Chapter 203
Chapter 203 Rallying Call
The continuous explosions here had naturally attracted the groups of witcher-knights’ attention.
There were, of course, spellbreaker knights and radiant knights among those groups.
Yet, when they drove their magic colts and charged onto this battlefield, the only thing they saw was a bloody ground still burning with flickering embers. The earth was full of craters and scorch marks left by the explosion of Magma Fireballs. The previously boiling lava had already solidified into dark red magma.
However, the heat had yet to completely dissipate. The entire battlefield was filled with intense heat waves that blew against the knights’ faces.
The only thing left abou thirty witcher-knights were bits and pieces of broken limbs left on the edges of the battlefield. Everything else had already been consumed by the flames and magma, with nothing left to be found.
The murderer, on the other hand, had long since fled from the scene, disappearing without a trace.
The knights halted their colts, and looked upon this apocalyptic looking battlefield with their eyes wide open. The anger and frustration in their chests hurt and burned like the boiling lava on the ground.
Now that Greem had managed to see through the opponent’s mystery, the confusion he felt earlier also vanished entirely.
Greem smiled and continued hurrying down the road.
Meanwhile, as he was secretly observing Marionette, Marionette had undoubtedly also been secretly watching his every action.
Fire Teleportation. A simple fire-attribute mobility spell, yet the actual conditions of its use were only clear to those who were familiar with it.
The strengths and weaknesses of Fire Teleportation were so obvious, which made it both a favorite and a headache of fire-attribute adepts.
Its strength was in its rapid teleportation. As long as it wasn’t an area covered by an elementium barrier, one would be able to teleport anywhere within one’s vision. Moreover, the delay in effect was extremely short.
Its weakness was the excessively obvious display when one teleported. The caster had to summon a large elementium flame on the spot before the teleportation could be cast. Only then would the caster’s body disintegrate in the elementium flames. After teleportation, a ring of fire would explode on the location visually determined by the caster. Then the caster’s body would reassemble within the burning flames.
A very simple fire spell, but it was accompanied by a large roaring flame and a blinding ring of fire. The adept’s enemies wouldn’t even need to see the flames to find the adept. All they needed was to listen for the sound of exploding flames to track it.
Honestly, a large exploding ring of fire would actually be hard to miss!
Thus, the stealth factor of Fire Teleportation was far too terrible, and it was undoubtedly the most flashy among all the close-ranged teleportation spells.
For an adept, flashiness meant being exposed, and being exposed meant danger!
This was precisely what all adepts actively avoided.
What really confused Marionette was how Greem had so quickly mastered Fire Teleportation.
It was important to note that while Fire Teleportation was a simple spell, there was a very important prerequisite before one could cast it. It was the transformation of the body into elementium!
This was a necessary condition. No other means could circumvent this.
Without an elementium body, it was hard to disintegrate and reassemble your body within the elementium flames. And without disintegrating and reassembling your body, how were you supposed to accomplish the Fire Teleportation that could cross distances of over hundreds of meters?
This was why Fire Teleportation was generally an exclusive ability of flame mastery adepts.
But how long has it been since Greem had advanced to an adept? According to the information from within the family, it seemed to have been less than six months since he advanced? How did he manage to completely turn his body into elementium in such a short time? Could he have turned his body into elementium before he advanced to an adept?
Precisely because of how much he knew, Marionette’s mind was swarmed with questions, not able to find the correct answer.
However, the abilities of each adept was their most secret treasure, never to be shown to any outsiders. Thus, Marionette could only kept his questions to himself and silently hurry down the road.
The two also met some other ‘companions’ along the way. After a simple greeting, they would join the group and continue on the path.
Very soon, this small group of five adepts arrived at the target area.
This was a wide valley that was much flatter than the surrounding geography. While the trees here were equally as ancient, and the leaves just as dense, there weren’t too many bushes or vines in this part of the forest. Therefore, it had become the temporary rallying spot for the knight army.
The witcher-knight squads arrived from all over the forest and gathered here. The noise of people talking and the horses whinnying could be heard from several kilometers away.
A tall, large flag bearing a sword and shield emblem billowed in the wind and was stuck to the ground in the center of this place. Seven particularly muscular and mighty knights stood below the flag. Around thirty spellbreaker knights with shining armor, and an aura of might and power, stood around the seven knights.
When the adepts and the knights locked eyes, a powerful aura surged forth from the bodies of both parties, clashing from a distance.