Chapter 30

Gao De pushed open that brown-black door once again.

"You're here." Master Seda was still sitting in front of the table, looking at Gao De expressionlessly.

"I'm here." Gao De nodded and sized up Master Seda, feeling that he looked visibly older than he had ten days ago.

While Gao De was sizing up Master Seda, Master Seda was also observing Gao De, seemingly quite satisfied with his obedience.

He pushed the potion bottle on the table forward, "Drink it."

"You have some talent in alchemy; if everything goes smoothly, I will truly take you as an apprentice."

Perhaps because he was infinitely close to success, in order to seek a good omen, Master Seda actually set aside his previous threats and took the initiative to promise benefits to Gao De.

Looking at the unknown liquid in the conical potion bottle that presented a fluorescent blue color, Gao De found that his mood at this moment was unexpectedly calm.

He smiled and said to Master Seda in a very "sincere" tone: "Thank you, Master Mage."

Perhaps because he had prepared for this day for too long and had been nervous for too long, when it actually arrived, he was instead calm, without any major psychological fluctuations.

And when this moment truly arrived, Gao De actually had a feeling of looking past life and death.

He didn't belong here in the first place; this life was something he had picked up for free.

If after today, he was the one who walked out of here, then it was a huge profit.

If it wasn't him, he had at least lived for an extra month, so he didn't lose out.

Since I can't lose anything either way, why should I be afraid of you?

After thinking it through completely, Gao De cast aside all his nervousness and worries.

With a thought, the potion bottle on the table rose into the air and landed directly in his hand.

Mage Hand.

Master Seda was somewhat surprised by Gao De's action, but his attention was entirely on whether the magic potion was a success, so he temporarily ignored this seemingly "transgressive" act.

Gao De opened the bottle stopper, and then, under Master Seda's focused gaze, raised the bottle to his lips, making a gesture as if to drink.

Gao De, who had been keeping an eye on Master Seda with his peripheral vision, saw Master Seda staring at the potion bottle in his hand with a look of obsession, and couldn't help but reveal a look of mockery in his eyes.

The next moment, Gao De launched a surprise attack!

He did not drink the potion as Master Seda had expected, but with a resolute heart, his right hand holding the bottle swung violently.

The magic potion that Master Seda had spent a fortune and immense effort and energy to concoct, and on which he had pinned his hopes, turned into an arc, tore through the air, and smashed onto the floor in front of Master Seda.

Accompanied by a crisp and heavy crashing sound, glass shards scattered and splashed.

The fluorescent blue liquid escaped its broken container and splashed onto the cold, hard floor, forming an irregular, mottled mark, silently describing an irreversible decision.

A smell of potion permeated the air.

Everything seemed to freeze at this moment.

And then it was quickly broken.

"What are you doing!! I want you dead, I want you dead!!" A roar of extreme brutality echoed and reverberated throughout the room.

The usually cold Master Seda was like an exploding lion, looking at the pool of liquid on the floor, unable to suppress his emotions any longer.

Gao De watched coldly; Master Seda's reaction was exactly what he wanted to see.

To make someone perish, one must first make them mad.

Gao De was incredibly clear about how much Master Seda valued the potion in his hand.

So he had to use this to enrage Master Seda, make him lose his reason, and add a little more weak chance of winning for himself.

Poof! While Master Seda was still roaring, suddenly, a handful of flour was thrown directly at Master Seda's face.

The old mage had never seen such an unprincipled fighting style; caught off guard, he was hit and blinded.

And Gao De's next move had already arrived.

While retreating a few steps to put more distance between himself and Master Seda, he took a potion bottle from his waist and threw it at Master Seda while he was blinded by the flour. It was the homemade throwable acid bottle Gao De had prepared in advance.

"Throwing flour" + "splashing sulfuric acid," the classic double-combo of the Alliance Leader Wei.

The martial arts movies Gao De watched when he was a child were not watched in vain.

And here, although Master Seda was careless and fell for Gao De's dirty trick, he was naturally not so easy to deal with.

The moment he was hit, Master Seda made a timely response.

Without any visible movement, a clear magical fluctuation rippled through the closed room.

The acid bottle thrown by Gao De, when it was less than a foot away from Master Seda, could not move forward anymore, as if it had hit a transparent but hard glass cover.

The glass bottle shattered instantly, and the liquid inside splashed out, carrying a pungent smell of sulfur.

Acid splashed everywhere, a large part of it toward Master Seda.

With the corrosive power of the acid, if it had really landed on Master Seda, even if it didn't defeat him in one blow, it would have been enough to give him a hard time.

But like the acid bottle, these splashes of acid were all isolated, dripping onto the floor, unable to get close to Master Seda's body.

"Is this your reliance?" At this moment, Master Seda finally managed to open his eyes, laughing in anger, "Using some low-class tricks, plus a bottle of acid you got from who knows where, and you think you can turn the tables?"

Upon smelling the pungent sulfur, Master Seda already understood the nature of the liquid.

"You dare to show off such tricks in front of me?" His face had turned gloomy to the extreme.

"You will definitely regret this; today I will make you kneel here and beg me to kill you!"

Facing Master Seda's naked threats, facing the reality that Master Seda had easily and effortlessly blocked his preemptive attack.

"Today, only one of us can walk out of this room alive." Gao De's voice was incredibly cold and incredibly calm.

He did not lose his courage because of Master Seda's methods.

Instead, for the first time in front of Master Seda, he bared his fangs without any concealment.

Master Seda, however, didn't take Gao De seriously at all, thinking he had gone insane, "Although I don't know where you got this bottle of acid, do you really think you can be my opponent with these external objects and some hooligan tricks?"

"A mage is a mage because a mage is omnipotent."

"Only a mage can kill a mage."

"You are a mage apprentice, and I am also a mage apprentice." Gao De looked coldly at Master Seda.

Master Seda seemed somewhat surprised by Gao De's "audacity," and also somewhat amused, saying contemptuously:

"It seems I have taught you too little, which is why you have such absurd thoughts."

"You must know that there are also gaps between mage apprentices."

Gao De did not pay attention to Master Seda's verbal attacks.

Triggering a spell model takes time.

Because mana needs to flow through the spell model to be transformed into various incredible spell effects.

This is called casting time.

And the more powerful the spell, the larger the spell model, and the longer it takes to flow through.

He talked with Master Seda, one to vent the frustration he had suppressed for a month... the other was to buy himself short casting time.

At this moment, Gao De's right hand swung violently.

A subtle energy fluctuation had gathered in his hand, condensing into a ball of acid glowing with a greenish light.

The acid ball flew from his hand following his gesture, leaving a slightly distorted trail of light, crossing the short distance between him and Master Seda, and shot toward his face.

【Acid Splash+】! (End of chapter)