Chapter 491: 491
“How?” Asked Natasha . Although she was an expert in anti-tracking, she knew that everything was different in this dimension where everyone’s spiritual power and willpower were both restrained, so she asked for Lucien’s advice .
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Sorcerers were known for their multiple spells serving different and specific purposes . This was another advantage that they had over knights and clergies .
Lucien took out his monocle and covered his left eye with it . Images and scenes flashed through his left pupil . Meanwhile, electromagnetic waves spread out from his eye and his body to every direction, then providing feedback to him from time to time .
Using the fifth-circle spell Eye of Thunder and Lightning, Lucien was now like a radar in human shape .
“The feedback from over three hundred meters is weak and chaotic somehow… Is this the special suppression of this world? It feels like magnetic pollution . ” Lucien said to Natasha through the telepathic bond between them . “But don’t worry . Let’s keep moving forward . You keep pretending that you’re still seeking around but have found nothing so that we can lure it closer to us . We gotta hurry up, there isn’t much time left for us . ”
“Alright . ” Natasha agreed .
Clenching onto Pale Justice, she walked deeper into the forest with Lucien .
Lucien then cast True Seeing on Natasha and himself, pretending that they were still on great alert but could find nothing .
After a minute, Lucien and Natasha quickly exchanged a look and suddenly accelerated . Like two flashes of shadow, they sprinted towards the end of the path, ready to turn left .
At this time, Lucien stopped without any signs and cast Move Earth, a sixth-circle spell!
The ground within a hundred meters started shaking fiercely . Invisible waves spread out, and trees fell one by one .
From the thick crown of an old tree, a black figure lost its balance and fell onto the ground .
The blackness of the figure could absorb in most electromagnetic waves including visible light, thus generating an alternative sense of invisibility . Without True Seeing, Lucien and Natasha would not be able to see it or sense it at all .
Natasha dashed forward and wielded Pale Justice downward in great momentum .
The black figure turned out to be a human-shaped monster with the head of a white tiger . The aura of death surrounding it was extremely dense . Its power should be able to directly manipulate low-rank and middle-rank specters .
Fast and agile, it dodged to the side in midair and avoided Natasha’s blade . Then the black claws came for Natasha like sharp blades . Meanwhile, its power waves spread out — it was going to use its ability to cast magic-like spells!
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However, the tiger-head monster suddenly lost its strength and fell right onto the blade of Natasha’s sword .
Pale Justice was a legendary-level sword when facing evil creatures . Without much effort, the sword penetrated through the monster’s body . Black miasma came out, and the body started rotting very fast .
“It’s a senior-rank evil beast, good at tracking and assassination,” said Natasha to Lucien through the telepathic bond . “Did you create this spell on your own? I’ve never heard such a powerful senior-rank spell that can interfere with gravity to such a degree . ”
“Yes, I did . It’s called ‘Gravity Chaos’, a spell of the field of Astrology,” said Lucien . He accidentally came up with the spell during the derivation of the Special Theory of Relativity .
Natasha was simply being curious, so she didn’t ask further . “We gotta hurry up and leave — Watch out!”
Before she finished her words, a huge rock twice the size of the previous one that destroyed the mud hut rushed out of the woods towards them fiercely, stirring up a very strong blow .
Natasha stepped forward and swang Pale Justice at the huge rock . This one single strike slowed down the rock a little bit and slightly changed its direction . Lucien made the best use of the time and shot out a ray of green light at the rock .
The ray was so thin compared to the size of the rock, like a toothpick on a desk . However, the huge rock instantly broke down into tiny green light dots and scattered to the ground .
Something in the woods burst out in an extremely bitter howl . The howling was so sharp and miserable that one’s mind could very easily be disturbed .
Natasha held Pale Justice in front of Lucien and herself . As soon as the evil howling touched the sword, it split into two halves from the middle just like a rushing flood around a small isolated island, thus Natasha and Lucien were not affected at all . However, the wild beasts nearby were all panicking under the great evilness .
Stamping on the tree trunks, a giant over five meters tall cut its own way through the woods and walked out .
The giant’s skin was nearly black, and it had a pair of eerie orange eyes, pointy ears, but no hair . Its dirty nails were also orange . The most disturbing thing was that it was surrounded by a cluster of spirits forming a cloud . The horrible howl that they just heard actually came from the spirits .
“A Dead Gaint! At least level seven!” Lucien immediately recognized it . “There are two kinds of spirits surrounding it . One is those that came from the enemies it killed before, and they can be easily killed by Pale Justice . But the others came from the Dead Giants themselves and are passed down the generations as guardians . These spirits are not evil, so Pale Justice won’t work well . We have to kill the giant to destroy the spirits!”
“Be careful with its Unholy Blight and Flame Strike . ”
Through the telepathic bond, Lucien told Natasha the basic information about the enemy .
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Natasha grabbed the sword and said, “help me so I can approach the giant . Let’s finish it as soon as possible . ”
With many years of hard training and a powerful weapon, Natasha was not afraid of the giant at all . All she wanted was to save more time .
“I’ll use Exorcist Halo to suppress the spirits,” said Lucien . Although he had many options, he believed that Sun’s Corona would definitely be most effective in this situation .
Natasha was ready . She bent her knees and was ready to strike .
However, at this time, a layer of concrete black, white and grey suddenly covered Lucien . He had totally lost his ability to move .
“Damn!” Natasha could not hold back the swearing . She knew that she had to stop the giant first .
Yet the Death Giant had already made its move when the colors first appeared and had now arrived right in front of Natasha .
Spirits howled and cried . Natasha, who was not yet fully prepared, was knocked off into the air by the giant . Meanwhile, although the eerie shadows surrounding it had dimmed, the giant still launched its second attack .
Pale Justice kept colliding with the evil spirits, yet much of its power was restrained due to the guardian spirits .
When Natasha was defending herself, the Death Giant found the opportunity and rushed at Lucien, who was completely incapable of fighting .
Natasha’s silver-purple eyes became cold . She turned back a somersault and came back to Lucien . Then using all her strength, she sprang up and swang the sword at the Dead Giant’s chest .
The Dead Giant had to stop its attack to defend itself from the fatal attack . The spirits formed a black shadow that blocked Pale Justice, and its sharp orange nails came straight to Natasha .
Natasha, however, had given up defense . She let the nails sink into her rerebrace, and meanwhile, pulled the sword and slashed across the neck of the Dead Giant .
The giant grabbed its own neck with its hands, trying to stop the black blood from bursting out .
Natasha would leave it no more chance . Stepping on the ground, she was ready to leap up again and launch her second round of attack .
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At this time, a beam of holy light came from the sky and encased the giant within .
The giant lost all of its life force . The surrounding spirits were finally released and slowly disappeared in the light beam .
“Are you alright?” Lucien flew to Natasha and asked concernedly .
Natasha coughed and pointed at her left shoulder . “You gotta fix this for me later . ”
There was a deep crack in her violet rerebrace . Her left upper arm was injured, and traces of black blood came out from the wound .
Lucien hurriedly stopped the bleeding and said to Natasha, frowning, “there’s death curse in a Dead Giant’s nails, and there’s also toxins . Although as a radiant knight and with your top blood power, you won’t die like the others . But your power will be reduced to below senior-rank . The best solution is the seventh-circle spell, Pure Blessing . A fourth-circle spell called Remove Curse shall also work, but it must be supported by some potions . ”
Natasha smiled . “So… you do not have the materiels to brew the potions now, right? — Wait, are you also injured?”
Lucien did not look good . His face now looked abnormally dark . Obviously, he had been affected by Unholy Blight — When struck by the colors of black, white and grey, he was not able to defend himself at all .
Lucien did not realize it until Natasha pointed out . He hurried cast a spell on himself to prevent the situation from getting worse . “I didn’t notice it . This also can only be completely removed using the corresponding spell and the potion called Heart of Sun . ”
Natasha grinned . “You didn’t even notice that your own injury . You do care about me a lot, don’t you?”
Honest and straightforward as usual, she did not feel shy at all .
Lucien, on the other hand, felt a bit shy, so he switched the topic . “I do have most of the materials of the potions . But there’s one missing called Bloody Family . It’s a kind of red flower that is everywhere in the main material world . So I don’t have them with me . ”
“Let’s go then . This world resembles the main material world, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find the flower . We can also ask people living in the nearby small town . ” Natasha stood up .
Lucien nodded and cast the spells to take away the giant’s heart, nails, and the piece of skin on its chest . In the future, he would use these materials to make the senior-rank magic items Dead Giant Belt and Curse Dagger .
Luckily, Demigod-lich had not caught them up yet .
It was a small town in the mountains where residents relied on hunting and logging .
Lucien, whose face was still abnormally dark, found nothing about the red flowers after asking the passers-by . By now, Natasha was already having difficulty lifting her left arm .
Lucien walked to a very old man and asked, “Sir, may I ask you something?”
“What?” The old man pointed at his ear .
Lucien took out a couple of copper coins used by the locals and tossed them . “Sir, I’d like to know if you know someone good at telling plants nearby . ”
The old man’s eyes lit up . “There is one . ”
Lucien smiled and handed him the coins . “More specific?”
“Sir, if you just need a guide, you don’t have to go to Nika the Lunatic . He’s filthy and cruel, obsessed with cutting plants, animals, and beasts into small pieces every day . He says he’s looking for the secret of gods . He’s gone nuts…” When mentioning Nika, the old man was obviously full of disgust .
“The secret of gods?” Lucien and Natasha asked at the same time . Their left eyebrow lifted at the same angle .
The old man nodded hard, “Yes, he keeps telling people that the blessed power comes from the strange patterns on the horrible monsters . He wants to understand the patterns! Trust me, he’s gone nuts . He’s been acting weird since he was a kid . Things around him were always on fire or got broken . He must have been possessed by a demon!”
Lucien was very interested, “Where is he?”
“You’d better think twice…” said the old man, but when he saw the shiny silver coin in Lucien’s hand, he hurriedly added . “… Well, people did not like him, so he had moved deep into that mountain . Follow the path and you’ll find him . ”