Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 341 - 329: Capture

Escape.

Catherine said she would take Andrew to find water mages like him, but of course, she wasn’t sincere—it was merely a stalling tactic to get herself out of the situation.

Previously when she held the absolute advantage, once the teleportation was activated, it would transfer both her and Andrew into the Outer Battlefield, but their drop coordinates would be different, allowing Andrew to escape from her grasp.

Now, with the situation reversed, it was Catherine who found herself at a disadvantage, so naturally, the one who could escape and save herself through teleportation turned out to be Catherine, not Andrew!

Andrew’s mind worked swiftly. He almost immediately understood, nodding his head: "Indeed, if this Teleportation Gate really operates as you’ve said, in a ’one-way and random’ mode, once it’s activated, it could indeed allow you to escape from my grasp..."

Surprisingly, his tone was unusually calm!

In Catherine’s eyes, a deep mockery emerged, and she said coldly: "Keep pretending! Go on, keep pretending! When you were holding my neck and had the upper hand, your hands were trembling uncontrollably, indicating you were very afraid of me! Now that you know I’m about to escape from your hands, you dare put on such an unaffected, fearless face? Just who are you trying to trick!"

In Catherine’s view, Andrew’s correct reaction should be to immediately kill her, before the "random teleportation" officially activates, to make sure she is dead, which is what Andrew ought to do.

More importantly, Catherine actually hoped that Andrew would be more anxious and impetuous in trying to kill her!

"Because if this kid, like just now, disrupts the balance of the forces in my body in the most stable way, then I’d really have no chance at all and would just have to wait for death.

But if he’s afraid I’ll escape and tries to kill me faster..." A dark, cold light flashed deep in Catherine’s eyes.

She was incredibly daring!

In such a disadvantageous situation, she wasn’t just thinking about escaping, but about turning the tables for a counterattack: "I intentionally told him that I could escape through the Teleportation Gate to see if he would panic. If he doesn’t rush, I’ll escape calmly; if he does panic, then I’ll have a chance to counterkill him before the teleportation happens!"

Her inner killing intent was boiling, but on the surface, Catherine remained calm.

Using the brief respite she had just gained, she barely managed to find a balance point for the three types of forces within her body, and although things were still chaotic, she could at least gather a small amount of force again.

This force, compared to Catherine’s strength in a perfect state, was minuscule.

But it was enough to counterkill Andrew.

Waiting for the moment when Andrew couldn’t resist accelerating his lethal attack—

"Huh?"

Catherine suddenly widened her eyes in undisguised astonishment.

She saw Andrew voluntarily release his hand, stand up, and step back two paces, no longer suppressing her.

Then Andrew shook his head and slowly said, "It seems I won’t be able to kill you today. When I let you talk about ’taking me to find my kind,’ I lost the chance to kill you."

Catherine: "..."

She sighed internally, "Too bad! Damn it, this kid, is he really this steady? How can someone his age be so quick to accept reality the moment he realizes something can’t be done?!"

Finding it unbelievable, she also felt a lot of disdain: "Coward! Weakling!!"

Then she heard Andrew continue, "I can’t kill you today, but I won’t let you escape easily again! If I can’t kill you, then... I’ll capture you alive!"

Capture alive. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

From Andrew’s perspective, when he realized "Catherine might escape again," internally he felt shaky, far from being as calm outwardly as he pretended, even feeling a fear of "living under the shadow of revenge in the future."

Driven by this intense fear, Andrew was indeed planning to quickly kill Catherine, hoping to do so before the random teleportation activated.

In fact, Andrew had already prepared his killing move, ready to strike!

Right before acting, Andrew keenly sensed it: Catherine’s eyes bore a chilling, ferocious intent to fight back!

That killing intent was like a cold shower poured over him.

Andrew paused for a moment, then instead... felt somewhat relieved: "After all, with my current Tier Five strength level, trying to use cunning to kill a pinnacle expert in the Realm of Magic, that was still me being too greedy."

Greed leads to risks.

And taking risks could result in being counter-killed.

Conversely: "Don’t think about killing her today, just take it one step at a time, disrupt the balance in her body, then capture her alive. Acting according to this plan, there won’t be any risk at all."

Thinking this, Andrew no longer felt such intense fear towards Catherine.

He released his grip on Catherine’s neck, stepped back a few paces, and made a simple tossing gesture with his hand: "Go!"

A stream of ice-blue light shot straight from his palm towards Catherine.

If previously, Andrew’s method of dealing with Catherine was to draw ice power from the "Ice Prison Gemstone" and inject that power into Catherine’s body to disrupt her internal force balance,

Then now, Andrew directly threw the source of the ice power, namely the "Ice Prison Gemstone" itself, at Catherine.

The Ice Prison Gemstone spun like a Pokeball and flew to Catherine’s face.

At that moment, Catherine was precisely the "little sprite" that the freezing power-emitting "Pokeball" aimed at!

"This... What is this—!?"

Catherine only felt an overwhelmingly terrifying freezing force sweep over every corner of her body, followed by a massive suction force emanating fiercely from the Ice Prison Gemstone!

"Wait..." Catherine was shocked, wanting to say something, but just as she uttered "wait," she was sucked into the Ice Prison Gemstone.

Attempting to kill a pinnacle expert in the Realm of Magic during her weak moment is really difficult.

Any relaxation could render the attempt futile.

But if it’s just about capturing her while she’s weakened, the difficulty is comparatively lower.

"Come back!" Andrew waved again.

Then the Ice Prison Gemstone spun twice, softly landed back in front of Andrew, and swiftly entered his body, once again residing quietly within the "Gate of Enlightenment" in Andrew’s dantian.