Weird Wizarding World

  Chapter 395 Black Fog

"Snapped."

  Colin threw the rubbings of the nameless breathing method to Alcott and Chesta beside him.

   "Starting today, I need you to practice this breathing method."

   Alcott is one of the surviving great knights of the Wood family.

   And Chesta is an ordinary member of the Wood family.

  He is responsible for finding suitable food on the street—mostly outsiders who are weak, beggars who no one cares about, or orphans who are alone.

   "Yes... Your Excellency." Chesta timidly took the rubbings.

   Alcott on the side was silent for a moment, then reached out to take it.

  He is now wearing ordinary gray linen clothes, his face is pale and tired, and he is completely different from the high-spirited knight before.

"very good."

  Colin turned his head again, and said to the other two members of the Wood family:

   "You too, practice this breathing method."

   "But at the same time, you have to take this potion daily according to my requirements."

  He threw the remaining two unnamed breathing method rubbings to Chester and Andrew, and then shook the light black magic potion in his hand with silver spots shining.

   Andrew didn't know much, and although he was a little scared, he took it immediately, but Chester looked at the potion in Colin's hand, but his face turned pale.

   There is nothing wrong with practicing knight breathing, but you have to take this unknown potion...

"Ok?"

  However, as Colin uttered a suspicious nasal sound, Chester suddenly felt his heart being clenched by invisible palms, and soon there were bean-sized sweat droplets on his broad forehead, and he was almost unable to breathe.

  He quickly reached out to take the breathing method, and said in a hoarse voice:

   "Good sir!"

  Colin withdrew his gaze, "O'Neill, take them to the four separate rooms, and then bring two ordinary people over."

   "Yes, my lord."

  Although Colin didn't target him, O'Neill couldn't help but feel terrified at the moment, making it difficult to look directly at Colin.

  Colin watched them go away, carefully put away the cave factor extracted in his hand, turned his head and walked towards Alec who was frozen again.

   At the same time, he quietly put away the knight halo that was spreading around his body.

  During this period of research, he was inspired by Alec's unique ability to bewitch, and the ability of the knight halo was further improved.

  But maybe because of bloodline and other reasons, he can't be as weird and powerful as Alec showed to everyone in the Wood family.

  But compared to before, it is more deterrent and pressure, and the current knight halo has some ability to shake people's hearts.

  At least for now, everyone in the Wood family has shown extra obedience under the influence of the knight halo.

  Under the soft white light, the acrylic in the transparent ice crystal is like a huge prehistoric monster sealed in amber, shocking and frightening.

   Looking at it, Colin had some headaches.

  Alec's research value is indeed very high, but in order to maintain his sobriety these days, the remaining members of the Wood family have been reduced by half, so that he has to freeze them to reduce consumption.

  ‘When there is a breakthrough in research, let’s destroy it completely. ’ Colin mused to himself.

   "My lord, people brought it here."

   At this time, O'Neill had finished sending Chester and the others, and returned with two new remnants of the Wood family.

   "Hmm." Colin withdrew his gaze, turned around, and took out a copy of Giant Mountain Breathing Method and a rubbing copy of Unnamed Breathing Method from his body, and threw them in front of the two of them respectively.

   "Starting today, you need to learn these two knight breathing methods separately, and take the potion every day according to my requirements."

  Colin said lightly, but his thoughts drifted back hundreds of years ago.

  In the spring of 3233 in the Yanan calendar, Glenn was 65 years old. It was the 33rd year since he became a mid-level knight, shed his status as a serf, and became an ordinary guard under Sir Duke of Into City.

  At that time, Glenn was just an ordinary old man, his extraordinary deeds from serf to knight had been blurred by time... Equally blurred was his inner ambition.

   At the same time, that year was also the tenth year that the second-order wizard Cumberland fell into a half-mad state.

  Then in the autumn of the same year, Sir Duke was seriously injured in an attack. The murderer fled far away and finally disappeared near the crypt area. After investigation, people found that the murderer who disappeared was actually Duke's loyal bodyguard Glenn!

  People think of the extraordinary story of this one-time lucky man who went from serf to knight, and wonder why he did it.

  Sir Duke was seriously injured and died in the end. While people criticized this ungrateful serf, an unknown breathing method that could only be cultivated to an intermediate knight began to spread in the streets of Degas City.

   And there began to be rumors—this is the reason why the serf became a knight, this is his own knight breathing method!

   At the same time, on a dark winter day a few months later, the second-order wizard Cumberland Loon disappeared.

  As for the nameless breathing method that was all the rage, it gradually disappeared because almost no one could get started, and the highest level could only reach intermediate knights.

  What grievances and grievances between Sir Duke and Glenn have been buried with the death of one and the disappearance of the other, and Colin has no way of knowing.

   But between Cumberland and Glenn's life, he saw a connection between the two.

  It is also worth mentioning that the majority of the fields that Glenn once served to Sir Duke are located in the south of Into City, which is very close to the Catacombs area.

   That is to say, there is a high probability that Glenn has come into contact with cave creatures before his death. After the assassination, he eventually disappeared in the Catacombs area.

  This gives Colin reason to believe that there must be some connection between the nameless breathing method and the creatures in the cave.

  However, the above discoveries can only help him further understand what happened hundreds of years ago.

   But his strength didn't help much.

  The reason why Colin came to the wilderness laboratory overnight and spent several days capturing crypt creatures and extracting crypt factors was because of the accidental discovery of the nameless breathing method!

  Through the nameless breathing method, which was extremely difficult to practice and was once widely circulated but then disappeared, Colin accidentally discovered—

  Cumberland's eighth edition of breathing method is actually missing one of the most critical parts!

   This made Colin think that the reason why he came to Into City in the first place was because he had faintly noticed the strangeness of the giant mountain breathing method, thinking that it still had a stage after the great knight!

  Thinking about it now, the feeling at that time was indeed not wrong!

   It is only slightly different from his feeling that the giant mountain breathing method does not have a stage after the big knight, but a pre-stage before the junior knight!

   And this pre-stage is called knight meditation by Colin.

   Simply put, it is to sharpen the will first, and then start the practice of the body through the spiritual will.

   This is an extremely difficult step, even a bit mysterious, and it is very vaguely described in the nameless breathing method, and there is not even a separate chapter about it.

  However, having practiced so many knight breathing techniques, Colin is now a master in this area, and it is still easy to detect the abnormalities, extract them, and integrate them into knight meditation.

  If it is described according to the nameless breathing method before, I am afraid that people like the Wood family, even O'Neill, will find it difficult to practice and get started.

  After all, the nameless breathing method is mostly what is described above—before practicing, one should be exposed to the sun in the cultivated land until it can no longer be tolerated, or fasting for water and food, feeling hungry for a day, and then starting to practice.

  Ordinary people will only think it is nonsense when they read it. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that this breathing method basically disappeared in the end.

   On the other hand, I don't know whether it was intentional by Cumberland or an accident brought about by the improvement.

  The Giant Mountain Breathing Method is not like the Nameless Breathing Method. If you don’t do Knight Meditation first, it will be difficult to get started. Instead, you can completely ignore the steps of Knight Meditation and practice normally like other breathing methods!

  It’s just that at the grand knight stage, the body will continue to expand and eventually die...

Snapped.

  He took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. The hands had reached six o'clock in the morning.

  Colin thought for a while that there was nothing more to arrange, so he called O'Neill, told him to supervise the research materials he had picked out just now and cultivated well, and then returned to Golden Wheat.

It has been a week since the Chasai Chamber of Commerce sent the materials. During this week, he not only went to the crypt to capture crypt creatures and extract crypt factors, but also perfected the giant mountain breathing method and nameless breathing method, and added knight meditation part.

  The breathing method rubbings he distributed to Chester and others just now is the perfected version.

  The next thing he needs to do is to continue to improve the knight's breathing method on the gold paper, breaking the limits of fusion.

  At the same time, wait for Chester and others to practice to see what role the cave factor plays in the practice of breathing.

   There is also the perfected giant mountain breathing method. Will the same flaws appear in the stage of the great knight?

  …

  Waiting for the Wood family's research materials to practice breathing is a long and tedious process.

  Because the Catacomb Factor cannot be preserved for a long time, Colin basically goes to the Catacombs quietly every evening after chatting with Shelley, to capture Catacomb creatures and prepare new Catacomb Factor potions.

   Then at about dawn, I returned home in a hidden body, slept for a few hours, and then went to the South Three Towers to be on duty as usual.

  The spring after more than half a year.

  Colin has been in Loen Kingdom for almost two years.

   It was dark in the evening, and the winter chill had not receded. Colin walked peacefully in the burrow.

  In the past six months, the strange cave in front of me has gradually become as familiar as home.

   Of course, only in shallow areas.

   "Ta-ta-"

  There was the faint sound of footsteps in front of him. Colin paused for a while, but he didn't stop, but moved slightly aside.

   Not long after, two companion first-order wizards appeared in front of him, and the two were talking with melancholy faces:

"I don't know what's going on in this crypt recently. Animal skin beetles, flail beasts, multi-eyed banshee spiders... These high-level crypt creatures are getting less and less. From the time it got dark tonight, not even one Never met before!"

   "Oh, yes, this harvest is not as good as before, and I can't even earn back the money for the magic potion." The companion next to him echoed.

   "Tell me, is this a bad omen?" The first-order wizard on the left lowered his voice and frowned deeply.

   "You mean... what happened inside the crypt?" The wizard on the right paused.

  He parked next to Colin, but didn't notice.

"I don't know, but the crypt has been abnormal in recent years. The number of creatures that come out of the crypt every day has been decreasing, and it has fallen off a cliff in the past six months... Especially tonight, this crypt is clean, as if There was a mysterious wizard who cleaned up the crypt monsters before everyone else."

  Colin paused for a while, and glanced unexpectedly at the first-order wizard on the left.

"How is it possible, there are no wizards so idle, and the creatures in the crypt are worthless, so we wandering wizards only rely on this for a living. And you also said that the number of creatures in the crypt has been declining for the past ten years. The cliff-like decline in half a year is estimated to be a normal phenomenon."

"Too…"

  The two first-order wizards gradually went away.

  Colin continued to move forward, and encountered several wizards who came to explore the cave on the way.

  However, as he goes deeper into the cave, the pollution of the cave in the surrounding environment will become stronger, and the possibility of encountering wizards will become smaller and smaller.

   About ten minutes later, Colin stopped at a fork in the road.

  The catacomb pollution here has turned into a substantial gray-black mist, forming distinct zones in the air.

   This is the dividing line between the shallow and deeper layers of the catacombs.

  Colin took out a bottle of anti-magic potion, raised his head and drank it, and then moved on.

   Traveling through the gray mist, vision is no longer reliable.

  Of course, that's only for ordinary people, or ordinary wizards.

  With a slight movement in Colin's heart, the gray-black vision in front of him suddenly changed.

  Gray fog and darkness are no longer an obstacle. In the infrared field of vision brought by the white light breathing method... or the brown gold breathing method, the object becomes another appearance and reappears in front of you.

  Half a year has passed, with Colin's efforts day after day, except for the giant mountain breathing method, he has integrated all the breathing methods he has learned before to break the limit.

  Because the originally blue battle qi in his body also turned brown-gold, he used this as the name of the new breathing method.

  The improvement that the new breathing method brought to him in terms of strength was actually not as much as the improvement that he had just learned all the breathing methods half a year ago and simply broke the limit once.

  But it brought Colin all kinds of weird abilities.

In the dark, he has infrared vision. Under water, he can move freely like a fish, and at the same time, he can be as light as a cloud. He can leap hundreds of meters with a single body alone, and he can also be as heavy as a mountain. The wind can't shake the figure at all.

   And all of these can be done without relying on the wizard's ability at all.

   "Yes!"

   At this moment, Colin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he just took a light step, without the slightest smoke or sound, and came to a burrow monster that looked like an earthworm without even making the slightest sound.

   Then, lightly swing a punch!

  Boom!

  The dull sound sounded like a drum.

  There are faint ring-shaped ripples spreading where Colin's fist touches the earthworm's head.

  Invisible power is like a surge, and it is transmitted from the head of the earthworm monster to the back. The earthworm monster didn't even make any sound before it lost its vitality.

   The corpse of the earthworm monster was limp on the ground, the skin was not damaged at all, but the inside was already a puddle of mud.

  Colin gently put it away.

  The whole process was like a walk in the garden, and there was no fluctuation of magic energy at all, which was extremely concealed.

  The integration of breathing techniques is also the integration of strength.

   Although Colin's current knight strength has not improved substantially, it can no longer be described as a first-level advanced.

   Relying on the strength of knights alone, dealing with several first-level senior wizards at medium and short distances is nothing more than a piece of cake.

   It's a pity that if you are facing a second-tier wizard, you are still powerless.

   "But soon, those research materials will soon arrive at the Grand Knight."

  Colin thought silently, and it was at this moment that the Frost Shadow of the Wilderness Laboratory sent him good news.

  ‘Someone has broken through the Great Knight? ’ Colin was pleasantly surprised, no longer hesitated, turned his head and walked outside.

"Ok?!"

   But he didn't take a few steps, but he suddenly turned around!

  He suddenly felt a flash of malice coming from the gray-black mist behind him.

  The gray-black mist behind him surged, deep and quiet, as if it was just an illusion.

  Colin frowned and stood there for a moment, then turned and left.

  (end of this chapter)