"Hey, what's going on now......"

I was a little overwhelmed by a series of events, whether it was the dark bear that was more than twenty yards tall or the inexplicable puppet Sojath...... No, it should be Kane now, but what surprised Alan more than the two was the strangeness of his best friend.

"...... on Soth"

"What are those black flames?"

Lisa whispered to Lyreira.

"It's a very dark aura...... Scott subconsciously pushed his glasses and whispered, "I have a bad premonition......

"Bad premonition?" Alan beside him grinned, and then shouted at Jiang Zhe, "Hey, man, is this a new trick? Wow, it's handsome, you bastard!"

To Alan's surprise, the boy surrounded by black flames didn't say a word, just looked down and thought about something, which made Alan very depressed, and shouted loudly, "Hey, don't be handsome, man—come and help!"

"Something is wrong!" Looking deeply at the boy who was wrapped in darkness, Scott pushed his glasses and shouted at Lerella and Lisa, "Lerella, Lisa, stand back, don't go near Soth - I feel that something is very wrong with him right now!"

"Could it be a magic backlash? He shouldn't call him anything?" this guy!" Alan scratched his head in amazement, Scott shook his head slightly, and whispered, "It shouldn't be a magic backlash - this ominous dark power ......"

"Hmm?" The events on the field also caught the attention of the lich Amos Hallewell, who stared directly at the dark power on the boy and said in a deep voice, "Darkness...... The sheer power of darkness that I have felt in you, what a surprise, is it true that modern humans have already taken turn to demons?

"Reptiles?" In Lavia's incredulous eyes, the boy raised his head, looked at the lich with a nonchalant expression, and said coldly, "Are you talking about me?"

"Hmm, hey!" said the lich's floating body, trembling, and then he laughed out loud, pointing at the boy with disdain, "Humans are the most ignorant and stupid creatures, and that's not bad at all, especially you little imps - you become arrogant when you think you get a little power! Even if you are a demon of the abyss, Amos doesn't pay attention to it, let alone you who have received a little power from those demons - I can easily kill you with a finger of my finger!"

Raising his head and glancing indifferently at the lich, the boy said leisurely, "Then what are you waiting for—hook your finger quickly!"

"Soth?" Lavia felt incredulous.

He...... He actually spoke?

Unlike in the underground pit near Asher's village a year ago, this time he didn't seem to have lost consciousness.

With the surprise in her heart, Lavia slowly walked up to the boy, raised her hand hesitantly, and said hesitantly, "You...... Are you alright?"

To Lavia's surprise, the boy only glanced at her faintly, then refocused on the lich in the distance.

Lavia couldn't help but take a few steps back, for the indifference in the boy's eyes hurt her deeply.

Bastard!

What is that look at a stranger!

Lavia clutched her chest, she felt as if her heart contracted violently, and the tingling pain made it difficult for her to breathe.

It's not him, it's not Soth...... Recalling the stinging indifference in her eyes, Lavia couldn't help but think of the past...... I don't know when she started to hit the boy, ridiculed, ridiculed, and occasionally quarreled with him, indeed, she liked to see the confidence in the boy's eyes, however, she preferred to see his helpless and headache expression, and liked to see him apologize to her with an unnatural face, and she accepted the apology 'reluctantly'...... And then next time, continue to push the limits of his endurance...... She loves it...... But now, remembering the way he looked at her, Lavia suddenly felt as if something had disappeared from her fingertips, and faintly, her heart became very depressed.

"Oh, is your self-confidence swelling after gaining power?" said the lich Hallewell, who seemed to laugh, and pointed his finger at the boy with only bones left, "and can't wait to challenge the mighty Amos?" he said, shaking his head and saying with a deep sense of regret. But I don't need to make a move at all, I know very well that your strength is almost exhausted, and you won't be able to last long in such an extremely cold place, not to mention, your opponents are those frost skeletons, and this ice crystal phoenix summoned by Amos - they are enough to deal with you!"

"Frost Skeleton...... Ice Crystal Phoenix?" The boy glanced at the frost skeletons around him with non-emotional eyes, and said lightly with the huge ice crystal phoenix, "Are you so confident?"

"Of course!" the lich stretched out his arms and laughed deeply, "don't underestimate these frost skeletons, and don't underestimate this ice crystal phoenix - or are you confident that you can deal with them?"

Glancing deeply at the lich, the boy whispered, "Do as you wish—do as you do!" and as he said, he turned and walked toward the giant ice crystal phoenix.

"Soth?" Recovering from her loss, Lavia hurriedly ran forward, ignoring her injuries and grabbed the boy's arm, but the next second, her hand was waved away by the other party.

"Get out of the way!"

Obstruct...... Way?

Lavia's body trembled with her soul.

Even saying that he was in the way?

This bastard actually said he was in the way?

How could he do that?

How could he say that?!

Lavia had never felt so wronged.

Everyone in the world can say that they are in the way, but he ...... Only he can't!

How can this be...... He obviously ...... "Hey," and watched the boy walk past him, Alan whispered with some doubts, "It's too much, man!"

But the boy didn't stop there, and still walked towards the ice crystal phoenix.

Glancing at the boy's back, and then at Lavia, who seemed to be holding back something, Scott sighed slightly, shook his head and said, "It seems that my hunch is not wrong, and something is really wrong......

"So what do we do now?" asked Allen, with a blank look on his face.

"Let's see......" Scott said calmly.

"See what's going on?" Stunned, his eyes widened, and Alan said incredulously, "Hey, just leave Soth alone to deal with that damn giant ice bird?"

"It's the Ice Crystal Phoenix!" Scott gave Alan a helpless look, and then whispered, "Indeed, that Ice Crystal Phoenix is very strong, and that Lich is even stronger, but...... The oppression that Soth gives me now is heavier than theirs...... Through the body, directly infused into the soul, that powerful dark power ......"

"Is it stressed? Why didn't I feel it?" Alan scratched his head blankly, not blaming him, he may not have been born with any talent when it comes to perceiving subtleties.

Squinting at the boy's back, Bernie whispered, "No wonder...... From the very beginning, I felt that this imp was a little bit powerful, he was even stronger than us as national magicians, and if he made a deal with the demon, it would make sense......"

"The power from the demon's hands?" Reed muttered, feeling the inexplicable oppressive force from the boy, "is it really just an ordinary demon of the abyss......, as the lich said? Great Demon!"

"Huh?" As if not hearing his companion's words, Bernie turned his head and asked suspiciously, "What?"

"No, nothing ......"

Under all the preoccupied gaze, the boy stopped a dozen yards away from the ice crystal phoenix, and then, the puppet who claimed to be Kane walked up to him with the steel heavy sword in his hand, lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Master! Kane is ready for battle, please give the master an order!"

I saw the boy glance at the frost skeleton that was faintly surrounding them, and said lightly, "Get rid of the eye-catching guy!"

"Yes!" King Kane nodded respectfully, and then he saw the steel greatsword in both hands, stabbing heavily into the ground beneath his feet.

"Buzz ......" After only hearing a humming sound, fifteen white circular auras suddenly appeared on the ground near Kane, and after a pause of about a second, the fifteen auras suddenly rushed up at the same time one after another white pillars of light, and then, in those white pillars of light, a shadow faintly appeared...... "This is ......"

"Oh my God!"

In everyone's incredulous eyes, fifteen figures walked out of those fifteen auras.

"Kanso?" his eyes widened, and Alan looked at his side in amazement, isn't that right...... Isn't Kanso right next to him?

"Knight?" Scott, who had always been calm, was a little surprised, and subconsciously looked for his puppet knight Knight, only to see him standing behind him in a good manner.

"Quinn......" Lavia frowned and looked at the beautiful and moving woman who appeared next to Kane, suddenly, she felt a breeze blowing, and subconsciously looked around, but saw that her puppet had returned to her side at some point, but what was the puppet with the same female surname who appeared next to Kane, exactly the same as her puppet?

"Yay, Sojes has become eight......" Lisa said curiously, blinking.

"That's not Sojes, the one who calls himself Kane is Soth's real puppet, the soldier Sojes, but I don't know why it became what it is now, these fifteen puppets should have been summoned by him......"

"Uh-huh," nodded vigorously, and Lisa said in surprise, "It's amazing, Ive's puppet queen Quinn, Scott's puppet knight Knight, and Allen's puppet castle Canso, they were all summoned, and there are two Knights, two Canso, well, and the soldier Sojas, who actually summoned eight Sojath, hehe, it's funny...... yes, I haven't seen the other two, and they're exactly the same......"

"The one I haven't seen before, it should be the bishop of the chess puppets, right?" pushed his glasses, and Scott whispered.

"Hmm!" Nodding, Alan touched his smooth chin and said thoughtfully, "The old professor only made six different chess pieces, and then he gave us four queens, knights, castles, and soldiers, and the rest are kings and bishops......"

"Looking at the appearance of that Kane, it is exactly the same as the king's chess piece at that time, it is obvious that Kane is the king, so the remaining two that we have not seen are of course the bishop," said Scott, pushing his glasses, and said with great interest, "Is this the infinite possibility of the Soldier puppet? Can he become the highest king? Or can he become any other? It's so interesting!"

"But it's really jealous! Whether it's Knight Knight or King Kane, they look so handsome, damn it, why is my Ellen's puppet so ugly?" said Alan, scratching his hair angrily.

"Woo woo......" beside him, Castle Canso looked at his master with aggrieved eyes.

As if amused by the eyes of his puppet, Alan clenched his fist with his left hand and slammed Kanso's stomach hard, and laughed deeply, "What are you doing with a sad face? In addition to being handsome, a man's strength is more important, man!"

Looking at Alan and shaking his head helplessly, Scott pushed his glasses and said calmly, "But...... Have you noticed? Allen, Kane summoned puppets with no autonomous consciousness, real puppets......"

"Hmm!" Nodding, Alan grinned, "Of course, my Kanso is much stronger than those two stone pillars, on the other hand, your Knight and those two chess puppets look about the same......"

"Can I understand that you are jealous?" Rolling his eyes speechlessly, Scott shifted his gaze from Alan to the battle situation, then pushed his glasses and whispered, "Strength, speed, those puppets are on par with our puppets, but they always feel a little worse...... Is it really self-conscious?"

"They must be under the control of that Kane, you see, that Kane has never moved, patronizing the heavy sword and playing handsome there......"

"Oh, maybe it's because you don't need King Kane's hands, those fifteen pawn puppets are enough to deal with those frost skeletons, maybe...... Maybe the most vulnerable of King Kane's six pawns! The king doesn't have to have great power, as long as he can drive that power......"

Observing the battle from a distance, Alan pondered, "Is this King Kane's special ability, which can summon and control other pawn puppets to fight, but he doesn't have much strength himself?"

"I guess it'......"

As he spoke, Scott suddenly saw one of the Soldier puppets being killed by the frost skeletons, but soon, another Soldier puppet appeared in the fifteen auras and rejoined the battle.

"It seems like there's more to it than that......"

"It's so jealous!" Allen looked like he was crazy, but strangely, his eyes kept staring at the armor on Kane's body, and it seemed that the heavy and gorgeous knight's armor was what he was really jealous of...... As Scott guessed, King Kane himself did not have much power, on the contrary, despite the fact that he wore a heavy knight's armor, he was the most vulnerable of the six types of puppets, but he could summon and control fifteen other chess puppets to participate in battle, one queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles, Eight soldiers, what is even more incredible is that once any of the puppet puppets are eliminated, the fifteen auras will be replenished in time, this incredible special ability can be said to be very powerful, but it can also be said to be extremely weak.

Because, if Kane himself as king is destroyed, then his battle is over - after all, he is king!

But then again, this special ability is obviously very effective against these frost skeletons in front of them, and the seemingly terrifying frost skeletons are defeated by the attacks of the fifteen puppets, and most of them are destroyed in a few minutes.

On the other hand, the demonized boy seems to have started a battle with the Ice Crystal Phoenix.

Lavia had been keeping an eye on the boy, she was worried about his condition, and she seemed to realize that this time the situation seemed to be different from the last time.

Yes, it's really different, at least last time, it was impossible for a boy who had been in a state of sluggishness to provoke his opponent.

"Ice Crystal Phoenix, huh? What can you wait for?"

Standing defenselessly just a dozen yards away from the huge ice crystal phoenix, the boy said lightly, "Troublesome battle...... Let's finish it early!"

The boy's provocation seemed to arouse the anger of the bird's soul in the ice crystal phoenix's body, and I saw it let out a low roar, spreading its wings and fanning out a cold wind with frost, as if it wanted to freeze the boy into an ice sculpture.

But unfortunately, its plan fell through...... "Boring trick!" the boy said lightly, and then the huge dark bear slowly moved forward, protecting the boy, and the icy cold wind had no effect.

"Oh, are you going to fight my Frost Phoenix with that ridiculous bear?" said the lich Amos Hallewell, scoffing, "It's useless, haven't you already tried?"

To the lich's surprise, the boy glanced at him faintly, and then, the huge dark giant bear's shrinking body became only two yards in size, firmly attached to the boy, and at the position of the roughly head, a pair of pale red eyes slowly opened...... "Woo!" As if seeing those eyes, the ice crystal phoenix suddenly became frightened and furious, fluttering huge wings, with a swift wind, rushing towards the boy, its closed beak flashing with a cold light.

"Thor!" Lavia and Dia exclaimed in unison.

"Those eyes ......" the blue flame in the Lich Amos Hallewell's eyes flickered, as if he was also surprised, but to his surprise, the ridiculous reptile had disappeared alive.

"Suo...... Where's Soth?" Lisa opened her eyes, looking for the boy.

Then, as if she had seen something, Lyreela beside her raised her hand and said, "Found Soth, on the back of that frost phoenix!"

In the astonished gaze of everyone, the boy was already standing on the back of the frost phoenix, looking at it with cold and emotionless eyes.

"Flash?" Lavia muttered to herself, "He's got the full grasp of Flash, isn't he?" he said two days ago that it would take time to prepare if he cast it......"

As he spoke, Lisa's doubts came from beside him.

"What does Jerethos want to do?"

Ravi Adam immediately raised his head, and was stunned to see a ray of light shoot out of the boy's right hand, this light was black on the outside and red on the inside, a full twenty yards long, like a sharp sword, and then, I saw the boy's right hand wave back and forth, and the wings of the ice crystal phoenix were cut off like dead branches.

Because the soul of a bird was imprisoned in its body, the ice crystal phoenix that had been shaved off its wings couldn't help but scream and then smashed to the ground, splashing the sky with broken ice and frost.

"It's so cruel...... "Lisa looked at the expressionless boy incredulously, and said timidly, "Soth...... Now he feels so scary......"

"......" Lavia silently bit her lip and looked straight at the boy, watching him fall gently to the ground, then walked to the head of the ice crystal phoenix step by step, and then pressed the palm of her right hand to the center of its head.

I saw a burst of incongruous black-red light in the body of the ice crystal phoenix, and then, with a bang, its huge body was shattered and turned into ice crystals in the sky.

Effortless spikes...... Looking at this scene in amazement, Allen's eyes widened and he said in disbelief, "Hey, it's too neat, right?"

"The gap in strength ......" frowning at all this, Scott said in a low voice, "It's not a level at all, that ice crystal phoenix and the current Soth ......"

Although this was said, this result was still greatly unexpected by everyone, after all, the ice crystal phoenix was so powerful that even the previous fire bear could not cope with it, and even the lich Amos Hallewell could not believe what he saw.

"Actually...... Unexpectedly...... Destroy Amos's Ice Crystal Phoenix," with a sky-high anger, the Lich looked hideous and roared angrily, "That soul, that is indeed the soul of the Ice Crystal Phoenix, Amos has been able to reach it with great difficulty, and you are ...... You reptile actually destroyed it?!"

"Didn't you say that?" the boy had an indifferent expression, then grabbed his hair and said lightly, "But ...... What kind of ice crystal phoenix, it's really disappointing me......"

"You reptilian, you damn reptile!" the angry lich slowly floated down from mid-air, stood about ten yards away from the boy, raised his bone finger and pointed at the boy, and said fiercely, "Amos swears that you must let this reptile die in the most cruel way possible, after you die, your soul will not go to the realm of death, you will become Amos's collection, and your soul will always be enslaved by Amos!"

"Alright, alright, anything," the boy looked indifferent to the lich's anger, only to see him lazily scratching at his black-gray hair, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Hmm...... Fighting or something, it's the most troublesome, do you want to make a game?"

"Do...... Make a game?" The lich said inexplicably with anger in his eyes, "What game?"

"It's nothing, just start fighting when you count to ten and see who kills the other first?"

"Hmm?" the lich nodded for a moment's wheath, "Isn't that interesting?"

"Well, let's get started!" the boy whispered, "One, two, three......"

Suddenly, the lich Hallewell, who was listening to the boy's count, suddenly found that his opponent had disappeared in an instant, and before he could react, he was shocked to find that his chest had been pierced by a beam of black-red light the size of a palm.

The terrifying black-red light was like a deadly poison, and Amos felt an indescribable pain from the depths of his soul, and he could only watch his dark blue body covered with black-red reticulations, and then, gradually, cracked, and a trace of black light flashed out of the crack, just like the ice crystal phoenix just now.

"Woo woo...... "Wheew the lich Harlewell, who was glowing black all over his body, roared in a voice with endless rage, "you ...... How dare you lie to Amos! How dare you ...... Dare to deceive Amos! Amos swears that he will come back to report ......."

However, he was not finished in the end, and only heard a thud, and the body of the lich Hallewell shattered like glass, revealing the boy's figure.

I saw the boy scratch the hair on the back of his head, and in a somewhat lazy voice, he whispered, "Sure enough, counting to ten is too troublesome...... The result won't change anyway, so ...... So be it!"

"Click, click!"

With a burst of cracking sounds, in the frozen library, the remaining dozen or so frost skeletons were shattered one by one because they lost the magical support of the lich Amos Hallewell, and the ice of the entire library gradually subsided, and the temperature gradually rose, but everyone was still in a state of shock and sluggishness.

"Knot...... Is it over?" Alan, who had intended to help his best companion when he was vulnerable, was speechless in shock.

"Lich...... That's a lich...... "Bernie's eyes widened as he stared at the boy standing next to a pile of blue crystals, afraid to burst his eyes.

"...... Soth" Dia, who also saw this scene, was speechless in surprise, covering her small mouth and looking at the boy in disbelief.

"What a powerful mess!" Scott's glasses were covered in a mist due to the temperature, and as he wiped his glasses as he looked at his best friend, he suddenly noticed Lavia's expression.

Not?

"Hey, man, you're going a little too far, aren't you?, you've completely taken away the glory of Lord Allen!" With a relaxed expression on his face, Alan walked over to the boy with a grin, and was about to pat the other man's shoulder as usual, when suddenly, he was surprised by a strong wind coming from his side, and when he turned around, he was shocked to find that Kane had raised the heavy sword in his hand to himself.

Dodging Kane's heavy sword, Alan took a few steps back and said inexplicably, "Hey, Sojes, ah, Kane, what are you doing? Hey, Soth, take care of your puppet, it's too unusual, right? ...... joke like that" As he spoke, his voice stopped abruptly as he saw the boy turn his head and look at him faintly.

It was a cold and emotionless look, as if looking at an unrelated stranger...... Looking at the fifteen puppets summoned by Kane who were approaching him, and the unkind eyes in Kane's pointed helmet, Eren couldn't help but take a few steps back.

"Hey, you're kidding, isn't that funny!"

(To be continued)