Full-Time Magister: I can control you to death.

Chapter 46 The Amazing Sustain Technique: Little Will-o'-the-Wisp!

Yellow sand rolls on, the army sets off.

A gleaming exterior cannot conceal a rotten interior. Bad news followed one after another along the way.

First, the scout camp was discovered by the enemy, and a fierce battle ensued, leaving dozens of corpses on the road ahead.

Then, the city where the army was originally prepared to garrison fell into enemy hands, and the city was littered with corpses from burning, killing, looting, and burning.

The scorching sun could not stop the eerie winds emanating from the corpse.

Without food, there is no physical strength, no mental strength, and no spiritual meditation. The River of Magic Energy has dried up to the point that its riverbed is exposed.

Countless people fell, and some, driven by hunger, lost their minds, turning their knives on their own people, their eyes revealing a desire for meat.

In just one night, more than a hundred people lost their lives.

To avoid a mutiny in the army, the general made a last-minute decision to change the strategic plan from an expedition to a siege, and to recapture the city at all costs.

A simple sentence, yet it cost countless lives to fill it.

In the magical realm, the difference in difficulty between defending and attacking a city is magnified infinitely. The opposing mage sits atop the city walls, unleashing a torrent of magic.

Exhausted and hungry, and facing such a fierce magical attack, very few of them could retaliate.

Facing difficulties in breaching the city walls, the general personally led the attack, hoping to use his invincible Heavenly Flame Funeral to create a gaping hole in the walls.

But this was exactly what the enemy had planned, and they were dragged into the enemy's night-time control. When the great formation disappeared, all that remained was a skeleton.

After a series of defeats and the death of its commander, the army, now reduced to a disorganized rabble, collapsed without a doubt.

Xu Fang also became a bandit, leading his personal guards and occupying a hilltop.

Looking down from the sky, Xu Fang was filled with emotion. Although this "Xu Fang" did not have his own fancy attack methods, his hard strength was definitely not bad.

But even such a powerful being is like a mantis trying to stop a chariot when faced with the rolling wheels of the war machine.

It was as if time had been fast-forwarded; it flew by, and in the blink of an eye, the area below the hill was surrounded by enemy troops.

One by one, the loyal guards fell to the ground, until only Xu Fang remained.

His eyes were bloodshot, and extreme anger caused him to explode.

"These are... golden stardust?"

In that instant, Xu Fang's perspective shifted from high above to "Xu Fang" himself. As he introspected within his spiritual world, the golden stardust within the stardust became restless and violent.

"That doesn't make sense, does it? Wasn't it said that Edison was the originator of the light system?"

But everything before our eyes has indeed happened; the ancient "Xu Fang" has awakened the light system.

Reason told Xu Fang that this was just a pure illusion. But his intuition kept reminding him that everything before him seemed real.

Golden light poured in, bursting forth from Xu Fang's body, its violent and unparalleled energy impacting his mind.

"roar----!!!"

Xu Fang's mind went blank. Before he lost connection, he vaguely saw tens of thousands of enemy soldiers being lifelessly vaporized under a blazing, sun-like light...

"call!"

His consciousness returned abruptly, and Xu Fang opened his eyes to find himself back on the battlefield of the city wall, surrounded by military mages who were looking at him like he was a monster.

Holy crap, what did this guy just do?

He was incredibly unlucky, falling into the illusion of ghost soldiers and enjoying a privilege usually reserved for mid- to high-level mages.

But now he acts like nothing happened?

"Are you... alright?" The military mages closest to Xu Fang couldn't help but hold up their right hand, making a three: "Look what this is?"

Xu Fang: "Fingers."

"It's amazing that he's not mentally challenged!"

In the past, it wasn't that no one could break the illusion created by the ghostly soldiers, but without exception, they all fell unconscious on the spot and only slowly woke up after being carried back.

According to these people, when they were under the spell of the illusion, it was as if they had eaten a red umbrella and a white pole. The scene in front of them was distorted and chaotic, and a dizzying and nauseous feeling rushed straight to their brains.

But Xu Fang thinks things are actually not bad?

How terrifying must that mental power be!

However, they were so focused on Xu Fang that they failed to notice that the general-level Yin soldier who had cast the spell on Xu Fang earlier was convulsing and collapsing, turning into gray mist and disappearing in the continuous rain.

A spirit appeared on the spot, as if it had turned on autopilot and automatically came to Xu Fang's door, entering his spiritual world.

Xu Fang diverted a portion of his mind to introspect on his own spiritual world.

Buzz!

The essence merged into the last star, and in an instant, this star, which was smaller than its companions, rapidly expanded, becoming the most robust one.

The seven stars coiled together, and strange yet powerful energy fluctuations spread outwards.

Beginner Level 4, accomplished!

As all the stars were strengthened, Xu Fang's control over them also increased accordingly.

No testing was needed; the information about the new skills had already flooded into my mind.

"Existing in the form of flames, automatically locking, drawing magic energy to nourish itself?" Xu Fang frowned slightly, feeling that it overlapped with the special function of "Radiance Purification".

He couldn't believe that after all that trouble, he had only gotten this useless thing.

Xu Fang's gaze returned to the Yin soldiers, his eyes flickered slightly, and the trajectory of the star flashed almost imperceptibly.

A cluster of transparent "ghost fire" appeared in his palm, swaying gently from side to side, seemingly without any intimidating power.

However, the moment Xu relaxed his grip, the flames shot out like sharp swords, bursting into countless small flames in mid-air.

Under the pollution of magical light, the transparent flames seemed so insignificant.

The ghostly soldiers continued their attack, unaware that they had become a buffet for a small flame.

A steady stream of energy was drawn into Xu Fang's stardust, but the Yin soldiers remained oblivious.

Boom!

One after another, the slave-level ghost soldiers couldn't withstand the absorption of the flames and crashed heavily to the ground, being drained of their life force inexplicably.

On Xu Fang's side, faced with an excessive amount of magical energy, he had no choice but to convert it into magic and release it.

More ghostly soldiers were killed, and their still-warm bodies were consumed by the ghostly fire that came seeking their scent, draining them dry until the last drop was gone.

As one diminishes while the other increases, my magic power remains my magic power, and your magic power remains my magic power.

I'll use your energy to hit you—and it'll last the whole time; the greater the mana depletion, the faster the absorption speed.

Unless the opponent can kill Xu Fang right away, the battle is bound to be unsolvable.

The situation where they were surrounded while trying to save He Ming is now in the past. If it happened again, Xu Fang would definitely teach them how to play the victim.

"Awesome!"

This is way better than the Radiant Purification!

Thinking about it carefully, I realized that I have four combo skills since I awakened.

The first is the Crimson Light Fire Array, a map-wide attack that seizes essence to refine star particles. Within the light array, all beings are equal, with no distinction between high and low, noble and base, only whether or not they are replenished.

The second is its high-temperature core, allowing it to fight monsters much stronger and build up its power. With just one minute of charging time, it can beat a mouse into a rage.

The third is the Sunfire Bullet, a powerful single-target attack that can pierce even the hardest heart. The gun is fast from seven paces away, and accurate and fast within seven paces.

Add to that the will-o'-the-wisp you just acquired...

Xu Fang always felt that his skills were heading down a path of no return, making him a source of disgust for his opponents.

(End of this chapter)