Exploring the Zombie Plane Again

Over the next stretch of time, Taylor patrolled the southern region of Monster Forest with Taifas in the afternoons, occasionally killing a few heedless magical beasts to replenish his stock of magic cores.

Meanwhile, he spent much of his free daytime taking on more apprentice assignments to earn apprentice points, exchanging them for more knowledge, experimental materials, advanced knowledge of elemental puppets, and so on.

After several months of effort, once he completed the long-term major assignment of patrol duty, Taylor had earned around two thousand apprentice points. Combined with the other assignments he had taken and the points he had saved previously, his points were plentiful once more, enough to support long-term study and experimentation.

During this period, Taylor also raised his total mental power and magic power by another small level. If this momentum continued, he stood a good chance of becoming a powerful Level 3 Wizard Apprentice before the age of eighteen.

He went to the miscellaneous supplies section and exchanged for a Spatial Storage Ring with ten cubic meters of space. From the Apprentice Library, he exchanged for Advanced Knowledge of Elemental Puppets, Analysis and Hypotheses of Magical Beast Bloodlines, and The Source and Analysis of Bloodline Wizard Power.

The limitless possibilities brought by his ability also made Taylor begin considering how to become a powerful Bloodline Wizard. He wanted to gain more ways of confronting enemies through bloodline implantation, without compromising a Wizard's yearning for knowledge and pursuit of truth.

As he continuously took on assignments to earn apprentice points, his ability had unknowingly filled with energy once again. Only two choices now lay before Taylor: return to the Zombie Plane and harvest more crystals, or open an entirely new plane.

As Taylor began making his choice, the ability at the very center of his mental space started flickering between bright and dim.

Whenever Taylor intended to open a brand-new plane, the ability would dim, as though its energy were insufficient. But whenever he wanted to return to the Zombie Plane, it would light up again, indicating that it could open a passage.

It's that intelligent? It can even change according to my wishes.

Taylor felt even more satisfied with the ability born from his own soul.

Then let's return to the Zombie Plane.

After making his decision, Taylor whistled. A tiny fiery-red figure landed on his shoulder. He weighed the elemental puppet cores in his pocket, then looked at the Spatial Storage Ring on his hand. After nodding to make sure everything he had brought was in order, he stepped into the deep-blue mirror surface. When he appeared again, he was already at the place where he had returned last time.

When he appeared here again, the place had become thoroughly rotten. Traces of flies, insects, and maggots were everywhere. The fat zombie he had slain was still lying where it had fallen, but its corpse had decayed even further and was now completely unrecognizable.

Little Dom, perched on Taylor's shoulder, showed visible disgust in his bird eyes. Even the white worms crawling over the rotting corpse, which he had once loved most, now seemed somewhat dull to him.

The more he looked at those white flesh worms, the more an instinctive, heartfelt revulsion rose within him. At the thought that he might lose his appetite whenever he saw such white worms in the future, Dom could not help letting out a mournful cry.

Taylor took an elemental puppet core from his pocket. Sure enough, the active magical elements of this plane stimulated the elemental core to shine with a different kind of radiance.

If he released an elemental puppet in this plane, then as long as it did not engage in high-energy-consuming activities such as combat, it could replenish itself and remain in this plane in an "eternal" manner.

After leaving the area, Taylor took a map from a nearby store. The map marked their current location.

Although he still could not understand this world's writing, Taylor could already distinguish basic directions and determine the route to a relatively large city.

If he was lucky, he might encounter surviving humans—or things that were not human—in that city. If his luck was bad enough, he could still see more applications of Rune Magic Technology in a major city.

He named this plane the Zombie Plane, while the magical technology once used by humanity was named Rune Magic Technology.

Moreover, large cities generally possessed powerful weapons. This was already his second visit to this plane, yet he still knew nothing about the weaponry of its native inhabitants or their destructive power.

It would be best to first understand this plane's language.

Taylor took a larger magic core and two smaller ones from his pocket. He assembled them in a way that connected the magic power of all three cores and caused them to resonate. After tossing them to the ground, they immediately gathered a large amount of earth elements, and a Granite Carriage drawn by two earthen horses appeared on the spot.

In truth, a single Granite Carriage was enough to keep running and travel. But in pursuit of the elegance Wizards revered, Taylor had specifically researched the casting and creation methods of composite puppets in detail, creating a combined earth-element carriage.

After laying down a blanket and turning on a portable bright rune lamp, Taylor brought several children's primers and books for learning characters through pictures from a bookstore. He felt no shame as he read while traveling.

On the deserted highway, two horses made of earth pulled a carriage condensed from granite, racing swiftly down the road.

A little red bird flew through the sky, chirping as it closely followed above the carriage.

The road had gone without maintenance for a long time and was even littered with wreckage, making the Granite Carriage extremely bumpy. But this had no effect on Taylor at all, because the blanket beneath him was enchanted with Wizard runes for shock absorption, floating, cleaning, constant temperature, and more.

Elegant~~~~

While the carriage outside raced madly along the road, Taylor inside earnestly studied picture-based literacy as a beginner. But before he had traveled very far, he was forced to stop, because another large horde of zombies had blocked his path.

"Looks like this plane has quite a large population too."

Noticing the vast black mass of zombies ahead and the bones of magical beasts and wild animals that had been gnawed clean all around, Taylor made this remark. Then, with a wave of his hand, seven or eight elemental puppet cores fell to the ground, rapidly condensing into a pack of wolves formed from earth elements.

Sensing the pack of earth-element wolves blocking their way, the zombie horde stirred considerably. Then, like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing in, they lunged toward Taylor's carriage.

With a flick of Taylor's finger, several wind blades immediately tore open gaps in the zombie horde. The giant wolves formed of earth elements instantly howled and charged into the mass of zombies.

This was no longer an era of fighting alone.

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