Chapter 584 – Finding the Eye of the Wind

Chapter 584 – Finding the Eye of the Wind
“He’s a half-elf?” The second-ranked sorcerer asked incredulously.

“Uh-huh.” The Third Order Sorcerer nodded.

“Heavens, because of the disappearance of the elves, the remaining half-elves are already this powerful? If there were a few more half-elves in number, wouldn’t it be possible to dominate the party like the elves?”

“No need to worry.” The third-ranked sorcerer whispered, “These half-elves also bear the curse from the elves, and their numbers will only become less and less until they disappear completely.”

Thinking of the half-elf that had just left, the Third Order Sorcerer sighed silently in his heart, “You will never know if the half-elf you met is the last half-elf in this world.”

While the crowd of wizards behind him were murmuring about the half-elf who had already entered the land of no man’s land, the sorcerer who had amazed the crowd had already stepped into the danger-ridden region.

He lifted his hood once again, but his appearance had changed into an ordinary thirty-year-old male.

It was clearly Saul’s outstanding senior, Byron!
Nowadays, Byron was already a first-order sorcerer.

Not only that, because of the Elf King’s head that Saul had given him, it gave him a little bit of Elf’s ability. Not only can he change his appearance at will, but he also has an extremely strong ability to charm people.

It was just a pity that Byron would usually still keep his appearance.

In his opinion, even if he changed his skin, he was still him.

The so-called stunning looks were about as useful as a mage’s hand.

The feature of this outer skin that satisfied him the most was the extremely strong adaptability of magic and spirit power.

It even gave him the confidence to lead to the second rank after advancing to the first rank.

This was the most precious part of the Elf King’s head, and it also reflected more and more how rare it was for Saul to give it to Byron.

However, Byron would no longer have the idea that he owed Saul now.

Byron exhaled and looked into the distance, “Where could Saul be?”

……

Just as Byron stepped into No Man’s Land, another man who had briefly crossed paths with Saul had a turning point in his life.

Noah, the boy who had once helped Saul find a quicksand termite nest, took the initiative to join the hunting patrol organized by Lord Wind Demon in exchange for money to save his sick brother.

This hunting party is a little different from the past, recruiting a large number of ordinary people and promising the chance to become a sorcerer’s apprentice as long as he performs well.

Since meeting Saul, Noah realizes that not all wizards are just gawking at a candle.

It’s just a shame that Saul doesn’t intend to take him on as an apprentice.

Maybe he was too poorly qualified.

Noah wasn’t completely dead in the water though.

After he moved to the new settlement with his father and brother, he kept looking for an opportunity to become an apprentice wizard.

He just didn’t realize that the only chance he had would require him to fight for it with his life.

And this time, it just so happens that his brother’s continuous high fever due to radiation sickness makes him let go of his last concern.

His father and brother had once given him the only chance to live, then he was willing to give that chance to his brother today as well.

From then on, Noah entered the hunting patrol and left his family, who had been dependent on him for many years.

However, when he entered the Hunting Patrol and stepped into the horrific area that he had never set foot in before, he realized that he was still naive!
The hunting party does give them the opportunity to become sorcerer apprentices, but only if they survive one of the “danger detection” operations.

Every ordinary person is a pathfinder, and they are asked to take a magic potion that temporarily boosts their spiritual power. They were asked to take a magic potion that temporarily boosted their mental powers, allowing them to perceive previously undiscovered secrets.

It’s the equivalent of becoming a temporary sorcerer’s apprentice.

But at the same time, their weak bodies would experience all sorts of abnormalities due to the violently enhanced spiritual power.

Noah had seen with his own eyes that a woman who had just taken a magic potion of spiritual power suddenly went berserk and ripped out her head full of hair. She then scratched her scalp in agony, until it was dripping with blood and white bones.

When the other witches saw the woman’s reaction, no one came out to help. And the ordinary people didn’t know how to save her, nor did they dare to do so.

After that, the dying woman became the first casualty before the hunting patrol set out.

Aside from that woman, there were others whose appearance had changed more or less. Only Noah didn’t change at all.

This immediately caught the attention of several witches.

They came over and told Noah to hold a crystal ball and another to chew a leaf. However, after Noah did as he was told, the few wizards left in disappointment.

This made Noah a little frustrated as well, it seemed like he really wasn’t cut out to be an apprentice wizard.

After a few hiccups, the crowd officially embarked on the hunting tour.

However, the commoners, including Noah, then realized that perhaps it was best to die the night before departure, like that woman.

On this day, the group trekked to a woodland.

This was already the fifth woodland they had passed through.

Previously, for every woodland they passed through, their group of roving hunters would leave behind at least one ordinary person.

Noah didn’t know what these people were doing. Anyway, these wizards under Lord Wind Demon would let them explore some very dangerous places. And no matter if the people who went exploring would come back alive or not, they would not enter the place they had just explored, but would just leave.

This way, just like the trail left behind, the only thing they left behind was a corpse.

And this time, it was finally Noah’s turn to be asked to walk into the forest with a strange and complicated apparatus.

Noah’s heart, which had been numbed all the way through the trip, began to beat wildly. He finally had a real sense of being on the verge of death.

He wanted to escape, but he knew that the four sorcerers behind him would not let him have a single chance to escape.

It could also involve his father and brother in the settlement.

Noah gulped and, pushed by the wizards behind him, began to swing his arms and legs forward mechanically.

The wind blowing the leaves, the birds chirping and insects chirping, all turned into a chaotic murmur in his ears.

The great fear that death would come at any moment messed with Noah’s mind.

But such chaotic thoughts also allowed him to maintain the movement of always walking forward without stopping.

“Clatter-“

The leaves and branches of the surrounding trees rattled in unison as if by appointment, breaking the usual sounds of the forest.

Noah was jolted awake and seemed to realize what he was doing.

His feet, which were just about to take a step, hung in mid-air, and he cautiously and warily raised his eyes upwards, and was surprised to find that the trees around him had somehow grown a pair of eyes, and slowly bent their trunks like humans, with their branches sticking out, as if they wanted to catch the human who dared to walk in the forest.

A leaf touched the top of Noah’s head.

“Wha-“

Noah, who looked fourteen or fifteen, but was actually less than ten years old, couldn’t hold back any longer and wowed out, spreading his legs and running wildly.

He didn’t care about the established direction anymore, only knowing that he was going all the way forward.

“Poof!”

Suddenly, there was something under his feet that tripped Noah.

His sight quickly followed the tilted body’s descent. Because the speed was too fast, there was no time to react and adjust his posture.

However, when Noah landed heavily on the ground, he realized that it didn’t hurt at all.

He looked down, and beneath him was actually a dense patch of grayish-white mushrooms.

These small mushrooms were like soft mattresses that caught Noah.

He pressed one mushroom with one hand and supported his body blankly, raising his eyes to look around, only to realize that he had left the forest at some point.

Ahead was a downhill slope, and these grayish-white mushrooms spread all the way to the bottom of the slope.

Further ahead were a few sparse forest trees, as well as behind the trees, a forest consisting of rows of huge mushrooms that were three to four meters tall.

“How could there be such large mushrooms? There’s no pot this big either?”

For some reason, Noah suddenly felt the fear in his heart subside a lot, and was even in the mood to flirt with the mushroom forest in front of him.

I overslept, so I’ll have to write the next chapter at night.

(End of chapter)