Chapter 417 (2/2)
“It’s not real!” A soldier shouted. Grigory instantly realised he was fooled.
“They are all phantoms!” Grigory shouted. “Team One, Team Two, follow me back immediately!”
The rest of the demons were still running around rampantly, but the soldiers had realised that the phamtoms weren’t lethal but just a diversion tactics of the enemy. They didn’t bother with the phamtoms and followed Grigory falling back to their defense position quickly. Following that, the ‘demons’ began to scatter around as if losing their interest. The ‘cerberus’ looked around before it bit a rock and vanished in a puff of mist.
No one had noticed a vampire was lying inside the ‘cerberus’.
Grigory quickly returned to the barracks and stared blankly in front of the familiar spot wondering if he had come to the wrong place. He turned around and asked his guard, “Have we come to the wrong place?”
“I don’t think so…” The guard was just as dumbfounded.
Grigory glared at the empty space, dumbstruck. He had forgotten he should first be worried about the dark-red crystal. He scratched his head for a long while before he choked up a word. “Where is my watchtower?”
By now Hao Ren and Lanina had retreated via the route they had planned beforehand and moved northward in Osidian Plain. They soon arrived at the osidian spikes—the monitoring blind spot of the Allied Army.
The place was far away from the Allied Army camp. The nearest sentry post was ten kilometres away. The reason the Allied Army didn’t put up a station here was because the osidian spikes were located at the confluence of two lava flows, the huge osidian spikes were shrouded in noxious gases burst out from the lava flows at the time. Also the osidian spikes weren’t large enough that even the demons wouldn’t choose it as a stopover. So no one was going to come here.
A thin layer of mist barrier was opened up in the osidian spikes to block the noxious gases out. Hao Ren, Lanina and the rest assembled at the space between the osidian spikes. Nangong Wuyue had transformed into a mermaid and soaked in a large basin filled with water to prevent dehydration while keeping the mist barrier in place. Meanwhile, Lil Pea was swimming around her. It seemed the two fish were pretty happy with what they had right now.
It was naturally that people would only appreciate life in a harsh environment. Nangong Wuyue, who used to complain that swimming pool wasn’t large enough, was a happy bunny in a basin.
“As there’s no blood magic in this world, they couldn’t tell if the demons were real or not.” Vivian boasted. “It seemed everything went pretty smoothly today.”
“Thanks Y’zaks for the intel.” Nangong Wuyue said as she raised her tail up wagging. “The guy has basically learned all the twists and turns and knew what to do and say here. He’s truly a nasty old rival.”
Hao Ren took out a small dark-red stone from the dimensional pocket. He said, “This is the crystal.”
Vivian looked at him, marvelling. “Isnt’ the entire room was still inside the dimension pocket? How did you get the crystal out?”
Hao Ren shrugged and said, “Haven’t you known there are autonomous robots inside? I let them cut open the box. Screw the alarm, it’s in the dimensional pocket, and there’s no wi-fi in there…”
Then Hao Ren lamented. “If we could think of this trick at the beginning, it would’ve saved us a lot of trouble. Maybe I’m not innovative enough.”
Vivian looked at Hao Ren with a strange expression, she couldn’t fathom how the mind of the fellow work…
OK, let’s see what the ‘last words’ of Y’zaks is all about.” Hao Ren shoved the dark-red crystal in the hand of Lanina. “Do you know how to use it?”
Lanina nodded. Then she carefully injected her magic into the crystal as a phantom appeared above the crystal.
Everyone’s jaw dropped to the ground:
The phantom was none other than Y’zaks, even the iconic broken horn looked alike!