Chapter 180: Chapter 179: Calm Before the Storm, Waves Rise Again
As everyone’s eyes widened in shock, a massive figure ascended to the deck. Spanning five ters in length, comparable to a two-story wooden building in height, its presence was more imposing than two Elite Sirens combined. The amber eyes slowly rotated, surveying everything around it.
If initially, the lesser rmaids ca, followed by the Elite Soldiers, now ca the rmaid leader.
Though there was only one rmaid leader, everyone on the deck clearly felt that it was more formidable than all of the Elite Sirens combined earlier.
This! This! This!
Was this elimination test too difficult? Were they planning to eliminate everyone?
With color drained from their faces, the Wizard Apprentices’ expressions changed as well. Facing the powerful rmaid leader, they could not muster the confidence to win, and they didn’t even feel they could survive an attack from it.
In despair, people glanced toward Dempsey standing in a corner, when suddenly, Dempsey reacted and spoke calmly, “Don’t panic, it’s not yours to handle; it’s ours.”
“Uh, this…” Everyone’s breathing eased.
“Yes, it’s ours. After all, you’re not capable of handling it yet,” Dempsey continued. As his words ended, three other Wizards appeared, rising from the sea outside the deck— they had been controlling the pace of the test from there to prevent all rmaids from attacking at once, as those below the Wizard Level wouldn’t stand a chance.
At this mont, the three Wizards rose up, floating behind the rmaid leader, while Dempsey looked on expressionlessly at the leader.
The rmaid leader remained completely oblivious, its eyes revealing a bloodthirsty gaze as it watched over everyone on the deck.
“Roar!”
The rmaid leader bellowed, preparing to attack, but the four Wizards were quicker to strike.
“Sploosh, sploosh, sploosh!”
In quick succession, the three Wizards floating behind the rmaid leader—Siv, Louis, and Quinton—simultaneously waved their hands, creating three ters-long spears from rainwater. These spears pierced the body of the rmaid leader without resistance, like knives through butter, nailing it down to the deck.
“Hiss, hiss!”
The rmaid leader twisted its body, attempting to escape the control of the three water spears, but the spears seed to have special magical properties that prevented any escape.
Then, Siv descended to the front of the rmaid leader, placing one hand on its body and prying open its mouth with the other. With a “crack,” he pulled out a fang from its mouth.
Enraged, the rmaid leader thrashed about, but the hand Siv had on its body seed to be squeezing its heart, rendering it powerless no matter how furious it beca.
Siv reached in again and with another “crack,” he pulled out the second tooth. Without pausing, he continued to search, and soon with two more “cracks,” he extracted two more fangs, only then stopping— it turned out the rmaid leader had undergone so mutation and grown four fangs.
These fangs, completely dissimilar to typical rmaid teeth, were over ten centiters long and more than a centiter thick. They resembled ivory but were more crystalline and transparent, shimring faintly under the night sky as if made of crystal.
After extracting the four teeth, Siv tossed one to Dempsey, threw one each to Louis and Quinton, and kept one for himself.
After completing these actions, Siv nodded toward Dempsey and spoke, “It’s done.”
“Um,” Dempsey said.
Siv suddenly released his hand from the body of the rmaid leader and darted to the side, while Dempsey raised his hand and a greyish energy arrow flew out, hitting the fully resisting rmaid leader in the blink of an eye.
The rmaid leader shuddered violently, the roar he wanted to let out cut off in his throat with a “ugh,” as his body quickly collapsed. Then it shrank at a visible rate, turning into a pile of black ash.
A downpour rushed down, a gust of wind blew, and in an instant, it all vanished cleanly.
Having done all this, Dempsey looked up at the sky, his eyes twinkled and he said to the three Siv, “Since the test is over, there’s no need for this storm to continue causing trouble, let’s dispel it.”
“Okay,” the three Siv replied.
Dempsey raised his hand, and a beam of blue light shot out, piercing the sky, and the three wizards almost simultaneously shot out a beam of blue light each.
They then saw the gathered dark clouds in the sky suddenly blasted open, a series of “rumbling” noises sounded.
Finally, with a “slash,” a large expanse of dark clouds split apart, the falling raindrops quickly diminished, turning into a drizzle in just a mont, and the wind also lessened a lot, swiftly changing from a violent gale to a breeze.
Everyone stared wide-eyed, truly experiencing the strength of a genuine wizard.
With a wave of his hand, he killed a powerful demonized creature and changed the weather in an instant—it was simply divine.
Richard’s eyes flickered, and he speculated in his mind, “The energy arrow emitted, does it have an ultra-high temperature, able to quickly burn off the body of the rmaid leader? And the blue light emitted that artificially dispelled the rain, is it due to increasing condensation nuclei, or sothing else? Weakening the wind seed to involve altering air currents, but the process must not be simple. It seems spells above Zero-Circle Magic are true spells and hold more research value…”
Dempsey spoke up and said to everyone, “Alright, this third test is considered complete, and those of you who survived are qualified. Next, you can collect your rewards—rmaid teeth. Besides the teeth, their fur and flesh have certain value too if you aren’t bothered by the trouble and can strip and preserve them. Also, rember to clean the deck.”
After finishing his speech, Dempsey headed toward the ship’s cabin, and the other three wizards landed from mid-air onto the deck and walked into the cabin together.
Everyone exchanged glances and then pounced on the rmaid corpses on the deck.
…
After a while.
Above the ocean, the rain had already stopped, and the wind had completely dissipated; except for the occasional sound of the waves, the night was utterly peaceful.
The large ship sailed, the people on the deck had already collected their rewards and were busy dealing with other matters.
Firstly, they had to place the bodies of the deceased students into a small boat, then they released the ropes letting the boat drift away, providing a simple sea burial.
Perhaps the process was very simple, everything that could be simplified was, but it was the limit of what they could do. After all, the dead had neither relatives nor friends on the ship; they couldn’t have a grand funeral even if they wanted. That said, albeit as simple as the funeral was, it was still better than the fate of the dead rmaids.
The dead rmaids’ bodies were pushed off the deck by everyone, plunging into the sea with “plop, plop” sounds, disposed of in the ocean. Blood seeping from the wounds in the rmaid bodies stained a swath of sea near the large ship red, attracting carnivorous fish to tear at them, leaving them mangled and beyond recognition.
Quite so ti later, when the people had cleaned the deck, just as they were about to rest, soone suddenly pointed toward the ocean and asked in astonishnt, “What… what is that?”
Uh? Everyone turned their heads to look.
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