The Magus Era

Ji Hao shouted out loudly and pointed his finger at the river bank in front of those refugees. A fierce gust of wind rose directly up from the ground, rolling tens of thousands of stones up and darting towards those flying arrows.     

The metal arrows clashed against the stones, creating fiery sparks. Those stones were instantly shattered against the arrows, but the arrows deviated out of their routes, flying over the river askew.     

Only over a hundred arrows managed to fly straight across the river without being bumped by those stones brought up by Ji Hao, directly piercing into the crowd of refugees.     

However, Ji Hao now had no time to look after those refugees. Six heavily armored Jia Clan warriors carrying gigantic weapons easily leapt across the river and walked up to him in only a few steps. With three long swords, two huge machetes and one spear, they coordinated perfectly and accurately locked onto all the vital parts of Ji Hao’s body.     

Suddenly, a stream of fiery light darted out from the long black dagger which Ji Hao was holding in his hand. Along with a magical arc in the air, the fiery light beam accurately tore out a thin crack in the indestructible formation that had been formed by the three long swords. At the time the edge of the dagger sliced hard across the place where the chest armor and waist armor connected of a Jia Clan warrior.     

Fire sparks darted out from the dagger’s edge and hundreds of spell symbols lit up on the joint of the armor. Along with an ear-piercing clashing sound, Ji Hao tore the Jia Clan warrior’s armor apart with his dagger, and pierced the dagger into his body, making his blood gushing out.     

The other few Jia Clan warriors exclaimed as they weren’t even able to believe what they were seeing.     

Surrounded by six of them altogether, Ji Hao actually got the chance to fight back, and facing their entirely sealed heavy armors that black long dagger of his, which looked not too sharp at all, had actually broken an armor and directly wounded a Jia Clan warrior’s body.     

Shocked by Ji Hao’s move, those swords and machetes which were hacking towards Ji Hao, and the long spear which had been swishing towards him, paused briefly. Ji Hao took a deep breath, stretched his fiery wings and swiftly stepped back along with shreds of afterimages. At the same time, Mr Crow let out a long caw, while his claws suddenly expanded to zhang huge, directly piercing into a Jia Clan warrior’s facial mask.     

Those translucent, top-quality, red jade-like claws were wrapped in bright flames, and were emitting large amounts of fire sparks against the facial mask. Spell symbols shattered under Mr Crow’s claws one after another and the half inch thick mask let out a shrill breaking noise, while been torn apart slowly.     

Mr Crow’s claws sank deep into the Jia Clan warrior’s eye sockets, smashing the four huge eyeballs of his.     

That Jia Clan warrior howled out in anger while stepping back with big steps. Another Jia Clan warrior with a machete rushed over, shielding him behind and letting him retreat. After he only took two steps back, streams of neurons and flesh began squirming in his eye sockets. Within Mr Crow’s fiery light, the four eyeballs started growing back quickly.     

However, the flame of the Golden Crow that was left in his eye sockets was still blazing, and the newly grown eyeballs were instantly burned, as the flame spread to wider parts of his face, burning large pieces of skins and flesh, emitting a horrible scent. The body of the Jia Clan warrior shook intensely in pain. Before his eyeballs had grown back, he rushed back towards Ji Hao along with a dense puff of smoke wrapping around his face.     

The pair of magic fiery snakes lying on Ji Hao’s shoulders let out slight hissing sounds and spurted out slight beams of fiery lights, continuously burning the facial masks of the other few Jia Clan warriors. Those earth core magical flames spurted out by these snake were sticky and had an amazingly great heat, along with an incredibly strong scent of burning. Although these two snakes were still too young and too tiny and were not capable of breaking through the thick metal facial masks, they were more than able to block the eyesight of those Jia Clan warriors and slow them down with their amazing blazing flames and rolling smoke.     

Man Man rushed over from the side. She remained completely silent and gritted her teeth hard. Aiming at one Jia Clan warrior, she raised her pair of gigantic hammers high and smashed down with all of her strength. Followed by two loud booms, that Jia Clan warrior’s back armor was instantly shattered by the raging fire power that burst out of Man Man’s hammers. Large amounts of metal fragments flew out and the Jia Clan warrior’s back was broken into pieces. He then fell onto the ground with a weirdly twisted posture.     

Man Man badly wounded one Jia Clan warrior with only one attack, but she had only broke his spine and slightly wounded his internal organs, which were still not enough to kill him.     

Two other Jia Clan warriors raised their machete and sword simultaneously and swiftly hacked down towards Man Man’s vital body parts. Without a second thought, they were all aimed accurately at Man Man’s heart and neck, intending to cut her head off and smash her heart with one shot.     

Man Man calmly raised her hammers, which were nearly as big as her entire body. After the pair of hammers were put straight on the ground, they became equal to two huge and extra solid shields, completely shielding Man Man. The sword and machete hacked on the hammers altogether, letting out loud and high-pitched clashing noises that would make people’s ear hurt. But Man Man was completely unharmed, and only took a few small steps backwards.     

Yu Mu took this opportunity and hurriedly swung his arms. A stream of black liquid darted out directly into the broken armours that had been shattered by Man Man, and gushed into the wounds of the Jia Clan warrior’s back. The horrible poison spread out inside his body in no time, along with which his back began corroding at a visible rate. Not long after that, the muscles on the back of the Jia Clan warrior had completely disappeared, and his bronze, translucent bones and squirming internal organs were all exposed.     

Black poisonous smoke instantly gushed into his internal organs. This Jia Clan warrior howled out in pain, while struggling as he lifted up his facial mask, took out a bottle of detoxifying medicine intending to pour the full bottle of pills into his mouth. However, once he had taken the bottle out, an arrow swished over from afar, directly puncturing his wrist and deep into his mouth.     

Right after that, the arrowhead exploded inside his mouth and a raging sphere of flame spurted out from all the openings of his body. That was an explosion flame arrow made by the master Magi tutors of the Magi Palace, and was amazingly destructive. The facial muscles of this Jia Clan warrior were even blown away and only the bronze translucent neck bones remained.     

In spite of being injured so badly, this Jia Clan warrior still had his strangely strong life force left. He screamed hoarsely while struggling on the ground. With some difficulties, he pulled the arrow that was stuck in his throat out.     

Shaosi appeared abruptly behind him just like an elf. She raised her spear and accurately knocked hard on his neck bone, breaking it right away. A huge head was sent flying up in the air and fell on the ground hundreds of zhang away, along with a series of clangs.     

The howl instantly stopped. Finally, this Jia Clan warrior, who was wounded seriously in a row, had run out of the last slight wisp of his life force. He lied on the ground, twitching his headless body and losing his importance.     

All these may seem to have cost a long span of time, but in fact, it had all happened within the blink of an eye. Ji Hao and his team managed to kill a Jia Clan warrior with their perfect cooperation, and when they made their moves, Taisi, who was still standing behind them, had already begun incanting a mysterious spell, creating streams of black mist, which then wrapped the remaining five Jia Clan warriors up.     

Painful moaning continuously came out of the mist. The five Jia Clan warriors slowed suddenly down, and their skins began withering rapidly and their faces turned old as well. Their life force was quickly being drained, while a human-head-sized life-force sphere began quickly growing in front of Taisi.     

Not too far away, shrill screams came out from the crowd of refugees. Even though Lang Li and his tens of companions had tried their bests to block those arrows, tens of arrows still managed to pierce into the crowd, easily killing over a hundred refugees.     

Those arrows were shot out with incomparably great powers that those poor refugees who were shot by those arrows, even ended up exploding immediately. Blood and body parts spread all over the ground.     

The young man, who had been yelling at Ji Hao before, watched his clansmen being shattered into pieces by these arrows. He painfully knelt on the ground and began screaming desperately.