Ustengera, verse 8

Why did a high-ranking wizard form a wizarding group? Alice had never been able to understand the real reason for this. After all, the gap between wizards is very large because of different personalities. Especially between formal wizards and wild wizards, the difference between them is like the stars in the sky and the dust in the earth—the former is too lazy to learn, and the latter may take years or even decades to get a glimpse of it.

Magic is a very complex science. The most rudimentary things can be learned by even a farmer in a field with time and perseverance. However, the higher you go, the more difficult it becomes. Advanced magic even requires secret knowledge from courses such as runes, magic, planes, elementals, etc., to be understood by the caster. And people with mediocre qualifications may not be able to fully study one of these countless knowledge.

It's like climbing a mountain, the lower the road, the easier it is to walk, the safer it is. And the higher you go, the harder and more dangerous it becomes.

But magic is not mountain climbing.

If you have to describe the difficulty figuratively, you dig a stone out of the ground with your bare hands and pile up a mountain.

Alice was an exception, her mountain had already been piled up, and the road up the mountain had long been paved. Casting spells is like instinct to her, and as long as she thinks about it, the corresponding knowledge will help her build the corresponding magical energy.

But others don't have that kind of good luck. Especially those wild wizards, their talents are poor, and their inheritance is not complete. Even if you have been searching for many years, you are just cannon fodder on the battlefield. Even if it is very rare that there is a lucky person with outstanding talent and good luck, it is just Cheng Dù who makes a little splash in the tide of this era, and it does not matter at all.

However, wild wizards are not all useless. They have the same amount of magic as official wizards. And this is the reason why an organization like the Wizarding Order exists in the world. The most important reason why official wizards are willing to trade the secrets of the arcane law for the allegiance of wild wizards.

"Is there a channel to concentrate the magic power on the boss to complete high-level spells, and at the same time have the ability to share the burden of spellcasting and backlash?"

In Alice's eyes, an invisible web of spider webs connects dozens of wild wizards. Their magic power was drawn, and it was continuously infused into the gradually forming magic energy in the hands of the wizard leader in the center.

The next moment, the ice was lifted in the air.

It was a half-foot long cone-shaped ice cube that was translucent and slightly icy blue. The tip is so sharp that it can even reflect a little cold light.

And there are not just a few of them.

One...... Two......

One Hundred ...... Two hundred......

10,000 ...... 20,000 ......

In the blink of an eye, the vast underground hall was filled with tens of thousands of sharp ice cubes, except for the ten feet around Alice's own will. They floated silently in mid-air, the sharp part shaking meaninglessly.

The sudden cold wind was as sharp as a sword's edge, the ground frosted, and the water vapor condensed into ice.

Large-scale interference with the real environment, rather than just creating one or more individual magical powers—this is a high-level magical trait, and this is not a spell that can be unleashed at the level of a wizard leader.

He crossed the stairs. Then, there is a price to pay.

Hearing only two soft sounds, the two wild wizards took the burden of overstepping the level of spell casting as sacrifices, and their faces turned blue and white in half a second. Then black blood came out of the seven orifices and died.

And at the moment when they fell. The ice moved.

"Assassin, bear your death. ”

The wizard leader pointed at Alice, and a hundred ice cubes that were originally suspended in mid-air turned to aim at Alice. Then, it is transformed from polar static to polar motion.

There was a faint whistling of wind in the air, the sound of an ice pick cutting through the air. From the sound alone, it can be judged that the flying object that caused the wind whistle has a projection force equivalent to a three-hundred-pound bow.

Three hundred pounds...... The usual legion archers only used heavy bows of this grade. And if a hundred legion archers shoot at a target at the same time, even the rocks will be able to be forcibly shattered.

But Alice is not a stone, and these icicles are nowhere near as good as the Legion's arrows. She just raised her sword, and with one slash, she struck the ice tide formed by the hundred ice cubes from the side, and the sword qi triggered by the high-speed sword attack was violently stimulated, twisting three-quarters of the number into fragments.

"It's just a lot. ”

She said so, turning around, and with another sword, she slashed the remaining quarter to pieces.

"You think it's just a lot?" the wizard leader whispered.

Before the words fell, two hundred new ice picks were born in the air in the distance under the influence of magical energy. And this time, the number of hits is a hundred times that of the previous one.

10,000 ice arrows.

The girl's entire horizon was completely enveloped by the crystal blue ocean.

"Wow. Alice snorted softly, quickly ducking back. She obviously can't move as fast as an ice bolt, but like a shield can withstand arrows, the terrain around it offers her plenty of ways to get back into the world.

"How did he manage to manipulate so much?"

The girl ran quickly in the hall, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, and sometimes even jumped to the dome of the dungeon with the help of her psychic pulse. And behind her, ice-blue arrows were in hot pursuit.

They don't rush up like a swarm of enraged hornets. Instead, they are cleverly divided into nearly a hundred clusters, each of which is very dexterous and will even attack from different directions! The cover Alice found for herself only had a slight effect at first, and after smashing two walls and chiseling through a thick stone pillar, the shield tactic was meaningless!

[It can't go on like this. 】

Alice thought to herself, and as she stepped over the body of a dead ghoul, she took off the ghoul's helmet.

Metal dominates and starts.

It took only a third, or a quarter of a second, for the iron helmet to turn into a short javelin. And more metal was secretly gathered by her, and it was secretly stacked on the ground into a gray-black mass.

Now is the time!

"Shield!"

Alice came to a sudden halt, and all the potential energy that was caused by the sharp stop turned into kinetic energy on the spear. She threw it with all her might, and the spear in her hand turned into a faint streamer and shot into the heart of a wild wizard!

'Crash Collapse ————'

Behind him came a series of ice shattering sounds, the sound of incoming ice picks crashing against the abruptly erected iron shield. In less than half a second, the iron shield that opened at the time was completely shattered under the bombardment of thousands of ice picks.

But Alice only needs half a second!

The next moment, the shield force field in front of the wild wizard shattered. His chest was torn through steel, and his entire upper body was almost torn off. It's just that this time, he can't die anymore.

At the same time, about 500 of the hundreds of ice arrows in the cluster of hundreds of ice arrows that were chasing Alice also lost control, and they were smashed apart on the solid floor in an instant.

[Sure enough, the wizarding group can not only share the magic power consumed, but can even perform the manipulation of magic on their behalf?]

[Hmm...... Perform it on your behalf!?】

The girl's pupils shrank. The look in his eyes became terrifying.

If this magic, known as the [Ice Thorn Cage] of the Dreadnought, was manipulated by the wild wizards of the wizarding group, then the wizard leader who should have been the leader...... What are you doing!?

She didn't think about it, so she forcibly reversed the direction of her running, ignoring the wailing of her bones and muscles, and rolled to the side!

'Peng-'

In the slightest moment, a bucket-thick jet of lava grazed the corner of her clothes, vaporizing all the thousands of ice picks that had been chasing her in an instant! This only consumed a fraction of the lava jet, and the remaining destructive magic energy just crashed directly into the obsidian wall at the end of the hall, melting a hole large enough for a chariot to pass through!

This is his killer move! The big battle he made before was completely a cover!

"Tsk, missed. The wizard leader snorted dissatisfiedly, he thought that this blow would be enough to wipe out the girl in front of him—if he could have hit—but he didn't expect that the disguise made with the lives of several of his subordinates would still be in vain.

It's a pity, I finally waited for a flaw, and I was already so close.

But it doesn't matter, because the advantage is still on his side.

So he waved his hand and ordered his own ghouls.

"Up, kill her. ”

However, he misses a crucial point......

That's Alice's own attitude.

Alice, from beginning to end, never used all her strength. No, maybe she didn't even use half of her strength, because she provoked this battle to consolidate her regained Dragonborn power. It's not just about killing, or completing missions.

That said, she saw the fight as a workout.

And if you sprain your foot in training because of preserving your strength, it will inevitably seem a little ridiculous and generous.

"Well, that's it. ”

Alice straightened up slightly, her eyes calming. The hordes of ghouls that were rushing towards her, and the icicles that were gathering behind her and ready to strike her a fatal blow were all ignored by her. There was only one thing left in her eyes at the moment, and that was the head of the wizard leader.

"FeimZiiGron" [Spit Eyes: Phantom Void]

The next moment, her figure vanished.

Whether it's a running ghoul or a spiky pick, they all swooped down.

"Ran away!?" exclaimed the wizard leader, who couldn't believe his eyes.

A big living person, just after saying an inexplicable word, disappeared!?What kind of era joke!!

"Damn, she must still be here!" the wizard leader felt fooled, his anger almost turning into a real flame, burning uncontrollably.

'Turn the whole dungeon over completely!'

His staff slammed to the ground, and he was about to give orders to his subordinates.

'This guy...... is so young, there must still be some blood in my heart. If you threaten those prisoners and kill a few more people, you might be able to force her out."

"Hey, you guys!" he shouted, "go and ...... the prisoners."

'Whew-'

There was a soft sound, and a cold wind swept through the neck of the wizard leader.

He could no longer finish the full words.

As he spoke, Alice, who had escaped into the void, suddenly appeared behind him and slashed off his head with a horizontal slash.

"This is the end of your life. ”

Alice reached out and grabbed the sturdy helmet, letting the bulging head fall to the ground. Got purple-black dead blood everywhere.

Then, she turned her gaze to the wild wizards who were clearly still sluggish. The sudden turn of events was so shocking that none of them could even react.

"It's the same with you. ”

Then, there was a horizontal slash.