() While Owen is fighting fiercely with Muffle, Cassius, who has been separated from him, is caught in another crisis.

The only arena in the Dawning Villa is located on the left wing of the main building of the Villa.

Although he didn't know where he was now, the faint smell of blood in the air around him told him that he was still in some corner of the Blood Mountains.

Looking at the black-robed man who was sleeping on the giant stone statue, Cassius felt an unsettling sense of crisis and inexplicable familiarity rise from the bottom of his heart. The sense of crisis made him dare not casually withdraw the ice shield surrounding him, and always injected his magic power into the "Grip of Endurance", maintaining a high state of vigilance.

However, the black-robed man never made any hostile moves, and he didn't even show any signs of waking up. After a period of unilateral confrontation, Cassius realized that he was a pure waste of magic. Since the other party has no will to fight, then he doesn't need to waste time here, quickly find the separated Owen, and then rescue Sophia together, which is the ultimate purpose of his coming to the Blood Mountains.

Cassius removed the ice shield and walked towards the exit of the schoolyard. He made the judgment that there was no need to attack the black-robed man, and it was unwise to rashly attack without understanding the opponent's strength and intentions, but this did not mean that he ignored the black-robed man and left his back to the enemy. He dispersed his magic power into the water element in the air, and monitored the black-robed man through the water element, so that he could defend or counterattack in time when the other party made the slightest movement.

However, Cassius was wary of the enemy above, but he did not realize that the danger was actually coming from under his feet.

In the fire tray on the statue of the four bottles, the fire is burning vigorously, generating a large amount of light and heat, illuminating the school as bright as day. Because there were four light points, there were also four shadows left on the ground by Cassius.

The shadows on the ground are silently distorting unreasonably. The two elongated shadows behind Cassius were slowly "crawling" up from the ground, materializing into two "people" composed of black shadows, holding the sword made of shadows and quietly approaching Cassius.

Fortunately, Cassius Stone Guò is not the only one guard set by the water element. The shadow tricked the water elemental who was in charge of monitoring the periphery, but when it approached less than half a meter from Cassius, it caused the water's defensive barrier to activate on its own. Feeling a violent elemental vibration behind him, Cassius quickly turned around, only to see his water shield ripple in a circle after being attacked, but he couldn't see the enemy's attack method at all. Almost at the same time, two other shadows that had been in front of Cassius but were now behind him danced. This time, instead of materializing into a human form, the shadow transformed into two giant blades, slashing at Cassius' head from top to bottom.

Usually those who like to attack from behind will always repeat the old trick and not care if the method is old or not, which is the experience of Cassius Stone Guò after many life and death battles, so he casts a wall of ice behind his back while turning his head. The two Shadow Blades were slashed one after another, the first one shattered the ice wall, and it also returned to the black shadow state due to the exhaustion of energy, and the shadow blade behind it slashed down without hindrance.

Hearing the sound of the ice breaking behind him, Cassius subconsciously took a step to the right, and could not miss the fatal blow, but his left hand was grazed by the shadow blade, cutting off the left sleeve of his magic robe from below the elbow and a large piece of skin, and blood splattered everywhere.

The pain was unbearable, Cassius secretly felt glad that if he had been half a beat slower in his dodge just now, his left arm would have been cut off entirely, but his injuries were still rewarding, at least he could see clearly that the enemy was his own shadow!

"Shadow magic!" a term flashed through Cassius' mind.

The so-called shadow magic, is a kind of magic that materializes the shadow of people or objects, for a long time, shadow magic has been considered a variant of dark magic by the outside world, because its attack method is too mysterious and weird, and it always makes people think of it as an "evil" aspect, but in fact, shadow magic is a kind of composite elemental magic, which was created more than a thousand years ago by a legendary magician named Alexei Romankovich, and is now almost lost. Cassius had seen a fragment of shadow magic in the National Library of the Snowy Federation, and after a cursory glance, he gave up the idea of studying it, and probably understood why it was lost.

Ordinary compound magic is usually produced by the combination of two basic elements in different energy combinations. For example, the light magic that dominates the mainstream human society is based on the fire element, and the special energy in the other three elements is fused with guò, and then controlled by the power of the priest's faith, so as to produce light magic, and finally form a variety of light magic, but each light magic fuses at most two elements. For example, healing is based on the heat energy in the fire element, combined with the rebirth principle of liquid water in the water element, so that human cells can speed up metabolism and repair damaged human tissues; Of course, people who don't have a belief in light, even if they can barely combine these magical energies, can't produce light magic. Another example is the druid's natural magic, which mostly comes from the decomposition and reorganization of the water and earth elements. The dark magic of the necromancers, the shamanic magic of the orcs, is the same thing.

However, shadow magic is different because it requires the use of all four basic elements, which requires a great mastery of all four elemental magic, and it is necessary to maintain a balance when manipulating all four elements at the same time, and to be quite precise in mastering it, so it can be said that the threshold for entry is quite high. However, there is a specialization in academics, and most famous magicians can thoroughly study the elements of a large system, which is already a great achievement, and the magic of other major systems is at most to understand some necessary principles, and a magician like Regunor, who is an authority in both major systems at the same time, is a genius that is rare in a century. Because of this, the average magic apprentice will not have nothing to do to delve into shadow magic, which is extremely difficult to learn and may not be able to learn, so in the past thousand years, fewer and fewer people have studied dark shadow magic, and eventually this magic has been lost.

The presence of so much information in Cassius's mind was actually nothing more than a moment of electric thought. Seeing that the sneak attack failed, the four shadows simply came to attack clearly, and the four sharp shadow blades struck at Cassius from four directions, and they would not stop if they didn't cut Cassius into pieces!

Cassius couldn't care about healing himself, the spell flowed with his thoughts, and the magic power that had been stored in the "Grip of Endurance" for a long time was instantly released, and the four ice shields protected Cassius layer by layer, the ice shield and the shadow knife touched each other, and the two phases were eliminated, and the four layers of ice shield successively canceled out the magic energy of the four shadow knives.

However, blocking this round of attacks does not mean that you can breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the shadows on the ground are still there, the attacks will not end! Fortunately, Cassius understood this in advance, and he had already released his magic before the four shadows could reform.

"Breaking the Ice Ring", a variant of the Ice Blade, turns the originally extremely sharp ice blade into a zigzag shape, and then uses a large ice ring as the carrier, with the caster as the center to produce a high-speed rotation, sawing and tearing the surrounding qiē, which is a clever trick for water magicians to break the siege and protect themselves after being surrounded by enemies.

At this time, Cassius used this trick, not only to protect himself, when he condensed the magic power of the "Spiral Ice Ring", he specially added a few strengthening spells to this magic in his mind, so that the hardness of the ice was greatly enhanced. The jagged ice ring did not disappear as the energy canceled each other out like the previous ice shield after a high-speed continuous collision with the blade of shadow, but suppressed the energy of the blade, making it impossible to continue to materialize and turn back into a shadow, while the ice ring was only the outermost layer that was worn away.

Of course, the shadow was not willing to be defeated like this, and the black shadow on the ground was ready to move and make a comeback, but the jagged ice ring surrounded Cassius, and as soon as the shadow became powerful, it would be crushed immediately, and there was no slack.

This kind of watertight defense consumes a lot of Cassius's magic power, and it is not the way to go in the long run. Cassius, as the caster himself, was aware of the consequences, but there was another reason why he insisted on doing so.

Even ice, which has been greatly strengthened, is by no means immutable, and the ice rings and shadows collide several times, and infinitely fine ice particles peel off and scatter in the collision. After losing the supply of mana, these ice particles could not continue to maintain a solid state of ice, and quickly decomposed into water vapor, forming a white water vapor mist around Cassius, completely enveloping Cassius, the ice ring, and the shadow, and the situation in the fog was not visible from the outside.

Suddenly, 8 or 9 ice vertebrae shot out of the fog, and the targets of the attack were all aimed at the black-robed man who was sleeping on the giant statue. Cassius knew that this qiē was all done by that guy, and he was not a person to be slaughtered, so while defending against the shadows, he also thought about how to return the color. The fog obscured the process of condensing and launching the ice vertebrae, allowing the ice vertebrae to strike with a surprising effect.

The "Boom Boom Boom ......" ice vertebrae all hit the target accurately, and the hardness of those ice vertebrae was as good as the previous "Breaking Ice Ring", producing an extremely powerful destructive effect. The left shoulder of the giant statue was shattered, and the ice vertebrae dispersed, so that the left half of the statue's body was completely covered in a layer of ice, and the man lying on it was no longer visible.

It doesn't matter if he was instantly killed by the Ice Spine, but he must have temporarily lost control of the Shadow, because after the Ice Spine's continuous attacks ended, the shadow under Cassius did not continue to materialize. The fog gradually dissipated, leaving only Cassius panting. He froze his left hand, which was bleeding from a large area of skin cut off, as a stopgap measure to temporarily stop the bleeding. Can't continue wasting time here. The loss of magic and the injury to his body made Cassius feel very uncomfortable, and he moved his body towards the exit of the school grounds, just wanting to leave this place where he should not stay for a long time.

However, in the firelit school yard, it is not only Cassius himself who is left behind, but also a huge black shadow reflected in the firelight behind each statue. Behind the statue where the black-robed man was lying, huge shadows surged, like the tentacles of an octopus, and slender black shadows poured out from behind the statue, gathered in front of Cassius, and merged into a dense black shadow in Cassius's surprised eyes.

Then, the shadow shrunk and turned into a human form, and then completely materialized, into the black-robed man sleeping on the statue, who appeared intact in front of Cassius.

At this point, the two looked at each other, and Cassius finally saw each other's appearances: he looked like a decadent drunkard, standing in a crooked posture, with scumbags at the corners of his mouth, sleepy eyes that seemed not yet fully awake, and wearing a tattered black robe, without the aristocratic temperament that naturally exudes from other vampires.

"Ah......h His body shook a few times before he opened his puffy eyes, squeezed out a very forced smile at Cassius, and said in a deep and dragging voice, "You passed." You can be my opponent. ”

Was that attack just a temptation?

Cassius was frightened and frightened, and his alertness increased dramatically, and the magic power in his body continued to surge, causing the water elemental in the surrounding air to quickly gather and form a frozen aura around him, shining in the light of the fire.

At the same time, the black-robed man was also surrounded by a thick black shadow.

From a distance, it seemed as if a cloud of white mist and a cloud of black mist were swordsmanship, ready to annex each other at any time.

Okay, let's look at the battle between the cold ice and the black shadow, who is the final winner?