Wizard Earl

Chapter 369 Combining Enchanted Items

"Thump!"

Castia's staff slammed heavily on the ground, and a dark blue hexagonal magic circle immediately appeared beneath Martina's feet. Seeing this, Martina did not hesitate at all and immediately made a decision. She began to chant softly, and as she chanted, a layer of ice crystals appeared within a radius of thirty meters around her.

The presence of this layer of ice crystals made the formation of the Castia magic circle beneath Martina's feet extremely slow. After doing all this, Martina looked at Connor with disgust in her eyes. She gently pointed her fair and delicate finger at Connor in mid-air, and Connor immediately felt an invisible shackle binding him, suppressing his mental and magical power.

A glint of light flashed in Connor's eyes, and he gently patted the Castilian Staff in his hand. Instantly, a semi-circular protective barrier rose from the staff, shielding Connor within it. At the same time, the speed at which the Castilian Staff beneath Martina's feet solidified also began to increase dramatically.

"This is... a top-tier second-order enchanted item?" Feeling the power of the Castia Staff, Martina's usually aloof face finally showed a hint of seriousness. Although she had realized from the beginning that the staff Connor held was a second-order enchanted item, and not just any ordinary one, if it weren't for Connor's counterattack revealing the true power of the Castia Staff, Martina would never have believed that the ancient-looking staff Connor held was actually a top-tier second-order enchanted item!

Taking a deep breath, Martina took out two jade bracelets from her spatial ring and put them on her wrists!

"Combined Enchanted Items!"

Unlike Martina, who needs to sense the power to determine the level of an enchanted item, Connor, an alchemist, recognized the jade bracelet Martina was wearing on her wrist at a glance!

On the surface, each of these two jade bracelets is an ordinary enchanted item, one with ice attribute energy and the other with lightning attribute energy. However, if you put these two enchanted items together, you will find that these two level-two enchanted items with different attribute energies actually become extremely complementary, producing a chemical effect that is greater than the sum of its parts!

Enchanted items like these two bracelets are known as composite enchanted items in the wizarding world, and they are extremely rare. A single component of a composite enchanted item might not seem remarkable, but when all its components are combined, they unleash astonishing energy. Take these two bracelets, for example. Originally just ordinary second-tier enchanted items, in a one-on-one battle against Connor's top-tier second-tier enchanted item, the Castilian Staff, they would be utterly crushed. However, when the two bracelets were combined, their energy seemed to subtly suppress the Castilian Staff. Furthermore, the condensation of the Castilian magic circle beneath Martina's feet was instantly and forcibly halted!

"Martina seems unable to move?" Looking at Martina, who hadn't moved since the start of the event and was standing in a layer of ice crystals, Connor narrowed his eyes and secretly guessed that since the Castia magic array couldn't seal Martina inside, he would try other methods to see if he could defeat her.

With a casual stroke of his hand across the spatial ring, Connor discreetly retrieved another second-tier enchanted item, the Silver Pendant, from the ring and held it in his hand. Because his entire body was under the protection of the staff's defensive barrier, the invisible shackles of magic and mental power that Martina had placed on Connor had been removed. Therefore, Connor could now launch a mental attack on Martina without any restraint, using the Silver Pendant to amplify his mental power.

Although the conditions were ripe for launching a mental attack, Connor did not immediately attack. Instead, he stood within the protective barrier with his eyes narrowed. Martina, wearing a second-tier enchanted item filled with ice-attribute energy on her left hand, had locked onto Connor's protective barrier and Connor within it, preventing him from escaping. Meanwhile, the lightning-attribute jade bracelet on Martina's right hand was becoming increasingly violent, as if it might explode at any moment to deliver a fatal blow to Connor!

"Deigula..."

Martina uttered a clear Byzantine incantation, and Connor immediately felt as if he were in the far north, surrounded by millennia-old ice. Not only his physical magic and mental power, but even his thoughts were frozen. Even though he was in the defensive barrier of the staff, he felt completely unable to move!

Just then, Martina, wearing a jade bracelet that released lightning energy, swung it fiercely at Connor, and instantly more than ten bolts of lightning as thick as an arm struck down at the protective barrier where Connor was!

"Afraid of wiping! Afraid of wiping!..."

The lightning struck the protective barrier, causing it to cave in and the flowing blue-black light emanating from it to dim completely. The entire barrier looked utterly wretched and pathetic. Even Connor, protected within the barrier, suffered a trickle of blood from the lightning strike. However, despite the sorry state of affairs, the protective barrier had ultimately managed to withstand Martina's first wave of lightning!

Standing aside and watching Connor get injured by her lightning strike, Martina's cold face couldn't help but show a hint of arrogance. She raised her jade hand, ready to unleash a second wave of lightning strikes to kill the last suspense of the competition!

"Now!"

With a roar in his heart, Connor unleashed a mental attack on Martina in an instant, amplified by the silver pendant!

Martina, who was still preparing for the second wave of lightning strikes, never expected that the disheveled Connor could actually launch a counterattack. In addition, Connor was already an advanced wizard apprentice, and with the mental power amplified by the silver pendant, his mental power was almost as close as that of a formal wizard. The power of the mental impact supported by such strong mental power was self-evident.

With Connor's mental calculations and unsuspecting sneak attack, Martina's cold and beautiful face was instantly filled with pain before she could react and before she could react. Her new strength had not yet been generated and her old strength had already been exhausted.

(End of this chapter)