Seeing the enemy disappear, Xia De turned around without thinking and swung the black wooden staff in his hand. Standing on the ground, with the blessing of the "power of the red dragon", this blow actually knocked the monster that suddenly appeared behind him away.
"Sure enough, I can't compare to my neighbors. I was the one who flew out at St. Teresa's Square... Are the starting moves of these things all exactly the same?"
When you use Ragga to jump, the starting move is to appear behind the enemy.
The monster that was knocked away used its four hands to support its body and stood up in the fog. The upper body behind it roared like a wild animal at Shade, then it disappeared in the fog again and appeared behind the pharmacist lady.
Although the eleventh-ring sorceress had never encountered anything like this, she had already figured out the opponent's attack method from the attack on Shade just now.
Without Shade's reminder, the pharmacist dodged the attack, then lifted the edge of her skirt and kicked the monster as it continued to fly forward. This action looked a little funny, but it really made the mutated corpse on fire fly diagonally forward. The pharmacist's power was extremely great. Apart from Shade himself, he had never seen any other sorcerer display such great power in battle - high-level sorcerers usually used spells and magic to fight.
“Thunder gun!”
The lightning bolt then penetrated the chest of the monster, which was unable to maintain its balance, connecting the front half of the body burning with flames and the rear half that suddenly appeared. Then the lightning gun exploded, and the lightning bolt submerged the monster's body.
However, when the lightning disappeared, the monster whose body kept convulsing did not die.
"Is the attack not strong enough?"
Xia De asked suspiciously, but the pharmacist did not cast a spell to deliver a fatal blow herself. Instead, she asked Xia De to continue:
"I'm afraid it's not that simple, Mr. Watson. Keep attacking it."
The staff was held vertically in his hand and rotated in a circle. A black sphere that seemed to absorb light appeared at the hook-shaped top. The shadow ball flew towards the monster whose body was paralyzed by the lightning. The corrosion of the dark shadow even extinguished the flames on its body. The traces of petrification quickly spread to the whole body of the monster whose abdomen was hit by the shadow ball.
The pharmacist looked at Shade in surprise again. She was certainly familiar with the basic magic of "Shadow Ball", but she had never seen a Shadow Ball with this effect:
"The thaumaturgy has been sublimated at least once."
However, although the attack was effective, the corpse's injuries recovered quickly, and the upper half of its body that was not on fire tried desperately to break free from the petrification, but it still did not die.
"Is this thing immortal? Let me try it with holy water."
Shade became interested. After casting the "Light of Imprisonment" to ensure safety, he wanted to try a new method, but was stopped by the sorceress next to him:
"Don't waste holy water. A ring sorcerer must fight with knowledge and wisdom. I think I know how to deal with this thing. Its appearance is related to the power of space. Since we can't kill it, we can only exile it."
"exile?"
There is a lot of knowledge about exiling demons in the Malbas Demon Book. Generally speaking, if you want to exile an individual, first of all, the individual must have the possibility of being exiled, that is, the other party itself comes from outside the material world.
When Tifa and Shade visited the ophthalmologist Alfred last fall, they had cast a spell to banish the lower-level demon "Servant of Secrets" from the dark realm. However, Shade had only been exposed to this kind of knowledge for a few weeks, so he could not cast the spell as easily as Tifa:
"I can banish it, but I need to know its real name. No, not the dead man's real name, the monster's real name."
Shade said immediately.
"Mr. Watson, are you a witcher from somewhere? This is not a demon."
"If this thing is a demon, things would be much simpler."
So the pharmacist shook her head:
"There are enough secrets on this island, but please don't let there be any more demons. I will exile him."
Shade then took two steps back. Since he met this sorceress, he had never seen her cast a spell. Banishing such a monster would not be as simple as stamping your feet twice.
"Don't step back. Help me set up the ritual. You should know the basic rituals for expelling the Warp creatures."
As she spoke, she threw a small bottle of coal ash-like powder to Shade, and it seemed that she had made up her mind not to get close to Shade.
Although Shade had been a ring mage for less than a year, his knowledge system was incomplete, but he knew a lot because of the various knowledge given by Witch Resonance and Treefather. He knew the rituals to expel subspace creatures, whether ancient or modern.
I originally wanted to use the knowledge in the Witch's Echo to test it out, but when I started, I drew the ritual array I learned from Saint Byrons.
During this time, the pharmacist took out some bottles and cans. She poured two bottles directly on the monster that was temporarily locked on the ground by the Imprisoned Light, and drank the rest herself.
It can be seen that the taste of the potions was not very good, because when she drank it, her beautiful brows frowned again.
"Okay, that's good. You have a steady hand. Oh, I didn't realize you came from St. Byron's Comprehensive College."
Just by taking a look at Shade's results, the sorceress knew the origin of the ritual. This time, she finally asked Shade to step back a little, but of course, not too far to prevent him from getting lost in the fog:
"Remember, if I show any strange behavior later, you don't have to pay attention to me. If I try to attack you, you go to the boat and wait for me."
"What?"
Xia De asked suspiciously, and the pharmacist smiled at him:
"If you are willing to lend me your staff, it should be easier to cast spells."
This is a common ability of "staff" type weapons. The staff prepared by Miss Aurora before the battle of Randall Valley had the same function.
"It's not that I don't trust you, but this relic is just a stick in anyone's hands except me."
Shade said, of course, the Staff of Yggdrasil is also useful in Luvia's hands. Although Shade didn't know how Luvia got this relic in the first place, or whether this relic was made by her, now except Luvia herself and Shade, who was recognized by her, no one else can use this staff - this is what the long-haired girl said intermittently when the two of them were entangled in the dream.
The sorceress did not ask any more questions and turned around to cast a spell. As the ritual array on the ground glowed, she chanted a spell. She seemed not to want Shade to hear the contents of the spell, so the "buzzing" sound was indistinguishable.
As the light on the ground reached its brightest in the fog, the pharmacist crossed the index and middle fingers of her left and right hands:
"exile!"
Xia De immediately sensed the unstable space around him, and a larger crack appeared. Then the monster trapped by the light of confinement "sank" to the ground little by little, which was actually entering another space. When the monster completely disappeared, Xia De also felt that the "light of confinement" was ineffective because of the distance.
The banishment ritual was successful, and the high-level sorceress finished casting the spell and turned her back to Shade without saying a word. Shade looked at her warily and waited for half a minute before she said in a somewhat depressed tone:
"Don't worry, I'm fine. I wasn't kidding when I said I couldn't cast spells at will."
She turned to Xia De and said, her face did not show fatigue, but "she" reminded softly:
The spirit and elements in her body became chaotic, and she drifted towards a state of "out of control".
"Ms. Pharmacist, I think you really need to rest. Let's leave here first. In fact, in your current physical condition, you shouldn't ask to go to the island with me. What if I'm a bad guy and I want to murder you now while you're not feeling well?"
"But Grandma Natalie asked me to try my best to help you. Grandma has helped me a lot before. What's more..."
The sorceress asked Shade suspiciously;
"Even if there's something wrong with me, do you think you can beat me?"
Although she tried to gain the upper hand verbally, the pharmacist's mental state did not improve. She also knew that she should take a rest, so she and Shad followed the way they came, from the hill where Edwards' mansion was located to the town.
There are still many places on the island that Xia De has not seen, but he has already memorized the most important "family tree", so on the way back, he did not suggest investigating other places. Next time, he can go to the island by himself to check out other contents.
If you walk quickly from the Edwards family's house back to the dock without stopping, the entire journey will take less than half an hour.
They quickly passed through the town and entered the small woods in front of the pier. While walking on the path in the woods, Shade and the pharmacist were still guessing how the two people had landed on the island.
The sorceress was not in a good mood, but she did not think her steamship would be destroyed. Unconsciously, the fog around them became thicker and thicker. When Shade and the pharmacist noticed this and stopped walking together, they both felt dizzy.
At that moment, it seemed as if the whole world, apart from myself, was spinning. The fog was so thick that I couldn't see anything more than two meters away, and my sense of direction was completely lost after the world was spinning.
Xia De adapted very quickly because of the ethereal rune, and the pharmacist lady, who was already in a bad mental state, half squatted down with her head covered. Xia De wanted to help her, but even in such a painful situation, the sorceress still stopped him loudly:
"Don't come near me!"
She tried to adapt to the current situation and explained to Shade through her teeth:
"We had really bad luck landing on the island this time. This is a special situation that often occurs on the island. The people who land on the island completely lose their spatial perception ability."
"Although the fog has thickened, we are still on the path in the forest. If we keep walking forward, won't we still be able to find the pier?"