Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 67: The Battle for the Power of the Waves, the Mermaid Queen Appears
The military mages were immediately cheered up when they saw the dark magic patterns on the giant squid gradually dimming under the judgment of holy light.

The Chief Military Strategy Officer seized this fleeting opportunity and immediately ordered a full-scale attack.

"Super-class Mage, hold back that Siren Squid."

"All high-level mage groups, reorganize the battle formation immediately! Target - Sea Spirit Beast!"

As the order spread across the battlefield, the three high-level mage regiments that had suffered heavy losses before quickly regrouped.

Although there are already many vacancies in the team - those comrades who were crushed by the giant squid's tentacles can never return to the team - the remaining mages have flames of revenge burning in their eyes.

"One group in position!"

"The second regiment is ready!"

"The three regiments are ready to attack at any time!"

The military mages' offensive was concentrated once again, and the magic lights of various systems intertwined in the air to form a torrent of destruction.
They all charged towards the eight sea beasts that controlled the tides. Everyone knew that only by eliminating the culprits that could cause the tides could they prevent the disaster that would flood Pudong.

however--

"boom--"

A hundred-meter-high wall of water suddenly exploded on the sea surface. In the turbid waves, the injured giant squid broke through the waves in an even more violent manner!

Its huge body was like a moving island, its tentacles fully stretched out, interweaving into a barrier of flesh and blood in the air, once again firmly protecting the sea spirit beast behind it.

The military mages' magic bombarded its tentacles, leaving numerous scars.

However, facing such injuries, the giant squid became even more excited.

The two tentacles that had just been severed by the holy light were now showing strange blood-red magic patterns. These patterns were wriggling like living things, interweaving into a complex blood network at the broken limbs.

“Crackle—Crackle—”

Amidst the creepy sound of flesh and blood growing, new tentacles were reshaped at an astonishing speed.

Its newly formed limbs were nearly a third thicker than their originals, covered in dark red crystallized scales that shone with a cold metallic luster in the sunlight. Most terrifyingly, the interiors of those massive suction cups were now filled with dense magical circuits, gleaming with an ominous dark light.

"It's adapting to our attacks!" exclaimed a super-class light mage.

Under the illumination of light magic, the newly formed tentacles only emitted a slight white smoke, which was completely different from the previous burning situation.

At the same time, the same situation happened again after three other tentacles were severely damaged and broken by subsequent magic attacks.

All the military mages fell into a brief daze.

"It's actually undergoing combat evolution!" A super-class mage's voice trembled slightly. "Every time it's injured and reborn, the new tentacles' resistance to the corresponding magic is significantly improved!"

The faces of the people around suddenly turned ugly.

If this deep-sea monster can really evolve infinitely, then all their attacks will be in vain - they may even help it become stronger and more difficult to deal with!
However, at this moment, a female mage pushed her glasses, and a gleam of light flashed in her eyes behind the lenses: "Wait. Have you noticed? Every time it regenerates, those blood-red magic patterns become dimmer."

She quickly called up the recorded footage and froze the image at the moment the giant squid regenerated.

Sure enough, the luster of those strange blood-red lines would diminish a little after each wound was repaired, as if their energy had been consumed.

"This isn't infinite evolution!"

"These magic patterns are the source of its evolutionary energy. As long as we continue to attack, its regeneration ability will be exhausted sooner or later!"

The Chief Military Strategy added, "That is to say, as long as we keep the offensive going, it will eventually reach its limit." "That's right!"

"Looking at the decay rate of these magic patterns, if they can withstand three more rounds of attacks of the same intensity, their regeneration ability will be completely exhausted!"

Just when everyone discovered the secret of giant squid's regeneration.

The other party's six scarlet compound eyes narrowed slightly, and a "gurgling" sound came from its mouthparts, as if mocking human stupidity.

The huge body rose and fell gracefully in the waves, and suddenly—

"boom!"

It extended six tentacles and plunged them into the seabed, stirring it with a strange rhythm. Under the influence of the magic pattern, the seawater became as thick as ink, and the water level rose at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"Alarm! The tide has breached the warning line by 9 meters!"

Some skyscrapers have begun to take in water, and cars parked on the roadside are swept up by the turbid waves like toys, crashing and shattering in the whirlpool.

At the same time, there are some small sirens mixed in the tide, spreading along the drainage system into the depths of the city!
"General Military Strategy! We must..."

"I know!"

Faced with this situation, the pale-faced chief strategist decided to ask for the top person, because it was too late. If they waited until the giant squid's magic pattern power was exhausted, and then tried their best to kill it.

I'm afraid the entire Pudong has been submerged by the tide and sunk to the bottom of the sea.

However, at this moment, a distant and rhythmic sound came slowly from behind. The melody seemed to carry some ancient beat, and each note precisely hit the pulse of the waves.

Then, the raging sea tide gradually subsided in the sound!
The tens-of-meter-high waves stirred up by the sea spirit beasts were decreasing in height at a visible rate. The water levels in the submerged urban areas were also slowly receding.

In the hierarchy of deep-sea races, the mermaid's ability to control the tides ranks above that of the sea beasts. This is why the blue-scaled mermaid can drive eight rare sea beasts here at the same time.

Because the mermaid clan is the superior commander of the sea spirit beasts.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and saw two ethereal figures standing in the air hand in hand.

On the left, there was a line shrouded in hazy starlight, with countless tiny starlights circulating around it, sometimes condensing into star patterns, and sometimes scattering into light spots all over the sky, making it impossible to see its true appearance.

The figure on the right was shrouded in a loose blue robe, the hood of the robe pulled down very low, completely covering the face.

These two people are the clone Soraka and the little mermaid Lan Xi.

Lan Xi used her own strength to temporarily suppress the tide summoned by the sea spirit beast.

"Have the reinforcements arrived?"

The mages of the Pearl Tower looked at the two mysterious figures in the distance, with hope and confusion in their eyes. They did not know these two people.

“Who are you?”

The general asked loudly, but Soraka did not respond to him, but just stared at the sea quietly.

All I heard was a loud "boom".

A huge wave exploded on the sea surface!
A tide even more violent than before surged into the sky, and a graceful figure slowly emerged from the waves.

Her scales shimmered, her fishtail swayed gracefully, and she wore a coral crown, radiating a breathtaking majesty. Her azure eyes, identical to Lan Xi's, were now icy cold.

(The ocean tides caused by mermaids and sea beasts stir up waves and gradually advance. They are incomparable to the tides caused by the Cold Big Eye Tide Eye in the original novel, which can flood the entire Magic City.)
(End of this chapter)