"Miss... Miss?!"

"Huh?"

Dolma's voice reached her ears, and Chrissy groaned as she removed her aching neck from the bumpy plank.

"Uh, am I asleep? ”

As soon as Chrissy opened her eyes, she saw the million-dollar dragon egg, and she remembered that she was still on her way back to the castle, and that it had been three days since the auction.

"Well, yes. ”

Dolma, dressed in a bulky set of plate armor, sat in the driver's seat of the carriage, pulled the reins, and made the two jujube hunting horses stop their hooves, then turned to look at Chrissy and said:

"Dolma didn't want to interrupt your break, but now we have a problem. ”

"Oh, what's wrong?"

Chrissy was now dizzy, and she was so exhausted from sitting in the rickety carriage that she could only pat her cheek to make herself clearer.

Dolma pointed to the dark path on the left and said:

"There is a trail on the left, which is a shortcut back, but it is dangerous because it is remote and passes through the mountains and forests. ”

Then she pointed to another wide avenue and said:

"On the right is the main road, which is safer with more cars and horses, but it may take three more days to travel around the mountain and by boat. ”

"Miss, which way shall we go?"

Originally, Zhuoma would also make his own judgment, they came to Twilight City from the Great Road, but now the situation is special, their carriage is carrying a priceless Demon Beast egg, if there is really anyone who cares, taking the Great Road does not mean that it is safe.

"It's best if we go back early, and even if there is danger, there is nothing to be afraid of. ”

Chrissy had had enough of the long journey, and now she just wanted to get back to the castle and finish it all.

"Yes, Miss. ”

Dolma waved the reins, and with the crisp sound of the whip, the two horses neighed and dragged the carriage towards the dim path.

The iron-tied wheels ran over the soft earth, leaving deep dents. The carriage was driving on a path that had not been repaired for many years, and the shaking was more violent than before.

Boom!

"Hmm!"

Just now, the wheel seemed to have run over a stone, which caused the sleepy Chrissy to bang the back of her head the plank.

"What's wrong? ”

Dolma, who heard the strange noise, waved the reins and slowed down the car.

"Dolma, let's find a place to rest after a little longer, shall we?"

"Okay, it just so happens that the horse is getting tired. ”

Dolma accepted the offer, and as a magical puppet, she did not feel tired in her own right, and naturally did not sleep.

But Chrissy and the horses need to rest, and Dolma knows that.

After a while, Dolma found a wide spot on the side of the road and stopped the carriage.

"Whew~ It's still grounded. ”

As soon as Chrissy landed, she couldn't help but take a deep breath of the cold air in the forest, and the dizziness she felt in the car before disappeared.

After disembarking from the carriage, the horses are to be placed. As Dolma tied the reins to the tree, Chrissy helped Dolma carry out the hay that had been placed in the carriage.

Then she took the lantern off the carriage and shone it again to see the resting spot.

"It's a great place to rest. ”

Chrissy sighed.

In addition to the straw paved on this flat land, there were extinguished bonfires left by other travelers, and stones had been placed around the campfires, and only a little more firewood needed to be lit all night.

In addition, Chrissy saw four bird eggs and three shriveled and dehydrated turnips in the straw, as well as a jar of water, which were apparently artificially piled up there.

This is a common practice among travelers: some travelers will set up rest points when they are tired of traveling, and when they leave, they will not completely dismantle them, they will leave some facilities and supplies here for the next traveler to use, and the next traveler will consciously maintain and repair the rest points after using them with gratitude, and replenish the materials they have taken.

As a thriving commercial city, there are naturally a lot of caravans and tourists coming and going, even if Chrissy and her sisters have already left the city, they can see many such rest spots.

After settling the horses and laying out the bedding, Chrissy moved her fingers and lit a bonfire with fireballing, but the fire was small, apparently due to a lack of fuel.

"Miss, you rest here first, and Dolma goes to find some dry firewood. ”

"Well, okay. ”

Dolma entered the grass and left from Chriss, while Chrissy sat cross-legged on the soft futon and began to meditate, perhaps because she was hungry, Chrissy also took out a piece of pancake from the space bag, opened a mouthful of silver teeth and began to chew.

Rustling......

There was a slight movement in the grass, like an evening breeze blowing through it.

However, fluttering in the grass was actually a pit viper with black patterns, which was indifferent to invisibility under the cover of night.

It just so happened that a gust of wind blew, and the vegetation of the jungle made a "brushing" sound, which directly covered the only bit of abnormal movement left of the pit viper, which was moving carefully.

The pit viper spat out the trembling snake letter from between the two fangs, and unhurriedly wriggled the thick snake body to approach the girl who was showing her unsuspecting back.

The ghost-faced pit viper, this vicious venom is extremely good at lurking, and once it reaches range, it will leap to its feet, showing its incredible bouncing power, and will not stop attacking after successfully biting its deadly fangs into its prey, but will let go and retract before continuing to bite.

When a poisoned prey tries to fight or flee, the toxin spreads quickly throughout the body, resulting in a poison death.

Just as the ghost-faced pit viper was about to enter five meters behind the girl, that is, its attack range, a mana rune lit up in the grass where the pit viper was.

A flame erupted out of thin air, igniting the ghost-faced pit viper and the grass around it.

"What?!"

The snake controller hiding in the dense forest looked in shock at the sea of fire that had devoured his demons, and the girl who smiled at him shocked him even more.

He was actually discovered?

Obviously, his location is still dozens of meters away from this girl, and there is a dense forest in the middle, how can this girl know where she is?

"You've been following you for so long, so we really don't know?"

While standing up from her position, Chrissy threw another fireball spell at the two-meter-long snake that was rolling and fluttering in the sea of fire, followed by a wind blade that slashed at the "seven inches" of the ghost-faced pit viper.

After two consecutive mending knives, this ghost-faced pit viper really stopped moving.

"Miss, are you alright?"

At the same time, the bushes next to Chrissy made a rustling sound, and a jeweled Dolma pierced through the bushes, holding a small snake the thickness of a finger in each hand.

This small snake seems to be less threatening than the ghost-faced pit viper, in fact, this small snake is called Iron Tip Head, and it is extremely good at drilling holes, and it is even easier to drill into the gap on the armor, and the venom hidden in the small fangs is even more toxic than the ghost-faced pit viper, and the poisoned person will gradually paralyze the whole body, if it has not been treated, it will festering and die within three days.

However, to Dolma, a magical puppet, these poisonous snakes are no threat, and she doesn't even have flesh on her body that can be harmed by venom.

In addition, Dolma's sensing ability has not deteriorated due to the passage of time, and these two iron tips were grabbed and twisted by a pair of ruthless iron hands before they landed on her body.

"Dolma, I'm fine. ”

Chrissy pointed in the direction of the snake controller and said:

"The enemy is in the middle of the jungle forty paces away, and there are at least sixteen poisonous snakes by his side, and I will hand them over to you. ”

"Okay. ”

Dolma threw away the snake corpse in his hand, pulled out the steel sword at his waist, and rushed towards the direction indicated by Chrissy with a crisp sword roar.

That's right, Dolma is not a simple housekeeping magic puppet, at the beginning of her creation, she was also endowed with the ability to act as the guard of the Lanyeer family at a critical moment.

"Heh! You've got two hits. ”

Looking at the plate knight who rushed towards him, the snake controller did not panic, but laughed darkly, and his hands slapped a seal, and the snakes in the forest became restless.

Whoosh!

In the dense forest, large and small poisonous snakes hidden in the darkness pounced on Zhuoma, but the plate knight was undaunted, swinging a sharp sword to cut these poisonous snakes in two.

But the enemy's attacks are too dense, and Dolma is no longer flexible enough because of her joint parts, even if she is implanted with master-level swordsmanship, she can't block them all.

Eventually, the venomous snake managed to land on her armor and scurry to her neck, which was not fully protected by the armor, and tore at it.

"Good!"

Just when the snake controller was overjoyed, Dolma's actions did not stop for a minute, she grabbed the spotted snake with one hand, left a deep palm print on the waist of the snake with thick arms, and then ripped the paralyzed snake corpse from her body.

"This!"

This scene shocked the snake controller again, but before he could think of a reason, a little cold light under the moon rushed towards the snake controller's throat.

And then Chrissy suddenly shouted, "Dolma!

At this time, Chrissy was not soft-hearted, she knew very well that everything seemed to be under control just now, but in fact it was extremely dangerous.

The snake controller is vicious and cautious. They also rested a few times on the way, but they all stood guard by Zhuoma, and the snake controller didn't know what the two of them were doing.

This time, Chrissy asked Dolma to leave her, and continued to pretend that she was unaware, and the snake controller also acted at both ends, leaving no trouble.

If they were ordinary people, they would have died long ago, and if Chrissy hadn't noticed that when she left the auction hall, there was a strange look behind her that alerted her, and she had been restless during the subsequent journey, so she had to pay attention to her precautions and plan in advance, so she had the preparation to "lure the snake out of the hole" just now.

Otherwise, she would have died a few minutes ago under the mouth of the ghost-faced pit viper.

But why did the snake controller kill her? Was it just for the monster egg in the car?

Chrissy wanted to figure out why, and the killer who was following her all the way must have a lot of information she needed right now.

"Yes!"

After receiving Chrissy's instructions, Dolma immediately retracted his sword momentum and jumped to the position behind the snake controller, trying to get behind the snake controller and strangle him by the throat to subdue him.

"Tsk!"

However, the snake controller laughed twice, and the ghost's figure suddenly took a few steps back, and Dolma immediately chased after her, but a cold light came towards her from the shadows.

Zhuoma's horizontal sword was about to block, and the moment the long sword touched it, it sparked violently, and then the long sword broke with a crisp sound.

After losing the obstacle, this mysterious weapon continued to attack, facing Dolma in armor and still embedded in Dolma's body like a hot knife cutting butter.

"Dolma!"

This snake controller actually has accomplices?

This is something Chrissy didn't expect. The snake control man is also quite powerful as an animal trainer, and he still domesticates extremely dangerous poisonous snakes, so there should be very few people who are willing to go with him.

"Miss... Run... This person... Very strong......"

Swept into Dolma's body was a flywheel, not a drop of blood on its pale serrations, and the severed parts of the mechanism had a cold jade sheen in the moonlight.

"Magic golems? ”

At first, the person who had been hiding in the shadows walked out into the moonlight, but this person was wearing a black robe like the snake controller.

Dolma was trying to get up from the ground, only to see the mysterious man's right hand clenched out of thin air, and the flywheel inserted in Dolma's right shoulder turned rapidly, countless shattered parts jumped out of the sparks, and Dolma's body twitched and fell.

"Let her go!"

Seeing that Zhuoma had been hit hard, Chrissy was shocked and angry, and hurriedly took out two magic scrolls from the space bag and smashed them at the man.

Two magic scrolls cracked in the air, one turned into a pillar of fire, the other into an ice spike, and one fire and one ice staggered towards the mysterious man.

"Is it a scroll as soon as it is shot? It is worthy of the Lanyeer family. ”

The mysterious man still looked at ease in the face of such a sharp attack, and with a swing of his palm, the flywheel on Dolma's shoulder flew in front of him, and then the blades opened wide and spun rapidly, like a shield.

In the loud roar, the surrounding trees were charred or frozen in the aftermath of the attack.

"Funny ......"

In the midst of such a violent magical attack, the mysterious man in the black robe, who was a little tattered, turned his head to look around, and found that everything was shrouded in mist, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Obviously, Chrissy's attack was not just an attack, and that creating this fog was probably her purpose.

"But it's not a fun little trick. ”

The mystery man stretched out his right hand overhead, and the flywheel spun around his head with his will, creating a strong wind that quickly dispersed the fog.

"Huh?!"

Chrissy, who was quickly running towards Dolma with [Lightfoot], was immediately exposed to the mysterious man's vision.

"Do you still want to save your magic puppet?"

The mysterious man sneered, and with a movement of his index finger, the flywheel flew towards Chrissy with his will.

Although the sudden dissipation of the fog made Chrissy a little flustered, she knew that she would die if she was out of proportion now.

"Fortified Walls!"

Chrissy's second-order talent sorcery, [Fortified Wall], is still a non-offensive sorcery, and can instantly generate a medium-sized shield the size of a shield according to her will, blocking any attack.

It can only be used three times a day, with a maximum duration of five minutes, and the specific effect increases with the level.

The flywheel can easily cut through steel, and its attack power is extraordinary, and the shield of the [Fortified Wall] only lasted less than a second under the jagged teeth of the flywheel before being shattered into several pieces, like a fragile glass side.

And Kerry didn't hesitate to release the last two [Solid Walls] to delay the flywheel's attack as much as possible.

The flywheel slashed through the shield again and again, slowing down a lot, but the flywheel was about to cut into Chrissy's back, and Chrissy was now defenseless.

"Dolma?!"

At this time, Dolma appeared in front of Chriss, and she knocked Chrissy away at the moment when the flywheel ran over Chrissy, and it was hard to imagine how Dolma, who had already cut off half of her shoulder, could move herself.

"Miss... You go..."

Due to the attack of the hard eating flywheel, Dolma lost another arm, and most of his entire upper body was mutilated.

Dolma, whose body was severely damaged, was no longer able to maintain the flow of magic in her body, and even her speech was intermittent.

"From now on... I'm afraid ......"

How, how could it be?

What exactly am I doing wrong?

Why is this happening?

Chrissy hugged Dolma, a magical puppet who was once heavy and could now be picked up by the girl's weak arms.

She tries to drag Dolma back, but the killers clearly won't sit idly by.

The mystery man makes the flywheel fly back to the metal stand on his right arm, and a sharp sword pops out of his cuff, and the snake controller who had been watching the play followed closely as the mystery man took a step.

The two terrible killers walked towards the master and servant step by step.

Chrissy stared at the two and said, "Are you here for that egg?"

The mysterious man shook the tip of his sword gracefully, and he smiled, "Aren't you very clear?"

Chrissy bit her lip and said, "If I said I would give you that egg, would you let us go?"

"Unfortunately, we have no room for negotiation. ”

Now that they have fought each other, they will take Chrissy's life anyway to prevent future troubles.