The Previous Encounter Was Inconclusive; Today, We Settle the Score

"About a hundred and twenty meters. Still within range of my icicles."

On the lookout pole, Ahab flicked his right hand, and a mass of water vapor condensed around him.

Three icicles, each seventy or eighty centimeters long, shot toward the shore.

Their target was Bill, bound to a thick tree and unable to move!

One through the throat, one through the belly, one through the heart.

If any one of those icicles hit, Bill had absolutely no chance of surviving.

Bound by the tough vines, Bill's pupils shook.

In his azure eyes, the three life-reaping icicles were reflected.

Was it over?

Was he going to die?

Could he accept being killed by Ahab like this?

I, Bill, was young and accomplished, the pride of my whole family, the youngest Great Knight in the kingdom.

Later, heaven favored me and even let me become a Wizard Apprentice.

I had the second-best aptitude on the entire ship!

Not to mention, Tolia, the one with the best aptitude, was weak and useless. I could suppress her with ease.

What a beautiful future that had been, so full of hope!

Then he had run into Ahab Gul.

And suffered the first major loss of his life!

What was more, the lesson had been too painfully severe. He had been turned straight into a eunuch!

His whole body reeked of piss, and his voice was becoming more and more effeminate...

He had endured humiliation and hardship for many days, and finally obtained the strength to crush Ahab Gul.

Today was clearly supposed to be the day he took revenge!

But, but somewhere he could not see, Ahab Gul had also silently grown stronger.

Was he really going to be GG'd like this?

No, no!

Ahab was clearly nothing but a sinister, petty man.

Just like a rat crossing the street that could never see the light of day!

Clearly, clearly I, Bill, am the upright, sunny, cheerful, handsome youth.

If this were a kingdom opera, I would be the born protagonist.

I can't accept it. I can't accept dying at the hands of a sinister petty man...

I, Bill, refuse to accept this!

Boom!

Bill no longer cared if he hurt himself and forcibly drove his witchcraft.

Great swaths of flame ignited over his body!

The tough vines finally bowed their heads in the raging fire.

The three icicles Ahab had fired were also swallowed by the surging flames, achieving nothing.

But Bill himself had already had his hair, eyebrows, and clothes set ablaze, becoming a man of fire from head to toe.

"It's just that I'm already a eunuch, so there's no hair down there to burn..."

Bill gave a dispirited sigh, then his eyes turned blood-red.

All of this was thanks to Ahab Gul!

Ahab Gul, do you still remember, still remember what you said on the Ferry Ship?

Today, Bill would return those words to you.

The last time, no victor was decided. Today, we decide life and death!

Bill's clothes had already burned and shattered completely, leaving only a lone wizard robe fluttering in the wind.

He reached into the inner pocket of the wizard robe and took out a bottle of potion.

The potion was contained in a crystal vial. It was scarlet and viscous, and even had a little black mixed in.

This was a potion Gray had taught Bill about, one that, once drunk, could squeeze the body's life force and greatly strengthen magic power!

Bill did not hesitate. He pulled out the stopper and drank it in one gulp.

Rumble-boom—

The flames on Bill's body instantly swelled tenfold.

The flames, originally crimson tinged with yellow, had turned blood-red, even streaked with black smoke!

Firelight shot into the sky, staining more than half the island in a scarlet glow.

On the sea vessel more than a hundred meters away, the four little vampire girls all shuddered in unison.

This was the Bloodkin young's innate sense for danger.

Qi Qi hurried into the lower hold and worked hard together with Number One.

The two of them directly lifted the rattan basket and poured the white stones into the mechanical furnace.

With a "buzz," the mechanical furnace went into overloaded operation.

The sea vessel, which had originally been only a little over a hundred meters from shore, shot forward in an instant.

In just one or two breaths, it had pulled two or three hundred meters away.

At that speed, no matter how good Bill was at swimming, he would never catch up.

"Oh! Ahab Gul, my friend, do you think this is enough to shake off me, who's been chasing you for so long?"

Bill stared straight ahead and sneered, looking just like a yandere.

Ever since enrolling, he had studied painstakingly and had finally reached the point where he could cultivate a second elemental affinity as well.

His fourth spell was not fire elemental, but wind elemental.

And under Gray's guidance and instruction, Bill had already mastered the fused use of the two elements!

At Bill's level, even if he had mastered a wind-element spell, of course he still could not fly.

However, he had already drunk that bottle of potion.

"Come!"

The flames coiling around Bill suddenly flared up another level.

At the same time, a whirlwind rose beneath Bill's feet.

Flame and gale tangled, fused, and magnified under the potion's effect—

In the end, beneath Bill, they formed a fire tornado over fifty meters tall!

"Ahab Gul, your good friend Bill is coming to get nice and intimate with you!"

At that moment, Bill was like a monster bursting out of a magic lamp.

Supported at the very top by the fire tornado, he howled into the sky and charged straight toward that wooden boat, which looked as if it might fall apart at any moment.

Even the surface of the sea he passed over was set ablaze by the fire tornado's heat.

Raging flames rode a mighty wind, red clouds reflecting against the blue sky.

"Damn it, damn it!"

At the center of the island, atop an earthen pillar dozens of meters high, Lie Qi and Eleanor stomped their feet in perfect sync.

"That Bill—who knows what he drank? He suddenly became this strong."

"No wonder he could join this Second-Rank-level mission as a Third-Rank Apprentice."

"Big Smart" Daliyuan sighed with feeling, then turned his head and noticed something was wrong with the other two.

"Hic, what's wrong with you?"

"Bill's move will completely destroy the sea vessel!"

Eleanor stomped her size-six feet and spoke anxiously.

If Ahab abandoned them and returned to the Academy alone with the captured vampires, they were not worried.

Because Ahab would definitely make up another excuse and have the Administration Hall send an extra boat to pick them up.

Ahab had no need to leave them for dead; the risks and returns did not match.

But if the boat was directly destroyed, that would be a different matter altogether!

None of them could fly, and Bill's state clearly would not last very long either.

Who knew when the busy Administration Hall would remember—

That there was still a team of apprentices that had gone out to sea and never come back!

"Quick! Lie Qi, use a combined spell! We'll knock Bill down together!"

Lie Qi and Eleanor stood shoulder to shoulder, holding hands on the same side, their fingers interlaced.

At the same time, the two stretched out their other hands and aimed at Bill from afar.

Large sheets of frost surged up around Lie Qi, while fresh wind circled Eleanor.

The next moment, frost and rippling wind gathered in front of them, transforming into an ice storm like a meat grinder.

Immediately afterward, the ice storm was compressed into a thin line and shot straight into the sky, pale blue and green reflecting off each other.

"Whoosh!!!"

Daliyuan crouched down in despair and began drawing circles.

He wanted a spell that cool too...

Today's earth-element joke +1.