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 Chapter 9: The Dark Elf Magician – Holmes
 Panda Novel
 Hiding in the shadow of a tree, Link did his best to steady his breath. He wondered how he could possibly escape from the Dark Elves.
 20 Omni Points. I'll spend 9 of them on Mana Speed Recovery first, Link said to himself.
 If all went well, he would be able to just avoid them. If he could replenish his Mana quickly, the longer he dodged them, the more Mana he would recover and the safer he would be.
 His Mana Recovery Speed became 9.2 Points per hour with the 9 Omni Points he had spent on Mana Speed Recovery. He now had a Maximum Mana of 91 Points, and 23 Mana Points. If only he could hide from the Dark Elves for seven more hours, then his Mana would be refilled completely.
 With his Mana full, he could easily use the six Level-0 Spells and two Level-1 Spells he knew. Even if something were to happen, leaving him with no choice other than to fight, with those spells he was confident that he would be able to escape.
 He heard voices coming from the ruins of the tower. The Dark Elves were engaged in a heated discussion.
 Everyone from the Magic Academy had been wiped out by now, leaving most of the Dark Elves free to gather around the Portal Tower. This would be the best time to escape from the academy.
 Link thought about it and came to a decision.
 Purchase Spell: Silence.
 Silence
 Level-0 Spell
 Effect: Reduces the noise emitted by the bearer, including footsteps, breathing and speaking. The spell's effect lasts for 20 minutes each time it's cast.
 After purchasing it, Link felt the familiar haziness wash over him. When it was gone, he had mastered the Level-0 Spell.
 Link recited the Spell of Silence in his mind, using it right away.
 At this time, the Mana around the Portal Tower had already settled down and the flashes of light had died out. The Magic Academy once again sank into darkness.
 With the spells of Lesser Invincibility and Silence cloaking him, Link moved as discreetly as a shadow. He stood up, avoiding the streetlights and followed the path back by memory. He walked towards the back door of the Magic Academy.
 The Dark Elf Assassins hadn't noticed anything as he slipped past them. Link managed to escape the Academy.
 The Magic Academy had been built in Gladstone City's Flower District. It was a gathering point for the city's upper-class citizens—most of them even lived there.
 That was the reason why so many Dark Elf Assassins assembled throughout this area.
 But in contrast to the Assassins in the Magic Academy, the Dark Elves here had specific targets: the prominent figures of the Flower District. Their mission was clear, and so they wouldn't go around just killing every person they saw.
 As long as Link didn't get exposed as a Magician, he would probably be safe even if he was discovered.
 In that moment, Link felt extremely grateful that he was wearing a normal, gray robe. With his average features, and as long as he kept his wand hidden, he would look as common as common could be.
 I should be safe before the news gets out about the Magic Academy. But I should be careful and get as far away from the academy as I can. No matter what, I need to leave this place before the Dark Elf Army arrives.
 Link walked quickly, his luck seeming to be in his favor. Along with the help of the two spells he wore, he flitted through the shadows without running into any obstacles.
 The Magic Academy, at the Portal Tower.
 When Link left the Magic Academy, a crowd of Dark Elf Assassins stood around the ruins of the tower, unable to believe their eyes.
 Commander Jiggs had died, and the Portal Tower had been destroyed. The prime location for their ambush on the Magic Academy had disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
 "Terry, what do we do now?" a Dark Elf Assassin looked at Terry and asked, his voice raw.
 Even though Terry had chosen to run rather than fight Link, with the death of Commander Jiggs, he was now the only highest ranking Dark Elf among those present.
 Terry's heart was heavy. The Portal Tower had been crucial in their ambush of Gladstone City. If news of the successful assassination did not reach Marshal Lorde outside of the city, he would not dispatch his troops.
 In addition, there was a possibility of the attack on Gladstone City being abandoned. If that happened, every single Dark Elf involved in the ambush would be severely punished according to military law. There might even be a mass execution by the furious Marshal.
 "I think, that the only thing we can do now, is to avenge the Commander. Find that young, human Magician!" Terry sighed.
 The Dark Elves exchanged looks with one another. The same Dark Elf asked again, "Could he have used the portal to get away?"
 Terry shook his head. "Impossible. No one can use a portal on the verge of collapse. Not unless he has a deathwish. He must have escaped after destroying the Portal Tower. If I'm not mistaken, he should be hiding in some dark corner of the Magic Academy."
 "We'll find him!"
 The Dark Elf Assassins scattered in all directions, determined to search each and every nook and cranny of the academy.
 The academy wasn't large. Its circumference was only about 1000 feet. There weren't many places one could hide in such a place. There were at least 200 Dark Elf Assassins searching for Link. Within less than half an hour, they had torn through each and every corner of the school, to no avail.
 Half an hour later, the Assassins gathered around the Portal Tower once again.
 "We didn't find him. He's escaped!" one of them reported.
 "If he's escaped from the Magic Academy, he's likely in a disguise, and we have no way of finding him now. It's a pity we didn't bring the hounds from the Black Forest.
 Terry frowned deeply. He felt helpless.
 Just then, a cold voice rang out from the darkness beside them. "What is going on here? Why is the Portal Tower in ruins? Why is Jiggs dead?"
 Heads turned to the source of the interruption. They saw a middle-aged Dark Elf dressed in a black robe with silver trim, holding an ebony staff as tall as he was. He stood at the gate of the enclosure around the tower.
 A pair of Dark Elf Warriors fully clad in armor followed closely behind him.
 The Dark Elf Assassins straightened their backs at the sight of the newly arrived elf. "Master Holmes," they all said in unison.
 Holmes, he was a Level-2 Battle Mage and a member of the Silver Moon Mage Council. He was well known for having single-handedly defeated three Elite Assassins from the Norton Kingdom. Not only did he slay them, but he also left the battle completely unscathed.
 In the plans for the ambush of Gladstone City, he had been tasked with activating the Portal Tower and sending a detailed report back to the Dark Elf Army 30 miles away.
 For his safety, he was only supposed to enter the tower after the Magic Academy had been cleared out.
 The academy had been cleared, but the crucial Portal Tower had been destroyed as well. What was the point of him coming here?
 "What on earth happened here?" Holmes barked. He looked at Jiggs' corpse and strode up to it, crouching down to examine his wounds.
 "A Level-0 Earth Spike? Was he killed by a Magician's Apprentice!?" For the life of him, Holmes just couldn't understand what was going on.
 A Level-3, fully-armored Dark Elf Warrior with Battle Aura had actually been defeated by a single Earth Spike. It was a disgrace to the Dark Elf Warriors!
 No, a disgrace to all Dark Elves!
 "I demand an explanation!" Holmes' voice was as sharp as knives.
 Terry took a deep breath and stepped forward. "Lord, it happened like this."
 He began to describe what he had seen. He told every detail, from the young human Magician's appearance to every word Commander Jiggs had said. He recited every response and explained every attack. He left nothing out.
 He spoke in simple but descriptive words. As the Dark Elves listened, the battle scene was re-enacted in their minds. They saw a young, powerful, composed human Magician.
 His magic had been like a web of death. The moment he appeared, the web had begun to weave. Each spell had been a thread, binding his prey and ultimately suffocating them.
 When Terry had finished, the Dark Elves all shivered. They could never have imagined that such a formidable character had been hiding in the Lower Magic Academy.
 At the same time, they rejoiced that they hadn't encountered that dangerous Magician themselves. They knew that they wouldn't have been able to stand there listening to Terry's tale otherwise.
 Holmes' face was dark. He was a Magician and therefore knew better than anyone else here how dangerous this human counterpart was.
 Nine Level-0 Spells within just one second. Precise magic control. What spellcasting skill!
 Two barrages of Fireballs to rile Jiggs up, and a Grease Spell to make Jiggs vulnerable, and finally finishing it all with a Vector Throw. Thinking of the intricate planning of the battle had him in a cold sweat.
 "This is a master tactician!" Holmes concluded.
 He made up his mind then and there. "He has achieved so much at such a young age. If he is allowed to grow, he will become a large threat! We must kill him!"
 "But Lord, he has already escaped from the Magic Academy."
 "But he's left his scent. He will have left footprints, all of which can be tracked."
 Holmes laughed coldly. The fiery-red crystal on his staff glowed brightly. A beam of Mana shot onto the ground, causing the earth to bulge out and writhe, finally taking the form of a 6-foot tall hound.
 Earth Hound
 Level-2 Spell
 Effect: Condenses earth elements into a gigantic hound. The hound's strength knows no bounds. Its eyesight and sense of smell are exceptional.
 (Note: Don't ever let an Earth Hound get a hold of your scent!)
 Where the Earth Hound's eyes should have been instead sat round black holes. When it had fully taken shape, Holmes pointed towards Jiggs' corpse. "Find the killer!"
 The hound pounced onto Jiggs' body, sniffing furiously.
 After about ten seconds, the hound let out a howl, then turned and darted out towards the outside of the Magic Academy. It sniffed the ground even as it ran.
 "You, and you. Send this report back to Marshal Lorde at the camp outside the city!" Holmes passed a scroll to the Dark Elf Assassin. He could only rely on the Assassins to deliver the report on foot since the Portal Tower had been destroyed.
 "Yes, Lord." The Assassin took the scroll and vanished into the night.
 "The others, follow me!" ordered Holmes.
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 Link was the top Archmage in the entire server. He had just defeated the strongest boss, the Lord of The Deep, Nozama with his party. However, instead of going back to town, he was transported to a secret location with pixelated CG.
 It sort of felt like a vacuum, and within it came a glorious and commanding voice that calls himself the God of Light.
 “Link, would you be willing to be the saviour who will pull the World of Firuman out from the churning abyss?”
 What a huge mission! If it was in the real world, Link would have rejected it immediately. However, he was bent on being the hero in game.
 “Bring it on!” Link answered confidently.
 “Then, best of luck.”
 And so begin Link’s journey of magic, friendship, betrayal, love and despair in the ever changing World of Firuman.
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 Pei Jiu picked up a girl by the riverside. He settled her on the mountain, and planned to send her back once she recovered. This delicate girl was a useless crybaby, so Pei Jiu had to be a nice person. He cooked her food and washed her clothes. He let the troublesome girl ride on his shoulders so she could pick fruits. During winter, he would warm up the bed for her. One day, she hugged Pei Jiu’s arm with a smile. “Big Brother Pei, you’re really an honest and a good man. I will marry you and give birth to your babies!”
 Pei Jiu eyed her critically and scathingly enumerated her shortcomings. She was ignorant and spoiled. She only knew how to pester and flirt with people all day long. Give birth to babies? Go ahead, give birth to caterpillars.
 The delicate girl bawled so hard that she passed out. The next day, Pei Jiu returned to his mansion and told his servants to prepare for his wedding ceremony. When he returned to the mountain in the evening, Pei Jiu opened the door as usual, but he found that the cheeky girl had disappeared. He searched the whole mountain for her to no avail. No one would act like a spoiled brat in front of him anymore. What a headache.
 Note : 娇 (jiāo) : tender/delicate/pampered/spoiled
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 One day, Jiao Bai went home and passed by the small bookstore, walked in. The boss recommended a batch of new goods to him with a fatherly face, all of which were rotten. He went home happily, but was hit by a car at the intersection in front of his house, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he was in a BE scumbag.
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 That night, she shed off the image of a young maiden’s immaturity, forming a ripple in the deepest parts of the Cold Palace…
 That day, she kneeled before him begging for mercy. She didn’t want anything. She only wanted to leave the palace and become an ordinary girl….
 A bunch of elegant and good looking heavenly princes. A lowly palace maid with a mind as calm as still water.
 If they were to meet, would it be an encounter like dewdrops and the autumn wind or would it be a lament of a country…
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 In the last life, Chu Yu escaped a marriage granted by an imperial edict for the sake of Gu Chu Sheng, and traveled thousands of miles, but still ended up dying of illness in a foreign country. When she was reborn at age of fifteen years old, Chu Yu was on her way to escape from marriage. She resolutely turned around and married into the gate of the Wei family.
 She knew that the Wei family was about to die in battle, leaving only a fourteen-year-old son, Wei Yun. She also knew that Wei Yun would support the Wei family, would become the one ruling over everyone the prince of Zhenbei who was known as “Living Yama”. However, this part of the road would be like hell, and the Wei family had walked too tragically, with too much suffering.
 She secretly vowed that she would not repeat the same mistakes and waste away a lifetime. She would be no one else than the first lady of the Wei family, and accompany Wei Yun through these difficult times, so that that the Wei family’s hundred years old loyalty would no longer be insulted.
 Unexpectedly, Chu Yu actually became the “eldest lady” of the Wei family.
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 Living for the sole aim of escaping!
 ‘Light of Rusbella’ was a depressing romance novel.
 Wishing for a new life, Asili Rosé was reborn as the daughter of the 8th wife of the Estrian Emperor.
 She thought she was born with a golden spoon, but it was actually just a gilded spoon?
 Once she realized that nothing but ruin awaited, she found a diary foreshadowing the future…
 It foretold Asili’s death by the hands of the Crown Prince, Castor!
 [“What does the empire mean to you?” After asking this, the Crown Prince smiled so very beautifully. And then he killed me.] Unfortunately, Asili kept coming back to life, and continued to be killed over and over again. As she continued to relive her deaths, she slowly lost her smile and changed.
 …Let’s try to survive first.
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 “What can I do for my elder brother?”
 “Well.”
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 Pale sky blue hair fluttered finely in the wind. He smiled weakly, before parting his dry lips.
 “Call my name.”
 “…”
 My head quickly snapped up.
 “Call me… Amoru.”
 His fingertips skimmed along my inner wrist.
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 Quote: 
 “Baby, you don’t know, when you look at me with contempt, I’m already sinking into hell.” 
 -Paranoid male lead
 Hearts on fire, unceasing until death.
 As a swan demon with a lucky buff, when Gù Yú decided to be a flower on the high mountain ridge, she was destined to attract many people.
 First World: Starring as the rich and powerful female villain ( Fiancé and male leads are all begging me but nope )
 Second World: Starring as the Entertainment Circle Queen (Gentle Film Emperor and Reborn Villain President step by step paranoid for me)
 The Third World: Starring as the Young Empress Dowager (Regent and the New Emperor)
 Fourth World: Starring as the Goddess in the campus novel (Childhood friend and school grass daily battle)
 *Rejection system
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 Zhang Xiao Qiang is a nobody in this apocalyptic world with danger lurking everywhere, he is forced to wander around and learn the rules and principles to survive. Over the course of time, Zhang Xiao Qiang’s character and laziness slowly wore away from the experiences he faces. Zhang Xiao Qiang becomes more resilient, of course also gaining power whilst watching the lunatics of the apocalypse trampling on everything they could trample on. Zhang Xiao Qiang always maintained a bit of conscience in him. He never had the thoughts of being a hero, yet he doesn’t mind sharing bread from his plate. Zhang Xiao Qiang will continue to live in the cracks of the apocalyptic world until the crack can no longer hold him.
 Some places have gruesome descriptions, so enter with caution!!! Zhang Xiao Qiang motto is: “Don’t talk to me about human rights, Don’t talk to me about the laws, Don’t talk to me about favors!”
 TL note: ‘Xiao Qiang’ is slang for ‘cockroach’ but is also the name of the main character.
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 In order to be reborn, Shen Mubai took up the task of saving the male lead from the path of suffering. Xuanzang struggled through eighty-one trials before he finally obtained the true Buddhist scripture, and yet she, Shen Mubai, had to toss in her entire self.
 Shen Mubai: Are all male leads this strange? Thanks. I want to make a complaint.
 System: What does him being strange have to do with me?
 Note: Xuanzang is a character in Journey to the West based on the historical buddhist monk Xuanzang. He journeys to obtain the Sanzangjing, “Three Collections of Scriptures”.
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 Civilization is destroyed and records lost. Only Dudian survives in a cryogenic sleep. Three hundred years later, Dudian wakes up and must become Dean to survive. Who can he trust in this world overrun by monsters without and within?
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 Yuan Zhan, a video game streamer who claims to be 100% straight, can always play danmei games in many romance-based games. Suddenly, he transmigrated into a modern danmei novel, which is the original work of the game adaption he was playing “My Ten Ex-Fiancés and Me”.
 In the novel, Yuan Zhanqi had a slag for a father and similarly, a mother with no integrity, participating in debauchery, who even wanted to hook up with her son’s husband. Yuan Zhanqi, with his peach blossom eyes, fine eyebrows, slender waist, and perky butt, was labeled as “someone who will definitely cheat on his husband” after he got married. His husband didn’t love him, his family was unreliable, and Yuan Zhanqi kept having to face various kinds of people trying to seduce his husband. Yuan Zhanqi was constantly labeled as a cheater. In the end, he was framed by others, misunderstood by his husband, and finally died from depression. The ending had “tragedy” written all over.
 In order to fulfill the original owner’s wish, Yuan Zhan must make the husband, Yan Jingxi, who has been entangled with the protagonist, Bai Yueguang, fall in love with himself.
 Yuan Zhan: “…”
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 A mysterious natural phenomenon caused the Earth to be plunged into darkness. The world turned into an endless bloody chaos and mankind is on the brink of extinction…
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 After a long research, he still only understood a few symbols written in the ancient book. However, he was shocked when he figured out what messages the ancient book tried to tell him: the sun will disappear, and humanity is doomed…
 He tried to spread the message, but no one believed him; his family and friends even tried to take him to see the psychiatrist. Eventually, he gave up telling anyone, but prepared for the apocalypse in secret.
 Until one day– the sun really disappeared…
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 Ji Yan discovered his wife, who hated him so much that she wished he was dead, had lost her memory after a car crash. She had changed so much it was like she was a totally different person… 
 When he goes to work: “Dear, don’t move, I’ll put on your shoes for you.” 
 When he is having a meal: “Dear, I have made all of your favourite dishes. You have worked hard, so eat up.” 
 When he finished work: “Dear, you have worked all day. I’ll massage your shoulders and feet.” 
 Ji Yan: “…” 
 —————- 
 Tang Tang got pushed into the pond by her step sister who frequently bullied her. She thought she would meet her dead mother but, who knew, when she opened her eyes again, she was in a strange place. But what made her happy was that she had a super handsome husband and a very cute son. The most important thing was that her husband was good. He was a hero who protects the country, and earns money to support her and their son. Also, he only has her as his wife, he didn’t have any concubines or whatsoever. Tang Tang decided she should be submissive to her husband, to be a good wife and a loving mother. Her nanny no longer needed to worry about her not being able to get married anymore!
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