Chapter 122: Thinking for you (2/2)

Nodding, Han Shuo smiled sinisterly and said, “That’s right, it’s me.” He then took out the Eye of Darkness and placed it on his palm, lighting it up. “The small errand boy, whose tracks you guys discovered last time, in the cemetery in the mountains at the back of the Academy, was also me. Heh heh, I was the one who gained the Eye of Darkness that Dylan buried in the ground. You guys didn’t think that I wouldn’t die, did you? It’s come full circle not too long afterwards!”

“So you were the one who obtained the Eye of Darkness! No wonder the boundary to the cemetery of death was opened after that light came from your body!” Duke spoke in sudden enlightenment.

Three more zombie warriors appeared, making it a total of four zombie warriors and one little skeleton. They walked slowly towards archmage Duke. Han Shuo raised his crossbow and took aim at Duke, Emily chanted a dark major spell, officially sealing Duke’s fate as the little skeleton’s seven bone spurs flew around in a dance.

When the seven bone spurs flew out, Duke used wind blades to rapidly defend against them all, but the approaching four zombie warriors and little skeleton made him feel quite troubled.

When Han Shuo’s crossbow had shot it, the bolt pierced through the hastily dodging Duke’s thigh and nailed him to the ground. Emily’s dark magic had already enclosed Duke before Han Shuo had taken out the Demonslayer Edge. Thick smoke rose up from Duke’s body in that instant as he became another set of stark white bones within the cemetery of death.

The little skeleton drew close to Duke and took off the space ring from the white bones of his hand. He handed it over to Han Shuo along with the pouch of the senior swordsman Erick.

Emily stared at the little skeleton with clear eyes and was dumbfounded for quite a while by the little skeleton’s motions. She finally couldn’t hold it in any longer and asked Han Shuo with an exceedingly high amount of curiosity, “Can you tell me what was up with that wondrous little skeleton?”

“Heh heh, nothing much. I refined it with a secret art. That’s why its performance is so wondrous!” Rubbing the little skeleton’s clean and smooth skullcap, Han Shuo smiled as he picked up the spoils of battle being offered up to him.

Emily glared fiercely at Han Shuo and said huffily, “Just how many more things are you hiding from me? Why do you have the Eye of Darkness and how come you’re able to refine such an amazing skeletal warrior? You’re just a small necromancer, yet you also have uncommon fighting techniques. Just what is going on here?”

Some things had to be explained at this moment. Han Shuo explained everything that had happened in the necromancy major, including the discovery of the cemetery of death, to Emily. However, he still didn’t mention anything with regards to refining the little skeleton and the magical yuan.

This conversation caused exceedingly great shock to Emily. As she contemplated silently, Han Shuo started searching through Duke’s and Erick’s things.

But after rifling for a while, Han Shuo discovered that Erick was one heck of a poor guy. There wasn’t anything valuable in his pouch. Duke should’ve had some interesting items on him, but he’d set up a magical boundary within his space ring and Han Shuo was completely unable to break it to obtain anything from inside.

After a while, Emily looked at Han Shuo with a grave face. “Does anyone else know that you’ve obtained the Eye of Darkness and that you can come and go from the cemetery of death, apart from you and me?”

“No one else knows.” Han Shuo looked at Emily and hesitated before asking, “What do you plan to do?”

“In that case, then we’ll continue to keep this secret. Duke and Erick are dead anyways, and the agent that the organization had sent to chase them is gone. No one else knows about this matter. Then, in the future, the cemetery of death is still your secret alone, the foundations for you to train your body to slowly control the Dark Forest.” Emily gazed deeply at Han Shuo as she spoke lowly.

Staring in stupefaction for a bit, Han Shuo smiled slightly and suddenly yanked Emily into his arms. He smiled, “You’re my woman alright, I thought you’d want me to offer the secret of the cemetery of death to the organization!”

Rolling her eyes in a display of ill temper at Han Shuo, Emily said, “Do you think I don’t know what you’re thinking? If you wanted to tell the organization about this secret, you would’ve done so a long time ago, why would you wait until now? I understand what the cemetery of death means to you, and it seems very important for your future development. We’re already like this now, I would naturally think for you.”

Han Shuo was really a bit touched upon hearing Emily’s words. He privately thought to himself that women were incomprehensible creatures alright. Once their bodies and hearts were captured, then all their previous resolutions would completely collapse. When she spoke these words, it meant that Emily had chosen to lean towards Han Shuo between the Dark Mantle and himself. If Han Shuo had any conflicts with the Dark Mantle in the future, it looked like Emily would be willing to make a stand against the Dark Mantle for Han Shuo.

“Right, you said that your goal this time was to investigate where those weapons had gone. I used the forest trolls to rob that batch of resources this time, will it affect your mission?” Seeing that Emily was thinking on his behalf, Han Shuo thought for a bit and suddenly recalled what Emily had mentioned last time, and so opened his mouth to ask her.

Smiling merrily for a bit, Emily looked soulfully at Han Shuo in the midst of his surprise. “You bad boy, you’re finally willing to think of my situation. How nice!”

Han Shuo was speechless as he thought back to prior events and discovered that he really had never thought on Emily’s behalf. He’d thought for himself from start to finish, and he now felt a bit embarrassed by her words. He laughed a bit awkwardly.

“Don’t worry too much about this matter, I actually had a fair guess of where these resources were going. I just wanted to catch him in the act so that he’d have nothing to say. Although these resources have been intercepted, many of the McGrady Guild’s men have made it out. They’ll surely think of a way to ransom back the siege weapons from the forest trolls.”

“If anyone wants to purchase the siege weapons from the forest trolls, just let them handle the matters they usually would. You’d be doing me a great favor that way. When they obtain all their items, they’ll still deliver it to my target. I’ll arrest him then, and it won’t affect the greater picture.” Emily looked at Han Shuo and said with a smile.

Nodding, Han Shuo said, “No problem, I’ll go back to the Empire and get my hands on some rations. I’ll return to the Dark Forest after that. I’ll go speak to the forest trolls so it won’t impact your mission at all.”

“Oh right, you can’t open Duke’s space ring either. So why not give it to me? I’ll think of a way to break through the barrier and see just what’s inside.”

“Okay, you take it then.” Han Shuo straightforwardly handed Duke’s space ring over to Emily, and then suddenly remembered Yuna’s pretty space ring from his previous encounter when that thought struck him. Yuna was only an adept mage. Theoretically, the boundary that she’d set up should be easily broken by Emily.

Therefore, he took out Yuna’s space ring and gave it to Emily. “There’s also a boundary placed within this space ring, but that person was only an adept mage. I think you should be able to break the barrier inside and see what’s in it?”

Emily took the space ring without asking how Han Shuo obtained it, took a deep breath, and focused her concentration.

The jade green space ring suddenly lit up, and abruptly dimmed when a strong pulse of magic was felt. Breathing out slightly, a few items suddenly appeared in Emily’s hand. There were some female personal effects, a crystal card, a book on water magic, and some medicine to treat injuries.

Staring at Han Shuo oddly, Emily asked, “To think you would be such a brutal person as to destroy a feminine flower. How did this woman die in your hands?”

Turning the items over after taking them from Emily, Han Shuo put away the jade green space ring when he discovered there wasn’t anything valuable. He smiled, “A wanton woman betrayed me. I was so angry that I killed her. This is quite normal.”

“Pah! I don’t believe you!” Emily said.

“Alright, I have two more days before I need to report to the organization. I must hurry and leave the cemetery of death. You already know my identity and origins, so we can temporarily leave this place. Go about your business first, whether you are going to report to the Dark Mantle or the Academy first, I think it’ll be easy for me to find you. We should part ways here.” Han Shuo remembered that he had a ton of things to do and spoke to Emily.

“Alright, although you’re a dishonest brat, it is indeed easy for me to find you. I’ll ask you a final question, between Bryan and that weird name Han Shuo, which one should I call you by?” Emily asked.

“How about Han Shuo? This is the new name that the person who passed on the martial arts technique created for me. Call me that in the future!” Han Shuo thought for a moment and responded.

Nodding and saying nothing else, Han Shuo took Emily on a quick tour around the cemetery, and the two left via the transportation matrix amidst Emily’s repeated exclamations of surprise.