63 Ice and Fire Shield (1/2)

This was too much of a humiliation...

Sauss could feel the veins on his forehead throbbing, as the situation was really unbearable. The Viper Nest had occupied the Poison Fog Canyon for an entire decade, and no force had ever dared to force their way in. But that Mafa Merlin decided to invade the Poison Fog Canyon because of five Apprentice Alchemists and a few carts of alchemy items.

This was too brutal...

He wasn't putting the Viper Nest in his eyes at all!

”Mafa Merlin, you are courting death!” Sauss was already completely enraged. His normally pale face flushed red as the table shook under his hands.

”...” The Great Swordsman in the sickbed started shivering.

Rios wanted to warn Sauss that he shouldn't say something like that...

But seeing Sauss' ruddy face, the Great Swordsman tactfully decided to remain silent and just let things play out.

”Let's go, I want to see how bold this Mafa fellow is!”

Sauss left the wooden house with Bell following just behind. He raised his head and saw numerous arrows flying out of the sentry towers on both sides of the Poison Fog Canyon like a swarm of locusts. A formation of twenty mages was already covering the entrance with spells. Over a hundred elite fighters holding weapons were standing behind them, ready to charge at the enemy anytime now.

”Reckless fools!” Sauss snorted after exiting the wooden house, his expression slowly easing up. The Viper Nest he had been painstakingly building all these years finally got to show the results. These elites were able to organize themselves when facing the sudden attack of a Great Mage without anyone panicking.

Indeed, the Viper Nest had stayed low key for the last few decades. But just because they remained relatively inconspicuous, it didn't mean that they were easily bullied. 'That Mafa Merlin was overexcited from wielding his powers as a Great Mage and, in a moment of foolishness, decided that my Viper Nest was an easy target. Now it's time to make him pay for underestimating me…'

Seeing the valiant fight put up by his subordinates, Sauss' flushed face finally cooled down. He looked at the battlefield and focused on the entrance.

A rain of arrows and spells fell onto the entrance. Every corner of the entrance was hit by that frightening firepower. Dozens of corpses were lying there, blood filling every hole in the ground, and most of the soil was now dark red. They were taking no chances with this foe.

”I want to see how many people this Mafa Merlin brought here to die.”

”B-Boss..” The mage who had burst in and brought the terrible news earlier once again said something dreadful. ”That person… is alone…”

”...” Sauss' face instantly froze. 'Mafa being alone… Doesn't that mean that all those corpses on the ground are my subordinates?'

”Fuck…” Sauss suddenly cursed.

But just as he said that, the mage next to him cut in, stammering, ”Boss, Boss, look!”

”What?” Sauss gave him a fierce glance before following his finger and catching sight of a silhouette walking from the entrance of the Poison Fog Canyon.

From their location, that silhouette didn't seem very tall. It could even be said to be thin and weak. It felt delicate, standing amidst the rain of arrows and spells covering the sky, as if it would be crushed in an instant.

But that delicate silhouette was slowly walking in from the entrance of the Poison Fog Canyon. Whether it was the arrows or the spells, they didn't seem to exist in his eyes. He unhurriedly plodded along, as if he wasn't entering the deadly Poison Fog Canyon, but instead just going for an afternoon walk.

The only difference was that this silhouette was surrounded by blue and red lights.

Even under the bombardment of spells, those two lights were exceptionally dazzling. Sauss could clearly see that the two lights were fluttering at an astonishing speed, and that every flicker would stop an arrow or a spell. That silhouette was relying on the protection of these two lights to enter the Poison Fog Canyon unharmed.

”This… This is the Ice Fire Shield?” Sauss looked at the two lights as if he had seen something unfathomable.

The Ice Fire Shield wasn't an earth-shattering, heaven-defying spell. It wasn't even a spell from a neglected branch of magic. It existed in almost every Great Mage's spellbook.

The Ice Shield blocked all physical damage while the Fire Shield erased all magical attacks.

Because of its efficiency, it could be said that as long as there wasn't an extremely significant difference in power, nothing could pass directly through the Ice Fire Shield, whether it was a physical or a magical attack.

Furthermore, after the Ice Fire Shield was initially cast, there was no need to focus on the mana supply. As long as there was enough mana left, the Ice Fire Shield would remain channeled. For most Great Mages, the Ice Fire Shield was a must-know protective spell.

But very few Great Mages would spend too much time under the protection of the Ice Fire Shield.