A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 426 Blood and Flesh Swamp

The next morning, Jiang Shuzhou slept soundly, but Grace did not.

She slept on the floor and her whole body ached.

"I should have slept in the carriage."

Grace complained.

Jiang Shuzhou responded with just two words.

"Serves you right."

Fortunately, the people in the town were generally law-abiding, and no one dared to challenge Jiang Shuzhou.

They delivered the goods honestly, without any shortchanging or underweighting.

Jiang Shuzhou was very satisfied with this.

Immediately afterwards, the carriage wheels slowly turned, and Jiang Shuzhou and Grace left the town and headed towards the Blood and Flesh Swamp.

"Mayor, since he can't get out of this swamp anyway, should we...?"

A townsman revealed a greedy glint in his eye; clearly, he was planning to pull off a big heist.

"What are you thinking? Someone who dares to go into this bloody swamp might not come out alive, but killing you won't be a problem."

"What, are you tired of living?"

The town mayor snorted coldly, giving these people no friendly treatment.

"Go if you want, I won't care if you die, do what you want."

The town mayor turned and left without any hesitation.

He didn't want to die.

"Then we..."

"Let's do it! Look at all those gold coins this guy's got, he's obviously rich. If we succeed, we'll be set for life!"

"good!"

Immediately afterwards, they began to plot.

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"Sprint! Sprint!"

Since Grace hadn't slept well, Jiang Shuzhou temporarily took her place driving the carriage in the morning.

However, this may also be related to his desire to race cars for fun.

As is well known, Jiang Shuzhou has always been a big fan of racing.

The horses in this carriage had been specially modified by Jiang Shuzhou, making them incredibly fast and extremely strong defensively.

"Warrior, we need help, please stop!"

A group of people stood in the middle of the road ahead, seemingly intending for Jiang Shuzhou to brake himself.

But is that even possible?

Perhaps Grace is somewhat merciful and will voluntarily slow down.

But Jiang Shuzhou wouldn't do that; he would just charge straight in.

then.

"Bang!"

With a loud crash, several people blocking the way were smashed to pieces, seemingly beyond repair.

As for Jiang Shuzhou?

He cast a spell beforehand to prevent the carriage from getting any bloodstains, since it wouldn't look good anyway.

"Remember not to block my way in your next life! It's dangerous!"

Jiang Shuzhou was moving too fast; he only had time to leave those words behind before speeding away several hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

"What are we going to do? How are we going to explain this to their families?!"

Several townspeople looked dejected, clearly not expecting that Jiang Shuzhou wouldn't buy into their act.

With no other option, they could only collect the severed limbs and plan to bury them.

But they clearly forgot that among the gods of this world, there is one god called the playwright.

Coincidentally, a rotting corpse smelled the blood and then led the surrounding rotting corpses toward this place.

"If we had known, we wouldn't have..."

However, before he could finish saying his regrets, something terrible happened.

A large group of swaying, decaying corpses surrounded them.

This monster is created when an ordinary human is reawakened after decaying. It likes to eat fresh flesh and blood and can be found in and around flesh and blood swamps. It is not very strong, probably around level one.

However, under normal circumstances, ordinary people would not be able to defeat these rotting corpses.

Therefore, the fate of these people is predictable.

"what!"

After a series of mournful howls and gruesome gnawing sounds, all was quiet.

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"Here, to the north."

With the map in hand, Jiang Shuzhou ventured deeper and deeper into the swamp of flesh and blood.

The surroundings were a crimson red, with rotting, foul-smelling flesh everywhere, making it a truly disgusting sight.

However, for Jiang Shuzhou, this place was no different from normal terrain.

Furthermore, the specially modified carriage can theoretically fly, so it is not afraid of any terrain that it cannot cross, but it does consume a lot of magic power.

"roar!"

With a roar, twenty-seven rotting corpses charged toward Jiang Shuzhou.

Jiang Shuzhou simply snapped his fingers, and the rotting corpses immediately went viral.

Their bodies caught fire and were burned to a crisp.

Every now and then, a bubble would rise from the surrounding crimson swamp, like the breath of a dying person. Based on his knowledge, Jiang Shuzhou began to deduce that the center of the flesh and blood swamp was where the immortal being was located.

Perhaps it was because the other party possessed an axe capable of killing the World Tree that even though they gained immortality, they ultimately met a tragic end.

The most likely candidate to obtain the weapon is naturally the one next to the immortal.

While collecting data, Jiang Shuzhou quickly calculated the specific situation based on his theoretical knowledge.

To find the center, you need enough data, such as the extent of flesh distortion, etc.

The carriage sped through the blood and gore, a place Jiang Shuzhou would normally avoid at all costs.

This may be related to his mastery of physical skills.

At this moment, the driver has become Grace, while Jiang Shuzhou is asking questions from the side.

"Look at this flesh and blood, how many years has it been there?"

Jiang Shuzhou pointed to the piece of meat on the edge and asked.

"It was probably five years ago. This swamp of flesh and blood had just spread five years ago."

Jiang Shuzhou nodded, which was taken as approval.

He then began to calculate the approximate location of the core.

Jiang Shuzhou quickly calculated it.

"We're heading northeast to the core to see the so-called immortal being."

Upon hearing this, Grace immediately changed direction and headed towards the core.

Sometimes, the road to the core is not smooth sailing.

puff.

Suddenly, a large gash was torn open in the swamp made of flesh and blood.

A giant stitched monster emerged from it.

The monster had dozens of hands and feet all over its body, arranged haphazardly, making it look very chaotic.

Jiang Shuzhou and Grace showed no mercy, immediately unleashing their spells to completely obliterate the monster.

Accompanying the fireball spell was Grace's wind blade spell.

Grace perfectly mastered Jiang Shuzhou's magical modification. When the wind blade hit the target, it immediately exploded into countless tiny wind blades, severing a large part of the monster's hands and feet.

The monster, in pain, let out a shriek and used a spell-like howl to try and disrupt the two's spellcasting.

But it was no use. Jiang Shuzhou and Grace were both determined people and would not be defeated by such tricks.

Immediately afterwards, the monster faced a barrage of magical attacks.

Soon, the multi-armed, stitched-together monster was killed by Jiang Shuzhou and Grace together.

"Be careful, as you go deeper, you'll encounter more and more of these monsters."

Jiang Shuzhou reminded him.

"Master, I will."

Grace nodded in agreement.

For the rest of the journey, these twisted monsters attacked the two from time to time, but they were all crushed by the monsters' superb magical skills and eventually fell to the ground, becoming a pile of mangled flesh.