Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Chapter 427 : Crystals

Rain took a good look at the human army before, and he knew that they didn't bring siege weapons. The reason for that was the fact that it was a slow way to win battles, but if a catapult didn't fire the massive boulder and make it cross their kilometers, what did it do?

"Unless it is some magic catapult that was assembled in a couple of hours, it wasn't such a tool that did that... it was a person or perhaps several," Rain thought while squinting his eyes. "They never stop surprising me."

The human army kept firing those massive boulders toward the camp. Rain was able to stop them midway until the magic people became ready to receive them. The water snipers bombarded them with their water spears, but it took a while for them to make the projectiles explode... the next explosions almost reached their camp, and the blasts destroyed their tents.

"It seems that only heavy things can make those explode..." Rain said while looking at Josar.

The golem masters weren't there, but they would be able to use high-level earth magic to copy Rain... without any other choice, Rain took that role again until the sun began to rise, and they realized that all those attacks had only been a distraction... they had filled the holes that Rain had created around their camp, and now their base was moving to the south.

"What is their goal this time..." Rain thought while rubbing his chin thoughtfully.

The most obvious option was that they wanted to avoid Rain's traps... they knew that he couldn't have set them all around the city. Another one was that they wanted to fight when and where they wanted... that would keep the magic people on their toes.

"Do you think that they found some sort of weakness in the other areas, even though they don't have direct routes to the council hall and they didn't fight in those locations?" Terra asked.

"The same as usual, get in the way of the enemies as much as possible," Rain said. "I will be more reckless now, so I will trust you to heal me when I return. Don't expose yourself."

"Understood," Terra nodded.

Terra also knew that there was time for everything, to help and to be helped... to take chances and to fall back and run away from risks. While she fought the magic people, she didn't know much about them until now, and she grew weary of their unreasonable actions.

Before long, the human army began to move, and Rain kept an eye on them, but he didn't see any of the special soldiers. They were hiding to do Joanis' binding in the shadows...

"It can't be helped..." Josar said and then raised his hands toward Rain while holding some crystals.

Rain raised his guard and then readied himself to pierce Josar's heart and then escape with Terra, but nothing happened. The stones in his hands cracked and became dust, and then Rain felt the power inside him growing.

"... My apologies for being so indecisive until now," Josar said. "The magic of my tribe is to create these crystals, and when we use them, we grant some power to those we use them on. The crystals that I just used will increase the power of water and earth magic for half an hour."

Rain couldn't see that on his Status, but he could feel it... even without his coral spear, he could tell that his control and power over water magic had increased a lot. It seemed that Josar and the magic people were more cornered than they thought... perhaps the dragons would arrive in a few days.