Chapter 221: Chapter 215: An Alchemy Wizard’s Way of Fighting
’Two foolish First-level Wizards...’
’Do you really think you can challenge the might of a Second-level Wizard with these chunks of metal?’
’Do you really think my only trick is commanding Magical Beasts?!’
The Magic Power fluctuations around him suddenly became dangerous and strange. A thick, black mist surged out from beneath his wide black robes as if it were alive, quickly enveloping his entire body.
His eyes lit up within the black mist. In an instant, his pupils elongated and sharpened, turning into the vertical slits of a raptor!
The next moment, his body exploded apart, transforming into a sky-full of black mist and completely losing its physical form.
The black mist, as if it had a life of its own, condensed in the air into the giant, illusory image of a black crow with a wingspan of over ten meters.
This was one of his Core Witchcrafts as a Contract School Wizard—[Ability Sharing].
Back in his Advanced Apprentice days, he had exhausted all his efforts to sign a contract with an ultra-rare Magical Beast called a "Shadow Crow."
Although this creature wasn’t particularly strong, it was born with the ability to transform into black mist, making it immune to most physical attacks. It could also manipulate negative energy particles to launch strange attacks.
After sharing the Shadow Crow’s abilities, he had refined and enhanced them. Using them for stealth was just a minor application.
It was this very skill that had allowed him to stand out from the other apprentices back then, securing him a bright future. After his promotion, he joined the Magical Beast Domestication Unit of the Ring City Alliance military.
SWOOSH—!
The Freedom Gundam’s Ship-Slicing Blade, which stirred up wind and thunder, descended with terrifying power capable of tearing mountains apart.
However, the fifteen-meter-long giant blade passed through the humanoid black mist without any resistance, as if it had only sliced through an ordinary cloud of fog, leaving it completely unharmed.
"Physical immunity?"
At the warehouse entrance, the color drained from Victor’s face, turning deathly pale in an instant.
He cried out in alarm, "It’s the Contract School’s [Ability Sharing]! Damn it, he has a Magical Beast that can elementalize! Run! In this state, your Golems can’t hit him at all!"
The cloud of black mist let out a cackle, ignoring the Freedom Gundam behind it. Like a black nightmare, it shot straight for the warehouse.
Its targets were none other than Allen and Victor!
Victor instinctively started to back away, his heart turning to ice.
’It’s over. This has gone completely sideways. The two of us are really going to die here.’
’Last time it was two scorpion kings, and this time it’s a Second-level Wizard who’s immune to physical attacks. My luck is just the absolute worst.’
However, Allen, who was beside him, didn’t move a muscle.
"Don’t panic."
Allen’s voice was still calm. "I just learned a new piece of Witchcraft from my mentor. This is a good chance to test it out."
Before the words had even left his mouth, it was as if countless streams of data flashed through the depths of Allen’s eyes. He had already established a mental link to all units near the mining site.
He closed his eyes, and his Spiritual Power spread out like a vast, invisible net!
[Energy Dominion Formula—Activate!]
VMMMM—!
In an instant, the Magic Power reserves in the cores of the magic furnaces within every Golem on the battlefield began to plummet frantically! This included the fifty "Spider Slayers" on the ground sniping at the Rock Armor Earth Dragons’ eyes, the ten "Pacifistas" clashing head-on with the Earth Dragon leader, and the two "Flame Demon Mk. IIs."
30% drained!
Even at the workshop by the lava lake, two hundred kilometers away, the power output of its several massive magic furnaces showed a nearly imperceptible fluctuation!
A massive amount of Magic Power, bypassing the limits of physical conduits, was gathered by Allen and converged on his body from a distance in a way that defied imagination!
Allen’s eyes snapped open, his pupils shimmering with an unprecedentedly brilliant light. The overflowing Magic Power was practically bursting from his body. He raised his hand toward the rapidly approaching black mist and softly uttered two words.
[Magic Turbulence]!
In an instant, an invisible yet incomparably domineering wave erupted from Allen, sweeping out in all directions!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no dazzling display of light.
Within a radius of several kilometers, everything seemed unchanged.
But for a Caster, the entire world had changed!
The once docile and orderly Magic Power particles in the air had, in that moment, turned into billions of raging lunatics.
They were violent, chaotic, and collided with one another, forming an invisible ocean of tempestuous energy.
Within this domain, any attempt to construct a magic model was like trying to build a sandcastle during a Category 5 hurricane—the difficulty had suddenly increased a hundredfold!
Grock, who was advancing at high speed as a cloud of black mist, found the savage sneer on his face frozen in place.
He felt as though the black mist that had merged with his body had suddenly been injected with a billion tons of cement, becoming viscous, stagnant, and almost impossible to control!
The delicate control over Magic Power required to maintain [Ability Sharing] had completely failed in that instant!
"Pfft!"
Grock’s form was forcibly ejected from the black mist. He slammed heavily onto the ground and rolled several times in a pathetic heap.
He looked up in horror, discovering that not only could he not maintain his mist form, but he couldn’t even cast the most basic Flying Magic. The Magic Power in the air simply wouldn’t obey him!
"Th-this... what kind of Witchcraft is this?!"
A storm of shock surged through Grock’s mind.
’A domain-type Witchcraft?! How could a First-level Wizard possibly master such a terrifying form of Witchcraft!’
He had no time to think, because the shadow of death had already completely enveloped him.
Behind him, the eighteen-meter-tall Steel Giant had already caught up.
Blue light flared in the Freedom Gundam’s electronic eyes as it raised its massive, high-frequency Ship-Slicing Blade once more.
This time, the blade was locked onto a solid entity of flesh and blood.
"No!"
Grock let out a desperate roar.
His pack of Rock Armor Earth Dragons was completely tied up by those damn steel spiders and heavy Golems. There was no way for them to break through the defensive line and rescue him in time.
In his haste, he fumbled for a Protective Talisman in his robes that was glowing with an earthy-yellow halo and frantically poured his remaining Magic Power into it.
VMM!
A thick Magic Shield instantly formed in front of him.
However, this hastily activated shield was still no match for the fifteen-meter-long Ship-Slicing Blade.
KRA-CHUNK—!
Without the slightest pause, the high-frequency vibrating blade easily sliced through the shield, and then... through Grock’s body.
From head to toe, he was split in two.
Blood and viscera splattered across the ground.
The battle-hardened Second-level Contract Wizard was killed on the spot without even letting out a full scream.
The entire process was clean and efficient.
The Freedom Gundam slowly sheathed its blade and stood silently beside Grock’s corpse, like a steel deity delivering a death sentence.
The scene was like someone casually swatting a buzzing black mosquito.
At the warehouse entrance, Victor’s mouth hung open. He stared blankly at the scene before him, his mind a complete void.
’It’s... over just like that?’
From the moment the Black Wizard revealed his trump card to the moment he was sliced in two, the entire process took less than ten seconds.
’This cautious and cunning Second-level Wizard, with his ability to turn into mist, just died like that?’
He whipped his head around to look at Allen, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
’What kind of Witchcraft was that? The one he learned from his mentor?’
’I want to learn it too!!!’
