Wizard: Starting from the Skill Tree-Chapter 502: Destruction

Duke’s eyes were icy cold, preparing to take action, when the insectoid guards below were already alerted.

Not only did the swift blade insects and acid-spitting bugs on the ground screech towards the sky, but more alarmingly, from behind the mother nest and some higher ruins, a dark shadow suddenly arose.

This was a type of flying insectoid creature, their translucent wings vibrating, emitting an annoying buzzing sound, surrounding the storm dragon hawk like a purple cloud.

At the same time, a few larger, jellyfish-like floating insectoids with bodies glowing with arcs of energy slowly rose as well, with their tentacles under their canopies locking onto the targets in the sky, beginning to gather azure energy beams.

These two types of insectoid creatures were temporarily named flying locusts and floating guards, information that Duke only received in the past couple of days.

The Void Insect Race includes various insectoid creatures, each with different forms, characteristics, attack methods, defenses, functions, and roles.

With a thought, the storm dragon hawk beneath Duke let out a battle-spirited screech.

Its wings abruptly flapped, casting countless fine and dazzling lightning chains like a web, instantly enveloping the foremost swarm of flying locusts.

"Crackle—!"

The lightning jumped and conducted among the flying locusts, those directly hit were instantly charred, emitting green smoke as they plummeted like falling dumplings, tearing a gap in the dense formation.

Meanwhile, Duke’s spellcasting had begun.

With a single hand lowered, a massive stream of yellow sand poured down like a golden waterfall, forming a rotating sand vortex around the mother nest, clearing ground threats and isolating energy.

A floating guard’s energy beam shot first, the blue pillar of light accompanied by a piercing whistle.

Of course, Duke noticed the attack here, but he did not turn back.

Though this floating guard was a Level 1 Life, it was too weak to pose any threat to him.

A dense layer of a flowing sand shield naturally appeared around Duke, formed by countless grains of sand rotating at high speed. The energy beam struck the shield, and all the energy was absorbed into the sand, enhancing its defensive capability.

This momentary disturbance allowed several flying locusts to break through the storm dragon hawk’s lightning interception, exposing their sharp mandibles as they dove towards Duke like arrows.

But these flying locust insectoids, which hadn’t even reached Level 1 Life, were even less capable of threatening Duke.

A few streaks of sand flashed by, effortlessly shredding the flying locusts into pieces.

After disposing of these insects seeking their own doom, Duke extended his hands and cast two spells simultaneously.

A large amount of wind element gathered in his left hand, while a large amount of fire element gathered in his right.

Duke already possessed a high elemental affinity, and after advancing to a Crystalized Wizard, the six elemental crystal cores granted him even greater element control abilities.

In just a moment, an immense tornado had formed on his left, roaring wildly.

Simultaneously, a far larger and more intense fireball than the usual fireball technique took shape instantly.

This rapid casting speed allowed these spells, which exceeded the ordinary Level 1 Magic, to form instantly and then combine.

This was also Duke’s previously common composite spell, the Fire Dragon Tornado, but the spell’s intensity now far surpassed before.

The roaring giant tornado collided with the scorching, dazzling giant fireball, the white-hot flames seemingly gaining life and will, surging madly into every inch of the tornado’s wind wall, igniting it completely in an instant.

A massive fire tornado reaching the heavens and earth took form with force.

It was no longer merely wind and fire, the immense yellow sand pouring down beneath Duke, seemingly injecting soul and sinew into it.

Countless sand grains, burnt red and starting to glisten, spun and struck with astonishing speed under the tornado’s centrifugal force, turning the tornado into an immensely large, rapid-spinning pillar of destruction.

This dark red fire dragon tornado, with a diameter of several tens of meters, had a terrifyingly high core temperature, scorching the surrounding air into distortion and deformation, producing thunderous roars.

Like a cataclysmic serpent breaking free from the magma hell, carrying the terrifying might to incinerate all lands and rend all things, it fiercely crashed towards the nascent mother nest and its surrounding area below.

The moment the fire tornado touched the ground, it was like a meteor impact.

The throbbing, wickedly lively nascent mother nest couldn’t withstand even a second, its surface flesh and veins carbonized, shattered, and vaporized like ice thrown into a furnace under the extreme heat and physical tearing.

The stench of burning flesh soared to the sky, only to be instantly swept away by the tornado.

The floating guards clinging around the mother nest and the swift blade insects attempting to emerge to protect it were reduced to ash in an instant by the tornado’s stormy edge, unable to even approach.

The dark purple fungal blanket on the ground, under this cataclysmic strike, sizzled and cried out in anguish like butter singed by a red-hot iron, curling up rapidly, charring, vanishing, revealing below a land glazed by intense heat.

A few floating guards attempted to flee, but their gathered azure energy beams shot into the fire tornado, disappearing without a ripple.

They themselves were caught by the tornado’s horrendous pull, dragged into its core of destruction, bursting into vivid yet brief blue sparks amidst successive energy detonations, and then vanishing.

More flying locusts swarmed like moths to flame, hovering and screeching from afar, yet not daring to cross the line, the purple cloud they formed seemed so trivial before the vast dark red storm reaching the sky and earth.

The entire core area of the Stone Shield Castle ruins seemed transformed into an elemental inferno.

Wherever the fire tornado passed, everything was relentlessly destroyed and purified.

The remaining building ruins were drawn inside, instantly melted into red-hot magma, and flung out by the storm, creating a brief magma rain that ignited the distant fungal blanket and low-level insectoids.

Tom clung tightly to the storm dragon hawk’s feathers, watching in awe at the scene like a god destroying the world from myth.

The searing heat waves were palpable even at high altitudes, and the deafening roar nearly split his eardrums.

He watched with his own eyes as the terrifying creatures that swallowed his home and parents crumbled like a sandcastle before this power.

His awe for Duke reached its peak at this moment, even giving rise to fear.

The fire tornado raged for nearly half an hour, gradually dissipating due to exhaustion of energy.