Chapter 72: Practice is the best way to improve strength. Dark magic...
The little girl with twin ponytails was very proud. She condensed ice arrows in her hands again and flew straight towards the people whose hands and feet were bound.
But a magical scene appeared. Before the ice arrow touched a few people, it was shattered into ice chips under the influence of the hurricane.
"Harrison! What's going on?" the red-haired little girl said dissatisfiedly.
Harrison clearly hadn't anticipated this situation. Logically, Wind Binding had no defensive capabilities. He quickly figured out the reason. After a second of silence, Harrison slowly said, "Perhaps it's because Wind Binding is a high-level spell, immune to any spell below it."
"Then how can they be my targets!" the little red-haired girl screamed, her voice very shrill.
Harrison was not impatient, but said respectfully: "Miss, I will remove my magic before your ice arrow arrives. Please enjoy your fun."
"What if these bad guys get away?"
"No, I will catch them back before they escape." Harrison was very confident.
The little red-haired girl nodded with satisfaction. "Okay, let's do it. Mother is right. You are indeed very smart."
The little girl's tone was filled with the arrogance of a superior, yet it didn't elicit the slightest resentment from Harrison. This was definitely not the attitude of a parent towards a child. Such flattery and tolerance must have been a remarkable figure; no wonder she'd developed such a spoiled personality. This made Shen Jiang unable to help but return his attention to the little girl.
The little girl's new round of ice arrows was quickly ready to go. She loved this new and exciting game so much that she couldn't help but shout, "I'm going to start, Harrison!"
Harrison cooperated in a deep voice: "Okay, Miss."
Five ice arrows flew towards Shen Jiang and the others. Because the little girl's magic talent and control were very average, the number of ice arrows in her hand was not only less than the number of people bound, but also the positions at which they pierced each person's body were not fixed.
Harrison is indeed a high-level magician. His precise control over magic is beyond everyone's imagination. The trajectory of the ice arrow perfectly alternates with the disappearance of the wind restraint, leaving no gap in between for anyone to escape.
But there were also surprises.
One of the five ice arrows was in front of Ellis. Just when the ice arrow was about to pierce his chest, Ellis recited the last sentence of the magic spell. The magic took effect immediately and his figure disappeared out of thin air.
not good!
Harrison used Wind Binding without a second thought to protect the little red-haired girl. He had already checked the magic level of the other group, and found that they were all far below his own, and could not cause him any harm at all.
Protecting Miss Nabibi's safety is the top priority. She is of noble status, and he cannot escape blame even if she suffers a minor injury.
With time running out, Harrison focused all his attention on Nabibi. He didn't take Ellis's silent shadowy presence seriously when it appeared behind him.
It is impossible for a magician of this level to hurt him.
To Harrison's surprise, this low-level magician turned out to be a dark magician. He threw out a ball of darkness. This simple trick made Harrison's front temporarily dark, but Harrison still relied on his extraordinary hearing to throw a wind blade behind him.
The sound of flesh being pierced made Harrison's mouth curl up slightly. He knew that it was his wind blade that pierced the fragile skin of one of the poor little creatures.
But soon, Harrison's smile came to an abrupt end. He touched his chest in surprise, but did not feel any beating there. Instead, it felt empty.
"How could this be..." Harrison's face was full of disbelief, but no matter how unwilling he was, he still fell to the ground dejectedly and powerlessly.
Ellis and Priest stood face to face, Priest's eyes gleaming in the darkness. The two looked at each other knowingly, and were obviously very satisfied with this tacit understanding that came from no prior arrangement but with incredible cooperation.
Priest: "You kid, you can't tell, but you are much better than your sister."
Ellis smiled harmlessly.
Ellis had been practicing magic quietly all this time. He had no choice. He had awakened dark magic, which possessed extremely destructive power. This had caused him to suffer many "accidental injuries" during his early practice, preventing him from practicing freely.
Their family was staying with a relative outside of Porto Port, a small, lonely old lady who was very welcoming of their arrival and their stay. However, since Ellis awakened his dark magic talent, he had trouble controlling it and nearly collapsed the house during practice.
Although the kind and elderly elder didn't blame him, Ellis had to practice outside the house cautiously since then. But it was still very inconvenient. Ellis's original amazing explosive power combined with the destructive power of dark magic, despite his extreme restraint, still caused many "tragedies".
These included, but were not limited to, appearing from nowhere in a shadow, shocking several innocent passersby and blowing up Susan Boyle's chicken coop next door. Later, Ellis simply went to the wasteland outside town to practice alone. Due to the extremely destructive nature of dark magic, Ellis remained silent while others demonstrated their achievements.
When Ellis heard the powerful magician say that he would remove the magic that bound them, his eyes quickly lit up.
Where there are shadows, there is room for dark magic. He could finally show the witch the fruits of his recent hard work.
Just as the red-haired girl called out to Harrison to get ready, Ellis was also chanting a magic spell. There was only one chance to launch a surprise attack, and that was the first one. Only when the enemy was at their most relaxed and defenseless could they be caught off guard and killed.
Priest also planned to take advantage of this opportunity to launch a surprise attack. He was a vampire and had no magic, so Harrison judged his strength based solely on his magic level, which in itself was a kind of arrogance that came with being a magician.
But Priest didn't expect that someone rushed forward and made the perfect cooperation for his attack.
On this side, Shen Jiang used the vines to entangle the ice arrow, and Catherine used fireball to melt the ice arrow. Beatrice was lucky enough to escape because she was not targeted by the ice arrow. The wind restraint on her body did not disappear until Harrison died.
But Cecilia was not so lucky. The ice arrow pierced her collarbone and blood kept flowing out. As the ice was melted by her body temperature, the blood spurted out directly, which looked very terrifying.
Shen Jiang hurried to her side, and when he saw her, he gasped.
I don't know whether the little girl did it on purpose, but the ice arrow actually pierced Cecilia's artery. In this situation, the herbs in her hand could not stop Cecilia's wound at all, and she would die from excessive blood loss!
As soon as Beatrice was freed, she rushed to her mother and cried, "Mistress Witch, please save my mother."
The little red-haired girl was originally very dissatisfied with Harrison's use of wind binding to restrain her, but when she saw someone die because of her ice arrow, she was very happy and couldn't help but shouting excitedly: "I hit it! Harrison, did you see it!"
Ellis threw a black blast at her. The strong explosion damage turned the red-haired girl's originally tightly tied hair into an afro, and her face was covered with burn marks.
"Ah! My face! I'm going to kill you!"
The little red-haired girl didn't finish her words because her cursing and screaming were too loud, so Ellis stabbed her in the same place on her neck.
Nabibi touched her neck in disbelief, feeling the blood in her body rapidly draining away. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but only made loud breathing sounds.
"Mom, are you okay?" After Ellis dealt with the red-haired little girl, he immediately rushed to his mother.
Shen Jiang applied Sanqi to Cecilia and covered her gallbladder wound with his hand, but blood continued to flow from between her fingers, which made Shen Jiang feel extremely sad and helpless. As everyone knows, the speed of this blood loss is exactly the speed at which Cecilia's life is slipping away.
"My Lord Witch, please save her!" Catherine knelt on the ground with tears in her eyes.
Shen Jiang said in a deep voice: "I'll try."
The only thing she could do now was to use magic to heal Cecilia, but Shen Jiang had no experience in this area before, so she was completely groping in the dark. Therefore, her face was very heavy.
Originally, if she could use the light magic of light healing, Cecilia might really be able to save her life, but her current level is still at a primary stage, and she has no way to use the intermediate light healing magic.
Shen Jiang tried to summon the Flower of Life, but the healing effect of this large-scale auxiliary combat was too slow. Cecilia's face became paler and paler. Even Priest could see that the black witch was struggling.
He estimated that this smiling middle-aged woman would die here.
Shen Jiang was so engrossed in the exercise that she nearly collapsed after just a few seconds. Fortunately, she was in the heart of a lush forest, where a constant supply of wood-attribute energy flowed from the ground into Shen Jiang's body.
Shen Jiang's eyes lit up. This forest was her huge power source. If she used herself as a fuse to absorb the energy of the forest, would it be possible to repair Cecilia's ruptured blood vessels?
Shen Jiang did not hesitate. Fortunately, before practicing, she had roughly studied the structural principles in the magic book and fully understood the basic principles of constructing those magic circles. So she simply tried to use the wood magic energy in the forest to summon vines wrapped with life force to entangle Cecilia's blood vessels.
As time passed, Shen Jiang's face gradually turned pale due to the exhaustion.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the bleeding on Cecilia's neck. Only Shen Jiang could feel, with the help of the extremely thin vines, that Cecilia's fragile blood vessel was slowly being wrapped up.
At the last moment, the great pressure made the bleeding more severe. Shen Jiang gritted his teeth and completed the last part of the vine in one go.
"Mom's bleeding has stopped!" Beatrice sobbed. "Mister Witch, thank you!"
Shen Jiang let out a long breath. After such a long period of concentration, coupled with the massive absorption and release of magical energy, her physical strength had completely dried up. She felt like she had been pulled out of the water, dripping wet. Catherine caught her exhausted body just in time.
"Are you okay?" Catherine said gratefully. "You've worked hard."
Shen Jiang waved her hand. She took out some Qi-replenishing herbs like angelica and astragalus from the golden dragon scales and whispered, "Boil them into a potion and give it to Cecilia."
Beatrice's eyes lit up. Whenever the witch took out the potion and prepared to boil it, it meant that the person could be saved. Her mother, brother and White Tiger had all been cured in this way before.
"Okay, I'll go and boil the medicine right away!" Beatrice started looking for a container nearby to boil the medicine without thinking.
Because the wood elemental aura in this forest was so rich, Shen Jiang's body quickly recovered. Furthermore, she could clearly feel that her energy channels had become more resilient due to the extreme tempering she had just undergone. The turbid energy in her body was completely cleared, and she felt incredibly light.
Shen Jiang had never expected that exceeding his physical limits would lead to such unexpected gains.
She tried to imitate the most basic magic of light magic. She had tried several times before but failed. This time, a small beam of light followed the direction of her finger and gently fell on Cecilia.
Cecilia slowly opened her eyes.
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