Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 833
"Look at what he has done!" Lu Bin gulped anxiously.
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On the fifth defensive platform of the castle, Tao Jing, Zhou Donghao, Lin Qihui, and the rest of their group were staring at the Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon too. They were able to see the Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon's head, and happened to witness it swallow Mo Fan.
"Isn't that guy… Fan Mo?" Tao Jing said uncertainly.
"It's him," Lin Qihui sounded quite confident.
"That idiot, I told him to be careful, he's so unreliable… Strange, why is that creature evolving? Can it still evolve after absorbing such a weak Mage, who only has impressive looks, but is actually useless?" Zhou Donghao wondered.
Tao Jing and Lin Qihui did not speak. They had noticed a golden light start to form on the Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon's armor!
The Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon roared into the sky. Its cries echoed continuously in the night sky. Everyone within dozens of kilometers was able to hear it clearly.
Its armor and body were transforming. The armor covering its shoulders, c.h.e.s.t, legs, and arms had turned golden. Even though its height and size did not change by much, its imposing aura was strong enough to overwhelm the minds of Advanced Mages!
"How...how is this possible!?" Lu Bin flew into the sky. He was intending to fend off the creature with his Super Spell, but he was now struggling to breathe under the enormous pressure from the Ruler-level creature as he drew closer to it. He even failed to channel his spells properly!
A huge hand swung at Lu Bin as soon as he moved a little closer.
The hand enlarged significantly while it was swinging through the air. Lu Bin quickly Summoned a Rock Barrier to defend himself.
Lu Bin wrapped himself up like a ball of rocks, but completely failed to resist the force of the attack. The ball of rocks went through the side of the mountain nearby and slammed into a residential area several kilometers away!
The people froze when they saw Lu Bin being knocked flying. If a Super Mage was already so weak against it, what was the point of them staying to defend the place?
Chapter 1791 - Warm-Up
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
The Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon was already unstoppable, but Mo Fan had basically added oil to the fire. It felt like the whole city was going to collapse under the enormous pressure from the massive creature now clad in dazzling gold. Its overwhelming Ruler-level presence surged like a wild storm, turning the clock tower into a stranded island that might be devoured by fierce waves at any second. The people defending it no longer had a say in their lives.
"Let's take the Barrier Core and run away!" Xie Qinghua ordered with a pale face.
It was all meaningless. The little spark had set the whole valley on fire. There was now no chance of putting it out. Xie Qinghua no longer had any hope of defending the Elemental Capital. She only hoped the Barrier Core did not fall into the terrifying creature's hands. If the creature absorbed the Barrier Core, they would have basically created a terrifying rock demon that would bring even greater calamities to the country!
"Master..." Wen Xia was dismayed.
"Wen Xia, deactivate the barrier. You must bring the Barrier Core to safety, do you understand!?" Xie Qinghua said sternly.
"Master, Wen Xia isn't afraid of dying," Wen Xia said.
"It has nothing to do with your resolve. Do you really want to see a terrifying rock demon be born? We have already lost the fight. Are you going to let the monster absorb the Barrier Core and flatten our province? We will never forgive ourselves if we let that happen!" Xie Qinghua said.
Wen Xia bit her lips so hard that they almost bled. She did not expect it to come down to this.
Perhaps if they chose to give up on establishing the barrier and focused on fending off the demon creatures, the city and their men might still be standing now, even if they had failed to set up the elemental capital. But now, those Mages had all become part of the Rock Monsters. Their city was destroyed, and they were still struggling to figure out a way to save the Mages trapped inside the bodies of the Rock Monsters.
The unstoppable fire had spread across the valley… the city was about to become history.
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Apas, wearing a short T-shirt with her midriff bared, stood on top of a building that was relatively intact. The cold moon was right above her, its icy brilliance setting off her noble, alluring figure. Her golden dust eyes made her look even more mysterious!
"These monsters don't have a fixed leader. Even if I force that thing to detonate itself, the Rock Monsters will still attack the clock tower," Apas said, as if she was mumbling to herself.
"You can't let it detonate itself, Apas!" Mo Fan's voice came out of the Contract.
"What are you doing?" Apas said.
"Cut the crap, use everything you have to help me. Otherwise, you're screwed if I die."
"You lunatic!" Apas snapped.
Apas gathered her focus. Her golden-dust eyes reflected the cold brilliance of the moon, like it was the only source of light in a city devoured by darkness, looming over the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon!
The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon grabbed its head and let out a painful screech, as if its soul had just received a serious blow.
Its bloodshot eyes suddenly shifted. As Apas' stare gradually became more menacing, the Ruler-level creature's ferocious aura dissipated suddenly.
Its body turned cold and lifeless. It suddenly stiffened as its arms fell to the side.
The people on the clock tower were confused when they saw the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon suddenly fall still, like a soulless creature.
What had just happened?
Why did the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon, whose aura alone was enough to destroy the city, fall dead all of a sudden?
The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon's eyes suddenly sprang open. A terrifying dark red light burst out of them.
Its eyes did not have the same savage look as before. They surprisingly displayed some kind of emotion, like the pride and ruthlessness of a powerful human.
It slowly raised its hand. As someone with the power of the Demon Element, Mo Fan was familiar with the feeling of being imbued with overwhelming strength, but it was his first time taking control of a hundred-meters tall body. His eyes were on the same level as the top of the skyscr.a.p.ers. The buildings and streets were like toys to him. The humans were as tiny as ants!
"What exactly is this evil power in your blood and your soul!?" Apas' voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts. She sounded a little uneasy.
Apas was shivering in fear on top of the building she was standing on. She had encountered something inside Mo Fan's body that sent chills down her spine, as if she had accidentally entered an underworld where a demon was about to break free of its chains!
Mo Fan knew what Apas was referring to. However, if he knew the demon in his body would not have allowed anyone to take over his body in the first place, he would not have had to inject himself into the creature's body like a microchip!
The Demon Element!
Mo Fan initially thought Apas was going to take over his consciousness, or the Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon would absorb him, but when he went into the Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon's body, not only did he retain his consciousness, but the Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon's attempt to absorb him backfired too!
Apas' Medusa's Gaze and the wrath of the Demon Element simply tore the Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon's soul into pieces, leaving behind only an unusually strong body that was now under Mo Fan's control!
Mo Fan felt like he had just entered a huge mecha warrior. The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon was him, and he was the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon!
Mo Fan grinned. The stiff face of the Black-Silver Armored Rock Demon grinned too. The people on the clock tower were bewildered. They wondered if they were imagining things.
The rock demon turned around and faced the huge army of Rock Monsters. Its gaze greedily scanned the Rock Monsters.
The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon wrapped one hand over the other fist and cracked its knuckles.
It extended its neck to the sides and rotated it in a circle, producing huge cracking sounds too. Its body parts felt a little stiff still after the recent evolution.
The soldiers and Mages on the clock tower were absolutely dumbfounded when they saw the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon's hijinks.
Was the terrifying Ruler-level creature seriously warming up with its back to them before it started to destroy the city?
The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon let out a deafening roar. It took a step forward and extended its arms before swinging its huge fist at the Rock Generals.
A huge gust of wind swept forward with the blow!
Everything in front of the fist was smashed into pieces, leaving a ravine over half the city's length along the trail. Countless Rock Generals were killed and turned into dust instantly!
Chapter 1792 - The Trampling by the Ruler-level Rock Creature
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
The wind began to blow on the mountain, sweeping the dust from the ravine into the air. Cocoons of ash were scattered on both sides of the ravine. The onlookers had yet to recover from the astonishment of witnessing the destructive punch, just like the Rock Monsters.
"This...this..." Zhou Donghao almost dropped his jaw on the ground. He finally blurted out after some time, "Is that thing retarded? It was punching the wrong way!"
The defenders of the clock tower were dumbfounded too, not just because they had witnessed the power which the punch possessed, but the target it was after.
"Is it messing with us?" Wen Xia blurted out, staring at the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon.
The Brown Rock Mages were arranged in lines, their bodies encapsulated in brown light. However, the barrier they set up stood alone in front of the tower. The defensive spell was meant to defend them from the enemy's attack, and they had braced themselves for the attack in advance to stop the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon's push with everything they had. They were even prepared to be injured from the impact, but the outcome was completely outside their expectations!
The attack never came… the defensive spell was basically a waste!
In terms of shock, the Rock Monsters and the Granite Beasts were definitely more dumbfounded than the humans.
The Granite Beasts were standing on both sides of the ravine. They were raising their arms like apes and cheering for their king while it was about to destroy the tiny but tenacious humans. However, they froze like statues and even forgot to put their arms down. They were staring at the end of the ravine in disbelief. Words could not even describe how traumatized they were!
Even the Servant-class creatures would not make such a stupid mistake. How could their Ruler-level leader possibly do such!?
The Mages defending the clock tower were dazed with disbelief, while the Rock Monsters were terrified!
The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon took a few steps forward. It lifted its leg and kicked forward.
The Rock Monsters began to wonder if they were dreaming after seeing their leader's strange behavior. The kick sent a fierce wave of sand across the ground. The Rock Generals and Granite Beasts planning to attack the clock tower immediately fled for their lives.
The wave of sand was not insanely fast, since it was covered an area over a kilometer wide. Even the clock tower was not a kilometer across. The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon was obviously not giving the Rock Monsters any chance to survive!
The wave of sand was traveling slowly, but it was only slow relative to the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon's size. It was similar to a huge storm. One might see it appearing in the distance and slowly head toward their city, but regardless of where they went, the storm would still be looming over their head and their surroundings.
The wave of sand was the same. It was huge but slow, and it was not only devouring a single building or a street, but an entire city and mountain!
Rocks of various sizes were bouncing around wildly. The Rock Monsters were not only in the middle of raining bullets, but deadly blasts, too. The Rock Monsters with weaker defenses did not stand a chance at all. Meanwhile, the higher-level Rock Generals were only able to survive with pure luck, since even the Granite Beasts would be left with holes if they were not making the right moves...
The wave of sand swept forward like a terrifying storm. The lives of the Rock Monsters were solely dependent on their luck. The noisy battlefield soon fell quiet, leaving only the scattered remains of the Rock Monsters behind!
"I kept praying to Heavens to bring us a miracle, but a miracle like this..." commander-in-chief Xie Qinghua admitted after a long silence.
The miracle she imagined was a glimpse of light in a hopeless situation, but she had received three scorching suns in return, instead!
Did the Creator happen to be passing by the city, and casually modify the logic of the world, turning the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon against its people after seeing how pitiful the humans in the city were?
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The wisest of the Granite Beasts finally realized what was going on after their army suffered heavy losses twice.
They began crying to alert the Rock Monsters that the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon was no longer their leader. The human it had absorbed had taken over its body. It was now their enemy!
The trembling Rock Monsters finally understood. They were not a sheet of loose sand after all. They started to regroup and form a strong resistance army under the leadership of the Granite Beasts to take on the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon.
"They are finally showing their temper now? It's time for me to teach them how to behave themselves!"
Mo Fan was amused when he saw the Granite Beasts revolting against him.
The Granite Beasts and a huge number of Rock Generals were standing a kilometer away from Mo Fan. They were undisciplined and disordered a moment ago, but they had no choice but to come together against a greater foe.
The Granite Beasts used their Earth Magic, Summoning huge boulders out of nowhere and tossing them at Mo Fan. Countless rocks began to pour down at Mo Fan's location. Some were the size of small hills, others merely the size of small cars!
"It's just a drizzle!"
Mo Fan took a huge step forward. How could his shiny armor be afraid of these little bricks? He might have had to run away with his tail between his legs from the rain of rocks before, or rely on Zhao Manyan's defense, but he could not feel any better when he was now able to ignore the attacks and charge forward recklessly!
Mo Fan was only five hundred meters away from the Granite Beasts after taking a single step.
They were just a bunch of Granite Beasts, after all. Their strength was nowhere close to the Black-Silver Rock Demons, yet Mo Fan had already taken out three of the Black-Silver Rock Demons, and taken over the last and strongest one!
"You finally realize you should be running? Weren't you having fun tossing the boulders at me? Try running away from this… Rising Ground Cage!"
Mo Fan stomped the ground heavily with his right foot.
A surge of energy swept forward rapidly and reached the spot where the Granite Beasts had gathered.
The ground suddenly rose fifty meters. The walls were forming a huge circle, corralling the rebelling Granite Beasts in the middle like a huge pen!
Chapter 1793 - Atrophy
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
Even though many Commander-level creatures could easily jump to a height of over fifty meters, meaning that a wall of fifty meters was nowhere near high enough to trap the Commander-level rock demons inside, the spell obviously had other suppressive effects. Within the Rising Ground Cage tiny motes of dust, like some sticky sand particles, were present. When the creatures trapped inside the cage tried to jump out, the sand swiftly clung to the creatures like gum.
The Granite Beasts were able to use Earth Magic too, so they could also set up a similar cage, but their cages did not have the sticky sand. They had no chance of leaving the pen without getting rid of the sand!
"Didn't you like throwing rocks around? I'll give you a big one!"
Mo Fan bent forward and stuck his hands into the ground. The surface was made up of sand, dirt, and tiny stones. It did not have a huge boulder that Mo Fan was looking for, but it did not bother him. The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon could easily harden the rock with its Earth Magic!
When Mo Fan straightened back up, he had lifted a huge boulder from the ground!
The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon lifted the boulder over its head. The Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon was already enormous, but the boulder was several times bigger than the creature. It was literally carrying a small mountain!
Mo Fan let out a roar and tossed the mountain at the cage!
The huge boulder swept past the sky above the central plaza. The Granite Beasts in the cage noticed the shadow looming over them growing bigger, before it completely shrouded the sky above them.
The whole city shook hard when it land. The Granite Beasts were only born in this world not long ago, yet they were already shedding tears of utter despair!
The force of the boulder swept the dust into the air. To guarantee the safety of the Mages that were trapped inside the Granite Beasts, Mo Fan purposely softened the soil in the cage so the ash cocoons would sink into the soil when the Granite Beasts were smashed into pieces. That way, the boulder would not smash the Mages into pieces, too.
Mo Fan was attentive to the details; he had everything under control!
A huge number of Granite Beasts were killed. These Commanders of the rock demons were as vulnerable as women and children now, unable to put up any resistance on the battlefield, let alone the Rock Monsters and Rock Generals that were only at the Warrior-level. They were like a sheet of loose sand before the Ruler-level creature. Most importantly, despite the overwhelming number of the Rock Monsters and Rock Generals which were impossible to exterminate within a short period of time, the pressure that the Golden-Armored Wolframite Demon was putting them under had stopped them from advancing.
