The Wizard: Starting by Scamming the Demon God

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As if passing through a magical barrier, in the blink of an eye, Isaac had been teleported directly from the ship to a lush island. He raised an eyebrow and looked back, only to see that the ship he had come from was still floating on the sea, its position not having changed much.

No wonder they can make a living this way; the Neuer family certainly has some skills.

Hmm, that's possible. The wizard who set up the ceremony might be from the Noy family!

After all, even a viscount like Solomon was able to cultivate a potential great arcane mage, so the Neu family, as a ducal family, should be no less capable.

Perhaps we'll have a chance to exchange ideas sometime, since we're both border nobles and should have common topics... right?

Isaac turned around and decided to ask his older sister what to do now...

He glanced at the sea creature that darted out of the bushes ahead, his eyes narrowing slightly. Now, let's deal with this guy first!

The term "sea people" is a general term, just like "black orcs." Just as there are lizardmen, kobolds, and pigmen among the black orcs, there are many races among the sea people. And the one who appeared in front of Isaac at this moment was an octopus-man.

Its two legs are no different from those of a human, but its upper body is unusually abstract, with eight tentacles each wielding a sword, topped with an octopus head, which is very grotesque!

That's so abstract!

"Wow!!!"

The moment it saw Isaac, Octopus Baba brandished its eight longswords and charged at Isaac with a shout. In the blink of an eye, it was right in front of Isaac, and the eight longswords wrapped around its tentacles slashed from eight directions, blocking all of Isaac's escape routes!

"puff!"

However, when the eight sword lights fell, the longsword did not cut through flesh, and blood did not splatter as he expected. It was as if he had... struck sand!

It's not just a resemblance!

Although Octopus Bass was fast, Isaac was not slow either. Before becoming a wizard, Isaac had a deep understanding of how fast the brutes of this world were, so after becoming a wizard, he had been practicing movement and shield spells.

No matter how high a wizard's damage output is, it only matters if they survive!

What blocked the octopus was a spherical sand shield. Although it was not as good as the Masaku Noh, which claimed to be an absolute defense, its sand was specially made by Isaac and had super strong defensive capabilities. It was especially specialized for swords and spears, which are the most commonly used weapons of knights. There was an invisible magnetic force flowing between the fine sand.

"Tear!"

If the first attack misses, then it's Isaac's turn!

A ferocious claw emerged from the back of his neck, its long, sharp fingers dancing lightly, and a scarlet eye slowly opened in its palm, staring intently at Octopus Hachi!

The iridescent stripes around the edges of its eyes shimmered slightly, and Octopus Hachi's expression instantly went blank; it had been hypnotized.

Then, purple light shone down, and more tentacles emerged from Octopus Hachi's body, tangling and collapsing to the ground.

The battle is over!

With a flick of his finger, Isaac unleashed a fiery arrow that pierced the head of Octopus Hachi, before exploding and ending its life.

"Remember to finish him off." Isaac patted Harmon's hand.

"hiss?"

"No need, exchanging money isn't our goal. Just shoot them in the head. Let's go find the rat first."

"hiss~"

"Huh? It wants to gain some experience on its own? Why didn't it say so before?" Isaac stopped in his tracks and looked at Hamon above him in confusion.

"Hiss." It wanted to enhance its combat capabilities.

“It just does boring things, how could I possibly make it fight?” Isaac shook his head helplessly. Although he had been strengthening the mouse’s power, in his mind, the mouse was just a mascot and had no chance to fight at all.

but……

"Alright, since it's its own idea, let it do whatever it wants. Just let Liuli keep an eye on it, and we'll go collect the crystals."

"hiss!"

Chapter 121 I, the little mouse, am about to take off!

"Squeak~"

On a corner of the island, a mouse suddenly appeared on the branch of a big tree. After a brief moment of panic, it roughly understood the situation and calmed down.

Emmmm......

According to the book, when going out, the most important thing is to be safe; staying alive is more important than anything else!

According to the book, to ensure safety, the most important thing is to have a double. A double ensures safety when taking action!

The mouse's bead-sized eyes darted around, and it raised its paw and gently rubbed it. Streams of gray light fell and coalesced into three skeletal mice under the big tree. The three skeletal mice moved their bodies, and seeing that there was nothing unusual, each chose a direction and darted away.

The mouse itself found a secluded corner in the tree with dense foliage and hid there, with some death magic scattered around it to warn of its surroundings.

Then, it focused all its attention on the three skeletal clones...

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

Mouse: "..."

Before it could even begin, it was already dead. In almost an instant, two skeletal clones were crushed. However, the mouse didn't immediately replace them, because being killed so quickly meant there were enemies nearby.

According to the images seen by the clone before it died, one of the perpetrators was a sea creature, about two meters tall, with shark fins on its arms and back. The mouse had read the information and knew that this was a shark-man from the sea creatures, with extremely strong fighting power!

The other was a large, blue python...

"boom!"

The loud commotion from not far away made the mouse tremble, but it quickly calmed down. It knew that it was very likely that the shark man and the python had collided, and all it had to do was stay hidden.

With half its attention focused, the mouse closely watched the movements of the last skeletal clone. It cautiously traversed the damp woodland and soon arrived at a wild boar's burrow. The tiny soul flame within the skeletal clone flickered gently.

It found a secluded spot and crouched down. Then, the divine network within the mouse's body in the distance emitted a silent fluctuation, and a power subtly descended into the skeletal clone, before shooting out quickly and directly into the heads of two wild boars, each over two meters tall, inside the cave.

"Haha~"

The wild boar couple shook their heads. They looked around in confusion, but found nothing amiss, so they lay down on the ground to sleep again.

Having just performed a hymn to life, they simply don't have the energy to move now.

However, what they didn't notice was that while they were asleep, seductive whispers were swirling in their minds. They frowned slightly, instinctively disgusted by the feeling, but limited by their intelligence and the subsequent "wise maniac" mode, they were unable to make an effective response.

Of course, even when they are conscious, their intelligence is insufficient to make any difference.

Because this is a new ability that the mouse has mastered—the whispers of the gods.

This is the power that gods use to bewitch their followers. All gods possess this ability, but evil gods usually prefer to use it the most, and are so skilled at it that they can utter a whisper full of seductive power without even saying it.

Since the divine species are essentially the same as the gods, they can also awaken this power, which is also the main way for the divine species to develop followers.

After all, they are not as powerful as righteous gods and evil gods, so believers can only rely on deception.

This is the mouse's plan!

Hide away, then use this trick to control a large number of monsters, and finally bestow divine magic upon them, burning their power to strengthen them, and then you can send them to their doom.

The beast horde tactic is a tactic it devised by learning from Isaac and combining it with its own strength. It should be useful, at least it's going very smoothly so far!

After planting the seeds of faith in the boar couple, the rat tirelessly controlled its skeletal clone to continue searching for new monsters. Meanwhile, the battle between the shark man and the giant python ended, and unsurprisingly, the shark man emerged victorious.

Of course, the rat didn't lose out either; it got the python's corpse. Although the shark took the python's skin, gallbladder, and some of its most valuable flesh and blood, it didn't touch the bones.

This is a boon for the mouse; it only paid a small amount of death magic and gained a powerful henchman!

Although only bones remain, the python's combat stats are stronger than when it was alive. This is because the python's bones were already quite strong. Although it no longer has strong flesh and hard scales, its bones have been strengthened by death magic. Moreover, the snake bones are now filled with death magic that is particularly effective against the living.

This stuff is extremely poisonous to living creatures!

While it's not quite at the point of instant death, it's close enough.

So the mouse directly manipulated the skeletal snake to find its den, went back and coiled up there. It also moved its own body to the depths of the snake den, using the huge skeletal snake to conceal its movements.

At the same time, it also facilitates its further research into the art of skeletal magic.

Although the mouse has grown a lot recently, the increase is mainly in its internal divine power. Its fighting methods haven't changed much, and its intelligence has only recently started to improve. Therefore, its skeletal divine magic is actually still the same as before...

When assisting its master, it's undoubtedly invincible; all it needs to do is shoot and explode. But if it's acting alone...

That would be somewhat lacking. For example, the skeletal snake looks terrifying and its stats are stronger than when it was alive, but once it starts fighting, it's a completely different story.

Because the skeletal snake can move, it's entirely controlled by the mouse itself!

It is not a single undead!

If a mouse doesn't even understand its own fighting style, how could it possibly understand a snake's fighting style?

Therefore, its current research goal is to find a way to make this big guy move on its own!

If it can achieve this, then it can add another type of unit!

"Squeak~ squeak?"

Inside the cave, after circling the lifeless skeletal snake twice, the mouse suddenly tilted its head, looking at the snake's dark eyes. A flash of lightning suddenly appeared in its tiny brain!

It remembered!

One book says that the undead are actually another kind of creature, because they also die, but they don't have flesh and blood!

The most important criterion for determining whether a spirit is dead or alive is—its soul!

If we put a soul inside, could we make this big guy move?

The mouse's eyes lit up; it thought it was a good idea!

Immediately, an invisible wave spread out, and the mouse activated its power, summoning nearby mice.

Although the mouse didn't know how to stuff the soul into the skeletal snake to make it move, that didn't stop it from gathering the mice to collect the souls. It didn't matter if it didn't know; it could just try slowly.

Anyway, there's always the monster army to fall back on.

……

Dividing into two sides, on the other side, Isaac is...

Chapter 122 Golden Hair Gathers Across the World, Classic Elements!

"puff!"

On the other side of the forest island, a colorful ball shot out a flaming arrow that pierced straight through the head of a demonized wild boar, instantly ending its life.

The person standing inside the ball was none other than Isaac, who had a lot of experience with layering armor!