065 Dekan’s Kindness Awakening
“I heard someone wants to teach me how to play against mages?”
Dekan scoffed and shook his head.
“You think I haven’t prepared counter cards for mages? Let me show you the power of the authority dog that transcends despair!”
He shouted loudly at the bewildered Flata.
It seemed he was deliberately mocking Flata for his inability to respond.
The abnormal status Dekan inflicted wasn’t “Silence,” but “Mute.”
If a control spell with “Silence” is cast, it prohibits the opponent from using magic, rendering even magic cards unusable.
The duration is usually short, with a long cooldown.
But Dekan’s “Mute” only targets the enemy’s throat.
It merely interferes with the opponent’s vocal cords, preventing them from speaking.
It belongs to poison magic.
The duration is long, and the cooldown is short.
“※! What kind of livestock made this card!”
“Can’t mages even play anymore!”
At this moment, even many students from the Mage Academy in the audience could not help but stand up and angrily denounce the card.
Mages derive part of their combat power from the spells they master, in addition to using magic cards.
If they are affected by “Mute,” it would be ultimate imprisonment in battle for a mage.
Without the chantless technique, they cannot cast their own spells!
Due to the convenience of magic cards, modern mages are not necessarily practicing chantless techniques diligently!
This forces everyone to learn chantless casting!
Even Teacher Cat couldn’t help but want to scold Dekan.
“This guy! Chloix! As a mage, don’t you want to scold him?”
Teacher Cat looked at Chloix, who had a calm expression, and asked excitedly.
Chloix: “I can chantless cast.”
Cat: “……”
You are impressive, you’re so high and mighty.
……
Dekan had already discovered that Flata did not know how to chantless cast.
So he was confident that “Mute” could seal off the magic that Flata had mastered.
If Flata used purification magic, then Dekan would profit enormously in mana exchange.
“Ow, ow, ow!!!”
Angry, Flata could no longer bear the humiliation and charged at Dekan with his staff.
No matter what, as a fifth-tier, even if he used his staff as a blunt weapon, he wouldn’t lose to the third-tier Dekan in close combat!
He had investigated Dekan’s attribute test results from when he enrolled.
Dekan’s strength growth potential was only E!
“Ha! You’ve chosen to run towards me?”
This time, Dekan did not flee; instead, he stood quietly in place waiting for Flata to approach.
At the same time, he also prepared his favorite spell card.
When Flata was not far from Dekan.
“Calm down!”
Accompanied by Dekan’s shout, Flata felt his knees bending uncontrollably.
Then he slid to the ground in an extremely awkward position, losing his body balance immediately.
He rolled on the ground, not knowing whether he stopped with his knees or his face.
Dekan held the “Mental Interference” card, like a referee brandishing a red card.
Just now, he had used this card to make Flata kneel.
Seeing Flata kneel while in motion, the students outside felt a phantom pain in their knees.
“Can this guy do anything sensible?”
“That card can inflict a brief moment of mental interference, but he chooses the dumbest way…”
……
Flata lay humiliatingly on the ground, his furious gaze filled with resentment, as if he wanted to tear apart the person before him.
But compared to the previous madness where he was on the brink of losing his rationale, his eyes had dimmed considerably.
Like a flame about to extinguish.
At this moment, he did not really want to continue fighting.
Flata could be certain that he had no chance of defeating Dekan in this duel.
Summoned creatures couldn’t be used.
High-tier spells had no mana to be activated.
Low-tier spells were blocked by the muting.
In close combat, he would be insulted by Dekan’s mental magic.
Having been tortured to this extent, Flata’s greatest wish now was to perish alongside Dekan.
Just to prove a point!
Even if it meant crashing to death, he wanted to strike Dekan with his staff!
When Flata struggled to rise with his last bit of obsession, he saw Dekan slowly approaching him with a spell card glowing orange in hand.
With each of Dekan’s steps being light and steady.
Calm to a terrifying degree.
The spell card in Dekan’s hand, Flata had long since heard about it; it was the one able to evaporate the blood of beings from other races, “Purification of Blood”!
At the same time, Dekan had finally summoned the “Ruined Bard,” black fog spreading across the ground, a chilling aura enveloping Dekan and Flata.
“Ow!”
Though Flata did not know what Dekan intended to do.
A sense of terrifying pressure instantly enveloped Flata.
His body sent strong signals of impending death, warning him that he must escape!
Dekan was now standing right in front of Flata.
He lowered his head so that Flata on the ground could meet his gaze.
Dekan’s appearance had not changed, but his pupils glimmered with a layer of gold, and his mouth bore an ambiguous smile.
Those deep pupils seemed to belong to an unknown being from the endless abyss.
Like a bizarre creature about to enter a killing mode in a high-tier Shadow World!
Flata hesitated not a moment to use purification magic to lift his mute status.
He must escape!
“I…”
However, just as he tried to declare his surrender, he found he could speak no more.
Dekan had silenced him again.
The purification magic was now on cooldown.
“Hmph, were you trying to surrender just now?”
Dekan’s pupils returned to their usual color, and the oppressive aura that had been there disappeared at once.
His smile became exceedingly friendly again.
Flata’s pupils contracted violently, a growing panic spreading in his heart.
Now Dekan looked even scarier than before!
Flata was now very uncertain whether Dekan was human.
If he wasn’t, “Purification of Blood” could evaporate Flata’s very blood!
Even though Phantom Canyon wouldn’t take damage, and Flata had blocked out pain.
Whether evaporating blood would be within the protective range of the Man-made Shadow World, Flata did not know!
He now deeply regretted not having thoroughly read the instruction manual.
And having signed a death agreement with Dekan!
Evaporating blood was too terrifying.
Flata had never encountered such a scenario even in nightmares.
If Dekan continued not to let him surrender.
He would be repeatedly tormented by Dekan, ultimately reduced to a dried corpse!
At that point, even if he left the Shadow World, he might really die!
“Ow, ow, ow!”
Flata could not speak, only able to look at Dekan with a pleading gaze.
“If you cannot clearly state your surrender, Phantom Canyon cannot send you away.”
Dekan squinted his eyes, the smile on his face unchanged.
“The Man-made Shadow World can be quite dangerous; don’t you think?”
“Ow!”
“But please rest assured, I have always been kind-hearted and will not put your life in danger.”
