Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Chapter 153: Chapter 53: The Pursuit

Ball-sized spheres, adorned with energy arcs, flew towards the wizards and melted the Second Ring Wizard leading the charge almost instantaneously.

The wizards behind quickly erected magic barriers, but without the cooperative spellcasting techniques of the White Wizards, the ordinary One Ring wizards’ magic barriers could not withstand even a single acid ball. The Second Ring Wizards faced multiple Mother Goddess Cannons firing simultaneously, leading to their magic barriers being shattered.

“Damn it, that bastard Declan, did his brain get chewed on by a pig? To be outwitted by native bugs!”

A Second Ring Black Wizard cursed furiously, noting that the bugs were well-prepared, even employing strategic weapons like the Mother Goddess Cannons. It was clear they had long-planned this ambush.

Their smooth progress up to now seemed entirely to be a deliberate setup by the bugs.

The Puppet Wizard was clearly caught in their trap.

Yet, cursing solved nothing. Facing the targeted fire of the Mother Goddess Cannons, the wizards had no choice but to temporarily retreat, withdrawing from the tunnels.

“Scatter and break through!”

After exiting the tunnel, a Second Ring wizard made a decisive call to split up, immediately darting towards a small adjacent tunnel.

Although these tunnels were cramped with only enough room for a wizard at a time, their sheer abundance meant the bugs couldn’t install a Mother Goddess Cannon in every single one.

With a flash, he appeared at the mouth of a tunnel, but before he could enter, a loud boom shattered his plans.

Boom!

A thunderous noise erupted from inside the tunnels, causing them to collapse instantaneously.

Simultaneously, on the periphery of the Mother Goddess Temple Settlement, dozens of small tunnels also erupted with booms.

The bugs had sealed all the small tunnels!

At the same time, inside the Mother Goddess Temple, the High Priest had completed sealing a Puppet Wizard.

Looking at the fist-sized Starlight Cage in his hands, the High Priest gave a cruel smile and swallowed it whole.

Then, with a flap of his wings, he instantly appeared in the grand hall at the top of the pyramid.

Seeing that the wizards had not yet broken through, the High Priest breathed a sigh of relief.

“It looks like I haven’t delayed too long.”

Without pausing, he placed the recently imprisoned Starlight Net in the divine statue’s hands. As he recited a prayer, the statue seemed to shed its seals, and a storm of energy burst forth, threatening to tear the High Priest to shreds.

The High Priest snorted coldly, his body suddenly gleaming with a layer of Starlight Armor.

The energy storm struck it without causing even a ripple.

The site of each Mother Goddess Temple wasn’t chosen randomly; beneath each one lay an Earth Vein Spring Eye, which periodically unleashed energy storms that normally were contained only by the power of faith within the divine statues.

From the black crystal on his forehead, the High Priest sent streams of spiritual power guiding the storm, channeling all the energy into the Starlight Net.

With such tremendous energy, the relic of the Mother Worm God quickly merged with the ground. An energy web spread rapidly from the temple toward the settlement.

His goal was to trap all the wizards within the Earth Cave!

…

“Gah, Richard, I have a bad feeling.”

Standing on Richard’s shoulder, Ulysses suddenly opened his eyes, his divine intuition telling him something had changed in the settlement.

“A bad feeling?”

Ulysses suddenly turned his head towards the temple: “Gah, switch on your energy vision and check if there’s anything unusual about that old bug’s temple.”

Richard complied immediately, his vision switching to energy vision, his expression instantly turning grim. In his sight, streams of energy were rapidly intertwining, spreading out from the Mother Goddess Temple like a vast net, about to reach their location in seconds.

“Gah, what do you see?” Ulysses asked anxiously.

Due to a soul injury, his perception could only vaguely sense something approaching, but he was unable to discern any specifics.

“Run! Something’s spreading out from the Mother Goddess Temple!”

Richard shouted to the other wizards, and his body immediately flew towards the tunnel.

Whatever this vast net was, it wasn’t anything good for the wizards.

“Ulysses, take the lead, don’t hold back now, or we’re all done for!”

Hearing this, Ulysses flew ahead of Richard, his black flames flaring tremendously, drawing the attention of many wizards with its fierce energy wave.

“That energy fluctuation… it’s already at Second-level creature; isn’t that guy just a One Ring Wizard?” A Second Ring Wizard watching Richard expressed his surprise internally.

And seeing Ulysses’s aura, he was definitely no ordinary Second-level creature, perhaps even comparable to a Second Ring Wizard.

But now was not the time to ponder other wizards’ secrets. As the wizards saw someone charging ahead and heard Richard’s warning, they immediately followed, ready to burst through.

Leading the way, Ulysses trailed a long black tail flame behind him, resembling a black phoenix.

Seeing the breakout attempt, the bugs immediately activated the Mother Goddess Cannons, loading them with green masses. A barrage of arc acid liquid balls sped towards Ulysses.

“Gah, Richard, let me show you my true power!”

Ulysses grew substantially in size, resembling a liberated Swallowing Sky Demon Bird, spewing a black firestorm from his mouth that incinerated most of the acid balls in an instant.

Of the few that reached him, Ulysses shrunk again, nimbly weaving through the gaps of the colliding acid balls, completely unscathed.

The acid balls exploded into a cloud of green acid mist upon collision.

Seizing the firing gap created by Ulysses, a dozen Second Ring Wizards fortified with a Magic Barrier charged forward through the acid mist, their Magic Wands instantly blasting out a barrage of Spells.

Boom!

The Spells exploded on a curtain of light.

The Sacrificial Insects set up the Starlight Barrier; after years of war, the Black Crystal Insects had also learned how to counter the Wizards’ Spells.

The Warrior Worms stood in front of the small Mother Goddess Cannons, their Blade Arms gleaming coldly, ready to face the incoming Wizard Monsters.

Facing the Wizard Monsters, they were all determined to fight to the death.

Behind them, the second round of firing from the Mother Goddess Cannons was about to be complete.

“Damn it, you guys owe me a favor this time!”

A Second Ring Wizard saw this scene, hardened his heart, and sent a Spiritual Message to several nearby Second Ring Wizards.

Sizzle…

A metallic friction sound entered the ears of the Warrior Worms.

The next instant, a metallic giant serpent emerged from underneath the robe of the Second Ring Wizard and rushed towards them.

The giant serpent’s body was covered in metallic scales, etched with Runes that cleverly formed a Rune Array.

With a loud “boom,” the metallic giant serpent exploded instantly, its scattered scales shredding the insects’ defenses.

Warrior Worms, Starlight Barrier, under the power akin to a Second Ring Wizard self-destruction, were instantly ripped apart.

The Wizard who released the metallic giant serpent coughed once, a mouthful of fresh blood falling to the ground.

This attack had nearly depleted ninety percent of his power.

The other Second Ring Wizards did not let his sacrifice be in vain and instantly took his place.

In an instant, Spells flew thick and fast, and insects that came to fill the gap were instantly shredded.

Wizards trailing behind each contributed their own power, and a torrent of Spells instantly tore through the insects’ defenses.

Richard mixed in with them, moving swiftly forward. Suddenly, he shivered, a strong surge of energy fluttered over everyone’s perception.

An enormous net of light rose from the edge of the settlement, instantly enveloping the entire settlement, turning those Wizards who had not broken out into birds in a cage, fish in a net.

“That was close, just a few seconds!”

If not for Richard’s warning, they, like the three batches of Wizards before them, would all have been trapped in the settlement.

“Young man, I owe you a favor.” A Second Ring Wizard approached Richard and handed him a card, “If you need help, you can find me at 372, Level 7 of the residential area.”

“I owe you one, too.”

“Me too.”

In a moment, Richard received dozens of business cards from Second Ring Wizards and over a hundred from One Ring Wizards.

Each of these cards represented a favor; if Richard needed help, these people would not necessarily go all out, but would at least offer their assistance to the best of their ability.

With the rise of the Starlight Net, the High Priest in the Mother Goddess Temple stopped guiding, and the entire swarm relaxed.

A Priest Insect came up to his side and draped a pure white silk cloak over his shoulders.

“Inhardt, did you capture that Wizard Monster?” the High Priest asked the Priest Insect beside him.

Inhardt, feeling ashamed, bowed his head, “High Priest, I have failed your expectations; the Wizard Monster escaped from my hands once again.”

“Again?” The High Priest noted Inhardt’s choice of words.

“High Priest, this Wizard is the same one I pursued into the Source Sea Abyss; he escaped from there and has greatly enhanced his power,” Inhardt reported truthfully.

Although he hadn’t personally clashed with Richard, the energy fluctuations within Richard and the vitality he exuded were much stronger than when he had last seen him.

Moreover, that black bird had also become more formidable.

If it weren’t for the distinctive features of this man and bird, he would have thought he recognized the wrong Wizard.

“Coming out of the Source Sea Abyss stronger…” The High Priest pondered for a moment as an ancient legend appeared in his mind.

In the history of the Black Crystal Insects, many Priest Insects had explored the origin of the Mother Worm God.

Unlike the common Black Crystal Insects’ fanatical beliefs in the Mother Worm God, not all Priest Insects shared this zeal.

There was a branch among the Priest Insects that held no belief in the Mother Worm God.

These insects had always existed in the history of the Black Crystal Insects, and they had brought many different things to the Black Crystal Insects.

For instance… the origin of the Mother Worm God.

Some Priest Insects had inferred through unverifiable clues that the Mother Worm God was originally one of the demons of the Source Sea Abyss, who had merely seized a great opportunity to stand out and become a powerful being capable of contending with the World Mushroom.

Reflecting on this, the High Priest ordered Inhardt:

“Inhardt, take a squad of Mother Worm Guards and capture that Wizard Monster.”

“Ah? But I might not be able to find him, High Priest.”

The High Priest suddenly closed his eyes, and a beam of light shot from his Black Crystal into Inhardt’s Black Crystal.

“They took away my Divine Statue, and the Power of Faith inside it, though shielded by their small space, can still be sensed by you.”

“Remember, you must capture him.”

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