Chapter 1225 (1/2)

Chapter 1225: 389. Shadow Thief_2

“Bang Bang Bang…”

A series of muffled sounds came from the ground as another few airdrop troop transport ships landed.

The newly arrived troop transport had also turned into giant metal apes capable of firing laser beams, unleashing firepower on the subway entrance.

“Tarsali really wants to trap the wizards underground…”

Noland Lee pondered for a few seconds, feeling that he had to do something.

The relationship between him and that group of wizards was one of mutual dependence.

Once Tarsali was done with the wizards, he’d be the next unfortunate one, the person hiding in the shadows.

Noland Lee focused his gaze in the direction of the subway train.

In his mind, a few magic visions had always been tracking these trains.

The trains were now stopping near another underground factory, and Death Steel Soldiers were moving anti-magic materials into the factory to continue producing anti-magic components.

“Tarsali had countless opportunities to transfer the anti-magic materials, but I only have one chance to steal them. If Tarsali fails, he’ll just sacrifice a batch of materials, but I’d be paying with my life.”

Noland Lee reached into his magic pouch, deciding to cause some more distractions for Tarsali.

In his magic pouch lived a frequent visitor, that is, an Eighth Circle Shadow Death Wizard who had been abducted from the City of Exiles.

That guy was a shadow creature with a befuddled mind.

After being modified by the Assassin Angel, its mind was completely erased, turning it into a shadow puppet that could only follow orders.

Tarsali believed that the thief who had stolen the Soul Gem was the Shadow Executioner, well then, Noland Lee would help solidify this suspicion.

Noland Lee took out the Shadow Orb from the pouch and used [Mage’s Hand] to secure it in front of him.

With his Shadow Wand, he guided the shadow puppet from within the orb to leave its cage, and then threw a Veil of Different Worlds (Imitation) at it, erasing all traces of its presence.

“Go, fulfill your mission, lure Tarsali away for me, and let those besieged wizards catch their breath.”

Noland Lee focused his mind and controlled the shadow puppet to fly toward the city ruins.

The destination of the shadow puppet was not the subway entrance covered by laser beams but an underground space ventilation shaft untouched by the battle.

Though the ventilation shaft was buried by the ruins, this was not a difficult feat for the shadow puppet, which had no fixed form and was ghost-like.

Squeezing through the gaps in the rubble, passing the ventilation shaft clogged with broken stones, Noland Lee saw several figures he had expected.

They were some of the wizards with more agile minds.

After discovering that they were trapped underground, they sought ways to escape through the cramped, unguarded pipes.

The intangible nature of the Flight Spell allowed them to navigate through the narrow pipes.

Just as the shadow puppet was passing through the ventilation duct, this group of quick-witted wizards was about to reach ground level, precisely brushing past the shadow puppet in absolute invisibility status.

“Good luck to you, wizards. You might avoid the Death Steel Soldiers, but you can’t circumvent the eyes of Tarsali.”

As an afterthought, Noland Lee sent his blessings to the passing wizards while controlling the shadow puppet to continue exploring further.

After traveling along the ventilation duct for nearly half an hour, the shadow puppet finally arrived at the heavily guarded underground factory without any noise.

Like the previous underground factory, the floor, ceiling, and walls of this factory were contaminated by Tarsali.

The warehouse holding the anti-magic materials was the same—the door frame was one of Tarsali’s contaminants.

Noland Lee patiently sorted out the problematic ingots from the anti-demon metal ingots and set them aside.

Then, he had the shadow puppet cram all the anti-magic metal ingots without spell marks into the body of the puppet.

“Ding ding ding————”

As expected, just as the shadow puppet was about to retreat successfully with the anti-magic metal ingots, a piercing alarm went off.

The next second, the walls of the factory came to life with densely packed ripples emerging all over them.