Chapter 124: Summoning the Undead
"Name your price, I want the soul you have."
Losia-Haige, who had watched Anthony-Black Sparrow pocket the Dark Sun Apostle's soul the entire time, directly stated her terms for exchange.
"Two apprentice spots for the White Tower Trial."
"Are you dreaming?!"
Losia-Haige, whose tone had been relatively polite, showed signs of her uncontained magic fluctuations flaring up again upon hearing Anthony-Black Sparrow's condition.
"Then one apprentice spot for the White Tower Trial, and I must participate in the soul experiment throughout. Otherwise, there's nothing to discuss."
Seeing Anthony-Black Sparrow's unyielding stance, completely unwilling to bargain, Losia-Haige, knowing she was in a passive position, took a deep breath and quickly regained her composure.
"Alright, let's sign the contract."
After weighing the pros and cons, Losia-Haige accepted Anthony-Black Sparrow's conditions and completed the Wizard transaction through a silver-white contract ritual magic.
"Anthony, having one more spot doesn't mean your academy will actually produce a trial seed."
"You don't need to worry about that. I suggest you focus on figuring out how to find the traitor in Black Bone Forest."
"Hmph!"
Taking the crystal ball, Losia-Haige, whose family shame had been exposed, merely snorted coldly before transforming into a wisp of steaming water vapor and quickly flying away from the Shadow World.
"Rumble—"
Just as Anthony-Black Sparrow and Jia Na were also preparing to leave, the roaring of the earth, accompanied by violent shaking,
caused the steps they had just taken to pause involuntarily.
"It's an earthquake."
Crack—
—
A crisp tearing sound echoed in Jia Na's ears. She saw that the rift, which was only half a person's height when they entered, suddenly grew larger.
At the same time, a dense dark aura gushed out from the rift.
"Whoosh—"
Without further hesitation, Anthony-Black Sparrow directly took Jia Na and flew away from the Shadow World.
"Is this the goal of the Dark Sun Church—"
Looking into the distance, due to the return of the earthquake, the shadow rifts scattered throughout the Mist Forest rapidly expanded. And the Shadow Creatures, which had been almost wiped out by the apprentices, surged out from the rifts again like locusts.
"Can you perform Flying Witchcraft?"
"I can."
"Alright, stay quietly by my side, don't run around."
"Yes, Principal."
Myriad Transformation—
Silently chanting the incantation, as a pair of emerald butterfly wings slowly unfurled behind Jia Na, almost simultaneously, as Anthony-Black Sparrow floated into the high sky, Jia Na also followed closely behind.
Partial Transfiguration?
His peripheral vision alerted him, seeing the rapidly vibrating butterfly wings behind Jia Na, Anthony-Black Sparrow's eyebrow couldn't help but twitch. But soon, feeling the increasingly dense shadow aura in the Mist Forest, Anthony-Black Sparrow's attention refocused on the upcoming casting ritual.
"Release this."
Seeing the rune handed over by Anthony-Black Sparrow, Jia Na immediately understood.
"I remember you are also a Summoning System apprentice, right? Watch my casting movements carefully, don't get distracted."
"Yes, Principal."
Whoosh—as a giant fireworks burst from above Jia Na's head, Jia Na, having completed the rune release, immediately focused her full attention on Anthony-Black Sparrow's casting movements. Whoosh—"It's the academy's emergency recall order!"
Deep in the Mist Forest, seeing the blue and white fireworks suddenly blooming in the sky, Richard-Eva, who was teamed up with Suo Luo-Lie Yan to eliminate Shadow Creatures, was the first to react.
"Hiss hiss—"
A dense, foul smell rapidly approached. With a quick side-step, a shadowy ray with a strong corrosive aura exploded violently behind Richard-Eva, almost grazing his body.
"It's the Double-headed Magic Snake! Run!"
Looking at the creature in front of them with a huge serpent body, and where the serpent head should be, it had two human-faced heads without features, but with two black empty sockets where the eyes should be, merely looking at it made Richard-Eva and Suo Luo-Lie Yan feel their hairs stand on end.
"Hiss hiss—"
The serpent body twisted, leaving several afterimages.
Despite its massive size, the Double-headed Magic Snake possessed astonishing speed. Almost instantly, the Double-headed Magic Snake's half-raised serpent body blocked the path of Richard-Eva and Suo Luo-Lie Yan, who were preparing to flee.
"Damn it! Why would a quasi-Wizard level Shadow Creature appear in the rift!"
Like the Howling Moon Wolf King encountered in the Mirror Layer Domain, the Double-headed Magic Snake was also a magical creature with physical strength far exceeding a third-level apprentice but not yet reaching that of a Formal Wizard, a quasi-Wizard level.
Caught off guard, the outcome for ordinary third-level apprentices encountering this type of magic beast, even if they escaped, would only be a tragic end.
"Looks like we'll have to use a teleportation scroll..."
Knowing they couldn't defeat the Double-headed Magic Snake, Richard-Eva and Suo Luo-Lie Yan exchanged glances and, with great tacit agreement, took out a small scroll from their extradimensional space items.
"Let's do it—"
Buzz—Just as the two were about to use the scroll, suddenly, another anomaly occurred.
Before the two could react, accompanied by the surge of a pale white light, dozens of skeletal guards holding bone knives appeared before them.
"It's—Principal!"
"It's the Principal's undead army!"
Looking at the blue and white flames constantly flickering within the eye sockets of the skeletons, under the surprised gazes of Richard-Eva and Suo Luo-Lie Yan, the surrounding skeletal guards, like the bravest death warriors, held their bone knives and fearlessly charged towards the Double-headed Magic Snake.
"Still running?"
"Nonsense! Of course, we kill it before we leave!"
Scenes of the undead coming to the rescue were constantly playing out in various corners of the Mist Forest.
By using the mist branches carried by every apprentice of White Coral Academy as anchor points, Anthony-Black Sparrow very easily located all the apprentices of his academy in the Mist Forest and completed precise Summoning placements.
"As long as there is an anchor point, theoretically, contracted creatures can be summoned to any location you want to summon them to using the Spirit World as a platform—"
"Of course, the same is true for the Netherworld, which almost overlaps with the Main Material World."
Unlike the transcendent world—the Spirit World—which is independent of the Main Material World, the Shadow World, Netherworld, Dream Demon World... these are almost all companion realms that were born later than the Main Material World.
And the companion realms, whose existence form almost overlaps with the Main Material World, are theoretically actually attached to the Main Material World.
If not for resisting the prying of Extra-territorial Gods, which severely damaged the Main Material World's vitality. Otherwise, it would absolutely not tolerate companion realms like the Shadow World frequently harassing it and repeatedly attempting to devour the origin of the Main Material Plane, plotting to usurp its position.
But fortunately, besides the Shadow World, relatively stable companion realms like the Netherworld and Dream Demon World rarely invade the Main Material World.
This also saved a lot of trouble for the Wizards in various settlements.