Spatial Slash!

The Level 5 Wizard clad in a dark red Wizard Robe stared at the Patroller wreckage reduced to black slag on the ground, his brows tightly furrowed.

Experience told him that creatures with such overly simplistic bodily structures were most likely artificial constructs.

And after he destroyed the second Patroller, he could basically confirm that his position had been completely exposed.

Since he had already been exposed, it was no longer suitable to keep hiding.

The Level 5 Wizard's spiritual power surged as he instantly layered three shields of different attributes over himself.

After completing his defenses, his feet left the ground as he prepared to rise swiftly into the air and leave this area that might already be surrounded.

Just as his body was about to rise, an extremely faint abnormal ripple, like a ripple on water, came from a point roughly a thousand meters ahead and to the side.

"Spatial teleportation? Or concealment?" Alarm bells rang madly in the Level 5 Wizard's heart.

As a Level 5 Wizard, he was exceptionally sensitive to spatial fluctuations and possessed a certain understanding of spatial knowledge as well. He immediately realized that an enemy was approaching with spatial means.

He did not panic. His extensive combat experience allowed him to make the most reasonable response—outwardly maintaining his rising posture, while secretly mobilizing his spiritual power. A fourth-circle wizardry designed specifically to counter spatial movement, [Spatial Stasis], was already poised to strike.

Now!

At one of the peaks of the spatial fluctuation, he abruptly mobilized his spiritual power to lock onto the source of the ripple, and silver-gray light burst from the tip of his staff.

[Spatial Stasis] spread over that area in an instant like an invisible spiderweb!

He was extremely confident that as long as his opponent appeared from that