Chapter 88: The menace of evil (2/2)
Standing there in the field, all its body radiated an ice-cold, wild and untamed killing intent.
“An Icestorm Bear!”
“This is a giant beast from the snow plains in the northern territories. Even a high-level arcane master with three open gates might not be enough to handle this beast by himself!”
“What’s going on, isn’t it an arcane skill? This is a real beast!”
The stands erupted after a second of stillness.
Everyone near the the front of the stands could clearly see the heavy breaths of this huge bear covered in ice and snow, its eyes blood-red, radiating an unfriendly and ruthless aura all over, snorting white puffs of air.
“It’s a spatial skill!”
“This icestorm bear was originally raised in some place, and this unique arcane skill can establish a special link between the user and the bear, and open a spatial tunnel!”
“What! This girl from Agate Lake Academy is a beast knight?!”
The crowd clamored. On the edge of the field in Agate Lake Academy’s preparation area, captain Sofia of team Agate Lake exposed pride and excitement on her face.
With a genius freshman like Nikita, entering the national tournament this year was a hundred percent certain thing!
On the other side, all the members of team White Stone were like ashes.
“Ah!”
Everyone saw the first member fighting for White Stone Academy summon his courage and rush forward, but the two pillars of fire his hands sent out merely left two black imprints on the huge icestorm bear’s body.
He shouted loudly in fear; the icestorm bear directly slapped his body flying in the air with a huge paw.
White Stone Academy wasn’t an especially strong team to begin with. Every one of them felt themselves crumble as soon as they saw this scene.
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Dragon-Battling Arena was so noisy that almost no one heard the alarms in St. Lauren. This place seemed to have temporarily transformed into a small country of its own.
“Whoosh.”
A dozen shadows suddenly shot in its direction like bolts of lightning, so fast no one could see them, and encircled the entire arena.
“You guys are too slow.” A lazy voice came from the top of the arena the moment these dozen shadows stopped separately on the square outside the arena.
“Whoosh.” With another air-tearing sound, an arcane master with fiery hair dropped on the roof of arena, carrying on his back two magic crystal blades that could amplify the effect from arcane particles.
“Liszt, we don’t have to worry about that guy running inside the arena since you’re already here. We can participate in the search now,” this arcane master said, looking with some joy at Liszt in front of him.
“Go then. But since even Morgan’s giant volcan can’t cope with him, you guys have to search in teams of five at least, or else you’ll be in mortal danger,” Liszt said with a nod.
When the fiery-haired arcane master turned around and was about to leave, Liszt suddenly added after a small hesitation, “Oh right, help me notify the royal law-keeping committee as fast as possible and let them send some people to investigate.”
“The royal law-keeping committee?” This fiery-haired arcane master froze all of a sudden, his voice becoming a little weird as well. “Don’t tell me you suspect Evil Dragon followers of having something to do with this incident?”
“I wouldn’t have needed to come out if not for this suspicion.” Liszt rubbed his chin as was his habit. “We haven’t been able to catch that man yet, we already missed the best opportunity to surround and capture him. An opponent of this level is enough to dispatch a specialized arcane team to investigate, whether it’s an Evil Dragon follower or not.”
“Alright, I got it.” The fiery-haired arcane master didn’t say anything further. A dozen silhouettes broke through the air. He and the these other arcane masters vanished once again from the surroundings of the Dragon-Battling Arena, as quickly as they appeared.
“In the era of the War of the Dragons, there were actually many beast knights like this who could summon huge beasts. Now arcane masters like these are hard to come by, I didn’t think another one would emerge from St. Lauren. This girl from Agate Lake Academy should be a descendant of the northern Frost Giants. However, aren’t yetis or snow demon wolves the favorite summons of these Frost Giant descendants?” Liszt turned around and looked at the tall girl in the center of the field, his expression becoming inexplicably grave once again. He whispered to himself, “Could their influence have spread to such a degree already, for assassinations targeted against geniuses to appear even in a place like this?”
“That said, an assassination attempt occurred in broad daylight in their academy, and they even let the man run away, and the reason why it failed was even because of a student of our Holy Dawn Academy. Payton and these guys must have really black faces now.” After several seconds, he recovered his expression that seemed lazy even if the sky were about to fall. He muttered. “This guy Ayrin, I really can’t see through him.”