Chapter 1927: 543 Volcano Mage_2

The battlefield had temporarily calmed down, as if the tense and dangerous spell confrontation had never happened.

“Parasite’s Skull.”

“So it turns out you are Edmond’s student.”

Glasia’s tone was much calmer than Matthew had anticipated:

“Your strength is not bad, but you are more impatient than I expected.”

“I had thought it would take at least two or three rounds to test your origin.”

The spellcaster chuckled and said,

“Is there a possibility that I never really intended to hide my identity?”

Glasia sneered,

“Then tell me your name!”

The spellcaster slowly removed his heavy helmet, revealing an excessively young face—

He looked like a boy next door, seemingly only about fifteen or sixteen years old, with an extremely youthful appearance.

Only the lively eyes within his small sockets occasionally revealed a maturity and wisdom that did not match his appearance.

“My name is Erin, and I am a rogue mage.”

“By the way, Parasite’s Skull isn’t exclusively Edmond’s; its prototype actually comes from Otherworld spells.”

Rogue mage?

Let alone the brooding Demoness of Desire.

Even Matthew, who was merely an observer, couldn’t believe it!

“How could a rogue mage have such strength, this kid’s bluffing is a bit too much…”

He couldn’t help but curl his lip.

Matthew was not very familiar with the name Erin, but it did ring a bell—

It was the identity of a young upstart who had rapidly risen in the north following the great rift.

Initially, Erin was suspected to be an academic like Hibbert, but had left the Extreme North Floating City many years before due to various reasons, apparently expelled from the Seven Saint Alliance, becoming a free spellcaster.

So his claim of being a rogue mage was not incorrect.

However, Matthew had managed to learn from the gossip of the mechanical dwarf David,

After leaving the Alliance, Erin had actually joined Edmond’s secret organization— “Snake Mountain Sect.”

It was the organization Matthew had refused to join.

After that, what opportunities Erin got within the Snake Mountain Sect was unknown to Matthew.

He only knew that for the past half-year,

Erin had been quite active in the north.

His fame rose from a battle on the border area between the Extreme North Ice Field and the Far East, where he single-handedly defeated seven ancient demons that had emerged from the Far East.

In that battle,

Erin was said to have captured seven Molten Lava Swords from behind Mount Aimore, nailing each demon to death.

Thus, the poets from the north had named him “Volcano Mage.”

Interestingly,

Matthew was quite familiar with Mount Aimore.

He had previously visited Edmond’s Snake Fang Castle, which was situated atop Mount Aimore.

That means the Volcano Mage’s battle of renown was fought right under Edmond’s nose.

To say they did not know each other,

Would be a bit thick-faced.

Not to mention, he had used Edmond’s signature spell in front of the Demoness of Desire, which was somewhat too direct.

Indeed,

Glasia asked with an icy tone,

“Does Edmond intend to involve himself in the war of Purgatory?”

“Or has the Seven Saint Alliance already made a deal with the Tong Luo Gods?”

A deep look of helplessness immediately appeared on Erin’s face:

“Firstly, I don’t know any Edmond.”

“Secondly, I did join the Seven Saint Alliance but left a long time ago. I am currently unaffiliated with the Alliance, of course, if you insist on making that connection, I can’t help it.”

“Lastly, the actions of my friends and I represent only ourselves, we’re merely taking money to perform tasks…”

In the end,

He blinked and added,

“By the way, I’ll tell you secretly, the defense contract we signed with Mr. Beckman only covers countering your and other Devil Lords’ long-range spell disruptions.”

“If you resort to close combat or physical attacks, we won’t interfere, you can rest assured of that, we are quite ethical in our practices.”

Upon hearing this, Glasia’s expression turned incredibly grim.

However, she didn’t continue to entangle with Erin; instead, she took the Summoning Banner from the back of a Purgatory Beast!

“Come then, War!”

“Come then, Blazes!”

She vigorously waved the Summoning Banner.

Countless auras fell.

The Devil Army’s morale was boosted again.

The next second.

A vanguard unit surged out, charging towards the gates of the Shadow Castle at a tremendous speed.

The great army slowly mobilized, inching closer step by step.

At the same time,

more portals appeared on both flanks of the Devil Army.

Among them, the northern portal led to the air elemental plane, bringing more air elements into the allied forces.

From the southern gate, heavily armed chariots and airships surged out.

These armed units exuded a sense of refinement and technology, seemingly not from the same era as Glacia’s Devil Army.

At the same time,

Matthew noticed that they had their own independent battle flags.

“It’s Necromancer Bain’s banner!”

He was somewhat surprised.

The discord between the three magnates of Barthor Purgatory was almost a universally known secret.

What was inconceivable was that Glacia’s troops and Necromancer Bain’s chariots appeared on the same battlefield, not only not clashing but actually fighting side by side!

“Could it be that Blood River Will secretly facilitated Glacia and Bain’s cooperation?”

“But why would Blood River Will do that?”

“Is it because Beckman’s plans pose a threat to Purgatory?”

In an instant,

Matthew thought of many things.

However, the situation on the battlefield wouldn’t stall for his thoughts.

In fact,

just as Glacia waved the Summoning Banner, leading the air elements and Necromancer Bain’s army to launch a comprehensive assault,

the battlefield in front of the Shadow Castle quickly escalated into intense combat.

An abundance of shadow creatures surged out of the castle,

clashing with the Devil Army’s vanguard.

Every minute, every second, someone died!

“Woo woo woo!”

Matthew heard a deep horn sound coming from the castle.

Moments later,

more gates were swung open from inside out.

Apart from spellcasters like Erin who still roamed atop the castle walls,

powerful presences began to step forth from the Shadow Core onto the battlefield—

First came a centaur demon, surrounded by a group of astral creatures.

Matthew recognized her true form immediately:

“Another Eight-faced Soul of Jassiliven…”

Following her was a small contingent of otherworldly creatures, Matthew sensed Evil Queen Babasha’s presence among that group of monsters but couldn’t pinpoint her exact location.

Closer to the shadows,

a group of evil monks with bizarre tattoos on their heads and necks appeared.

Different from normal monks who prefer to travel on foot,

these evil monks rode one shadow slug after another.

These slugs moved at an extremely fast pace, especially in shadowy areas, even achieving teleport-like bursts of speed.

Matthew sensed several existences among them that were not low threats.

It was just unclear whether they were elite characters under Galan’s command or projections or doppelgangers of Galan himself!

At that moment,

Devil Army, steel chariots, air elemental soldiers, demon squads, otherworldly creatures, shadow creatures, and followers of Twilight Creatures all clashed violently together.

The battlefield outside the castle became immensely chaotic!

“Indeed, Galan, Babasha, and Jassiliven have joined forces, and they have somehow connected with Beckman as well.”

“If Glacia came for the role of Barthor, what then is Beckman’s purpose?”

In the midst of the chaos,

Matthew, while navigating through the water, avoided potential attacks and continued to maintain a detailed observation and thought of the situation.

However, just then,

a sudden chill wind blew from behind him—

An unsuspecting shadow creature abruptly appeared behind him, attempting to attack Matthew.

Before Matthew could react,

a gigantic mace suddenly fell beside him!

“No need to thank me.”

Camela didn’t even look at where the mace had landed and was ready to move against another group of approaching shadow creatures.

But Matthew immediately called out to her,

“Wait.”

Saying so,

he went to where the shadow creature had appeared, his Insight fully unleashed:

“Help me keep an eye out…”

“Here, there should be a node from the Shadow Plane…”