Moon Witch, embark on the journey!

208. Vals

Faith Neal didn't believe that this new young wizard could solve the problem, but the family had been in a precarious situation recently, and it would be best not to offend any official wizard. He answered patiently:

"Although no official wizard has ever gone deeper into the area except my second uncle, all wizards who have been to the vicinity can confirm that it is probably the undead."

"Ah, that's all right then."

What do you mean it's all right? I'm trying to persuade you not to go and die. Fei Si was speechless. He had never heard of the name of this girl among the famous wizards in the organization. How dare she get involved in such a thing?

"Since so many wizards have been here, isn't there anyone who is ready to take care of the culprit? Am I late?"

Does this person really think he can handle it? Fei Si was already a little confused, and he shook his head:

"In fact, those people left after learning about the situation. Now there is only one very powerful wizard left here. He should be able to solve it."

To be honest, the wizard already had high hopes in his heart, and was counting on that adult to act quickly and clear up the trouble so that the family could return to normal.

"Give me a copy of the information. I want to try it, too."

"Please be safe."

Fei Si stopped trying to dissuade her. He called an apprentice from his family, brought some information to the young witch, and finally told her:

"In any case, if you can solve this trouble, you will gain the friendship of our Niel family. After all, it is within the jurisdiction of our family. We will prepare an additional 10,000 magic stones as a reward."

"Oh? Not bad."

In the end, Feis had no idea where this little-known young wizard got her confidence from, but seeing that she persisted, he still felt a little more expectant.

......

After leaving the local wizard family, Luna found a restaurant in the city.

There are still many apprentices in big cities. This is a restaurant dedicated to wizards, located in the city center, with a low-key and luxurious environment, but there are not many people inside.

As soon as Luna entered, someone came to greet her. The waiter said enthusiastically:

"Master Wizard! Please come over here to eat. Our chef has recently developed a new dish using monster meat."

"Well, introduce me to..."

It was a rare trip out, so she wanted to see more. However, this restaurant was mainly for apprentices, and the food and service were just so-so, far inferior to some restaurants in the Dark Ring headquarters that catered to formal wizards.

Probably due to the recent turmoil, there are only a few customers in the store now.

"what......"

Luna turned around and saw the three apprentices she had seen on the airship, chatting quietly while eating. She immediately confirmed:

"So, the wizard that the Niel family has high hopes for is the 'Black Skull'? A top official wizard who is good at the necromancy faction, no wonder he came here."

She didn't try to hide it, and the three apprentices soon discovered that Luna was there too.

"Mrs. Luna?"

Led by senior apprentice Tok, the other two apprentices also came over to say hello.

"What a coincidence, were you called here by the instructor?"

Luna asked bluntly.

"Well...it was indeed our mentor who asked us to come."

The three apprentices hesitated for a moment, but finally answered vaguely:

"They said they wanted us to come over and help."

The female apprentice whispered:

"Teacher, this is a rare time for you to be generous. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to afford to take the airship and have a meal here."

"Falin, stop talking nonsense!"

Luna didn't want to force them to tell her anything confidential, so she was just planning to just say a few words and let them go.

Suddenly, a somewhat discordant voice interrupted:

"Hey! You three, relax a little bit. How dare you talk nonsense to outsiders? Do you want to become part of the skeleton soldiers under the mentor?"

It was a skinny wizard, who looked like a skeleton covered in skin and bones. He strode in, emitting an aura of death like an undead, and glanced at the three apprentices with a sinister look.

The point is, he's an official wizard.

"Lord Vals! We haven't revealed anything, I promise!"

When the voice appeared, the three apprentices became visibly frightened, trembling all over and almost falling to their knees, not even daring to turn their heads back.

Luna frowned. She sat at the dining table leisurely and released some semi-materialized mental power:

"I'm the one talking to them, what do you want?"

The new wizard, Vals, looked at Luna and suddenly sneered:

"Official wizard? You must have heard of the reputation of our mentor 'Black Skull', right? Do you want to interfere when I teach a few junior brothers a lesson?"

Before Luna could answer, he said viciously:

"Just arrived today? I'm warning you, don't come and snatch the mission from our mentor! And all of you! Don't stay here, follow me!"

She looked at the man and his three apprentices leaving in some confusion.

"Tsk, you're talking so arrogantly, why don't you call me? I'm itching to do something."

Although they didn't fight here, they would probably meet again when they went to investigate the mine. Anyway, Luna wasn't afraid at all.

She flipped through the information in her hand, which was given to her by the Neil family before.

"About three months ago, during the excavation process, a black gas emerged from the depths of the underground mine and killed all seventy-six nearby miners. Then an apprentice of the family was sent to investigate, but he never returned."

"The family once again sent a high-level apprentice to lead the team in, and found that all the miners' corpses had been transformed into undead. After paying a certain price to eliminate them, they were unable to find the source."

"We thought it was just an accidental leak of ground pollution. But a week later, dead air erupted from underground again, killing nearly a hundred miners."

"Then the former head of the family, the official wizard Torta Niel, entered the mining area and explored deep underground... and then he never returned."

"This time, a huge amount of death aura directly covered most of the mining area, killing and injuring nearly a thousand miners, and there was a certain amount of pollution in the surrounding area."

From beginning to end, it was difficult to find any useful information. We only knew that most of the troublemakers were undead, because many undead creatures transformed from dead people were discovered one after another.

Add to that the death of an official wizard, and it's truly horrifying.

It’s no wonder that some wizards came and left immediately. They were probably not sure at all.

"Is this the only information they have, or are they hiding something?"

Luna was eating while reading some information, which was interspersed with some on-site photos taken with alchemical items similar to cameras, and it was indeed quite accommodating to the meal.

209. Conspiracy

Of course, Luna would not be scared by a formal wizard. After dinner, she immediately went to the mining area where the disaster occurred.

In the city of ruins in the secret realm, perhaps because it was too old, the remaining undead were mainly skeletons. However, in this mine, according to the information, there are still many zombie-type undead.

Inside the mining area, there was a completely eerie and silent scene. From time to time, faint wailing sounds could be heard coming from the depths, filled with a sense of despair and misery.

"It does feel like the dead, but you can't see anything from the outside."

Luna had been planning to go directly into the mine to explore, but suddenly her expression changed, a dark shadow covered her whole body, and she immediately disappeared from the spot.

Dark attribute witchcraft: Shadow Lurking.

This is an advanced version of the apprentice-level invisibility spell, with much better concealment effect and duration. With Luna's current strength, only the second-level sorcery that specializes in dark elements can detect it, and even the peak first-level sorcery is unlikely to detect it.

Actually, Luna learned this for reference when she was learning the moonlight magic 'Hidden Moon Blade'.

She remained invisible and walked forward for a while, and found the official wizard Vals whom she had met in the restaurant before, and three apprentices following him.

The skinny and skeleton-like Vals was talking to the apprentice of the Niel family who was guarding here:

"Tell me, has there been any accident in the mine these past two days? Have any other wizards come in?"

The apprentice was obviously quite afraid of this scary-looking official wizard, and said in fear:

"Lord Vals! We haven't found anything suspicious yet, and no wizard has entered..."

"Okay, I'll follow my mentor's advice and go in first. Oh, and these three unlucky guys have to go with me."

Vals' words made the three young apprentices behind him pale, but they dared not disobey. The senior apprentice Tok said in a trembling voice after a long while:

"Lord Vals, the instructor doesn't seem to have..."

"Shut up! Do as I say!"

After saying this, the official wizard and his three apprentices entered the mining area.

Luna simply followed them. It happened to be her first time here, so wouldn’t it be more convenient to have someone lead the way?

The mining area is currently empty, with only some mining tools, some simple alchemy puppets, and baskets of ore scattered around.

However, such unrefined raw ore has little value at all, so the four of them continued to go deeper without even looking at it.

Senior apprentice Toke finally couldn't help but whispered:

"Sir, we just got here and haven't met the instructor yet. Are we going to go in?"

Vals turned back suddenly, his expression became extremely gloomy, and he exuded a powerful aura:

"What? Are you doubting me?"

"No, at least let us meet the instructor first, if he is sure he wants to..."

"Shut up!"

The pressure brought by the powerful semi-materialized mental force made the senior apprentice Tok sweat all over his face, and the other two mid-level apprentices were about to faint.

Unexpectedly, Tok gritted his teeth and said:

"The instructor never gave such an order. Do you really want to disobey the instructor?"

Vals looked at him with some surprise, and suddenly laughed:

"Do you really think that 'Black Skull' is a good person? Is he helping you improve your strength out of kindness? Do you think that all the undead guards under his command are made of the corpses of the enemies?"

"Or do you actually enjoy his capricious torture?"

Tok was silent for a moment.

Vals suddenly stretched out his skinny hand, grabbed the young apprentice by the collar, and said through gritted teeth:

"I'm telling you...if you don't want to end up like me, you have to find a way to kill our dear mentor as soon as possible!"

Tok suddenly looked up, his face filled with astonishment. When Vals said this, he was destined to be an enemy of his mentor. He was a top-level wizard! He was also one of the few powerful and dangerous wizards in the organization who had his own title like the Faceless Witch!

There are only three or four top official wizards of this level in the organization.

"I've been into the underground mines before... Humph, there is indeed a peak-level first-level undead there. Fortunately, with the 'guidance' of our mentor, I was not discovered by that guy."

He began to reveal shocking secrets to several apprentices:

"The undead was about to be promoted to the second level, but was accidentally interrupted in the process, so it naturally became furious. It went on a killing spree some time ago, and now it has finally calmed down a bit, but it is still in a seriously injured state due to the failure of the promotion..."

"Do you know what this means?"

Looking at Vals with a fanatical look on his face, the apprentices did not dare to speak.

"It means that once I subdue it, I will immediately have a top-level first-order combat force in my hands. If I train it well, it may soon become a second-order undead!"

"With it in hand, a mere 'Black Skull' can be defeated! It's time to make him pay!"

"You should have also learned his secret method of transforming into the undead... Come with me and turn that undead into our slave!"

Vals' voice was bewitching, and it aroused the unknown fear among the apprentices.

They knew that the mentor Black Skull was keen on taking in apprentices, but few of them survived for long. Of their predecessors, only the official wizard Vals was still alive.

Even after asking around, I still haven't heard of the exact whereabouts of the other apprentices.

Such fear actually tortured them day and night. Some of the secret techniques related to the undead taught by the "Black Skull" were powerful and at the same time exuded a sense of evil.

"I...I will help you! But if you succeed, you must let the three of us go! We also don't like the mentor and will never tell on him."

Tok spoke first, gritting his teeth.

"Sure, as long as you can help me subdue that undead, you can do whatever you want afterwards!"