Chapter 343: Section 235: Everyone is a bridge to happiness for each other (4)
The hunter and the hunted smiled as they descended, while on the other side, hunter and prey were on the ascent.
Ails walked in the corridor leading to the fourth floor; ahead of him, the remnants of the Lich’s forces were struggling in their death throes, but it was utterly useless. Ails had summoned his subordinates—Madame Aurelia Doman and her banshees were playing hide and seek in the stone walls on both sides with the opponent’s pitifully few wraiths, while Black Knight Morgan Dor was responsible for the attack up front.
Although Ails did not know why the Prairie Elf wanted him to hunt down the wizard, since he had received the elf’s deposit, he felt that he could not abandon the task halfway.
It wasn’t that Ails, as a bone Lich, lacked the courage to tear up a contract; if he hadn’t had such courage during the last collaboration, how could he have made a fortune?
The only problem was still the Prairie Elves; these little dwarfs of one meter twenty, although not particularly frightening to Ails unless they were of the same caliber as Kakalai, were diligent in hammering the undead. In the Multiverse, even devils liked to trade with them. And these one meter twenty creatures loved to stick together, and with a powerful entity like Nameless behind them, if you pick on the young ones, a bunch of old ones could leap out at any moment. Ails truly did not want these one meter twentys to keep him on their mind all day.
So, since there was a deal, it was better just to complete it honestly. Besides, Ails really liked that kind of crystal; strengthening his own possessions was never unwelcome. Next time Old Master Kakalai had something for him, he promised to run faster than a Hellhound.
Thinking of this, Ails was quite satisfied and ’smiled’—the soul’s whispers traveled through the corridors, and Ails didn’t mind if the twisted laughing and soul’s whispers were heard by the other side—after all, he was just mocking their doomed fate. As for living people... what a joke, he had never seen a living person here before.
But after some thought, Ails decided to let Madame Aurelia finish off her opponent and then lead her subordinates to scout upward.