The ball of light plunged like a thunderbolt, reaching the top of the city wall in an instant.
A trace of astonishment crossed the faces of Archmage Orphalian and Archmage Laduka.
Back at Marshal Sudiman's Private Manor, they had exchanged blows with Xu Yi, but their clash had consisted entirely of a brief contest between their domains. Then Xu Yi had unexpectedly escaped. Aside from revealing his unique understanding of magical domains, he had not displayed any particularly formidable power.
By any ordinary reckoning, then, Xu Yi could only have been an Archmage for a few years at most. No matter how gifted he was at magic, there had to be limits to his strength.
Yet this spell Xu Yi had seemingly tossed down so casually made both of them sense the tremendous power contained within it. It was every bit as powerful as a forbidden spell, far beyond anything they had expected.
Once their astonishment passed, both men's expressions immediately grew grave.
Xu Yi's magical strength far exceeded their expectations, which meant that capturing him alive-or killing him outright-would be much harder than they had anticipated.
Moreover, although the battlefield they had chosen allowed them to use the anti-magic domain array to prevent Xu Yi from escaping directly, it presented one extremely serious problem: this was Wimbledon City, the capital of the Candel Empire!
A battle between Archmages was nothing short of catastrophic for ordinary people. With three Archmages now fighting inside Wimbledon City, even the slightest carelessness could cause horrifying destruction and incalculable losses.
That was why, after they received word but before they came here to act, even His Majesty the Emperor of Candel had personally intervened. He had asked Archmage Orphalian and Archmage Laduka to keep the fighting as contained as possible and avoid causing overly