The flood surged, its immense force scattering the Demon Wolves and the teachers before pushing the teachers to safety.
The Demon Wolves, meanwhile, broke free of the waves and leaped toward higher ground.
When the flood finally subsided,
Jiang Yuan appeared, carrying Lin Yuxin in his arms.
Worried about Ye Xin Xia's safety, Mo Fan ran off to find her.
"Jiang Yuan!" Zhou Min cried out.
"Why didn't you go to the Safe Zone?"
"Take her to the Safe Zone for me. Thank you." Jiang Yuan had no time to answer their questions. He handed Lin Yuxin over to Zhou Min, then immediately turned and walked toward the wolf pack.
"Jiang Yuan, don't go over there!" Xue Musheng, who had been saved, shouted through the pain.
The others also called for him to come back.
How could one person face so many demons, especially when there were two Warrior-level demons among them?
It was no different from seeking death!
Jiang Yuan seemed not to hear them. As he walked, he began constructing a star map.
The dazzling star map that symbolized intermediate magic shone brilliantly, mesmerizing and shocking all at once.
"That's a star map!"
Only then did they realize that the towering flood from before had been the intermediate Water element spell, Storm Wave.
Jiang Yuan had already advanced to an intermediate mage!
Jiang Yuan stared coldly at the Demon Wolves as the raging tide surged forth once more.
Wave after wave completely flooded the street, leaving the Demon Wolves huddled atop patches of high ground barely large enough to hold their four paws.
"Leave this to me. Go to the Safe Zone." Jiang Yuan left them only his back.
Zhou Min wanted to stay and fight the Demon Wolves with him, but a heavy water wall five or six meters tall rose up, completely cutting off the passage between them and the wolves.
With magic that had not even reached the third level of Beginner level, they had no way of crossing the water wall.
Under the torrential rain, they could not even tell what was happening on the other side.
"Spirit Ripple—Fear."
A glimmer flashed through Jiang Yuan's eyes as invisible ripples spread outward.
Every Demon Wolf touched by the ripples began trembling uncontrollably, and fear appeared in their eyes as they looked at him!
Beasts were beasts.
The downpour wove a dense net through the pitch-black night. Jiang Yuan stepped slowly through the pooled water, and every time the soles of his shoes touched the surface, rings of icy-blue ripples spread outward.
He raised his open right hand, and seven azure star trails intertwined in the air to form a magnificent star map. The enormous magical energy even caused the raindrops around him to hover in midair.
"Ice Burst Flood Roll!"
As the incantation fell, the standing water along the entire street suddenly reversed and surged into the sky, pouring out frigid air without restraint.
The pooled water instantly changed form, becoming three interlocking spiraling ice-crystal tornadoes.
The Demon Wolves were too far from Jiang Yuan, and with nowhere left on the flooded ground to stand, they were swept from their high perches into the violent ice crystals.
Their claws scraped against the ice crystals, throwing off blinding sparks.
Sharp shards of ice sliced countless bloody wounds across their fur, and the Demon Wolves let out miserable howls.
But it was not over yet.
Jiang Yuan formed a Thunder Seal with his left hand, purple lightning dancing through his hair.
The hovering ice-crystal tornadoes suddenly became plated in dark-blue lightning, transforming into three savage Ice Thunder Flood Dragons that coiled tightly around the wolf pack.
Amid the crackling of electric currents, a burnt stench mixed with rainwater and spread through the air.
When the two Three-eyed Magic Wolves broke free from the tornado prison, Jiang Yuan merely glanced at them.
The curtain of rain filling the sky instantly froze into countless ice spikes. With the attachment of the Electromagnetic Domain, purple lightning patterns flickered at the tip of every spike.
"Ice Thunder Burial!"
A crisp snap shattered the rainy night.
The ice spikes poured down like a storm of pear blossoms, pinning the leaping Three-eyed Magic Wolves into dazzling ice sculptures.
When every inch of the Three-eyed Magic Wolves' fur was covered in ice spikes, the lightning patterns within their bodies exploded violently!
The scattering ice crystals reflected Jiang Yuan's cold gaze, like a tragic and beautiful diamond avalanche.
On the other side of the water wall,
everyone could only hear the endless booms and the sharp cracking of ice.
When the six-meter-tall azure curtain of water turned into a fine drizzle and fell, everything had already come to an end!
"The Demon Wolves... they're all dead!!!"
They stood frozen in shock, watching Jiang Yuan's figure vanish into the rain.
Outside Bocheng,
corpses littered the ground.
Despite the Military Department and the many mages who had come to reinforce them holding the line, the city gates had clearly reached the brink of collapse.
They were about to fall.
Behind them stood hundreds of thousands of civilians. Before them lay an abyss of certain death.
Even so, they charged forward without hesitation, shedding their blood and offering their lives upon this land.
Jiang Yuan had already arrived atop the city wall.
The sounds of slaughter and roaring grew clearer and clearer.
The stench of blood rushed from his nostrils into his lungs, making his heart tremble uncontrollably.
Looking at the horrific scene below, Jiang Yuan clenched his fists.
His strength was still too weak. Though he had saved the people within the city,
the mages willing to sacrifice their lives for humanity's future were dying in the war against the Demon Wolves.
A single demon tribe had nearly caused an entire city to fall.
And what about those demon empires lurking within the world's great natural wonders and ancient sites?
The original story mentioned only the Tianshan Mountains, Kunlun Mountains, the Pyramids, the Abyss of Evil, Antarctica, Bermuda, and the Sahara.
Could there really be only those mountain ranges?
The Himalayan Mountains, where Mount Everest stood, and the Andes Mountains.
Could there really be only those deserts?
The Arabian Desert, Libyan Desert, Australian Desert, and Gobi Desert.
And the Arctic, standing at the other pole of the world just like Antarctica!
The Antarctic Emperor was merely one emperor awakened from that frozen soil of countless millennia. Who knew what else existed within it?
Everyone knew how vast the oceans were.
What immensely powerful empires lay in those deep seas?
And the undead beneath the ocean, countless times more numerous than those on land—could that Netherworld truly be ruled by only one emperor?
The Summoning Plane, the Dark Plane, unknown planes...
The source of the Holy City Archangels' power.
There were far too many unsolved mysteries in this world.
Humanity could only survive in the cracks between demon empires.
The more Jiang Yuan thought, the smaller he felt.
But he would use this tiny body to ascend a Divine Throne higher than any emperor and become the supreme god!
Bocheng was his starting point, the beginning of his path to godhood!!
Jiang Yuan stepped to the edge of the city wall, took out the Sacred Spring from his pocket, and drank it in one gulp.
In an instant, incomparably dense energy surged from his abdomen into his limbs.
Those Mortal-grade and Spirit-grade magical artifacts were nothing compared to the nourishment of the Sacred Spring. This was the most powerful force Jiang Yuan had ever encountered!
Each of his elements had already been on the verge of advancement. Nourished by the Sacred Spring, the formerly tranquil stardust and nebulae began spinning madly!
Nebulae became galaxies.
Stardust became nebulae.
Even though the Sacred Spring's energy could no longer compare to what it had been at the beginning,
it was still an enormous reserve of energy, enough to advance the Little Loach pendant by several levels with some left over!
Now that Jiang Yuan had absorbed it all, he had actually become an advanced Water element mage!!
Other than the Undead element, which had not advanced, both his Lightning element and Mind element broke through to the intermediate level!
But he was not done yet. Breaking through was merely to replenish his magical energy.
Jiang Yuan looked up.
Above the dark clouds, heavenly thunder rumbled.
If his own power was not enough, then what about the power of nature?
The innate domain of the Lightning element spread outward at high speed!
Elsewhere, on the battlefield where they fought the Winged Azure Wolf.
"ROAR!!!!"
The roar mixed with the rain as Zhan Kong and the military mages retreated at full speed.
Zhan Kong steadied himself, swallowed the blood in his throat, and looked back toward Bocheng amid the rain.
"Boss, we've held out for a long time. The civilians should have reached the Safe Zone by now. Shouldn't we retreat?" one military mage said.
"Hold on a little longer. Every second we can buy matters." Zhan Kong's resolute tone allowed no refusal.
And as soldiers, they would not refuse.
Obedience was a soldier's duty.
Besides, once they withdrew, the ordinary civilians who had not yet reached the Safe Zone would have no chance of surviving this disaster.
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