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Entrance to the mine.

Quinna watched in disbelief as Edson's head was trampled under Matthew's feet.

Of course, she knew that there was a strange necromancer living in this oak forest, and it seemed that he was the one who had the ability to summon bone dragons, but she had never expected Edson to be defeated so quickly.

He is the Southern Patriarch of the Scourge, a real fourth-order evil magician, the organizer of this trip of the three major organizations, and the strongest among them!

The scene also shocked the other members.

Their already undetermined fighting spirit suddenly melted away like melting ice and snow.

Many people subconsciously retreated, wanting to retreat behind everyone - only to find that everyone retreated, which means that they did not retreat.

After Edson's head hits the ground.

The battlefield ahead also became clear in an instant.

The kobolds, who were originally not afraid of death, fled towards the entrance of the cave one by one.

However, their path was blocked by Eli.

The saber-toothed tiger is majestic when it beats the water dogs.

One slap at a time, and quickly wiped out all the kobolds.

The only fish that slipped through the net was the Susuva Demon Dog.

The vitality of this demon is amazingly tenacious.

In the case of being cranioped by Peggy and a small amount of cerebral plasma leakage, it staggered away.

This scene fell into Matthew's eyes.

His brow furrowed.

"The Susuva Demon Dog is an otherworldly creature, and it should not be able to maintain its existence in the main material realm after the death of the Gnoll—wait, there is no kill prompt!?"

Almost at the same time.

There was a sudden violent tremor under his feet.

Matthew is extremely responsive.

He lifted his foot and it was a powerful volley that was like muscle memory.

Bang!

Edson's head exploded in mid-air, turning into a strange mist of blood.

Matthew saw it really.

There were human faces, bugs, flakes of brain grooves, and extremely evil runes in the blood mist!

Meanwhile.

The insignia of the Goddess of the Moon on his chest began to tremble violently.

"Retreat!"

Matthew snorted.

Under the cover of the skeletons, he quickly left the vicinity of the blood mist and the headless corpse.

Bloodmist pounced on the gnoll's corpse like an octopus.

The next moment.

A solemn voice came from the blood mist.

The man's handwriting was extremely rigid and clear.

It seemed to sound in the hearts of everyone present:

"Grant you an immortal body, where the night comes, life will never end, and death will not die!"

The voice fell.

The gnoll's headless corpse slowly rose from the ground.

Unconsciously.

A perfectly undamaged skull regrows on a flat neck.

Everyone was stunned by this strange scene.

Even for the members of the evil organization, this kind of resurrection scene is extremely rare!

"Hey, hey, I'm immortal."

Edson shook his neck unnaturally from side to side, as if he was adjusting to the new head.

His eyes were wicked and unscrupulous, locked on Matthew, as if he wanted to eat him alive.

The blood mist still hasn't cleared.

It hung over the gnoll like an aura of protection.

Matthew sensed the smell of the thick realm from the blood mist.

At this time.

Suddenly, a textual message composed of moonlight appeared on the trembling badge.

……

"The suzerainty of Edson the Gnoll is Trill the demon of the Ancients, and Trier is the embodiment of the god of midnight, whose blessings are only valid at midnight, and his blessings of immortality are self-defeating until dawn.

- Althea. Moonlight"

……

The god of midnight?

This matter is actually related to Tianlun Palace?

Matthew did not doubt the authenticity of this information.

After all, this is in the same vein as the Moonlight Goddess's many near-flattering actions, even if he has a plan for himself, it will be a matter of later.

But whether it's the well-intentioned Althea or the Midnight God who incarnates as a demon and manipulates a sorcerer, it means that the banished gods seem to be starting to stir for some reason.

This is not good news for a sluggish world.

Such a thought flashed through Matthew's mind.

He suddenly drew a crossbow and aimed it at Edson in the blood mist.

"Come on, you can't kill me!"

Edson shouted frantically.

Matthew judged that he was still in a momentary state of stiffness after resurrection, so he didn't hesitate anymore, and the crossbow bolt shot out of the skeleton and hit Edson in the chest!

The arrow plunged into the jackal's chest, and the latter pulled it out as if it didn't feel pain, and twisted the arrow in two in front of Matthew.

However, Matthew didn't stop.

But seeing that his hand was up and down, he quickly changed from his magic bag to another well-wound crossbow and aimed it at Edson again.

Sou!

Another arrow.

Edson glared angrily:

"You're doing useless work!"

He had just pulled the second arrow from his chest, and the third arrow was already flying, but this time Matthew shot it crooked, and the arrow landed in the gnoll's knee.

Three arrows in quick succession made Edson angry.

The blood mist began to move slowly towards Matthew.

However, at this time, Matthew, who had shot three crossbows, slyly retreated in the direction of the oak forest.

He and Eli converged.

Defend yourself with Silver Moon Zombies and Skeleton Soldiers and make an orderly tactical retreat.

Only Ah Bing was ordered by Matthew to harass the sorcerers in the blood mist.

After receiving the order, Ah Bing immediately limped towards Edson.

His dance moves are sometimes stiff and sometimes silky.

All they saw was the skeleton that was always twisting its hips, circling around the blood mist in a tentative stance.

Every now and then, he would come out with a knife.

The short knife can always easily tear open the skin of the gnoll, leaving traces on his body that are not deep or shallow.

But that's all there is to it.

The blood mist seemed to give Edson an unstoppable vitality.

No matter how Bing added wounds to him.

He always recovers quickly, and his momentum grows stronger.

"This gnoll is too good at melee combat."

Eli said with jealousy:

"I'm afraid that only a shield defender of the same level can take his hammer head-on, not an ordinary warrior."

Matthew nodded slightly.

Peggy and Eli are both good melee fighters in the third order, but they are almost not Edson's one-in-one enemies, and this guy is really too oppressive in the frontal battle.

It was precisely when he saw this that he chose to lure the enemy deep and cooperate with the soldiers to successfully attack.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and the devil knows that a sorcerer actually has the blessing of a righteous god, although the Tianlun Palace is far away, and the god of midnight cannot interfere in the battlefield head-on, but the blessing he gives through the horse armor is tricky enough.

"Eli, I need you to cooperate with my skeleton assassin and continue to put pressure on him, and I will give you some support in the future."

Matthew spoke his mind.

Eli didn't refuse, he just wondered:

"He's immortal now, do your crossbow bolts and our harassment work?"

"I'm not trying to kill him now, I'm just trying to weaken him as much as I can."

Matthew said calmly:

"Didn't you notice that his movements were much slower than they were at the beginning?"

Eli suddenly realized:

"You quenched the poison?"

Matthew nodded:

"It seems that his immortal body is not omnipotent, the effects of the Powerful Exhaustion Ray and the Negative Armor Technique have been purified, but the toxins on the crossbow bolts will still make him sluggish, so it is not enough to kill him, we are facing a protracted battle."

Eli took a deep breath:

"I see, you need me to squeeze out his other abilities."

Matthew's eyes also flashed with jealousy:

"Yes, try to put pressure on the others while they are still hesitating, I suspect that he still has a powerful killing move in addition to resurrection, so you have to be careful."

Edson is the most formidable foe Matthew has faced since he crossed over.

Since it was an encounter, both sides were almost unprepared, and the attack just now was already the best decision Matthew had made through on-the-spot response.

So far.

Matthew doesn't have many cards in his hand, and the hole card bone dragon must not come out first, for two reasons -

First, playing his hole cards means that he has to be prepared to escape, which is obviously not there at the moment.

Second, Matthew's hole card is actually an open card.

The Scourge Cult knew about the existence of the Bone Dragon, but they still dared to come over to find trouble, which showed that they most likely had the means to fight the Bone Dragon.

In this case, the first card is about the same as death.

Matthew must rely on other means to delay and squeeze Edson!

Now.

His gaze was fixed on the gnoll sorcerer.

His attention was unprecedentedly focused and he refused to miss a single detail.

Eli understood Matthew's tactics, and his wilderness form switched from a saber-toothed tiger to a more dexterous jungle lynx, harassing Edson with the soldiers.

The injured Peggy is in charge of picking up the wound a little further away.

Matthew, on the other hand, has always maintained a pace that is neither fast nor slow.

In the blood mist.

Ederson was caught in front and back.

Despite his amazing ability to recover, he was also harassed incessantly.

The mace in his hand is extremely lethal, but he can't hit Ah Bing and Eli, the former has strange steps, obviously a skeleton, and his movements are as smooth as an earthworm!

The latter's agility skyrocketed after he turned into a bobcat, and he suffered the loss of the mace, so he didn't love fighting at all, and didn't give Ederson any chance.

The group fought and retreated.

Gradually approaching the edge of the oak forest.

Finally.

Edson also realized that his sluggishness was a little too much.

He threw himself a purification spell to temporarily suppress the toxin.

Little by little, the blood mist dissipated.

He seemed to be completely freed from the resurrection stiffness.

Suddenly.

He rushed to kill with one lunge, and his sudden acceleration almost injured Eli, but Ah Bing pounced on Edson's back like a ghost under Matthew's command!

Fireflies and Bright Moon are trying to repeat their old tricks.

This time, however, Edson dodged at the last moment, and the pair of short knives only tore the gnoll's scalp and did not decapitate him again.

Unable to do so, the soldier quickly melted into the shadows.

Edson was blushed by the fly tactics.

He finally couldn't take it anymore.

Under Matthew's fiery gaze.

The gnoll jerked off a palm-sized piece of fur off his chest!

On the back of the fur, densely written, distorted text.

Edson held the fur in his hand, glared angrily at the direction where the soldier had disappeared, and shouted loudly:

"You don't belong here!"

As he spoke, the fur burned out of thin air.

A Bing's figure suddenly appeared.

His movements were stiff at first, and then a dark gray circle of negative energy lit up under the soles of his feet.

"You don't belong here!"

Edson roared again.

The aperture completely engulfed Bing.

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"Hint: Edson the Sorcerer used the 'Banishment Instrument' on your summon, and the soldier was exiled for a short time!

The soldier is currently in the negative energy plane, and there are 4 hours left until the next summoning of the soldier

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Document of Exile (Pact Enhanced): A banishment spell stained with the blood of the Great Demon Trill that banishes any non-legendary otherworldly creature from the main material realm for a short period of time, depending on the level of the Wanderer and the will of the summoner."

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The soldier was banished.

Edson was completely reborn, and his movements became swift, and Eli's pressure suddenly increased a lot.

Ederson hammered Eli back.

Then he desperately rushed towards Matthew.

However, Matthew's eyes flashed with indescribable excitement.

"So, the banishment paperwork is the hole card you use against the bone dragon?"

He didn't rush to make a move.

Instead, order the skeletons and zombies to disperse.

But he ran quickly towards the oak forest.

In the woods.

The sound of horses' hooves was already sounding.

Matthew ran with a smile on his face.

He knows.

I'm not alone.

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