Chapter 750 - Depths of the Forest
Chapter 750 Depths of the Forest
Shadow’s Light. Apprentice squad.
Leader: Pseudo-Adept Ponta. Male, thirty-seven years old. Dark elementium affinity.
Four members: Body-Refining Apprentice Dakso (Advanced), Plant Apprentice Eco (Female, Intermediate), Transfiguration Apprentice Blanco (Intermediate) and Goblin Magical Mechanic Little Locke (Beginner).
Originally, Little Locke wasn’t qualified to be a member of Shadow’s Light with his current power. However, due to the insistent recommendation of Eco, the magical mechanic path’s non-reliance on raw power, and special skills that it possessed, Ponta allowed Little Locke to become a member of the group.
This five-person group was reasonably well-formed. They had Body-Refining Apprentice Dakso as the tank, Plant Apprentice Eco as the healer, and a magical mechanic who specialized in reconnaissance and disruption. This way, the party would be able to deal with enemies reliably, even if they were powerful magical creatures. The core of the party, Pseudo-Adept Ponta, would be allowed to output damage with all he had.
On the other hand, the transfiguration class was a unique advancement trajectory that had suddenly appeared over the past six months in White Tower. Much of the knowledge system of the transfiguration path came from a mysterious world known as Faen. It was said that there was a wondrous profession known as a druid in that world. These druids could use their nature’s affinity to converse with plants and animals.
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The depths of the Black Forest.
The black-robed Billis stood alone in the cold winds on top of a short cliff, allowing the corners of his robe to billow in the winds.
When the members of Shadow’s Light slowly approached Campsite Three, Billis turned about. His four ghostly green eyes fixated upon a particular spot in the vast forest.
At this moment, his eye bugs were spread across the Black Forest in a fifty-kilometer radius.
The apprentice adepts that had entered the Black Forest appeared to be on their own, but everything they were doing was under the strict supervision of Bug Adept Billis.
The clan had not sent Billis here just to exterminate those foolish magical creature lords, but to ‘protect’ this new blood of the clan in secret.
Billis would not participate in the usual training and exploration of the apprentice parties. Even when parties ran into danger, Billis would not need to act, as long as the risk was still within an acceptable range.
After all, the only way that the apprentices could gain the nutrition they needed for growth was by treading the line between life and death!
Still, if the parties were to encounter powerful magical creatures that they had no hope of defeating, Billis would secretly act and turn the danger into safety through discreet methods.
Of course, the clan would never let such a thing be known to the apprentices.
Bug Adept Billis’ mission wasn’t just a burdensome one, but one that demanded plenty of attention and finesse as well. If it weren’t for his ubiquitous eye bugs and his terrifying number of insects, an ordinary adept would have plenty of trouble undertaking a protection mission like this one! He was basically an undercover babysitter!
Of course, apart from protecting the apprentices, Billis’ responsibilities included the expulsion of those ferocious magical creatures.
Right now, the incidental discovery of an eye bug allowed Billis to find the tracks of a humanoid magical scorpion. This magical creature that possessed many insectoid traits was the kind that most interested Billis. Billis could always extract plenty of evolution genes beneficial to his improvement from them.
Billis’ green compound eyes flashed as a series of chittering sounds rang out from the dark forest below him. As the leaves of the massive ancient trees rustled, several semi-translucent magical mantises quickly vanished into the forest.