Chapter 445: How to Die (2/2)

That was because in the first exchange, Bat’s real body was obviously in the ball of smoke behind him. However, in the next attack, Bat came out from his left.

“Surrender!”

“Your Snake Eye has been broken by me. Your teammates are also killed. You should surrender and become a retainer of Lord Belo like me!”

At that moment, Bat’s calm voice came from the four balls of smoke at the same time.

“Making me surrender? You just killed my teammates and you want me to surrender and work for you?” Black Snake Eyes pulled off his mask. Beneath the mask was a pale yet young face filled with madness, “Rather than that, I’m better off fighting to death!”

“Then? You will die as an arcane master of a shameful hired bandit arcane team? The life of an arcane master just disappears like that? Do you know why the majority of arcane masters desperately tried to join a Corps? Because those arcane masters fight against violent monsters and ruthless murderers. They also fought to death. However, the glory of those arcane masters, the achievements they leave behind, those are bound to be remembered by people.”

The four balls of smoke dissipated, revealing Bat’s figure. Bat had a determined expression, “It’s unknown how many greedy people will come here, we don’t know how many arcane teams we will be fighting against. However, even if we fought to death, our tale will become a legend. Do you want to die with shame as a bandit that came here? Or die a glorious death with us? You can make the choice.”

“Arcane masters like you who have no beliefs and only fought for yourselves are only aiming to make yourselves stronger...... But what happens after you become stronger? Will you die as a bandit in the end?”

Arcane particles were already dancing around Black Snake Eyes. However, after hearing those last few sentences from Bat, his body stiffened.

How should I die?

The arcane particles around Black Snake Eyes began to dissipate.

He did not attack anymore.

“Are you really going to fight to the end here?”

“I won’t surrender now...... But if what you said is true, that you would rather die gloriously by fighting to the end and not leave, and that you survived in the end, I will surrender. I will become a retainer just as you said!”

Black Snake Eyes took in a deep breath. After saying so, he sat down on the grass patch at the side and stopped moving.

“What does that mean? He just gave up?”

“Did he get persuaded by something and surrender?”

The arcane masters hiding in the distance did not hear the conversation between Bat and Black Snake Eyes. However, a powerful arcane team was annihilated just like that. The result made those tempted arcane teams shudder.

“What a beautiful battle. In that case, we probably need to wait for some time. There shouldn’t be any arcane team that dares to take the head anytime soon?” In the bush far away, Yugou stretched and sighed as if he did not care if anyone discovered him.

“They......” Snake Charmer Hiruka was astonished.

Such a powerful team was finished off so easily.

Not only did Belo gain a great improvement in strength, even Bat showed a significant change in the chilling winds near the Eternal Winter Forest.

“What? As a retainer, even if you don’t know how to cooperate, you should at least know how to clean up the loots, right?”

At that moment, Belo coldly glanced at her as he returned to rest, “Don’t forget that you are my first retainer. This team is named after you. If you can’t be of any use, then Bat will replace you as the first retainer and lead the team.”

Actually, Snake Charmer Hiruka was not interested in being the team leader. What she wanted was to survive. However, hearing Belo’s speech, she unconsciously walked to the corpses of those Black Snake Team members and began collecting their loots.

“These Snake weapons are not bad!”

The corroded shield, sword and whip were brought to Belo and Chris. Chris noticed that those weapons from the Magus Era were very unique. The arcane energy released by the weapons could be absorbed into their body like arcane particles. However, that arcane energy could not be used separately, it could only be used along with the weapon.

It was the power of the weapons themselves, using these weapons to fight would exhaust less arcane particles than using materialize skill.

Chris had trained in every form of fundamental training to the extreme. She could handle any type of weapon. Hence, she picked the Snake Whip and two Snake Piercers for herself.

“Sword-Shield combination, we were trained in that.” Bat simply spoke that line and picked two undamaged shields.

Snake Charmer Hiruka hesitated for a moment and took that Snake Sword.

“They didn’t get exhausted much, and obtained benefits from that battle instead. They have become a little stronger.” Seeing Belo’s group distributing the loots, many lurking arcane masters had such a thought.

The gathering arcane teams were increasing in number. Yugou’s detection device showed nearly thirty clumps of red dots. There were surely some arcane teams that the device could not detect as well.

“Someone finally cannot hold back?”

Time silently ticked. After nearly an hour, the seemingly empty cold plain suddenly reverberated powerful arcane energy fluctuation. Wind breaking sound could be heard again!