Three More days later.
Within the Underground Holy Spring, a youth wearing a Track Suit was earnestly sitting there with his face occasionally looking excited, and sometimes his brow was furrowed.
Whether it was studying or cultivating, they were both slow and dry. Mo Fan had already deeply experienced this point. However, for his incredible life as a Mage, he was willing to endure this lifestyle before and even now~
"It has been six days since I entered seclusion… I think I bought enough time for the people to evacuate." Mo Fan stopped meditating and looked in his smart watch.
Fuu~
He exhaled and stood up. His Fire, Lightning, Space and Summon Elements were consolidated and were at their peak condition!
As for his Earth and Undead Element, he was able to cast six Tier One spells before he will run out of mana.
"This much is all I can do right now. Considering my ETA I think I did pretty well."
_DDDRRDRRR!_
Suddenly, a fierce trembling came from his surroundings.
"About Time~" Mo Fan said with a smirk.
He was waiting for this moment!
Mo Fan stood up and walked toward the location of the large exit gate.
The restricted gate slowly began to open up.
The sealed door opened up, a woman wearing a milky white uniform entered Mo Fan's eyesight as she darted in. At same time, Mo Fan saw the entire underground hall was covered in scarlet red marks of blood.
The guards were laying everywhere, their bodies all ripped into several pieces. The blood clots and organs were all mixed in the pools of blood. Seeing this stunned Mo Fan's entire being.
_What the?! Why haven't they been evacuated??_
_Zhankong and Tang Zhong should've started the evacuation process…_
"Captain Liang!" the uniformed young woman yelled out.
As she finished yelling, Mo Fan saw movement on the other side. The Intermediate Mage, Liang Weichan, was fiercely thrown toward a pillar of the underground hall like a sandbag. The pillar was directly broken into two.
Fortunately, Liang Weichan's body had a layer of Water Barrier protecting him, or else that kind of collision would definitely have splattered his body everywhere.
_Just what is happening here?_
Seeing this made Mo Fan tremble in rage.
A creature with a body that was bigger than a small truck emerged from above and landed right in front of Captain Liang.
This creatures neck and head were indistinguishable, but the big rat's body was extremely distinct. It was different from a Colossal-eyed Ape Rat, this creature's body was covered in incomparably sinister, twisted, and numerous blood marks!. It made this pickup-sized Big Rat appear even more dreadful!
"This… This is a Blood Mark Colossal Rat, Run!" Captain Liang shouted.
_Why did this thing appear inside the underground hall, all of the guards are killed by this Blood Mark Colossal Rat!_ Captain Liang was not able to comprehend why is such a creature here.
"Shit! I should've listened to the Military's warning!"
"Guguguggu!"
The Blood Mark Colossal Rat seemed to have smelled the odour emitted from the Underground Holy Spring, its massive lantern eye immediately locked onto the location of Mo Fan and the guardswoman.
Its sharp claws easily dug into the underground hall's stone bricks. One could feel that this Blood Mark Colossal Rat was currently charging up its power, just like a pickup truck gunning its engine.
"Close the door!" Surrounded by stone fragments, Liang Weichan shouted toward the guardswoman.
Lin Yuxin bit her lips, but she had no choice but to fiercely slap the gate.
The two restriction gates closed. Just when the opening was reduced to a small crack.
The closing speed of the gates was extremely quick. The Blood Mark Colossal Rat was clearly over thirty meters away, yet, it charged over in a wink.
_Booom!_
The stone gates trembled, the Blood Mark Colossal Rat had clearly slammed into them.
Lin Yuxin's complexion turned pale as she glanced at the student who was still cultivating here, standing in front of the gate without flinching.
"What happened?" Mo Fan asked the trembling Lin Yuxin who was covered in blood patches of her comrades.
The scene from before them was too scary. If they were one step later closing the door, then they would've instantly lost their lives. The Blood Mark Colossal Rat was several times scarier than the nearly evolved One-eyed Magic Wolf. It was definitely not something a Basic level Mages was capable of fighting against!
"If you don't want to die here, then come with me!" Lin Yuxin didn't have the time or patience to explain to him.
All of Bo City had sunk into a crisis, the sewers were filled with Monsters. They appeared to have been planning for it, they all began to frantically attack the Underground Holy Spring.
On the surface, all of the Mages were currently fighting off an invasion of Monsters. The Underground Holy Spring had suffered a surprise attack, and so they wouldn't be receiving any reinforcements. Presently, they could only rely on themselves to protect the Underground Holy Spring!
"Hey, Don't fucking ignore me! Tell me what happened!" Mo Fan lost his temper.
A situation like this, is not what he expected! _Fuck! Just where did it go wrong!_
"Just follow me." Lin Yuxin didn't want to babble with Mo Fan, and quickly walked to the altar.
She ran her finger under the edge of the altar, and found a button hidden under the edge. Biting her lip, she pressed it down, and heard a gurgling behind her.
Without knowing what kind of button she had pressed, the originally circulating Underground Holy Spring was now continuously flowing into a small hole.
_Gudu~ Gudu~_
A few seconds later, all of the Underground Holy Spring had disappeared. There was not a single drop left within the small stone ditch.
Lin Yuxin strode to the very top of the altar and tore up the old leather mat, which was still warm from Mo Fan sitting on it.
The board beneath the leather mat could be opened. After Lin Yuxin opened the board, a blue bottle was visible inside. Within the bottle appeared to be the incomparably clear Underground Holy Spring's waters.
Lin Yuxin carefully put away the bottle that contained the Underground Holy Spring and turned around to look at the straightforward student who was about to do his Magic University Exams. She said, "This is the emergency protection plan for the Underground Holy Spring. There is another passage in this cell, it should lead to the back mountain of your Tian Lan Magic High."
"Miss, can't you tell me just what exactly has happened first?" Mo Fan asked again.
"You'll know once you've exited. Come with me first, their objective is precisely the Underground Holy Spring, we cannot let the Underground Holy Spring land in their hands." Lin Yuxin didn't want to say too much.
"…" Right now Mo Fan was utterly furious! All he wanted was information, but he couldn't even get that.
Lin Yuxin walked along the wall. Her fingers actually inserted what seemed to be some kind of password into a section of the stone wall that was indistinguishable from the rest.
_Krrrrr~_
With a grinding noise, the stone wall to the side suddenly opened up, revealing a pitch black tunnel.
"Leaving this place is our priority." Lin Yuxin said no more as she grabbed Mo Fan and they walked into that dark tunnel.
As they took a few steps inside, Lin Yuxin suddenly thought of something. Her pair of somewhat sharp eyes looked over at Mo Fan.
"This secret tunnel isn't necessarily safe. The people from the Black Vatican should have me as their objective. I'll let you carry the Underground Holy Spring, you must protect it." Lin Yuxin made a decision that she herself thought was rude and impetuous.
However, Lin Yuxin had no other choices.
The Black Vatican came here prepared, it seemed like they knew the Underground Holy Spring like the back of their hand. If they were to meet people from the Black Vatican during the process of escaping, then their main objective would definitely be her, the Vice Captain, while Mo Fan, a student, would definitely be neglected by the people from Black Vatican.
As long as they were able to protect Underground Holy Spring, then there was still hope!
"Can I trouble you to just tell me what is going on?!" Mo Fan was a bit impatient.
"Crimson Alert." Lin Yuxin was unable to clearly explain to this student in a short amount of time. After all, the student was secluded in the room, and completely ignorant of what had happened in the outside world.
Just like natural disaster warnings from the technological world had different levels, so too the kind of crises where Monsters would invade the humans also had different levels!
A Crimson Alert…
That was destruction, massacre, a catastrophe for the city. The limited amount of Battlemages would be unable to fend off the invasion of the Monsters. The Monsters would invade the city and start wildly massacring the people. It was not just a few Monsters running around, there would be hundreds or thousands of them!
There were many Mages who would get slaughtered like chickens, let alone the civilians who were completely unable to do anything.
Crimson Alert, the City would turn into a river of blood, the corpses would be everywhere!
Just the descriptions and records from books caused people to tremble in fear. Now that everything was happening in front of everyone's eyes, just what kind of Hell on Earth would it be?
"But the military must've started evacuating the citizens right? That does not explain why you all were still staying here!" Mo Fan said in a hurry.
"The Military and the Enforcement Union did start the evacuation after sounding off the Crimson Alert. At first there was a lot of panic within the citizens, but since nothing had happened for two days after the warning. The citizens got complacent and didn't cooperated with the military's evacuation process. Right now, roughly only Thirty-Seven Thousand people have been evacuated…" Lin Yuxin explained the situation.
"You mean to say that after 3days of sounding the Crimson Alert only half of the city has been evacuated?" Mo Fan was furious. His rage was boiling inside his chest, ready to burst out at any moment!
_Those lazy motherfuckers._ Even after buying them 3-4 extra days for evacuation, there was still over half population left to be evacuated.
"If the situation is similar to previous one, then at least eight thousand to ten thousand Monsters have invaded the city…" Mo Fan's heart trembled with rage! He mumbled to himself.
…
After passing through the secret tunnel, Mo Fan and Lin Yuxin emerged on the north side of the mountain in the city.
Unknown to Mo Fan, the moment he came out his Evil Essence Orb started emitting an illusory dim blood red light!
The dim blood red light spread in the surroundings! The wave of light exploded like a shockwave and just kept on spreading in all four directions from Mo Fan!
The heavy rain was still pouring down, the dark and gloomy weather enveloping all of Bo City in a depressing atmosphere.
From afar came a muffled roar that shook people as it echoed in their ears.
Mo Fan turned his gaze in the direction the roar of the Monster had come from.
_No… that's the residential area._
The ground level houses, and the streets constructed with an outdated cement… it was like a food market that had scarlet red blood flowing out!
All that blood couldn't be the blood of chickens. That was the blood of once-living people that converged into a stream as it flowed into the sewers from the constant pouring of the heavy rain!
Bloody red, an eye-catching bloody red!
Standing on the back of the mountain in the middle of the city, he could clearly see bloodstains everywhere in the rain-covered, dusky Bo City.
Bo City was an ink-like city with the characteristics of the south. Under the rain, it would normally look even more like a beautiful painting. However, today, everyone saw a painting that was filled with blood stains, like the arrival of a nightmare!
RRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
A trembling roar suddenly erupted from Bo City, its sound, raising Goosebumps all over.
Mo Fan turned his head around as he looked in the direction of the sound.
A grey sky was shrouding all of Bo City. Bo City's symbolic building, the Silver Commerce Tower, was like a crane in a flock of chickens. It almost looked as though it was touching the grey heavens. However, lying on the dome of the lofty Silver Commerce Tower was a colossal shadow!
It's tail stretched almost the full length of the dome of the Commerce Tower.
Half of its wings were unfurled. One half looked hazy in the rain, the other half covered several floors of the building!
Its head was raised high. The roar that shook the entirety of Bo City came from a ferocious mouth that was capable of swallowing clouds!
The colossal creature was laying on Bo City's highest point. You could see the dome of Silver Commerce Tower from any location in Bo City, that meant that everyone in Bo City was able to witness this ferocious and colossal dark creature!
What Spirit Wolf, what One-eyed Magic Wolf, what Blood Mark Colossal Rat? All of these looked like a joke of an army in front of this creature that was sitting on top of the Silver Commerce Tower.
It was in the territory of the humans, yet it looked like it had entered its own territory. Humans were only food which it had confined and raised in this city!
Not too long ago, he was directly beneath this dreadful creature.
"Darkwing Wolf, Commander level Monster. Calling hundreds of Monsters with just a howl… The only person in Bo City who can survive its attack is the commander of the Army, Zhankong." Lin Yuxin replied in a stiff voice.
"The Blood Mark Colossal Rat that you saw in the Underground Hall is a Warrior class creature. The Darkwing Wolf is an even higher level Monster Commander, and also one of the reasons behind the Crimson Alert. Other than the Blood Mark Colossal Rat, there are hundreds of Three-eyed Magic Wolves outside of the safety border who are commanding numbers of One-eyed Magic Wolves as they're assaulting the Army. The perimeter which the Army can protect is very limited, there's roughly a thousand or so Monsters who have invaded Bo City. Deng Kai of Hunter's Union is already commanding all of the Hunters to block off their route and kill the Monsters in the city." Lin Yuxin said, trembling.
"The reason behind these dormant Monsters suddenly attacking us are…"
"Black Vatican, it's the handiwork of the people from the Black Vatican," Lin Yuxin said before Mo Fan could complete his sentence.
"They manufactured the Violent Spring, a kind of medicine that could come off as a counterfeit Underground Holy Spring. Its effects are entirely different from the Underground Holy Spring, however. This kind of Violent Spring can arouse a Monster's wild nature; causing them to basically lose control and go on a rampage. We currently do not know how Black Vatican was able to attract the Magic Wolf race to Bo City. However, they sprinkled the Violent Spring into the clouds and waited for a heavy rain to come so the Violent Spring could act as a dreadful catalyst; causing the entire Magic Wolf race to begin frenziedly assaulting Bo City," Lin Yuxin told him.
Back when Lin Yuxin had discovered the Violent Spring waters, she had completely overlooked this point. Only when the calamity had descended did she abruptly come to a realization, causing her to break out in cold sweat.
From how Lin Yuxin saw it, this something they had plotted for a long time. There was someone who wanted to use the population of Monsters to thoroughly massacre Bo City!
The only force who would do such a cruel thing was the Black Vatican!
"The objectives of the Black Vatican is to completely destroy Bo City, and have this place become Hell on Earth… The Darkwing Wolf is admittedly very strong, but it is not enough to turn all of Bo City into a slaughterhouse in just a day or two. However, if more Monsters of the same class as the Darkwing Wolf appear, then even if our Bo City were to wait for reinforcements to arrive, there would practically be nothing left," Lin Yuxin said with an ice-cold gaze.
"Mo Fan, you need to do two things now. One, protect the Underground Holy Spring. Do not let it fall into anyone else's hand in any situation… I have a premonition that the Black Vatican urgently need to obtain the Underground Holy Spring." Lin Yuxin's expression was extremely serious as she looked at Mo Fan. She passed the Intricately designed Container of the Totem Spring into Mo Fan's hand.
"And the second thing is?" Mo Fan asked.
"Do your best to survive the calamity this time. My identity is relatively sensitive, the people from the Black Vatican won't necessarily believe I have the Underground Holy Spring on me. Thus, I will now deliberately attract their attention. What you need to do is to hide as long as possible with the Underground Holy Spring, and survive for as long as possible. Don't let the people from the Black Vatican find it, and definitely do not let it fall into their hands," Lin Yuxin said.
"Is the Tian Lan Magic high school evacuated?" Mo Fan asked while looking in its direction.
"I… I don't know…" Lin Yuxin said.
"Okay…" Mo Fan didn't say anything further.
Lin Yuxin straightened her bloodstained white uniform, and then relentlessly chopped off her messy hair.
Wearing the hat while possessing an heroic spirit, Lin Yuxin had already began to stride toward the bloodstained city that was being overrun by Monsters. As she was running, she emotionlessly called back to Mo Fan, "I will draw away all the people from the Black Vatican. As long as you are not stupid, do not meet one yourself, and successfully get to the established Safety area, then you will be fine."
After saying this, Lin Yuxin quickly disappeared into the drifting heavy rain.
In the midst of running, Lin Yuxin didn't turn her head around to look back at him.
She knew that not everyone had a heart of justice, but she believed that every person had something they would sacrifice their lives to protect.
…
Mo Fan stood there in amazement. Watching Lin Yuxin's figure from afar, he had no idea about what to say.
He then looked at the bottle in his hands.
"Heh… In the end this was the result... Forget it, I don't have time to think about all this. Father and Xinxia should be at Shanghai with Ningxue right about now. So, I should go towards the school."
From his location at the very back, he saw a group of something in the middle of running down the back mountain of the vicinity of Tian Lan Magic High.
Their bodies were incredibly robust, they easily knocked down several trees.
They looked like a group of feral wolves that were rushing into a corral of sheep without fences. Their greed could be seen from their impatient speed.
_Oh! Free Exp~_
The Ten One Eyed Magic Wolves immediately halted in their tracks by a mystical silver glow! A few breaths later their bodies simply exploded and splattered everywhere.
"Little Loach, I'm sorry for confining you, but now that you have learnt your lesson, you're free!" Mo Fan undid the barrier around Little Loach. Little Loach vibrated with a mesmerizing glow!
Nine Soul Remnants and One Beautiful Soul Essence instantly floated towards Mo Fan~
"One Soul Essence right off the bat~ I guess it's the effect of the Evil Spring. Oh right!" Mo Fan used the Soul Essence and strengthened a star of his Fire Element!
Then he closed his eyes, and a Dark murky red colour glow covered his body! Seven crimson colour stars emerged and formed a star orbit in an instant!
"Soul Call!"
The moment Mo Fan chanted the spells name, the glow around his body intensified and slowly surrounded Little Loach. The crimson glow immediately turned into bright Azure Glow the moment it touched Little Loach!
Then in a frenzy the Bright Azure Glow fiercely exploded out of Mo Fan's chest into all four directions!
Few seconds later, few soul remnants floated towards Mo Fan.
"Whoa! It worked!!" Mo Fan exclaimed in excitement.
He used the Undead Element and casted a bizarre spell which called all the soul remnants and essences in the area towards himself!
But since his level of Undead Element was just unbearably low, instead of releasing the spell outwards, he merged the spell with Little Loach and because of that, the restriction of Little Loach of absorbing only the souls of Monsters which Mo Fan kills was lifted and it was now able to gather all the souls within 3km radius for a limited amount of time!
"The duration of the spell will last for around Fifty-five minutes…" Mo Fan said
A few moments later more soul remnants floated towards Mo Fan!
"Little Loach keep on producing Soul Essences for me!" Mo Fan said.
Little Loach vibrated, as if affirming Mo Fan's statement!
"Now then." Mo Fan glanced upwards in the sky. The space around him suddenly started vibrating and he jetted into the sky!
SWWOOOSHH~