Chapter 242: 242

242 Shattered

dalton’s face was as red as a monkey’s butt after he was pressed to the ground by decree: no flying . it was not exactly because he was embarrassed, but because he had exerted too much of his strength just now .

he looked at the saint samurai far away, who didn’t do anything else after pressing him to the ground .

at the same time, another five men appeared around him . all of them looked quite strong .

most importantly, he even saw queen andonara .

before, it was he who ordered andonara’s kidnapping .

all of the strangers kept a distance from him .

dalton felt that he knew their intention . “do you want to duel me?”

“duel?” roland chuckled and said, “that’s one way to look at it . ”

“will you let me go if i win?”

“how is that possible?” roland smiled indifferently . “if i can’t defeat you, my friends will attack you together . the result will be the same for you . ”

“but you will die too . if i can’t live, i can kill some of you with self-detonation . ” dalton persuaded them calmly . “you’re all very young . why do you want to waste your lives on a dying old man?”

he then glanced at andonara . “however much the bards or the queen has paid you, i’m willing to pay double . ”

hehehe! you’re threatening a player?

roland’s laughter was lower and not unpleasant, but it was rather nasty to dalton .

gloomily, dalton was of a mind to burn the arrogant boy into ashes, but the shielded puppet before the guy meant that his low-level effects would be nullified .

dalton looked around and summoned a magic puppet with a shield too .

although the two puppets were almost identical, the one before roland was obviously deeper in color and seemed more condensed .

dalton had offered his terms, but nobody bothered to talk to him .

betta even took out a skewer of roasted locusts from the system backpack and observed the show while enjoying the food .

the long silence made dalton feel awkward .

dalton took a deep breath . “i don’t understand what kaka bard gave you to make you so stubborn . i can definitely offer whatever he gave you . ”

roland kept smiling . “you can’t understand it . ”

“how can i understand it if you don’t tell me anything?” dalton was even more annoyed .

the guy was very calm and showed nothing but a smiling expression .

the guy’s casualness suggested that he was determined to kill him .

holding his staff tightly, dalton considered how to combine his spells in order to defeat the enemy and escape from the siege .

everything would be fine as long as he could escape .

at this point, roland raised his hands and opened them .

a blue fireball appeared in his hands and grew larger quickly .

a good chance!

seeing that roland was chanting, dalton launched yet another attack .

he pointed both his staff and his left hand .

from his two hands, two torrents of magic bullets went in two directions, before they took a turn and attacked roland from two sides simultaneously .

dual casting… this was a rare magic specialty .

as the chairman of the association of mages, dalton definitely had capabilities of his own .

the magic bullets were quite fast . the queen subconsciously covered her mouth, fearing that roland might be hurt .

though the golden sons would never die, she would still feel pained if roland was hurt .

dalton seemed rather cocky . he had envisioned roland’s death, because it was barely possible to cast another spell while chanting . besides, when so much magic power was dispersed after being concentrated, it would likely cause a severe mental recoil to the spellcaster .

however, when the two torrents of magic bullets were about to hit roland, two puppets appeared at roland’s sides and blocked all the magic bullets with their shields .

two shielded puppets?

dalton was greatly shocked .

at this point, roland’s blue fireball had expanded to one meter in diameter .

damn it!

even though he was a dozen meters away, dalton could sense the horrifying magic inside the fireball . he even detected heat spreading from that direction .

run!

dalton immediately jumped . he subconsciously tried to fly away, only to fall again .

he glared at schuck in this distance . decree: no flying was still working .

he cast a fiery barrier to protect himself, before he squatted and laid his hands on the mud .

“mud transformation!”

a long and narrow swamp appeared before dalton .

caught in the mud, roland began to sink .

roland looked around and snapped his finger with his left hand, which was empty . he suddenly flashed to the meadow fifteen meters to his left .

but his fireball was not disrupted at all . the magic power was still accumulating .

“that’s impossible!” dalton shouted in fear . “how can you possibly chant the fireball while teleporting? that’s a trick that even the elves are incapable of . ”

though dalton had a dual casting specialty, he could only cast the same spell with both hands, and its power would be reduced by twenty percent .

if the power of his regular magic bullets was “1,” its power would be “0 . 8*2” under dual casting .

the increase of power was not too great . the real purpose of dual casting was to attack continuously and from different angles .

dual casting was itself an advanced specialty, but roland’s teleportation while he was preparing a fireball was completely against the common sense of spellcasters .

it was almost impossible . no wonder dalton lost his cool .

dalton had investigated with his mental power and found that roland was level five at best . logically, this man should be far weaker than him . but although the additional magic puppet blocking the bullets just now could be explained with delayed casting, it was impossible to explain the teleportation spell .

something was greatly wrong with this guy . the more dalton thought about it, the more terrified he was .

he turned around and tried to flee, but the eight people around him blocked all directions .

he immediately made a decision .

he would try to break free from the queen’s direction .

after all, she was the only woman here .

besides, the queen had lived in the royal palace for a long time . even though she had been a warrior before that, how strong could she possibly be at this point?

he rushed at the queen and chanted spells in a low voice while he was running .

after a dozen steps, a whirlwind more than two meters tall came into being before him .

consuming the branches of the trees nearby, the whirlwind swept at the queen .

the whirlwind moved at more than 25 meters per second, and it soon reached the queen .

the queen, however, combed her hair that was messed up by the wind with her left hand and drew her sword with her right hand .

a silver light struck, up to down .

the vertical aura of the sword flew even faster and cut the moving whirlwind in half .

the whirlwind immediately vanished .

the sword aura, on the other hand, pressed on and nearly hit dalton .

dalton, frightened, hurried to stop, and the sword aura disappeared when it was fifteen centimeters from his nose’s tip .

andonara winked at dalton in a flirtatious way and put her sword back into the sheath .

“you can’t be the queen . the queen can’t be so strong,” dalton roared . “who are you?”

andonara rolled her eyes, not interested in talking to him at all .

at this point, dalton turned around, only to discover in shock that roland’s fireball was three meters in diameter .

dalton was trembling . he could sense the horrifying magic power within the fireball .

he turned around and fled again, this time toward betta .

betta was still chewing on the roasted locusts at this point . he did not seem to be a competent warrior .

but at this point, roland finally took action .

the big blue fireball was thrown .

the enormous fireball chased after dalton in a curve as if it were a guided missile .

a powerful mage could rectify the trajectory of the spells they had already cast with mental power .

dalton was a traditional mage who was not athletically impressive . now that his flight spells were neutralized, his speed was not worth mentioning .

he had only run five meters when the big fireball was two meters behind him .

dalton already sensed that his back was being scorched by magic .

the terrifying magic crashed into his back like a mountain .

the fear of death twisted dalton’s face .

“fiery barrier! magic barrier! frost barrier! arcane shield! fortification! continuous healing!”

dalton unleashed all his potentials and cast all the defensive spells he was capable of on himself, seeking a chance at survival .

but his efforts were in vain .

the blue fireball hit dalton’s back at a high speed .

the blue magic shield was immediately broken, and the ice shield and the fiery barrier were more vulnerable than glass to the fireball .

the blue fireball then exploded .

after a deafening sound, as if a cannon had been fired right next to their ears, everybody could see nothing but a white flash .

in the end, the hot waves spread out to all directions like a tsunami .

everybody, including roland himself, was flung away by the blast, except andonara who managed to keep herself steady .

a round pit thirty meters in diameter, from which magma was still flowing out, emerged on the ground .

roland and the rest of them stood up from the ground, their faces all covered in ash .