Destroyer of Ice and Fire

Chapter 159: First fight as an arcane team

The exchange between Ferguillo and the Hawkmoon subst.i.tute immediately ignited the strained atmosphere.

"I’ll handle Ma.s.say!" Audrey coldly hissed moments after Ma.s.say’s shout.

Her pure-white hair fluttered back; her eyes suddenly turned white.

"Breath of the Icefire Dragon!"

The overwhelming power of a pale-white breath appeared in front of her in a strange mixture of ice and fire, charging in Ma.s.say’s direction.

"Crazy woman, she directly used a taboo skill!"

Ma.s.say had originally looked as though he still wanted to issue some orders, but his expression suddenly changed when the fearsome breath soared in front of Audrey.

"h.e.l.l Chaos - Immortal!"

He joined his hands together and made more than a dozen hand seals in an instant, then compressed the arcane particles gus.h.i.+ng out of him into strange shapes, like small cards fluttering around him.

Layer upon layer of yellow earth spurted under his feet, quickly enclosing him tight inside.

Audrey’s attack was clearly aimed at Ma.s.say, yet the other five around Ma.s.say were also frightened when she launched her skill. All of them flashed away.

"Skunk Devil Summoning!" someone chanted in a clear voice just then.

With a "Puff," a yellow fog of stench spread over this battlefield.

"…"

Charlotte almost pa.s.sed out on the spot.

She wanted to ask just how much Ayrin loved this skill. The present situation was clearly a matter of life and death. Judging by what the Hawkmoon subst.i.tute showed as soon as he went into action, these subst.i.tutes from various teams had little fame, but had clearly been hiding their real strength all along. All of them were fearsome opponents.

Even Audrey had immediately used the strongest innate skill of her dragon bloodline, but Ayrin still used a skill like that at a time like this.

Everyone’s face turned green. They chanted while afraid to breathe.

And the thing that made them most want to puke out blood was, not one of them dared to launch an extra skill to scatter this startling stench. Because, in a fight like this, the hint of something unexpected, or perhaps the casting of an extra skill, could leave an opening for the opponent. And then, the price you paid with was your life.

"Let me handle s.h.i.+nro," Ferguillo faintly said.

In this strained atmosphere, everyone else was very astonished he could still speak in such an environment.

They all saw at the periphery of their visions Ferguillo flas.h.i.+ng to the side, straight in front of s.h.i.+nro.

"Can his arcane skill even be used to keep the stink at bay?"

Seeing the feathers glinting with gem-like light seemingly staying entirely still around him, they couldn’t help but give rise to such a thought.

"Fizzle!"

At this time, Audrey’s icefire dragon breath crashed against the thick layers of yellow earth surrounding Ma.s.say, making the sound of a blaze cras.h.i.+ng against water.

A crater immediately appeared where the icefire dragon breath struck. However, the strange yellow earth was growing at a frantic pace, using up the dragon breath’s power.

A blue light appeared without a sound or trace behind Ferguillo as he faced s.h.i.+nro.

But all of a sudden, this blue light quickly retreated and crashed with a bang into the wall behind.

A skeleton-shaped shadow wearing a royal crown flashed where the blue light had stopped, then disappeared. A black fire erupted in the air.

Ivan’s figure appeared not far behind Ferguillo. He coldly said to Chirade, the one wearing a Sea Gale uniform and who’d crashed into the wall, "Chirade, your opponent is me."

"What skill is this?"

At the same moment, Joyce was seeing something entirely different from the others.

The ground at his feet had entirely become dark bubbling energy. His surroundings were empty, without a trace of Ayrin or Audrey or anyone else. There no building in sight either.

His body slowly sank inside the black energy as though there was another strange world underneath.

…

Ayrin’d never experienced a chaotic battle where two arcane teams faced each other, so his subconsciousness had launched "Skunk Devil Summoning," a skill he merely thought could disturb every enemy.

When he’d originally launched it, the greater part of his attention was focused on s.h.i.+nro, because Holy Dawn Academy and Silver Trout Academy were in the same group and he’d seen s.h.i.+nro’s match with his own eyes. He’d also learned two skills especially to cope with s.h.i.+nro. So he subconsciously thought he should be the one to handle s.h.i.+nro.

"Ferguillo immediately went to face s.h.i.+nro. H’s definitely confident he can win."

His eyes swept through the others when he saw Ferguillo directly going to s.h.i.+nro.

"Ayrin, block that guy!" Charlotte yelled just then, despite the stench.

A tall boy wearing Three-Headed Dragon Academy’s uniform was already hurling himself in their direction. The flames around him quickly condensed into a sinister dragon head.

The Hawkmoon subst.i.tute who’d previously traded blows with Ferguillo was now quickly leaving the fray. A dazzling lance appeared in the hand of the hunting G.o.ddess radiant with moonlight above his head.

"These people have a single goal, to damage the building behind. They can implement whatever sinister plan they have as long as they damage the edifice!"

Ayrin understood instantly. The st.u.r.dy Three-Headed Dragon boy clearly wanted to pin down both him and Charlotte all by himself, while that Hawkmoon subst.i.tute wanted to disengage from the fight and take the opportunity to damage the building behind.

He hurled himself away from Charlotte like a conditioned reflex, the moment he realized it.

From Charlotte shout, he felt confident he didn’t need to pay attention to the huge dragon head charging his way.

"Block me? Can you do it?"

A mocking glint flashed across the Hawkmoon subst.i.tute’s eyes.

Above his head, the lance in the hunting G.o.ddess’s hand shot forward. The entire G.o.ddess more than two meters tall started moving at the same time, about to crash into the huge circular edifice at the center.

It hadn’t been a fair fight from the beginning, even though both sides were equal in numbers. The side that wanted to destroy occupied too great an advantage compared to the side trying to block them.

After the opponents spread apart on purpose and scattered the battle into a mult.i.tude of small-scale fights, it’d become even more difficult to prevent all of them from damaging the construct behind.

On top of that, the strength these unknown subst.i.tutes exhibited right now was at least at the level of a celebrity fighter in the national tournament!

"Saint Dragon Crystal - White Radiance!"

Audrey saw that Ayrin couldn’t stop that Hawkmoon subst.i.tute in time. Obviously, she was still in control of the situation even in the sheer chaos. Light suddenly flashed bright between her eyebrows. A dot of light about as big as a silver coin common in Doraster appeared in front of the hunting G.o.ddess’ lance, all of a sudden.

Radiant with moonlight, the lance seemed to strike a firefly. Yet, starting from the tip, it actually began to crumble bit by bit.

The instant Audrey’s attention was distracted blocking this Hawkmoon subst.i.tute, the strange yellow earth around Ma.s.say started quickly swelling into something resembling a huge monster, swallowing whole Audrey’s icefire dragon breath in one bite.

The cold mocking glint in the Hawkmoon subst.i.tute’s eyes didn’t change the slightest even after the lance and the hunting G.o.ddess crumbled.

But his expression definitely changed the next instant.

Ayrin’s body turned into an incomparable scarlet color, quickly melting into blood.

A layer of red light suffused the ground at his feet as well. Blood also formed there.

"Boom!"

At the same time, a metal construct seemingly a.s.sembled from irregular, silvery steel appeared in front of Charlotte, cras.h.i.+ng against the huge burning dragon head.

This avatar stretched out its hands, forcibly withstanding the dragon head made from corporeal fire, stopping a few meters in front of Charlotte.

However, the fearsome heat, like the lick of a fire melting chocolate, burned the surface of the metallic avatar and melted it nonstop. Drip, drip, silvery drops of metal fell continuously on the ground.

A scarlet b.l.o.o.d.y arm rose from the puddle of blood at the Hawkmoon subst.i.tute’s feet, clutching at his legs.

The Hawkmoon subst.i.tute suddenly vanished from where he stood, appearing six or seven meters further away from the battlefield.

But just then, a silhouette also appeared behind him and struck him with a vicious punch.

"Oh no!"

The suddenly appearing figure was Ayrin, of course. However, Ayrin immediately felt something wrong the instant his punch landed.

His punch seemed to pa.s.s through a weak mist, rather than on solid flesh and blood.

The figure in front of him also vanished immediately.

The Hawkmoon subst.i.tute appeared at the place where he’d first launched his skill, where he’d seemingly transformed into a pool of blood.

The Hawkmoon subst.i.tute was also exposing total surprise.

He’d clearly thought that Ayrin’s real body was hiding in that original puddle of blood. Right now, his arcane skill had fooled Ayrin and caused him to miss the mark, but his own counterattack had likewise fallen into empty air as well.

"It seems the situation’s turned into a chaotic mess of individual confrontation."

The Hawkmoon subst.i.tute quickly swept his eyes through the battlefield, then he smiled grimly at Ayrin. "That said, looking at the situation… Killing you guys first is also a very good choice. Remember, I’m called Lindon. Now you know the name of the one who’s going to kill you."

"Very well. It’s more interesting having a fight like this here both sides try to take down the opponents. Come at me, let us have a fair fight!" Ayrin said, looking at him.

But the next second, Ayrin was already rus.h.i.+ng at the one wearing Three-Headed Dragon Academy’s uniform.

"…"

He’d clearly said he wanted to have a fair duel with him one on one, but then immediately ran at someone else. Ayrin’s actions made this Hawkmoon subst.i.tute called Lindon blink in a daze despite himself.