Chapter 1626 Chapter 1445: Alice on her way back 1
Chapter 1626 Chapter 1445: Alice on her way back 1
Not too far from the Foxia's Empire Border a fight was happening.
The blades clashed, sending dazzling sparks flying in midair.
The shadowy figure flitted across the air and pounced from above. Facing this ambush, the armored man snarled, unleashed a formidable aura from his blade, and retaliated with a mighty slash. The shadowy figure in midair had no choice but to evade, rolling away desperately upon landing on the ground. However, it stood to its feet quickly and retreated in a trail of afterimages. Along with its movement, ghastly, white skeletal soldiers broke out of the soil, raised their weapons, and swarmed the humans ahead.
"We need to leave this place right away!"
While defending the luxurious carriage, a middle-aged man clad in leather armor and wielding a longsword put up a hesitant expression. He gazed solemnly at the undead creatures ahead, flourishing his longsword to repel them. Then, he moved his gaze to the petite young lady donned in a mage robe within the group. She gnashed her teeth, held the magic staff up high, and cast a wall of flames before them to keep out the undead creatures.
"Lavita! Hang in there!"
"…!"
Upon hearing the middle-aged man's order, the young lady didn't respond, but continued to gnash her teeth instead. Upon witnessing her reaction, the middle-aged man was astonished. However, the movement of his hand didn't come to a halt as he repelled two more undead creatures. Swinging the longsword in his hand, the mighty blade airflows rose from the ground and dispersed in all directions. In the blink of an eye, the blustering winds pushed back the undead creatures around him. But despite that, the undead creatures were unperturbed. They let out terrifying snarls and attacked, charging forward in large strides.
What an annoying bunch.
Gazing at the unrelenting undead creatures, the man knitted his brows tightly. He lowered his gaze to the silver-whitish cross symbol hanging on his chest and put up a hesitant expression.
This time, they received information about undead creatures showing up in nearby mountains and forests and were sent to check on the situations from the Mercenary Guild around here.
In the end, the team was astounded to realize that not only were there hundreds of undead creatures, but their strength was also much stronger than expected.
Taking the skeletal soldiers, for instance. The middle-aged man should have been able to crush up to five of them in a single swing of a blade. But now, the skeletal soldiers seemed exceedingly sturdy, where even his all-out attack was only able to strike up to two of them away and not defeat them entirely. Not only that, but the flames that should have also been a huge threat to them seemed to lose their effectiveness. Although the undead creatures were still afraid of getting too close to the flames, they were no longer as weak and fragile as in the past.
This caught the team off guard. Even though they heard from their companions that the undead creatures were rather odd recently, they didn't expect them to have such dramatic changes. In an instant, the team couldn't help but pay bitterly. And now, they could only retreat slowly and leave this place. If they could reach a vast plain, it might be more advantageous for them. In the dark forest, it was as though their hands were tied. Fortunately, apart from the leading vampire who was more bothersome to deal with, the rest were only skeletal soldiers. If there were death knights or lichs, perhaps everyone would be dead by now.
But even so, they were in a fluster. The middle-aged man initially decided to dig and set up a trap to eliminate the enemies. But now, he had no choice but to change his strategy. After all, the enemies attacked aggressively with skeletal soldiers being summoned one by one. Even though the skeletal soldiers had the lowest level of all units, the strengthened version of them was enough to give the mercenaries a huge headache.
"Retreat now!"
Upon seeing his men by the rear tangling with the skeletal soldiers, the middle-aged man snarled in an ice-cold expression. If the skeletal soldiers were the usual ones they encountered, they wouldn't have been able to hold them back. And now, these undead creatures were simply too difficult to handle and this left him feeling anxious. He also felt like the reason why the undead creatures didn't rush toward them wasn't because they couldn't defeat him. Instead, it was as though they were scheming to slow down his team. The middle-aged man felt increasingly concerned and afraid of the undead creatures' crafty plots. His companions at the rear also gnashed their teeth, struggling with all their strength to resist the undead creatures' assault and couldn't back down. If they were to retreat now, the undead creatures might encircle them immediately. On the other hand, if they didn't retreat and continued to defend themselves, they wouldn't end up anywhere better either.
"Leader, let me do it."
While the middle-aged man was watching the situation anxiously, the mage young lady with an ice-cold expression spoke while clutching her magic staff. Even though she looked pale from exhaustion, she continued to grit her teeth and maintain the wall of flames before her. She was apparently at her limit. Upon hearing her courageous words, the middle-aged man knitted his brows. Although this young lady had joined his mercenary team for only a year, her spell-casting abilities were incredible. His team looked down upon her in the beginning, but now she had become their most trustworthy and reliable teammate. But she was a young lady, after all, and it was asking too much of her to protect the rest. Even though she was capable of casting spells, judging from her pale expression, it was obvious that she had almost expended all her spiritual power.
"Can you do it, Lavita? Don't force yourself. I've sent out a SOS. I think reinforcements should arrive any time now."
The middle-aged man said.
Even though they were an experienced team of veterans, after two years of trials and hardships. And now, this young lady was one of them. If he were to leave, he would no doubt be abandoning them. This was something that he couldn't bring himself to do! No matter what, they were still his subordinates!
"No, everyone can't hold on any longer. Let me do it! I have a special skill to summon magical beasts to take down these creatures. It won't be too late for us to escape later."
"But…"
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺