Chapter 115: Unwilling to Give Up
Time goes back to an earlier time, in another area of the Elosia plane.
At the edge of the swamp, Bert Vera Augusta led a small team, struggling through the mud.
In addition to her, the team also includes two other apprentices from the Nolen No. 13 Academy who are also very capable.
They are all carefully selected by Augusta and are talented in their respective fields.
If it were a few years ago, Augusta's team would definitely not be so shabby.
But during the years when she was concentrating on her studies, Horn poached most of her followers, and now the two remaining ones only stayed because they were from the same Augusta family.
But Augusta doesn't feel much about this now.
After arriving in the Elosia plane, she also secretly collected intelligence and successfully promoted to a first-level wizard on the way to the camp.
Unlike Team Jemin, Augusta, after entering the Eloxia plane, quickly adopted a more efficient strategy with his excellent judgment and family background.
As the most talented eldest daughter of the Augusta family, she easily found a wizard of the same clan in the camp—her aunt, a senior third-level wizard stationed at the camp.
With this relationship, she quickly established her own personal connections and intelligence network in this unfamiliar camp.
At this moment, Augusta received the task of clearing a "Corrupted Swamp Fortress" located deep in the swamp.
This is one of the core faiths of a powerful evil god in the Elosia plane. Inside the fortress resides a powerful "corrupted priest" - a second-level creature, as well as hundreds of swamp creatures and fanatics corrupted by the evil god's power.
In the past, these evil gods and cultists were suppressed in the depths of darkness by the gods of Elosia, but with the start of the plane war, they not only re-emerged on the stage of history, but even reached an agreement with the gods to jointly fight against wizards.
Compared with believers in righteous gods, these unscrupulous and fanatical pagans are more of a headache for wizards.
The few times that second-level wizards died during the Elosia Planar War were all caused by these pagans.
To the wizards, these pagans were like poisonous insects; they never knew when they would come out and bite them.
Therefore, within the wizard camp, there are quite a lot of tasks regarding dealing with these pagans.
With detailed intelligence, Augusta easily locked onto their fortress.
However, when she approached with the team, Augusta couldn't help but frown: "Attention!"
The strong corrosive smell emanating from the Corrupted Swamp Fortress was like an invisible toxin, beginning to weaken the vitality of the wizards.
As the entire fortress's defense system was alarmed, corrupted creatures crawled out from the depths of the swamp. They were huge in number, fearless of death, and rushed towards the wizards like a tide.
The pagans can even summon poisonous fog and corrosive acid rain, and can continuously draw divine power from the core of the fortress to quickly heal their injuries.
Although Augusta's teammates were strong, they still had a hard time facing the tide of enemies and the priest's strange continuous recovery ability.
They felt their mental strength being rapidly depleted and their attack efficiency was far lower than expected.
The swamp was muddy, and the air was filled with stench and corrosive power, making every spellcasting extremely difficult.
"We can't go on like this, we'll be exhausted to death here!" a teammate shouted.
Augusta looked at the fortress in front of him expressionlessly and slowly raised his hand.
As Augusta took action, the sky began to change.
The clouds above the fortress quickly gathered under the pull of her mental power, forming a huge black vortex.
Lightning flashed inside the vortex and the thunder grew louder and louder, as if a thunder god was awakened by her call.
"Heavenly Punishment Thunder Prison!"
Augusta raised his hands high, like a god wielding thunder.
Her enormous mental power surged out like a flood bursting through a dam, resonating with the thunderclouds gathering in the sky.
The next second, dozens of purple lightning bolts as thick as tree trunks tore through the clouds and fell from the sky with the power to destroy the world!
Each of them carried destructive force and struck the swamp fortress with precision.
The first wave of thunder directly bombarded the corrupted creatures outside the fortress, vaporizing them instantly, leaving behind deep pits emitting burnt smoke, and the fishy smell of the swamp was burned away.
The second wave of thunder accurately bombarded the fallen priest who was surrounded by pagans.
The priest let out a shrill scream, and the poisonous fog and acid rain he summoned were instantly evaporated by lightning. The divine shield on his body shattered like glass under the continuous bombardment of lightning!
Augusta's body seemed to transform into a giant lightning hub. She drew the lightning into herself and then released it with even greater power.
Her hair was flying, arcs of electricity were swirling around her body, and her skin appeared translucent under the reflection of the electric light, as if she would turn into a pure lightning at any time.
The wizard's staff in her hand became scorching hot, and the runes flickered. This staff made during the apprenticeship stage could not withstand such a huge energy.
But Augusta turned a deaf ear to it. She was completely immersed in the extreme state of resonance with the thunder, like a source of light.
Large swathes of lightning easily wiped out the tide of corrupted enemies before them, evaporated the pervasive corrosive black fog, and continuously bombarded, penetrating the fortress's solid outer defenses.
When the interior of the fortress was completely exposed to the three people due to the collapse of the outer defense, Augusta and her teammates couldn't help but be shocked!
Because what appeared before his eyes was not only the seriously injured second-level fallen priest, but behind him, there were also more than a dozen other extraordinary people who were also second-level creatures!
They have undead in bone armor, barbarian chiefs holding totems, fanatical knights holding holy light, and even a few local wizards who seem to be hidden.
"Damn! This is a trap!" Augusta understood it instantly.
The situation suddenly fell into an unprecedented crisis.
More than a dozen second-level creatures launched an attack at the same time, and all kinds of magic, fighting spirit, spells and curses poured down like a rainstorm.
Although the three of them immediately used their respective high-level protective magic weapons to release shields and blocked the enemy's first wave of fierce attacks, the enemy also set up restrictions such as no-fly barriers and energy suppression fields, preventing them from escaping.
Even though she was the eldest daughter of the Augusta family, Bert Vera Augusta did not have as much wealth as Jermyn to be able to take out high-level magical weapons at will.
The high-level protective magical weapon on her body is already an extra trump card given by her family!
If the stalemate continues, her death will surely be the final outcome.
Looking at the group of cautious enemies surrounding him, who were like wolves ready to pounce at any time, Augusta couldn't help but close his eyes.
The image of Benjamin standing proudly during the academy trial seemed to appear before his eyes again.
She knew that she had worked hard enough and that her talent was enough to surpass most people.
But after the trial in the academy, Benjamin was like a shadow, always in front of her, moving forward in a way she couldn't understand.
No matter how hard she tried, he could always find a way to stand at a height she couldn't reach in a more astonishing way.
"I haven't lost yet!"
Augusta suddenly opened his eyes, and dazzling lightning flashed in his eyes, as if thunder exploded in his pupils.
She stopped her regular thunder magic, and the aura around her changed drastically again.
"Come...see what I've been working on these years!" She murmured softly, her voice making a faint crackling sound like electricity.
Ever since witnessing Jemin's strength in the trial a few years ago, Augusta put aside his previous arrogance and began to study hard like a true ascetic.
She was no longer content with ready-made witchcraft models.
Through years of study, she had dismantled all the witchcraft models she had previously purchased, and with her deep understanding of lightning knowledge, she independently constructed three new lightning witchcrafts.
Afterwards, based on her own understanding, in the process of being promoted to a first-level wizard, she combined the three lightning witchcrafts into one, and finally constructed the fourth, which is also her most core witchcraft model - electromagnetic control!
As Augusta exerted her full strength, the entire earth suddenly shook, as if responding to her call.
The muddy swamp reveals the fine sand hidden at the bottom.
Under the control of her powerful electromagnetic force, dense black metal sand particles flew up from the soil and quickly gathered around her as if attracted by a magnet.
Seeing this, the surrounding enemies also tried to break up the sand or burn it with divine flames.
But simple destruction of the form cannot affect Augusta's manipulation. As long as the metal itself exists, it can continue to manipulate it.
Metal sand from all over the mountains gathered behind her, making a slight friction sound, like a black tide.
Seeing this scene, the second-level creatures in ambush couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Augusta raised her finger with a cold expression, and under her control, the metal sand particles rushed towards the enemy like a tsunami!
Under Augusta's offensive, many enemies became exhausted for a while.
Under the stunned gaze of the two followers, this battle completely turned into Augusta's personal show.
Under her control, the iron sand formed into an iron whip, which lashed at the enemy with a sharp whistling sound, breaking its bones.
It will also condense into spikes in an instant, piercing the enemy from all angles.
As time went on, more and more metal gathered around him.
At most times, Augusta controlled hundreds of shuttles made of metal sand particles, which were more than ten meters long and two or three meters wide at their widest point!
These shuttles circled around her body, flying at high speeds, drawing trajectories in the air that were difficult to capture with the naked eye, causing high-speed impacts on the enemy.
(End of this chapter)
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