"You don't have anything to be busy with right now, Leoric."
North's tone was very casual, as though he was talking to an ordinary passerby. The reason why he didn't say 'friend' was because he couldn't treat anyone as his friend — because that usually meant that he had to entrust his back to them, and to North, that was a taboo that couldn't be touched.
No one was born an Undead creature, and it was the same for Nois. Nois had suffered too much from the painful memories of his past. Even though his strength could be said to be the best in the continent, no one could be his friend.
Once was enough to betray him.
"Yes."
Leoric did not look back. This lonely monarch was still standing in the cold wind, and North's expression did not change in the slightest. He looked at Hellinus, the Abyss Emissary, and smiled cynically. Then he turned and walked into the distance, flying into the sky like a beam of light, disappearing from Leoric and Hellinus's sight.
The sonic boom as he broke through the speed of sound rang through the wilderness, showing off this powerful mage's ability.
But after flying for more than an hour, the mage suddenly stopped.
Nois looked very arrogant, but that did not mean that he was a fool. As a top powerhouse, Nois was only half a step away from becoming a demigod. In other words, this grand magus and great alchemist had already reached the final threshold of the tenth level and could break through at any time.
However, being an expert usually meant that he was the one who walked to the 'end'. Out of every ten people who had the potential to become a top-tier expert, only one would survive. The higher the mountain, the fewer people would be able to climb it. For Nois to be able to stand at the peak of this mountain, he naturally had extraordinary strength and … sharp intuition.
He suddenly stopped moving and looked around with a frown.
Nois' facial features were perfectly in line with the golden ratio. His two eyebrows gave off a heroic aura, slightly feminine but still masculine. At this moment, he furrowed his brows. There was nothing in the wilderness around him. Hundreds of meters in the air, he could only see the unique black soil of the Velon Kingdom and the snowy mountains in the distance.
But this intuition made him stop in his tracks, because Nois understood — he had been targeted by someone!
This feeling was very annoying. It had been a long time since Nois had someone spying on him. Nois had even forgotten when was the last time … In any case, in this continent, he was the only one who stared at others. Letting others spy on him?
Dream on!
"Who's not afraid of death?!"
Nois' Chinese voice sounded as unreasonable as a bandit's. His voice instantly spread throughout the wilderness. As it was amplified by magic, it sounded deafening, like the rumbling of thunder.
"What a temper."
A figure suddenly appeared in front of Nois!
Eccleston was still wearing his black robe. At the same time, he held an inconspicuous white wand in his hand. The wand looked like a very simple tree branch with some very natural patterns on it. This was not what a wand should look like on this continent. Nois immediately noticed the fellow in front of him and immediately narrowed his eyes!
A powerful enemy!
This was Nois' first reaction. There had never been anyone who could appear in front of him without him noticing, and he had to use his sight to confirm the enemy's position.
"I can't be bothered to ask who you are, but you've successfully angered me."
Nois was like an unreasonable hooligan. In short, he would attack anything he didn't like — Nois didn't have any psychological burden. If he didn't like it, he would hit it!
Until it submitted!
This had always been Nois's principle. It had to be said that under the law of the jungle, his method was very useful.
Of course, this method was also suitable for Chris.
In the face of North's unreasonable attack, Eccleston's red eyes blinked slightly, and then he suddenly got into a fighting stance!
As Nois spoke, he had already stretched out his right hand. At the same time, countless icicles appeared around Chris and shot towards him without any time to react. But all this turned into bubbles after Chris reacted.
"Crack!"
A strange sound rang out, and a mirror-like shield appeared around Creston's body. All the icicles seemed to have been absorbed by the shield and disappeared in an instant.
Nois' attack was not limited to this. Unlike ordinary mages who had to stay far away from their target when casting spells, he also used the teleportation spell that Saville was proficient in. He appeared in front of Chris in an instant. Then, a powerful pressure erupted, and the surrounding air distorted!
This was because the temperature around him suddenly rose to an unimaginable level. Such a powerful fire spell was extremely terrifying when facing an enemy. It was like a pool of magma splashing into one's face. In short, Chris's shield instantly melted and began to deform.
But as Eccleston raised his staff slightly, the heat wave in front of him seemed to be split apart by something. It did not hurt his body at all. Nois stretched out his arm like a warrior. At the same time, a dagger made of ice elements appeared in his hand, and he slashed at Eccleston!
"Clang!"
Nois' eyes widened. He watched as the skeleton mage in front of him raised his arm and blocked his all-out attack. The frost effect on the Frost Arrow only spread a few centimeters on the black-robed mage's arm before disappearing … Logically speaking, the person in front of him should have either been cut in half or frozen into a block of ice by the frost effect!
But the reality in front of him made him really unable to believe that someone could actually block his attack — he was not a simple mage. The power of the Dragon Race allowed him to attack with far more power than ordinary professionals, even in his human form!
As a grand mage, Nois' physical strength and toughness had reached the eighth level and above. But this did not mean that Nois was the legendary dual cultivator, because there was no fighting energy in his body.
And Chris did not have any fighting energy either. His identity would forever be a mystery to Nois. This powerful man who had fought countless battles in the Undead Plane was definitely not as simple as he looked!
After this attack was blocked, Nois continued his attack without pause, but it was still easily blocked by Chris. It was rare for two mages to fight in close combat, but this scene would make all the close-combat professionals on the continent feel ashamed … Because the speed of the two mages' attacks was so fast that it could not be seen with the naked eye. The blue shadows streaked past, bringing with them an extremely strange and sharp sound of the wind.
In an instant, Eccleston disappeared from where he stood, and the surroundings suddenly became as bright as day!
Seeing this, Nois closed his eyes and disappeared on the spot as well!
"Boom!"
With a loud sound, a figure flew out from the sky. The ice-blue sword in Nois' hand flew out, and he himself flew more than 20 meters backward before starting to descend!
The surroundings were still a vast expanse of white. Nois did not dare to believe what had happened. The power he was most confident in actually met an enemy he could not defeat?
The two mages had not fought many times, but as the saying goes, an expert could tell with a single move. Nois had truly experienced the power of this mysterious fellow in front of him!
His attacks were completely ineffective against him, but his opponent was able to easily block his attacks, and then use the most efficient and fastest method to send him flying!
There was usually not much difference between top-level experts. A battle was full of variables. Perhaps a careless mistake in a short move could cause a powerful expert to lose. Most of the time, in a battle of this level, ordinary people could not see the difference between two people at all. Usually, if one's attack or defense was a little slower, the outcome of the battle would be decided!
In the battle between these two mages, both of them seemed to be extremely confident in their magic and physical strength. Neither chose to use long-range magic attacks like in previous battles between mages. This made Nois even more aware of what it meant by there was always someone stronger!
The world around him was a sheet of white, but Nois did not give up. His figure disappeared and then appeared above Chris. Both his hands suddenly swung downwards, and a bolt of lightning instantly shot out. This unimaginably fast magic was stored in the necklace that Nois wore. It did not require any chanting or gestures to be used. If it was cast normally, Nois would not need more than two seconds to prepare. But this kind of battle did not give Nois any time to prepare. As a grand magus, he knew that being two seconds faster often meant the end of the battle!
"Are you ready to use the item already?"
Chris looked up and was instantly struck by the bolt of lightning!
Before the light dissipated, an overwhelming wave of attacks was already flying towards Eccleston. A huge ring of fire suddenly appeared around his body and instantly tightened. At the same time, more than ten moderate-sized fireballs fell from above his head.
A chain of Sacrificial Explosions instantly took place above the ground, and the loud booms rang out incessantly. But Nois' attack did not stop. The ring of fire that he cast also exploded violently after it tightened. And before the smoke had dissipated, Nois put his hands together and pointed at where Chris was!
"Bang!"
There seemed to be something burning in the air, and a strange smell wafted over. A ray of light as thick as a bowl flashed in front of Nois' finger. This ray of light actually penetrated where Chris was, and instantly shot a huge hole in the distant mountain range … The deep hole in the rock wall dozens of miles away was enough to prove the power of this spell, and Nois had not even recited a single spell!
In other words, apart from the lightning bolt that was used to paralyze Chris, the rest of his spells were all released in an instant!
This level of magical attainment was astonishing, but he had no intention of stopping. Just as he was about to cast the next wave of spells, Chris' counterattack came.
A strange vortex suddenly appeared in the smoke that Nois had bombarded, and then this vortex rapidly gathered the surrounding elements … Nois could feel that it was an elemental vortex, and after it appeared, the elements within a hundred square meters began to move towards that direction, including those that had already gathered in front of him!