Elite Mages’ Academy (Web Novel)

Chapter 319: Dark Shadow Underground

Ibeiya was understandably unwilling to follow them, staying where she was after giving the two of them directions. Xiao Lin and Lilith headed toward a small forest to the east of the house carefully. The underground room was at the edge of the forest. The wooden door was covered in grass, and they would probably not have noticed it if not for Ibeiya’s reminders.

The closer they got, the more dense death energy they started to feel in the air. It was obvious that there was something going on down there. Lilith immediately opened the wooden door, and her scythe appeared in her hand as she shot out flames toward the underground.

Bang!

The flames travelled along the underground room, and ripples could be heard from their vibrations as the flames seemed to have destroyed a pile of pots and bottles. A wave of heat could be felt from the entrance, causing Xiao Lin to wipe away some sweat. He silently remarked to himself that this woman was very aggressive, immediately attacking before even figuring out what was in the room.

However, there did not seem to be anyone alive in there. After Lilith’s attack subsided, she let out a breath as she withdrew the scythe back into her spatial ring to retrieve two daggers instead. In the narrow underground room, daggers were much more useful.

“Your flames seem to have gotten much stronger,” Xiao Lin suddenly said.

“You know I don’t like magic, but flame magic comes very easily to me.” Lilith did not bother hiding anything.

Xiao Lin had seen Lilith use those flames in The Final Lands for the first time, but she could just barely control a few at that time. Now, she seemed to be more familiar with it, but he knew that the special flames were not really flame magic, and something unique to Lilith, like his Miracle.

The underground room was very dark. The remaining flames were barely enough to light up the small space, and a strange smell permeated the air. They did not know what was in the room, but even Lilith had a difficult expression on her face. It looked like she wanted to vomit, but was trying to hold it in. Xiao Lin felt like laughing, but the urge to vomit quickly suppressed that.

It was only as big as two rooms down there, and extremely messy. On the floor were various smashed up bottles and strangely-colored liquids. Xiao Lin quickly figured out where the smell came from as he found a pile of red flesh-like objects in a corner. After checking it out, Xiao Lin almost vomited out his dinner from last night.

They were all clearly various inner organs, including eyes and ears. Even though most of them were destroyed by Lilith’s attack earlier, based on the size of the pile, it was clear that the organs belonged to close to a hundred people! Only the organs could be seen, but the people were nowhere to be found. As for the fate of those people, anyone could imagine it. They were probably all the missing people from the town.

Xiao Lin could not help but get goosebumps. Lilith was faring not much better than he was. As the two of them prepared to leave the uncomfortable room, the pile of organs suddenly burst apart as a dark shadowy mess leaped forward. Under the assault of the dense death energy, a few smoldering embers were extinguished.

The room immediately got darker, and they could only make out that the shadow looked vaguely humanoid; its hands and feet were on the ground, and two blood red eyes pierced through the darkness.

Its momentarily locked gazes with Xiao Lin and Lilith, and its blood red eyes were extremely cold. Even Xiao Lin had to suppress a shudder.

“Who are you!” Xiao Lin shouted. It was certain that the thing was definitely not Asabanor, so he also used Normese and English in case it did not understand.

Something shocking then happened. Even as the two of them were on full alert, the mysterious shadow did not respond at all, immediately burying its head as it moved about. With the obscured vision, Xiao Lin could not tell what it was doing.

Lilith used a cold and quiet tone to say, “It’s eating!”

Xiao Lin clenched his teeth, immediately shooting out a flame bullet. The shadow did not even raise its head, jumping to avoid the spell. However, with the additional light, Xiao Lin finally saw clearly that the shadow was not bothered by his attack at all. It just continued to shovel large amounts of flesh into its mouth, emitting a strange noise.

“Let’s head out; it’s too small in here!” Xiao Lin stopped Lilith from attacking. “It’s very agile!”

The flame bullet Xiao Lin had shot just now did not shock him because of the horrifying scene. He had intended to test the mysterious thing, and the results were more than he anticipated.

Xiao Lin’s flame bullet was the improved version, shortening the cast time by sacrificing spell power. In the narrow space, condensing the elements and casting the spell took only a moment, and it was even a surprise attack. Almost no one could react to that at the same level as he could, let alone dodge it, but that shadow did not even raise its head before dodging it easily.

That thing was strong!

Lilith understood it as well. Against an agile opponent, the cramped room was definitely not a suitable battlefield. She nodded as she retreated with Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin had wanted to get Ibeiya to hide further away, but that intelligent girl had already disappeared. Even though he still had some matters to settle with her, it was not the time to think about that.

They definitely could not give that mysterious monster the time to eat in peace. After leaving the room the two of them frantically attacked it with Lilith’s sword aura and Xiao Lin’s flame bullets. However good the thing was at dodging, with that amount of attacks, it probably had no chance to avoid everything.

In order to preserve his strength, Xiao Lin did not use Miracle, nor did he use Sword Aura. That was currently the biggest gap between Lilith and himself. Lilith’s basic attributes were all a lot higher than his, and she was also quite strong physically, leading to her being able to use Sword Aura at will. The wave of attacks were all mostly reliant on Lilith’s relentless assault. The explosions in the underground room got more and more intense, and it only returned to silence after several minutes.