78: Chapter 78 Fourth-Order Telekinesis

A deafening roar echoed through the forest.

It drew Lin Fan's attention.

He looked in the direction from which the energy ball had been fired.

A massive figure came charging wildly, its enormous body snapping trees along its path.

A single blood-red eye, filled with intense killing intent, locked firmly onto Lin Fan.

Lin Fan recognized it instantly.

It was the very bear he had come to kill!

But as the bear approached, Lin Fan immediately noticed something was wrong.

This bear had also grown stronger!

It was still a Mutant-level Magic Beast.

But its aura was much stronger than last time, almost on the verge of a breakthrough!

"No wonder it's still so fast."

A smile curled on Lin Fan's lips.

The giant bear roared and charged at him, covering dozens of meters in a few seconds.

Upon reaching Lin Fan, it suddenly stood upright, its five-meter-tall frame like a small mountain, and its massive paw swiped down with a gale-force wind!

Lin Fan did not dodge.

He held his hands horizontally in front of him, his eyes glowing with the silver light of the Space Element.

At the same time.

Silvery-white starlight appeared above his head, instantly forming two Star Patterns.

"Space Barrier!"

Before the bear's paw could land.

An invisible wall, almost as tall as the bear itself, materialized out of thin air in front of Lin Fan.

Bang!

The bear's paw slammed heavily against the Space Barrier.

The ground shook violently.

Lin Fan felt the immense force in his hands, but it was still within his tolerance.

Unlike last time, his Space Barrier was not shattered by a single blow!

Both sides fell into a stalemate.

The bear's paw trembled violently against the Space Barrier, exerting frantic strength, its blood-red single eye filled with hatred.

Lin Fan looked at the bear's other pitch-black eye socket... that was the masterpiece he had left behind last time.

His smile became increasingly playful.

"It seems you've also grown stronger; you can even use ranged attacks now."

"Missing me so much that you couldn't wait to see me, and even welcomed me with an energy ball?"

Lin Fan's tone was mocking.

As if it understood, the giant bear suddenly stood tall and roared, the light in its blood-red single eye surging.

It was thoroughly enraged.

More importantly.

It remembered that it was this very person before it who had crippled its other eye!

After a furious roar, the giant bear leaned forward again, swiping down with both paws simultaneously!

Lin Fan, of course, would not take it head-on.

Even as a Tier 4 Mage.

Blocking one paw was already near his limit; he couldn't possibly block two.

Swoosh...!

Lin Fan's figure turned into a dark shadow, instantly flashing to the side of the bear.

Bang!

Both paws slammed into the spot where he had just been standing.

The ground instantly shattered, with dirt and gravel splattering everywhere.

Ignoring the bear's attack, Lin Fan clenched his right hand into a fist and threw a full-power punch.

The wind from his fist tore through the air, followed by a piercing sonic boom.

The fist slammed heavily into the bear's furry leg.

Crack!

Boom!

It was like a violent explosion, accompanied by the deafening sound of hard objects colliding at high speed.

A powerful shockwave swept outward.

Knocking both Lin Fan and the giant bear backward.

Roar...!!

The giant bear, struck by the punch, let out a furious roar, its blood-red single eye almost spitting fire.

Lin Fan shook his hand and rubbed his wrist.

He also felt the recoil... this bear's body was ridiculously hard!

"As expected of a Mutant-level Magic Beast; to kill it, I must use magic. I can't rely purely on physical strength like I do against weaker beasts."

Lin Fan muttered to himself.

He wasn't surprised that his punch hadn't caused much damage.

This bear was already difficult to deal with.

Now that it had one foot in the Transmutation-tier, it was naturally even more terrifying.

That punch just now was no different from hitting a metal wall.

If it were a weaker Mage, their hand would have been crippled instantly.

Just then.

The giant bear suddenly dropped to all fours, its head aimed at Lin Fan.

Lin Fan raised an eyebrow, somewhat curious.

But he had no intention of waiting for it to prepare.

Just as he was about to move, he saw the giant bear open its mouth. A gale roared through the forest as immense power gathered frantically toward the bear's maw.

A red energy ball was rapidly condensing!

It was going to fire another one!

Lin Fan's eyes turned silvery-white. Fifty silvery-white starlight points instantly appeared above his head, forming two constellations as a massive amount of silvery-white energy surged into his body.

Boom!

At that moment, the giant bear fired the fully condensed red energy ball.

At the same time.

Lin Fan's voice rang out:

"Telekinesis Control."

Swoosh!

Such a close-range energy ball.

Its speed was so fast that most Tier 4 Mages wouldn't be able to react in time.

Lin Fan was no exception.

The moment the bear spat it out, the energy ball vanished from his line of sight.

0.02 seconds later.

Just as the energy ball was about to hit Lin Fan, it stopped abruptly, only a few centimeters from his face.

That's right, the energy ball stopped right in front of Lin Fan, nearly touching him.

Lin Fan had used Telekinesis Control to forcefully catch it!

Underneath the omniscient mask, Lin Fan's eyes widened.

Silver light flickered, a bead of cold sweat seeped from his forehead, and his heart pounded wildly.

"That was close."

He secretly let out a sigh of relief.

But now was not the time to relax.

The bear was still alive.

And he had only barely managed to stop the energy ball with Telekinesis Control.

As for why he used two constellations to release Telekinesis Control...

Because after a Space Mage breaks through to Tier 4.

They unlock the true [Telekinesis Control].

Simply put, the Space Element has two spells with the same name but vastly different power levels!

The difference is:

Tier 1 Telekinesis Control: Requires manual gestures to guide it, can only control one object at a time, and is quite weak, though it grows stronger with higher cultivation.

Tier 4 Telekinesis Control: No gestures required, and can control multiple targets simultaneously!

In other words.

A Tier 4 Space Mage.

Can control multiple people and objects simultaneously with just a glance, without needing to split their focus to control them one by one.

This was also the reason Lin Fan was able to intercept the energy ball the giant bear had fired at him.

That energy ball was moving so fast he couldn't even see it clearly.

Under normal circumstances, it would have been impossible to catch; his success in intercepting it was entirely due to that momentary glimpse.

At this moment.

The red energy ball trembled incessantly in the air before Lin Fan.

Like a mass of boiling crimson liquid, it struggled frantically, trying to break free from his control.

Underneath Lin Fan's mask, it seemed as if a mass of white light was shrouded, and the light in his eyes burst forth fiercely from the cracks in the mask.

Beneath the mask, he gritted his teeth, his expression full of strain.

Forcibly stabilizing this energy ball was truly too difficult.

Seeing its attack blocked, the giant bear did not hesitate at all and charged straight toward Lin Fan.

It seemed unable to fire energy balls consecutively in a short period.

So it abandoned ranged attacks and chose close-quarters combat.

The giant bear came charging, the forest floor trembling in its wake, and it reached Lin Fan in an instant.

Its massive bear paw was raised high.

The height even exceeded several of the surrounding large trees.

Whoosh...!

The gale was forcefully torn apart.

The giant bear's massive paw slammed down, and the enormous shadow completely engulfed Lin Fan.

Lin Fan noticed it instantly, his face sinking.

He exerted all his strength to suppress the energy ball.

"Ah...!"

He let out a low roar.

Forcibly reversing the momentum of the energy ball, he slammed it heavily toward the giant bear.

Boom!

The giant bear's paw had not yet landed.

The energy ball slammed heavily into its body, and a violent explosion erupted between the two.

The giant bear, having taken the full force of the energy ball head-on.

Was blasted away like a rocket, and the shockwave from the explosion also knocked Lin Fan dozens of meters back.