svetikya Chapter 297 The Souls Sleeping in the Ancient Capital
Chapter 297 The Souls Sleeping in the Ancient Capital
Chapter 297 The Souls Sleeping in the Ancient Capital
After Chen Yunqi and the others were dragged to the rooftop by the cyan whirlwind, two healing instructors immediately ran up to treat them. Ding Chengyun took out his phone and logged into the academy's academic affairs system to look for Jiang Han's information, but after searching for a long time, he could not find Jiang Han in the Dimensional Magic Academy. He then checked the Elemental Academy, the Black Magic Academy, and even the White Magic Academy.
Since no information about Jiang Han could be found in any of the four departments, it could only mean that the kid he had his eye on wasn't from Songcheng Academy. Ding Chengyun murmured, "If that kid were a student of Songcheng Academy, he would definitely get a good ranking in Zhejiang Province this year's Youth Ranking Competition."
As time went on, fewer and fewer people participated in the academy competition. Around 2 or 3 a.m., the final 500 students were finally selected, and a large number of eliminated students stood on the rooftops of teaching buildings and dormitories throughout the academy.
Five hundred students who had successfully passed the elimination rounds gathered in front of the main teaching building of Songcheng Academy, but Jiang Han and Xin Xia were not among them. The two had voluntarily given up the competition when they were about to pass.
Jiang Han is not a student of Songcheng Academy, so he is definitely not suitable to participate in the competition. Xin Xia majors in healing magic and minors in mental magic, but she does not have strong offensive or defensive magic. If she continues to compete, she will definitely be eliminated in the revival round.
Furthermore, have you ever seen a healer act as the main attacker? Even if Xin Xia didn't give up the competition, the head of the department and the mentors at the White Magic Academy would still advise her to give up. They didn't want Xin Xia, this promising talent in the healing department, to get injured in the competition.
While the successful students were waiting for their instructions, an elderly man with white hair and a youthful face walked over from the rooftop of the teaching building. Behind him were department heads such as Hong Pengtao and Chu Xinghe. This elderly man was Ma Zhenxing, the dean of Songcheng Academy.
The former dean, Ma Zhenxing, looked at the students below and said with a smile, "The chaotic elimination rounds are over. Students who didn't make it through the elimination rounds shouldn't be discouraged, and those who did shouldn't be too proud."
"Over the next four days, students who fail in the elimination rounds can challenge you. Students who survive five rounds will advance to the next individual competition. The revival competition will be held in the trial grounds of the four departments and the main trial ground of the academy."
While Ma Zhenxing was giving a speech to the trainees, Jiang Han had already taken Xin Xia back to her home in Songcheng. Xin Xia usually lived in the school dormitory and rarely stayed here. Only during holidays would Xin Xia, Gu Qingwan, and Xiao Ruoxue stay here when they were tired from playing outside. After eating the barbecue they bought on the way, the two of them would go straight to sleep.
The night in Songcheng was very quiet. While everyone was asleep, a cleaning and rescue team from the ancient city of Lintongwei set off.
The Magic Association was located in the clock tower of the ancient capital, and the Hunter's Alliance was located in the clock tower of the ancient capital. The two were only a kilometer apart. The two ancient buildings echoed each other in two directions of the ancient capital, like guardian statues standing in the ancient capital.
Outside the ancient capital, several guard districts of the Guard Department are stationed. The ancient capital's magical defense force ranks among the top five in the country. The reason for this is that there are too many threats to the safety of the ancient capital, the capital of thirteen dynasties. Among them, the Tomb of the Dead, which is listed as a world civilization, and the Qinling demons pose the greatest threat to the ancient capital.
There is a saying in the ancient capital that if you dig a hundred meters into the ground, you will find bones, whether inside or outside the city.
Ordinary bones are not scary; what is scary are the creatures formed from bones that still cling to this world—more accurately, the undead. Undead creatures often lack the memories and consciousness of their previous lives; all they possess is the hunger, bloodlust, and killing instinct of wild beasts. Within a hundred meters, they will pounce on any living thing and devour it completely.
Therefore, every month, the Hunter's Alliance, the Magic Association, and the Guardians would send people to clean up the undead near the ancient capital.
Not long after Zhang Xiaohou and He Yu became Guardian Masters, they were assigned to the Lintong Guard District under the Ancient Capital Guard Department. The day before yesterday, Zhang Xiaohou hurriedly left the capital because he received a new mission: to follow the cleanup and rescue team to rescue the surveyors trapped in Xianchi.
After being assigned to the Lintong Guard District, he mostly served as a scout, patrolling the area outside the ancient capital. He also received training and learning from senior Guard mages and practiced in the cultivation room. Although the Guard District would occasionally assign him some tasks, none of them were too difficult. As for He Yu, he followed the senior Guard mages to learn how to coordinate defensive magic.
After returning to Lintongwei District and saying goodbye to He Yu, Zhang Xiaohou followed the cleanup and rescue team to Xianchi to rescue the survey personnel.
The surveyors set off about two weeks ago. Their purpose was to investigate the situation at the restless Hamchi, partly to examine the rate at which the spirits were multiplying, and partly to disperse the villagers living near Hamchi.
The cause of the undead riot is related to the recent disturbance in the Sha Wang River. At that time, a strange storm swept through the Sha Wang River, causing the undead creatures that had been sleeping in the ancient capital to frequently awaken. The awakening of the undead creatures made this long-silent land no longer peaceful, and several villages disappeared from the electronic map overnight.
The sudden disappearance of several villages overnight was quite strange, and both the Magic Association and the Hunter Alliance took it very seriously. They dispatched a survey team to investigate the cause of the disappearance and evacuate nearby villages. If any restless atmosphere or fluctuations were detected, they would immediately notify headquarters.
However, the survey team lost contact shortly after arriving in the Xianchi area. Zhang Xiaohou and his team's mission was supposedly a rescue mission, but it was more like the higher-ups wanted them to confirm the cause of the survey team's death and find their remains to give the Magic Association and the Hunter Alliance an explanation.
On the road filled with yin energy, a group of people dressed in the uniforms of Dharma Protectors were heading towards Xianchi.
"The higher-ups really sent us to do this kind of thing, to find the survey team that's been missing for two months. Where were they before?" Wang Tong, who was acting as a scout in the team, grumbled.
Upon hearing this, Qin Hu, who was sitting on the back of a hawk in the sky, said calmly, "Originally, this mission was handled by the Magic Association and the Hunter Alliance, but due to the special circumstances, they contacted our Guard District for help."
Zhang Xiaohou's team consisted of nine people. Unlike the squad of guards brought by an officer, Zhang Xiaohou's team was a special group, usually composed of guards who had demonstrated exceptional abilities in various aspects.
This team was composed entirely of military officer-level mages. The captain, Qin Hu, was a mid-level master of lightning magic, which was effective against undead creatures. In addition, he was a secondary master of summoning magic and was a hawk mage who could travel by hawk.
In addition to Qin Hu, a powerful main attacker, there are four other main attackers who specialize in lightning or fire magic. There are also two scouts responsible for exploring, attracting monsters, and causing chaos, as well as two defensive mages. Zhang Xiaohou is one of the scouts, and the other is Wang Hu, who was cursing earlier.
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