Wizard: My magic facility can be upgraded!

Chapter 105 Flame Princess and Venomous Fang

A massive, blazing white beam of light, imbued with destructive power, poured into the enormous hole once more, like a divine spear of judgment hurled down by a god!

There was no deafening explosion, only the chilling buzzing sound of extreme energy annihilating everything.

The beam of light pierced through the previously melted hole and went directly into the depths of the underground cave, instantly vaporizing the large number of monsters that had chased it to the vicinity of the cave entrance and beyond.

The large rock layers around the cave entrance also disappeared at this moment, leaving only a deeper and more terrifying giant pit with molten edges.

Even though Li Ang and the others were hundreds of meters away from the shelling point, the scorching heat wave that swept over them still made their skin burn.

"It's support shelling, shelling from the Hunter!" a crew member shouted excitedly. The joy of surviving the ordeal mixed with disbelief and shock surged into everyone's hearts.

"Although the positioning rune failed, the people on the airship discovered our situation and offered to help us." Elisa said breathlessly, her face flushed with excitement.

Commander Negan looked back at the remaining energy glow of the devastating pillar of light, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes, but mostly relief.

In any case, this precise and timely artillery support completely saved them from their desperate situation.

Without delay, the group quickly returned to the surface. The warm sunlight shone on them, slightly dispelling the chill and oppression brought by the underground monsters.

Overjoyed at surviving the ordeal, they collapsed onto the open ground outside the mine, breathing in the fresh, grassy air as if trying to completely expel the stagnant air from their lungs.

"Finally... I survived." Miguel wiped the sweat from his face, his voice hoarse from exhaustion.

Elisa leaned against a rock, examining the bruises on her ankles where the monster had gripped her. She was still shaken; if it weren't for Li Ang, she might not have made it out alive.

Commander Negan didn't rest. His gaze swept over the exhausted team members, and he said in a deep voice:

"Team leaders, please count... the number of people."

The three captains immediately sprang into action, and soon Martin and Natasha, their faces grim, approached.

"Commander-in-Chief," Martin's voice was filled with suppressed anger and grief, "our fourth squad... is missing a man."

Natasha followed up with a report that one member of the sixth squad had also gone missing in the chaos.

The atmosphere froze again instantly. The joy of the successful breakout was overshadowed by this heavy loss, and everyone felt as if a huge rock was pressing down on their hearts.

Commander Negan took a deep breath, nodded to indicate that he understood, and tried again to contact the tower via the badge.

This time, the instant the communication connected, an extremely anxious voice came from the other end:

"Negan Wizard? Is that you? Good heavens, you've finally responded. You've been out of contact for over forty-eight hours. If we still can't reach you today, you'll be added to the missing persons list as well."

Negan felt a chill run down his spine, instantly realizing that all communications had been tampered with since their arrival.

He immediately gave a concise report on the strange situation in the underground village, the unusual changes in the villagers and the 12th squad, and their recent horrific breakout.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the communication line, clearly stunned by the shocking news, before a stern instruction came through:

"Situation received. Mission terminated. Return to the tower immediately. Repeat: Return immediately. Be careful on the way."

After ending the communication, Negan's expression did not relax. He immediately tried to contact the Hunter in the sky again through the special rune stone.

However, the runestone remained silent and unresponsive.

A chill crept up the spines of all the team members.

"Communication...still not restored?" Alyssa's voice trembled slightly. "What about the person who just spoke to us..."

Captain Martin slammed his fist on a nearby rock: "Is it fake again?!"

Anxiety and fear spread like a plague through the team, and the members could no longer distinguish which instructions were real and which were fake.

Seeing his team in disarray, Commander Negan immediately issued the following order:

"No matter what, we shouldn't stay here any longer. Let's return to the airship's take-off and landing platform. It's high up there with a wide field of vision, so the airship might be able to spot us and come back with us."

No one objected. Driven by their survival instinct, they regrouped, dragging their weary bodies, and reformed their defensive formation, moving towards the village they had come from, which was also the location of the take-off and landing platform.

The journey back seemed even longer than the journey there.

Although the sun shines brightly, it cannot penetrate the heavy shadows that shroud everyone's hearts.

The team members moved forward in silence, various terrible speculations fermenting in their minds, creating a suffocating atmosphere.

Li Ang remained vigilant throughout, the lingering unease and the mysterious deaths of the airship crew kept him on his toes for even a moment.

He maintained the area covered by the pale blue light membrane of the [Gentle Breeze Barrier]. The team members subconsciously moved closer to Li Ang, relying on the sense of security brought by this area.

Just as they were cautiously guarding their surroundings and approaching the center of the village, an incredibly hot fireball, the size of a washbasin, suddenly roared out from behind an abandoned stone house to the side, carrying an aura of destruction, and slammed straight into the center of the group!

"Enemy attack!" Commander Negan's warning rang out almost simultaneously with the sound of fireballs piercing the air.

Everyone was stunned by the sudden attack. The magical fluctuations contained in the fireball were clearly those of a level two spell, [Explosive Flame]. If it had hit them head-on, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

However, the moment the fireball struck the crowd, the [Gentle Breeze Barrier] that Li Ang had been maintaining played a crucial role.

The pale blue light membrane fluctuated violently, and countless fine vortexes instantly condensed in the direction from which the fireball was coming, cleverly diverting this violent attack to the side.

"Boom!"

The Explosive Flame spell exploded more than ten meters to the side of the group, with flames rolling and shockwaves carrying rubble and dirt flying everywhere, blasting a large, scorched crater in the ground.

Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, a female voice, tinged with surprise yet also languid, rang out:

"Huh? This barrier is quite powerful; it can actually block my spell?"

Immediately afterwards, a sinister, serpentine male voice rang out, its tone filled with undisguised sarcasm:

"Didn't you deliberately hold back, Flame Princess?"

"Holding back?" The female voice repeated the word disdainfully, as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world. "Fang, are you trying to say that all your previous failures were because you held back?"

At this moment, an aged yet authoritative voice interrupted them:

"Alright, stop arguing. Don't let the wizards from Lelita, who have come from afar, laugh at us."

Commander Negan's pupils suddenly contracted. Flame Princess and Venom Fang were two names that were frequently on the internal wanted list of the law enforcement team. They were both notorious wizards in the Dark Witch Organization, and they were extremely ruthless.