Full-Time Magister: The Calamity of Fire, the Emperor's Flame Burns the Heavens

Chapter 42 An unusual rain, and a spirit that refuses to retreat!

"Um, thank you!" Mu Ningxue walked over, thanked her, and then tried to leave.

Just as Jiang Shaoxu breathed a sigh of relief.

“If you don’t mind, you can come with us. These days, entering the ancient city requires multiple layers of screening, and your identity might not be enough to get in,” Hua Yu said.

However, what Hua Yu said is true. The ancient capital is currently in a special period, and Mu Ningxue has already had her identity stripped and has not yet been reissued, so she is considered an unregistered resident.

However, Hua Yu did not expect that Mo Fan would not come to the ancient capital, but Mu Ningxue would.

Mu Ningxue stopped in her tracks. Hua Yu was right; she probably wouldn't be able to get in now given her current status.

If it had been any later, she probably wouldn't have been able to book a flight at all.

Hua Yu led the two women away from Xianyang and headed towards the ancient capital city. The three of them remained silent the whole way.

Fortunately, with Hua Yu's help, Mu Ningxue finally entered the ancient capital and then parted ways with Hua Yu.

Jiang Shaoxu and Hua Yu were walking down the street. There weren't many pedestrians. Before they knew it, Hua Yu felt something strange in his fingers and looked down.

He then noticed that Jiang Shaoxu's little finger was secretly hooking onto his hand. Hua Yu couldn't help but smile and boldly pulled Jiang Shaoxu's delicate hand into his own.

Rather than cautiously probing, he preferred to be more direct.

“Let’s go back to the barracks. The ancient capital hasn’t been very peaceful lately,” Hua Yu said to Jiang Shaoxu, stopping in his tracks.

"All right!"

Upon hearing Hua Yu's words, Jiang Shaoxu's original intention to continue shopping was abandoned. She was not the kind of unreasonable woman, and she could distinguish right from wrong on such important matters.

However, her purpose in coming here was to visit Hua Yu. As long as she could stay by Hua Yu's side, it seemed like anything was worthwhile.

After Hua Yu returned to the military camp, he began to handle official business. Jiang Shaoxu sat on a small chair to the side, watching Hua Yu work diligently, and found it quite interesting.

Before we knew it, the day had passed and night had fallen.

Tonight is unusually gloomy, as if something big is about to happen.

Hua Yu led Jiang Shaoxu to the north city wall. After last night's riot, the spirits seemed to have calmed down.

However, just when everyone thought nothing would happen tonight, a light rain suddenly started to fall.

Just as the raindrops were about to touch Hua Yu and Jiang Shaoxu, they suddenly evaporated.

"It's raining!" Hua Yu reached out and caught a raindrop, finding nothing unusual about it.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Shaoxu asked, looking at Hua Yu's appearance.

Do you remember the bloodshed in Bocheng that was reported in the news a few years ago?

“It rained in Bocheng that day too!” Hua Yu said, frowning.

The two remained silent. If it really was like Bo City, then Jiang Shaoxu from the ancient capital dared not continue thinking about it.

Hua Yu, who was familiar with the plot, knew that Salang's ascension to godhood was about to take place.

As the rain intensified, some hunter mages who were unwilling to take risks descended from the city walls, and the teams organized by the students of the Ancient Capital Academy also disbanded.

Aside from military mages, probably no other mage would enjoy hunting undead in this kind of weather.

The rain pattered on the land of the ancient capital, seemingly trying to dispel the deathly aura that permeated the air above.

The previously peaceful spirits, however, began to approach the north city wall at some unknown time.

The howls of the undead rose and fell, echoing beneath the city walls and completely drowning out the sound of raindrops hitting the ground.

Hua Yu reached out again, caught a raindrop, and found that the rainwater seemed to have become murky.

The military mages cast spells, intending to repel the undead that were besieging the city.

Multicolored magic intertwined, relentlessly attacking the undead beneath the city walls.

One wave after another of the military mages retreated due to exhaustion of their magical energy, but the undead, who should have retreated normally, continued to surge toward the north city wall.

The howls of the undead continued incessantly. Lu Xu also walked up the city wall and stood beside Hua Yu.

He looked at these unusual undead, his brows furrowed. If this continued, their military mages would not be able to hold out no matter what.

Tens of thousands of undead are continuously heading towards the ancient capital. Apart from the north city wall, the other city walls are also engulfed by varying degrees of undead hordes.

"I'll go help!" Jiang Shaoxu said to Hua Yu.

Hua Yu did not refuse; now was the time when strength was needed.

"Your girlfriend?" Lu Xu raised an eyebrow and looked at Hua Yu.

"Yes!" Hua Yu nodded.

"It's obvious she likes you a lot. Her gaze towards you is pure, without any ulterior motives," Lu Xu said to Hua Yu, lighting a cigarette.

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Time passed by minute by minute.

Jiang Shaoxu had already exhausted her magical energy and retreated from the front line. Her clothes were somewhat disheveled, and Hua Yu took off his military uniform and draped it over Jiang Shaoxu's shoulders.

The eastern horizon gradually turned a pale white, signifying that dawn was approaching.

As dawn broke, everyone cheered, but the spirits that should have sunk to the ground were still active on the surface.

The skeleton army, wielding rusty bone swords, marched valiantly toward the ancient city walls.

The ghostly legion also hovered in the air, ready to attack the mage's mind at any moment.

As dawn broke, the dark clouds and rain made everything so gloomy, but no matter how gloomy or obscure it was, the night was over, and it was now daytime, the time for this war to end.
Even the tolling of bells echoed throughout the city. The residents of the city walked through the streets and alleys early in the morning to make a living. The towering city walls and the dim light would protect them from the terrible ghosts. But they did not know that outside the city walls, the ghosts had not left them. They were still standing there, their eyes still shining with a scarlet and ferocious light.

The long city walls stretched for tens of kilometers. As the bells rang and dawn broke, the guards, who had been on edge all night, finally breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that they were safe and sound today.

But when they turned back to gaze upon this land that had returned to peace, they were shocked to find that the nightmare was not over; the number of undead trying to breach the city walls had not decreased, but rather increased.

Staff Officer Zhu and the Military Intelligence Bureau officers stood on the city wall, their eyes filled with shock and fear.

They could no longer understand what was happening before their eyes using common sense.

Undead!

The city walls were covered in spirits, a vast, black tide that was creeping up to the crumbling walls.

As dawn broke, the rain continued unabated; for thousands of years, no spirit of the dead had ever been seen to appear during the day.

Under the witness of numerous mages, more and more spirits defied all reason and emerged from the earth, as if a dark and bloody feast had only just begun.
(End of this chapter)