Scarlet light shone through his body, and the scarlet light erupting from the Night Watcher continued to tear the wound. The Moonlight Greatsword took shape inside his body, and the red Moonlight Sword, which had unique attack properties against flesh and blood, attached to the Night Watcher. Then the blade cut through the flesh and blood and slashed towards the left chest where the heart was.
With a light bang, the man in front of him disappeared from Shade's sight. Shade swung his sword without hesitation and turned back. He had already mastered this posture, and with the guidance of Sister Defulin, this could be called a true knight's swordsmanship.
when!
The Night Watcher with the power of the Red Moon collided with a transparent long sword, sparks, whirlwinds and fragments of the Red Moon flew everywhere, but the invisible long sword held by the strange ring wizard did not break:
"A sage-level sword? Why do those guys with the ability to move through space like to attack from behind?"
Shade muttered to himself that he used the Moonlight Greatsword more to cover up the runes on the Night's Watch and prevent the sword from being recognized.
The right foot stepped on the ground and the space stabilization aura unfolded, while the left hand without the sword swung out the light of confinement. However, this attack missed, and the transparent long sword shattered the light of confinement released by Shade at close range. When Shade tried to throw the moonlight wheel at close range, the seriously injured six-ring warlock finally spoke in panic:
"Wait a minute, I surrender!"
To show his sincerity, he stopped wrestling with Shade with his sword, but took a step back, and the long sword in his hand also showed its physical form. It looked like a steel sword, slightly shorter than the Night Watchman's. Seeing that Shade did not attack again, he endured the pain of the flesh and blood rotting in the wound on his chest, and said to Shade:
"You can kill me, but you don't want to attract the church, and we don't want to use the Word of Ascension like this. Saint Byrons definitely doesn't want that relic to fall into the hands of the church. Let me go, and I will leave Tobesk City immediately."
He spoke with a northern Delarian accent, something like the Coldwater dialect.
"Who are your companions? And the money to buy your life."
"There are three of us in total. I am responsible for transferring the guards in one carriage, and the other two, one with five rings and one with seven rings, are responsible for blocking the road ahead. We met in the New World. The one with seven rings is very powerful, and the one with five rings has unique magic. In addition to us, there should be a group of people who want to steal the coffin, but I don't know them. As for the money for buying your life... I can't give you this sword, so I'll give you this."
He placed a fist-sized piece of ore on the ground. There were golden traces on the black surface of the ore:
"Adamantium ore. Don't bargain with me. I need to treat my wounds. If you don't agree, I will use a loud magic to attract the attention of the church... Now it's not about what you want, but what I have."
He said this with pain, his left hand glowing with light to heal himself, but the wound torn by the Night Watchman and the Moonlight Greatsword was not easy to heal.
As for the piece of refined gold ore, although it looks very large, it is the raw ore. After smelting and purification, the remaining refined gold will not exceed the volume of half a thumb. It is completely incomparable with the mithril cube that Shade once had and the mountain copper obtained from the mirror.
"If you can see the situation so clearly, why do you still come to rob?"
Xia De asked again.
"I really don't have time to talk to you. Isn't it all about going further? There's no reason. Do you agree with me leaving or not?"
The injured man's tone sounded like he was threatening Shade. But Shade could see that he was really dying, and Shade didn't have time to waste:
"Tell me the information about your sword, and then go."
"The Sword of the Wind King, a sage-level relic, is a long sword blessed by the ancient wind elemental giant and the old god who controls the power of the four elements. It has two forms, tangible and intangible, and different forms have different characteristics. Oh, go check it out yourself, it's not hard to find this information."
He stepped back quickly, and seeing that Xia De did not object, he jumped down the building. After leaving the area covered by the aura of spatial stability, he disappeared into the air.
"Isn't it true that only people with chivalry can hold the Sword of the Wind King?"
Xia De thought to himself, bent down to pick up the ore, and put it away after confirming that there was no problem. He suddenly jumped into the air and then chased in the direction of the carriage in the night fog.
While Shad was solving the problem, Dr. Schneider and his crew, who had also encountered a strange ring wizard, had almost finished the battle.
When Shade jumped down from the roof of the house facing the street, he did not see the five-ring sorcerer, only the middle-aged woman with the seven-ring life ring floating behind her was still fighting with the doctor. Reverend Augustus sat on the driver's seat of the carriage parked diagonally on the street without moving, while Dorothy hid in the carriage to take care of the coffin.
Seeing Shade coming back, Dr. Schneider, who already had the upper hand, had his eyes glow red, and as a corner of the life ring behind him appeared, blasphemous destruction and enlightenment lava emitted light at the same time.
Then, the red burning rays from the doctor's eyes swept forward, melting the silver angel feather shield in front of the strange ring warlock of the same level as him, which had been protecting her from attacks.
The shield was very beautiful, with a crystal glow in the night fog. Even if it was shattered into pieces, the light spots were still very beautiful.
The woman groaned and retreated repeatedly, then no longer cared about fighting back. The Blasphemy-Shadow Spirit rune on her life ring flashed with light, and she transformed into five identical clones. One rushed towards Dr. Schneider, one turned to face Shade, and the remaining three rushed to the roofs of the houses on both sides of the street.
“Thunder gun!”
“Thunder gun!”
The figure that rushed towards Shade actually used the same magic as Shade at the same time. The dazzling lightning thrown from the hands of the two people collided in the middle of the street, and then because of the same magic properties, the colliding lightning actually stalemate together to form a strange arc of light. If the crackling lightning was not blocked by the Silence Spell, the whole factory area could probably hear it.
Buzz~
After the stalemate of the lightning spear, the vertically rotating moonlight wheel split the lightning, neatly cutting the figure behind the lightning light into two pieces. While the clone exploded into smoke, the silver moonlight wheel drew an arc and continued to fly upwards, splitting the other clone behind it into two pieces.
As for the doctor, the scorching rays with a slight smell of sulfur shot out from his eyes easily destroyed the clone rushing towards him. Then a giant claw emerged from the shadow and grabbed and exploded another figure who had just climbed onto the roof on the west side.
All four figures were fake, and the last one had already disappeared from the roof on the east side.
Xia De and the doctor were not in a hurry, because before the woman had time to continue to escape, they heard a clear voice above their heads:
"Where are you going?"
The woman subconsciously looked up and saw a beautiful woman in men's clothing with purple eyes riding on a flying skeleton horse in the air. The last object that the woman's lifeless eyes saw was the obsidian pendulum that was constantly swinging in Luvia's hand.
No one touched her, but her body began to petrify from her eyes until her entire body turned into a lifeless gray stone statue.
"Sure enough, once a fortune teller enters the middle ring, his combat power is not comparable to that of the lower ring. This curse is outstanding."
The doctor who jumped onto the roof said, not at all surprised by the situation.
"Doctor, I'm not as good as you. I haven't seen you fight for more than half a year, and I didn't expect you to become so strong. If she hadn't been seriously injured by you, the curse wouldn't have taken effect so easily. She was too careless. If she had run away at the beginning like that Five Rings, we would definitely not have chased her."
Luvia shook her head. Shade, who had followed her out of concern, also returned to her own body from the red butterfly swarm.
"Let's go into the warehouse quickly. The guy who stopped me just now has left, but he said there are only three of him in his group, and this seventh-ring warlock has a very powerful relic. Let me look for it."
"No need to bother."
Luvia in the air said, and slapped out with her palm - this move looked very familiar to Shade, and the gray statue exploded into powder, leaving only a shield-shaped metal badge that clanged to the ground.
"It turns out that shield is not a thaumaturgy, but a relic."
Dr. Schneider picked it up, and the group left in a hurry.
Bang bang bang~
A few minutes later, the door of the remote warehouse was pushed open by Shad, and Luvia entered the warehouse in advance to activate the ceremony. Priest Augustus drove a carriage from the yard and entered the warehouse. Dr. Schneider and Dorothy checked the situation around the warehouse with a courtyard.
This is the warehouse area in the western part of Tobesk. The entire block is made up of warehouses, so at night, apart from the warehouse guards, no one else can be seen here.
The five people were busy activating the ritual that had been arranged in the warehouse in advance. For safety reasons, Shad also used the camp of the spell traveler obtained from the time adventure, set up a camp next to the coffin in the warehouse, and summoned a bonfire and a tent.
This camp can not only suppress the relics in the coffin, but also help the five members of the team recover their physical and mental strength. Coupled with the enhancement of the bonfire by the primordial fire, in this case, it is simply a perfect magic.
"Where did you learn this magic? I thought that only a high-level sorcerer could learn this magic of creating something out of nothing and changing an area."
Priest Augustus was very surprised. The old priest was very knowledgeable and could tell that this was another unique divine magic.
After everything was arranged, the five of them could take a short rest. They did not plan to sleep tonight, and even for the lowest level, only three-ring Augustus priests, not sleeping for a night would not be a big problem.
The highest-ranking doctors, Shade and Schneider, climbed up to the roof, and they were the two of them observing from the best angle tonight. Reverend Augustus, Dorothy, and Luvia took turns guarding the coffin, on the one hand to prevent other problems from happening if they stayed close to the relics for a long time, and on the other hand to take turns to use the bonfire to restore their mental strength.
"I've known you for less than a year, right?"
On the roof, the two looked at the distant view of the city in the fog. The warehouse was not very high, but there were no tall buildings nearby, so the view was quite wide. Looking at this night view, Bill Schneider somehow thought of that afternoon in the middle of summer last year.
"Yes, Doctor, it is less than a year since the day when the silver moon shone in the middle of last summer."
"This year has been really long, and you have changed a lot."
The doctor looked at Xia De carefully:
"It's hard to imagine that last summer you were just an ordinary person."
“People change.”
Shade shook his head:
"Nothing is immutable, I just change faster. Have you noticed that we have all changed? Doctor, you are much more cheerful than last summer. Dorothy has become a famous writer known throughout the Old World. Although Father Augustus looks the same, he is actually in a much better mood. Luvia, the most difficult fortune teller to be promoted, has also successfully reached the fifth ring."
“You are the one who brought about this change.”
The doctor exclaimed, but there was no smile on Shade's face:
"I'm not sure if the changes I've brought about can really lead everyone to the best outcome."
"Why, do you need me to have a conversation with you? I'm the best at this."
The doctor joked, looking back at the low, continuous warehouse roofs:
"Ring sorcerers always encounter psychological problems. No one can avoid it. After all, the things we encounter are too different from ordinary people. You were promoted so quickly, so you must have psychological problems. You didn't realize it because you have your cat, Louisa and Anat by your side."
Although Shad's relationship with the girls was not made public, those who were familiar with him seemed to know about it.
"There is a saying that ring sorcerers should find a psychological anchor point for themselves so that they will not 'fly away' and lose control during the process of their life form advancement. This anchor point can be a family member, an object, a pet, a responsibility, or a mission..."
He paused, apparently thinking of himself:
"But that's for ordinary ring sorcerers. You're not ordinary, and everyone knows it."
"Is it my mental health problem?"
Xia De thought about it and nodded:
"So what advice can you give me? See you for treatment regularly?"
"No, no, it's not that complicated. You just need to take a break regularly between your busy life or tasks, and live from an ordinary person's perspective. This problem can be easily solved."
This was what Xia De had always done. Every time he solved a problem for a chosen one, he would rest for half a month to a month. This time, due to his illness, he rested for a longer period of time.
"I see... ... "
He also sighed at the foggy night. The stranger didn't want to talk about his own problems, so he changed the subject:
"Doctor, regarding our former team leaders, Mr. Sherf Tim and Ms. Shana Aya, where did their souls go? When are you going to tell me everything?"
"Aren't we talking about you? Why did you change the subject so quickly?"
The doctor asked in surprise, but still answered Xia De:
"I know you want to help me... ... wait until we both reach the tenth ring, no, eleventh ring. According to the current progress and the frequency of your encounters with demons, I don't think it will take a year. But now I can tell you some information... ... This is related to the 'Demon King'... ... What are you laughing at?"
He asked again in surprise, and Xia De tried to make his expression normal:
"Demon King? This title seems to appear only in knight novels."
Hearing this, the doctor also laughed:
"That's right. Actually, you can call him 'the first devil', 'the oldest devil', or 'the devil of sin'. He is the first evil spirit and devil recorded in the legend. He is the oldest evil, the original devil."
"From the Third Age?"
The doctor stood on the roof with his hands behind his back and shook his head gently:
"I want to correct a common sense mistake of yours: Although evil spirits and demons wreaked havoc on the world in the Third Age and caused an impact that cannot be erased even today, in fact, they already existed in ancient times, but they had not yet reached the level of threatening the world at that time. The first demons probably came from the First Age, where the story of the world began."
The doctor sighed and Shade nodded in understanding.
This is just like how although the Fifth Age is called the "Age of Witches", witches were not actually born in the Fifth Age. Since the beginning of the Age, there have always been those magical ladies.
When talking about the "first demon", Shade immediately thought of the demon stories told by his friend, demonologist Mr. Sean Asmon. In the demon stories of the demonologist, the unknown demon seemed to be the first evil spirit demon.
"I wonder if it's possible to meet Mr. Asmon in Green Lake. What kind of encounter will it be this time?"
Shade realized that he had never talked to anyone about Sean Asmon, so he wanted to talk to Dr. Schneider about the demonologist. But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that the scene around him had changed. The Tobesk warehouse area under the night fog became blurry and soon turned into an endless desert under the moonlight.
The dry air, carrying sand, hit the two men's faces. The roof of the warehouse was still under their feet, but the yard of the surrounding warehouse was gone.
"Luvia."
Xia De called out, and the voice of the fortune teller was immediately heard in the warehouse:
"I'm here, dealing with the coffin now. But the priest and Dorothy don't seem to be affected. I can't see them anymore."
"We can't see them from the roof either. We can only see sand. Then the doctor and I will deal with the next monster. Don't come out... Well, you can't come out either."
It was expected that the power of the relic would leak out again, so Shade and Dr. Schneider were not very surprised.
The two stood on the roof of a warehouse standing in the vast desert, looking at the yellow sand all over the sky and the khaki storm in the distance that almost connected the sky and the earth. The storm did not move towards this side, otherwise Xia De would have doubted whether this was the desert in the seven-day trip.