Chapter 312
Chapter 312 Fish and Bait
The danger arrived swifter than anyone could have expected!
A second ago, Alice was still patrolling the lab and examining her spoils of war. The very next second, the entire magically fortified roof was blasted away.
For a moment, broken pillars, crumbling walls, damaged arrays, and raining sand and debris covered the entirety of the castle.
Gasps and screams rang out throughout the castle.
Alice raised her head.
One could easily see the night sky, even as the wooden beams and crumbling rocks fell around the building. A massive, flying magical creature hovered above Alice, projecting a fearsome shadow onto the castle below.
Alice had expected someone to attack, but she never expected them to raise such a huge commotion.
Alice had no choice but to join the battle now that she could see that they were at a disadvantage. She fired several spatial blades towards the sky like a crescent scimitar.
These attacks caused the hybrid dragon to become fearful and cautious in its movements.
Frankly speaking, the dragon might have an intimidating appearance, but it wasn’t all that powerful.
It had no devastating dragon’s breath, no elementium talent, and no intimidating dragon’s aura of might. Even it’s grey scales couldn’t cover its entire body. The more important parts of the body, such as the stomach and the wings, were not protected by the scales.
These were all fatal spots that an enemy could strike at in a close fight.
However, the illusionist’s innate abilities were excellent cover for the dragon.
Thanks to the powerful confusion effect from the tarot gem on the illusionist’s forehead, most of the Decayer’s attacks were missing their marks. The Decayer could only endure the enemy’s blows. If it weren’t due to the massive splash radius of the Acid Spray, the illusionist would likely have already charged forward and killed it.
The illusionist could see that Alice was trying to help the Decayer as well. The tarot gem on her head shone with a prismatic light again, and Alice was instantly affected.
The illusionist had misdirected Alice and caused her to lose her sense of direction. She had mistaken the Decayer for an enemy. The spatial blades were like transparent razors, instantly cutting at the Decayer’s large and sticky jelly body.
The body of the Decayer was acidic as well. They splashed against the walls of the castle, and even the sturdy stone material wasn’t able to endure the acid. They quickly melted and softened. Large pools of green glowing acid eroded the ground. The sizzling sounds of corrosion continued to ring out.
It had been one against two earlier, and now it was even worse! One against three.
The illusionist immediately changed targets as well. The giant wind blades and terrifying wind vortices whipped in Alice’s direction. The Decayer could only fire acid arrows to intercept the attacks. It even had to cover the attacks it couldn’t deflect with its own body to protect Alice.
Some of the acids still splashed from the Decayer’s body and landed on Alice, causing her frail body to sizzle from the corrosion effect. She wasn’t able to tell that something was off. Alice was still stubbornly shaving away at the Decayer.
Alice’s spatial talent might have been powerful, but that was only relative to the apprentices that were of the same Grade as her. When she faced a real adept, the opponent had hundreds of ways to torture her to death.
Alice’s life hung by a thread!
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Just as the battle raged on above the castle, two towering figures hid within the shadow of the castle on its southwestern side.
“My Lady, isn’t it about time for you to go?” A tall and intimidating flame humanoid gazed at the battle in the distance. He couldn’t help but speak to the other person.
The voice appeared to belong to Greem.
“What are you in a hurry for!” The female adept wrapped in green smoke laughed softly without any regard for the situation, “You have been protecting this Alice girl way too well. She’s almost forgotten how to fight. She is a pseudo-adept, and she dares to strike at an adept? She would probably do something dumb like this again if she didn’t receive a punishment!”
Greem rolled his eyes. He almost couldn’t resist the urge to rebuke his overbearing superior.
If you hadn’t promised to guarantee her safety, even Alice wouldn’t be so dumb as to take the initiative to strike at an adept. If it had been any usual circumstance, she would have used her spatial talents to teleport away and run as far as she could.
Alice was still very talented at escaping!
Her Spatial Teleportation didn’t require the use of any tool or array. It was the most potent spell for escaping.
It was without compare.
As long as she only thought of escaping, no one would be able to stop her.
The one thing she definitely should not have done was to trust her instincts. She thought she would succeed at baiting out the enemy hiding in the shadows. She thought she would be safe. This naivete was why she was bold enough to trade blows with an adept.
It’s the stronger swimmers who drown!
It was a typical error of all the people that believed in fate and divination!