Chapter 5: The Hunt, the Void Fallen
Xuanwu Inner City, the core area.
A thousand-story tower leads straight to the sky, surrounded by countless small stone cities that surround the tower like a satellite.
At the top of this tower, a ripple-like barrier that radiates from it shrouds down, protecting the entire world inside the basalt wall, which is the main reason why the humans inside the basalt wall can not worry about the attack from the demonic beasts in the sky.
In one of the floating stone cities, a group of mages hastily assembled, waiting for their mission officer.
This team of mages is a team dedicated to hunting down the Void Fallen who appear everywhere.
The door of the stone city slowly opened, all the team members straightened up, and the entire hall was silent, except for the footsteps and conversations of their captain and the secretary beside them.
"Captain Glenn, this is a new mission notice."
The secretary, with short, ear-length hair, handed Glenn a file.
"New?"
Glenn took the file impatiently and glanced at it.
This can't be blamed for his bad attitude, the Void Hunting Team is mainly responsible for hunting the Void Fallen, but there are not always mission objectives that can be assigned to them, and if they are allowed to be idle, it will cause the people of the other magic groups to be dissatisfied, so they will also accept some other tasks.
But there will always be a day when tasks collide, like now.
A senior mage in the inner city was too impatient to seek merit when he comprehended the new method, and accidentally went mad and fell into the void, although there was already a team of mages who protected the city even if they arrived to stabilize the situation, but it was still up to him to solve the trouble, and more than half of the people in the group were assigned to other tasks, and now there was a new void fallen, and the manpower in the group immediately became nervous.
"The suburbs? It should be the adventurer who didn't have a long brain and wanted to die with the monster so he fell, Peter, this task is handed over to you, bring heather, Alyssa, and pick two more from the newcomer group, it should be enough. β
Glenn handed the papers to one of the team members who had just arrived, he didn't like to be late.
"Well, Captain... I'm here to take a leave of absence..."
Peter took the assignment, a little at a loss.
"Why?"
"Today is my girlfriend's birthday... I want to take a leave of absence because..."
Peter blushed: "Today I plan to propose." β
Glenn had a 'but so' look: "It's from the rookie group... Who's that? I forgot, but it's okay I'll be to your wedding in person. β
He patted Peter on the shoulder: "But now, I need you Peter, you are the vice captain of this group, I really can't worry about letting them go." β
Sticking out his tongue and licking his lips, Peter looked back at the waiting teammates.
"Okay."
"Thank you, brother, you can go and say sorry to her."
Glenn smiled, and then took the armor handed over by the secretary and put it on his body.
"I don't care, but you'd better be careful."
Glenn turned around, and Peter helped him tie the strap behind his back: "I remember that mage is at the level of a mentor, and his strength should be at the level of the secret law after falling, you must be careful." β
"Of course, after so many missions, when do you think I was injured?"
Peter grinned and looked at Glenn's shoulder: "Heather, Alyssa, bring your apprentice and wait for me at the second departure gate, I'll be right away." β
Peter's girlfriend, Monica, only recently joined the Void Hunting Group and is just an ordinary elementary school apprentice, but thanks to the presence of her boyfriend Peter, she can enjoy the benefits of a regular team member here, and she can also violate discipline a little.
As it was now, the classroom was talking about the characteristics of the Void Fallen, and she slipped out and leaned into Peter's arms.
"I'm sorry baby, but there's a surprise mission tonight."
Peter looked at Monica apologetically, gently stroking her silky blonde hair.
"Do you have to go? I don't want you to be in danger. β
Monica lowered her head and whispered.
"Then you really look down on those brutes, they can't even take a finger off my finger."
Quietly taking a small wooden box from his pocket, Peter hesitated for a moment, but still shoved it into Monica's hand.
"What is this?" Monica looked at the wooden box in her hand in surprise, although she already had a guess in her heart, she still hoped that Peter would say it himself.
"Right for you."
Monica gave Peter a deep look, then opened the wooden box, a red, round orb, which was the flame system method of red flame fire rain, with this orb she could learn and use this method. β
"It's... It's too expensive... I can't take it. β
Monica took a deep breath and closed the wooden box to slip it back.
"Don't worry, Monica, you listen to me when time runs out."
The two stopped, and they looked at each other affectionately.
"Monica, when I get back, I want you to be my wife."
Monica blushed.
β... Use the method instead of an engagement ring, you are a clever little ghost. β
Peter curled his lips and chuckled, "There will be at the wedding, but I would rather leave a mark on your soul that belongs only to me." β
Raising her hand and gently tapping Peter's shoulder, Monica smiled shyly and put the Dharma Gem in her pocket.
"Alright, go ahead, don't keep your team members waiting too long."
Peter didn't reply, just looked at her quietly, smiled and nodded.
"I'm back to class."
Monica pointed to the classroom door.
"Go ahead, just got back from the hospital, don't work too hard."
Watching Monica's figure disappear into the doorway, Peter chuckled and pinched the strands of Monica's hair that had been left on his shoulders and put it in his pocket.
When he turned around, he found that Shi Nan and Alyssa were standing behind him at some point, smiling at everything that had just happened, with their two little apprentices.
"That method instead of an engagement ring, you are really a little clever ghost~"
A big man in Shi Nan made a shy and twisted gesture in the shocked eyes of his apprentice, and gently slapped Alyssa on the shoulder.
Alyssa also cooperated with the shaking of heather's fist: "I want to leave my mark in your soul, baby." β
βOh my godοΌ Why didn't she tell me you guys were here. β
Peter clutched his head in collapse and looked at the four laughing people: "Don't you want a vacation?" β
"Okay, don't make a fuss."
Shi Nan put away the hippie smile just now, took out an arcane crystal from his pocket, and threw it to Peter: "This is the space leap gem that the captain just consumed mana to make, after all, it is quite far away." β
"Oh shit, I can just buy it if I want to use it, he's got a bad fight."
Peter took the gem and motioned for the four of them to lean over, saying that since it had been given, it was not necessary.
"The boss said it was his gift."
"That old fox, I don't accept this one."
Peter smiled and crushed the gem, and powerful arcane magic flowed out of it, enveloping the five people, and then the figures of the five disappeared into the corridor in an instant.
Abandoned city, where Li Mingyao killed the mother spider just now.
An arcane circle fell, revealing the figures of Peter Five.
Several boulders rose from the ground, forming a circle of barriers around the five people, although the arcane leap circle was extremely convenient, but after the jump, the spirit of the person would be temporarily disturbed and it would be difficult to move and cast spells, and the earth and stone talent method of heather could be immune to this sequelae, so he would always raise the stone wall as soon as possible to protect his teammates after the transfer.
The stone wall fell, and the five of them were already in a state of battle, but to their disappointment, there was no Void Fallen in front of them.
The unconscious Void Fallen will only reappear a little more and linger, and will not be able to lure it away unless a living creature appears in front of it.
"Alyssa, have any monsters been here?"
Alyssa walked over to a large tree on the side of the road and placed her hand gently on the trunk.
"Yes, but it's dead."
"What about the Void Fallen?"
"Dead too."
Peter was stunned: "Are you sure?" Can you tell me more about it? β
"A tree doesn't have that kind of intelligence at all."
Alyssa shrugged helplessly: "There are only a few keywords"
"Spider, kill, man, self."
"What's that?"
These words completely confused a few people, after all, these words are connected, and they can't get any useful information.
"Teacher, I've made a discovery here."
The voice of the Shi Nan apprentice sounded, attracting everyone's attention.
Following the heather apprentice to the place she had mentioned, several people saw the corpses of spiders and a young man lying in a pool of blood.
Peter stopped the heather who wanted to get closer, and walked over by himself.
"The wound pierced the heart, and he died."
Peter looked at the young man lying in a pool of blood, judging by his face, he should be an Asian before the merger of the continents.
Looking up, he said, "The mother spider colony, the mother is dead, it should be completely wiped out." β
"Boss, what should I do?"
"Alyssa, has anything ever left here?"
Alyssa shook her head, indicating that she didn't know.
Raising his foot and kicking away the stone under his feet, Peter's face was a little ugly, if the Void Fallen left, there would not even be a mark, and he would not even be able to write a report.
"It should be fine."
Shi Nan hesitated: "This place is more than a hundred kilometers away from the outer wall, even if it is led away, there is a chance that it will be done by demonic beasts, and even the Void Fallen will not last long in this wilderness." β
Peter glanced at the heather, and now could only hope that everything was as heather had said.
"Captain, there's news from headquarters."
"Again?"
Peter let out a low cry and took the teleportation crystal ball from Alyssa's apprentice.
"Mission No.: 024, how's it going?"
"Not so good." Peter pondered some words: "There is no information related to the Void Fallen around, and the initial suspicion is that they were led away by the surrounding demonic beasts. β
"I can't care so much now, Peter, now that you're closest to Black Mamba Street, there's a mentor-level Void Fallen, your team hurry over."
βWhatοΌ
The five of them looked at each other: "In a residential area?" β
There was no reply, just a video.
A blood-red humanoid creature stood on top of the ruins, the original human head replaced by a translucent, smooth crystal, a sharp sickle like a bull's horn hanging upside down, muscles like pieces of blood agitated and bullied, and the nails of the ten fingers grew into sharp claws. And on its back, several hideous, tentacle-like chains stretched out from the flesh and blood.
"It's not fun."
Peter put his hands in one hand, and the arcane surged, and began to carve an arcane circle under the feet of the five people.
Arcane Leap Circle.
"Vice, this is too energy-consuming!"
"Let the people of the city wait for death?"
Peter glared at Alyssa, who had just spoken, time was pressing, although there was still one Void Fallen here who was missing, but another Void Fallen was now their main target.
The circle was quickly carved, and a pale yellow light enveloped the five people, and the next moment, they had come to the streets of the Black Mamba.
The light cleared, and Peter was greeted by a smooth, egg-like head.
He seemed to hear the laughter of the Void Fallen in front of him.
"Heh..."
The Void Fallen raised his claws, his five fingers twisted and merged into a massive scythe, and slashed at Peter.
Peter was still in a state of confusion, and he didn't have time to make any dodge moves.
"Captain!"
Heather roared, and countless rolling stones flew to attach to him, turning into a pair of hardstone armor that stood in front of Peter.
Poofβ
The scythe easily pierced heather's body.
Void Effect: Ignores Defenses!
"Huh... Ha! β
The Void Fallen straightened up, and Heather's body hung from its scythe, and then the Void Fallen raised his other hand and stabbed Heather again.
The dripping blood instantly stained Peter's eyes red.
"No !!"
Peter roared, now that he had recovered from his vertigo, heather's death had been a huge blow to him.
"Arcane - Ring Stack Explosion!"
Several arcane rings appeared in Peter's palm, one layer after another, and then, Peter detonated the circle, and a powerful blast of energy shot through the ring towards the Void Fallen.
Each time you pass through an arcane ring, the power of the energy blast rises by one level.
The blast of energy pierced through the body of the Void Fallen, and the light dissipated, revealing a hole the size of a manhole cover.
The viscous blood dripped down, and the Void Fallen looked at Peter indifferently, and then, as if hearing something calling, the heather's blood flowed out of his body and merged into the body of the Void Fallen.
And the wound the size of the manhole cover also healed rapidly.
Bloodthirsty Scythe, Bloodthirsty: Devouring the blood of enemies to repair and strengthen itself.