Chapter 175: Underground Magician Battle
Two Eyes Island’s new island.
The subterranean abyss.
A purple scaled fishman was ambling along.
The dark environment didn’t prevent her from seeing the world.
After departing the underground space for some time, she had been searching the new island’s underground.
Magic power was continuously being expended.
The purple scaled fishman maintained a mysterious magic.
This spell had been taught to her by the Blue Green clan elder, it could influence and control the coral ball cage tree to some degree.
Two Eyes Island was a coral ball cage tree.
But this coral ball cage tree was too big and had a gold life level.
The purple scaled fishman couldn’t control it completely by herself, only a part of it.
It was only a minute part of the coral ball cage tree.
Whever the purple scaled fishman went, branches automatically separated and formed a passage.
Behind her, countless branches closed again and formed an inseparably tight wall.
The purple scaled fishman stopped walking.
Her chanting grew faintly louder, and although it was in the fishman language, her voice was different from other fishmen, her’s was melodious and beautiful.
Through her magic, branches withdrew and formed a cavity in front of her.
The cavity expanded, and after a dozen seconds, it formed an underground cave ten square meters big.
The purple scaled fishman entered the cave.
In the cave, among congested branches that looked like countless hands, there was a coffin being pushed up.
After the coffin was brought up, the branches bound together again and formed a strong and tenacious floor.
The purple scaled fishman opened the coffin expectantly.
Inside was a fishman corpse.
Because it had been there for a long time, the corpse was nothing but bones and some badly damaged fish scales.
The purple scaled fishman glanced at it, realizing this wasn’t what she was looking for.
She sighed, ready to continue forward when she suddenly heard voices behind her.
After a few seconds, the wall behind her violently corroded.
The purple scaled fishman instantly realized things were going south and threw up a sapphire.
It was a specialized magic gem.
After the gem was spat out, it suddenly erupted with blue radiance.
The blue light condensed into a round shield that protected the purple scaled fishman.
A moment later, an explosion, together with a sharp iron spear from what seemed to be a javelin shot at the blue round shield.
The blue light round shield was very strong and tough, and it blocked the javelin.
The javelin lost force and before it fell to the ground, two bottles of magic potion were thrown in.
The potion knocked into the wall, instantly erupting with large quantities of poisonous mist.
The purple scaled fishman promptly took out a bag.
The bag opened and exploded with a powerful suction force that absorbed all of the poisonous fog.
“A Swallowing Space Absorption Bag?” That alchemy treasure is mainly made of a gluttonous seafloor monster’s stomach pouch, it is rare!” The pharmacist sighed regretfully, “If she didn’t have that, my potions would have worked.”
The alchemist next to him controlled the iron spear while saying, “Your attack failed, I’m not finished yet.”
Magic spell – Turn Iron into Mud.
Magic spell – Temporary Transformation!
The iron spear that fell onto the ground suddenly turned into a pool of iron mud.
The transformation turned the iron mud into an iron snake.
The purple scaled fishman’s blue light shield was floating in front of her, unable to protect her feet.
The iron snake scuttled towards her ankles and like iron shackles, bound itself around them,
The purple scaled fishman was immediately constrained and her mobility suddenly dropped.
“Got her!” Hehe.” The alchemist laughed.
The purple scaled fishman’s expression changed, and in spite of the iron snake twisting around her feet, she used her magic at once.
But a moment later, her cast failed, the resulting backlash depleted her spirit power by a chunk.
“You think that was just poison? That potion had magic disturbance dust mixed into it.” The pharmacist proudly stated.
“I see.” The alchemy generously praised, “Well done.”
When magic disturbance dust stuck to one’s body, it would greatly perturb the use of magic, and the cast failure rate would rise by at least 30%.
To a magician, this was a vile effect.
“You’re not too bad either.” The pharmacist smiled, “Why don’t we consider this a tie then?”
Both were Hun Tong’s subordinates and had worked only many important things together on a daily basis, thus, they didn’t conflict much with each other.
Having a friendly competition was within the norms.
The two people had stealthily found the purple scaled fishman’s trail and had made a wager on who would contribute more to this fight, on who achieve victory.
The trapped purple scaled fishman coldly snorted and coughed out a ruby.
The ruby was imbued with a fireball spell.
As soon as it trigged, it changed into a fireball that shot at the alchemist and pharmacist.
Bang.
The fireball exploded.
The alchemist and pharmacist walked through the raging flames and towards the purple scaled fishman.
Their camouflage gradually dissipated, exposing their true features.
They were alchemy puppets!
The purple scaled fishman knew she had been hoodwinked and began to search for the enemy at once.
At this time, the concealed alchemist and pharmacist acted simultaneously.
Two magic spells pincered the purple scaled fishman.
The first spell diminished the blue light round shield while the second spell targeted the fishman directly, freezing them in place.
After confirming the purple scaled fishman stopped, the two silver magicians stepped out.
“Not bad.”
“I thought of this tactic.”
“Humph, without my alchemy puppets how would it have succeeded?”
“Tut, without my potions, our aura would have leaked already. It would have been impossible to ambush her!”
The two people argued for a few sentences, then inspected their surroundings.
When they saw the fishman corpse in the coffin, their curiosity was couldn’t help but be piqued.
“That should be a buried fishman corpse. Two Eyes Island was once fishman territory, and they had buried many of their ancestors here. Most of the fishman coffins had been excavated, but because of the shifting branches and leaves of the coral ball cage tree, some of these coffins have been buried deeply within the island and moved about.”
The two were magicians, and after they saw the coffin, they called part of the truth to mind.
“But what is the fishman covertly searching for in these corpses?”
“They are a valuable silver level strength, yet they haven’t joined the battle.”
“No need to think about it too much. Interrogating our captive should yield many answers.”
The two stared at the purple scaled fishman, wearing smiles.
Torture was not their business.
They had actually captured a silver level magician alive, an impressive military success.
As long as the purple scaled fishman was delivered to Hun Tong, they were sure to receive ample rewards.
The two were thinking freely of their future when the purple scaled fishman suddenly said, “Are you so certain that you’ve captured me?”
The two magicians’ hearts quickened, and they thought the same thing.
“How can she still speak?”
“Why is she speaking the human language?”
Then a moment later, the purple scaled fishman’s body quickly darkened, turned into bubbles, and vanished from the two’s eyes.
“A divine spell!!”
“Strange, she was definitely struck by my Hold Body spell.”
“It is inadvisable to stay here for long, withdraw immediately!”
The two magicians glanced at each other, instantly communicating this sentiment.
They didn’t expect the purple scaled fishman to beat them at their own game!
This magician battle was brimming with ingenuity, far more complex than battles between fighters.
But there wasn’t enough time for the magicians to withdraw.
The surrounding branches seemed to come alive and extended towards the magicians from all sides.
At the same time, the purple scaled fishman’s magic pounded into them.
Gravity spell!
The two magicians suddenly felt something weighing 100kg suddenly attach to themselves, slowing their movement to a crawl.
Ding.
The pharmacist took out a bottle of potion and smashed it into the ground, raising a squall.
The alchemist formed a sphere of light that covered both he and the pharmacist.
The purple scaled fishman continued to cast, attacking like the tide.
The human magicians could only defend momentarily, unable to return fire.
“I fear the other party is a combat type magician!”
“How terrible, I am just a pharmacist.”
The two silver magicians were not expert combatants, the alchemist mostly attended to his duties while under Hun Tong’s orders, the pharmacist researched and improved medicinal recipes.
When they sank into this plight, one of them did his best to defend while the other utilized a communications device to seek outside help.
Hun Tong quickly received this distress signal.
“A silver level fishman magician?”
“Penetrating deep into the island to excavate fishmen corpses?”
“Purple scales…unlikely to be a member of the Blue Green Coral clan.
Hun Tong pursed his brows and sank into deep thought.
Qi You seized that chance to attack.
His gold battle qi was constantly bubbling out.
The battle qi lingering on his body condensed into five gigantic squid tentacles.
A tentacle ferociously smashed towards Hun Tong.
Hun Tong was thrown back by it.
“To be able to get distracted during out fight. You don’t care that much about me, Feudal Lord Hun Tong.” Qi You brightly stated.
Hun Tong coldly snorted and took out a gold level dagger.
“Arrogant pirate boss, I should give you a lesson.”
Battle skill – Extreme Speed Stage Three.
Hun Tong’s speed sharply increased, and he rapidly closed the distance between him and Qi You.
Battle skill – Backstab.
His figure suddenly disappeared, then reappeared behind Qi You.
The gold dagger ruthlessly stabbed down.
Qi You’s eyes fiercely flashed.
Battle skill – Spiral Shield!
One of his battle qi tentacles turned into a constantly rotating shield.
The dagger penetrated the shield, but because the shield was spinning, it ended up hitting Qi You’s shoulder.
A bloody light shot out.
A three inch long wound suddenly appeared on Qi You’s back, but it wasn’t that deep.
The wound had Hun Tong’s residual battle qi in it that was constantly corroding Qi You’s muscle and bone.
It was the battle skill Hun Tong was maintaining – Decaying Blade.
Qi You increased his speed and pulled distance from Hun Tong.
Facing Hun Tong once more, the pirate boss’ complexion went solemn.
“Impossible!”
Hun Tong stayed his hand.”
“Even though we are plundering his territory, he isn’t in a great rush.”
“Don’t tell me he has bigger trump cards in his hand?”
Although Hun Tong had been fighting Qi You, he had just been putting on a show.
But when Qi You’s words had incited him, Hun Tong had displayed his true strength, which immediately wounded Qi You and increased the pressure on the latter greatly.
This made Qi You more suspicious.
According to common sense, when the new island was being lotted by pirates and the old island being invaded by fishmen, Hun Tong should be the most anxious person.
But in fact, Hun Tong had been restraining himself in his fight with Qi You.
“A purpled scaled fishman magician had just appeared…”
“Keep waiting.”
“I want to see what other evil monster pop up.”
Hun Tong sneered to himself.