It spread its wings and met the black feather rain, each flapping wing stirring up scorching heat waves that melted the black feathers into molten iron, yet more black feathers pierced through the fire curtain, burning smoking wounds onto its back and wings.
Further away, the Frost Spirit and Blue Buff fought fiercely at the edge of the arena.
Both of these guys were elemental spirits, capable of conjuring powerful elemental magic almost effortlessly. To avoid affecting their respective masters, they wisely kept their distance from the center of the arena.
The Blue Buff stomped its foot hard on the ground, and its single eye shot out a deep blue light.
It swung its massive stone arm and pounded the ground, causing nearly a hundred earth spikes to burst from the soil, aiming at the Frost Spirit hovering in the air.
The Frost Spirit was enveloped in bone-chilling cold. Seeing this, it spun rapidly, and a spherical ice crystal hurricane erupted, pulverizing the earth spikes.
Immediately after, the Frost Spirit let out a strange shriek, and the surrounding cold air condensed into an ice dragon that roared as it flew towards the Blue Buff. Wherever the dragon's body passed, the air froze into a web-like pattern of ice.
The Blue Buff slammed its palms onto the ground again, and the earth cracked, raising five earthen walls that stood like steel fortresses before it.
The ice dragon crashed into the earthen walls with a thunderous impact. Instantly, ice shards and shattered rocks flew everywhere, and a person-sized gap was blasted in the center of the earthen walls.
The Blue Buff seized the opportunity, sweeping its massive arm, and dozens of sharp rock fragments shot out like a torrential rain.
The Frost Spirit automatically condensed an ice crystal shield from the surrounding cold air, but at the same time, the Blue Buff's single eye glowed intensely, and the rock fragments suddenly exploded in mid-air the moment they neared the shield!
The ice crystal shield shattered instantly, and the Frost Spirit was sent flying by the shockwave, tracing an ice-blue trajectory in the air before crashing into a distant rock wall, scattering a large spray of ice flowers.
"Roar!" The Blue Buff charged forward, its massive body causing the ground to shake and crack with every step it took.
Although the Summoned Beasts were fighting fiercely, Cana could no longer pay attention to them.
Because the remaining Stone Men around Ezreal had strangely merged together.
Two Stone Men, nearly twelve meters tall, stood on either side of the blonde young man.
Ezreal held his left hand in a sword-finger gesture, a gentle smile on his face, as a large white runic magic array slowly rotated beneath the feet of the two stone giants beside him.
"The Red and Blue Warriors, amplified by magic, have terrifyingly high defense. Even my Amaterasu would have trouble breaking through them. Can your card magic shatter them?"
Cana gasped and straightened her body, wiping the sweat from her face with a dirty hand.
"Let's just see," she said, pulling down the card box from her waist. The nine remaining cards simultaneously glowed faintly.
Ezreal took two more steps back, his smile unwavering, "Begin your performance."
Cana shouted, "Don't always smile when you fight! It's really annoying!"
All her remaining magic power surged through her body and poured into the cards in her hand, causing Cana's black hair to fly wildly from the rampaging magical energy.
"Metal, Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Ice, Thunder, Light, Dark, Elemental Fusion!"
Cana's eyes widened, and she abruptly threw the cards in her hand at Ezreal, "Fairy's Resolve! Chaos Storm!"
The nine cards flew out together, and various energies exploded with a roar in mid-air.
An incredibly powerful chaotic energy burst forth instantly.
Cyan, yellow, fiery red, blue-violet, gold, blue... various energies converged in front of Cana, then merged into a thick, colorful energy beam!
The colorful torrent engulfed the entire arena!
The two gigantic Red and Blue Warriors raised their shields to block in front of Ezreal, but the moment the colorful energy beam slammed into the shields, stone fragments flew everywhere!
The shields, possessing extremely high magic resistance, lasted less than a second before shattering with a crash, followed by the shattering of their massive bodies.
The instant the colorful beam was about to hit him, Ezreal's smile remained gentle. A golden light illuminated his body, and the next moment, Ezreal's body fragmented into golden light particles and vanished from his original spot.
After shattering the two warriors, the colorful energy beam, unstoppable, crashed into the ground. Wherever it passed, the space emitted a sound like breaking mirrors, and the air was squeezed by the high pressure, producing a deafening shriek.
The moment the beam touched the ground, it erupted with a blinding flash brighter than the sun. The rock layer within a hundred-meter radius was blasted high into the sky, the ground instantly vaporized, and countless energy currents, like giant pythons, burrowed underground, triggering a chain of earthquakes.
A muffled thunder-like roar came from the distant mountains, and the mountain surface cracked with a web-like pattern of fissures, as shattered rocks poured down like rain.
In the sky, the energy aftermath blew away layers of clouds, forming a vacuum vortex hundreds of meters in diameter. Lightning wildly danced along the edges of the vortex, striking the ground and exploding into purple flames dozens of meters high.
The affected forest instantly carbonized. As the trees turned to ash, strange colorful phosphorescence seeped from their leaf veins, as if the entire forest had been frozen into an energy specimen while burning.
As the light dissipated, Cana knelt on one knee, breathing heavily, her leather armor soaked with sweat.
She looked in Ezreal's direction and saw the Evil Wolf, Blue Buff, and Flamingo re-grouped behind Ezreal, forming a defensive formation.
Ezreal's body reformed five hundred meters away, still carrying the unconscious Gray on his shoulder. He looked back, and the original arena had become a giant pit a hundred feet deep.
"This much power is a bit excessive! Gray is a life, after all, it would be a shame if he was gone," Ezreal said with a smile, casually placing Gray on the ground.
"You guy..." Cana rolled her eyes at him.
"Do you want to continue?" Her voice was hoarse from magical exhaustion, but her eyes still burned with an undiminished fighting spirit.
Ezreal gently shook his head: "You've reached your limit."
His gaze swept over the unconscious Gray and the nearly exhausted Cana, "Besides, according to the rules, I've already lost..."
Cana raised her fist towards Ezreal, first making a feigned punch, then, with a relaxed expression, raised her fist above her head, "I! Won!"
Cana collapsed to the ground without any regard for her image, panting heavily, her face filled with joy, yet two lines of clear tears streamed down uncontrollably, "Dad! I won!"
Ezreal's smile instantly froze, and he fell silent for a moment.
He gently waved his hand, and the three giant beasts behind him silently dematerialized and disappeared.
Then Ezreal gently helped up the still unconscious Gray and slowly walked over to Cana.
Gray didn't know what had happened; Ezreal suddenly thought that being unconscious was truly a good thing.
After dropping Gray next to Cana, Ezreal also lay down on the ground without any regard for his image.
The three of them looked at the sun, one crying and laughing, one sleeping soundly, and one staring blankly, not knowing what to do.
Sunlight penetrated the thin clouds after the energy storm, weaving fragmented golden light spots onto the three of them.
[End of this volume. The next volume is the beginning of the main story, and will also introduce new characters and original plot. Also, I see that everyone prefers daily life, and although I'm not very good at it, I will try to write more daily scenes.]
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