Chapter 362 - No Accidents (1/2)

Cage and Andonara’s anxiety was understandable, because they remembered what happened to their family.

Cage’s father had gone missing, and his wife died soon after childbirth.

The death of Andonara’s mother was quite uncanny too.

Though she was not very strong, Andonara’s mother was a Warrior. It was very strange that she died abruptly because of illness.

However, everything was possible when curses and spells were involved.

Seeing that they looked awful and lost their fighting will, Roland realized that they might’ve been hit by the psychological attack.

The purpose of such attacks was not always to cause delirium or unconsciousness.

Triggering depression was a way to fight, too. In a battle, grimness and low morale could affect one’s performance.

Roland immediately said, “Don’t overthink yet. Let’s get rid of this enemy first.”

Hearing that, Cage and Andonara broke away from their devastation. Their faces immediately changed.

In fact, they were not exactly weak or undetermined. This cunning specter wouldn’t have affected them so easily if it hadn’t torn apart their defenses with a few simple words.

But now that Roland had woken them up, they looked at the weird specter gravely and seriously.

It was impossible for the specter to put them in such a position again, unless it was really far more powerful than them.

The horned specter burst into fury at Roland’s nosiness. It slapped Roland so quickly that barely anyone could’ve reacted.

But Andonara did. She stepped quickly in front of Roland and pressed her sword forward.

However, she was a pure melee cla.s.s without any energy attacks.

The gigantic hand of the specter penetrated through Andonara and hit Roland’s magic s.h.i.+eld.

Roland was thrown into the wall, leaving a huge dent on the wall. But thanks to the protection of the magic s.h.i.+eld, Roland was temporarily stunned but wasn’t really hurt.

Andonara’s face became pale, and she fell on her knees. She would’ve collapsed if she hadn’t been supporting herself with her sword.

She felt cold and absolutely exhausted.

She didn’t pa.s.s out only because of the high magic resistance of the Great Swordsman. If a random Warrior were hit like that, they probably would’ve been killed.

“Diablo, you can go back to h.e.l.l!”

At this point, Cage charged and slashed his longsword of blue flames, which drove the coldness away.

The specter, greatly scared of the blue flames, suddenly drifted two meters back, and Cage’s attack missed its mark.

Then, the specter pointed at Andonara, launching a ball of pale flames at her.

Cage turned around and cut the pale fireball into halves. Though the latter half of the fireball was gone, the front half kept flying at Andonara.

Greatly shocked, Cage tried to stop it again, but there was no time.

The specter put on a smile.

However, the s.h.i.+eld-holding puppets that everybody ignored took action and stepped before Andonara.

The pale hemisphere of fire hit the blue s.h.i.+eld and exploded, blowing the s.h.i.+eld into pieces, which turned into elemental power and disappeared into the air.

The pale hemisphere was gone too.

Though the s.h.i.+eld was broken, the puppet was still there. It condensed another s.h.i.+eld and raised it, although it looked smaller than before.

Slightly relieved, Cage looked at the specter.

At this point, the specter looked awful and exasperated.

It grew larger as it floated forward and bashed at Andonara’s head with its two hands.

Cage rushed to Andonara’s side and lifted his longsword, hoping to block the attack with the blue flames.

But at this moment, the specter smiled hideously.

Its fists came to a sudden stop halfway through the bas.h.i.+ng, and a sharp thorn protruded from its abdomen and pressed forward.

The bas.h.i.+ng was only a distraction!

Cage was rather cautious, but having not been in a life-and-death fight in ten years, he had lost his battle instincts.

Caught unprepared, he was stabbed in the chest by the spirit thorn.