The Mighty Mage
Chapter 130: Spatial Rift

Chapter 130: Chapter 130: Spatial Rift

"What is spatial rift?" Gu Jin asked curiously.

The teachers in Magic Academy do give awesome theory lectures. However, some of the advanced-level topics are not explained to them, since they haven’t reached the advanced rank magic.

(Author: Note! Advanced Rank is cultivation level. All the magic level that is above Intermediate Rank is considered as Advance Rank Magic.)

Gu Jin guessed that maybe, the spatial rift was connected to some advance rank magic.

She was half correct because Zhang Wei explained.

"If 2 or more space mages reach Super or Emperor Level and cast a Super Space Spell at the same time, then a spatial rift may be opened.

A spatial rift is a tear in the surrounding environment’s space. Once it occurs, it can teleport, harm, or cause a person to be struck into space forever.

Or the worst case, it might even leave you in some other dimension.

The chance of occurrence of the spatial rift is very rare like 0.0001% but it still can exist!"

Gu Jin nodded.

"Alright, all 6 of us will stay near each other. Also, if you can’t hold on, ask for help from your neighboring person. If possible look out for your neighboring person. Am I clear?"

When everyone nodded, Zhang Wei led the team to the line. When it was their turn, Zhang Wei registered the color of their team and reported the number of people in the group.

He also handed the storage rings of all the team members to the counter.

Gu Jin didn’t hesitate in handing over the storage ring since all of the treasure she had collected till now was in space.

However in order to not look too relaxed, she asked Zhang Wei,

"How will we carry our artifacts and pills?"

Then she lowered her voice and asked,

"Will my storage ring be safe?"

The person on the counter heard Gu Jin and chuckled in his heart. Does this young man think they will steal his belongings? How petty!

But at the same, he was assured that Gu Jin didn’t have any other storage space.

Zhang Wei almost laughed when he heard Gu Jin’s words, for a minute he seemed to see his younger self in her.

"Your storage space will be safe, and to carry the artifacts and pills, you will be given a temporary storage ring."

A temporary storage ring only has a small space. One that could only hold a few artifacts and pills. They are very cheap. One can easily buy a temporary storage ring for 2000 yuan.

Gu Jin nodded. She knew about the temporary storage ring.

The person on the counter snorted and asked Zhang Wei,

"You have an intermediate-rank mage in your team?"

The tone was filled with disdain, it was as if Zhang Wei was doing something illegal.

Even small mercenary groups have certain criteria.

The most basic criterion was to have all members at advanced rank. It wasn’t like small mercenary groups didn’t take people below advanced rank, but they only took those members as either substitutes or extra members.

A substitute or extra member fights alongside them but they don’t have a share in the reward at all.

At first, Zhang Wei had indeed taken Gu Jin as their substitute member but along the way, Gu Jin’s strategy and sharp response to certain situations impressed him. Hence he registered Gu Jin as the 6th member.

"Yes." Zhang Wei said with confidence.

The counter person snorted and said,

"Fine. But his breaks will be less than yours. Since he is an intermediate-rank mage, he would most likely not be as powerful as an advanced-rank mage.

So he has to take fewer breaks to compensate."

It was more order than instruction. It was so infuriating that the faces of Shadow Fang’s members fell.

Gu Jin didn’t comment on the counter person.

She wasn’t discouraged by his comments.

As a wise person has once said. A person can only measure your capability, till his capability.

If he is not more capable than you, and try to grade you, you will always rank in the least talented person category.

The counter person was the same.

"I will lend my break to him then. You don’t need to worry." Zhang Wei said in a slightly cold voice.

The counter person rolled his eyes and continued with the work muttering in a voice that could be heard by the member of Zhang Wei’s,

"Hmph! Let’s see. Small mercenary groups like you don’t even last 5 hours. When you run out of your mana and at your wit’s end, we will see, whether you still be willing to lend your breaks to someone else."

After exchanging the storage rings, Gu Jin along with her team members exited the safe zone.

Once outside, Gu Jin felt great pressure on her body.

She saw various people fighting with some Catalope and Mutated red-eyed deers.

Even if they have the reporting time, the same can’t be said for the beast. They would anytime they want to.

Zhang Wei led them to the side where the manforce was lacking and started helping out the soldiers who were on the verge of collapsing.

The soldiers nodded at Zhang Wei and retreated.

Gu Jin raised an eyebrow, and before she could ask any question Zhang Wei said,

"We are hired here to help the soldiers. These soldiers have been fighting since night, and need rest, otherwise the Undercity Division would collapse.

To relieve the burden the government allots extra money every time which is used by the General to hire small and top mercenaries to help out."

Gu Jin nodded and focused on the fighting the Catalopes.

She also saw some red-eyed deers who weren’t mutated. As she fought, Gu Jin couldn’t help but frown.

The hostility in mutated red-eyed deers is much more evident than in red-eyed deers.

Hostile? Why were these beasts attacking the undercity in the first place?

Gu Jin’s mind was filled with questions. As she fought, she didn’t forget to mark those beasts with blue marks.

Gu Jin had already fought with some of the beasts before, however, during those times, either her team members helped out or they covered for her or they fought as a team.

Now though, everyone was busy fighting and didn’t have much time to look out for the other person.

Gu Jin shifted her gaze to one of the Catalopes which was going to sneak attack Yi Ran and used her plant vine to catch it.

Yi Ran only heard a ’whoosh’ and saw a green vine holding a Catalope as if it were a chicken. Her mouth twitched and she mouthed the word ’thank you’ to Gu Jin before focusing on the beast coming from the front.

For the next two hours, the team fought without talking.

Gu Jin was the most happy one. She was able to gain practical experience and after 3 days of struggling with the beast, she was able to fight them on her own.

Her combat power increased significantly. Even her control of plant elements seem to have reach at another level.

It was as if she was able to understand what she didn’t understand in the past.

She always thought that only spells that were made could be used to fight the beast. But as she fought the beast, she realized that their way of using magic was much different than hers.

It was as if they didn’t know what magic was and they were only trying their best to bend it according to their situation.

This made Gu Jin question. If humans learn magic from a spell book, how does the beast learn magic?

They surely won’t have a magic spell book, right?

So that could only mean that the beast uses magic as per the situation. Normally magical beasts are very hard to deal with. Even though they lack intelligence they are able to give a tough fight to any mage.

This could only mean that their magic is far stronger than a mage’s.

For example the mutated red-eyed deer. She always thought that they only had the power to mesmerize or create illusions.

But now after meeting some of the variety, she realized, she was the one who wasn’t knowledgeable enough.

Because now she saw some of the mutated red-eyed deers creating a psychic barrier. It was something that even Yi Ran couldn’t do.

So Gu Jin while fighting with Catalopes, tried to shape her plant element’s energy as a box.

Result?

She utterly failed. Gu Jin almost vomited blood from the backlash.

Zhang Wei and Yi Ran who were near Gu Jin noticed that she was about to stumble and some of the beasts would soon attack her, they hurried near.

Zhang Wei covered for Gu Jin while Yi Ran hurriedly inserted her healing energy into Gu Jin.

Gu Jin who was feeling dizzy felt a bit better once Yi Ran used her healing element on her.

She nodded at Yi Ran and stood up.