"Lich...... Monsters?" looked at the dark blue creature that suddenly appeared in front of her, Lisa subconsciously took a few steps back, with a little fear on her face, and asked in a low voice, obviously, she was simply frightened by the other party's terrible appearance.

The look of fear on Bernie's face was more pronounced than Lisa's, and it was clear that he knew what a terrible being the Lich was.

Oh my God, there's such a lich here in Alton, and the branch sent someone to investigate it two years ago - which bastard is investigating here? Damn it!

With fear in his eyes, Bernie swallowed his saliva, stood in front of the children, and said in a low voice, "Run, run—if you want to live, run!"

But to Bernie's chagrin, the children around him seemed to be stupid, and they just stood there and stared at the lich in a daze, so he lowered his voice and shouted, "Run!"

However, the lich was clearly moving faster than the children, and a pale blue soul flame bloomed from his hollow eyes, and then the temperature around him dropped rapidly, and one couldn't help but feel a chill - a chill that seemed to freeze the soul.

"Oops!" As if sensing something, Bernie hurriedly recited a few incantations and propped up a purple arcane shield that protected everyone, and in the next second, a wave of frosty air erupted from the lich's mouth, and after a clattering sound, the arcane shield shattered like a fragile hedron.

"Run!" Bernie yelled, although his strength was only in the middle and upper reaches of the Garik Magic Association branch, he obviously didn't expect that there was such a huge gap in strength between the two sides - that shield was his best defensive magic, but even so, it could only last for two or three seconds.

The lich swallowed the frost, looked at the human in front of him as if he was dead, and then opened his bony arms, and with the ripples of magic on his body, countless dense ice arrows condensed beside him at an extremely fast speed, and those ice arrows the thickness of the little finger were crystal clear all over, and sometimes flashed with the cold light of death.

"Smack!"

Suddenly, without warning, a flame exploded on the lich's terrifying skull, and the fierce flames instantly engulfed most of the lich's body.

【Flame Flash】

"Huh?" Bernie was stunned, and subconsciously looked at the boy named Thor beside him, because he had just felt that the boy's magic power had fluctuated.

What kind of magic is this? Bernie glanced at Jiang Zhe suspiciously, but saw Jiang Zhe frowning.

He had to frown, because the flame flash didn't do any damage to the lich at all, but the cold air on the lich's body instead froze the flames.

Seeing this incredible scene, Dia covered her mouth and muttered, "Fire...... Flame...... Frozen?"

No wonder she was so surprised, after all, they had never heard of the ice freezing the flames, you know, they could clearly see the form of the flames from the ice.

"Click, click......" The ice on the lich's body gradually peeled off, and he glanced at Jiang Zhe and said without any emotion, "This level of fire can't hurt Amos Hallewell - give up, human, the extreme cold makes you unconscious for a moment, and there will be no pain!"

"Oh, yes, is this your kindness?" Scratching his head, Alan pulled out the knight's sword in his hand, grinned on his shoulder, and said, "But it's still unacceptable!"

Scott, who was beside him, pushed his glasses and said lightly, "Since I returned to Galik, I haven't even performed a single spell, let alone practiced every day......" As he spoke, he lowered his voice and said calmly, "Alan, South, pay attention!"

"Hey!"

"Hmm!"

"Hey," Bernie said in shock at the trio who were ready to go, "don't do anything stupid, run—Reed and I will be responsible for holding him back, and you get out of here as much as you can!"

"Run?" Alan said inexplicably as he looked at Bernie in surprise, "Why run?"

Listening to the understatement, Bernie only felt a tightness in his chest, and said in a low voice, "I'm a little skeptical about the level of teaching at Reochs Academy now—don't you know what a lich is?"

Alan shook his head, turned to Scott and said, "You know what, man?"

I saw Scott push his glasses and say unconfidently, "I've seen a little bit in the library before, it seems to have something to do with necromancers, specifically-that book is just a few simple introductions." ”

Oh, my God!

Bernie covered his forehead weakly, lowered his voice and said with a wry smile, "Run, Reed and I will buy you time, that guy...... Not for us to deal with!" At the end, his voice sounded bitter, for neither he nor his companion Reed was sure that they would be able to escape from a lich.

Is it over?

own life...... Damn, I'm not even thirty years old, and I'm still young! I'm not even married...... What an unwillingness!

Barely suppressing the breath in his chest, Bernie's voice was a little hoarse, and he whispered, "Reed!"

"Yes!" Reed, who was relatively reticent, had already reached the front of the group like Bernie the moment the lich appeared, protecting the children behind him.

They had thought about running away - if it were just the two of them, they would have turned and fled, but not now, because they were state magicians, and they couldn't do such a thing as leaving a group of children to run away alone.

Taking a deep breath, Bernie whispered, "Go up...... but before he could finish speaking, his expression froze as he saw that Eren had already rushed forward with a knight's sword.

"Come back!" exclaimed Bernie.

In Bernie's shocked eyes, Alan rushed to the lich in a few steps, only to see a line of crimson runes appear on the knight's sword in his hand, and immediately, the knight's sword burst into flames.

"Ahh

However, the lich named Amos Hallewell simply raised his right hand, and the wave of fire quickly froze at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into a block of ice, falling to the ground, and shattering with a thud.

"Hey, try this again!" Seeing that his attack had no effect, Eren slashed with his backhand, and after a line of cyan runes appeared on the knight's sword, a huge scythe-like wind blade flew towards the lich with a burst of air-shattering sounds.

The lich Hallewell raised his right hand again, but when he was halfway there, his movements stalled, and when he looked closely, he could see strands of black energy as thin as silk threads, tightly wrapping his right hand, which was the [Bondage] from Scott.

"Smack!"

With a crisp snap of his fingers, the flames from the flame flash became more powerful in the wind blade that Eren struck, completely engulfing the entire body of the lich Hallewell.

"Hehe, this should work, right?" said Allen, who was carrying the knight's sword, with a grin.

Terrible...... The strength of these little ghosts is really good...... With a deep surprise in his eyes, Bernie couldn't say a word, although he didn't think that such an attack would seriously injure the lich, but at least it would have a little effect, right?

Of course, the others thought the same thing, but the truth was that the flames were once again frozen by the cold, and after the huge ice gradually cracked and shattered, Hallewell still floated unharmed in front of everyone.

"I don't want to repeat it a second time - this level of magic can't hurt me Amos Hallewell!" In the stunned eyes of everyone, the lich Hallewell slowly raised his right hand, and then pointed his finger bones forward, and the dense ice arrows beside him adjusted their direction towards Jiang Zhe, and then swished over.

"Oops!" exclaimed Bernie, and before he could finish the incantation, a semi-circular curtain of water had enveloped them all—the attentive Dia had already prepared her protective magic.

【Water Flow Wall】

But it's a pity that with the dense ice arrows on the opposite side, the water curtain is obviously a little powerless, and it can only have the effect of delaying.

【Mudstone Wall】

With a "boom", a thick earthen wall rose from the ground, blocking all the ice arrows at the last moment.

Looking at the earthen wall in front of him, which was completely frozen by frost, Bernie secretly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and muttered, "Fortunately, I caught up with the ......" As he spoke, he glared at the children angrily, and was about to speak, only to hear a bang, and the frozen earthen wall collapsed.

"Why don't you give up?" said the lich Hallewell, looking at the human in front of him, in a tone that seemed to be puzzled, "no matter how much you struggle, you will eventually die here - why not give up the futile struggle? Amos will let you die without any pain!"

"Tsk, what a joke!" Bernie spat secretly, glanced at the children, and whispered, "If you want to run now, don't blame me if you die!"

As he chanted, a green claw suddenly appeared on the head of the lich Hallewell, apparently with a poisonous claw.

At the same time, his companion Reed crouched down and slapped the ground, and a black magic circle suddenly appeared on the ground, and a rock golem crawled out of the ground with difficulty, spitting foul mud at the lich Hallewell.

But neither the green claw nor the mud spit out by the rock golem had achieved the desired effect - Hallewell, who was infected with the toxin, returned to normal in a short time.

"Tsk, don't toxins work?" Bernie was a little annoyed, after all, he and Reed could only use alchemy magic and earth magic, but using these two kinds of magic to deal with the lich in front of him was obviously not strong enough.

"Hey, he's not hurt at all!" Alan said with a look of incredulity, "Lich, are they all such weird creatures?"

"Nonsense!" Bernie said angrily as he stared at the lich in front of him, "The lich ignores physical attacks and is immune to psychic magic, tsk, even toxins have no effect!"

"What should I do then?" Alan couldn't help but be a little stunned, he had just secretly laughed at Bernie for exaggerating them, but he never expected that he and the others would encounter such a tricky opponent!

"The only thing that can hurt them is the ...... elemental magic" Saying that, Bernie thought of the scene in the cemetery, turned his head and whispered to Jiang Zhe, "Hey, little ghost, can you still raise the level of flames - orange flames can't hurt them!"

"Where's Qingyan?" Jiang Zhe said in a low voice.

"Blue Flame?!" Bernie was shocked, it was a flame three levels higher than Orange Flame, a teenage magic apprentice imp could actually cast Blue Flame?

Jiang Zhe thought Bernie didn't believe it, so he added, "But it takes time to compress the elements - can Qingyan hurt him?"

"Hmm!" Bernie asked in a low voice, nodding heavily, "How much time?"

"Every time you cast it, about ten seconds!"

"Ten seconds......" Bernie shook his head, watching the rock golem's movements gradually stiffen, and he could no longer afford to delay them any longer, so he said anxiously, "Ten seconds is too slow, what if you blessed amplification magic - you should be, right?"

Jiang Zhe opened his mouth and was about to speak, but he heard Lavia say with a bit of mockery on the side, "He can increase magic? laugh at the dead - I will! It should be able to reduce the compression time by two to three seconds......

"That's seven or eight seconds...... Bernie sighed in embarrassment and said in a low voice, "For your sake, I advise you to run away now, and I'll delay him as long as I can......"

"Can you escape?" sneered, and Lavia said lightly, "It took us ten minutes to get here, and even if we ran as hard as we could, it would take about ten minutes, can you stop this lich for ten minutes......?"

"Ten minutes......" Bernie smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "That's all there is to it - we try to delay as much time as possible, I have a magic stone on me that transmits warnings, and I secretly crushed this magic stone when the lich appeared just now - if we can hold out until the branch sends someone to help, we have a chance to live! Remember, don't try to defeat the lich, we just need to delay as long as we can, so ...... Preserve your magic and stamina!"

"Hey, haven't you discussed it yet?" shouted Reed, who was alone propping up the shield, apparently unable to hold it back.

"Hold on, Reed!" yelled at his companion, Bernie said in a deep voice after a cursory understanding of the magic that several children had learned, "Listen, the magic that Reed and I have mastered is not effective against the lich, so at most it can only be used for defense, Alan, you have a magic sword in your hand, the magic sword relies on the runes and gems engraved on the seal to exert its power, so you try to harass the lich as much as possible...... Most of the magic of the curse has no effect on the lich, but at least it can be used to restrain it, by the way, can it perform aging? Yes? Great! Please limit the lich's movements...... Those two girls, well, your names are ...... Lisa, Lyreira, oh, you're learning summoning and illusions...... Low-level summoning spells don't do anything, and illusions are spiritual magic, not lichs, so basic arcane defense is going to be......, right? Your name is Dia, right? I just saw that you are very skilled in using water walls, so you can use defensive magic, the power of the lich is not something that one or two people can stop, as for you ......" As he said, he turned his head to look at Lavia and Jiang Zhe, and said in a low voice, "Attack as much as possible, don't let the lich have enough time to cast magic, otherwise, no matter how much we defend, we will still be overwhelmed, and it will be over when the magic is exhausted, but remember, our purpose is to delay time, so we must preserve the magic power properly... ...”

"Haven't you discussed it yet?" shouted Reed, who was single-handedly supporting the earth wall in the face of the Lich's powerful onslaught.

"Here on, Soth!" Lavia whispered a spell, and suddenly, Jiang Zhe's body glowed with a reddish luster, and under his feet, a crimson aura of a six-pointed star could be faintly seen.

【Flame Flash】

【Aging】

【Fire Waves】

【Water Flow Wall】

【Arcane Enchantment】

In just a few seconds, more than a dozen spells were cast one after another, and Reed, who took the opportunity to get out and retreated, gasped for breath, looking at his panting appearance, he seemed to have exhausted his magic power.

"Boom, boom!" Allen's wind blade and Lavia's fire wave spell struck the lich fiercely, as well as Scott's curse, which could not cause any damage to the other party, but always made the lich's movements pause.

"Do you choose to continue to be my enemy, human?" said the lich Hallewell, who seemed to have run out of patience with a little rage.

At that moment, a cyan flame exploded violently in the lich's chest, and the heat generated by the flame left a burning mark on the lich's bones before it was frozen by the cold.

"Roar!" the lich that emerged from the ice block again became angry, and with his rage, a powerful oppressive force suddenly enveloped everyone's hearts.

"Is it working? is it working!" Bernie shouted with joy.

"Damn reptile, ignoring my good intentions, how dare you hurt me!Unforgivable!Unforgivable!" The lich's voice trembled, and the air around him trembled, as if it were an extension of his endless anger.

Immediately, the moisture in the air was condensed, and countless ice arrows were aimed at Jiang Zhe and the others again.

"Shield!" yelled Bernie, who didn't feel good.

As soon as the words fell, four or five protective shields overlapped, which was able to block this wave of attacks.

"Roar!" was blocked by the other party several times in a row, Hallewell was obviously impatient, he exhaled a deep breath of cold air, and then, only to hear a bang, the protective shield protecting the group was shattered, and even Jiang Zhe and the others felt dizzy.

"Is it an ice blast?" Bernie exclaimed, enduring the discomfort of vertigo, "Shield! Quick, cast shield...... You continue to harass him......"

Luckily, the lich named Hallewell was significantly weaker than the one he fought against Argus, so he could delay a little longer, according to Bernie's tactics.

But as for how much time it will take to delay and whether it will be able to support the Garik Magic Association branch to send someone to support, even Bernie is not very sure.

So, more than twenty minutes passed, and although everyone had consumed a lot of mana, at least, they were still able to block each other's attacks with the rumored incomparably powerful lich on the other side, although it was very difficult.

However, as a lich, is Amos Hallewell really all there is?

The answer is no!

After entangling with Jiang Zhe and the others for about half an hour, the patience of the lich Amos Hallewell was completely exhausted, and he stopped all his movements, stretched out his arms and raised his head and chanted loudly, "O slave sleeping in the extremely cold land, obey my call, in the name of my Amos Hallewell, kill the humans in front of you, tear their chests, and bring them the heaviest death!"

As he chanted, the entire huge library shook like an earthquake, and a strange white pentagram magic array could be seen faintly on the ground.

"How...... What's going on?" said Allen, who had stopped moving, with a little surprise and wondering.

"Oops...... Bernie muttered with a hint of anxiety in his eyes, "he's working summoning magic, and I'm surprised by the power of this lich, but I didn't think he's a lich who is proficient in summoning......"

The shaking of the library finally stopped, but unbelievably the skeletons crawled out of the ground with dark blue flames, and unlike ordinary skeletons, these skeletons were like the lich Amos Hallewell, spitting cold breath, covered in frost, and burning dark blue soul fire in their hollow eye sockets.

"Oh my God...... It can't be the frost skeletons of the Death Realm, right?" muttered to himself, Bernie hurriedly reminded, "Pay attention to the blue flames on these skeletons, those are cold flames of more than 100 degrees below zero, not to mention freezing blood, if you are touched by that thing, even your soul will be frozen!"

"Look at the skeletons, idiots are willing to touch them, but ...... This kind of number, if it is not touched, it is too difficult, right?" With a wry smile, Alan looked around, only to see that the library that was originally relatively empty had already been occupied by a large number of frost skeletons, and there were sixty or seventy of them.

Jiang Zhe and his party, who originally had an advantage in numbers, are now completely at a disadvantage, and the nine people are already very difficult to deal with just one lich, plus sixty or seventy frost skeletons that look obviously difficult to deal with, a disadvantage, a complete disadvantage.

The first to suffer was Allen, because at the moment, he was just a knight in the skin of a magician, and his attack range was obviously not as good as that of others, and in order to disturb Harlewell, he had been outside the team, and now he was naturally surrounded by those frost skeletons.

"Alan!"

"Imp!"

"Hey," Listening to the warning sound from his companions, Allen, who was surrounded by those hateful frost skeletons, felt the chill coming from the guys in front of him, and clenched the knight's sword in his hand.

"Kill him, kill all humans!" roared the lich Amos Hallewell.

As soon as Hallewell ordered, more than a dozen frost skeletons immediately launched a rapid attack on Allen, although these skeletons did not have the so-called bone shield protection, only a bone knife, which seemed to be very fragile, but please, who dared to touch the cold flames on their bodies, didn't you see the fate of those bookcases? Just rubbing the edges, they were frozen into ice, if it was a human...... "Allen!" Lisa shouted anxiously, and a little crystal faintly oozed from her eyes.

Just when everyone was anxious and worried about Allen, only to hear a smack, Allen actually disappeared into the siege of the frost skeleton, and when he reappeared, he was standing beside Jiang Zhe very strangely, which made everyone present dumbfounded.

"Yay?" The corners of her eyes were still a little sparkling, Lisa looked at Alan who appeared in surprise, and beside her, Scott, who also had a worried expression, asked in surprise after confirming Alan, "Flash? When did you learn it?"

But Allen's expression made the others even more inexplicable, only to see him look at his companion beside him, and said with a bewildered expression, "Flash? I won't, Soth hasn't fully mastered it, how can I learn it?"

"Then why did you suddenly disappear from there and appear here? Wasn't it a flash?" asked Lavia in surprise.

Just when everyone was surprised by this, there was a "boom" in the distance, and everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that among the dozen or so frost skeletons, there was a rock golem four or five yards high that was struggling to fight back.

The rocks that make up his appearance are covered with ice picks because of the frost skeletons, and the rock golems move extremely slowly, but it can be seen that this guy's strength is very great, and the fists are powerful enough to smash the fragile frost skeletons - although they often miss.

But this guy was remarkably strong, and the bone knives in the hands of a dozen frost skeletons slashed at the rocks of his outer skin from time to time, but except for a crisp clang, they didn't seem to do any damage to the rock golem - although his movements became very slow.

"Huh?" Bernie said inexplicably, glancing at his companion beside him, "Have you summoned another rock golem?"

Reed shook his head and whispered, "I didn't summon that!"

"And this ......" Bernie looked at the children suspiciously, only to see them shaking their heads one after another.

"Huh, that's weird......" Bernie couldn't finish his sentence when Lisa tilted her head and stared at the huge rock golem, muttering, "Yay, that's weird......" As she spoke, she looked around and exclaimed, "Where's Canso?

"Kanso?" Bernie asked, confused, "Who's that?"

"It's Allen's puppet, when we went to the mage Tafander in the past, an old professor gave us the puppet of the dwarf dun that had been following Lisa just now......" As he spoke, Scott seemed to think of something, turned his head to look at the rock puppet that was fighting with the frost skeleton in the distance, and said with a strange expression, "Ellen, don't you think that rock puppet is a bit similar?"

"Wouldn't it?" Alan looked at the rock golem in the distance and touched his chin, and then, his face gradually showed some disbelief and consternation.

"Cansso, hey, it's really Canso! I can feel the spiritual connection between him and me......"

Is it really Kanso?Scott frowned and glanced at Allen, the chess piece puppet castle Kanso...... I remember that the professor once said that the castle Canso, the soldier Sojes, the knight Knight, and the queen Quinn, these four are not ordinary puppets, not only can they grow in strength with the growth of their masters, but each of them has their corresponding special abilities, if I guessed correctly, Alan just now inexplicably returned to the team from a distance, not the teleportation of magic, but the ...... "Attention, they are coming!" Just as Scott looked down and thought, he suddenly heard Bernie's warning voice, only to see him look up, just in time to see a frost skeleton rushing towards him, raising the bone knife with a dark blue cold flame in his hand.

"Boom!"

In the stunned eyes of everyone, a heavily armed knight appeared in front of Scott, holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, blocking the blow for Scott.

The knight was wearing heavy silver armor and a red scarf around his neck, of course these were not important, what was important was the insignia on the knight's armor and shield, it was the red badge of the sword and shield, it was familiar—this badge was too familiar!

Scott subconsciously looked to his side, and sure enough, he didn't find any trace of the knight puppet Knight who had been following him.

"Knight?"

As if in response to Scott's muttering, the brightly armored knight bowed his head slightly towards Scott, and then flicked the shield in his left hand, smashing the frost skeleton to the ground.

"Wouldn't it?" Like the others, Lavia had apparently noticed the situation, covering her mouth in disbelief, and then, she felt as if a cold wind was coming over her, and when she turned her head, two abomination-looking frost skeletons had rushed to the side of the group.

"Hmph!" With a cold snort, Lavia was about to attack the two frost skeletons with the fire wave technique, but unexpectedly noticed a breeze blowing beside her, and then, the two frost skeletons stopped at a distance of about two yards from her, and after a short pause, countless very neat cracks appeared on their bones, as if they had been cut by the sharpest knives, and finally, they turned into two piles of bone slag with a bang.

And next to the two piles of bones, a very beautiful woman was looking at herself affectionately and smiling.

She was wearing a black and purple evening dress, her long black hair was slightly tied up, and her eyes were a little attractive, like a mature aristocratic young woman, but the fly in the ointment was that on her smooth face, there were two thin red lines, obliquely from the forehead through the eyes, even the cheeks, until the head and neck were covered by the dress, and on both sides of the two thin lines on the cheeks, some six-diamond-shaped markings faintly appeared.

"Quinn?"

As if in response to Lavia's stunned murmurs, the beautiful woman smiled affectionately at Lavia, then raised her right hand, rubbing her smooth face with the back of her hand, her slender white fingers, faintly revealing a metallic luster.

At the same time, Jiang Zhe turned his head to look around, and saw that beside him, there was a swordsman dressed as a mercenary, who was cowering and looking at the cold ice skeletons around him, and looked at Jiang Zhe with fear and inquiry from time to time.

"This ...... These ......" Bernie was speechless in amazement, because he had never encountered anything like this.

"Hey!" Throwing a wind blade to slash a few steps away from the Frost Skeletons beside Canso, Alan grinned and said, "The disadvantage in numbers seems to make up for it!" he patted the rocky skin of his puppet, which could only reach Canso's waist with his height.

"It's going to be up, man!"

"Woo......"

(To be continued)