Planting an immortal tree in the wizarding world

Chapter 136 The enemy is at the gates!

The knights in the formation scattered.

Two crimson fireballs, each the size of a head, crashed to the ground.

Like a boulder falling into shallow water, a ball of flame, along with the mud and dust, shot out in all directions.

Although neither of the two fireballs hit anyone.

However, its shockwave is extremely powerful.

The three knights closest to the two fireballs suddenly flew to one side, their figures leaving afterimages in the air.

After each crashing into a tree and sliding a short distance on the ground, they lay motionless, their fate unknown.

The shockwave not only knocked the three knights away, but also nearly threw their formation into disarray.

Everyone else was affected by the shockwave to varying degrees.

"I surrender, I surrender! I'll tell you everything you want to know!"

One of the knights had only heard of the wizard's name before, but had never seen the wizard make a move.

Witnessing the power of the wizard, even though these two were only third-level wizard apprentices, they were still terrified.

He threw the sword to the ground with a loud clatter.

He then raised his hands and shouted.

However, the two third-level wizard apprentices seemed to be getting carried away with the fight.

They looked at the knight, a sinister smile creeping onto their lips, and simultaneously extended their wands, pointing them at him.

Two fireballs shot out from the sky and, in a few moments, crashed down on the knight.

Upon seeing this, the knight cursed loudly, activated the power of the life seed, and kicked off with his foot to quickly dodge.

However, the two fireballs collided around him, bursting into a huge flame.

The shockwave, carrying flames, covered his body like a robe.

"Ahhh!"

Amidst the knight's screams, flames seeped into his armor and burned his body.

The knight struggled to remove his armor.

However, the more the flames burned, the more powerless he became.

A pair of burning hands, trembling and anxious, tried to untie the ropes binding the armor, but they just couldn't.

Before long, the knight lay on the ground.

His armor was burned black, and his flesh was burned to a crisp; a burnt smell emanated from the armor.

In just a short while, four people collapsed.

The knights were deeply wary of the wizard's power.

Although they were confident that they would have a greater advantage in close combat, none of them dared to charge forward.

They fear that if they went up there, a fireball would come straight at them, and they would perish there.

As the knights retreated, the two wizard apprentices gave chase.

They were all students at the Kingdom's Wizarding Academy, tasked with searching for rebels near Triumph City.

Youssef Fleming's plan did initially fool the royal family.

Royal wizards and knights traveled a great distance to the southeastern province to search for the Fleming family's army, but to no avail.

Then they realized what had happened and sent a message back to Triumph City to inform them of the matter.

Only then did the royal family send people to search the area around Triumph City.

But by this time, Fleming's army had begun to arrive one after another.

After searching for a while, the two wizard apprentices discovered a group of knights. Sensing that there was no energy fluctuation on the knights, they knew that the knights did not know witchcraft and were immediately relieved.

Both of them were from wizarding families and spent most of their time studying at the Kingdom's Wizarding Academy, rarely engaging in combat.

The wizards' duels at the academy, with professors present and various defensive measures in place, were not enough for them.

They found it equally boring to bombard monsters with magic that made them less intelligent than themselves during monster hunts.

For them, killing is the only source of pleasure.

However, the kingdom's laws prohibit killing, except in war.

The two wizard apprentices laughed and gestured with their wands in the air.

Fireballs rained down on Layton, Bran, and the others.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Clusters of flames exploded in the forest, turning the woodland into a sea of ​​fire.

Of the original sixteen people, only six remained standing.

This includes Layton and Bran.

Bran was the weakest, but he was the fastest, so he dodged very quickly.

However, they didn't even have a chance to get close to the two wizard apprentices' repeated fireball spells.

In a little while, they will all die.

Just as a wizard apprentice, grinning maliciously, pointed his wand.

Suddenly, a strange glint flashed in his eyes.

He sensed a faint energy fluctuation emanating from behind him.

Followed by.

laugh!
A sound like a blade slicing through flesh rang out.

His wizard's robe suddenly billowed up from his chest.

But a blood-stained dagger pierced through his wizard's robes and flew out.

The wizard apprentice's eyes widened instantly, staring in disbelief at the bloody hole in his chest.

Blood gushed out from it, quickly staining the entire front of the wizard's robe red.

Another wizard apprentice was shocked to see his companion suddenly have a large hole pierced through his chest from behind by a dagger.

Just as the wizard apprentice was in surprise, a faint sound of wind came from behind him.

A burly man in a cloak and hood, wielding a greatsword engraved with magic runes, rushed over and swung the sword, slashing the wizard apprentice in the waist!
The wizard's robes on the apprentice instantly generated a protective force field.

However, the magic runes on the greatsword took effect immediately, and with a slight tremor, they broke through the protective force field.

The greatsword swung across the wizard apprentice's waist!
The next moment, the wizard apprentice's lower body was still standing, while his upper body flew diagonally to one side.

Blood and organs flowed from his upper body, splattering all the way.

Layton and Bran, along with their six companions, were on the verge of death when the two wizard apprentices who were about to kill them suddenly died. A sense of fantasy and absurdity arose in their hearts.

They saw a person, also wearing a cloak and a hood, emerge from the woods.

The hood cast a shadow on the man's face, obscuring his features.

Aside from Layton, Bran, and the two Fleming family knights, the two knights from the other territories all looked at this man.

Suddenly, an invisible spiritual shock burst forth from the shadow beneath the man's hood.

A loud boom resounded in the heads of the two knights, as if a giant hammer had fallen upon them.

Immediately, their bodies went limp and they collapsed to the ground.

The two newcomers not only killed two royal wizards, but also defeated two knights.

For a moment, Layton and the other three were unsure whether the newcomer was friend or foe.

"I wonder what you two are like..."

One of the Fleming family knights was about to ask a question.

The person who emerged from the woods waved his hand.

A faint green light flew out from within the cloak.

It flashed through the air, passing right through the armor of the two knights, which were protected by force fields, with two soft thuds. The two knights then collapsed to the ground.

Layton and Bran, both holding steel swords, watched the two men warily.

Just as they were about to make their move, they saw the two men lift their hoods.

Two faces with black hair and black eyes were revealed.

These two men were Ronan and Lyon.

"Leon!"

"Ronan!"

Layton and Bran were overjoyed.

After the four met, they didn't say much, as they all knew the danger of the place. They quickly searched the corpses on the ground and then left.

Ronan released his divine sense and led the four to a secluded place.

The four of them then began to talk about their recent situation.

It turned out that when Ronan and Lyon arrived in Triumph City, they found that the Fleming family's large force had already started fighting with the royal family.

Meanwhile, the various small teams that had not yet assembled were either moving towards the main force or being discovered by royal wizards or knights and were now engaged in battle.

After the four talked for a while, they turned their attention to the war.

All four of them were deeply concerned about this war.

Ronan wanted to know who won and who lost the battle, and whether it would affect his ability to return to Triumph City to live.

Also, how long will it last?

After all, his natal tree of immortality is still in the mortal realm of the cultivation world.

Due to the scarcity of spiritual energy, his cultivation of the Yi Wood Dharma Body has been suspended.

If the war drags on, he will plant his natal immortality trees in other parts of the wizarding world.

Lyon, on the other hand, was very eager to get involved in the war.

He wanted to observe the situation and help the winning side.

In this way, he could achieve military merits, which might earn him the favor of the victorious side and the opportunity to undergo physical transformation.

Layton, on the other hand, was anxious, wondering what impact the outcome of this war would have on the Lawrence family.

If the Fleming family wins, he fears they will blame them for not joining the main force and may then attack their family.

If the royal family wins, he fears the Lawrence family will be labeled as traitors.

Bran's mind was racing with all sorts of thoughts.

Like Lyon, he wanted to make a name for himself.

He was also worried about the future of his family.

He then thought of going to the battlefield to observe the battles of other knights and see if he could learn some swordsmanship from them.

After discussing it, the four decided to find a place to watch the war.

So, led by Ronan, the four of them avoided the wizard and the knight and made their way to a mountain peak.

From this mountain peak, through the branches and leaves of the forest, one can see the city walls of Triumph City in the distance.

Outside the city walls, a dense crowd of people could be seen.

However, it was the wizards and knights led by the Fleming family, along with wizards from the Necromancers, who were besieging the city.

A dozen or so wizards from the Necromancers stood in a row, holding aloft bone wands with jewels inlaid at the top, chanting spells continuously.

On the ground, circular magical arrays emitting white light appeared.

One by one, skeleton soldiers emerged from the sorcery array like a gushing spring, forming a river of skeletons that rushed towards Triumph City with tremendous force.

The Fleming family, with their elite force of modified knights, mounted griffins, wielding lances, and flew towards Triumph City.

Fifty or so griffins spread their wings, carrying knights, and soared through the air, creating an equally magnificent spectacle.

On the Fleming family's side, several wizards held their wands, inlaid with red gems, high in the air.

The red gemstone shone with a red light.

At the same time, a red light emanated from the griffins and knights.

Instantly, the griffin's flight speed increased.

A sense of excitement also spread across the knight's face.

The rebels marched in great numbers, but as they approached the walls of Triumph City, they saw a flash of yellow light on the walls.

One by one, circular magical formations with intricate patterns appeared.

Immediately afterwards, the magic array drew in energy particles, which coalesced into jewel-like objects that shone with a yellow light, and shot towards the enemy.

Meanwhile, the statues on the city walls.

Whether it was the tall, armed guards or the dragons and griffins, they all sprang into action in an instant.

They all left their original positions on the city wall and headed towards the attackers.

"I heard from the Fleming family knights that their family had allied with two other families. But looking at this battlefield, only the Evans family is with the Fleming family. I wonder where the other family is?"

Layton looked at the battlefield and spoke.

Ronan thought for a moment and said, "When I was still in Triumph City, apart from the Augustus family, Triumph City already had five of the other six major wizarding families."

"Could it be that there's a wizarding family in Triumph City?"

“Very likely.” Lyon nodded and continued watching the game.

All four of them noticed that those currently making moves at the foot of Triumph City were all low-level wizards and knights.

However, some high-level wizards are still in a wait-and-see state.

Only one wizard, exuding an aura of death and radiating extremely strong negative energy, was raising his bone wand and chanting.

This bone wand is much more ornate than the bone wands of other necromancers.

At its top is a circular, magical array-like design.

Within the magical array, five magic stones of different colors were embedded.

Streams of dark, negative energy swirled around the magic stone.

Ronan believed that this wizard was very likely the Holy Lord of the Necromancers.

It is now clearly summoning something terrible from the plane of the dead.

Beside this holy lord were four wizards, holding wands and watching the surroundings warily.

Besides the four wizards, there were twelve armored corpse knights.

The Corpse Knight's pair of forest-green eyes were also wary of its surroundings.

At the same time, Ronan saw that the high-ranking wizard of the Fleming family, whom he learned from Layton to be the patriarch of the Fleming family, Yusuf Fleming, was standing not far from the Holy Lord, seemingly protecting him so that the Holy Lord could successfully cast his spell.

'The Fleming family wizards, even before making a move, are already protecting the Holy Lord.'

Ronan thought to himself:

'So, what is the legendary royal wizard Dorifa waiting for?'

Just then, a huge black vortex formed in front of the Holy Lord.

Then, from within the vortex, a skeleton over two meters tall, wearing a white bone crown and a deathly black robe, gradually appeared.

A chilling aura of negative energy emanated from the skeleton, spreading outwards like a tidal wave.

The word "Necromancer Lord" immediately came to Ronan's mind.

Legend has it that when the Necromancer's Ruins were opened, the Holy Lord summoned the "Necromancer Lord" and engaged in a great battle with the kingdom's legendary wizard, Dolifa Augustus.

Judging from the imposing presence of the skeleton, it must be the reappearance of the Necromancer!

(End of this chapter)