Mystic Overlord: Reading Gives Strength
Chapter 266 - 265 Astronomy Master

Chapter 266: Chapter 265 Astronomy Master

Snap, snap—

From aboard the cargo ship came two soft sounds.

These were the sounds of two witches being thrown to the ground.

An investigator was suddenly attacked, losing his life before he could even react.

What was this all about?

To be assigned to a vantage point alone for surveillance, it must have been an investigator with considerable strength among this mission’s team. The simplicity of this caster’s death had a meaning that was all too clear.

Facing such a situation, Ronald naturally could not remain indifferent.

His gaze swept around him, but the dark docks were empty of any outsiders except for their group.

As for the dock workers themselves,

at least in their current vicinity, those had been dispatched elsewhere by the Bureau’s use of authority before the action began.

Where could the enemy be...?

Snap—

Standing above the chilly Wis River, Ronald snapped his fingers.

He reset the protective spell on himself once more.

Yet, everything around him was eerily quiet at this moment. Whether it was Ronald standing guard on the ship, or the investigators who had not yet been attacked, they could not locate the enemy that coveted their lives.

"..."

Could it be an attack from a greater distance?

Feeling the feedback from "Fury," Ronald once again confirmed there were no traces of enemies nearby.

Now he could only continue to extend the range of his investigation...

Thinking this, Ronald expanded his surveillance area even further, but even as he enveloped the nearby docks within the normal range, he still could not find any trace of the enemy.

The night-shift workers did indeed have some bad temperaments, but it was still not to the extent of committing murder.

So, was this some kind of spell set up in advance, waiting for someone to be attacked?

Or did the enemy possess long-range surveillance capabilities, allowing him to observe them from a far-off position and then initiate an attack...

Buzz—

Just then, a white light emanated from Ronald’s body, which quickly faded away.

—This was the reaction of the defensive spell taking effect.

In other words, Ronald was under attack by the enemy.

After the investigator at the high vantage point was killed, the enemy’s next target was Ronald!

And there was one especially noteworthy point.

Although Ronald’s defensive spell firmly blocked the enemy’s attack, the dimming of the white light was extremely significant.

This level of dimness...

Even clearly surpassed that experienced during the battle with Elva.

A magical attack stronger than Elva’s—essentially, it was safe to assume the enemy was also using ancient scrolls.

And this attack also gave Ronald a clue.

—The enemy was not the kind of caster who attacked from beyond visual range or from long distances.

—And they likely weren’t too far from the docks.

After all, if it were a trap spell set in advance, then there was no reason for Ronald, standing on a freshly arrived cargo ship, to be attacked now.

A simple deduction could quickly reveal the enemy’s position.

The reason being the order in which the enemy chose their targets.

The first to kill the investigator at the high point, obviously to ensure their own position wouldn’t be detected; thus, the enemy had exposed something: they could be seen from the high point.

And then there was Ronald...

With this in mind, Ronald, standing on the cargo ship, swiftly turned around, his eyes rapidly scanning the expanse of the Wis River.

He didn’t launch an attack on the investigators first.

It was very likely that he was the first target the enemy saw.

So...

On the dark Wis River at this time, there were still sporadic boats traveling on the river. Ronald precisely locked his investigative abilities here, targeting the boats that were within close distance.

It didn’t take him long to find the enemy’s position.

On a boat that was slowly moving into the distance, someone was staring at them, with malice filling their heart.

"Is it there..."

Having confirmed this, Ronald immediately spoke up to warn:

"The enemy is on that boat, everyone be careful..."

He only got halfway through his sentence when Ronald abruptly stopped.

Because on the Wis River, amidst the night breeze, his extremely sensitive hearing picked up a very faint sound.

On the boat, a Caster was seriously reciting a spell:

"Starting from the relationship between the entire earth and sky, we will begin to constitute our cognition."

After a brief recollection, Ronald’s eyes paused as he realized the origin of the other party’s magical artefact:

"’Supreme Theory’...?"

Crack—

Muttering and about to react, the enemy who was ready to unleash his power had already finished casting first.

After the previous attack, this guy also understood that Ronald had a very powerful presence, hence the nature of his attack naturally changed.

Seriously reciting the spell to activate the artefact, the fully driven object was naturally not simple.

This time, it wasn’t Ronald himself that was interfered with by the spell.

It was the cargo ship he was standing on!

With a ferocious momentum, the entire cargo ship was suddenly lifted by a power that descended out of nowhere and then viciously smashed on the dock’s land.

How much did a cargo ship full of coal weigh again?

Unable to jump off in time, Ronald was completely unable to react to the rapid movement of the ship below, and if hurled onto the dock with such force, he wasn’t sure he could defend himself against it.

His only thought at this moment was that he must dodge this collision!

Boom—

In the blink of an eye.

The cargo ship had already fiercely smashed onto the dock, and despite Ronald’s early warning, there were investigators who were directly hit by the heavily weighted ship, instantly turned into a mess of flesh devoid of life.

And the investigators who barely dodged the attack were also not lightly wounded from the exaggerated impact.

In such a situation, they could only hide in the nearby dark corners, trying to contain the worsening of their injuries or to escape.

For a moment, the entire dock fell quiet.

"..."

On the other side, the artefact holder standing on the boat watched the battle outcome he had caused with satisfaction.

Under the full might of his blow, his target seemed to have completely lost the ability to resist.

Now, all that was left was...

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, an exclamation came from his mouth.

Just as he was ready to maneuver his boat to come closer, the black mist on the Wis River churned and surged toward his location, engulfing him!

Ronald was not dead!

He hadn’t even lost consciousness!

He could even manipulate the black mist to attack again!

"Tch—"

Realizing this, the artefact holder on the boat clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction.

His spells were completely incapable of defending against this kind of attack. Having failed to take down this guy twice, it was not suitable for him to continue clashing head-on.

News from Elva’s side.

He’ll have to find another opportunity to deal with this later.

Quickly making a decision, the artefact holder immediately cast another spell.

Just like the investigators and the ship that were previously lifted, an invisible force carried his body aloft, soon tracing an arc in the air.

Before long, this person’s figure disappeared above the surface of the Wis River.

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