Chapter 17

In desperation, he shouted, "Hal, come help first." Duoduo, Heifan, and Tidavi kept firing fireballs at Peiganbo in the air without pause, stopping him from returning to the ground.

Though Lin Hanxuan was closer to the Sand Tiger, Hal was still one step faster than him. He crouched first, crossing his hands, and said, "Boss, be careful."

Lin Hanxuan stepped onto Hal's palms and kicked off hard. The Windwalk spell on his black cloth shoes activated on its own, sending him half-gliding toward Yi Junshu. Grabbing Yi Junshu's feet, Lin Hanxuan planted his own feet on the Sand Tiger's head and was about to pull Yi Junshu out.

Without warning, the Sand Tiger's mouth suddenly opened wide again. Not only did Yi Junshu slide all the way in, even Lin Hanxuan fell in with him.

"Boss!" Hal screamed miserably, flinging stones in his hand at the Sand Tiger as if they cost nothing. He did not dare attack the Sand Tiger's mouth directly, so he hurled firestones madly at its belly, trying to punch through its stomach.

The Sand Tiger cried out in pain and was about to shrink back underground with a "whoosh." At that moment, Peiganbo in the sky had also broken free from the combined magical attacks of the three mages and was flying rapidly toward the Sand Tiger. If anything went wrong, the Sand Tiger was Peiganbo's only reliance for escaping the defensive magic array. He did not want the Sand Tiger beaten to death.

Seeing the Sand Tiger already shrink back underground, Hal threw himself at the pit and dug like a madman, wanting to dig the Sand Tiger back out, paying no attention at all to Peiganbo, who had already flown behind him.

Red light shone from Peiganbo's eyes. This Goblin's surprise attacks with firestones were too hard to grasp; he had to kill him first. His hand blade was already raised.

When everyone saw Hal's life hanging by a thread, one attack spell after another was sent greeting Peiganbo's body. Unfortunately, while inside the defensive magic array, Peiganbo could defend against these low-powered spells with his body alone. The ones that could truly deal substantial damage to him were instead Aslan's lion claws and Hal's Firestone spell.

From the collapsed pit, a green magic array suddenly shot into the sky, projecting upward. Even beneath the daylight sun, the patterns on the magic array were clearly visible. Two layers, one above and one below, magic arrays of different sizes slowly rotated in opposite directions, and one green line after another sprayed from within them, shooting toward the direction of Dead City.

The magic array's sudden appearance startled Peiganbo. Only then did Hal realize that Peiganbo had somehow appeared behind him, and he immediately sprang away on guard.

"This... this looks like a Magic Beast summoning array, but why is it so strange?" Yi Junqing, who was in the middle of a desperate struggle against the sky full of locusts, murmured. The Earth Spirit she had summoned was dutifully guarding the vice dean and the others.

"Not good, Vice Dean. Looking at the direction where that magic array appeared, it seems to be near the academy's Central Tower." Qikeda was already so tired that his whole body was covered in sweat, yet he still did not dare relax in the slightest as he used Storm spells to interfere with the locusts filling the sky.

Luo Lun's expression also looked very ugly as he said, "Damn it, could the defensive magic array have been broken through by other enemies? Why hasn't anyone come to ask for help?"

In Axon Town, many people of the Yi Family had also noticed the strange magic array in the sky. Elder Yi Xi was currently beside Yi Tianxing. Seeing this scene, his expression changed, and he turned to cast an inquiring look at Yi Tianxing.

"...Trajectory Summoning Art. I didn't expect there to actually be someone in the Thunder Eagle Empire who knew the old ancestor's summoning art." Yi Tianxing's words confirmed Yi Xi's own judgment.

"My lord, what do you think..." Yi Xi did not continue, but his meaning was very clear.

"No hurry. Let's deal with this swarm of locusts first. Judging by that direction, it's Saguli Academy. As long as it's someone in the academy, I'll find him sooner or later," Yi Tianxing said indifferently.

Below the tower, the trapped group's attention was now also drawn by the magic array that had appeared out of thin air. The magical attacks from the teachers' hands did not stop in the slightest, but Duoduo was thinking, Could Yi Junshu have suddenly advanced at this critical moment? But where did he get a Magic Beast from? Duoduo had not considered at all that Lin Hanxuan might also be the one who activated the magic array, because in his view, Lin Hanxuan's strength was not enough to learn such a strange summoning art.

"The King of the Rotting Swamp answers your summons. Lin Hanxuan, leave it to me." A muffled voice came from underground, very soft, and only Hal and Peiganbo could hear it.

After the voice stopped, a tremor came from underground. Everyone thought the Sand Tiger was about to launch another attack, and all of them focused their minds on guarding beneath their own feet.

Sure enough, the Sand Tiger charged out again from the same ground it had shrunk back into. Its body thrashed violently from side to side, as if in great pain.

"Swallow, go on, swallow! Can't you tell what can be eaten and what can't? Serves you right!" Hal looked up in astonishment. It was Kubaka's voice.

With a flash of green light, the Sand Tiger's body split in two from throat to abdomen. Modo carried Kubaka, Lin Hanxuan, and Yi Junshu, whose fate was unknown, as they leaped out from inside the Sand Tiger.

This time, the King of the Rotting Swamp that had answered the summons had already grown to the same size as Lin Hanxuan, and the body of the lizard Modo was even a full size larger.

Three times larger—at first glance, one might have thought it was the legendary earth dragon.

"Ah, it's an Earth Dragon Knight!" someone in the crowd of students cried out. It was the legendary Earth Dragon Knight; this time, they were definitely saved

.

Lin Hanxuan jumped down from Modo's body, then set Yi Junshu down as well. He sat on the ground, panting hard, and said, "I nearly suffocated in there. It was

really foul."

Peiganbo kept his full attention on guard against this newly appeared enemy. Kuba