Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 643

Chapter 640: Entering the Abyssal River and the Eighteenth Dungeon

Chapter 640 Entering the River of Abyss and the Eighteenth-Level Dungeon
Witch Xia Li snorted coldly and frowned at the same time. The reputation of the Qionghua Enclave for being worthless was comparable to that of the Spiral Basin in the Eastern Boundary.

The black wizards and white wizards in these two wizarding lands are always mixed together.

Of course, there are subtle differences between the two.

The Spiral Basin mainly employs people in an eclectic manner, absorbing all the talents of dark wizards. There is also a six-tower area next to it, and a large number of wizard geniuses will run there.

The Dark Wizard Alliance in the Jade Flower Enclave used money to purchase a large amount of real estate and identities, disguising themselves as a member of the Celestial Beings.

At least from a legal perspective, there is nothing wrong with it.

As an outsider divine master, Witch Charlie naturally wouldn’t interfere in this matter.

At the gate of the Ashes Esoteric Academy Castle, Wizard Warwick said, “We should enter the River of the Abyss as quickly as possible, and then locate the dragon and the tomb of the Nameless King’s Wife.”

“Three of you, let’s go.”

The four entered the castle of the Ash Esoteric Academy, walked through the castle corridor, and entered a dungeon. They saw that the dungeon was full of broken limbs and arms of various races.

There were still people wailing in the cells.

Witch Charlie looked at Warwick and McKinley with unfriendly eyes.

Witch Xia Li whispered to Locke, “Brother, be careful. After all, this is the territory of the dark wizards.”

“If you sense something is wrong, immediately use the spell model [Summon Styx Ferryman] to leave.”

Wizard Warwick looked at Locke and Witch Charlotte and explained, “This is the storage facility for laboratory materials at our Ash Esoteric Academy. The people imprisoned here are all rebels from the various colonized worlds who are resisting the spread of civilization.”

“Although it looks a bit scary, please rest assured that nothing in this dungeon violates the laws of our White Wizard Association of the Jade Flower Enclave. Even if there are some violations, we have already paid sufficient fines.”

“This is a legal dungeon.”

Locke glanced at Warwick and said, “I don’t care about that. Don’t forget why we came here together.”

The wizard Warwick took off several layers of magic clothes on his body. Now he returned to his own territory and finally did not have to be afraid all day long.

His whole body was like a silver-cast werewolf, and a natural magic eye appeared on his forehead, like the silver-cast eye of the abyss of wisdom.

At the same time, Wizard McKinley glanced at Locke, and his body also changed. His hands turned into the wings of a dark butterfly, and there were many patterns of the fire of the abyss on the butterfly wings.

That is the characteristic of the Abyss Demon Butterfly.

Wizard McKinley said, “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a White Wizard so courageous. He actually followed us deep into the Black Wizard’s dungeon. But don’t worry, we are all archaeological wizards.”

“Even if you don’t look at the monk, you should look at the Buddha.”

“In this world, archaeology wizards are already rare enough. Even in the Ashes Esoteric Academy, there are only a few dozen archaeology wizards, and the teaching system is secret.”

“On the surface, the Order of Ashes is not an archaeological wizarding academy.”

“So, don’t worry. We will be in this dungeon and will do you no good. The source of the Abyssal River comes from the Abyss. It has passed through countless Abyssal planes. The river water has long been contaminated by the power of the Abyss. If we don’t use the resentment and death energy of these death row prisoners to suppress the power of the Abyss, I am afraid that all creatures on the floating reef will be contaminated by the Abyssal energy, their bodies will be transformed into Abyssal creatures, and their souls will become Abyssal.”

“By that time, my Ash Cult will have suffered heavy casualties, and the wizarding organization will be disbanded.”

“Therefore, the entrance to the River of the Abyss is indeed at the deepest part of this dungeon.”

Witch Charlie looked at the miserable humanoid creatures in the dungeon, endured the urge to vomit, and forced herself to walk forward.

Locke had seen the abyss plane before, so he had some tolerance for this bloody scene.

At the same time, he also realized that neither McKinley nor Warwick had clean hands.

The reason why Warwick could behave so orderly in front of him was simply because he and he were people of the same level.

Some people are polite and gentlemanly in their own social circles, but that doesn’t mean they will still be the same gentleman when they go to the lower class society.

Sometimes, a person’s gentlemanly personality and his devilish personality can exist at the same time.

The four of them continued to walk down the stairs. The smell of decay, blood, and the increasingly strong power of the abyss were floating in the air.

A skinned, abyssal pig-headed man wailed in the dungeon. “Please, save me.”

“Please.”

In front of him was a first-class wizard apprentice of a dark wizard, who was doing some cruel experiment with a skinning knife.

The dark wizard was clearly a necromancer, his eyes filled with fanaticism. “The muscle distribution of pig-headed men from different branches is indeed different. I’ve skinned over five hundred pig-headed men and finally verified this…”

“Especially for the pig-headed people who have been infected by the energy of the abyss and transformed into the abyss. They are even more different.”

Witch Charlie waved her hand with a cold look in her eyes, and the pig-headed man died immediately, relieving his pain.

The dark wizard was immediately enraged and was about to curse, but when he looked up, he saw Warwick and McKinley, as well as two other first-ring wizards with extremely powerful magic pressure whom he did not recognize. He was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” said Valentine’s apprentice. “I might have done something wrong and angered my mentor.”

“Please forgive me.”

“Four adults.”

Witch Charlie glanced at him with disdain, a fierce gleam in her eyes. “Hmph, it would be better if all these filthy things died.”

Apprentice Valentine was so frightened that his whole body was shaking.

The hierarchy within the Ashes Cult was strict, and it didn’t matter if a senior wizard killed an apprentice like him, even for no reason.

So, unlike ordinary white wizard students, at this moment the Valentine apprentice was really scared to the point that his whole body was trembling and his face turned pale.

If Witch Charlie was determined to kill him at this moment, he would surely die unless there was an official wizard to protect him.

Warwick laughed it off tactfully and said, “Valentine, your methods are too cruel. Even I don’t like them. Let alone this witch, Lady Charlie.”

“You should apologize to this gentleman. He is a big shot from a top wizarding academy.”

“Golden Crown Mountain, do you know?”

A look of doubt flashed across Valentine’s apprentice’s eyes.

He knew about Jinmian Mountain, which was a famous wizard academy among the white wizards and a representative academy of high-efficiency agriculture.

But why would Golden Crown Mountain, as a thousand-year-old prestigious school in the White Wizard Society, be willing to set foot in the deepest and most terrifying eighteen-level dungeon of the Ash Cult today?

Apprentice Valentine immediately came to his senses and bowed down to Witch Charlie.

No matter what Witch Charlie’s identity is, she is a formal wizard, a completely different existence from other classes.

If you want to kill him, you can do it directly.

The white wizard society of the Qionghua Enclave itself emphasizes the survival of the strong and the elimination of the weak, and advocates the elimination of weaker beings.

The dark wizarding community in the Jade Flower Enclave has taken this to the extreme.

Apprentice Valentine kept kowtowed on the cold, hard granite floor.

Witch Charlie, however, showed no appreciation at all and only displayed a look of disgust. “This is truly disgusting to me.”

“Brother Locke, let’s go.”

Wizard Warwick shrugged, floated, and followed. “I understand. Actually, McKinley and I don’t like this kind of scene either. We are archaeologists, not death wizards.”

“We understand you.”

Witch Charlotte looked at Wizard Warwick in confusion and said, “If that dark wizard apprentice just now really did something evil out of necessity for his experiment, then that’s fine. Although it violates the law, it’s still understandable.”

“But part of the reason he did it just now was just to torture that mortal creature and do such a vicious thing.”

“You two, both archaeologists, shouldn’t have so little pride in yourself.”

McKinley just smiled and didn’t answer her.

Warwick explained, “The eighteenth dungeon is basically the territory of the Necromancer Academy. They can’t go out in the open, so they are angry.”

“But you’re right, they are psychopaths. Of course, let me emphasize again that the death row prisoners in this entire dungeon are all from the biological community that colonized the world, disrespected our wizard civilization, and actively attacked us.”

“So, there’s nothing illegal in this entire dungeon!”

“We’ve even invited a contract lawyer from a law firm to help us assess the situation, and our college has won several cases before.”

Locke suddenly said, “That river ahead is the River of the Abyss, right? It looks like an ordinary river.”

I saw that in the deepest part of the dungeon in front of me, the terrain suddenly opened up, and at the deepest part of the dungeon, there was actually a dock.

At the magic alloy dock, there were some magic equipment, some wizard apprentices and a formal wizard, who were working on something.

The dock is on an extremely wide river, which is as vast as a lake. Ships can sail on the water and move easily.

It’s just that the surface of the river looks very ordinary.

Witch Charlotte spoke before Warwick: “Locke, look at that pier. It’s all covered with magic from the Sealing Magic sub-direction of the Protection School.”

“The entire river looks ordinary, but in fact, the surface is covered with the power of the seal, which is why it is so calm. It is not like what you see with your n*ked eyes. This is an ordinary river.”

Locke used the wizard’s vision [Spiritual Vision] and immediately saw that on the river surface in front of the dock, there were one spell model after another suppressing the river.

Otherwise, the abyss power in the entire river would probably explode instantly and demonize everyone around it.

Kill all life force around.

Warwick smiled and said, “Witch Charlie is truly knowledgeable.”

“It seems you’ve seen a lot. No wonder you’re traveling with Locke this time. But you don’t have to be too wary of me. Locke and I are close friends.”

“I’m very grateful to Locke for preparing the Abyss Werewolf Potion for me. I’ll need to rely on Locke a lot in the future.”

Witch Charlie did not respond.

At this time, Wizard McKinley picked up a stone on the ground and threw it towards the river next to the dock in front.

The stone fell into the river, and the calm river surface just now suddenly erupted with violent abyssal demonic energy. Many wizard apprentices on the dock were shaken to the ground by the abyssal energy.

The official wizard quickly deployed a permanent defense force field to cover the dock, and cast a protective school spell model [Forced Seal] towards the river surface, adding another seal to suppress the river surface.

The official wizard yelled at McKinley. “McKinley, what are you doing? Are you sick?”

McKinley chuckled and said to Locke, “See? This tributary of the Abyss River is not as docile as it appears.”

“Our college spends a huge amount of resources every year just to keep it ‘quiet’.”

“If we don’t use the resentment and death energy of the eighteenth-floor death row prisoners to offset the overflowing abyssal energy, I’m afraid…”

Witch Charlie sneered.

Locke also realized that the real purpose of this dungeon’s deathly aura was probably to cover up the energy of the abyss and prevent the Ethics Review Committee from coming to investigate.

In any case, creating such a large abyss tributary in the Qionghua enclave may cause a thorough investigation by the Ethics Review Committee.

After all, the Cult of Ashes is not an ordinary dark wizard organization, it is also a member organization of the White Wizards Association.

If the White Wizard Association insists on coming to investigate, it has no reason to refuse.

Of course, this is just theoretical.

On a practical level, the academy is indeed not under the supervision and control of the local White Wizards Association branch.

The four of them arrived at the dock, and Wizard McKinley exchanged a few words with the official wizard on the dock, and then he obtained the right to step onto the River of Abyss.

Many black wizard apprentices secretly looked at Locke and Witch Charlie, as if they were surprised that two white wizards came here.

When Locke looked at them, these dark wizard apprentices either immediately bowed their heads in submission or smiled flatteringly.

Warwick chanted a spell, and a Styx Ferryman’s boat suddenly appeared on the surface of the Abyssal River. “Three, I’ve memorized the coordinates of the ruins on the Abyssal River. The four of us will take turns using the Summon Styx Ferryman spell model and head to that area.”

“The journey is long, and the surface environment of the Abyssal River is harsh, complex, and dangerous. Therefore, to ensure maximum safety, I suggest that we take turns using the spell to summon the Underworld Ferryman.”

Locke and Charlie the Witch have nothing wrong with it.

After paying four gold coins from the underworld, the four of them boarded the ferry together. The ferryman of the Styx looked at the four of them, then held up the oars and began to move in the water of the river of the abyss.

Warwick said, “The River of the Abyss is different from ordinary rivers. Ordinary rivers flow from high to low, but the River of the Abyss flows from low to high.”

“The River of the Abyss originates from a layer within the lower planes of the Endless Abyss. Currently, no wizard has confirmed which layer of the Abyss its source lies.”

“The River of the Abyss spans many abyssal planes and intersects with many planes of the Endless Void, including our wizard plane.”

“So, currently some ways to travel to the colonial plane are through the waterways of the Abyss River, taking a Void Battleship.”

“Back in the Age of Stars, the Witch Kings who had drawn heavily upon the power of the Abyss would, in order to repay their debt to the Abyss, place their tombs within the Abyss after death. They also didn’t want their bodies to be tainted by the Abyss and transformed into wights. Therefore, many Witch Kings chose to build their tombs into impenetrable magical seals and place them somewhere within the Abyssal River.”

Warwick said to Locke, “This is a very clever approach. Because the River of the Abyss is part of the Abyss, but a large part of the River of the Abyss is outside the Endless Abyss.”

“In this way, the wizard-kings can ensure their honor in death.”

“Preserve their last dignity.”

Wizard McKinley couldn’t help but laugh and said, “A tomb like this gathers a lot of magical power, and there must be many treasures inside.”

“If we can develop an abyss ruin, it will be enough for an academy to survive for a long, long time.”

At this time, they had already sailed away from the dock, which became small and invisible. The tributary of the Abyss River blew them to an unknown place.

The sealing energy on the river surface has gradually weakened.

Moreover, lines of abyssal energy were being released towards the four people on the boat.

The river that the ferry passed through was deep black water, with no visible bottom, and there was life in it.

On the contrary, there are many types and exaggerated quantities.

Those were devil fish!
They were flapping excitedly in the river, banging their bodies against the bottom of the ferry.

Locke saw that beneath the surface of the Abyss River, there were not only various demon fish with red eyes and screaming sharp mouths, but also many primitive demon worms. These worms were wriggling like insect larvae in the water, greedily looking at the four wizards on the surface of the river in the water.

Warwick sneered, emitting the aura of an abyss werewolf.

Suddenly, those demon fish and the primitive demon worms in the abyss, after sensing the aura of high-level demons, ran away very fast.

The low-level demons that kept attacking the ferry disappeared in the blink of an eye.

But the river was never calm again.

Demon fish were scrambling to escape everywhere, and the splashing water was filled with the shadows of surging primitive demon worms.

At this time, Witch Charlie took out a strange witch porcelain from the star ring.

This Wu Ci looks exactly like her.

All the energy of the abyss gathered into this witch porcelain doll, but it had no effect on her.

In addition, when Witch Charlie activated her bloodline, some characteristics of a deep-sea octopus appeared on her body.

There was no change in her hands, but six giant sea monster octopus tentacles grew out of her back.

Locke recognized that this seemed to be an ancient deep-sea monster [Kraken], a second-ring level ancient creature. It was said that in ancient times it had the power to destroy countless islands and cause tsunamis.

With the physical bonus of the Kraken and the abyss energy carried by the substituted witch porcelain, Witch Xia Li can be immune to the abyss energy.

Warwick’s eyes lit up. “That’s quite a feat. That must be Wuci, right? I didn’t expect the Wuci technology of the Yunze Wetlands to advance so rapidly, to the point where it can actually help the master absorb the energy of the Abyss.”

“That’s something I didn’t expect.”

“But the deeper we go, the denser the abyssal energy becomes. This little trick won’t last as long as the Abyssal Ruins. This time, we’re going deep into the Abyssal River.”

“After all, the abyssal remains of the nameless king’s wife drifted for a long time on the surface of the abyssal river before landing in that position and temporarily stopping.”

“Otherwise, I wouldn’t be so lucky to find the ruins near the Abyss River in the wizarding world.”

Witch Charlie said, “Don’t worry. I know what’s going on.”

(End of this chapter)