Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 263
When Su Xiaoluo saw the different spells sweeping past her and blasted the debris that Liu Ru was trapped in, she could feel her heart clenching tightly...
"That's enough, we need her corpse to report back, too many people have died here!" The captain with the thick brows gave the command to stop the consecutive attacks.
"She didn't even kill the people here!" snapped Su Xiaoluo furiously.
"It doesn't matter, we've caught one at least," said the Huntress calmly.
"You… how can you do this? Many innocent lives were lost because you came late, and now you're trying to accuse her falsely instead!" yelled Su Xiaoluo.
"We came late? If we didn't make it in time, the woman would have killed all of you, you won't be alive now to scold us!" said the Huntress.
"Chief, say something, tell them that..."
The chief Xie Sang remained silent. He lowered his head with a complicated look.
"Mm, where's the body?"
"Did we just blast her into ashes?" said one of the Hunters.
"Impossible, the woman was extraordinarily strong. She didn't even budge when my Fiery Fist landed on her..."
The Hunters kept searching the debris, yet they failed to find anything apart from some torn clothes. The captain with thick brows immediately shoved the people aside and looked for the body himself, yet he found nothing either.
"Did she run away?" said the Huntress in astonishment.
"Humph, she won't escape from us. Tell the others to hunt her down! We can't let her stay in the Ancient Capital..." snapped the captain furiously.
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Cold drizzle poured down from the clear sky, landing on some ancient little alleyway.
The windows and doors in the alleyway were shut tightly. There was no sign of any pedestrians nearby in the dark...
A glamorous silhouette slowly appeared from the shadows. Her hair was disheveled from the rain. Her clothes were in a messy state. Her exposed skin was covered in wounds.
She staggered forward holding onto the walls. She would cough heavily at times, spitting out mouthfuls of blood.
"HAHAHA, I'm telling you, that chick was smart not to drink the glass that I drugged. Otherwise, I would have dragged her into a corner now and sent her to cloud nine!" a rough voice spoke in the alley.
"How about us, I loved that chick's legs, they are so long. I wonder how it would feel when they wrapped around my waist. Tsk tsk… boss, boss, look!" said the young man wearing an earring pointing at the s.e.xy back in the pitch-black alley.
"She seems drunk. I'm getting a boner just by looking at her. That waist, those legs, that ass!"
"The chick from before managed to escape, but now we've found a better one. Look at her clothes… it feels like she already had a rough time before." The young man with an earring was fully excited.
"Come, let's follow her. I've never tried doing it in the rain, let alone with someone so s.e.xy!"
The few young men with a strong smell of alcohol about them hurried forward. The one leading the way with a gold chain around his neck went up to Liu Ru and stared at her face.
He was completely astounded after taking a glance. A true beauty; not only was she pretty, she even had the alluring weak temperament. Her exposed collar bones were invoking a strong d.e.s.i.r.e to 'protect' her!
"Hey gorgeous, are you drunk? Our place is just ahead, do you want to come with us to take a rest?" said the man with the gold chain holding an umbrella in his hand.
"Yeah, yeah!" The other two were so excited that they had a strong urge to pounce on her. She was simply too attractive!
Liu Ru took a deep breath. Her eyes suddenly emitted an inhuman flicker of light...
She glanced at the little gangsters trying to take advantage of her coldly. If she were just a weak woman, the Heavens knew what they would do to her...
"Sc.u.m!" cursed Liu Ru coldly.
"Yo, how did you know that we're going to do something bad to you!" The young man with an earring burst out laughing.
"Let...let me first..." The other young man reached his hand out toward Liu Ru. He could not wait to fondle her long legs!
Liu Ru immediately turned around, revealing the fangs under her red upper lip. The sharp fangs flickered coldly in the dark alleyway. Together with her pair of inhuman eyes, they gave her an eerie, intimidating appearance!
The young man trying to touch Liu Ru's legs were stunned. He stood still in his spot, as if he had lost his soul.
With two more flickers from Liu Ru's eyes, she fired the same spell at the other two gangsters. The men with perverted grins immediately shuddered, before their faces were replaced with blank expressions, like puppets.
"Bring me to where you live," demanded Liu Ru coldly.
"Yes..." The three had completely turned into brainless walking flesh. They mechanically escorted Liu Ru like an empress to the end of the alleyway...
Liu Ru's blood fangs were still exposed under her lips. She glanced at the three men's necks...
The Blood Tribe had a stronger urge to drink blood after suffering from serious injuries. She could already smell their alcohol-heavy blood. Basically, if she drank their blood, she would immediately recover from the injuries she had.
Liu Ru took a deep breath and withheld the urge to drink the filthy blood in the end.
She felt disgusted at just the thought of touching the three sc.u.m, let alone drinking their blood by sticking her lips onto their necks!
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As she arrived at the end of the alleyway, she saw a house in fairly good condition. Liu Ru controlled them to escort her into one of the rooms, before sending one of them to buy her clean clothes and the other one to get her blood serums.
The clothes came fairly quickly, but the blood serums were too expensive. Also, anyone trying to buy blood serums would have to record their names and be approved by a Magician. An ordinary gangster would surely not able to buy one, leaving Liu Ru in a difficult position.
She had lost quite a fair amount of her primary blood. She would remain in a weakened state if she did not replenish kt. Not only would she recover at a very slow rate, it would even affect her actions.
"Who's there?" When Liu Ru was feeling lost thinking about what to do, she heard someone moving in the garden.
The person was very nimble, and Liu Ru barely heard them. The truth was, it was almost impossible for a human to avoid being detected by her.
Liu Ru ran outside and discovered the garden to be empty, apart from a few packages containing something red under the shed...
"Blood serums?' Liu Ru looked at them in astonishment.
She immediately looked around, wanting to know who had placed something she needed so desperately here, but the place was completely empty.
"Who exactly did this? How did he or she know I needed these… does this mean the person has been following me all along?" mumbled Liu Ru in confusion, staring at the blood serums.
Unable to arrive at a conclusion, Liu Ru quickly consumed them.
If the person was trying to harm her, he or she could have done so already. She was in an extremely weak state, even an ordinary Intermediate Magician could end her life right now...
Chapter 604 - Victory
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
The gray tower stood firmly in the middle of the long wall, ignoring the clouds and rain. It was hard to tell how many years it had stood here, enduring the rain and wind, to reach its current color.
The wall was still guarded by lots of Magicians. They prayed for daytime to arrive quickly when they heard the bells chiming in the distance.
A rain like this would always delay the arrival of sunlight. Sometimes, some of the Magicians fighting a war would end up not returning because of that small difference in time.
"Everyone is worn out..." Yao Nan sighed.
"How long has this situation lasted?" Mo Fan asked.
"It starts around the end of summer. It's been quite a few months, but we still haven't found the real reason," said Yao Nan.
"We can't just let it be like this. It's simply a party for them here every night, while the people have to hide in the city and the Magicians have to guard the walls?" Mo Fan wondered.
The situation here in the Ancient Capital was more terrifying than Mo Fan had imagined. Perhaps even those who had spent a long time living in this city were also living in fear.
"What is it, why the panic?" Advisor Zhu asked a soldier hurrying his way over.
"One of the squads is surrounded by a bunch of skeletons. We have no men left to spare," said the soldier.
"Whose squad is it?" asked Advisor Zhu.
"It's Wang Mang's..."
Advisor Zhu turned his gaze toward Yao Nan and Mo Fan. There were indeed not many people they could send out. The walls were under attack from various directions, while the majority of the army was sent out to eliminate the Phantom Tyrant Emperor. There was no man left to assemble a rescue team.
Besides, a rescue team normally needed to consist of a higher number of stronger Magicians.
"We two basically have no energy left. We're simply going to die if we go," said Yao Nan straightforwardly, aware of Advisor Zhu's intention.
Mo Fan's energy had yet to recover, too. If he were to jump down the wall now, not only would he be unable to save anyone, he would even put his own life in danger. The same went with Yao Nan; he did still have some energy left, yet he had not recovered from the injuries he suffered when fighting against the Corpse Official. There was nothing he could do, either.
"Ask them to hold on for awhile, it's almost daytime," Advisor Zhu sighed.
"Affirmative," said the soldier nodded.
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The squad under Wang Mang's lead that the soldier mentioned was actually not too far away from the walls. For someone like Mo Fan, who was able to see in the dark, he could see an area covered in white dots in the distance from up on the walls.
The white dots were the skeletons. A huge area of white dots simply meant the place was overrun by skeletal creatures. The occasional flicker of light in the distance simply implied that the squad was fighting back stubbornly.
When Mo Fan's gaze was fixed on the area, a cheer of joy came from a different direction.
Yao Nan immediately glanced in that direction too. When he saw white rays rising into the sky, he immediately smiled, "They did it!"
"Who?" asked Mo Fan.
"The Phantom Tyrant Emperor is eliminated! Our army is withdrawing back to the walls!" Advisor Zhu's anxious face finally smiled for once. It was obvious that he hd been deeply worried about it for the entire night.
After all, they had sent quite a number of Super Level Magicians out. If something were to happen to them, the northern walls would be in serious trouble!
The white rays gradually drew closer to the walls. As soon as the Phantom Tyrant Emperor died, the undead completely lost their backing. The Commander-level undead no longer posed any threat, especially when Super Magicians were free to lend a hand, too...
"Nice, great job, well done!" yelled Advisor Zhu when he saw the army making their way back to the walls.
The Commanders in charge of guarding the walls danced for joy too. For the past month and more, they had always been on their toes because of the Phantom Tyrant Emperor. The vicious undead were the greatest threat to the northern walls. They had almost made a huge hole in the walls a few times.
Now that the threat was finally eliminated, the soldiers in charge of guarding the northern walls were relieved.
Dull clouds gathered in the east. Sunlight came late, as expected, but the people on the northern walls were cheering loudly, to welcome the new day, and also to welcome the heroes returning from their victory...
Magicians gradually arrived at the walls. Some that were quicker had even returned to the tower.
A man with a pair of fiery wings on his back swept past the sky in the rain, leaving a long trail of fire behind, like a burning meteorite!
The fiery wings beat rapidly as the figure headed for the walls quickly. Even though the person was covered in wounds, it did not take away any of his authority and pride.
Mo Fan recognized the fiery wings. It was none other than Councilman Zhu Meng!
His fiery wings lit up the gray tower. He landed on the tower, a heat wave sweeping over the crowd. While his beard was still drifting in the wind, he had already landed stably in front of Advisor Zhu and the rest of the Commanders...
"Where's my superior; don't tell me he sacrificed himself?" Yao Nan asked immediately when he saw Zhu Meng.
"He did survive, but the question is when he's able to rise from bed. That guy is totally out of his mind… but without his risky move, it's likely that the Phantom Tyrant Emperor would have escaped safely!" Zhu Meng panted heavily trying to catch his breath. When he caught a glimpse of Mo Fan, he immediately wore a frown and snapped, "Did this kid desert his squad? He's definitely going to suffer the consequences if he's a soldier!"
"The number of undead I killed is higher than the Magicians that you've gathered today!" said Mo Fan unpleasantly.
"He did great today, helping me kill a Corpse Official," Yao Nan complimented Mo Fan for once.
"Humph, that sounds more like it!" Zhu Meng nodded and glanced into the distance, "The others will be back eventually. The casualties aren't too terrible this time. It's our victory!"
"Councilman, you should go and rest. Your injuries aren't light, either," Advisor Zhu sent a Battlemaga over to take care of the Councilman.
The Battlemaga was obviously a Healer, wearing a white robe. She escorted Councilman Zhu Meng to the third floor to rest up.
Zhu Meng noticed the area covered in white dots in the distance. He pointed at the area and asked, "What's going on there? Is someone trapped?"
"Yeah, it's a small squad. They are surrounded by the skeletons, but it will be daytime soon. It won't be a huge problem," said Advisor Zhu.
Zhu Meng studied the sky and realized that the sunlight was indeed poking out from the gray clouds. It would be daytime by the time he could reach the squad. He decided to take care of his wounds instead, since it was impossible to tell what else they might encounter the following night. He had to recover from the injuries as soon as possible, since he was still needed to protect the northern walls.
Chapter 605 - The Seemingly Familiar Nightmare
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
Any Magician who spent some time at the Ancient Capital would know that the skeletons were scarier than the zombies.
Their bones were hard as iron and their strength was enough to tear a living human to pieces. Most terrifyingly, they were a lot harder to kill than zombies. It appeared that shattering them was not effective either, as they would soon assemble their bodies again using any bone for the same joint they could find on the ground.
Such white skeletons were exactly the creatures that Wang Mang's squad had encountered. They had even blasted the skulls off the skeletons off for more than one time, yet these undead simply picked up someone else's head and screwed it onto their body and moved toward them again.
"Damn it, we shouldn't have stepped out of that zone. The army has already gone back to the walls, while we who came to escort them are trapped here!" cursed a Magician with a caved-in nose.
"Hold on, it's almost daytime, we'll be able to head back soon," said Wang Mang.
"When the day comes, I'll go home straight away, take a nice little ht shower, and sleep for two days straight!"
"Where's Xiao Ding, where did he go… asshole, I told you all to look after him!" cursed Wang Mang instantly.
Wang Mang looked over the walls of skeletons and discovered a corpse whose limbs, head and body were separated. The corpse was being trampled continuously by the skeletons, even his head was kicked back and forth between their feet!
The head was Xiao Ding's; Wang Mang's face fell incredibly white after seeing it.
He already promised his wife that he would take good care of her brother, yet he had only dropped his guard down for a moment, and her brother had ended up like that. His wife would faint instantly when she saw him like this.
"Li Cong is also… damn it, why is it still not daytime yet?! Shouldn't these undead be going back to their tombs already? I'm going to dig their graves out!" snapped the man with the caved-in nose furiously.
"The day...the day..." A Magician whose hair was dyed black and brown suddenly glanced into the east with a blank face, as if he had entirely lost his soul.
"Clench your teeth and hold on for a little longer. The day has come, it's already daytime! Don't get crushed by the door when you've already made it to the gates of Hell!" yelled Wang Mang.
They could not give up like this, otherwise the entire squad would be wiped out. It would only take a matter of seconds for the skeletons to kill them all!
"Asshole, what are you still waiting for? Quickly cast a Light Protection to help the others even if it means s.u.c.k.i.n.g your brain juice dry, do you want to die here?" yelled the man with the caved-in nose.
The Magician with black-brown hair pointed to the east...
"Cap...captain..." said the man with black-brown hair in a trembling voice.
"Shut up you two!"
"The day… it's already bright," the man pointed to the sky at the faint light, where they could also see the light drizzle.
"What did you say!" both Wang Mang and the man with caved-in nose yelled in disbelief.
A rusted sword suddenly swept past, separating the black-brown-haired man's head from his body. The head made a few spins in the air before falling to the muddy ground.
The mud on the ground dyed his hair again, yet his face did not show any reaction to the sudden death. It was still filled with disbelief.
He could not believe that the undead were still around when sunlight had already come.
"It's...it's really daytime," Wang Mang stood there like an empty shell.
