City of Desire Novel Chapter 324: Killing High-Mage

Zela

“Fuck!”

Captain Vandal cursed, seeing the huge water bear materializing in front of us. It is big, about five ters tall, with icy claws, that could shred anyone to pieces.

Thud Thud Thud!

The bear moved with heavy steps; it was a really scary spell.

“Wish

luck!” said Captain Vandal, and moved toward the bear.

Till now, he had been standing. He never got a chance to fight with spells flying around, but now he is moving toward the bear.

Even for a man of his power, this elental bear is hard to defeat, but he is the only one who can. I have to keep an eye on the enemy; I couldn’t deal with the spell while doing that. It will give him the opening to finish

off.

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I cast three spells on Captain Vandal for the defense and enhancents. It was the only thing I could do to help him.

I had just finished when my eyes widened, and I moved, activating the Drip Steps imdiately, while he grinned.

Boom Boom Boom!

A booming sound rang out as the jets of powerful water began to burst out of the ground and go as high as hundreds of ters.

These jets are small and concentrated. If even a single one, is it; it will tear through .

While I was dodging the attack. He cast another spell. The Frost Lances ca at , tearing through the air.

Sup Sup Sup

I wanted to curse loudly, but I controlled myself and cast the shields and was grateful that Shaman Dul had augnted them with his magic.

It is hard to cast spells when dodging the attacks; one couldn’t do it properly, without sufficient experience.

I still rember the first ti; I was forced to do that. It was my first battle. Three days later, I escaped the tower and reached the nearest army, resisting the undead.

It would be a stretch to call them the army. Considering over 70% of people there had never held a weapon, much less had a combat class.

Everyone was drafted, including , who never fought a battle in the life. I only knew four Grade 1 spells at that ti, with one defensive and one offensive spell.

The battle was a massacre.

I saw thousands of people getting massacred by the undead. I was frozen by the sheer horror that I wasn’t able to cast a spell at all, till the undead leaped at

and threw

on the ground.

I still rember the seven ice daggers I needed to cast to kill the zombie on top of .

We won that battle but lost nearly 80% of the people. It was also in that battle; that I had got the first light-water elent spell. It was a healing spell, and I had not got from the great hand, but from the body of the necromancer controlling the horde.

The militia leader had copied the spell and handed it to every mage. I was the only one, who was able to learn it and did it in a month.

Bang Bang Bang

The lances crashed against the shields before tearing through them. I employed a second shields, which had stopped them.

It didn’t stop him, and he kept launching the ice lances and I kept defending while moving around the battlefield to dodge the attack.

Every spell I cast is draining my mana.

My spells are mana-efficient, but no matter how efficient they are, they cost mana. Half an hour later, I was nearly out and needed to drink the mana potion.

I could see the smile appearing on his face, seeing that, and cursed at the bastard. I know, what he is trying to do; I have used that strategy myself, against the many enemies.

If you can’t beat the enemies directly; then beat them indirectly.

He is constantly throwing spells at , and I am being forced to defend using the shields. Which is costing

a lot of manas and to replenish it; I am drinking a mana potion.

I have a lot of mana potions, but I couldn’t drink them all to replenish my mana.

Once the limit is reached, I will begin to suffer mana poisoning, and my mana recovery will also slow down.

Rip!

Suddenly, one of the frost disks cuts through . I had avoided many of them and defended against them, but not all could be avoided.

Thousands of small frost disks are floating around, moving in unpredictable directions.

To deal with them, I had supposed tens of moving shields, but they were not enough to save

or Shaman Dul, who had been cut more tis than I, despite my best attempts to protect him.

He is at least alive; those frost discs have killed two people. Despite mages summoning the shields.

The bastard is too powerful and if he killed , then he will not have any problem in dealing with others. He will kill them all, and it won’t take more than a minute to do that.

The difference in level is too big.

I drank another bottle of mana potion and cast Minor Heal on my injuries before looking at the discs around .

The only one, who hadn't cut by the disc is Captain Vandal. He is still fighting against the bear. Bears. There are two of them now and they have already made him quite bloody, but he is still fighting.

Stopping them from coming at

and Shaman Dul.

I have to say, I am quite surprised at the man. Usually, for a warrior like him, handling one such spell is a huge burden; very few could handle two.

Rip Rip Rip!

Another disk ripped through my shoulder and a minute later, through my back, and another at my leg, a few minutes after that.

“You have handle-big spells, but it is the asly Grade 1 spell that is giving you a hard ti,” he said with a grin as more Frost Dicks.

“If I had known it before, I would have cast them from the beginning,” he added and sent more with it.

“You are a High-Mage, talk like one. It is a Grade 4 spell, Carlym’s Discs, not Grade 1 Frost Disc,” I replied as I dodged and defended the barrage he sent at .

These discs are much stronger than the normal Frost Disc. Normal Frost Disks couldn’t pass through my defenses, these could; they are already doing that.

My words seed to sting him, which is what I wanted. A barrage is easier to defend than individual discs coming from a different direction.

It didn’t take him long for him to understand his mistake and I could see anger appearing in his eyes, but this ti, he controlled it and began to attack

like before.

Every minute, more and more injuries appeared on my body as so discs would strike . I am trying with the shields, but the man is High-Mage, with more mana than .

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He could summon them, them in thousands.

Soon, I drank the third mana potion bottle. I could see him looking at

with joy on his face. It is the mana potion; I could drink safely. If I drank any more, I would suffer the mana burn, aside from the low absorption of the potion.

I rather not drink the potion, but I am expanding it, rather fast with all the shields I am summoning to defend against the attack.

Water Ropes.

He intensified his attacks further and watery robes appeared on the ground, trying to catch Shaman Dul. The orc shaman is quite agile; I am really glad he is because I am at the limit of the spells, I could not cast more than I am casting.

Ti passed, and every second was a challenge.

I have fought many battles, where I have against many mages, but this is worse than any one of them. A High-Mage's power is much greater than a Mage like . Their classes are powerful, which makes their power of their higher than those of lower grades.

Not to ntion specialization, which makes every spell they cast powerful.

It is already quite a feat that I am standing in front of him, even after two hours of fighting. It is quite an amazing thing, and I would have felt it if not for being a step away from death.

I cast most spells and before I knew it, my mana had reached the critical level again. I took out the fourth potion and drank it; seeing that he grinned.

“You are good as the dead, now,” he said.

Hun!

I didn’t reply and continued with defending and dodging when suddenly I received a ssage, which nearly made

stop in my tracks.

They killed a Lv. 30.

It is Lt. Colonel Julian and his team who killed the fencer. I had heard about the fencer, and he was not an easy enemy to kill, but they sohow did it.

He seed to receive the news too, and his expressions changed drastically.

A second later, the number of discs increased further, and more ropes appeared. It beca harder to avoid them while dodging the disks.

On top of that, I am expanding the mana fast.

I have never used so much shields as I am right now as I am using right now and also the enhancents and defensive spells. They have kept

alive but also drained the mana fast.

It is why, it is so damn difficult to deal against the High-Mage for the mages like . They are better at every aspect and have experience to deal with any tricks that, I might throw at them.

If I didn’t have the support of Shaman Dul; it would have been difficult.

“Fuck!”

A few minutes passed, and I took another potion bottle drink and had just taken it to my lips, when suddenly, one of the watery robes caught my leg and flowed over .

Instant Freeze.

I cast the spell and freeze moved toward them, but the bastard seed to expect that as the black water ropes beca boiling and tore through every defensive spell covering .

After more than two hours, he had finally caught , and he would not let

go.

“Ahhhh…”

I scread at the bubbling hot ropes filled with death energy that moved around my body. It is as painful as it is harmful; I tried to cast the spell, but they overwheld .

Thud!

My staff fell to the ground, while the water robes bound

tightly. He had even removed the concentration ring and bracelet; I kept as the backup.

I could still cast the spell without the tools and doing that, but it is effortlessly pushing it all away.

“I have to say, you are the most difficult mage I have ever fought,” he said as he ca toward . The thousands of disks parted for him like a curtain, while the black icy dagger appeared in his hand.

Seeing it, I shuddered visibly as it brought out the dark mories of the past.

“You rember this, right?” he asked, showing

the black ice dagger as he stopped in front of .

They gathered hundreds of people in front of the tower after they conquered it. Many of my friends were there, including the love of my life, before executing them with these daggers.

It is their way.

“I am going to kill you, the sa way. We had killed those people of Ursula’s tower,” he said with a grin and looked at .

I didn’t say anything and just looked at him. It seed to make him angry for a mont before that sick pleasure returned to his eyes and he raised the dagger toward my heart.

The dagger ca closer, till there was barely an inch that had remained between its sharp cold blade and my beating heart, when suddenly he stopped, with his eyes widening.

A man appeared beside him like he teleported, and a white blur moved toward his neck.

The High-Mage reacted fast, with his staff lightning up for the spell, while at the sa ti, thousands of Frost Disks moved toward us.

Jon is faster, with his enchanted dagger already reaching the neck of the enemy, cutting through a half-ford spell, before reaching his neck.

Pachack!

A wet sound rang out and neck severed neck flew up in the air.

I looked into his eyes, which were filled with shock; even in his death, he didn’t understand how it all happened.

Imdiately, the spells disappeared, turning to mist.

If we had been a second late; those Frost Discs would have cut us into the hundreds of pieces.

“It worked,” said Captain Vandal as he appeared beside us, with Shaman Dul, a few seconds later.

Both of them were heavily injured.

Jon had been part of the battle since we started fighting. He had been hiding behind , under the layers of a refractive shield, while I covered his body with.

That alone isn’t enough and wouldn’t have worked. If it wasn’t rogue with skill, Jon has.

The High-Mage was a practitioner of water and death, both at pretty good detecting life.

He had cast those spells, but Jon had the skill to hide his life signature, which worked well with Refractive Shield, which was a light elent spell and thus resistant to dark.

Still, it was great luck, and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the potion that Mr. Silver had provided.

The one with emotion essence; I had mixed it with a regular mana potion. Which helped

recover my mana fast and also saved

from mana burn.

“It did,” said Jon, turning to

with a smile.

I smiled back before my expressions turned serious. We had killed two Lv. 30s, but it is far from enough to win the battle.

However, I have hope, that we will.