101: Dark wizard appears

Boom...

As he strode forward, Green seemed to sense something. An Exploding Fireball later, he directly blew a large crater into a muddy pit.

A Swamp Croc with a charred head crawled out of the muddy water pit, shaking its head.

It opened its mouth and spat out a huge corrosive water ball.

Green dodged the attack with a slight sway of his body.

Unwilling to waste Spiritual Power and magic on this croc, Green charged straight at it.

Before the Swamp Croc could react, he chopped it dozens of times, dismembering the unlucky Swamp Croc before stopping.

Green let out a pent-up breath... "This can't go on."

Green mused silently:

"I've been walking in this inner zone for over two hours."

"It's past 10 now, and I still haven't seen a single soul."

"Moreover, this Maze Swamp is too formidable. I've been forced to circle around here three times."

"Like this large rock that looks like a goat, I've already made three secret marks on it and carved messages to gather here, but still no one has come to rendezvous with me."

"What's going on?"

"Could it be that Captain Andre and the others have all been killed?"

"But why leave me alone and not kill me?"

...At this moment, Green recalled the first trap he encountered.

5-degree explosion witchcraft + 60-degree entanglement thorns + over 80-degree silt vortex... "Damn it..."

Green couldn't help but curse in anger.

There was indeed a possibility—the Devil Squad was completely wiped out, leaving only Green.

If it weren't for the battle armor Green was wearing, he probably would have been helpless the first time he encountered such a trap.

Once pulled into the depths of the swamp silt, any wizard would have plenty of strength but be unable to exert even a fraction of it.

If at this moment, the enemy also ambushed a Swamp Croc below, then, relying on the Swamp Croc's home-field advantage and gaping maw, those teammates would truly be doomed.

As soon as Green thought of this, he immediately took action.

Coming to the dismembered Swamp Croc, Green searched carefully... In the Maze Swamp, the best and fastest way to destroy a body and erase all traces, and to resolve the final struggles of a seasoned intermediate wizard within two minutes, then escape the scene without a trace.

The only thing Green could think of was to use the power of the Swamp Croc... "Ah..."

Green roared to the sky.

His face was extremely contorted, filled with painful sorrow... In his hand was a fragment of a Swamp Croc's stomach. Green had personally dissected it during his anatomy class, so there was no mistake.

However, within this stomach fragment, there was also a knight's greatsword, half-dissolved.

Because it was infused with magic adamantine, this knight's greatsword had not completely disappeared. On the hilt, the name "Adler" was vaguely engraved.

Coupled with the standard academy patterns and the familiar texture, Green was certain that this was Adler's battle sword!

In other words:

Green's good brother—Adler might be gone...

Green, who had painstakingly found a clue, was met not with good news of his teammates' survival.

But with the shattering of his final hope.

Adler was the Devil Squad's best defensive tank.

In a desperate state, he could even push his Earth Bear bloodline to its limit, continuously drawing power from the earth, greatly enhancing his defensive and life-saving abilities.

If even Adler had perished here, then the other teammates surely couldn't have escaped this calamity.

Green now only felt—innumerable raging fires burning in his chest...

Like—an active volcano about to erupt, wanting to shout, wanting to vent, wanting to extinguish this dark world...

However, Green's spirit felt as if it had fallen into an ice cellar...

It was like—Green was on vacation in Sanya, wearing only beach shorts, and was suddenly thrown into the freezing cold black land of Northeast China in the dead of winter, making Green's very core feel cold...

Both excited and terrified, Green trembled uncontrollably.

At this moment, Green felt the ruthlessness of the mastermind and his own weakness.

"No, I can't fall here..."

"I haven't avenged Adler yet, I can't let my teammates die in vain..."

"I don't want to die here either, I want to live, live to bring the news back to the academy, live to lead the academy's mentors to dismember the murderers here..."

Green's spirit was stimulated to extreme excitement at this time, and his unique fighting spirit was passively triggered. Under the abyss-like pressure of life and death, Green's spirit remained extremely calm and restrained.

Pulling out a tube of advanced stamina recovery potion, Green gulped it down...

Pulling out a tube of advanced magic power recovery potion, Green gulped it down again...

Then pulling out a tube of advanced Spiritual Power recovery potion, Green gulped that down too...

These three tubes of potions were the battle armor's last hidden energy source, belonging to the strategic reserve energy distributed by the academy. Green would not even touch them during normal training.

After all, they were not free. After using them, if there wasn't a good reason, Green would have to pay magic stones.

But now, at a critical moment of life and death, Green couldn't care less about that.

After several hours of continuous rushing, Green's condition had severely deteriorated.

His stamina and Spiritual Power were less than 30%, while his magic power was still at half.

But now, Green was no longer desperate to find his teammates and the culprit. What Green needed was to preserve himself, so quickly restoring his strength became the most urgent matter...

"Who?"

Green, whose nerves were extremely tense, heard a rustling sound.

At this moment.

Another Swamp Croc crawled out of the muddy pit from before.

Seeing this, Green, however, did not directly go up and kill this Swamp Croc as he had just done.

Instead, he slowly faced the Swamp Croc head-on, in a defensive posture, retreating step by step...

Next to the goat-shaped rock, a pile of fragmented Swamp Croc body parts were scattered everywhere, with blood splattered all over, and the strong smell of blood lingered for a long time...

But this new Swamp Croc didn't even glance at the fresh flesh and blood. Instead, it stared directly at Green.

Green didn't remember Swamp Crocs not eating the corpses of their own kind.

As far as Green knew, in this Maze Swamp, food was most scarce, and Swamp Crocs loved to eat the corpses of their own kind.

One could tell with their toes that this Swamp Croc was very unusual, and it was highly likely that someone was controlling it from behind. In this Maze Swamp, besides Green, who else could it be? It was obvious at first guess.

But Green, at this moment, did not want to confront the hidden enemy.

However, this unknown enemy might not think the same way.

"Oh-ho..."

"There's still a timid White Wizard fledgling alive here?"

A light, disdainful voice came from the Swamp Croc, sounding extremely surprised.

"Coward, why do you run when you see me?"

"Aren't you going to greet your Lord Black Head Demon?"

..."Black Wizard?"

"And Black Head Demon, ranked 15th on the academy's Black List bounty?"

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