Chapter 122: Thinking for you (1/2)
Chapter 122: Thinking for you
Tall and angular buildings were erected within the cemetery of death that was strewn with bones. All of them drew Duke’s attention. In that instant, he concerned himself with looking around wildly and didn’t continue making a move against Han Shuo.
However, when Emily rushed into the cemetery, her first task wasn’t to take in the surroundings. Rather, she flew to Han Shuo instead and asked anxiously, “Are you alright?”
If it’d been an ordinary person falling from such a height, they might have actually been injured. but Han Shuo, of course, wasn’t injured at all. He shook his head at Emily and stood up with a darkened face, fixing his gaze tightly onto the wind archmage Duke in the distance.
Looking around with excitement, Duke said joyfully when senior swordsman Erick arrived next to him, “This is the cemetery of death, there’s no doubt about it. Who would’ve thought that we’d actually make it inside?”
“Master Duke, we didn’t discover anything after a such a long period of studying, but the boundary to the cemetery of death opened when green light was emitted from that person. It’s very strange!” Erick looked at Han Shuo from afar and said lowly to Duke.
Nodding, Duke said, “That’s right. It looks like there’s something odd about this person. That green light just now also gave me a familiar feeling, it seems to have come from the Eye of Darkness!”
Erick was greatly astonished when these words were voiced. “How is that possible?”
Grasping the Demonslayer Edge in his hands, Han Shuo recited an incantation and the little skeleton, wielding a bone dagger and sporting seven wings, appeared. Three zombie warriors also appeared. They all held wooden clubs and barred the path to Han Shuo and Emily along with the little skeleton.
“You were the one who opened the boundary to the cemetery of death?” Emily breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Han Shuo was unharmed. She then recalled what had just happened and asked Han Shuo with great confusion.
Nodding, Han Shuo said with a darkened face, “That’s right. The cemetery of death was opened by something on my body. Duke and Erick must die now. You help me take care of Duke, and I’ll explain to you after we kill them!”
Emily didn’t ask anything else after hearing Han Shuo speak thus, and docilely picked up her magic staff, setting her sights on the approaching Duke with a look full of killing intent.
“He’s also a necromancer to boot, it looks like this will be a slightly difficult fight!” Erick had traded blows with Han Shuo and could feel that Han Shuo’s strength was not in the slightest bit weaker than his own. When he saw that Han Shuo had even summoned zombie warriors, his brow creased as he spoke.
“Kill them first. We’re excavating the secrets of the cemetery of death!” Duke snorted lightly and floated over. Erick didn’t say much else after pausing for a moment and following Duke in a charge over.
A string of incantations leisurely surged out of Emily’s mouth. The magic staff in her hand suddenly shot out a few strands of black air and like snakes twisted and twined towards the approaching Duke. When Duke saw the black air attacking him, his face became incomparably grave. A tornado formed suddenly in front of him and churned up all the white bones on the ground. It made for the black air and twisted all of them into the tornado.
Snorting coldly, Emily said, “Be careful”, to Han Shuo and also flew towards the black air. She waved the magic staff in her hand and started fighting fiercely with Duke within the air.
“We shouldn’t just idly stand around either.” Han Shuo grinned and gave a long laugh. The little skeleton led the three zombie warriors in heading towards Erick. At the same time, Han Shuo kept an eye behind Erick and Duke, via the original demons, observing their every gesture and move.
“Do you think three zombies and a skeleton are enough to stop me?” Erick snorted lowly with disdain as dark green fighting aura flared out of the longsword in his hand. His body was like a bulldozer as he sent dirt and dust flying as he charged directly towards Han Shuo.
Continuously laughing coldly within his heart, Han Shuo made use of his mental strength to manipulate the zombie warriors and little skeleton, blocking the way in front of him. The little skeleton’s usual speed was as fast as lightning, but was now being purposefully curtailed by Han Shuo so that he was as slow as the zombie warriors. Dashing over, Erick’s dark green fighting aura formed a ball of light as it enclosed a zombie warrior within it.
The sound of bones exploding suddenly emitted from the zombie warrior’s body. Beneath the effects of the dark green fighting aura, the first zombie warrior had its body shattered. Its wooden club also broke into several segments. Turning his body sideways with a disdainful smirk, Erick’s nimble body evaded the crashes from the other two zombie warriors’ wooden clubs and stabbed forward with his longsword, slashing open the neck of another zombie warrior. The zombie warrior swayed and looked like it was about to fall down.
The little skeleton raised the bone dagger and pressed itself against the other zombie warrior, jerkily raising the bone dagger in its hand and stabbing it towards Erick. Erick could easily handle even the zombie warriors, so he paid absolutely no attention to the little skeleton’s upraised dagger, raising his sword rather impatiently to block the strike.
At this moment, the originally abnormally slow bone dagger suddenly increased more than tenfold in its striking speed. The previously stiff and slow little skeleton became so agile that it caused Erick’s eyes to bug out. Erick’s longsword had just started rising and he hadn’t had time to make his move before the bone dagger was already landing on its target.
Erick retreated in horrified fright, but he was still a beat too slow. A puncturing sound rang out as a large piece of flesh and blood flew out from his chest. As Erick cried out in pain, he also called out with incredulity, “How is this possible?! What kind of skeletal warrior is this?”
It was a pity that the little skeleton had no reaction to Erick’s astonished yells. When he’d succeeded with one of his blows, he didn’t relax and immediately followed up afterwards. He didn’t wait for Erick to stabilize his footing before appearing in front of him. As Erick’s fighting aura gathered anew on his longsword, the seven bone spurs on the back of the little skeleton’s spine flared out at the same time and they flew in a semi-circle, landed accurately on Erick’s body.
The seven bone spurs pierced through Erick’s neck, forehead, and heart. He didn’t even have time to release the fighting aura that he’d gathered before his body fell backwards. The frightened and terrified expression on his face didn’t even vanish in death.
Duke and Emily had been fighting when they both noticed the disturbance on this side. When they saw that Erick had died a gruesome death, both were surprised. However, Duke’s worry and Emily’s joy followed closely after that surprise.
Emily had already witnessed the little skeleton’s miraculousness last time, and even she, a dark archmage, had been powerless in the face of the little skeleton’s pursuit. The little skeleton’s nimbleness and speed had left a powerful impression on Emily. Upon seeing that the seven bone spurs on the back of the little skeleton could even harm someone, she had a deeper understanding of Han Shuo’s mysteriousness.
Duke was already having trouble fending off attacks from Emily alone, he’d actually been hoping that Erick would help him after taking care of Han Shuo. He hadn’t thought that the seasoned and well experienced Erick would die so quickly. Han Shuo was still standing there, having made not a move. This made Duke panic momentarily.
“What, you want to run? Do you think you can get away today?” After killing Erick, the original demon noticed that Duke’s eyes were darting around. Han Shuo drew near to him with a shadow of a smile as he opened his mouth in mockery.
Duke’s face suddenly grew frosty as his usually benevolent features twisted as he stared at Han Shuo, “You’re seeking death!”
Many sharp shards of bone fragments on the ground suddenly shot towards Han Shuo as Duke waved his magic staff. The sound they made while shooting through the air was extremely ear piercing, and their momentum was quite frightening. When Emily saw that Han Shuo was under attack, she was even more nervous than Han Shuo as she hastily chanted a dark magic spell.
An inky black opening appeared out of thin air before these sharp bone fragments reached Han Shuo. When the bone fragments arrived, they were all attracted to the black opening and completely sucked in.
After releasing his attack, Duke didn’t continue to attack, but rather hurtled his body towards the outside in an attempt to escape. It looked like he’d counted on Emily being concerned for Han Shuo. That’s why he’d attacked Han Shuo so that Emily would save him, and then take advantage of the opportunity to run off.
However, it was easy to enter the cemetery of death, but quite difficult to leave. After the Eye of Darkness had revealed itself, it’d once again sank back into Han Shuo’s space ring. Without the Eye of Darkness, even him, a wind archmage, would be unable to open the boundary.
He crashed headfirst into the boundary, and a large bang sounded out. A ball of green light flared out from the boundary as Duke was affected by its power. He was unable to maintain his levitation spell and fell from midair. Some broken pieces of bone happened to pierce his calves, stomach, and waist, causing immediate injury to his body.
“My condolences!” Han Shuo approached Duke with a cold smile as Emily and the little skeleton surrounded Duke. Han Shuo ripped the mask off his face and said, “Long time no see, benevolent Mister Duke!”
Duke, crying out painfully, immediately spoke with fear when he saw Han Shuo reveal his true face. “Why is it you? I remember that I once saw you in the Babylon Academy. Aren’t you that necromancy student?”