Chapter 176 Magic Manifestation
Author: M_W Cancer
Grammar checker: M_W Nomral
Magic Manifestation is exactly like what the name implies, it is the manifestation of the Mages Magic power.
Every Mage has a different Magic Manifestation, totally depending on what path the Mage chooses to walk. In the case of Lu Ming''s, his Magic Manifestation was something that looked like abination of Devil and Giant race, which simply impliesplete evil and tyranny.
Magic Manifestation improves a Mage Magic power. It also helps patch up two of the Mages'' important weakness, theirck of defense and physical strength.
The only thing that really improves every time a Mage level up in cultivation is their Magic Power, Mana Capacity, and an increase in their ability to control Mana. For short, only the things rted to Magic.
Mages defense can be easily patched up by Magic spells but not entirely, hence they needed Magical Knights and Golems, or any other support such as Beast Companions and summoned Entities.
Unfortunately, aside from Support Magic spells such as Enhance Strength spells, Mages'' physical strength doesn''t improve that much, although it still improves, but it isn''t something noteworthy.
However, the moment a Mage achieves a Magic Manifestation, those two weaknesses are automatically and easily fixed up.
This is simply because the Mana circting all over the Magic Manifestation body would enhance everything about the Mages, hence giving them an increase in defense and physical strength, and in all of the other areas, too.
"Retreat!" Commander Ava immediately ordered her men to retreat. Ordinary soldiers fighting against a Mage in their Magic Manifestation is almost in most cases akin to suicide, so it''s much better to make her men fall back to at least reduce the casualty.
Hearing Commander Ava''s order, the Generals quickly lead the soldiers to retreat. However, because the soldiers were now inside the cave, the Generals could only lead the soldiers towards random tunnels, hoping that the tunnels they choose would lead them towards an exit.
Obviously, Lu Ming wouldn''t just let that easily happened. He quickly casted an Earth Wall spell,pletely blocking the tunnels. Though there were still a few soldiers that escaped and the only remaining ones were those slow to move, specifically 500 soldiers.
"Waterfall!" A few remaining Generals and Mages quickly casted, causing a waterfall to fall down from the top of the mountain.
The Generals didn''t need to send out any follow-up order since their men were quick enough to understand the purpose of the Waterfall spell.
*Whooosh! *Whooosh! *Whooosh!
"Earth Barrier!" Lu Ming quickly casted, causing the hole up in the ceiling of the cave to close.
*Bannnngggg!
Although the Generals and the Mages did their best to create a path of retreat for their soldiers, there were only a few who were able to escape, specifically only 100 soldiers were able to escape along with the Mages and the remaining Generals.
Obviously, the Generals and Mages wouldn''t just give up, so they keep on sending Magic spells after Magic spells in order to break another hole. But unfortunately, their strength wasn''t enough to cause some noteworthy damages to Lu Ming''s Earth Wall spell.
Moreover, due to the Magic Manifestation, Lu Ming''s capability in Magic had increased by a few folds, causing the Earth Wall spell to actually have a small self-regeneration ability.
Commander Ava and her 400 remaining soldiers were left inside the cave along with the Leviathan and Lu Ming in his Magic Manifestation.
"What would you do now, dear Commander Ava?" Lu Ming said after blocking every path of retreat.
Contrary to Lu Ming''s thoughts though, Commander Ava didn''t look worried at all, as she then orders her men, "Buy me enough time toplete my ceremony with the Leviathan!"
Hearing Commander Ava''s order, the 400 troops didn''t hesitate as they roared at the top of their lungs and charge directly straight towards Lu Ming without showing any slightest bit of fear.
"For the Commander!"
"Charge!!!"
As soldiers, they were naturally fully aware already of whates with this kind of path. If a mission really requires them toy down their very own lives, then they would not hesitate to offer down their heart and soul.
"Fools!" Lu Ming sneered as he waved his hand.
*Whooosh!
*Bang! *Bang! *Boom! *Boom!
Numerous soldiers were blown away, hitting towards the walls and causing them to vomit a mouthful of blood, and some even received a serious injury.
However, those soldiers quickly stood up and chargeback once again.
"Chargeee!"
The other soldiers who weren''t thrown towards the wall finally reach the Magic Manifestation''s body and began hitting it with their weapons.
*nngg!
Unfortunately, the body was just too tough for their weapons to cause damage easily. A single soldier actually needed to attack dozens of times in the very same spot before causing some damage to Lu Ming.
*Whooosh!
*Bang *Bang! *Boom! *Boom!
Another group was blown away, hitting towards the wall. And the same thing just repeats once again. They stood back, ignoring their wounds, and charge again towards Lu Ming.
"Charge!"
At the side, Commander Ava was closing her eyes as she casted a Magic spell, "Might of Water Element and Might of the sea, punish this person in front of me, Twin Whirlpool!"
*Whoooooosh!
A gigantic whirlpool from the ceiling and from the ground right after appeared, threatening to shred Lu Ming''s Magic Manifestation body into pieces.
"Arghhhh!" Lu Ming yelled out loudly in pain the moment the whirlpool touches his body.
"Ice Wheel!" Commander Ava quickly threw a circling ice inside the whirlpools, adding more damage to it.
"Tornado!" Lu Ming quickly casted.
*Whooosh! *Whooosh!
Two tornados soon after appeared inside the whirlpools, causing the two elements to sh with each other.
*Bang! *Bang!
"Shadow Tears!" Lu Ming followed after.
*Whooosh! *Whooosh! *Whooosh!
Dozens of long dark spikes appeared as they shoot towards Commander Ava.
"Ice Shield!"
*Whoosh!
*Bang! *Bang! *Bang! *Bang!
"Poison Mist!" Lu Ming waved his hand, spreading poison mist throughout the entire cave, causing the nearby soldiers to fall to the ground with foams sipping out of their mouth.
"Holy Heal!"
*Whooosh!
All the soldiers quickly recovered as they once again charge straight towards Lu Ming.
"Go die!" Lu Ming roared, "Dark Sphere!"
Immediately, a circle covered in the darkness appeared under the feet of the soldiers. The darkness suddenly formed hundreds of hands as they began pulling the soldiers inside.
The soldiers didn''t panic as they quickly adapted to their current situation and suddenly began stabbing and shing their weapons in the dark sphere.
However, they soon discovered that they can''t destroy it, hence the soldiers quickly decided to just simply cut the part where the dark hands were trying to pull.
"Argh!"
"Ahhh!"
"Sh*t!"
Screams of pain soon after followed, but they didn''t care after that.
"Regeneration!" Commander Ava smiled as she casted. As soldiers she personally trained, they have naturally received training in different scenarios, and such a scenario coincidentally includes the situation right this moment.
The soldiers cut part quickly, regenerated after a bright light covered the wound.
"Tenacious as a cockroach!" Lu Ming became annoyed. After causing all of those damages, he had actually only killed less than a hundred soldiers.
This obviously shows the difference between Lu Ming and Commander Ava in controlling the situation on the battlefield.
Even if Lu Ming still has his puppets and Fiends, he would still not be able topare to half of Commander Ava''s capability. Simply because what Lu Ming has were just mere puppets and Fiends, an Entity that is almost the same as Golems. In fact, it is only the Fiends who are capable of thinking, and the puppets arepletely the same as Golems since they are in need of their Master''smands.
On the other hand, what Commander Ava has were soldiers, to be more specific, they''re real people, capable of thinking and adapting.
Moreover, Commander Ava was a Commander, while Lu Ming is just a mere President of an organization that is too farpared to a protector of a fortress when ites to power. In fact, the ck organization in Silver Kingdom is just a mere branch, and the ck organization''s power in Silver Kingdom is actually only half-decent to a city, too. That''s the exact reason why the ck organization was always hiding in the dark.
In conclusion, even if Lu Ming was a Gxy level Mage and currently in a Magic Manifestation, he is still nothingpared to Commander Ava''s capability.
"What are you going to do now, dear Puppet Master Lu Ming?" Commander Ava sneered as she repeated the same words that Lu Ming said awhile ago.
Lu Ming was immediately enraged after hearing Commander Ava''s words. But he chooses not to make any move. At this moment, he is fully aware that if he doesn''t find a way, then he will definitely lose, or worst, die.
At first, Lu Ming really thought that Commander Ava was going to lose the moment he did a Magic Manifestation. Contrary to his expectations though, Commander Ava didn''t even care about it. In fact, at this moment he finally realized that Commander Ava only ordered his men to retreat in order to minimize the casualties and to give him a deceptive ray of hope.
Obviously, Commander Ava was already capable of doing a Magic Manifestation. She just didn''t do it because in her mind Lu Ming wasn''t worthy of her using such a kind of power.
In Commander Ava''s opinion, Lu Ming wasn''t even worthy of the title 2nd Gxy Mage. He was just too weak. His strength was even weaker than most 1st Gxy Mage she had fought before.
That is exactly the reason why teacher Lee and the other teachers were able to keep disrupting Lu Ming until the Blue Fin Kingdom reinforcement finally arrives.
Even though Lu Ming was in the level of 2nd Gxy Mage, he actually belongs in the lowest level of the bunch.
The only reason that Commander Ava could think about was Lu Ming, forced his cultivation. Instead of building up a foundation to prepare for higher cultivation, he instead forced his way up. And the result was, his Magic Power became too weak to bepared to a 2nd Gxy Mage.
"You are too weak!" Commander Ava sneered.
"I..." Lu Ming couldn''t find any words to refute, since what Commander Ava had said was indeed the truth. The moment he discovered about his wife''s death, he swore in his heart to be strong and find those people who had caused her to die. Unfortunately, because he was blinded by the thoughts of revenge and hatred, he didn''t bother with establishing a foundation for his cultivation. To be honest, the reason why he became a 2nd Gxy Mage was only because he received the blessing of the Dark God. And also, the Dark God had actually only given him a temporary blessing, saying that he will only give him theplete blessing the moment he became sessful in his n of having a Leviathan as his Beast Companion.
Lu Ming doesn''t really know why the Dark God was interested in the Leviathan, but since he was a President of a ck organization branch, he didn''t hesitate toply, especially since the Dark God promised him a blessing.
It was really out of Lu Ming''s thought that a Commander of the Blue Fin Kingdom would actuallye personally to help the Silver Mage Academy. In his calction, even if the Blue Fin Kingdom sends a reinforcement, it wouldn''t have a Commander, a few Generals, and thousands of soldiers, but only a hundred at most. That''s why he didn''t bother stopping those people when they made a hole in his Magical Barrier. He thought that no matter what those people would do, they will not be able to stop him in his n.
"What is the reason you came here personally?" Lu Ming can''t help but ask.