Chapter 183 (1/2)
Chapter 183: The Terrifying Giant Demon!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
At the East Cove Magic Academy.
Because of Tarviss’ sudden appearance, the Magicians of the academy had been rooted to the spot with fear and terror. Even the prisoners who had just broken free from the Azura Tower weren’t pleased with the sight of the demon’s release.
“Lord of Light, what have I gotten myself into?” remarked an escaped Level-6 Magician prisoner. “I’m not staying here!” The Magician then cast a flying spell and took off into the sky, fleeing the scene as far and as quickly as he possibly could.
“I’m no match for this demon,” said another escaped prisoner who was a Level-7 Necromancer. “Gentlemen, let’s hope we never meet again!” Suddenly, a pair of wings flapped open on his back, and he flapped the wings a few times before taking off into the air just like the previous prisoner, leaving the academy within seconds.
The rest of the escaped Magicians responded similarly. They’d finally regained their freedom after being locked away in that damned tower for centuries; there was no way they would act like fools and stay here in the academy and face certain death.
In just a few seconds after the release of the demon Tarviss, only three of the escaped Magicians were left. Of the three, one was Bale who was controlled by Manrod, another was the Level-7 Lich, and the third was a Level-6 Magician.
Oh, and of course there was the roaring magical tiger who charged straight towards the East Cove Magic Academy the moment he gained freedom, hell-bent on getting his revenge. He didn’t retreat for a single step after the appearance of the demon Tarviss. Instead, he was excited to see such a powerful potential ally.
“Excellent,” he said enthusiastically. “I was just in need of a strong ally! You must be the demon Tarviss. Good! I will stand by you tonight, and we’ll devour all of these puny Magicians!”
The magical tiger’s voice was loud enough that all three Magicians at the Azura Tower heard him clearly. They fell into momentary silence after hearing the tiger’s words.
“I bet,” said the Level-7 Lich finally, “the little kitten will get trampled to death by Tarviss soon.
“Haha, no,” said the Level-6 occult Magician. “Lord Tarviss will utilize the tiger’s power while it is still useful. Only when he is no longer of any value to him will he then eat it up.” The occult Magician was only wearing a pair of pants while his upper body was completely naked, exposing a body ripped with muscles and dark brown skin. Countless occultic runes covered his whole body, and his eyes were pure onyx black without any signs of the white of the eyes. These features of his cut a strikingly peculiar figure even among all the other prisoners of the Azura Tower.
Manrod, on the other hand, had little interest in the Wind Tiger’s fate. He stared at the other two Magicians there and laughed.
“I know you,” he said, “aren’t you the Bloodmage Talon?”
“Indeed, I am,” replied the occult Magician with a laugh. “I didn’t expect anyone to still remember me even after two hundred years.”
“Of course you’re still remembered,” said Manrod. “You are, after all, the Magician who sacrificed thousands of souls to the demon god in the Leo Kingdom in the South. You are infamous all over the big continent. Although, I don’t understand why they didn’t completely purge your body and soul…”
“Purge me?” replied Talon with a sneer before continuing with boastful pride. “They wanted to do that, for sure, but they didn’t have enough power to do so. You may think that I’m just a Level-6 Magician, so I couldn’t have been all that powerful. But the Master had bestowed me with an undying soul. That meant that if they destroyed my body, all they would achieve was to unshackle my soul from its bodily prison so I would be invincible and free! Hahaha!”
“Undying soul?” said Manrod, who then nodded. “Not a bad deal at all. Are you staying here for revenge?”
“Why else?” replied Talon. “I’ve been locked up in here for 200 years. Now that I’ve got my freedom back and even got to meet Lord Tarviss—what better time to take sweet revenge?” Then, Talon rushed straight towards the site where Tarviss was emerging.
Manrod then turned towards the Level-7 Lich.
“What about you?” he asked. “Why are you still here?”
The Lich turned around to face Manrod. His bluish ghostly flames in his hollow eye sockets flickered as he let out a cold, mirthless chuckle in answer to Manrod’s question.
“I’m only a casual observer,” said the Lich.
Manrod recognized the Lich the moment he heard his voice.
“You’re Vance!” he said. “The man in the prison who didn’t want to escape!”
“You’re right,” replied the Lich. Suddenly his body was blanketed in a layer of pale white mist, and from the thick mist emerged a hazy voice that said, “I have a feeling that Tarviss will die tonight. I can’t wait to see how he’ll die…”
As he spoke, the Lich’s body gradually faded from view and blended into the mist. Shortly after, the mist itself slowly dissipated. When it vanished completely, the Lich was gone as well.
Manrod knew, though, that the Lich didn’t go anywhere. He was still around here, masking his presence and aura.
“What a strange fellow,” said Manrod with a shrug. He took no notice of the Lich’s words. If Tarviss was alone in facing the attacks from the whole academy tonight, there might’ve been a slim chance of him dying. But Tarviss wasn’t alone. The academy would have to face Manrod as well.
Manrod controlled Bale’s body and rushed straight into the heart of the East Cove Academy, ready to help Tarviss.
Black fog billowed out of the giant gaping pit in the middle of Bryant’s Inspiration Courtyard. Everything that came into contact with this black fog was destroyed—the trees and plants wilted and withered, and even the dirt turned into black ashes. In a short period, the square had completely turned into a blackened wasteland.
Although it was a horrifying sight, this was the best opportunity to attack Tarviss. The Magicians of the East Cove Magic Academy were no cowards. They sensed that it was the best moment to defeat the demon and reacted accordingly.
“Attack!!!”
Then, an eye-catching column of light emerged out of Heaven’s Thorn that focused on the hole in the square—it was a signal for the target of the Magicians’ attack.
Shortly after, a large beam of light with a diameter of more than 10 feet rose from the tops of the six Mage Towers. Each light beam from each Mage Tower was of a different color—there was green, blue, yellow, white, red and gold—each representing a type of element.
These light beams pierced through the clouds and converged 500 feet into the sky into a dark purple beam of light that was about 70 feet in diameter. The power of this combined elemental light energy was so great that the Magicians could feel the warmth emanating from it from the ground. The light beam was so intense that it brightened up the whole sky until the night seemed to have turned to day!
But that wasn’t all.
The position of the light beam was right above the Heaven’s Thorn, where another intense white beam of light emerged and converged with the dark purple beam. Immediately afterwards, a tsunami of Mana fluctuation spread out from this light beam. The whole sky seemed to have become agitated by it, so much so that flocks of birds took up to the sky and fled away from the nearby Girvent Forest while wild animals there were driven to panic in droves as well. Even the inhabitants of the River Cove Town could feel the unsettling vibrations in the air at the time.
This was Anthony’s prepared attack to fight against the demon Tarviss. He had borrowed the power of the six Mage Towers of the academy and his own Heaven’s Thorn’s strength to synchronize and combine into a formidable Level-8 attack spell!