Ambush and Mutation

The battle erupted in full within the blink of an eye.

Two wizards from the Noren Workshop and two enemy Level 5 Wizards launched into a fierce duel above this newly formed lava basin.

The male wizard specialized in the laws of Water Elements. With a wave of his hand, he summoned dozens of water serpents, each carrying terrifying impact force and corrosiveness as they pounced upon the Chaos Cult wizard from different angles.

The female wizard, meanwhile, excelled at runes and barriers. She continuously threw out various pre-made runic tools, setting up layer upon layer of restrictive, disruptive, and weakening barrier fields in the air while providing protection and enhancements for her companion.

Though heavily wounded, the Chaos Cult wizard facing them fought in an exceedingly bizarre manner.

He rarely used direct offensive spells. Instead, he constantly unleashed curses, illusions, and spells that interfered with the mind.

Whenever a water serpent was about to strike him, the air around his body twisted, and the serpent would inexplicably veer off course or simply collapse on its own.

The various binding barriers also frequently missed their targets for no apparent reason.

Even more troublesome, the lava ground beneath him would occasionally explode without warning, spewing living-looking tentacles made of magma that tried to ensnare the Noren Workshop wizards in the air.

The Tower of Silence wizard had an entirely different style.

Simple, brutal, direct.

He condensed a mass of energy in each palm: pure scorching white light in his left hand and profound darkness in his right.

He forcibly compressed those two utterly opposing energies together, then blasted them out in the forms of beams, shockwaves, energy spheres, and more.

Every attack carried a terrifying "annihilation" property, capable of erasing any matter or energy it touched from the very level of