A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 63 Blood-Red Beach

Some were happy, some were sad; the first day of the competition came to an end, and the second day began.

Map: Blood Beach

Number of participants: 61

"Number of participating teams: 21"

"Status: Match starts in 10 minutes."

As usual, Jiang Shuzhou entered the preparation room ten minutes early.

Looking around, Jiang Shuzhou's eyes narrowed; he saw that man.

The paladins of the Dynasty's team, their attitude.

It was indeed the right thing to know the situation in advance. He had already devised several ways to deal with the paladin. His only fear was that the other party had hidden something, but that was beyond Jiang Shuzhou's control.

Let's do our best and leave the rest to fate.

After carefully observing the surroundings again and finding no familiar teams, Jiang Shuzhou breathed a sigh of relief. Now he didn't have to worry about other teams.

"Good luck to everyone in the competition. I hope our Dynasty can progress together with everyone."

His attitude fully demonstrated his leadership qualities as captain, generously offering his blessings to everyone participating in the competition.

Jiang Shuzhou nodded in agreement.

The others also exchanged words of encouragement, and then the match began. Everyone was teleported away, and two minutes later, they would all be teleported to the map.

Upon returning to the black space, Jiang Shuzhou equipped himself with all the gear from his inventory, just as he had done before. However, unlike last time, he brought an extra bottle of mana potion and a bottle of poison, which were specifically prepared for paladins.

Since they are on opposing sides and are now adversaries, there is naturally no reason for them to let this go.

A flash of white light, and Jiang Shuzhou appeared on the beach.

The air was thick with the smell of rust, and the sea was a glaring scarlet, like fresh blood.

"Why are these maps always so unfriendly?"

Looking at the apocalyptic scene before him, Jiang Shuzhou felt a headache coming on; the view clearly indicated a serious problem.

Regardless, Jiang Shuzhou still planned to go to the mission location to check the situation first.

Following the map and walking along the coast, Jiang Shuzhou saw a dilapidated ship and a group of humanoid creatures beside it.

They had nothing in their hands, no weapons, and looked like ordinary people.

However, their swaying figures and low growls, along with the visible ulcers on their skin, betrayed them.

"unlucky."

Others might not know, but Jiang Shuzhou clearly understood what was in front of him.

These humanoid life forms were created by mages; they are known as flesh-and-blood puppets.

There's a saying circulating in the Mage Alliance: When learning magic, be careful not to lose your humanity.

This is how these flesh-and-blood evil puppets were born: a group of madmen who had lost their humanity through studying the law formed a school called the Flesh-and-Blood Gospel.

This school of thought has a terrible reputation. They indiscriminately slaughter mortals and use their flesh and souls to create flesh-and-blood evil puppets.

Because the method was extremely cruel, most of the mages in the Mage Alliance could no longer stand it and launched the Great Severing Spell to cleanse the sect. The vast majority of mages from various schools were wiped out, leaving only a very few hiding in the shadows, afraid to show their faces.

The strength of flesh-and-blood puppets is based on the "raw materials" they used in life, and they are generally stronger than they were in life. These puppets usually rely on weapons made of bones hidden inside their bodies to attack.

Some of these flesh-and-blood evil puppets can even cast spells, and it goes without saying what their professions were in life.

This is why the Mage Alliance is so ruthless.

However, unlike demons, these flesh-and-blood evil puppets are not particularly corrupting, and apart from being stronger in combat, they are not special.

The flesh-and-blood puppet's body is not the main point; the main point is the weapons hidden inside its body. These weapons are bizarre in shape, and many are extremely powerful.

Take the bone-shooting gun, for example. It's a gun that can shoot bone spikes, and its damage is much higher than that of ordinary firearms.

This knowledge of flesh and blood is still included in the Mage Alliance, although some content has been cut for the sake of harmony and stability. All mages who study these flesh and blood spells must sign a contract to prevent the same mistakes from happening again.

"One heavy infantry, five ranged infantry, and eleven melee infantry."

Jiang Shuzhou was carefully observing the type of flesh-and-blood evil puppet below using the high-powered scope he had attached to his pistol.

The heavy flesh-and-blood golem has armor made of bone beneath its skin, making it quite visible. Ranged flesh-and-blood golems are relatively slender, while melee flesh-and-blood golems have more developed limbs.

These were all specially designed by the Flesh and Blood Evangelicals and can withstand scrutiny. As for that layer of skin?

It's mainly used for camouflage; once the battle begins, this skin is just like clothing—it can be easily peeled off.

Jiang Shuzhou picked up his pistol; he was going to get rid of these flesh-and-blood evil puppets.

"Bang bang bang".

The bullet pierced through the flesh-and-blood demon's body, struck the beach, and kicked up a cloud of sand.

However, this did not cause any real damage to the flesh-and-blood evil puppets; it merely made them aware that the enemy was coming.

"As expected, penetrating damage is completely useless."

Jiang Shuzhou put down his pistol, held the knife in both hands, and was ready to go on a killing spree.

Seeing that an enemy was approaching, the flesh-and-blood evil puppet simply stopped pretending and used its strength to tear off its skin, revealing a body full of red muscles.

Then their abdomens split open, and with a swift pull, weapons made of bone were pulled out.

"roar!"

With a roar, more than a dozen flesh-and-blood evil puppets wielding bone knives launched a charge attack, rushing directly towards Jiang Shuzhou.

This skill is indeed something every warrior knows, even the Flesh and Blood Puppet knows it; it's muscle memory, it's true.

Oily technique.

The old method, the classics never go out of style. This is how mages fought warriors and knights hundreds of years ago, and it's still the same now.

"Knock knock knock".

Without hesitation, these flesh-and-blood evil puppets charged directly at Jiang Shuzhou. However, to Jiang Shuzhou's surprise, they did not fall down, but were forced to slow down their movement.

What happened?

But it doesn't matter. If I can't kill you by falling, I can at least burn you to death.

Fireball Technique!

A bullet made of flames accurately struck the oil on the ground, instantly igniting it and creating a sea of ​​fire.

These flesh-and-blood evil puppets have extremely high resistance to piercing damage, but extremely low resistance to spells, especially fire spells, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Looking at the flesh-and-blood evil puppets in the sea of ​​fire, Jiang Shuzhou cast an oil bomb spell on each of them to ensure they died even more completely.

As the oil bomb hit, the flames spread to their entire bodies, and in no time, the flesh-and-blood evil puppets were burned beyond recognition, clearly unable to stand up again.

"As expected, flesh is not as strong as steel. These low-level flesh-and-blood evil puppets can be killed simply by using high temperatures."

Then Jiang Shuzhou began to do the same to the flesh and blood evil puppet in the distance, first with an oil bomb spell, then with a fire bomb spell.

Then you can see the humanoid fireball. Just like that, except for the Heavy Flesh Puppet, all the other Flesh Puppets were successfully killed by Jiang Shuzhou.

The price was two mana potions gone. Casting so many spells was too mana-intensive. In terms of strength, the flesh and blood puppet was much harder to deal with than a demon.

However, in terms of pollution and impact, the demon is still superior, after all, it is capable of causing non-combat casualties.

The only thing that hasn't been destroyed yet is that heavy flesh-and-blood evil puppet.

It wasn't that Jiang Shuzhou didn't want to use fire; the main reason was that the opponent had a shield and was clearly quite intelligent. Every time Jiang Shuzhou shot oil bullets at him, he would try his best to dodge, and if he couldn't dodge, he would use the bone shield in his hand to defend.

At this moment, he was dodging Jiang Shuzhou's attacks while slowly advancing towards Jiang Shuzhou.

He probably thought that once he got close to a mage, he could easily control them. Unfortunately, Jiang Shuzhou was not a normal mage.