Full-Time Magister: The Ruler of Wind and Rain

Xima Pool is just a small pool of clear water, nestled between two peaks of Cangshan Mountain (forgive Wang Yu for not listening to Lingling's rambling about the names of these two mountains), only a step away from the summit. The lake, about sixty or seventy meters long and wide, is crystal clear and calm, making it a truly excellent scenic spot.

But how could the pool remain completely still under such a strong wind? Is that really true? Is this even possible? Something was definitely fishy going on. Wang Yu's turbulent emotions began to return to calm and thoughtful consideration.

He circled the pool once. The Wind-Eroding Demon, as predicted in the intelligence, hadn't appeared, which was good. But the Wind Spirit Seed, which had clearly been emanating its aura earlier, was also nowhere to be seen. After observing for a long time, Wang Yu couldn't help but shrug and admit that he might have misjudged the situation. This so-called Spirit Seed didn't exist at all; the fierce winds of Cangshan were simply suppressed by a more peculiar natural phenomenon.

Reluctantly, but helpless, he realized his knowledge was still too shallow and his luck was lacking. However, the concentration of wind element here was quite high. Seeing a large blue stone by the pool, Wang Yu climbed up, sat cross-legged, and began a brief meditation. This was knowledge he had learned from his senior brother, Xiao Ding: in the wild, one didn't necessarily need to be fully absorbed in the spiritual world to meditate.

Textbooks only say that meditation requires an undisturbed environment, emptying the mind, and concentrating the spirit on stardust (for novice mages) to nurture one's magical stardust. But any mage knows that meditating in places with dense elemental energy isn't about achieving twice the result with half the effort; it's more like turning off the switch rather than opening it. However, places rich in elemental energy are often in the wild, frequently inhabited by demons. Unless one wants to meditate inside a demon's belly, meditation without a protector is impossible.

Fortunately, like Wang Yu, Xiao Ding often went out alone in the wild (not considering taking Lingling with him). He simply summarized a method that Wang Yu called semi-immersive meditation. During meditation, he only entered the shallow consciousness and could keep a constant monitoring of the surrounding environment. In addition, Wang Yu had a talent for being more sensitive to information in the wind. When he sat there, it was like he had a radar on. He could hear everything around him clearly.

In short, having failed to find a spirit seed, Wang Yu focused on cultivation, gradually absorbing the surrounding wind elemental power to solidify his intermediate level two cultivation. Although his cultivation in the Three-Step Tower, aided by his cheat-like abilities, was far from superficial, his foundation was indeed somewhat unstable. Since he had such a treasure trove of wind elemental richness and gentleness, it wouldn't be a loss to temper his nebula further.

Wang Yu, who was absorbing and refining the wind elements, did not notice that the wind around Xima Pool was changing more and more as he inhaled and absorbed the wind elements. Although he had not closed his five senses, the turbulent vortex of the wind elements prevented him from noticing that there was a very active wind in his blind spot, as if it had just been nurtured by heaven and earth.

Just then, something unexpected happened!

The wind-eroding demon, which was hiding somewhere, suddenly grabbed at Wang Yu with its sharp claws!

A layer of water shield appeared in time within the vortex, but it only blocked the attack for a moment. The claws were almost unimpeded and continued to slash at Wang Yu in the vortex!

However, the Wind-Eroding Demon missed its target and looked at its outstretched claws with a hint of confusion, feeling as if the air was less filled with the smell of blood.

Before it could react, a wind track lit up, and Wang Yu, who had narrowly escaped death in the vortex, actually rushed towards the great general-level demon from a position that even the Wind Erosion Demon couldn't find immediately.

If there were any spectators at this moment, they would have thought that Wang Yu was not just courting death, but practically committing suicide. An "ordinary" mid-level mage was actually going to risk his life to attack the face of one of the best demons. It was practically delivering himself to the demons' doorstep. Even a fixed match wouldn't be played like this.

However, Wang Yu remained remarkably rational. In the instant he was ambushed, he first activated Water Defense, then summoned Wind Rail to instantly teleport himself dozens of meters away, into the Wind Erosion Demon's blind spot. But this was a powerful general; theoretically, it would take four or five mid-level level three mages to be confident in defeating it. For Wang Yu alone, victory would be extremely difficult.

What if they just run away without fighting? Unfortunately, although the Wind Erosion Demon's main body isn't particularly fast, its claws, which can detach from its body and fly hundreds of meters, are incredibly fast. Even with Wang Yu's wind-type abilities, he's not confident he can shake off those terrifying claws. Once discovered, he'll be relentlessly pursued and killed by them.

Therefore, the only feasible solution is to engage in close combat with this wind-eroding demon, using its relatively slow body as a shield to avoid being pursued by its sharp wind claws.

Wang Yu thought this and did this. After casting a Water Defense-Circulation spell on himself a short distance away, he rode the wind rails, speeding past the Wind Erosion Demon. The water blade he conjured slashed fiercely across the Wind Erosion Demon's body. As a tangible elemental life form, such a strike was not fatal to the Wind Erosion Demon, nor even a serious injury; it would recover quickly. However, Wang Yu had no intention of finishing it off in one fell swoop. As long as he could disrupt the elemental flow within the elemental life form time and time again, even if he couldn't melt it like the Light elemental demons countered the Shadow elemental demons, he could gradually make it enter an unstable state, eventually causing it to lose its form and either dissipate or self-destruct.

After all that rambling, to sum it up in one sentence: the Wind-Eroding Demon has a health bar, and it's already started losing health. Wang Yu was just about to unleash another attack when a pair of sharp wind claws appeared in front of him from hundreds of meters away in an instant—truly terrifying!

Fortunately, Wang Yu did not let his guard down for a moment. He quickly dodged to the side of the Wind Erosion Demon to avoid one of its claws. When he could not dodge the other one, he drew out his mid-level magic energy and condensed it into a wind blade half the height of a person, which he used to block the attack.

The razor-bladed wind claws flew at incredible speed, but their ability to change direction was not very agile. As long as the path was calculated correctly, blocking them was not impossible. With a loud "clang," the wind blade in Wang Yu's hand shattered and dissipated, and the razor-bladed wind claws were also knocked back.

In a flash, Wang Yu's water blade was fully formed, and he slashed fiercely at the Wind Erosion Demon. Without its claws, the Wind Erosion Demon was powerless to fight back and was slashed open again. To make it even more difficult for the Wind Erosion Demon to recover, Wang Yu even made the water blade disintegrate in the gash that had been cut into the Wind Erosion Demon. The large amount of water element made the elemental creature like the Wind Erosion Demon even more severely injured.

Wang Yu had only managed to gain one attack turn by boldly parrying, and even after being severely injured twice, the strength, or rather, the unfairness, of elemental life lay in its exaggerated regenerative energy. By simply reorganizing the flow of elements and purifying the elements within its body, the elemental creature could rapidly recover—at least superficially. Of course, there's no free lunch; such rapid recovery came at the cost of its own strength. After two strikes, Wang Yu noticed that the Wind-Eroded Demon was smaller than before, and while its sharp wind claws were still swift, they seemed to have lost some of their power. He should be able to win, right?

Will it win?