Rise of the Dark Witch

The two of them walked among the forest of knights' monuments.

Stepping on the winding road covered with dead leaves, the dead leaves broke and deformed, making a crisp clicking sound.

The trees on both sides of the road stood quietly.

After walking for more than half an hour in this forest with no wind at all, I didn't even hear the swish of branches, let alone the sounds of animals and insects.

Dead silence!

The two of them seemed to be walking in the death passage leading to the netherworld.

As they continued deeper into the Forest of Knight Steles, the trees became taller and taller.

From the trees three to five meters high at the entrance, they became ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...

In the end, the place was full of ancient trees with trunks so big in diameter that it took ten people holding hands to hug them.

If the surroundings weren't too quiet and dead, this would definitely be an excellent place for sightseeing. Just looking at these towering trees would have paid off.

In this dark forest where the leaves blocked out the sunlight, the two of them walked for who knows how long.

As they walked through a wild forest full of thorns.

Suddenly, the overflowing fragrance of flowers came to my nose, the fragrance of green grass drifted in the wind, the singing of small animals and insects reached my ears, and the leaves rustled in the breeze.

The whole forest seemed so vibrant.

They looked forward and saw a simple shed made of branches under an unknown huge ancient tree, with vibrant vines climbing on the shed.

Inside the shed, an old woman with gray hair, a wrinkled face, wearing gray and white rough clothes, without any decoration on her body, who looked approachable and amiable, was sitting against an old tree.

Is this the Mandolin Wizard?

That crazy, cruel, evil mandolin wizard?

Roja's face remained calm.

Weiss looked surprised.

After Weiss took a closer look at the Mandolin Wizard, she turned her head to look at Roja.

Those bright eyes were clearly saying: "Did we go to the wrong place? Or did the Mandolin Wizard really ask us to stop the plague? The spread of the plague was not caused by the Mandolin Wizard?"

Weisi had this doubt and could only say that she was too young.

Just because you found out that the other person seemed to be an amiable person, did you immediately change your mind?

Roja glanced at Weiss, "You're still too young and naive."

When Roya was about to kneel down and greet the mandolin wizard.

The mandolin wizard waved to them gently and said with a smile: "Don't be so formal. Just treat me like an ordinary old woman. Come and sit down."

After Roya and Weiss looked at each other, they entered the wooden shed and sat on the ground in front of the mandolin wizard.

"Here, this is the tea I grew myself. Let's see if it suits your taste." The Mandolin Wizard personally poured two cups of tea for Roya and Weisi.

Weiss looked at the steaming tea cup and debated whether she should drink it or not.

Luo Ya who was on the side naturally picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He felt the fragrance in his mouth and his whole body felt much refreshed.

“Good tea.”

After Roja nodded, he drank the tea in the cup in one gulp.

"Haha, as long as you like it." Mandolin Wizard looked at Roja, "You are Roja, right? I didn't expect that you, who had just passed the wizard trial two years ago, could actually kill Kukasi and Maven."

"It's just a fluke." Roja said modestly.

"This is not a fluke, it's strength!" Mandolin Wizard drank tea and said with a smile: "You have completely learned the witchcraft to return to the source of transformation, and you have the perfect casting materials obtained from the Ten Thousand Demons Cave. Your strength is better than They are strong and they won’t lose unjustly.”

"I just didn't expect that I would lose if I lost. That kid Maven, who has good escape ability, would actually die in your hands."

"Tsk, tsk, you didn't rely on luck to achieve your current achievements."

For the fact that Roya killed two of her students, the Mandolin Wizard showed no blame for Roya on his face.

The mandolin wizard asked Roya, "What do you want from me?"

"Do you want to be my student? Learn and become stronger under my guidance?"

"Do you want to get medicine and props that can speed up your cultivation and become a third-class apprentice faster?"

"Or do you want to use my connections to let me recommend you to some big shot?"

"Tell me what you want."

The Mandolin Wizard smiled and waited for Roya's answer with interest.

Weiss on the side also stared at Roja with wide eyes.

Which one to choose?

A formal wizard is much more powerful than a probationary wizard, and he has too many treasures.

A small thing given casually by a formal wizard can greatly improve the strength of a wizard apprentice.

For example, Roya relied on the seven-leaf scale flower given by the Mandolin wizard to enter the second-class apprenticeship. If he relied on his own efforts, it would take at least one or two years.

How many one or two years can there be in life?

He gained so much from a casual gift from an official wizard, and what he could get from this formal meeting would definitely be even more valuable.

If Roja was bolder and more ambitious, maybe——

After Roja closed his eyes and thought for a while, when he opened his eyes again, there was no confusion in his eyes.

He ignored the Mandolin Wizard's other suggestions and said what he had already decided he wanted.

"Master Mandolin Wizard, I hope you can give me the Holy Knight practice skills." Roja lowered his head and begged.

"Paladin Kung Fu? This thing is quite rare for ordinary people, but with your strength, it is not difficult to get it. Is it really okay to waste such a good opportunity? I specifically allow you to change it." Mantuo Wizard Bell suggested.

"I believe that in the Six Kingdoms, no one is more proficient in understanding and practicing Paladins than you, and there is no place more suitable for Paladins to practice than Manhualin here." Roja said firmly.

"..."

The Mandolin Wizard took a deep look at Roja, and then laughed happily.

"Since you want it, then I'll give it to you."

The mandolin wizard stretched out his hand, and the surrounding branches swayed in the wind, and leaves fell from the trees one by one, flying towards the mandolin wizard.

The leaves flying in mid-air were constantly decomposed and reshaped. When they flew into the hands of the mandolin wizard, they had turned into emerald green pages.

In an instant, the mandolin wizard had created a heavy book from scratch on the spot.

The miraculous skills displayed by the mandolin wizard at will amazed both Roya and Weiss.

The mandolin wizard handed the book to Roya.

Roya raised his hands and carefully took the book, "Mr. Mandolin Wizard, can I take a look?"

After receiving the affirmation from the Mandolin Wizard, Roya put the book in front of him and started reading.

The first thing you notice is the cover.

On the cover, there are several large characters that are like climbing vines and full of vitality - "Seven Trees Sacred Garden".

Looking at this name that didn't look like the title of a book, Roja stared at it for a long time.

Seeing Roja's doubts, the Mandolin wizard explained: "The Seven Trees Holy Garden is the strongest paladin technique from another country outside the Six Kingdoms, the Holy Tree Kingdom."

Found that Roja was still confused.

Wizard Mandolin continued to explain: "Just like our six kingdoms are the territory of the black wizards from the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, the Holy Tree Country is ruled by the green-robed wizards from the Living Tree Realm."

"The Kingdom of the Holy Tree is a country of knights, a country of holy knights. There are billions of people in the country, all of whom practice knight swordsmanship and vitality."

"There is no such thing as blood in the Holy Tree Kingdom."

"For them, cultivating bloodline to become a great knight is an evil way..."

The mandolin wizard suddenly stopped mid-sentence, looked at Roya with a question on his face and said, "Do you have a lot of questions?"

"Yes." Roja nodded.

"for example?"

"If you don't awaken your bloodline, you can't even become a great knight, right?"

"The essence of a great knight is a knight who can inspire vitality, not a knight who awakens his bloodline. Becoming a great knight by awakening his bloodline is just a shortcut, not necessary."

Roya naturally knew that he could become a great knight without awakening his bloodline. He asked his teacher Barney the witch doctor this question back then, and he also got the answer from the witch doctor Barney.

It's possible, but it's dozens or hundreds of times more difficult.

Even with the shortcut of bloodline, the number of great knights is still so small.

If you only rely on your own cultivation, I am afraid that the total number of great knights in the entire Six Kingdoms will not exceed one hundred.

But the question Roja really wanted to ask wasn't this.

What he was really confused about was——

"Since people in the Holy Tree Kingdom do not practice bloodline, doesn't it mean that there are no wizards in the Holy Tree Kingdom? Isn't the Holy Tree Kingdom the territory of green-robed wizards?" Roja asked doubtfully.

"Haha, kid Roy, you asked a very good question." The mandolin wizard smiled happily.

"What do you think a wizard is?"

Before Roya could answer this question, the Mandolin Wizard started explaining on his own.

"Wizards are a group of people who pursue the truth."

"In order to pursue the truth, they are willing to do anything and do anything?"

"Whether it's magic power, vitality, or bloodline, it doesn't affect the wizard's exploration of the truth. It's better to say that these are just certain methods of exploring the truth. There is no distinction between them in essence."

Looking at Roja's calm face, the mandolin wizard smiled slightly,

"Haha, do you think my statement is too formal and too false?"

"Then let me put it in a more down-to-earth way."

"Wizards do pursue the truth, but how many wizards work purely for the sake of truth?"

"truth?"

"No matter how much you talk, isn't it just for strength?"

"Truth is power!"

"Power is truth!"

The mandolin wizard looked up and stared at the blue sky, his eyes as deep as the sea.

"Humans are a naturally weak race."

"In the eyes of other powerful races, humans at the beginning were just low-level creatures like goblins, weak beings that could be ravaged and enslaved at will."

"Human beings who are unwilling to accept such a cruel fate want to gain great power."

"Since the human race is naturally weak and cannot become strong, then we should learn from other races, fuse the flesh and blood of other races, analyze the innate talents of other races and find ways to reproduce them."

"The so-called pursuit of truth by wizards is essentially analyzing the innate abilities of other races and integrating these abilities into one's own body to gain power beyond human limits."

"This is the wizard."

"As wizards continue to become stronger, their vision becomes higher, and they finally set their sights on the innate demon."

"The wizard learns from the innate demon, analyzes the innate demon, and finally gains power that rivals or even surpasses the innate demon."

"Whether it is the black wizard in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, the white wizard in the Nine Ring Tower, the green wizard in the Living Tree Realm, or the red wizard in the Blood-clothed Temple, all wizards gain power by learning and analyzing the innate demons."

"Do you think that the green-robed wizards in the Living Tree Realm delve into life force, which is a power that belongs to us humans, so they don't rely on blood?"

"Not really!"

The mandolin wizard waved his hand, "It's just that their 'bloodline' is slightly different from that of our black wizards, because the innate demon that the green wizards learn and comprehend is the source of life tree!"

"The final form of the legendary tree of life, the ninth-level demon that gave birth to all life in the world!"

"The green-robed wizard's bloodline is——"

The mandolin wizard stretched out her hand, and an ordinary-looking seed appeared in her palm.

However, Roja could feel the extremely pure and huge vitality contained in the seeds.

"Why do many geniuses at the peak of the Great Knights remain stuck in the realm of Great Knights their entire lives?"

"Why are all the paladins in our six kingdoms wizards?"

"Because if you want to break through the Paladin, the amount of vitality must be more than 500 units, a huge amount that cannot be achieved by normal practice. Only wizards with bloodline can have such huge vitality..."

Roja's ears suddenly stood up.

The mandolin wizard has been talking for so long and finally got to the point.

Can someone without magic and just using life force become a wizard?

sure!

Although there are not many witchcrafts that purely use life force to promote, there are still some.

Can you become a wizard without blood?

Sure!

Many green-robed wizards in the living tree world have no bloodline.

The question is how to become?

Without blood, weak constitution, and little vitality, how can one step into the realm of the Holy Knight? How to become a wizard?

So the key to becoming a wizard without bloodline is how to increase your vitality!

"Is this seed the key to increasing vitality?" Roya asked, staring at the seed in the palm of the mandolin wizard.

"That's right." Mandolin Wizard nodded and said, "If we dark wizards want to become wizard apprentices, in addition to cultivating spiritual power, the most important step is to conduct blood trials to increase blood concentration."

"As for those green-robed wizards who have no bloodline, the most important step to enter the apprenticeship realm is to forge the Holy Foundation!"

"Forging the Holy Foundation?" Roja frowned.

"To put it simply, it is to plant a life seed refined from the tree of life into the body."

"Then practice the Saint Foundation method in the Holy Knight technique to allow the seeds of life to take root and germinate, integrating with the physical body, thereby achieving the purpose of increasing vitality."

After the mandolin wizard said it, Luo Ya suddenly understood.

Before he didn't know, he couldn't think of any clue no matter how hard he thought about it. After he found out, it seemed that it was just the same thing.

The so-called method of breaking through the Holy Knight in "Morning Swordsmanship" that he obtained only had the trick of converting vitality into the power of radiance, but it lacked the part of forging the Holy Foundation.

That's why High Knight Tallu couldn't become a Paladin.

"Then this one in your hand is the seed of life used to cast the Holy Foundation?" Roya stared at the palm of the mandolin wizard's palm and asked passionately.

"Yes, and it is an advanced life seed refined from the core of the century-old tree of life."

The Tree of Life is a tree with very strong vitality and has many uses. It is said that the Tree of Life that is millions of years old can even breed intelligent life.

Because the Tree of Life is extremely tenacious, it can grow even if you break a branch and insert it into the ground. Therefore, there are many Trees of Life in younger years. One of the raw materials for making the martial arts inheritance stone tablet inscribed with knight's martial arts is the sap of the Tree of Life. .

However, once the tree of life is older than ten years, the number will decrease sharply.

It's not that the life span of the tree of life is very short, generally less than ten years, but the calculation of the year of the tree of life is a little different from that of ordinary trees.

Under ideal conditions, the Tree of Life will grow up to one meter a year.

Therefore, a ten-meter tree of life is a ten-year tree of life, and a hundred-meter tree of life is a hundred-year tree of life...

By analogy, a tree of life that is one million meters long is a tree that is one million years old.

The question is what is the ideal environment?

Where in the world does this ideal environment come from?

In most circumstances, the vitality stops growing after it grows two to three meters.

There are very few trees of life that can grow to ten meters, and it will take tens of hundreds of years.

A hundred-meter-tall tree of life?

It will never grow even if it takes a thousand years!

Even many century-old trees of life take tens of thousands of years to take shape!

The Seed of Life, which is refined from the core of the century-old tree of life, is absolutely very precious. It is a precious thing that only formal wizards can give away to others.

"Using this high-level life to forge the Holy Foundation, if replaced by our dark wizards, is equivalent to the pure bloodline starting point."

After saying that, the mandolin wizard gently threw the seed of life in his hand towards Roja.

Although he knew that the Seed of Life would be fine even if an ordinary person hit it with a hammer, Roja still hurriedly caught the Seed of Life and carefully collected it.

"Children Luo Ya, do you know? In addition to extending life, cultivating vitality also has a very big benefit." The mandolin wizard said.

"What's the benefit?" Roja asked.

"Mixed-blood wizards only have 3,000 units of magic power because of their impure blood. Pure-blood wizards have a little more, but they only have 10,000 units. They can't compete with Warcraft and Demon God blood descendants."

"And vitality is the energy that we humans have, so..."

Hearing this, Roja's breathing became very rapid.

The mandolin wizard held out five fingers and said, "In the realm of apprentices, the limit of the amount of life force we humans can reach is..."

"Fifty thousand units!"

hiss--

Roja took a breath of cold air.

Fifty thousand units of vitality?

Just using his life force as a backup energy source for magic power is enough to give him the equivalent of fifty thousand more units out of thin air.

What's more, the use of vitality is not just for converting into magic power!

After learning this information, Roja couldn't help but wonder, should he learn a witchcraft based on vitality in the future?

A wizard apprentice can learn up to three witchcrafts. He has learned the Origin Transformation and can learn two more.

Maybe it works?