Chapter 233: Fireball Rampage

Get ready, Lei En took out the Weizelan badge and activated a random door.

He set the random door's destination to the top floor of the tower, that is, the teacher's room. This is one of Fu Kong Cheng's restricted zones, and only a few wizards have permission to open a random door to here; each casting is equivalent to a knock.

The random door can only materialize with the teacher's permission.

A few seconds later, the random door appeared.

Lei En stepped inside at once and saw the teacher bent over the desk, earnestly studying profound magical knowledge.

Anxiwodasi looked up at his student and asked, "Coming to see me so late, is it something important?"

"Yes, Master."

Lei En took out the map and the badge, placed them on the table, and said, "I may have discovered an enemy threatening Fu Kong Cheng."

Anxiwodasi's expression grew serious upon hearing that.

He glanced at the badge, then stood up and asked, "This is a death knot seal; where did you get it?"

"An undead wizard." Lei En recounted in detail how he discovered a bone altar in his domain, how his men tracked down the undead wizard, killed him, and uncovered these items.

The more Anxiwodasi listened, the more his face hardened; after finishing, he stared at the map, murmuring, "death knot seal, Lich, bone altar, corpse toxin…"

He seemed to be trying to connect all this information.

Lei En couldn't help asking, "Master, what is the origin of this death knot seal?"

"Behind it is a faction composed of Liches and undead wizards, operating mainly on the New Continent, all hounds of the Lord of the Dead," Anxiwodasi sighed, "The most powerful among the death knot seals are the seal masters; it is said there are at least eight of them, all legendary Liches or undead wizards, and there are even Holy Soul‑ranked Liches that have long threatened human realms."

"Holy Soul Lich!" Lei En was astonished, "Liches can also ascend to Holy Soul?"

"Why not?"

Anxiwodasi said calmly, "Liches have extremely long lives; although they are undead beings, they are true spellcasters, constantly offering sacrifices to the Lord of the Dead to earn His blessing, so their chance to ascend to Holy Soul is actually higher than that of living people."

"Liches not only have Holy Souls, they even possess demigods, but ordinary people are unaware of it."

Lei En listened, his mouth agape.

A demigod Lich—this already exceeds his comprehension.

Holy Soul was already out of reach, and demigod was even above Holy Soul; he had once read in an unverifiable book that a demigod is a creature whose profession level is at least th Level and has begun to acquire a trace of divinity!

Such a powerful organization as the death knot seal could indeed threaten Fu Kong Cheng.

Lei En was simply puzzled why it was specifically Weizelan Fu Kong Cheng and not some other target.

Anxiwodasi looked at the Mo Du map, pointed at the red X Lei En had drawn, and asked, "Is this Piri* Aiden's manor?"

"Yes." Lei En nodded without changing expression.

【7】 Anxiwodasi raised his hand and waved; a scene appeared in the room—a luxurious manor shrouded in night.

Anxiwodasi raised his hand and waved, and a scene appeared in the room: a luxurious manor shrouded in night.

The manor's brightness increased, the darkness receded, and it became clearer.

The manor was very quiet, with only one or two patrol squads moving about.

Anxiwodasi moved his fingers, trying to zoom in to the manor's interior, but after several attempts he failed.

Lei En realized that Piri* Aiden's manor was laid with a rune array, preventing enemy infiltration and also blocking anyone from spying.

However, this instead revealed that the manor truly had a problem.

Anxiwodasi did not hesitate, seized the Legend Grade Akus Holy Staff, opened a teleportation gate and stepped through; Lei En hurriedly followed, emerged from the gate and found himself not far outside the manor.

Coincidentally, the teleportation gate's destination landed right atop a bell tower.

A human silhouette crouched there, looking down at the manor.

He heard the gate's movement, instantly turned defensively, his sleeve swords sprang out, and upon seeing Anxiwodasi and Lei En, he was stunned.

After a few seconds, Yisu respectfully called out, "Master Anxiwodasi."

Then he cast an inquisitive glance at Lei En.

Lei En shook his head, offering no explanation.

Anxiwodasi stared toward the manor, obscure energy fluctuations passing through his eyes; after half a minute of observation, his brows remained furrowed.

"Hmph, not a bad technique."

He raised his right hand, grasped at the void, and from several hundred meters away seemed to pull something down; faint flames flickered throughout the manor, producing a crackling sound before falling silent again.

The silence lasted only a few seconds.

The entire manor boiled like a pot on fire, voices shouting, patrol squads drawing weapons as if facing a great enemy.

A black silhouette shot out of the manor, hovering in mid‑air, scanning the surroundings.

"A legendary Mid-stage undead wizard!"

Lei En's soul eye instantly saw through the opponent's true nature.

At the same time, the undead wizard also spotted the three people atop the bell tower, instantly recognized Anxiwodasi, let out a startled cry, and turned to flee into the manor.

Clearly, the manor had a prepared escape route.

But Anxiwodasi had already cast a spell when he appeared.

Five massive fireballs were launched instantly.

The fireballs linked into a chain, moving at extreme speed, reaching the manor's sky in a single breath, locking onto the undead wizard, arcing through the air and plunging down into the manor with him.

"Ah…" the undead wizard screamed in despair, frantically raising his shield and throwing all equipment capable of resisting spells—scrolls, enchanted rings—out at once, while summoning several massive undead creatures to block in front of him.

He hadn't entered the manor yet when the fireball caught up and exploded.

Boom!

A deafening explosion roared over the manor, the night sky suddenly lit up, waking countless nearby residents still asleep.

Boom boom boom…

The first fireball alone shattered all the undead creatures into fragments.

The second fireball blew apart the undead wizard's magical gear and also cracked his bone shield, creating fissures.

Before the cracks in the shield could mend, the third fireball exploded immediately.

The terrifying high‑temperature flames and shockwave instantly destroyed the shield; the undead wizard's body was reduced to ash and smoke, leaving not even a speck of residue.

The fourth fireball and the fifth fireball suddenly halted, then dissipated like bubbles, making no needless attack.

Lei En watched in awe.

The Master's application of the fireball technique had reached a transcendent level; a Legendary Mid-stage undead wizard was killed with a single glance.

Yisu's expression also turned blank, and he remained dazed for a long while.

"We're doomed!"

Lei En suddenly realized that, because he was too far away, he hadn't absorbed the undead wizard's soul.

He thought, unable to articulate his frustration, "What a waste… a Legendary Mid-stage soul, how much electricity could it be converted into?"

As the Legendary undead wizard fell, the patrolling squads in the manor each let out a muffled groan before collapsing dead; intangible vengeful spirits rose from their bodies, screamed, and vanished.

The entire manor fell silent again at once.

Anxiwodasi opened a portal, and the three of them stepped inside.

Lei En emerged from the portal and found himself in a courtyard of the manor; his complexion shifted slightly as he heard only a single heartbeat in his ears.

This meant that, in the vast manor, only one living person remained.

Walking from the courtyard into the hall, a massive white‑bone altar loomed before him, the floor covered with countless white bones, and the foul stench in the air was nauseating.

Lei En covered his nose, yet he felt a strange surprise.

The symbols he had drawn on that map were only meant to indicate suspicion toward Pili Nuo Aiden, but he hadn't expected Pili Nuo to actually erect a white‑bone altar in his own manor.

The altar's scale was even larger, with at least a thousand people sacrificed.

The manor was inhabited solely by members of the Aiden family; it was unclear whether Pili Nuo had transferred them away or had already dealt them a deadly hand.

Before the thought could settle, Lei En saw several child skeletons, a chill running through him; he dared not imagine that Pili Nuo had even forced his own relatives onto the altar—a true human tragedy.

Anxiwodasi left the white‑bone altar untouched and entered a spacious room nearby.

The space had been converted into an alchemy chamber, with hundreds of jars of already‑crafted corpse toxin lining the corners.

In the center of the alchemy chamber stood a stooped figure, pallid‑skinned and expressionless, his facial wrinkles deep as ravines, his sparse hair nearly all gone, his aged body trembling as if he might collapse at any moment.

"Count Atlank?"

Lei En almost failed to recognize that it was Pili Nuo Aiden.

The last time he saw him, although Pili Nuo's aging was hard to conceal, his upkeep was excellent, his spirit was fine, exuding the bearing of an elderly noble.

It had been less than a month, yet Pili Nuo seemed to have aged decades in an instant.

He was tainted with the power of death, corroded, yet not an undead being, though death was near.

Hearing Lei En's voice, Pili Nuo turned his head, his eyes filled with numbness, devoid of any emotion.

When he saw Anxiwodasi, he finally reacted, stepping back a few paces, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.

"Master Anxiwodasi, this isn't what I wanted to do, I'm being forced!" Pili Nuo fell to his knees, sniffling and weeping as he cried, "I really don't want to die! They promised me that if I help them with a few tasks, they will perform a Lich conversion ceremony for me, granting eternal life and a rise to Legendary…"

Anxiwodasi remained unmoved.

Lei En discerned something: humans, because of the Blood Soul Curse, generally do not live past seventy.

Even the extraordinary, if they fail to break through to Legendary, see their physical condition decline after fifty, and their souls grow weak.

Pili Nuo is a High‑rank wizard; judging from his soul, his age is close to a hundred, truly a long life.

But he clearly wishes to live even longer.

The undead wizard bearing the Death‑Knot sigil seized this weakness, forcing Pili Nuo to comply. Over the years, he has pledged to the Lord of the Dead, and who knows how many deeds he has performed in secret.

Now even the family is being used for sacrifice, bordering on madness.

It is, after all, a pitiful person.

Yisu's expression was complicated.

For years he had plotted day and night, dreaming of eradicating the Aiden family, yet before he could act, the Aiden family perished in this manner.

Anxiwodasi finally shook his head, sighed, and extended a finger to tap lightly; Pili Nuo instantly seemed frozen, his body rigid as he collapsed, and a portal opened behind him, into which he fell and was transported elsewhere.

"This matter is of great importance; I will report it to the Supreme Council to decide Count Atlank's fate," Anxiwodasi said while opening two more portals.

From the portals emerged two wizards.

One had a head of white hair yet a youthful appearance; the other bore a dignified visage, with flowing red hair and a short beard on his chin.

They were both members of the Weizelan Six‑person Council: Speaker Kaidejia and Speaker Ronnie.

The two Legendary High‑rank wizards saw the surroundings, their faces turning pale; their gazes fixed on Anxiwodasi, they simultaneously saluted, "GrandSpeaker."

"Kaidejia, Ronnie," Anxiwodasi nodded in reply, "Guard this manor and do not destroy the altar; wait for the Supreme Council's decision before taking action. Ronnie, inform your teacher, draw personnel from the Wizard Corps, cooperate with Lei En, and locate the third altar."

"We will obey your Willpower."

Having finished his instructions, Anxiwodasi returned to the Weizelan Tower.

(End of chapter.)