Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 238

Chapter 238

"This is impossible," one of the mages stammered . "People who know how to do this kind of magic are long dead . "

Not everyone agreed with his comment, however . Necromancers were very hard to kill, and despite the numerous attempts to eliminate necromancers, they thrived . There were always a few necromancers that would hide away and recover in some remote corner of the world . When there were enough believers in their religion, there would be another attempt at eliminating necromancers . Every time, the Church of Light would announce that they had eliminated all evil, but it was never the truth . Everyone had forgiven this, however, because it was better to have the Church in charge than the necromancers .

Miorich walked over slowly . This time, Hui Wei did not try to stop him . Puppets were not powerful and could not harm a gold knight, unless there was a necromancer lurking nearby . Hui Wei turned and whispered something to Anfey and Suzanna . Anfey nodded, and Suzanna jumped up onto the small tower next to the transmission portal . The tower was only ten feet tall, but it was enough to give her an advantage .

Miorich looked at the man, then kicked the man’s hand away from his throat . His expression grew cold at the sight . There was a large gash on the man’s throat, but there was hardly any blood . Miorich knew very well what this indicated .

"Burn the body," Miorich ordered, taking a few steps back . He glanced at Suzanna, then walked away from the man . He was trying his hardest not to let his emotions show . The mage really had been turned into a puppet, which meant that the transmission portal was unsafe to use . What if Niya had stepped into the portal? Miorich did not want to think about it . Suzanna and Shally’s deaths would be easier to deal with, but if it was Niya, Christian, or Anfey who was harmed, the consequences would be too great . It would put his ability in question, and he would not be able to face his old friends . This could potentially have destroyed his future .

As soon as Miorich turned around, the mage's body began to change . The man’s light green eyes turned to grey, then his eyes dissolved into puddles of water, and his body began to bloat .

Miorich swept around to face the man . There were two types of warriors, swordsmen and knights, and neither needed weapons to be powerful . Suzanna once almost kicked Anfey to death when she was weaponless and choking, and Miorich was so much more powerful than she .

Miorich stepped forward, crushing small pebbles under his feet . The mage was thrown back by some invisible force . Miorich swung at the man, and his combat power swallowed the mage’s body .

A loud crack ripped through the air, and the unstable air current caused by the combat power swept across the courtyard like a raging storm . The transmission array burst into light and was under a transparent magic dome . It was the protective dome placed onto the array . Christian released a protective spell first, and Riska and Blavi followed suit . They had already preparing themselves when they saw Suzanna drawing her sword . Mages tended to use three kinds of defensive magic . There were shielding, protective domes, and kekai . Shields were only used by one person and were the strongest . Protective domes and kekais were both used for large groups of people, but not as powerful as shields . Of course, one could not compare shields released by a junior magister to the kekais released by an archmage .

Usually, mages would use shields when they were in danger . Previously, Christian, Riska, and Blavi would not use a kekai either, but after everything they had been through together, they learned how valuable friendship was . The mages standing around the transmission array, on the other hand, choose to protect themselves first .

Miorich’s figure was obscured by the current, and the only one that was not protected by magic was Suzanna, who was standing on the tower . Unlike the people on the ground, who were stumbling, she was standing straight and unmoving, as if she was nailed to the tower . Her eyes were bright and filled with admiration for Miorich’s power .

Anfey was in the worst shape of all . He wasn’t close enough to Christian when he released the kekai, and instead had jumped into the air and was blown away by the current . He grabbed at the air and landed on a wall nearby .

After a few moments, the current died down, and Miorich turned towards his guards . He might have caused the violent currents, but he did not have any scratches on him, and his clothes were still immaculate . His eyes were cold .

Anfey stayed on the wall, staring at Miorich . He had grabbed something he imagined must have been a spirit . This was the second time he had came in contact with a spirit, but when he tried to communicate with it, it struggled against him . He could feel how terrified the spirit was . He felt a momentary warmth, then the spirit melted away .

"Close the array immediately," Miorich instructed sternly . He turned to the group that was still waiting to use the array and said, "Stay here . Don’t go anywhere . "

"Don't worry," Anfey said as he rejoined his friends .

"Niya, stay here and don’t do anything, alright?" Miorich turned to Niya and said . He was worried about her .

"I understand," Niya said, nodding .

Miorich turned to the mages standing nearby . If one of them was turned into a puppet, he had to inspect the rest of them as well .

"Go home and rest," Miorich said, "for now . "

The mages glanced at each other and turned to leave . The mage who was trying to protect the puppet seemed especially defeated . Thankfully no one affiliated with the Church was present, or else he would be a suspect . The mage’s guild would not protect him if he was suspected of being a necromancer .

After the mages left, Miorich sent some of his men to escort Anfey and the group to their rooms . However, no one was in the mood to rest, and everyone gathered in Anfey’s room to talk about what had just happened .

"Anfey," Blavi asked eagerly, "what did you catch?" He was very curious, but did not want to ask when there were still strangers around .

"Nothing," Anfey said . He wasn’t exactly lying . The spirit did disappear after he caught it .

"Then what were you going to catch?" Christian ask . He worded his question much more cleverly .

"A spirit," Anfey said . He had changed his mind and decided to disclose more information to his friends . Necromancers were targeting them, and he knew very little about them . He needed to talk to his friends so he would be more prepared . Beings from the Evil Abyss were things that existed in the place between life and death . Each spirit had its own thoughts and personality . There were betrayals, hatred, and murders, but there was also cooperation, trust, and friendship . The spirits there were not unlike humans . Death magic, on the other hand, was only one branch of magic, and products of death magic did not have any emotions .

After two encounters with spirits, Anfey was nervous that someone was trying to achieve the same thing Yagor was trying to do . Someone was trying to build a tunnel between the Evil Abyss and the living world, and he could not allow that to happen . He knew very well what lives in the Abyss, and how terrible the thing was . Nothing can compare to a Spirit King when it come to murders and killing . A single Spirit King has enough power to crush every life in a thirty mile radius . Only those who had achieved sacred state could defeat a Spirit King, but those people were nothing more than legends .

"A spirit?" Hui Wei asked, shocked .

"You know about them?" Anfey asked .

"No," Hui Wei said, shaking his head . "But I've read about them . How did you discover them?"

"You will find out later," Anfey said, shaking his head . "Hui Wei, how much do you know about spirits? Does it have anything to do with necromancers?"

"I don’t know, but I know that puppet earlier was a failure, or else you wouldn’t have discovered it so easily . It seemed like those necromancers have not mastered the art of creating puppets yet . "

"Which means they are actively practicing it," Christian said slowly . "This one may be a failure, but the next one may not be . "