The Gong family patriarch Gong Shi and his Shi family counterpart have been feeling even more uneasy for some time, both families have only one Advanced mages each, them.
But they were graying and close to sixty, their sons were useless as anything. They ran the risk of destroying a hundred year old family in their hands.
Things weren't as bad as it was now, a few years ago the Chen family was nonexistent, then the younger brothers of that generation came forward one led them with his Advanced level cultivation and the other led the family, and now it seemed even the younger brother had touched the level of Advanced mages, forcing them to act.
If not in a few years, the Chen family would supress and maybe remove them to dominate Fuzhou City. The herb island was only the start of their plan, first they would supress the Chens financially and run the Island for themselves and invest in their next generation crazily if they have to.
Now they had to eliminate these outsiders helping the Chen family.
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Gao Xuan was having a difficult time right now the Murkwater Frogs as made their way slowly towards the source of the ice Magic.
The members with any kind of firepower had gone ahead and he had to defend, Jiang Shaojun was good enough to divert some of these Frogs back to their group. To the astonishment of most Murkwater Frogs some of their own leaders made their way back to fighting stronger opponents instead of helping them defeat the Ice maga.
Song Xia retreated back to the ice after realising the others wouldn't retreat thanks to that sully bet. Even Zhong Yuan who claimed the bet was silly was secretly aiming to win, naturally they all excluded Cao Guang's kill count.
If it was before she was elected as the Captain for this group, Song Xia would have been happy to get some monster blood on her hands.
However her strength was improved in an unexpected way when Du Ling casted a spell on her this time.
Prayer Empower
Song Xia could feel her fourth tier spells grow even stronger and as she restrained even more Warriors.
Shadow Spikes Shadow Star Array
Three Warriors were restrained with a single spell as she had time to prepare her Sound element courtesy of Gao Xuan casting a dome of light around her. Even seven Minions failed to break the barrier and crush the tiny human inside.
Light Protection Painted Wall
Tone Kill Explode
The three Warriors were assailed with waves of sounds making them unstable from the inside as Jiang Shaojun used his secondary element to boost the strength of her spell even more.
Chaos Vortex
These two were extremely capable of bringing the best out of others.
Gao Xuan used the Earth Wave to keep them mobile in order to avoid minions while they were occasionally casting these spells to help Song Xia.
Jiang Shaojun's psychic magic was even more potent than his sister's. It was no wonder that the guy managed to gain the friendship of some Totems. His vibe was different with the Psychic magic. But it also slightly made his intentions transparent.
It was a popular theory among mages that Psychic mages showed what was in their heart more openly than others. Their magic was also more potent then.
The squad ahead were struggling a bit since Cao Guang's output was concentrated on the Commander and Song Xia pulled back to help the other four.
They formed a Formation around Li Kai and Zhong Yuan in the middle to cast their spell.
Forest of Kun Prison
Zhong Yuan was buying time for Zu Yuanjun to prepare his Curse element. It required some time to reach it's full potency, but a Mist of Fear allowed the mages to ease up on one side as Murkwater Frogs avoided that area instinctively.
Evil Spider's Trap
Zu Yuanjun finally unleashed his spell and dragged a few more Murkwater Frogs to their death and began preparing some defences with his secondary Earth.
Li Kai and Zhao Jing were the most stable output among the five of them as Zhao Jing could blast the Frogs with basic and intermediate spells of lightning or Ice.
Poison Breath
Poison Pit Devouring Wasps
Li Kai controlled his poison element to form area were even the most gutsiest Frogs wouldn't attack them. The poison element would take some time to work on monsters instead he used them as shields away from the monsters and waited for his wasps to take care of the beasts.
Guan Chen occasionally restrained a few Frogs for Zhao Jing with his Shadow Spikes, clearly completely forgetting about the bet.
For a bunch of factionalists they could fight well when threatened by a Commander.