A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 299 Fierce Battle with Risco

If someone looked closely, they would find that the bag contained an exquisite wax seal.

That was Jiang Shuzhou's mage mark, a twisted tree covered with dense fruits. However, upon closer inspection, these fruits resembled living creatures, each one completely different.

Below the tree were countless strange-looking humans, gazing up at it.

This mark was designed by Jiang Shuzhou not long ago. Previously, Jiang Shuzhou's marks were very casual, basically just his personal signature.

Now that I'm a person of some standing, I still need to maintain a certain air of importance.

Once the mage's mark enters the secret realm, it will quickly melt away and send Jiang Shuzhou spatial coordinates. After all, Jiang Shuzhou is not one of those who like to do bad things and leave a name for himself, so naturally he cannot leave any obvious evidence.

Accompanied by a subtle fluctuation of magical energy, Jiang Shuzhou obtained the spatial coordinates.

He then nodded in satisfaction and left.

Since he's not going to the secret realm, there's no point in him staying here.

In the city lord's palace.

"What's the situation now?"

Lord Peli looked anxious.

"There are large numbers of infected attacking from outside, and many of them are superhumans. We're about to be overwhelmed!"

"What?!"

Perry couldn't sit still any longer; this wasn't what they had agreed on!

"Tell the soldiers at the front that I'm coming soon!"

"Yes, sir."

The officer quickly left.

However, he hadn't taken more than a few steps when he suddenly collapsed to the ground.

"Why send him back? It will only increase despair. After all, you'll be dead soon anyway."

Looking around, Perry saw a figure completely shrouded in a robe appear before him.

"You're the mage who unleashed the plague, aren't you?"

"That's right."

Peli stared coldly at Jiang Shuzhou.

"They said you would come, and I didn't believe them, but now I do."

"Oh? I'm curious, what methods have you prepared?"

Jiang Shuzhou asked, feigning curiosity.

"The means to keep you here!"

The speaker was not Perry, but a mage, also dressed in a mage's robe. However, Jiang Shuzhou could sense that this was a magic network mage. Any mage could see the magical fluctuations on his body that were closely connected to the magic network.

"Keep me here? I doubt it."

"Really? Take a look, can you still use spatial jump now?"

Jiang Shuzhou sensed that the surrounding space was anchored by a spatial anchor, and he could not use spatial magic to leave this place.

However, this is not a big problem. As long as Jiang Shuzhou wants to, he can crack it, it just will take some time.

"It seems impossible, but that's not the point. The point is, there are only two of you. What makes you think you can keep me here?"

Jiang Shuzhou began to guide the conversation, wanting to see exactly how many people had come.

"What if we join them?"

Two more figures appeared, a paladin and a priest, both high-ranking, and judging from their holy symbols, they were both guardian deities.

Four high-level combatants joined forces to block him. Fortunately, Jiang Shuzhou did not enter the secret realm, otherwise he might not have been able to defeat them.

"Four high-ranking officials, you really think highly of me."

"Ha, a mage who has killed countless lives naturally deserves to be treated this way."

The priest of the God of Protection said so.

At the same time, Jiang Shuzhou sensed that something seemed to be lurking around him.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's just killing some murlocs. Hasn't your church done enough of this? Three months ago, more people died in that great famine, didn't they?"

"That was a natural disaster, and it was precisely because of Heim's mercy that those people survived; far more survived than died!"

Jiang Shuzhou was too lazy to say anything after hearing this. Everyone knew the truth. What natural disaster could make the Church of the Protector God bow down?

Especially since these words came from a high-ranking paladin, it was even more ridiculous. Priests have so many divine spells, a few calamities would be enough to end it.

Even a paladin himself, with a few divine spells, could at least reduce casualties by more than half.

Unfortunately, faith is forged through suffering. If people are always happy, they will start to think, and once they start thinking, their faith will not be pure. Heim does not need an impure faith.

"That's truly a pity. But what I'd like to ask is, why don't the nobles in your parish seem to feel any sense of loss or suffering?"

This sentence silenced everyone else.

"Hey, why aren't you guys saying anything? Don't you like talking?"

At the same time, Jiang Shuzhou sensed that something in the shadows had begun to move.

It seems there are still rats.

"Forget it, this is really boring."

After saying that, a silver flame ignited in Jiang Shuzhou's hand. It was a mage's fire, a spell to burn the magic net.

"How long do you think it will be before you lose your magical abilities?"

"waste."

Jiang Shuzhou's words were cold. He despised people like this the most, who depended on others, lived off charity, and, more importantly, had no ambition whatsoever.

If becoming a magic mage didn't mean being bound by the magic goddess, many people would be willing to do so; unfortunately, that's impossible.

Upon hearing this, the magician smiled nonchalantly and then said...

"You can only be arrogant for this short period of time."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shuzhou shook his head, deciding to let the man indulge in his fantasies for a while.

Then, he raised the silver flame in his hand, and even in the water, the flame continued to burn quietly, showing no sign of being extinguished.

"When the silver flames scorch the magic net, when the goddess of the magic net falls once more, I hope you can still say these words."

"But you don't have a chance."

The silver flames rose slowly and then disappeared, not because they went out, but because they were burning the magic net. This was a flame of the spirit. If you were to sense it with your spiritual power, you would find that it was everywhere, just as the magic net was everywhere.

Just like a spider web encountering flames, a magic web is gradually melting away when it encounters a mage's fire.

"Ten minutes left. In ten minutes, you will lose your ability to cast spells."

"Ten minutes is more than enough to take care of you!"

The magician gave a cold laugh and then said.

Immediately afterwards, a figure hidden in the shadows stabbed towards Jiang Shuzhou's heart.

The dagger in his hand was imbued with special divine magic, capable of penetrating a mage's armor and directly damaging the soul. Furthermore, anyone struck by it would temporarily lose their ability to cast spells.

Jiang Shuzhou seemed not to have reacted, standing there blankly, showing no intention of moving.

Success!

Amidst the joyful gazes of everyone, the assassin plunged the dagger into Jiang Shuzhou's chest.

However, nothing happened. There was no splattering blood, no screams, only calm.

"So I think you're all stupid. A simple projection technique has fooled you so much that you've revealed all your cards."

Jiang Shuzhou, or rather, a projection of Jiang Shuzhou, said with a smile.