Chapter 509 (1/2)

Chapter 509: Not Even 10,000 Tricks Can Stop the Pass of Time

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

At the beach

In this world, if you gave your heart to someone, you’ll be able to sense even their smallest movements.

To Gretel, Link was that someone. In her more than 2000 years of life, other than her mother who’d passed away, Link was the person she was most familiar with.

She felt Link blink. Jolting slightly, she understood what Link meant. That sentence was said to lower the opponent’s guard. His ulterior motive was to unleash a fatal kill while the other was relaxed and listening to his words.

The corners of Gretel’s lips curled upward. Understood.

Link caught this small movement too. He knew that Gretel understood his motive and started preparing to act.

Thoreau didn’t discover the secret exchange. He was feeling proud that Link complimented his wand. “You aren’t blind, at least. But unfortunately—”

Before he could finish, Link moved abruptly. He stabbed his Dragon King’s Fury out. Halfway there, the tip flashed with crystal-red light. He’d activated the Demon Slayer Whip.

A thin crystal-red streak flashed and whipped towards Thoreau’s head. It was so fast that it reached within 60 feet of Thoreau within one-tenth of a second. It instantly went for the kill.

Because of Link’s previous words, Thoreau had subconsciously guessed that Link would use this action to move the battlefield. He sneered. “Nice calculations but it’s useless to me. Crystal Waves!”

Whoosh! A ring of transparent ripples appeared around him. It was only as tall as him at first and spread out with him as the center. Three feet away, it turned into a huge wave. After another three feet, the wave turned into a tide. Sand and pebbles tossed in its path. The crystal wave entirely covered Thoreau.

An instant later, it crashed into Link’s Demon Slayer Whip.

Hiss. Water and fire clashed and white steam rose up. Link’s Demon Slayer Whip snaked through the crystal-like wave, trying to attack the spell-caster behind it.

But the waves seemed to be endless. The Demon Slayer Whip kept bursting forward and evaporating the waves. It even created a hole more than six feet wide in the waves. But after 15 feet, it used up all its energy.

Poof. Link’s flame extinguished.

His fire law was around the same level as the law in the Crystal Wave. However, the difference in scale of the spell was too large. Thoreau was the victor in this direct clash of spells.

“Haha, taste the power of the sea!” Thoreau’s roar traveled from behind the endless waves. His voice rumbled like thunder.

Link had lost in the fight of water against fire. But he wasn’t alone.

“Burning Dragon Breath!” Gretel yelled.

She pointed her magic sword at the incoming waves. A dark purple pillar of firelight rushed forward. Halfway there, the pillar transformed into a dragon in flight.

An instant later, there was a huge boom. The dragon of light snuck into the hole in the crystal waves that Link’s whip had created.

Thoreau’s crystal waves had a large scale but, to defend Link’s traceless Demon Slayer Whip, he’d chosen a ranged attack. He wasted a whole lot of energy. Gretel’s spell, on the other hand, was a targeted attack and had the advantage created by the Demon Slayer Whip. With these two together, water and fire came to a tie.

With a boom, white steam rose up and firelight shot in all directions. A huge hole gaped open in the horrible wall of water.

Now!

Link was waiting for this. He instantly activated the battle technique Instant Flash.

His figure blurred and the next moment, he was beside the black-robed man. He stabbed his sword forward with the Time Sword technique he’d just acquired. He also added in 10,000 Dragon Power points.

He put his all into this attack. If he didn’t succeed, he would be dead.

With this stab, time passed and 100,000 years flew by!

This attack was so abrupt. As a battle technique, there was also no need to construct a Mana structure. Thus, it operated so fast the opponent had no time to react at all.

Thoreau was surprised. His spell had gone against Gretel, and his power was delayed. It was completely beyond his expectation that Link would be able to cast such a fatal attack. He was still a Level-13 Legendary Magician though. As his thoughts flowed, his body faded. He turned into a ball of white mist that flew back quickly.

While escaping, crystal needles appeared in the air around him. They pierced towards Link.