Chapter 116: I’m actually a necromancer! (1/2)
Chapter 116: I’m actually a necromancer!
“Hurry, kill that madman!” The fallen swordsman screamed out.
“Shut up!” The swordsman, who had been walking towards Han Shuo, suddenly turned his head and stared coldly at the man behind him, saying with a stilted voice, “I’ll kill you too if you keep yelling nonsense.”
The person on the ground suddenly froze and used a completely foreign look to look at his companion. He asked in confusion, “Fronze, what’s wrong with you?”
Fronze, who’d pulled his sword out and was walking towards Han Shuo, had a look of excitement and greed on his face. His gaze was only focused on Han Shuo as he opened his mouth to say with excitement, “I’m going to be rich. You better not get in my way, or I’ll let you die along with him.”
The person on the ground finally understood what was going on now. Fronze had now been drowned by his greedy heart and had no thoughts for his companions in his mind now. What was left was just his desire to strike it rich.
His brain prickling with pain, Han Shuo was slowly awakening from his demonic state, after experiencing a short period of haziness, Han Shuo remembered everything that had happened just now and immediately understood the urgency of the situation.
“The trophies that were harvested from the Medusa and the Fruit of Dagmar will all belong to me very soon. Go to hell you evil, crazy madman!” Fronze’s gaze locked tightly onto the space ring on Han Shuo’s hand as he said with a dark look of excitement.
Fronze raised the longsword in his hand as soon as he’d said this and stabbed it towards the completely listless Han Shuo. It looked like Fronze planned on taking Han Shuo’s life first, before taking the space ring to analyze the contents inside.
Han Shuo swiftly chanted an incantation, and a bone dagger abruptly blocked the sword in Fronze’s hand when it stabbed towards Han Shuo’s chest.
“Actually, I’m a necromancer!” Han Shuo looked bizarrely and muttered coldly at the shocked Fronze.
The bone dagger pushed forward as Fronze backed up involuntarily, startled. A little skeleton, wearing an enormous eye patch over one eye, swiftly approached Fronze with its bone dagger. The heroic little skeleton killed the previously injured combatant amidst a wave of metallic clangs.
The other heavily injured swordsman, who had been calling out for Han Shuo’s death earlier, naturally met the same fate. The little skeleton also killed him when the order was given.
Starting from the moment that this group of people had appeared, they’d used base and despicable actions to deal with Han Shuo. They hadn’t shown any kindness through it all. Han Shuo wasn’t a naive innocent child and naturally understood that an eye for an eye was the most appropriate downfall for them.
The appearance of the little skeleton saved Han Shuo from impending death, and completely upended the original situation. The bone dagger wielding little skeleton adeptly maneuvered the three bodies and collected all the valuables from their corpses, helping Han Shuo store them within his space ring.
Of the three, only the thunder adept mage had some valuable belongings, which included an expensive magic staff. There was also a few hundred gold coins as well as two or three level three and four magical creature cores. Apart from a subpar quality sword and some broken bits of gold coins, the two swordsmen had nothing else on them.
Sprawled listlessly on the ground, Han Shuo’s reasoning had immediately sunk into the midst of violent bloodlust when he entered the demonic trance. It was impossible for him to wake up before the magical yuan in his body and energy had been exhausted. This time, not only had Han Shuo fully expended his magical yuan after entering the trance, but his body had also suffered from various sorts of injuries. This was one of the times he’d been most heavily injured. He was even worse off than Odysseus, who’d suffered a blow from the manticore.
It was a good thing that Han Shuo’s tenacity was something that Odysseus couldn’t hope to measure up to. Therefore, although Han Shuo was as hideous as a ghoul right now, and his body was so weak that it couldn’t support him standing, Han Shuo still understood the condition of his body within his heart and knew that even without the aid of any medicine, he would be able to recover within a short period of time.
Han Shuo hadn’t revealed his identity as a necromancer all along because concealing some of his strengths would be able to save his life in critical moments. If it wasn’t for the fact that he’d still had some mental strength he could use when facing his attackers this time, he’d be hard pressed to escape death. If these people had known that Han Shuo was also a necromancer beforehand, then the conclusion of the battle would likely not have reached this current level.
He chanted out another incantation as several zombies and skeletal warriors suddenly appeared around him. They raised their weapons and surrounded Han Shuo, planning on handling any possible changes that might happen.
After waking up, Han Shuo immediately connected with the original demons and confirmed through them that Trunks, Aphrodite, and the others had already regrouped and were searching for him in this area.
Now that Han Shuo was incredibly weak, he couldn’t move and couldn’t speak loudly, but had large amounts of dark creatures that he could make use of. After giving his order, the little skeleton created a large disturbance and sent shrubbery and grass flying everywhere.
“There’s movement over there, let’s go check it out!” Trunks’ ears were quite sensitive and immediately detected the disturbance. After pointing out its direction to the others, he brought the group to rush towards where Han Shuo was.
Having just summoned those dark creatures, Han Shuo immediately sent them back to the other dimension with his mental strength again. Trunks and the others arrived in front of Han Shuo after a short while, with Trunks leading the group.
“What happened to you?” Trunks exclaimed and immediately ran towards Han Shuo.
Han Shuo looked incredibly bedraggled as he was scorched and charred all over. Many parts of his body had been burnt by huge flames, and his entire face was a blackened mess. It was impressive that Trunks could still recognize Han Shuo.
“I’m fine, just didn’t think I’d meet this group of people halfway through.” Han Shuo’s voice was a bit feeble as he said softly after laughing ruefully.
“It’s my oversight this time. I was surprised by your unconventional tactics and let down my guard for a moment. That’s why this situation developed, but it’s not a big deal, things like this happen everyday in the Dark Forest. I’ve long since grown used to it all.” Trunks breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that Han Shuo was still alive and shrugged his shoulders.
Gordon and the others all asked after Han Shuo, with Aphrodite saying afterwards, “Looks like things are as Caspian said, Trunks is a good man. At least Trunks only wanted the spoils of battle from the twin headed dragon last time and didn’t attack us from the start. He also didn’t say he wanted to kill us or have ideas to dirty us. I finally understand Caspian’s words after comparing Trunks to these people, I thought he was joking at first.”
Everyone recalled their encounter with Trunks after Aphrodite’s words and then thought of what these people had done. They suddenly felt that Trunks was rather kind.
“I’m actually not as you think and I’ve been constantly changing. When I first arrived in the Dark Forest, I was once as simple as all of you and once trusted the companions by my side, but after continuous operations, I came to the realization that apart from myself, I can trust no one within the Dark Forest. The dangers that exists everywhere mean you must harden your heart to face everything around you. Otherwise, whenever you possess emotions of kindness or weakness, it may very well lead to your death.” Trunks shrugged and explained dashingly.
“What happened to you just now?” Nia asked Han Shuo with some trepidation after hesitating for a moment.
Everyone’s gazes flicked to focus on Han Shuo after Nia’s question, seemingly waiting for a reasonable explanation from Han Shuo. After all, his methods just now had been a tad ruthless. His expression had been greatly different from usual, giving rise to these questions from those assembled.
“The martial arts technique I’m training causes me to sometimes sink into a frightening stupor when I suffer from a strong shock because it’s not yet fully complete. I’m very sorry that I’ve caused concern for all of you because I was so enraged earlier. I don’t wish to be like this either, but this isn’t something that I can currently control.” Han Shuo was unable to explain anything to them with regards to sinking into a demonic stupor and could only explain it in this fashion.
“So that’s the case. You were very scary just now. If you can’t control this type of martial arts technique, then you should give it up while you still can. If you continue on this way, then that might give rise to unpredictable consequences.” Aphrodite looked sincerely at Han Shuo and spoke a few words of concern.
Han Shuo naturally paid no heed to her persuasion. If sinking into a demonic trance was something that could be controlled, then it wouldn’t be called a trance. A demonic trance like that wouldn’t happen so easily. It would only occur when a practitioner reached a certain realm, and would be triggered because of a particular mental state as well as other reasons. To Han Shuo, he could only remain vigilant against this occurrence, but wouldn’t give up training demonic magic just because of this.
“Alright, we should get Han away from here first and discuss other matters after reconvening with Odysseus.” Trunks first stared a bit strangely at Han Shuo and then spoke to Aphrodite.
Trunks’ suggestion was met with unanimous approval. Gordon and the other two swordsmen made a simple stretcher, raised Han Shuo up, and walked towards where Odysseus was.