Chapter 676 - It’s Coming Again (1/2)

Chapter 676 It’s Coming Again

It was a strengthened version of the earth fire eruption spell!

The spell wasn’t the best choice to deal area damage, mainly because it required too much time to cast.

At first, one had to condense magic power beneath the ground and heat it, until the flames and magma erupted from the soil.

It was extremely powerful, but during the long period of magic power concentration, anyone who wasn’t an idiot would sense the magic power below as well as the rising temperature of the ground.

Then they would flee.

This spell could be used to deal with immobile targets, such as buildings.

But that was only if the enemy had no Mages, because the concentration of flames required delicate magic control that could easily falter if someone disrupted it.

Therefore… The spell was mainly used to deal with military garrisons that had no Mages, or huge buildings in the enemy’s possession.

However, under normal circumstances, every place that could afford a troop was usually protected by a Mage.

For that reason, the eruption of flames could only be used against weaker enemies, such as bandits who had set up a nest on a mountain.

Most Mages only learned this spell to expand their collection of spells and practice their control of magic power.

However, Roland found that this spell had an excellent advantage: it was powerful, very powerful!

Also, it didn’t cost too much mana.

If the long-time preparation for the spell could be skipped, it would be a very powerful AOE spell.

So, Roland had spent a lot of time optimizing the model of this spell.

However, he failed to find any way to optimize it after working on it for a month.

The creator of the spell had already optimized the model.

Even though Roland could further improve it with the database he established with math models, he couldn’t cause any qualitative changes. Then, Roland changed his mindset. Since the spell model had been internally optimized, he could strengthen it with external methods.

What if it was embedded into a magic array?

Later, Roland combined them and created a Volcanic Eruption Magic Array.

It was more powerful and had a higher eruption speed and a greater coverage.

But it had shortcomings too.

He had to set up the magic array beforehand, and a ruby gem was needed as a catalyst to boost the reaction of the fire elements.

It was much more costly than before.

But it was all worth it. The pillar of flames with a thirty-meter radius rose to the sky and shivered like a fountain.

The eruption didn’t stop until twenty seconds later.

Red masses of lava were everywhere on the hill.

Fire was spreading.

Roland put on a smile.

From the picture that the magic spiders sent back, he saw that a dozen Druids were drowned by the flames and vaporized without even letting out a scream.

Aslan was the only exception. Because he was the strongest, and thanks to the shocking intuitions as a wild Druid, he jumped aside and narrowly dodged the eruption.

But because he was too close to the source, the unbelievably high temperature of the flames ignited his magic robe. He was so scared that he rolled on the ground to extinguish the flames. Then, he turned into a purple leopard and rushed to the top of the hill frantically.

The leopard that a Druid turned into was stealthy, but it would still be revealed when running at a high speed.

Roland floated in midair and looked at the hill that had been set ablaze.

When the purple leopard rushed amidst the flames that were as bright as day, it was as obvious as a flea on the head of a baldy.

Because he was too afraid, Aslan didn’t notice at all that someone had locked onto him from the dark sky.

He was scared, very scared.

As a spellcaster, he had recognized that the spell that killed his partners was earth fire eruption.

He wasn’t capable of casting the spell, but he knew its mechanism, features, and effects.

Everybody who was associated with spells had a “Magic Common Sense” rating.

It wasn’t a perk or ability, but simply one’s knowledge and understanding of the magic world and spells.

It revealed how many spells one could recognize so that one could avoid them.

If you know yourself and your enemy well, you can’t lose a single battle.

If you know a lot of spells, even if you don’t know how to use them, you can still infer what spell an enemy is going to cast based on his gestures or magic power flow; then you will be able to react in advance to counter it, which will give you an edge.

Aslan knew magic quite well. If the full mark of “Magic Common Sense” was a hundred points, he could get at least 75 points.

The moment the flames erupted, he had already determined the name and effects of the spell.

But he didn’t understand why this spell released no magic waves whatsoever when it was prepared, or why it was so powerful and had such a huge coverage.

That was uncanny!

Who was trying to kill him?

A near-Legendary evoking Mage?

That was possible!

Only such a big shot could’ve possibly cast the spell in such a weird way.

But he didn’t remember ever pissing off such a person!

The only person that he had pissed off recently was… Roland.

Was Roland backed by such a strong supporter?

Could it be his teacher? The more he thought about it, the more surprised Aslan became. He ran at full speed in the leopard’s body.

In any case, he had to escape the flames and then hide with the stealth talent. He could then slip back to the Elf Forest and ask for his elven teacher’s help.

If that guy called for reinforcements, so could he.

Besides, he had already sent a message earlier. A hundred Druids were already coming to Hollevin at this moment. If he joined them, not only would his life be secured, but he could also launch a counterattack on Delpon.

He would not believe that a hundred Druids could not conquer a small city of human beings!

However, exactly at this moment, he sensed a concentration of abundant magic power in the high altitudes behind him.

He turned back his leopard head, only to be too frightened to move.

An overwhelming number of Arcane Bullets were descending on him like rain.

Each of the Arcane Bullets was as huge as a fist.