HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

Silver-haired Teach saw hundreds of blood-red, skeletal dragon-like creatures emerge from the forest and immediately ordered Andri, Amblan, and the others, "Quickly, gather together to defend against the enemy."

Following orders, Andri flew onto the back of his dragon sister Anmoli after annihilating the bloody hand with a dragon breath, and headed towards the location of Teach and Shake in the sky.

Anbilan, Qiluoluo, and Yewa also boarded their respective dragon mounts and followed closely behind.

After the silver-haired Teach saw everyone gathered, he said to Xia Ke, "Take off..."

Xia Ke flapped her dragon-scale wings to shield Teach from the airflow generated by her rapid ascent, and then stopped 50 meters away from the blood barrier.

After smiling and thanking the considerate Xia Ke, the silver-haired Teach asked her to put her down. Then, standing on the floating alchemy circle, Teach drew an alchemy circle in front of An Bilan and the others.

He then explained, "Infuse your magic into the transmutation circle, and this transmutation circle will condense your magic into a red gem, which is a magic bomb."

Andri saw the Blood Corpse Dragon roaring and flying up below and instantly understood Teach's intention.

He brought the training array to a certain place, infused it with magic power, and then fired the red bomb gem at the corpse dragon below.

The gemstone will explode upon contact.

Upon seeing this, Yeva's eyes widened instantly, as if he had discovered an incredible toy.

Under the command of the silver-haired Teach, Anbilan, along with Kiraro and Yeva, chose a location and began high-altitude bombing.

The explosive power of the ruby ​​is not as great as that of a hand grenade, but it is superior because it is made by refining magic. The dragonman's magic output is greater than that of the wizard, so it can be said that this kind of gem bomb is almost inexhaustible.

The sudden, continuous explosions brought Marcus, who was trying to sneak closer among the blood dragon horde, to a halt. Staring at the walls of flame formed by the constant explosions, he gritted his teeth: [Fuck! Just how much knowledge of transmutation arrays does that silver-haired Teach possess?]

[How come there are so many training formations with various effects and attack functions?]

Marcus watched as hundreds of blood-corpse dragons were torn to pieces in the explosion wall, not far from collapse. Helpless, he could only suppress his anxiety and desire and manipulate the blood to reconstruct the bodies of the corpse dragons.

Not only that, Marcus also diverted his energy to manipulate the blood on the ground that was fighting against Xia Ke's 'Fierce Fire' to rise into the air and slowly press in.

With the continuous replenishment of blood, the Blood Corpse Dragon flapped its blood-red wings and charged upwards with all its might, fueled by the explosive power of the gemstones.

Finally, after several hours of bombardment by gems, Marcus piloted the Blood Corpse Dragon through the blast wall.

Time was of the essence. Marcus waved his arm, summoning all the Blood Corpse Dragons to swarm forward.

Seeing this, Xia Ke no longer focused all her energy on controlling the raging fire to burn the sea of ​​blood. Instead, she took a deep breath, opened her mouth, and let out a magical roar that shook and rippled the air throughout the entire island.

'Roar~~~~'

This dragon's roar lasted for a brief minute.

In that minute, the blood-corpse dragons charging from below were all shattered, their blood dissipating and turning back into their stark white skeletons.

At the same time, the collapse of the Blood Corpse Dragon revealed Marcus, who was hiding within, thwarting his attempt to infiltrate and approach. He looked at the Dragon Girl Xia Ke and cursed inwardly: "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it...!"

The moment the silver-haired Teach noticed, he drew his snake-bone demon gun.

Marcus had witnessed the power of this demonic gun; the poison bullet had blown his head off, rendering him incapacitated and forcing him to expend a large amount of bat blood venom to cleanse the millennium-old serpent monster's deadly poison that had melted from the bullet.

Marcus didn't want to be hit by another of those serpentine poison bullets. Although it wouldn't kill him, it would make it difficult for him to recover.

In his recovered stiffness, the enemy was able to do many things.

A deafening roar erupted from the Serpent Bone Demon Gun. Marcus, his face covered in cold sweat, hurriedly dodged, but the poison bullet's speed of 10 times the speed of sound meant that Marcus was hit just as he was about to move.

Despite the immense power and rapid projectile speed of the Serpent Bone Demon Gun, the poison bullets do not penetrate or explode upon entering the human body. Instead, the serpent toxins within the bullets instantly melt and then poison the flesh.

Marcus covered the spot where he had been hit by the poison bullet in mid-air, trying his best to suppress the pain of his flesh being poisoned and scream out loud.

Marcus quickly turned the hit body parts into blood, and then hurriedly manipulated the bat blood venom in the blood to cleanse them.

Xia Ke caught Teach, who had fallen from the floating alchemy array due to the recoil of the magic spear, and then saw that Marcus had lost a part of his body. She opened her mouth, gathered magic power, and sprayed a Fiery Dragon Breath at Marcus.

In an instant, Marcus, whose body was damaged, was hit directly, and he fell from the sky with his body engulfed in fierce flames.

Andri and the others also opened their mouths and gathered dragon breath, chasing after the falling Marcus.

Marcus, who fell into the sea of ​​blood on the ground, was bombarded and burned by the pursuing dragon's breath. However, in the burning of the dragon's breath, Marcus used a large amount of blood to cover himself and extinguish the flames of the dragon's breath.

He covered and extinguished the fierce demonic flames on his body.

Marcus was in a terrible state, but thanks to the surge of blood he received, he was completely healed.

Seeing this, the silver-haired Teach gripped the snake bone magic spear tightly, gritting his teeth. An enemy that could constantly regenerate its injuries was truly troublesome.

Meanwhile, the fierce flames that Xia Ke used to burn the sea of ​​blood on the ground only managed to burn and evaporate four-tenths of the blood.

After a moment of urgent thought, the silver-haired Teach gritted his teeth and said to Xia Ke, "Xia Ke, take me up, fly to the blood barrier."

"If we continue to wear ourselves down like this, we will gradually lose our resistance. It's time to make some choices and take some risks."

Seeing that Xia Ke was not obeying orders, Teach shouted again, "I command you as your master to take me up."

Under the repeated, irrevocable orders, Shake picked up Teach and took to the air.

Upon reaching the blood barrier, the silver-haired Teach smelled a blood aura that could erode one's mind and reason, and saw in the petrifying demon's eyes a blood toxin that could cause infection and mutation.

Teach did try to break through the blood barrier with the petrification of the Petrifying Eye, but whenever any part of the barrier became petrified, the blood would cover the petrified area, then melt and decompose the petrification, or remove the petrification and form a new blood barrier.

After mentally preparing himself, the silver-haired Teach extended his finger towards the blood screen.

The moment the fingers came into contact with the blood, the blood poison entered Teach's body through the fingers, infecting Teach's human cells.

Having prepared himself mentally, Teach quickly withdrew his fingers upon seeing this, and then drew multiple alchemy arrays on his arm to isolate the abnormality and fight against the blood poison that had invaded his body.

In the struggle, Teach once again used his magic circuits to squeeze the life force out of his body, and as the life force was squeezed out, his hair turned white strand by strand.

When the blood poison invaded Teach's body, Marcus, the source of the blood, sensed it.

Marcus smiled excitedly, watching the silver-haired Teach in the sky, controlling the extent to which the blood poison invaded Teach's body.

And so, in his struggle against the effects of the alchemy circle, Teach painstakingly began to depict the 'analysis alchemy circle of decomposition and recombination' on the blood screen.

At this moment, Xia Ke also learned of Teach's purpose, and so she shouted angrily at Andri, Yeva, Anbilan, and Qiluoluo, the four people and four dragons in mid-air below.

“Hold Marcus back, prevent him from concentrating on controlling the blood poison. If you can’t do it, then… I’ll kill you first.”

Andri and the others could clearly feel the undeniable killing intent in Xia Ke's tone, so they all gathered their dragon breath and attacked Marcus.

Amidst the disturbance caused to Marcus by Andri and the others, Silver-haired Teach felt the invasion of blood poison in his body slow down considerably. Taking advantage of this time, Silver-haired Teach accelerated the inscription of the analysis alchemy array in his hands.

Marcus watched as the silver-haired Teach gradually completed the analyzed alchemy array amidst the destruction and restoration of the seven dragon breaths, his heart nearly breaking.

Although he didn't know what the transmutation circle would do, he could guess from the fact that he had lost his Oath Spell: [He couldn't let her finish inscribing it, and he couldn't let them break through the barrier and escape].

Marcus angrily flapped his wings, trying to fly, but was repeatedly burned by the dragon's breath fire.

Xia Ke's killing intent was real, and the human-dragon Xia Ke also had the strength to kill Andri and the others. They had finally been rescued by Teach and regained their freedom, and they did not want to die.

Marcus tried his best to stop them, and so did Andri and the others.

finally......

The analysis and formation training are complete.

Silver-haired Teach, his face contorted with the veins of blood poison infecting him, turned around as his blood barrier shattered. He calmly looked at Marcus, who had just taken to mid-air, and said, "You've come at the perfect time. It's noon now."

"I wonder how long it's been since you, this unusual vampire, have basked in the sun?"

Under the dazzling sunlight, Marcus stretched out his bloodied hand in despair towards the silver-haired Teach high in the sky, before turning into a wisp of ashes in the warm sun.