Chapter 453: Volume 9: Phantom of the Ancient Castle - 10: Counterattack
Surprise, shock, tension, and fear successively flickered across the faces of the magicians, who were almost at a loss for what to do. They couldn’t fathom how their once-brilliant achievements could fail so suddenly, especially a few Magicians who were utterly baffled. However, it was the leading Mage who first realized that there could be only one reason for this result: a Magic Practitioner more powerful than themselves was hidden nearby!
Only now did they realize just how foolish it was to stand so unguarded in front of the soldiers, overconfident in their abilities, and the price of such foolishness was their lives.
Before the Mage’s Protective Shields could even take form, two dark figures shot out from the ranks of the Half-beast Warriors. Knight Spears, filled with fighting qi, tore through the sky with a strange whistling sound. Faint black energy enveloped the dark figures as the spears easily shattered the Protective Shields conjured from Magic Scrolls.
The Mages, totally unprepared for such a deadly encounter, had no Magic Scrolls ready that could withstand a blow from the Dark Knights. As the Knight Spear penetrated a Mage and drew blood in an eerily beautiful pattern of a rose blossoming in the air in front of his chest, it was only then that Commander of the Warrior Baron Haranto realized that his Mages had just been assassinated right before his very eyes.
The deaths of two companions bought the Chief Magician of this campaign time and opportunity, with the murderous intent and fighting qi bursting forth from the assassins almost splitting his soul with terror.
Facing the assassins in close-quarters combat, the Magician stood no chance, and it was almost a subconscious act of self-preservation that made him cast the Earth Escape Technique faster than he ever had. To merge with the earth as quickly as possible, the Magician almost spent all his magic power in one breath — perhaps the only explanation was that this was a flight for life, not a casual spar.
The earth magician who had summoned the Earth Elemental Giants and cast Hell Devourer vanished in the blink of an eye before his very eyes, causing Sault to feel somewhat annoyed as he used his Spiritual Sense to detect the mage’s escape route.