Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

Several lava-armored two-headed salamanders sneaked directly into the center of the town from underground. After releasing the skill "Molten Pillar of Flame", they began to launch an offensive in conjunction with the monsters outside.

In this situation, Shirley believed that even if they were not directly attacked by the monsters, they would eventually die surrounded by flames.

"Vanessa, give up trying to break out. We have no chance of escaping."

After much hesitation, Shirley finally told Vanessa the truth. To her surprise, Vanessa was not surprised. She had actually realized from the beginning that they had no chance of survival.

"But even so, I still don't want to give up struggling. I think if it were Fike... he would definitely fight to the last moment."

When Feke's name was mentioned, Vanessa's expression was complicated, but Shirley could see that there was more trust in it.

Incredibly, Shirley was touched by Vanessa's words. She had already lost all hope, but now she felt that instead of keeping her magic power to commit suicide, it would be better to kill a few more monsters and live a few more minutes, no, even a few seconds.

All miracles are often pieced together bit by bit through such small efforts.

"You're right, Vanessa. I'm the one who's been held captive by experience... Let's fight it out together until the end!"

Shirley's will to survive was ignited by Vanessa. She never thought that when facing death, her past battlefield experiences would become her "enemy".

Now, Shirley and Vanessa got off their horses together and found a narrow and difficult-to-attack terrain on the edge of the town to hide in. Any monster that dared to go in would be immediately stabbed to death by their ice spears, and any ordinary flames that spread over would be blocked by the upright ice wall.

In this way, Shirley and Vanessa killed one fire salamander after another, praying for a miracle to happen.

However, as time passed, their physical strength and magic power were decreasing little by little, while the number of monsters outside was increasing and the fire was getting more and more fierce.

In the small space, the temperature was so high that the two of them were soaked. They found it increasingly difficult to breathe, and every time they inhaled, it felt as if their lungs were burning. But if they didn't breathe, they would only die faster.

no solution anymore.

Hopeless.

Miracles will not happen.

Desperate thoughts were like millions of ants, crawling into the two people's minds one by one.

If they had any common regret now, it was that they were unable to confirm Fei Ke's feelings before they died, and to confirm whether Fei Ke had any feelings for them.

"I say... Vanessa... do you... like... that boy... Fike...?"

Being on the verge of death, Shirley didn't think too much and asked Vanessa directly about her guess.

Vanessa was a little confused at this time. She thought that even if she could survive, she would have to confess this to Shirley sooner or later, so she nodded and admitted her feelings.

"Yes...ah...you figured it out...Mr. Bingjixing..."

Just after Vanessa finished speaking these words incoherently, the red night sky illuminated by the fire suddenly lit up with an ice-blue light.

It was not just one or two sparse points of light, but a vast expanse of light that surrounded and enveloped the entire town of Podle. Shirley poked her upper body out of her hiding place in disbelief. As an elemental sage, she knew from the moment she saw the refracted ice-blue light that a huge number of magic circles were unfolding in the sky above the town of Podle!

After seeing the scene above the town of Podell with her own eyes, Shirley felt dizzy and was so surprised that her jaw almost dropped to the ground.

What caught her eyes were thousands of third-order ice magic circles in white, densely packed and covering the entire sky!

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——(Is it some national magic force coming?)

——(No, could it be that the God of Magic has descended?)

Shirley has been studying magic for such a long time, but she has never seen such an outrageous scene. To make so many magic circles appear at the same time, the magic power and technical ability required are completely beyond Shirley's imagination.

At this moment, it was not only Shirley who was dumbfounded, but also all the survivors of Podell Town who were still alive. No matter whether they knew magic or not, they were all deeply shocked!

Then, when all the magic circles were constructed at the same time, a rain of ice spears, more terrifying than the natural disaster of hail, naturally descended.

Countless tiny ice spears were fired from the magic circle at the same time, shooting towards the ground at various angles.

Shirley cried out, "Oh no! This is an indiscriminate attack!" She quickly pulled Vanessa back into the bunker. Then, outside, they heard a rumbling sound: the sound of countless ice spears smashing into the ground, piercing all sorts of objects and creatures!

Shirley immediately chanted "First-Order Earth Magic: Rock Wall" to reinforce the surrounding walls, fearing that the place she was in would be collapsed by the ice spear. However, after a minute or two, when the surroundings were quiet enough for Shirley to muster up the courage to go out and check, she realized that she had done something unnecessary.

The ice spears that seemed to be falling from the sky did not even hit her and Vanessa's hiding place.

Is this a miracle?

Shirley soon realized that a miracle had indeed happened, but it was not the "cheap" miracle she had just thought it was.

The real miracle is that among the hundreds of thousands of ice spears fired from the hundreds of magic circles, not only did not a single one hit Shirley and the others, but also not a single one harmed the survivors of Podell Town, and not even a single one damaged any of the buildings!

These hundreds of thousands of ice spears all accurately hit the salamander monsters wreaking havoc in Podle Town. It only took a minute or two to kill all the monsters!

On this night, if miracles had a color, it would be ice blue.

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As all the monsters were annihilated, the fire was quickly put out by the townspeople.

Shirley and Vanessa walked among the ruins, wondering who saved the town of Bodel?

Finally, their questions were answered in the square in the center of Podell Town. A magician-like figure wearing a black mask was surrounded by a crowd of people who were warmly thanking them.

Shirley thought hard but couldn't remember any magic master in the world who was used to wearing a mask. After seeing the only one person who had performed a miracle, she also suspected that this guy might be a fame seeker.

However, when she saw the black-masked magician fly up from the crowd with great ease, and when she saw the black-masked magician easily cast one exquisite magic after another to help the townspeople clean up the ruins, all her doubts were slowly dispelled.

9.29 - White Ice Crystals (Part )

—(A silent chanting technique where even the lips barely move...)

——(A complex chanting ability that far exceeds the limits of "automatic chanting" and "multiple parallel chanting"...)

——(And with an unimaginably large amount of magic power, who on earth is this guy…?)

Shirley looked at the black-masked magician's good deeds and was constantly amazed by his superb magical skills, and her previous doubts were gradually dispelled.

In Shirley's eyes, the magician's use of magic was as flexible as controlling his own hands and feet. He casually cast a third-level gravity magic to help "lift" the collapsed house, and then a third-level wood magic to grow branches to reinforce the dangerous wall.

It’s not that Shirley can’t use these magics, but when it comes to her exquisite control over the magic and the extremely fast release speed, she really can’t even see the “back” of this magician.

As for the ice-blue miracle just now - that is, completing the construction of hundreds or thousands of magic circles at the same time, and precisely controlling each ice spear to hit only monsters and not hurt innocent people, Shirley felt that it was a magical art that she would never be able to achieve in her lifetime.

As a combat professional in the magician system, Shirley possesses two skills in chanting spells: the basic "automatic chanting" and the advanced version "multiple parallel chanting". Her current limit is to chant and construct 37 magic circles at the same time, and it can only be simple chanting, and there is no way to achieve precise control.

To achieve the same level of sophistication as the ice spear just now, Shirley could only chant two or three magic circles at the same time.

So, who is this magician who created miracles?

Shirley really wanted to see the true face under his mask, and Shirley was not the only one who had this idea. All the survivors in the rescued town of Bodel wanted to know the magician's name.

However, since the magician was wearing a mask, he naturally did not want his identity to be known. After being politely refused after asking several times, everyone stopped forcing this benefactor.

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Vanessa, like Shirley and everyone else, was shocked by the magical miracle just now. However, perhaps because she could not understand magic like Shirley, after the initial shock, Vanessa felt a little strange and even had some doubts.

Vanessa thought that the catastrophe in Podell tonight was actually quite bizarre. With so many salamander monsters, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were the demon army of the Hell Abyss Empire. It was simply impossible for them to attack a worthless town like Podell for no reason.

And after this extremely unlikely event happened, another extremely unlikely event also happened immediately, that is, the black-masked magician appeared like a savior and saved the town.

When these two almost impossible things happened one after another, Vanessa couldn't help but have a guess, that is, everything that happened tonight was arranged in advance by someone, but she had not yet figured out why someone had to go to so much trouble to arrange these things.

Now looking at Shirley's obsession with magic, Vanessa knew that she couldn't discuss it with her for the time being. Only after Shirley calmed down for a while could she analyze tonight's incident again.

Besides, even if this black-masked magician really has a problem, so what?

With Vanessa and Shirley's current strength, they are simply helpless against each other. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an "honor" for them to be involved in this "big show".

If there really is something wrong with this black-masked magician, Vanessa only hopes that his "drama" is over and there will be no subsequent plot... Being able to safely see the sun rise tomorrow is Vanessa's biggest wish at the moment.

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With such an uneasy mood, Vanessa kept staring at the black-masked magician from afar until the guy said goodbye to the townspeople and prepared to leave Podell Town.

Before the black-masked magician left, the townspeople brought over all the magic cores of the salamander monsters they had collected tonight, hoping that their benefactor would take them away as a thank you gift.

The black-masked magician refused at first, but the townspeople were so kind that he couldn't refuse, so he had to propose a compromise.

"Well, since I've accepted your gifts, I hope you'll accept my return gifts."

The black-masked magician moved his hands hidden in his robes a few times, and then all the salamander magic cores sent by the townspeople floated into the air... This time, Vanessa still couldn't see clearly what the staff hidden in the robe looked like.

Then, under everyone's gaze, more than a hundred of the nearly a thousand magic cores floated higher into the sky, and then, accompanied by a flash of light, transformed into crystal clear white ice crystals.

Then, under the control of the black-masked magician, these white ice crystals flew into the hands of every townsperson one by one, including Vanessa and Shirley.

"Take these, townspeople. When you encounter danger, swallowing these ice crystals will help you survive."

After leaving these words, the black-masked magician used the flying magic again and flew into the night sky, leaving the townspeople no chance to refuse or continue to express their gratitude.

The townspeople spontaneously bowed down in the direction where the black-masked magician disappeared, thanking him for saving their lives tonight.

In such a scene, Vanessa and Shirley seemed a little out of place because neither of them joined the kneeling group, especially Vanessa. She was even reluctant to accept the white ice crystal. If it weren't for Shirley's persuasion, she would have thrown the ice crystal away.

"Vanessa, it shouldn't hurt to keep it unused. You should keep it for now, or even take it back for appraisal."

Since Shirley's statement made sense, Vanessa put the white ice crystals into her bag.

However, Shirley and Vanessa did not know that among the more than one hundred white ice crystals, only the two assigned to them were different.

Just as Vanessa guessed, a "big show" was indeed staged in Podell Town tonight, and this show was actually performed specifically for Shirley and Vanessa. The person who directed and acted in this big show was none other than the black-masked magician... This is a later story.

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In any case, with all the monsters being annihilated, the fire being put out, and the last black-masked magician leaving, the disaster in Podell Town tonight finally came to an end. Although there are still many unclear points in the whole incident, at least most people's lives were saved, and this is enough.

After a short rest, Shirley and Vanessa had a brief discussion and decided to ride away from Bodel Town overnight and stay away from this troubled place.

Shirley wants to find her parents who were teleported away as soon as possible, and Vanessa also needs to reunite with the Snow Deer family's troops to put an end to this werewolf royal family incident.

Shirley, who had already severed ties with the Snow Deer family, had never thought that she would be able to reconnect with the Snow Deer family's bloodline in this way, and Vanessa had never imagined that she would establish a "wonderful" relationship with Ice Star Shirley.

In time, Vanessa might even serve the same husband as Shirley...if Lord Fike is still the Lord Fike she can trust.

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9.30 - Desert Adventure

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October 187, 8

8:10 AM

[Confession death countdown remaining: 28 days]

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The hot summer sun scorches the earth.

It was only eight o'clock in the morning, but the coolness of the early morning had already disappeared from the vast land, and instead, sultry summer heat began to rise.

Our classmate Jiang Ran had been asleep for quite a while at this time. He was walking across the border between the Farnas Empire and the Kingdom of Wester, heading towards his target town, Frontier.

In fact, in terms of distance alone, the town of Bodel in the Kingdom of West is obviously closer to Jiang Ran, but considering that Shirley and Vanessa may have already arrived there, Jiang Ran doesn't really want to go there.

In addition, unlike the barren town of Podell, the town of Frontier, which has a certain manufacturing industry, allows Jiang Ran to rest for a while, whether it is repairing equipment or replenishing props.

If Jiang Ran doesn't prepare himself properly, challenging the advanced trial in his current "broken" state would obviously be just suicide.

In addition to equipment and props, Jiang Ran also needs to re-examine his own combat system after the rapid progress in this period. If he cannot fully understand what he can and cannot do, how can he exert his full strength in battle?

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[Note: Here is a picture introducing Jiang Ran's current skills]

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So far, Jiang Ran has become very proficient in all of his production, manufacturing and combat professional skills. The only exception is the skill of "Shadow Prison Space". Due to the deviation in his previous understanding, the damage in actual application did not meet the expectation.

The skill description for "Shadow Prison Space" stated that each shadow within the skill's range would inflict an additional 1000 points of instant damage. Jiang Ran's understanding of this was that any shadow could be considered a shadow, and therefore the skill's instant damage should be quite explosive. However, the definition of "shadow" was actually quite strict.

After repeated experiments, Jiang Ran finally confirmed that the definition of "shadow" roughly refers to "an independent shadow of a creature that is at least the size of a human fist or larger."

In other words, it's not feasible to use insects like ants to increase the damage of "Shadow Prison Space." Even if you prepare a large group of small animals like rabbits and put them within the skill range, you must pay attention to the angle of light and the positioning of the small animals to prevent their shadows from overlapping.

Once shadows overlap, no matter how many creatures are contained within that shadow, they are counted as only one shadow for damage calculation purposes.

After figuring this out, Jiang Ran understood why he failed to use "Shadow Prison Space" to instantly kill the opponent when fighting with Kenroshi Okami. This also taught Jiang Ran a lesson, that is, in the future, after obtaining new equipment and new skills, he must test them as soon as possible to avoid unexpected results in battle.

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Jiang Ran continued walking across the vast desert.