Versatile mage c1 2021, p.108
Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 108
"Once we've gotten our objective, remember he needs to be alive. Do not fail, or else you know what will happen," Hui Yi pointed at the Dark Beasts crawling around the floor, who only knew how to listen to orders.
The other three people glanced at the Dark Beasts, and couldn't help but shiver coldly.
The scariest part about the Black Vatican was that once you've made a mistake, then the punishment you got was even worse than dying!
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Outside of the factory, a man with a purple outfit slowly approached. His eyes were very solemn in the middle of the night.
"Lulu, you stay here. I'll go in and take a look," the guy said toward the girl next to him with a high ponytail.
"Don't go in, they look very dangerous...Zhaoting, why are you following these people? Just what are those half-human, half-monster things?" the girl with the high ponytail called Lulu said.
When he unintentionally caught a whiff of an unusual odor from a student, Xu Zhaoting seemed like he had turned into a different person. Zhang Lulu did not understand just what had happened, she could only follow Xu Zhaoting.
"Don't ask, you stay here. If I don't come back within ten minutes, you must leave immediately. Remember, don't stay here!" Xu Zhaoting said in a very serious tone.
Originally, Xu Zhaoting and Zhang Lulu were looking for the clues of the Shadow Beast together. However, when they were looking for clues around a playground, Xu Zhaoting caught a whiff of a very unusual odor.
This odor was something Xu Zhaoting would never forget. That's because this was a smell emitted from a creature with a pitch black body that had appeared during the Calamity of Bo City.
Xu Zhaoting really hoped that his own sense of smell had a problem. However, when he was stealthily following that student, he had discovered that the student was a Dark Beast!
Black Vatican!
It was the people from Black Vatican!
They seem to be scheming something again!
Xu Zhaoting hated the people from the Black Vatican to the bones. They were the people that caused his family's death.
Near Xu Zhaoting's home was a lair tunnel. When he went to the different districts to find his family with a depressed spirit, he only found a white paper with names. His father, mother, little brother, and grandma's name were all on the white paper.
He had survived, but suddenly, he was by himself.
Xu Zhaoting did his best to forget about it, he wanted to live again in a new environment. He met an alright girl, being with her made him very happy. This made him forget about the pain...
However, today, he smelled this odor.
This kind of odor was emitted from a student in the Pearl Institute. When he had pursued that student to this place, he had actually discovered this student was a member of the Black Vatican.
This factory seemed to be their nest.
He had to go in there to confirm it. If that really was the case, he will immediately notify the Magic Courts to have them come here.
These godforsaken Black Vatican. He had to completely eliminate all of them from this world!
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Xu Zhaoting had already slowly infiltrated the factory. The factory was immensely large, there were many places for him to hide. Xu Zhaoting was confident in being able to protect himself.
Zhang Lulu was waiting outside. She did not have any movement spells, so the only thing she could do was wait outside and guard.
She was very worried. She didn't know who these people were, however, she could feel that they were extremely savage. If Xu Zhaoting was discovered, then his life might not be guaranteed.
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Xu Zhaoting had Awakened his second Element. His second element was the Wind Element.
This was a relatively good thing for him. He needed a spell that allowed him to move quickly. Otherwise, he'd have a strong destructive Lightning, but no abilities to protect himself with.
Xu Zhaoting had infiltrated through a broken window. He was standing on one of those crossed steel bars as he overlooked the large and spacious factory.
"They were indeed here. One, two, three, four… strange. Why are they missing one?" Xu Zhaoting was watching this from up top, and had only discovered four grey-cloaked people hiding here. They looked like they were awaiting someone to ambush.
"Are you looking for me?" a dark and cold voice spoke up from behind him.
Xu Zhaoting's face was shocked as he looked behind him. He realized one of them was standing at a place not too far behind him.
Xu Zhaoting was stunned.
How did he find him? Could it be that they actually set up a trap inside this factory?
Impossible! When he was following them before, there was no way they were able to discover him.
"Lightning Strike, Wrath Strike!"
Xu Zhaoting's reaction was fairly quick, he quickly condensed lightning within his hands.
The imprints of Lightning immediately appeared in his surroundings as Xu Zhaoting quickly interlinked his Stars. They turned into couple of purple serpents as they flew toward the person behind him.
The Lightning would conduct through the steel bars. These conducted lightnings were able to win him an opportunity at a key moment.
"It's the Lightning Element, the objective has appeared! Catch him!" The Hui Yi who looked like he was the leader immediately raced over.
The other three had already prepared a trap. Following the order, black figures emerged from all of the exits and windows. A strong smell of excrement began to rise all around.
Xu Zhaoting looked around his surroundings in shock, and realized that he had been completely surrounded.
In the front were around ten of them, on the beam of the steel bar were seven. From the exit and windows, there were around another eight!
There was a total of twenty-five Dark Beasts!
Xu Zhaoting could never have imagined that they had actually set up a trap here to surround him...
Just how were they able to discover he was following them?
"I'm gonna kill you!" Xu Zhaoting yelled out, his face filled with extreme rage.
Chapter 221 - Slaughtering the Dark Beasts
Rumble~
The fierce crackle of Lightning erupted within the factory, the ear-piercing sound causing people to subconsciously cover their ears.
Zhang Lulu was still hiding outside. Her complexion turned white as she saw the flickering lightning inside of the factory!
The lightning illuminated the area while miserable shrieks could be heard from within the factory. There was a few strange and disgusting shadows that could be seen in the glare of the lightning, and the number seemed to be quite high.
"Zhaoting…" Zhang Lulu was not sure what to do.
Biting her lip, Zhang Lulu charged toward the factory. She couldn't just let Xu Zhaoting deal with these strange people and dreadful creatures alone!
Zhang Lulu ran to the entrance of the factory, and saw four people whose limbs looked like they had been cruelly twisted as they slowly crawled along. Their faces looked like ghastly monkeys and their skin color was completely black...
As she looked inside of the factory, she saw a man wearing a grey cloak staring at Xu Zhaoting with cold eyes. He stomped on Xu Zhaoting's face, now covered with blood, as he swore furiously, "Scoundrel, you dare to ruin our plans!"
"Our great Deacon told us to bring the person away immediately so we won't be exposed," Hui Si said urgently.
"I'll take this kid away. You guys can kill the girl! Quickly tidy up the area, and don't leave behind any traces!" Hui Yi said.
Originally, they only wanted to surround the objective in this place. In the end, they encountered an irrelevant kid that had completely ruined their ambush.
After calculating the time, the real objective would most likely get here soon. They couldn't let the objective know that they were making a move on him!
Hui Yi whistled and ordered the Dark Beasts to drag away the wounded Xu Zhaoting. The rest of the four people were focused on Zhang Lulu, who had charged in to her own death.
The four people might not be the scariest ones, but the most dreadful ones were precisely the Dark Beasts. Zhang Lulu never imagined that there'd be so many demonic creatures within this factory, and immediately regretting charging in impatiently.
"Gugugugugugu~~"
The Dark Beasts looked like hungry wolves seeing fresh meat. They fought with one another as they charged toward Zhang Lulu.
Zhang Lulu hurriedly took control of her Water Stars and turned the surrounding droplets into a Water Barrier.
The Water Barrier helped defend against some of the fatal attacks, but was unable to completely block the claws of the group of Dark Beasts. The Water Barrier was quickly broken through, and their claws began to streak past her c.h.e.s.t. A long line of blood emerged, and splashed the two rusty windows to the side.
"Do you want to take this girl away to have some fun?" Hui San saw Zhang Lulu letting out a miserable cry, and his eyes flashed with l.u.s.t.
"We could be considered to have failed this time. If we were to delay the matter even longer, then we would get punished by the Deacon," Hui Er said coldly.
When Hui San thought of the person wearing half a mask, the things he had in mind were immediately gone.
"It's better to kill this girl as soon as possible, let's deal with the crime scene first."
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"Save… save me…"
A wound appeared on Zhang Lulu's t.h.i.g.hs, so deep you could see the bones. She risked her all just to crawl outside.
She had always been nurtured within a school, she had never encountered people this cruel before. They didn't even have the slightest bit of humanity. With just a single command, they began to tear her to pieces.
Even though Zhang Lulu was an Intermediate Magician, she was still unable to cast her magic while she was being attacked by Dark Beasts from all directions.
She did not have any good defensive equipment. If she had a good defensive item, or the Intermediate level Violent Wave, then it could potentially have saved her life. Unfortunately, she was currently unable to complete that complex Water Star Atlas.
The blood wound was very long. A group of Dark Beasts were surrounding Zhang Lulu, they seemed to enjoy the process of slowly tormenting a living person to death.
"Hurry up and kill her. If you waste any more time, then I'll take each one of you and feed you to the great demon!" Hui Er commanded the Dark Beasts angrily.
The Dark Beasts were scared to death, At last, they finally stopped tormenting and moved to end this pitiful life.
"Awoooo~~~!!!"
Suddenly, in the middle of the night, the howl of a wolf was heard.
While the sound was still reverberating, a swirl of dust began to form from afar. The dust was rolling widly as it began to engulf the place.
Flying Sand Stones. The fine sands were like bullets as they pierced into the body of the Black Beasts. The rest of the cowardly Dark Beasts began to jump to the sides in an attempt to dodge the Flying Sand Stones.
Within the murk, you could see a sturdy figure using a frightening burst of speed to charge over.
It was at least three or four times bigger than a Dark Beast. The huge wolf bit into a Dark Beast that tried to flee from the Flying Sand Stones.
"Ga!!!"
As the wolf bit into it, the sound of broken bones was heard, followed by a painful noise made by the Dark Beast as it was directly bit in two!
The upper body of the Dark Beast fell down. It had yet to die, and even began to use its claws to continuously dig at the floor in an attempt to crawl away from from this dreadful creature.
The Spirit Wolf raised a paw, and stomped on the head of the Dark Beast's head like a watermelon. Brains and goo splattered around the floor.
A Dark Beast that hadn't escaped in time died instantly!
Just a moment ago, it was taking joy in tormenting living beings. This time, it suffered from the process of itself being mercilessly slaughtered.
On the floor, the Zhang Lulu raised her pale face as her blood pumped out. She looked up at this impressive blue creature with the physique of a wolf.
This creature was standing right next to her. It was clear that it was trying to protect her. When she saw that there was a very familiar man sitting on top of the wolf-shaped creature, her tears began to mix with her blood as they ran down her cheeks.
She knew this person; this was precisely the Mo Fan that Xu Zhaoting mentioned all the time! He was also the Great Demon talked about within the school!
"You...you should run. There are still many more inside," Zhang Lulu managed to gasp as she cried bitterly.
"Really?" Mo Fan stared at the Dark Beasts as well as the four grey-cloaked men. "I will kill as many as there are!"
Mo Fan jumped down from the back of the Spirit Wolf and carried Zhang Lulu off to the side.
"Awooo~!"
The Spirit Wolf was already unable to hold back his killing intent, and took the initiative to charge toward the four Dark Beasts.
A tackle, a smack, and the two Dark Beasts with smaller statures were directly sent flying. They smashed into the iron door of the factory with a loud metallic sound.
The other two Dark Beasts took the opportunity during its attack to bite the Spirit Wolf. They ripped out a bit of its skin along with the fur on its body…
The Spirit Wolf didn't care about the little wound. It turned its around and bit into one of the Dark Beast's arms, and easily threw the Dark Beast into the air.
The Spirit Wolf waited for the smaller Dark Beast to fall from the air and used its front claws to ferociously smack it. Before the Dark Beast was even able to land, its bones were smashed to fragments.
"The objective has arrived! Go! Hurry up and go!" Hui Er's eyes turned ferocious as he commanded the Dark Beast behind him.
The other three grey-cloaked people all issued commands to the Dark Beasts they controlled. They originally thought their operation this time had failed, who would've thought the objective would still come to deliver his head despite seeing the circ.u.mstances here. It was a pleasant surprise!
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Outside the iron door, Mo Fan stood in front of the heavily-wounded Zhang Lulu, staring daggers at the black Dark Beasts charging over.
Zhang Lulu was breathing heavily. Seeing at least fifteen Dark Beasts charging over caused her to nearly faint.
To a Magician who did not have any ability to defend themselves, being assaulted by a group was their biggest taboo. Under a group attack, Magicians generally could not cast their spells.
Zhang Lulu began to despair; it seemed she was still going to die in this place...
Chapter 222 - Qianjun, Thunderbolt, Yaksha!
Bzzt~!
Lightning emerged around Mo Fan, arcs of electricity spiralling around his body.
A beautiful Star Path emerged beneath Mo Fan's feet.
Zhang Lulu watched Mo Fan draw the Star Path, astonished to realize his control of Lightning was much better than Xu Zhaoting's. Whether it was control of the Star Path or interlinking the Star Atlas, it all went smoothly. There were no pauses in the middle.
"Another Thunderbolt? So what if it's Intermediate level Magic! At most, it can kill a single Dark Beast. With the amount of people we have, you can forget about killing all of us, even if you used up your mana!" Hui San was acting savagely. When he saw Mo Fan use the exact same Magic as Xu Zhaoting had before, he began to ridicule him.
The Lightning Element was indeed impressive. The might of the Intermediate level was very hard to defend against.
However,they were from the Black Vatican, and they could command from one to five Dark Beasts each! A Thunderbolt could at most kill one. Even if its power was excessive, it was still useless!
Mo Fan heard the ridicule coming from the disciple of Black Vatican. The corner of his mouth curved up into a cruel smile.
This dog-like thing was really not your normal naive fool, did he really think that an Intermediate Magic Spell only had a single form?
"Thunderbolt!"
He pointed toward the sky, and a thundercloud quickly emerged in the pitch black sky.
The light flashed as it fell down at an astonishing speed!
A thick purple Lightning bolt split open the skies, its body brimming with destructive powers racing down. Even the air was being scorched.
Mo Fan took control of the Thunderbolt. When it was halfway down, he yelled out the chant of the spell once more. "Thunderbolt, Yaksha!"
Halfway down, the purple Lightning began to split apart, and forked out into several Lightning branches!
Cross Thunderbolt!
There was total of five branches coming down out of the Cross Thunderbolt. Its power didn't seem to have decreased as it struck the five Dark Beasts in the very front.
The five Dark Beasts was originally running over fiercely. However, in the very moment they were hit by the branches of Thunderbolt, they were directly turned into pieces of flesh!
The blood droplets were very thin, blood mixed with flesh. They were thoroughly electrocuted, their heads had been instantly turned into ashes, and their flesh blasted apart!
Thunderbolt, Yaksha was extremely fast and cruel. In a flash, the five Dark Beasts were turned into scraps. The only thing that remained was the blood steaming on the ground.
The bright flash made it hard for Zhang Lulu to open her eyes. When she was able to see everything clearly, she discovered that the five Dark Beasts had turned into steaming puddles after being hit by the Thunderbolt.
This...this was the second level of Intermediate Lightning Magic!
Mo Fan had actually cultivated all the way to the second level of the Intermediate Lightning realm!
He had instantly killed a third of the fifteen Dark Beasts. The Hui Yi who had a ridiculing attitude before had suddenly turned stiff.
Their objective was much stronger than the Lightning elemental kid from before. Whether it was the Lightning Star Atlas's formation speed, or the might of his Lightning spells, they were all on a completely different level.
