Chapter 103 Battle Failure
Master Roman shook his head, "Master Xueye, this kind of thing is not what you imagined. It is not that the military headquarters deliberately sent you here to die, but that there have been too many second-level mages and warriors here for a long time. Even many of us third-level mages have lost their lives here." Master Roman briefly explained to Shaoke in one breath, then pointed to the slices of meat he was baking and smiled, "If you don't want to eat, then give it to me, why burn the food?"
Shaoke looked down at the slightly charred slices, smiled awkwardly, and after turning them quickly for a few times, he handed the slices to Master Roman, and he baked another one by himself.
"I don't know when it started, but in this canyon there was a rule that both sides would not allow the other party to kill the third-level mage. Moreover, the loss's escape is unhindered. Of course, this mainly refers to the third-level mages." Mage Roman tore off the charred meat slices with his little hands, picked up and ate one and tasted Shaoke's skills.
"It seems that the third-level mage is much better, at least not threatened by life." Shaoke focused on roasting the meat slices this time. Although he had no appetite today, he still had to supplement some food to prepare for tomorrow's battle.
"You won't say that when you reach the third level." Master Roman gave Shaoke a look, and then asked another mage to prepare some food for the second-level female mage, because the other party could not bake these portable foods.
After dinner, the mages returned to their own small tents. Although this tent was not big, Shaoke still felt good. The ground was covered with thick animal skins to isolate the invasion of the cold air. A low portable writing table was placed next to the bedding.
Shaoko recorded in detail the battle that happened today and some of the questions found today on his "spray casting record".
After a whole night, Shaoke did not rest assured to sleep, and kept repeating today's battle in his brain. He only recovered his energy through meditation when it was almost dawn. Then he was called out by the early warriors because they had to eat early to embark on a new journey.
Shaoko and his team set off again under the leadership of Romama Mage. Along the way, Roman Mage kept changing the warriors to act as scouts to detect the situation ahead. Sometimes they took out magic props equipped with discs to determine the location of other teams and stayed consistent with them.
Nearly noon, the soldiers who acted as scouts found a team of enemy countries not far away. The mages who received the news quickly prepared for battle. The soldiers abandoned the heavy objects, stood at a familiar position that they could no longer be familiar with, and quietly waited for the other party to arrive.
The team also discovered Shaoko and the others, but they occupied a favorable position, a hillside covered by huge rocks and trees.
"Would we be able to fight against them?" Shaoko looked at the small hill pointed by the scout, and found that such a long distance was not within his casting range. He couldn't help but raise his own questions.
The Roman Mage did not answer Shaoko's question, but quickly added auxiliary spells to herself to prepare for the battle, because she had already felt familiar spell fluctuations coming from the hillside, and felt that she was locked by the opponent's mental power.
"Mage Snow Night, we must leave here first, otherwise it will affect Master Roman." After the second-level female mage quickly released a "spell interference" around Master Roman, she proposed to leave here. They must approach those enemies and successfully eliminate them.
After leaving two warriors to guard around Roman Mage, Shaoko opened all the magic circles on the robe and cloak. Since he did not learn the second-level protective spell, he could only bless himself with a first-level protection again. The female mage hesitated, called Shaoko and blessed him with a second-level protective spell. "Mage Snow Night, I think you must learn the second-level protective spell, otherwise it will be very dangerous on this battlefield, unless you can move the casting speed, and the casting speed is faster than the other party."
This time, Shaoko did not lose his mind and impulsively as yesterday. Instead, after maintaining a certain distance from the warriors rushing in front, he blessed himself with the "spell interference", and rushed towards the other mages irregularly.
The soldiers of both sides finally collided with each other. The white Mengmeng Fighting Qi protected the weapons in her hands, slashed quickly, and stood them between the soldiers of both sides. Since Shaoko and his team had lost several soldiers yesterday, they could only use fewer soldiers to resist the attack of the soldiers of the opponent this time.
With his powerful mental power, Shaoke sensed that he was almost at the casting range. The other mages also stopped and set aside enough distance between them. "Mage Snow Night, prepare for the battle! I already feel that the opponent's spell is about to be completed. Damn, there must be someone in their team who can move and cast spells."
Shaoke actually felt the spell fluctuations coming from the opposite side without reminding the mage, and he saw a fireball floating on the top of a mage's staff. Seeing this, Shaoke quickly prepared a spell. Fortunately, after his unremitting efforts, with the skill of forming seals with both hands, when the whistling fireball flew to halfway, the newly formed fireball flew out from both hands to intercept the opponent's spell.
The mage obviously didn't want Shaoke's fireball to intercept his spell, and kept sitting in the air with subtle adjustments under the control of mental power. However, he didn't expect that Shaoke had more than half of the mental power than ordinary mages. In addition, he focused on the cultivation of mental power, so he easily controlled the fireball and made corresponding adjustments.
The distance of more than 100 meters cannot allow the mages to make multiple adjustments. Shaoko's fireball still intercepted the opponent's fireball under the control of mental power. Unfortunately, the spellcaster was obviously experienced in the battlefield. At the last moment, he spent some mental power to adjust the route of the fireball. After crossing the fireball with Shaoko's fireball, he threw it and rushed towards Shaoko and the others.
The locked mage chanted the spell calmly, and a silver stream of light burst out from the top of the staff to accurately hit the fireball that had no time to adjust, and successfully eliminated the spell.
After failing to intercept, Shaoko's fireball suddenly locked on the mage standing within the casting distance, but the mage was very experienced and retreated quickly backwards and hid behind a huge rock.
After reaching the casting distance limit, the fireball hit the ground helplessly and exploded out of a large pit, without any other gains.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the three mages in Shaoke and his team moved forward quickly. After reaching the edge of the casting area, they prepared spells while dispersing their energy to observe the opponent's situation.
Shaoke did not take the opportunity to enter the casting distance, but quickly prepared the "fireball technique" behind him, and intercepted the opponent's spell attack as they had discussed at first.
Sure enough, the opponent prepared the spell first. After counteracting one spell from the opponent, Shaoke prepared another level zero spell "Frozen Ray" to offset the other. Finally, the female mage who was cast faster was intercepted in time.
The battle between low-level mages is quite boring. Without mastering mobile casting and long-range attacks, only this boring and dull counterattack can determine the true victory or defeat between each other.
Shaoke didn't know how the battle between Master Roman and another third-level mage was, but he found that green vortexes kept coming out of the other side's hillside, flying towards Master Roman's location.
After finally resisting a wind blade from the opponent, Shaoke felt that his magic could only support him to release a zero-level spell once, and quickly reminded his companions in front that although the mages were willing to fight again, after they lacked a mage on their side to intercept the method, there was no possibility of victory at all. So after releasing the prepared spell, he quickly sent a signal to the warriors who were still fighting.
Under the harassment of the mages' low-level spells, the warriors retreated smoothly, but two warriors were still killed by the other party. The mages carefully retreated to the location of the Roman mage. The enemy warriors followed him far away under the cover of the mages followed, intending to find an opportunity to destroy all Shaoko and the others.
The Roman Mage quickly noticed Shaoko and his team's retreat. After a spell casting, he quickly released a special signal to indicate that they had failed and would not fight again. The mages of the enemy country were kind enough to follow the rules here and notified the second-level mages and warriors to stop chasing. Because he did not want to be retaliated by the other party after breaking the rules today. Because many precedents have told him that none of the mages who broke the combat rules in the canyon would have a good ending, either being punished by their own people or being retaliated on the battlefield. Of course, if they could kill people to silence and clear all traces, there would be no problem, but the third-level mage was not sure that they could intercept and kill Roman Mage under the protection of the warriors.
Shaoke and the others retreated half a magical journey back in a mess, and then temporarily stopped under the command of the female mage.
Master Roman stared at Shaoko with a tight face. Although she knew that Shaoko had just been promoted and knew that he could not release spells for too long, she did not expect that he would lose the ability to release spells so early. "Master Snow Night, I think you should work hard to increase your mental power and magic power. There are too few spells you have released now." Master Roman rubbed his brows in annoyance and then said, "If you can hold on, I don't think this battle will be so embarrassing."
Shaoke listened to the female mage's lesson and just shut up. He also knew that his total magic power was lower than that of other mages, but he never expected that such a big gap would occur when fighting with the other party on the battlefield.
Chapter completed!