<h4>Chapter 319: Floral Death Creature (Part 1)</h4>


    Trantor: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio


    The armor piercing abilities of the alchemy arrowheads were an important property. Those who were defending would be most afraid of the enemy’s heavy armor swordsmen charging all together. If they did not have any mages, such a situation would be incredibly gruesome and difficult to stop.


    A swordsman in magic heavy armor was like a magic beast. They could ignore any attacks from normal bows and any attacks from low-level spells had their effects reduced to a minimum.


    Explosions were used to deal with flying puppets. When attacking a city, flying puppets were important to both parties. The attacking party would ce arge amount of magic powder on them and light them up. Once the amount of magic powder reached a certain level, they would possess power equivalent to fire-type magic. These flying puppets would carry the magic powder with them to the castle gate, causing mass destruction.


    The defending party would also use flying puppets to light up the enemy’s weapons, such as their catapults or even their magic stone artillery.


    There were not any great methods for dealing with flying puppets, and they were mainly dealt with using mages and alchemy crossbows. However, piercing damage was useless against these flying puppets which could be taken down in one shot. Once they could fly above their targets, they would start burning or would even explode. Hence, the arrowheads of the alchemy crossbows would carry low-level spells like explosions to destroy the flying puppets.


    It did not matter whether the flying puppet’s wings were destroyed or the magic powder upon it was ignited. Either way, they could stop the flying puppet. Hence, regr armies kept exploding alchemy arrows at a ratio of one to every ten arrowheads.


    Saleen patiently used his water me to corrode magic patterns onto the arrowheads. He had to carefully draw on the explosive magic array at the hollow center of each arrowhead. Low-level magic was not to be belittled on the battlefield, because while high-level magic was not something everyone could release, low-level magic was present throughout the entire battle.


    Saleen’s water me had an unusual frequency. His focus was mainly set on doing the same thing, using the fluctuating frequency of the water me to process hundreds of arrowheads at the same time.


    Aini’s method was even more fascinating. Within his death mes, a death creature had appeared. It was over ten meters tall, and if they had not been in the room of the temple, it would have broken through the ceiling. This death creature looked very much like a nt.


    The mages within the room were knowledgeable, but not a single one of them had ever heard of a floral death creature within the death dimension. Mages were not holy masters and agreed that nts had life too, but whether they had souls were something which many mages could not agree on.


    Many believed that nts did not have souls for a simple reason. Since ancient times, not a single death mage had been able to summon a floral death creature. The ancient humans that had been powerful enough to cross dimensions had not captured anything like it in the past, either.


    Now, Aini was controlling the death creature, and it looked like a tree from any angle. It had lush branches,rge roots, sturdy bark, and what looked like a nest upon its branches…


    After all two hundred arrowheads were sucked into the death mes, the branches of the floral death creature moved around like human arms and started manipting the death mes to draw magic arrays and magic patterns onto the arrowheads.


    The mages of Sregl Ind were shocked. Saleen’s friend was an oddity among mages. Calling upon a nt to help him inbat? It seemed like he was mentally challenged.


    However, this nt was evidently incredibly useful, as Aini did not stop throwing arrowheads into his death mes. Taking him as the center, any space within a radius of one hundred meters was bathed in a green light. The floral death creature used its leaves to curl up the arrowheads after it had finished drawing the magic arrays onto them, carrying out the next step of the processing.


    The over-ten-meter-tall nt probably had hundreds of thousands of leaves. If every one of those leaves could do the same thing, there would be nopetition – Saleen was sure to lose. However, all spells were bnced, and after Aini had thrown in over a thousand arrowheads, he stopped adding them to the death mes. Evidently, controlling the floral death creature required a huge amount of focus.


    Having to process that many arrowheads simultaneously without the help of any equipment or magic arrays was unheard of. Aini’s performance was enough to win everyone’s respect.


    Looking back to Saleen, he was not anxious. The water me in his hands had expanded to over a meter long, and as he ced another one hundred arrowheads inside, the mages from Sregl Ind could not see any changes taking ce within them. This was caused by a difference in grade. Unless a person’s grade was higher than Saleen’s by at least two grades, they would not be able to observe what was happening within the water mes. Not even a person’s senses could prate them.


    The entire aura within the giant room became chilly. Even though the creature that Aini had summoned was a nt, it was still a death creature and the aura that it emanated from within the death mes left the living reeling.


    Saleen had not trained his Water me Alchemy spell to its maximum potential. With the outside temperature below freezing, he was doing his best to maintain control.


    The two of them busied themselves. In less than ten minutes, it suddenly started snowing inside of the room. This was magic released from the Water me Alchemy spell – a level-6 snowkill!


    The snowkes spun lightly and cleanly around Saleen.


    Saleen could not stop himself. He said to the people within the room, “Leave. It is hard for me to control these snowkes.”


    The mages did not dare stay. The person with the highest grade among them was only grade-4, and it would be hard for them to counter a level-6 spell. Only Nailisi remained in the room. She opened a scroll and released an ice te armor, protecting her body.


    The snowkes around Saleen started revolving in a greater radius. Finally, some of them spun out of control, floating to Nailisi’s side. The fragile snowkes grazed against the ice te armor, producing a sharp sound. A deep mark appeared on what was known as the strongest ice te armor within mid-level magic.


    “Nailisi, you leave too.” Saleen did not want to lose his concentration with these snowkes. Aini’s alchemy skills were too unusual, being able to process thousands of arrowheads at once. Even if Aini could rest longer than him, he was winning too easily.


    “Yes.” Nailisi was not afraid of the snowkes, as she had the means of protecting herself from level-6 spells. However, this was not a battle and it was not necessary to waste scrolls.


    Aini cocked his head and took a look at Nailisi. He remembered her from when he had first met Saleen, as she had already been by his side at that time. She had been able to use spatial equipment, which had led to a serious headache for Aini back then. He had thought she was a grade-5 or 6 mage.


    Nailisi giggled as she took a look at Aini and said softly, “Aini, you must win.”


    “Yes,” Aini promised. A golden light floated from Nailisi’s green eyes and left him a little distracted. The death mes started fluctuating violently, the leaves of the floral death creature going out of control and swaying in the violent winds.


    “Nailisi!” Saleen shouted angrily. Nailisi had used her demonic skills to distract Aini’s focus. With his focus in disarray, his floral death creature could not process arrowheads anymore.


    Thousands of arrowheads fell from the leaves of the floral death creature, floating within the death mes.


    Aini was shocked as well. What skill had Nailisi used? His focus was already quite formidable, even stronger than that of some grade-6 mages. How could he have fallen for her tricks?


    He steadilymanded the floral death creature again, wrapping the arrowheads back in the leaves to continue his processing. This was an advantage of spirit alchemy. Unlike elemental alchemy, it would not endpletely even if it was interrupted.


    Nailisi ran out of the room without looking back. Saleen could not do anything anyways. He had been distracted earlier because of her, alongside Aini. It was fair now.


    Once Nailisi left, Saleen immediately released as much strength as he could into the Water me Alchemy spell. The meter-tall water mes expanded again, reaching more than two meters in diameter now, and another hundred arrowheads were sucked in. This time, the water mes became transparent. Some of the snowkes around Saleen’s body went inside of the water mes, turning transparent and carving out lines of magic patterns upon the arrowheads.


    The temperature within the room fell even further. Half of the room was Aini’s death mes while the other half was filled with the snowkes which Saleen had created.


    A big reason why Saleen had been anxious to learn the Water me spell was because when he was using it, it was able to activate a level-6 spell. The Water me Alchemy spell did not use up many magic chords and had a consumption simr to a level-5 spell, yet the magic that it released and was able to control was level-6.


    Saleen had no idea why all water-type magic had experienced strange changes in his hands since his magic chords had mutated.


    Outside of Saleen’s room, dozens of low-grade mages and magic disciples waited anxiously. The door of the room was as transparent as crystal, and they could see all the changes that was taking ce.


    Ding…


    Ding dang.


    Arrowheads fell to the ground continuously. They were alchemy arrowheads that had been processed with the dual properties. The floor of the room was made from white stone gathered from the coast. Despite the arrowheads that were able to pierce through armor falling to the ground, there were no marks.


    The pile of arrows in front of Aini and Saleen grew bigger. Saleen did not stop, and Aini did not rest either. It was almost as if their magic chords and death mes were limitless.


    With theirpetition having gotten so far, Aini was already impressed with Saleen. The creature he had summoned was a rare floral death creature, and his death mes had also be incredibly big because of that. With the two effects helping each other out, hisbat skills were twice as powerful as those of death mages with the same grade.


    Saleen was an elemental mage and naturallycked thebat rigor which death mages possessed. However, Saleen had already created almost ten thousand arrowheads, and he still did not have any intentions of resting.


    Saleen was equally impressed with Aini. He must have had a lucky encounter, as a nt based death creature was something he had not seen in any books. His magic chords were twice that of mages of the same grade, and the Water me Alchemy spell was simr to a level-5 spell. He knew how long he could sustain it. Aini did not want to rest. It showed that hisbat powers were much higher than other grade-5 death mages.


    Thest time Saleen had won, it had been due to a loophole in his words. This time, the two of them were equally matched.


    Pasatilo and Kanuka were watching from outside as well, and they became even more determined to follow Saleen. A grade-5 mage who could grasp the Water me Alchemy spell would be a legend on the maind sooner orter.