Versatile Mage

Edited by Aelryinth

“Awoo~Awoo~” the Flying Creek Snow Wolf let out excited cries when he heard Mo Fan had Commander-level Soul Essences.

“Why are you even so excited? They are not for you, you are already at the Great Commander-level, it’s a waste to give them to you,” Mo Fan scolded.

“Awoo~” the Flying Creek Snow Wolf uttered a series of cries with a wronged look. Unfortunately, Mo Fan did not understand a single word.

“Little Flame Belle, can you please interpret what your Uncle Wolf is trying to say to me?” Mo Fan asked.

“Yiyiyaya, doudou, dududu, wu~” Little Flame Belle was Grade Ten in interpreting the dog… the wolf language. She immediately understood what the Flying Creek Snow Wolf was trying to say and relayed the message to Mo Fan.

Mo Fan was able to understand Little Flame Belle with the help of the Soul Contract. He had no idea what she was saying, but he could roughly interpret it through his soul.

“So the Old Wolf is saying I shouldn’t use the Commander-level Soul Essences to recruit more wolves, but use them on the Enormous White Wolves to help them evolve instead?”

“Ling!~” Little Flame Belle nodded.

“Awoo!~” the Flying Creek Snow Wolf almost burst into tears. The little creature clearly knew him better!

“He’s right! If I recruit more of them, the strength of the army might not be balanced, and if the new recruits are from a different species, it’s going to be troublesome if they aren’t willing to take orders from the Old Wolf,” Mo Fan nodded agreement.

The Enormous White Wolves had been obedient, and they had worked for him for a long time. The Enormous White Wolves were all Warrior-level creatures in the Advancing Period, one step away from reaching the Commander-level. In fact, a few of them were already as strong as a Commander-level creature. It was indeed a better choice to help them evolve than recruiting new Commander-level creatures. These Enormous White Wolves would have no trouble evolving, judging by their strength.

“Alright, Old Wolf, you go ahead and choose eight of them who are ready to evolve; I shall turn them into Commander-level creatures!” Mo Fan made up his mind.

The Enormous White Wolves had been serving him well. He enjoyed having the simple-minded and violent Enormous White Wolves around, so it made sense to be giving the good stuff to them.

If he used the Soul Essences to help the Enormous White Wolves evolve, it did mean he was not increasing the capacity of the Summoning Gate. In other words, he had lost a chance at eight more Warrior-level creatures, but that was negligible compared to the current size of his army. It was more important for the wolves to be united. When the veterans like Big Wolf, Second Wolf, and Third Wolf became real Commander-level creatures, they would have more say in the army!

“Speaking of which, Old Wolf, isn’t your base a little too small for your pack?” Mo Fan noticed that the new White-Marked Wolves did not have any space to stay in the cave. They were crowding outside the cave like a white rug!

“Awoo!~” The Flying Creek Snow Wolf did not expect to have so many new brothers all of a sudden…

“How about this? I won’t be Summoning you guys for a while, so you can go ahead and find yourself a mountain to expand your territory! Seriously, don’t you feel ashamed to be living in a cave? You should at least have your own mountain! Otherwise, aren’t you just embarrassing me if you tell the other Summoned Beasts that you are taking orders from me?” Mo Fan shared his plan with the Old Wolf.

The Old Wolf was excited once again.

He had long planned to expand his territory, but his pack was not strong enough to do so. The mountains with comfortable environments and plenty of resources were usually occupied by powerful beasts. They were asking to die if they tried to take over another beast’s territory when they were not strong enough, but that was no longer the case…

Not only was his pack close to two hundred strong, he would even have eight extra Commanders under his lead. The untouchable mountains were now within his reach!

The Flying Creek Snow Wolf was overwhelmed by excitement when he imagined himself standing on top of the mountain and lifting his head under a moon that was within inches of him. His sexy howls would easily attract the attention of the female wolves nearby, while intimidating the restless male wolves, too! Any wolf packs weaker than his pack were going to submit to him!

Wasn’t that exactly what he had been looking for when he was licking his own wounds and hiding in the corner of a cave when he was still a Spirit Wolf?

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The tomb was deadly quiet. The echoes of a few coughs lasted for some time in the chamber.

Zhao Manyan opened his eyes. He immediately had a miserable face when he glanced around.

Why was he not lying on a comfortable bed with naked women lying on his sides when he woke up? Why did he have to wake up in a goddamned tomb beside the dark-faced, ugly Shreev?

Zhao Manyan stood up and walked around to loosen his bones. He had fully recovered. He looked at Mo Fan and saw the guy staring at the light of his Summoning Element instead of meditating.

“Mo Fan, what are you doing?” Zhao Manyan asked with a confused face.

“I’m helping my Summoned Beasts evolve,” Mo Fan replied.

“Is Little Flame Belle about to reach the Ruler-level?” Zhao Manyan asked curiously.

“It’s not Little Flame Belle,” Mo Fan said.

“Oh, so it’s the Flying Creek Snow Wolf, then? You’re really something! How did you even manage to help him grow from a Spirit Wolf to his current level? Other Summoners wouldn’t bother wasting so many resources on a Summoned Beast!” Zhao Manyan exclaimed.

“It’s not him, either. I’m strengthening the Summoned Beasts of my Beast Tide…” Mo Fan explained.

“What?” Zhao Manyan was dumbfounded.

“Didn’t you already see the Enormous White Wolves I Summoned before? I’m helping them to evolve,” Mo Fan expounded.

“Mo Fan, is your mind flooded by the Catastrophe Wave from before?” Zhao Manyan asked.

“No?”

“Crap, are you out of your mind? How valuable are Commander-level Soul Essences? Are you seriously wasting them on a bunch of Summoned Beasts that are living in the Summoned Beast Plane!?” Zhao Manyan yelled.

The yell was so loud that it woke the others, especially Sayed. He had been listening to their conversation all along.

“A**hole, you son of a b**ch, I’m going to kill you!” Sayed lost his calm right away.

Mo Fan had used the Soul Essences he had collected to strengthen the beasts he Summoned with the Summoning Gate!?!

How lightly was Mo Fan treating the Soul Essences!? He had sweated blood just to collect the Soul Essences!

“Ling!~”

Little Flame Belle was lying on Mo Fan’s head. She immediately landed on the ground and burst into flames when she saw Sayed threatening to harm Mo Fan. The Little Flame Belle immediately transformed into her battle form, the Flame Belle!

The elegant and slender woman engulfed in flames possessed an imperious bearing. Flame Belle stood between Mo Fan and Sayed, her flames lunging in Sayed’s direction. He immediately halted in his tracks and had no choice but to withhold his anger.

As a matter of fact, he could not even defeat Little Flame Belle, let alone Mo Fan!

“Since we might not make it out alive, isn’t it better to use the Soul Essences to improve our strength?” Mo Fan said shamelessly.

“I’m less than a thousandth of you when it comes to being extravagant,” Zhao Manyan admitted helplessly.

“Are we done resting?” Mo Fan asked, ignoring him.

Mo Fan had given the eight Commander-level Soul Essences to the Enormous White Wolves. He believed it was only a matter of time until they evolved into Commander-level creatures. He would give them some time to digest the energy of the Soul Essences before feeding them with his energy. It was unlikely they would fail to evolve.

Mo Fan was planning to let them go on a vacation to find themselves a new base, but since he was clearly going to face some tough battles soon, he had no choice but to ask the new recruits to settle down close to the cave first. He would let them conquer a new mountain once he was done with his mission inside the Pyramid!

“We are done resting, but the question is, are we brave enough to keep going?” Meos asked.

“We can’t go back the way we came, might as well keep going,” Mo Fan said.

“Let’s go; perhaps it’s not as scary as we’ve imagined. I’ve been observing the rules of these chambers, maybe I can solve the mystery in the next chamber!” Shreev said cheerfully.

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There were four doors available. The group followed Shreev’s instructions and entered the next chamber.

The passage was quite long this time. It took them about half an hour to reach the next chamber.

The new chamber was similar to the ones before, but there were lots of ancient drawings and markings of scorpions and snakes on the walls. The drawings were related to the era of the Pharoahs’ reigns. They were not difficult to understand, but the marks of snakes and scorpions were all over the walls. One would even think that the walls were made of snakeskin and scorpion shells if they did not take a closer look at the walls.

“That’s strange, there isn’t any sarcophagus in here… oh my…” Zhao Manyan was going forward when he almost stepped on an empty space and fell into it. Luckily, he managed to react and turn around in time.

Zhao Manyan pulled his leg back and saw a giant hole in the ground.

To make things worse, even the walls in the hole were full of scorpion and snake Runes. They had completely merged with the walls and the ground. It was very difficult to spot the hole from afar, and it was surprisingly deep, too!

Zhao Manyan looked into the hole and saw the bottom was pitch-black. It felt like he was going to be devoured by the darkness in the bottomless chasm.

“Can you see a sarcophagus at the bottom?” Meos asked.

“I don’t see it, but I can see something moving down there,” Heidi said.

“It looks like seagrass, it’s wriggling,” Mu Bai agreed.

“Don’t you feel like they are slowly rising in the hole?” Mo Fan asked softly.

The others quickly observed the things that were wriggling in the dark, and noticed they were indeed moving towards them. They finally realized the seagrass was actually a bunch of blue snakes!

The tails of the snakes seemed to be fixed to a certain spot. Their bodies and heads were constantly writhing around like seaweed. It was utterly terrifying once they were able to see the snakes.

It was spooky to see the snakes bundled up in such great numbers. The group soon realized something scarier as the snakes kept rising from the hole!

Below the snakes was an enormous head!

The wriggling snakes were only hairs on that head, able to move their own. They were lunging fiercely in the direction of the living humans!

The head slowly rose. Its triangular glowing yellow eyes stared at the group above the hole, sending great chills down their spines!