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Chapter 122: Thinking for you
Tall and angular buildings were erected within the cemetery of death that was strewn with bones. All of it drew Duke’s attentions. In that instant, he concerned himself with looking around wildly and didn’t continue making a move against Han Shuo.
However, when Emily rushed into the cemetery, her first task wasn’t to take in the surroundings. Rather, she flew to Han Shuo instead and asked anxiously, “Are you alright?”
If it’d been an ordinary person falling from a great height, they might have actually really been injured. But Han Shuo, of course, wasn’t injured at all. He shook his head at Emily and stood up with a darkened face, fixing his gaze tightly onto the wind archmage Duke in the distance.
Looking around with excitement, Duke said joyfully when senior swordsman Erick joined him, “This is the cemetery of death, there’s no doubt about it. Who would’ve thought that we’d actually make it in.”
“Master Duke, we didn’t discover anything after a long period of study, but the boundary to the cemetery of death opened when the green light emitted from that person. It’s very strange!” Erick looked at Han Shuo from afar and said lowly to Duke.
Nodding, Duke said, “That’s right. It looks like there’s something odd about this person. That green light just now also gave me a familiar feeling, it seemed to have come from the Eye of Darkness!”
Erick was greatly astonished when these words were voiced. “How is that possible?”
Grasping the Demonslayer Edge within his hands, Han Shuo recited an incantation and the little skeleton, wielding a bone dagger and sporting seven wings, appeared. Three zombie warriors also appeared. They all held wooden clubs and barred the way to Han Shuo and Emily along with the little skeleton.
“You were the one who opened the boundary to the cemetery of death?” Emily breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Han Shuo was unharmed. She then recalled what had just happened and asked Han Shuo with great confusion.
Nodding, Han Shuo said with a darkened face, “That’s right. The cemetery of death was opened by something on my body. Duke and Erick must die now. You help me take care of Duke, and I’ll explain to you after we kill them!”
Emily didn’t ask anything else after hearing Han Shuo speak thus, and docilely picked up her magic staff, setting her sights on the approaching Duke with a look full of killing intent.
“He’s also a necromancer to boot, it looks like this will be a slightly difficult fight!” Erick had traded blows with Han Shuo and could feel that Han Shuo’s strength was not in the slightest bit weaker than his. When he saw that Han Shuo had even summoned zombie warriors, his brow creased as he spoke.
“Kill them first. We’re excavating the secrets of the cemetery of death!” Duke snorted lightly and floated over. Erick didn’t say much else after pausing for a moment and following Duke in a charge over.
A bit of incantation leisurely surged out of Emily’s mouth. The magic staff within her hand suddenly shot out a few strands of black air like snakes, twisting and twining towards the approaching Duke. When Duke saw the black air attacking him, his face because incomparably grave. A tornado formed suddenly in front of him and churned up all the white bones on the ground. It made for the black air and twisted all of them into the tornado.
Snorting coldly, Emily said, “be careful”, to Han Shuo and also flew towards the air. She waved the magic staff in her hand and started fighting fiercely with Duke within the air.
“We shouldn’t just idly stand around either.” Han Shuo grinned and gave a long laugh. The little skeleton led the three zombie warriors in heading towards Erick. At the same time, Han Shuo kept an eye behind Erick and Duke via the original demons, observing their every gesture and move.
“Do you think three zombies and a skeleton are enough to stop me?” Erick snorted lowly with disdain as dark green fighting aura flared out of the longsword in his hand. His body was like a bulldozer as he sent dirt and dust flying when he charged directly towards Han Shuo.
Continuously laughing coldly within his heart, Han Shuo made use of his mental strength to manipulate the zombie warriors and little skeleton, blocking the way in front of him. The little skeleton’s usual speed was as fast as lightning, but was now being purposefully curtailed by Han Shuo so that he was as slow as the zombie warriors. Dashing over, Erick’s dark green fighting aura formed a ball of light as it enclosed a zombie warrior within it.
The sound of bones exploded suddenly emitted from the zombie warrior’s body. Beneath the effects of the dark green fighting aura, the first zombie warrior had its body shattered. Its wooden club also broke into several segments. Turning his body sideways with a disdainful smirk, Erick’s nimble body evaded the crashes from the other two zombie warriors’ wooden clubs and stabbed forward with his longsword, slashing open the neck of another zombie warrior. The zombie warrior swayed and looked like it would fall down.
The little skeleton raised the bone dagger and pressed beside against the other zombie warrior, jerkily raising the bone dagger in its hand and stabbing it towards Erick. Erick could easily handle even the zombie warriors, so he paid absolutely no attention to the little skeleton’s upraised dagger, raising his sword rather impatiently to block the strike.
At this moment, the originally abnormally slow bone dagger suddenly increased more than tenfold in its striking speed. The previously stiff and slow little skeleton became so agile that it caused Erick’s eyes to bug out. Erick’s longsword had just started rising and he hadn’t had time to make his move before the bone dagger was already landing towards his chest.
Erick retreated in horrified fright, but he was still a beat too slow. A puncturing sound rang out as a large piece of flesh and blood flew up from his chest. As Erick cried out in pain, he also called out with incredulity, “How is this possible?! What kind of skeletal warrior is this?”
It was a pity that the little skeleton had no reaction to Erick’s astonished yells. When he’d succeeded with one of his blows, he didn’t relax and followed up closely afterwards. He didn’t wait for Erick to stabilize his footing before appearing in front of him. As Erick’s fighting aura gathered anew on his longsword, the seven bone spurs on the back of the little skeleton’s spine flared out at the same time and they flew in a semi-circle, landed accurately on Erick’s body.
The seven bone spurs pierced through Erick’s neck, forehead, and heart. He didn’t even have time to release the fighting aura that he’d gathered before his body fell straight backwards. The frightened and terrified expression on his face didn’t even vanish in death.
Duke and Emily had been fighting when they both noticed the disturbance on this side. When they saw that Erick had died a gruesome death, both were surprised. However, Duke’s worry and Emily’s joy followed closely after that surprise.
Emily had already witnessed the little skeleton’s miraculousness last time, and even she, a dark archmage, had been powerless in the face of the little skeleton’s pursuit. The little skeleton’s nimbleness and speed had left a powerful impression on Emily. Upon seeing that the seven bone spurs on the back of the little skeleton could even harm someone, she had a deeper understanding of Han Shuo’s mysteriousness.
Duke was already having trouble fending off attacks from Emily alone, he’d actually been hoping that Erick would help him after taking care of Han Shuo. He hadn’t thought that the seasoned and well experienced Erick would die so quickly. Han Shuo was still standing there, having made not a move. This made Duke panic momentarily.
“What, you want to run? Do you think you can get away today?” After killing Erick, the original demon noticed that Duke’s eyes were darting around. Han Shuo drew near to him with a shadow of a smile as he opened his mouth in mockery.
Duke’s face suddenly grew frosty as his usually benevolent features twisted and he stared at Han Shuo, “You’re seeking death!”
Many sharp shards of bone fragments on the ground suddenly shot towards Han Shuo as Duke waved his magic staff. The sound they made while breaking through the air was extremely ear piercing, and their momentum was quite frightening. When Emily saw that Han Shuo was under attack, she was even more nervous than Han Shuo as she hastily chanted a dark magic spell.
An inky black opening appeared out of thin air before these sharp bone fragments reached Han Shuo. When the bone fragments arrived, they were all attracted to the black opening and completely sucked in.
After releasing his attack, Duke didn’t continue to attack, but rather hurtled his body towards the outside in an attempt to escape. It looked like he’d counted on Emily being concerned for Han Shuo. That’s why he’d attacked Han Shuo so that Emily would save him, and then take advantage of the opportunity to run off.
However, it was easy to enter the cemetery of death, but difficult to leave. After the Eye of Darkness had revealed itself, it’d once again sank back into Han Shuo’s space ring. Without the Eye of Darkness, even him, a wind archmage, would be unable to open the boundary.
He crashed headfirst into the boundary, and a large bang sounded out. A ball of green light flared out from the boundary as Duke was affected by its power. He was unable to maintain his levitation spell and fell from midair. Some broken pieces of bone happened to run through his calves, stomach, and waist, causing immediate injury to his body.
“My condolences!” Han Shuo approached Duke with a cold smile as Emily and the little skeleton surrounded Duke. Han Shuo ripped off the mask on his face and said, “Long time no see, benevolent Mister Duke!”
Duke, crying out painful, immediately spoke with fear when he saw Han Shuo reveal his true face. “Why is it you, I remember that I once saw you in the Babylon Academy. Aren’t you that necromancy student?”
Nodding, Han Shuo smiled sinisterly and said, “That’s right, it’s me.” He then took out the Eye of Darkness and placed it on his palm, lighting it up. “The small errand boy you whose tracks you guys discovered last time, in the cemetery in the mountains to the back of the Academy, was also me. Heh heh, I was the one who gained the Eye of Darkness that Dylan buried in the ground. You guys didn’t think that I wouldn’t die, did you? It’s come full circle not too long afterwards!”
“So you were the one who obtained the Eye of Darkness! No wonder the boundary to the cemetery of death was opened after a light came from your body!” Duke spoke in sudden enlightenment.
Three more zombie warriors appeared, making it a total of four zombie warriors and one little skeleton. They walked slowly towards archmage Duke. Han Shuo raised his crossbow and took aim at Duke, Emily chanted a dark major spell, officially sealing Duke’s fate as the little skeleton’s seven bone spurs flew around in a dance.
When the seven bone spurs flew out, Duke used wind blades to rapidly defend against them all, but the approaching four zombie warriors and little skeleton made him feel quite troubled.
When Han Shuo’s crossbow had shot it, the bolt pierced through the hastily dodging Duke’s thigh and nailed him to the ground. Emily’s dark magic had already enclosed Duke before Han Shuo had taken out the Demonslayer Edge. Thick smoke rose up from Duke’s body in that instant as he became another set of stark white bones within the cemetery of death.
The little skeleton drew close to Duke and took off the space ring from the white bones of his hand. He handed it over to Han Shuo along with the pockets of senior swordsman Erick.
Emily stared at the little skeleton with her clear eyes and was dumbfounded for quite a while by the little skeleton’s motions. She finally couldn’t hold it in any longer and asked Han Shuo with an exceedingly high amount of curiosity, “Can you tell me what was up with that wondrous little skeleton?”
“Heh heh, nothing much. I’ve just refined it with a secret art. That’s why its performance is so wondrous!” Rubbing the little skeleton’s clean and smooth skullcap, Han Shuo smiled as he picked up the spoils of battle being offered up to him.
Emily glared fiercely at Han Shuo and said huffily, “Just how many more things are you keeping from me? Why do you have the Eye of Darkness and how come you could refine such an amazing skeletal warrior? You’re just a small necromancer, yet you also have uncommon fighting techniques. Just what is going on here?”
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Chapter 122: Thinking for you
Tall and angular buildings were erected within the cemetery of death that was strewn with bones. All of it drew Duke’s attentions. In that instant, he concerned himself with looking around wildly and didn’t continue making a move against Han Shuo.
However, when Emily rushed into the cemetery, her first task wasn’t to take in the surroundings. Rather, she flew to Han Shuo instead and asked anxiously, “Are you alright?”
If it’d been an ordinary person falling from a great height, they might have actually really been injured. But Han Shuo, of course, wasn’t injured at all. He shook his head at Emily and stood up with a darkened face, fixing his gaze tightly onto the wind archmage Duke in the distance.
Looking around with excitement, Duke said joyfully when senior swordsman Erick joined him, “This is the cemetery of death, there’s no doubt about it. Who would’ve thought that we’d actually make it in.”
“Master Duke, we didn’t discover anything after a long period of study, but the boundary to the cemetery of death opened when the green light emitted from that person. It’s very strange!” Erick looked at Han Shuo from afar and said lowly to Duke.
Nodding, Duke said, “That’s right. It looks like there’s something odd about this person. That green light just now also gave me a familiar feeling, it seemed to have come from the Eye of Darkness!”
Erick was greatly astonished when these words were voiced. “How is that possible?”
Grasping the Demonslayer Edge within his hands, Han Shuo recited an incantation and the little skeleton, wielding a bone dagger and sporting seven wings, appeared. Three zombie warriors also appeared. They all held wooden clubs and barred the way to Han Shuo and Emily along with the little skeleton.
“You were the one who opened the boundary to the cemetery of death?” Emily breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Han Shuo was unharmed. She then recalled what had just happened and asked Han Shuo with great confusion.
Nodding, Han Shuo said with a darkened face, “That’s right. The cemetery of death was opened by something on my body. Duke and Erick must die now. You help me take care of Duke, and I’ll explain to you after we kill them!”
Emily didn’t ask anything else after hearing Han Shuo speak thus, and docilely picked up her magic staff, setting her sights on the approaching Duke with a look full of killing intent.
“He’s also a necromancer to boot, it looks like this will be a slightly difficult fight!” Erick had traded blows with Han Shuo and could feel that Han Shuo’s strength was not in the slightest bit weaker than his. When he saw that Han Shuo had even summoned zombie warriors, his brow creased as he spoke.
“Kill them first. We’re excavating the secrets of the cemetery of death!” Duke snorted lightly and floated over. Erick didn’t say much else after pausing for a moment and following Duke in a charge over.
A bit of incantation leisurely surged out of Emily’s mouth. The magic staff within her hand suddenly shot out a few strands of black air like snakes, twisting and twining towards the approaching Duke. When Duke saw the black air attacking him, his face because incomparably grave. A tornado formed suddenly in front of him and churned up all the white bones on the ground. It made for the black air and twisted all of them into the tornado.
Snorting coldly, Emily said, “be careful”, to Han Shuo and also flew towards the air. She waved the magic staff in her hand and started fighting fiercely with Duke within the air.
“We shouldn’t just idly stand around either.” Han Shuo grinned and gave a long laugh. The little skeleton led the three zombie warriors in heading towards Erick. At the same time, Han Shuo kept an eye behind Erick and Duke via the original demons, observing their every gesture and move.
“Do you think three zombies and a skeleton are enough to stop me?” Erick snorted lowly with disdain as dark green fighting aura flared out of the longsword in his hand. His body was like a bulldozer as he sent dirt and dust flying when he charged directly towards Han Shuo.
Continuously laughing coldly within his heart, Han Shuo made use of his mental strength to manipulate the zombie warriors and little skeleton, blocking the way in front of him. The little skeleton’s usual speed was as fast as lightning, but was now being purposefully curtailed by Han Shuo so that he was as slow as the zombie warriors. Dashing over, Erick’s dark green fighting aura formed a ball of light as it enclosed a zombie warrior within it.
The sound of bones exploded suddenly emitted from the zombie warrior’s body. Beneath the effects of the dark green fighting aura, the first zombie warrior had its body shattered. Its wooden club also broke into several segments. Turning his body sideways with a disdainful smirk, Erick’s nimble body evaded the crashes from the other two zombie warriors’ wooden clubs and stabbed forward with his longsword, slashing open the neck of another zombie warrior. The zombie warrior swayed and looked like it would fall down.
The little skeleton raised the bone dagger and pressed beside against the other zombie warrior, jerkily raising the bone dagger in its hand and stabbing it towards Erick. Erick could easily handle even the zombie warriors, so he paid absolutely no attention to the little skeleton’s upraised dagger, raising his sword rather impatiently to block the strike.
At this moment, the originally abnormally slow bone dagger suddenly increased more than tenfold in its striking speed. The previously stiff and slow little skeleton became so agile that it caused Erick’s eyes to bug out. Erick’s longsword had just started rising and he hadn’t had time to make his move before the bone dagger was already landing towards his chest.
Erick retreated in horrified fright, but he was still a beat too slow. A puncturing sound rang out as a large piece of flesh and blood flew up from his chest. As Erick cried out in pain, he also called out with incredulity, “How is this possible?! What kind of skeletal warrior is this?”
It was a pity that the little skeleton had no reaction to Erick’s astonished yells. When he’d succeeded with one of his blows, he didn’t relax and followed up closely afterwards. He didn’t wait for Erick to stabilize his footing before appearing in front of him. As Erick’s fighting aura gathered anew on his longsword, the seven bone spurs on the back of the little skeleton’s spine flared out at the same time and they flew in a semi-circle, landed accurately on Erick’s body.
The seven bone spurs pierced through Erick’s neck, forehead, and heart. He didn’t even have time to release the fighting aura that he’d gathered before his body fell straight backwards. The frightened and terrified expression on his face didn’t even vanish in death.
Duke and Emily had been fighting when they both noticed the disturbance on this side. When they saw that Erick had died a gruesome death, both were surprised. However, Duke’s worry and Emily’s joy followed closely after that surprise.
Emily had already witnessed the little skeleton’s miraculousness last time, and even she, a dark archmage, had been powerless in the face of the little skeleton’s pursuit. The little skeleton’s nimbleness and speed had left a powerful impression on Emily. Upon seeing that the seven bone spurs on the back of the little skeleton could even harm someone, she had a deeper understanding of Han Shuo’s mysteriousness.
Duke was already having trouble fending off attacks from Emily alone, he’d actually been hoping that Erick would help him after taking care of Han Shuo. He hadn’t thought that the seasoned and well experienced Erick would die so quickly. Han Shuo was still standing there, having made not a move. This made Duke panic momentarily.
“What, you want to run? Do you think you can get away today?” After killing Erick, the original demon noticed that Duke’s eyes were darting around. Han Shuo drew near to him with a shadow of a smile as he opened his mouth in mockery.
Duke’s face suddenly grew frosty as his usually benevolent features twisted and he stared at Han Shuo, “You’re seeking death!”
Many sharp shards of bone fragments on the ground suddenly shot towards Han Shuo as Duke waved his magic staff. The sound they made while breaking through the air was extremely ear piercing, and their momentum was quite frightening. When Emily saw that Han Shuo was under attack, she was even more nervous than Han Shuo as she hastily chanted a dark magic spell.
An inky black opening appeared out of thin air before these sharp bone fragments reached Han Shuo. When the bone fragments arrived, they were all attracted to the black opening and completely sucked in.
After releasing his attack, Duke didn’t continue to attack, but rather hurtled his body towards the outside in an attempt to escape. It looked like he’d counted on Emily being concerned for Han Shuo. That’s why he’d attacked Han Shuo so that Emily would save him, and then take advantage of the opportunity to run off.
However, it was easy to enter the cemetery of death, but difficult to leave. After the Eye of Darkness had revealed itself, it’d once again sank back into Han Shuo’s space ring. Without the Eye of Darkness, even him, a wind archmage, would be unable to open the boundary.
He crashed headfirst into the boundary, and a large bang sounded out. A ball of green light flared out from the boundary as Duke was affected by its power. He was unable to maintain his levitation spell and fell from midair. Some broken pieces of bone happened to run through his calves, stomach, and waist, causing immediate injury to his body.
“My condolences!” Han Shuo approached Duke with a cold smile as Emily and the little skeleton surrounded Duke. Han Shuo ripped off the mask on his face and said, “Long time no see, benevolent Mister Duke!”
Duke, crying out painful, immediately spoke with fear when he saw Han Shuo reveal his true face. “Why is it you, I remember that I once saw you in the Babylon Academy. Aren’t you that necromancy student?”
Nodding, Han Shuo smiled sinisterly and said, “That’s right, it’s me.” He then took out the Eye of Darkness and placed it on his palm, lighting it up. “The small errand boy you whose tracks you guys discovered last time, in the cemetery in the mountains to the back of the Academy, was also me. Heh heh, I was the one who gained the Eye of Darkness that Dylan buried in the ground. You guys didn’t think that I wouldn’t die, did you? It’s come full circle not too long afterwards!”
“So you were the one who obtained the Eye of Darkness! No wonder the boundary to the cemetery of death was opened after a light came from your body!” Duke spoke in sudden enlightenment.
Three more zombie warriors appeared, making it a total of four zombie warriors and one little skeleton. They walked slowly towards archmage Duke. Han Shuo raised his crossbow and took aim at Duke, Emily chanted a dark major spell, officially sealing Duke’s fate as the little skeleton’s seven bone spurs flew around in a dance.
When the seven bone spurs flew out, Duke used wind blades to rapidly defend against them all, but the approaching four zombie warriors and little skeleton made him feel quite troubled.
When Han Shuo’s crossbow had shot it, the bolt pierced through the hastily dodging Duke’s thigh and nailed him to the ground. Emily’s dark magic had already enclosed Duke before Han Shuo had taken out the Demonslayer Edge. Thick smoke rose up from Duke’s body in that instant as he became another set of stark white bones within the cemetery of death.
The little skeleton drew close to Duke and took off the space ring from the white bones of his hand. He handed it over to Han Shuo along with the pockets of senior swordsman Erick.
Emily stared at the little skeleton with her clear eyes and was dumbfounded for quite a while by the little skeleton’s motions. She finally couldn’t hold it in any longer and asked Han Shuo with an exceedingly high amount of curiosity, “Can you tell me what was up with that wondrous little skeleton?”
“Heh heh, nothing much. I’ve just refined it with a secret art. That’s why its performance is so wondrous!” Rubbing the little skeleton’s clean and smooth skullcap, Han Shuo smiled as he picked up the spoils of battle being offered up to him.
Emily glared fiercely at Han Shuo and said huffily, “Just how many more things are you keeping from me? Why do you have the Eye of Darkness and how come you could refine such an amazing skeletal warrior? You’re just a small necromancer, yet you also have uncommon fighting techniques. Just what is going on here?”
