Chapter 610: Alchemy Bomb
Ice Sculpture Capital.
Dueling arena.
Zong Ge and a challenger were fighting; the battle was at its climax.
Although he was facing a silver level magician, Zong Ge was losing.
The female magician was flying in the air, maintaining three types of different flying spells to keep distance while constantly taking out alchemy bombs and explosive potions, and tossing them at him.
Boom, boom, boom…
The explosions were continuous.
Zong Ge was expressionless as he dodged the explosions in all directions.
Suddenly, he jumped on the wall, and like an artillery shell, charged at the magician in the air.
The magician sneered and took out a bundle of bombs, throwing it while simultaneously using an alchemy device to quickly withdraw.
Boom!
With a loud sound, a shockwave and dust filled the sky.
The magician gazed from afar, completely on guard.
“What is that sound?” The magician vaguely heard a sound in the wind.
A moment later, a dart came from behind her.
She hurriedly turned around and her eyes contracted violently, “No time to dodge!”
Battle skill – Auto-Target Seek.
Battle skill – Undetectable.
With those two battle skills, the dart flew towards the magician.
As it turns out, Zong Ge had used himself as bait to attract the magician’s attention, then used that opportunity to throw his dart in an arc.
His battle skills were simple and used adeptly, and with the quick empowerment of these battle skills and the explosion screening it, the dart had turned into a boomerang.
The magician’s mental power was finite, and most of it had been spent controlling her flight spells and throwing bombs, so she only had one layer of magical defense.
That wouldn’t do!
In that critical moment, the magician used a defensive item and without the slightest hesitation, suddenly took out a scroll from her cuff and tore it to defend herself.
“Long Fu’s weapon can automatically change shape; it is a very powerful gold level weapon.”
“But I just need to survive past the earliest stage, then I can use this gold level scroll to save myself!”
As that thought flashed through her mind, the boomerang cut her into two.
“How is that possible?!” The magician died on the spot.
The boomerang had gold level battle qi in it and it penetrated through her body, almost instantly extinguishing all of her vitality then and there.
Zong Ge left the dust cloud.
He was covered in dirt.
Using himself as bait for that explosion was rather dangerous.
Zong Ge slowly headed towards the magician, well aware of her lapse in judgement, “With Deceptive Disguise, others see me as a mere silver level, and my battle qi as silver level too. Therefore, she erroneously judged the boomerang’s firepower.”
Of course, this was also because Zong Ge had been suppressing his weapon’s strength since the battle began, only displaying silver level power.
Zong Ge’s gold level weapon was called the Striking Shifter; it had come from the Li Jian Clan’s arsenal.
It could morph into all kinds of weapons, and it really suited a weapon great master like Zong Ge.
Since he and Hua Tang had fought, this weapon had been completely exposed. Zong Ge never thought about using Deceptive Disguise and the Anti-Investigation and Prophecy spell on this weapon.
For one, the Li Jian Clan knew about it. Secondly, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had earned a lot of money from magic medicine, and as Commander Long Fu, even if he was just a silver level cultivator, he should have a gold level weapon!
This was reasonable.
After all, a gang member like Xiong Ju had the Gold Flower Hacksaw as a silver level.
Zong Ge approached the magician’s corpse, sighing to himself.
This battle was not easy for him; it was quite troublesome.
“The commander is still silver level and cannot reach the gold level yet, thus, I cannot use gold level battle qi attacks.”
“This time, my adversary might have come from that group of powerful enemies. She used explosives that cost around 500 gold coins, and her tactics greatly restrained ‘Long Fu’.”
“However, the gains from this battle weren’t small.”
Zong Ge looked at the gold level scroll in the magician’s hand.
He walked over to that side of the corpse and leaned down to pick it up.
But a moment later, his expression suddenly changed.
Boom!!
The magician’s body exploded in an instant.
Zong Ge used gold level battle qi to protect himself, but he was still hit.
He coughed twice and fell to the floor, his coughs containing purple blood.
“This is a poison bomb, the explosion wasn’t powerful, but it is very insidious!” Zong Ge’s brows locked tightly with a grave expression.
The magician’s body had been turned to slag, and the gold level scroll in her hand had gone with her too.
Zong Ge was more certain of his conjecture now.
Why would a normal challenger deliberately put an alchemy bomb in their body?
One knew that this kind of human alchemy and bodily refinement would greatly interfere with daily magician cultivation.
After drinking some healing medicine, Zong Ge was able to suppress the poison.
“I need to find Zi Di and have her examine me.” Zong Ge was not good at detoxification and prioritized asking Zi Di for help.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Zong Ge left.
As he pushed open the dueling arena gate, he saw a large number of onlookers.
“He’s coming, he’s coming!”
“It really is Long Fu.”
“I told you, even if the fighting gets loud, it won’t change the result.”
The crowd cheered and many people waved at Zong Ge.
Zong Ge wore a wooden face as he left, but behind him were constant cheers.
“Lord Long Fu, are you going to participate in the Grand Duel at the National Ceremony?”
“We look forward to it!”
“I have been buying your mount magic medicine.”
After Zong Ge decided to accept challenges, he had gone through several battles, and in every battle, he had savagely killed the challenger.
But this conduct did not hinder his increasing supporter base.
In the wake of dueling more often, his popularity in the royal capital had risen meteorically.
The Ice Sculpture Kingdom had a strong taste for duels.
On a two story house across the street, Mi Fang watched Zong Ge turn a street corner through a chink in the window, then looked away.
He was a human but had outstanding looks that were very delicate and handsome.
This kind of appearance was close to the aesthetics of elves; therefore, Mi Fang had always been widely welcomed in by female elves.
Seeing Zong Ge’s reception, Mi Fang couldn’t help but think of when he became famous in the arena.
Unlike Zong Ge, Mi Fang’s admirers were mostly women. At the time, the female elf community had enthusiastically embraced him.
“Excellent, the tactic worked, Long Fu is poisoned!” Mi Fang was stirred when he looked at the detection device.
With Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s ceremony imminent, Mei Lin’s energy was tied up in naval defense and she was forced to reduce her attacks against the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
But that wasn’t to say she was leaving them alone completely.
One of the missions Mei Lin had arranged for was to dispatch different silver levels to openly challenge “Long Fu” so they could wear him down.
This time, it was a magician sent by Mi Fang.
The bomb tactics was also arranged by Mi Fang.
The result had satisfied him.
“I’ve weakened Long Fu yet again, if this continues, it will be possible to eradicate him.”
“It is a pity that he requests privacy and secrecy for every duel. After killing his enemy, he will take away their corpse and clean up the battlefield. This makes it hard for us to obtain detailed information.”
“Never mind that, we can take our time, there will eventually be a day when our goal is accomplished.”
Mi Fang knew he had to be patient.
Of course he wouldn’t challenge Long Fu right now.
To him it seemed that Long Fu was still very threatening. The best cautionary tale of that was the death of the Ax Gang Leader and the other three gold levels.
Only when Mi Fang knew what trump cards Long Fu hid and was certain he could withstand them would he enter the playing field.
Compared to the other duelists, Mi Fang was more motivated to deal with the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
Because he had joined the Jing Xiang Clan, who was currently competing with the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps fiercely over their current mount magic medicine market share.
After the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps and the Li Jian Clan had deepened their connection, they instantly held the advantage and firmly suppressed the Jing Xiang Clan.
“Long Fu is the signboard of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, and many people purchase the dragon rider potion because of him.”
“By eliminating him, the Jing Xiang Clan will have hope of turning the tables.”
“The national capital’s formation repair work is almost done. Soon, the Alchemy Guild’s hands will be free. They won’t stand and watch this development in the mount potion marketplace.”
Mi Fang knew more high level information; he had determined that the mount potion market had grown by leaps and bounds and had changed dramatically.
There was just one reason, the Alchemy Guild was acting.
This colossus was the overlord in the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s alchemy market!
“When the Alchemist Guild exerts itself, it will be like an alchemy bomb being thrown into the water, it is sure to set off a gigantic wave in the market.”
“When that moment comes, the alliance of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps and the Li Jian Clan will find it difficult to respond to the Alchemy Guild, perhaps this will give the Jing Xiang Clan more opportunities.”