Ch. 121
Chapter 121: Wizard-Level Combat
"This place, was it discovered by the Wizard Apprentice on your shoulder?"
Although Janna was under the effect of Anthony-Rook’s [Complete Transformation], because Anthony-Rook’s proficiency in [Transfiguration] couldn’t be considered masterful, Janna’s appearance may have changed, but the magical energy she emitted still carried the aura of plant-type elements.
"More or less. It was her Contract Summoned Creature that found it."
"The one that belongs to the Holy Light faction, that parrot?"
"Exactly."
The entire conversation was conducted through telepathic transmission, so Janna, who was fully focused on navigating, didn’t hear a thing.
"Principal, about a hundred meters in the ten o’clock direction is the source of the Darksun Contamination."
"Hmm."
To avoid alerting the enemy, both Anthony-Rook and Lucia Heigel cast concealment witchcraft.
As the two closed in on the direction Janna pointed to, sure enough, a trace of darkness distinct from the Law of Shadow was quickly picked up by the two First Tier Wizards.
"Go!"
After confirming the position of the Darksun cultists, neither of them intended to observe further. Without any hesitation,
silver-white water surged upward. In an instant, a waterfall of silver-white light, seemingly crashing down with overwhelming force, descended with a heavy rumble and engulfed the spot Janna had indicated.
"These filthy insects really were hiding here!"
With the furious impact of the silver-white waterfall, an oval-shaped barrier roughly five meters in diameter suddenly appeared at the center of the waterfall.
And this time, the Celestial Finch didn’t even need to guide them. Four figures of varying heights were directly exposed within Janna’s Spirit Power perception.
"Ka—"
A sudden sharp pain in her eyes made Janna, in her raven form, involuntarily let out a pained grunt.
"Aph, purify me."
"Chirp—"
There was no need for Janna to remind it.
Always alert to Janna’s condition, the Celestial Finch detected signs of soul contamination and immediately released a beam of Purifying Light from the white jade on its forehead, enveloping Janna within.
"Stay here and don’t move."
Seeing Janna affected, Anthony-Rook immediately cast a gray-white Barrier to shield her. Then,
after a quick word of instruction, he left her in place and plunged into the battle alone.
"Master, are you feeling better?"
After scanning her soul again and confirming that the Darksun Contamination had been completely purified by the Celestial Finch, Janna rubbed her temples and nodded in response.
At the same time, as Janna looked at her humanoid hands once more, she realized the [Complete Transformation Spell] on her body had already worn off.
"So this is the power of a Darksun Apostle? Just being glanced at with Spirit Power is enough to cause forced contamination..."
Janna truly couldn’t understand why such a dangerous mission wasn’t properly flagged by Blackbone Grove.
Instead, their intelligence repeatedly claimed that the injured Darksun Apostle was at the end of his strength and that an apprentice-level team could easily finish the cleanup.
"There’s something wrong here. Very wrong!"
Her gaze grew dark. But given the current situation, Janna could only remain quietly within the Barrier set by Anthony-Rook, not daring to extend her Spirit Power to probe further.
Fortunately, as long as she only watched with her eyes through the surrounding Barrier, she wouldn’t be affected by the Darksun Contamination.
"Boom—"
The silver-white water seemed to weigh thousands of tons.
Each strike of the water whips on the ground triggered thunderous roars.
Silver light flashed, piercing the darkness. Thanks to Lucia Heigel’s witchcraft, even in the shadows, Janna could clearly observe the battlefield.
"Is that the apprentice possessed by the Darksun Apostle?"
Amid the storm of witchcraft, a boy of about fourteen or fifteen resisted desperately. His body had already begun to crack in multiple places from the strain.
The Darksun cultists who once swore to protect him had long since been reduced to pulp under Lucia Heigel’s magical assault, leaving no chance for "resurrection."
"Lucia’s witchcraft... it doesn’t seem to be purely water-based. It’s more aligned with [Gravity]—"
Unlike the skirmishes in Defense Against Dark Magic class, witnessing a wizard-level battle at close range for the first time left Janna speechless.
A hundred-foot waterfall born from nothing, fluid manipulation at will—watching the shadow world illuminated like broad daylight by silver currents, Janna felt the chill of fear prickling across her skin.
"So this is... the power of Laws?"
Unlike Lucia Heigel’s thunderous display, Anthony-Rook floated leisurely at the edge of the water domain, constantly conjuring pale bone spears to bombard the shield surrounding the Darksun Apostle.
"Darksun will never forgive you blasphemers!"
"Aph—"
A screech of grinding metal—just hearing the opponent’s voice triggered another round of distortion and contamination on Janna’s body.
Fortunately, the Celestial Finch remained by her side.
Streams of Purifying Light and a fresh purification Barrier erected within the existing one swiftly cleansed the emerging Darksun Contamination from Janna’s body.
"Lucia, it seems Blackbone Grove has been infiltrated."
If even Janna could sense something was amiss, then a seasoned wizard like Anthony-Rook naturally picked up on it too.
"Shut up. I’ll handle Blackbone Grove myself."
Bang bang bang bang—the silver-white currents transformed into countless sharp blades. Amid the cultist’s repetitive curses, they struck again and again.
Finally, with gravity surging and Lucia Heigel’s witchcraft concentrated into a single overwhelming strike, the heavy force shattered the turtle-shell-like shield around the Darksun Apostle.
In the blink of an eye, the crushing flow of water obliterated his physical body.
"You dare interrupt Father’s Blood Sacrifice Ritual? I won’t forgive you degenerate wizards—"
"Too much talking."
Unlike ordinary Darksun cultists, a divine descender like him, even with a destroyed body, could still possess the [Resurrection] trait so long as his Soul Flame remained intact.
Once he took over a new body, he could revive at full strength.
And having dealt with Darksun cultists since his apprentice days, Anthony-Rook knew their tricks well.
With a forward flick of his finger, a pale Summoning Array quickly formed in front of him.
In a flash, a skeletal dragon roughly thirty meters tall, with blue-white Soul Flames blazing in its eyes, emerged at the center of the array.
"Devour it—"