Garrison Warrior Academy, Administrative District.
Principal’s Office.
"Are you planning to explore the Naxitas Ancient Mausoleum?"
Principal Bosh stroked his large beard, curiously eyeing the three young n and won opposite him, "Tom, Dior, Oshana...what are your reasons?"
Oshana, also a genius from the "Combat Mage Class," was one of the top four in the Freshn Tournant but unfortunately lost to the exchange student from another academy, the gunman Amariel.
Bai Pu wants to find the Seed of Magic Power, and the senior from War God Peak, Munis, naturally won’t be involved with Bai Pu anymore. She has already fulfilled her promise to guide Bai Pu in the Fighting Qi Cultivation thod.
"Dior needs to find the Seed of Earth Elent Magic," Tom said.
"Seed of Magic? It seems you’re going for the path of Magic and Martial Dual Cultivation," Principal Bosh glanced at Bai Pu.
"Of course, Dior is in the Combat Mage Class, after all. Principal, you yourself have said that Combat Mage will be the trend in the future," Oshana said.
"Dior going by himself is enough, why are you also requesting leave? Tell the real reason," Principal Bosh wasn’t easily fooled.
"Alright...truth is, we want to form a team and take the ’Ancient Staff of Naxitas’ task!" Tom finally admitted the truth.
"Ancient Staff of Naxitas? This is a trial task for War God Peak students, and you three are just first-year students..." Principal Bosh looked thoughtfully at Bai Pu, "I see, with Dior Fulri’s strong ability, you indeed have hope of retrieving the Ancient Staff."
"Besides, we are forming a team of three first-year students, according to the additional clauses in the ’Garrison Academy Task Book,’ we can receive the highest level of rewards," Tom said excitedly, "We can get a chance to enter the War God Peak Demon God Underground Palace!"
"That’s true, that’s what’s written in the academy task book."
After all, he had written it himself, so Principal Bosh knew it very well, "Alright then, I’ll approve a fifteen-day leave for you to go to the Naxitas Ancient Ruins and bring back that staff."
Bai Pu was actually waiting for a prompt from the Spirit Realm Will.
Sure enough, as soon as Principal Bosh finished speaking, a ssage ca from the Spirit Realm Will.
[Main Task 3: Lost Staff]
[Task Objective: Go to the Naxitas Ancient Ruins and bring back the Ancient Staff of the Sandstorm Mage]
[Task Difficulty: S]
[Task Deadline: 15 days]
[Task Reward: Enlightennt access to the War God Peak Demon God Underground Palace]
[Failure Penalty: Deduct 70,000 Spiritual Points]
Finally triggered the third phase of the main task, obtaining an additional fifteen days to stay!
The reason Bai Pu agreed to form a team with Tom was actually to et Principal Bosh and try to trigger the third phase of the main task.
Being "clung to" by Tom and the others didn’t bother Bai Pu.
Moreover, Bai Pu was also very interested in the "Demon God Underground Palace."
According to Tom, the Demon God Underground Palace at War God Peak bears traces left by ancient gods and demons, naturally imprinted with their Spiritual Imprints! Cultivating in the Demon God Underground Palace has nurous indescribable benefits.
However, the Demon God Underground Palace is not casually open to students, it must be accessed by completing academy tasks with high evaluations.
After Bai Pu and the others left, Principal Bosh pondered briefly and then knocked on the table, "Hercules!"
A tall, brawny man, like a wild giant beast, appeared in silence.
"Those three kids just left, they’re the essence of the academy’s new generation. They’re going on a challenging task, you follow them."
"You want to ensure their safety?"
"If it’s the danger from the task itself, I believe they can handle it. Even if they can’t, you need not intervene."
Principal Bosh wasn’t assigning a babysitter for the three. He continued, "I an the danger from outside, especially sneak attacks from old experts who lack virtue! I can accept my students dying in a task, but I won’t accept them being snuffed out by shaless old thieves before they have a chance to grow."
"Understood."
Hercules strode away. His steps were as silent as the pads of a feline’s paws. Despite his massive build, he could walk with complete silence.
...
Once Bai Pu and the others were ready, they quickly took the Teleportation Array, heading to the vast desert a thousand miles west of Garrison City—Istan.
The Ista Desert, also known as the "Land of the Red Demon," is said to have been one of the battlefields of the wars of the All Gods in ancient tis. Back then, it was a lush and vibrant greenland.
One of the twelve Demon Gods from the Netherworld—the Purple Fla Phoenix Salajael, clashed fiercely here with the Prismatic Saint Dragon King Auriel from the Giant Dragon Kingdom.
The Saint Dragon King’s Super Earthquake Technique destroyed cities, flipping the earth to the sky, turning mountains into falling teors, and the powerful gravity buried Purple Fla Phoenix deep beneath the earth.
However, Salajael’s destructive Demon Fire incinerated the vast greenland, and the lingering magical fire aura turned this place into an endless sea of sand.
The forr civilization—the Magic Kingdom "Red Sand," completely beca history.
A thousand years later, human tribes erged in this desert.
These tribes retained the fragnted ancient rituals of the Red Sand Kingdom, still declaring themselves as the people of Red Sand. But their current destitution is far from the glory of the Red Sand Kingdom...
So much so, that no country on the continent recognizes the identity of the Red Sand Tribe descendants.
Only greed-driven adventurers co here to explore.
Adventurers long to delve into the ancient ruins of the Red Sand Kingdom, hoping to find one or two artifacts. Even a clay pot, a shard of pottery...scholars are willing to pay high prices for them.
But to so mbers of the Red Sand Tribe, such actions are sheer robbery!
Radical tribespeople ford the "Red Sand Defense Army," swearing to eliminate the criminals who co to steal their ancestral heritage.
Of course, the Red Sand Tribe is a collective term, containing many mixed small tribes.
Not all tribesn are engrossed in the so-called ancestral glory. Most desert people, though cold to outsiders, can still communicate. If outsiders are generous enough, they might even gain agile desert people as guides.
This is what Bai Pu’s group has learned.
Of course, this information ca from the guide they hired, nad "Tano," whose words’ truthfulness remains to be verified.
"Tano, we’re not interested in what you just said. We just want to know when you’ll take us to the Red Sand Ancient City?" Tom asked.
"Not now, not now." The dark-skinned guide Tano waved his hands repeatedly, "It’s the Blood Moon now, entering the ancestors’ mausoleum will disturb their rest and bring punishnt. At least wait for two more days until the Blood Moon ends."
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