Chapter 611 - 519: Deadlock and the Troublemaker (Part 2)
Chapter 611: Chapter 519: Deadlock and the Troublemaker (Part 2)
Countless tons of rock fragments were thrown into the sky, colliding with the sonic wave in the high air, leading to a series of secondary explosions, dyeing the entire sky a fiery red!
The earth is wailing!
Space is twisting!
This is a strike powerful enough to change the landscape!
The entire metal mountain was deeply embedded into the ground, with only the upper half still exposed, like a metal peak that suddenly rose from the earth.
The surface of the mountain was burnt red due to intense friction, with countless large cracks spreading across it, and flowing with molten metal from the gaps!
Right near this recently fallen metal mountain, Jeming stood there nonchalantly.
The invisible light of the Ruins Armor’s field flowed around, easily absorbing and smoothing all the violent physical impacts and high-temperature plasma aftershocks, not even a strand of his hair was disturbed.
He resembled the stabilizing pillar at the storm’s center, not moving an inch.
"Seems like you’re in a tough battle, Jeming."
A voice, somewhat lazy, a bit arrogant, unfamiliar yet strangely familiar from the depths of memory, came from the top of the metal mountain.
Jeming looked up towards the voice.
A tall and slender figure was slowly descending from the "summit" of that metal giant.
She had a head of smooth and lustrous black hair like the night sky, flying wildly in the chaotic air currents.
Her body was voluptuous, outlined perfectly by a dark purple tight-fitting combat suit adorned with silver star patterns.
Her face was beautiful, her features well-defined, with an air of aggressive beauty!
Especially her pair of black eyes, slightly narrowed at the moment, looking down at Jeming who seemed a bit "disheveled," with a faint smile at the corners of her mouth.
Jeming searched his memory with slight confusion, and soon found the corresponding memory.
A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he instinctively called out that nearly forgotten name:
"Augus...ta?"
Bert Villa Augusta!
She entered Nolun Academy at the same time as him and claimed the first place in the first trial of the academy, a true prodigy!
Displaying an extraordinary Thunder Elemental Affinity Talent during her Wizard Apprentice period, she was proud and competitive by nature.
However...
Jeming rubbed his chin, remembering that he didn’t have much interaction with her?
Augusta’s black eyes flashed with a barely noticeable gleam when she heard Jeming accurately utter her name!
Soon that laziness was quickly replaced by pride.
She lifted her petite chin slightly, like a queen surveying her domain, her voice clear:
"Indeed, it’s me! Who would’ve thought... the guy who hid his true talents so well, now appears so disheveled, it’s indeed..."
She paused, her gaze sweeping over Jeming’s tattered robe, and the fine unhealed wounds on his body...
A complex emotion flashed deep in her eyes, eventually turning into a sigh that was indistinguishable if it was disappointment or something else:
"...makes me a bit disappointed."
To Augusta, Jeming was an extremely special "coordinate" on her wizard path!
During her apprentice days, with her sharp intuition, she sensed that within this guy who spent all his days in the lab and library, lurked a certain kind of heart-palpitating power!
Even though Jeming never took her immature "challenges" seriously, and might not even have remembered her, she stubbornly regarded Jeming as a target to catch up and surpass.
And this obsession even propelled her to grow and advance at an astonishing speed to some extent.
Now, unexpectedly reunited on the perilous battlefield behind enemy lines, what she saw was the ever-calm Jeming, whom she had always thought was in control of everything, trapped in such a difficult and even brutal struggle...
Indeed, her feelings were extremely mixed.
Augusta seemed to want to say something more, perhaps to flaunt her current strength and title, or perhaps to question why Jeming had fallen to this point.
Unfortunately, Jeming didn’t give her that chance.
The moment he confirmed it was Augusta who came, a sharp light suddenly flashed in Jeming’s eyes.
He completely ignored Augusta’s complicated gaze, and a stream of concentrated spiritual power information instantly transmitted into Augusta’s mind:
"Just in time! Help me hold him off for just a second! Be careful! The opponent controls the [Fabrication] Law! Absolutely don’t let any of his attacks touch your body directly!"
Jeming’s tone was unprecedentedly grave and urgent!
"...Ah?"
Augusta was startled by this sudden mental transmission, her black eyes full of astonishment.
She was, after all, an elite wizard who had been through countless real battles. Although she didn’t understand, Jeming’s urgent warning and grave spiritual fluctuation couldn’t be fake!
Moreover, almost at the moment she received the message, she sensed the approach of danger!
The Black Robed Wizard seemed a bit impatient with Augusta, the sudden "spoiler," as he saw her talking with Jeming, he casually lifted a finger pointing in Augusta’s direction.
With a light tap.
An inconspicuous dark gray energy bullet shot out silently.
Its speed was not extremely fast, and its trajectory was ordinary.
Normally, with Augusta’s strength and pride, in response to such a "probing" attack, she might choose to casually swipe it away or resist it with a shield, or even ignore it.
But at this moment, Jeming’s warning echoed in her mind, and the alarm bells in her heart rang wildly!
"Magnetic Field Manipulation!"
Augusta delicately shouted, her hands suddenly pushing forward, the black eyes bursting with intense spiritual radiance!
The massive metal mountain, weighing countless billions of tons, which had just crashed to the ground, seemed to be gripped by an enormous invisible hand, letting out a deafening metallic twist and roar!
Rumble!!
With agility and speed that didn’t match its size, it rose from the ground instantly, countless tons of dirt and rubble pouring down like waterfalls!
The entire metal mountain moved sideways, erecting like an enormous super shield, boldly standing between Augusta and that dark gray energy bullet.
The entire process was seamless, demonstrating Augusta’s masterful manipulation over magnetic fields today to an incredible degree.
However...
The next scene froze Augusta’s proud expression instantly!
Puff...
There was no earth-shaking explosion, nor any energy clash flames.
That seemingly inconspicuous dark gray energy bullet, like a red-hot iron ball falling into ice and snow, seamlessly breached into the incomparably thick metal mountain!
Immediately following, centered on the impact point, inside the colossal metal mountain that defied imagination, its internal structure seemed to be instantly "negated" on an atomic level by some incomprehensible force regarding its "integrity" and "structural strength!"
Rumble!!!
More muffled than when it fell earlier, the sound of disintegration came from the interior.
Countless massive cracks spread and expanded with unimaginable speed!
In a blink, that metal mountain collapsed and shattered completely under Augusta’s incredulous gaze, transforming into countless sizes of metal debris and powder, rapidly oxidizing and dulling at the edges!
Out of control metal blocks burst apart, and for a moment the entire region was like a storm of steel and dust.
Through the fluttering rain of metal debris, Augusta fixed her gaze on the distant Black Robed Wizard standing in the void, as if just performing a trivial task.
The charming face bore not a trace of the previous laziness or pride, only unparalleled seriousness remained.
To easily annihilate the giant metal creation she fully manipulated, appended with multiple Enhancing Runes...
This attack, definitely had issues!
Jeming’s warning, was real!
And from afar, the Black Robed Wizard’s gaze also penetrated the rain curtain, falling on Augusta’s highly recognizable face.
He seemed to make a careful identification, and a barely audible knowing hum came from beneath the hood:
"That considering the spiritual power fluctuation and fighting style... must be Nolun Workshop’s recent sensation... the ’Martial God’ titled Fifth Level Wizard."