Chapter 207: Encounter with the Shadow Church
The next day, in Bora City, Gila finds Twilight, and after seeing Demi's sigh with her own eyes, Twilight does not delay any longer, and soon leaves the city with Setis and the others.
"Lacey, let's part here!" After getting out of the confines of Bora City, Twilight looks around and says to the Harpy Lacey.
"Damn, I don't want to go yet!" Lacey pouted.
"You've been kidnapped for so long, your mother is probably in a hurry." Twilight laughs.
"Yes, but your human food is so delicious, I haven't eaten enough!" Lacey muffled.
"Are all foodies like that?
"Anyway, thank you for saving me this time, even though I hate humans." Eventually, the young harpy is separated from Twilight, and she must return to her mother.
"Don't get caught next time, and don't look for human males." Twilight said to the harpy banshee as she soared into the sky.
The response was a chirp from the Harpy.
After separating from the Harpy, Twilight and the others continue their journey to the Darren River, where they will arrive at the nearest dock tomorrow, which is the fork in the dock where they parked their boat, and because it is a countercurrent, they will not be able to enter Preto's territory until the third day.
While on the ship, Twilight counted the loot this time, and the harvest was unexpectedly large, the total number of gold coins and gold tickets alone exceeded 150,000 gold coins, most of which were obtained from the box of gold tickets that Jira found in the dark room, and then all kinds of high-grade looking luxury goods and magic items were almost packed into three small boxes, which was another income, and the total harvest this time would definitely exceed 200,000 gold coins, which was a windfall, and the most important thing was that Twilight found Demi's sigh.
On this day, as they were about to enter Preto's territory, and the terrain and the river had become a little calmer, Twilight suddenly looked at the forest on one side, and the same was true for Gila on the other side, and they both sensed that there was a battle going on there, and the strength of the fighting people was not low.
If the strength is low, they won't feel it, only the higher the strength, the greater and wider the aura emitted.
"Let the boatman drive the boat over, and we'll see." Twilight thinks for a moment and says that the reason why he wants to go is not because he is curious about the fight there, but because he senses that the fighting party is using the power of shadows, and the side of the couch is not allowed to snore, but this is near his territory, and since there is a shadow breath, Twilight must go and see what is going on.
Ordered by Twilight, the boat they were in slowly approached the shore, and when they came to the shallow water, the boat could no longer dock, and if it did dock, it would cause grounding, and then it would be troublesome.
Twilight knew this, of course, and jumped out of the river that drowned his waist before heading ashore, leaving Gila with the ship's three hundred Darkwings.
The battle wasn't too far from the shore, and Twilight and the others quickly approached the location of the battle, following the aura of the battle.
Twilight is taken aback when she sees both sides of the battle, only to see that three black-robed mages are besieging a man and a woman, both of whom are Twilight's acquaintances, and the man is Virio. Brooke, the female is none other than the witch Amalan.
At this time, it is a bit inappropriate to say that they are besieging a man and a woman, because the main target of the three black-robed mages is only Amalan, and the weak Virio. Brooke was able to protect himself because the three black-robed mages didn't want to kill him.
"It turned out to be three ninth-order, Jira, you go to deal with one, me and Setis deal with one, everyone approaches with me and attacks with all their might." Twilight said as she took down the royal barrier and the Blade of Vengeance behind her and walked out slowly, to say that strength was originally Twilight's strong point, after entering the seventh order, although he felt a little heavy with the Blade of Vengeance in one hand, it was no longer difficult.
"Oh, three big men besiege a girl, I can't stand this kind of thing, I will die for me." Twilight said arrogantly and rushed straight at a ninth-order mage.
For Twilight's uninvited guest, a shadow mage sends out a shadow arrow, which Twilight easily blocks with the royal barrier.
The Royal Barrier has a characteristic that can resist all low- and mid-level magic, so naturally it will not be afraid of a simple magic arrow.
At this time, Setis and the other Darkwing soldiers also followed, only to see the three hundred Darkwing soldiers directly pouring all the crossbow arrows in their hands towards the three mages, and the besieged Amaran on the other side couldn't help but have a flash of joy on her face when she saw Twilight, the bastard, she knew that her son was saved.
Flash!
In the face of hundreds of crossbow arrows, the three shadow mages used the mage's life-saving skill 'Flash' at the same time, and when they dodged the oncoming crossbow arrows, one of the three shadow mages had a tacit understanding to turn his head to contain Amalan, and the other two were ready to deal with Twilight and the three hundred troops who suddenly appeared.
Just when the two mages were brewing spells, they saw a black shadow suddenly appear on the side and quickly rush to the side of a mage, but the ninth-order mage is the ninth-order mage, after the black shadow appeared, he hurriedly withdrew the prepared spell, and shot a shadow arrow at the black shadow in his hand.
But the mage obviously underestimated the strength of this dark shadow, that is, Jira, and saw that Jira was running, and quickly dodged the oncoming shadow arrows, and then the blade flashed, and a thin arm was cut off.
"Ahh
The Shadow Mage let out a scream, seeing that Jira's dagger had stabbed into the Shadow Mage's head, when another ninth-order Shadow Mage attacked.
If Gila continues to attack, he will definitely hit this Shadow Arrow, and Gila has no choice but to dodge this Shadow Arrow first.
"Shortie, your opponent is here." At this time, Setis rushed up and pointed an axe at another ninth-order mage.
Setis's axe, just by listening to the sound of the waving wind, knew that it could not be resisted, and the mage wisely dodged it with a flash.
When the mage appeared in another direction ten meters away, he waved his hand and struck a spell at Setis, but Twilight helped to block it, and by this time the Darkwing Soldiers' crossbow arrows had been filled, and their arrows were concentrated on the mage who was fighting Twilight and Setis.
It's not that they don't want to help Jira, it's just that Jira is storming the mage with the broken arm, and the distance is too close for them to help, so they can only pour all the arrows at the mage master who just flashed away.
Because of the flashing spell that had just been cast, it was impossible to use it again at this time, and all of Twilight's opponents could only hold up their magic shields to resist three hundred crossbow arrows.
I saw a flicker of light on the dark magic shield, and when the shadow mage blocked all the crossbow arrows, Setis also came in front of him, and simply slashed through with an axe.
This round of attacks is particularly tacitly connected, so when Setis's axe is chopped down, the poor physique of the mage can't dodge it at all.
Syllable!
With a thud, the shield broke, and the shadow mage's body flew high and fell to the ground.
Soon, however, the shadow mage was back on his feet, and it seemed that Setis's axe had done him little harm, but he was now looking like a wolf.
"Die for me, fat pig." As he spoke, he saw the staff in the hand of the mage who had been slashed by Setis flashing with a dark blue light, and the next moment, a blue and green spell flew out from the staff.
"Be careful!" Sensing the extraordinariness of this single spell, Twilight reminded Setis, and he himself hurriedly ran in front of Setis, raised the royal barrier in his hand, and used all the shield strikes and shield counter-skills.
Bang!
The shield collided with the magic, and Twilight felt both hands shake, followed by a sense of pain, and he took a few steps back to stabilize his body.
The blow of the ninth-order mage just now Willy is definitely not inferior to the fire method's fire explosion technique, and the royal barrier can no longer completely offset this blow, if it is a normal person, he will definitely be injured just now, fortunately, Twilight's body is resistant to the power of shadows, after all, the power of desolation in his body is not general.
Having said all this, in fact, more than ten seconds have passed since Twilight and the others appeared, and after seeing Twilight block the magic attack for him, Setis killed the shadow mage a few meters away again without thinking.
After suffering a loss from Setis once, the shadow mage of course couldn't let Setis get closer, only to see him retreat and open the distance, and the magic in his hands began to brew.
"Shadow Sacrifice!"
With the shadow mage's whisper, a spell erupted from his hand three seconds later, and Twilight was too late to rush over, and there was nowhere to hide for Setis's size.
"Whew!" The Shadow Sacrifice smashed into Setis's chest, only to see Setis roar in pain and sit on the ground.
Before Setis's cry fell, another scream was heard, but it was Gila's opponent who had already fallen at her feet, and during the battle, the mage was indeed too afraid of the thief's agility class.
Seeing that one companion had died, and the other companion seemed to be in a bad situation, the shadow mage who attacked Amaran did not hesitate and immediately decided to retreat first, otherwise it would be a problem to run away for a while.
"If you're lucky, I'll leave your mother's life alive for a few more days, and I remember you, boy!" With such a harsh remark, the seemingly leading Shadow Mage retreats, and Twilight's opponent snorts and retreats.
"Anyone can say cruel things, don't run if you have a kind, and fight with grandpa for three hundred rounds!" Looking at the two ninth-order archmages retreating, Twilight jumped to her feet.
Listening to Twilight's clamour, the two dignified ninth-order archmages resisted the idea of going back and slaughtering Twilight, and entered the forest without looking back. As for Twilight's shouting, he wisely did not let his subordinates continue the pursuit, and he was still fighting with these two ninth-order archmages, and God knows how much his shadow troops would lose.
Watching the two disappear into the forest, Twilight hurriedly put away her arrogant expression and first checked Setis's wounds, only to see that the place where the shadow sacrifice of the shadow mage was concentrated, the armor was gone, and the flesh inside was even more flesh and blood, but fortunately, Dumb himself had a lot of magic resistance, otherwise the injury would have been more serious.
After making sure that Setis was not badly injured, Twilight hurriedly went back to Amaran and Virio. In front of Brooke.
"Sister Amalan, what are you making a fuss about!"
"Boy, I really answered your words, and we really sought refuge from you." Amaran said as she sat on the ground with a smile.
"No problem, I said a long time ago that Prito is always ready to welcome you." Twilight says happily.
"Then I'll hand over Virio to you, and the eldest sister won't go to you." Amaran coughed as she spoke, and her mouth began to bleed.
"Sister Amalan, who are you? You're hurt!" Seeing Amaran suddenly vomit blood, Twilight's originally smiling face slammed into her.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Virio on the side. Brooke's face also changed dramatically when he saw Amalan's situation.
Gently touching her son's head, Amalan lifted the place where her robe was blocking, only to see a large wrist-thick hole in her waist that was bleeding out.
"Child, mom can't protect you anymore, you have to learn to protect yourself in the future." Amaran spoke, and his breath began to be intermittent.
Virio. Brooke's tears are in her eyes, but Amalan's eyes are on Twilight, who is worried about her son.
Twilight read what Amaran was looking at and nodded at her, "Don't worry, Villio will be with me in the future, and he won't let the Shadow Church hurt him."
Twilight responds, and Amaran smiles, her eyes looking at the sky, the focus of her eyes fading.
"I saw the gloomy sky, I saw the painful wails of countless dead, I saw the burning Danamras, I saw the collapsed Fasom, and I saw the disintegration of the four kingdoms of mankind." With a vision of death or a prophecy of the future, Amaran finally closed his eyes.
Sighing softly, this is the third historical figure that Twilight is familiar with has died, if it weren't for Twilight's intervention, Virio, known as Little Brooke, would have died at the hands of his father and ended up becoming a great lich, while Amaran would not have died, but would have become a crazy old woman, but now that Amaran is dead, and Verio is still alive, is this karma?
Twilight thinks that if Amaran knew the end of her son's life, she would also want to trade her own death for her son's life, because this is motherhood, great motherhood!
After a moment, seeing that Virio had been holding Amaran and not letting go, Twilight patted him on the shoulder and said, "Virio, it's not safe here, the people of the Shadow Church may come back at any time, let's go back to Preto, we will bury the body of Sister Amaran in a place where you can often see it."
Hearing Twilight say that he wants to bury his mother, Virio slowly comes back to his senses, and he looks at Twilight before picking up Amalan's body and standing up.
Soon after, Twilight and the others return to the ship, and the ship starts again, and they arrive in the town of Snar in the evening, where Twilight helps Virio bury Amalan's body in the back garden of the room that Twilight had prepared for Virio, at Virio's request. (To be continued......)
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