The Scholar Was Drained Dry! A Two-Person Combination Spell!

"Well, Raine, let's end today's theoretical lesson here."

Hamir squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying and forcefully hit the brakes.

"Ah? Master, I feel like there are still a lot of things I don't understand!"

Raine's face was full of regret.

"Your lecture was so good, please tell me a bit more!"

Hamir could not only do single-target bursts, but he could also cast buffs on all-attribute skills. How could Raine be willing to let such a godly support leave?

Looking at Raine's sincere and studious gaze, Hamir roared madly in his heart.

I know you don't understand!

The crucial point is that this old man has nothing left in his belly!

If I keep lecturing, this old man's cover is going to be blown!

To maintain the glorious image of a Grand Mage, Hamir instantly straightened his face and put on a posture of serious lecturing.

"Raine! Do you understand the principle of too much is as bad as not enough?"

"The biggest taboo in learning magic is coveting success and rushing forward! If the foundation is not solid, the earth will shake and the mountains will sway!"

"You must go back and thoroughly comprehend what I taught you today, do not be greedy for more!"

Since things had reached this point, Raine could only nod helplessly.

The big shot was unwilling to drop any more gold coins, so he couldn't very well hold a knife to his throat and force him to lecture, could he?

Seeing Raine's disappointed expression, Hamir felt a little bit bad inside.

After all, he was a respected Grand Mage, so he couldn't really be petty with a junior.

His eyes rolled, and the corners of his mouth hooked into a crafty smile.

"Raine, seeing that your foundation is built pretty well."

"How about this, I'll teach you a unique, exclusive technique that I created myself. How does that sound?"

The magic system of Kamar-Taj was extremely inclusive. As long as they did not touch the taboos of Dark Magic, sorcerers were free to innovate based on ancient texts.

Having read extensively, Hamir had naturally tinkered with quite a few items of astonishing lethality.

What he wanted to teach Raine was a destructive magic named Chaos Orb.

This move had immense power, but the only drawback was that it required two powerful sorcerers to cast it simultaneously in order to stabilize the energy structure.

This was also a countermeasure that he and Wong had discussed long ago.

Raine was learning too fast, and they were running out of ways to keep up.

They had to come up with a super high-difficulty magic requiring two-person cooperation to heavily stall his progress!

At least it could drag things out until The Ancient One returned to save the day.

Raine did not know that these two old foxes were digging a hole waiting for him to jump in.

The moment he heard there was a unique skill to learn, his spirits instantly perked up.

"Many thanks, Grand Mage Hamir!"

"Think nothing of it." Hamir waved his hand. "The knowledge of Kamar-Taj is shared."

Raine knew it like the back of his hand.

It was true that knowledge was shared, but the private experience of a big shot was an invaluable treasure.

"Watch closely, Grand Mage Wong and I will demonstrate it for you once."

As Hamir spoke, he walked over to stand with Wong.

Both of them formed seals with their hands simultaneously, and vast magic power surged out from within their bodies.

Between them, two violent streams of energy—one red and one yellow—rapidly intersected and compressed.

In the blink of an eye, a sphere the size of a human head, emitting a dazzling light, condensed and formed.

The surface of the light sphere was covered with hollowed-out patterns, and inside, a grayish-black aura of destruction faintly churned violently.

"Go!"

The two of them shouted in a low voice simultaneously, fiercely pushing the light sphere toward the distant cluster of buildings in the Mirror Dimension.

The light sphere streaked across the sky like a shooting star, smashing down heavily.

Boom--!

A deafening, earth-shattering explosion erupted within the space.

The dazzling, strong light even temporarily blinded Raine for a split second.

When he opened his eyes again, he sucked in a sharp breath.

He saw that at the landing point of the light sphere, all the architectural ruins within a radius of a hundred meters, along with the spatial barrier at the lowest level, had been blown into ashes and dust!

Nothing was left in place except a bottomless, giant meteor crater!

This power was practically comparable to a small tactical nuclear bomb!

[Ding!]

[The host has observed the entire process of casting the high-tier two-person composite magic!]

[The host has automatically comprehended Destruction Magic — Chaos Orb!]

[Current progress: Level 1 (25%)]

Raine glanced at the panel, a trace of wild joy flashing deep in his eyes.

Wong and Hamir walked back side by side, their expressions exceptionally solemn.

"Raine, this move is immensely powerful. Unless it's a life-or-death crisis, you must never use it lightly."

"Furthermore, you must never use it to do evil; otherwise, Kamar-Taj will never show mercy!"

Hamir gave a stern warning.

Raine nodded repeatedly, patting his chest to assure them, "Don't worry, Masters. With The Ancient One presiding over us, even if you gave me the courage, I wouldn't dare do bad things!"

Raine wasn't stupid.

The Ancient One had lived for almost a thousand years, and Kamar-Taj had never produced a traitor, which was enough to prove just how iron-fisted the Sorcerer Supreme's methods were.

The reason Kaecilius dared to rebel in the future was entirely because The Ancient One had lived enough and wanted to retire, deliberately holding back.

Seeing that Raine's attitude was upright, Hamir and Wong exchanged a satisfied look.

"Very well. Come, I will explain to you the energy balance principle of this two-person magic..."

Hamir cleared his throat, preparing to begin his delaying tactic.

Listening to Hamir's lengthy theoretical explanation, Raine furrowed his brow slightly.

As expected of a high-tier composite magic of the Destruction system, the Chaos Orb was worthy of its name.

The structure was extremely complex; it required forcefully blending the White Magic energy of the Vishanti and the chaos power of the Elder God Chthon together to reach a dangerous critical point.

No wonder it required two people to cast it together.

This not only required a tacit understanding where their minds were joined as one, but it also shared the risk of energy backlash.

Raine glanced at the panel in his mind.

[Chaos Orb: Level 1 (52%)]

The progress had actually only increased by half.

And this was under the condition that Hamir, an academic titan, was teaching him hand-in-hand while stacking the all-skill cultivation buff.

If it were left to his usual idle grinding, in what year or month would he ever reach Level 2?

Sigh, Chaos Orb, your efficiency is simply not cutting it.

Raine muttered silently in his heart. Look at Hand-to-Hand Combat, it already surged to Level 3. As an ultimate move, can you please step up?

[Ding!]

[Your 'Chaos Orb' felt the host's disdain, experienced deep shame, and instantly burst forth with the striving spirit of knowing one's shame and braving onward!]

[Chaos Orb has begun frantically parsing the energy structure!]

[Cultivation efficiency has greatly increased!]

Looking at the progress bar, which had started soaring again, Raine curved his lips upward in satisfaction.

Not bad, having a competitive spirit made it a good comrade.

At this moment, Hamir opposite him was still patiently exhorting the details.

"Raine, do not rush. The fault tolerance rate of this kind of composite magic is extremely low."

"You only need to firmly remember the pathways of energy circulation for now, and strictly avoid blind attempts."

"When there's an opportunity in the future, find a partner of comparable strength and slowly grind it out through practice."

"Remember, a single person can absolutely never bear the powers of two mutually repulsive high-dimensional demon gods at the same time. Forcibly trying will only..."

Before Hamir finished speaking, his voice cut off abruptly like a duck whose neck had been choked.

His eyes bulged, almost popping out of their sockets.

Grand Mage Wong at the side sucked in a sharp breath even more directly!

"This is impossible!" Wong cried out involuntarily.

He saw Raine smiling as he extended his right hand.

Above his palm, a golden-yellow light sphere the size of an orange was rotating at high speed.

On the surface of the light sphere, hollowed-out black patterns faintly emerged, emitting a destructive aura that made one's heart palpitate.

Although its volume was much smaller than the one the two Grand Masters had just demonstrated.

Whether it was the energy fluctuation or the complex composite structure, it was unmistakably the Chaos Orb!

The Mirror Dimension was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.

Wong and Hamir stared at each other in blank dismay, their brains feeling as though they had been stuffed with ten thousand flashbangs, leaving a blank slate.

This fucking made no sense!

The reason the Chaos Orb was judged to be a two-person magic was because the powers of the Vishanti and Chthon mutually repelled each other.

This was much like water and fire.

For a single person to simultaneously stir up these two completely opposite demon god laws within their body would instantly invite a terrifying energy backlash. At best, it would lead to a deviation in cultivation; at worst, it would cause one's body to explode on the spot!

Yet this novice apprentice before their eyes had not only kneaded water and fire together all by himself, but he had kneaded them into a completely steady state?!

"How did you do it?!"

Hamir completely discarded the composure of an academic big shot, taking a stride forward and grabbing Raine's wrist in a death grip.

He even thrust his face right up to the light sphere, disregarding the danger of being blown up, and stared fixedly at the energy circuits inside.

The structure was flawless!

The dual-attribute magic powers had bizarrely achieved a wondrous balance!

"This is unreasonable... How on earth could you trick the law perception of the dimensional demon gods?"

Hamir irritably clawed at his goatee, feeling as though the magic theories he had studied for a lifetime were collapsing.

Wong, beside him, refused to believe it.

He thrust out both hands, his hands guiding the grayish chaos aura on the left while summoning the white Vishanti Holy Light on the right.

He attempted to follow Raine's example and forcefully fuse the two.

However.

The moment the two forces came into contact.

Boom!

A violent recoil directly exploded in Wong's hands.

Although the power wasn't large, it still blasted this combat benchmark of Kamar-Taj into a state of blackened dirt, burning half of his eyebrows away.

"Cough, cough..." Wong spat out a puff of black smoke. "Indeed it doesn't work, absolute conflict exists between the power laws."

Hamir tugged at his beard, utterly baffled.

"Kid, throw this thing out and let me see its practical combat power!"

Hamir suspected that what Raine held in his hand might just be a model with an impressive exterior but no substance.

Raine nodded and unhesitatingly flicked the light sphere in his hand toward an empty space in the distance.

The light sphere traced a perfect parabola through midair.

Boom!

A deafening explosion sounded.

A violent energy storm swept the surroundings, directly blasting a scorched, deep crater over ten meters wide into the ground.

Although the power couldn't compare to the joint effort of two Grand Masters, it far exceeded ordinary attack magic.

A genuine Chaos Orb!

Looking at that bottomless pit, Wong and Hamir fell into complete silence.

Try as they might, they couldn't figure out why Raine, a mere apprentice, could casually execute a law fusion that even Grand Masters couldn't accomplish.

Looking at the two old men doubting their lives, Raine harbored a vague guess in his heart.

His skills all had minds of their own, pushing themselves to improve and level up.

When casting mixed magic, perhaps the system judged them as two independent "laborers" cooperating to channel power, cleverly exploiting a logic bug in the dimensional demon gods' laws!

Thinking of this, Raine's heart leaped wildly.

If fusing two demon god powers could produce such terrifying power...

Then if he learned to channel three or four gods in the future, or even added Dormammu's power into the mix...

Wouldn't the nuclear bomb he kneaded out directly blow the dimension to pieces?

Raine licked his lips, deciding to find an empty place later to secretly experiment.

"You brat... you're truly a freak whose logic simply defies common sense."

Hamir sighed, finally giving up on delving deeper.

In the world of magic, there were always some existences blessed with heaven-defying talent who could effortlessly digest the laws of the world.

Being earnest with such a monstrous anomaly was purely looking for trouble for oneself.

"Master, you flatter me. I just got lucky—a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse," Raine said, quickly playing dumb.

It was better to keep his head down, especially in a dangerous universe like Marvel.

"Enough. Stop pretending."

Hamir rolled his eyes at him. "At Kamar-Taj, you don't need to hide your talent. The more extraordinary you are, the more resources the Venerable One will give you."

"What you need now isn't to keep a low profile. It's to wait for the Venerable One to return and show her just how brilliant you are!"