Lin You's Dragon Spear pierced Helen's magical defenses and her chest alike, smashed through building after building, and finally pinned her to the great bell of Lanmen Academy's Element Department.
"Cough, cough... pfft!"
Blood kept flowing from Helen's chest, and her mental energy and stamina were plummeting.
"Damn it... cough... just as I thought, that spell didn't even achieve a tenth of the effect I expected..."
She tried to wrench the spear out of her body, but she had no strength at all.
Helen was weak to the extreme, yet she did not die from it.
Magic power circulated within her, replacing the normal functions of her human body.
From the flow of blood to the beating of her heart, she even used magic power to control her breathing.
As long as she still had magic power, she could keep herself from dying of her injuries.
But to unleash that last strike, she had also overloaded her magic circuits and wrung them dry.
Recovering would take at least ten minutes.
During that time, the only power Helen could use was what she needed to maintain the most basic signs of life.
But she had no time left.
Lin You flew over on White Dragon, his face filled with exhaustion.
His mental energy had long since reached its breaking point.
For that last strike, he had held on purely through the power of fourteen cards and his willpower, but it had also exhausted everything he had.
Both had reached their limits, and the winner was Lin You.
"Give her back to me! Helen, you lost!"
"Forget it! I've locked that space down. Only the people inside can come out. No one outside can get in! Come on, kill me!
"Even if I die, I won't hand over your daughter.
"That little