Chapter 74 Traitor

The nature of magic is indeed very strange, tending to be weird and psychedelic.

Pauline stood aside, seemingly considering a possible solution. She whispered, "Maybe the password on the slate has not changed, and I can open that entrance."

Ryan shook his head, with a hint of contempt in his eyes: "No, it's best not to take risks. If the password on the slate really hasn't changed, the witch array inside is likely to still exist. If you go down rashly, you may trigger the trap and alarm the wandering wizard."

He paused, his eyes swept across the surrounding environment as sharp as a knife, and seemed to have made a decision: "Moreover, the situation in the basement is unknown and too dangerous. We can't rush in before we fully understand the internal situation."

Pauline nodded after hearing Ryan's words. She knew that Ryan's judgment was always accurate.

Ryan waved his hand gently and summoned several blood bats. They were in different shapes, with a faint blood-colored glow on their wings.

The blood bats circled in the air, making a low humming sound. Ryan's spell fluctuations were slightly agitated, and then he controlled them to fly to the entrance of the basement.

"Your task is to go through the stone slab in the basement, go deep inside, and investigate everything. Catch the wizard inside and make him unconscious..."

Ryan's words were brief and clear, and the blood bats responded immediately and flew quickly to the bottom of the stone slab.

Ryan stood straight, his eyes always locked on the direction of the stone slab. He released a light red blood aura, and with the surge of magic power, the whole area was filled with a layer of bloody atmosphere.

The expansion of the blood aura around the basement can effectively suppress any mental control or elemental spells, and also increase Ryan's control over the blood bats.

After a while, he felt the blood bats crossing the underground stone slab, and then several blood bats rushed out from under the stone slab, dragging an unconscious man.

The so-called wandering wizard was shocked by the powerful mental power without even the opportunity to release spells.

The blood bats flew very fast, quickly broke through the witch formation under the stone slab, and dragged the man out of the basement in almost the blink of an eye.

Ryan's eyes suddenly turned cold. He stretched out his hand and gently caught the unconscious man's body, then whispered, "Put him down."

The blood bats put the unconscious man down. Ryan observed his body and found that he was wearing a worn-out apprentice uniform, with conspicuous dark circles under his eyes and looked quite haggard.

"This... is not an ordinary apprentice."

Ryan whispered to himself. He tightly grasped the unconscious man's shoulders, and a strong mental force poured into the man's body, and began to quickly analyze the remaining magic in his body.

"But he should be the wandering wizard."

Pauline walked forward and leaned over to take a closer look. In fact, it was the first time she saw the face of the enemy who killed her father. "He is still a third-class apprentice. It seems that his strength has not improved much."

Ryan nodded, and a glimmer of surprise flashed in his eyes: "Although his magic power is very strange, his consciousness has been completely suppressed by me. But why are those slaves still controlled?"

There is no magic array carved on the ground. Logically, the illusions on the slaves should have been solved long ago, but now they are still maintained like machines, indicating that there may be more secrets on this wandering wizard.

Ryan stood in front of the wandering wizard, his eyes calm and deep. He gently raised his hand, slowly cast a spell, and his fingers drew a complex symbol in the air.

As the magic array emerged, a faint blue light filled the air. This was not the elemental spell he usually used, but the low-level soul learning with perfect proficiency that he obtained after equipping the [Soul Worship Holy Words (Fragment)].

Although this kind of magic array usually causes great erosion to the soul, under Ryan's control, it becomes more accurate and efficient.

Through this ability, Ryan can directly extract memories from the wandering wizard's soul and explore the secrets hidden in it.

As Ryan's spell sounded softly, a deep spiritual wave was released from his body and quietly penetrated into the wandering wizard's soul.

The memory of the soul was like a broken river, and began to surge under Ryan's control.

Ryan's eyes suddenly became more focused, and his consciousness entered a dark void, which was the depths of the wandering wizard's soul.

In this void, he was like a falcon, quickly passing through the layers of memory fog, looking for the key moments that the wandering wizard had experienced.

Soon, scenes appeared in front of Ryan's eyes, the pictures were blurred, but full of broken emotions and memory fragments. In the depths of one of the memories, he suddenly stopped his body and concentrated his mind.

It was a scene in memory where the wandering wizard talked quietly with some people.

"Daniel," Ryan muttered to himself, and his consciousness suddenly shook. He saw the conversation between the wandering wizard and a third-class apprentice. The apprentice named Daniel was the key to the destruction of Green Forest Academy.

In the memory fragment, the wandering wizard and Daniel stood in a dark corner, the atmosphere was tense and serious.

Daniel looked pale and whispered: "I have prepared everything. Your plan will be impeccable. The students of Green Forest Academy are all powerless. Don't worry, I have secretly controlled some formations of the academy. Tomorrow morning, you only need to lead people to attack, and everything will go smoothly with my cooperation."

A sneer flashed in the eyes of the wandering wizard: "Daniel, you really didn't let me down. As long as the top leaders of Green Forest Academy are eliminated, this academy will be completely in our pocket."

And the wandering wizard, relying on Daniel's help, easily infiltrated and destroyed the academy's defenses, controlled most of the academy's formations and apprentices, and finally completely destroyed Green Forest Academy.

After hearing Ryan's discovery, Pauline was stunned. Her eyes gradually became complicated, as if she was quickly digesting this shocking fact.

She lowered her head and was silent for a moment, then raised her eyes and looked at Ryan, with a trace of uncontrollable shock on her face, but soon turned into a complicated calm.

"Daniel..." Pauline whispered the name, as if trying to confirm the authenticity of this matter.

"I never expected that Uncle Daniel would betray our family, Green Forest Academy, and even everyone."

"He once had the idea of ​​cutting down the green banyan tree to obtain the tree heart and use it to improve his elven bloodline. But the green banyan tree has always been a precious treasure of our family. It is one of the most important existences, and even my father has been keeping a close eye on it."

"Moreover, although the sap of the green banyan tree cannot directly improve the bloodline, it can greatly enhance the physical fitness and spell ability of the elves, and is an indispensable resource in our family.

Every year, we take some sap from the tree, but only for the continuation of the elven bloodline."