Mr. Pei Di canceled the effect of Tan Sen's transformation spell and waved his hand to cast Invisibility and Greater Flight on Sir John Aston. He said, "Fly towards the southeast, towards Antalya. The mage guards and I will buy you some time. Don't look back."
Auston decisively said, "Take care." Without hesitation, he rose into the air and flew towards the lake in the southeast.
After sending Auston off, Principal Pei Di began to cast all sorts of defensive spells on himself.
His fingers, wrists, ankles, neck, head … Magical light flashed continuously from every part of his body. After all the magical items had been activated, Pei Di took out scrolls from the leather pouch on his waist that was specially used to store scrolls. It was as if they were free.
After seven to eight scrolls, Pei Di began to cast spells from the spell slots …
The three platoons of the Mage Guards, which consisted of a hundred and fifty Intermediate Warriors, had only bought less than a minute for Headmaster Pei Di. In that one minute, Headmaster Pei Di cast nearly thirty different status spells on himself.
Many of these status spells were not even defensive spells.
After destroying the three companies of mage guards, the ogres began to close in on them.
The ogre wizard at the back of the ogre army glanced in the direction Auston had fled. He hesitated for a moment, but did not pursue.
However, Pei Di saw this and immediately determined that the ogres' target was Sir John Aston, not him.
The remaining two companies guarding Pei Di did not need Pei Di's order. They stepped forward and blocked in front of him. The captain of the guards and the two company captains stood at the front of the guards.
The captain of the mage guards was a level 11 arcane knight named Alva. He was a famous powerhouse in Antalya and was also Pei Di's nephew.
Two high-grade ogre priests roared and charged towards the mage guards.
Pei Di did not help his nephew. He raised his staff and aimed it at the high-grade ogre wizard at the back of the ogre army.
The advanced ogre Adept also stopped in his tracks and pointed his staff at Pei Di.
"Dispel Magic!" … "Dispel Magic!" … "Dispel Magic!" … "Dispel Magic!" … "Dispel Magic!" …
Pei Di and the ogre wizard did not hesitate to cast the same spells.
The rings on their hands flickered one after another, and one Dispel Magic Spell after another was thrown at each other.
Pei Di had five magic rings on his right hand. Three of them were dispel spells, while the other two were high-level dispel spells.
For a mage to kill another mage, they had to break through the layers of defensive spells on the mage. The best way to break a mage's tortoise shell was to dispel the spells.
In order to prevent the enemy from dispelling their truly powerful defensive spells, mages would cast some cheap spells on top of their truly powerful defensive spells to waste the enemy's spells.
That was why Pei Di had cast nearly thirty spells on himself before the start of the battle.
Dispel Magic was an instantaneous spell. The so-called instantaneous spell meant that the spell took form and took effect in the blink of an eye. For example, offensive spells like Fireball were instantaneous spells.
The counterpart of instantaneous spells was continuous spells. For example, Invisibility was a continuous spell.
Instantaneous spells would consume a large amount of energy the moment they were cast. The peak energy of the instantaneous spell was far greater than continuous spells. It could even reach tens of times the former.
Therefore, it was very difficult to make instantaneous spell items. The cost of the materials was also very high. This was all in order to withstand the enormous and temporary peak energy of instantaneous spells.
Even if the materials used were exquisite, the lifespan of instantaneous spell items was also very short.
Take the Invisibility Ring for example. An Invisibility Ring could continuously cast invisibility on its owner for about three days. The total duration was equivalent to more than four hundred invisibility spells. However, an instantaneous spell item of the same level could only cast less than a hundred spells repeatedly before it became useless.
Another problem with instantaneous spells was that the supply of energy was also very difficult. In order to meet the huge energy consumption of instantaneous spells, the instantaneous spell item had to be of a higher level and equipped with magic gems. At the same time, the energy supply circuit had to be exceptionally sturdy. Even so, instantaneous spells could not be cast continuously. There had to be a period of time to accumulate energy. This was why instantaneous spell items had the concept of cooldown after use.
The cooldown of the Dispel Magic Ring was generally ten seconds. The reason why Pei Di wore three Dispel Magic Rings at the same time was to reduce the cooldown with quantity.
The Ogre Wizard opposite him had as many Dispel Magic items as Pei Di did. Therefore, at the stage of throwing Dispel Magic at each other, the two could be considered to be tied.
"Dispel Magic!" … "Dispel Magic" … "Dispel Magic" … "Dispel Magic" … Failure!
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Pei Di immediately activated the other two magic rings on his right hand.
"Greater Dispel Magic!" … "Greater Dispel Magic!"
Pei Di was extremely focused on analyzing every spell that his opponent had dispelled. This was very important. Through this kind of spell identification, Pei Di could roughly guess what spells his opponent had left. After all, there were only so many intermediate and advanced defensive or buff spells. Moreover, according to the rules of arcane magic, two identical spells could not be used on the same target at the same time. This was because if the same magic circuit was used on the same target at the same time, it would create a phenomenon of magic resonance, ultimately causing the two spells to collapse.
"Stoneskin, Lesser Spell Nullification Barrier, Greater Force Field Armour, Spell Nullification Barrier!"
It was him!
After the Spell Nullification Barrier was dispelled, Pei Di immediately cast a spell that no one had expected.
"Dimensional Anchor!"
After being hit by the Dimensional Anchor, the ogre wizard was obviously stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand why his opponent would use such a useless spell at this critical moment of life and death.
But in the next moment, he understood because in the next moment, Pei Di had already turned and flew away. Looking at the speed of his opponent's flight, it was obviously a level 5 spell, Greater Fly.
Not only was Advanced Fly faster than Fly, but the duration was also much longer. Fly could only last for five minutes, while Advanced Fly could last for an hour.
Ordinary Fly's flight speed was about the same as a horse's wild gallop, but Greater Fly's flight speed was faster than most birds, and could even reach 200 km/h.
The clever ogre wizard quickly understood that this human mage didn't intend to fight to the death with him at all. The reason he madly used Dispel Magic and Greater Dispel Magic was only to dispel the Lesser Spell Nullification Barrier and Spell Nullification Barrier. After dispelling these two spells, he would also be locked by the Dimensional Anchor and lose his ability to teleport. Otherwise, even with Greater Fly, he would definitely not be able to escape through the Anywhere Door.
As for why his opponent wanted to escape, one only needed to look at the battlefield to understand.