69 The Headless Riders Part 2 (1/2)

Aini pulled out his weapon and swiftly retreated. On the chest of the headless rider, was an additional charred wound about half a foot wide. A black water ball spurted out of the wound and exploded violently. It splattered on the bodies on all five mercenaries.

Only now did the body of the headless rider stop struggling. The mercenaries who were spattered by the black liquid saw darkness in their eyes and sank to the ground limply. This black liquid was very poisonous, and it was too late to consume an antidote, if any existed.

One of the mercenaries had obviously attained the level of swordmaster and possessed the sword aura. He did not faint immediately, but glared angrily at Aini. If Aini had given a warning, he and his compatriots would definitely have had time to hide.

Aini smiled coldly, ignoring the glare of this mercenary. He lifted his weapon and approached the main door, preparing to find a chance to help Saleen. If these five mercenaries did not die, where would they get the horses from? Now it was much easier with four people and five horses. Nailisi did not even need to ride a horse. These five horses could be rotated among three of them, and were enough for them to journey through the day and night.

Aini knew that Saleen was ruthless but not heartless. For matters that had already happened, Saleen could accept them readily. It was not like Saleen to kill people for horses. If Saleen had left him behind, it would have been easier for him to escape.

The headless rider did not know what fear was. His compatriot had been killed, and yet the second rider still waved his weapon and charged forward instead of retreating. Or rather, for the headless riders, death was also a cherished source of relief.

In the hand of this headless rider was, however, a wide-bladed battle axe. The crescent-shaped blade was actually almost a meter long. Even a huge supreme demon could have been chopped into two. The difference between a battle axe and halbert was that the axe did not have a spear and could only be used for hacking. Sika leaped up high. The headless rider lifted his weapon, planning to cut Sika into two.

This action had exposed his chest.

After Saleen had completed his last spell, he had used less than a second to prepare his ice arrows.

This was the only Grade 2 spell he could deploy with speed. A white flash of light shot out of his hand, and fatally struck the chest of the headless rider.

A loud dang resounded. The ice arrows pierced through the thick, heavy metal armor, but did not go through the body of the headless rider. They had stopped after penetrating more than half a foot. A violent howling sound came from within the headless rider’s body. The hand slowed down and did not hit Sika’s body. Instead, the huge battle axe met with Sika’s cudgel.

Sika could not hold back the force, and her entire body was knocked into the air. She continued to fly more than ten meters away before falling to the ground. She turned over and sat up. There was flesh blood in her mouth and nose. Her left hand drew her boomerang and cast it out.

In reality, Sika had never practiced the sword aura and relied on her extraordinary innate combat ability. Now, without the supplementary help of her magic beast soul, her combat ability had dropped significantly. Otherwise, she would not have been so badly hurt by the headless rider’s one strike.

The energy contained in the headless rider’s battle axe had been transferred onto her body and hurt her internal organs. Sika strenuously threw out her boomerang, but could no longer lift her cudgel.

Saleen saw that his ice arrows had killed the headless rider and shouted loudly, ”Nailisi!”

Aini heard Saleen’s loud shout, then realized that Nailisi had disappeared. As Saleen’s voice cried out, a black shadow appeared on the back of the headless rider. There was no knowing when Nailisi had actually gotten onto the headless rider’s war horse.

Nalise’s slender limbs held onto the headless rider. She opened her mouth, and with all her might bit into the headless rider’s shoulders.

The headless rider continued to advance, and Saleen retreated. Sika’s boomerang cut directly into the chest of the headless rider. The headless rider’s chest had already been frozen and weakened. This was the damage that the ice arrows had created.

Aini was astonished to see such a frightful scene. Nailisi stretched open her mouth. Those bright red sexy lips continued to expand, and finally turned into an enormous bloody mouth which bit into the full shoulders of the headless rider.

The sound of metal splitting apart could be heard. The steel armor that had been clipped onto the headless rider’s shoulders was bitten into by Nailisi’s enormous mouth. Together with its shoulders, it was crudely snapped off.

Aini had previously been envious of Saleen’s fortune in love affairs. This particular scene, however, completely petrified his mind. Just what had Nailisi evolved from?

The headless rider was severely injured, but still charged forward. His weapon fell off along with his broken arm. His war horse, however, went on a rampage, and was charging directly at Saleen.

Saleen retreated calmly, and as he retreated, he deployed his spell.

Aini had been frightened by Nailisi and did not even notice that Saleen still possessed the residual energy from deploying a Grade 2 spell. Saleen deployed a Grade 1 spell – Frost Array. This was a suppressing spell, and was not very effective where headless riders were concerned. It was not able to freeze the headless riders or their horses to the spot.

The speed of his deployment had been too fast, and Saleen had completely exhausted his magic chords in an instant. However, he was still unable to stop the headless rider from heading towards him. Saleen felt as though he had a splitting headache as the magic chords in his body were nearly depleted. He desperately gathered the last bit of his magic chords. His magic chords were trembling as though they could no longer withstand any expenditure, and suddenly burst at their core.

Saleen himself had not known that his remaining magic chords would allow him to deploy seven Grade 1 spells. Now, he had already continued by using twelve frost arrays.

The ground of frost was behind the headless riders. The temperature within the walls of the yard decreased sharply.