Xia De frowned and looked at the enemy in front of him:
"Are you from the Blood Spirit School?"
Unlike the talkative man with glasses, Shade's opponent didn't seem to like talking. He rushed forward again and then exploded into a cloud of black mist. It seemed that this method of space movement was much worse than Shade's Lager's jump. Not only did it require a rushing action, but the sound and black mist when moving were also a bit too conspicuous.
With his keen spatial perception, Xia De could detect the opponent's landing point even before he appeared. He did not use the spatial stabilization aura to stop the opponent's movement, but directly stabbed the long sword in his hand backwards.
The moment the opponent appeared, the scarlet moonlight greatsword had already pierced through his abdomen. The flesh-corrupting property of the scarlet moonlight greatsword took effect almost immediately, and the festering wound made the sword in Shade's hand even more dazzling.
But this did not constitute a fatal injury. The bloody ghost behind the man took the initiative to reach out and hug the man, and then grabbed Shade's sword in front of the man with both hands. The head of the strange ghost stretched from the man's shoulder to Shade, and the elongated neck was like a slender snake, and the mouth of the ghost bit Shade's neck.
Although he didn't know what would happen if he was bitten, Shade still let go of the sword and stepped back.
The brief fight lasted no more than half a minute, and Xia De with five rings barely gained the upper hand.
Because of Shade's loosening, the red dagger that pierced the man's abdomen disappeared. The middle ring warlock covered his stomach and looked at Shade angrily. The life ring emitted a more dazzling light behind him, and this time, he actually exploded into a red blood mist.
"Black fog and red fog, are you so good at fog... Hmm? A blood-sucking talent?"
Xia De did not see the small mark of a vampire on the other person's head, which meant that the other person was a mixed-race, and his bloodline was extremely weak:
"Is it really the Blood Spirit School?"
The blood mist floated towards Xia De, and there seemed to be dense mosquitoes buzzing inside. Xia De completely ignored the interference of the mosquitoes and pointed his finger at the position above the red mist:
"Daylight ray!"
A thin column of warm yellow light shot out, and after a scream, the little bat hidden above the red mist was pierced by the light column, and then fell directly to the ground, returning to the appearance of a man, but now his face was pale, and the previous blow was even more serious than the penetration injury of the Moonlight Greatsword:
"How could you possibly know the weakness of a race's secret arts?"
"I have a Dhampir friend."
When Mr. Bernhardt was in Huntington City, he discussed the secret techniques of these vampires with Shade.
The man stopped talking, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and shouted in a low voice, then turned into a bloody cross and attacked Shade. Shade was more familiar with this move. Mr. Bernhardt had shown it to him, and he could do it himself:
"Moonlight Slash!"
With his hands also crossed in front of his chest, Shade also turned into a brilliant silver cross and struck forward. The two crosses collided head-on. After the smoke and dust of the explosion, Shade drank the essence while patting the dust on his body - the fourth form of Moonlight Slash was too spiritual. The middle-ring warlock supported the ground with one hand and kept vomiting blood on the ground.
He was seriously injured at this time, and he knew that continuing to fight with Xia De would definitely not have a good result. Xia De didn't even show his life ring, so he decided to launch a final attack. Xia De was originally worried that he would risk using the sublimation language, but the other party only made the life ring behind him flash again.
Miracle Spirit Rune Blood Ghost, Blasphemy Spirit Rune Suicide, Whispering Spirit Rune Corpse. The three spirit runes jointly supported the following magic, and acted on the surface. The man's feet were higher, and the ghost lying behind him seemed to be completely stepped on by it.
Suddenly, the ghost jumped forward, causing the man to jump up as well. The height of the first jump was directly above Xia De's head, and the second hard bounce after landing was as high as three stories.
"What kind of magic is this?"
The swirling red and black light surrounded the Wandering Soul and the Ringwitch, and the ground he stepped on even seeped out scarlet blood. Shade was fully prepared to meet the opponent's desperate attack, but what he saw was the opponent's third bounce, which jumped over the earth wall summoned by the witch.
"Um?"
After a moment of surprise, the silver-white lightning spear in his hand had already followed. The man jumping in the air used the blood-colored ghost behind him to block the attack, then screamed and fell behind the earth wall and fell into a coma.
“It’s a really interesting magic trick.”
Shade commented, and once he was sure the other person was truly unconscious, he turned to look at his companion.
At the same time that the battle on Shade's side ended, the battles on the other two sides were basically over. Although Miss Benannis was not good at fighting, with the power of an eleventh-level witch and a part-time eleventh-ring warlock, she easily suppressed the opponent with only eight rings.
The battle between Luvia and the low-level warlock holding the obsidian pendulum was even simpler. The two looked at each other solemnly, standing still. The man desperately shook the relic pendulum in his hand, while Luvia tossed the coin again and again, as if showing off her divination skills to the other party.
After a full three minutes, Luvia suddenly pulled out the golden dagger she carried with her and threw it at the opponent. The latter dodged to the left and was hit in the chest by the dagger, as if he was using his body to catch Luvia's knife.
The man looked at the weapon stuck in his chest in astonishment, and the obsidian pendulum in his hand fell to the ground:
"Fate finally gave me the ending I deserved."
Luvia's short sword obviously didn't have the effect of killing with one strike, but he took his last breath just like that. The battles between fortune-tellers are always hard to understand, but at least Luvia was very happy when she picked up the obsidian pendulum.
The man with glasses who was suppressed by the witch had reached the last step. The mud palm stretched out from the earth grabbed his ankle, and the silver memory thread in the witch's hand tied his right hand holding the black skull-shaped relic. He was going to risk using the words of sublimation, but Miss Benannis said:
"You have to think carefully. If I catch you, I will just send you to the Orthodox Church. The Church will not kill high-level warlocks like you directly. You still have value, such as exploring the way when storing relics, or testing the characteristics of some new relics. But if you use the Word of Sublimation without any preparation like now, even if you beat me, you may die suddenly while escaping."
The man hesitated, and the relic in his hand fell to the ground:
"I surrender."
He thought that the ugly woman in front of him, who was obviously disguising her appearance, was right.
"Are you from the Blood Spirit School?"
"Yes, one of my two companions is also a member of the Blood Spirit School, and the other is a follower of the Stoneheart Demon."
"How many of you are still around here?"
"Three high-level rings and three mid-level rings. They will appear soon and stop the church's actions. As long as we delay them for a while, the plan can be carried out smoothly."
"What relic are you waiting for?"
The man looked at the lake that was gradually freezing again. During the fight between the six people, the church had already repaired the polluted area that was almost out of control due to the earthquake. Because the church did not have enough manpower, they did not send anyone to see who was fighting here:
"You will know soon. I can't tell you. It's contracted."
Then Miss Benannis clapped her hands violently, and the man whose mobility was restricted by the lake screamed and covered his ears, then he fainted in dizziness.
"The Blood Spirit School and those cultists seem to have sufficient manpower. They can send three people to do the finishing work."
The witch said.
"Maybe they are not doing the finishing touches at all. Let the church tell the lies."
Shade frowned, and the two ladies walked over to his side, and the three of them looked out at the frozen lake under the starry sky.
At this time, the frozen black mud still stood in the middle of the lake like a giant winding snake, but it also looked like a stone pillar that had existed since ancient times. At this time, the clouds dispersed, and the moonlight sprinkled on the ice, illuminating the people who were busy on the other side.
Of course, there were more than just the church and Shade at the lakeside. Local ring magicians had come here for various reasons. Everyone was waiting to see what would happen next, and the church had almost taken control of the situation.
The change was first noticed by Shade, and the whispering element suddenly appeared before his eyes.
It was hard to tell whether it was another earthquake or whether Shade was the first to detect the whispering element. The rumbling sound was more terrifying than any previous one, and the lake surface, which had just been frozen again, was completely shattered this time.
The divine light from the other side of the lake was so strong that it almost illuminated half of the night sky, but this still could not prevent the unnatural earthquake effect.
The lake water was violently hitting the shore due to the earthquake, and the dirty lake water mixed with black mud brought the ice to the shore. But only the frozen giant black mud column did not break, and still stood strangely in the center of Lake Eldron.
As another round of earthquakes ended, there were still ripples on the surface of the lake. At this time, not only Shade, but any ring sorcerer with a little perception could sense that the whispering elements around them had become extremely powerful to an extremely terrifying degree.
Then, the ring sorcerers flying in the air first noticed the swirling vortex on the lake surface at the bottom of the giant ice pillar. A dark spot deeper than the lake water polluted by black mud appeared below the lake surface.
Rain clouds gathered quickly, covering the starry sky and the moon. The air was filled with the smell of damp earth, a sign of impending rain.
Finally, a huge black stone head rose from the bottom of the lake, followed by the neck, shoulders and the entire body. It was a huge stone statue with a rather simple shape, with the left hand on the right shoulder and the right hand on the left shoulder. It was not a common modern human sculpture with rich details, but more like a stone statue with greater symbolic meaning used for sacrifice.
The eyes and facial features were all angular cubes, and the body was outlined with patterns that looked like steam pipes. On the two pillar-like legs that were standing, there were giant runes that formed a sentence:
I give everything I have just to get even a drop of rain.
The relic arrived so suddenly.