Chapter 018: Outbreak

The feathers were flying at such incredible speed that Moses simply had no time to dodge! Speed was inherently a characteristic of wind magic.
His energy shield was also broken, and he didn’t have the time to form another one at that moment.
The war sword in his hand spun rapidly, blocking all the incoming feathers outside its impenetrable circle.
When those feathers struck the war sword, bursts of flames erupted!
What an amazing spell! It’s a shame it’s being used against Moses, Du Fan thought, watching the sparks. If such magic were used to attack an enemy’s supplies, it would be the perfect spell!
If those feathers were shot at the enemy’s supplies, their extreme speed, combined with the violent flames they produced, would be devastating. The white-colored sparks indicated that the flames must be extremely hot!
Moses knew this all too well.
Although the feathers couldn’t harm him, the intense flames kept raising the temperature around him.
Each burst of flame sent a scorching sensation toward Moses. In no time, his face turned red from the heat, yet the feathers kept coming relentlessly.
Suddenly, Moses felt dizzy.
Shaking his head, he gritted his teeth and continued to maintain the spinning circle of his sword.
It turned out that the Wind-Chasing Mist he had taken earlier was finally taking effect.
Moses was immune to poisons, but not to magic! Thanks to his strong physique as an elf war mage, the effects of the Wind-Chasing Mist had been suppressed by his robust body and powerful magic energy. But after fighting for so long, with much of his energy depleted, coupled with the accelerated blood flow caused by the intense flames, the negative effects of the magic began to manifest.
Seeing Moses’s movements become sluggish as he swung his war sword, Du Fan was shocked!

According to Du Fan’s understanding, Moses shouldn’t be in this state at this moment! With his body of an elf warrior and having reached a divine level of power, he shouldn’t be feeling as exhausted as he is under such attacks.
His eyes flashed with light as Du Fan immediately activated the True Eye. Soon, he noticed dark mist constantly appearing and moving around Moses’s body, and more and more of that mist was forming!
“Bad! Brother Moses has been struck by many negative spells!” Du Fan cried out.
“I’ll help him!” Hearing this, Naixiu was shocked and quickly drew her elf longbow!
“I’ll go! Naixiu, if you do that, the warriors of the Icebound Alliance might think it’s an ambush! It will make things harder for us later.” Seeing Naixiu drawing her bow, Du Fan quickly stopped her. The Icebound Alliance probably respected the strong, but if someone like Naixiu shot arrows from atop the city walls, they would surely be seen as launching an ambush.
An ambush—attacking during a fair fight between skilled opponents—would surely anger the warriors of the Icebound Alliance! Even if they won the war later, such an act of ambush would be remembered by them, causing trouble in dealing with the aftermath!
Hearing Du Fan’s words, Naixiu put away her bow. At that moment, Du Fan soared into the air and landed right in front of Moses!
A radiant glow enveloped his body as his new Absolute Protection Field was activated immediately!
The feathers shot at Du Fan’s protection had almost no effect at all!
“Could it be that you people of the Icebound Alliance are used to bullying the weak in numbers?” Standing in front of Moses and helping him block the flying feathers, Du Fan shouted angrily.
“Brother, do you feel tired and weak right now?” Turning around, Du Fan asked Moses.
“A little,” Moses nodded in response.
“You’ve accidentally been struck by their spells!” Du Fan said.
“That can’t be! I didn’t see them cast any spells at all!” Moses replied in surprise.

“I think there’s something strange in that mist,” Du Fan said immediately. Though there was no evidence, he had watched Moses fight against those four experts from start to finish, and the only part where something could go wrong was during the Mist of the Wind chase.

“You’d better go back and rest. I can handle things here!” Du Fan said after thinking for a moment.

“Who are you? Why have I never seen you before?” The elite warrior from the Snake Kingdom shouted loudly upon seeing another expert appear suddenly.

“Remember this! I’m the third son of your Duke Green. Just call me Young Master Du Fan!” Du Fan replied casually when asked by the royal family of the Snake Kingdom.

“Alright, since you’re here, I’m relieved!” Moses nodded firmly after considering Du Fan’s words.

Given Moses’s personality, if someone had suddenly shown up halfway through a fight and said, “Stop fighting; let me take over,” he would have been extremely angry. But with Du Fan, he only thought for a moment before agreeing.

“You brat! How bold of you!” The royal family member of the Snake Kingdom shouted angrily when he heard Du Fan want to be called Young Master Du Fan.

“Heh, not bad!” Du Fan replied indifferently upon hearing that.

Hearing Du Fan’s seemingly humble but actually arrogant words, the royal family member became even angrier and started shouting.

“Even if you manage to conquer all the countries of the Icebound Alliance, don’t think we of the Snake Kingdom will submit to you! Can your so-called ‘young master’ really handle that?” The man said frustratedly after hearing Du Fan’s words.

“If I don’t submit, I’ll fight until you do!” Du Fan suddenly shouted. “And hey, why can’t I handle it? Prove it now—call me ‘young master’ right away, and I’ll see if I can take it!” Du Fan said shamelessly.

“Brat, to be honest, you’re just the son of a duke, while I’m from the royal family of a kingdom! If we count carefully, it seems my status is higher than yours!” the elite warrior from the Snake Kingdom said.

“Hmph! Just a royal family member of a tiny kingdom? My Young Master Du Fan disdains such people.” Du Fan deliberately snorted.

The smaller a country is, the more sensitive its people are to being called insignificant. Du Fan’s words hit right at the sensitive spot of the elite warrior from the Snake Kingdom.

“Hahaha! Anyway, Du Fan, our country may be small, but we’re still the rulers of our own nation! Unlike your Green family—though they seem impressive, they still have to follow the lead of the Austin family, right?” The elite warrior from the Snake Kingdom laughed instead of getting angry upon hearing Du Fan’s words.
“Come on! Third young master of the Green family! Let me see what skills you have to be so arrogant!” the elite warrior from the Snake Kingdom kept saying.
The four saints-level experts here were part of the reinforcements that arrived later and had not witnessed Du Fan’s battle against the Six-Form Monster. Otherwise, this elite warrior from the Snake Kingdom wouldn’t have spoken so carelessly.
The Six-Form Monster was formed by the fusion of six quasi-divine beasts from the eighteen kingdoms, and its combat strength ranked second among all such fused monsters!
“Fine! Since you want to see! I’ll show you enough!” Hearing the words of the elite warrior from the Snake Kingdom, Du Fan roared loudly!
With that roar, without any further action, he threw a punch straight at the four elite warriors who were standing in a strange formation!
Seeing Du Fan’s move, everyone was puzzled! The spot where Du Fan’s fist struck was clearly where the energy emitted by the four of them formed that strange mirror!
Could such an attack work? That was what many spectators watching the battle thought.
As Du Fan moved, his Absolute Protection Field moved as well, and the stars within it also shifted!
In an instant, those stars seemed to come alive! They transformed into streaks like meteors, each targeting a specific object—the feathers flying toward the blue mirror!
The stars and feathers collided in midair, causing bursts of flames to explode continuously in the sky! The battlefield quickly turned into a fairy-tale-like scene, with flashes of light everywhere. For a moment, it was so beautiful that many warriors on the battlefield forgot that a life-and-death struggle was still underway!
There were clearly more stars than feathers, and soon, the stars struck the surface of the blue mirror.
It was like raindrops hitting a calm lake on a rainy day—the surface of the blue mirror rippled outward, creating beautiful patterns!
But this beautiful scene didn’t last long at all!

Following the light of the stars, Du Fan also soared upward. He punched straight at the mirror, which, just like a real mirror, emitted a clear cracking sound before shattering into pieces that scattered in the air, turning into streams of green energy mid-air before disappearing instantly.

The moment Du Fan shattered the mirror with his punch, the four masters who had combined to form it were jolted violently! Soon, each of them spat out a mouthful of blood. Their combined magic had been forcibly interrupted, and all four suffered from the backlash of the magic, sustaining internal injuries.

“This man is too powerful! Retreat!” shouted the royal master of the Snake Kingdom. It was clear that these four were led by this royal master of the Snake Kingdom. At his command, the four wind magic masters rushed back to their own armies like a gust of wind.

Du Fan wasn’t willing to give up so easily. He moved swiftly and chased after the royal master of the Snake Kingdom. His speed was slightly faster than that of the master who had combined with the Dark Wind Snake. Although the master from the Snake Kingdom had an advantage of a few seconds, Du Fan’s pursuit quickly narrowed the gap between them.

The distance between Red Lake City and the Frozen Alliance was about five kilometers, and neither side dared get too close. In both camps, there were masters capable of casting long-range magic, leaving plenty of space in the battlefield.

At the speed of the Snake Kingdom’s master, he could be a kilometer away in three seconds. Du Fan chased quickly. When he was only five hundred meters away from the Frozen Alliance, he was finally close to catching up with the master from the Snake Kingdom.

Ten meters! Nine meters! Eight meters! Six meters! Five meters!

At five meters away, the master from the Snake Kingdom sensed the danger behind him. He immediately turned around, opened his mouth, and launched a black sphere toward Du Fan!