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Chapter 703: 224.Finished quickly_3
Chapter 703: 224.Finished quickly_3
Chapter 703: 224.Finished quickly_3
“Clang…clang…clang…”
At the moment when the rock cage took shape, it collapsed inward at a rapid speed, shrinking.
Grey boulders were squeezed by the great force of magic, and rocks’ fragments shot out from the cracked boulders, jetting toward the interior of the cage.
A storm of debris, like a bullet flood, appeared inside the cage.
“Hehe, got you, damn assassin.”
Festa snorted coldly and turned his head to look at the figure enclosed in the rock cage.
The cage collapsed inward, minimizing its volume, leaving the figure inside with no way to avoid the onslaught of flying debris.
Just as Festa was about to question loudly, he saw the figure in the cage vanish with a pop, leaving only crude wreckage resembling metal fragments.
“Another illusion magic…” Festa’s eyebrows furrowed.
Several white light columns attacked, aimed at his massive rock shield.
Festa poured mana into the shield, breaking the “Shield Dissolution Ray”, and pulled out his magic wand from his magic pouch.
He decided to take his opponent seriously.
His wand was a silver-gray stone pillar, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, with a dark green gem the size of a fist embedded at the top.
He raised the wand, which was over a meter long, above his head, stood it upright, and stabbed it into the stone tablet below his feet.
“Bang!”
When wand collided with the stone, it emitted a loud noise.
A circular-shaped magic shock wave spread from the stone surface, reaching more than a hundred meters away in less than a second.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
As wand struck the stone again, more shock waves spread like waves.
Several white light columns fired toward him, but they were shattered to nothingness by the shock waves before they even reached Festa’s shield.
“Now let’s see where you run to, cowardly reptile…”
With eyes burning like torches, Festa scanned the surroundings, locking onto an invisible figure exposed by the shock waves.
He raised his wand, pointing at the figure.
Several rock cages over thirty meters tall formed around the figure, blocking all escape routes.
“Haha! Got you!”
Festa laughed loudly as he looked at the figure sealed tightly in the rock cage:
“Let me see who you are! How dare you ambush me! Also, what did you do to Plin and the others!”
“Crack…” the crisp sound of shattering came from beneath Festa’s robes, extinguishing his newfound elation.
“Damn it! The Mental Protection Pendant has been pierced! Dammit! Why didn’t your mental magic make the pendant heat up!!!”
Festa’s face turned pale, filled with terror!
He screamed repeatedly, hurriedly activating “Emergency Teleportation” on his magic boots just as the Mental Protection Pendant shattered!
Bright white light burst from the boots, illuminating a large swath of the night sky.
At the same time, a flash of white light appeared above Festa’s pitiful body over an archipelago.
Festa swept a look around him and was instantly dumbfounded:
“I… I was supposed to teleport toward the Magic Ocean Current… how did I end up within the range of the archipelago…”
He stiffly turned his head, looking at the collapsing rock cages not far away.
Instead of appearing on the sea’s surface, those cages floated above another island.
He had always thought he was flying in the direction of the Magic Ocean Current.
Only now did he realize…
He’d never aimed at the right direction, and he was always flying towards the depths of the archipelago.
“Saint Tier… Mental magic… expertise…”
Seeing and recognizing his opponent, Festa felt like he was plunging into an ice cave.
“Bang!”
The head exploded.
A Seventh Ring Combat Wizard became a headless corpse.
His soul and body separated, hiding in a crystal that flew toward the Magic Ocean Current.
“Crack.” The crystal was crushed by an invisible mental force, and the soul dissipated in a wail, leaving crystal fragments drifting down to the ground with the wind.
“Hehehe, Seventh Ring Earth Magic Combat Wizard, nothing more than that.”
Footsteps drew nearer, stopped beside Festa’s headless corpse.
Noland Lee, with hands behind his back, appeared calm and composed.
He scanned the surroundings with Deconstruction, then waved his right hand, using the [Mage’s Hand] to collect the corpses into a body bag and the spoils of war into his magic pouch.
The scene was cleared up with ease.
Noland looked up at the night sky and sighed:
“Aye, my mental magic is too powerful. I didn’t even use the ‘Thundercloud Technique.’ Instead, I just killed a Seventh Ring Combat Wizard. I wonder what kind of enemy would be worthy of my artificial thunder tribulation…”
Though he spoke with ease, only Noland Lee knew how dangerous the battle was just now.
A single miscalculation, and he would have to call on Selena for help.
The key points of the whole battle were twofold.
First, he couldn’t let Festa have a chance to use all his high-level Earth magic spells.
He had to keep the foe over the sea at all times, thereby forcing him to give up the need for the ground as a support— “Rock Giant Summoning,” “Bottomless Stone Cave Summoning,” and “Mountain Fall.”
These three troublesome spells for Noland required the casting environment of the “earth,” which Festa could not use above the sea.
This was a drawback common to Earth Combat Wizards who were not at the Saint Tier.
Only when reaching the Saint Tier could earth-type combat mages temporarily create a territory of land on the sea’s surface.
The second crucial point was to ensure Festa remained far from the Magic Ocean Current.
Noland used “Sense Tampering” on him, making Festa think he was flying towards the Magic Ocean Current all along.