Free Web NovelChapter 566: Chapter 484: Ambush and Mutation
The battle erupted completely in the blink of an eye.
Two Wizards from Nolun Workshop, and two enemy Fifth Level Wizards, engaged in a fierce duel above the newly formed Magma Basin.
The male Wizard specialized in Water Element Law, summoning dozens of water snakes with a wave of his hand, each radiating terrifying impact and corrosiveness, attacking the Chaos Secret Sect Wizards from different angles.
The female Wizard excelled in runes and barriers; she continuously tossed various pre-made rune tools, laying down layers of restrictive, interfering, and weakening barriers in the air, while also providing protection and support to her companions.
The Wizard from Chaos Secret Sect, while severely injured, fought in an extremely strange manner.
He rarely used direct attacking witchcraft, instead constantly releasing various curses, illusions, and spiritual interference witchcraft.
Whenever the water snakes were about to hit him, the air around his body would distort, causing the snakes to deviate mysteriously or simply disintegrate.
The various restrictive barriers would also often miss their targets inexplicably.
More troublesome, the lava ground beneath his feet would occasionally explode, sending magma tentacles that seemed alive to try to entangle the Nolun Workshop Wizards in the air.
The Wizard from the Tower of Annihilation displayed an entirely different style.
Simple, brutal, direct.
He condensed a ball of energy in each palm; the left held pure scorching white light, the right deep darkness.
He forcefully compressed two starkly opposite energies together, then unleashed them as beams, shockwaves, energy balls, and more.
Each attack carried a terrifying "annihilation" attribute, capable of erasing material and energy from existence.
The four Fifth Level Wizards were mixed together, fiercely sparring in the air.
The sounds of explosive energy clashes, the shrill cries of law confrontations, the chanting of witchcraft releases, echoing above this wasteland.
Overall, the two Wizards from Nolun Workshop held a clear advantage.
The Chaos Secret Sect Wizard, heavily injured, moved slowly, each casting triggering severe coughing, even coughing up black blood mixed with internal organ fragments.
His defense grew increasingly frail, narrowly avoiding critical hits from the water snakes several times.
The Wizard from the Tower of Annihilation was somewhat better off, but was terribly annoyed by the tactical use of barriers from the female Wizard.
His attacks were powerful, but each required a short charging time, during which the female Wizard could set up three or more disrupting barriers, greatly diminishing his attack effectiveness.
At this rate, in a maximum of three more minutes, the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard would be the first to falter.
Once he fell, in a two-on-one scenario, the Wizard from the Tower of Annihilation wouldn’t last much longer.
"Quick! Push harder! He’s almost done!"
The male Wizard controlled the water snakes, launching fiercer attacks as he shouted to his companion.
The female Wizard nodded, her hands speeding up in sealing motions as more rune tools flew out from her storage space.
However... at the peak of their advantage.
The Chaos Secret Sect Wizard suddenly revealed a chilling smile.
The male Wizard facing him directly felt a sudden jolt in his heart.
Something’s wrong!
It’s a trick!
He instinctively heightened his vigilance, spreading his spiritual power fully, guarding against potential hidden enemies or curses from this foe.
But he never expected that the danger would come from beneath his feet.
Specifically, from the half-burnt, charred corpse he had overlooked, belonging to a Nolun Workshop colleague, in the Magma Basin below.
With a soft "squelch."
A faint sound like a blade piercing through flesh echoed.
The male Wizard’s body suddenly stiffened.
He slowly lowered his head to look at his chest.
A charred hand, reduced to bones and some carbonized muscle, had pierced through his back and emerged from his chest, its palm clutching a still slightly throbbing heart.
That... was his heart.
"Ugh..."
The male Wizard opened his mouth as blood gushed out.
He struggled to turn his head and look behind him.
The half-burnt corpse had somehow "stood" up.
Though it had no legs, it supported itself on the ground with its remaining chest cavity and an arm.
In the corpse’s eye sockets, two black beads spun wildly, emitting eerie red light.
And the mouth of the corpse, that grin torn to the ears, was opening and closing, producing a voice he knew all too well...
It was the voice of the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard.
"Unexpected... it went so smoothly."
The voice filled with pleasure:
"You Nolun Workshop ’gentlemen’ are always... so easy to deceive."
The male Wizard’s pupils contracted intensely.
Only at this moment did he realize—the whole time, this had been a meticulously orchestrated trap.
The corpse was never a "murdered colleague’s body," but a "parasitic puppet" prepared by the Chaos Secret Sect Wizards in advance.
It was imbued with high-level mimicry curses and soul disguises, simulating even death’s aura so perfectly that they didn’t detect anything amiss.
During the battle just now, the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard’s seemingly desperate dodging and defending were actually deliberately guiding his positioning, leading him unwittingly above the area of the corpse.
Even that chilling smile was bait.
Then, in the instant his focus was entirely drawn by the enemy in front...
The puppet struck with a fatal blow.
"Damn it!!!"
The female wizard on the other side saw the tragic state of her companion, her eyes wide with fury.
She wanted to rush over to rescue, but the wizard from the Tower of Annihilation had already anticipated her reaction, snarling as he unleashed a more violent attack.
Gray beams of annihilation poured down like a storm, firmly pinning her in place, unable to escape.
"Heh, heh... Don’t rush."
The voice of the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard continued to emerge from the puppet’s mouth:
"You’ll be next."
Meanwhile, the male wizard with his chest pierced showed a flash of resolve in his eyes.
He knew he couldn’t survive.
A destroyed heart wasn’t considered a serious injury for a Fifth Level Wizard.
Even the curse energy left in his body after piercing his chest wasn’t a major problem for this wizard.
The issue was that since the opponent had set this trap, it meant there were more traps awaiting him!
If so...
"Run!"
With his last strength, he screamed at the female wizard.
As his words fell, his body began to deform.
Countless cracks appeared on his skin surface, thick tentacles covered in slime burst out madly from the cracks, flailing wildly in the air.
His head started to elongate, his mouth splitting into four parts, revealing layers of sharp teeth inside.
His bones twisted with a grinding sound, his body expanding dozens of times within moments, transforming into a monstrous flesh mass, writhing and wielding dozens of tentacles.
This was the "Deep Sea Giant Beast" bloodline gene he implanted when advancing to Fifth Level.
Once fully liberated, it could grant terrifying power and life energy for a short time.
But the price was... completely losing human form and lasting no more than five minutes before the body’s genetic collapse and death.
Originally a last-resort life-saving method, he used it without hesitation at this moment.
"Roar!!!"
The flesh mass let out an inhuman roar, dozens of tentacles swung like steel whips at the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard and the puppet, the terrifying force even causing sonic booms.
The puppet was directly struck by a tentacle, exploding into fragments scattered in the sky.
The Chaos Secret Sect Wizard groaned, being flung hundreds of meters away, crashing heavily onto the magma surface, dragging a long ditch.
But even so...
"It’s useless..."
The voice of the Chaos Secret Sect Wizard came from the other side of the lava pit.
Slowly climbing up, though with several broken bones again, his smile grew ever brighter:
"Do you think... I wouldn’t be prepared?"
He raised his remaining right hand and snapped his fingers.
Snap.
The crisp sound was particularly jarring on the battlefield.
The next second...
Buzz.
Centered on the Magma Basin, countless dark red patterns suddenly lit up across a five-kilometer radius.
These patterns spread and intersected across the ground like blood vessels, ultimately forming a massive three-dimensional array covering the entire region.
When the array activated, space was locked.
No, not just space.
Even energy flow, law activity, and... "information transmission" were forcibly suppressed and isolated.
The female wizard’s face turned pale.
She attempted to use communication witchcraft to contact the rear, but the spiritual fluctuation sent was like a stone sinking into the sea, with no response.
She attempted a space jump but found herself as if trapped in amber, movement becoming exceedingly difficult.
"Is this... ’Pain Prison’ ritual?!" she exclaimed.
"Correct." The Chaos Secret Sect Wizard grinned, "I’ve been setting this up for three days, just waiting for ’big fish’ like you to take the bait."
As he spoke, he slowly approached the male wizard who had become a flesh mass:
"Don’t worry, this ritual can isolate all internal and external communications, shield most spatial fluctuations, and continuously absorb the pain emotions of all creatures within its range, transforming them into my power.
"You can’t escape."
"Don’t expect anyone to come rescue you — this area has been entirely ’hidden’ by my ritual. From the outside, it’s just an ordinary wasteland, with no energy fluctuation, no abnormalities."
"And inside this ritual..."
He stopped ten meters from the flesh mass and tilted his head:
"Among Fifth Level Wizards...I am invincible."
As his words fell, he raised his right hand, a heart-palpitating dark red energy began to converge in his palm.
In the energy, it seemed there were countless twisted faces of pain wailing and struggling.
Just as he was about to unleash the final blow.
Another mutation occurred.
(Extra update today, one more Chapter.)
