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"The kid is too disrespectful. It's fine to let Chihaya teach him a lesson. Don't worry, Chihaya knows how to control herself," interrupted Tegami.
Mochizuki Chihaya slowly walked toward the cocoon. She wanted to hear if there was any noise coming out of it that would make her feel unpleasant.
"Bitch!" Mo Fan cursed once again.
Mochizuki Chihaya almost exploded in rage. Her c.h.e.s.t was heaving.
"Humph, serves you right!" Mochizuki Chihaya giggled with a fierce expression.
She knew they were in the middle of a duel, thus she would not kill Mo Fan, yet she would not mind letting him experience a pain that he would not forget for the rest of his life!
Chapter 785 - Clash Between Strong Magicians!
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
"Damn, Miss Chihaya is really angry. The plants are going to enter his body through every gap; his eyes, his nose, his throat, and that particular body part. I can't help but be covered in goosebumps whenever I imagine the plants crawling into my body like that," shuddered the Japanese man with spiky hair.
"Captain, you're familiar with the details; does that mean Miss Chihaya tortured you before the same way?" said the Japanese student with runes on his face.
"Of course not, someone from the East Guardian Tower told me! That guy is so screwed!"
"Yeah, serves him right, no one asked him to mess with Miss Chihaya."
Mochizuki Ken could no longer stand it. He was clearly trying to stop the duel.
On the other hand, Fujikata Tegami did not want the duel to end, since the Chinese student had clearly crossed the line by scolding them so harshly. It was necessary to teach him a lesson!
"It's fine if we let the others teach him a lesson, but it won't do us any good if Chihaya is doing it," said Mochizuki Ken.
"Say, didn't you feel a strong energy of the Fire Element rising while you two are arguing?" the Japanese commander sitting in between them spoke up.
The two finally reacted and focused their senses.
As the Japanese commander had mentioned, they did sense an irregular energy of the Fire Element coming from the stage...
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"Did she seriously think these useless vines are enough to trap me in here?" Mo Fan's voice came from the cocoon.
More, more heat, Mo Fan's body had completely transformed into flames burning the plants that were trying to grow into his body into ashes.
"Little Flame Belle, burn them all!"
Mo Fan knew he had no chance of breaking free from the plants with his own strength. He immediately summoned the little Flame Belle to his aid.
Little Flame Belle immediately unleashed the overwhelming Calamity Fire without hesitation.
The Rose Flame and Calamity Fire combusted simultaneously and released heat waves in all directions. Even the thick cocoon was unable to endure the heat.
The layers of plants were set aflame. Soon, tongues of flame sprouted out from the enormous plant cocoon. The fire grew swiftly and devoured the plants...
Mo Fan unleashed the flames fully, sweeping them across the place fiercely and burning the plants nearby into ashes.
Standing in the middle of the flames that continued to grow stronger as more plants were set aflame, Mo Fan was like a demon who was just reborn, imperious and about to explode at any second!
"I can't wait to see how many Forests of Kun you have… let's see if I can burn them all!
"Sky-Flame Funeral!"
Mo Fan was not in a rush to break free, as he was channeling the Advanced Spell.
His channeling speed when casting Advanced Spells was too slow. If he channeled it in front of his opponent, he would most likely be interrupted!
The cocoon happened to provide him with a perfect layer of protection. Mochizuki Chihaya had no idea what he was up to inside it...
"Advanced...Advanced Spell!"
The nine students from Japan opened their eyes wide, staring at the Chinese student engulfed in flames.
Mochizuki Ken and Fujikata Tegami were startled to realize that the student who had been acting like a thug turned out to be an Advanced Fire Magician. He even took advantage of the time when Mochizuki Constellation lowered her guard to complete a complicated Fire Constellation!
The Star Constellation was extremely bright. The Stars surrounding Mo Fan granted him an endless supply of energy.
Fiery clouds took shape and fireballs poured down like rain. The sky was dyed blazing red as the flames landed and quickly dominated the dueling ground. The rain of fireballs fell densely and quickly covered area, turning the place into a sea of flames.
The Forests of Kun that Mochizuki Chihaya previously set up were burned into ashes. The seeds within the coverage of the sea of flames were completely devoured.
The flames swept across the stage. Mochizuki Chihaya was standing in the middle of the flames, wearing a blue armor.
The layers of fire surged in Mochizuki Chihaya's direction. She quickly backed off to the edge of the stage.
The resistance of her blue armor was quite outstanding. The fierce flames had failed to penetrate it...
Mochizuki Chihaya looked surprised, yet she did not show any signs of panic.
The power of the Advanced Fire Spell was extraordinary. The flames summoned by the Sky-Flame Funeral looming over the area burned across the entire dueling ground, fully displaying the power of the Advanced Spell. The barrier set up around the stage was shuddering with the impact. However, Mochizuki Chihaya did not lose the duel yet. She expressionlessly stayed away from the flames and nimbly dodged the rain of fire pouring down from the sky.
"Water Curtain!"
Mochizuki Chihaya finally used her full strength. When another wave of fireballs started falling from the sky, she quickly constructed a Water Constellation, forming a water barrier to defend herself from the rain of fire!
"Damn, that woman is also an Advanced Magician!" Zhao Manyan's eyes widened.
"I should have guessed it. Only Advanced Magicians have such a great control of the Plant Element," observed Nanyu.
"Strange, something isn't right," Ai Jiangtu frowned.
"Yeah, something isn't right, that woman is just too strong. Mo Fan has already used his ultimate, yet he still can't beat her," agreed Jiang Yu.
Normally, the Sky-Flame Funeral would destroy any creature beyond recognition. Anyone else would have lost once Mo Fan cast the Advanced Spell. However, the Japanese woman had only cast the Water Curtain when the final wave of fireballs came down from the sky.
Although she was not handling the situation with ease, she did not seem to be in a pinch, either.
The whole stage was set aflame. Not a single spot was left untouched.
Mochizuki Chihaya was forced into a corner. She had no choice but to cast the Water Curtain. Otherwise, she would have been blasted out of the stage by the Sky-Flame Funeral.
"I've underestimated you," Mo Fan walked through the sea of flames with a serious expression.
"Likewise," Mochizuki Chihaya took a deep breath.
The eyes of the Japanese students almost fell out of their sockets. They were unable to recover from their astonishment.
They found it hard to believe that Mochizuki Chihaya was forced into the corner on the stage. If her Water Curtain had been a second late, she would have lost the duel!
Mochizuki Chihaya had never lost a duel in the West Guardian Tower!
"Captain, have you ever forced Miss Chihaya into a pinch like this?" asked the Japanese student with runes on his face.
"Only once when she was careless, but I was soon defeated..." replied the Japanese man with spiked hair sternly.
Chapter 786 - Counterattack with Lightning
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
The blazing red flames continued to burn fiercely, the ocean of flames not disappearing so easily. Mo Fan's opponent was an expert with the Plant Element. If he did not fight to control the stage, he would soon have no space to stand on.
The Sky-Flame Funeral did not inflict serious damage to Mochizuki Chihaya, but it did secure him the upper hand in the duel. At the very least it stopped the plants from attacking him as long as the flames were still around.
"Blood Tabi!"
Mo Fan knew he was up against a strong opponent. He did not conceal his strength further, and immediately summoned the Blood Tabi. The strength of the Blood Beast wrapped around his legs.
Mo Fan's speed was already impressive after reaching the Advanced Level. After receiving the buff from the Blood Tabi, each of his steps was full of power, and left deep footprints on the ground.
He dashed toward Mochizuki Chihaya's corner and leapt into the air when he was thirty meters away from her.
"Trample of the Blood Beast!"
Mo Fan immediately activated the main effect of the Blood Tabi and increased the force of his feet to thousands of kilograms. The stomp as he landed on the ground was comparable to the impact of a ten-meter-tall creature!
Mochizuki Chihaya reacted swiftly too. As her back was to the barrier, she immediately dodged to the side when she saw Mo Fan coming down from the sky.
Her movement was not as impressive as Mo Fan's imperious stomp with the Blood Tabi. As Mo Fan landed heavily on the ground, the shockwave immediately knocked Mochizuki Chihaya flying.
Mochizuki Chihaya lost her balance in the air, yet she still managed to cast a spell as she was knocked flying and used two vines to catch her in the air.
Mo Fan was aware of his opponent's intention when he saw two vines bursting out from the ground. He quickly pointed his finger in her direction. "Thunderbolt!"
Unlike the usual lightning strikes, Mo Fan purposely altered the path of the Thunderbolt. It was going from the ground into the sky!
A lightning bolt appeared right under Mochizuki Chihaya and struck her back accurately, like a purple-black dragon.
The lightning bolt was quite strong. Mochizuki Chihaya was struck by it before she could reach the ground. It blasted her higher into the air, and even made her spin in circles.
The blue magic armor that Mochizuki Chihaya was wearing protected her from the lightning. The blast knocked her over fifty meters into the air as lightning arcs spread across her body!
It was difficult for anyone to suddenly change their direction in mid-air, which was why many people tried to knock their opponents flying.
"Fire Burst!"
Mochizuki Chihaya was like target practice once she was knocked into the air. With Mo Fan's accuracy, he could basically ignore her falling speed!
Mo Fan was very adept at casting Basic Spells. Knowing that a single Fire Burst was nowhere enough to penetrate his opponent's defenses, he immediately summoned as many Fire Bursts as he could!
One Star Orbit after another appeared. Fireballs revolved around Mo Fan while floating in the air. More than ten balls of flame were floating beside Mo Fan in just a short period of time!
"Go!"
The Fire Bursts were fired simultaneously along a clear trajectory in the air and landed close to Mochizuki Chihaya.
The Fire Bursts exploded close to her. Although the explosion of each fireball only had a radius of two meters, when all the fireballs exploded simultaneously, the area was quickly devoured by the flames coming from all direction. Mochizuki Chihaya was left with no escape, the flames lunging at her blue magic armor.
Mo Fan had to admit, his opponent's blue magic armor was some high-quality stuff. It still did not disappear even after enduring so many attacks.
"Fiery Fist: Groundbreak!"
Mochizuki Chihaya finally fell back to the ground, yet Mo Fan had no intention of stopping there. He slammed his fist onto the ground to give Mochizuki Chihaya a taste of an exploding Groundbreak right after she was struck by more than ten consecutive Fire Bursts!
Burning lava washed across the place. Mochizuki Chihaya frowned. Water ribbons circled her. Mo Fan had no idea how the woman had cast the defensive Water Spell while she was blasted so rapidly by his spells. Perhaps she too was able to cast Basic Spells with a single thought!
The water ribbons stacked on her in layers. Mo Fan noticed there were at least six layers of Water Barriers on her. Even Zhao Manyan could only stack four layers of Water Barriers at most. Her control of the Water Element was clearly significantly better than his friend's!
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"How violent, I would have lost by now if I was in her spot!" Jiang Yu gasped after seeing Mo Fan's chain of attacks.
Previously, Mo Fan basically had no chance to fight back against Mochizuki Chihaya's Plant Element, but now his spells had similarly given Mochizuki Chihaya no chance to find her footing. The two would not stop once they were given an opportunity to counterattack!
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"She looks weak, yet her defense is harder than a turtle shell. Can she seriously still stand?" Mo Fan panted heavily.
It was a great burden mentally to cast spells continuously. Mo Fan had no choice but to rest up. Otherwise, it was likely that he would fail to channel the spells properly.
Mochizuki Chihaya was in a tough spot, too. She quickly withdrew to a safe spot and cast Water spells on herself.
The burning effect of the flames and the scorching of the lightning were a nuisance, especially how she was knocked flying a few times in the air and was devoured by the lava bursting out from the ground. Luckily, she kept applying layers of Water Barriers to herself, or her armor would have passed its limit by now.
The combination of Fire and Lightning Elements was indeed overwhelming. Most magic armor could only survive a few rounds against them.
"Rise!"
Mochizuki Chihaya was able to recover faster than Mo Fan. She took off her defensive equipment, which had basically lost its effect, and began to control the plants again.
Half of the flames of the Sky-Flame Funeral had disappeared. Mochizuki Chihaya started casting a spell.
She waved her hand in Mo Fan's direction. Mo Fan caught a glimpse of a faint gray-blue flicker of motion.
Mochizuki Chihaya's action and the flicker felt familiar to Mo Fan, yet before he could recall what they were, a huge gap was torn apart on the ground before him. The crack was five meters long, and a terrifying vine burst out from it. It was as thick as the trunk of a thousand year old tree.
Most terrifyingly, the vine was incredibly flexible. It could twist as it wished while attacking with the strength of a beast!
Mo Fan immediately retreated when he sensed something did not feel right. To his surprise, the vine was quicker than he was. It struck him hard, and knocked him flying into the air.
Chapter 787 - He Doesn't Have a Brain
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
It was the Demon Tree Hand!
Mo Fan clenched his teeth. He already had a taste of the Demon Tree Hand before. That Glorkian who came from India used the same spell when Mo Fan fought him not long ago!
It was the Advanced Spell of the Plant Element. However, the form of the Demon Tree Hand was dependent on the Magician's Soul Seed. Mo Fan remembered President Han Ji's Demon Tree Hand was not a tree, but a man-eating demon flower. A whole bunch of Warrior-level undead were completely eaten by his plant. Han Ji was able to cast the Advanced Spell in an instant, too.
Mochizuki Chihaya was also casting was the Advanced Plant Spell. The terrifying Demon Tree Hand would easily knock him flying for a few dozen meters if its attack landed on him.
Mo Fan was aware of how terrifying the spell was. He immediately put on the Black Snake Armor.
As soon as the Black Snake Armor covered him, the Demon Tree Hand appeared out of nowhere, digging out of the ground behind him. Its thick branch slammed down on Mo Fan and pressed him onto the ground!
Mo Fan crawled to his feet and checked his surroundings alertly, trying to predict where the Demon Tree Hand would come from next. To his surprise, he heard the ground underneath him cracking.
"F**k me!" Mo Fan lowered his gaze and his face turned pale.
It turned out that all the ground within a few hundred meters of him was already covered in cracks. The stage under his feet was already infiltrated by the Demon Tree Hand. Only the surface was made of rocks. The area below the surface was crawling with the roots of the demon tree!
Mo Fan could not react at all. The surface cracked open in an instant, revealing a huge pit full of vines wriggling like enormous pythons. The demon tree had dug a shocking trap under the ground. It was planning to drag Mo Fan right into its mouth!
The mouth of the demon tree was incredibly huge. The dueling ground was made up of layers of rock, yet the demon tree managed to infiltrate them and gain control of the area. A hole with a radius of a hundred meters appeared at the center of the stage, inside it vines and branches that would shred a victim to pieces. Below the hole was a bottomless pit!
The representatives of the Chinese team were completely stunned. They found it hard to believe how strong Mochizuki Chihaya was.
She seemed quite adept at casting the Advanced Spells. The abyss of the Demon Tree Hand was not something they had a chance to escape from.
Mo Fan felt absolutely minuscule as he fell into the hole made by the Demon Tree Hand. If Mochizuki Chihaya was trying to kill him, the others would not be able to find his remains!
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"Strange, something isn't right!" Ai Jiangtu had already noticed something. He slowly walked toward the Japanese team.
Mo Fan was already very strong. He had already cast an Advanced Spell and followed up with the powerful combination of the Fire and Lightning Elements. If his opponent was only a student, she would have already lost the duel. Even if Ai Jiangtu was fighting Mo Fan, he would be injured too.
On the other hand, Mochizuki Chihaya was only in a troublesome situation, but she was perfectly unharmed until now. It did not make any sense!
"Who would have thought, Miss Chihaya had to cast this spell just to defeat him," sighed the Japanese man with spiky hair.
