Chapter 160: Powerful Attack
"Crackling sounds--"
Lightning flashed. Under the siege of Leiman and the Black Bone Forest Apprentice who had just been shouting for people to come out, Hugh-Stone, as a Guardian-type apprentice, gradually showed signs of decline.
Besides facing the enormous pressure of fighting two on one, the "Curse suppression effect" produced when Hugh-Stone ate the disease rot fruit earlier also began to weaken.
Causing the negative effects of various Curses on his body to surge back.
Especially the 【Severe Injury Curse】, which caused the wounds on Hugh-Stone's body torn by lightning to continuously bleed profusely, fester, and worsen, further reducing his combat power.
"Damn it—it seems this time, I'm really going to fall here—"
Upholding White Coral's fine tradition of liking to "stick together," Hugh-Stone, who had decent influence among the second-year apprentices, quickly gathered many apprentices he knew through his excellent communication skills.
Initially, due to their large numbers, Hugh-Stone and the others could move unimpeded within the secret realm, encountering little significant danger.
Although there were many disagreements regarding resource distribution, because everyone's safety was guaranteed,
The academic credits obtained from "Secret Realm duration" were enough to cover up most of the resentment.
Even if they couldn't get first place, ranking in the top fifty was not a problem.
Especially Hugh-Stone, who had the highest apprentice level among them and had some say in resource distribution, if his current points could be maintained, getting into the top three would not be an issue.
However, unexpectedly, as the final push for points approached, the Black Bone Forest and Mist Tower Apprentices, who were originally like loose sand, surprisingly began to join forces to besiege White Coral.
Now, there are still two hours until the assessment ends. If they are kicked out of the secret realm at this point, it means this group of people will directly lose one hundred academic credits.
And one hundred academic credits would definitely create a huge gap.
In the end, let alone the top five, Hugh-Stone might not even be able to keep a spot in the top ten.
"If only I had known, I should have been more cautious——
Feeling the magic in his body gradually depleting, despair began to grow in Hugh-Stone's heart, and the idea of retreating gradually emerged. Suddenly, a cold wind swept in, accompanied by the rustling of bushes, and a white mist surged into the battlefield very abruptly, enveloping everyone.
"This is—"
Looking at the constantly enveloping mist around him, Hugh-Stone's gaze couldn't help but turn towards Bell-Moonshadow not far away.
As a member of the same club, Hugh-Stone naturally knew that the surrounding mist was actually the effect brought by Bell-Moonshadow's second talent—【Gathering Mist】.
"Are you preparing to use the mist to buy time? Unfortunately, it's too late——"
"Block your hearing, retreat immediately——"
Just as Hugh-Stone was still stubbornly resisting, suddenly, a gentle female voice sounded by his ear.
In just an instant, Hugh-Stone, who identified the owner of the transmitted voice, his originally somewhat unfocused pupils suddenly tightened.
"It's her?"
On the other side, just as Leiman was preparing to launch another fierce attack, suddenly, Hugh-Stone, who had been struggling to hold on, acted as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He directly picked up the apprentice who had fallen into shock on the ground due to the lightning strike and quickly ran towards the back.
Seeing this, although Leiman had doubts in his heart, there was no reason to let a nearly cooked duck escape. With almost no hesitation, Leiman immediately flew up and chased after him.
"Disappeared?"
Looking at the thick fog with a visibility of less than three meters, a hint of mockery flashed across Leiman's face.
"Do you think you can trap me with such methods?"
"La la——la la la——"
Before Leiman could make a move, suddenly, an ethereal singing voice with strong mental hypnotic properties sounded by everyone's ears.
Immediately after, accompanied by a burst of dense seed cracking sounds, "parasitic spores" carrying strong neuroparalytic toxins caused the bodies of the Black Wizard Apprentices who had fallen into mental hypnosis to begin twitching uncontrollably.
"Hmph!"
Following a disdainful cold snort, whistling strong winds immediately blew from all directions.
In just a few breaths, the thick fog enveloping the Black Bone Forest and Mist Tower Apprentices was completely dispersed.
"To dare to use poison on Mist Tower people is simply a joke!"
After a Wind-type apprentice used wind to break through Bell-Moonshadow's 【Gathering Mist】 method, several Mist Tower Apprentices who woke up from the "paralyzed state" had expressions of anger and embarrassment on their faces.
If it weren't for that strange Sound-type Wizardry, a mere neurotoxin would not have been taken seriously by Mist Tower Apprentices who had dealt with various poisons since childhood.
"Ah——"
Just as everyone began searching for the White Coral apprentices again, a scream suddenly attracted everyone's attention.
Looking over at the sound, it turned out that a Mist Tower Apprentice's arm had been directly chopped off at the root by a nearby Black Bone Forest Apprentice.
"Are you crazy! How dare you sneak attack me?"
The Mist Tower Apprentice whose arm was cut off was completely blinded by rage.
Without a word, he directly swung his magic wand, summoning several streams of highly corrosive concentrated acid poison to attack the Black Bone Forest Apprentice opposite him who had cut off his arm.
"What's going on?"
Looking at the two who suddenly started fighting, Leiman's brows couldn't help but furrow.
From his perspective, the two Black Wizard Apprentices who made the first move were like a fuse, directly igniting the battle.
Causing more and more people, as if possessed, to start killing each other for no reason.
"A bunch of idiots."
Although the scene before him was strange in every way, Leiman, who was already used to Black Wizards killing each other at the slightest disagreement, did not rashly join the fight. Instead, he turned his head and continued to stare in the direction where Hugh-Stone had disappeared.
"Found you."
The scene before him suddenly enlarged. The originally wounded "Hugh-Stone" appeared so abruptly before Leiman.
Although subconsciously, Leiman always felt that everything before him was strange. However, an uncontrollable impulse made Leiman completely unable to think about right or wrong. His bloodshot eyes were filled with stern killing intent towards "Hugh-Stone."
"Go to hell!"
Crackling-
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The electric light reappeared. As Leiman cast another spell, a deep purple electric light, several times thicker than before,
Quickly shot out from his magic wand.
Accompanied by a scream, a cruel arc spread across Leiman's lips.
"Finally got rid of one..."
Three minutes ago, perspective switched:
Accompanied by a whistling strong wind, the thick white fog enveloping everyone quickly dissipated.
As visibility cleared again, the Black Wizard Apprentices who were hypnotized by 【Siren's Song】 and also sneak-attacked by 【Spore Parasitism】, after reacting, immediately launched an attack on the White Coral apprentices who had suddenly retreated.
However, before they could catch up, a Black Bone Forest Apprentice, as if possessed, directly chopped off the arm of the adjacent Mist Tower Apprentice.
And the heavily injured Mist Tower Apprentice naturally lost all reason, directly picked up his magic wand, and started fighting with that Black Bone Forest Apprentice.
Seeing this, the other Black Wizard Apprentices, who could naturally tell that the Black Bone Forest Apprentice was under a mental control Witchcraft,
Merely watched coldly and did not rashly intervene to stop it.
However, what everyone didn't expect was that a deep purple electric light shot out from the tip of Leiman's magic wand without any warning.
Accompanied by a tragic scream, a Mist Tower Apprentice standing in front of Leiman was actually sneak-attacked and killed by him.