"..." Alexander watched in silence as Angelista was hit by the dragon's breath. He could have replaced the attack on Angelista's crotch, but after hesitating for a moment, Alexander did not do so.
A few minutes ago, Alexander would have naturally stood in front of her to protect a terrifying high-level mage like Angelista. But it's different now. Angelista's magic power has been completely exhausted. Even if she was powerful just now, she has exhausted her own magic power at this time. And a mage with depleted magic power is no different from trash on the battlefield. Alexander would rush into the sea of corpses to save those young warriors who were still capable of fighting if he was sure, but he would not risk being seriously injured to save a useless mage without magic power, because it would not be of any help to the subsequent battle. What's more, this mage is also a notorious dark elf.
Thinking from another perspective, Alexander also understood how much influence he had on this battle. It can be said that he is the spiritual support of those soldiers who are still fighting. Therefore, he must not fall so easily.
It is impossible for me to save everyone. This is a truth that Alexander has realized in these years of fighting. Precisely because he understood this, Alexander hoped to win every battle, because only by winning the war could more people survive. And in order to achieve this goal, he is willing to sacrifice the interests of a small number of people and even their lives.
But this time, Alexander considered the overall battle situation and chose to sacrifice Angelista's interests. Only by not saving her can Alexander be kept intact. Only by keeping Alexander intact can he have a chance to defeat this skull dragon. Only by defeating this skull dragon can more warriors survive. This is very simple logic.
The dragon's breath hit Angelista head-on, and the severely injured dark elf fell helplessly to the ground full of walking corpses.
"Teacher Angelista!" Enelise and Verresa screamed at the same time. They ignored the endless sea of corpses outside the city wall. They both blessed themselves with flying skills and flew out.
The bone dragon had just suffered a lot under Angelista's powerful magic, and now it saw two tiny maggots ignoring its existence and only focusing on the hateful mage. It immediately let out a roar, and it was deeply moved. He took a breath and prepared to blow away the two maggots with his dragon's breath.
But this time Alexander didn't let it go as he wished. The second prince jumped up high and slashed the bone dragon's head with his sword. This was a blow that Alexander used all his strength. He originally thought that at least half of its skull could be broken, but he did not expect that the bone dragon's skull was extremely hard. Even though Haoyue could cut iron like clay, this powerful blow only caused a few cracks in the skull.
But fortunately, because of this blow, the bone dragon's breath was deflected elsewhere. Not only did this blow not hurt Enelise and Vereesa, but it caused many of the bone dragon's zombie companions to suffer misfortune.
The Bone Dragon didn't care at all about the life or death of the little reptiles around it. It let out an angry roar and turned its head to stare at Alexander with its empty dark red eyes.
Alexander was not afraid of the bone dragon at all. He took a deep breath, and then unleashed all his fighting spirit to fight with the bone dragon.
Enelise and Vereesa fell next to Angelista with lingering fear to check Angelista's condition. Surprisingly, Angelista's injuries were not as serious as expected. Although she had a lot of frostbite all over her body, her breathing was still stable at this time, and it was not even considered a serious injury. The two of them helped Angelista up together, and then flew back to the fortress unsteadily.
After returning to the fortress, Vereesa and Inelise carefully inspected Angelista's injuries. As judged just now, there were no fatal injuries on Angelista's body.
"It may be caused by the lack of magic power." Enelise made a judgment instantly. She took out a bottle of super magic potion from her dimensional pocket and drank it for Angelista.
Sure enough, Angelista opened her eyes after a minute or two. The dark elf held his forehead and muttered: "It feels really uncomfortable when the magic power is drying up."
"Teacher, are you okay?" Veresa and Inelise asked with concern.
"It's okay." Angelista shook her head nonchalantly: "That dragon's breath was blocked by my mental shield at the last moment. It fell to the ground entirely due to the dryness of magic power and overuse of mental power. By the way, How is the skull dragon doing now?"
"Still there..." Inelise looked back at the bone dragon fighting with Alexander. Obviously, although the Bone Dragon had consumed a lot of necromancy power by Angelista, as a king-level necromancy creature, it still had power over Alexander. At this time, the second prince was at a disadvantage in the battle with the bone dragon. His breastplate had been torn apart by the bone dragon's claws. Under the erosion of the necromantic power, even Alexander's light body was very weak. It is difficult to recover from injuries quickly.
"Quick! Quick! Give me five more bottles of super magic potions!" Angelista's eyes lit up again when she saw how powerful the bone dragon was. She urged Inelise urgently, knowing that as the most talented pharmacist in the academy, the effect of the improved super magic potion carried by Inelise would be even more significant.
"The magic recovery speed will not be accelerated by repetition and potions." Enelise reminded, but she still took out the potion according to Angelista's request.
"Don't forget, I am a psychic!" Angelista took the potion and drank it one bottle after another.
Then, the dark elf mage sat cross-legged, and bright silver light lit up from her eyes. This is a psychic secret that can only be used by psykers. Angelista uses her powerful mental power to forcefully catalyze the body, allowing the body to absorb the magic power contained in the magic potion in a short period of time. Of course, this move consumes a lot of mental energy. Even Angelista can only use it once in a short period of time.
On the other side, Alexander is already unable to hold on under the absolute power of the bone dragon. Warriors are not as destructive as mages. Even with the help of attribute abilities, Alexander is just a tough one in front of the bone dragon. Just a human shield.
The recovery speed provided by the Body of Light and the Endless Source for Alexander has gradually failed to keep up with the destruction speed of the Bone Dragon. Alexander felt pain all over his body, his legs seemed as heavy as lead, and what he held in his hands seemed not to be a bright moon, but a mountain.
Alexander's spirit gradually became trance-like. He subconsciously fought against the bone dragon, but various scenes from the past emerged in his mind: in the church, Kevin taught him swordsmanship and the way of the Holy Light. In the palace, he bid farewell to Larvin and chose to join the army. During the battles during the march, he felt sad for the death of each comrade at the beginning. Later, he gradually got used to the death of his comrades. But now, to him, those who died in the battle were just Just a string of numbers.
Alexander didn't think that the war had made him cruel, but the war had made him understand two truths. The first truth was that no matter how powerful he was, he could not save everyone, he could only save some people; the second truth was that he could not save everyone no matter how powerful he was. That is, even to save some people, sacrifice is inevitable. Precisely because he understood these two principles, for Alexander now, salvation has become a very simple comparison of numbers - sacrificing the few and saving the many. Alexander called this logic of his own the way of sacrifice.
"And today, is it my turn to sacrifice?" Alexander thought to himself. He was not afraid of sacrifice, whether it was sacrificing others or himself. In fact, he has been sacrificing himself, right? In every battle, he rushes to the front. Wherever the battle is the most dangerous, he will appear there. If it weren't for the attributes such as Body of Light and Source of Endlessness, Alexander's injuries would have been enough to kill him ten times. But this time, I'm afraid his attributes and abilities won't be able to save him.
"This time, I'm afraid I have to sacrifice my life... That's it." Alexander watched helplessly as the bone dragon's claws gradually enlarged in his sight. That's it... Just give up...
No! no!
Huge energy was released from Alexander's body. If Alexander released sacred fighting energy before, then this time, Alexander released light! The purest holy light! At this time, the second prince was as dazzling as an energy body composed of holy light!
The bone dragon was directly overturned by the sudden burst of energy. It struggled to get up, climbed up, and roared menacingly at the dazzling existence. Only this time, there was an emotion called fear in its roar.
"In order to save most people, anyone can sacrifice, but their sacrifice must be meaningful!" Alexander raised the bright moon in his hand, his golden hair flying without wind, and his eyes shining with pure holy light: "I , will never die so worthlessly!"
"Wow!" Angelista, who had just finished replenishing her magic power, stood up. She looked at Alexander in the distance, and said to Inelise and Veresa with a complicated expression: "You two little girls, I’m really lucky today.”
"Huh?" The two girls were a little confused.
"Today, you witnessed the birth of a strong man from the sanctuary." Angelista murmured as she looked at Alexander.