Chapter 251: Bitter Fight
Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
When the demon’s scarlet eyes looked at Charlie, Lucien noticed that Charlie’s face froze immediately, and the symbols on the magic shield started to swell and break into pieces. Then, the whole shield was destroyed. As soon as the shield was gone, Charlie was enveloped by a heavy black fog.
It happened so fast that neither Lucien nor Sandra managed to take any actions.
After a second, the black fog disappeared all of a sudden. A small black pig showed up at the spot where Charlie was, and it looked beyond lost. Turning around in circles, its thin tail kept wagging.
“Baleful Polymorph!” Sandra’s voice came to Lucien’s mind through their telepathic bond, “We need to kill it before it gets out of the brazier!”
At the same time, dark clouds gathered under the celling. Among those clouds, streak lightnings were flashing, turning the whole place into a lightning forest.
The forth-circle spell in the school of Electromagnetics, Lightning Clouds!
A big fireball was created in front of Lucien, and he threw it fiercely at the demon at the center of the magic circle.
The demon might be immune to flame and blast, but the magic circle and the brazier should not. As long as the demon lost its rebirth ability, the sorcerers were confident that they could kill it again.
At the same time, Lucien was being cautious not to cast Elemental Swirl right away before making sure it was effective to do so with the demon, because if the demon was completely spiritual, Elemental Swirl would not only lose its power but also hurt Lucien badly.
The second before the fireball hit the brazier, a dark mist rose, expanded very fast, and devoured the whole room completely, even including the lightning and Lucien’s fireball.
However, at the same time, the lightning and fireball also made the mist look quite thinner, as if both sides were fighting for the dominant right of the space.
Sandra’s lips were half open, murmuring. The darkness in the space started to be distorted by some kind of invisible power. The lightning showed up again and fused together into a lightning ball. The target of the ball was the center of the room.
The forth-circle spell in Electromagnetics, Distorted Magnetic Field.
Seizing the chance, Lucien pointed his coral staff at the demon and cast the second-circle spell Sadism on it with the assistance of the staff’s power. The spell, in the intersection of Astrology, Necromancy and Light-darkness, could build a special connection between a sorcerer and their enemy: when the enemy was hurt, the sorcerer would reach quite a significant improvement on his or her life force, spiritual power, attack and defence, and the enemy would be hurt even further!
At this time, only spells like this could work in this magnetically distorted environment.
When the demon was hit by the lightning ball, it burst out hoarse and terrifying scream.
All of a sudden, Sandra’s shadow became alive, and the shadow directly grabbed her ankles and pulled her toward the deeper shadow pit nearby, that looked like a well.
Lucien heard Sandra’s scream in his mind, and lots of lightning exploded in the shadow well!
That was totally out of Lucien’s expectation. He was about to activate Sun’s Corona, and he hesitated for a second—should he save Sandra first or keep attacking the demon?
As soon as Lucien had the two thoughts, he already made the decision. He decided to continue to launch his attack. He had to be prepared for the moment when the demon got rid of the control of Distorted Magnetic Field, so that his spell would not be distorted as well.
The moment when the distortion and lightning completely wore off, the demon covered itself with black fog again, as if it was just prepared for Lucien’s attack.
However, somehow, everything suddenly got quiet, silent, more relevant, and the fancy black robe that the demon was wearing cracked. From the crack, rotten flesh covered with white tiny maggots was revealed.
In a corner of the room, Charlie’s figure slowly rose. However, the little black pig was still near the room entrance. Charlie looked pale, and his black battle robe was gone. There was a weird-looking book page written with mysterious characters that quickly disappeared in front of the white glove that Charlie was wearing on his right hand.
Lucien recognized it immediately: it was a forth-circle spell in Transformation, Demon Elegy, a exclusive spell from the Congress!
It seemed that Charlie just used some kind of magic buff on his robe or some unique spell and somehow avoided Baleful Polymorph, then he attacked the demon with a totally unexpected strike!
When the demon was screaming out of great pain, Lucien suddenly felt refreshed and activated Sun’s Corona immediately. A streak of flame came down onto the demon directly. In the flame’s holy light, the demon’s fancy black robe was burned into ashes, and most of its body was also burned down together with those maggots crawling over it.
Flame Strike!
Lucien did not stop. When the remaining part of the demon was still writhing from the pain, Lucien’s left hand pointed at the brazier. It was his next target!
Seeing Lucien’s gesture, the demon was more than scared. Turning itself into black mist, the demon rushed at the brazier, dragging the flame around, to stop Lucien.
The brazier was close to the demon, and it had been improved by magic, so it would not be destroyed by Lucien at one shot easily.
However, as soon as Lucien pointed at the brazier, a cracking sound came from its inside, and colourful light quickly covered it. On the next second, the brazier suddenly swelled and broke down into small pieces of different colors!
The third-circle exclusive spell, Elemental Order!
The demon paused for a second out of great shock and was forced to come back to its previous form, wearing the black robe, because the brazier was already gone. At this time, clusters of flame which smelled like sulphur covered its body, and its rotten flesh and bones started to swell.
Seeing that, Lucien quickly activated Powerful Fire Shield again, and his body was covered with a layer of white and golden flame shield again.
At this time, Sandra, who just got rid of the shadows and came out from the shadow well, instantly cast Palmeira’s Power Magic Spheres again on herself as well as on Susan.
On the other side, Charlie also activated Douglas’s Absorbing Wall decisively.
The demon exploded. The great explosion sound buzzed Lucien’s ears. Through the layer of flame, he saw heavy black smoke mixed with flame billowing, and in the smoke there were chunks of rotten flesh as well.
The flame shield was shaking from the great surge of power created by the explosion. Although Powerful Fire Shield did not work facing attacks targeting the soul or spirit, as a fifth-circle spell, the fire shield could definitely handle it.
When the explosion settled and the heavy smoke started to disappear, everything was a great mess in the summoning room. The floor was covered with chunks of rotten flesh, and the summoning circle was completely destroyed. Even parts of the walls, which were fortified with lots of defensive magic circles, were torn down, so Lucien could see the light mist outside slowly disappearing through the gaps.
“That was tough, uh?” Charlie’s magic absorbing wall disappeared, and his white glove now looked ragged. His face still looked pale, and he was coughing from the heavy smoke.
All the magic spheres above Sandra’s were gone after absorbing the great explosion power. Fortunately, because of Stone Skin and her purple magic robe, she did not get hurt, and Susan, who hid behind Sandra, was also fine, except that her hair was beyond messy.
Checking her surroundings, Sandra released a long sigh, “We finally sent the damned demon back to hell, at great cost.”
“My precious magic robe has been ruined!” Charlie took a glance at the burned little pig body, “I’ve gotta report this to the Congress for compensation.”
If a sorcerer’s own magic item or potion was destroyed or used in this kind of forced task, the Congress would compensate the sorcerer.
Lucien also relaxed a bit, but he still felt that something was not right, “The brazier keeps reminding me of the ridiculous summoning rite that we found in the apprentice hall. I wonder if Bertren really tried the rite… And also, don’t you guys find it weird that the thing just exploded itself in the end? I mean… it did not have to. The thing at least should try to escape…”
“Maybe it was not able to.” Charlie looked at the thin mist outside, still coughing, “Maybe it was trapped within the brazier, and once the brazier was destroyed, the thing could not exist any longer. When we leave this place, Mr. Evans, please contact Mr. Gaston. It’s way safer to let those senior-rank sorcerers investigate this place further.”
Charlie leaned his back against the wall and took out a tiny, fine tin box from his pocket. After a click, the lid of the tin box popped up and Charlie took out a cigarette from it.
“Want one?” Charlie puffed out the gray cigarette smoke, and started to feel soothed, “Top tobacco from Tria.”
“No, thanks.” Lucien shook his head.
“The mist’s almost gone now. Mr. Evans, why don’t you try contacting Mr. Gaston?” Sandra rubbed her forehead a bit. “And we can check whether Bill is still alive in the apprentice hall.”
As she was saying, Sandra looked around at the metal pieces on the floor to see if there was any precious material left.
A metal piece on the floor reflected Sandra’s tired-looking face. Suddenly, the face put on a creepy smile, and two white, fat maggots crawled out of the eye and the nose!
