Chapter 288 Goal – Keno (6)
Looking at the terrifying purple-robed mage Chen Kai in front of them, they could imagine how terrifying the most powerful combat power among the ancient mages was, when this mage appeared in front of Chen Kai and them. Everyone's breathing felt sluggish, and the coercion generated by the terrifying magic seemed to press Chen Kai and them to their knees.
However, for now, the purple-robed mage's focus was not on Chen Kai and them, so they were able to continue to stand up straight, and it wasn't until the purple-robed mage opened a spatial door and left that everyone's iron-clad faces recovered slightly.
When Chen Kai and the others looked depressed, they didn't know how angry and unwilling they were when Master Kino crawled out of the mud-covered grave three days ago. Originally, he was extremely powerful, and he possessed almost the strength and magic power of a demigod, but now his strength had fallen to less than the seventh order. If it weren't for the fact that his own body belonged to a half-human and half-corpse with a certain memory, maybe his strength would have fallen even more, because his soul would be incomplete if he was missing now. In this case, it is fortunate that he is a necromancer, and if he were a different professional, he would have become an idiot or a fool long ago.
After crawling out of the grave, Kino didn't dare to stay at all, and quickly left Teramis, relying on the various spell scrolls he had obtained, and fled frantically. The most important thing is that he didn't dare to go south, so he could only leave in the direction where the demon elves, that is, Negrim, and others had fled. Because he knows how high the bounty is in the Human Empire and the Elven Empire, in the past, he had great strength to save his life, but now let alone the Human Empire and the Elven Empire, if the Dark Council's 'own people' knew that their state was not good, they would also attack him.
To put it bluntly, the so-called allies are a group of hungry wolves who will pounce on them at any time when they are weak, and Keno knows the temperament of his allies very well. Now he is in a state not to mention against those members of the parliament, and he can't even beat the small soldiers sent by the other party. So he had to flee to the more barren and pristine northern forest, and such a direction was undoubtedly dangerous, but he couldn't help it.
He chose to follow the direction of the demon's escape, partly for safety, but on the other hand, he had no intention of reclaiming that part of his soul. Although he knew that this was not very likely, now he could only hope that this low idea would save his life. However, he knew that it would be difficult to reclaim his soul under the eyes of dozens of ancient necromancers, not to mention that he couldn't sense his soul at all now, and even if he was close to Sagronzo, the end might be tragic. Therefore, Kino must recover a little bit of strength before he can go to trouble the ancient mages. Of course, maybe he doesn't have that hope in his life.
The huge difference in strength made Keno run away with his head down except anger and unwillingness, and after using dozens of spell scrolls, poor Keno mage began to slowly stop and rest. Those potions that were originally used to restore the soul and slash the soul to cause damage were now used to cultivate his soul fragments into real souls, and Archmage Kino had no other thoughts about this change than to feel that the providence was making people.
Hundreds of ordinary people's souls can only condense a drop of the recovery elixir, so Master Keno swallowed an entire bottle, you must know that this potion is his lifelong collection, and the soul in it is enough to condense the amount of tens of thousands of ordinary people. Although he is a necromancer, he may not be able to collect many souls after so many years of hiding in Tibet, and once ordinary people die, the souls either dissipate or go directly to the underworld, and if you want to obtain it, you need to set up a huge magic array to collect a little bit by luck. So many years of collecting can only make Kino's soul complete from fragments, and it is also the lowest kind of soul strength that wants to grow to the strength of the soul that is almost a demigod in the past, it will take him countless years, and most importantly, he can't fail once. Because if he fails, the result is complete destruction. There is no possibility of reversing the book, after all, he only has such a bottle of this kind of soul-restoring elixir, and he only has such a bottle. If there were many such potions, then he would have been frantically chased to death.
Some people go missing every year, maybe no one cares, but if thousands of people disappear every day, then he can't hide at all. Not to mention that the country of the main material plane wants to arrest him, even the gods will trouble him, because he is destroying the foundation of the belief in the gods. After recovering his soul, Master Keno began to act again, for he did not know how long he could hide. Once the ancient mages find out that they are not dead, they will never let themselves escape alive. So he had to leave as much as he could.
Luckily, the Undead Master, who specializes in escape, has a large number of spell scrolls, a large number of which are unusable for teleportation, but the rest of the Flying and Windwalking scrolls are usable. So Chen Kai relied on these scrolls to start his escape journey again, while Chen Kai and the others were digging his grave. The undead master, who specializes in escaping for his life, is already more than a thousand kilometers away. In just three days, he ran thousands of kilometers for his life, and Master Keno's escape was powerful in itself.
So when the purple-robed mage found out that Kino was not dead and returned to the black tower to track the other party with a tracking spell, he was shocked to find that the other party was not slower than those demons, and he ran thousands of kilometers in just over three days. Such a distance is a bit difficult for even the ancient mages to deal with. Because the distance is so far that these ancient mages have a feeling that they are beyond the reach of the whip.
"Damn it! Why didn't those necromancers find out, this is an insult to our ancient mage clan, Keno must die!! Several purple-robed mages were extremely annoyed. The previous demon's behavior was a slap that made all the purple-robed mages feel pain now, and although Kino's actions were just to save his life, his behavior of trying to hide from the ancient mages was rebellious. Letting a discovered rebel escape alive is also a slap in the face. In fact, Mana Shadow Song's previous escape from the dungeon was also a slap in the face, which is why she was tortured so badly. However, fortunately, Mana Shadow Song only escaped, and because of the existence of the elves, the ancient mages punished Mana Shadow Song and did not turn her into a shell of Nier Shadow Song to be used as an experimental quality control, and the demon elf master Elizat was used.
But for Keno, a guy who dares to challenge the bottom line of the ancient mages, these purple-robed mages will definitely not let him go, and if he just escapes from the black tower and doesn't do anything else, the ancient mages will also let him go. But he has mastered the runes of the ancient mages, although it is only the basics, it is also something that cannot be spread out at will, and at the same time, these purple-robed mages also checked those war puppets through the previous Kino tried to control the behavior of Zagronzor. As a result, it was found that many war puppets were passive, and this act of lowering their own noses was a blatant contempt for the ancient mages, so in the eyes of the purple-robed mages, Kino must die.
It's just that the ancient mages couldn't go after Keno on their own. Because if they needed to hunt down an undead who had been deprived of most of their powers, these purple-robed mages would be too cheap. The most important thing is that Chen Kai's behavior of digging Keno's grave made these purple-robed mages find themselves as if they had found a group of free thugs, for Chen Kai and them, they had just returned to the camp and their faces were gloomy, and they didn't know what they were looking at by the ancient mages.
Chen Kai, who returned to the camp, told Romans the news that the tomb was empty, and Romans, who had just been excited not long ago, was directly stunned when he heard the news, he couldn't imagine that the necromancer Kino, who was killed in the mouth of the ancient mage, was not dead. He came to life like a tenacious little strongman, and fled under the eyes of the ancient mage.
For this situation, Chen Kai and the others had to admire the strength of the other party, in addition to sighing at Master Keno's incomparable vitality and calculation ability. It took a lot of luck to be able to escape from the eyes of the ancient mage, and luck is undoubtedly part of the strength.
It's just that for the escape of the undead master Keno, Chen Kai, in addition to admiring them, another thought is that they are depressed, and Romans is also very depressed. Originally, he thought that he could pay tribute to the tens of thousands of souls of Nalolaner Illit. Although the other party did not die in his own hands, he was also dead anyway, but now the reality gave him a slap in the face, which made him sigh helplessly. It's just helpless, and the only good news now is that the necromancer Keno no longer has the protection of the ancient mage, and for them, even if they hunt down and kill each other in the future, they don't have to worry about offending the ancient mage.
But for them, the problem in front of them is that Keno has been resurrected for several days, and with his ability, he must have escaped far, far away. Romans had searched for a lot of information about the necromancer Keno before, and since he was first hunted down hundreds of years ago, this necromancer's escape ability was top-notch, even more powerful than the hung black bow Balbat. The most important thing is that in addition to escaping, his ability to hide himself is also first-class, basically every time if he doesn't jump out by himself, everyone will only think that he is dead or missing, and he can't take the initiative to find the other party at all. So Romans had a very bad premonition. This time, maybe they really won't be able to find Keno and get revenge.
Thinking of this, Romans could not help but sigh again, but soon he heard something and then lifted the curtain of the tent and walked out. As Romance adjusted to the setting sun shining from the west, the first thing he saw was several ancient mages wearing bronze robes, and there was also an ancient mage wearing silver robes among them, and Chen Kai was looking at the scroll in his hand with a wry smile.
"What's wrong?" Romance didn't know what was going on. But he sensed from Chen Kai's face that maybe it wasn't a good thing, and as he expected, it was definitely not a good thing for Chen Kai. Because these ancient mages were going to make them thugs, if only that, the problem was that these ancient mages asked them to hunt down Keno and go deep into the northern forests.
If it was just chasing Keno, Chen Kai would definitely raise his hands in approval, but going deep into the northern forest would make him stunned. Because it was a place where even an adventure group composed of the powerhouses of the Sanctuary could sink into the sand. For all the powerhouses of the Sanctuary Realm, the locations of their adventures have basically shifted from the interior of each empire to the outside of the human empire, and these places naturally include the primeval forest in the north of the elven empire, and this is also the place where all elf powerhouses haunt the most. However, they are limited to a range of a few hundred kilometers, and it is very dangerous to go any further. Just thinking about what monsters were in the area north of the Zela Fortress in the north of the Hansting Empire, Chen Kai felt that his little heart was starting to be insufficient.
"Lord Romans!" Chen Kai sighed helplessly and then handed over the task scroll to the other party, he knew that the elven knight in front of him would definitely choose to go on the road with him, if nothing else, just to hunt down Keno, this romance would definitely not let Chen Kai and the others go to the north alone. However, pulling the elves to set off together is also Chen Kai's way to save their lives, after all, the danger of the Northern Forest is too high.
"I'll think about it!" What Chen Kai didn't expect was that Roman didn't directly nod in agreement, because he also sensed the danger in the northern forest. In fact, the situation in the Denzel Forest has washed away the blood of these elven knights, and although Romans still wants to avenge the tens of thousands of Lorraine Illit residents who were killed by Kino, this hatred is not as strong as it was at the beginning. Above all, Romans needs to consider the safety of the elven knights who follow him. Although all the elves had already put life and death on the line when they rushed into the Denzel Forest, no one wanted to die if they could not die.
Looking at the elf knights who slowly disappeared into the tent, Chen Kai showed a wry smile, it seemed that he couldn't count on these elf knights. Fortunately, the ancient mages would not let him wander around the forest like a blind man, a crystal that could guide Keno was Chen Kai's best guide in the northern forest, and another crystal that could guide the location of Terramis was a guarantee for them to return home. Of course, in order to let Chen Kai and them go on the road with peace of mind, these ancient mages also took out some materials to exchange with Chen Kai and them, and the most important thing is that these ancient mages received gold coins for the first time. It's just that this price is black, which makes Chen Kai a little painful, but there is no way, even if it is black, he still needs to buy it, and if he doesn't buy it, it is impossible to find the necromancer Keno alive.
In fact, Chen Kai: They can refuse. After all, it was none of their business that Kino killed the elves, and it was none of their business that he slapped the ancient mage in the face. However, these ancient mages took out the temptation that Chen Kai couldn't refuse, and looking at the glittering ancient rune literature and ancient magic guide books in the task scroll, Chen Kai knew that Xu Fei and they couldn't refuse this kind of reward at all. In fact, not only Xu Fei could not refuse, but as long as the caster could not refuse this kind of task reward. So although they knew that the forests in the north were dangerous, Chen Kai and the others still chose to nod their heads in agreement.
After choosing to agree, Chen Kai and the others naturally began to organize things, and until they embarked on the journey, Chen Kai did not see Romans appear. The original stunner was now the only players left, along with a dozen or so Black Dwarves and Alyssa. This kind of strength was a bit unsightly in the eyes of these ancient mages, because they originally thought that those elves would set off with Chen Kai and them. But I didn't expect Romans to agree. Looking at Chen Kai's humble strength, the silver mage who was responsible for guiding Chen Kai and the others frowned, and then instructed the bronze mages around him a few words. With the reluctance of these bronze mages, they took out more than a dozen spell scrolls and threw them into Chen Kai's arms.
"This is—" looked at the spell scroll that showed a level of at least eight ranks. Chen Kai felt a burst of surprise. For Chen Kai, these scrolls are definitely an accident, because each of these scrolls is worth 10,000 gold, and it can even be said that it is difficult to buy it if you want to. The most important thing is that these scrolls are all powerful spell scrolls, three dissociation techniques. Two Cleavage Spells, four Ice Storms, and three Thunderstorm spell scrolls are a total of twelve spell scrolls, and even if these scrolls are only half as powerful as the original, they are enough to smash dozens of monsters under the Sanctuary alive. On top of that, the scrolls were made using ancient magic and rune techniques. So it's not half as powerful as the original, but almost four-fifths. Such a spell scroll is definitely a rarity, although it is not high-level, but it is an extremely precious life-saving item even for the ancient mages, that is, those bronze mages.
In fact, if those elven mages were involved, this silver mage would never let those bronze mages take out such a precious scroll. But looking at Chen Kai's humble strength, in order to allow Chen Kai and them to hunt down the Keno Silver Mage, he used his power to serve Chen Kai and them for a while.
"Remember that these scrolls are only on temporary loan to you, and if you don't kill Kino, then be prepared to work for the ancient mage for the rest of your life to pay off your debts!" Looking at Chen Kai's surprised expression, this silver-robed mage directly turned his surprise into astonishment with one sentence.
"Can I not do with that?" Chen Kai didn't want to be an ancient mage's thug for the rest of his life, this was too unfortunate. However, after his words came out, the silver-robed mage smiled a little, and then directly used a sentence to make Chen Kai understand that he had no way to object.
"What do you say?" With only three words, Chen Kai was directly speechless, and slowly stuffed the scroll into Xu Fei's arms. As for whether he will admit it in the future, Chen Kai thinks that this possibility is not high, because these ancient mages obviously have their own means to confirm the whereabouts of the scroll and whether it has been used, and at the same time, thinking of Kino's fate, Chen Kai does not want to be used by those ancient mages to issue tasks. (To be continued......)