Chapter 553: The Terrifying Power of the Magic Hut

Yamila walked quickly, and soon, relying on her magic perception, she found the Magic Hut that was emitting a powerful magical force.

It was a seemingly normal three-story wooden hut; unusually, its exquisite wooden walls were fitted with expensive transparent glass windows, and a brick chimney on one side of the hut was currently puffing out smoke, just as if someone inside were using a stove.

But what was eerie was that such a wooden three-story house, which would not look out of place in a Human town, was currently existing and standing in this uninhabited Forest. And this house happened to be situated at the top of a small hill, surrounded by fallen trees that made the house clearly and obviously visible.

If one looked closely, one would discover that the large trees around the house were not felled by axes, but rather as if they had been punched down directly by some giant using overwhelming brute force.

The trunks of the large trees had jagged breaks, and the splintered Wooden Spikes were splashed everywhere around.

Yamila activated one of the functions of the Magic Tool on her Anklet.

"Light Footsteps!" she whispered.

Immediately, a green light shone from the Magic Tool on her foot, spreading throughout her entire body.

Suddenly, Yamila's steps became much lighter; it was as if her whole body had become weightless. With a light tap of her toes, she jumped slightly, avoiding the broken Wooden Spikes scattered all over the ground, and climbing this small hill was no longer so strenuous for her.

When she approached within fifty meters of the three-story hut ahead, this hut, which looked like it was inhabited, suddenly let out a cry from its various windows: "Mi—"

This sound was loud and strange, not like a sound that a Human or any kind of animal could make.

But Yamila did not feel afraid; she even took off the hood of her Invisibility Cloak, revealing her entire head and face, and said with a smile to the hut ahead: "It's me, Mimi."

"Mi!"

Seeming to recognize who the visitor was, the hut was very happy and took the initiative to open its front door. Yamila stepped onto the porch, turned to look at the surroundings, and warned the hut: "Mimi, be careful. This terrible Forest—I just ran into a huge, invisible Monster, and it might have been following me. Please, protect yourself and me. If you feel anything different in the surroundings, fight! Knock the opponent down!"

"Can you do that, Mimi?"

Other windows of the hut opened slightly, and a definite response came from within: "Mi—"

Subsequently, Yamila deactivated the magic effect of the Invisibility Cloak, revealing her slender figure draped in the Cloak, and then walked into the door that the house had opened on its own, entering the interior of the house.

Before the wooden door of the house closed, one could still hear Yamila making a promise to this Magic Hut: "Mimi, perform well later; I will get you some people afterward so you can have a full, satisfying meal all at once."

Yamila also felt that after collecting the Metal Ingots from the nearby Jiedian, those innocent Villagers captured by the Soldiers would likely be executed by the Soldiers anyway, so she believed that rather than being killed so worthlessly, it was better for her to borrow them to feed her teacher's Magic Hut, allowing her to please this powerful Magic Creation.

Yes, although the power source of a Magic Hut comes from Magic Power, it can actually also obtain energy by preying on living creatures. Because among the many categories of Magic Huts, one major category involves dismantling the bodies of killed Magic Beasts—specifically the key digestive and Magic Organ parts—and using them to construct the base power source of the Magic Hut.

A modified Magic Hut can replenish its energy through magic crystals, or it can hunt living creatures on its own to restore its strength.

This is also the origin of the legends of Cannibal Houses found everywhere.

They are all Magic Huts that have lost their Mage masters or have gone out of control, hunting and surviving on their own. Strictly speaking, this kind of Magic Hut can largely be called a type of artificial organism.

Because it has a body, can move, has its own set of predatory and digestive organs, has its own thinking ability, and even possesses an artificial Spirit.

Powerful Magic Huts can be modified by Mages into even more powerful Magic Towers; they can manage internal personnel, participate in magic research, manage the flow of energy and materials within the Magic Tower, and even cast Magic to protect themselves and their Mage masters.

Often, a fully functional Magic Tower with sufficient energy is stronger than its Mage master—much stronger.

And a professional Mage often has the majority of their personal wealth invested in these Magic Towers that they will use for a lifetime.

It is often the case that if the tower exists, the person exists; if the tower is destroyed, the person dies.

A traditional Mage without a Magic Tower is recognized by the magic circle as a failure, wandering around and working for other Mages who have Magic Towers to accumulate the funds and resources to rebuild a Magic Tower.

And often, when a Mage passes away, their Magic Tower will serve as the base for their research school, holding up an umbrella for their students and descendants to cultivate new Mages.

How prosperous a Mage school is depends not only on how many Mages they have, but also on how many Magic Towers left behind by their predecessors they have behind them.

As long as the predecessors' Magic Towers remain, even if all the Mages are dead, these Magic Towers with Spirits and wisdom can find newcomers with magic potential on their own and cultivate them into Mages.

Therefore, as long as the Magic Tower remains, a Mage's will is not strictly considered completely dead.

Not to mention that some Mages, before dying, will load their own Spirits into their Magic Towers, allowing their lives to continue for a very long time. Although this is not a good method—after all, a Human Spirit is difficult to adapt to the rigid behavior of a Magic Tower; only an artificial Spirit can adapt for a long time to being a Tower Spirit of a Magic Tower. Human Spirits are still too lively; most Mages, after transferring their Spirits to a Magic Tower, often cannot last more than a dozen years.

This amount of time is at most enough for them to cultivate one more generation of Magic Apprentices; if they encounter a bright apprentice, perhaps they can cultivate the apprentice into a formal Mage in just over a dozen years.

Jier rode the Spirit Dog Big Nose, running quickly through the Forest, moving toward the south.

After running for a while, Big Nose would stop to sniff here and there, confirming the scent of that woman and the degree of the scent's diffusion, and then pursue her.

After walking for a short while, Jier saw a three-story wooden hut standing on the hill ahead.

The hut appeared abruptly here, surrounded by fallen trees, leaving such a lonely little house exposed in place.

Woof!

"I see it, a strange house."

As soon as Jier saw this thing, he felt something was wrong and thought of some horror stories circulating in Kendall County.

It seemed that in those stories, this kind of house that appeared abruptly in the wild by the roadside often appeared, and what's more, these houses would eat people!

They would open their doors and windows to show the expensive furniture inside to passing travelers; once curious or greedy people couldn't resist and walked into the house, the house would slam its doors and windows shut with a bang, miserably swallowing the people inside into its belly.

In even more terrifying stories, these huts wouldn't just lure people in; they would even actively hunt any creature passing by. They would extend huge, slender hands and feet from the doors and windows of the house, grab people in their giant palms, and drag them back into the house.

Ordinary people couldn't outrun them either; they would grow huge legs at the base of the house and chase people with a booming sound.

"Perhaps, the house in front is that kind of thing?"

Jier hesitated; he jumped off the invisible Spirit Dog Big Nose, stood on tiptoe, and patted Big Nose's body, letting Big Nose go ahead to Scout.

Big Nose's movements were agile and it was invisible, and its intelligence was not bad either; it was perfect for scouting ahead.

Woof!

Big Nose gladly accepted the order and ran over to approach the house in a few bounds.

Smoke was rising from the chimney on top of the three-story wooden house, as if someone were inside.

No, perhaps that 【Messenger of Flame】 was just inside.

However, Jier didn't understand: the other party had already arrived at the Jiedian of the Defeated Soldiers ahead of him and presumably already knew that those Defeated Soldiers had driven the Villagers to mine and smelt many Metal Ingots, but why hadn't the transaction been completed? Why had they been lingering in the Jiedian and would retreat at this time to this abrupt house south of the Jiedian?

These questions, relying on his own thinking, could never be figured out.

Big Nose approached the house opposite with large strides; it was a Spirit Dog, so naturally, it could feel that the so-called house in front was actually a magical creation possessing a massive amount of energy.

Similar to it, yet different from it.

It was a divine creation, while the house in front seemed to be a Magic Creation.

"Mi!!!"

When Big Nose approached within a few meters of the house, this three-story wooden house suddenly let out a strange, loud cry from its various doors and windows.

"Mimi? What does this mean?"

Jier heard the sound emitted by the house from afar, immediately activated the Plant Concealment Cloak on his body, and retreated behind a large tree trunk nearby, turning himself into a large, lush raspberry bush.

Big Nose was also startled, because it had not expected that, despite being invisible, it would actually be discovered by this crude Magic Creation?

But in fact, the Magic Hut named Mimi had not discovered anything approaching; rather, Yamila inside the house sensed that the invisible thing she had encountered before had come again.

Don't think that because Yamila was inside the house, she couldn't clearly sense the energy fluctuations outside.

"Watch out, Mimi! That thing is here! It's right in your face!!" Yamila screamed.

Suddenly, a glass window on the second floor of the wooden house opened, a flash of light shone from within, and a ball of flame surged directly from the second floor toward the ground in front.

That was the internal mechanism of the Magic Hut being activated, using flammable Grease extracted from a plant native to the Ophirine Kingdom, which was sprayed and ignited to produce high-heat flames.

Big Nose was startled, then retreated a few steps, and proceeded to move to the right.

"Mimi! It ran to your left!"

The flame mechanism on the second floor of the wooden house shut off, the pressure mechanism that sprayed the flammable Grease retracted into the house, and the glass window with magic protection also quickly closed. Immediately, a wooden board on the left side of the Magic Hut flipped up, and a pale, slender, and huge three-fingered palm suddenly reached out, sweeping across the ground to its left in a swiping motion.

With a loud boom, the soil, Suishi, and broken tree trunks on the ground were all swiped away by this huge palm, and the dust stirred up was subsequently blown away by the airflow from the palm's return sweep.

If it were an ordinary army, just this one sweep would likely result in the loss of over a dozen men.

After all, as this huge pale palm swept back and forth, at least twenty centimeters of soil were scraped off the ground, yet the movement of the huge palm did not weaken by even half.

"Mimi! That invisible Monster, it's not just invisible! Real things can't touch it! What is this? Sub-spatial protection? How is that possible?"

The Magic Hut named Mimi paused for a moment, then the entire house suddenly rose half a meter, and then twisted ninety degrees to the left, letting its front face the invisible, untouchable 'Monster'.

Since physical methods couldn't hit the opponent, magic methods might not necessarily fail.

The windows on the third floor of the house all opened, then magic light flickered inside the windows, and Magic Missiles flew out from these windows, bombarding the approximate location of Big Nose in a cluster with area-of-effect strikes.

Jier was stunned from afar, because this wave of Magic Missiles flying out from the third floor of the house alone was several times more numerous than the group of Magic Missiles he had once seen Kendall Baron release.

Those Magic Missiles simply flew out in a line from behind the windows on the third floor of the house, then circled in the sky in an orderly fashion, and then accelerated to randomly bombard a certain area on the ground.

The booming Magic Missiles would actually explode after high-speed impact, triggering secondary magic explosion damage; the soil on the ground was blasted into the sky, and the dust that rose instantly shrouded a large area.

But the Magic Missiles released from the third floor of the house never stopped for a moment, actually continuously expanding the bombardment range and firing for a full half-minute.

"Big Nose..."

Jier muttered to himself in worry.

Once the windows on the third floor of the wooden house closed and no more Magic Missiles flew out, it opened from the front windows again, a magic flash lit up, and then a huge gust of wind blew from the front of the house, blowing all the surrounding dust into the Forest.

And when the dust was blown away, what was revealed was a large area where the ground had been overturned by more than half a meter.

There was nothing left in this area; the once-fallen trees, the Suishi on the ground, the thick humus layer, dead branches and fallen leaves, etc., were all gone, leaving only scattered soil layers, and these soil layers were even pulverized, dried out, and turned pale.

"What a terrifying war machine!"

Jier did not think that ordinary Humans could defeat this thing with a numerical advantage. One must use powerful technical weapons, or have powerful Knights attack this thing.

Even he himself felt that this Magic Creation that looked like a wooden house was very thorny to fight against.

He didn't have many things on hand that could destroy the opponent; if he had to count, perhaps only the skull of the water-crossing creature could barely injure this house, or the Remote Control Stone Sword obtained from the Elf Ruins, which was quite troublesome to use, could completely destroy this Magic Creation.

Whether the Heart Fire Magic Dagger in his hand could injure this Magic Creation was really hard to say.

And in front, when the wooden house blew away the smoke and dust with wind-type Magic, Big Nose was pacing back and forth on the uneven ground, appearing and disappearing.

In the eyes of others, Big Nose's figure could not be seen from the beginning, and in Jier's eyes, Big Nose now also appeared and disappeared.

This made Jier worry whether this Spirit Dog, which had been summoned for less than a day, would be destroyed here.

"Mimi, the existence of that invisible Monster seems to be gone? Well done! Mimi! You are truly amazing! Good child!" Yamila loudly praised the Magic Hut. She was currently sitting on a wooden chair in the middle of the hall of the Magic Hut, and images of the outside were projected onto several desks around her, allowing her to grasp the situation outside while inside the house, thereby directing the Magic Hut to fight or move.

Of course, facing the invisible Big Nose, Big Nose's figure never appeared on the surrounding images from start to finish; it was always Yamila reporting the position to the Magic Hut named Mimi, letting the Magic Hut decide the attack itself.

"Mi—"

The Magic Hut let out a proud cry, and the entire three-story wooden house swayed slightly from side to side, as if it were feeling smug.

But at this moment, Big Nose, which had been appearing and disappearing in Jier's eyes, shook its whole body, and it suddenly became solid again.

Now, Jier saw Big Nose's state clearly; it seemed to be fine. And Yamila also sensed that Big Nose had appeared again at the first moment.

"Ah!!! It, it appeared again! Mimi, we can't hurt it, run quickly!!!"

Yamila screamed, her right hand fiercely slapping the armrest of the chair beside her, and the Magic Hut also let out a "Mi—" scream, as if it hadn't expected this either. It followed Yamila's suggestion, pulled up the house, extended four pale, slender legs from the bottom of the house, and with its four legs flying, ran directly toward the Forest.

It was extremely fast; before Jier and Big Nose could react, it had already run to the edge of the nearby Forest. Just when Jier thought it would be blocked by the large trees, he didn't expect the four legs at the bottom of the house to continuously lengthen, pushing the three-story wooden hut upward, and then, the entire wooden hut ran far away with a rumble, using its four long and thin legs at a height above the trees.

Jier was stunned.

It could even do that?

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