Chapter 204 (1/2)

Chapter 204: The Invincible Magic Puppet (Part 4)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Underground Palace

The crisp voice rang across the underground palace, “Mission complete. Threat eliminated.”

Nana’s slender blade pierced through Link’s chest as fresh blood poured out of the wound caused by the pale blue sword. Link held Nana’s blade in his hand as he weakly smiled.

“Just a bit more, heh.”

The next moment, Link became an elemental phantom image together with Celine, who was still airborne, and Vance’s skull and headless body, who was in the middle of casting a spell. At the very last moment, Link made use of his fast reaction speed to avoid Nana’s fatal attack and decisively activated his Dimensional Jump spell to escape.

This magic puppet was way too scary. It was impossible to defeat her even when the three of them joined forces. They could only escape and come back after formulating a more detailed plan.

After a light sound, the three of them disappeared from the underground palace. Nana was surprised at this turn of events. This was the first time she encountered such a peculiar situation since she was created. She stood there motionless for a few seconds before speaking with the crisp voice, “Confirm that the threat is still not eliminated. Target has been marked. Starting pursuit.”

A sound of an air blast could be heard, and the next moment, she had disappeared from her location and appeared at the entrance of the hall. Another loud air blast echoed through the underground palace and Nana had begun her pursuit.

On the cliff outside the underground palace, Link, Celine, and Vance appeared out of thin air.

This was Celine’s second time experiencing the Dimensional Jump spell. She managed to recollect herself quickly enough. However, Vance was still experiencing some dizziness as his skull rolled about on the ground. If not for Link’s quick reaction, his skull might have already fallen off the cliff.

Picking his skull up and placing it back on his body, Vance creaked his thousand-year-old bones and finally regained his soberness.

He immediately asked, “That was a Legendary spell?”

“Sort of.” Link nodded.

Vance gasped and said unbelievably, “I have heard that you are the Chosen One. It seems like they were not lying.”

Link smiled bitterly and said, “Let’s not mention this for now. I feel that we are still not out of danger.”

As he spoke, he covered his wound with his hand and started concentrating water elements to seal his wound in ice. Although the wound did not damage any vital organs, it severed a few blood vessels and was extremely painful.

After the sealing was complete, Link cast an Elemental Healing spell on himself before drinking another high-level healing potion. That was when he was finally satisfied with his recovery process. He now merely had to find a priest when he got back to the Girvent Forest for a complete recovery.

The moment he felt safe, Celine immediately pointed to an area below the cliff and screamed, “Look, it’s that magic puppet!”

“I knew it!” Link was almost speechless and stood up, “We cannot defeat her now, let’s go!”

Link was not going to overestimate his abilities once again. Vance and Celine were similarly horrified by the extent of Nana’s power and naturally did not have the confidence to win in another fight. They hence agreed to escape together with Link immediately. However, the magic puppet was traveling way too fast. It was impossible to outrun her on ground. Link then asked Vance, “She can’t fly can she?”

Vance smiled bitterly and said, “Probably not. I did not give her that ability. But who knows?

“Then let’s fly.”

Flying spells were something that Link had in his arsenal. He summoned a Storm Eagle.

Storm Eagle spell

Level-5 Ordinary Spell

Cost: 100 Mana Points for summoning, 10 points per second afterwards.

Effect: This is an extremely fast flying spell.

Link originally learned this spell so as to travel faster while he was rushing from one location to the next. Three seconds later, a pure wind elemental giant eagle appeared in front of them.

“Hop on.” Link mounted the eagle. Upon seeing that Celine was about to fly with her own wings, he said, “Celine, conserve your energy.”

“Alright.” Celine then landed gently on the eagle’s back. The last to mount the eagle was Vance.

The eagle howled and spread its wings majestically. It then jumped into the air and immediately flew in the direction of the sea.

This was not Link’s choice. While the storm eagle was fast and could cover over 1000 miles in an hour, Link was still not confident that they could shake off a magic puppet whose top speed was at 2000 feet per second.

“Let’s hope that the puppet doesn’t go that fast in the water.” Link smiled. To think that two Level-6 and one Level-7 professional would be thoroughly defeated by a human-made object—this was more than just embarrassing.

After flying for merely a few seconds, Vance reminded, “Link, faster! She is catching up to us!”

Link was still trying to get the giant eagle to speed up when he was shocked by Vance’s words. He looked behind him and saw that Nana was already on the cliff. She then leaped off the cliff decisively and charged straight towards them.

Using her top speed of 2000 feet per second, her leap was almost like a cannonball. The distance between both parties was rapidly narrowing.