Versatile Mage: Choose one of three Hexes at the start

Chapter 72 Lake of Death
There are nearly thirty sand lizards in this group. Judging from their size, there are seven general-level sand lizards and the rest are slave-level. The giant stone thorns released by Xiao Shitou are all aimed at the general-level sand lizards.

The leading sand lizards also noticed this sudden attack from the air. They quickly stopped and roared towards the sky.

When the earth spikes were about to hit them, these sand lizards quickly released their innate skills. The extremely rich earth element began to flow into their bodies from the rock layer under their feet, and the rock armor growing on their bodies became deeper and deeper with the infusion of energy.

Immediately afterwards, the sandstone lizards, whose defensive capabilities were greatly enhanced, directly withstood the attack released by the small stone.

Although these attacks failed to break the rock armor of these sand lizards, the purpose of interference has been achieved.

At this moment, Su Chi had already completed the possession of the small lightning, which greatly enhanced the power of his thunder magic.

Little Lightning is the name Su Chi gave to his contracted beast.

After devouring those spirit-level thunder seeds and spirit-level fragments, Little Lightning also successfully broke through to the general level.

The small lightning after being possessed not only gave Su Chi's thunder magic an extremely strong penetrating effect, almost to the point of ignoring defense, but also allowed Su Chi to have a thunder field.

As Su Chi quickly completed the drawing of the thunder star map, endless violent lightning energy began to gather.

“Lingxu·Thunderbolt·Crazy Dance!!”

Thunderbolt·Wild Dance is a third-level intermediate lightning magic. With just one release, it drained nearly one-third of the magic power in Su Chi’s lightning nebula.

However, its effect is also very powerful. As a group-wide high-burst lightning strike, it has the effects of continuous damage and field control.

Dozens of dense, destructive lightning bolts quickly descended from the sky, forming a gyroscope-like structure that formed a lightning storm field with a radius of tens of meters, directly enveloping more than half of the sandstone lizards.

The lightning in the field will automatically lock onto all Sand Lizards in the area and bombard them with high-frequency lightning. The target hit for the first time will enter a paralyzed state and will suffer greater damage from subsequent attacks.

With the dual blessing of the Thunder Seed Lingxu and the Small Lightning Possession feature, the defensive armor that these sand rock lizards were proud of was like nothing in the face of lightning attacks. When lightning continued to bombard them, these sand rock lizards let out painful howls.

Then Su Chi continued to release Thunderbolt Dance in the same way, and before the remaining sand lizards could react, they were all covered in the lightning field.

After the two lightning storm fields disappeared one after another, all the sandstone lizards covered by them had died.

Su Chi put all the remaining souls into the dragon-shaped necklace, and then turned his gaze to the three men and one woman who were walking towards him.

"Hello, I'm Guo Xinjie, captain of the Western Military Region scout team. Thank you very much for saving my life."

The leading man looked at Su Chi with gratitude, handed him his ID, and then introduced the three comrades beside him.

"They are members of my team, Qian Kaixiang, Mei Bowen, and Pang Jiani."

After Guo Xinjie finished his introduction, the three of them also thanked Su Chi with gratitude.

"Hello, my name is Su Chi, and I'm from Mingzhu Academy." Looking at the goodwill shown by the people in front of him, Su Chi smiled and said.

"Mingzhu Academy. So you are still a student? And isn't Mingzhu Academy in the Magic City?" Pang Jiani, the only girl in the team, spoke.

"It's in the Magic City, is there any problem with that?" Su Chi raised his eyebrows slightly.

"No, I'm just a little surprised. After all, the Magic City is quite far from here." Pang Jiani waved her hand quickly, fearing any misunderstanding. Su Chi nodded, then looked at the others and said, "This is not a place to stay for long. Come with me first."

After Guo Xinjie and the other three looked at each other, they decided to follow Su Chi to the temporary tent he had built.

It was late at night, the time when demons in the Gobi Desert were extremely active. Given the current state of the four of them, it was a pipe dream to expect them to return safely to Anjie.

After arriving next to the tent, Guo Xinjie and others began to bandage each other's wounds, and Su Chi saw this and took out some medicines he had prepared in advance.

Qian Kaixiang then suggested that he would keep watch tonight, but Guo Xinjie and Su Chi did not agree.

Guo Xinjie wanted to let the other three members of the team have a good rest first. After all, he was the captain. Su Chi did not fully trust them. Rescue and trust are two different things.

Seeing this, Guo Xinjie seemed to have understood Su Chi's thoughts, so the two of them became the ones keeping watch tonight.

After the three of them went to rest, Su Chi and Guo Xinjie began to chat idly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Chi also inquired with Guo Xinjie about some of the surrounding situations. Perhaps because Su Chi saved several members of their team, in addition to some confidential information, Guo Xinjie told Su Chi in detail all the information he knew, including why they were in danger this time.

At the end of this Gobi Desert, there is a quicksand area called Lake of Death.

A few days ago, their defense instruments detected a sudden huge vibration coming from the direction of the Lake of Death, which had never happened before.

So the top management sent a scout team led by Guo Xinjie to investigate. Their team originally had more than just four people, but the rest of them died in this mission.

After learning the news, Su Chi became interested. He had only two purposes for coming to Dunhuang this time. One was to gain some experience, and the other was to see if he could be lucky enough to find resources containing earth elements like earth-type spirit seeds here.

In Su Chi's opinion, the situation at the Lake of Death this time was very likely to be caused by something, and in his impression, there didn't seem to be any major internal crisis in Dunhuang, so he thought he might as well go over and take a look.

Time passed quickly as the two of them kept communicating. Before they knew it, it was daybreak. It was a rare opportunity for Su Chi to see a sunrise in the Gobi Desert.

After Guo Xinjie left, Su Chi did not go to the Lake of Death immediately, but returned to the tent to recuperate.

He planned to stay in this place for one more day. After all, from yesterday until now, apart from the group of sandstone lizards attracted by Guo Xinjie and others, not even a single demon had appeared in this place. It seemed that this place was quite safe.

A day later, Su Chi woke up early, packed up the tent, and continued to move westward.

As Su Chi continued to go deeper into the Gobi area, he encountered more and more demons, and the demons became stronger and stronger. Fortunately, he did not encounter any commander-level demons, and most of the demons he encountered became the souls of the dead under his thunder.

As it was getting close to evening, he finally reached the end of the Gobi Desert, and an area of ​​quicksand appeared before him.

"This is the Lake of Death." Su Chi stood at the edge of the quicksand area, holding the detailed map drawn by Lingling in his hand.

The vast area before them seemed to be covered in yellow sand all the way to the end of their vision. From the information Lingling had collected, there were many quicksand whirlpools in this area. If a creature accidentally stepped on them, it would most likely be swallowed by the huge suction force.

There is also a group of giant scorpion sand soldiers living in the yellow sand. This is a special kind of elemental monster. Although most of them are at the slave level, they basically appear in groups and will slaughter all creatures that accidentally break into them. Therefore, this area is called the Lake of Death.

(End of this chapter)