Horna woke up in a daze. He vaguely remembered that he had not completely stripped away all the soul material in his body. At the end of the episode, he couldn't even scream, and he fainted from the pain.
"Are you awake?" Claire walked over, with the same indifferent expression on his face.
Horna glanced at Claire and looked away. He didn't like Claire's expression very much, and then said weakly, "I'm not dead..."
"Why are you looking forward to your own death?" Claire asked with a smile, "You performed pretty well. Although you didn't make it to the end, I still kept your consciousness."
"Well..." Horna just felt that his brain was in a blur, and he felt that the Claire in front of him was much bigger than before.
Shaking his head, Horna stood up from the test bench... huh?! Stand up?!
Horna then felt something was wrong. Why did he stand up? I had been floating before!
Then Horna began to look at himself with shock and confusion, and stretched out his hand, huh?! Why do I have feathers on my hands? Also, this is not a hand at all, the fingers are gone, these are wings.
After discovering that his body had changed, Horna quickly took a look at his whole body, and then discovered an astonishing fact. He had actually turned into an owl?! A legendary wizard who is famous all over the world turned into an owl?! What a shame and humiliation!
"How's it going? Are you still satisfied with your new body?" Claire asked with a smile. He looked at the owl-like Horna in front of him with amusement on his lips.
"Why did you stuff my soul into the body of an owl?!" Horna shouted loudly, "You can find me any first-level wizard, even a wizard apprentice!"
Looking at the owl flapping its wings and roaring, Claire felt that Horna was much cuter now than before, and she no longer cared about him talking to her so loudly.
With a flick of his fingers, he used an air bomb to bounce the angry Horna towards him to the ground. Claire controlled the force very well and did not cause much damage to Horna.
"What's wrong with this? Maybe in the future you can help me knock on a certain boy's window with an acceptance letter in your mouth..."
Horna didn't understand the meaning of Claire's words, but that air bomb also made him realize the reality again. The man in front of him was simply a devil. It was good that he could survive now.
When I find an opportunity in the future, I will run away. With my legendary Archmage rich knowledge, I will definitely be able to climb to the top again! He also remembered the Cultivation Method that Claire showed him before. When the time comes, combined with what he has researched, he Horna may not be able to live another life and reach the top of the world to become King of Wizards!
But just when he was imagining how he could bear the humiliation and bear the burden and finally reach the pinnacle of life, Claire's words directly pulled him from the clouds to the earth.
"Oh, by the way, I've put a spell on you. As long as you stay away from me for more than twenty meters, your owl body will..." Claire said with a smile, and slowly opened his fist, and said at the same time, "Bang! Exploded to pieces!"
Horna was completely stunned, tears were about to flow out, his hands (wings) were trembling slightly, and he hesitated to speak... You are indeed a devil!
Then Claire turned to the edge of the test bench and began to study the stone with strange runes obtained from Kelly. He found a method that could further intensify the effectiveness of the stone. Together with the soul material stripped from Horna, the combination of the two could help him advance to Archmage faster.
After seeing Claire leave, Horna hurriedly flapped his wings and flew towards Claire. If the distance was more than twenty meters, it would explode. He Horna had to be careful.
Claire took a carving knife and slowly carved the same runes that appeared on the strange stone on a stone. Halfway through, the door to the laboratory was suddenly pushed open.
Upton rushed in in a hurry and shouted, "Sir Antonio! Something bad is going to happen!"
Originally, this matter required a very quiet environment, but this sudden roar made Claire's hands shake slightly in fright, and the engraved runes also showed the slightest flaw.
"Alas." Claire sighed and threw the defective stone on the stone mosaic aside. If you look closely at the stone mosaic, you can find that there are many stones with the same defects, but you can see them from the bottom up. Claire's craftsmanship is constantly improving. If there is no roar from Upton in the end, then Claire will succeed with this stone.
Although he was disturbed, Claire was not too angry and just said lightly, "Remember to knock on the door next time you come in."
Upton shrank his neck and realized that he had disturbed Claire, and said in fear, "I'm sorry, Master Antonio! But this time something really bad is going to happen!"
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
"Several old men came from outside the city, they seem to be leaders of various schools... I feel the aura is very strong, even stronger than you..." Upton said, but did not dare to say it out loud.
"Hehehe, those few boys who escaped found their father." Horna chuckled, feeling a sense of gloating in his heart.
"Do you think an owl can still talk without its tongue?" Claire asked inexplicably.
Horna was so frightened that he immediately shut his mouth and thought to himself: I still showed it too obviously, I will have fun next time.
Putting down the carving knife in his hand, Claire was not very surprised by the news. Instead, he said calmly, "It's been two days, are you moving so slowly?"
"Huh?!" Horna heard the meaning of his words and turned his head 180 degrees to look at Claire, "Did you know they were coming?"
"Isn't this obvious? I would feel weird if no one came." After putting away the things on the table, Claire walked towards the door. When Horna saw that the distance between Claire and Claire had grown further, he panicked and quickly flapped his wings to follow. Finally, after hesitating for a moment, he landed on Claire's shoulder.
"How did you know they were coming?"
"I don't like talking to idiots. If you talk too much, you will become stupid."
Horna: "..."
Outside the tall and majestic stone wall on the outermost edge of the city, five figures have appeared in the sky. Except for Daren, the other four are also leaders of other schools and epic-level wizards.
At this time, Daren's aura has become completely different from when he got along with Nicole before. He has an indifferent expression and his whole body exudes an aura of keeping strangers away.
A skinny old man with thin hair on the side said maliciously, "Long time no see, Daren. It seems that when you were exploring the ruins this time, you Nata School lost five or six level five wizards. You lost so much combat power that you didn't even get anything. Cultivation Method was also taken away by others, tsk tsk tsk."
Daren Hearing what the other party said, he knew who this person was without even looking over, so he narrowed his eyes into a long slit, stared at him sideways without moving his head, and his aura of calmness and self-power was instantly exuded.
"Shut your mouth, if you say one more word I'll kill you."