Morey walked quickly towards a watchtower next to the main position. He changed into a magic robe, holding an electric horn in his hand, his face slightly red, and he looked a little excited. Ji Xun ran in front of him quickly with a rifle in his hand, scanning the surroundings vigilantly.
When he got upstairs, Morey took out a small crystal from his arms and placed it on the fence of the watchtower. After lightly tapping it with his finger, the crystal emitted a soft white light, and the watchtower suddenly turned into a torch in the darkness.
The people on the main battlefield under the tower immediately raised their voices of surprise. The bright light clearly reflected the figures of Morey and Ji Xun. The horse thieves in the distance also started to stir. Morey saw several horse thieves holding shields quickly protecting the wild mage who was casting a spell.
"Let me do it so that you won't be distracted. I have learned a few swear words." Ji Xun advised.
Morey took a deep breath, smiled and said, "You are not a 'native', so how can you scold me as well as I can?"
He waved his fingers in the air and whispered a short spell, which was a sound amplification spell that could amplify the sound and transmit it to far away places.
"Horse thieves! Who gave you the courage to come here and die?!" Morey said with the electric speaker. The combination of technology and magic was indeed extraordinary. His voice was like thunder. Not only did the people nearby feel deafened, but the horse thieves in the distance could also hear it clearly. Many horses were startled and kept agitating. The horse thieves near the school took a lot of effort to calm their mounts.
"What is holding you back? Are you standing outside this castle to guard for us? A group of mountain savages, ignorant and fearless, actually come to challenge the magician who controls the power of heaven and earth. What on earth do you rely on? Oh, is it that wild wizard who graffitied in the air? Do you naively think that a poor guy with no knowledge and no inheritance can help you open the door of the castle? Look at him, what a confused look, what poor skills, this guy is almost exhausted by his own scroll..."
Morey said hurtful words, but what came to his mind were stories from the past. He had heard countless similar words in the past. Just because of his poor background and his outstanding talent, he became a thorn in the eyes of his classmates who came from alchemy families. He felt that he was just repeating what those people had said to him...
"Alchemy is a noble art, not something that can be manipulated by vile hands."
"Wisdom comes from blood. If you have blood like yours and achieve this kind of result, that's cheating!"
"If magic has a soul, it will definitely cry. It will definitely not bear to be manipulated by a commoner."
Memories flashed by, and Morey calmed himself, raised his hands, and loudly declared: "Wild Mage, turn to ashes under my power."
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Zhang Hong looked at the shining watchtower from afar and heard everything Morey said clearly. Every word here was carefully chosen and elegantly written, giving people a sense of superiority, but like the tongue of a poisonous snake, it expressed all kinds of the most vicious meanings. The bandits soon became furious! He heard them shouting:
"Who is this son of a bitch?"
"I'm going to chop his head off and feed it to the dogs!"
"Go ahead and set him on fire!"
When Kadis saw the angry crowd, he became furious and ordered his guards to whip those guys on the head with horsewhips, which calmed the scene down.
"Who is this person? What does he want to do?" Kadis grabbed Zhang Hong and asked him angrily.
"He...his name is Morey. I, I really don't know what he wants to do. Maybe...he just wants to kill your morale." Zhang Hong replied stutteringly.
Kadis pushed Zhang Hong aside and walked to the wild wizard who was struggling to cast a spell. "Andrew, ignore this lunatic. Just do the same as before. Blast down the wall and high ground on the left and let our cavalry rush in. These shouts and curses may just be a trap, a trap to waste your strength."
Andrew turned his head slightly and glanced at him, his eyes full of anger and murderous intent. He shook his head slowly: "He is insulting me, these self-righteous nerds! I can smell the stale smell of the magic tower on him from here. I will blast him into charcoal."
"Listen!" Cadiz drew his sword, pointed it at Andrew and shouted, "Orville has gone to hunt down the magician, and soon you will see him shot through by an arrow. Do what you should do!"
"Well, look at his hands!" Andrew replied. "It's too late."
Kadis looked closely and found that the man on the watchtower was waving his hands, and a magic pattern shining with blue light was formed in the void, and his speed was much faster than Andrew's.
"I don't recognize this magic, but judging from its complexity, its power is not inferior to the one in my hand." Andrew whispered, "Can your men survive such a blow without getting confused?"
"What do you want?" Kadiz asked sullenly.
"Strike first!" After saying these words, Andrew actually spat out a mouthful of blood. It was too difficult for a wild mage like him to do two things at the same time while casting a spell with all his strength.
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"What kind of spell is this? Didn't you say you only know some simple magic?" Ji Xun asked.
"This is just a little trick to scare people." Morey dispelled the sound transmission magic and said to Ji Xun, "I have wanted to be a great magician since I was a child, but my mental power is limited after concentration, so I can only embark on the path of alchemy. This little spell of condensing light is just to satisfy my yearning for advanced magic. I used it to scare people who bullied me before, and now it's not bad to deceive the wild magician. He has been aroused by my humiliation, and with the terrifying magic ready to be launched, there is no reason for him not to attack us."
"I hope it works." Ji Xun looked into the distance worriedly. The battle had just begun, but it was already so dangerous. He didn't know what would happen next. He suddenly asked, "When you were a kid, you used this method to scare people. Did it work?"
"It worked, but I was exposed afterwards and got beaten up." Morey chuckled, but his hands didn't stop. The blue light pattern became larger and more complicated. "Go downstairs and tell everyone to hide. The other party's magic is almost finished."
Ji Xun asked the people below to hide behind the fortifications, but he did not leave the watchtower, but guarded beside Morey. Seeing this, Morey hurried a few times, but Ji Xun said to Morey: "I also have confidence in your defense formation, let me watch the magic show here."
As soon as he finished speaking, the magic pattern on the opposite side suddenly lit up, and then several fireballs with diameters comparable to that of a person appeared at the original location of the magic pattern. The wild wizard pushed his hands in the air, and the fireballs accelerated and flew up. In an instant, it was faster than the galloping horses on the ground, and like a meteor, it rushed straight towards Morey and the other man.
"Come on!" Morey casually dispersed the false magic patterns in the air, picked up a pendant hanging around his neck, closed his eyes and stood, and suddenly, with the watchtower as the center, silver magic patterns lit up one after another on the ground within a radius of 30 meters around it. These magic patterns formed a nested circle, which was the defense array that Morey had arranged in advance. And the main control stone in his hand, under his control, would maximize the power of this defense array.
Ji Xun and the others in the school were all staring at the fireball that streaked across the sky. This was the first time they had come into such close contact with truly powerful magic. Previously, this supernatural power only existed in movies and imagination, but now it was so real that it made people dazed.
The fireball exploded in mid-air, but was blocked by an invisible barrier, like a red flower blooming in the night sky, illuminating most of the sky red. However, such a huge force could not affect the tiny people standing under the sparks because of the defensive formation. Only the sound waves of the explosion made people shaky.
The defensive magic patterns on the ground gradually faded in the vibration, and then dissipated, but just when they were about to disappear, the sparks in the air also faded. The night sky returned to blue-black, and only a hot wind remained, sweeping past everyone, reminding them that they had just survived a magic that was enough to destroy the entire building.
The hot wind dissipated, and cheers and applause rang out on the battlefield, with some people even shouting loudly.
"Hey, it really worked!" Ji Xun supported the somewhat exhausted Morey, opened his arms excitedly and said, "Morey, you have done a great job."
Morey nodded, smiled and let Ji Xun hug him, but heard a sharp whistle, followed by a short low cry from Ji Xun. A black arrow had pierced Ji Xun's back shoulder and penetrated his entire shoulder.
"How is that possible!" Morey exclaimed. The watchtower was actually some distance away from the wall, and with the deflection array he had set up, ordinary arrows simply couldn't reach this position. Unless it was an extremely rare magic-breaking arrow
He knew that if Ji Xun hadn't been so eager to hug him, the arrow would have been aimed at his throat, and the defensive items on him would have been useless against this mage killer.
Another whistling sound came, and before Morey could react, he was knocked to the ground by Ji Xun. Then a stream of heat gushed on his face, and he was horrified to see that the second arrow penetrated from the back of Ji Xun's neck, and came out from above his Adam's apple, instantly exploding a large piece of flesh on his neck.
"season!"
Ji Xun was unable to respond to Morey's shouts. His tall figure stood there for a moment, then fell down. Morey saw his head on the ground, his face facing him, his eyes unfocused, his muscles twitching. He seemed to want to say something to Morey, but his broken throat prevented him from making any sound. All Morey could see was his repetitive lip movements. After an unknown amount of time, when Morey woke up from his dream and tried to cover Ji Xun's wound, the light in his eyes had completely faded.
"Enemy attack!" Morey roared loudly, and then there was panicked gunfire from below the watchtower.
Morey covered Ji Xun's throat and slumped in the tower. For a moment, he didn't have the courage to stick his head out to look. He just tried to recall Ji Xun's mouth shape. After a while, he murmured: "Xiaojun, what he kept saying at the end was... Xiaojun."