Chapter 20: Gang Leader: Basamu!

More than an hour later.

The campfire had only embers left.

Ta Ke had already obtained enough information from Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun's mouth.

The light gradually faded from within the passage.

After sorting through the various information in his mind,

Ta Ke looked at Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun Yang across the campfire; that guy had eaten grass and was taking a rest.

Ta Ke walked over.

With one hand touching the sheep's horn, he built a spell conduit with spiritual perception.

Sheep Transformation!

Transformation! Reversion!

Ta Ke's facial features, height, and hair color and length were all rapidly changing.

Soon, Ta Ke took on the appearance of a gloomy, slightly fatigued young man.

It was none other than the already sheep-transformed—Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun.

He borrowed the unscientific 【Precision】.

Using the ability of transformation, he reverted the sheep transformation onto himself.

Ta Ke, borrowing Eden Gladstone's outward form.

"Spell Link!"

This is a problem that wizards inevitably need to consider when learning various spells.

The final step of the Sheep Transformation is 'Transformation'.

Cooperating with the spiritual perception-built conduit,

plus Ta Ke's precision conduction.

achieving the same effect as the Transformation Technique.

And this is why the Sheep Transformation is one of the core spells of wizards.

Sheep Transformation can form 'Spell Link' with many other spells, thereby producing different effects.

And the whole process.

Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun Yang showed no reaction at all.

"It must be that his humanity has fallen asleep."

The transformed Ta Ke muttered softly.

He put on Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun's wizard robe, equipped the alchemical ring staff, and tidied his hair a bit.

Ta Ke was now truly Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun.

He tested the nearby wooden post; it was very sturdy, and he tied the rope firmly to it.

Ta Ke rose and walked toward the dark depths of the passage beside him, then vanished from sight.

And Eden Gladstone, just like a real sheep, lay prone where he was, resting.

A full half hour passed.

Eden Gladstone then suddenly leapt up.

He looked around at the pitch-black surroundings.

"That demon has finally left." Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun breathed a sigh of relief.

He then stepped back, and his left hoof rubbed the ground.

Then he delivered a strike against that wooden post.

"Hmm... it didn't break."

"Again!"

"Not broken yet, keep going!"

After several consecutive strikes, Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun finally broke the wooden post.

"Go!"

Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun, straining to control his sheep's body, fled in the opposite direction from where Ta Ke had gone.

However.

He had only gone twenty or thirty meters deep.

"Whoosh——"

A lightning-fast vine coiled around the neck of Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun Yang, dragging it off the ground.

The vine, like a python, grew tighter the more it coiled.

Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun kept struggling.

His increasingly suffocating brain somewhat understood.

Why that demon wizard would so confidently let him stay here.

All of this was intentional.

But it was already too late.

Soon, everything returned to calm.

Until Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun was completely dead.

From the dark depths beside him, Ta Ke then slowly walked out.

"I gave you the right to be a sheep, but… you refused!"

Using fire-oil bombs, Ta Ke burned Yi Den·Ge Lai Si Dun together with his alchemist sequence to ashes.

The contaminated alchemist sequence crystal is no longer useful.

…………

At the red rock stone gate.

The two guards were dozing off slightly.

In the darkness, footsteps sounded, quickly approaching.

The two knight guards immediately became alert.

But upon seeing the visitor, both of their hearts tightened suddenly.

The visitor was the bloody alchemist 'Eden Gleaston'; his steps were somewhat hurried, his face clearly showed anger, and his alchemist robe appeared somewhat damaged.

Connecting it to the previous explosion, the two vaguely guessed what had happened.

They didn't even wait for Eden Gleaston to push the door himself.

The two knights hurriedly pushed the gate open.

Check identities?

This isn't a joke, is it?

"Please go in quickly, old sir, and definitely don't take your anger out on us!"

This is the truest portrayal in the hearts of the two knight guards.

Behind the stone gate was a reasonably well-constructed underground passage.

The ground was laid with stone bricks, and there were many underground vegetation bonsai on both sides.

On the two side walls, at regular intervals there were stone door chambers.

There were quite a few firefly wall lamps on both sides of the passage.

Just as Eden Gleaston had said.

Usually, this outpost basically doesn't have many people.

Following the passage, Ta Ke went deeper all the way.

At first, one could still see one or two figures.

But when those people saw him and showed a fearful look, Ta Ke felt relieved.

If someone came up to talk, being exposed would be bad.

No one paying attention is even better.

As he went deeper.

Inside the passage, there was no one passing through at all.

He arrived at an area with dim fluorescence.

He looked left and right.

Ta Ke flipped his hand and took out the barrier scroll he had chosen earlier.

Soon, a barrier was completed.

However, Ta Ke still felt that one barrier wasn't safe enough.

He then set up two more barriers, and only then was Ta Ke satisfied.

"This way, even if a battle breaks out inside, the sound and movement will be intercepted."

"No outside help will come, and they won't even know that a battle is happening inside."

After doing all that.

Ta Ke headed toward this final destination.

He went to the location of the hunter gang leader 'Ba Sha Mu'.

……

Deep within the cave space.

At the entrance area, two bloodworms about as thick as an arm extended from the darkness.

They gave Ta Ke a frantic sniff.

Ta Ke was a perfect one-to-one recreation of Eden Gleaston's traced body.

His aura also came from tracing back onto Ta Ke from that person.

The bloodworms sniffed for a moment, then retreated back into the dark depths.

Ta Ke, slightly relieved, put down the blood sacrifice vine witchcraft in his hand.

Upon entering the altar area,

A strong bloody smell hit him.

That was the smell emanating from the altar soaked in fresh blood.

The altar was about five meters tall.

Above the altar, a black dim sun the size of a bowl appeared silently.

Ta Ke merely glanced at it, and immediately felt dizzy, with large black spots appearing and nausea welling up.

"Some kind of extremely evil fallen thing."

Ta Ke, restraining his gaze, dared not look at that terrifying evil fallen thing again.

Ta Ke learned quite a bit of information from Eden Gleaston's mouth.

Ba Sha Mu's hunter gang, in this gathering of A-rank geniuses, not only hunted wizards.

Ba Sha Mu himself was also constantly performing sacrifices.

And the 'black dim sun' was Ba Sha Mu's accumulated wealth.

"Ba Sha Mu seems to want to obtain extraordinary treasures from the great dim sun god!"

This is Eden Gladstone's original words.

Bashamu's burly figure emerged from behind the altar soaked in fresh blood.

His gaze swept over Taku's somewhat damaged alchemist's robe.

"How did you come back again?"

A slightly hoarse voice followed.

Hunter, and also possessing some dark lineage power, the 【Hunter】 Bashamu, level 29.

His strength is astonishing.

It is said his dark lineage can to some extent communicate with the dark dimension.

And as a hunter, the natural forest is his natural hunting ground.

At this time, around the altar, there are many large bonsai, plants.

He turned the stronghold into his half home field.

This hunter Bashamu is quite cautious.

"The tower discovered my identity; a trainee wanted to hunt me."

A gloomy voice sounded.

"Too bad, I still survived."

"He is a second-tier mage; I got the sequence crystal."

Bashamu originally wanted to say: "Being discovered by the tower is a matter of time; devoting oneself to the great Eclipse is the ultimate destination."

But seeing Taku pull out that small iron box, the words on the tip of his tongue were swallowed again.

Second-tier mage sequence.

This is a very perfect sacrifice.

Bashamu, as usual, walked over directly.

(End of chapter)