Versatile Mage

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa glared at Mo Fan. She had reclaimed her initial savage and vicious appearance as soon as Apas was gone.

She had an idea. She would be free once she won the fight!

She would immediately run to the Evil Temple. She had heard that Euryale and Apas had long fallen out with one another. She would submit herself to Euryale while Apas was still recovering from her injuries. She would be safe once Euryale killed Apas in the end!

She did not have to die. She still had a chance to live!

The first step was to kill the man before her!

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa had an advantage, even though they were both bishops.

The more she found herself in a pinch, the fiercer she was. The Crimson Scorpion Medusa threw herself at Mo Fan and stabbed at him with the stinger she had been hiding under her body.

The sting flew horizontally like a flickering star. It did not make any noise, nor did it shake the Heavens and Earth. It was heading straight for Mo Fan’s throat from several kilometers away.

Mo Fan had been on his guard all along. He had encountered several creatures of her species, and he knew what they were capable of.

A silver light wrapped around Mo Fan. It shrank into a tiny dot as the stinger was thrown at him.

The point of light vanished, together with Mo Fan.

Mo Fan had to use Blink. A Mage’s speed was nowhere enough to dodge the scorpion’s tail.

Mo Fan moved seven hundred meters away. He saw a hole punched through the rocks behind his initial location.

A dark flicker suddenly swept at Mo Fan’s head.

It was targeting the spot where Mo Fan had landed with Blink. The Crimson Scorpion Medusa had already seen through his intentions. She was able to attack twice with her stinger after her strength had temporarily increased by fifty percent with the Spring of Darkness.

Mo Fan leaned backward.

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa was grinning confidently, but her expression froze when she noticed Mo Fan’s body turning into a black mantle as he fell to the ground.

Such a cunning human!

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa had stronger senses than a human. Even her reactions were faster.

She quickly turned around and swung her claws at a lightning claw that was approaching her.

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa did not sustain any damage from the clash. Her claws tore through Mo Fan’s Lightning Spell with ease. The lightning claw turned into a bunch of lightning arcs and scattered across the ground.

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa’s speed was insane.

It felt like her scorpion legs were driven by powerful engines while her body was gliding around like a snake. She was moving around like a shadow.

BANG!

She pounced at Mo Fan and swung her claws at his head.

Mo Fan jumped several dozen meters back. His body slammed into the ground like a javelin falling from a great height.

“Hillock Whale!”

He slammed his fist on the ground. It immediately cracked apart, and enormous whales emerged from the ground and rammed into the Crimson Scorpion Medusa.

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa glided nimbly about and dodged their attacks with unexpected movements.

She suddenly jumped onto the stomach of one of the whales and skittered across it.

Mo Fan did not expect his enemy to weave through the whales. He stopped running away when he saw the Crimson Scorpion Medusa closing in, and raised his right hand.

A puff of liquid red fire appeared on his hand. The fire poured down and ignited across his body.

Mo Fan was rapidly engulfed in flames, like he had put on burning armor.

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa obviously had the advantage in the battle. She was putting Mo Fan under enormous pressure, so he had no choice but to transform into the King of Hell and take out the Crimson Scorpion Medusa with his Fiery Dragon Breath.

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa was blasted into the sky by the flames. She had barely recovered her footing when she noticed fiery birds diving at her in great numbers.

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa was set ablaze, even with the thick snake scales protecting her. She did not overstay her welcome in the fiery birds’ territory, and quickly propelled herself into the distance by rocketing off a jutting stony hill.

The Crimson Scorpion Medusa tugged on her hair, which was as stiff and gnarled as the roots of an old tree, dragging it in front of her and fixing it to the ground with one of her legs.

After tightening her hair, the Crimson Scorpion Medusa suddenly reached out two hands with eerily long fingers that had appeared out of nowhere, and adeptly plucked at her hair.

Treating her hair like the strings of a harp?

Mo Fan had never seen this before. He did not press forward recklessly in case his opponent was using the Sound Element, which was his greatest weakness.

There was no sound. Every time the Crimson Scorpion Medusa plucked her hair, tiny black lice-like insects crawled out of the hair and dug into the ground.

Mo Fan was dumbfounded.

She was not playing a harp. She was shaking out the lice in the hair!

The problem was, were the lice even a threat?

Did the Crimson Scorpion Medusa not wash her hair for several hundred years? How are so many lice coming out of her hair?

If Mo Fan was going to die, he believed he would die of disgust.

“Earth Flame!”

Mo Fan slowly opened his right hand. Lava was flowing out of the gaps between his fingers. The scorching red liquid permeated the ground under his feet.

The ground swiftly reddened.

The others might not see it, but Mo Fan could feel the ground being filled up by the lice. The soil and rocks under his feet were crawling with lice. Only the thin layer of the surface remained intact.

The Crimson Scorpion Lice were able to multiply on their own, and were doing so at a shocking rate under the ground. If Mo Fan did not use the Earth Flame to establish a boundary, he would soon find himself inside a nest of lice!

The Crimson Scorpion Lice were oddly terrifying, and eventually even infested the surface. Even the rocky hills around them had turned into mountains of lice.

Mo Fan’s Ardent Sunset was supposed to be effective against enemies in great numbers, but the lice were highly resistant to fire after the Crimson Scorpion Medusa was strengthened by the Spring of Darkness. They were multiplying quicker than Mo Fan’s flames could devour them.

Mo Fan had established a fiery swamp, but it was soon devoured by a black tide in the form of the lice. Mo Fan no longer had a place to stand.

The army of Crimson Scorpion Lice was following the Crimson Scorpion Medusa’s orders. They continued to pile up into a Crimson Scorpion Louse King the size of a mountain!