Chapter 922: Chapter 696: Is This the Extent of Your Strength?
Actually, that person wasn’t short at all; by any standard, he could be considered quite handsome. However, compared to Long Yi, he naturally was a bit shorter.
Upon hearing Long Yi mock his height, the man just sneered coldly, "I have been taken to the Middle Plane since I was a child, living and growing up there, practicing even more powerful magic. And you’re just an ordinary person, yet you dare to mock me?"
Hearing this, Long Yi’s laughter grew even more joyous, "My young man, are you feeling inferior? I never asked where you came from, what’s the point in rushing to reveal your background? If you think you’re so strong, then come and try, I’m not running away."
When it came to provoking others, Long Yi was very skilled. For this person who had been practicing magic spells since childhood up to now, his trash-talking skills were definitely far worse than Long Yi’s!
Therefore, when Long Yi unleashed a series of trash-talking skills, the young man’s entire face turned red with anger.
"Go to hell!"
The young man roared, and suddenly a light ball condensed in his hand, then a beam of silver light shot out from the light ball, heading straight for Long Yi.
Long Yi immediately formed a magic shield, but the silver light pierced directly through it, hitting Long Yi’s chest, destroying his clothes, and leaving a burn mark on his chest.
"Yoho? That’s somewhat interesting," Long Yi laughed, realizing that he had indeed underestimated the man.
"Somewhat interesting? I’m going to send you to your death!" The young man had originally thought his strike would be enough to pierce through Long Yi, but was surprised to only leave a burn. He immediately knew Long Yi must be very powerful. But he wasn’t worried, for he possessed knowledge from the Middle Plane! He was stronger!
The young man formed three light balls circling around his body, each constantly shooting out hot silver rays. This time, Long Yi defended seriously, his magic shield being pierced repeatedly, but blocking all the silver light.
"If you think you can send me to my death with this level, I’m afraid that will be a bit difficult," Long Yi said nonchalantly.
"So eager to die? As you wish!" The young man clapped his hands together, and three more light balls appeared. Six light balls spun rapidly in front of him, then suddenly, an incredibly thick silver beam sprayed out. Long Yi reacted incredibly fast, the silver beam just grazing his body and hitting the classroom behind him. Half the classroom collapsed in an instant, but fortunately, the students had already been evacuated and there were no casualties.
Dean Saint Andrews watched from afar; he had only just found out about Landers’ return. He knew too well the petty nature of Landers. The man’s childish obstinacy reached a certain level when he, on a whim, engaged in a perilous reverse-summoning experiment because he lost a bet with a mage. The mage had claimed he could never travel safely to and back from the Middle Plane through reverse summoning. Angered by this, Landers attempted the experiment with his youngest disciple and a friend who was also a top mage. After more than a decade had passed and everyone assumed he had failed, he had unexpectedly succeeded!
Long Yi’s strength on this plane could be considered second to none, but Landers’ power had transcended this plane! Therefore, it was impossible to understand the battle between these two with common sense.
While the young man continued to fire silver light, Long Yi didn’t counterattack but simply dodged with a giggle. When he couldn’t dodge, he resisted with his magic shield.
"Hey, are these the spells you learned in the Middle Plane? If this is all you have, you’re going to have a hard time killing me," Long Yi continued to taunt.
"Don’t rush it, I’m just warming up!"
The young man roared, and four light balls encircled Long Yi, each shooting a beam of light that connected to one another, forming a tetrahedron cage. The other two light balls kept bombarding Long Yi inside the cage.
Long Yi then directly summoned his Crystal Stone armor and walked out of the cage, resisting the beams of light.
"What is this power?" Landers was very puzzled. When he left, the Mountain Giant’s planet hadn’t been discovered. To him, the Mountain Giant was a completely new phenomenon.
"This thing is the power of rock, meaning as long as I stand on the ground, my power is infinite." Long Yi explained ’kindly’ to Landers.
Dean Saint Andrews, observing from afar, shook his head helplessly. Long Yi was just too confident—Mountain Giant’s freakish talent was the perfect counter to enemies that rely on attrition. If you don’t speak, your opponent would not know how they’re beaten. But by revealing it, you give them time to prepare. Whether it is to make you leave the ground or to use a stronger magic in an attempt to kill in one blow, neither is good news.
Just as Dean Saint Andrews was thinking, Long Yi spoke again, "Ah, right, if you can’t kill me in one blow, I can heal from any wound, no matter how serious."
At this moment, Dean Saint Andrews really felt like flying up and kicking Long Yi in the face. He understood Long Yi was trying to provoke his opponent, but his method of taunting was flawed! By exposing one’s weaknesses so early, he was completely disregarding his own life!
"Heh, thank you, and now, you really can go to die!"
The young man felt slighted and, this time, he truly gave it his all. Only one sphere of light was left in the sky above, and that sphere was rapidly expanding. In the blink of an eye, it had grown to several meters in size!
"Die under the strike of my light cannon! Rest in peace!" the young man roared fiercely!
However, Long Yi almost simultaneously raised his hand, and a sphere of light just as large hovered above his head! Inside that sphere, there even seemed to be flames burning!
Long Yi looked up at the sphere, shook his head, and said, "I thought it was some kind of incredible magic, but it turns out to be just a variant of an optical spell. Hearing you make all that noise, I thought it would be strong!"
Boom!
Boom!
Two beams of light shot straight out. Long Yi hadn’t moved an inch, fully clad in armor of crystal stone. When the beams hit the armor, it instantly became incredibly hot. The young man also hadn’t moved an inch, protected by an Ethereal Light Shield. However, the shield wasn’t cast by him but by Landers.
The beam that Long Yi fired carried the effects of flames, making it hotter and more powerful. Landers could feel the Ethereal Light Shield continuously draining his mana. He was extremely surprised that Long Yi could learn this magic so quickly.
The actual principle behind this magic wasn’t complicated, just as Long Yi had said, it was an optical spell. It worked by stimulating the mana within the sphere to emit intense light, with two arrays in front of the sphere to adjust the beams. This magic was a simplified version of the light cannon from the middle-level plane’s Hong En Empire warships, with less than half the power of a light cannon and also a slower speed in forming the spheres. However, once the sphere was formed, it could attack continuously. The more spheres there were, the higher the frequency of attacks. The larger the sphere, the stronger the light cannon’s power.
Initially, to adapt the light cannon into a spell usable in the Lower Plane, Landers had spent close to two years on it. And his student, the young man, also took two weeks to learn it. And now, Long Yi had learned it just by watching?
If Landers weren’t absolutely certain that he was the one who invented this spell, he might really believe that Long Yi had seen it somewhere before!
"Is this the spell you’re so proud of? Such a simple spell looks rather laughable. You call this a light cannon?"
The melted crystal stone from Long Yi’s armor slowly fell away, revealing him unscathed, while the young man opposite was already gasping for breath. Dean Saint Andrews saw very clearly that the light cannon was indeed powerful; an average mage would probably have been blasted into char by now, but Long Yi was no average mage.
"Don’t rush, if you want to die by my hand, I’ll grant you your wish!" the young man panted. He was aware of the gap between him and Long Yi, but he couldn’t just give up!
Just then, Emperor Saint Danze of the Sanctuary Empire finally arrived. Saint Linde hurried over and reported what had happened. Meanwhile, Dean Saint Andrews also approached the Emperor, but they kept their distance. When Landers left, Saint Danze wasn’t yet the Emperor, and their relationship could only be described as average. At that time, Landers was a powerful Guardian Mage, deeply trusted by Saint Danze’s father, the late Emperor. He didn’t even consider Saint Danze, then the Crown Prince, worthy of attention.
Now, Saint Danze always felt he couldn’t quite talk to him.
"Don’t be anxious, you can take your time. I’ll give you time to think about how to defeat me. For now, let me study your spell, tsk tsk, look at the array’s crude layout resembling childlike doodles and see the structure like doggy paddling. Whoever invented this spell, I bet it’s from some ignoramus," Long Yi commented as he studied the sphere above his head.
"Ignoramus?"
Landers felt like he was about to explode with rage, wanting nothing more than to kill this nonsense-spewing bastard right there and then.
But he saw the Emperor and Dean Saint Andrews. He had heard that Long Yi was deeply trusted by the Emperor. If he killed Long Yi right then, wouldn’t that truly leave the impression of an ignoramus?
"Fine! Tell me, what’s wrong with my spell?" Landers asked.
"What? This is your spell? You actually don’t know what’s wrong with it? You dare call yourself a master with such paltry skills? My god, do you even need to practice anymore?" Long Yi exclaimed in mock horror.
"Bastard! I’ll kill you!"
At that moment, the young man finally prepared a new spell, and the original massive sphere of light flew straight towards Long Yi. But Long Yi didn’t dodge or avoid it and instead raised his hand, sinking a new array into the sphere above his head.
"Come on, let me show you exactly what’s wrong!" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to qidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)
