Strike

The green-skinned soldiers advanced without anything resembling a proper formation. They were scattered and disorganized, yet among that loose mass of green skins, one group maintained an unexpectedly tight formation as they moved, as if they were hiding something in their midst.

Yalveth flew directly overhead on her pegasus and looked down. Under normal circumstances, it would have been difficult to see what was hidden beneath that tightly packed formation.

But with the boost from the Eye of Insight, Zhou Xu's perception was astonishingly sharp.

At that moment, his gaze seemed to turn into some tangible substance, slipping through the narrow gaps between the green skins. Relying on that tiny opening alone, he detected something amiss.

"That green-skinned mage is hiding underneath them!"

After confirming this, Zhou Xu furrowed his brow.

He paid no attention to the ring of green-skinned soldiers surrounding the mage. The problem was that if he used Lightning Attack now, the lightning would strike the green-skinned soldiers directly and might not injure the green-skinned mage trapped in the middle.

The longer this situation dragged on, the greater the risk became. At this critical moment, Zhou Xu made a Decisive Moment.

"Lower our altitude."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu immediately began chanting his spell.

Yalveth was perfectly in sync with him. She swiftly urged the pegasus into a dive.

At that moment, the green skins below felt their scalps grow hot. They instinctively looked up.

In an instant, a mass of roiling flames filled their vision!

[Blazing Flames, burn everything!]

Driven by the power of Zhou Xu's True Word, the flames were like terrifying heavenly fire descending from the sky. In an instant, they swept up every green skin below, including the green-skinned mage!

"WAAAAGH!!!"

A Saint Realm Mage's fully chanted Flame Attack had once incinerated even