Chapter 42: Pursuit

"It sucks!"

Joyka accidentally made a loud noise, it was a boat capsized in the gutter, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have emergency measures.

He hurriedly took out 6 arrows from the quiver - these were not ordinary arrows, but incendiary arrows that had been treated with incendiary material on the arrows. Joyka fired the six arrows in six different directions at breakneck speed, and then immediately jumped off the bell tower.

The next bell after he jumped off the bell tower, several sharp arrows from the marksman hidden in the shadows were driven towards his hiding place.

At the same time, several arrows shot by Joika, after rubbing against buildings, stones, and other obstacles, smeared white scales on the surface of the arrow clusters, which have extremely low ignition points, were ignited, and also ignited the cotton wrapped in the arrow clusters and soaked in oil, causing six fires of small scale on the grass screens, windows, and in front of the gate.

The bell tower was more than 30 meters above the ground, and Joyka jumped down like this, unless he could fly, he was likely to get injured, so he tied a rope around his waist in advance, and finally caused his body to stop when it was less than 3 or 4 meters above the ground.

Joika cuts the rope and lands safely. By this time the presidential palace had exploded, and the bishop and the president had retreated into the main building under the protection of the elite presidential guards, while the large group of gendarmes guarding the perimeter were running and howling, fighting fires and tracking down intruders. Joyka, who had just landed, saw 6 or 7 gendarmes rushing in his direction, he did not panic, but relied on his gendarmerie uniform, pointed in one direction very calmly, and said to the gendarmes: "Ran over there." ”

"Chase!" the gendarmes ran toward him, and Joyka followed closely behind them.

At this time, Joyka knew that the biggest threat to him was the few sharpshooters hiding in the shadows, and if he was running alone, he would definitely become the target of those marksmen, but if he moved with a group of people, it would be difficult to distinguish.

Through the fire and chaos, Joyka discovers the hiding places of the marksmen one by one, and then clears them one by one, and finally succeeds in reaching the entrance to the sewers, and after eliminating half of the military police guarding the entrance to the sewers, she escapes from the heavily guarded presidential palace.

In addition to her own outstanding strength and experience, the floor plan of the presidential palace that Elizabeth gave him also helped a lot, but Joyka always felt that there were some things that were wrong, as if this was too smooth to escape, but like a pre-designed script.

Of course, Joyka, who was in a hurry to escape, didn't have much time to think. Having escaped from the presidential palace, he took off the uniform of the gendarmerie in a hidden corner and then fled the city before the order of the curfew spread throughout the city.

On the outskirts of the city, Joyka sat on a rock, looking at the distant city, which should have slept quietly in the middle of the night, into a tumultuous tumult. The army rushed out to search from house to house, and the griffons took off to patrol in circles, as if they were facing a great enemy. Now that Joyka was out of danger, he had plenty of time to think deeply about what had just happened.

"What the hell is going wrong?" Joyka asked herself.

What baffled him was not that he had been discovered, it was just an accident, that he cared about some deeper problems hidden beneath the surface. It seems that the actions I took from the beginning fell into a well-designed layout step by step.

While Joyka was deep in thought, a fellow accustomed to death was quietly approaching him from behind.

But this time she was not so lucky, and was pinched by Joika, who had been prepared.

"Ah...... Let go of me!I don't dare!" Beth cried as she struggled.

Joyka didn't take Bez into account when she escaped from the presidential palace and Monis, because he knew that no matter how dangerous the predicament, the little one would be able to escape on his own, which was the nature of their race, and at the same time, it was the nature of the little one to persistently play pranks.

"I ask you, didn't you let you accompany Sophia and the fat man?" Joika lifted Beth on one leg and brought her up in front of her, "Why are you here?"

"Hmph, I won't sue you. ”

Beth on her head and feet wrapped her hands around her eyes, looking angry.

"Ahh......h Ahh......h I don't dare!"

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The simple "torture" didn't last long, and the dead winged elf did everything. Joika was also taken aback, although he was mentally prepared for an enemy to attack Sophia and Cassius while they were separated, but he believed in Sophia's strength, so he was not too worried, but if it was true that the enemy who could push Sophia into a corner, as Beth said, was related to the necromancer, this fact did surprise Joika.

Of course, he didn't take the Winged Elf's word for it, so Joyka rode back to the Kuka Mountains overnight.

The qiē seen in front of her proved that Beth was not lying. But luckily, everyone was in danger, and Cassius was cured, which was a real bonus. Of course, Joika, like Sophia and Cassius, has no clue about the true identity and intentions of the self-proclaimed "coroner" Tony Nader.

However, it is useless to just think, and some things must be put into action.

"I don't think the assassins who poisoned the fat man were trying to kill the fat man, or to kill any of us, they just wanted to trick us into one place. So you can put things over there for a while. Joyka uttered his analysis, "But the necromancer and the Black Knight who attacked Sophia, they really want Sophia's life, and we can't just leave it alone, otherwise it will become a big scourge in the future." ”

"The Black Knight is also a necromancer's companion, and when I fought her, I felt the energy fluctuations of dark magic in her magic. Sophia spoke her mind.

"But why did those necromancers do this? The 'coroner' who saved my life is also a necromancer. What is the intention of attacking Sophia, detoxifying me, and then telling me to save Sophia?" Cassius scratched his head.

"I'm afraid there are two possibilities: if this is not a trap, it means that the necromancer who attacked Sophia and saved the fat man is not the same person at all. Didn't a necromancer who betrayed the Lich King come to the mainland last year?" Joeyka speculated.

"yes, we fought the rebellious necromancers. Sophia still remembers the fierce battle she had with the warden of the Hell, Boyos, and his men.

"If the opponent is targeting Sophia, this matter is urgent. In the end, Joyka came to his conclusion, "So, we have to find out who is behind that before they act again, and see what they are trying to do." ”

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In this way, the partners embarked on the road of tracking down the culprit.

I don't know if Joyka's tracking skills are too good, or if the "coroner" Tony left them enough clues along the way, and in just four days, the friends tracked down the last place where the "sudden death" Karen arrived - the scorched black forest in the territory of the Fayele Empire that was destroyed by war.

Unbeknownst to the friends, however, their every move is under the watchful eye of the Lich King Callowing.

Just before the friends are about to step into the battlefield, the Lich King himself releases Karen who is trapped by the "Demon Hitting the Wall".