CH 516

The withered ancient tree was once again awakened by the third apostle!

The black mist was small in the beginning, but it continued expanding until it completely swallowed the tree. After a couple of breaths, the mist disappeared like it was sucked dry and what replaced it was a large group of vicious and ugly tree people!

“Lesser Devils?”

Lin Xiao’s initial reaction to those monsters was that of the modified monsters that he fought against before. The lesser devils were similar, but the difference was that they were infected extremely quickly, compared to the lesser devils who needed a long time as well as demanding conditions like various rare materials as well as the soul of a fanatic believer.

It seems like their technology to create monsters have grown a lot compared to last year.

“Wait… their technology improves?”

Lin Xiao suddenly realized something!

The plague, black core, rebellion, stolen holy sword… it has been one disaster after another in Gotham Kingdom recently, like the Goddess was punishing them, yet no one thought to link these things together.

Lin Xiao suddenly realized what if these disasters didn’t occur independently, but as part of a plot, wouldn’t that change everything!?

The clues have been gathered and if you imagined each piece as a part of a puzzle, it seems like they could be combined following a certain rule to create the final puzzle! But… what was the final puzzle?

His thoughts began turning and he constantly felt like he was on the cusp of grabbing the final key and arriving at the end, but he just couldn’t finish.

“Damn!”

It seems like the puzzle was still missing one final and crucial piece, and that could only be obtained from the third apostle!

“Sister Ying, are you okay?”

“I’m fine, I just… have a slight headache.”

“Tsk, I’m just realizing that you’re really stubborn… you can’t even stand up straight and you’re still saying you’re fine?”

“Hm… you’re already calling me sister, so I naturally have to act like an older sister, if I… if I fell first, what would happen to you?”

“Tsk, she’s just a bit weak, it’s no big deal, she’ll be fine after resting for a bit.” Elena made a professional diagnosis and walked next to her and used her arm to support her.

“Okay then, you guys take a rest.”

Lin Xiao couldn’t let ShenDai Ying attack anymore, she may be strong but the risk was too high. If she couldn’t finish off her target, then she would be in danger, so Lin Xiao couldn’t let her take the risk.

So, he could rely only on himself now.

“Elena, Sister Ying, and Mina… you just need to watch yourselves and leave the rest to me!”

“Lin Xiao, d-don’t force yourself!”

“Pervert, watch your magic consumption, this is my final warning.”

The two women gave their own warnings as they watched Lin Xiao’s back, and Lin Xiao casually waved his hands without turning back and slowly walked to the empty space in front of him and face his enemy!

“Brat, though I may detest you, but I have to say that you are indeed outstanding, strong, and brave, I’m a bit reluctant to kill you just based on your courage.”

“Courage? It seems like you’re misunderstanding something, I don’t have anything like that.”

“Oh? Then why aren’t you running away and coming here to die instead?”

“Because the one who’s going to die is you, not me.”

Lin Xiao smiled and slowly began drawing a complex magic circle in the air.

“What?”

The third apostle was angered and wanted to say something, but was confused when he saw Lin Xiao drawing the magic circle.

What was he thinking?

The third apostle had thought that as a seventh-level magician, he would surely have some brilliant solution! He never expected him to do something so rough and foolish!

“Hey, what is that? Fifth-level magic? Or fourth-level magic? Do you think something that clumsy can finish off my tree men army?”

As a grand magician that wasn’t any inferior to Lin Xiao, the third apostle was also knowledgeable in magic. Other than black magic, he also knew of various other spells, but he couldn’t tell what magic Lin Xiao was doing at all!

That six-star magic circle was botched and full of holes, there were even incomplete lines, simply foolish! Such a laughable circle wouldn’t even be able to gather magic power, how could it release strong magic?

“It seems like you’re dizzy! You can’t even draw a normal circle anymore… It seems like you’ve been abandoned by the gods and not destined for the new world, so let me purify your soul!”

The third apostle shook his head and slightly waved his hands, then at the same time the tree men army moved!

But Lin Xiao didn’t panic, he continued finishing his circle like he couldn’t see them.

“Wait… I felt a sudden intense magic power, who is it?”

As he watched that ant get swallowed, he suddenly felt a surge of terrifying magic power and thought someone had come to help, but he couldn’t find anyone else. Then he realized it was coming from Lin Xiao!

“T-that’s… magic barrier? How is that possible!?” His jaw almost dropped when he saw the tornado forming.

He naturally knew what a magic barrier was! It was an intense vortex of magic power formed when casting magic that was eighth-level and above!

“Impossible! Definitely impossible… am I going blind?” He started mumbling as if he saw a ghost.

Why? How could he form such a terrifying magic barrier with such an inferior circle?

Could it be… could he really be casting eighth-level magic?

“Stop joking Lin Xiao! You’re just a seventh-level magician, you can’t even compare to me, how could you cast eighth-level magic? Keep dreaming!!”

The third apostle didn’t have any confidence as he cried out in a panic.

Lin Xiao’s response was just a quiet murmur…

“Deconstruction…”