The Witcher: From the Academy of Knights

"Damn!"

Looking at the black monster approaching not far away, Zakar's face changed, and he wanted to dodge, but it was too late, and his chest was instantly scratched by Sauron's black claws.

brush!
When the claw passed, Zakar's chest was dripping with blood immediately, and the wound looked extremely hideous, and the severe pain made his complexion turn hideous.

"Give me... get out of here!"

Zakar endured the pain and let out a sharp roar. Immediately afterwards, the vines on his chest protruded like tentacles and danced wildly.

clap clap clap!
The vines turned into long whips and directly knocked Sauron into the air. After Zakar hit with all his strength, the aura emanating from his body became weaker and weaker.

Immediately, he fled towards the distance.

Judging from the current situation, Zakkar already knew very well that in his current state, he probably had no chance of winning against Sauron.

Therefore, escape was his only option.

Only by escaping from this cave can he make a long-term plan and then consider how to recover from his injuries.

Thinking of this, Zakar's thoughts flickered, and he went straight to the exit of the cave, but at this moment, a huge black shadow blocked his way.

"Get out of here!"

Zakar roared, and waved his hand to knock away the human-faced spider in front of him, but at this moment, the human-faced spider suddenly spit out a ball of white silk.

In an instant, spider webs came overwhelmingly.

Zakar was caught off guard, and was immediately trapped in it. Before he could break free, Sauron, who had turned into a black monster, had charged towards him at the fastest speed.

"Die!"

Sauron let out a roar, waved his claws, and directly tore Zakhar's body apart. With a shrill scream, the official wizard also died completely.

Blood spilled on the ground, exuding a strong bloody smell.

Sauron's eyes flickered slightly, and his body gradually returned to normal. Although he, as an official wizard, could transform himself by relying on mad spells, maintaining the state of beast blood boiling for a long time was also a great burden for Sauron.

Therefore, after the battle, Sauron recovered his state immediately.

Looking at Zakhar's body on the ground, he didn't hesitate much. With a wave of his hand, a ball of green flames struck and engulfed Zakhar's body.

brush!
In a short while, Zakar's body had been burned to the ground. Even a formal wizard would die terribly, but Sauron was still not careless.

But he saw a cloud of mist slowly drifting out from Zakhar's body.

That is the soul of the other party. As a formal wizard, Zakkar's mental power is very strong. Therefore, it is inevitable for the soul to leave the body after death.

"Want to escape? It's not that easy."

A sneer appeared on Sauron's face. After seeing Zakaar's soul leaving his body, he seemed to want to escape far away, and immediately activated the spirit control rune to trap him in place.

"Soul imprint!"

Immediately afterwards, Sauron uttered syllables, and his mental power turned into a brand, which was directly left on Zakaar's spirit body, making it his puppet.

After doing all this, Sauron's face turned slightly pale.

In any case, Zakar is an official wizard, and Sauron consumes one-third of his magic power to deal with him, and using the soul brand is also a burden.

As a control rune, Soul Brand has very special conditions for use.

Every time Sauron uses the soul brand, he needs to consume his own mental power. At the same time, if the target's mental power is strong, it is also a burden for him.

On the contrary, if the other party is just an ordinary person, soul imprinting is much easier.

"call!"

In any case, it was over, and Zakar died at the hands of Sauron, becoming the first wizard he killed.

In the same place, Sauron looked around and saw that Zakar was dead, so what he left would naturally belong to Sauron.

Looking at the ashes on the ground, Sauron frowned slightly.

Zakar didn't seem to have anything valuable on him, which made Sauron feel a little disappointed, but soon, a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

"Anyway, he's still a wizard!"

Sauron shook his head, his eyes flickered slightly. As a wizard, Zakar couldn't have no wealth at all. If he couldn't see anything at this moment, there were only two possibilities.

First, Zakar's wealth was left outside the red mysterious realm by him.

Secondly, Zakhar hid all his resources in a place where outsiders could not know.

While Sauron was thinking, a thought suddenly struck his mind.

He looked downwards and saw an emerald-like ring among the remains of Zakaar, emitting bright light. It was obviously not a mortal object.

"Extraordinary item?"

Sauron picked up the ring with a thoughtful expression on his face. Based on the energy fluctuations on the ring, it was undoubtedly a transcendent item.

However, Sauron didn't know what the effect of this extraordinary item was.

Immediately, he tried to inject magic power, and the ring suddenly emitted a faint light. Sauron's eyes lit up, as if he felt the existence of a dimensional space.

"Space Transcendent Item!"

Thinking of some possibility, a smile appeared on Sauron's face. If nothing else, this extraordinary item should be an extremely rare space-type extraordinary item.

"I see!"

Sauron's eyes flickered, and a dazed expression appeared on his face. No wonder he couldn't find Zakar's wealth. It turned out that the other party had hidden it in extraordinary items.

After some inspections, Sauron was already sure.

This emerald ring is indeed a space-type transcendent item, and it contains all of Zakar's wealth, and there are nearly ten thousand magic stones alone.

And, beyond that, there's a lot of value.

Even some of them can be used as hole cards. If Zakar can use them, it will be even more difficult for Sauron to kill him.

"Fortunately!"

The corners of Sauron's lips raised slightly. It is true that Zakkar left a lot of good things, but at this moment, these things will become his trophies.

This trip to the Red Mystic Realm, even if there is no gain afterward, the resources in this emerald ring alone are enough for Sauron to use for a long time.

Suppressing the throbbing in his heart, Sauron calmed down.

Immediately afterwards, with a thought in his mind, he controlled the wraith to clean up the battlefield. After cleaning everything up, he turned and left the man-faced spider's cave.

Not long after, Sauron saw a familiar figure in a passage.

"Sir, you..."

Logan froze for a moment, looking at Sauron, who was driving the spider with a human face, a strange look appeared on his face, and then surprise flashed in his eyes.

"You are lucky, we meet again."

The corners of Sauron's lips twitched slightly. After killing Zakar and getting the Emerald Ring from the other party, he was in a really good mood, and he didn't say much when he saw Logan.

"Unexpectedly, the adults still have such means."

A trace of complexity appeared on Logan's face, as if he hadn't thought that Sauron could control the spider. He didn't know what happened not long ago.

All I know is that Sauron chased the man-faced spider, and after reappearing, he was able to control the man-faced spider.

"Come with me."

Sauron nodded slightly, but didn't say much, and led Logan to move forward. The environment of the underground palace under the Red God Temple is complex, and it will not happen overnight to explore.

However, as a wizard, Sauron was fearless.

The two went all the way, and encountered some small troubles on the way, but Sauron could easily resolve them with his own strength.

Not long after, the two finally walked out of the passage.

In front of it was an extremely spacious area, like an underground palace. Sauron drove the human-faced spider into it, and all he could see were stone sculptures.

Perhaps the time is too long, these sculptures have been dilapidated.

Sauron looked at it, with a thoughtful look on his face. There were more than a dozen dilapidated sculptures in various shapes, and the most central area was a red snake entrenched on the ground.

"Red God?"

Thoughts flickered in Sauron's mind. If nothing else happened, the red snake sculpture should be the ancient red god, and the opponent's body was indeed a giant snake.

Next to it, there is a giant sculpture.

The giant was dressed in sea-blue armor and looked majestic. There was a bit of chill in his eyes, as if he would never be able to melt the frost and snow.

Looking forward again, the double-faced giant eagle is like an octopus-like monster...

Every sculpture in this underground palace seemed to represent an ancient god. Thoughts flickered in Sauron's mind, constantly recalling information about these sculptures.

"The God of Cold, the Two-Faced Banshee, the God of Evil Eyes..."

Next to him, Logan murmured to himself that as an apprentice of the Morun family, although he was not too strong, he had more knowledge than Sauron.

"You recognize these sculptures?"

Sauron raised his eyebrows and looked towards Logan.

The other party nodded, with a thoughtful look on his face, and then began to tell Sauron one by one, these sculptures represent those gods and information about them.

After listening, Sauron nodded slightly.

"Unexpectedly, thousands of years ago, there were so many gods."

Sauron sighed. Thousands of years ago, it was the dark era of the lost continent. At that time, the gods ruled the world, and human beings were as humble as livestock.

The ancient gods slaughtered humans at will, just for fun.

It wasn't until Saint Elsa appeared with the thirteen saints that the Dark Age finally came to an end. Human beings ushered in a new era and changed their own destiny at the same time.

No one knows where Saint Elsa came from.

It is said that thousands of years ago, the Valian Empire had just been established, and the ancestors of the Lost Continent once agreed that Saint Elsa was the creator god of mankind.

However, Saint Elsa denied such claims.

He made it very clear that he is only a human being, and he is not the creator god that the world thinks he is.

"It's a good thing they're just sculptures!"

Next to it, Logan let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, all the sculptures in the underground palace are just sculptures. If these sculptures are gods, then I am afraid that as an apprentice, he will go crazy just by getting close.

"What's the point?"

Sauron stroked his chin and looked at the statues in front of him, with a thoughtful look on his face. The Red God Temple was the place where the ancestors worshiped the Red God in ancient times.

Logically speaking, there should not be sculptures of other gods in it.

But at this moment, the sculptures are here.

While Sauron was thinking, he suddenly felt something in his heart. There was a violent roar in his ears. The entire underground palace seemed to tremble, and the surrounding rock walls began to move slowly.

"not good!"

Sauron's expression changed slightly and he looked at Logan.

Although it is not clear what exactly happened, the underground palace was shaking at this moment, which was definitely not a good thing for the two of them. Sauron immediately drove the human-faced spider to leave here.

Logan followed suit.

The trembling of the underground palace seemed to represent the occurrence of certain things, and the movement of the surrounding environment also gradually revived some ancient monsters.

"what!!"

There was a shrill scream in the distance. Sauron looked around and saw several wolf-like and ghost-like creatures besieging several apprentices.

One of the apprentices was accidentally captured and immediately eaten.

Soon, a few more ghost wolf monsters appeared, heading straight for Sauron and Logan. Greed and bloodthirsty shone in those scarlet eyes.

"Humph!"

Sauron snorted coldly. He was not an ordinary apprentice. Facing the ghost wolves attacking around him, with a wave of his hand, several stones slowly floated up from the ground.

The next moment, Sauron had a thought.

But they saw the stones shooting out like cannonballs, killing several ghost wolves in an instant. The wandering apprentices saw the opportunity and broke out one after another.

Sauron didn't stay in place for long, and soon headed for the distance.

Not long after, the vibration of the underground palace stopped.

Just as Sauron and Logan were advancing, the passage not far away suddenly collapsed, and the rock wall above fell down, blocking their way.

"This?"

Logan frowned slightly, not realizing the seriousness of the problem. The next moment, there was another roar, but the rock wall behind him also collapsed.

At this moment, the two of them were immediately trapped in place.

A trace of panic appeared on Logan's face, but then, seeing Sauron's calm expression, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

"My lord, what shall we do next?" Logan asked hastily.

Sauron didn't speak, but a thoughtful look appeared on his face, and the front and back were blocked by stones, which meant that the two of them were temporarily trapped here.

However, for extraordinary people, such a situation seems to be nothing.

The reason Sauron didn't take action immediately was because he was thinking about what happened in the underground palace and how he could get the resources in the Red Temple.

While he was thinking, a burst of red mist suddenly surged ahead.

Logan was a little at a loss, but Sauron narrowed his eyes slightly. Looking at the red mist surging ahead, he felt an ominous premonition in his heart.

This red mist seems to contain a terrifying magical power.

Logan just took a few breaths, and his body swayed, his face became distorted, and his red eyes looked towards Sauron. (end of this chapter)