"Since there are already artifacts as banned items, why is this happening now?" When she heard this, Mira, who was already fascinated, couldn't help but asked in a deep voice.

The old wizard opened his mouth without answering, but a wry smile appeared on his face, and Leo said thoughtfully: "Count Drake was also infected by the power of the abyss at that time, right?"

The old wizard did not deny it, nodded and admitted: "He was indeed infected, but he used his own blood therapy to extract the blood that resisted the power of the abyss from the residents of Death Valley and injected it into his body, so he was still able to stay awake.

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"Was blood therapy created by Earl Drake?" A transcendent person couldn't help but be shocked by the news he heard now.

After all, blood therapy is notorious in the world of Velen, and as the creator of blood therapy, the blood wizard Lawrence is a devil-like existence in the dark world. If it were placed hundreds of years ago, when the Orthodox Church still had great power, it would be even more

A large number of church knights may be sent to capture him and then be burned to death in public instead of letting him hide freely under the wings of some big shot.

The old wizard shook his head and denied: "Blood therapy was indeed created by Earl Drake, but this blood therapy is completely different from the blood therapy outside. The two are just a coincidence."

Then, the old wizard continued to talk about what happened next in Death Valley.

Just as the old wizard said, under the influence of the Poseidon artifact, the rift was sealed again, and peace returned to Death Valley.

However, just like the tower wizard who caused the trouble, Earl Drake was also tempted by the abyss. Although he temporarily resisted the temptation of the abyss with his amazing willpower, this resistance will gradually increase as time goes by.

Each time the resistance to the abyss gradually weakens.

At that time, Earl Drake estimated that the tower would send the next wizard to take over his job, so that he could escape and drive away the power of the abyss from himself with the help of other tower wizards.

But what Earl Drake never expected was that the tower at that time was already abandoned, and all the tower wizards entered the wasteland and disappeared.

Therefore, within the stipulated time, Earl Drake did not wait for the new tower wizard to take over his position, so he knew that something might be wrong.

According to Earl Drake's initial idea, he temporarily left Death Valley and went outside to check the situation before considering the next step.

But at that time, there was a slight problem with the Poseidon artifact used to seal the rift in the abyss, so he had to continue to sit in Death Valley and could not leave even a step.

In order to find out what happened to the tower wizard outside, Earl Drake thought of a way, that is, to train an apprentice, and then let the apprentice go outside to inquire about the situation on his behalf.

So, he selected the most talented person from the residents of Death Valley and took him as his apprentice. This apprentice was a harpy whose population was dwindling in the valley, and was also the wilderness wizard that Leo knew.

Different from the werewolves and vampires in the valley, before these two races were created, the world of Velen already had two families of evil gods: werewolves and vampires. The tower wizards at that time just used the blood of the two tribes through witchcraft.

The method was grafted onto the two groups of residents of Death Valley, so the status of the two groups of people was very stable, and even some bloodline defects would not have a major impact on them.

But the harpies are different. They were created out of thin air completely according to the records of legends. There was no similar bloodline of the harpies beforehand, so the bloodline of the harpies has great flaws, and among these flaws, the most serious one is

The fertility of harpies is very low. Even if they are successfully born, many will die midway, so harpies are almost in a state of extinction in Death Valley.

As a student carefully selected by Earl Drake, the Wilderness Wizard is naturally very good at learning witchcraft. In just a few years, he has skipped the apprenticeship stage and become an official wizard.

At this time, Earl Drake also sent the Wilderness Wizard out of Death Valley according to the plan, and asked him to go outside to find other Tower Wizards and then bring the Tower Wizard back to Death Valley.

As for what the Wild Wizard experienced in the world of Velen, no one knows. The old wizard only knew that the Wild Wizard returned to Death Valley alone and brought the news of the disappearance of the tower to Earl Drake.

Although Earl Drake had already anticipated the situation in the tower, he was still very depressed when he heard the news from his disciples. He then locked himself in the Wizard Tower and never came out again.

Just like what Earl Drake did back then, the Wilderness Wizard also selected one person from the residents of Death Valley to train as a wizard, and this wizard was also a harpy, the old wizard in front of Leo.

When the old wizard told about his identity as a harpy, except for Willis who had been mentally prepared for a long time and Leo who was indifferent to it, everyone else looked extremely surprised. Even Mira couldn't bear it.

I was curious and wanted to see how the old wizard turned into a harpy.

However, just as Leo was not interested in his identity and origin, the old wizard was also not interested in anyone else except Leo, so he ignored Mira's request and continued.

Different from the wilderness wizard, the old wizard's own talent is only passable. It is already remarkable that he can become a wizard apprentice in a short time. If he wants to become an official wizard, it may not be possible in a short time.

At this time, a new abyss rift appeared in Death Valley, and new divine artifacts needed to be found to seal this rift. And there was another thing that was also a problem for the wilderness wizard, that was the harpy.

Reproduction problem.

Therefore, before the old wizard became an official wizard, the Wilderness Wizard handed over the task of guarding Death Valley to the old wizard, and he himself left Death Valley and went to the wilderness of Moissan Continent.

The reason why the wilderness wizard chose the wasteland as his destination is because the gods of other continents in the Velen world have gradually disappeared, and there are no gods and artifacts at all. Only the Moissan continent, which still maintains an extremely primitive state, can have wild gods. In addition,

One thing is that the birthplace of the harpy is in the wasteland. Although it is only derived from ancient murals, since there are murals, someone must have seen the real harpy in the wasteland in ancient times, so he decided to go to the wasteland.

Just kill two birds with one stone.

But just like the tower wizards who disappeared in the wasteland before, the wilderness wizard never came out after entering the depths of the wasteland, and even the tribesmen did not go deeper.

The old wizard did not know the situation of the wilderness wizard, but not long after the wilderness wizard left, Earl Drake came out of his wizard tower, then handed the wizard tower to the old wizard, and told the old wizard that if he had any difficulties, he could directly

Find the Yinge royal family, and he himself will enter the depths of the rift and seal the newly emerged rift.

The old wizard followed Earl Drake's advice and got in touch with the British royal family. However, the British royal family at this time was already in decline and could not be compared with when Drake was ennobled. But even so, the British royal family was still in decline.

It was clear that if something happened to Death Valley, the Kingdom of England would be the first to suffer, so they tried their best to provide help to the old wizard within their capabilities.

Of course, these help are not free. The British royal family has put forward two conditions. One condition is that the old wizard becomes the palace wizard of the royal family. The second condition is that if the Poseidon artifact is no longer needed one day, they hope to return the Poseidon artifact to the royal family.

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The old wizard agreed to the royal family's request and became the palace wizard of the royal family. After confirming that the new rift was indeed sealed by Earl Drake, he temporarily left Death Valley every year to serve with the royal family.

However, the old wizard didn't know that Earl Drake was not only physically eroded by the power of the abyss, but also mentally became like the tower wizard. He began to get close to the abyss, study the abyss, and even began to actively contact the abyss.

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To this end, he also did a lot of experiments, but he was more clever. He did not experiment on people in Death Valley, but experimented on other creatures in Death Valley.

Although each experiment will produce some mutant species, because the power of the abyss often overflows and manifests, some unknown mutant creatures have also appeared in Death Valley before, making the old wizard unable to detect any abnormalities even if he discovered something.

This situation did not change until a year ago, when the old wizard left Death Valley again and routinely completed his duties as a palace wizard.

After serving as the palace wizard for almost a year, the old wizard returned to Death Valley, but at this moment, Death Valley had changed beyond recognition.

Mutated creatures infected by the power of the abyss spread all over Death Valley. Only a few of the original residents who settled near the Wizard Tower survived, while the rest all died.

From the survivors, the old wizard learned that not long after he left Death Valley, some residents began to believe in an unknown god called the God of Deep Nothingness, and built churches specifically for this god, and in these

Under the influence of the residents, more and more people began to believe in this religion, but only a few people remained sober.

However, there were too few sober people, and they were regarded as aliens by other people in the town. The two sides often clashed, and eventually it developed to the point of fighting. This tense situation forced these sober people to choose to leave.

The town settled down near the Wizard Tower, and this choice was the main reason why they were able to survive.

As for the remaining people, they all disappeared after one night, and all the creatures in Death Valley mutated after that night. Only the valley where the Wizard Tower is located can be preserved intact.

During this period, the survivors also experienced many attacks by mutant creatures. However, within the protection of the Wizard Tower, most of those mutant creatures became very weak and were easily eliminated by these werewolves, vampires and harpies.

Lose.

At the same time, during this period, the survivors discovered that after wearing leather boots and leather jackets made of mutated creatures, they would not be attacked even if they entered forests and grasslands with mutated plants.

After listening to the survivor's introduction, the old wizard didn't know that something had happened to Earl Drake, so he was going to the church built on the crack to check the situation, but the abyss monster appeared outside the church.

But it blocked his way and prevented him from approaching the church.

With no other option, the old wizard had to bring in reinforcements from outside. As a result, the real cemetery of Earl Drake appeared, and rumors of another Poseidon artifact hidden in the real cemetery began to spread in the dark world.

In addition, many rewards for finding Poseidon artifacts were placed on the black market, attracting a large number of people from the dark world to Josh County and Death Valley.

"What a vicious strategy!" After listening to the old wizard's narration, Su, who was also deceived, couldn't help but sneered: "Treat us as your pathfinding stones, and you hide in the dark and wait for the greatest benefit to appear.

I wonder if Leo's strength is completely beyond your expectations, I'm afraid you won't compromise!"

The old wizard shook his head slightly and defended himself: "The strategy itself is not vicious or clever. As long as there is no greed and no other thoughts about the Royal Family and the Kingdom of England, no one will be fooled. They will come to death."

The valley itself is their own choice, no one forces them, just like you, right?"

"You..." Being ridiculed by the old wizard, Su couldn't find the right words to retort for a while.

Leo didn't do anything about the two people's quarrel. He only cared about practical issues. He asked directly: "Before we came, how many groups of black market treasure hunters had come here for the Poseidon artifact?"

"Twenty-three batches." The old wizard reported an accurate number.

After hearing this, Leo was silent for a moment, and then asked speculatively: "You should have been in that church, right?"

"Why do you ask that?" The old wizard was a little surprised.

Hearing the old wizard's rhetorical question, Leo became more and more certain of his conjecture and said, "Because of your reaction outside the town just now."

The old wizard was silent for a moment and nodded: "Yes, I once entered the church while the monster was attracted to other people, but I came out quickly."

"What's in the church?" Leo asked.

The old wizard smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said: "I don't know, because I came out very quickly, and after I came out, I didn't remember anything in the church. It was like my memory had been erased. The only thing left was

What exists is the feeling of being inside the church..." As he said this, he hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to speak out, saying: "I feel both close and disgusting, but more of a fear, as if there is something extremely scary in the church.

Similar."

After listening to the old wizard's words, Leo did not continue to ask questions or show any doubts. He just thought about it for a moment, then seemed to jump to another question and said: "Since the Poseidon artifact is used to ban
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