Volume 1: Stranger in a Strange Land Chapter 8: Keep your word
"Why don't you just kill my contractor?"
Bai Xuan looked at the man in front of him and asked.
It was exposed in the range of the [Frozen Wasteland], with a thin layer of frost covering its body. The tiny ice fragments flying in the storm kept cutting its flesh into shallow and deep cuts, but it completely ignored them.
"If you kill him, you will lose your anchor point with the present world. Didn't I tell you that? I don't want you to go back to your home in the Moon Realm so early."
"Why?"
Zhou Mu smiled slightly and waved the Withering Cold in his hand. Lightning flashed, and a deep portal opened. From it, an ice crystal giant with a figure comparable to that of the Shambling Demon slowly walked out.
【Frost Servant】
"Because I still have some stuff to test, and like I said before..."
Zhou Mu did not say anything else. He just waved his hand and asked the Frost Servant to come forward. The tall ice giant swung his fist as heavy as an anvil and smashed at Bai Xuan.
"bump!"
The Shambling Demon did not dodge or parry, allowing the opponent's fist to hit him, while swinging the rusty knife to chop at the Frost Servant.
“Crack!”
Both sides attacked without caring about defense, but the seemingly heavy fist of the servant spirit didn't even make Bai Xuan shake, while its rusty knife cut off a large piece of broken ice from the opponent's body.
Bai Xuan laughed grimly, and the green light on the rusty knife became brighter, and he started to fight with the servant spirit.
"Okay, let's start with the apprentice-level damage spells."
Gently tapping the Withering Cold in his hand, Zhou Mu began a new test.
The Shambler and the Frost Ancestral were like two tumblers, you hit me, I hit you, and the fight was fierce. But as both were tough tank characters, the two sides could not tell the winner for a while just relying on their own output.
Another blow shattered a large piece of ice. Before Bai Xuan could retract his knife, several whistling wind blades slashed at his body, instantly leaving several cuts deep enough to see the bone.
Very good, keep going...
The magic caster finally started using offensive spells.
Instead of being frightened, White Ringworm felt secretly delighted.
The hideous wound caused by the wind blade began to wriggle, and dense mycelium emerged on both sides of the wound. Most of them connected with each other to heal the wound, and some of the mycelium stretched out of the body.
When the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, the hyphae extending out of the body also grew and expanded, and then silently exploded, spewing out a colorful cloud of spores.
A cloud of morbidly bright spores lingered around the white ringworm, and the Frost Servant, which had been fighting back and forth with it, began to move slowly.
Another knife slashed at Shi Ling's body, but this time it didn't just shatter the ice into pieces on the ground.
Several cracks extended from the place where Bai Xuan was slashed, and then split like a spider web. The Frost Servant was actually chopped into pieces all over the ground by this blow.
Bright fungi crawled between the fragments.
Blessing of the Hungry Lady.
Using its own flesh and blood as bait, it breeds new corruption.
After shattering the Frost Servant, Bai Xuan planned to turn around and deal with the magic caster, but as soon as he turned around, a ball of shining lightning hit him head-on.
“Hmm…”
Bai Huan shook his head. His chest was burned black by the lightning, but at the same time, under the black mass, the abnormally thriving life began to wriggle again.
A thicker cloud of spores filled the air around it and spread further away. Not far away, a taller Frost Servant Spirit was walking towards it.
"besides?"
Bai Xuan spat a mouthful of dark green saliva on the ground and rushed forward with a knife in hand.
"Okay, I want to see how long you can hold on."
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Liliana couldn't comprehend what was happening.
Summoning, storm, lightning, fire, frost, shadow, undead, life, illusion...
She numbly counted how many spells of different attributes that person had used. The restriction of the Star Law that each person could only study three types of spells at most seemed like a joke to him.
Even if he was a heretic wizard, he shouldn't be able to use spells with so many attributes... You know, even the heretic who caused the "Withering Disaster" fifty years ago only studied five spell systems.
And that’s not all…
Liliana studied at the University of Official Arts in Blackwater Province. Although she was not very talented and was only an apprentice, she had a solid foundation in theoretical knowledge as she was in the most prestigious school of mages in Blackwater Province. It can be said that she knew the theories and effects of the common spells in the 13th series of the ninth-level spells stipulated by the Star Law.
But among the dozens of spells that person had used, at least two-thirds of them were unheard of by her. Not only that, the effects of those spells were also incredible, directly challenging her understanding of the nature of magic.
"The illusory blade that just extended from his staff, judging from the fluctuations of magic power, is it an illusion spell, right..."
She muttered to herself.
Since it is an illusion spell, why can it cut off the arm of the Moon Realm monster with just one blow?
Is her understanding of illusion spells fundamentally wrong?
The battle continued, and more and more spells that she could not understand were cast by that person.
As the monster became more seriously injured, the mist emanating from it became thicker and its range became farther and farther.
Whether it was a bird perched on a branch, a squirrel climbing in the woods, or an insect in the soil, any life that came into contact with the mist would begin to twitch and roll, and soon struggle to death.
On their corpses, dense mycelium grew out from every orifice, then continued to expand and explode, releasing new mist.
Liliana saw it clearly, and just as she was about to flee from the foggy area in fear, the sunbird pendant that the man had asked her to wear glowed slightly, and a faint golden barrier appeared around her.
The mist melted away instantly after it touched the barrier, leaving only a stink like burning feathers.
Liliana subconsciously touched the ancient pendant on her chest and looked at the battlefield not far away.
There, the brightly colored fog was so thick that it was impossible to see clearly what was happening inside. Only the constant sounds of fighting and the occasional flashes of magical light proved that the battle was still going on.
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White Ringworm roared and smashed countless frost servants, then looked at the magic caster. This time, the opponent finally did not summon a new frost oath spirit to block the way.
At this time, there was no intact place on White Ringworm's body, but with the blessing of Ms. Hungry and Corrupted, all the wounds were healing rapidly. Even the hand that had been severed before gradually grew a deformed limb made purely of hyphae.
More and more hyphae extended out of its body, and endless spore mist spewed out from it like a burning wolf smoke.
Bai Xuan slowly approached the man. The other party neither summoned a new meat shield nor used spells to attack. He just stood there quietly.
It is estimated that its magic power has reached its limit, so it has already won this battle.
When a magic caster runs out of magic power, he has already been defeated.
To be honest, this battle was extremely dangerous, and there were several times when it was just a step away from being completely exiled by the magic caster.
But fortunately, the opponent stopped attacking on those occasions and missed the chance to kill.
Thanks to him, the blessing of Lady Hunger and Corruption was maximized in its constant injuries and rebirths. Countless curses poured out from its wounds, turning the surroundings into a true death place.
"I have to say, I admire you very much. As a mortal, your flesh and blood have not been completely devoured under such a strong curse."
Bai Xuan walked to a place three steps away from the magic caster and stopped, thinking about the angle from which he should chop off the other's head.
The other party still stood there indifferently.
"What? You won't summon those puppets that are only for show anymore?"
“No need.”
The other party replied calmly, his voice much hoarser than before.
"No need?"
"Everything that can be verified from you has been verified."
Bai Xuan sneered and was ready to walk over and chop off his stubborn head, but as soon as he tried to take a step, he found that he couldn't even lift his feet.
It lowered its head and saw a dark quagmire under its feet. Countless pairs of pale hands stretched out from it and grabbed it, pulling it in.
"Didn't you ask me before why I didn't just kill your contractor and let you go back to your home ?"
Just as the white-haired and silver-eyed magic caster was struggling to free himself, he walked up to it and looked down at the white-haired and silver-eyed white-haired magic caster, who had most of his body pulled into the dark quagmire.
"I have already told your contractor this before, and I will tell you again now."
"You two will die today."
