Chapter 38: Taming the Elements (I)
In the dimly lit basement, Zhang Cheng lay alone on the ground, carrying out the final inspection work before the summoning ceremony.
After all, summoning an element of equal strength is not an easy task, not only does he have to use powerful magical power to drag the opponent out, but also defeat it, and finally seal it in the soul diamond.
There must be no mistakes or surprises in the process, or the enraged elemental will kill the summoner and destroy everything in sight.
There is no doubt that Zhang Cheng does not like accidents, not at all, so he checks very carefully.
After repeatedly confirming that there was no mistake, he quickly got up, placed a small piece of water essence glowing with dark blue light in the center of the confinement circle, and then raised the flint staff in his hand and chanted in a low voice: "Melroas, the great water elf, the warrior under the command of Duke Hydaxis, please obey my call and appear in front of me......"
Moment!
Located in the center of the basement, a large amount of dark blue and slightly fishy seawater suddenly appeared out of thin air, and these waters quickly gathered like an afterlife, forming a relatively fixed form.
It has no legs, its lower body is made entirely of tumbling waves, and its upper body has two thick arms, even if it is several meters away, you can still clearly hear the sound of the water rotating at high speed, and then swallow the water elemental essence in one gulp.
Obviously, this is a typical image of the water element, but in terms of body size, it is larger than the normal water element.
"Mortal, what purpose are you calling me?"
A voice full of majesty echoed in Zhang Cheng's mind.
Without any hesitation, he directly crushed the arcane runes worth three gold coins in his sleeve.
Before the water elemental named Melroas could react to what was going on, he immediately realized that his continuity with the elemental world had been cut off, and he could no longer draw strength from it.
Feeling that it had been deceived, it didn't even say a word of nonsense, and directly attacked with a fist.
Zhang Cheng, who had been prepared, raised his hand for a flame impact, turned around and cast a flash technique to widen the distance.
Syllable!
With the sound of the impact, Melroas's huge body was partially evaporated on the spot, and his movements were slowed down.
"Very good...... Very good...... That's it...... Keep the rhythm ......" Zhang Cheng muttered to himself as he guided the Arcane Missile.
He knew very well that against the water elemental, frost-type spells were useless at all, and only arcane and fire could really cause damage to it.
However, Melroas is not a vegetarian either, and when he saw the arcane missiles flying in the sky, he ignored them, and the front of his two arms quickly condensed into a piercing ice.
"Damn! it can also have frost spells!
Gritting his teeth and cursing, Zhang Cheng quickly raised his right hand and unleashed a killer weapon against the enemy who cast the spell - a spell counter.
Under the influence of the chaotic vortex of magic, the ice arrows unleashed by Melroas were immediately interrupted, and he could not be expected to cast such spells again for some time.
Completely enraged, it made the water flow rotate and erupt around its body at high speed in a way that was incomprehensible to outsiders, forming a terrifying high-pressure waterjet, and in the blink of an eye, it plowed a gully a few centimeters deep where it passed.
If you touch the human body, you don't want to know it, you will definitely be torn apart, and you don't even want to leave the whole corpse.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Cheng only felt that his scalp was numb, and he directly gave up the plan of continuing to use the arcane missile to slowly grind the opponent to death, and began to prepare the most powerful and destructive fireball technique.
With the distance he had just opened up by the flash, he had enough time to complete the preparation of one or two fireball spells, so just two or three seconds later, dazzling flames burst out of his palm.
As a water elemental, Melroas was undoubtedly very sensitive to fire, and immediately sensed the threat, urging the water to roll forward.
But before it could get halfway there, a hot fireball flew towards it and smashed it in the face.
Rumble!
Violent explosions and high temperatures completely destroyed parts of the head, including the torso, on the spot.
Perhaps for an ordinary flesh and blood, such an injury would be enough to cause instant death, but for the elementals, this ordinary injury was no different.
In the blink of an eye, the evaporated part grows back, but the size is a little smaller.
No fear, no pain, no fatal parts......
That's why when it comes to elemental life, whether it's an alliance or a tribe, you will feel a headache.
Just imagine, when a warrior is full of confidence, swings a sharp blade and chops off an earth elemental head, suddenly finds that the other party has not fallen, and even crushed his ribs with a punch the size of a sandbag, how wonderful the expression on his face should be?
Unfortunately, Zhang Cheng is now facing such a situation.
He had to deplete the energy that supported the water elemental form in front of him before his mana ran out, revealing the part called the elemental core.
Of course, this is not easy, especially since there is no relatively fixed form of the water element, unless the water that makes up the body is evaporated in large quantities, it is impossible to tell where the core of the element is located by the naked eye alone.
The only good thing is that he had already set several traps in the basement to store arcane energy long before he was summoned.
Melroas hadn't taken a few steps before he stepped on one of them in an instant, and the dazzling arcane energy formed a cage of pillars of light in just half a second.
Although it only took five or six seconds for it to break free with a terrifying water knife, Zhang Cheng used this time to release two large fireballs in a row, forcibly destroying the originally tall shape to only two meters high.
And in the center of the torso, a dark blue substance like a sapphire flashes away.
Although the time was very short, Zhang Cheng still caught it keenly, and at the risk of being split in half by the water blade, he rushed forward in a flash, waved his arm and plunged into it, and violently released the impact of flames.
Bang!
With a muffled sound, the dark blue substance flew out and fell to the ground with a clatter.
At the same time, the water elemental's body also seemed to lose its vitality, and suddenly turned into scattered splashing water.
"Whew...... I succeeded!
Zhang Cheng didn't care about the water-soaked robe at all, and excitedly rushed over to pick up the elemental core called the Pure Water Ball, and then placed it next to a crystal clear soul diamond, chanting loudly the spell required for the imprison ritual.
Under his guidance, the notch on the ground slowly glowed with a lilac light, and after a while, the ball of pure water snapped and shattered, and a translucent water elemental soul floated out from inside, and was finally sucked into the treasure diamond......