Chapter 17.1 - The Secret Sealed Below Needham Plain Part 1 (1/2)

City ruins of Needham Plain, Castellan’s residence site

Once Clyde had finished plundering the gold coins and treasures in the underground basement, he heard Princess Natalie’s alarmed voice. Princess Natalie was a Berserker Swordswoman, so her combat power was not poor. Normally, she wouldn’t have had any issues if she had encountered the attacks of normal undead. Although she ought to have been able to defend herself, Clyde sensed a restlessness in her voice.

When Clyde rushed out of the basement entrance, he saw a large group of demonic creatures besieging Princess Natalie. Countless distorted shadows surrounded her, preventing her from breaking out of their encirclement. Those black shadows were each over three meters tall and looked very horrifying. They had no facial features and were just fearsome shadows, nothing more. In addition, their bodies twisted in unimaginable forms. Clyde vaguely felt that those black faces without facial features could see their surroundings.

Princess Natalie’s beautiful face dripped with sweat. Clearly, she was having a hard fight. Using all her strength, she brandished her huge sword, desperately hacking at those besieging shadows. However, the huge sword just passed through those shadows without causing them any injuries. Even if she cleaved a path in the midst of those shadows, other shadows would quickly fill the gap before she could escape. She was helpless.

As it turned out those shadows were in an immaterial state. They were immune to physical attacks, clearly countering Princess Natalie. Her profession was based on pure strength, without even a bit of magic, so she couldn’t inflict any substantial damage on those shadows. However, the troublesome matter was that those shadows weren’t in an immaterial state when they attacked. They used their immaterial states to directly pass through Princess Natalie’s douqi protection before materializing to strike her mortal form.

When Clyde finally arrived, Princess Natalie was already almost unable to hold on. Wounds covered her body. Those shadows seemed to be deliberately playing with their prey. It was obvious that they could have already attacked her vital parts. Even Princess Natalie also knew this, but they unexpectedly wanted to attack the prey’s dignity, little by little. Her armor was already tattered. It was no different from scraps. Her huge sword had also suffered damaged all over. With a bit more damage, it would shatter into pieces.

No one knew whether these shadows had such bad tastes since Princess Natalie had been beaten to this ruined cloth state. Not to mention that her armor was already in scraps, even her undergarments below were also torn. Her snowy white skin was completely exposed to the air. Clyde could even see her fiery red bra and panties. Although he hadn’t really wanted to peep, he still clearly saw her state; there was nothing he could do about it. With its bold fiery color, Princess Natalie’s underwear was of good taste. In contrast to her snowy white skin, it appeared especially eye-catching. It was almost impossible to ignore it.

“Clyde, quickly run away! Bring the gold coins back to Prince Gruz. Ignore me!”

Although Princess Natalie knew that she had been exposed, she didn’t have the time to be shy. Gravely speaking these words as if they would be her last, she asked Clyde to quickly retreat with the gold coins while she stalled. Those shadows took advantage of this moment when Princess Natalie was not paying full attention to launch a sudden attack. Several ruthless attacks landed on Princess Natalie, and she was sent flying.

Princess Natalia fainted and fell to the ground. It was unclear whether she were dead or alive. Due to her Berserker Swordswoman attributes, her endurance was higher than that of normal Human Race’s. If a normal human were in her place, then he or she would have already been killed. These shadows had great strength. Just the last attack alone would have smashed a human into meat pulp.

“Really! Are you guys bullying a girl?”

Clyde didn’t turn around and leave. Instead, he ignored the danger posed by these shadows and directly walked over. The shadows saw that another person wished to court death, so they immediately surrounded him and extended their claws, wanting to tear this foolish extra to pieces. However, their sharp claws hit a brick wall this time around and stopped a distance away from Clyde as if there were an invisible barrier they couldn’t pass. Their attacks never even touched Clyde.