Chapter 538: Ancient Ruins, Ambushes, Assassins

"Your Excellency..."

Seeing that the soul catcher suddenly turned to ashes, Gauguin, who had always been silent, couldn't help but snort softly.

The coffin knight could see that the golden flame that killed the soul catcher actually came from the suspicious eyeball, so it can also be said that the soul catcher died at the hands of Moriarty on some kind of Cheng dΓΉ.

"Do you know what's going on in the West-Northwest direction?"

Ignoring Gauguin's call, Moriarty pondered for a moment and then suddenly asked rhetorically.

"I don't know."

The Coffin Knight was not a regular visitor to the Forest of Embers, so he could only shake his head.

"Then let's go."

Glancing at Gauguin again, Moriarty took the lead.

The coffin knight watched the other man's back, waited for a while, and then strode after him.

Out of the Rantes Valley, the skeleton warriors were already waiting in the distance.

However, when he saw that only Moriarty and Gauguin came out, but there was no soul catcher, the soul fire in the skeleton warrior's eyes couldn't help but jump.

"Your Excellency..."

It wasn't until Moriarty approached that the skeleton warrior slowly caught up, but cautiously, and he didn't want to speak.

"The Soul Catcher was attacked while searching for the target's breath, and he has completely died."

There's no meaning to hide, Moriarty said bluntly.

Hearing this, the skeleton warrior was stunned at first, and then hurriedly looked at the coffin knight, but saw that it was no different. But after gritting his teeth, the skeleton warrior calmed down again.

Anyway, the strength of the employer on the opposite side is mysterious, and then the Gauguin will help him, what do you really have to do, but I am afraid that the middle-level skeleton warrior can only wait for death, so it is not worth thinking about it.

"From the Rantes Valley, west-northwest up, is there anything or a special landmark?" Moriarty asked as he looked at the skeleton warrior.

"West by Northwest?" Suddenly I heard this question. The skeleton warrior was stunned for a moment, then immediately replied while thinking, "At the west-northwest end of the Ember Forest, there should be a huge desert connected to it. ”

"Desert?" Moriarty frowned.

"Yes, a dry sea of hundreds of miles. There was nothing in it, only the black sand and tornadoes that erupted from time to time. I heard that even the Extreme Path powerhouses were reluctant to come into contact with the terrible Black Sandstorm head-on. ”

"And what about outside the desert?" Moriarty continued.

"Far outside. It's just an endless ocean. However, the world of the ocean is completely different from the land, and I don't know what it looks like there. ”

Dejia is a typical continental country, and there is no access to the sea, so the undead naturally know very little about the sea.

However, after listening to the skeleton warrior's answer, his brow tightened.

"No, the Queen of Lies can't go deep into a barren desert, let alone go to sea inexplicably, that doesn't make any sense..."

I thought silently for a moment. Moriarty looked at the skeleton warrior again: "What is in the Black Forest, West by Northwest?" ”

"Is it inside the Forest of Embers?" The skeleton warrior lowered his head slightly, pondered for a while, and suddenly raised his head again and said, "In the west-northwest direction, about three hundred kilometers away from the Rantes Valley, there is a hidden ancient ruin. ”

"Hidden ancient ruins?" Hearing this, Moriarty's eyes immediately lit up: "What ruins?" ”

"It's a relic of an ancient elven empire, tens of thousands of years old. It's like the ruins of a city. There is also a temple in the center. Seeing that Moriarty was interested, the skeleton warrior immediately explained in detail: "Come on. This ancient ruin is also the only location in Dejia that is not affected by the forces of death. ”

"Unaffected by the forces of death?"

Hearing this, Moriarty was immediately stunned.

How can it be!? There is also an area in the realm of the necromancy that is immune to the power of death, which sounds like a fantasy. And if it is really true, once it is known by some "people with intentions", maybe it will be possible to use this wonderful fulcrum to do something to Dejia.

"Absolutely." Seeing that Moriarty seemed to be unconvinced, the skeleton warrior immediately said, "Once." The Holy Spirit Temple also thought about destroying all the ruins and the ancient temple in the middle, but for some reason it has not been successful, I heard that there are many strong people before and after, and even the extreme path has fallen. So, later the Holy Spirit Temple also extinguished its mind. It's over. It only warns all those in the know to keep a tight line about the ancient ruins, let alone reveal anything about the ruins to expel the forces of death. I also occasionally heard a senior talk about it, and I learned about it. ”

"So, what's in the ruins?"

Unexpectedly, I learned such a secret by chance, which can be regarded as "luck". Moriarty remained unmoved, and continued to ask.

"I didn't really go in and see it, I just heard that it was actually a large abandoned house, and there was nothing else left. may have been hollowed out by the ancestors long ago. The skeleton warrior shrugged regretfully.

"Yes. Then lead the way, let's go to the ancient ruins. ”

Intuitively, Moriarty was almost certain that the Queen of Lies was in that particular ruin.

Moreover, when he saw the special image in the eyes of the Chaotic Zombie Lord, he also had a faint desire, and he really wanted to find out what the Golden Flame Armor was.

"Yes."

Honestly, the skeleton warrior guided his employer and moved on to the next location.

The ancient ruins are about 300 kilometers from the Rantes Valley, which is almost the distance from the "end of the forest" to the valley. But the problem is that from Rantus to the ancient ruins, there is a medium-sized saltwater lake, which is said to have been formed by the impact of an extraterrestrial meteorite thousands of years ago.

So, if you can't fly straight over the lake, you can only choose to go around the shore of the lake to avoid the water bodies and some water nets along the way. Of course, if anyone wants to take a shortcut and cross the saltwater lake by boat, what awaits them will be endless wraiths and terrible whirlpools that will emerge at any time.

However, when Moriarty arrived at the shore of the saltwater lake, and was still enjoying the misty water view on the lake, he suddenly sensed that an extremely violent magic fluctuation inexplicably rose in the northwest distance, and then roared like a storm and swept away in all directions.

In an instant, a hurricane mixed with the smell of death and destruction had blown in front of the three of them.

At this time, Gauguin and the skeleton warriors reacted, and their expressions changed greatly. Even, the weak skeleton warrior couldn't stand the blowing of the magic storm, so he had to bow down and dodge.

"Your Excellency!?"

Although the coffin knight could barely stand, he was just as frightened. With an explosion of energy of this magnitude, and with an obvious smell of self-destruction, there seems to be only one answer.

"Another Great Necromancer, Down."

Moriarty looked up at the northwest, his expression was the same, but there was already black flame jumping in his eyes.

Sure enough, Senia Oren was there, and once again killed a Dejia Jidao, which was really arrogant.

"Huh!?"

But just as Moriarty pondered whether to let go of Gauguin and the skeleton warriors first, and rush to catch up with the Queen of Lies, suddenly, a faint throbbing slipped through his heart. At the same time, in his psychic sense, several hidden breaths inexplicably appeared in different locations near the saltwater lake, and then disappeared immediately.

Moriarty couldn't help but be wary of the masterpiece.

The next moment, it seemed that he could no longer shield the other party's perception, and he saw a special light wave flashing, and on the saltwater lake, a mist dissipated, revealing two floating figures standing side by side.

It turned out to be: the fourteenth-level Undead Saint-Order Priest and the fourteenth-level Blood Clan Marquis!

"Temple of the Holy Spirit!"

In an instant, Moriarty had already reacted: it turned out that like Senya Oren, he had become the target of hunting and strangulation.

A Holy Rank priest, a vampire marquis, obviously the Holy Spirit Temple had a premeditated plan, that is, to take advantage of this opportunity to besiege the Queen of Lies, cuddle the grass and beat the rabbit, and pull out the thorn in his side together. Moreover, in a secret battle like this, even if he is really attacked and killed, and the alliance suffers a big loss, there is no way to recover it openly through official channels. In addition to trying to save face from other aspects with the same idea, he can only be helpless for a while.

And the fact that the Holy Spirit Temple was able to ambush itself by the saltwater lake so accurately showed that there must also be hidden stakes from the Holy Spirit Temple within the alliance, and the level was not low. Otherwise, he was temporarily "caught" by the Lord of Amun, and it would be impossible for the Holy Spirit Temple to get the news so quickly, and to gather forces to lay out the siege and kill him.

What's more, when he entered the Forest of Embers, the other party had already tracked him up, all the way.

However, "just" a level fourteen undead priest and a level fourteen blood marquis are enough to guarantee a successful kill? You must know that in the "Death Match" in the Grand Arena, the Necromantic Saint Warrior and the Ghost Dragon Messenger were directly killed. Then why did the Holy Spirit Temple think that the same two fourteenth-level extreme paths could complete the assassination mission without fail?

Wrong!

At this thought, a sense of horror rose in Moriarty's heart.

Almost at the same moment, another petite figure suddenly flashed out from among the ghostly trees in the distance, shouting at the same time, "Be careful! ”

It turned out to be Claudia, the Earl of Blood, who had been wandering around for months looking for her "master".

However, Claudia's shout did not fall, and on Moriarty's side, a blurred light and shadow suddenly surfaced, silent and elusive, implying a sharp killing intent that could kill a qiΔ“. And its source is the skeleton warrior who bent down on the ground.

"Wraith Assassin!"

In an instant, Moriarty felt a sharp stab through his soul. But because they were so close, they couldn't dodge.

"Whew!"

For a moment, the blurred light and shadow seemed to condense, turning into a reluctant humanoid form.

At the same time, an illusory arm poked out of its body, but the tip was in the shape of a sharp blade, with a terrifying property that defied defenses, and in an instant, pierced Moriarty's robes and went straight into the target's soul. (To be continued......)