Above the mage

Chapter 30 Abundant Martial Virtue

Gao De pushed open the dark brown door once again.

"Here they come." Master Seda sat at the table as usual, looking at Gao De without any emotion.

"Here he is." Gao De nodded, glanced at Master Seda, and felt that he had aged noticeably since ten days ago.

While Gaode was sizing up Master Seda, Master Seda was also observing Gaode, seemingly quite pleased with his obedience.

He pushed the medicine bottle on the table forward. "Drink it."

"You have a talent for potions. If all goes well, I will truly take you on as my apprentice."

Seemingly because he was so close to success, and in order to have a good omen, Master Seda actually put aside his previous threats and took the initiative to promise Gaode benefits.

Looking at the unidentified liquid glowing blue in the conical vial in front of him, Gao De found himself surprisingly calm.

He smiled and said to Master Seda in a very "sincere" tone, "Thank you, Master."

Perhaps because I had been preparing for this day for too long and was nervous for too long, I actually calmed down when the time came and didn't have any major psychological fluctuations.

And when the moment actually came, Gao De felt a sense of detachment from life and death.

He didn't belong here; he was given this life by chance.

If he is the one who walks out of here after today, then he has made a huge profit.

If it weren't for him, he would have lived at least another month, so it wouldn't have been a loss.

Since I can't lose either way, why should I be afraid of you?

After fully understanding the situation, Gaode put aside all his tension and worries.

A thought struck him, and the medicine bottle on the table floated up into the air and landed directly in his hand.

The Mage's Hand.

Sedda was somewhat surprised by God's actions, but at that moment his attention was entirely focused on whether the potion would be successful or not, so he temporarily ignored God's seemingly "overstepping" behavior.

Gao De opened the bottle, and then, under the watchful gaze of Master Seda, he raised the medicine bottle to his lips, making a gesture as if he wanted to drink.

Gao De, who had been keeping an eye on Master Seda out of the corner of his eye, noticed that Master Seda was staring at the medicine bottle in his hand with an infatuated expression, and couldn't help but show a hint of mockery in his eyes.

The next moment, Gaode launched a sudden attack!

Instead of drinking the medicine as Master Seda had expected, he resolutely shook off the bottle with his right hand.

The potion that the sorcerer Seda had concocted with great expense, effort, and high hopes turned into an arc, slicing through the air and landing on the ground in front of him.

With a crisp, heavy thud, shards of glass scattered everywhere.

The fluorescent blue liquid detached from the broken container and spilled onto the cold, hard ground, forming an irregular, mottled pattern that silently described the irreversible decision.

A medicinal smell filled the air.

Everything seemed to freeze at that moment.

Then it was quickly broken.

"What are you doing?! I'll kill you, I'll kill you!!" A violent roar echoed throughout the room.

The usually aloof Master Seda, like a lion about to erupt, could no longer contain his emotions as he looked at the puddle on the ground.

Gao De watched coldly; the reaction of Master Seda was exactly what he wanted to see.

To destroy something, you must first make it mad.

Gao De was fully aware of how much the mage Seda valued the potion in his hand.

Therefore, we must use this opportunity to provoke Master Seda, make him lose his mind, and increase our chances of winning by a tiny margin.

puff!

While the monk Seda was still roaring, suddenly, a handful of flour was thrown at him in the face.

The old master had never seen such an unethical fighting style before. Caught off guard, he was blinded by the attack.

And Gaode's next move is already here.

He took a few steps back, creating more distance between himself and the monk Seda, and at the same time took out a potion bottle from his waist. Just as the monk Seda was blinded by the flour, he threw the bottle at him.

It was Gaode that had prepared the throwable, homemade acid bottles in advance.

"Sprinkling ash" + "pouring sulfuric acid" - the classic Wei Xiangzhu combo.

Gao De didn't watch martial arts movies for nothing when he was a kid.

Meanwhile, although Master Seda was caught off guard by Gao De's underhanded trick, he was not so easy to deal with.

The moment he was hit, the monk Seda reacted in time.

Without him making any move, a distinct magical fluctuation rippled through the sealed room.

The acid bottle that Gao De threw could not go any further when it was less than a foot away from Master Seda, as if it had hit a transparent but hard glass dome.

The glass bottle shattered instantly, and the liquid inside splashed out, carrying a pungent sulfur smell.

Acid splashed everywhere, with a large portion of it hitting the sorcerer Seda.

Given the corrosive power of the acid, if it were to actually hit Master Seda, it would certainly give him a good beating, if not defeat him in one blow.

But like the acid bottle, the splashing acid was completely blocked, dripping onto the floor and never getting close to the monk Seda's body.

"Is this all you're relying on?" At this moment, Master Seda finally managed to open his eyes, laughing angrily. "Using some underhanded tricks, plus a bottle of acid you somehow managed to get your hands on, you think you can turn things around?"

Upon smelling the pungent sulfur odor, Master Seda understood the nature of the liquid.

"You dare to show off such tricks in front of me?" His face had darkened to the extreme.

"You'll regret this. Today I'll make you kneel here and beg me to kill you!"

Faced with the blatant threat from the sorcerer Seda, and the reality that Seda had easily and subtly blocked his first attack, he was at a loss.

"Today, only one of us will leave this house alive," Gao De said in an extremely cold and calm voice.

He did not lose his courage because of the methods of the monk Seda.

Instead, it was the first time that he had openly revealed his fangs in front of Master Seda.

Master Seda completely disregarded Gao De, assuming he had lost his mind. "Although I don't know where you got this bottle of acid, do you really think you can be my opponent with these external objects and some underhanded tactics?"

"A master is a master because a master is omnipotent."

"Only a mage can kill a mage."

"You are a mage apprentice, and so am I," Gao De said coldly, looking at the mage Seda.

Master Seda seemed somewhat surprised by Gao De's audacity, yet also somewhat amused, and spoke with disdain:

"It seems I haven't taught you enough, which is why you have such an absurd idea."

"You should know that there are differences even among apprentices of monks."

Gao De ignored the verbal attacks from Master Seda.

It takes time to activate a spell model.

Because magic power needs to flow along the spell model before it can be transformed into various incredible spell effects.

This is called the casting time.

The more powerful the spell, the larger the spell model, and the longer it takes to complete a cycle.

He spoke with the monk Seda partly to vent the frustration that had been building up in his heart for a month.

Secondly, it buys them a brief period of time to cast spells.

At this moment, Gao De suddenly swung his right hand.

A subtle energy fluctuation had gathered in his hand, solidifying into a ball of acid that shimmered with a greenish light.

The acid ball flew from his hand with his gesture, leaving a slightly distorted trail of light that traversed the short distance between him and the sorcerer Seda, shooting towards his face.

[Acid Splash+]!

(End of this chapter)