On a plain made entirely out of rocks and moss.
Two grey boar-like animals that were a lot smaller used their thick and coarse snouts to dig into the earth, searching for edible food.
Xiu Xiu! Two black arrows were suddenly released, and the sharp arrowheads penetrated the back of these two little beasts, pinning them to the ground.
“It’s not a bad harvest today. There are two grey boars! I can change the menu!”
On a hill, not far away, Leylin saw this scene, and joy was present in his smile.
Just ten or so minutes later, he used a wooden frame and made a fire. On top, the grey boars that had been skinned and washed were being roasted, a little grease rolling off the boiling hot skin. There was also an aroma that could make anyone drool mixed with the scent of pine wood, and Leylin’s forefinger couldn’t help but twitch.
“It’s been around a month since I exited from the large rock hill where the teleportation spell formation is.”
After gnawing away at an entire grey boar, Leylin sighed contently and kept the other one for later.
After a month of wandering around, he now had an idea of how barren this subterranean world was.
Here, it was possible to not see any life despite walking for days, and only moss and bugs were tenaciously surviving.
The pig-like creature that Leylin named “grey boar” was the biggest animal he had seen thus far. It was also the tastiest.
At this thought, Leylin couldn’t help but feel a little regretful.
While the precious spatial leather pouch was extremely spacious, there was a limit to how much could be stored within. It was already full of precious items that Leylin had gained through various methods, the value of which was something even rank 3 Magus would be envious of.
Unfortunately, there was no good food or wine at all. Compared to precious materials, their value was much too low and it was not worth being stored within.
Hence, Leylin found himself living the life of a barbarian.
Water was not an issue. He was a Magus, and with a water elemental spell, he could easily produce large amounts of fresh water. If it was food, however, he had little in the way of options.
Because he was a rank 2 Warlock, it was fine if he didn’t eat for ten days or half a month, but if it was a full month, it wasn’t possible for him not to eat at all.
In addition, his living environment in his previous life, and even now, were all not unsatisfactory. He was used to having three meals a day, and even had some stringent requirements regarding the content of his meals.
Currently, after a long search, Leylin could somewhat find a few starchy plants and roots that he could consume. He might also be able to have some birds or berries.
Leylin was beginning to get tired of these meagre meals.
This boar-like creature that he had named “grey boar” was, by far, the tastiest out of everything else that he had seen here up until now.
“Damn it! I hope this isn’t a completely barren land.”
After walking for a full month, besides this desert-area, Leylin had also seen some plains. Leylin began to have some suspicions, as even large animals were rarely seen.
Honestly speaking, as he was accustomed to sunlight, Leylin had never realised how precious it was.
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Leylin had previously seen information regarding the resources of the subterranean world in an ancient book.
Legend has it that the ancient Magus World was only a small part of the surface of the earth, and before the ancient Magi’s focus had switched to the other worlds, their goal had been the subterranean world!
The ancient Magi all wielded formidable power; even the sun and the moon would lose their splendor when put in front of these Magi. Many of the natives of the subterranean world had been subdued by them, and these Magi had then exploited layers and layers of the subterranean world to obtain endless wealth and resources.
It was recorded that the ancient Magi had exploited the 7 layers of the subterranean world!
It was said that the further down the layers one visited, the more powerful the ethnic race of that layer would be, and that at the core of the earth, there was an extremely terrifying female existence.
But these did not stop the ancient Magi from venturing further, and finally, the whole subterranean world had acknowledged them as their conqueror. This was all a part of the golden age of the ancient Magi.
Later, the still-dissatisfied Magi shifted their attention to different worlds, and conquered world after world until they ran into that extremely powerful world!
After what was known as the Final Confrontation, although that opposing world did not end up getting any benefits, neither did the Magus World—they deteriorated instead. Even the passage that led to the subterranean world had been destroyed by this war. Since then, the subterranean world had only appeared in legends.
At the least, within the entirety of the southern coast, Leylin had not seen any of the subterranean world’s life-forms, nor had he heard of any passages to the subterranean world.
“From the previously gathered information and the sights seen, this must be the subterranean world; I just don’t know which layer this is! However, based on the dangerous life-form that approached, it ought to be, at most, the third layer, else I would have ran into many dangerous, high-energy life-forms. Also, the probability of the life-forms I ran into being from the first or second layer is really large…”
Leylin kept on pondering this over.
Although he was uneasy that this place was a barren region, Leylin continued forth. The recent appearance of the grey boar supplied him with huge confidence to proceed on his journey.
While walking the whole journey, Leylin also made a record of his surroundings.
At the location of the ancient magic spell, which Leylin had named “Giant Stone Hills,” the signs of life were so weak that, at most, one could see only moss and some insects, and nothing else.
As Leylin went about his journey, the signs of life gradually increased, and later, he saw something like bat-like birds.
He would occasionally see the grey boars and as he travelled further, the rate of encountering them grew higher.
Thus, Leylin was certain. He had already walked away from the life-restricting region and come to the outside world.
[Beep! Discovered energy waves! The estimate is that these waves are the aftermath of level zero magic. Direction: 15 degrees east, at 3,123 meters.]
Now, the A.I. Chip had issued a message.
“Huh?!” Leylin’s thoughts shook: “Finally, there are some traces of an organism with energy!”
He quickly packed up and soon went in the direction from which the energy waves were emitted.
Although there was still a grave injury upon his person, and his sea of consciousness was even more injured due to him solidifying large amounts of spiritual force, he could still display the approximate might of a level 1 Magus. However, he did not pay any attention to this small point, and rushed to the scene of those energy waves.
What appeared in Leylin’s sight was the scene of three males and two females confronting a high-energy organism.
These five people seemed to be a standard small squadron. Two males dressed in leather, who were at the very front, served as human shields, constantly swinging their huge iron swords. They, at the very least, had the power of a Grand Knight.
The other three wore gray robes that looked like what the magician apprentices of the southern coast wore, but the style of these robes was very old-fashioned; they were simple and unadorned.
“There are humans here! And they are acolytes!” Leylin inwardly felt elated at this prospect.
What the five acolytes were confronting was an organism that was similar to the huge grey board, but with a physique that was almost a dozen times bigger, and 3 pairs of huge, crescent-moon-shaped teeth beneath its snout. Hard fur grew all over its body, and it was entirely covered in pine resin, mud, and other forms of muck. It formed thick lumps that, like a battle tank that had donned armor on. The level 0 magic spell that had been previously used by those apprentices seemed to have only left burn marks in the region; it had been incapable of breaking through even the outermost defences.
“Hoo hoo…” Two puffs of white gas were emitted from the nose of this organism that looked like a suckling pig. After pawing the ground, it suddenly charged, and its whole body was like a derailed train as it ran towards those two Grand Knights.
“Ah!”
The floor shook, causing one of those Grand Knights to lose his footing. Soon after, he slipped and was sent flying by this huge boar-like beast. Upon having been gored upon his waist and back by the organism’s huge tusks, blood poured out from his wounds like spring water.
Warlock of the Magus World (Chapter 151-Chapter 300)
Wen Chao Gong's books
- Warlock of the Magus World (Chapter 1-Chapter 150)
- Warlock of the Magus World (Chapter 301-Chapter 450)
- Warlock of the Magus World (Chapter 451-Chapter 600)
- Warlock of the Magus World (Chapter 601-Chapter 750)
- Warlock of the Magus World (Chapter 751-Chapter 900)
- Warlock of the Magus World (Chapter 901-Chapter 1050)
- Warlock of the Magus World (Chapter 1051-Chapter 1200)