Chapter 384: Battle of the Sandbox (4)

The wind and snow gradually formed a massive vortex in mid-air, the earth trembled continuously, and the hard crust of snow shattered and cracked, splashing everywhere like stones.

The world of ice and snow was as if the heavens were collapsing and the earth rending.

Luo Qi's heart beat uncontrollably; she watched the sky vigilantly, her mind calculating frantically, predicting what kind of strike would appear in the air. Although the attack before her was terrifying and grand in scale, it was still much smaller than the scale of the Magic used to establish the Sandbox, and she could handle it. Battles between the earliest Mages often vanished into nothingness because they could rely on their Magic Ability to find the Underlying Magic Spell beneath the appearance, canceling and withdrawing the Attack Magic they encountered. Therefore, they did not need to be like what humans imagined—using Magic, yet still using it to manipulate actual, visible physical attacks.

And this was the greatest difference that distinguished a Progenitor Mage from an ordinary Mage; a Progenitor Mage was someone who truly and genuinely created Magic, while ordinary Mages only knew how to operate the Magic techniques left behind by Progenitor Mages.

After she steadied her body, she began to focus her spirit, preparing to resolve Du Zhengyi's attack within her Yajian. She used a High-level Analysis Spell, preparing to swallow the Magic in the air within a few seconds, find the Underlying Magic Spell, and then destroy and neutralize this Magic from the level of the spell itself. Her Dispel Spell was indeed very powerful; the Dispel Spell itself was like a huge net projected into a space of another dimension, and she would gather up the Magic used by Du Zhengyi from another level. In essence, this was the truly terrifying Magic of a Progenitor Mage. Mages use Magic, but Progenitor Mages understand all the components and all the principles of Magic, so they can analyze and dispel Magic from its foundation.

Her net spread out in the void, capturing all traces of Magic in the air, and then, the net expanded even further... She was startled.

She stared at the field of vision in the void, and her confidence began to wither; the way the situation was developing was somewhat strange. Her Dispel Spell net should not have expanded so large; the range she was now covering had far exceeded the scope of the storm. The reason for such an automatic expansion of the capture range was not because the opponent's Magic was coming on with great force, but because the Magic net she had released had not sensed anything at all; the Dispel Spell could not scan any traces of Magic, so the net spontaneously expanded its search range and scale.

This was a situation that should not exist at all; there was a real attack coming before her eyes. If she stood still and did not actively defend, she would definitely be hit directly by this mountain avalanche. Now, the opponent seemed to have hidden the traces of Magic under her various fields of vision, revealing no traces of Magic at all, as if invisible before her... No, impossible. She rejected this thought; that was an attack at the level of Progenitor Magic, absolutely not something that a junior Mage like Du Zhengyi could create, even if he were lucky enough to retain a considerable amount of Progenitor Mage bloodline; this was absolutely impossible...

But now she realized that she might have fallen into a real danger. No matter how Du Zhengyi had done it, he had successfully induced her to open an Analysis Spell. This was originally a type of Magic that consumed a great deal of energy and her physical spirit. In order to intercept and withdraw Magic during the operation of a Magic attack, a Dispel Spell would be executed faster than ordinary Magic. That is to say, correspondingly, once it failed to capture a Magic attack at close range, the Dispel Spell would expand to a larger range with lightning speed. This was originally a very effective strategy and a reasonable counter-attack mode when dealing with powerful enemies. Who would have thought that Du Zhengyi would use her Progenitor characteristics strategically from the start, turning her advantage into a disadvantage and turning this superior Magic into a way to rapidly consume her own energy, and she did not even know how Du Zhengyi, this junior, had managed to do it.

She was a bit careless, but in her era, she originally had no need to worry about such consumption. Her own physical structure was also more suitable for using energy than Luo Qi's physical structure; that she was fighting while staying in a body she was not yet fully familiar with was also her fatal weakness.

Now she could only make a prompt decision and do her best to make the Dispel Spell stop as soon as possible. Without finding a target, the Dispel Spell might even exhaust all her energy; she still needed power to maintain her Shield to meet the blow of the wind and snow and Du Zhengyi's hidden arrows.

It was only a contest, and she had not yet seen Du Zhengyi, nor had she directly exchanged moves with Du Zhengyi, yet she had to admit that she had already begun to become fragile.