Chapter 166 - 166 – Let There Be Fire!

Karen looked at Lirian, and in turn Lirian could see his own face through her eyes, 'Damn I truly do look amazing,' Lirian thought as he viewed himself.

"Edith just killed someone and you're happy about it?" she questioned him coldly.

Lirian raised his hand and raised three fingers, he watched himself doing it, and the felling was so much of fun for him, to watch himself, from the outside, "Firstly I'm happy that I got to see my lovely lover," he said lowering one finger.

"Secondly, she did something necessary to maintain order," he lowered a second finger, ", and thirdly I'm glad that she took her first life now, instead of doing it when she has no choice during her trial, it will only serve to help her future growth and cut away her unnecessary softness."

Lirian was in a good mood, so he graciously explained himself, "Now focus on the battle," he ordered.

As Karen looked at the charging mammoth Lirian smiled and gave out the first order, 'It's time to study you,' Lirian thought with a smile and crouched down as fifty mages came forward with spells they had been preparing for several minutes already.

The ground the mammoth ran on turned into quicksand, and the mammoth sunk under its own weight.

Half the mammoth sunk in by the time it realised what had happened, until now the mammoth had figured that the little creatures needed time to cast those spells to hinder it so it was taken by surprise due to the fast casting.

A sphere of wind formed around the mammoth and with a loud bang the sphere burst outward, pushing the sand far away, but in doing so in sunk deeper into the pit, the only difference was that it was no longer submerged in sand.

Lirian rubbed his chin, "It has good battle instincts, I image that to reach the peek of this planet it must have had many intense battles to grow stronger, unfortunately for it, it only has good instincts, but it's unintelligent," he said thoughtfully.

Karen could only nod along in surprise at Lirian, she didn't notice that until Lirian pointed it out but the mammoth's last move was pretty dumb, because it buried itself deeper in trouble.

As if to prove Lirians point the mammoth began to thrash around in the pit, smashing the sides, the blows were powerful and caused slight tremors to run though the ground, this however had little effect on the students under Lirian, that experienced tremors, that made it almost impossible for them to stand on the ground.

"It seems that its only attribute is wind, and so far it has displayed only two abilities, to suck in things and to repel things, Karen contact the first exploration group and find out if it has any other abilities," he ordered quickly.

As Karen got busy she kept her eyes on the mammoth allowing Lirian to watch its next move, wind gathered under its stomach and soon it shot the massive mammoth up, it didn't go up very high but when it came back down, it caused tremors no different from every step that the rock drake took.

The ground crumbled all around the pit and with that mammoth was able to open up a path for itself to climb back up, but then Lirian shouted "Volley," and dozens of arrows came raining down from all around the mammoth, all of them were charged and focused with psychic energy.

As the mammoth noticed the arrows another sphere of wind wrapped around it and pushed outwards, the arrows were sharp filled with pressure, so the wind sphere didn't deflect them however it threw of their trajectory a little, but under the guidance of the psychics power, the arrow still struck, only a few managed to pierce the creatures flesh and the rest bounced of the coat of fur.

Karen suddenly turned to face Lirian, "I just contacted the first the exploration group, they confirmed that it has only used wind abilities."

Lirian nodded, "Mages begin luring it, it's time for stage two."

On cue the group of mages that first drew it's attention rushed forward and cast dozen of spells at it, the mammoth opened its maw wide and began to suck the spells into its mouth.

Karen watched from above, the last time it happened she was shaking and climbing the tree, so she didn't get to see it clearly, but then she saw it, a massive wave of fire twice the height of the mammoth went rushing towards it, burning the ground black in an instance.

But as it reached the beasts maw, the flames broke down and entered that strange sphere in the mammoth's mouth.

"That's not natural," Karen commented as she looked at the way the flames were breaking apart.

"No it's not," Lirian agreed with a hint of solemnness in his voice, "It would appear that this beast, has obtained a weak devouring law, it allows it to consume and break down anything, not even poison will work if its consumed through that method."

Karen's eye's shook, they were all just new cultivators, they might be regarded as first grade, but no one on this trip had even began cultivating any other focuses besides their main one, in truth they were like half first-graders at best in terms of power.

While working in large groups it was possible to overwhelm mystic beasts, but this was beyond their scope, this was laws, this was the realm at which people of the fourth-grade got involved.

"We are dead," she muttered weakly.

"It's just a weak devouring law," Lirian said, ", it doesn't effect much, it will only increase its recovery speed, so we have to avoid feeding it, and it can only devour lawless energy," Lirian smirked and grabbed onto the katana's hilt.

"I guess that we'll get to see, which is stronger, my katana's weak destruction law or that mammoths weak devouring law," Lirian chuckled as the second phase commenced.

'I suppose that my lucky boon is really showing it's hand,' Lirian thought.

The mammoth proved that it was unintelligent yet again by following after the mages, that were simply kiting it, soon the mages ran behind the trees with ropes and the mammoth charged in wildly.

This was how the mammoth walking into the main trap as its body hit the first set of ropes, as the mammoths body moved through the ropes it looked like it was going to snap the ropes with ease, when suddenly a loud crunch was heard and the enormous, 50 foot tree came crashing down against it.

The forests were thick and wild in the first place, it was the reason that this area was not explored in the first place, and now Lirian was making use of it to his advantage.

In the time they spent preparing the ambush most of the time went into this trap, he had the students chip away into the trees, leaving only enough room for the tree to support itself and then they tied the ropes from the tents around those chipped areas.

It was impossible to trap a third-grade creature with rope, that was never Lirians intention, as the mammoth put pressure on ropes, the warriors around the trees broke the remaining pieces holding the tree up and the enormous tree collapsed on the mammoth.

Each tree weighed several tons all by themselves and that was enough to push even the massive mammoth of balance, as it continued with its momentum, the ropes that were between the trees got caught onto the furry body of the mammoth.

The trees did not only smash into its body but they got pulled along causing the massive thing to stumble around into more trees that snapped under its might.

Soon the entire beast was covered in ropes and dozens of trees dangled all over its body.

"ROOOOOOAAAAAR", it roared wildly as it found itself unable to move properly, with every step it took it crashed into more trees that would fall on to it and it grew furious.

It built up a sphere of wind around itself and pushed as hard with all its might, many of the trees moved under the immense pressure released by the wind, but just as soon the mammoth howled in pain.

As the trees that were tied to it began to pull it's body in all direction, it released the spell, and the trees trunks, swayed back and smashed back into the mammoth with a heavy thud.

The mammoth finally collapsed under the weight and Lirian looked at it pitifully through Karen's eyes, "An intelligent creature would have never fallen into the trap so easily," Lirian with a grin, then the vision he was seeing vanished.

"I-I-I'm out of energy," Karen panted from beside Lirian.

"That's okay, I already saw everything I needed to see," Lirian said with a chuckle.

'Besides the sight that comes next is one I'm all to familiar with, for I've created it a trillion times before,' he thought to himself and his mouth opened into a wide grin.

"LET THERE BE FIRE!" Lirian shouted.