Ancient Wizards: A Little Progress Every Day

Dago watched helplessly as a solid, pitch-black beam of destructive light grazed right past his nose!

There was no explosion, no roar.

The golden eagle wing on that side, which was strong enough to withstand fourth-circle spells, vanished without a trace the moment it touched the black light, as if it had been erased from the concept of magic!

All I could hear was the frantic pounding of my heart like a war drum.

At the edge of the field of vision was Lumian's face, contorted with ecstasy and laughing wildly.

That face seemed to be mocking: "Trying to escape? Do you think you can escape the Fifth Ring Road's sanctions?!"

"call--"

A burst of hot, stale air was exhaled, and the stagnant time suddenly resumed its flow!

Dago's eyes were instantly filled with extreme focus, and his immense mental power swept across the void at full power like a radar.

His figure transformed into a golden lightning bolt that leaped and refracted continuously, performing an artistic and extreme maneuver in the void!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Above the sky, black beams of destructive light rained down like a cataclysmic downpour!

The enormous six-pointed star slowly rotated, as if it had its own will, precisely unleashing all its killing intent upon Dago's head!

"It's spatial locking..."

In his near-abnormal, extreme dodging, Dago calmly detected the nauseatingly dense spatial fluctuations around him.

He clenched his teeth and danced wildly on the tip of the knife!

Every black beam of light that brushed past him contained forbidden power that could instantly blast him into dust!

A faint, almost invisible golden glow enveloped him; it was Arajan risking damage to his own essence to constantly correct Dagor's near-misses in positioning.

The heavy breathing echoed in Dago's mind.

Finally, the devastating, storm-like offensive abruptly came to a halt.

The six-pointed star array in the sky stopped rotating, like a world-destroying dragon panting heavily, gathering its next breath.

Dago's figure froze in mid-air.

Sweat soaked through my body as if I had been washed, evaporating into wisps of white mist in the cold wind.

His shoulders rose and fell steadily, and his breathing was deep and even.

In just a few breaths, he brushed past death nearly a hundred times. This high pressure, which threatened to crush even his soul, did not break his spirit!

"You...you're completely unharmed?!"

Lumian, who witnessed the entire incredible "extreme dodge show," was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

He stared intently at Dago, who was completely unharmed, as if he were looking at an incomprehensible monster!

The next second, jealousy and fear made him roar through gritted teeth again: "Next time! Next time, this deadly formation will surely grind you to dust!"

"Dago, if you kneel down now and willingly hand over your inheritance..."

Cooper's condescending voice of charity drifted from afar.

Dago didn't even bother to give him a glance.

His dark eyes were fixed on the huge six-pointed star that had begun to rotate again in the sky.

His eyes were unusually calm, like the still, deep sea before a storm.

Then, he took a deep breath.

"【First Layer of the Conch Palace】—Open!"

"Buzz—!"

With a terrifying buzzing sound that shattered the void, all the sweat on Dago's body evaporated in a fraction of a second!

His cascading black hair flew skyward, irreversibly and wildly turning into an abyss of absolute blackness in mid-air!

Strands of destructive black flames and arcs of death light surged wildly from his body!

"Snap! Snap!"

With a series of loud popping sounds as his bones grew wildly, Dago's body grew taller and taller!

An ancient, vast, and terrifying pressure that transcends all things emanated from his body without reservation!

Ancient Blue Demon Body - Fully Unleashed!

"Whoosh—!"

The void above their heads surged with deadly waves once more, the moment the first beam of energy, powerful enough to melt everything, crashed down.

Dago's figure vanished into thin air!

When he reappeared, he was already silently pressed against Lumian's face.

Like the Grim Reaper returning from hell, so fast that it brought people's thoughts to a standstill!

Lumian's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, his heart stopped, and instinct drove him to retreat frantically.

But it was too late.

Dago coldly raised his hand, and the violent black aura surrounding him crushed down like Mount Tai!

The materialized aura transformed into the touch of death, tightly gripping Lumian's broken body, and then... dragging him to the side like a tattered meat shield!

"boom--!"

A beam of destructive light, following closely behind Dago, grazed Dago's shoulder without mercy and completely engulfed Lumian!

Amidst the chilling sound of flesh and blood evaporating, Dago's expression remained icy, devoid of any human emotion.

He precisely caught a severed finger that had flown out of nothingness, and smoothly removed the exquisite gemstone rings.

Immediately afterwards, five fingers shot out like iron hooks and grabbed the translucent soul that was trying to escape frantically!

No nonsense, no pity.

Dago simply stuffed it into the square-cornered cowbell that had been prepared beforehand!

The chilling chewing sounds, accompanied by Lumian's heart-wrenching screams, were completely buried within the spatial ring as the cowbell was sealed shut.

Murder, plunder, soul extraction.

The entire set of movements was fluid and skillful, so much so that it was chilling.

Only then did Dago slowly turn around.

Faced with the barrage of energy beams hurtling down from above, he crossed his arms and suddenly brought them together!

The billowing black aura around him surged in the wind, transforming into an absolute defensive light shield that bulged outwards in the shape of a conch shell!

"Boom! Boom! Boom—!"

One after another, beams of destructive light crashed down on the black conch palace like thunder!

The blinding energy halo exploded wildly, unleashing a devastating tidal wave that instantly engulfed the demon-like figure behind the light shield!

Cooper, who was some distance away, couldn't help but stagger forward two steps, staring intently at the center of the explosion.

His mind is still trapped in the extreme shock of Lumian being instantly killed.

Cooper's mind was in turmoil, extremely complex.

From initially being arrogant and dismissive; to remaining confident despite setbacks in the plan; and now... only deep trembling and fear remain!

This mere third-ring wizard from a remote southern region shattered his pride and crushed his understanding time and time again in just a few minutes!

What should have been a leisurely hunt, like a cat toying with a mouse, has turned into a terrifying discovery. He realized that he had not provoked a mouse at all, but a monstrous beast in human skin!

Even Lumian, who had played all his trump cards, was used as a meat shield and devoured alive. If it weren't for the descent array left behind by that lord... Cooper shuddered violently.

Right now, all he wants is to watch this madman from the south turn to ashes in the magic circle!

Only death could erase the uncontrollable fear in his heart.

Just as Cooper's thoughts were churning wildly.

Suddenly, he felt the light above his head... dim.

He instinctively raised his head, and his blood seemed to freeze completely at that moment.

He was shocked to discover that the sky within dozens of miles around him had fallen into an eerily silent stillness.

The world-destroying gale unleashed by the activation of the magic array, the violent electric current tearing through the sky... everything was abruptly cut off!

All the energy in the void was as if it were being pulled tightly by an indescribable, terrifying black hole, and was being poured back in the same direction!

Cooper's gaze trembled as he followed the trajectory of the flowing energy.

My gaze finally settled on the lingering smoke and dust from the explosion.

In an instant, Cooper's pupils dilated violently, and his heart felt as if it had been crushed by an invisible hand!

An indescribable, chilling feeling, like countless cold, venomous snakes, surged from the depths of his soul and instantly crawled all over his limbs and bones...