On a gloomy hilltop, there is a huge throne made of bones, and on the throne is sitting cross-legged, a man in a wide black robe and a black iron mask, and next to the throne, around the countless ghost fires, phosphorescent thrones, on the ground on both sides of the throne are carved six stone statues of unknown flying creatures 15 meters high

In the distance, a figure walked in the direction of the throne of bones, only to see him walk to the throne and respectfully kneel down on one knee to the man on the throne

Vladimir: Are your injuries healed, the man on the throne asked coldly, and it sounded like a man's voice, but it was as cold as an ice cellar

Thank you, master, if it weren't for your great power invading the light magic in my body, it would not have been cleaned up so quickly, and that person was the necromancer who escaped in front of Sophia not long ago

I'm more concerned about the young girl you said, the mysterious man on the priest's throne, whom Vladimir calls his master, said that a little girl can hurt you like this, and it seems that our plan to enter the mainland may be greatly resisted

For the sake of the great ideals of the master, we will definitely sweep away all resistance, Vladimir said

Well, the mystery man nodded, Vladimir, you are the most loyal of all the servants, and now I will give you even greater power

After saying that, a magic wand rose from behind the throne of bones, this magic wand was no different from Vladimir's original one, except that there were three skulls inlaid on the top, and six hollow eye frames glowed green, blue, and red in three directions, respectively, and I saw the magic wand slowly fall into Vladimir's hand

Master, this is - Vladimir exuded a look of great joy as he felt a powerful magical energy flowing from the magic wand

The owner of these three skulls is the same as the skull on your original staff, and they were all top-level necromancers in life, but when you actually use them, you will find that its power is not only increased to three times, and the mysterious man explains the function of that staff to Vladimir

Thanks to my master, Vladimir turned over and looked at the magic wand like a treasure, and with it I could take revenge on Sophia

Sophia

It was the name of the teenage pastor

The name has a familiar feel to the mysterious man who fell into deep thought

Yes, I also investigated - Vladimir explained to the mysterious man: the princess of the Pole Kingdom, also called 'Sophia', who disappeared eleven years ago, has many similarities between them, such as the same age and blonde hair, which makes people have to pay attention

You still investigate very carefully, is Vladimir so desperate for revenge?

Yes, master, she not only destroyed my staff, but also wiped out the army of resentful spirits that I had worked so hard to collect for so many years, and I must take revenge on Vladimir, gritting my teeth

I know you're angry, but you don't have to worry about the pastoress

Why is Vladimir in a hurry to ask

Having left this matter to Latik to solve, I am sure that Latik will definitely do a good job

But...... Vladimir still wants to fight again

Needless to say, the Vladimir Mystery, in an unquestionable tone, says that now there are more important tasks for you to do

An unknown grove in the southwestern part of the Fayer Empire

Cassius, the mage of the Five Rings, drove the carriage day and night, and he entered the woods following the clues left to him by the water elemental, and the carriage galloped through the forest paths

It must have been nearby, Cassius looked around, as if looking for something, when the purple hedron under Cassius' neck flashed

Suddenly, a dagger flew out of the bushes on the left, and swooped down on Cassius on the carriage, but the dagger stopped in mid-air, and just where the dagger stopped, the air rippled like a pebble being thrown into a calm lake, creating a circle of water ripples and spreading outward, forming layers of ripples, and then the dagger fell to the ground

Phew~~~~ Cassius reined in the reins, and the carriage stopped on the forest path

It's useless, I've laid a wall around the carriage with water elements that is invisible to the naked eye, your dagger doesn't work, Cassius said

Dead fat man, stinky fat pig, a short-haired girl scolded, jumped out of the bushes on the left, she pointed at the young mage with her only remaining dagger, her face was flushed with anger, and she chased Miss Ben all the way from Xiluo Fei to Fayeru, what the hell do you want

You should know exactly what I'm going to think, as long as you are honest

What do you want me to confess, the girl grabbed the blue spar pendant under her neck with her other hand that was not holding a dagger, and I have said it hundreds of times, this pendant I have been wearing since I was a child, and it was not stolen from your friend at all, and I have never seen your friend

Are you so dishonest Cassius shook his head and said

A big man chasing a little girl all over the continent all day long, who is not honest, you hurt Miss Ben Isn't it enough, I worked hard with my companions for many years to create the thieves' guild was destroyed by you, my companions were all arrested, but I couldn't get it on you, even a coin girl, the girl is desperately protecting the blue spar pendant, and now you actually have the idea of my pendant to tell you, this is the only clue related to my eldest lady's life experience, I will never hand it over to you

It seems that he has no choice but to use force, and Cassius's magic wand is constantly gathering white frozen magical energy

Come on, who is afraid of you, the girl turned the dagger sideways and made a posture of preparing to pounce, she had already calculated, once the fat man cast an attack spell on her, he would have to temporarily remove the water elemental barrier between the two, and then he could take advantage of the opportunity of less than a second before the defense was lifted to stab the dagger into his heart

The duel between the mage and the thief did not go as planned, as a cry for help interrupted the confrontation

Help, there was a rush of men and women in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves was chaotic, and I saw a horse galloping in their direction, and a family of three was on horseback: the middle-aged man who was sitting in front of the horse, the young woman who was in charge of driving the horse, the young woman who was holding the child in his arms, and the little girl of about four or five years old in the young woman's hand, when the middle-aged man saw someone in front of him, his eyes were like a man in the water, and he saw a life-saving straw, and the horse was dying, as if urging the horse to rush towards Cassius and the girl

The horse looked like it had collapsed, and as she ran, she foamed at the mouth, and at last twenty meters away from Cassius and the maiden, the horse stumbled and the family of three all fell to the ground, and the man broke her head and bled out, and the young woman broke one of her feet, but she used her arms to protect her daughter in her arms—all of which happened in a matter of seconds

However, it was at this moment that a shadow rushed down from behind and rushed to the ground for a family of three, and in less than a second or two it rushed to them, the man rolled over and blocked the shadow with his own body, only to hear the man's sound of blood splashing, and the young woman dragged her broken foot under the cover of her husband, and the young woman crawled with difficulty in the direction of Cassius and the maiden

At this time, Cassius and the girl realized that the shadow was actually eight ghouls, six of whom were frantically devouring the man's corpse, and the other two ghouls, who could not squeeze in to eat, pounced on the young woman who was crawling on the ground

A stream of frozen energy and a dagger arrived at the same time, shooting at the two ghouls, one frozen into an ice sculpture, and the other ghoul with one foot pierced by the dagger, losing his center of gravity and collapsing to the ground

Cassius and the maiden come to the rescue at the same time

Please, save my daughter, and the young woman reached out to Cassius and the maiden for help

However, as soon as she finished speaking, the other ghouls, who had found their companion down, gave up devouring the man's corpse and quickly rushed to the young woman's back, and the flesh behind the young woman's back was torn apart by the ghoul's claws

Hurry up and save the child, Cassius shouted to the girl, although they were still enemies just now, but in order to save the child, he couldn't care so much, because the place where the young woman and the child fell was more than twenty meters away from him, and as a mage, his body and running speed were far from enough, so now only the agile thief could do this

Without saying a word, the girl picked up the dagger on the ground and rushed forward, Cassius quickly chanted a spell, casting two spells in succession: ice hockey that pounced on the ghouls behind her, and frost armor that blessed the girl

The two ghouls who rushed to the front were directly frozen by the ice ball, and the four ghouls in the back continued to pounce forward with teeth and claws, and the girl rushed to the ghouls, staggered the attack of one ghoul at the same time, and flipped the dagger in her hand with her backhand, and one of the claws of the ghoul who attacked her just now fell to the ground

The girl dodged and moved nimbly among the four ghouls, and the dagger in her hand danced incessantly, and her choice of targets was quite subtle, she did not attack the ghouls' torso ineffectively, and the dagger cut at the joints of the limbs at each time

Suddenly, the girl felt that her right leg could not move, and when she looked down, she saw that her right leg was being held by a ghoul, and one of the ghouls' feet was stuck in it, and another dagger thrown by the girl was stuck in it

Oops, seeing that her movement was restricted, the girl was shocked, and then two ghouls on the left and one on the right waved their claws at her, and the girl turned her right hand to cut off the claws of the ghoul that attacked her from the right, but she could not defend against the ghoul on the left, and saw that the sharp claws were about to cut into her delicate flesh

Before the claw was about to stab into the girl's body, it seemed to be blocked by an invisible layer of armor, and the ghoul's claws were instantly frozen, when an ice vertebrae pierced the ghoul's body, and the rapid force carried it off the ground and nailed it directly to a tree, at this time the girl noticed that the ghoul holding her right leg was also frozen into ice claws

Don't worry about getting hurt, I cast 'Frost Armor' on you, get the child out quickly, Cassius shouted in the distance

The girl flew up and kicked the ghoul on the ground, and the ghoul's head rolled into the grass like a ball, but even the ghoul who had lost his head was still able to move, and it held on to the girl's right leg

Cassius snapped her fingers, the ghoul became fragile due to the ice, the two claws broke instantly, the girl was able to get rid of the entanglement, and she regained her flexible mobility, she rolled on the spot, pulled out another dagger stuck in the ghoul's foot, and the girl relied on the rolling castration of the two daggers to open the bow left and right, and the two ghouls standing in her rolling path each had one foot cut off, and the girl turned over the bloody body of the young woman and picked up the girl who was protected by her mother with her body

Cassius, who was almost in the distance, shouted

After successfully rescuing the girl, the girl spread her feet and ran towards Cassius's carriage, and the only one of the eight ghouls who was still able to move jumped high and stabbed the girl in the back from the air with a sharp claw, but the ghoul in mid-air also became a living target because it was unsheltered, and a wave of frozen energy accurately hit the ghoul that was frozen into ice sculptures in mid-air, and fell to the ground and shattered

After rushing into the carriage, the girl put the girl on the board, and saw that the poor child was still terrified

It's so dangerous, and after successfully escaping, the girl wiped a handful of sweat

Don't be happy too early for you to see

The girl looked in the direction that Cassius was pointing, and saw that the four ghouls, who had not been completely shattered by the freezing, were frantically eating the bodies of the two couples, and the ghoul whose head was kicked off by the girl was also around the corpse, it wanted to participate in the dinner, but it couldn't eat the mouthparts of its head, and it could not eat it, only brains, blood, internal organs, minced meat, and all kinds of human tissues flew around...... The girl felt a wave of nausea and retched in the carriage

The part of the ghoul that was cut off by the girl due to the fate of eating the corpse is gradually being reborn

Oh my God, the girl cried out in surprise

There are many more in the vicinity, Cassius said with a wry smile

At the same time, there was a rustling sound in the nearby bushes, and countless ghouls were making their way through the woods towards the carriage

Looking at the hundreds of ghouls surrounding her, the girl asked blankly: What to do now

What to do, what to do, years of survival training in the wilderness, Cassius made the right decision, only to see him shout, ignoring the ghouls, driving the carriage forward, the mage was single-minded, driving the carriage while chanting a spell, summoning four ice walls around the carriage

The rest is up to you, this is Cassius's last word of advice to the maiden before driving the carriage

Since Cassius had to juggle driving the carriage, he couldn't concentrate on casting spells as usual, and there were many loopholes in the ice wall, and most of the ghouls crashed into the ice wall along the way, and a small number of them broke through the ice wall and jumped onto the carriage, but they were quickly beaten down by the girl wielding the double dagger, which also protected the girl's safety......

An hour later, the carriage had reached the creek far from the woods, and they had left the horde of ghouls far behind

The frightened girl had fallen asleep in the carriage, and Cassius handed her a handkerchief washed in a stream, who took it and tried to wipe her dusty, slightly wolfish face

The thief didn't expect to fight alongside you, Cassius said

No, I didn't expect it to be—the girl replied that the hostility between them had eased somewhat, and that stop calling me 'thief', my name was Frey.