The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 781 Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 48
Bai Wei, who had been closely monitoring the situation, immediately ran to meet her. The healing light of the soft glow enveloped Su Yu like a warm veil, slowly healing her wounds and relieving her fatigue.

A few minutes later, the two clashes of pure strength and will in the center of the battlefield also came to a conclusion.

A loud, muffled sound, like rocks cracking, came first from Zhou Ming's side.

He seized upon a weakness exposed by the stone badger after one of its attacks, and with a single, upward slash, pierced the badger's jaw.

Almost immediately after, Zhu Rao also let out a triumphant roar!

His struggle with the female earth-shattering bull had lasted for a long time, and both had reached their limits.

He blocked the bull's fierce charge with his shield, the immense impact forcing him to his knees. He seized the opportunity to use the knife in his other hand to frantically slash at the bull's foreleg joints. Finally, with a mournful cry, the bull's forelegs buckled, its massive body lost its balance, and it collapsed forward to its knees.

Zhu Rao would not let this opportunity pass him by. He suddenly stood up, leaped onto the bull's back, raised his battle axe high, and with his last bit of strength, slashed it into the bull's nape!
"Moo—!" The mother bull let out a long and desperate moan, struggled a few times, and finally stopped moving completely.

Zhu Rao slid off the ox's back, leaning on his battle axe, and like Zhou Ming, he was left only with the strength to gasp for breath.

The two had anticipated that this battle would not be easy, and with the help of the Wang family's resources, they prepared highly effective "recovery potions" in advance.

Almost the instant the battle ended, they each took out a vial of potion that shimmered with a faint green light from their storage equipment and drank it down.

The medicine took effect very quickly, and the wounds on their bodies from fighting the mirror beasts stopped bleeding and closed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although they were not completely healed, they were no longer a problem.

His almost depleted strength was quickly restored, and the fatigue on his face vanished.

As soon as they recovered, Zhou Ming and Zhu Rao couldn't wait to squat down and carefully pry open the mirror beast's tough fur and bones to search for its core.

Soon, Zhou Ming dug a yellowish-brown beast core out of the stone badger's body. He carefully wiped away the bloodstains on the core with his sleeve, lovingly stroking its rough yet solid surface. Looking up, he saw the beast core in Zhu Rao's hand, which contained even greater explosive power, and couldn't help but reveal a look of envy.

"Once my mental strength improves further and I can withstand a second one-star beast core skill, I'm going to hunt down an Earthshaking Bull and get a Brute Force Charge skill!"

"Hey! Brother, we're thinking the same thing!" Zhu Rao slapped his thigh excitedly upon hearing this, shaking the Earthshaking Bull Beast Core in his hand. "I've been thinking about it too! The Earthshaking Bull Beast Core's brute force charge skill combined with the Stone Armor Badger Beast Core's stone armor protection skill, one for offense and one for defense, who can stop us when we charge?"

"It's getting dark, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, then come back and extract the beast core skill!" Wang Jingnan reminded him, eager to have the beast core skill he had been looking forward to for so long, Wind Chaser Blade.

Zhou Ming and Zhu Rao then stopped talking, quickly collected the mirror beast's corpse, and poured a thick layer of deodorizing powder onto the blood-stained ground.

Once back within camp area, the three immediately adjusted their state, took out beast cores, and began to extract skills.

"I'm quite exhausted from the battle. I'll go back to my tent and rest for a while before retrieving it." Moran pretended to be very tired and turned to go back to his tent.

The Phantom Leopard Cat was her target, the Mirror Beast, and today she successfully hunted it down all by herself.

But she no longer wanted to simply extract and imprint the skill imprints from the beast cores into her own mental sea like her classmates did.

In her view, this was nothing short of a waste of the essence of knowledge and spiritual power.

What she needs is analysis, and then reconstruction.

The tent flap was drawn, shutting out the noise and prying eyes of the outside world. Moran sat cross-legged, the weariness on his face vanishing instantly, replaced by a focused calm.

She took out the Phantom Leopard Cat Beast Core, and her mental energy, like the most precise probe, slowly penetrated into it.

Inside the beast core, a complex mark composed of dark lines and tiny vortexes slowly rotated.

In her eyes, the intricacy of the structure was roughly equivalent to a low-level magic spell model in the world of Valen.

For Moran, who had already analyzed several one-star beast core skills and possessed a foundation of top-level magical knowledge, understanding and reproducing it was not particularly difficult.

Her mental power meticulously traced each trajectory, analyzing how energy condensed within it, how it was given a brief period of stability and a lifelike form, and how it formed a faint connection with the caster...

Just over an hour later, Moran slowly opened her tightly closed eyes, a knowing glint in them.

She had completely analyzed and understood the skill imprints within the Phantom Leopard Cat Beast Core.

The next moment, her powerful mental energy swiftly and precisely constructed an identical, completely her own faint illusionary spell structure within her own mental sea.

But this is not enough.

She also needs a way of casting spells that conforms to the "common sense" of this world.

Moran took out a Night Howling Bat Beast Core from the storage mirror ornament and extended a wisp of mental energy to connect the beast core with the magical structure in his mental sea.

Using his own spiritual power as leverage and the structure of magic as a lever, he skillfully "pry" and control the dark elemental power from the beast core.

In an instant, another "Moran" appeared silently beside her. At first glance, she was almost indistinguishable from the other. The faint illusion had been successfully cast.

The dark attribute beast core in her hand visibly dimmed, indicating that some of its energy had been consumed.

Anyone who saw this at that moment would think that Moran, like any other ordinary Mirror Explorer, had successfully used this skill by consuming the energy in the beast core to activate the skill imprint in his mental sea.

No one would have imagined that she had truly mastered the essence of the magic "faint illusion," directly constructing the spell's structure when casting it.

This was the perfect disguise method she had painstakingly researched over the past few days.

The process that originally required leveraging the free elemental energy in the environment has been replaced by leveraging the elemental energy stored in the beast core.

In this way, her spellcasting, from an external perspective, is no different from that of the Mirror Explorer in this world, and when she casts mage magic, the effect is no longer limited by the energy concentration in the environment.

Moran also analyzed the beast cores of the Earthshaker Bull and the Stone Armor Weasel.

These are all magical beasts that she has openly killed. Theoretically, she can extract their cores, and the extraction rate will not be low.

Once mastered, the skills "Brute Force Charge" and "Stone Armor Protection" can be used as needed later.