Chapter 691 - v4c70p1 (1/2)

v4c70p1

A New Member Enters The Fray!

The interwoven flame feelers burned through the treetops in a second and covered everyone under its net. But because Brendel had warned everyone beforehand, they were all prepared for it. The second the net of black flames appeared in the air, they ran either left or right to escape the spell’s area of influence. The black flames formed by dark magic descended and burned the branches until the patch of pines became burning sticks. It looked incredible — but didn’t hurt anyone.

Even the weakest of the guards was able to escape the net of flames, though barely.

Everything happened in just a second. But for a warrior above the Silver Rank, a blink of an eye was like an eternity, long enough to have his speed become faster than a hundred yards per second.

Scarlet, Maynild, and Laurenna broke through the air at a terrifying speed, as if they formed a physical cone of air. The sharp arrows whistled through the forest grounds and the pale humanoid forms opened the black holes they had for a mouth into silent screams, as if this was how they communicated with each other. The demonic spirits turned around and their bony fingers pointed in unison at the three girls at the head of the pack.

As if they sensed each other’s thoughts, the three figures simultaneously changed directions. The trail they blazed through the forest changed and each of the black flames only hit the tree trunk behind them. All three figures worked themselves into a long arc of the same speed, but it was Laurenna who attacked first.

The moment the young female knight landed, her longsword The Pride of Arweila was already in attack mode. She pinched her lips and her blue eyes sharpened like an eagle’s. Her agile body tensed in midair like a taut string. The second she landed — the arc of her movement through the forest straightened as if it was a string and then released like a bullet from the pistol. In a flash, a line of light shot towards the gathering of demonic spirits.

But this bright trajectory was destined to go nowhere. Its start and end point seemed to overlap into one and Laurenna simultaneously on both points. Then the Laurenna at the start faded away while the Laurenna at the end point held her sharpened blade which pierced right through the demonic spirit’s heart with its glinting silver blade.

In the forest, the glowing pale figure still had its black mouth open when a silver line flashed from the center of its chest to its back.

The attack was like a meteor pa.s.sing through, but the blackened gap on the white humanoid figure proved that it had existed. Half of the demonic spirit’s body draped down unnaturally and the dark magic geysered out from the wound. The center of the wound appeared to be a small nebula that never stopped expanding and spewing out countless dark matter until it formed into a giant ring of light.

The ring of light swept through and something like an explosion blasted through the entire forest.

Everyone felt their chest tighten. “Dark magic,” the female knight said in a m.u.f.fled voice, “Be careful. Looks like they release a burst of dark magic when they die. This magic will weaken us –”

Maynild and Scarlet halted at her words.

The other demonic spirits swept the black flames in their hands around and every pine tree that blocked their way burst into flames. Maynild could only back off and ask cautiously, “How large is the area? Can we find a way to dodge it?”

“I don’t know.”

“It’s about a thousand yards. There’s no way you can avoid it. Try to delay the time between killing them; magic erosion will last about 6 to 7 minutes.” Brendel’s voice came from afar.

“How do we delay the time it takes to kill them?”

Filas approached the demonic spirits right behind the three girls. He raised his head and looked up at the dense cloud of light rising through the treetop and inhaled sharply.

“Scarlet, you have to interrupt their spell first –” Brendel stared at the demonic spirits, as numerous as the stars in the summer night sky. He commanded calmly as he stood next to Ciel and the little prince, making no move to join the battle.