Chapter 184: Ionic reaction

Chapter 184: Ionic reaction

Some kind of slime? Water mage.

Behind Sofia, water quietly seeped out of the walls, gathering into a puddle on the ground.

Pareth was too big to come out in these tunnels, so she had to improvise. It was unlikely that any physical attack would work on the watery blob that was trying to be sneaky and taking human form behind her back. Do I shock it with the low-power bolt? No

Then she had a devious idea. She directly summoned a good quantity of Silverwater from her storage ring above the still-forming silhouette. Gravity did its work, and the silent cave became noisy with the gargled cries of the water mage losing control of his transformation spell. Some parts of him instantly turned back to flesh, while others stayed as water. The soul-damaging and corrosive Silverwater had found its way into their body.

Sofia turned around, Thats what you get for trying to be sneak-

Visibly the mage still had enough force of will to use some spells because a massive ball of water appeared around Sofias helmet, forcing its way into it, pushing in, and pressuring it to fill her lungs.

Thats what I get for trying to be witty. Better shut my mouth next time; this is a trial, not a playground

Well, not that I care. The poor guy is trying to drown someone who doesnt need to breathe. Im the one adept at drowning enemies here. No luck for you.

I wonder what would have happened if I had tried to splash him with the summoned blood instead of the poison water.

That was the last spell the mage would ever cast, and it soon crumbled, much like whatever survived from his body. Sofia was now sitting in a puddle of flesh, blood, water, and toxic waste.

Its good that the smell of blood doesnt phase me anymore Also, Silverwater is quite strong, I guess. I should go back to get more when I can.

Or not. That forest was dangerous.

Nobody else came to bother her while she was recuperating underground. She had killed three strong enemy mages, and from what Pareth had seen, there were at least two more who had been attacking her. One was a man Sofia assumed was the shield mage responsible for the previous coordinated attack. The other was another woman in black robes. She had been attacking with pure mana blasts, bypassing Pareths armor and responsible for most of the health Sofia had lost.

[Key Targets : 4/5] ->[Key Targets : 3/5]

[Invaders remaining : 81053]

I need to hurry

Phasing from buried tunnel to buried tunnel, Sofia resurfaced inside a house not too far from the burned zone. From the rats information, the shield mage was still there with half of the griffin riders. Sofia was stunned that these human mages still had the guts to separate when three of them already died by her hands, but she wasnt going to complain about it. She was too deep into it to change her plan now anyway. She would keep killing the invaders leadership until no one was left to stop her army of skeletons from getting rid of the tens of thousands of soldiers, which she was confident they could do.

From what she had seen, the shield mages attacks didnt look too menacing. She was more worried about the griffin riders. Anyway, her strategy did not involve her directly fighting at all.

Sofia moved from house to house, getting closer to the burned zone where the mage still was. When she saw him through a window, she understood why he was still there. Though she had expected the Vampire skeletons to be dead because she had lost connection with them, they were being held back inside a spherical shield.

They didnt understand that sunlight was the problem and chose to pin them down instead of trying to kill them.

Well.

Sofia used [Graveyard of the Righteous] again. She was getting really adept at preventing the tombstones from showing up, and the skeletons did not rise if she told them not to, making the skill very hard to notice to anyone not actively scanning the mana movements in the ground. The man was currently flying a few meters above the shield he was maintaining to contain the Vampire Skeletons. There was very little chance he would feel anything despite being quite alert.

Sofia let the graveyard skeletons carry her near the shield underground. Then all she did was to let Pareth out above her.

The mage panicked at the giant skeletons sudden appearance and flew up. Pareth jumped up and used the power of his runic tattoo to take a step in the air and jump up again. In a scene very similar to how he had killed one of the specter avian mages, he grabbed the flying mage with both hands. The mage was protected inside an egg-shaped magic shield, but that didnt prevent Pareth from getting a firm hold on the whole thing.

As they fell down, Pareth bashed the shielded mage into the ground like a monkey trying to open a hard fruit. The shield held, and the mage riposted, sending broken shards of shields crashing against Pareths skull like a storm of broken glass.

That did no damage.

The five nearby griffin riders finally reacted, some firing mithril-tipped arrows, some using elemental spells. Pareths health didnt move as he smashed the mage and his shield into the ground repeatedly until it finally broke. It took two more slams to end the screaming shield mages life.