"No!"
Arisa screamed.
The tip of the arrow slowly sank into her forehead. The screaming gradually stopped. Arisa’s body melted like a burning candle. Her skin, face, and legs turned into droplets of white or black wax while falling to the ground.
The wax landed on the ground and the green grasses turned yellow within seconds. The sour, fishy, and stinky smell flooded the air after some green smoke rose upon the pool of wax.
Arisa disappeared and only a long black robe was left on the ground.
Angele put the longbow on his back and covered his mouth with his left hand. Blood was coming out of his eyes, mouth, nose, and ears. Especially his eyes, the blue pupils were coated with blood, and they looked horrifying.
Angele quickly grabbed the long black robe on the ground and shook it. A small leather pouch dropped out of the pocket along with a palm-sized black notebook.
He put everything into his pouch and ran to the east side of the forest.
The black robe was left on the ground. Angele jumped into the bushes and disappeared.
Angele held his mouth tight. Blood was emerging from his throat. He knew his injury was severe. Furthermore, someone, or something, was pursuing him. He could sense the approaching threat, and it seemed that this ‘person’ was traveling at the same speed as Angele.
"Red eyebrows… red beard… I’ll find you one day…" Angele was enraged. It was the first time he was pushed to the limit after becoming a formal Wizard. He was not sure which stage the red beard was at, but Angele the red beard was at least at Master Liliana’s level.
Angele kept advancing on the path he chose. It was already noon. The mist had disappeared completely. Rays of golden sunlight shot through the gaps between the leaves of the trees.
He asked Zero to check his body condition as he ran down the road.
His back and right hand were hit by the black smoke and the skin was corroded. Without the metal shield, he would’ve already been turned into a puddle of sticky black liquid.
In addition to that, the smoke contained a strong venom that coursed through Angele’s veins. Blood was leaking out of his skin all over his body.
His attributes were plummeting, almost halving. Angele was lucky that he had absorbed many metals with high resistances before boarding the ship and he dodged most of the black smoke with Zero’s help. Also, Angele’s high attributes helped him fight against the poison. Wizards with low stamina would’ve already died.
Angele traveled for more than 10 kilometers at full speed until the threat stopped chasing after him.
The landscape around changed. The trees were much shorter than the ones he saw in the deep forest, and he finally saw travelers’ footprints on the road.
Angele struggled for a while before he started moving again. He finally walked out of the forest and saw a path for carriages covered in mud.
He collected some herbs based on Zero’s suggestion and stopped the poison from damaging his organs. Angele also applied some healing gel on his back to prevent the infection.
Angele stayed on the side of the road and wiped the bloodstain off his face. He waited for a while and saw several merchants’ carriages.
He paid the coachman several silver coins. The coachman said he would drop him off at the nearest town. There was a cart full of furs attached to the carriage where Angele lay on top of it.
It was quite cozy. The carriage started heading to an area that Angele was not familiar with.
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In the forest, there was a tall gray stone tower.
An old man with a red beard stood on the top of the tower and oversaw the forest, looking a bit depressed.
"Master, you are the best prophet I know, yet you can’t find the black robe on the ship?" a female Wizard behind the old man asked.
"He’s out of range." The old man put his hands behind. There was no expression on his face.
"If I don’t have something else to take care of…" He turned around and looked at the female Wizard.
"Alica, you have the intel of the other targets?"
Alica nodded, "Master Sophina just sent me a message that she detected some movements in the mine. The other masters think they’re trying to eliminate us."
The old man nodded as well. "Where’s Dior?"
"He’s still at a ruin by the west. He was arguing with the Merfolks about an ancient magical artifact he found. I think it will take him a while to…" Alica answered and stopped halfway after seeing the old man nodding his head.
"Also, the bloodline composition experiment in the lab… If you didn’t help them in time, the hidden barrier would’ve already been broken. The good news is that the other masters did not notice the incident."
"We need to go to the mine first." The old man sighed.
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