Chapter 159: First fight as an arcane team (1/2)

Chapter 159: First fight as an arcane team

The exchange between Ferguillo and the Hawkmoon substitute immediately ignited the strained atmosphere.

“I’ll handle Massay!” Audrey coldly hissed moments after Massay’s shout.

Her pure-white hair fluttered back; her eyes suddenly turned white.

“Breath of the Icefire Dragon!”

The overwhelming power of a pale-white breath appeared in front of her in a strange mixture of ice and fire, charging in Massay’s direction.

“Crazy woman, she directly used a taboo skill!”

Massay had originally looked as though he still wanted to issue some orders, but his expression suddenly changed when the fearsome breath soared in front of Audrey.

“Hell Chaos – Immortal!”

He joined his hands together and made more than a dozen hand seals in an instant, then compressed the arcane particles gushing out of him into strange shapes, like small cards fluttering around him.

Layer upon layer of yellow earth spurted under his feet, quickly enclosing him tight inside.

Audrey’s attack was clearly aimed at Massay, yet the other five around Massay were also frightened when she launched her skill. All of them flashed away.

“Skunk Devil Summoning!” someone chanted in a clear voice just then.

With a “Puff,” a yellow fog of stench spread over this battlefield.

“…”

Charlotte almost passed out on the spot.

She wanted to ask just how much Ayrin loved this skill. The present situation was clearly a matter of life and death. Judging by what the Hawkmoon substitute showed as soon as he went into action, these substitutes from various teams had little fame, but had clearly been hiding their real strength all along. All of them were fearsome opponents.

Even Audrey had immediately used the strongest innate skill of her dragon bloodline, but Ayrin still used a skill like that at a time like this.

Everyone’s face turned green. They chanted while afraid to breathe.

And the thing that made them most want to puke out blood was, not one of them dared to launch an extra skill to scatter this startling stench. Because, in a fight like this, the hint of something unexpected, or perhaps the casting of an extra skill, could leave an opening for the opponent. And then, the price you paid with was your life.

“Let me handle Shinro,” Ferguillo faintly said.

In this strained atmosphere, everyone else was very astonished he could still speak in such an environment.

They all saw at the periphery of their visions Ferguillo flashing to the side, straight in front of Shinro.

“Can his arcane skill even be used to keep the stink at bay?”

Seeing the feathers glinting with gem-like light seemingly staying entirely still around him, they couldn’t help but give rise to such a thought.

“Fizzle!”

At this time, Audrey’s icefire dragon breath crashed against the thick layers of yellow earth surrounding Massay, making the sound of a blaze crashing against water.

A crater immediately appeared where the icefire dragon breath struck. However, the strange yellow earth was growing at a frantic pace, using up the dragon breath’s power.

A blue light appeared without a sound or trace behind Ferguillo as he faced Shinro.

But all of a sudden, this blue light quickly retreated and crashed with a bang into the wall behind.

A skeleton-shaped shadow wearing a royal crown flashed where the blue light had stopped, then disappeared. A black fire erupted in the air.

Ivan’s figure appeared not far behind Ferguillo. He coldly said to Chirade, the one wearing a Sea Gale uniform and who’d crashed into the wall, “Chirade, your opponent is me.”

“What skill is this?”

At the same moment, Joyce was seeing something entirely different from the others.

The ground at his feet had entirely become dark bubbling energy. His surroundings were empty, without a trace of Ayrin or Audrey or anyone else. There no building in sight either.

His body slowly sank inside the black energy as though there was another strange world underneath.

…

Ayrin’d never experienced a chaotic battle where two arcane teams faced each other, so his subconsciousness had launched “Skunk Devil Summoning,” a skill he merely thought could disturb every enemy.

When he’d originally launched it, the greater part of his attention was focused on Shinro, because Holy Dawn Academy and Silver Trout Academy were in the same group and he’d seen Shinro’s match with his own eyes. He’d also learned two skills especially to cope with Shinro. So he subconsciously thought he should be the one to handle Shinro.

“Ferguillo immediately went to face Shinro. H’s definitely confident he can win.”

His eyes swept through the others when he saw Ferguillo directly going to Shinro.