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Before a sorcerer casts a spell, the most common premonition is in the hands.
Additionally, to interfere with Hen's judgment, he raised his hand and conjured a scorching Fireball Spell, which whistled as it flew towards his opponent's face.
As for a warning? For an existence like Hen, any pre-battle warning would be superfluous.
While Hen's reaction was far from Karl's, it wasn't slow either; he first looked at the incoming Fireball Spell, his gaze quickly sweeping over the ground beneath Karl's feet.
Under such terrifying explosive power, the soft grass didn't show any footprints or sunken marks.
This phenomenon, defying common sense, stirred something within him.
At the same time, Hen casually waved his right hand forward, his movements fluid and unhurried; in the instant he waved his hand, not one, but twenty-odd Fireball Spells, each the size of a human head and neatly arranged, suddenly appeared in front of his palm.
They seemed to possess life; one of them precisely met the Fireball Spell shot by Karl.
"Bang! Boom!!" The two collided in mid-air, exploding into a dazzling shower of sparks.
The other Fireball Spells, however, formed a small barrage net, blocking multiple routes Karl could have advanced or dodged.
Karl had already heightened his vigilance the moment Hen's wrist trembled slightly.
But when he clearly saw the twenty-odd Fireball Spells that appeared simultaneously, his pupils couldn't help but contract slightly.
"Uh—this is a Fireball Spell? Isn't a Fireball Spell a single-target spell?" He was aghast.
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In the hands of an ordinary sorcerer, the Fireball Spell is a standard single-target attack spell.
But now, in Hen's hands, it had become a continuous volley of fire comparable to an area-of-effect attack.
Despite his shock, Karl's movements showed no hesitation; his sprinting figure performed a sharp side-slide at high speed.
He calmly avoided the trajectories of some Fireball Spells, and when facing other unavoidable Fireball Spells, he didn't choose to endure them or dodge again.
Instead, he made a move that made Hen look sideways in surprise.
Karl raised his right palm, his body covered by an invisible bio-force field, and quickly slapped the sides of the Fireball Spells a few times.
"Puff! Puff—puff!" Those Fireball Spells, powerful enough to tear a heavily armored knight to shreds, were directly dispersed by his slaps.
The raging flames and shockwaves scattered in all directions, but Karl's palm and even his entire arm, far from being injured, didn't even get a speck of dust on them.
He could even use the reactive force of the slaps to adjust his posture and close in on Hen at an even faster speed.
Hen's composure was replaced by genuine astonishment for the first time; he clearly saw that Karl had not cast any spell shield just now.
Although, to test Karl, he had deliberately controlled the spell's power to the level of an average Lower Council member.
But even that was a potentially fatal attack, and Karl actually dared to withstand it with just his physical body and even swat away the Fireball Spells?
This level of physical strength far exceeded any giants or ordinary monsters he knew of.
"This kid, he's hiding more than I imagined—" Hen mused inwardly.
This time, Karl learned his lesson; he didn't rashly reach out to grab Hen again.
The moment he closed in, he flipped his wrist and another Fireball Spell condensed, but he didn't throw it at Hen's body; instead, he slammed it fiercely onto the ground beneath Hen's feet.
At the same time, he maintained his speed, continuing his charge right after the Fireball Spell's explosion.
"Boom! Zzz!" Dirt and gravel splattered, and the purplish glow of the slowing rune flickered, then was destroyed by the Fireball Spell.
"Very clever! But—not enough!" Hen exclaimed in praise, then chuckled.
Before he finished speaking, the ground in front of Hen vibrated violently, and a solid earth wall mixed with rocks suddenly rose like a living entity. It directly blocked between Karl and Hen, attempting to knock Karl away.
Karl's expression remained unchanged, he didn't even slow down, merely turning his body slightly to face the earth wall with his shoulder.
"Boom!" That seemingly sturdy earth wall instantly shattered like paper under his impact, sending earth and stones flying.
However, amidst the roar of the crumbling earth wall, Karl's Super Senses captured an extremely faint "humming" sound, yet one imbued with a sense of spatial distortion.
His heart tensed, and he looked up, only to see that the spot where Hen had been standing was now empty.
Immediately after, Karl heard a movement and instantly turned his head to look in a certain direction.
At this moment, over three hundred meters away, a faint electric arc flickered in the air, and Hen's figure had elegantly reappeared.
Not only that, the ground beneath Karl's feet suddenly became soft like sand and rapidly collapsed.
A powerful suction came from below, seemingly intending to swallow him whole.
Karl reacted extremely quickly; the moment he lost his footing, his toes precisely tapped lightly on a larger piece of crumbling rock.
Then, his figure soared into the air again, carrying an indomitable momentum, and swiftly glided towards Hen in the distance.
For a time, a dazzling series of offensive and defensive scenes unfolded on the plain.
Karl utilized the attack spells he had learned in the past half-month to their fullest, alternating between Fireball Spells and lightning.
Combined with his Super Speed and Heat Vision for long-range scorching, he launched a storm of attacks from all angles at Hen.
Hen, meanwhile, maintained a spell shield, blocking all of Karl's attacks, appearing composed throughout.
Hen always easily evaded Karl's pounces with a blink spell whenever Karl got close.
His counterattacks were extremely sharp; Fireball Spells and lightning were not single shots, but rather twenty or more at a time.
Fireball Spells and lightning wove into a dense net of firepower, and while they couldn't penetrate Karl's invisible bio-force field defense or harm his body directly, the intense explosions and lightning strikes had a destructive effect on the terrain, which could effectively delay and interfere with Karl's ghostly speed.
Midway, Hen seemed to want to test Karl's upper limit of strength; once, he didn't choose to teleport.
Instead, he chose to briefly stay in place, and Karl seized the opportunity, immediately slamming a punch onto the shield.
With a crisp "crack," the shield, capable of withstanding most attacks, instantly shattered like glass.
Hen's eyes once again flashed with surprise, and from then on, he never gave Karl any close-combat opportunities.
His teleportation speed was incredibly fast; often, only a faint hum of electric arcs lingered in the air.
Then, his figure would already appear over three hundred meters away, or even further at a safe distance, as if this wasn't even his limit.
Although Karl's speed was fast, his current Super Speed was far from being able to traverse hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye.
But Hen's attacks of this magnitude also couldn't pose a threat to Karl; he remained in peak condition.
The battle continued for several more minutes; Karl, relying on his bio-force field, endured the bombardment of over thirty of Hen's Fireball Spells.
He also continuously shattered five earth walls Hen hastily erected, finally closing in again on Hen, who seemed to be preparing to cast a spell.
This time, Karl anticipated that Hen would teleport away as before.
He had already planned his subsequent pursuit route in his mind and was preparing to move in that direction.
However, something unexpected happened—
Just as the electric arc unique to the blink spell began to shimmer around Hen, and his body started to blur, he suddenly let out a suppressed groan of pain.
His entire body trembled violently, and the composed expression on his face was replaced by agony.
Hen's face abruptly turned pale, his features contorted by intense pain, and fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead.
The teleportation spell, which was on the verge of completion, was thus forcibly interrupted, and the electric arcs appearing on his body immediately dissipated.
This sudden turn of events momentarily stunned Karl, but his combat instincts remained, and he immediately seized this fleeting opportunity.
He stepped forward, his right hand instantly shooting out, and finally, for the first time, firmly grasped Hen's collar.
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