sonovelo Chapter 157 The Reappearance After Three Years
Chapter 157 The Reappearance After Three Years
Lightning and fire intertwined, radiating light, and a large number of high-level spells were continuously released, but it still did not provide much relief. The ice around the frost was too hard and had no effect on it at all.
"It's about to break!" someone shouted, immediately releasing a high-level light magic spell. Holy light formed a shield to block the outside. He didn't hold back either, deploying his shield magic to increase the defense. Besides him, there were also high-level water magic spells. They were all equipped with armor magic, one for each person. Some people also had shield magic and the like, but they didn't release them immediately.
Looking around, Su Ming was the only one without any Kai magic tools. He did have a shield magic tool given to him by the old headmaster, but that level was a bit low, and it paled in comparison to what was here.
If the defenses here can't hold them off, then having one more of him won't make a difference.
He had been maintaining spatial magic, forming a protective barrier around his body, which consumed a lot of magical energy, but now was not the time to worry about that.
Su Ming had contacted him when they were in Helan Mountain. He could maintain such a defense with minimal consumption, but it was still only a beginner-level magic. It could block some ordinary monsters' sneak attacks, but it would be no different from paper when encountering stronger ones. With a clatter, the ice blocks in the sky shattered, and a large number of black insects poured down. They could sense magical energy and could feel the energy on Su Ming's side.
Magical energy was a delicacy to them; even while they were in the air, insects turned and attacked Su Ming.
The number of these insects was enormous; it was as if the group of them were in a swimming pool, with the water representing the insects, and they only occupied a small portion of the space.
The insects attacked, the outermost layer being light magic. These were dark creatures, and facing high-level light magic meant certain death. However, their numbers were enormous, and they kept surging forward. Even high-level magic would eventually be exhausted.
"No, I feel like it'll break in a minute at most. Even with my light magic, it can only last ten minutes at most. Even with other magic types, it won't last long." The light mage shouted, focusing on defense.
During this time, he also continued to use mid-level light magic to strengthen his defenses.
"After a dozen minutes, what the hell are we going to use to run away?" the lightning mage shouted. He conjured lightning magic, and the lightning in his hand was like a whip, constantly bombarding the black insect.
The others didn't just stand by and watch; those with defensive magic used it to reinforce their defenses and protect the five of them.
The distance doesn't need to be too far, and the contact area with the insects is small, which greatly delays the time available for defense.
Su Ming and the others began using offensive magic: fire-based Fierce Fist, water-based Storm Wave, ice-based Ice Lock—using whatever magic they had.
These insects themselves are nothing; a single powerful punch can wipe out a group of them, but their numbers are too great.
"I have a feeling we're doomed. Even if we all used up all our mana, we couldn't kill them all. I reckon even a super-level mage would be in trouble."
Damn it, what the hell is the Black Church up to? How can a mid-level mage be so strong? It's not reasonable. Even the Black Church can't be this unreasonable!
Some insects that came into contact with the defensive magic were burned, leaving half of them wriggling on the ground. But then other insects swallowed the half-insects. After swallowing them, the insects grew much larger, but it seemed that they were not allowed to grow that big. After growing larger, they began to quickly split into two smaller ones, which were a little smaller than before they swallowed the limbs.
This action was incredibly fast, swallowing and splitting the creature in one swift motion, and with insects all around, it was difficult to spot. Su Ming noticed this and reminded him.
These insects will devour the bodies of dead insects and then continuously multiply. There's no need to use water or ice magic; they'll reappear quickly if you turn them to ashes!
"Good heavens, these beasts!" Su Ming's words caused the ice and water mages to stop their spells!
But this makes the defense even more difficult, as they can't even deal with non-offensive magic types like earth and shadow, in addition to ice magic.
He uses ice-type attacks because ice is his primary attack method.
What should I do? Su Ming squinted, thinking hard, while his magic never stopped, constantly releasing fiery punches.
Fortunately, the fire magic energy comes from Bifang, which is more abundant than other magic types, and it recovers relatively quickly, so there is no shortage of magic energy.
But there's not much else we can do.
The other departments are falling behind him; departments like botany and music are completely useless at this point.
Furthermore, while light-based magic is useful, it's only at the beginner level. That stuff can only provide illumination and has no other function, so it's unreliable.
Su Ming thought about it for a while but couldn't come up with a good solution, mainly because he didn't know what the insects' weaknesses were.
It's not afraid of fire or lightning, so the only way to make it fly is by sheer brute force.
Their strength is not enough.
Ring ring ring.
Just as Su Ming was troubled, a voice suddenly rang in his mind.
This delighted Su Ming, as Xiao Qing, who had been asleep for more than three years, had finally revived.
He stopped his magic and began communicating with the summoning system. "Xiao Qing is very powerful now, a commander-level one?"
She seems to be at this level. If she were to come out, she might be able to blow away all the insects here instantly, and perhaps she could solve this predicament.
Su Ming's withdrawal displeased some of the others.
With the water and ice attacks ceasing, Su Ming was now only being attacked by the lightning mage, whose lightning magic was consuming a huge amount of energy.
Judging from Su Ming's appearance, he subconsciously felt that this guy was slacking off, leaving the magic energy to prepare to run away after the defense was broken.
"Where there's magic power, there's hope! What the hell are you doing! Don't even think about running away by yourself. Let me tell you, if we die, you won't survive either. Don't waste your magic power, get the hell out of here!"
Su Ming's cessation of attack accelerated the depletion of defensive magic, which made them all somewhat anxious.
"Stop shouting. He's probably out of mana. We didn't come here together. He fought that Black Church's ice magic for so long, and he even cast several high-level spells. It's not unusual for him to be out of mana now." Only after Li Wangji said this did they realize that it was indeed possible.
With that in mind, they stopped paying attention to Su Ming and began to focus on dealing with the insects in front of them.
High-level ice and water mages don't have that kind of free time; high-level water can form a defense, and the same goes for low-level ones.
Ice-type characters can also create ice blocks to block attacks. Su Ming didn't hear what they said at all. The moment he stopped, his consciousness sank into the summoning plane. Now, it was impossible for him to survive by relying on them.
We can only place our hopes on Xiaoqing.