"Tsk, tsk, tsk. This staff is not bad, but it looks a bit too horrifying! This set of clothes is also not bad, but the color is too dark, and it has holes in it!"
Li Yue inspected his seemingly dead opponent for afar with interest! That man's heart had been penetrated by laser beams, so he should be dead!
But that was conventional wisdom for ordinary people. Magicians are deeply unscientific beings, so he felt that he need to be careful nonetheless!
"He can't be pretending to be dead, right? He was a master of black magic, so he shouldn't die so easily!
"Hmm, just to be safe, let's give him another shot!"
Li Yue's eyes reddened again, and two beam of lights converged to the man on the ground!
Zip!
"Well, it seems that he is really dead!"
The man didn't react to the beam, so Li Yue breathed a sigh of relief. The man seem to be really dead!
However, just as Li Yue was about to approach, a black gas suddenly floated out from the dead body of the black mage. It looked like a smoke, but he could barely make out that it was shaped like a human figure!
It seemed that the black smoke was confused. It had fully left its host body, but it did nothing for quite a while!
"Is this the soul of this person? But why is it just floating in there?"
When the black smoke first appeared, Li Yue was rather shocked. He thought that the black mage wasn't dead and was trying to trick him into entering the range of attack!
But when he took a closer look, he realized something. The shape of the smoke was roughly recognizable to be the soul of the dark mage.
However, he did not know why the soul looked like black smoke! When Li Yue's soul was outside his body, it was also kinda smoke-like and semi-transparent, but it emitted a faint golden light!
"Do all black mages have soul like this? This is so ugly. It might get mistaken for soot!"
Li Yue could not help but complain in his heart. He still felt that his golden soul was better. Li Yue vowed to never practice black magic, if only to avoid his soul becoming like this!
While Li Yue was thinking derogatory thoughts about it, the black smoke-like soul finally remembered what had just happened. It turned around to look at Li Yue with hatred!
It opened and closed its mouth, as if it was cursing Li Yue, but Li Yue couldn't hear anything!
It took a while for the spirit to notice that Li Yue didn't seem to hear anything it said. Then, out of anger and embarrassment, it pounced at Li Yue with its fangs and claws bared!
The overflowing anger darkened the soul, and its malevolent expression seemed to want to tear Li Yue apart!
"Hehe, you are really interesting. Even back when you were alive, you were defeated by me in one move. Now you are already dead, and only a fragment of your soul remained. What do you think you can do to me?"
But Li Yue didn't even dodge. The spirit floated closer and closer, and when it was about a meter away from Li Yue, a golden light suddenly appeared. Li Yue was also versed in astral magic!
As if struck by a heavy object, the spirit was sent flying!
Having been struck by a sudden attack, the spirit's body dissipated, and only a wisp that could be blown away by gentle breeze remained!
Moreover, it had passed above the strange staff that it had wielded when it was alive.
AAAAAHHHHH…
A faint heart-wrenching scream entered Li Yue's ears. When the soul passed by the staff, the flickering blue fire at the top of the staff suddenly flared violently.
The faint blue flame expanded explosively and instantly engulfed the misty black soul! It was accompanied by ghastly wails and howls!
Li Yue stood dumbfounded for a while as the soul body burned, not knowing what just happened!
Despite its violent flames, the blue flame didn't blast Li Yue with heat. Instead, it felt very cold!
How to put it...it was akin to a strange flame, the Bone-Chilling Spirit Flame that the main character grandpa of the famous novel Dòu Pò Cāng Qióng wielded!
(T/N the literal translation of the novel title was "Fight to Break the Sky," but idk if it has English TL)
The only difference was that the Bone-Chilling Spirit Flame was white, while this is blue!
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Li Yue stared at the flame for a full minute before the flame gradually faded and shrank!
Less than ten second later, the flame returned to just around the skull, while the black smoke soul was absorbed without a trace!
The skull and the flames in its eyes and nose glowed brilliantly!
"I don't know what this thing is made of, but it seems to be able to devour souls! It's probably better for me to keep it. After all, this is my spoil of war, and maybe it will be useful in the future!"
Li Yue walked to the staff and picked it up inspecting it carefully, but he couldn't determine what material it was made of! And he had no idea why or how this staff could devour a person's skull!
Although the skull looked a bit scary, this was his first real magic tool, so he was determined to keep it.
"Sigh, you are also too miserable. You only have these two good things on you, and one is broken! Look at Mordo, he has several magic tools up his belt!"
Li Yue grumbled like an ungrateful money-grubber as he searched the black mage's body!
This black mage didn't even get to introduce himself. It was truly a miserable way to die. But he was already dead, and Li Yue wasn't really interested in his identity or why he had come to Kamar-Taj.
"A master of black magic died just for the useless 'Sorcerer Supreme' title. What a waste!
"I hope you can become a kind person in your next life... Dammit, why am I doing this again? Why can't I stop giving people death blessings?!"
Li Yue almost gave this person a death blessing, before he felt a chill in his heart and hurriedly ceased the thought!
Crack! Crash!
Afraid that this thought would come out of his mind again, Li Yue waved his hand at the black magician lying on the ground. The sound of a mirror shattering followed his gesture.
The corpse of the black mage was swallowed by the cracked space!
In Mirror Dimension, a dark chasm opened on the ground, just below the corpse. The corpse fell into the chasm, and then the ground slowly closed up, leaving no trace!
"Sure enough, Mirror Dimension's magic is really a convenient tool to destroy the evidences!"
Li Yue stood outside Mirror Dimension as he controlled the space inside Mirror Dimension to let the earth swallow the corpse. If other mages saw this, they would probably be shocked to the point that their jaws would drop!
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