Ancient Wizards: A Little Progress Every Day

As Dago approached the white table and rattan chairs, suddenly, a loud "crack!" rang out, like a thunderclap from a clear sky.

He felt as if he had bumped into something real and fragile. He heard a sound like a mirror shattering, and then the air in front of him became strangely transparent, as if a mirror had been flipped.

Before Dago could react, his vision blurred, and when he came to, he found himself surrounded by lavender and geraniums.

The white table and rattan chair, which were the target locations, suddenly seemed far away again. It appeared that he had triggered the garden's trial.

"Spatial teleportation methods?"

Dago frowned, about to try taking two more steps forward, when suddenly Serena cried out in alarm from afar, "Dago! Watch out behind you!"

He turned around abruptly, his pupils suddenly contracting.

His azure eyes reflected a lush and beautiful flowerbed, and from within that flowerbed seemed a transparent humanoid creature struggling to emerge, bending many of the beautiful blossoms.

The humanoid creature left a distorted, mirror-like trail in the air as it charged straight toward him!

"Ice Crystal Cannon!"

Dago quickly condensed an ice crystal projectile in the direction from which the transparent humanoid was charging. The frost-covered ice crystal projectile appeared almost in the blink of an eye, and then shot out with a whoosh, leaving a clear white trail visible to the naked eye along its path.

"Bang!"

The Ice Crystal Cannon was hit by the extremely fast transparent humanoid halfway through its flight, and then exploded into a pile of ice shards.

Dago's eyes narrowed slightly. This transparent humanoid was stronger than he had expected. Without further hesitation, he turned and rushed towards the white table and chairs.

With his powerful physical strength mobilized, the muscles in his legs tensed up and then exploded, and with a "boom," Dago was launched into the air.

However, after only rushing a short distance, he crashed head-on into something.

"Click~~~"

The mirror-like folding sensation returned, the air in front of him distorted slightly, and the scenery before Dago blurred. Then, he was shocked to find himself back in almost the same position as before.

The transparent humanoid figure that had been charging towards him at incredible speed was now almost within reach, about to collide with Dago in the next second.

A sudden sense of dread arose in Dago's mind. It felt as if an extremely sharp blade was pressed against his brow, giving him a strong, terrifying premonition that he would be cleaved in two at any moment.

The transparent humanoid figure in his field of vision was moving so fast that the naked eye could barely detect even the slightest trace of a ripple in the air.

In an instant, Dago transformed into the [Ice Flame Blue Demon Body] state. The [Winter Star] seal in his mental space also spun rapidly. A large amount of blue liquid gushed from its cold, icy blue surface, and endless cold air poured out from his body.

"Despair-Freezing Domain!"

As the sudden burst of extreme cold and snow swept through, a blurry white trail appeared in the air, its speed seemingly slowing down slightly.

Bathed in azure ice flames, the Snow Dance sword in his blue-patterned hand was entwined with ice flames. The Dimensional Detection Technique pinpointed its precise location. Beneath his blue robes, the blue patterns on his arm muscles rippled and surged, combined with the immense physical vitality of Basic Swordsmanship, as he swung his sword horizontally!

"clang!"

When Dago slashed out with his sword, it was as if he had struck something extremely hard; the instantaneous recoil made his arm go numb.

Immediately afterward, his pupils contracted as he watched in disbelief as his Dance of Fine Snow, enhanced by the activated ice crystals and the soul seal [Winter Star], was seemingly sliced ​​in half at its midsection, then quickly rejoined.

He tried to attack someone with a weapon, but his own weapon was cut in half?! How strong and sharp must the other person's body have concealed a weapon to do that?

"Whoosh~~~"

A thin, transparent twist flashed by, and the hem of the flowing robe was silently torn, then fell onto the lush green grass.

Dago took a deep breath, a profound emotion flashing in his eyes. This was probably the strongest and most dangerous opponent he had ever encountered. Even at full strength, he could hardly contend with the opponent head-on.

He quickly ran in one direction. With the activation of the Despair and Frost Domain, the flow and spread of the cold air in the space exhibited an unprecedented disorder.

Dago squinted, noticing that faint lights seemed to flash in the air like currents, and the distorted feeling of a blade cutting through space returned.

He pursed his lips, raised his arm and made a flicking motion, sending countless tiny air pellets, each the size of a thumb, flying out in all directions.

"Thumb-sized air bomb! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

In an instant, hundreds of thumb-sized air bombs exploded simultaneously, and the resulting energy shockwaves swept through the air, creating countless pale blue rune array outlines before quickly extinguishing and disappearing.

"I see!"

Dago's eyes lit up instantly, and he pushed off hard with his feet, rushing directly towards the location of a nearby rune array that he remembered.

"Whoosh!!!"

The transparent humanoid figure grazed past his back at breakneck speed, leaving a clear cutting mark in the air.

As soon as Dago landed, his first instinct was to look up and check his location. A vibrant apple tree stood quietly beside him, golden sunlight filtering through the branches and casting dappled patterns of light on his face.

"They've been shifted even further by the invisible teleportation array!"

Dago glanced at the white table and rattan chair, his expression grave as he pondered how to approach the target location and what kind of patterns existed between these spatial teleportation arrays.

A sense of crisis struck again as the transparent humanoid rushed towards him once more.

"Forget it," Dago gritted his teeth and quickly made a decision, "Let's just try our luck."

He casually flung out a large number of thumb-sized air bullets, which, after blasting out the outline of an aerial teleportation array, randomly crashed into the location of one of the teleportation arrays.

"Whoosh~~"

Dago's figure shifted again, and he was only a few meters away from the white table and the rattan chair. However, before he could even stand up, the feeling of being pricked by needles came back to him.

"Looks like this thing is protecting something?"

A look of surprise flashed in Dago's eyes. The Dance of Fine Snow in his hand rose with a ghostly blue icy flame. He walked forward quickly while swinging his sword to cut through the spatial teleportation arrays blocking his way.

There was no reaction after the sword energy was unleashed.

"How are these teleportation arrays set up that are completely immune to both magical and physical attacks?"

Dago's eyes flashed. The master of this strange garden was far beyond his comprehension in terms of runes and magic circles. He felt as if the other party was a highly skilled magician, standing in some unseen place, smiling as he, a fly that had intruded into his territory, was being played around by all sorts of tricks.