224 Hit the Mark by a Fluke (1/2)
Chapter 224: Hit the Mark by a Fluke
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
Having no time to think too much about it, Lucien instantly made a mirrored clone of himself and extended the cover of the fire shield to the clone as well. Careful as Lucien was, he even changed the side on which he wore the piece of monocle on the clone’s face.
It was the second-circle spell, Mirror, and it was one of the three second-circle spells that Lucien actually had their structures built inside his soul. The other two were Mechanized Mind and Maskelyne’s Acid Arrow.
As soon as his mirrored clone showed up, a green light ray hit the clone right in its chest and destroyed it instantly into pieces! Then the light ray did not just disappear but it reflected so fast that there was no way for Lucien to dodge, as the spell was cast by a sixth-circle sorcerer!
The green light directly hit the flame shield covering Lucien. The flames suddenly rose up and quickly broke down into red particles in the air.
The green light was a sixth-circle spell, Dissociation!
Lucien was lucky enough that his mirrored clone and flame shield gained him some time, so he managed to activate Fire Weaver’s Bracelet barely in time, or he would have been dissociated into those floating particles already!
Nevertheless, Lucien’s robe, Transformation, still got damaged. Strange blank patches appeared on his robe, as if they were taken away by an invisible eraser.
Lucien was in cold sweat. He could not imagine what would have happened to him without the protection of the three spells and the robe.
Furthermore, Lucien was lucky that his enemy’s Dissociation spell was not as powerful as he thought. After all, the Flame Shield enchanted in the bracelet was only a second-circle spell, and thus Lucien thought that his robe would be completely ruined when the green light came to him directly.
Lucien had learned a lot from his past fights. Right now he remained quite calm and activated the power of his partly-damaged magic robe.
At this time, the necromancer summoned mummies that were wrapped in black and rotten-smelling bandages. After the mummies climbed up from the ground, they all rushed at Lucien, who was still surrounded by red flame particles.
Like real knights, these mummies moved very fast. Among those mummies which were immune to spells under fifth-circle and physical attack from grand knights and below, there were also ghasts, which could exert some necromantic spells.
However, after the mummies and ghasts tore apart the flame shield, there was nothing in there.
Lucien was gone!
Standing in the air, the necromancer wearing a hood was a bit surprised, but soon, with his spiritual power, he murmured to himself, ”Umm… A hole in the ground… Mouse transformation…”
When the necromancer raised his hand, the ground started shaking violently, like an earthquake arrived.
Sixth-circle spell, Earth Shake!
The half-destroyed carriage swayed up and down together with the ground, and the coachman’s rotten body was broken into pieces. The human who had been thrown over the coach from a great height was stilly lying there, seemingly completely dead.
While in the sophisticatedly constructed system of mouse holes under the ground, Lucien, who was right now a red-eyed mouse, felt the great power as the ground shook violently. Knowing that if he stayed there any longer he might be buried alive, Lucien had no chance but to go back to the surface.
As soon as Lucien dismissed the spell and returned to his human-being form, he was ready to activate his ring, Element, to try his very best to survive.
Lucien never expected that he could escape from the attack of a senior-rank sorcerer, so what he had been doing was to waste the necromancer’s time, hoping that the senior-rank sorcerers and archmages of the Will of Elements nearby could notice what was going on here and came to rescue him.
However, as time went by, Lucien realized that at that moment they were probably too busy studying the Mind of Nature to pay attention to him.
At the same time, when Lucien came back to the ground, he finally recognized the man who was thrown on the coach and was right now lying beside the remaining pieces of the transport—it was Felipe from the Hand of Paleness! He was killed by another necromancer!
Lucien was shocked.
In the air, Traquair’s eyes were shining with red light that pierced through the darkness under his hood. He was ready to cast Death Stare, a sixth-circle spell, on Lucien!
Just at the same time, a dim light shot out from Felipe’s chest, and it immediately froze all the black mummies and ghasts within in fifty-meter radius. Then, the mummies and ghasts just exploded silently all at once!
The dark gas produced by the explosion then turned into a long sword covered with weird-looking eyes. Very swiftly, the sword directly hacked at Traquair.
Dark Sword, a seventh-circle spell enchanted in Felipe’s Immortal Throne amulet! This spell could not only control the movement of the dead, but also collect the power of death, which could degrade the power of the one struck by the spell by one circle. Without some kind of special rites, the affected would never be able to recover from it!
Surprisingly, Felipe did not die. He was just pretending, and then he gave the enemy a totally unexpected strike at the most critical moment.
After the bitter fight with Felipe in the air, Traquair had already consumed all his protection spells. Felipe also used some spell which looked quite similar to Dark Sword before, so Traquair was not alert enough to avoid the attack.