The town of Apolls is located north of Port Saint-Lun and southwest of the town of Windsor. It is not far from the valley where the two are located, but it is still quite a distance.
But with His Majesty the King, it was like cheating. It seemed like there was no loss of teleportation. He was just touched on the shoulder twice and confirmed each time.
"I seem to have heard that the loss of one teleport usually causes an archmage to temporarily use up all his magic and basically lose all combat capabilities?"
Mogan finally couldn't help but ask this question.
"That's right." Lucifer nodded with a calm attitude, "But I'm not an Archmage."
These words really choked Mo Gan, for fear that the next few sentences would be the same as before, "familiar with all magic", "as long as magic exists" and so on, and finally the topic would change back to "I am difficult to kill".
I can't bear it, and I can't bear it.
And there is something else important now. The town of Abols is in flames.
Seeing that the residents of the town were evacuating the fire site one after another, and the order was still in order, Mogan realized that the biggest attack target was actually deep in the forest, and shelling was a well-thought-out way of counterattack by the residents.
The strong residents of the town held weapons and aimed at the plant monsters that were stagnant. They took turns cutting off their branches and vines, digging them out one by one, removing their tools of evil, and at the same time evacuated with the vulnerable young and old.
Fortunately, although they look scary, the mutant plants produced by the mutation of ordinary plants are not that threatening.
Compared with the intelligent magical plants on the cargo ship, they don't know how to attack humans intelligently and just rely on instinct.
According to Mogan's short-term observation, the dynamics can be roughly divided into trying to entangle and beat with vines and branches, and the most basic defense and dodge cannot be done.
But they are better in numbers - the spores scatter in the air after each plant is chopped down.
The residents are not aware of this yet, but Mogan knows it very well, but he understands better that rashly intervening now will only make things worse.
When he just arrived, Lucifer raised his hand and used a water balloon technique to extinguish the raging fire on a bush around the town, and then flicked it away.
As expected, he raised his hand and moved it inward, and spore powder appeared in his palm.
His Majesty the King's face also darkened.
The worst expectation has happened so early.
"I need to study the counter-spell immediately." Lucifer concluded hastily.
This is the sensible approach.
After finding a quiet place for His Majesty the King, Mogan looked around and asked a few people who seemed to know the facts better, and roughly got the outline of the beginning of the incident.
A child of a resident's family was so frightened by the moving branches that he screamed when he was playing. He told his close friends in the area and it became known throughout the town.
Because of this situation, people were able to notice that there was more than one moving plant, and one that almost slowly strangled a hungover man to sleep rested on the side of the road.
Fortunately, so far, only people have been tripped and injured and beaten, but no one has been killed.
But for the sake of safety, residents still made a temporary decision to burn the suspicious targets first.
The mutated plant was first discovered in the corner of the town of Abols, outside a warehouse where goods were stored, on a grassy field designed for children to play.
"It seems that there is indeed something wrong with the plants that were sold."
Morgan wasn't surprised.
There is even a very high possibility that the spread started long before they boarded the cargo ship. The source is in the family area where residents gather. During the day, most young and middle-aged people go to the market and port in Abols Town.
Otherwise, the number of mutations would not be that high.
There are countless half-orcs who live and work in peace and contentment in the town. They are only wearing camouflage. Preliminary judgment is that it should be to suit the living environment they are accustomed to. Most of the buildings are surrounded by vegetation.
Taken together, it is an excellent communication environment.
As long as one spore leaks out, infecting natural plants into puppets of magical power, it will attack others, be destroyed, and then release the spores.
The cycle continues until the riot is discovered by most residents and the chaos completely explodes.
Originally, the viable spores were collected just to test whether ordinary plants would be affected in the same way.
It stands to reason that as long as magical power is not used to attack plants in a stable state, the known crisis in the town will not break out. But something went wrong before they could test it. This was unexpected and reasonable.
——Everything went smoothly on the cargo ship. There were almost no obstacles except for the plants that were crushing their own combat power and a series of traps with evil intentions.
Without meeting the mysterious psychic magician himself, at least people like Mo Gan would not be blindly optimistic. Putting himself into the perspective of the initiator, he can naturally draw the conclusion:
Perhaps the other party has completed its purpose and is indifferent to the subsequent whereabouts of the cargo ship. Such a powerful mage would naturally not abandon half of his career and let others destroy him.
However, the cargo ship remaining at sea is a backup operational equipment warehouse after all.
It's a good thing to blow up.
However, Morgan had already begun to think about the consequences. He pondered for a moment, suddenly remembered something, and found Lucifer next to him who was concentrating on studying the counter-spell.
"Is there a kind of magic that can remotely summon my magical 'carrier pigeon'?"
Now that you know you can take a shortcut, take it to the end.
Previously, his eagle owl flew away at the King's call and stayed with His Majesty the King for a long time. Now Lucifer naturally knew what he was talking about.
Mainly, time was running out now, and Mogan felt that he needed to contact someone urgently.
"You mean to use the animal taming spell on Hammer? Of course you can." Lucifer took the time to recite the spell, looked up at the sky, and paused, "Wait a moment, it will come after receiving the signal... You should not have put it Lock it up?”
Mo Gan laughed and said, "No, it's mainly not necessary."
Hammer is more like a loyal helper hired by the Grande family than a captive family pet. Not only himself, but also generations of eagle owls from his ancestors have been wandering around the farm run by Lindero Grande before he became a knight.
Led by Hammer and his unknown partner, there are a large number of large and small eagle owls, various owls and exotic birds raised in the Grand Manor. They all grew up on the food fed by the steward of the Grand Manor. big.
As one of the most gifted magical carnivore birds, Hammer prefers a job with stable returns, such as delivering letters, to the extremely exciting and risky hunting.
——The canteen opened by the boss is large and delicious, and the food and accommodation are provided for the family members. It also provides a playground. Hamer is so loyal that he will not run around even if he is chased away.
Only then did Mogan have the time to take a closer look. His Majesty the King was sitting under the tree, not caring about the dirt, with a broken vine attached to his wrist and two branches between his fingers.
Next to him, a small piece of "ash" composed of revealed spores has been piled up, which is Lucifer's research material along with the living mutated plants.
"How long will it take?" Mo Gan couldn't help but ask.
"Maybe soon..."
Lucifer moved quickly, and when he raised his hand, another section of the branch turned into white ash. He frowned and put the spores back to the place beside him that had been specially cleaned and covered with a protective cover.
The counterspell must be created not just to destroy the spores. Of course, His Majesty the King will not be completely without means as destructive as Dragon Flame, but the nature may not meet the requirements, and the required mage conditions are also higher.
The reason why the Lolia flower had to be exterminated back then was because apart from places accessible to intelligent groups, there were also large areas of virgin forest that no one cared about.
As long as there are flowers and spores there, and the seeds and sources of mutation float to where the ethnic group lives, the original disaster may return with a vengeance.
The human race is a race that has grown up after struggling for thousands of years under the enemy of the whole world.
Because of this, when encountering this possibility, people will learn the lessons of history and nip the danger in the bud even if they pay a heavy price.
What Lucifer has to do now is to create a way to eliminate this disaster at the beginning and use the power of many mages to curb its spread.
After a while, Hammer arrived.
It flapped its wings very fast, landed, learned its lesson, and landed steadily, holding its own backpack in its mouth. It looked like a mature 'homing pigeon' with extremely professional qualities.
This time I even saved the effort of finding letter paper.
Morgan took out the spare nature from the gap and raised his hand to make ink stains on the paper, checked it, and then immediately stuffed the note back into Hammer's small bag.
The content is very simple, just a few words.
"Go find Cecilia."
Mogan also didn't want to call his mother by her first name often, because it didn't conform to the strict etiquette he was used to insisting on.
However, Hammer is a stubborn person who only recognizes his employer's name. Even if he can understand human speech, he is quite unflexible.
