Chapter 111 Mordencan's Scalpel and Entry Assessment

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  The solution proposed by Matthew was not a rare thing in his previous life. This kind of artificial firebreak idea was mostly used to deal with wildfires.

  But for the continent of Aindor, where civilization is developing slowly, this way of thinking is undoubtedly subversive.

  He hadn’t seen a similar template in the several solutions proposed by the Seven Saints Alliance before.

  So when Matthew said these words, the expressions of Rhaegar and Old Farron were full of absurdity.

   Their lips parted and closed again, as if they wanted to refute, but couldn't find a suitable reason.

  Finally, Rhaegar replied cautiously:

   "Based on my shallow understanding of spells, I can't judge the feasibility of your plan for the time being. I need to ask a few more people. At least I can only give you an answer after consulting Zeller."

  Matthew nodded.

  It's normal for Lei Jia to have this kind of reaction. After all, this is his territory. If he messes around, he will just pat his **** and leave.

  The lord is the most responsible person in Rolling Stone Town. It is related to the safety of the territory. Every decision he makes must be cautious.

   "Don't worry, I should be able to hold them off for now."

  Matthew said confidently:

   "If you feel uneasy about the ceremony of "Death Scorched Earth", I can also set up a small experimental field first, so that you can see the effect of the ceremony. "

   During the conversation between the two.

   Richard's elegant figure appeared on the hillside in the distance.

  He walked on the road expressionlessly, holding the end of a rope in his hand, and one person after another was tied to the rope.

   That awkward look, very much like a group of lambs being herded.

   Matthew counted.

  A total of eleven members of the Brotherhood of Silver Frost, half of them are arsonists and the other half are gangsters.

  At the same time, he also noticed that the leader named Celentec who had spoken provocatively before was not included in this list.

   It seems that he ran away?

  Richard led the group of people to Rhaegar, and handed the rope to a guard next to him.

   "Except for the one named Setrunk, the rest are here."

  Richard picked up the cane on the ground and flicked the dust on it.

  Rega smiled and said:

"Let him run away? It's okay. These few people are enough. I'm going to hand them over to Baiyan City. The average bounty of Baiyan City will be lower than that of Jade Cangting, but it's still a considerable income. When it arrives, I will Will give Zeller to you."

   Richard did not respond.

  He doesn't seem to care much about money.

  So Rhaegar repeated Matthew's plan just now.

  Richard was shocked after hearing this.

   Rhaegar asked:

   "How is it? You don't think it's reliable, do you?"

   Richard shook his head:

   "At least it is more reliable than the plan proposed by the boss of the Seven Saints Alliance."

  The boss of the Seven Saints Alliance?

  Matthew curiously said:

   "Which Tongtian mage proposed a countermeasure against the scar of death? Why didn't I find relevant content in the information given to me by the alliance?"

  Richard looked at the marks of the dead that kept shaking sparks outward, and said with emotion:

  "That was many years ago, when there was a Skymage who was very keen on dealing with the mess of Dead Mark.

  She has been busy for many years, and after trying many solutions to no avail, she finally came up with a very surprising coping strategy.

  It was a super spell called "Madunkin's Scalpel".

  The spell level is seventh-level, which is the so-called divine spell, and only mages with a level above 28 can cast it.

   It is said that the principle of this spell is to summon a pair of huge scissors, cut the earth open, dig out the marks of the dead, and throw them into the astral world.

   Well, I have a familiar mage in the alliance, and he described it to me like this at the time. "

   Matthew was also shocked when he heard the words.

  Spells of this level are equivalent to reshaping the plane!

  Not to mention the final effect, simply cutting the ground can easily cause the collapse of the energy field and the turbulence of time and space.

   At that time, the Scar of the Dead may not be thrown into the astral world, and there will be an extra astral ruin in the center of the continent of Aindor.

   This plan is much more ruthless than his!

  Although the others couldn't understand what the seventh-level spell meant, they knew from the tone of Richard's description that this plan was absolutely dangerous.

"and after?"

  Rega asked nervously:

   "When did this happen? Why didn't I know there was such a plan? How was it stopped?"

  Richard said:

   "This plan has not been stopped, but it cannot be implemented because of practical factors.

  In fact, the Master Tongtian had already made all the preparations at that time.

  Because this spell requires three **** mages to work at the same time, she greeted the other two sky mages in the alliance.

   You must know that there were only three divine mages above level 28 in the alliance at that time.

   These three are also known as the Big Three, and they are the real big shots.

  The three giants join forces, let alone Ainduo, even Tianlun Palace will tremble three times.

  But when it was finally time to implement it, the other two Tongtian mages suddenly regretted it for some reason.

   It is said that they feel that the risks of doing so far outweigh the benefits.

  So this plan came to an end without a problem.

  It's just that since then, the mental state of Master Tongtian has been a little problematic, and she always feels that the other two giants are targeting her.

   Not long after, she broke away from the alliance and went to the north alone.

   Then she started an organization we are familiar with—

  Worship the Dragon Sect.

  The mage's name is Isabel, and Mr. Ronan is probably the most familiar with her.

   After all, he is one of Isabel's most proud disciples. Even Mr. Ronan's wife was chosen by Ms. Isabel for him. "

   Speaking of which.

  Richard looked at Rhaegar with a smile and joked:

"A while ago I heard that you were going to trouble the Dragon Cult. I thought that the mayor of Rolling Stone Town was about to change hands. I even prepared the election manifesto for the new mayor. I didn't expect you to be alive. return."

  Rega immediately showed a look of fear.

  He patted his chest:

"Fortunately, I was lucky on this trip, and I didn't have a real confrontation with the Dragon Worshipers. According to you, if I show my might and really kill that Blinken, there will be a master of the sky waiting for me? Wait. In other words, Blinken is actually Ronan's younger brother?"

   Richard shrugged:

"I don't know about this. There are too many dirty things in the league. I have tried my best to keep out of sight these years. I just want to remind you by the way that Ms. Isabel still has a lot of influence in the league—even if Luo Nan, I'm afraid they won't openly contradict her."

   As he spoke, he looked at Matthew approvingly:

"But the plan you just made is not logically problematic. It is amazing enough to be able to come up with a better solution than the magician, even if it just slows down the expansion of Scar of the Dead. No wonder Ronan values ​​you so much. My suggestion is to give it a try."

  Matthew said a few words modestly, and then asked again:

   "By the way, that guy named Setrunk, do you know where he came from?"

  Richard's expression immediately became a little weird when he heard this.

  He looked a bit torn.

   Several seconds passed.

  He sighed deeply:

  …

   "I'm planning to tell you about Setrunk. It's a bit difficult to say, but considering the safety of Rolling Stone Town, I still can't hide it—

  You should have heard that many years ago, a massacre occurred in a village called "Baiyang Village" in Cuiyu Cangting.

  Afterwards, the shadow leopards in charge of the investigation found that only one human child adopted by the wood elves survived in the entire village.

  He was only about six or seven years old at the time, and he survived by hiding in the heart of a banana tree.

  Jade Cangting has been investigated by many parties.

  Finally, the suspect was locked on Sener, the leader of the Silver Frost Brotherhood at the time.

  The reason is that Sener was discovered to have been active on the border of Jade Cangting, and the timeline of the Baiyang Village tragedy also perfectly coincides with the timeline of Sener's promotion to the legend.

  At the same time, Sener advanced just happened to be the notorious "Red Letter Hunter".

  One of the advanced conditions for this legendary evil profession is to slaughter villages or cities.

  So Sener undoubtedly took the blame.

  Until now, Jade Cangting still believes that Sen'er did what happened back then.

   But in the circle of the shadow world, the news I got is somewhat different.

   The rogues have said that Sener's advanced ceremony was to slaughter an entire city of gray dwarves.

  The name of the city is "Bender", which used to be a famous commercial city in the Underdark.

   Later, it died overnight. Some people said it was done by Sener, while others said it died from the dragon fire.

   Anyway, no one can tell.

  But if you want to choose one of the two crimes of the Baiyang Village tragedy and the massacre of the gray dwarf city to be charged on Sener.

  I will definitely choose the latter.

   As we all know, the quality of the advanced ritual determines the power of entering the legendary path.

  I've dealt with Sener, and he's an out-and-out badass, scum, and brute.

  He didn't have any psychological burden for slaughtering the old, the weak, women and children, but Baiyang Village was too weak for him, so weak that if he became a legend by slaughtering the village, he could only obtain one domain at most.

   This is also not in line with Sener's strength after the legend. "

  …

   Speaking of this, he paused, as if recalling more content.

  Matthew looked at Richard:

   "What about the human child?"

  Richard said calmly:

  "He was sent to the royal city of Jade Cangting. After living there for a while, it is said that because he didn't adapt to the living environment there, he finally left Jade Cangting and has never been heard from since.

   Almost a few years later.

   Sener, who has been promoted to Scarlet Letter Hunter, has a small follower beside him.

  He claimed to be Sener's disciple, and his name was Satrunk.

   After a few more years he left Sener and worked on several cases on the East Coast by himself.

  Jade Cangting offered him a reward alone, the amount was 30,000 gold coins, second only to the notorious Sener. It can be said that this guy is a complete lunatic, a murderer, and an anti-human being.

   But I still can't do anything to him. "

   Speaking of which.

  Richard's tone became particularly sad and remorseful.

  Matthew has already reacted:

   "So it's not that he ran fast, but you let him go—you have a relationship with Setrunk?"

  Richard didn't deny it.

  He just turned around silently:

   "That's another story...I just remember him being a baby in a swaddle when I held him."

   "I'm sorry, I don't want to recall those things anymore, I can only assure you that I have warned him, and Setrunk has also promised me that he will not enter the territory of Rolling Stone Town again."

   "If he breaks his promise, I will personally deal with him."

   Finish these.

  He tapped the top of the cane lightly, straightening his back:

   "Then gentlemen, there should be nothing else going on here. Please allow me to leave early. The committee of five will discuss several issues tomorrow morning."

   "By the way, you should be careful with these people. Although Satrunk swore to me, there is no guarantee that he has no other arrangements for these people."

  Richard specifically pointed to the group of bound fraternity members and reminded.

  Rega's expression is very serious:

   "I understand what you mean, I will strengthen the supervision of the prison next."

  Matthew followed and nodded.

  The fraternities are scrambling to get into the jail.

   It's not really a free meal.

  …

   After Richard left.

  Matthew continued to pay attention to the situation of the Scar of the Dead.

   After a few days.

  He lived in the cabin in the forest.

  Because he doesn't need to go to work to catch fish anymore, he has a lot of time to plant trees, learn spells, and prepare forbidden rituals when he pays attention to the marks of the dead.

  After being strangled by the undead.

  The ash mobs in Scar of the Dead have always been tepid.

  With the perfect cooperation of Renee Smee and A Bing.

   No Ember Warrior survived for more than 8 seconds.

   After the second day.

  The refresh rate of Ash Warrior has been greatly slowed down.

  The third night.

  Under a round of brutal killing by the undead.

  Not to mention the ashen warriors who refresh slowly, even the ashen pawns that were refreshed in seconds before are gone.

  After that, Matthew observed for two more days.

   Found out that the Ember mobs really don't appear anymore.

   This made him somewhat regretful.

finally.

  He counted the spoils. There were 28 soul crystals in total. Matthew rewarded them for their merits, and Renee Smee and A Bing shared two soul crystals each.

   Ah Bing is fine.

   Renee Smee received the reward, and her loyalty suddenly increased to 90. At the same time, she shared a new ability with Matthew.

  「Deck Pace: When you walk on a deck that is violently shaken by the storm, you have the balance of walking on flat ground.」

  This ability is not bad.

   It can be used after Matthew goes into the sea.

   And except for Matthew.

   Rhaegar and his lord's guards have also maintained high-intensity patrols around the Scar of the Dead for the past few days.

   Looking at it now.

  The Ash Lord's first round of attack was resolved.

   And Matthew's progress in the taboo ceremony is also going well.

   "Death Scorched Earth" is actually a very simple ceremony. Its taboo is that no normal person or organization will allow a necromancer to transform the earth into soil similar to a negative energy plane in his own territory.

   It only took him two days to grasp the essence of it, what he lacked was actual combat experience.

  And in the context of everything going smoothly.

  The slow progress of Malicious Transformation is a bit dazzling.

  Currently, Matthew can only handle creatures about the size of a goat—

  For example, a pig dog becomes a woolly pig dog.

  This progress is obviously still a long way from the real malicious polymorph.

  So after studying the scorched earth ritual of death, he immediately threw himself into the arms of Transfiguration.

  This time, Matthew paid for it.

  He bought three goats to take with him.

  The purpose is only to further feel the breath of the goat.

  Afternoon of the fourth day.

   Matthew has just finished planting today's oak trees and is playing with the goats in the woods.

  Suddenly.

  The bell around his waist jingled.

   This is a low-level spell that he managed to master in just half an hour recently—

   "Bell Art".

  The purpose of this spell is to remind or notify within a range of 20 kilometers.

   Usually only very important things.

  Peggy will notify Matthew by ringing the bell at home in Rolling Stones.

  At the moment, Matthew didn't dare to neglect.

   Greeted a knight who was in charge of tracking the Scar of the Dead.

  He rushed to the town in a hurry.

  …

   "Entry assessment? Is it so sudden?"

  In the living room, Matthew looked at the man and woman on the sofa in a little surprise.

  The man's name is Fandral, and the woman's name is Alice. They claim to be examiners of the Seven Saints Alliance. Matthew has seen their magic certificates, and there is no problem.

   "I just came back from outside, can you let me take a shower first?"

   Matthew asked.

   Fandral, with blond hair and a warm smile, replied with a smile:

   "Sorry, this is the rule of the alliance. The induction assessment must be completed without the knowledge of the new members. You can make a little preparation, such as drinking a cup of tea to calm your mood, but there is no need to take a bath."

   As he spoke, he took out his staff and cast a "stainless" on Matthew.

  Matthew looked down and found that his body had taken on a new look.

  Seeing that Fandral and Alice were serious, he didn't say anything.

   "I'm ready, any requests?"

  Fandral said kindly:

"You just need to tell the truth, we will write appropriate comments on your answers, and in the end, our superior mage will give you a score. This score not only determines whether you can join the Seven Saints Alliance, but also affects you. The title of the first rating after joining the alliance."

   said.

  He patiently explained to Matthew the title system within the league.

  From bottom to top are: D, C, B, A, S five grades.

   Except for the S grade, each grade is divided into 1 and 2 grades.

  Only the S grade has three grades of 1, 2, and 3.

  In this system, the lowest is D1, the highest is S3, a total of eleven job title levels.

  The title level determines the status and resources of a mage in the Seven Saints Alliance.

   And when accessing some materials with a confidentiality level, the title level is also extremely important.

  After listening to Fandral's explanation.

   Matthew's nervous heart immediately relaxed.

  Although the other party didn't say it clearly, if it is uncertain whether he can join the alliance, Fandral doesn't need to spend so much time explaining the title level to himself.

   Combined with Taling 177 words.

  Matthew realized that Fan Daer was implying himself that the process of entry assessment was just a formality.

  So he relaxed.

  At this time, the lady with brown hair and slender eyes also asked gently:

   "Can we start? Mr. Matthew."

  Matthew nodded:

   "You ask, Ms. Alice."

  Alice asked the first question:

   "I found in your resume that you are a necromancer, but after communicating with your summoner—that is, the tauren lady, I learned that you are currently learning malicious transfiguration. How are you doing?"

  Matthew showed a wry smile, and he answered truthfully:

   "My talent in Transfiguration seems to be average, and I haven't fully mastered it yet."

  Alice nodded, and then she spread out a piece of paper in front of Matthew, and the content written on it could be clearly seen by Matthew—

  "Although Mr. Matthew is a necromancer, he also has a longing heart for other spells. He often uses his spare time to learn spells in other fields, such as malicious transformation.

  According to my observation, Mr. Matthew's malicious transformation has reached the point of perfection, which is rare among the third-tier mages in the alliance. "

   Matthew felt a little ashamed when he saw it:

   "This, this is not good, right? My Transfiguration is relatively average."

   Alice looked at Matthew naturally:

   "Your malicious form is a goat, right?"

  Matthew nodded.

  Alice said cheerfully:

   "The next step is the spell practice time. Please use malicious transformation on it. We want to evaluate your spell effect."

  Matthew followed her fingers and looked over.

   As a result, a ignorant goat was suddenly discovered.

  He hesitated for a few seconds.

  Raised his hand and released a malicious polymorph on the goat.

boom!

  The spell failed.

  The latter remained motionless.

   Fandral exclaimed:

   "What a malicious transfiguration, I can't tell the difference between it and a real goat!"

  Alice also quickly wrote:

   "I saw with my own eyes that the target hit by Mr. Matthew's spell is exactly the same as the real goat. Considering his age, this is really rare. It is indeed the candidate strongly recommended by Mr. Ronan."

  Then they asked Matthew a few more questions.

   No matter how Matthew answers.

  What they write on paper is full of praise.

   Until Alice asked the last question:

   "What is the spell ritual you are currently researching, or researching and completing?"

  Matthew still chose to answer truthfully:

   "Death scorched earth, a ritual in the realm of the undead."

   Heard this.

   Alice and Fandral's eyes became serious for the first time.

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  (end of this chapter)