Chapter 855 – Black Tide Monster

Chapter 855 – Black Tide Monster
The black tide that was several hundred meters high came down head on.

The wizards standing in front of the defense array all had various colors of light floating on their bodies, even though there was a defense array behind them, they each had to resist the powerful potential energy of the black tide as well as the power of contamination that was entrained in it.

Saul was also among them, but together with Royer, he belonged to a more backward position. This position was also able to capture the surrounding situation in his eyes.

Looking at the wizards in front of him who had already been engulfed by the black tide, Saul frowned slightly, but looking at the performance of the crowd, they should have already gotten used to this kind of impact.

Although Saul’s reaction was slower than the others, the defense spell released was completed first.

A circle of light shield with electric arcs surrounded Saul’s entire body, and then in the next second it was as if the endless black sea water had swallowed him up.

The defense formation behind him reduced the power of the black tide, but being in the middle of it still made Saul feel the actual pressure.

Even he, a third-order sorcerer, was like this, not to mention the hardships of other low-order sorcerers.

Fortunately, after this huge wave, the pressure brought by the Black Tide was all tangibly caught, and when it entered the Red Sea behind him again, it would not cause any more damage to the Red Sea Tree.

And when the black tide continued to surge towards the coast, it was all caught by the Red Sea Tree that had been rooted for many years.

The dense red leaves were like a small mouth waiting to feed, absorbing the surge of pollution in the sea water one by one.

After being sifted through by the filter composed of the red sea trees, the remaining waves that hit the coast were not enough to cause fundamental harm to the entire continent.

Watching the large waves being blocked as expected, Royer’s heart became more calm, he glanced at the lower part of the Red Sea Tree, and introduced to Saul, “As far as this Black Tide is concerned, the scale is considered medium in the calendar year, and if there are no accidents, the defense battle can be over in three to five days.”

“Three to five days? We’re fine, but can those low-ranked wizards down there make it through?”

For his fellow members of the Ruling Court, Royer wasn’t as cold-blooded as he was when facing the mermaids, but he didn’t have any better methods.

“Every Black Tide has advance warning, and they do their best to prepare for it. If this doesn’t survive, then even the Judgment Court can’t do anything about it.”

There would definitely be casualties, and it was Royer’s job to lay out the enemy and give the lower-ranked wizards a chance to catch their breath and recover when there were more casualties than they could handle in one of the defense zones.

But the incoming black tide would last for days, and Royer would have to calculate his strength to make a move, or else it would be dangerous when it came to the later stages and someone couldn’t hold out and he was unable to help.

The first black tide laid over, and it didn’t take long for the second to come as well.

When the crowd held on past the second black tide, the third wave, the shadow of the monster finally appeared.

Saul also finally saw what the famous Black Tide Mutant Monster looked like.

The monsters that popped up in the Black Tide were mostly in the shape of fish. It was just that every fish was incredibly large. Their bodies were mostly decayed, revealing white bones and blackened internal organs and flesh.

These monsters could not see any sanity in their eyes, only a ferocious desire to destroy.

Obviously, these monsters were not considered much powerful in terms of single body strength, but they lacked intelligence and would not retreat even if they faced a high-level sorcerer.

The length of these monstrous fish ranged from five meters to more than twenty meters, coupled with the fact that there were quite a few of them, and when they were carried forward by the tall waves, they made people feel a chill on their faces.

Before the crowd could adapt to the icy cold air, a foul odor followed.

It was as if it was a corpse that had been rotting for many days, and it was accompanied by the smell of the sea, which was disgusting.

One sorcerer apprentice, who was not very old and seemed to be fighting for the first time, accidentally inhaled a mouthful of the stench, and in the next second, he bent over and started vomiting.

As he vomited, what came out of his mouth turned into slimy blood clots, and then some strange hard objects.

This sorcerer apprentice was standing on the platform made by the official sorcerer beside him, and after bending over and vomiting like this, he unexpectedly became unsteady and fell headfirst into the sea. During this time the formal wizard and the other apprentice wizards he led were all fighting off the poisonous gas and had no time to help him, they could only watch him fall.

The apprentice who fell into the sea without the shelter of the formal sorcerer could not resist the pollution in the sea water.

As soon as his body touched the seawater, it began to swell, as if it had been put into the oven.

Within a few breaths, the whole person could not be seen in its original form, and its size was five or six times as big as the original.

And this apprentice was the first casualty of this defense battle.

“Hmph, every time I tell them the precautions, but every time there are idiots who can’t remember. Forget it, a sorcerer apprentice, dead is dead.” Royer was a bit angry.

Sol stood quietly right beside him and also noticed the sorcerer apprentice. The other party’s body didn’t float on the surface of the sea for long before it was pulled down by an unknown creature and completely disappeared.

After the first death, new casualties soon followed.

But these people at least weren’t gassed to death.

The defense wizards at the forefront had already engaged the monsters in the black tide.

It was just that these monsters were not afraid of death on the one hand, they were slippery on the other, and thirdly, they also came with their own poisonous gas, so even if some formal sorcerers were up against them, they still had their hands full.

Not to mention the apprentices who originally came over to do auxiliary work.

But the apprentices of this session were again a bit luckier than those of previous years. That was that they now had two third-order wizards sitting behind them, so this time the task should be easier to accomplish.

Saul wasn’t idle on his first day either.

After seeing Royer step in to help the two sorcerers kill the monsters that surrounded them, Saul also stepped in.

When he saw where the team was under more pressure, he would go up and sweep the monsters with his Soul Blade.

Perhaps it was because none of the monsters that appeared on the first day were very powerful, and Saul was able to kill a piece of them with a single strike, greatly reducing the pressure on the lower-ranked sorcerers.

Seeing this, Royer gave Sol a thumbs up.

In fact, Royer and Saul were both very strong players among the third-ranked sorcerers. It was a waste for two people to be in charge of one area.

However, Royer was currently uneasy about letting Saul wander outside alone, and could only arrange it this way.

In the afternoon, it was the usual time for the tide to go out. The tide of the Black Tide receded in one round, and the monsters as well as the dead bodies retreated back to the deep sea with the seawater.

“It’s time to rest for a while.” Luo Ye couldn’t see any fatigue on his face, and was even full of smiles because the area he was responsible for today didn’t have a few deaths, “There will be another round of high tide in the evening, and the scale won’t be as big as it was during the day. But starting tomorrow, there will be more powerful deep sea alienated monsters appearing. So if you have time, you should meditate as soon as possible to recover your mental and magical power.”

Although a third-ranked sorcerer could absorb magic power from the outside world, this was a coast that had been invaded by the black tide pollution, so it was also dangerous to absorb outside magic power rashly.

Not to mention the fact that there are so many third-order sorcerers here, all of them together can suck the magic of this area dry.

It would be even more dangerous for the others.

Sol retreated back to the cliff and sat down to prepare for meditation.

But then he saw Royer about to take off again, “I’m going to check on Alfonso in the ocean.”

(End of chapter)