The gentle breeze brushed over the resilient weeds growing on the desolate land.
The lieutenant and the hastily arrived Puki Army stood on one side of the weeds, while Inanna, surrounded by the adoring storm elental spirits, stood on the other side.
They gazed at each other from a distance, with a regrettable barrier of wind and lightning between them.
The lieutenant was the first to break the silence, "Miss Inanna, what... exactly is going on here?"
"I have no idea!" Inanna’s voice was equally bewildered. She looked at the docile storm elental spirits around her, hesitantly guessing, "Maybe... it’s because of my talent?"
Lin Jun, however, saw it clearly.
[Favor of the Elental Spirits: Elental spirits will assist the spellcaster in controlling spells]
This was a fixed status Inanna gained upon reaching Level 30, not a skill.
The consistent effect was to make all of Inanna’s skills automated, with auto-targeting, auto-defense, and auto-follow.
This talent was indeed quite powerful; Lin Jun even imagined what a terrifying sight it would be if it appeared on a full-level Great Mage.
Unfortunately, Inanna was a weakling.
She was a well-fed and carefree weakling.
A comfortably living novice lacking a sense of urgency. Norris started later than her, initially being at the bottom Copper Level, but is now already Level 39 and about to reach Gold Level.
And when Inanna left the Underground City, she was already Silver Level, yet she has only managed to reach Level 34, clearly showing her laxity.
Of course, this speed is not too slow among ordinary humans.
Lin Jun thinks this is mainly due to his "advanced" training system, far surpassing that of the Duke’s Mansion!
In short, this powerful talent in Inanna’s hands, Lin Jun originally thought, could only accompany her in playing so spells like child’s play, with little chance of shining brilliantly.
Now it seems, there is an unexpected use!
Recalling carefully, the na of this status does ntion "elental spirits" explicitly.
But Lin Jun previously assud that it referred to the omnipresent, intangible spell-casting elent diums.
Who would have thought that the visible and tangible, even physically attacking storm elental spirits would count?!
Following this logic, could an existence at the level of an Elental Lord... also be included?
There is still one left beneath the Northern Territory!
Tsk.
He suddenly had a craving for so Pink Puki again.
Lin Jun often lanted over his excessively noble moral standards, which severely limited his path to becoming stronger at will...
Sigh, being a mushroom with high morals is really hard!
Here, the storm elents surrounded Inanna, forming a natural barrier of wind and thunder.
The lieutenant tried several tis to approach but was repelled by the electric arcs released by the elental spirits.
Although the storm elents restrained their sharpness, if one squeezes into their bodies, they will still be electrocuted.
The current situation left the lieutenant sowhat helpless.
It was fortunate that the storm elental spirit army didn’t tear them apart, but how could the young Lady Inanna, surrounded by hundreds of storm elents and accompanied only by three Pukis, be rescued?
If it had been soone else in this situation, even if he, the lieutenant, were trapped,
the army could choose to advance first, given the urgency of the battle.
But leaving the young chief behind is a bit too...
Not to ntion, Inanna commands eight thousand elite mushrooms, and from a few days of observation, the lieutenant feels that these eight thousand mushrooms are perhaps stronger than the remaining forty thousand!
In any case, both publicly and privately, Inanna must be rescued.
But how to rescue her?
The lieutenant dared not attack the storm elents hastily; a disorderly battle would endanger Inanna.
Facing such a situation where they could neither fight nor retreat, the lieutenant could only hope for Inanna to continue working miracles.
He shouted from afar, "Young Lady! Can you try to walk out by yourself?"
"How am I supposed to get out on my own?" Inanna turned in place, surrounded by pulsating wind and thunder elents, unable to find even the slightest gap.
She cautiously took a step forward, and the storm elental spirits surrounding her imdiately synchronized with her, the circle of wind and thunder lights closed tightly, still trapping her in the center.
Inanna: ...
To completely free herself from these elental spirits, there is indeed a theoretical thod.
They erged from elental chaos, with inherently unstable structures.
As long as Inanna stays far from the chaotic area in a normal zone for a while, these storm elental spirits will gradually weaken until they vanish.
But the process is too slow. They can’t afford to wait that long.
Just then, Lin Jun’s voice sounded in her mind, "Little Pink, try to mobilize your magic power?"
"What magic should I use?" Inanna asked instinctively.
"I’m not asking you to cast a specific spell," Lin Jun explained, "just guide your internal and ambient magic power."
The reason for Lin Jun’s suggestion was simple: if a mage wants to "communicate" with elents, it’s undoubtedly through magic power!
Though Inanna didn’t understand this point, since it was the boss’s suggestion...
She obediently raised her magic staff, concentrated, and cautiously initiated the flow of her internal magic power while attempting to resonate with the magical energy in her surroundings.
At the instant the magic started fluctuating, the storm elental spirits that were originally calm beca agitated instantly!
They shifted positions, moved closely, and followed the magic power’s flow, gently drifting... but without a clear target, they soon halted and resud their encircling stance.
After all, Inanna hadn’t cast any actual spells.
Seeing this, Lin Jun suggested again, "This ti, try a Lighting Technique! Cast it far away!"
This was also because Inanna couldn’t use wind magic, or Lin Jun would have suggested that.
Seeing the elental spirits’ reaction earlier, Inanna perked up. Without hesitation, she raised her magic staff, and at the tip, a warm, bright orange-yellow light ball—the most basic lighting technique—quickly ford.
As soon as the light ball appeared, all the storm elental spirits eagerly wanted to approach the pure magic power light source, yet seed hesitant, fearing to harm the near-standing Inanna.
Fortunately, Inanna acted swiftly; as soon as the lighting technique ford, she vigorously swung her magic staff, flinging the light ball like a shot stone toward the open space away from the crowd!
The next mont, an astonishing sight occurred!
The hundreds of storm elental spirits, like a pack of dogs seeing a frisbee, transford into a torrent of wind and thunder, scrambling to chase after the far-flung light ball of the lighting technique!
The grand scene was both spectacular and sowhat comical.
The lieutenant, who had been closely watching the situation, grabbed this fleeting mont and dashed forward to grasp Inanna’s arm, "Young Lady! Now’s our chance, let’s go!"
"Ah... okay! Okay!" Inanna snapped back and hastily followed the lieutenant to run out.
Minutes later, the elental spirits returned and encircled Inanna again, pushing the lieutenant and others outside...
...
At the sa ti, to the northeast of the Red Stone City ruins.
"You said they retreated into Dragon Roar Valley? Good! Good! Good!" Upon seeing the old foe step by step following the ticulously crafted entrapnt plan, Sigmund couldn’t help but say "good" thrice.
Draining the delicious blood he carried, he felt this was the most exhilarating day in decades!
That is, if it weren’t for the voice that ca afterwards...
"Why did you drink my half too?" (Another Chapter before 3 o’clock)
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