Chapter 114: Betrayal (1/2)

Chapter 114: Betrayal

“Ah!”

Moss screamed miserably.

Several black cup-sized burn traces suddenly appeared on him. His whole body fell heavily back on the ground under the impact from the fireballs.

“Swish!” “Swish!” “Swish!”

Ayrin successfully dodged five or six times in quick succession within a range of a dozen meters.

The scarlet fireballs seemed to completely cover the air in front of Paul. Yet, against all expectations, none of them landed on Ayrin!

“What!”

Forcibly resisting his acute pain, already utterly frightened, Paul continued to shoot scarlet fireballs nonstop, fiercely jumping backward at the same time.

Drawing support from the blockade of the dense fireballs, he was once again more than a dozen meters away from Ayrin.

But just at this instant, he heard Ayrin’s excited shout. “That should be good enough!”

“I probably won’t die if I fight like this.”

At this time, Ayrin lifted his left hand.

Along with the dazzling flash of arcane particles, a huge white ball of ice suddenly appeared between Paul and Ayrin.

This block of ice was still a few meters away from Paul.

“Boom!”

But Ayrin’s right fist pounded forward without the slightest pause. Icicles sputtered forward one after another. The white ball of ice suddenly became a crown of ice and snow.

“Ah!”

Paul shouted miserably. His scarlet fireballs landed one after another on this huge crown of ice and snow, but they simply couldn’t impede the crown’s advance. The crown’s spikes struck him dead center.

“Perfect! Coming out with this kind of display for his very first mission, this guy is truly born to be a battlemaster. His performance in a fight is always better than during training…”

Ciaran wasn’t even thirty meters away behind Paul at this time. She couldn’t hold back the admiration in her eyes when she saw the sharp spikes of the crown come in contact with Paul. She knew that Paul had already lost all his ability to fight.

“It’s over?”

Moss had climbed up from the ground only moments ago. Seeing Paul lying stiffly on the ground, a patch of ice and snow covering him, he felt dazzled for a moment, then suddenly very ashamed.

“I absolutely have to train as if my life were on the line, or else this guy is definitely going to make fun of me in the future.”

Thinking back on it, it seemed he didn’t help at all, apart from playing the bait at the beginning.

At this moment, seeing Ciaran suddenly flash beside Paul, Ayrin asked, “Teacher Ciaran, this guy shouldn’t die with you here, right?”

Then he turned around all smiles towards Moss, saying, “Brave warrior Moss, you did pretty well.”

“Are you praising me or are you mocking me!” Moss shouted gloomily.

“Of course I’m praising you. You were a very good bait!”

“Just a very good bait, I knew you’d say that!” Moss thought his vision was going to go black from anger.

“There’s no problem.” Ciaran said at this time, “You accomplished this mission very well.”

Paul was still struggling on the ground previously, but the moment he saw Ciaran’s face and the red scarf around her, his face instantly became deathly ashen.

“Skill-Destroying Seal!”

Ciaran suddenly moved her fingers at high speed. More than a dozen faint-blue bright star-like dots converged into one small rune after another, hitting Paul’s forehead.

Paul trembled fiercely, utter despair on his face.

“Teacher Ciaran, what arcane spell is that?” Ayrin and Moss had already come closer.

“A method that severs some nerve connections. It will substantially decrease his perception of arcane power for a dozen days or so, to the point that he won’t be able to sense the level of his arcane gates at all.”

“If he can’t sense his arcane gates, then doesn’t that mean that he can’t even use his arcane particles or any arcane skills?”

“Right.” Ciaran nodded. “Search him first.”

“So these are spring-type metallic weapons?”

Very soon, Moss and Ayrin removed three bronze-colored metallic components from Paul’s arms and back.

Seen from the front side, these were metallic plates as thick as two gold coins added together, with some grooves and patterns on them. However, they were greatly taken aback once they flipped them over.

On the back, beneath a thin slice of metal with many holes in it, many springs and gears were clearly visible, like labyrinths of metal full of a unique charm that could even suck someone’s soul inside.