48: Chapter 48 Hyenas, Walking Dead, and Ascension

"Although it is unknown whether this unknown space is a naturally formed secret realm, it actually has alien races that can infect mortals into Walking Corpses."

"Are they some undead creatures, or evil elves? These mortals are basically hopeless; judging from the wounds, the intelligence of the attacking monsters shouldn't be very high."

Ross looked at the miner Walking Corpse entangled by vines and made this judgment.

Coupled with the fact that the region where this space is located belongs to a desert area, and some graves appear in certain places,

gradually, a conjecture arose in Ross's heart, though it was still uncertain.

Ross continued moving forward. In this desert, he could occasionally see some Hyenas.

Although the name contains the word 'dog',

in fact, this type of creature belongs to a carnivorous hunting animal under the suborder Feliformia, looking similar to a canine.

Their skulls are relatively large, their necks are thick and short, and their front and rear paws each have 4 toes.

These animals usually feed on the soft tissues such as flesh and internal organs of hunted animals,

sometimes they can even crush the hard bones of their prey and then suck out the bone marrow.

"These scavenging beasts."

While observing, Ross saw that these dog bastards were actually fighting and biting a human thigh.

It was obviously a miner who accidentally strayed here, met his demise, and then had his body torn apart by these Hyenas.

Although after stepping into the realm of the Wizard Apprentice, there is already a qualitative change between wizards and mortals,

yet for Ross, who walked the path from a mortal to a wizard, he still could not tolerate this cruel scene.

With a breath, after observing the tragic state here at close range, Ross deeply inhaled the dry and rotting air in the desert.

Casually, he cast [Magic Flame].

In an instant, the [Magic Flame] composed of explosive fire elements blasted the bodies of those few Hyenas and that poor miner into fragments and ashes.

"It seems that the [Magic Flame] composed mainly of fire elements has an explosion effect that is still too intense, and the commotion is a bit large. Let's change the method and reduce some noise."

Ross looked at the scene before him, which only had lingering ashes and a burnt smell, and let out a sigh.

These Hyenas were only able to rival humans by relying on their groups.

Even a mortal would find it a breeze to deal with such a beast.

Let alone the Wizard Apprentice's [Magic Flame].

Under Ross's casual blow, they were all burned to ashes.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt a little glimmer floating over from the location of those Hyenas.

Before Ross could react, it passed through the barrier formed by his own Hand of Magic.

Ross felt as if his nerves were about to groan, and his spirit became even more excited.

He hurriedly drifted his eyes toward his panel.

"Mental Power + 1"

"Mental Power + 1"

...

These few Hyenas brought Ross an increase of 5 points in mental power.

"A strange space, a bizarre increase in mental power."

After all, Ross was a third-rank Wizard Apprentice who had not enrolled for long. Some knowledge in the Wizard World, as long as it was slightly upscale, would cost quite a lot of magic stones to learn.

For him, this bizarre phenomenon before him was something he had not yet encountered.

If it were himself without the system, he might still feel a bit uneasy.

But the panel showed that his mental power had increased by 5 points, which was unquestionable.

Moreover, his health status on the panel also had no changes.

It was just that in the [Magic Flame] he had just cast and consumed, there was some consumption and loss of mental power and magic power.

But it was also within the normal range.

Since this was the case, Ross had nothing to worry about.

Perhaps this space had some secrets that he didn't know about.

Since these beasts could increase his mental power, he would kill them whenever he saw them.

However, although these Hyenas didn't have much strength, their escape speed was still very fast.

Their vigilance was also very strong. Coupled with this desert, where dust was everywhere, they almost integrated with the earth-gray and mottled bodies of these Hyenas.

Unless they deliberately showed themselves, it would be a painstaking and laborious thing for Ross to look for them himself.

Otherwise, although he didn't know why these Hyenas could provide an increase in his mental power,

Ross would not easily let these beasts go. On the journey across a few sand dunes, he hunted another two groups of Hyenas.

"Mental Power + 5"

"Mental Power + 5"

...

In just this short while, Ross's mental power increased by 15.

If he wanted to improve this much by himself, it would take 3 days relying solely on meditation.

Ross was even getting a bit addicted, seeing that these doggies emitted some ravenous gazes in their eyes.

While heading in the direction where he felt magic fluctuations, there were also some Walking Corpses along the way.

These Walking Corpses had basically lost human consciousness, leaving only abhorrence for living beings and violent attacks.

Ross eliminated them along the way, not expecting that they would also drop mental power.

It just seemed a bit lower than those Hyenas; a single Walking Corpse only brought an increase of 0.5 in mental power.

"It seems that the dropped mental power is not provided based on the strength of life or the strength of mental power."

Ross always felt something was wrong in his mind.

Logically speaking, these Walking Corpses, as humans of an intelligent race during their lifetime, should be higher-grade than these Hyenas. How could the dropped mental power be even less?

It couldn't be that after turning into a Walking Corpse, they were already another species, so their mental power decreased.

Ross pondered for a while, feeling that guessing blindly like this had no clues.

Anyway, any amount was a harvest.

If he wanted to know the answer, it seemed he could only go to the area where the magic fluctuations occurred to investigate, and that place should answer some of his questions.

However, all the way along, the means by which he cleared these Hyenas and Walking Corpses had changed.

It was changed to Ross casting [Hand of Vines], casting spells to transform the Water Lily Magic Plant into something similar to a mobile walking firing turret.

Along this way, Ross also understood why, for wizards, knowledge meant power,

and along this way, he also understood that actual combat was an opportunity for growth.

He found that the turret transformed from this Water Lily Magic Plant,

that is, the Water Lily Magic Plant that could originally only store its own magic power and fire two rounds of [Mana Missile], could also undergo some flexible changes.

Under Ross's deliberate mental power control, the magic power it originally stored could just be condensed into lotus seed-shaped Mana Missiles.

Then each round of firing might have seven or eight such effective missiles.

It became that it could fire only one [Mana Missile].

This not only could keep the magic power stored by the Water Lily Magic Plant itself from dissipating after firing two rounds,

but after it fired five or six of them, Ross could replenish and transmit a portion of magic power to it.

And while it was attacking, Ross himself could recover some magic power.

A balance could be achieved.