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Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 186




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Chapter 186

Chapter 186: Forbidden Spell



Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The battle was getting more intense . Anfey, Riska, and Suzanna were watching it through the Eyes of the Sky, and were too absorbed in the fighting to say anything to each other . When his magic was almost depleted, Riska even opened a bottle of magic replenishing potion that Hagan made from unicorn blood . He had been saving it ever since Hagan gave it to him, but now he felt he had to use it . Riska realized the female necromancer was much more powerful than he expected, and witnessing the match between two archmages was almost a once in a lifetime chance . What was slightly disappointing was that neither mage had used forbidden spells against each other since the fight began . Both were much more focused on their soldiers . Both used many high level magic spells, but they avoided directly attacking each other .

In truth, Dardanibry wanted to use forbidden spells, but he could not right now . The gravity spell caught him off guard . This was strange and did not comply with the rules of magic . He knew his opponent must have a rare magic scroll . A forbidden spell was the last thing he wanted to use, because if the magic did not reach his desired effect after he released it, he would lose . The depletion of his magic combined the cooling off period after a spell was used would turn him into a useless man . His opponent, on the other hand, would have enough magic to perform another forbidden spell .

For the two sides on the field, the battle was ferocious . For onlookers, the fight got boring after a while . The only thing that kept Anfey, Riska, and Suzanna watching was the anticipation for the match between two archmages .

Time ticked on, and the Shansa soldiers were too absorbed in the fight to notice that a normal man was slowly changing the battle .

The man’s first action was to push back large black balls made up of hundreds of flesheaters, and soon he joined the fight himself . However, he was only a little stronger than a zombie, and did not attract any attention . Even a common junior swordsmaster could easily have defeated him . However, his recovery rate was much faster than a zombie’s . Whenever he was severed by a soldier or burned to a crisp by fire magic, he was able to recover and return to the fight . Due to the intensity of the battle, however, none of the soldiers and mages noticed him . Even Dardanibry, who was observing the fight through Eyes of the Sky and aiding the soldiers with magic from a distance, did not notice him .

The man may not have been powerful, but there were soldiers who were less powerful than he was . Several soldiers fell before him . Corpses of people who were killed by zombies were usually bloody and unrecognizable . After a while, the body would turn into a zombie as well . However, the bodies of the man’s victims were all dry . There was no blood, no eyes, and no Breath of Death . The bodies turned to dust under the feet of the soldiers and zombies .

The sun was covered by a dark grey cloud, and it was very hard to tell time . No one knew when night would fall . The tactic of Shansa Empire’s mages had turned from attacking in unison to taking turns attacking . Only a dozen mages would be using magic, while the others were meditating and replenishing their magic . Zombies, on the other hand, never became tired . Compared to the flesheaters, they were much more tenacious . No spell could effectively slow down the attacks of the zombies . Some zombies were still fighting, even though their bodies were charred by fire magic .

The most effective way to stop a zombie was to remove its head, but it was very hard for the mages to achieve that . Using soldiers for that task would be sending thousands of men to their deaths .

The zombies were best at long, drawn out battles . The humans had no backup, and, among the thirty thousand men, the six thousand archers found themselves in a difficult situation . They were meant to be assisting the mages, but now they did not know what to do . They could only use normal arrows, and an infantryman’s attack was much more powerful than a hundred arrows .



Unlike the humans, the zombies’ numbers were increasing steadily . At first, it was thirty thousand men against a thousand zombies . Now, the zombies could form a crescent formation, and were close to being able to surround the Shansa army . The Shansa army was slowly losing its advantage .

Finally, the man hidden among the zombies caught Dardanibry’s attention, because the man had just killed a junior swordsmaster . Even though the junior swordsmaster had been fighting for too long and was exhausted, the man was still exceptionally strong for a zombie . This sudden appearance of a powerful individual among the zombies alarmed Dardanibry .


The more he killed, the more powerful the man was . The shields and armor were nothing to him . The generals noticed him as well, and sent a man with a intermediate swordsmaster badge to stop him . The man caught the swordsmaster’s sword, coated in blinding combat power, and punched the swordsmaster in the face, sending the man stumbling into a group of soldiers . Seeing this, Dardanibry narrowed his eyes . He had figured out who, or what, that man was .

Powerful magic surges washed over the battlefield, and the drums rang . The Shansa soldiers began stumbling back, and the mages stopped using magic as well and began retreating . The entire battlefield was suddenly cleared . The zombies were too slow, and even though they were roaring and chasing after the soldiers, the soldiers were still able to place some distance between them and the zombies .

Suddenly, the wind subsided and the grass and trees stopping swaying . The air was suddenly very heavy . Through the Eyes of the Sky, Riska, Anfey, and Suzanna saw that Dardanibry’s mouth was moving . Even though they could not hear the spell Dardanibry was using, the three knew that what they were waiting for was about to happen .



A bright dot appeared in the sky . The zombies were not affected, but many soldiers crouched down and covered their eyes . Then the dot turned into thousands of light streaks and rained down and enveloped the zombies under a dome .

The zombies suddenly stopped moving . They were still walking, roaring, and clawing the air . Some were crawling on the ground, and some were lying on the ground, tripped by the weapons the soldiers left behind . It did not matter what the zombies were doing . All were still, as if frozen in time .

A drop of blood fell off a dead soldier’s finger . The droplet, splattering onto the grass, was frozen still . A soldier lay dying nearby, and his prayers were preserved under the light . A grasshopper jumped from a nearby patch of grass, and its wings were fixed in the air .

Inside the light dome, it was as if everything was nothing more than part of a painting .

The beats of the drums changed . The mages all floated in midair and began using fire magic against the dome . The fireballs and fire meteors all turned into bright yellow marks on the light dome as they hit it . The dome was clear, and it was easy to see that the magic elements did not enter the dome . However, they were not stopped by the dome, either . Except perhaps for Dardanibry, no one could say where the elements had gone to .

The Shansa mages kept releasing magic . Their movements were so fast their hands began to blur . Some mages had used up all their magic and returned to the ground . Those still in the air was still releasing magic .

More and more marks appeared on the dome . The entire dome was almost completely covered by the yellow marks, obscuring what was inside, and the light dome turned a bright yellow . There were only about twenty mages in the air . They were using meteor magic, which was high level magic with a brief cooling off period . However, they did not stop attacking during the cooling off period . They used fireballs to attack when they could not summon meteors, adding to the brightness of the light dome .

The old mage who was standing next to Dardanibry walked over to the soldiers, his expression grave . He pointed his staff straight towards the sky, whispering a spell . A magic shield began to lower over the remaining soldiers .

The dot of light over the light dome flickered, and the entire dome began collapsing . As the dome disappeared, the marks in the dome returned to the form they had when they were created . Fireballs and meteors rained down . The amount of fire magic stopped by the dome was so great, the bright blaze had turned the dark grey cloud yellow .

With a loud explosion, the ground shook violently, roaring . Magic surged across the field, and grass, shrubs, and trees were reduced to dust in the blink an eye . Rocks, some as large as a wheel, flew through the air . The rocks had appeared as light as leaves when the magic sent them tumbling .

Perhaps it was because the magic’s perimeter was too great, the shield shook upon impact . The outer edge was quivering visibly like a balloon in a storm . The old mage was sweating, but his arm was still straight and stiff .



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