Mages, Adventurers, and Women

Li Wei watched every move on the battlefield with his spiest eyes. He had Julia shoot an arrow from the right edge of Duron's shield, and the Mage's Hand appeared on the left chest of Parasitic Coral, who had just headbutted Duron's shield but was bounced into the air, forming the concise word "Here".

whoosh-

Julia's invisibility arrow was fired, its form vanishing and reappearing precisely where Li Wei's mage finger was pointing. It passed through his back without any obstruction, leaving a finger-sized hole that pierced through his front and back, with blazing white flames burning inside...

boom--

Parasitic corals die immediately upon landing.

Yulia's team worked together seamlessly to kill the Tier 1 Black Dragon-level Parasitic Coral, boosting the team's confidence to the max.

Li Wei wielded the bone spear, gliding through the sky as he charged toward the corpse that had just made the sound.

Ordinary parasitic corals cannot harm Yulia's squad.

The unseen Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral Leader is a problem.

whoosh-

The bone spear vanished in a flash.

Just as it was about to hit, a monster twice the size of a normal parasitic coral burst forth from its body.

It threw a punch and smashed the bone spear.

With a roar, his figure vanished in a flash.

"Duron! Take two steps to the left, straighten your arms, and strike your shoulders with both fists!"

Duron may not understand, but his execution is extremely efficient.

He immediately followed Li Wei's instructions and completed the deployment. The large shields that were originally firmly planted in the ground rose up and formed an angle with the ground.

At this time.

The parasitic coral leader, which had been on the high slope, reappeared. It leaped above Yulia's squad and slammed down with a punch. Originally, the punch would have broken through Duron's shield defense, but thanks to Li Wei's warning, it still landed within the shield's range.

Boom!

The Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral Leader possessed astonishing punching power. Duron, behind the large shield, was like a drilling bit, his fist slamming into the ground through the shield, disappearing from sight.

"bone!"

The bone immediately filled the gap, bending its knees, elbows together, and curling up, raising a jet-black shield as large as Duro's to charge at the Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral.

"Shield Technique: Rock!"

While still falling, the Tier 1 Silver Dragon Parasitic Coral swiftly delivered a whip kick that struck the incoming shield mid-air.

boom!

The two collided, unleashing an extreme sonic boom, and the bones were sent flying like wild horses by a single kick...

Duron and Bones were easily defeated, but they bought crucial time for the others.

"Yulia! Explosive Arrow!"

Li Wei, who had been keeping a low profile and hadn't even used the basic element fusion technique, finally revealed his murderous intent.

He had only used ordinary elemental magic beforehand to create the illusion that Yulia's squad was weak, in order to lure the enemy into getting close to Yulia's squad.

whoosh-

As Yulia kept her word, the explosive arrow instantly pierced the left chest of the Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral that was about to fall.

Upon noticing the approaching explosive arrow, the opponent twisted its body in an extremely bizarre manner, exposing its left shoulder blade to the arrow.

boom--

The Exploding Arrow lived up to its name; the arrow exploded on its left shoulder, leaving it with skeletal bones. The scorching effect of the Blessed Flame burned the bones, an effect that could not be extinguished.

Li Wei's spirit was pulled away.

He ran up to the Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral, which was immobilized by the Exploding Arrow, and punched it in the left chest.

The Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral, which had just gained its footing, was struck and staggered.

His spirit returned, and the ten bone spears reappeared.

This time, it's a combination of fireballs and lightning elemental light clusters!

"Explode!"

In the blink of an eye, ten bone spears pierced the staggering Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral, unleashing a series of booming sounds!

boom--

……

The battle is over.

After the Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral was tricked and killed by Li Wei.

The other parasitic corals were no match for them.

With Sylvie's priestess protection and Levi's bone traps and fire walls, they could not break through the two's defenses.

They were mercilessly slaughtered by Li Wei's Fireball and Bone Spear, and by Yulia's Invisibility Arrow and Explosive Arrow.

Several of Duron's elbow bones were broken, and his tailbone and leg bones were more than half broken, but they were recovering rapidly under Sylvie's magical healing.

Li Wei sat by the campfire, holding the "Treasured Book of First-Order Earth Magic Inheritance Knowledge" and comprehending its contents.

The Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral is indeed powerful.

It lost the natural advantage of the boundless sea, and also caused Yulia's team some trouble.

Li Wei possesses a wide array of spells, and in a one-on-one situation, he is confident that he can wear down the Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral, which has lost its advantage in the Boundless Sea terrain. However, he lacks a powerful spell to deliver the decisive blow.

Of course, after this battle...

Yulia's squad's morale soared!

Tier 1 Black Dragon-level monsters and magical beasts are no longer considered major enemies by Yulia's squad.

Just a month ago, Yulia's squad had to go to great lengths to deal with a single minotaur.

"Li Wei, why does the Parasitic Coral appear in the Monster Hills?"

Sylvie sipped the pale blue "magic potion" to recover, and asked in confusion.

"I don't know—I've encountered the Desert Wolves of the Sand Duchy in the Monster Hills before, and my Eldar teammates have encountered the Windblade Tigers of the Golden Kingdom in the Navia Mountains. I really don't know why the Parasitic Corals from the Boundless Sea are appearing in the Monster Hills..."

Something's getting increasingly strange about Monster Hill.

Li Wei didn't want to stay here for even a second longer.

"Li Wei, with such powerful parasitic corals, they must be the overlords of the Boundless Ocean, right?"

As Bone lay on the ground recovering from his injuries, he asked loudly.

"No, parasitic corals are the most common food at the bottom of the boundless ocean."

"Moreover, they gather together in the vast ocean in the thousands."

Bone was taken aback upon hearing this, and murmured, "Thousands upon thousands? If you hadn't recognized the origin of this group we encountered, I feel that even an ordinary Tier 2 professional would have been killed by them."

"Food?!"

"No wonder you said that only those at level 3 are qualified to leave Golden Island."

"Li Wei, what is this?" Yulia, who was cleaning up the battlefield, took out a pure white rhomboid crystal the size of a tiger tooth from the forehead of a Tier 1 Silver Dragon-level Parasitic Coral and asked Li Wei curiously.

Li Wei took the rhombus-shaped crystal, examined it for a moment, and said with certainty, "It's a magic core."

Yulia, ever the money-grubber, asked, "What's a magic core? Is it valuable?"

"Of course it's valuable. Only monsters and magical beasts in areas rich in magic and elements have a chance of producing magic cores."

Li Wei then looked at Sylvie and teased, "Little Freckles, isn't there only one area in the Golden Kingdom that produces magic cores open to the public?"

"Yes……"

Sylvie said awkwardly, "Magic cores are very important strategic resources in the Three Kingdoms, and they are strictly controlled by the royal family."

"Li Wei, you said they are monsters from the Boundless Sea. The Boundless Sea is so vast... its magic is very concentrated?"

Yulia had no idea.

“That’s too concentrated…” Li Wei recalled the contents of the book and said quietly, “The magic and elements contained in a bottle of Boundless Sea water the size of a little finger, when converted into weight, could crush a second-tier monster.”

"Unfortunately, no one has mastered the method of purifying the water of the Boundless Sea. If someone were to develop such a method, even legendary powerhouses would probably be eager to become his servants."

Yulia stared in disbelief, her mind blank, and subconsciously imagined a magnificent, vast, boundless sea. She said, "Li Wei, shall we go out to sea too?"

Li Wei smiled without saying a word, implying that they would definitely go overseas in the future.

They don't even have the strength to defend against the parasitic corals that feed on the lowest level of the boundless ocean; going out to sea is tantamount to suicide.

……

After resting for a while, Yulia's team arrived in Moon Town the next morning.

Gazing at the ruins of Moon Town shrouded in a necromantic mist in the distance.

Li Weidao:

"Before the actual battle, I will make the following arrangements."

……

……

Chapter 81: Everything Goes Well

Li Wei dumped all the things he had prepared in Rolling Stone Town onto the ground.

Bottles and jars, a dazzling array.

He allocated:

"Bone, Duron, these ten bottles are bloodline enhancement potions that will increase your strength. Each bottle lasts for ten minutes. Don't be stingy; drink them immediately after entering Moon Town."

"And these ten bottles are the Ice Cleansing Potion, which can counteract the negative emotional effects of the Bloodline Activation Potion, making you calmer and clearer-minded—although for you, thinking is of little use."

Dulong and Bones each took five bottles of potions. The Bloodline Enhancement Potion was pure black, and the Ice Clarity Potion was a cloudy brown. Neither of them had ever drunk any good potions before, so they assumed that these were the normal colors of potions.

"Yulia, these twenty bottles are Breeze Potion, which will make your reaction speed faster. Each bottle has an effect for five minutes. Drink them as soon as you enter Moon Town, don't hesitate."

Yulia took the dark-colored Breeze Potion and put it into her storage ring.

Yulia trusted Levi implicitly and didn't notice that the potion's color was off.

Only Sylvie, who knew her stuff, frowned repeatedly...

“Sylvie…cough cough, these twenty bottles are mana restoration potions, you…use them as you see fit.”

Li Wei handed Sylvie twenty thumb-sized, dark-colored vials of medicine.

Little Freckles Sylvie hesitated, then said:

“Li Wei, it’s not that I don’t trust your alchemical methods. Compared to the spicy mana restoration potion, I think the azure blue mana restoration potion is more suitable for me. I am a priest and need to stay calm at all times. If the potion’s spicy taste distracts me, it can easily affect my judgment.”

Li Wei said, "That's all. What you drank before was what was left over from last time. The Alchemist Association is quick to flee; there's nowhere left to buy alchemical potions in Rolling Stone Town..."

While in Rolling Rock, Sylvie was among the first to "test" Livy's alchemical potions.

As a princess of the Golden Kingdom born with a silver spoon in her mouth, the greatest suffering Sylvie ever endured was tasting Livy's potions.

Seeing Sylvie's troubled expression, Levi reprimanded her sternly:

"Sylvie, I am now ordering you to accept this as the captain. You are an adventurer, not a princess!"

Yulia said unhappily, "The deputy."

Sylvie pursed her lips and accepted the drink, storing it in her storage ring. She made up her mind that she would never drink it unless absolutely necessary.

Li Wei contentedly pulled out a bottle of azure blue magic recovery potion and drank it down.

Sylvie was stunned: "You—!"

Li Wei clicked his tongue and said, "Don't make a sound, I'm arranging combat missions."

He took out the "Moon Town" quest parchment scroll and spread it on the ground.

[Tier 1 Black Dragon Quest: Dispel the Necromantic Mist in Moon Town.]