Elite Mages' Academy

Chapter 350: Battling the Black Dragon (2)

Probably having felt that her own equipment and strength were simply too formidable, the black dragon thought for a moment and added, “Your attack took me by surprise. My hands are still tingling a little. Amazing. Simply amazing!”

Xiao Lin’s eyelids twitched fiercely. His full-force blow was only enough to make the woman’s hand tingle! He appeared increasingly frustrated.

He undid his Ruin state too, as it was difficult for him to maintain such a high explosive state for too long especially when he was discouraged.

After undoing Miracle and the Ruin state, immense exhaustion poured into Xiao Lin’s heart. That was the price of his instant explosive power. The dragon lady also noticed the rapid decline in his strength and she could not help but show disappointment. “It’s just an instantaneous explosive power, is it? Or could you have given up?”

With no response, the black dragon shook her head. “Die then.”

Sure enough, this woman did not have the slightest bit of sympathy. However, she was blocked by a figure as soon as she began walking. The undead swordsman had resumed his movements after being freed from the dragon power’s suppression.

Xiao Lin raised his head slightly in surprise. He did not remember having given any instructions to the undead swordsman because he was well aware that the clumsy swordsman had little effect.

“I hate the undead!” The approaching woman simply frowned and raised her long sword slightly. A black gleam flashed from the blade and directly hit the swordsman. At that moment, the swordsman’s heavy armor became as fragile as white paper and shattered instantly.

“Dragon breath!” Lilith struggled to spit out those two words and warned Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin could not help but be in awe. Dragon breath was a basic skill that the dragon race had mastered. It was to them what breathing was to humans—an innate ability. Nevertheless, her ability to release the dragon breath through her sword was what made things much scarier.

The power of the dragon’s breath cut with the sword is greatly reduced, but this just shows that this woman has reached a very high level of control over her own power, so she can very exquisitely disperse the power of the dragon’s breath. This is not all dragons. Things that can be done.

The undead swordsman’s collapse shocked Xiao Lin’s spirit a little. A summoner of a mind-controlled summoned creature would face adverse reaction when the creature’s being dies. Only professional summoners could reduce that kind of damage.

The swordsman’s body was finally revealed after the armor was completely obliterated by dragon breath. Xiao Lin laid eyes on its true form under that armor for the first time. It was a cloud of black gas, similar to condensed death energy. Unlike the death energy in the meditation world, the black gas seemed to have a will of its own and was able to sense the threat being close at hand. It billowed desperately in an attempt to stand up again.

“An undead creature with independent consciousness?” The black dragon was surprised again. After a moment of thought, she seemed to have made up her mind and said, “Fine then, I’ll help you out. Though I hope you won’t let me down like your master did.”

Xiao Lin was confused, but from the looks of it, the other party’s interest seemed to have shifted to the undead swordsman. He did not know whether he should be grateful or depressed. Was his ability inferior to that of an undead creature?

The dragon lady held her sword and paced around the struggling swordsman soul, while the tip of her weapon was drawing something on the ground. Whenever the blade was drawn across the ground, a strange flow of blood began appearing on the brownish soil. The fresh blood flowed on its volition as if it was alive, intersecting with each other and gradually weaving complex patterns on the ground.

“Magic circle! She seems to be drawing some magic circle,” Lilith whispered, having approached closer out of curiosity.

Xiao Lin nodded. He recognized the magic circle, but he did not really understand what the dragon lady was trying to do.

At that point, the dragon lady was actually defenseless., or in other words, she simply ignored Xiao Lin and Lilith for the time being. However, neither of them dared to make a move.

A full half-hour passed just like that, and the dragon lady’s interest seemed rather piqued as she drew a huge and mysterious magic circle using her blood-stained sword, with the undead swordsman situated smack dab in the center of the circle. It struggled initially, the continuous loss of its death energy made it weaker and weaker.

The dragon lady even chanted an incomprehensible spell in a low voice. The language used was more obscure than Ancient Normese. Xiao Lin understood that it was Dragish, which was rumored to be the most difficult language elective course in Dawn Academy.

The entire spell lasted for another quarter of an hour. Once completed, a blinding light that had a similar intensity to the sun burst out of the magic circle. Xiao Lin could not help but cover his eyes. When he reopened them, a small deep pit had already appeared in the ground in front of him. At the bottom of the pit stood a fully armed knight wrapped in black aura.

“Unbelievable!”

The first person to exclaim happened to be the dragon lady, who was the instigator of the entire situation. She approached Xiao Lin again and stared at him with her black, pearl-like eyes, asking, “What have you done to it?”

“I think I’m the one who should be asking you this,” Xiao Lin replied grimly. His relaxed manner was probably due to having resigned himself to the fact that he would never win against the opponent in front of him.

The black dragon pointed to the bottom of the pit, and said, “Do I still need to explain? Your undead swordsman has evolved into a black knight. You’ve given me plenty of surprises. My dragon spellbook only helps to gather the dead energy nearby, but not every soul who has enough dead energy can evolve into a black knight.”

‘In other words, you’re just helping yourself create a more interesting toy,’ Xiao Lin chided her in his heart.

He had read about black knights before. They were considered mid-range undead creatures that far surpassed the power of ordinary skeletons and undead souls. Nevertheless, Xiao Lin did not think that the black knight would have any effect in front of the black dragon.

“Let’s start then! Round two!”

The black dragon once again distanced herself and waited solemnly. As Xiao Lin had guessed, she acted simply for the sake of having a toy to play with and pass the time.

“You can try.” Lilith motioned to Xiao Lin with a look, signaling that she had enough of being alone and was already raring to go.

Xiao Lin silently tried to communicate with his mental strength and was fortunate to discover that the connection still existed between him and the undead swordsman, or more accurately, the evolved black knight. In spite of that, he could clearly sense the knight’s oppressive force on his spirit.

‘The black knight’s strength is probably much stronger than mine,’ Xiao Lin thought to himself a little speechlessly and gave another order to attack.

The battle resumed.