Chapter 58: Casualties
"Element fission device?" After hearing the words of the senior brother, Sean was shocked.
He first thought of the alchemy experiments that he had assisted his mentor Moses in doing in the past few years.
"Yes, those are the ones we did in the laboratory."
"Now there is a magic altar as a cover, so we can't see what is going on inside."
"In fact, after we all go in, you will find that many of the devices at the entrance and exit of the space-time crack are from our alchemy laboratory." Senior Brother Zorro whispered.
In addition to this part of the inside story, Senior Brother Zorro also mentioned that it shouldn't take too long to redefine the safe path around the space-time crack.
Maybe in a few days, they can start exploring the magic altar and space-time cracks as usual.
"I just hope that those entry-level apprentices and low-level apprentices can hold on to the consumption." Sean sighed softly.
Sean's sigh was not for those low-level apprentices and entry-level apprentices.
He was purely because if those weak apprentices died, the next unlucky one would definitely be a mid-level apprentice like him.
Sean was not afraid of the uncertainty of exploring different planes and space-time cracks. After all, living in a place like the Underdark, it was normal to live in a precarious life.
This way of dying was too depressing. He had lived in fear for more than ten years in the Black Magic Academy. He didn't want to be cannon fodder and thrown to die.
When Sean and his senior brother Zorro were talking in a low voice in the tent, some faint groans and the sound of corpses being moved suddenly appeared in the Shadow Valley.
The three people in the tent couldn't help but look at each other.
It was still the senior sister Fei'er who reacted the fastest. She rushed to the entrance of the tent, lifted a corner of the curtain, and looked out quietly.
In the Shadow Valley, which was as bright as day, dozens of minotaurs had already started to get busy.
There were constantly seriously injured apprentices and some body parts taken out of the magic altar by these minotaurs.
Of course, many of these minotaurs who entered the magic altar came out with injuries.
In a few cases, even an arm was cut off out of thin air.
Unlike the seriously injured apprentices who were still screaming and howling, these minotaurs were almost all models of hard work and fearlessness of pain.
They were directly ordered by the official black magician, and no matter how badly they were injured, they didn't say a word.
The appearance of these seriously injured apprentices
made the other apprentices in Shadow Valley, including Sean, who observed this situation, secretly relieved.
As long as the mortality rate was not 100%, it meant that there was still hope of survival.
However, after a sigh of relief, most of these apprentices soon raised their hearts again.
Look at the entry-level apprentices brought out of the magic altar! Almost none of them are still intact!
The living apprentices are basically missing arms and legs.
And some of the body parts thrown out can't even see their original appearance clearly, just a pile of bright red waste meat!
Old apprentices like Sean are still good.
As more and more blood and flesh residues were transported out, many entry-level apprentices who had just joined the academy rushed out of their tents after crying and screaming, trying to escape from Shadow Valley.
The fate of these apprentices was naturally not very good.
Some directly stepped on the magic restrictions set by the black magicians around Shadow Valley, and they could not even scream, and turned into a charred charcoal or corpse.
Others were driven back by the minotaurs, dark creatures and Owl Academy supervisors scattered around Shadow Valley.
They were driven back and even the right to live in tents was deprived.
They were thrown directly in front of the magic altar. In addition to facing the strong smell of blood emitted by the magic altar, they would obviously be the first to explore the altar tomorrow!
Sean was not interested in the life and death of those cowardly people. These apprentices obviously had not yet adapted to the rules of the underground world.
Even if they were lucky enough to survive from the cracks in time and space this time, they would definitely not live long in the dark area in the future.
Senior apprentices of the Black Magic Academy, including Sean and Fei'er, are now focusing on the seriously injured apprentices thrown out of the magic altar.
What relieved Sean and others was that the high-ranking black magicians did not make things difficult for these "meritorious people".
In addition to a special tent area for accommodating these apprentices who escaped death, several black magicians personally descended there, seemingly wanting to get some information from those entry-level apprentices.
In addition to those entry-level apprentices, one of the three quasi-magicians who first entered the magic altar successfully came back alive.
However, this guy did not escape unscathed.
Both legs were completely amputated from the root, and it is unknown whether this guy will have the possibility of re-amputation in the future with the means of the quasi-magicians.
Formal black magician Master Ko
Sauron is an expert in this area, and perhaps he has a way to re-ampute a pair of legs for this quasi-magician.
The treatment of this quasi-magician who came out alive from the magic altar was obviously different from that of other entry-level apprentices. He was eventually sent to the magic tower next to the tent of Sean and others.
Zorro, the senior brother of this quasi-magician, knew him. According to him, he was Andar, who was as powerful as him, and was also the disciple of a formal black magician.
Even the disciples of official black magicians are involved in this dangerous exploration of the time and space rift, which shows how crazy the black magicians in Manzobra City have become for the alien plane on the other side of the time and space rift.
Even Andal, who is a quasi-magician, had half his body amputated. Is it possible for a weaker black magic apprentice like Thain to escape unscathed?
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On the afternoon of the second day, the exploration of the Magic Altar was restarted.
The number of entry-level apprentices who were driven in this time was not as many as yesterday, but only a few dozen.
It seems that the black magicians do not intend to suppress all the apprentices together, or they are not willing to bear the loss of all apprentices being consumed for no reason.
But the situation was not much different from yesterday. After these apprentices were thrown into the magic altar, screams and howls soon came.
It seemed as if there were some terrifying man-eating monsters deep inside the magic altar, and the apprentices who frequently lost limbs and arms yesterday were devoured by those terrifying monsters.
The screams continued for a longer time, and the atmosphere in the entire Shadow Valley became much more depressing.
After a long time, the screams gradually subsided.
The black magicians continued to record the relevant information they obtained, and these weak apprentices who were driven into the magic altar were also taken out of the magic altar with the help of some tauren and dark creatures.
The overall casualty rate of this group of apprentices was actually smaller than yesterday.
But few apprentices have noticed this. The situation of frequently losing arms and limbs really makes too many black magic apprentices panic all day long.
That night, another group of black magic apprentices tried to escape from Shadow Valley.
This time, the black magicians no longer spoiled them.
Killed directly by dark creatures or academy monitors!
Including their corpses, half were directly swallowed by those ferocious-looking dark creatures, while the other half were entangled in spider silk and hung around the Shadow Valley as a warning.
It seems that after two days and one night of investigation and the sacrifice of hundreds of apprentices, the black magicians began to not care much about the consumption of these apprentices?