Rubik's Cube World

After the party with Mai Kuraki and others, the life of Ito Cheng, who had no social activities, returned to calm again. Every day, he would either stay at home and read a book, or go to the Merlin Library in the [Magic Realm] to secretly record the secretary, or experience it in the dead of night. Modify the rules so that you can quickly enter the S rank.

"Chen?" On this day, Ito Cheng, who had just finished recording books, had just walked out of the Merlin Library, when a familiar female greeting suddenly rang in his ears.

Ito Cheng, with a slightly puzzled expression, immediately turned his head to look at the past following the voice.In an instant, a young woman with a height of 1.7 meters, a slender figure, and a young woman with short golden brown hair came into his eyes.

"Betty?" Ito Cheng, who saw the appearance of the visitor, greeted in a puzzled tone.

The person who came was Betty Arnold, who was cheerful and outgoing, and had the strength of a one-star mage, one of the three mages hired by Ito Cheng through Maria of the Firth Magic Agency in the name of a magic consultant.

"I didn't expect it to be you. I thought I was wrong just now." Betty, who strode towards Ito Cheng, smiled and said.

"Are you...?" Ito Cheng asked back with a smile.

"Recently, I suddenly became interested in potions, so I came here to buy some materials for cultivating potions." Betty explained.Then he looked at Ito Cheng and smiled, "By the way, I forgot to congratulate you."

"What?" Ito Cheng, who didn't realize that he had anything worthy of congratulations recently, was stunned and asked subconsciously.

"I heard from Ingrid that you have obtained the rank of an official mage." Betty quickly explained.

"So that's what happened. I'm so ashamed of your help. Without you and Ingrid's careful teaching, I might not have passed the official mage's examination so quickly." Ito Cheng, who suddenly came over, said modestly.

"That's because you worked hard enough. I can't bear to go to the big library to read books like this every day." Turning to look at Betty, who was shining with a faint magical glow behind Ito Cheng, said.

"Oh, by the way, since I met you here, I will save the time to go to the Association to find someone to form a team. How about it, would you like to accompany me to the Tapei Forest to collect some potion materials?" Betty looked at Ito again and asked with a smile.

"It doesn't seem like we should go to that kind of place?" Ito Cheng said hesitantly.

The place represented by the name Tapei Forest, Ito Cheng knows, is a special forest located in the south of [Magic Realm].It was originally the hermitage of Tappe Clari, a master of both alchemy and magic.But in one of its special experiments.The experiment failed due to the unexpected intrusion of the enemy. Not only did the caster Tape Clari almost die from the magic backlash, but even the assailant was seriously injured in the tide of magic elements produced by the failure of the experiment.But the most dangerous thing was the special summoning circle set up by Tape Klari in the experiment at that time, which was connected to an unknown dimensional plane under the out-of-control magic.While releasing a large amount of magic energy elements.It also attracted a group of powerful exotic monsters.It made the entire Tapei forest extremely dangerous, and people without the strength of a two-star mage or above could not go deep at all.

It's just that if there is a loss, there is a gain, under the influence of the magic energy element released from the alien plane.Most of the plants in Tapei Forest have undergone mutations, from ordinary plants to abnormal plants with magical properties, becoming a paradise for some potion development enthusiasts.

As for the foreign portal in the forest that was originally opened by Tape-Clari's magic failure, it has long been sealed by the legendary mage stationed in the [Demon Realm], but as the parties involved in the incident, Tape-Clari and his The enemy, on the other hand, was bitten and devoured by the monster that rushed out later, and it had long been unknown what it had become.

"Don't worry, we're only going around the periphery, not going deep." Betty replied with a smile as if she had expected Cheng Ito to ask.

"That's good." Ito Chenggu nodded hesitantly and agreed.

Seeing that Ito Cheng agreed, Betty laughed happily, and greeted Ito Cheng to walk over to the shared teleportation magic circle set up on Merlin Street.It's just that Betty, who was walking in front, didn't notice that Ito Cheng, who was following her, had a serious expression on his face, and was staring at her back with flickering eyes to observe something.

When Betty turned his head to talk to him, Ito Cheng's expression returned to its original appearance again, and he came to the public teleportation circle talking and laughing with Betty, and took out the bank card to pay the teleportation fee very actively and gentlemanly , activate the magic circle to teleport them to a small circle not far from Tapei Forest.

"There is still a distance from Tapei Forest, where we can rent two good horses for transportation." Betty, who walked out of the teleportation array, pointed to a location not far away where more than a dozen horses of various colors were stored. .

Ito Cheng, who looked in the direction Betty pointed, nodded, and came to the horse rental office with Betty.

The way to rent a horse is very simple, as long as you pay a certain amount of deposit and leave a magic badge imprint representing your personal identity.And the money will naturally still be paid by Ito Cheng, the benefactor.

"Drive!" Betty and Ito Cheng, who selected a good horse from the horse herd, got on their horses and rode them, and shouted, shaking the reins.

Under the stinging pain of the reins, the two good horses galloped forward at high speed, neighing.

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"Woo..." Just as Betty and Ito Cheng were halfway, Ito Cheng suddenly tightened the reins and stopped the horse.

"Why did you stop?" Betty asked with a puzzled look on her face as she stopped the horse after rushing a certain distance, turned the horse's head and came back at a slow pace.

"There is no village in front of this place, no shop in the back, the surrounding environment is empty, and there is no one within a radius of more than ten meters. It is a good place to solve problems." Ito Cheng, who did not answer Betty's question, turned his head and looked at the surrounding welcome.

Betty's eyes flickered almost imperceptibly when she heard what Ito Cheng said.

"Speaking frankly, who are you?" Ito Cheng asked softly, turning his gaze back to Betty.

"Chen? What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?" Betty asked in confusion.

"Although your disguise is almost fake, if you don't observe carefully for a long time, or know some secrets, you can hardly tell the difference between you and your real body, but it just so happens that I know something, even Betty herself It's a habitual action that I haven't noticed before. So there's no need to pretend." Ito Cheng, who summoned dozens of transparent air bombs around his body by casting spells without spells, said softly.

"Chen? You said I was pretending!? Are you crazy?" Betty looked at Ito Cheng with a face full of disbelief and looked like a madman.

"Tsk, as expected of a professional, the psychological quality is strong!" Itocheng looked at Betty with disdain and said, "But unfortunately, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. I don't want to wait for your staff who came over to find out the accident and get entangled." live."

After the words fell, Ito Cheng ignored Betty in front of him, and ordered those air bullets to fly towards Betty.

"Bang bang bang bang..." In an instant, a series of explosions sounded, and a large amount of smoke, dust and bloody liquid splashed from Betty's position, spreading on the surrounding loess road.

Ito Cheng didn't care whether the blood on the ground was human blood or horse blood, he immediately swung his right arm, several long and narrow wind blades flipped and flew into the white smoke that exploded from the bomb.

But the moment the wind blade flew into the smoke, a gray band of air flew out of the smoke like an arrow, and flew straight towards Ito Cheng's body.

Although I don't know what kind of magic the air belt is, Ito Cheng, who is definitely not a good thing, flashes and appears directly behind the smoke, that is, behind that Betty.

The next moment, the horse, which felt the danger because of its animal instinct, neighed and kicked forward, and was instantly hit by the gray air band.Seeing that the muscles of the horse's body shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye, it turned into a horse corpse with only fur and bones in it, and fell to the ground with a "plop", arousing Big clouds of dust.

"Necromantic magic?" Seeing this, Ito Cheng secretly thought in his heart, and at the same time, he was a little confused whether the other party was a killer sent by the church.

It's just that although there is a difference in his heart, Ito Cheng's movements are still non-stop. First, he put his hands together in front of his body and quickly pressed them on the ground paved with loess.In an instant, a large number of blue and white lightning flashed out from Ito Cheng's hands, almost instantly covering Betty's feet, transforming the terrain, causing huge rectangular stone pillars to rise rapidly from the ground, The corners and sides are connected with each other to form a rectangular column with only an opening in the top cloth, imprisoning Betty inside.

But before the square pillar rose to a certain distance, a figure trampled on the top of the earth and stone pillar rising from the center of the square pillar at a faster speed, and cast a few black and cold breaths while chanting a simple mantra. A strange arrow shot down towards Ito Cheng.

Itocheng thought about it and immediately jumped back, and then, after glancing at the hole in the ground corroded by the black arrow, he jumped straight towards the woman who still kept Betty's appearance, and at the same time Grabbing ten fingers into tiger claws, he cast lightning spears at the woman for a few counts.

Surprisingly, Betty's body floated and flew up in the air with magic.It's just that her flying speed is not 01:30 slower than that of Ito Cheng who uses telekinetic power to fly, but it is more than double the speed of ordinary two-star mages casting spells such as levitation and flying.

Seeing this, Ito Cheng sneered, provided his forward speed again, appeared in front of Betty in an instant, and punched her.

"Pfft!" The next moment, accompanied by a slight explosion, the attacking Betty suddenly turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared from Ito Cheng's eyes... (to be continued...)