Angor was sent flying and landed on the ground with a loud thud. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if something was blocking his windpipe from his diaphragm to his windpipe.
He tried his best to hold back the discomfort and kept pressing on his chest. The suffocating sensation slowly rose from his chest to his throat. Next, he smelled something metallic in his nose and spat out a mouthful of dirty blood.
The suffocating feeling was relieved. Angor still felt pain in his chest, but at least he could endure it.
At this moment, the sound of fighting could be heard from the shadows in the distance.
He looked up and saw Toby attacking Shadow relentlessly.
Shadow was already badly injured after being sent flying by the teacup band's counterattack. The wound on his head almost covered his entire face.
Toby's "sequence of gravity", which was almost at the pinnacle of cantrips, landed on Shadow's chest. Several of his ribs were broken.
It was the worst injury he had ever suffered since he came to the mortal world.
"Damn it! Where did this damn bird come from?!" Shadow endured the pain and cast Heal to stop the bleeding. Then, as he cursed, he activated the power hidden in his bloodline.
The bloodline he transplanted came from a mutated Underground Salamander — a Magma Salamander.
Angor saw Shadow slowly stand up despite his severe injuries. Next, his body underwent a drastic change.
The whites of Shadow's eyes turned black, while his pupils glowed in a ghostly green. His skin changed as well. It became bright red like lava, with steam rising from it. Blood spurted out from his cheeks and arms, and bone spurs that were as sharp as blades drilled out from under his skin!
"Bloodline power!" Angor quickly understood. Shadow's injuries were worse than his, but he recovered so quickly and could still fight. It could only be because of a bloodline transplant.
Apart from Shadow's Bloodline, Angor also remembered the level-2 cantrip he cast earlier.
Because of that, Shadow did not even have a chance to dodge. He only managed to dodge the attack at the cost of his teacup band.
Shadow could instantly cast level-two cantrips. If it wasn't a special power, such as the sequence of gravity, which could only be found by chance, then this instantaneous cantrip must have originated from a spell slot!
A spell slot was a special position in the spiritual model. It could permanently solidify a spell model. The solidified spell model would allow the wizard to cast spells instantaneously.
Normally, opening a spell slot was something that could only be done after becoming an official Magus. If an apprentice wanted to create a spell slot, not only would they have to reach the peak of the apprentice level, but they would also have to spend a lot of time and energy. Most importantly, he had to have a Spiritual Model capable of carrying the spell slots.
What did this mean?
There were only two types of spirit power models that could carry spell slots. One was a mature spirit power model, which could be achieved by any official wizard. The other was a spirit power model constructed using a special channeling method.
The fact that Shadow had a spell slot meant that the channeling method he practiced was definitely not ordinary! It might even be a special channeling method with a guaranteed base value.
"Reaching the peak of the apprentice level at such a young age, plus a special channeling method …" Everything pointed to one thing — Shadow must be from a certain wizard organization! Not to mention a special channeling method, the way to create a spell slot was not something that could be found by random means!
If Angor caught him, he should be able to interrogate him about the way back to Brute Cavern!
Angor was planning to use the Law of Exchange to get the information he wanted during the supernatural gathering. But since Shadow already flipped the table, Angor had no choice but to play along.
At the same time, Toby and Shadow were still fretting.
Toby had learned the sequence of gravity, which allowed him to unleash the maximum power of a level-three cantrip. However, he was still not strong enough. He was still at a disadvantage when fighting against a top-level apprentice like Shadow.
Toby could only rely on his extraordinary speed and instantaneous attacks to attack Shadow. However, Shadow had activated his bloodline, which improved his recovery speed. If he was not injured badly, Toby would have lost already.
However, as time went by, Shadow's bloodline was reaching its limit. Toby's sanity was on the brink of collapse, but his injuries were recovering quickly. If this went on, it was only a matter of time before Toby lost.
"Toby! Don't fight him head-on! Give me some time! "
Angor said and tried to set up an illusion. But he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest.
Angor held his chest and half-knelt on the ground.
His body was still very weak. A minor injury was enough to make him collapse.
Angor was talking to Toby using the voice transmission spell. However, when Toby knelt down, Toby's movement seemed to have reminded Shadow who the real target was. Shadow's sanity recovered a little bit. Without hesitation, he summoned several white strings from his fingertips and attacked Angor.
"You! I let you go last time, and you dare to mess with me again?! " Shadow's aura was unstoppable. He did not even care about Toby's attacks. Instead, all ten white strings were aimed at Angor.
"I'm here for the supernatural gathering. You're the one who lost your mind and blamed me!" Angor was furious. They did not fight last time because Shadow thought he was the one who let Angor go, and Angor should be grateful to him. What kind of logic was that?
Angor quickly summoned an ice wall and retreated while using his mind to control the monsters in his Nightmare Domain to attack Shadow.
However, Shadow seemed to have made up his mind to focus on Angor and ignore everything else. Even if he was injured, he could survive by relying on the defensive and healing power of the Magma Salamander bloodline. As long as he could kill Angor, he could take care of the rest later.
Angor was in a passive situation. He was in his own territory, but he did not have any useful means to fight back.
Revolvers and Trigger Crossbows did not do much damage to a peak-level apprentice.
He couldn't keep this up. With a grim look in his eyes, he moved the rainbow dragonfly to Shadow's front.
Shadow was already used to the occasional monster, so he attacked the rainbow dragonfly without hesitation.
What he did not know was that the rainbow dragonfly was the strongest monster in Angor's Nightmare Domain. It was as strong as a level-3 apprentice. If it could evolve into a rainbow dragonfly, it would become a real wizard.
As expected, Shadow could not defeat the rainbow dragonfly immediately.
On the other hand, Angor used his nightmare illusion to distract Shadow from the side.
He tried to use the illusion to affect Shadow's mind, but he realized that the difference in their levels was too great. Shadow was on high alert, and Angor could not affect Shadow's mind at all.
So Angor had to change his strategy.
His Nightmare Domain was a special illusion, so Angor could also block Shadow's five senses.
Since Shadow's level was much higher than Angor's, Angor's trick did not work as well as it used to. It could only temporarily trap Umbra for a period of time. Although Umbra couldn't see or hear, he had activated the limit of his bloodline power and was protected by the white line. It wouldn't be easy to break through his defense.
Angor did not plan to use the extra time to attack Shadow. Instead, he calmed himself down and began to set up an illusion inside his Nightmare Domain.
It took him a lot of effort to set up this illusion.
Ten seconds later, when Dark Shadow was about to break through the barrier, the nightmare aura inside the Nightmare Domain began to move. A moment later, a nightmare illusion completely surrounded Dark Shadow.
…
Shadow had just freed himself from the strange loss of his five senses when he was surrounded by a white mist.
When he regained his senses, he slowly restored his bloodline to its normal state and only maintained the basic defense and regeneration of his Magma Salamander Bloodline. The worst thing after a bloodline transplant was to break through the threshold. To avoid being ambushed while losing his five senses, Shadow almost reached the threshold by burning his bloodline.
However, the other party did not take the opportunity to attack him, but instead set up an illusion?!
Looking at the white mist around him, Shadow knew he was in an illusion.
That apprentice must be an Illusionist, right? But that trick of losing all five senses was too weird … Since when did Silent Hill have such an excellent illusion student?
As Shadow pondered, a black shadow rushed out of the mist and attacked him with a large amount of mana. Shadow quickly activated his bloodline and launched a devastating attack at the shadow.
But when the attack arrived, the black shadow suddenly disappeared.
When the shadow disappeared, another one appeared. This time, Shadow clearly saw what the shadow looked like. It was a three-meter-tall fox.
"Blood Vixen?!" Shadow gasped. A high-level otherworldly summon!
Shadow was about to attack, but he changed his mind and did not use his full strength. Instead, he used a white string to poke at the fox.
As the white string approached, the "Blood Vixen" slowly disappeared.
"So it's fake …" Shadow muttered to himself. Another shadow came at him. He casually waved his hand, only to discover that a huge force had sent him flying!
"It's that damned bird again!" Just when Shadow wanted to attack seriously, the black shadow had already disappeared.
At this point, Shadow finally understood that the other party was planning to use illusions to combine reality and illusion to consume his stamina and magic power.
Shadow sneered. It was not difficult for him to break the illusion. In particular, his ability to find illusion nodes would be maximized with the help of the puppet threads!
White strings extended from his ten fingers, protecting the surroundings while searching for illusion nodes.
The white strings were the "puppet strings," which made Shadow famous. Not only could they control people, but they could also replace his eyes and extend his senses.
After a while, a look of surprise appeared on Shadow's face.
"Why are there no illusion nodes?"
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