Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 97
The Mother Beast let out a scream filled with pain while being burned by the flames. Her face was extremely distorted.
However, she did not die!
After receiving such an incredible attack, this thing was still capable of crawling right back!
She was furious, and continuously let out shrieks of pain.
She didn't seem to care that there were flames still burning on her body, she charged once more towards Mo Fan!
Her speed was by no means slower than when she was uninjured. Moving with that kind of speed usually meant normal people could not even see her properly.
"Mo Fan, Mo Fan! They're about to charge in!" Lingling's voice was very urgent.
"I understand!" Mo Fan's eyes were fixed on the Mother Beast racing over.
"Run away, don't let the Mother Beast kill you!" Lingling said.
Mo Fan did not reply.
Run?
If he was to run now, that was only a road to death. With the speed of the Mother Beast, she would be able to overtake any running human in no time!
Mo Fan stood there as he hurriedly scanned the area around the intercrossed shadows while he watched the Mother Beast charging at him.
Mo Fan could feel the hatred and hostility of the Mother Beast. At this point, the Mother Beast was totally set on shredding him to pieces!
"Star Atlas Book!"
As he raised his hand, a black scroll appeared in front of Mo Fan.
The book imbued with the mana disappeared like tinder, and what remained was traces of little lights.
The shadows interwove and turned into a diagram, a Star Atlas that could be used to call upon the stars. Mo Fan's Shadow Nebula's forty-nine Shadow Stars lined up according to the patterns!
The arrangement of the Star Atlas Book was not very fast. However, Mo Fan only stood there without a single movement.
The Mother Beast's speed was extremely fast. She had scuttled from the area she had fallen from and jumped back onto the stage, and from there was charging toward Mo Fan… During this entire process, Mo Fan was still trying to connect his Stars according to the book. It started from a normal Shadow Star Path, and it then doubled, which then began to intertwine with the first one...
The forty-nine Stars were being set up according to the Star Atlas, racing against the speed of the Mother Beast!
If the Star-linking speed was slower by even a little bit, then it was very likely that Mo Fan would be shred into bloody bits by the Mother Beast, before he was able to complete the spell.
At this moment, Mo Fan did not have any defensive tricks at all.
He was gambling!
He bet the speed of his Star Path drawing would be even faster than the Mother Beast!
"Ssssssss!!!"
The fishy stench that the Mother Beast let out came forth, the monster was right in front of him!
Mo Fan didn't dare to be distracted, or else the effort he put into the Star Atlas would go down the drain!
At last, rays of Shadow emerged in front of Mo Fan. An incredibly large Shadow Silhouette that looked like a massive magic spike formed up. It was floating within an alternate dimension, completely different from those that were plastered onto the shadows!
"Giant Shadow Spike!"
Mo Fan hurled out the Shadow Spike filled with Dark Energy. This strange object immediately disappeared, you could only see its incredible shadows pass by through the intertwining lights.
The Mother Beast was already very close, her claws were reaching toward Mo Fan. This claw was enough to cut Mo Fan's head from his body...
Mo Fan raised his head, seeing the claw that was about to take his life. His face began to split as the wind from the Mother Beast's claws came forth, from his forehead to the bridge of his nose, from the corner of his eyes to his cheeks...
Just the wind from the claws was able to split apart the skin of a person, let alone after the claws landed; his head would be cleanly cut in half!
The claws slashed down.
However, she wasn't able to touch Mo Fan's face.
It was like she didn't properly calculate the distance; her powerful claw barely missed Mo Fan's face!
"Ssssss~~!!!!!" Mother Beast hissed out in anger.
It was like she was being held up by something. If the Mother Beast took yet another half-step forward, then she would be able to split Mo Fan in two.
Unfortunately, she seemed unable to move. Her frantic charge had come to an abrupt stop, just short of him!
After the Mother Beast turned her head to look, she realized her shadow had been stretched out by the lights on the stage. What made her extremely angry was there was an extremely large spike, like a sword, stuck into her shadow. Her shadow was firmly pinned to that area!
Once her shadow had been pierced through, the Mother Beast's entire body seemed to be restricted. The Mother Beast was stuck in one place!
If the shadow can't move, then the body won't be able to move, either!
The Mother Beast's claws were flailing hysterically while her legs continuously kicked in place. However, her pinned waist was not able to move a single step!
"Thunderbolt!"
In front of Mother Beast, not even a meter away, Mo Fan's eyes suddenly lit up bright purple!
He was focused on the Mother Beast's ugly face, while at same time, his own bloodied face displayed a satisfied smile.
The Element Stars that were the strongest between Heaven and Earth began to line up in front of Mo Fan. These Stars were those that Mo Fan was the most familiar with, and were much faster than the Shadow Stars!
As the Stars turned into Star Paths, and the Star Paths had intertwined into a Star Atlas, the Lightning Star Atlas emerged immediately. The majestic power seemed to flood in as it condensed within Mo Fan's finger!
"Die!" Mo Fan jumped back as he pointed toward the Mother Beast's head with his finger.
The Lightning Cloud immediately formed, the aura was extremely powerful!
A loud rumbling of thunder split the air!
Above the very center of the chaotic gymnasium, a thick Lightning Bolt split open everything as it descended!
The breath-taking purple color and its destructive power made it seem time itself had frozen as it exploded on the stage!
Chapter 197 - Solo Kill on the Mother Beast!
The Fire Intermediate Magic, Fiery Fist, and the Lightning Intermediate Magic, Thunderbolt, could be called the most dreadful and formidable spells among the classic Elements. However, these two were very different from one another.
The Fiery Fist cause an explosion in a certain direction, and was able to completely obliterate a large group of enemies in front of the user.
Thunderbolt was straight Lightning. It could only hit a single target, but as the chief of the classic Elements, Lightning's tyrannical destructive power was incomparably powerful when it reached the Intermediate level.
If you dodge it, you'll be fine.
If you get hit, you'll die for sure!
When Mo Fan was up against the green demonesses, he never dared to use the Lightning Intermediate Magic. The Thunderbolt's might was too dreadful, capable of turning not just the green demonesses, but also the infected girls, into superheated bloodspray.
However, now it was very simple. Using the descending Thunderbolt to extinguish the Mother Beast was more than just easy.
Mo Fan was not lenient at all!
Rumble~
Thunder echoes within the middle of the venue.
A large black hole had appeared on the stage, and the Mother Beast had turned into a scorched carcass that was about to fall into the hole created by the Lightning. The green monsters in the whole arena had fallen to the ground in pain, while looking like their lifelines had been severed.
The students were still running around, they didn't know what had happened. All they wanted was to leave this dreadful place as soon as possible!
A few of the more courageous ones took advantage of the timing when the green demoness fell to the ground, writhing in pain, to rescue the students who were being attacked. Afterwards, they immediately ran toward the safety areas.
The few students who were calmly fighting against the green demoness were still watching them cautiously. They maintained magic in their hands, in case they were attacked again.
The middle of the venue was still a bit chaotic, but the people were gradually calming down. They looked toward the green demonesses on the floor from a safe distance. They had just gone from a dreadful life and death situation, to what seemed to be a very puzzling one.
They didn't know that someone had killed the Mother Beast.
They were only watching them from a distance, and the green demonesses began to slowly shed their skins. They watched as the people within the skins crawled out, covered in some kind of slime.
No one dared to casually walk up, no one knew whether these were humans or Magical Beasts...
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Up on the stage, Mo Fan was sprawled out on the floor.
His calves were shivering nonstop.
He still had some lingering fear. If the Star Atlas Books given to him by Ms. Tangyue were slower by even a moment, then he would've turned into a ghost under those claws!
Fortunately, he had survived!
Bzzzzz~~
Just as Mo Fan was going to lay down, the Little Loach Pendant around his neck began to restlessly make noise.
Mo Fan did not have any energy left; however, he couldn't deal with the Little Loach Pendant acting so spoiled. At last, he could only crawl over to the carcass of the Mother Beast.
"You even want a Spirit this evil?" Mo Fan asked weakly.
Ever since he had entered the arena, Mo Fan have been searching for the red dots, fought, and experienced an incredible fight against the Mother Beast. He really had used up every ounce of energy he had.
The Little Loach Pendant appeared to be very interested in the Soul Remnant of the Mother Beast. When Mo Fan got to there, he realized there was a deep blue cl.u.s.ter of light, like fireflies, floating out of the carcass of the Mother Beast.
As though they had heard the call of the Little Loach Pendant, these fireflies floated toward the pendant on Mo Fan's c.h.e.s.t, like swallows returning to their nests.
"This… this is a Soul Essence??" Mo Fan gaped in astonishment.
After obtaining the colossal energy from the Underground Holy Spring, the current Little Loach Pendant had no more interest in the Soul Remnants of Servant-class monsters. Furthermore, those Soul Remnants was no longer able to improve it.
However, the Mother Beast was a Warrior-class creature.
A Warrior-class Soul Essence was worth, at the very least, ten million RMB in the market!
"Little Loach Pendant, you don't want to absorb this Soul Essence, right?" Mo Fan asked, with the intent to negotiate.
The energy within the Underground Holy Spring had been enormous. Right now, the Little Loach Pendant had advanced to an incredibly high level. Other than things similar to the Underground Holy Spring level of heavenly treasure, it most likely would not have any interest in them.
However, the Little Loach Pendant itself had the ability to absorb Soul Remnants and Soul Essences. If the Soul Essences were collected and auctioned off, then one would definitely earn a large amount of money!
Mo Fan couldn't help but kiss the Little Loach Pendant. However, the blood on his face accidentally dripped onto it.
Mo Fan quickly used his own hands to wipe his little treasure clean, he didn't dare let this little ancestor feel wronged.
After some discussion, the Little Loach Pendant decided that this Soul Essence did not have much effect on itself, so it wouldn't force itself to eat it. It decided to help Mo Fan preserve it within the pendant.
This caused Mo Fan to let out a big sigh of relief.
This time, he really put his life into it, and the reward he got was large enough to be worth it!
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Boom!!
Just as Mo Fan was about to take a rest, the reinforced glass of the roof of the arena suddenly made a large noise.
Mo Fan sat up and saw an shocking scene.
A green creature with iron hooves descended from the skies. Those hooves had actually broke through the ceiling.
Numerous glass fragments fell from the ceiling, and the green giant beast with iron hooves landed. It was like a small hill. When it landed, it actually caused the entire arena to rock a little.
The scene of the green beast landing in the place was mind blowing, and Mo Fan was completely dumbstruck.
What was even more shocking was that a man was standing between the horns of the creature!.
The large beast and the man were not proportional to each other in term of physique. However, he could still clearly feel that the man was the owner of this giant beast.
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The man's gaze swept across the gymnasium. He was looking at the green demonesses on the floor shrieking in pain, and shifted his gaze to land on Mo Fan up on the stage.
"Charge, charge in! Do not let any monsters go!"
From a place not too far away, a group of Hunter Magicians in uniform charged in from the middle arena entrance.
These Hunter Magician's strengths weren't low. Each of them had a spell for movement, either using Wind Trail, or Earth Ripple, or even some Magical Boots...
The one in charge was precisely the bald man. His speed was relatively fast, he almost instantly moved from the middle of the arena to the front of the gigantic green beast.
"Where is the Mother Beast?" The bald Captain's face looked like a demon. From the killing aura he emitted, one could tell that the number of monsters he had killed in the past was not few.
"The Mother Beast is dead," the man on the beast said slowly.
"Dead? As expected of a Hunter King! We hadn't even gotten in here, and yet you've already killed the Mother Beast… It's just pity about those girls who were infected," the bald Captain said.
"They're all alive," the man on the beast said.
The bald Captain immediately surveyed the area, and realized that girls were climbing out of the carcasses of the green demonesses, looking extremely exhausted. Their skin was as white as paper, some of them looked like their nutrients had been completely drained. They were so skinny that they were basically just skin and bones.
"Then… the kid killed the Mother Beast??" the bald Captain asked hesitantly.
The Hunter King nodded.
This ending also went against the expectations of the Hunter King, because some of the monitors had revealed that the Mother Beast's strength had already reached the Warrior level!
"Go help them, don't let these girls have any more traumatic experiences," the Hunter King said.
"Yes, yes!" The bald Captain hadn't completely regained his senses, but he hastily instructed the rescue team to take care of the girls!
Chapter 198 - Angel in his Heart
Mo Fan, Mo Fan…" the little loli, Lingling, anxiously ran toward the stage.
"Brat, I am here," Mo Fan was laying there and tiredly waved his hand toward her.
Mo Fan had no energy left to crawl up. When the battle ended, the wound on his body suddenly began to flare up. It was so painful that he couldn't stand properly.
"You… you are bleeding a lot," Lingling saw that Mo Fan's face was covered in blood, her eyes couldn't help but redden.
Before they entered the gymnasium, Mo Fan was indeed jumping around looking like a hero. However, right now, who knew how many wounds there were on his body. Especially the two wounds on his cheeks; one that cut from his forehead to the bridge of nose, and the other from one cheek to the other. Lingling could imagine just how dangerous it was for Mo Fan to battle against that female demoness. She knew that if this wound was a tad bit deeper, he would've lost his life.
Looking at Lingling, who always seemed so dignified, about to cry, Mo Fan couldn't help but smile.
This brat is a little lady after all.
The rescue team quickly sent a Healing Magician over.
"Will this disfigure my face?" Mo Fan couldn't help but ask as he looked at the Healing Magician in her white uniform.
"No, this kind of scar won't last long before it goes away," the Healer smiled as she began to heal Mo Fan's wounds.
The mystical ability of Healing Magic was something Mo Fan had witnessed before. As expected, the deep flesh wounds was healing at a pace he could see with his n.a.k.e.d eyes under the silky white ray, and even the wound on his face was slowly regenerating!
"You didn't die after all this, I really admire that." Zhao Manyan walked over as he watched Mo Fan being healed.
Zhao Manyan himself wasn't in good shape, either. Up on the third floor, he had fended off at least twenty different green demoness. From the scars on his body, one could tell that he had also encountered a life threatening situation.
"Alright, go and retrieve your achievements. Don't forget my Lightning Spirit Seed," Mo Fan said to Zhao Manyan.
"Then I won't be polite," Zhao Manyan nodded his head as he looked at the chaotic venue. "When you possess the Lightning Spirit Seed, I presume you will be able to enter the main campus with a good attitude."
"Main Campus?" Mo Fan asked while puzzled.
"Don't you know? Azure Campus is in fact what Pearl Institute calls… the outer courtyard. This place is the gathering of the largest quantity of the people who have been accepted to the Pearl Institute. All of those who have successfully entered the school are allowed to stay here for four years. However, as long as their strength achieves a certain level, they will be allowed to engage in the Main Campus Examination. You can go and ask any of the thirty thousand students within the Azure Campus. Which one of them are not putting in their greatest effort to cultivate just so they can enter the Main Campus?" Zhao Manyan sat next to him, he wasn't in a hurry to retrieve the achievement reward.
Zhao Manyan still felt confused as to how Mo Fan was able to save the lives of all the girls who were affected, they were all spirits which Mo Fan had worked hard to defeat. After the event those girls will be so thankful to the hero which saved their lives, but the glory was supposed to belong to Mo Fan, I feel so guilty taking it for myself...
