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Chapter 326 - Chapter 326 Chapter 325 Dalang Its Time to Take Your Medicine

Chapter 326: Chapter 325: Dalang, It’s Time to Take Your Medicine Chapter 326: Chapter 325: Dalang, It’s Time to Take Your Medicine Armstrong took a deep breath, controlling the stone ball as it continually shrank until it was just a meter in diameter, at which point Mu Konni could no longer stand straight inside. As it kept shrinking, Armstrong felt repulsion; clearly, Mu Konni inside was resisting.

Armstrong clenched his teeth, giving his all, about to push the stone ball to its limit and completely kill Mu Konni, when suddenly, there was a cracking sound and a fissure appeared on the surface of the stone ball.

This!

Armstrong was shocked.

As the first fissure on the surface of the stone ball appeared, it seemed to herald the beginning, and the next moment, like a chain reaction, numerous fissures swiftly emerged. In the blink of an eye, the stone ball had taken on the appearance of a tortoise shell.

This!

Armstrong was greatly alarmed and tried to repair it, but just as he raised his hand, there was a loud crash, and the entire stone ball shattered. Mu Konni, bleeding, stood up from the debris.

It was evident that Mu Konni was not in good shape; her arms and legs were bent, clearly having been broken during the contraction of the stone ball.

The pain stimulated Mu Konni, blood flowing and staining her clothes that had been scorched by flames. Filled with rage, her eyes seemed to burn with fire as she looked at Armstrong, seeing him as a pitiful clown, and spoke, “I really must thank you!

Your stone ball did harm me, but in a sense, it also protected me–it blocked your vision, your detection, allowing you no way to know what I was doing inside the stone ball. Hence, I could calmly complete my upgrade.”

“Hmm? Upgrade?” Armstrong listened to Mu Konni’s words, first puzzled then his expression changed because he could suddenly feel a powerful aura erupting from Mu Konni’s body, rapidly climbing, and in just a blink, she had broken through the limit of a first-level wizard, reaching the level of a second-level wizard.

This!

A breakthrough during battle?

How is this possible?

Armstrong was full of confusion, but Mu Konni couldn’t be bothered to explain, simply looking coldly at Armstrong, “Die!”

With that, Mu Konni swung her hand, as if toppling a container filled with liquid nitrogen, and a massive chill surged out from her body.

Visible to the naked eye, the ground around her quickly froze, turning snow-white in the blink of an eye.

Then, with another swing of her hand, seven gigantic flying shuttles formed in the air behind her, spinning rapidly.

With yet another swing, the seven flying shuttles shot out like cannonballs, with piercing sonic booms, dragging white-chilled “tails” behind them, shooting straight at Armstrong like icy meteors.

Shape Power Water Ice Branch Skill*Second Circle Low Rank*Wandering Stars!

Armstrong’s eyes widened, sensing that he couldn’t dodge this spell and could only brace himself to withstand it.

“Ah!”

Armstrong cried out, exerting all his strength to release Defensive Magic!

“Crack, crack, crack, crack!”

The cobblestones on the entire street broke apart, like water drawn by a dragon, rising up in columns, rapidly gathering in front of Armstrong, layer by layer forming a stone shield.

As the stone shield continually formed, in a sense, as long as the destruction couldn’t keep up with the rate of formation, it could keep defending indefinitely–this was Armstrong’s strongest defense skill.

Shaping Earth Magic*First Circle High Order*Earth Eternal Shield!

Once Armstrong unleashed his strongest defense magic, and as the first flying shuttle came flying, in front of him, the stone shield was already over two meters thick, and nearly five meters in diameter. It was less a shield than a massive, ever-repairing and fortifying wall.

Then the first flying shuttle slammed into it.

“Bang!”

The stone shield vibrated violently, breaking off more than half a meter in thickness.

“Bang!”

The second flying shuttle hit.

The stone shield vibrated violently again, another half meter of thickness shattered.

“Bang!”

The third flying shuttle hit.

The Stone Shield was still violently trembling, its thickness reduced to less than half.

“Bang!”

The fourth Flying Shuttle collided with it.

The Stone Shield was left with just a thin layer sustaining it; the speed of repair under the continuous, powerful attacks of the Flying Shuttle was imperceptible, and Armstrong felt a chill in his heart.

“Bang! Crash!”

Just then, the fifth Flying Shuttle struck.

The Stone Shield was shattered without surprise, and then the last two shuttles, like venomous snakes, shot straight for Armstrong’s body.

Armstrong’s pupils dilated from fright, his heart turning ice cold: indeed, using First Circle Magic to resist Second Circle Magic was far too difficult.

Just then, a sound of breaking the air arose, and a figure almost fell from directly above Armstrong.

“Swoosh, swoosh!”

Two beams of white light shot forth.

“Crash, crash!”

The two Flying Shuttles attacking Armstrong shattered in response.

Armstrong, startled, looked at the newcomer and took a deep breath.

Far off, Mu Konni, who had launched the attack, was also taken aback. She frowned as she looked at the newcomer, then saw white boots, white pants, white clothes, white hat–all snow white. If not Macbeth, then who else could it be?

“Phew, you finally arrived,” Armstrong said to Macbeth, “If you had been any later, you might have only found my corpse.”

“Sorry, I got held up by something,” Macbeth shrugged.

“What was it?” Armstrong asked.

“Uh, that… Do you know of the tavern in the west of the city that’s open at night?” Macbeth asked.

“I mean, you’re not…,” Armstrong’s expression suddenly turned strange.

“They actually sell orange jam there, tastes pretty good. You should try it sometime; I’ll treat,” Macbeth said earnestly.

Armstrong was speechless: “…”

Mu Konni, watching Armstrong and Macbeth, narrowed her eyes and then let out a cold laugh: “Two men, huh, two First-level High Order Wizards? Hmph, do you really think two First-level High Order Wizards can handle me, and you’re discussing eating orange jam? Go to…”

“Die!” shouted Mu Konni, making her move.

…

Experimental facility, main laboratory.

Richard lay on the ground, utterly weak. Pandora jumped out of bed, looking somewhat panicked.

Richard glanced at Pandora, and with great effort, lifted his hand to point towards a wooden rack in the distance, his voice weak but urgent: “Potion, get it for me.”

The usually mischievous Pandora was exceptionally well-behaved this time, swiftly running to the wooden rack Richard had pointed to. She looked up at the items on the rack but paused, seeing a dozen potion bottles clustered together.

After a long look, Pandora made up her mind, stood on her tiptoes, and picked a beautiful one–a yellow oil-like liquid, looking like melted gold.

Carrying the liquid, she walked over to Richard, squatted down, uncorked the bottle, and was about to pour it into Richard’s mouth.

Despite truly being weak, Richard still managed to lift his hand to block Pandora’s action.

Yellow oil-like liquid? This was sulfuric acid!

Concentrated sulfuric acid!

In his current state, drinking concentrated sulfuric acid, did he really think he would die too slowly?

The thought prompted in Richard’s mind a quote from a famous modern novel from Earth.