Chapter 127: Cutting a smart figure (1/2)

Chapter 127: Cutting a smart figure

Under Deo’s remote gaze, Han Shuo nodded his head woodenly and didn’t say much. He flicked a glance at Fanny and walked inside of the magic barrier.

Arriving at Emma’s side, Emma looked at Han Shuo with benevolence and kindly said, “You’re called Bryan, right?”

Han Shuo was startled and looked at Dean Emma in confusion, and said, “That’s right, how do you know?”

“Heh heh, of course I know of you. You made a great contribution to the necromancy major during the Dark Forest excursion. Mm, go in and have a good fight. You’re not a good kid.” Emma smiled merrily at Han Shuo and spoke slowly.

Han Shuo seemed to think there were some hidden connotations in Emma’s words from the way she looked at him, but he didn’t quite understand what she meant. He didn’t pursue it and nodded politely at Emma, then walked into the square.

After Emma opened the shield, Han Shuo and the rest of the dark major, as well as the light major, all reentered the square. When they walked inside, Han Shuo suddenly noticed that what people saw inside and outside of the shield was different. When they looked in from the audience’s perspective on the outside, they were able see everything clearly although the lighting was dim.

But when Han Shuo walked in himself, he discovered that it was much darker inside than outside. There were even a few wisps of fog floating around the interior. All sorts of trees, artificial mountains, and moats existed, making the entire battlefield a place strewn with obstacles.

Han Shuo didn’t dare to release the originals demons within the magic shield. After all, there were so many audience members outside. Not only were there teachers from all majors, but the space archmage Dean Emma was there as well. With so many seasoned experts watching along with the existence of the shield, Han Shuo didn’t dare take the risk of releasing the original demons.

Even without the original demons, Han Shuo wasn’t affected by the fog or duskiness due to the way his brain was developed. The sensitivity of his ears and eyes were far greater than any of the other students present within the square.

Leveraging his eyes and ears, Han Shuo discovered that the five from the light major seemed to be setting something up under the guidance of Keelung. On the contrary, the four from the dark major were all trailing their heads in dejection. They looked like they’d all been forced into fighting.

That made sense. Ever since losing Phillide, they could tell from Deo’s conversation that even Deo had given up on this year’s battle. Having them battle was just for show.

It was a given that they weren’t willing to go on stage for a fight they knew they’d lose, but they couldn’t disobey Deo’s orders either. It was no wonder they were drooping their heads and had no morale whatsoever. Since they’d entered the fighting grounds, the four of them had had no inclination to discuss any details with Han Shuo. It looked like they were planning on acting according to what Deo had said, and just make a random showing.

From where Han Shuo stood, he could see all of their expressions. Yet he didn’t say much, he just chanted a section of magical incantation and summoned a few small skeletons and zombie warriors to battle.

The small skeletons and zombie warriors appeared faster than normal beneath Han Shuo’s incantation. The six skeletal warriors and three zombie warriors appeared in almost the blink of an eye within the square. There was no pause in between each one, and their speed was astonishing.

“Yo, that fellow’s incantation speed is rather abnormally fast. He’s summoned so many creatures in the blink of an eye.”

Those observing in the crowd were students and teachers from all majors. They naturally understood that the chanting of a magical incantation needed to be in concert with the speed in concentrating mental strength. If the two magics had a short interval in between them, that meant that the speed in concentrating mental strength was also very fast. They all displayed expressions of astonishment when they saw Han Shuo summon so many dark creatures in such a small time frame.

Even Dean Emma’s eyes gleamed as she looked at Han Shuo in interest, as if she was very curious as to what Han Shuo was prepared to do.

“Humph. Light magic is the antithesis of dark creatures. He might as well save his mental strength for a few more necromancy magics, as opposed to wasting his mental strength in summoning dark creatures.” One of the dark major teachers jeered as he looked at Han Shuo.

Fanny sat beside him, so these words were obviously meant for Fanny. Anger appeared on Fanny’s face, but she didn’t say a thing.

After summoning the skeletal warriors and zombies, Han Shuo was secretly delighted. When he’d summoned so many dark creatures previously, he’d felt a significant decrease in his mental strength. However, this time, after completing the summoning of so many dark creatures, the amount of mental strength depleted was negligible to Han Shuo. This was a practical demonstration that Han Shuo’s mental strength had also increased by quite a lot.

Joy filling his heart, Han Shuo once again chanted an incantation and a few more skeletal warriors, zombie warriors, and ghouls appeared.

As he was summoning these dark creatures, Han Shuo had already left the clump of dark major students and arrived on the left most corner of the square. There was cover from artificial mountains and fake trees, as well as fog wreathing the area. Therefore, the light and dark major students wouldn’t be able to see his motions.

When the dark creatures came out, they waved the weapons in their hands according to Han Shuo’s commands and quickly began to set up traps within the area.

Ropes and snares, as well as further deepened moats became hidden dangers in the area. The skeletal warriors raised their bone daggers to work quickly, the ghouls speedily moved the dirt to pile up in the front and formed a wall that would impede others from entering the side. The zombie warriors then used the wooden clubs in their hands to made the mud walls a bit thicker and firmer.

The three dark creatures started working orderly and without confusion under Han Shuo mental manipulation. Under the gaze of the students and teachers outsiders, they began to calmly and gravely set up the damaging traps, as if Han Shuo was a calm hunter.

They’d all originally held the mindset of watching a joke, but when they saw so many dark creatures appear and quickly work to set up the traps, their expressions turned from comical to gravely serious.

“As long as a necromancer’s mental strength is strong enough, he can summon an endless numbers of dark creatures. Only necromancers can use their dark creatures to complete work that requires manual labor. This is the kind of advantage that all other majors aren’t able to emulate.”

“This little fellow’s methods have thoroughly utilized the advantage of necromancers being able to utilize dark creatures. His mind is rather nimble. I think there will be a spot of interest with the fight this time.” Dean Emma flicked a slight smile at Deo and said faintly.

Snorting lightly, Deo’s expression was still cold and remote. “He still has to lure the people into his traps in order for them to be effective. I think the necromancy fellow will be hard pressed to do that. When he appears in front of the light major students, a wave of magical attacks will be enough to lay him flat. By then, his traps will be completely useless.”

Deo couldn’t help but be a bit regretful when his words finished. If he’d instructed the other four to work together with Han Shuo, then perhaps he could’ve lured the light major students into the traps and maybe truly caused some misfortunes to happen.

But battle had officially begun by now, and no matter how much Deo regretted things, there was nothing for it now.

Coldly surveying everything within the square, Fanny’s bright eyes landed on Han Shuo. She didn’t relax for a single second, and didn’t pay any attention to the mockery and jeering from those around her.

They say that a man seriously going about his business held the most allure. At this moment, Han Shuo was going about his business with not a trace of panic or franticness. There was even a hint of relaxed confidence playing about his lips. Add to that the fact that Han Shuo’s current actions were on Fanny’s behalf, he truly did have a mysterious allure to Fanny at the moment.

Because of the magic shield’s effect after entering the square, the noise and scenes from outside the square were completely obstructed by the shield. Han Shuo couldn’t see anything outside the shield after he’d entered it.

The dark creatures were still were busily. Han Shuo, having given his orders, began to walk amongst the shadows of the trees and artificial mountains like a ghost, approaching the center between the light and dark majors soundlessly.

Han Shuo’s movements weren’t particularly surreptitious, nor did he purposefully display a fast pace, but with Han Shuo’s current vision, his control over his movements had already reached the level of astonishing and magical. Ordinarily speaking, anyone passing through the shadows of the trees and artificial mountains would need to pass through an area of light. Any of the others students would be able to see someone pass through if they just concentrated a bit.

As these students walked, they would inevitably unconsciously turn their heads to observe their surroundings. Han Shuo would only suddenly move through two shadows in the instant that they moved their eyes or when they happened to blink. It was as difficult as trying to scale the heavens for an ordinary person to grasp that instant of open space. It could even be said that it was a wonderful art, but the current Han Shuo had well and truly accomplished it.

Therefore, no one discovered traces of Han Shuo’s footsteps as he snuck through the shadows and arrived at the artificial mountains at the center between the light and dark majors. The students and teachers observing on the outside also found it odd why the students inside hadn’t seemed to notice Han Shuo. This bizarre phenomenon made them feel that something was afoot.

However, Emma and several other archmages with unparalleled vision happened to observe some peculiarities at the same time. Emma didn’t say much after her eyes lit up, but two wind and water archmages exchanged shocked glances. Their originally disinterested expressions instantly refocused on Han Shuo.

Deo’s face darkened even further. He hadn’t thought either that Han Shuo would have such ridiculous powers of judgement and vision. As he was reeling in shock, he couldn’t help but look at Fanny behind him, wondering if Han Shuo’s wondrous abilities came from Fanny.

Han Shuo stopped in the shadows of an artificial mountain, and stood there without moving. The light major students had spread out and were cautiously probing in all directions on light footsteps, moving slowly towards the dark major’s territory and using the surrounding trees and artificial mountains to conceal their movement. It looked like they hadn’t lowered their guard even though Phillide had been taken out of the picture.

On the contrary, the four from the dark major side were lazily approaching the center area. Their expressions were dour and dejected as they complained ceaselessly. They seemed to be venting the anguish within their hearts. In their condition, they were likely to be demolished by the light major’s first round of attacks.

A light major student suddenly approached where Han Shuo was and looked at the artificial mountains in which Han Shuo was concealing himself. He was paying attention to the direction where the dark major students were going to appear, drifting closer to the artificial mountain Han Shuo was residing in without any guard up at all.

This light major student was about ten paces away from the closest person. He’d initially looked over the artificial mountains as he walked closer, and didn’t pay much attention to things when he didn’t discover anything out of the ordinary. He started walking over with his guard down.