A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 98 Adding a Weight

Feeling completely drained after a long time, Luo Xia felt his thinking was becoming sluggish.

But there was no time to rest; the falling, putrid pus would soon contaminate and engulf everyone. Master Humboldt activated his guardian oak tree to temporarily prop things up, buying Rorschach a chance.

The boy plundered the magic in his environment and roughly pumped it into his body, causing his skin to glow with a wildly surging purple light.

It was like putting himself in a hydraulic press. Despite the throbbing pain all over his body, Rorschach cast his so-called "blessing"—[The Forest of Delyat].

"What's going on?" Master Humboldt felt that he had lost control of the area he was protecting. Thick trees burst forth from the ground beneath his feet, solid in form and adorned with magnificent blue fireflies. Their canopies tightly blocked out all the filth, while ghostly flames blazed and purified the pus.

Rorschach became the center of this newly grown forest. Within the limited space that included all his teammates, he became the source and end of magic and life force, just like the original sacred tree, the heart that pumped the circulation.

Outside this "sanctuary," Delyatz, who had returned to the prime plane, gradually grew thick antlers and revealed a majestic male appearance. He faced the challenge with his powerful avatar.

His form continued to grow larger, and he stomped down with his iron hooves—at this moment, he was Vidal from the legends of the northern dwarves, his iron boots allowing him to traverse lava and flames, and a rough iron sword materialized in his hand, ready to recreate the miracle of slaying the giant beast.

The purple embryo let out a mournful cry, differentiated into irregular thick armor, and withered branches sprouted from its back, thus gaining a strange buoyancy that slowly lifted the giant holding the sword. Its skin secreted a viscous sap, intending to corrode the iron boots bestowed by the gods.

The greatsword swung down, carrying thunder and lightning, and frost and snow, yet it passed right through the flesh and blood of the divine abomination, reappearing without its edge.

The giant simply threw down his greatsword, and emerald green light burst forth from his mouth, eyes, and hands. He seized the embryo, and the emerald green light intertwined with the rising purplish-black mist.

The divine embryo began to fight back, the withered branches on its back constantly extending and branching, and it vomited dark green blood. The extending withered branches irresistibly pierced deep into the giant's chest and abdomen, the filthy power constantly twisting the wounds, and the dark green blood staining the giant's arms, corroding to the bone.

Vidal had no choice but to release the embryo. He certainly had the opportunity to heal, but the so-called aberration, that is, the power of the other party, is most likely to take effect during development and recovery, which corresponds to the fact that aberrations and cancers are most likely to occur during the large-scale proliferation and differentiation of cells in a living body.

He first used the emerald green power of nature to dispel the malicious energy, and then healed his own wounds. Even so, he still spat out large chunks of flesh and blood tainted with the concept of "cancer".

The areas on the embryo that were exposed to the emerald light developed patches of pink skin. While that might be the normal color for a normal organism, it was a festering sore for the embryo because it was an unbalanced organism that relied entirely on constant mutations to maintain itself. The tissues that returned to normal immediately collapsed, bursting out in red and green bloodstains.

Beside the arena where the two sides fought, a crowd watched their battle through the trees.

"This might be the first war between gods since the Age of Silence, even though they are all in extremely weak forms compared to the gods." Only Old Master Couber still had the leisure to comment: "With young friend Rorschach maintaining things, Alexander, you can hold an umbrella for me."

The others were confused, but Archmage Humboldt understood the old man's meaning. He erected an emerald barrier covering the two of them and, braving the raging magical winds outside the [Deryaz Forest], rushed out of the forest with Kober to join the battlefield ravaged by energy.

Kober rode the wind and rose up, looking down at the enormous embryonic monster.

"Fortunately, my new clone is quite handy." After saying that, he released all the mycelium, which floated in the air. Under the archmage's will, each strand of mycelium was breathing in and changing the surrounding magic, summoning a thundercloud that was larger, more active and violent than before.

Ninth Ring Spell: Vengeful Storm

With continuous chanting, the essence of nature was endowed with the attributes of ice, thunder, and wind, which hovered above the embryo and roamed freely in the thunderclouds.

The first wave of attacks was a dense barrage of lightning strikes, so frequent that they continuously illuminated the night sky;

A second wave of acid rain fell from the sky, causing the embryo to writhe in pain.

Finally, the gale, lightning, and hail continued to bombard Him. Even the worst weather in the North could not compare to what the embryo was now enduring. Each force was like a knife cutting into His body and penetrating His flesh.

Under the onslaught of these violent natural disasters, the surface of the embryo was constantly damaged and attempted to heal, with tumors rapidly growing from the wounds. Due to the excessive number of wounds, the growths had completely altered its appearance, making it unrecognizable as an embryo, leaving only a large, fleshy worm with two tufts of withered branches.

However, His abnormal vitality was not greatly damaged; on the contrary, it began to multiply, absorbing the pus from the giant trees on the ground and expanding continuously.

At the same time, in the woods where the apprentices were sheltered:

Luo Xia regained some consciousness during the cycle, and was able to spare some energy while maintaining the [Deryaz Forest].

"Cavendish, give me your alchemy map."

Cavendish didn't know what Rorschach needed the map for, but he handed it to him without hesitation.

Rorschach bit his finger and pressed a bloody mark hard on the spot where the map was. Then the boy took out a portable communication scroll he had prepared and placed the map on it.

"Cavendish, activate it."

Every day before, Rorschach had kept in touch with Cano using this scroll. He had written letters describing the forest and their discoveries and encounters; he had also sent leaves, branches, and even small soil samples from the forest. Today, he was sending a map.

Rorschach was tireless, regardless of whether the recipient, Lionel Cano, found it annoying.

A light shone, and the map bearing the bloodstain was sent to the other end of the teleportation array.

You better not go take a nap, you rascal. Rorschach glanced at the pocket watch made by His Majesty the King; it was 2:05 PM.

Rorschach persisted in his "email bombardment" for only one purpose—the "Anywhere Door."

Forbidden teleportation magic allows powerful mages to travel to places in the same plane they have never been before. The key lies in imagination and description; the more accurate the location is, the higher the probability of success and the smaller the teleportation deviation.

Rorschach believed that the amount of information he had transmitted, combined with Cano's research into teleportation technology, should be enough to successfully bring an archmage into the battlefield, adding a significant asset to his side (in any sense).

2:07 PM.

Above the embryo, Dryaz dispelled his masculine incarnation. He actually disliked that posture and had never uttered a word as Vidal since ancient times, thus earning the title of "God of Silence".

He realized something: He now possessed both the power of desolation and the power of procreation, while the blindly proliferating tumor before him only possessed the partial power of Mother Earth—abnormality. Therefore, the tumor could not be stopped for even a moment. So Delyuez descended with both powers, bringing balance—a state He had always strived to maintain, and also the state most disliked by the divine abomination embryo.

The withering and proliferation of the tumor itself reached a balance, successfully limiting its expansion, and the worm was trapped in the realm of natural cycles.

The next challenge is to kill Him, which is a difficult problem. Judging from the previous battles, neither Dryuyaz himself, nor Kober and Humboldt, who share the same power as Him, could harm this bastard.

2:08 PM.

"Ah—" A tumbling fat man plummeted from the sky, crashing onto the battlefield. He steadied himself just before making intimate contact with the ground, then smiled at the Divine Abomination Embryo: "So ugly, you must be the villain?"

After speaking, the Grand Master crushed a crystal, and energy spread out and sublimated from it in a regular pattern, rising into the endless heavens.

A crack appeared in the night sky, and this time, four fiery meteors fell from the heavens.

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