Full-Time Magister: What kind of demonic tree is this? It's clearly a sacred tree!

Chapter 31 Siege

"Hey, Lingling, are you out of school yet?"

"What is it? Speak!"

"Could you help me find out where semi-domesticated shadow beasts are most likely to appear if they've fled to Shanghai?"

"Okay, I'll send it to you in a bit!"

"And don't call me while I'm at school!"

"Next time for sure, next time for sure!"

Zhang Chen hung up the phone with a smile. "Since Lingling is looking for the Shadow Beast, then this time—" Mo Fan said, "we might be able to sell the remaining three spots in the team at a high price. With just the two of us, I'm sure many people will buy them." Zhang Chen pondered, "That won't work. Apart from that Black Vatican, we haven't encountered any other ambushes this semester—I don't believe they'll let it go so easily. They probably want to take action against us during the main campus assessment this time—wouldn't that implicate them?"

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"It's alright, let them come at the end, it shouldn't be a problem. We might be able to use this spot to borrow some defensive magical equipment—ask Zhao Manyan if he's interested."

"That makes sense. So, how much should we set?"

"We'll only charge 100 million for the magic tools we lend, not 500 million. We'll compensate you if we damage the magic tools."

"Okay! It's settled then. I'm going to find Old Zhao."

"No, then who are you looking for?"

"I... I have no choice but to swallow my pride and go to Mu Nujiao."

"Holy crap—"

"Why are you borrowing defensive magic tools? With your strength, you shouldn't be afraid of the others in this assessment." Mu Nujiao recalled the scene during the Freshman Beast Fighting Tournament where she and more than a dozen mid-level mages were blasted away by him. He must be even stronger now. She asked suspiciously, "Recently, someone has been targeting me and Mo Fan. We suspect they will make a move during this assessment." There was nothing to hide, Zhang Chen replied truthfully. "Wouldn't it be very dangerous for us to follow you?" Ai Tutu pretended to look scared. "That's why I told you to just wait at the iron cage until we bring the Shadow Beast over."

Zhang Chen spread his hands and said, "Alright then, we'll be waiting for you near the iron cage. Be careful—" Mu Nujiao said, "For some reason, Zhang Chen suddenly seemed to be possessed by Mo Fan and opened his arms, saying, "Jiaojiao, you care about me so much. Maybe I won't be able to come back this time. Do you want to hug me?"

Mu Nujiao's face turned cold: "Get out! I'm worried about my magical artifacts and my deposit!"

"Sister Mu, what are you explaining to him for? You wouldn't really—" Ai Tutu feigned surprise. "Tutu!" Mu Nujiao snapped angrily. Ai Tutu wanted to seek help from her comrades, but then she saw Zhang Chen leave through the door. Turning back to see Sister Mu's angry face, she smiled obsequiously and said, "Sister Mu, calm down—"

Lingling is really efficient. Zhang Chen had just borrowed the magic tools when he received a message from Lingling.

"These domesticated shadow beasts have an extreme craving for beef, so I screened some beef processing plants in Shanghai."

"We found that the beef warehouses in the Jiangkou area had the highest frequency of beef thefts, with the most recent incident occurring in the Mangai area near the port."

"By the way, Shadow Beasts are creatures whose tail hair easily falls out. The fallen tail hair has a fluorescent effect, and it will slowly decompose into powder after seven days. You can use these to track the location of Shadow Beasts."

"Hey, Mo Fan, how's it going on your end? What did Zhao Manyan say?" Zhang Chen immediately dialed Mo Fan's communicator. "All done! Old Zhao is really rich—"

"I'll wait for you at the school gate. Lingling has already sent me the materials."

The port authorities searched more than a dozen warehouses storing beef but found nothing, and there was no sign of any Black Vatican ambush.

"Is this warehouse really that big? It looks over a hundred meters high, and the width is so wide you can't see the end of it. They're really rich! Unlike us, we've been saving for years to buy a Star River Vein and we still haven't saved enough." Zhang Chen said with a hint of sourness. "Speaking of which, with such a big warehouse, is the Black Church hiding in there? Does it smell like the Black Church?" Mo Fan said jinxed. "No way? How could I smell anything in such a big warehouse! Maybe the Shadow Beasts are hiding in there!" Zhang Chen said speechlessly. At this moment, a middle-aged man finally jogged over and opened the warehouse door.

Almost instantly, the aura of the Black Vatican filled the sky, and Zhang Chen instinctively pulled Mo Fan and the middle-aged man back.

"As expected, you could sense us! I only wanted to get the Earthly Sacred Spring—hehehe."

A cold, hoarse voice came from inside. As the voice came, the door slowly opened completely, revealing a dense array of black beast demons inside, along with about thirty gray-robed figures and three black-robed figures on the roof beams.

Good heavens! This is one that slipped through the net! How big are the meshes in this net?! ————

Seeing that things were not going well, Zhang Chen immediately turned around to run away, but when he turned around, he found that a group of black beast demons were coming towards him.

"Damn it! Mo Fan, you jinx! You hit me first!"

Realizing there was no escape, Zhang Chen decisively made his move and said to Mo Fan that the Black Church clearly wanted a quick victory. As Zhang Chen turned around, they began to draw a star map, and before Zhang Chen could turn back, colorful magic was already being unleashed towards Mo Fan and Zhang Chen.

Fierce Fist, Sky-Shattering Turbulent Waves, Whirlwind, Tearing Flames —

Zhang Chen raised his hand, and layers of transparent barriers formed in front of him. Mo Fan was already surrounded by purplish-black lightning, Thousand-Jun Thunderbolt Yaksha!

A thick bolt of purplish-black lightning split into several smaller bolts, instantly killing the small black beasts that had already approached.

The Black Vatican clearly had a plan, constantly attacking Zhang Chen with magic from behind the Black Beast Demon, forcing him to defend passively and driving the Black Beast Demon and the Cursed Beast Demon forward to attack.

But they obviously didn't know that Zhang Chen possessed the Chaos Element; he had never revealed it to anyone.

Chaotic Vortex!

A chaotic vortex of colors swirled before Zhang Chen, absorbing the Black Vatican's magic. As it grew larger, a black-robed priest at the head of the vortex immediately shouted, "Quick! Defend!"

reverse!

He was wrong. Zhang Chen's reversed magic bombarded the group of black beast demons. Fortunately, after Mo Fan was targeted by the Black Vatican this semester, Zhang Chen devoted all his time to the Chaos System and cultivated it to the third level of the intermediate stage, just in case he encountered this situation. This attack killed at least a quarter of the black beast demons. Before they could react, the surrounding space changed, and the space around the Black Vatican rapidly shrank. Just then, Mo Fan shouted, "Zhang Chen, watch your step!"

A dark figure suddenly leaped out from the shadow of the middle-aged man, flames already appearing in his hand, while small black pear thorns shot towards Zhang Chen's shadow from his other hand.

"Die! Giant Shadow Nail - Pear Thorn! Fierce Fist - Nine Palaces!"

This person was actually a mid-level mage with maxed-out cultivation!