Chapter 16: The Killer (1)
It was getting late, and the five of them were walking in a forest. The trees of this forest are completely dry, the brown trunks are full of cracks, so many trees that there is not even a single leaf. The land here is not as wet as a forest should be, but it is extremely dry, and there are not even a few insects in the soil, and even the most tenacious grass cannot grow here. To put it simply, this forest is like a dead forest, lifeless, lifeless, and even walking in it can be depressing. Countless dry branches stretched out into the sky, as if they were crying for help, but before they could call for help, they died helplessly, leaving only the cold corpse.
Snub Star learns from Don Juan that the name of this forest is the Forest of Sighs. More than a hundred years ago, there was an undead magician who reached the level of a god and mastered an army of tens of thousands of undead, causing great disasters. In the end, the dean of the Four Violet Academy intervened, united with the troops of the Orlan Empire, besieged the undead mage, and finally killed him, and the battlefield was in this Forest of Sighs.
In that battle, in order to hold back the undead legion of the undead magician, the Orlan Empire had nearly 50,000 elite soldiers, and the tens of thousands of dead who were awakened by the undead magic were buried here. It is said that at the end of that battle, the undead magician unleashed a god-level magic that drained all the vitality of this forest in an instant, and all the animals and plants in this land died in an instant, and the originally vibrant Tianyou Forest became such a lifeless place of death. After the war, tens of thousands of bones were left behind, and the burial of the bodies alone lasted for three months. It is said that in the years that followed, the sighs of the souls of the dead could still be heard in this dead forest, and it is for this reason that the Heavenly Bless Forest was renamed the Forest of Sighs. Although more than 100 years have passed and the souls of those who died have dissipated, people who come here still sigh unconsciously.
At this moment, walking in such a forest, thinking about what had happened here, Don Juan and the other four were all in a heavy mood, only Leng Luo Xing didn't care about these at all. He looked at the western sky, where the sun had almost completely set, leaving only the last rays of afterglow shining through the dead forest. The layers of shadows overlapped each other, making the Forest of Sighs look unusually gloomy, like a dark prison. Seeing that it was getting late, Snub Xing said lightly, "It seems that we are going to spend the night here." ”
"Spend the night here?" Don Juan was taken aback: "Are you sure?"
Snub nodded, "Do you still want to travel here at night?" ”
Hearing Snub Star's words, Ivy shuddered: "Don't, let's just spend the night here." "The atmosphere of this forest is a little weird, and she doesn't want to spend the night here.
"How do you divide the vigil?" asked Caroline.
"I'll keep a vigil tonight. ”
"You're going to stay all night?" Don Juan looked at the snub star in surprise: "How can there be such a thing?"
"One night?" said Ivy a little worriedly, "I'm afraid it's not going to be good." ”
Snub Star replied: "It's nothing for me not to sleep all night, and then it's okay to take turns keeping vigil." His voice was still cold, but at this moment, Ivy suddenly felt unusually calm.
"If that's the case, wouldn't it be nice to take turns keeping vigil tonight?" Don Juan looked at the snub star, his face full of doubt, why should he be special tonight?
"I have my reasons why I can't tell you. ”
After listening to Snub Star's answer, everyone was silent for a while, obviously not expecting Snub Star to answer like this, and the atmosphere stiffened suddenly. After a long time, Don Juan broke the silence with a haha: "In that case, then you should keep vigil tonight." We're taking advantage of it anyway, but you can't sleep through it. So saying, he walked towards a tree, sat down against the trunk, and closed his eyes. Seeing Don Juan like this, the others no longer snubbed the star vigil is entanglement, but dispersed, found a comfortable tree trunk to lean on, and began to rest.
When she closed her eyes, Caroline's heart was not at peace. Originally, after getting along with each other these days, she felt that she was already a little familiar with the cold star, but it wasn't until just now that she realized that for her, the cold star was still full of mysteries and mysteries everywhere. Enigmatic vindictiveness, enigmatic identity, enigmatic behavior...... At the moment, her mind was full of confusion about the cold star. Snub Star, who the hell are you?
Seeing that the four of them had entered a state of rest, Snub Star sat down not far from the four of them, and also closed his eyes. The moment he closed his eyes, a cold light flashed in his silver eyes in a direction in the Forest of Sighs.
In fact, since leaving Oran City, the spiritual power of the snub star has been completely dispersed. Generally speaking, the spiritual power of a strong person in the early stage of the Heaven level can only cover a range of more than ten meters around the body, and with the enhancement of spiritual power, the scope of spiritual power that can be explored is gradually expanding. If someone could see the spiritual power emitted by the Snubbing Star, they would be shocked to find that the Snubbing Star's spiritual power actually covered a radius of several kilometers, which was terrifying. It was precisely because of this that Snub Star discovered something unexpected to him.
After the five of them left the city, a figure followed them from a distance, and when they stopped to rest, the same person also stopped, staring at them from a distance. Obviously, this person is here for them, if he hadn't been using his mental power to probe the surroundings and find out in time, there would have been some trouble.
The reason why Snub Star didn't remind the others was because this person's strength had reached the middle of the Heaven Level, far better than any of the four people including Don Juan, even if he woke up Don Juan and them, in a special environment like the Sighing Forest, I am afraid it would be useless. The other point is that he doesn't know how to explain how he found this person, after all, once his true strength is exposed, it is likely to cause a lot of trouble.
That person sneaked quietly in the woods, as if he was one with the entire forest, if it wasn't deliberate, he wouldn't have been noticed at all, and obviously had extremely high skills in concealment. However, although this person can also release his spiritual power, his spiritual power is like the gap between a small pool and a lake compared to the spiritual power of the cold star, so he can't feel that he has been locked by the spiritual power of the cold star. Looking at this person's various behaviors, Snub Star can be sure that he is a killer, and he just doesn't know who he is here for.
As this person gradually approached them, a dagger suddenly appeared in his hand, which should have been taken out of the spatial ring. The dagger is pitch black, but the blade exudes a different kind of luster, which makes people feel its danger at a glance, and it is obviously coated with poison. After the man drew his dagger, he did not immediately approach, but suddenly activated the invisibility technique, hiding his traces, and quietly wandering around, instead of attacking immediately. In the other party's opinion, the strength of his side is far lower than that of the other party, even if it is a head-to-head game, it should be a sure victory, but the other party is still wandering here, and he should want to wait until his side relaxes before attacking, after all, now should be the time when the vigilance is the strongest. However, the other party was patient, but he didn't, because if he waited until the other party approached before acting, it would inevitably alarm Don Juan and them, so he had to take advantage of the fact that the other party was not too far away from them.
Snub Star thought silently in his heart, and then his figure disappeared, and an illusion identical to him took his place. The other party will be invisible, and the same will be true for the snub star, at this time, the snub star is the stealth technique and the phantom technique used at the same time, completing a golden cicada shelling, using the phantom to attract the attention of the other party, while he is hiding and quietly approaching the other party. It's easy to say, but the moment you use magic, there will be fluctuations, but this fluctuation is covered up by the cold star's powerful spiritual power. Strictly speaking, illusion is a general magic, and it can be used no matter what kind of magic power you have, whether it is fire magic or water magic. However, the shortcomings of the illusion technique are also obvious, that is, the illusion created is only a phantom, and there is no entity at all, so it is difficult to hide it from the ears and eyes of those who have a heart. However, Snub Star's illusion technique is very special, and the illusion created has his own aura, and it is almost unmistakable. It is precisely because of his special illusion technique that he will do this, otherwise it will be easy for the other party to find out that the abnormality is abnormal. And the stealth technique, unlike the phantom technique, belongs to the category of magic, as long as there is a certain amount of spiritual power, it can be activated with the energy in the body, so even a martial artist can use it. Of course, stealth is difficult to master, and unless it is specialized in research, it is impossible to remain invisible while moving, like such a killer.
Under the cover of stealth techniques, Snub Star quietly approached the direction where the other party was, but to his surprise, the other party's movement speed was not fast, just close to the speed of a normal eighth-level martial artist, so Snub Star easily approached the killer's position.
When he was about twenty steps away from the other party, a silver light flashed in the eyes of the snub star, and at this moment, a beam of silver light suddenly appeared, like the starlight emitted by the stars, completely enveloping the killer's body. The opponent's invisibility technique was broken when Starlight appeared, and the killer's body appeared in the night, bound by this starlight, completely unable to move.