Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 127 Cunning Void Creatures

"A few months ago?" Jialan suddenly seized on a crucial clue, her voice rising abruptly, "Was it after you returned from Snow Wolf Ridge last time?"

Heidi's body jolted violently, as if struck by lightning.

These words struck a chord with her, and Heidi nodded, saying, "It seems so."

However, Perry said, "You and Blanche went too, and there were no problems. Was it because your cultivation level wasn't high enough back then?"

"Heidi, is there anything else unusual?"

"Aside from the unusually rapid increase in magic power, there wasn't anything else particularly noticeable."

Just then, Blanche pushed open the door and walked in. Her voice was low and firm, and her eyes were fixed on Heidi on the bed. She said, "Perhaps it wasn't because of going to Snow Wolf Ridge. Heidi might be... a victim."

"What?!" Garan exclaimed, "Heidi's talent is multitasking! How could she be a victim?"

Dean Perry suddenly raised his hand to signal for quiet.

She paused for a few minutes, then said thoughtfully, "Judging from Heidi's control over dimensional magic, Blanche's speculation is not without merit."

Dean Perry's gaze deepened as she stared at Heidi: "I had intended to take you to the Holy City for examination, but if you truly possess the constitution of a victim..."

The words stopped abruptly, and the air in the room seemed to freeze instantly.

Jialan's face was somewhat pale, and her fingers unconsciously clenched her robes.

Blanche silently looked away, gazing out the window.

The Holy City's methods of dealing with the victims have never been a secret in the magical world.

“Dean,” Heidi’s voice trembled slightly, “if…I really am a victim of the Space System disaster, the Holy City will…”

“It’s hard to say,” Perry interrupted her, a rare struggle appearing on his aged face, “especially since you’ve already broken through to the Super-Rank.”

The infirmary fell into dead silence.

Jialan spoke with difficulty: "None of us have seen the actual victims; it's all just speculation."

“But to confirm, we must go to the Holy City,” Blanche replied coldly, her gaze sharp as a knife. “And once identified…”

She didn't finish her sentence, but everyone understood the unfinished ending.

"Dean, mentor, I need some peace and quiet."

Heidi's identity is not ordinary; she knows something about the Holy City's power and its methods. In this situation, she doesn't know what to do.

Breaking through one's spatial magic should be a happy thing, but some people think that breaking through too early is not a good thing.
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On the other hand, the holy city naturally dared not ignore the changes that had occurred in the Mediterranean Sea.

Archangel Uriel speculated that a king-level demon might have appeared in the Mediterranean, but they had no idea what kind of demon it was.

They dare not act rashly when faced with the unknown.

Therefore, they first dispatched two Holy Shadows and a team of Holy Shadow Apostles to investigate the information.

This force should not be underestimated; even the weakest among them are super-level mages.

Dusk always arrives unexpectedly along the Mediterranean coast.

The blood-red setting sun dyed the entire sea area dark red, and the waves crashed against the reefs, making a dull roar.

This reconnaissance squad, composed of high-level mages, was patrolling along the coastline. The air was thick with a strong, salty smell, mixed with a faint, almost imperceptible stench of decay.

"Look over there!" The mage at the front of the group suddenly stopped and pointed to the sea not far away.

The crowd looked in the direction he was pointing and saw two enormous bodies floating on the sea, gently rising and falling with the waves.

Those were the corpses of two astonishingly large sea monsters, one resembling a squid and the other somewhat like a sea freak. Their bluish-gray skin was covered with eerie patterns that gleamed with a metallic sheen in the setting sun.

The sea monster's head was severely deformed, but its ferocious appearance from its previous life could still be seen—sharp fangs protruded from the corners of its mouth, and although the three eyes on its forehead were tightly closed, they still exuded an unsettling aura.

Someone in the "monarch-level" team gasped, "And judging by the looks of it, they just died recently."

The team cautiously approached the edge of the coast.

One of the leaders, a Saintly Shadow, gestured for the group to stop: "Something's not right. It's too quiet around here."

Indeed, apart from the sound of the waves, the entire sea area was eerily silent; not even the cries of seabirds could be heard.

At this moment, something unexpected happened.

The two "corpses" suddenly opened their eyes—not three, but countless compound eyes that lit up simultaneously, glowing with a ghostly green light.

The skin of the "squid corpse" writhed rapidly, as if countless insects were crawling beneath it. Before the four mages in the front row could react, its tentacles shot out like lightning.

"Watch out!" The warning had barely left his lips when four streaks of blood bloomed in the air.

The tentacles pierced precisely through the chests of the four high-ranking mages, before they even had time to deploy their magical defenses. One mage's magical artifact had just begun to glow when it was shattered by another tentacle.

The "sea monster corpse" then swung out a palm and slammed it down heavily.

Immediately afterwards, the sea exploded open, revealing the two monsters disguised as corpses in their true forms.

Their bodies began to twist and deform, their bluish-gray skin flowing like liquid, revealing their jet-black carapace underneath.

The original form of the siren is disintegrating, and in its place is something even more ferocious—their limbs extend into sharp segments, and several slits split open on their backs, from which semi-transparent insect wings extend.

Another Saint Shadow expert unleashed a golden barrier, blocking the sea monster's attack and preventing casualties among the group.

Then the high-frequency sound waves generated by the vibration of the insects' wings distorted the air, causing several mages who reacted slower to bleed from their ears and noses and to kneel on the ground in pain.

Those monsters have completely transformed into entirely new forms.

They are neither sirens nor entirely void worms, but terrifying creations that combine characteristics of both.

The perfect combination of the demonic power of the monarch-level sirens and the spatial abilities of the Void Worms gives each of their attacks the power to tear through space.

The Saint Shadow expert's expression turned grave. "What kind of demon is this? It doesn't seem like a sea monster, yet it possesses sea monster magic."

"There is also a strange spatial force."

As if to confirm his words, one of the monsters opened its blood-red maw and spewed out corrosive liquid with spatial rifts.

The sea surface was instantly corroded into a huge whirlpool, and the two mages who couldn't dodge in time were swallowed by the whirlpool before they could even scream.

The battle had already claimed the lives of six super-level mages in the blink of an eye.

If it weren't for the timely intervention of the Saint Shadow expert, this number would probably have doubled.

He was furious at being ambushed by demons.

"brute!"

With a deafening roar, a dazzling golden light suddenly erupted from his body.

The holy light spread outwards like a tide, illuminating the dark coastline as bright as day.

He made a grasping motion with both hands, and a giant sword made entirely of light elements slowly took shape above his head.

The sword was a hundred meters long, and as he swung his arm down, this sword of judgment crashed down with earth-shattering force.

(End of this chapter)