Chapter 143 Dark Land Dragon, a rare opportunity

Bai Ta Province, Rui'an City Suburbs.

A large manor with densely packed red fruits.

At first glance, it seems as if you have come to a red ocean.

On the sidewalk of the garden, Xie Man looked at the thriving dragon blood fruit, and a happy smile appeared on his face.

The apprentices standing behind him were also full of joy.

"The first batch of dragon blood fruit is about to mature, which means that there is no problem with the operation of the magic array of the magic plant garden. We succeeded!"

"Now the mission is completed!"

"I said it a long time ago, with Senior Xie Man here, there will definitely be no problem!"

"That's right, it's all thanks to Senior Xie Man."

Everyone talked about it in a happy atmosphere.

Xie Man turned around and smiled: "The development of the magic plant garden is not my own credit, it's all thanks to everyone's help. Thank you for your hard work during this period. I will submit a report to the base according to everyone's contribution. I believe the task reward will come soon."

The apprentices looked more and more happy when they heard it.

It was hard work to come to the White Tower Province to open up the Magic Plant Garden, but the rewards were also very generous.

The efforts of more than four months were equivalent to their income from the tasks in the past six months.

Xieman was also in a very happy mood.

As the main force in opening up the Magic Plant Garden, he could get the most contribution points, enough to exchange for several bottles of super potions plus four or five first-level spells.

"Senior Xieman, when are we going to the next place?" An apprentice said eagerly.

There were two teams to open up new Magic Plant Gardens, led by Xieman and Corey respectively.

The two teams were responsible for opening up three new Magic Plant Gardens, all of which were located near the six Knight Colleges without exception.

The one in Rui'an City was only the first Magic Plant Garden they opened up, and there were two more to go.

Xie Man pondered for a moment and said, "I will submit a report to the base later. When the garrison personnel of the base come to take over, we can leave."

"In addition, this batch of dragon blood fruits must be picked and preserved, and handed over to the Dragon Claw Knight Academy in the city. By the way, new magic plant seeds will be planted. This time, some other types of seeds will be added, including Silver Moon Flower and Tranquil Spirit Flower."

Hearing that Xie Man had arranged all matters, everyone agreed.

"Everyone has worked hard today. After returning to the city, I will treat everyone to dinner at the Blue Rose Restaurant." Xie Man smiled.

"Senior Xie Man is treating, so I will eat as much as I can."

"Senior Xie Man is generous, and the price of the Blue Rose Restaurant is not cheap."

"Tsk, how could Senior Xie Man be short of that little gold coin?"

Everyone laughed and made a noise.

Except for the two apprentices on duty who stayed with envy, the rest of the people left the Magic Plant Garden together.

Four luxurious carriages were parked at the gate outside, and the outer walls of the carriages were engraved with the family emblem of the Lord of Rui'an City.

Seeing Xie Man and others coming out, the drivers immediately jumped off the carriage, put the horse stools in place, and stood aside respectfully.

The Lord of Rui'an City did not dare to neglect this group of wizard apprentices from the capital base. Not only did he arrange their accommodation in the Lord's Mansion, he also prepared four carriages to be at their beck and call at any time, and there were dedicated people to provide meticulous service for travel and food.

After all, these were the students of that adult.

Everyone got on the carriages one after another, and accompanied by bursts of neighing, the convoy set off towards Rui'an City.

In the carriage, Xie Man took out a book of spell models and read it attentively.

After being promoted to a second-level wizard apprentice, he could already start learning first-level spells.

The first first-level spell he chose was [Shield Spell].

"First-level spells are indeed much more difficult than zero-level spells. I have been studying for almost half a year, but I still haven't been able to fully master the shield spell."

After really getting in touch with it, Xie Man deeply realized how difficult first-level spells were, and therefore he admired and worshipped his teacher even more.

I heard from Lord Amy that the teacher can master a first-level spell in a month!

This is something he couldn't imagine at all!

When studying, time flies.

Not long after, Sherman felt that the carriage slowed down, and then the driver's voice came from outside.

"Sir, we are here."

Sherman put away the books, pushed open the door of the carriage and got off the carriage.

The convoy has arrived at the gate of the lord's mansion.

Steed Ponte, who had already received the news, was standing at the door. Seeing Sherman get off the car, he greeted him with a smile.

"Sir Sherman, I heard that you are going to dine at the Blue Rose Restaurant. I have arranged a banquet there. If you don't mind, let me be the host today."

Sherman said readily: "Then I will trouble Lord Steed."

"Just call me Steed." Steed smiled warmly.

Steed is the eldest son of the lord of Ryan City, who is responsible for receiving them.

At this moment, the sound of hurried horse hooves suddenly came from a distance.

Sherman looked in the direction of the sound and saw a cavalryman galloping in at full speed. He stopped his horse at the gate, jumped off the horse before it could stand still, and rushed inside in a hurry.

"Wait a minute!"

Steed called the cavalryman.

The latter stopped impatiently, turned around and saw that it was Steed, and his face immediately changed to a respectful look.

"Lord Steed."

"What happened?" Steed asked in a deep voice.

It is forbidden to gallop within a radius of 500 meters from the lord's mansion. The cavalryman in front of him obviously had something urgent to do, so he didn't care about violating the ban.

The cavalryman quickly said: "Back to Lord Steed, there was a monster attack in a village in the west of the city. The city guard dispatched a team of 100 people to deal with it. As a result, they were defeated by the monster and suffered heavy casualties. I was about to report this to the lord. thing!"

Monster attack?

All the apprentices looked at each other.

There are many wild beasts in the wild, and hungry beasts often attack villages to eat people.

Under normal circumstances, the village militia can deal with such beasts, and there is very little need for the city guards to be dispatched.

As for beasts that can severely injure an army of a hundred men, they are even rarer.

This beast is already at the level of an alien beast.

Steed's expression suddenly became serious, and he turned to Sherman and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Sir Sherman, I can't accompany you to dinner. I will definitely make up for today's rudeness in the future."

"Your Excellency Steed is serious, it is more important to deal with the attack." Sherman waved his hand, thought for a while and said, "We are grateful for the warm hospitality received by Lord Steed these days. If you don't dislike it, why don't I accompany him?" Mr. Tiede, we might be able to help if we go together."

Steed's eyes lit up and he immediately responded.

"Then I'll trouble Sir Sherman."

The matter was urgent, so the group immediately set off for the village without delay.

When they got there, they realized that the situation was more serious than what the cavalry had reported.

There were bloody corpses everywhere on the ground, including those of villagers and city guards.

Sherman noticed that the armor on the corpse of an officer had become tattered. Judging from the crack marks, it seemed that it had been torn apart by the claws of some kind of beast.

A knight-level beast!

Sherman had a solemn look on his face.

Steed soon noticed this and his face became very ugly.

"We must kill this monster and not let it escape, otherwise it will probably attack other villages and we will be in trouble!"

A strange beast that was at least knight-level, if it was allowed to roam around and attack humans, the consequences would be disastrous.

Steed was a little lucky to have brought Sherman with him at this time, otherwise he and the accompanying soldiers alone might not be able to kill the strange beast.

"roar!"

A dull thunderous roar came from the distance.

Sherman and Steed looked at each other and immediately rushed in the direction of the sound.

The other soldiers quickly followed.

After turning around a house, a ferocious monster came into view instantly.

It was a creature that looked like an upright lizard, covered with dark gray scales.

It has a huge and strong jaw, short forelimbs and long hind legs, but both have sharp claws, and its open mouth is full of fine teeth.

"Dark Land Dragon!" Sherman's eyes widened in shock.

"Does Mr. Sherman recognize this monster?" Steed asked quickly.

Sherman nodded with confusion on his face. Seeing Steed's confused look, he had no choice but to explain quickly:

"The Dark Land Dragon is also called the Cave Dragon. It is a sub-dragon creature with extremely poor vision and hearing, but it has a particularly powerful sense of smell and echolocation capabilities."

"But this kind of creature usually lives in the underground world, so it should not appear on the surface!"

At this time, the dark land dragon also discovered Sherman and his party, and immediately roared and rushed over.

"Be careful. This dark land dragon is already an adult. Its combat power should be between a high-level knight and a peak knight. Be especially careful with its claws. They are very sharp. If it is scratched, it will bleed."

The claws of the Dark Land Walker are naturally equipped with an effect equivalent to the [blood light] property. Once scratched, it will bleed.

Hearing that the monster in front of him had at least the power of a high-level knight, Steed and the people behind him both changed their expressions.

Because of the rush, there were only three knights in their group, including Steed, and they were all junior knights. They could only barely protect themselves against the advanced knight-level beasts.

Fortunately, Sherman is still here.

Facing the dark land-walking dragon rushing towards him, Sherman calmly completed his spell preparations and hit the dark land-walking dragon with a stun spell.

Bang!

The dark land dragon stumbled and fell to the ground. Under the huge inertia, its body rubbed against the ground and slid seven or eight meters away, stirring up a large amount of dust.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Steed had already charged forward with two knights.

However, dragons are born with high spell resistance. Although the Dark Land Dragon is only a sub-dragon species, it has also inherited some abilities, and its resistance to spells is much higher than that of other races of exotic beasts.

Shaking his head, the Dark Land Walking Dragon got up from the ground and attacked again as if nothing had happened.

"Zero-level spells have little effect on dark land dragons. Unfortunately, I haven't mastered the attack-type first-level spells yet."

Sherman sighed and saw Steed and the other three struggling under the attack of the Dark Land Dragon. He hesitated for a moment and took out a gem with some pain.

The gemstones engraved with strange patterns sparkle in the sunlight and are extremely beautiful.

Sherman then threw the gem and shouted:

"Get out of the way!"

The three Steeds quickly retreated around, and the next second they saw the gems in the air suddenly burst into dazzling light, turning into thunder and crashing down on the dark land dragon.

Boom!

The dark land dragon suddenly let out a shrill howl.

When the lightning dissipated, the Dark Land Walking Dragon was already lying on the ground covered in smoke, motionless and silent.

A knight stepped forward cautiously to check, and showed joy after a moment.

"Already dead!"

Steed breathed a sigh of relief, then cast an awed look at Sherman.

Is this the power of a wizard?

The power of that thunder just now was simply terrifying!

Even if the great knight comes, I'm afraid he won't dare to fight head-on, right?

Little did he know that Sherman was also surprised.

This was the first time he used rune gems in battle. He didn't expect the power to be so amazing. Even the dark land dragon with high spell resistance was instantly killed with one blow.

"The rune gems are a bit expensive, but they are worth the money."

Xie Man secretly sighed

After coming back to his senses, he quickly found Steed and said, "Sir Steed, it is unusual for the Dark Land Dragon to appear on the surface. It may be involved in the underground world. I must report this matter to the teacher. This body is still alive." Please leave it to me, okay?"

Steed looked solemn and said, "No problem. If Mr. Sherman needs help, please feel free to ask."

Sherman thanked him and asked Steed to move the body to the Lord's Mansion for safekeeping.

Returning to the Lord's Mansion, Sherman immediately returned to his room, preparing to write a letter to the teacher to report today's events.

Steed came to the study to meet his father and report what happened today.

"Why do monsters from the underground world appear here?"

After listening to Steed's report, House, the lord of Ruian City, couldn't help but frown.

After Sunan's deeds spread, the nobles of the Starry Principality began to actively collect information about wizards, so House also heard about the underground world.

It is not a good thing to have creatures from the underground world appear in your own territory.

Maybe there is an entrance to the underground world in that corner.

If that were the case, it would be a headache.

"After all, let's leave this kind of matter to the wizard."

House rubbed his eyebrows and suddenly remembered another thing.

"How are you getting along with Sherman these days?"

"Not bad." Steed smiled slightly, "Sir Sherman is indeed as rumored. He is very gentle in dealing with others and has no airs."

"That's good."

House nodded slightly, showing a meaningful expression.

"Master Sunan has many students, but the best are Sherman and Corey."

"Kore was born into a noble family and has an arrogant temperament that is difficult to get close to. In comparison, Sherman is much easier to get along with."

"It's a good opportunity for Sherman to lead his team to open the magic plant garden in our Ruian City this time. You should take the opportunity to build a good relationship with him. It will be of great benefit to your future development."

"Yes, father!" Steed responded solemnly.

Anyone with a little foresight can see how important the base will be in the Principality of Stars in the future.

Therefore, making friends with wizards from the base in advance is a completely beneficial thing for any noble.

They, Ruian City, were lucky this time and happened to meet Sherman coming over. Of course, they must cherish this rare opportunity.