Versatile Mage

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

The insects just kept coming. An army of demon leeches had already crawled onto Baxia’s body after some contact with Qiu Chi. They immediately headed toward the unprotected spots, as if they already knew where Baxia’s weak points were.

“Brother Fan, the Parasitic Steaming Locusts are circling above us!” Zhang Xiaohou pointed out.

More parasites had appeared from Qiu Chi’s body as Baxia kept knocking it away from the bridge. The parasites consisted of the demon leeches and the Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers. The parasitic grasshoppers were like flies circling a huge corpse, as they flew in groups around Qiu Chi.

They were different from the demon leeches that were continuously falling onto Baxia’s body. These parasitic grasshoppers would let the demon leeches scout the area ahead first. Whenever the demon leeches located a weak point, the parasitic grasshoppers would dive at the spot together, like they had picked up the scent of some rotting flesh!

As a matter of fact, these parasitic grasshoppers were the digestive system in Qiu Chi’s stomach. Humans normally relied on the gastric juices in their stomach to digest the food they ate, but Qiu Chi did not have gastric acid in its stomach. It relied on the heat of these Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers to melt the food. Qiu Chi would obtain the nutrients and energy it needed, and the rest was split among the burning locusts!

Therefore, these Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers were just as horrifying as the demon leeches. As parasitic creatures, their biggest strength was their ability to disintegrate everything, be it flesh, skin, bones, or other strange objects!

“I’ll deal with those in the sky. Can you two handle the demon leeches?” Mo Fan asked Zhang Xiaohou and Zhao Manyan.

“How are you going to fight those in the sky when you can’t fly?” Zhao Manyan had to ask.

“Don’t worry, I’ll take them all out regardless of their numbers!” Mo Fan declared.

As soon as Mo Fan finished his sentence, Baxia once again secured the upper hand in another exchange of brute force. It used the elbow of its front limbs and shattered the sharp bones on Qiu Chi’s back. The creature let out a painful cry as its black bones were broken to pieces. It was very likely that the bones connected to them inside its body had fractured too!

Qiu Chi was knocked further back. They were now over three kilometers away from the bridge. They no longer posed an immediate threat to the people being evacuated across the bridge.

Qiu Chi let out a furious roar. The Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers that were still looking for an opportunity to strike ran out of patience. They began diving at Baxia, carrying out a kamikaze attack with the special heat their bodies contained. They were using the same move as the demon leeches!

These Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers were the gastric juices in Qiu Chi’s body. If it was only one or two of them, they could not have left leave a single wound on Baxia’s body. However, when thousands of them were attacking the same spot, they could easily burn through Baxia’s skin!

Baxia’s body was mostly protected by his shell. He would normally block eighty percent of the damage when fighting a creature like Qiu Chi, but the Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers were like fleas to him. His shell was not so effective against them!

“Nice, I like it when they bundle up!” Mo Fan saw the Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers’ plan to carry out a suicide attack.

The flames of the Ardent Sunset erupted on his palms. He waited for the right moment!

“Old Zhao, I won’t hurt Baxia if I set his back on fire, right?” Mo Fan asked after he suddenly thought of something.

“Your flames are no different from a heater pack on his skin. Just go ahead, he’s more worried about those corrosive parasites! Elemental Magic won’t hurt him so easily,” Zhao Manyan said disdainfully.

“Great, I can use everything I have then!” Mo Fan grinned.

Fighting on Baxia’s back was better than fighting on the sea, since his Fire Element was only weakened slightly here.

“Little Flame Belle, is the furnace ready?” Mo Fan asked.

“Ling!~” Little Flame Belle responded joyfully.

Little Flame Belle had learned how to refine her flames to make them purer and stronger after the battle against the Viscera Hunters.

If she could refine the Calamity Fire, she could do the same thing to the Ardent Sunset too! Mo Fan had already told Little Flame Belle to prepare herself when he saw the Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers roaming around.

Little Flame Belle liked refining her flames, but she enjoyed seeing the destruction her flames could bring even more!

“Alright, let’s wait for them to come a little closer!” Mo Fan continued waiting for the right moment to strike.

The Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers’ wings were almost transparent, and their bodies were constantly emitting steam under high temperature. They looked like clusters of meteorites as they dove together. The thick steam also acted as a protective layer around them!

“Lava Pond!”

Mo Fan lifted his hands. The refined Ardent Sunset erupted like a furnace in the shape of a hexagon. Inside it were thick flames that extended out like the tongue of an enormous burning frog. It reached into the sky and swept the brainless parasitic grasshoppers toward itself!

The Ardent Sunset had the ability to spread rapidly in tight clusters. Even the faintest spark could grow into a huge fire. The devouring flames continued to stack on top of one another, and the parasitic locusts in the sky were like dry grains. The flames burned them to ashes as they spread further and further among the locusts’ ranks.

The light of the flames flickered continuously across Baxia’s back. The creature purposely turned his head around and looked at Mo Fan.

“I understand! I hate mosquitos the most when it’s summer too!” Mo Fan smiled when he saw Baxia looking at him.

Mo Fan had almost set a whole street on fire once while he was eliminating mosquitos, but these Parasitic Steam Grasshoppers were over a hundred times deadlier than mosquitos. Mo Fan could imagine how terrible Baxia felt when he had fought Qiu Chi in the past!

The Ardent Sunset was godly against insects. The Parasitic Steam Locusts were extremely vulnerable when the flames of the Ardent Sunset continued to spread through them. Even though they were constantly releasing heat, the steam they released to attack their enemies and the temperature of the flames were two different things. They were extremely afraid of the flames that were spreading rapidly through their swarms.

A blue Soul Remnant floated toward the Loach Pendant around Mo Fan’s neck every time a Parasitic Steam Locust died, and as a result, the Soul Remnants began pouring down from the sky like stars. Mo Fan was quite surprised when he noticed how great the quality of the Soul Remnants were. He only needed a few of them to refine them into a Soul Essence!