Chapter 118: The little skeleton immune to dark magic (2/2)
Finally, the merchants of the McGrady Guild saw that they would be unable to obtain victory and they decisively decided to make a break for it in their timidness. Some personal guards protecting them, these merchants yelled and hollered, saying that they were giving up the goods and split into several directions to break through.
The situation was already under control and Han Shuo didn’t continue to further conceal his movements. He walked out from the midst of the forest troll warriors and set his sights on the earth mage Leon who had personally attacked him.
The dark archmage Emily was completely frightened with fear beneath the little skeleton’s pursuit. She’d tried to fly through the air, but became the target of many under Han Shuo’s order as she immediately took the brunt of several dozen javelin and long spear attacks.
Even though she’d erected a dark magic shield in the nick of time, she didn’t have an easy time of it as a walking human target. The magic shield blocked this round of attacks, but also greatly depleted her mental strength, even causing her to spit out a mouthful of blood.
With the warning of previous experience, Emily didn’t dare fly through the air again in such a short distance. She could only hide amongst the McGrady Guild’s Guards to the best of her abilities and continuously cry for help, asking for someone to help defend her from the little skeleton, but it was a pity that the scene was a chaotic mess at this moment. Under circumstances in which one’s own personal safety was tough to guarantee, no one else would pay heed to someone else’s survival. This caused her to flee haphazardly, in great panic.
“Eh, how did you know it was me?” Han Shuo looked askance at Trunks after he’d revealed himself and asked.
“I didn’t fully recognize you, but it could!” Trunks smiled and shrugged his shoulders, pointing at the manticore beneath him.
Nodding, Han Shuo said, “So this was the case!”
“It’s you guys! What do you want?” Leon immediately recognized the memorable Han Shuo when the latter revealed himself, and he asked timidly.
“Your life of course! An eye for an eye. Shouldn’t you pay up for the injuries you’ve caused me?” Han Shuo looked coldly at Leon and dashed towards him after saying this noncommittally.
“Han, leave this person to me. You haven’t fully recovered from your injuries yet, best not to make a move that easily.” Trunks saw that Han Shuo was about to make a move and suddenly spoke up to stop him, then spurring the manticore forward to Leon before Han Shuo had responded.
The earth adept mage Leon immediately chanted an incantation when he saw that Trunks was spurring the manticore forward to him. The ground before Trunks suddenly roiled and an earth wall quickly formed, forming an obstacle in the direction that Trunks was charging from.
Having released the earth wall magic, Leon understood that Trunks wanted his life and that there was a Han Shuo of unknown strength hovering around the edges. He didn’t dare linger at all and immediately fled without another thought as soon as the earth wall had appeared.
“Don’t worry, I’ll kill him!” Trunks smiled from the back of the manticore at Han Shuo and charged the wall together after these words. Beneath the manticore’s impetus and the efforts of the longsword in his hand, the wall of earth that had just formed suddenly collapsed. Leaping across the wall, Trunks leisurely pursued the escaping Leon and he seemed quite at ease.
The originals demons were spread out in three directions, and Han Shuo retained a complete picture of the entire situation through their observations. He discovered that the forest trolls, with their strength in numbers, had completely grasped the situation with the cowardly merchants leading the way in fleeing. The Guild’s guards were retreating beneath their attacks. No one was laying down their lives to protect the goods and they did everything in their power to break through to the outside.
The little skeleton pursued the dark archmage relentlessly under Han Shuo’s orders. A group of forest trolls were following tightly behind the great Datara and handling the female archmage along with the little skeleton. The female dark magus couldn’t use her dark magus due to the little skeleton’s continual harassment, and the forest was blocked off on all sides. They finally forced the archmage Emily into a trap, capturing her with a large net woven out of branches.
“I have what you need, you can’t kill me, you can’t!” Emily abruptly called out when javelins and spears were aimed at the archmage and about to descend.
A thought struck Han Shuo as he immediately gave the little skeleton an order. When the little skeleton received the order, he waved his empty left hand, giving the forest trolls next to him a gesture to halt. The little skeleton walked towards Emily with bone dagger in hand, her frightened gaze fixed upon him. The little skeleton tore the shirt off a random corpse of a guard next to him and shoved the rag into Emily’s mouth, using ropes to tie up her arms and legs at the same time.
When the female dark archmage’s gaudy red lips had been stoppered up, she continuously emitted sounds from her throat, but no one paid attention to her. The little skeleton wielded the bone dagger and took up the responsibility to looking over her. Han Shuo leveraged his observations through the original demons to continuously give commands to the forest trolls and point out where people were escaping, maximizing their spoils of battle to the greatest degree possible.
After half an hour, the scattered sounds of fighting from all sides had all stopped, and when Trunks approached from the distance on the back of his manticore, the forest trolls also tried to kill, but stayed their hands beneath Han Shuo’s orders.
When Trunks spurred the manticore on to Han Shuo’s side, he saw the forest trolls on the side look at Han Shuo with respectful and humble expressions. He seemed to understand something in that moment.
“I’ll explain in detail to you later. Trunks, you must believe me.” Han Shuo also noticed the oddities in Trunks’ gaze and opened his mouth to express his apologies.
Trunks smiled and nodded, saying, “I have time to listen to your explanations.”
Looking at Trunks with gratitude, Han Shuo walked to the side of the dark archmage and roughly tore the cloth out of her mouth. He lowered his body and stared at Emily, saying coldly and cruelly, “Give me a reason not to kill you!”