Chapter 176 – I Need Your Protection

“My magic is useless? … Why?” Rosie bitterly complained.

She sounded like a rich girl throwing a tantrum, but Lin Xiao could understand her anger.

Anti-magic field was a sixth-level strengthening magic, and he also cast it risking rebound as it was above his level, and the result was all fourth-level and below magic being nullified.

Just like what happened earlier, even though Rosie cast a fatal lightning spear, as soon as it enters the field, it would quickly lose its flow of magic and disperse, becoming harmless.

Unfortunately, Rosie never broke through the fifth-level and was only a fourth-level magician, so in short, she was useless.

“Rosie, stop overexerting, get back!” Caesar ordered.

“Eh?” Rosie was taken aback, and didn’t get angry even after his admonishment, and said with a shaky voice, “But Lin Xiao asked me to support you…”

“The fight is still ongoing, don’t let your guard down!” Caesar was regulating the undulating wave power from withing his body and preparing for the next attack, then he said without turning his head, “Hurry up and get behind Lin Xiao!”

“Ah? I…”

Rosie realized she was dragging them down and chased away by Caesar, her face flushed red and she stood there not knowing what to do.

“Uh…” Lin Xiao wanted to say something, but he shouldn’t meddle as an outsider so he dragged her over by the arms, “Rosie, you have an even more important mission, so cheer up!”

“Eh? E-even more important mission?”

“That’s right, I need you to protect my maid!” Lin Xiao pushed Rosie next to Elena and seriously explained, “Although your magic can’t injure the enemies within the field, you can still defend yourself, so I’m handing Elena over to you!”

“Lin Xiao… hmph, okay, since it’s so important, then I-I’ll reluctantly agree!” Rosie obviously knew that Lin Xiao was giving her a way out, but she couldn’t express it and just pouted in return.

“Then stop wasting time and go!”

Rosie resisted a bit and hooked onto Elena’s arms standing shoulder to shoulder under her cold gaze.

She was still a bit reluctant and didn’t want to approach Elena, but after linking arms, she instantly changed her mind.

“Can’t help it… I’ll protect Elena!” Rosie’s pink ponytail was hanging over Elena’s shoulder, and was standing close to her and she looked like a little sister nestled in her older sister’s arms.

Although she didn’t know Elena well, but they were both girls, and Elena was so beautiful. She just wanted to protect her after thinking about that she may meet danger.

“Elena, w-why is there such a nice fragrance on you?”

In order to alleviate the awkward atmosphere, Rosie tried worming her way in.

“… Nice fragrance?”

“Yeah! Also, your skin is so pale, soft and supple, like a child! Your figure is also so good…” While she was speaking, Rosie accidentally touched Elena with her elbow and blushed.

“…”

Elena’s face darkened, she looked at Lin Xiao and wanted him to take this girl away, but Lin Xiao just chuckled then used his hands to make a gesture meaning that Rosie was right, and they were very large.

He quickly turned his attention back to the fight before Elena flared up.

Although Water Academy suffered a defeat in the first attack, they didn’t have any actual losses yet.

The shield warrior Veblen who got sent flying looked miserably, but wasn’t actually injured, his Water shield took most of the damage, with a rock skin on top of that, nothing much happened to him.

Though one couldn’t say the same for his beloved shield, the last explosion created countless minute fissures all over the surface, although they weren’t very apparent, Veblen knew that it has reached its limits and could break at any time.

The others weren’t in a great spot either, the magician Barth had already completely used up his magic and wouldn’t be able to use nay for a while, so he was useless. The other team member also paid for protecting him, his arm and thighs were cut open, though the cuts weren’t deep thanks to rock skin, he was unable to move as well.

If it wasn’t for ‘Word of the Mind’, they wouldn’t have even been able to prevent Shen DaiYing’s ambush. So just some injuries was already quite lucky.

The strengthening magician demonstrated his worth! Water Acadmey’s biggest reliance was the Anti-magic field.

From now on, they didn’t have to worry about their magic attacks!

On the other side, Lin Xiao already started planning for the ensuing battle.

“Caesar, can you still use your thunder wind slash?”

“I can, but only at most two more times.”

“Then never mind, conserve it… its power is affected in the anti-magic field anyways, right?”

“Yes.” Caesar bitterly nodded.

“But no worries, you can still hack people even without magic… how about this, you go and fight them, then let Sister Ying… uh no, your fiancée back you up, and help me make some time.”

“Lin Xiao, you…” Caesar suddenly remembered something.

The last time he said that was during the actual combat drill when they had to defeat the Jackalwere leader, and Lin Xiao was able to successfully use his secret technique to cast a terrifying fireball, was he going to do the same thing again?

“But, the anti-magic field…”

“Don’t worry, I have a way.” Lin Xiao cut him off.

“Okay, I believe you.”

Caesar looked at Shen DaiYing and the two rushed off towards the enemies.

Water Academy wasn’t cowardly either! With Veblen as lead, they quickly met them head-on. Their traditional battle skills were Water, their skills were simple and solid, although they ate a loss in the first attack, they were tough.

Facing Caesar who came rushing towards them, Veblen held his shield in his left hand and his hatchet in his right and firmly blocked him.

“Water shield!”

His battle aura moved, the surging water once again covered the metal shield, the flow of water also filled in the minute cracks, still able to help him block a fatal blow.

This time, the three warriors were grouped together, protecting the resting magician while dealing with the attackers.

This was the kind of battle that Shen DaiYing hated most, the enemies were huddled into a group back to back, holed up like a turtle. She couldn’t use her advantage in speed effectively here and they would clash head-on no matter which angle she attacked from.

So Shen DaiYing wasn’t able to use all her strength, but Caesar was even worse off.

He usually relies on his magic and sword skills so his battle techniques were gorgeous, but now he could only swing his sword around like a footman, how embarrassing.

The shield-bearer Veblen was truly annoying, he kept blocking him with his shield so he couldn’t get in, then while his guard was down he would sneak an axe attack so he couldn’t have free rein.

Caesar felt like they were fighting a nest of turtles, when he would attack, they would withdraw into their shells, wait until he’s tired, then stick their heads out and bite him.

So the battle entered a deadlock, Caesar and Shen DaiYing couldn’t finish them off and could only stall for time… which was exactly what Lin Xiao needed!

“Wuu… Elena, what is Lin Xiao doing?” Rosie nervously stood next to the maid and asked in confusion.

The youth was standing in front of them, far way from Water Academy and was planning to cast some magic.

Rosie didn’t understand, there was already an anti-magic shield and her magic was useless, did Lin Xiao have another way?

“I don’t know… you get away from me.” Elena felt very uncomfortable being tight grabbed by Rosie.

Rosie muttered to herself while casting a magic shield, using the milky white transparent ball to envelop her and Elena, then showed a relieved smile.

“Elena, don’t be afraid, I’ll definitely protect you!”

“…”

Elena tried shifting away, but Rosie was worried about her safety and clawed on with even more strength, determined to not her leave the magic shield.

At that moment, Lin Xiao finally acted!

He slowly chanted some cryptic incantations and his enter aura changed! Both eyes shut tight and arms extended, he really did somewhat have the demeanor of a powerful magician.

“Is he planning on using double chant again? Wuu… where did he learn that from? Why can’t I learn it…” Rosie mumbled.

She knew about the power of double chant, as soon as his magic forms, Water Academy would instantly lose!

“Elena, do you know what magic he’s planning to use?” Rosie asked curiously.

“Probably some fifth-level magic.”

With her perception skill, she could obviously see that Lin Xiao was going to cast magic, but she was concentrated on something else…

Lin Xiao couldn’t be distracted when using double chant and was extremely vulnerable, if Rosie was protecting her, then who was going to protect Lin Xiao?