No matter how surprised Kane Mack was, he was still a peak rank Scientist. He was wise enough to put the missing pieces of the puzzle together with ease. Kane brandished his combat lance and made a hand seal as he sprinted forward and unleashed a cursed art.

Dark Arrow Volley!

Ten dozen dark origin qi arrows burst from the earth, all of them aiming at a single target - Jodye Trill. Meanwhile, Kane Mack executed his lance arts, sending terrifying waves of voodoo fiend qi at his opponent. Jodye sneered, these arrows looked so slow to him at this moment, there wasn't any suspense to this at all. He casually walked through the volley of curse arrows, side-stepping them left and right as if he could predict their trajectory, his magic sword defensively clas.h.i.+ng against the blade of Kane Mack's lance repeatedly.

In fact, since Jodye was currently as fast as a Silver Mage that was using s.p.a.ce or time magic, with over 4000 BP pus.h.i.+ng his legs forward every step he simply didn't need to clash with Kane Mack at all. However, it wouldn't be good to show off too much with so many opponents around. Jodye could barely control his desire to run laps around the city, he had never felt so strong and fast.

Meanwhile, Dessa Chimes was engaged in a fierce battle against two Scholars and a Fledgling Saint. She was stronger than them all but was rapidly losing her advantage, "Little Aiken I can't hold out much longer."

Behind Dessa, Aiken Moon surrounded in the golden atmosphere continued forming curse seals as fast as his little hands would allow, ending with a hand seal that meant earth. The origin qi phenomenon showed 14 white light dots and 30 violet-black light dots as he called out, "Done!"

Bronze Curse Art: Tricky Fox, 62 BP!

Curse seals coiled together to form a mischievous looking fox bandit glyph that wrapped itself around combat crossbow where Aiken just loaded five bolts, the max for this weapon. He dove out from behind Dessa and took solid aim before squeezing the trigger five times relentlessly.

Swish…

Swish…

Swish…

Puchi!

Puchi!

"Argh!" The force behind Aiken's attack easily penetrated the flesh of the collapsed Fledgling Saint and one of the Scholar Sages facing Dessa. The Fledgling Saint was trembling on the ground foam coming out of his mouth. Aiken's bolt struck the center of his glabella, apparently seriously damaging the opponent. Aiken knew that this was due to the strength of his Curse Art, in addition to its effect. After the saint's body stopped spasming and a dancing hieroglyph escaped his body and entered the earth. Of course, it was also severe brain damage.

Due to protecting his partner, the sage who caught two bolts through the leg had his face darkening as he shouted obscenities, "Finish this s.l.u.t off, and help me catch this short dogface motherf.u.c.ker."

"They took down Yandy, Joe, we need to retreat!" called out the other sage.

"What?! Yandy's right here…ah!" the wounded Scholar Joe was shocked as he saw Yandy's blackened body next to himself. It was already suffering rigor mortis, someone had obviously siphoned all the remaining life-force from his body. To his shock, even his own leg was not blackened and lifeless like he had been afflicted with terrible frostbite, "Fine, let's retreat for now!"

"Too late for that!" Dessa Chimes poured her 43 BP of pure essence qi into her weapon as she slashed down with all her might! The uninjured Scholar raised his staff to defend, but it started to crack under the pressure of Dessa's powerful attack. Dessa didn't let up at all and attacked even more ferociously, continuously hacking with her blade, using the force of impact to avoid touching to the ground. In the meantime, Aiken Moon had already reloaded his weapon, he was just waiting on the curse to take effect on Scholar Joe. The Tricky Fox Curse was pretty much fatal to Scholar Realm Sages because the tricky fox steals vital life force from the opponent whenever they try to use magic qi. This qi is then delivered to the caster.

"Not so fast, you sneaking chump," Scholar Joe scowled as he started forming curse seals.

"f.u.c.k!" Aiken Moon was incredibly perturbed. First, he accidentally killed a rookie saint who was really a rookie magic priest, now he cursed a voodoo pract.i.tioner with a curse that siphoned vital life qi. This was an opponent who didn't even concentrate on magic qi, so his vital life qi was always surrounded by a protected layer of origin qi to prevent being harmed by his own corrosion powers. This was also something Aiken had to do, so he knew the method well. There was no way for his Tricky Fox Curse to take major effect now. "Looks like I'll have to use that!"

Aiken Moon's master Sigma Octanis already pa.s.sed Aiken his own legacy heaven art, the Nine Celestial Moons Record. Aiken had already mastered the first moon at the initial completion level. This basically just a single step in the door, but it was a level a mastery nonetheless.

"Origin Icicle Volley!" Aiken immediately released his remaining origin qi to form a crescent moon made of serene origin qi the size of a small hut. The crescent then shattered into 20 icicles that tore through the surrounding fiends and left Scholar Joe listless and full of holes while his tattered body still created hand seals until a few seconds after his death.

"So strong," Dessa Chimes was impressed, as she giggled and playfully shouted, "We did it little Aiken! Let's press forward."

"Dessa wait…" Aiken Moon gasped for air desperately. He had definitely over-exerted himself. "Give me a minute to rest would you?"

"Is that your best shot!" before Dessa could respond to the youth, they both heard Mr. Jupiter's voice booming sarcastically across the square.

Jodye Trill sneered as his qi momentum exploded. The origin qi phenomenon only showed 241 BP, as Jodye was using his Advent of Creation concept for spell casting. However, with his current physical state and thunderbolt qi, Jodye's body contained the power of 340 BP. His dragon might was able to double this value to 680 BP! Thanks to all of these factors, Jodye's qi momentum maxed his power out at 900 BP.

This momentum was constantly being reinforced by his origin qi phenomenon, keeping him in his peak state as long as he didn't make any big moves. His rage power was acc.u.mulating and Jodye could use it to push his momentum forward in an instant, increasing his power even more. The B-grade Scarlet Flame Magic Sword in his hand boosted this might to 1,440 BP. This was without using a spell or combat art which would further augment his strength! With the addition of [Energizing Steps], Jodye's speed already surpa.s.sed 4,000 BP while he held his B-Grade combat sword.

This not only meant that Jodye was strong enough to kill most if not all Silver Mages, but he was also faster than many regular Gold Mages. Of course, this was only if he caught a mage off guard. If they were prepared beforehand, Jodye might not necessarily come out on top. After all, if he could utilize spells and weapons to boost his strength, then why couldn't his opponent do the same? Mages would surely have the best magical equipment available, there was no way killing one would be so simple.

Jodye knew without his combat sword his strength wouldn't reach such heights at all. However, if he were to use the Baleful Glaive instead, his strength would only be more frightening. Merely, Jodye didn't want to expose his trump card so easily, as he didn't have any others at the moment. Thunderbolt Purgatory was a skill that used his divine spark, which Jodye didn't even completely understand, so he wouldn't count it as a life-saving card yet.

However, it was a card he could definitely use freely.

Jodye Trill first drew a line of thunderbolt qi in the air, seemingly only took a single step forward as the green light flashed in Kane Mack's eyes. Instantly, he felt an overwhelming pressure pressing down on him. Jodye Trill fell from the sky like a flaming meteor, pouring all of his strength into the spell glyphs engraved onto the Scarlet Flame Magic Sword. This was the silver rank deployment spell Burning Heaven, and with it, Jodye's qi boiled as he furiously swung his sword!

Kane Mack's entire body shuddered as he never expected such a mighty attack to suddenly burst forth from this brat. He pushed his qi momentum to the peak as he desperately put up a shaky and rus.h.i.+ng defense. However, his quick defensive skill only brought his battle power to 1,300 BP. The tart taste of death lingered at the back of Kane's throat. Jodye's killing intent felt like the eyes of a carnivorous sabertooth tiger facing a cornered mouse. Jodye took careful aim, making sure he didn't destroy the city too much, before allowing his power to burst from one point with his technique Fist of Might - Mighty Slas.h.!.+

Burning Heaven Slash, 2,880 BP Explode!

BOOM!

"AHHH!!!"

Kane Mack was miserably burned alive by Jodye's exploding blade qi, reducing him to ash and bones in mere seconds. Jodye's qi momentum vanished due to his huge power expenditure, Jodye Trill arrived in next to the charred corpse in a step and kept the opponents magic pouch and the magic necklace and weapon he wore. Qi momentum started to slowly increase once more as Jodye simply didn't stop, vanis.h.i.+ng from where he stood with green lightning surrounding his body as he appeared next to the Voodoo Priest controlling one of the Fiend Portals that was spitting out Ghoul level fiends.

However, a dozen first level walking bones and ten second level zombies immediately attacked Jodye when he appeared, protecting their master. Jodye simply didn't care about these creatures at all as he unleashed another Burning Heaven Slash covered in thunderbolt origin qi. This yang principled qi was the nemesis of voodoo creatures, it suppressed their powers by at least 60%. The exploding calamity thunderbolt qi swallowed both the several ghouls and the Junior Spirit rank Fiend Portal controller, instantly incinerating them into nothing as Jodye circulated the Azure World Epoch to refine the purified fiend force in the air and collected that expert's magic pouch. It seemed that almost every warrior above the expert level would have at least one magic pouch, unlike those of the rookie-level.

How could Jodye Trill let such wealth go to waste? A few months ago he was complete poor and homeless. Jodye would never stand for this happening again, even if it meant becoming a bandit that robbed anyone who crossed him. After all, the dead did not need wealth in h.e.l.l.

"Hah!"

BOOM!

On the other side of the battlefield, Bilan Moon was seen walking elegantly away from an explosion of scarlet calamity qi, her dual mortal hammers dragging on the ground. Three dozen fiends and two fiend portal controllers had been taken down by the joint efforts of her and the two brats.

Jodye gave Bilan a quick thumbs-up, which made her smile beautifully. Was she truly the impressive one in this fight? Jodye just slaughtered a peak expert, there were only two more people of that level on the field, and one of them already fled.

"Get them!" screamed the acolytes in the rear.

"Surround the hammer girl, she can't take us all on!" screamed a Voodoo Priest as he approached Bilan. He was secretly afraid of challenging this kid alone. Those hammers had turned several of his friends into mush.

"Merely cannon fodder…" Jodye Trill was unbothered by these low-level fiends and experts, casually unleas.h.i.+ng his Evil Crescent Slash, beheading eight saints and obliterating several fiends in one motion. After killing Kane Mack and including the controller Jodye took down earlier, there were only four controllers left. In addition, only one of them was capable of summoning ghouls. Glancing around at the dwindling enemy forces, Aiken and Dessa suddenly felt this battle wasn't so perilous anymore. Having two genius cla.s.s experts leading the team truly made a difference in their combat power.