Chapter 383: Battle of the Sandbox (3)

While analyzing the Battle Mage's tactical thinking, she began chanting a Defense Spell; she could guess that Du Zhengyi would not easily admit defeat, as he must believe that reclaiming Luo Qi's body still offered hope, and the result was that he had many reservations and could not possibly strike to tear his friend's body apart, which allowed her to reserve more energy to match the Sandbox's Underlying Magic Spell.

As for the analysis at hand, a Mage's most powerful weapon is the distortion of space, which can instantly swallow small machines, let alone a soft human body. But this was precisely the type of offensive method Du Zhengyi would not use, so there was no need to guard against it at all.

No matter how ingeniously triggered, other war Magic is still just a weapon, serving the same purpose as human weapons—nothing more than creating primitive projectile impact effects or chemical reactions. However, any Magic that would cause massive damage to the human body could still be entirely ruled out; she considered Du Zhengyi's options from the remaining gentle Magic, but unfortunately, he still had dozens of choices, and the tactical permutations were quite considerable.

When she was also a warrior... she dismissed her own memories; now was not the time for nostalgia.

Under such climatic conditions, it was also impossible for Du Zhengyi to create poison gas. In fact, his performance still disappointed her a little; she would not have chosen such a vast space to serve as a battlefield. She would have used a narrow space, or even looked for an opportunity right at the Highland Mage's station; he could have completely feigned compliance with her and waited for the right moment to strike.

A thought flashed by, carrying Luo Qi's characteristics—Du Zhengyi was doing this to hide Luo Qi's situation from the Qionglin.

She realized that this was the result of a part of her own Yajian running through Luo Qi's memories, following Luo Qi's way of thinking.

Then, what kind of offensive Magic was Du Zhengyi actually good at? She pondered this question, searching through Luo Qi's memories, but unfortunately, when Luo Qi met him, he was no longer in his prime, and Luo Qi had never seen him use any Magic other than Teleportation; he was even so pitiful that he often had to rely on his physical condition to fight with cold weapons.

Therefore, she also gave up on Advanced Defensive Magic; she did not need to resist high-energy scorching Magic, nor did she need to resist the impact of high-speed projectile weapons. Her biggest problem might actually be freezing to death in the bleak Blizzard; now the Blizzard was so heavy that the sky was hidden, and visibility was less than one meter. She remembered that Du Zhengyi was despicably wearing a warm coat, while she was only wearing Luo Qi's thickened hoodie. She added a Warmth Spell to herself, and the Basic Force Field constructed by the primary Defense Spell was just enough to shield her from the Blizzard, as if wrapping herself in a warm eggshell.

Cold chunks of snow landed on her transparent bubble, turning into water about ten centimeters away from her, dripping onto the ground around her and melting the snow on the ground into wisps of steam.

She knew clearly that although visibility was very low now, it was best for her to keep moving at all times and not stay in the same position for too long.

She carefully manipulated the wind to erase the traces she had left behind. However, the Blizzard was too heavy, and she soon discovered that doing so was unnecessary; the strong wind and Blizzard erased the traces for her. The temperature inside the energy Shield soon warmed her up, but just then, the earth, which had been calm for a few minutes, shook again, and she was heavily knocked to the ground.

The Old Mage hurriedly climbed up and chanted another Spell to counter the shaking ground, like an invisible exoskeleton system, helping her find her balance and stand firmly on the ground.

She turned her head back and happened to see the ground in front of her twisting, the Blizzard being disturbed, forming a large vortex in mid-air. She could not believe the magnitude behind this kind of Magic! Was Du Zhengyi throwing his life away, actually using such powerful magical force?