Chapter 740: The end of the fight (1/2)
Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce
In spite of Guild Leader Loki's assurance, the feeling of anxiousness that the staff is currently feeling right now grew bigger and bigger in the same way as the fire that consumed the vine trap did. Inside of his mind, he is currently debating whether he should disregard any rules and regulations and save Edi before it is too late. That is because the latter doesn't need to die in the Battle Competition. Above all, there are no grudges involved between Guild Leader Loki and Edi, at least as far as he knows, nor is Edi even a hidden member of the Naughty Elves Organization that had secretly participated in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition. In his opinion, it would be such a waste to let a talented young man like Edi die when there are so many things that he could possibly achieve and help in the Emerald Tree Kingdom if he remains alive.
Seeing the staff's worried look on his face, Leo simply shook his head in response and focused his attention again on his burning vine trap.
At this moment, the Wind Elemental that he had secretly ordered to go inside the vine trap has already started doing its job, which is to direct all the smoke produced by the burning vines straight towards Edi so he could inhale it.
That was his so-called plan that he had prepared to save Edi's life and prevent him from dying inside his trap. Once Edi inhaled enough smoke that his lungs could take, he would fall unconscious. Hence, the fight would immediately be declared over, and at the same time he's going to be the winner.
By the time that Edi is unconscious, he would instantly cancel everything to prevent things from worsening. The staff would then go and save Edi, thus saving the latter's life from the hands of death.
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Currently, Edi has retreated to the earth wall and cornered himself to that location while at the same time trying to look for a way for him to escape from this vine trap.
Initially, Edi planned to cast some Magic spells to get himself out of this place quickly before anything terrible happened to him. After all, as a Mage, if things can't be solved through physical means, he can always choose to use Magic instead. However, a strange thing took place, specifically a considerable amount of smoke suddenly went in his direction. This smoke was so thick that it prevented him from saying anything. Otherwise, he would inhale plenty of it, meaning to say that he could no longer cast any Magic spells anymore. Because of this, his only possible way to escape was completely cut-off.
”What is going on? Cough! Cough… Why are all the smokes coming straight towards me?” Edi asked himself in curiosity as he noticed that all the smoke produced by the burning vines would instantly go straight towards his direction the moment it was formed. It was no doubt a mind-boggling sight to see.
”There is only one explanation for this…” Edi could only think of one person to cause all of this, and that is none other than Guild Leader Loki.
”If this is indeed the case, then as long as I… I destroy the Magic spell that Guild Leader Loki had cast…, then I might just be able to start casting Magic spells again and finally escape from this place,” Edi expressed his thoughts with a bit of excitement.
With that in mind, Edi didn't waste any time and started looking for the cause of why the smoke would go straight to him. However, there was just one problem.
”There is no center point where the wind would gather first before going straight at me. It's as if like I am a magnet that attracts all the wind… Me?” Edi suddenly thought of something that prompted him to look at himself. To his disappointment, though, even after looking thoroughly at his entire body, he was still unable to find anything suspicious.
Even then, Edi still doesn't want to give up. So, he quickly tried to look behind him, thinking that maybe it wasn't in or on his body, but rather it was behind him, for example, the earth wall. But just like the last time, he was still unable to find anything after spending significantly enough time that he could afford to use in his current state right now to look for it.
”Shit, this isn't good anymore,” Edi realized that if he allowed things to continue developing in this way, then he'd have no other choice soon but to accept his Fate and give up in the Battle Competition before he dies here.
”Is there really no other way left?” Edi continued looking around his surrounding, hoping that he'd find the cause and stop it to save himself. However, the smoke has already thickened enough to prevent him from seeing anything. He could hardly even see his hands, let alone finding his target.
All of a sudden, Edi started feeling dizzy and his sight also started getting blurry for him to see anything clear in front of him. He weakly muttered, ”Eh? What is going on with me…? Oh… I must have inhaled a lot of smoke already without me noticing… I guess this is the end… of me…”
Bang!