Chapter 52 Making a decision. (1/2)

The night was dark and the whole city was lit up by the light of the lanterns The winds had picked up and it started to drizzle It looked like it would be a cold, stor the cityfrom the rain

In one of the better-off sections of the city was Exeor’s Magic Emporium It was late and close to 9 pm now Almost everyone had left the store and was now either at hoht shi+ning in the building, h onein particular

This very as getting closed by a nome in the room next to some alchemy equipment By the entrance door to this lab, there was a feht have looked like a sun elf but this uise

The ical device on a nearby table after closing theThe artifact gave off a red glow and the helixes revolved around each other while this item was active

Besides these three there were two more people in close proximity One was a tall human youth that was passed out close to the female elf The other was another woman in a black robe that was si

She was now bringing the passed out wo hair Her legs were dangling and her arth in the~”

The wo, she tossed the passed out Zilyana into the roo

“Do not talk about our lord's artifact in such a way! It is a blessing from the Lord of the Abyss”

Theat his partner in cri widely after the ot mad

“I wouldn’t dare, our Lord is truly , her tone indicating a hint of mockery The two clearly had different views about this lord they were speaking of

“Can we at least take their bags, they won’t be needing thes that both the gnome and the elf had on their sides The h for the obsidian skinned elf to er and pointed it towards the unnome and elf

Unbeknownst to the two the third person that was there was quite awake The tier 1 class holder that was there didn’t seem like a threat to these two assassins They were preoccupied with the target and his hidden guard to pay attention to the sleeping youth This would turn out to be one of the biggest mistakes that they could havehis hand towards his belt where he had one of his ical wands attached They still looked like pieces of widethe knack of steel weapons he had created one that could support his fire arrow spell

There were soular steel weapon could hold was lihest rune quality and the help of the rune coes

The runic components would erode afterward That is also why he kept the paddle-like design, with the added thickness and wide shape he could repair it more often After each repair, some of the material would be lost but these wands didn’t need to keep an edge so it was fine

Finally, he saw the opportunity to strike The wos of holding He grasped his weapon and was ready to point it at the strange artifact that was radiating with an unusual nature

Themuch e cracking noises, it was as if bones were being broken He had to act now, he knew that this was probably the only way he would survive

These tere far above him in levels, he didn’t think that he would be able to et stabbed by the strange black looking elven woility was the stat that Roland lacked the most

He knew that Zilyana wasn’t what she seeet hinoht but he also could have a trick up his sleeve

There was a slight delay with the spell activation To be on the safe side he needed to inject hiswith his steel wand The downside of this was that he couldn’t focus on his target before activating his weapon He had no choice though as otherwise, he ht lose the elee thick tentacle rose fro sleeve but stopped nome that was on the floor He had carried him over here and placed him next to the elven woman He wanted to order his accomplice to carry the last person over here but before that could happen he noticed a newa spell or a ical item

The e class that needed some special steps to unlock He was soic, he could transform his body into many abyssal monstrosities He was also soic caster, as a tier 1 ic-related skills and traits He had noticed the shi+ft in mana around Roland’s body but it was already too late He had believed in the artifact, it had never failed hinoht

Only people with specialized classes that were resistant against abyssal illusion ic would be able to resist it The youth that was there didn’t fit the criteria, he didn’t even have a tier 2 class Yet so a piece of metal at the artifact that this lowed in a red color and he pointed his large tentacle at theto defend it, what the youth was planning was clear

The thick tentacle flew to block the path of the fiery arrow but it was too late The y slammed into the double helix-shaped item The artifact wasn’t built with defensivewith the table that it was on

“Nooooooo!”

The e deep voice as he watched his artifact being destroyed The woman that ith him was already next to the perpetrator She had vanished froer above hi hi the fire arrow spell he instantly activated every protective iteic shi+eld type runic spell scrolls on himself just for such an occasion

His body was covered by various elemental shi+elds, fire, wind, water, and earth He was encased in ical shi+elds The wohastly wide grin

The dagger flen and started going through the protective barriers like through butter Only after passing the fourth one did it start slowing down Roland continued activatingher His true objective wasn’t to defend hiive the people in this rooest proble that would take He was putting his life in other's hands yet again He had a theory that Zilyana wasn’t just a sinono him His theory would be now put to the test and he really hoped that he was right

The last barrier finally shattered and the dagger poked through It went right into his shoulder as he was given enough time to shi+ft hi, he couldn’t help hi The woman’s eyes turned into two crescentherself

“Naughty boy”

She said while twisting the dagger that had cleanly penetrated through Roland’s scapula bone, it had even reached the floor behind it

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A myriad of notifications sounded out His HP had dropped by a third just fro down continuously The weapon the wo, even if she didn’t finish the job the poison and curse status would probably be his undoing

Luckily due to the woman’s nature, he wasn’t quite dead yet She wasn’t like the Abyssal Warlock who did his killing proficiently No, she on the other hand liked to toy with her targets

“Naughty children need to be punished~”

She yanked out the blade from Roland’s shoulder and aimed it for the other one Now that she had the chance, she would play with her prey

The warlock had alsoa holy artifact, a syotten But, it was gone and the targets hadn’t been eliminated yet