Rise of the Dark Witch

Looking at Roja who was bound by black and green vines, and whose whole body was shrouded in resentment and curses that were as strong as substance, Weiss couldn't help but frown.

When she thought that Roja could become a second-class paladin in that kind of environment and condensed three life buds in just one year, Weiss couldn't help but feel jealous.

Thinking that she has the best conditions given to her by the Mandolin Wizard, she has only reached the peak of the first-class Paladin. It will take at least three months to condense the first bud of life.

If you want to condense three life buds like Roja now, it will be impossible to do it in less than a year.

But besides jealousy, Weiss felt more pity and guilt for Roja.

There is no doubt that Roja is a rising star in the land of the Six Kingdoms. He may not be able to become an official wizard, but if he does not fall, there is absolutely no problem in reaching the peak of a third-class apprentice.

A wizard who is at the peak of his third-class apprenticeship can almost walk away as long as he does not anger the official wizard in the Six Kingdoms.

However, Roja, who had just passed the wizard's trial and became a wizard's apprentice for a few years, was trapped in the mandolin forest and became a tool used by the mandolin wizard to purify resentments and curses. He may not be able to leave for the rest of his life.

Weiss recalled Roya's strange attitude when he learned about the Mandolin Wizard at Hain Port.

She didn't understand at that time and felt that Luo Ya was pretending to be noble.

She also mocked Roja in various ways, overtly and covertly.

Thinking about it now, Roja might have been so angry that he wanted to kill them!

Roya didn't leave directly because he trusted the Craigie family.

He felt that with the Craigie family around, the Mandolin Wizard would not embarrass him.

It's a pity that it was paid by mistake after all.

"Grandma Mandolin, Roya..." Weiss, who couldn't bear it, cast a pleading look at the Mandolin wizard.

"Don't worry, since I promised you to let him leave alive, I will definitely not break my promise." Mandolin Wizard smiled.

Get out alive?

Won't break your promise?

Maybe they will let Roja go after decades later, when he has become a useless person with no use value, right?

In a sense, it was more cruel than killing Roja.

Weiss sighed softly in her heart, "After I become an official wizard, I will find a way to rescue you and give you adequate compensation."

Weiss, who couldn't bear to see Roja's miserable state anymore, closed her eyes and planned to continue practicing.

Boom!

Bang bang bang——

The vines binding Roja broke one after another.

The ancient trees, which were full of ten people, were shaking violently under the magic shock wave, tilting and shaking off countless branches and leaves.

Standing a hundred meters high, Weiss could see the swaying of the trees spreading into the distance, turning into a green wave that surged around.

"Hey, do you want to refuse my kindness? Want to disobey me, a first-level wizard? Boy, you don't have that ability!" The Mandolin Wizard's eyes were extremely cold.

"Roya..."

Weiss looked at Roja through the screen, clenching her fists nervously, not even noticing that her nails were digging into her palms.

…

Deep in the jungle, there are broken tombstones everywhere.

Black and green vines that seemed to be alive were drawn towards Roja.

Roja held the Holy Sword Lion Heart and roared, his eyes extremely calm. He had already expected that this kind of thing would happen.

"Since you won't let me go, don't blame me for being rude!"

Magic skills, black flame hegemony!

Roja's whole body was suddenly burning with magic flames that could strengthen his physique exponentially. His strength, which originally only had 60,000 kilograms, suddenly surged to 150,000 kilograms.

Magic skills, the ultimate realm of meaning!

Sixth level, sixty-four times speed!

After his thoughts accelerated sixty-four times, the vines that were pulling towards him at supersonic speed seemed so slow, and their movement trajectories were clearly visible.

When the vines were about to fall on Roja, Roja's hand holding the sword hilt suddenly exerted force, and magic power was injected into the roar of the Holy Sword Lion Heart.

Buzz buzz——

Black oscillating power spread out from the shimmering sword blade.

Under the force of the oscillation, even the air was shaken to the point of making a harsh sound as if it was about to break.

Before the vine got close to Roja, it was shattered by the power of vibration.

However, it was useless to shatter dozens or hundreds of vines. In the next second, more vines immediately appeared from the depths of the forest.

"It's impossible for me to outlast the official wizards in a protracted war of attrition. I must leave here as soon as possible."

Roja looked around. Ancient trees blocked his view, and he couldn't see where the exit was.

Even if you move in one direction, thinking that you will be able to get out of Manhualin sooner or later will not work.

Because the entire Manhua Forest is shrouded in an invisible and intangible force, even third-class apprentices will lose their way under this force.

Proof of two souls!

"Is it this direction?"

Roja held the Holy Sword Lion Heart and roared towards the exit. The vines could not stop him at all.

suddenly!

Those towering trees in the Manhua Forest looked like just ordinary trees. A painfully twisted human face appeared on the trunk of the towering trees that had been motionless.

The living trees surrounded Roja, swinging their branches to attack Roja, and their thigh-thick roots attacked Roja from the ground.

The attacks of these trees are very slow, but extremely powerful!

Roja, who had a strength of 150,000 kilograms, was only lightly beaten by a tree branch. Three ribs were broken and he vomited a mouthful of blood.

If there were only three or five living ancient trees, Roja would not be afraid at all with their extremely slow speed.

But there are too many active ancient trees!

Hundreds of people surrounded him, like a sealed wall, leaving not even a single gap.

With no room to dodge, Roja could only resist the attack from the moving ancient tree.

Magic skills, body of prison steel!

The powerful shield condensed using magic skills cracked with one blow and shattered with two blows under the attack of the living ancient tree.

"Can't you defend yourself?"

"Since we can't defend ourselves, then..."

Roja held the Holy Sword Lion Heart high and roared, frantically injecting magic into the Holy Sword.

"Thunder and thunder!"

A dark beam of light condensed from the power of oscillation shattered everything and rushed forward.

Crackling——

Broken wood splinters flew everywhere.

However, using two-thirds of Roja's magic power, the thunderous earthquake only managed to smash a moving ancient tree blocking the road!

Facing a thick wall with more than ten floors composed of hundreds of thousands of living ancient trees, it is useless to destroy just one!

And in the next moment, new active ancient trees will be added.

"These moving ancient trees are not only powerful, but their defense capabilities are also extraordinary!"

After releasing the strongest blow in his current state, he only got this little result. Roja was deeply shocked.

"I admit that you are very strong."

"If I still want to hold back under such circumstances, I would be too stupid."

"Witchcraft - Origin Transformation!"

Roja finally used witchcraft to return to the source and transform.

He brought out three bottles of perfect spell-casting materials from the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, namely the Earth War Elephant, the Two-Headed Cerberus and the High-Level Ice Soul Snake.

The Earth War Elephant was used when fighting two third-class apprentices, Maven and Kukasi, in the river area.

The two-headed hellhound and the high-level ice soul snake are left.

"Since the enemy is trees, I naturally have to use flames!"

"Two-headed Cerberus!"

Roja's body suddenly expanded violently.

In an instant, it turned into a hairless black dog several meters tall, with two heads, and its body was burning with the flames of hell, a two-headed hell dog!

Roja's two heads opened their huge mouths at the surrounding enemies.

"Woof woof woof——"

With a deafening roar, red hell flames wrapped in black oscillating power spewed out of Roja's mouth.

Under the attack of two powerful forces, the flames of hell and the power of oscillation, the moving ancient trees that gave Roja a strong pressure collapsed easily like fragile castles made of sand on the seashore.

Roja spewed the flames of hell at the moving ancient tree while moving towards the exit.

Facing Roja, who used witchcraft to return to his origin and transformed into a two-headed hellhound, the role of the moving ancient tree was just to slow him down a little.

…

In the center of Manhualin.

Weiss and Mandolin Wizard were shocked when they saw Roya walking unstoppably towards the outskirts of Manhualin.

"Is this Roja's true strength? It's so terrifying!" Weiss sighed.

"This little guy is much stronger than I expected." Mandolin Wizard squinted his eyes, "No matter how strong he is, he is only a second-class apprentice after all. How are you going to deal with the Cursed Death Tree next?"

As soon as the mandolin wizard finished speaking, a sea of ​​curses and resentments rushed towards the moving ancient tree.

After absorbing the curse and resentment, the originally vibrant ancient tree began to wither and decay. The leaves rotted, the bark fell off, the trunk withered and cracked, and the human face on the trunk became more distorted and painful.

In an instant, it turned into a tree that exuded ominous power and seemed to be dead. Curse the dead tree!

Every cursed dead tree has strength comparable to high-level legendary monsters!

The number of cursed dead trees participating in the siege of Roja was no less than a hundred!

Roya used witchcraft to return to his origin and transform into a high-level legendary monster, a two-headed cerberus, and could exert a strength far beyond that of an ordinary two-headed cerberus.

But even if it is stronger than an ordinary two-headed hellhound, how many times stronger can it be?

three times?

Five times?

ten times?

However, the number of cursed dead trees around them that are comparable to high-level legendary monsters exceeds one hundred, and they are still increasing.

While Roja had to face the attacks of the cursed dead tree, which was extremely powerful and defensive, and each attack was accompanied by a strong curse, he also had to be careful of the vines that came from all directions and climbed on him to absorb life force and magic power.

Roja, who transformed into a two-headed hellhound, roared "woof, woof", and the roar was clearly transmitted to Weiss's ears from a distance of several kilometers.

Listening to the roar coming from far away, watching Roja struggling and getting injured on the screen, moving towards the exit bit by bit.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, Luo Ya had moved more than ten kilometers and was less than three kilometers away from the exit of Manhualin.

With Roja's speed of nearly a thousand kilometers per hour, if he ran at full strength over a distance of three kilometers, it would only take a little over ten seconds to cross it, leaving the terrifying Manhua Forest and regaining his freedom.

But it can't.

The short three kilometers became a natural chasm that Luo Ya could never cross.

He could only watch, watching hope extinguish little by little.

"Roya..." Weiss sighed, looking sad.

"That little guy is indeed very strong. He is at the very top among second-class apprentices. He may be even more powerful than me when I was a second-class apprentice."

The mandolin wizard gently stroked Weisi's little head, "But Weisi, you will be stronger than him, stronger than me!"

"Um."

Weiss responded softly, her eyes still fixed on Roja who was fighting a trapped beast.

Seeing that Roja's injuries are getting more and more serious, it won't be long before he is exhausted and fails.

The Mandolin Wizard said to Weiss: "Look carefully, he is about to use his trump card."

"True card?" Weiss was stunned.

Roja transformed into a two-headed hellhound, and was surrounded by hundreds of cursed dead trees that were as powerful as high-level legendary monsters. He advanced for more than ten kilometers and came to a place only three kilometers away from the exit.

After exerting such terrifying strength, he still has a trump card?

"Grandma Mandolin, does he really have a trump card?" Weiss said in disbelief.

"Look at his bright eyes full of confidence? He must have a trump card that can determine victory with one blow. What do you think his trump card is?" Mandolin Wizard asked with a smile.

"...I don't know." After thinking for a while, Weiss shook her head and said.

She simply couldn't think of the possibility of a comeback in this situation, and she didn't think that a second-class wizard had the ability to break through hundreds of cursed dead trees.

"I guess it has something to do with life force. Maybe he has some kind of powerful paladin sword skills? He may be planning to convert all the magic power of the double-headed hell dog into life force, and use this life force to use the extremely powerful paladin. Sword skills to break the siege of the cursed dead tree?" Mandolin Wizard guessed.

"Morning Swordsmanship?"

After hearing what the Mandolin Wizard said, Weiss's eyes lit up and she said immediately.

"The Dawn Swordsmanship from the Holy Tree Kingdom? The Dawn Swordsmanship is a Paladin swordsmanship that is matched with the Seven Trees Sacred Garden. Together, the two can exceed the limit and exert 300% of the power."

The Mandolin wizard was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Roja would be so lucky to get the strongest swordsmanship and the strongest technique in the Holy Tree Kingdom.

You must know that these two things are difficult for even the knights of the Holy Tree Kingdom to possess, but Roja, who is far away in the Six Kingdoms, can collect both of them.

"Relying on Chen Xi's swordsmanship, is it really possible to break through the siege of so many cursed dead trees?" Weiss asked.

"Of course the Morning Sword Technique used under ordinary circumstances is useless, but if he can really convert all the more than 200,000 units of magic power possessed by the double-headed hellhound into vitality, and then use these more than 200,000 units of vitality to use the Dawn Sword Technique, Swordsmanship is still very possible." Mandolin Wizard replied.

"Can such a thing be done?" Weiss asked in surprise.

"It is almost impossible to control a magical power that far exceeds one's own, and to transform its properties in a short period of time into life energy of another attribute without the help of external objects, but..."

The Mandolin Wizard smiled slightly and said, "Maybe he will surprise us."

"If he really does it, can he break through the siege of the cursed dead tree and leave the Manhua Forest?" Weiss asked.

"Leave? Without my permission, no matter how many trump cards the wizard apprentice has, it will be of no use!" The Mandolin Wizard sneered, looked down at the Manhualin, and continued:

"This Manhua Forest is a territory I have managed for hundreds of years. It is my 'Wizard Tower'!"

"I arranged a composite witchcraft in the Manhua Forest that is a fusion of three witchcrafts and is driven by the power of the earth's veins. It is dozens or hundreds of times more powerful than those witchcrafts that use the wizard's own magic power!"

"Within the scope of my 'Wizard Tower', even a second-level wizard will not be able to please me."

The Mandolin Wizard stared at Roja with cold eyes, "Just struggle, use your hidden cards to your heart's content, and then face the fate of failure in despair."

While the Mandolin Wizard was talking, Roja was finally going to use his trump card.

Weiss's eyes suddenly widened, she clenched her hands and stared at Roja through the screen.

Is Roja's strongest trump card, Dawn Swordsmanship, about to be used?

A blood-red arrogance suddenly ignited from Roja's body, and a dozen or so cursed dead trees that were slightly closer to Roja were immediately shattered into pieces and died by the aftermath of the blood-red arrogance.

"ah?"

Weiss was extremely surprised.

Is Chenxi's swordsmanship so strong?

You must know that the Cursed Dead Tree has the strength of high-level legendary monsters, and is famous for its defense, strength and curse. In terms of defense, the Cursed Dead Tree is not much weaker than the Earth War Elephant.

The Cursed Death Tree, which has the best defense among high-level legendary monsters, actually destroyed more than a dozen trees in the aftermath without even a formal attack after Roja used his trump card?

Is Chen Xi’s swordsmanship too strong?

But why does the blood-red gas flame not look like vitality?

It was completely different from what Great Knight Talu used back then. Is it because of the wonderful effect produced by the combination of "Morning Sword Art" and "Seven Trees Sacred Garden"?

"The second-class apprentice is so strong! The Dawn Swordsmanship is really powerful! However, even so, he can still be easily fooled by the official wizard..." Weiss looked at the Mandolin Wizard with respect and admiration, and was about to take a good shot. The mandolin wizard's sycophant.

However, the Mandolin Wizard, who had always been calm and seemed to have everything under control, actually looked dull!

"Grandma Mandolin?" Weiss shouted in confusion.

"Impossible!" the mandolin wizard shouted, and when he raised his hand, a transparent barrier appeared immediately covering the entire mandolin forest.

I only noticed something strange now, it’s already too late!

Roja's body leaned forward.

boom--

Roja turned into a red meteor and rushed towards the exit.

One time the speed of sound, twice the speed of sound...

Three times the speed of sound!

Everything in Roja's way was destroyed!

The cursed dead trees, whose strength was comparable to that of high-level legendary monsters, were as if they were made of paper. They could not even intercept Roja for a ten thousandth of a second before being smashed to pieces.

Facing the translucent barrier blocking him?

It’s just an unformed barrier!

Roja hit the barrier directly.

His body was in a stalemate with the barrier for one hundredth of a second.

Bang——

The barrier was suddenly broken open by Roja!