to break through the paladin, the amount of vitality must be more than [-] units, a huge amount that cannot be achieved by normal cultivation. Only a wizard with blood can have such a huge amount of vitality..."

Roja's ears perked up.

The mandolin wizard has talked for so long, and finally got to the point.

Can a person who has no magic but just uses life force become a wizard?

of course can!

Although there are not many witchcrafts that are purely driven by life force, there are still some.

Can one become a wizard without blood?
Sure!

Many green-robed wizards in the tree of life have no blood.

The question is how?

With no blood, a weak constitution, and little vitality, how can one step into the realm of a paladin?How to become a wizard?

So the key to becoming a wizard without blood is how to increase vitality!

"Is this seed the key to increasing vitality?" Roja asked, staring at the seed in the palm of the mandolin wizard.

"That's right." The mandolin wizard nodded and said, "If we black wizards want to become wizard apprentices, in addition to cultivating spiritual power, the most important step is to conduct blood trials to increase blood concentration."

"And for those green-robed wizards who have no blood, the most important step to step into the apprenticeship realm is to forge the Holy Foundation!"

"Cast Holy Foundation?" Roja frowned.

"To put it simply, it is to plant a life seed refined from the tree of life in the body."

"Then practice the method of casting the holy foundation in the paladin's exercises, so that the seeds of life will take root and germinate, and merge with the body, so as to achieve the purpose of increasing vitality."

After the mandolin wizard said, Roja suddenly realized.

Before he knew it, no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't think of a clue, but after he knew it, it seemed that it was the same thing.

The so-called method of breaking through the paladin in "Morning Sword Art" he got was only the trick of transforming the vitality into the power of brilliance, and lacked the part of casting the holy foundation.

That's why the Talu Grand Knight cannot become a Paladin.

"Then this one in your hand is the seed of life used to cast the holy foundation?" Roja stared at the palm of the mandolin wizard and said fieryly.

"That's right, and it is a high-level seed of life refined from the core of the century-old tree of life."

The tree of life is a very vigorous tree with many uses. It is said that the tree of life that is a million years old can even give birth to intelligent life.

Due to the extremely tenacious vitality of the tree of life, you can just fold a branch and stick it on the ground to grow. Therefore, there are many trees of low years. One of the raw materials for making the martial arts inheritance stele that burns knight martial arts is the sap of the tree of life. .

However, once the age of the tree of life exceeds ten years, the number will drop sharply.

It's not that the tree of life has a short lifespan, and it generally doesn't last ten years, but that the calculation of the tree's age is a little different from that of ordinary trees.

Under ideal circumstances, the tree of life would grow a meter taller a year.

So a ten-meter tree of life is a ten-year tree of life, and a hundred-meter tree of life is a hundred-year tree of life...

By analogy, the life tree of 100 million meters is the life tree of millions of years.

The question is the ideal environment?

Where does the ideal environment come from in this world?
In most environments, the vitality stops growing after two or three meters.

There are very few life trees that can grow to ten meters, and it takes tens of hundreds of years.

A [-]-meter-tall tree of life?
It will never grow without 1000 years!

Even many hundred-year-old trees need tens of thousands of years to take shape!
The seed of life refined from the core of the century-old tree of life is absolutely very precious, and it is a precious thing that can only be given away by official wizards.

"Using this high-level life to cast a holy foundation, in exchange for our dark wizards, is equivalent to starting with pure blood."

After finishing speaking, the mandolin wizard gently threw the Seed of Life in his hand towards Roja.

Even though he knew that the Seed of Life would be fine even if ordinary people smashed it with a hammer, Roja hurriedly caught the Seed of Life and carefully stored it away.

"Little Roya, do you know that besides prolonging life, cultivating vitality has a very big benefit." The mandolin wizard said.

"What's the benefit?" Roja asked.

"Because of their impure blood, half-blood wizards only have [-] units of mana. Pure-blood wizards have a little more, but they only have [-] units. They can't compete with monsters and the blood of demon gods."

"And vitality is the energy that we humans possess, so..."

Hearing this, Roja's breathing has become very short.

The mandolin wizard gave birth to five fingers, "We humans are in the apprenticeship state, the limit of the amount of vitality that can be achieved is..."

"Fifty thousand units!"

hiss--

Roja took a breath.

Fifty thousand units of vitality?

Just using life force as a backup energy source for magic power is enough to make him have an extra [-] units out of thin air.

What's more, the use of vitality is not only used to transform into magic power!

After learning this information, Roja couldn't help thinking, should he learn a witchcraft based on vitality in the future?
An apprentice wizard can learn up to three witchcrafts, and he has learned Apparition to the Source, and he can learn two more.

Maybe work?

(End of this chapter)