Chapter 209: Total Collapse
“Little dried fish…”
At this moment, I could see that the Sea Tribe student was trembling with anger.
“I feel it is necessary to clarify the reputation of the Royal Sea Tribe Academy; even students from the Witch Academy cannot insult others like this!”
“Wait, Yvette!”
“I feel there is no need for persuasion here!”
Even facing the newly allied partner, the Sea Tribe student named Yvette ignored the advice, but her tone also held back a lot of restraint, indicating that she didn’t want the alliance to break apart at this moment.
“Waters, grant me protection!”
With Yvette’s call, fierce water elements gathered around her body, creating a spell effect that generated a large amount of tidal water, as if transforming this area into a field of water.
Even the elves beside her had to step back a bit.
At this moment, Yvette also transformed into her true mermaid form, her originally fair legs replaced by a long fish tail, the swaying mermaid tail stirring the abundant water elements, beautiful shimmering scales like opal glistened in the sunlight.
So mermaids are skilled water manipulators and water element spellcasters…
“I’m a bit amazed. I’ve had many stereotypes about the Sea Tribe; I thought you were the type to flail around with a harpoon, but instead, you’re a water element spellcaster?”
At this moment, I didn’t hide my admiration; the true form of a mermaid is indeed beautiful. I gained new insights—seeing it in person is far better than just hearing about it.
Of course, in the end, my mocking comments were not lacking.
“Hehe… since I have seen it, then come and experience the fury of the tide! Aren’t you the one called the Explosive Witch in the Witch Academy? Didn’t you boast about burning mountains and boiling seas? Try boiling one! Let me see how your pathetic fire spells burn in the tide!”
Even I temporarily borrowed my flying broom to hover above; the control of the tide by this Sea Tribe member was truly terrifying. Although the area looked small, one could say that the water element’s protection provided her too many advantages within this little area.
Using fire spells against her was simply a waste of my magic, but it seemed she had preconceived notions, thinking I looked like one of those spellcasters who only used fire spells.
But to be honest, I do have quite a few fire spells.
It’s just that facing the Sea Tribe now seems a bit tough. And as Yvette began, another one of her companions also started to provide her with support.
I tentatively threw two fireball spells at her. The intense heat produced a piercing sound upon contact with the water, followed by a roll of steam, but it seemed that the tide did not extinguish the fireball’s qualification.
“Is this all you’ve got left?”
Yvette raised her hand, and the protective tide instantly increased pressure, crushing the fireball, creating a vacuum area in the tide from the terrifying implosion, with splashes of water and hot steam bursting towards her.
“No, showing off isn’t done like this. Don’t you understand basic common sense? You dare crush a fireball? Who do you think you are?”
“You! d*mn it!”
“You’re getting anxious; you’re anxious now.”
I seized the opportunity to mock her directly—don’t underestimate the power of trash talk in battles.
“Your tide looks useless; it might just be a spell effect meant to intimidate, right?” I rode my broom higher, threw two more fireballs at her to liven things up, wanting her to realize that plain water might not necessarily defend against fireball spells, or rather, my modified fireball spells.
“Quick, give me power protection; the opponent is too strong!” Yvette whispered to her little follower.
“Miss Yvette, we should…”
“Shut up.”
When the elves noticed the situation wasn’t good, they shouted loudly, and I simply replied with a word while quickly casting the rapid-fire modified Wind Blade spell.
A massive wind blade swept across, covering a broad area. As the leading figure among the elves, that elf could only protect her own area at that moment.
She hadn’t anticipated that right after she had just supported her team and hadn’t even had time to draw her arrow, the opponent would decisively launch an attack.
Soon, screams erupted behind her; the range of the wind blade was more horrifying than she had expected.
“Looking for d*ath, do you understand the rules?” I raised my left fist with a thumbs up, sliding it across my neck, full of mockery.
But unfortunately, no elves died; the worst injury amounted to merely moderate damage. Although it was a shockwave from the Wind Blade, even those who had come later to watch didn’t d*e. The power of the Wind Blade spell seems to need further enhancement.
And now, I still had to deal with the Sea Tribe.
No matter whether my previous attack made the elves stop or angered them, it didn’t matter, as my only opponents now were those from the Sea Tribe. If the elves got involved, it would only complicate matters.
The previous fireball spells indeed caused them some trouble, but that was the first time they had encountered such a situation, and now they had adapted to my tactics.
“It’s time to end this.”
“It really is time to end this! I admit your strength, but today, you must d*e!” After “squeezing dry” the last bit of power protection from her little follower, Yvette’s momentum climbed to her limits.
“Lightning Strike.”
But what awaited her was not a rise in bl**d pressure from words, but a very simple spell name.
The modified Lightning Strike’s power was even more terrifying than before.
A thick bolt of lightning shot out, its arcs bursting forth with terrifying momentum, piercing through the air with a loud explosion.
At this moment, Yvette’s protection of the tide had become her greatest flaw.
In magical duels, it’s usually a clash of elemental levels. Actually, the water element and lightning element only result in a purely elemental reaction without the concept of “conductivity.”
Although elemental levels do not adhere to physical laws, the effects of spells do; spell effects are phenomena formed from the interaction of elemental levels with the physical level, also known as spell effects, which belong to physical phenomena.
Thus, learning about elemental theory is truly important.
At this moment, Yvette was bearing the full brunt of the Lightning Strike. Although her tidal protection weakened a large portion of the damage, the tide she relied on was causing her secondary harm.
What does this mean? It indicates that her tide wasn’t pure water; anyone with basic knowledge knows that pure water does not conduct electricity. Perhaps she couldn’t create perfectly pure water with that brain of hers.
As this hit concluded, everything seemed to develop in an unexpected direction.
“You… you!”
“Oh? Still alive? I need to reassess the thick skin of the Sea Tribe.” I casually threw a spell at her little follower, who was now slumped on the ground, and then gave her another one.
Now she really had become my little dried fish to be toyed with!
“Wait! Yang Yuelan, stop!”
“Yao Beijuan, you should know my attitude; just say what you have to say.”
At this moment, I paused. This Sea Tribe member was already in my grasp, but now someone interrupted, and I needed some time to handle the situation.
Then I placed restrictions on Yvette, silencing her.
“Yang Yuelan, I didn’t expect our reunion would be at this time…”
“Yao Beijuan, is she the one you mentioned… Is it true that you two have that kind of relationship?”
“Yes, she is my…”
“I say, aren’t you all playing too many games?” I interrupted their conversation, holding my broom.
That big-chested, empty-headed girl really didn’t realize how much impact her words could have; had she forgotten we were all being livestreamed?
What if the arena’s commentary view was open right now!
Even now, I still wasn’t prepared to face them directly, so the best way was to keep them quiet. Some matters, if allowed to simmer gently, would eventually lose their heat. That is a fact to be accepted.
“Why are you talking about others like this? Who do you think you are!”
I walked closer step by step, the invisible pressure I generated made even the elves behind them subconsciously take half a step back.
“The chat is over; it’s time for you to move along!”
Just as all the elves were tense, this sentence came from behind them. A familiar yet inexplicable voice suddenly made them realize what spine-chilling truly was.
At this moment, a figure identical to them appeared before their eyes.
“What! When did this happen!”
“Be careful! Yao Beijuan, she’s targeting you!” The nearby elf shouted loudly, instinctively pushing Yao Beijuan out while directly using an elf spell to defend herself.
But in the next moment, that terrifying, flaming spear pierced through her shield and struck her abdomen, and she was already bracing for injury.
“Hmm? Wait, is it okay?”
“Ah!” Just when this elf thought everything was fine, things went awry beside her.
“Your vigilance is lacking; and thank you for pushing her over here.”
“Yao Beijuan! You!” At this moment, the elf saw Yao Beijuan, pierced by the spell, and couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Are you crazy? She’s your ex-girlfriend!”
“Thank you very much for adding ‘ex’ for the girlfriend.” I smiled as I pushed her away, even shaking my hand in disdain, “With that tone, I thought I had killed your girlfriend, right? No way? Could it be… are you really that kind of relationship?”
“You! You…” At this moment, the elf was so angry that she could hardly speak coherently, “As expected, you’re a lunatic!”
“Lunatic? What makes you say that?”
“Teacher Ariel was right; you’re indeed a lunatic, a psychopath! You’ve exposed your true nature from the beginning!”
“Don’t say things without evidence; if you say it like this, I’ll have to borrow my teacher’s name to say that your elves appear noble, but behind the scenes… hehe.”
“Teacher Ariel told us that you have congenital spirit vision disease, and we didn’t believe it at first, but now we do.”
“Okay, okay, so this is how you’re playing it?” I was almost laughing from the anger of the other side; am I really such a face-less person to spill everything?
“You mentioned Teacher Ariel, the elf who accompanied Yao Beijuan to find me at the beginning? No wonder I see no trace of the nobility and grace belonging to elves in her; it turns out she’s a hypocrite who enjoys speaking behind my back that I’m a lunatic! This ugly face truly makes one… feel disgusted!”
“What are you talking about! Do you know you’re speaking about an Extraordinary Elf?! You’re really crazy! Daring to court d*ath like this isn’t right!”
At this moment, she truly felt the other side was insane, even crazier than if she killed her ex-girlfriend, daring to sharply critique an Extraordinary Elf! That is something a new student could say!
“I know, if the opponent wasn’t an Extraordinary Elf, would they qualify to be a teacher? But what does that have to do with me? It’s what you said; I just reasonably restated it, that’s all.” At this point, the corner of my mouth rose without a hint of fear.
“Besides, how does it matter if a teacher from the Elf Academy speaks of me, as a new student from the Witch Academy? Doesn’t she know I’m a psychopath? If a psychopath scolds her a few times, she can just retort back, or you can retort for her. After all, you brought Teacher Ariel into this, and it has nothing to do with me.”
“Boring.”
After making the other party speechless, I returned to the Sea Tribe member named Yvette.
“Do you know what I’m going to do next?” I released her silence spell, smiling as I asked.
“Do as you wish! But you need to understand! You and everyone from the Witch Academy will face the wrath of all of us from the Sea Tribe!”
“Thanks~”
Hearing her words, I started to laugh again. The Sea Tribe still has their use; their terrifying tides are truly useful. I have quite a few plans in my heart, but I just worry the Sea Tribe might be lacking in strength. Let’s wait and see; maybe I should test their strength with a forest fire?
“But you guessed wrong.” I leaned down and removed her storage equipment, “I said my goal all along was resources; everything else was just a subplot, and you, my lovely little dried fish, should move along.”
“Oh, before moving along, allow me to take one of your lovely scales; please accept my compliments. It’s as beautiful as polished opal, and even now, in the sunlight, it still shines brightly.”
I reached for the most beautiful scale on her chest, knowing that mermaid chest scales seem to have many special meanings; this was intentional. As for what it represents, I had no interest.
“Wait! No! Not this… this one is off-limits!”
After getting the item in hand, I moved a few steps away from her and threw a fireball straight at her. Without the protection of the tides and spell defense, anyone is just flesh and bl**d—giants too, just with tougher scales.
As the opponent died and revived again, the scale I held did not disappear; it was pretty large and truly beautiful, still carrying a hint of detectable bl**d.
Is this the heart scale?
The opponent has three lives; I wonder if I’ll have the chance to collect three identical ones.
“I say, are you all just watching the show? Not hurrying to evacuate? But it’s too late now~”
At this moment, I looked at the group of elves. Although the smart ones had already fled, many others were still too timid to run away without orders from their leader.
“Now I give you two choices: hand over the resources and tell me the function of this fruit. I remember you mentioned its name before, but I didn’t pay much attention; you must know something.”
“And the other choice?” If she was to hand over the resources just like that, she would definitely be unwilling.
“The other? Of course, the big escape mode will be initiated. So many people behind you, not just the elves from Aphhemia Academy, right? With so many people, someone will definitely fail to escape and become my score helper to boost my ranking; wouldn’t that be delightful?”
“You! You’ve already killed so many from the Beast Academy and the Sea Tribe!”
“Yes~ but… the Sea Tribe might cry when they hear this~ Be careful that the alliance might crumble, ah~ I almost forgot, if my threat still stands, your friendship should still be unbreakable, right?”
“But now, make your choice!” I officially declared.
“One more thing, anyone I see fleeing, I’ll assume you’ve chosen the escape mode.”
“Alright, this is all we have received. The fruit in your hand is called the Life Fruit; it is the fruit borne of the World Tree from the Aphhemia branch. It greatly enhances affinity with nature and life, strengthens physical health, nourishes mental power, and enhances the power of natural forces. You aren’t an elf, and even if you obtain these, you cannot maximize their effects.”
“I see, no problem; they can serve as fruit after meals too.” I accepted the last storage bag they threw at me.
My words caused their bl**d pressure to rise again; regardless of how they squandered resources, at least those things were now out of their reach.
“This is it; this time we were at a loss, and we admit it, but there won’t be a next time!”
“Indeed, there won’t be a next time!” I directly echoed her words. The next moment, the protection of the Fire Elemental Sprite activated, and the Fire Fairy Transformation began, raising my affinity with fire elements to a dual enhancement.
At this moment, the power of my fireball spell has become even more terrifying!
“You broke your promise! You’re not trustworthy! Retreat! Quick retreat! Run separately!”
“Broken promise? How is that counted as broken? Those who fled early also count as fleeing, and who am I? The Witch you speak of, the ‘psychopath’ mentioned by your teacher! Run~ for those who run slowly… d*ath is the only end!”
“The Sea Tribe allied with you elves, yet they’ll d*e going back! If you don’t lose some of your people, how can you explain it back?”
“So, you all d*e once, and your relationship can ascend to the next level; you should be thankful for my kindness towards you!”
As I unleashed my attack, none of them expected me to pull this stunt.
After all, I had made enemies; I couldn’t expect mercy towards my foes, could I? That would be cruel to me and irresponsible towards my scoring.
Of course, they wouldn’t sit idly by for me. There would naturally be counterattacks, but under the influence of my verbal guidance and the defeat of their leader, most chose to flee directly. That leader elf’s command to run confirmed the nature of the situation at that moment.
So do not underestimate the power of words.
Moreover, I underestimated the elves’ agility and speed. Here in the forest, their home turf, I ended up scoring not much.
But that doesn’t matter.
At this moment, I activated the protection of the Fire Elemental Sprite and the Fire Fairy Transformation, unleashing all my power not just for those few points.
What I wanted was to deliver a grand gift to them!
Although starting a forest fire would lead to serious consequences, this is the Dream World; even those without flying licenses can fly on brooms; what does that count as?
Let me ignite a forest fire sweeping across half the map right here!
And the ultimate goal is… that World Tree visible even from here!
