"Wait!"

"Root Source·Void Reabsorption (Tier Three)"

SWISH!

Void Reabsorption swept past!

It completely devoured a swath of Lu Cang’s Magic—

The more his opponent cast it, the more Lu Cang felt how exquisite this Magic was...

It directly devoured another’s Magic, converting it into Magic Power to replenish itself.

What an overbearing spell.

The drawback was also obvious: it required constant control. If interrupted, the spell would be dispelled.

It was still struggling, and struggling was all it could do.

Although it used Void Reabsorption to devour most of Lu Cang’s Magic, this Root Magic was just too easy for Lu Cang to counter.

"Wait!"

"We have both comprehended the Root Source! Why are you so insistent on settling this so soon?"

"How about we cease fire and discuss our insights together!"

SWISH!

The Light that was about to pierce Xu Zhou suddenly stopped.

POP—

Instant White Flash dissipated in mid-air.

The other spells that were about to strike it also came to a temporary halt.

’Discuss the Root Source together?’

It was a good proposal. For Mages, fighting to the death wasn’t as meaningful as it was for Warriors.

Their focus was more on the pursuit of the Root Source.

’What it said is true...’

’It’s hard to find another Root Mage to exchange ideas about the Root Source with right now.’

’Communicating with this being called Xu Zhou might lead to greater inspiration.’

’Of course... more importantly, we have no prior grudge. Deciding life and death now would just be another victory to add to my record.’

’Besides, the reason I haven’t gone all-out to kill it so quickly...’

’...is that I wanted to see what other moves it had.’

Now, its active suggestion to communicate... gave Lu Cang the feeling that this was exactly what he wanted.

Lu Cang still thought it over for a moment before replying, "Alright, we can do that."

Seeing Lu Cang halt his attack, Xu Zhou finally let out a sigh of relief.

The relentless barrage of Magic had left it completely breathless.

’Three spells against several hundred at once?’

’Is this a joke?’

Lu Cang didn’t bring up the matter of winning or losing. In the end, if it didn’t want to lose, he could just kill it.

Xu Zhou landed and sat down.

It simply sat right there on the ground.

Lu Cang thought for a moment and decided to remain standing.

Xu Zhou’s Magic could attack directly from inside a Shield. The spell was peculiar, and he was wary of a sneak attack if he sat down.

However, aside from his own Fifty-Six Layered Shield, he also had a Pendant, a Ring, and his Magic Robe, all of which had life-saving effects.

He wasn’t really that afraid of a sneak attack.

"What race are you? Why can you flash around like that?"

Lu Cang threw out the question right away.

Xu Zhou’s eye twitched, but it still answered Lu Cang’s question. "We do not have a name for our race. We only have a single, unified designation."

"Other species call us—Void Creatures."

’What comes from the Void isn’t just Magic Power...’

Lu Cang couldn’t help but recall what Iz had said. At the time, Iz hadn’t wanted to say too much.

He never expected to come into contact with the Void so soon.

"This ability to flicker within your material world is our racial Talent. No... rather than a Talent, it’s more our very nature."

"We exist simultaneously in the material world and the Void. Our coordinates in the Void are different from yours."

As it spoke, it splayed two fingers and walked them across the ground like a pair of legs.

"The ground my fingertips touch is your material world..."

"...while the actual movement of my two fingers is the path traveled in the Void."

"My two fingers travel through space, but only the surfaces of my two fingertips actually touch the ground... that is the me you see."

Lu Cang already understood. It was a bit like the theory from his past life of a three-dimensional space being projected onto a two-dimensional plane. Its true body existed in a higher-dimensional space, and what he could see was merely a single facet of its projection.

’So that’s how it is.’

Suddenly, Lu Cang’s understanding of the Void deepened.

At the same time, he extrapolated from this and realized why they were so hard to kill.

’So my attacks aren’t actually hitting their real bodies. I’m just poking a "fingertip" or the "sole of a foot" of their true form. In short, it’s just one facet of a projection.’

’I haven’t hit their complete selves at all.’

’Thinking about it carefully, this race is actually terrifying. Isn’t fighting an ordinary race a dimensional-reduction attack for them?’

"And what about you? How do you cast so many spells at once?"

Since his opponent had told him about the Void, Lu Cang answered, "Talent."

That answer.

It made Xu Zhou’s eye twitch again.

But truthfully, besides Talent, there was no other explanation it could think of.

Lu Cang asked, "What is that spell of yours, the one that can grow Crystal Spikes from inside a Shield?"

Xu Zhou: "You want to learn it?"

"Yes."

’Shameless. Asking for so much right off the bat.’

"I don’t mind teaching you, but you’ll have to trade one of your spells for it."

After a moment of contemplation, Lu Cang replied, "My Magic, you can’t learn it."

This response made Xu Zhou’s eyelid twitch yet again.

’Arrogance...’

’This guy is too arrogant.’

’I can’t learn it? Is there any spell that I, Xu Zhou, cannot learn? Even a Tier Three spell, I only need the time it takes for a meal and a cup of tea to master.’

’In half a week, I can evolve it to the point of mastery with No Chanting.’

’To think there’s a spell in this world I can’t learn!’

Xu Zhou laughed in extreme anger and said, "How about this. I have a Magic Book I just received here. It was my reward for a 300-win streak in this arena."

"I was originally planning to save it for tomorrow, so how about... we study it together."

"If you learn the Magic recorded in this book before I do, I’ll consider it a gift to you. I’ll also teach you the spell you want to learn, the one that attacks from within a Shield."

"But if I learn it first, I’m taking the book back, and you have to teach me that instantaneous Flash Magic."