Chapter 874 - Morgana's Despair
Chapter 874 Morgana’s Despair
As everyone knew, the Fate Witches had never been considered combatants.
As such, Fate Witches were harmless individuals in the eyes of most people.
However, today, Alice had only shown a portion of her power, and Morgana had tasted the terror of a high-grade Fate Witch.
Due to the existence of Rend Fate, Morgana’s luck had been terrible since the start of the battle.
It unknowingly caused her to miss many excellent opportunities to kill her enemies quickly.
As a veteran Third Grade witch that had advanced over two hundred years ago, failing to finish a chant and cast a spell wasn’t something that should happen to her. Yet, Morgana had already failed to complete a spell twice since the start of the battle half an hour ago.
One time, it was a loose thread from a silk handkerchief landing in her mouth, causing her to make a mistake while chanting. That resulted in her failing to deal a heavy blow to Mary while she was breaking through the snowstorm.
After several deaths, the five-person team finally figured out some method of dealing with Morgana.
Most of Morgana’s ice magic was very powerful and had a tremendous freezing effect. However, these spells required three to seven seconds of chanting and casting. Moreover, there were some obvious signs of casting before she unleashed the spells.
In addition, Alice’s Staff of Divination allowed her to predict Morgana’s exact target. All these factors added together gave the five adepts perfect opportunities to escape.
If Morgana wanted to single out and exterminate one of them, Alice would notify them ahead of time. That person could then turn and run immediately without worrying about attacking. If Morgana intended to unleash an area-of-effect spell, Alice would be able to predict it and inform the adepts of the safe distance away from her.
Thus, they could retreat beyond the affected radius and easily use long-range spells to bombard the immobile Morgana.
After being toyed with in this manner several times, Morgana was bubbling with rage. Yet, there was nothing she could do!
Alice was simply far too annoying.
It was okay if she alone was a slippery mouse, but even her four teammates had been turned into slick mice, running around her and weaving about. They would always hide where it was difficult for her spells to be effective, resulting in most of her ice magic to become meaningless fireworks.
Single-target spells might be overpowering when fighting against such a group of individuals, but it was hard to kill them with such spells. Only large Third Grade spells could deal inflict damage to them.
However, Third Grade spells were not cabbages found on the roadside. Even with her Icecold Bloodline boosting the regeneration of her ice powers, she could not use Third Grade spells with such high frequency!
No one knew when, but Morgana had turned from the initial ruler of the battlefield to a panting mouse catcher. The threat of death she posed to her opponents was shrinking by the minute.
Of course, as the Third Grade Coldwinter Witch leader, Morgana had much more than this!
Halfway through the battle, and in a fit of rage, Morgana summoned a Third Grade Raging Snow Patriarch.
It was a monster that greatly resembled a barbarian. It was four meters tall, had four strong limbs, thick gray hair, and a flat, ugly face. It excelled at throwing snowballs. The snowballs it threw were not the soft Frost Orbs that First Grade adepts used. Instead, they were terrifying snowballs, one meter in diameter and weighing half a ton.
The snowballs each dealt one hundred and fifty points of physical damage, one hundred and twenty points of frost damage, and inflicted seventy points of splash damage around a one-meter to ten-meter radius.
When the Raging Patriarch started bombarding the adepts with eight snowballs a second, the cooperation between the five of them was interrupted.
In the end, it was Tigule who made the sacrifice at the key moment, using his life to draw Morgana’s firepower. The remaining four of them used this time to trade blows with the Patriarch wildly.
In the end, with Alice pointing out the Patriarch’s weakness, Gru shot out an energy beam with the full force of his magic generator furnace concentrated behind it. The beam pierced the Patriarch’s chest and shattered its consciousness core to pieces.
Of course, it was Billis sacrificing seven of his Void Reavers to break through the Patriarch’s defenses that provided Gru with the opportunity to kill it in a single hit.
Without the Patriarch’s assistance, the protection of the snowstorm, and the army of snow beasts, Third Grade Coldwinter Witch Leader Morgana finally showed signs of lethargy. Thus, Alice and the others dragged the battle into its third hour.
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