Chapter 79: Breaking through the boundary (1/2)
Chapter 79: Breaking through the boundary
There were only two swordsmen left, one senior and one journeyman swordsman. Phoebe herself was enough to make the two of them unable to escape death. Han Shuo turning back merely accelerated their deaths.
With a flash of his space ring, Han Shuo held a crossbow in his hand and fitted a crossbow bolt into the string. He’d already targeted one of them, and shot at the back of the senior swordsman when they abruptly started retreating and wanted to take themselves out of the fight.
The senior swordsman, who planned on leaving had to turn back in resignation and block the bolt, but in the instant he’d destroyed the bolt, Phoebe was already standing in front of him.
The little skeleton that had stabbed the fire mage to death held a bag in his left hand, jumping down from the roof with a whoosh. After his skeleton wobbled a bit, he was already standing with dagger in hand in front of the other journeyman swordsman.
As Han Shuo strode over with a cold smile, one of the swordsmen suddenly drew his longsword across his neck and fell down.
“These are people from ‘Shadow Ghost’. If they know that there’s no way out for them, they’ll choose to end their own lives!” Phoebe shook her head, storing the longsword in her hand back into a space ring and said with a frown.
The little skeleton had arrived in front of the two corpses at this moment and began to search them with practiced motions. When two more bags hung on its left hand, it walked over happily to Han Shuo with bone dagger in hand, offering the three bags to Han Shuo.
Caressing the little skeleton’s skull with a faint smile, Han Shuo took the three bags and cursed after one glance. “Damn it, three poor sods. They only had ten or so gold coins!”
Rolling her eyes at him with ill temper, Phoebe didn’t search the corpses and directly said to Han Shuo. “I’ve never seen someone as greedy as you. Don’t bother searching their bodies, you won’t discover anything. The people of ‘Shadow Ghost’ never bring anything important with them when they go out on missions, so forget it, they won’t bring any riches to you.”
Han Shuo cursed again when he heard Phoebe’s words and chanted an incantation to send the little skeleton back. He then grinned and asked softly, “Didn’t you leave with Andrew? Why did you suddenly return?”
“You’re hurt?” Phoebe was shocked and immediately rushed to Han Shuo. When she saw the blood wounds left by the the windblades on Han Shuo’s body, she immediately revealed a worried expression. The space ring on her finger lit up and some gauze and medicine appeared in her hands. She didn’t shy away as she said softly, “Don’t move!”
It was rare that Han Shuo saw Phoebe display such an expression, and he felt vaguely touched inside. He stood there dumbly, not moving at all and looked at Phoebe carefully apply medicine to his injury, then using gauze to wrap it all up for him.
When Phoebe was finished, she tugged at Han Shuo and exhaled lightly. “You sure know how to pick a place. Two manors are on the two sides of this alleyway and both families are out. No one’s come out even after such a violent fight, it looks like the house hasn’t been sold yet. However, we can’t stay here for long. Although the security isn’t too tight here, the guards will still patrol the area after a while. It’d be better if we leave earlier.”
“Let’s go.” Han Shuo agreed and left with Phoebe, rushing to the northern part of the city. He asked along the way, “Oh right, you still haven’t told me, why did you suddenly come back?”
Seeing that there was no one around, Phoebe frowned and said in a low voice, “Grandpa Andrew told me in the carriage that Grover has been conducting transactions with the barbaric orcs, and has actually been selling the Empire’s weapons to them. The implications of this matter are huge, and if the Empire knew, they wouldn’t let him off easily.”
“Grover must know that if I’m in charge of the Guild, he won’t be able to cover this up anyone. So he must kill me before I take control of the Guild. Otherwise once this matter is uncovered, as strong as he is, Grover will be hard pressed to escape from the punishment of the Empire. Once I knew of this matter, I knew that he would try to kill you first. I worried about you so I left Grandpa Andrew halfway through to come find you.”
Nodding, Han Shuo said, “So that’s why. No wonder Grover wanted to kill us so quickly. It looks like as soon as you have evidence in hand, Grover will be done for without a doubt.”
“Exactly!” Phoebe laughed coldly, but then sighed as she thought. “However, Ellis has learned of my strength this time. I think Grover will think of a plan and even I will find it difficult to deal with his next assassination attempt.”
Han Shuo knew that his power was limited, if even Phoebe couldn’t handle things, then he wouldn’t have much effect either. The only thing he could do to help Phoebe was with his perceptive senses towards assassins. He thought for a moment and said, “I’ll leave for a bit. I’ll come find you when my injuries are healed. Grover is our mutual enemy now, I know what to do.”
“Alright, but don’t go back to the Academy no matter what you do. Since Grover knows your identity, you’ll face tremendous danger if you stay in the Academy the next couple of days!”
Phoebe mused and said to Han Shuo.
Nodding his head in understanding, Han Shuo told Phoebe to be careful and left alone. The three original demons accompanied him, but didn’t discover any other disturbances until Han Shuo came to the cemeteries behind the Academy.
After returning to the cemetery of death, Han Shuo trained his magic for a bit. A cool feeling wreathed around his injuries as he circulated his magical yuan, and the feeling of pain was greatly reduced.
After sleeping for a while, it was already noon of the next day. Since all the materials had been gathered now, Han Shuo left the cemetery of death eagerly and headed towards the dwarves’ village. He planned on asking the dwarf chief Calvin to forge the Demonslayer Edge for him.
The dwarf village was located in a small mountain valley. There were enormous trees concealing the entrance of the village. If it weren’t for the fact that Han Shuo had once made a trip here with the dwarves, he would have been hard pressed to find their place of dwelling.