Versatile Mage: Thunderstorm

Chapter 174 Li Yu chopping wood, Ding Yumian giving advice
"I...where is this?"

Just when he touched the black base, Li Yu felt dizzy. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself here, in the purest darkness in the world, an environment where you couldn't see your hand in front of you. Under his feet, a bright silver light band led to an unknown distance.

Walking forward along the light band, in this place where there is no concept of time, Li Yu didn't know how long he had been walking. But at a certain moment, his eyes suddenly opened up and he came to the end of the road, a small house with a small courtyard surrounded by bamboo.

On the east side of the courtyard were piles of stacked firewood, an axe was placed on a tree stump, and a lot of unchopped firewood was scattered around the stump.

On the west side there is an original stone table and two stone chairs. The vertical and horizontal stripes on the stone table form a chessboard, and there seems to be an endgame on it.

"I didn't expect someone to come in so soon."

Li Yu was still looking at the furnishings in the courtyard when he heard a voice that sounded quite surprised. He turned around and his face changed.
"senior?!"

"Senior? It sounds like you know me?" The old man dressed as a scholar holding a scroll in his hand, after hearing the surprise in Li Yu's words, he remembered something.
"I see. It seems you have seen the guy inside you."

Li Yu: ???
A bunch of question marks appeared on his head, and then he asked respectfully:

"Isn't the senior the same person as that person?"

Apart from the different clothes they are wearing, the two look exactly the same. Are they twins?

"Yes and no, and no and yes."

The old man first threw out a confusing statement and then explained,
"He and I are indeed from the same person, but they are in charge of different memories. They are two sides of the same coin."

"certainly……"

The old man stroked his beard and smiled, saying in a rather complacent tone:
"The memory of this body is much more useful than that guy's."

The corners of Li Yu's mouth twitched a few times. He had never seen such a narcissistic old man, but this did not affect Li Yu's climbing along the pole.

"Please give me some advice, senior."

"Of course I will give you some advice."

The old man smiled and nodded, then changed the subject.
"But you have to help me chop some firewood first."

"Chop wood?" Li Yu's expression froze. Does the old man need to light a fire and cook if he stays here?
The old man's eyes were sharp, and he saw Li Yu's thoughts at a glance, and answered:

"As a soul, I don't need to light a fire and cook. I just want to see you do some work."

Watching people work?

Li Yu really didn't understand what this hobby was all about.

But he felt that he had something to ask of others, so he walked obediently to the tree stump, picked up the axe and prepared to chop wood. However, the moment he picked up the axe, Li Yu's face turned red and veins on his hands bulged.

NM! What kind of axe is so heavy?

Li Yu gathered his energy in his dantian, exerted force suddenly, and lifted the axe in such a posture that he almost sprained his waist.

"Hurry up, just chop those two piles of firewood, work quickly."

I don't know when the old man took out a pot of tea and a small cup, sat on the stone bench, drank tea and played chess, his tone was comfortable and leisurely.

Two piles of firewood?

Li Yu looked at the leisurely old man with a frown on his forehead. Is this something a human can say?
Li Yu was about to place the wood upright on the wooden block, and he also found that this seemingly ordinary piece of wood was also quite heavy.

After taking a deep breath, Li Yu aimed at the target, raised his axe, and brought it down.

"Dang~" Staring at the axe head that was completely embedded in the wood, Li Yu was silent. He really didn't understand why such a wooden texture would make a loud sound like a metal collision, and the axe only made a small hole after it was struck.

Just when Li Yu was thinking whether he had misunderstood and there should be an easier way to pass the level, the prophetic old man said slowly:
"Young man, don't think about taking shortcuts. You need a lot of strength to chop this firewood. You need to keep practicing your current strength."

What made Li Yu look gloomy was that when he asked how to train, the old man pointed to the unchopped firewood at his feet.

"firewood."

"You'll get used to it after a few more visits."

Wow, you’ve closed the loop for me, right?

Helpless Li Yu had to pick up the axe again with great effort, and hammered at it again and again along the gap he had split.

……

While Li Yu was chopping wood in an unfamiliar place, Ding Yumian in the outside world was looking solemnly at the sirens below who were advancing one after another like a colony of ants.

Compared with other foreign mages who were recruited to participate in the defense of the city walls, Ding Yumian's luck was not bad. He was not assigned to the north and west walls, which had extremely high defense pressure, but to the east wall, which had the least defense pressure.

Of course, the so-called less pressure is only a relative statement. Although the sirens on the east city wall have a lack of demon lords to stir up trouble and the less sea water has led to a greatly reduced strength of the sirens that have come ashore, the demons still have the advantage in overall strength.

However, although the pressure of defending the city is great, it is still not a big deal for Ding Yumian, who has extremely high psychic skills. A random psychic ability can make the siren subconsciously ignore him, and even easily let the siren enter a dog-eat-dog mode.

What really made her feel difficult was the group of sea gray dolphins outside the attack range. Although they were not the direct descendants of the monarch-level shark monster, the sea gray dolphins were still favored by the sea monster monarch because of their unique role in the war.

Their special sonic abilities can serve as a megaphone for higher-level demons to command battles, as well as a drum to boost morale. Together with the general and commander, the Grey Pig of the Sea, this army of sea monsters, whose average strength is not elite, can fight fearlessly and repeatedly attack weak points in the city wall's defenses, causing considerable trouble.

If you want to minimize casualties, you must kill the group of sea dolphins or destroy their abilities.

Ding Yumian first ruled out the plan of killing by force. The intelligence of the Gray Sea Dolphins is much higher than that of the sirens of the same level. They are extremely vigilant. They are scattered throughout the battlefield and are always protected by a large number of sirens. The difficulty of taking action is almost the same as winning the war.

The only way was to destroy the opponent's ability. After Ding Yumian had a plan in mind, he found the Military Control Commission responsible for the defense of the east city wall.

……

"You said you can solve the problem of those gray dolphins?"

Military Control Commissioner Chang Jiaxiang was surprised but also a little suspicious. As a military magician, he knew the trouble of Canghai Gray Turtle very well. If it could be solved, not only the defense of Leicheng, but also the defense pressure of the entire South China Sea would be greatly reduced.

Because of this, the military issued a reward to various universities, noble families, and the Hunter Alliance, soliciting methods to deal with the Cang Hai Gray Dolphin, but to no avail.

The greatest achievement is that sound mages can be used to interfere with the sound waves of the Canghai Gray Dolphin.

But there are less than five rare dimensional mages like sound mages in a city, let alone those who can be used. Facing the huge group of sea gray pigs and the vast battlefield area, it is completely a drop in the bucket. This method is almost the same as having no solution.

Just when everyone was at a loss as to what to do, someone suddenly came out today and said she had a solution. Naturally, Chang Jiaxiang couldn't believe it.

After hearing Ding Yumian's answer, Chang Jiaxiang was stunned and said in disbelief:
"It's that simple?"

"Not even magic?"

This time, it was Ding Yumian's turn to look at him strangely.

"Why do you need it?"

A group of wizards are going crazy using magic, right?
(End of this chapter)