HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

As Marcus spoke, a sea of ​​blood surged towards Andrei amidst the castle ruins, instantly enveloping him.

Seeing this, the silver-haired Teach wanted to rescue her, but she was currently 200 meters in the air, and her teleportation magic was not enough to get there quickly.

Before the blood wave could completely engulf and devour Andri, Teach gave an urgent order.

In fact, without any command, when Andri was in danger of dying, the dragon Ambrosia swooped down from the sky. It quickly arrived above the castle and covered Andri with a breath of fire.

The extremely high temperature of the dragon's breath vaporized Marcus's incoming blood, preventing it from reaching Andri. Because Andri was a dragonkin, he possessed a certain degree of resistance and immunity to the dragon's breath.

Therefore, as long as Amori's breath fire on Andri continues, Andri will be safe.

But the silver-haired Teach knew that Anmoly's breath couldn't keep going indefinitely, so he said to Anbilan and the other two, "Use your dragon breath to burn away the blood waves that want to devour Andri."

"Xia Ke, you stay here and use your 'Fierce Fire' to continue burning away the blood that fills the sky on the island."

With the help of Anbilan, the other two, and the dragon girl Anmoli's dragon breath rescue, Andri successfully escaped the danger of being devoured by Marcus.

Just as the flames were steadily burning the blood, Marcus, whose whereabouts were unknown, manipulated the sea of ​​blood, transforming it into countless outstretched blood hands that reached out to grab the dragon sorcerers in the sky.

As long as this blood-infused hand, imbued with bat venom, can grasp any dragon sorcerer, Marcus can transform him into a vampire and make him a blood slave.

Silver-haired Teach watched as dozens of bloody hands chased after Anbilan and the others who were flying and dodging. He took out the enchanted silver spear from the arms of Dragon Girl Xia Ke again, and then aimed at a bloody hand that was about to catch up with Qi Luoluo and shot it.

Then, the enchanted bullets were fired in succession with precision, defeating the pursuing Blood Hands one by one, but this was only a desperate act of resistance.

After a brief pause, the bloodied hand, shattered by the bullet, was reconnected by blood and continued to pose an untouchable threat to Anbilan and the others.

Silver-haired Teach reached into the bag behind his waist to estimate how much ammunition he had left. After confirming that he still had plenty of bullets, he began a war of attrition against Marcus's Blood Hand technique.

The key to winning the war of attrition lies in Shake Karl's [Fiercefire].

Fiendfire is a kind of magical fire that can burn indefinitely. It will burn everything it touches to ashes, and absorb the heat and energy generated by the burning into itself, making the flames grow bigger and bigger like a snowball, burning more and more fiercely, until there is nothing left to burn and it will automatically extinguish itself after the energy is exhausted.

As far as Teach Carl knew, there was a way to extinguish Fiendfire: by covering it with magic of equal power to the burning flames.

But once the Fiendfire started, it was unstoppable. Its energy increased continuously as it burned, and in the end, Teach couldn't even estimate how much magic would be needed to extinguish it.

Therefore, the most effective method is to kill the one who releases the Fiend before the flames ignite, nipping the fire in the bud.

Or extinguish the fire in its initial stages.

While Silver-haired Teach was using his enchanted silver spear to shoot at Amblan and the others, whose dragon breath was unable to completely defend against the other blood hands, his eyes were also focused on the battle between 'Fiercefire' and 'Sea of ​​Blood' on the island.

Looking at the sea of ​​blood, Teach finally understood where everyone in the Muggle neighborhood had disappeared to, and why not a single wizard from the MacFastie family had come out to fight so far.

How many people has this vampire, who clings to life, actually killed?

Human lives... to Marcus, who was not bound by the constraints of superior blood relatives, were just reserves of food. If there was enough food, he could consume it however he wanted.

Upon sensing that 01 had lost contact and was missing, and upon learning that the experiment had failed after more than 600 years, Marcus completely lost patience and placed all his hopes on the silver-haired Teach, who had knowledge of array formations.

Marcus figured that if 01 had failed, then this silver-haired Teach must be very strong. So, to ensure everything went smoothly, Marcus killed all the useless reserve food, creating this sea of ​​blood.

To be honest, a sea of ​​blood that could spread across the entire island is a bit of an overkill, but in Marcus's value system, is it important? Is it a waste?

It's not important at all, and it's not a waste at all.

It's just some reserve food anyway; there are plenty of people in this world.

It's worth it to use useless things to obtain important things, it's extremely worth it.

Marcus hid in the blood-soaked forest, his gaze fixed on the dozens of bloody hands that were futilely pursuing the dragon shaman, before turning to the silver-haired Teach high in the sky and Shake, the one who was 'most important' to him.

The perfect human-dragon, neither human nor dragon, nor a magical creature without intelligence, is a new and powerful life form that can freely switch between human and dragon forms... Xia Ke.

This is Marcus's goal; this is what he wants to relinquish his vampire powers and identity, and replace himself with a powerful species of life form.

A long-lived organism that can see sunlight, can do human things, has no defects, and will never lose its wisdom and reason because of defects.

[If I get her, if I get her body, then I can escape the endless darkness... For so many years, I've forgotten what it feels like to have the sun shining on my skin.]

[Obtain her, obtain the knowledge of the alchemy array possessed by that silver-haired Teach, enslave her, enslave her to serve me for eternity, enslave her to create an immortal and miraculous life form for me, so that I can constantly change bodies and achieve immortality.]

With this thought in mind, Marcus's gaze toward the two 'women' high in the sky grew increasingly ardent and impatient.

Marcus raised his hand, and from the sea of ​​blood beneath his feet emerged a dead creature composed of blood and dragon bone remains... the Blood Corpse Dragon.

Blood Corpse Dragons come in all sizes, from 13 meters to less than a meter.

These blood-corpse dragons were all created by Marcus by draining the black dragons raised by the McFastie family in the forest, regardless of size. They were then absorbed into the sea of ​​blood and transformed into dead creatures.

At Marcus's command, hundreds upon hundreds of blood-corpse dragons of various sizes flapped their wings and attacked Teach and Shake high in the sky: "I need chaos, I need to get close to them in chaos."

Marcus spread his bat-like blood wings and slowly rose into the air amidst the horde of blood-corpse dragons, flying towards the safe zone surrounded by dragon breath and fiery demonic flames.