Chapter 333 The 5 Great Extreme Wizard Apprentices Gather, Fire Core Fusion

The purple mist spread rapidly. Its molecules moved at an incredible speed, neutralizing the substances in theair as it filled every corner.

Even the thin clouds in the sky were shrouded. This was a hyper-concentrated toxic gas—a miasma derived from the Extraordinary Properties of Duoguyin’s Level 1 Extraordinary Bloodline: the Mandala Purple Snake.

The released toxic gas was infused with Duoguyin’s Particle Energy. With her Mind Manipulation, she could alter its physical form at will.

Like so… Her gaze turned cold as she abruptly clenched her right fist. As the vast purple mist swamped Wang Ya’s position, it also converged, forming a gigantic purple hand.

BOOM!

A violent crash echoed. Although it lacked the explosive spread of Elemental Witchcraft, it possessed an equally extraordinary mass and weight.

The kinetic energy from its descent pressed the ground down a full inch, leaving a strikingly clear palm print.

But this wasn’t the purple mist’s most significant trait. The ground it touched was left with a speckled purple residue, a truly bizarre sight.

CHHSS!

It was the sound of something melting away, like snow under intense heat.

Duoguyin’s eyes narrowed. ‘Just as I thought. He’s not dead.’

Watching the black, fluid-like substance completely annihilate the purple mist and the giant hand into nothingness, her suspicion was confirmed.

It was a type of Particle Energy that had undergone Particle Energy Property Changes. She just had no idea of its origin. It was a Special Particle Energy she had never encountered before.

Its properties and traits were also a complete unknown.

All Duoguyin could discern for now was its trait of annihilation on contact.

It was incredibly powerful and extremely troublesome.

Wang Ya slowly emerged from the purple mist. A deep black Particle Energy surrounded him, so dense it was almost tangible. It pulsed outward in ring-shaped shockwaves, dispersing more and more of the purple mist.

Duoguyin’s heart grew heavy. ‘This Wang Ya Harak defies all logic.’ Generally, the stage where one attempts Particle Energy Property Changes was at the Extreme Wizard Apprentice Level.

The property change itself requires Particle Energy to reach a certain intensity just to have a decent chance of success.

But it was still an incredibly difficult process. Even she hadn’t managed to complete her own Particle Energy’s property change.

‘He’s a true monster.’

Duoguyin finally agreed with what Rilis had said. If Wang Ya Harak was allowed to develop, never mind anything else, simply advancing to the Extreme Wizard Apprentice Level would make him an incredibly troublesome opponent.

Sunlight streamed through the gap cleared by the Burning Silence Particle Energy, illuminating Wang Ya and stretching his shadow long behind him. His robes hung loosely as he extended a pale finger, pointing it directly at Duoguyin. From behind the hollows of his Black Lotus Mask, his impassive black eyes betrayed no emotion.

Wang Ya had grown to a height of one meter ninety, and compared to Duoguyin, who stood at around one meter seventy, it was as if he were looking down on her.

On his shoulder, Harak’s tri-colored gray, white, and black pupils reflected Duoguyin’s naked, proud, and disheveled form. A black substance gathered at the corner of the crow’s eyes, then dripped to the ground, splashing and staining the soil black.

Defeated Black Eye

Duoguyin’s pupils contracted as she sensed something was wrong. Her Particle Energy and her very body were weakening. She snapped her gaze to her arm, where a faint black aura coiled, relentlessly suppressing her peak condition.

‘Damn it, is it that crow?’

‘This is something that not even *that* person informed me about.’

Both the Special Particle Energy and that black-and-white crow were unknown variables.

This gap in intelligence put Duoguyin on the back foot.

BOOM!

The ground suddenly cracked open, and one after another, ferocious giant purple snakes shot out. They opened their cavernous maws and lunged at Wang Ya.

There was a massive number of them, each one nearly at the level of a High-tier Extraordinary Creature. One even exuded the aura of a Beast King.

Wang Ya’s brow furrowed, but he still used his Burning Silence Particle Energy to form a Particle Energy Shield around himself.

He reacted as if he truly hadn’t anticipated it.

The purple giant snakes appeared at a critical moment, right as he was about to cast his Witchcraft. Duoguyin’s combat experience was clearly profound.

An Extraordinary Creature at the Beast King Level was something even Wang Ya had to take seriously.

ROAR!

A pained, screeching roar.

The moment the giant snake’s maw touched the Burning Silence Particle Energy, it was instantly melted by the contained, extreme heat, leaving not a single trace of material residue behind.

The Burning Silence Particle Energy was constantly undergoing Fire Core Fission, releasing high-intensity energy. Simultaneously, this released energy was channeled through secondary Fission Daos and reintegrated via Fire Core Fusion, achieving an incredibly stable balance.

In essence, it achieved its property change through the secondary rotation and vibration of the particle Fire Cores, completing a conversion of its own kinetic energy, thermal energy, and even matter.

Fire Core Fusion can only be completed under ultra-high temperatures and pressures. The energy inputs from Fire Core Fission are what produce this stable, ultra-high temperature and pressure.

In other words, unless one could overcome the ultra-high temperature and pressure of the Burning Silence Particle Energy, no Witchcraft or physical substance could harm Wang Ya’s body inside the Particle Shield.

The ultra-high temperature facilitated the ultra-high pressure, and in turn, the ultra-high pressure maintained the stability of the ultra-high-temperature-based Fire Core Fusion.

Even Wang Ya himself had not yet tested the limits of this ultra-high-pressure protection.

The Eye of Truth calculated that only an Official Wizard, or Witchcraft approaching a power of 50 degrees, could shatter this stable state.

However, the purple giant snakes did successfully stall Wang Ya for a moment.

A triumphant glint flashed in Duoguyin’s eyes as her lips curved into a smirk.

Her figure vanished.

The surrounding purple mist began to converge, forming gigantic Cross Longswords. The blades were a full two hundred meters long, their number matching that of the giant snakes. Their aura was terrifying, and the Particle Energy fluctuations were immense.

‘So what if he has a Special Particle Energy? I found my own path, fusing my Particle Energy with my innate purple mist. I’ve achieved my own version of a property change.’

‘Even if it’s a step weaker than a true particle property change, it’s more than enough to fight back!’

“Die! I absolutely cannot let you survive.”

Duoguyin felt a surge of relief. ‘Thank goodness I encountered Wang Ya Harak while I’m still a Level 3 Apprentice.’

‘I have no confidence I could defeat him if he reached the Extreme Wizard Apprentice Level.’ She had to admit, Wang Ya was putting her under an unprecedented amount of pressure.

That was why she had used her most powerful technique.

「Meanwhile.」

“This is a bit much, isn’t it? She’s even using the Mandala Sword. What the hell is Duoguyin thinking? Isn’t she just fighting a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice? Even if he was an Extreme Wizard Apprentice, there’s no need to make such a scene.”

Johnson coughed. At his feet lay the corpse of a Wizard, its entire body corroded by a green substance—another type of Special Particle Energy, it seemed.

He stared in astonishment at the distant sky, where enormous purple longswords hung amidst the clouds, wreathed in purple mist. The terrifying fluctuations of Particle Energy had completely dispersed the cloud layer.

He had rarely seen Duoguyin use a technique of this magnitude.

She typically only used it when facing a powerful foe.

In a corner of the outer city, Aiden stepped out of a Wizard Shop, having just killed the Wizard owner inside. He looked up at the purple giant swords in the distant sky, a puzzled look in his eyes.

‘Why is Duoguyin using her strongest form of Witchcraft? Did something unexpected happen?’

As far as he knew, she was only dealing with a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice. A display of this scale should have been completely unnecessary.

Mo Kui stopped in his tracks. He turned to stare at the distant sky as well, his scarlet Artificial Eye analyzing the Witchcraft fluctuations. He then immediately headed for that location.

‘Any potential complications must be eliminated.’

Aiden contacted Johnson through a special method, telling him to pause their slaughter and head to Duoguyin’s position first.

“Boring, just so boring. And here I thought I’d met a resilient Wizard who could give me a little fun.”

White Rat squatted, poking the Wizard’s corpse on the ground with a finger. The body was clad in a Law Enforcement Wizard Robe. Its face was almost completely mangled—half of it eaten away to the bone—but one could still faintly recognize the features of Rod Stark.

“Hey, hey, hey, show me some of that resilience! Don’t die so fast, I haven’t had my fill of fun yet.”

White Rat stood up, stretching lazily and cracking his joints. “So dull. A member of the Dark Hand from the Dark Land, a Child of the Dark… Is this all the power you have?”

He didn’t feel the slightest bit of shame for an Extreme Wizard Apprentice like himself killing a mere Level 3 Wizard Apprentice.

On the contrary, he considered it a great honor.

“I killed a Child of the Dark. That should make me a little more valuable in the eyes of the higher-ups.”

White Rat mused to himself, a brilliant smile plastered on his face.

He kicked Rod Stark’s corpse. “Hey, little ones,” he yelled, “don’t be so rough! Leave the bones and skin, and don’t you dare ruin the clothes. That robe is the most valuable part!”

SQUEAK SQUEAK!

Squeaking sounds emanated from within Rod Stark’s corpse, as if in response.

Individual shapes could be seen squirming within the abdominal and thoracic cavities. Some had already started to gnaw on Rod Stark’s brain.

White Rat sensed something. He turned and saw the multiple purple giant swords in the distant sky. His eyes widened, and a wide grin split his face. “How interesting! Duoguyin’s actually fighting for her life. She never put on a show like this even when we fought.”

“Things over there must be getting really interesting.”

White Rat stuffed Rod Stark’s corpse into his Wizard’s Ring. One by one, black and white rats scurried up his arms and disappeared into the left and right sleeves of his Wizard Robe.

He set off toward the location of the purple giant swords with quick, mincing steps.

It looked like he was just taking a stroll, but his pace was incredibly fast—quicker than the average person’s sprint.

Behind him, a black tide of rats swarmed out from the buildings lining the street. They were numerous, black in color, and varied in size—they seemed to be the subterranean rats native to the Wizard City.

Under White Rat’s control, they followed in his wake.

The four Extreme Wizard Apprentices from the Natural Ring Tower, all located within White Lake Wizard City, were now converging on Duoguyin and Wang Ya’s battlefield.