Chapter 395
Chapter 395 Eternal Sleep
Who would have known! Truly!
Who would have expected a magical creature as strange as the forest spirits to exist in the world?!
Greem clicked his tongue in amazement as he raised the Blaze of Destruction in his hand.
“It seems this is a conspiracy of the two of you! What is it? A poor wandering adept, an even more pathetic magical creature, and you want to drag me to my grave? Isn’t that just a little too complacent?!”
Greem tapped his staff against the ground, and a massive blast of flame a dozen meters long emerged from the top of the staff. The temperature in the cave instantly rose.
“Hmph! Arrogant human, aren’t you the smug one?!” The forest spirit floating down from above chuckled as she spoke, “Did you think we would trick you into this place without prior preparations? Witness what I have laid out for you!”
The forest spirit shouted, and faint blue light emerged from all around the room. The floor, walls, ceiling, and even the pillars of stone. A strange array large enough to cover the entire space appeared.
The forest spirit grunted. All the roots and vines she had extended immediately shrunk back and retreated.
Half of the roots had been shattered and ripped to pieces. Green sap dripped onto the ground. Soon, a small river formed beneath her feet.
The forest spirit flapped her hand in anger. Her left hand split into four vines and smashed apart the acid arrows that the Decayer had sent her way.
“Haha! You guys are correct. I am a fire adept!” Greem chuckled, “Unfortunately, your information gathering wasn’t complete. Apart from being a fire adept, I am also a golem summoner.”
This situation was only possible thanks to the two enemies. They had sealed away all fire spells but didn’t entirely do away with the magic of other elements. It was unavoidable! If any basic wandering adept were able to set up a Magic-Interference Barrier that encompassed every single elementium, then array masters would have become the strongest adepts in the world. The conditions and requirements were too harsh to create an all-encompassing Interference Barrier.
After all, most adepts only possessed long-ranged attacks. Once they lost their spellcasting abilities, they would die a terrible death when pit against a magical creature. Humans were far inferior when it came to a contest of their physical bodies. That was the main reason Gargamel and the forest spirit chose to set up this trap!
Through the use of this Magic-Interference Barrier, that they could adjust to seal a single element, they had managed to kill three wandering adepts in ten years. Every time, Gargamel acted as the informant. He found out about the victim’s innate magic, then employed the same excuse he had used to trick the enemy into the cave.
Once the Magic-Interference Barrier tailored for the enemy was activated, the fight was practically over. Elementium adepts would have their combat skills reduced by seventy to eighty percent. What remained of their powers was insufficient to deal with the combined force of an adept and a magical creature. This combination was how they had managed to pull this trick off three times in a row!
However, their plan had failed this time. Gargamel and the spirit had run headfirst into the tough steel wall that was Greem. It served them right!
Still, the battle wasn’t over. This forest spirit had the rare innate ability to drag people into their dreams. She had taken Greem by surprise when she cast this ability on him.
A green nature-attribute halo emerged from her body and rapidly encompassed the entire place. Be it the elementium golems, the half-robotic Sabrina, or even the heavily defended Greem; they felt a wave of exhaustion take over their bodies. Their desire to sleep was overwhelming.
Soon, they had all fell into their dreams!
“Quick,” The forest spirit yelled at the top of her lungs, “This fire adept’s Spirit is way too potent. I can only restrain him for five seconds. Do it now.”
The forest spirit roared as she lunged at Greem. Thick vines lashed out at the fire adept. On the other side of the cave, Gargamel gritted his teeth and poured a vial of potion into his mouth. He then frantically charged towards Greem.
Greem hadn’t actually fallen asleep at this moment.
On the one hand, the Ioun Stones that Alice had given him did their job. They raised his Spirit and neutralized part of the soul-controlling spell’s effect. The forest spirit’s spell was also a type of soul power. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been able to restrain the two elementium golems that never needed sleep!
On the other hand, Greem’s chip had managed to detect him succumbing to sleep. It emitted minor electric currents to stimulate his spirit consciousness and allowed him to recover from the state of drowsiness quickly.
He might be awake, but he still faced the combined attacks of both Gargamel and the forest spirit!
“Chip, do you have a solution?”
“Beep. This Magic-Interference Barrier is only an elementary-level runic array. Host only needs to complete the Flame Fiend Transformation. The sudden increase in attributes will be more than enough to neutralize the elementium interference.”
“Then what are we hesitating for? Flame Fiend Transformation!”
Greem yelled in his heart, and his body started to swell.