Chapter 40 The Fallen Magician
The figure who came back was naturally Eli.
Although he could not distinguish the special demons hidden in the demon group, his soul detection range far exceeded the legendary holy level. Even if he pretended to evacuate more than ten kilometers, he could still cover the entire city with his soul.
Of course, the most important thing is that these four hidden special demons are not smart and cautious, otherwise they would not be so easily lured out.
Like Eli, who is full of muscles, the demons are not good at using their brains. This is also an important reason why they only have warriors and no magicians.
However, although many races among the hundreds of races have magicians, in this Dharma-ending era caused by the invasion of the demons, ordinary magicians are grass, and only magicians of the holy level and above are treasures.
The demons are worthy of their name. Since their birth, their race has extremely high magic resistance. Ordinary magic will not work on them at all. This is another important reason why their race cannot produce magicians.
Before the invasion of the demons, the continent and the ocean had magicians who were not much inferior to warriors, and compared with warriors, magicians were more rare because they could play a greater role on the battlefields of various races.
Although the overall strength of warriors and magicians of the same level is not much different, magicians are far stronger than warriors in terms of attack range. The number of enemies that a warrior can kill with one sword is extremely limited, but a magician can cover a large area of enemies with one spell.
Someone once said that magicians are born to destroy, ruin and war.
If there were no invasion of the demons, magicians would still be an extremely powerful force. Although magic is more difficult to learn than martial arts and requires more talent, resulting in far fewer magicians than warriors in number, the terrible battlefield function of magicians cannot be ignored by any race.
Unfortunately, the strong position of magicians only existed before the invasion of the demons. After the demons with strong magic resistance invaded the continent, the status of magicians and their importance to the hundreds of races plummeted because of the "meeting three levels higher" incident. In the next thousand years, fewer and fewer people were willing to learn magic, resulting in fewer and fewer magicians in each race. Until today, a thousand years later, ordinary magicians and even high-level magicians have become dispensable. Only magicians of the Saint level and above can become the treasure of the country.
As for what is the "meeting three levels higher" incident, as the name suggests, it is in the early stage of the demon invasion, when the continental coalition of the Ten Thousand Nations Alliance fought against the demons, the warrior corps and the demons launched a bloody melee. Although the casualties were not small, many demons were indeed killed.
And what about the magician corps that are more suitable for large-scale combat? Their performance on the battlefield can be said to be catastrophic. The low-level magician corps caused up to zero casualties to the demons. The middle-level magician corps did cause some casualties to the demons, but it was really limited. As for the high-level magician corps, they did cause a lot of casualties to the demons, but they themselves suffered heavy casualties when facing the surprise attack of the high-level demons. If it were not for the timely rescue of the holy ranks of the coalition forces, they would have been very likely to be wiped out by the enemy demons.
In the post-war statistics of that war, the lethality of low-level magicians to the demons was zero. Judging from the battle records of the middle-level magician corps and the high-level magician corps, only high-level magicians (fourth-level) can cause damage to the weakest demon soldiers (first-level), and great magicians (sixth-level) can cause casualties to elite demon soldiers (third-level), and wizards (seventh-level) who have surpassed ordinary magicians and entered the ranks of high-level masters can only cause damage to demon centurions (fourth-level).
After this battle, the demons would always use this incident to mock the magicians of the coalition forces. They shouted that the demons would automatically become three levels higher when they met magicians, which made the magician corps of the coalition forces very angry.
It was also after this that magic began to decline. After all, magicians had no power to fight back against demons of the same level. The powerful magicians (eighth level) and great magicians (ninth level) could not even beat the most ordinary high-level demons. Only the holy magicians who had transcended the ordinary could break the joke of "three levels higher when meeting". It can only be said that all beings are equal under the forbidden spell. Even the high-level demons with extremely high magic resistance cannot withstand the terrible damage of the forbidden spell.
Just to enter the holy level, whether for warriors or magicians, not only do you need to work hard day after day, but you also need to have extremely high cultivation talent. Most importantly, you have to survive the crazy assassination of magic geniuses of various races by the demons until the day you become a saint.
Therefore, even the terrifying power of the Holy Mage cannot prevent the collapse of the magician's path, which is why the number of magicians in the Hundred Races Alliance is so small that it can be almost ignored.
Take Eli for example. If he reunites the two armies, he can at least gather a million troops and no less than 70 or 80 high-level warriors. But even so, he may have less than ten ordinary magicians under his command, and there are no high-level magicians.
Today, the Hundred Races Alliance and the Demon Clan Invasion Army rely on warriors to fight each other. Only when the battle situation is extremely bad will the Hundred Races Alliance risk sending precious ninth-level magicians and holy-level magicians who are more scarce than ordinary demigods to give the Demon Clan a hard blow.
Every time a magician of this level takes action, there will be at least dozens of warriors of the same level around him to protect him, and there are even coalition demigods guarding in the dark to prevent the Demon Clan from attacking and killing the ninth-level and holy-level magicians at all costs.
Of course, the decline of the magician has nothing to do with Eli. At this time, Eli was grabbing five unconscious captives and running towards his army camp. As for the remaining mutated magic soldiers, he couldn't take care of them for the time being. It was not important to kill them as monsters. The key was to find the root cause of the demon mutation.
At Eli's speed, it didn't take long to reach the military camp. After slowing down, Eli grabbed the captives and went directly to find Rondo.
The secret of the demon's change was extremely important. Among the people in the army who knew how to torture, only Rondo was trustworthy.
Relying on the guidance of the spirit, Eli quickly found Rondo in the army. Without time to talk to the high-level masters who were also present, Eli took the captives and Rondo to the commander's tent.
After instructing Jessica and Cecilia to guard outside the tent and not let anyone approach, Eli handed the captives to Rondo for him to force a confession, and then... Rondo left the commander's tent alone.
Well, in Eli's tent, there were only some chairs and benches besides a large bed that could accommodate at least three people. There was no torture instrument. What was there to force a confession? Could it be that he relied on the fun things in his storage space... No, those props that caused minor pains and itchiness?
Soon, Rondo, who had left not long ago, came back. No one was arranged to move the items. As an important figure in the Duke's Mansion, Rondo also had a storage ring. Although the size of its storage space could not be compared with Eli's, it was enough to store some torture instruments.
Next, because of the suspected bloodiness and violence, Rondo's confession process was mosaiced...