Chapter 410



410 The Projection

Selma Payne’s POV:

Once the forest outside of Garland City was set on fire, the most dangerous thing for the people in the city would not be the monsters, but the flames and smoke alone would kill countless people instantly!

We didn’t have the manpower to put out the fire, which was spreading in all directions.

“We can’t wait any longer!” I said. “Send a message to the city. Tell all the people to abandon the city and leave immediately. Evacuate to the nearest city-state!”

Abandoning the city and evacuating was our final plan. Once an uncontrollable accident happened, the safety of the people had to be the priority, and the remaining troops were responsible for escorting them to the safer city-state nearby.

However, this also meant that our last support was gone, and we could only rely on the few people we had now to fight alone.

“What do we do now?” Eve and the others came to ask for my instructions. “We can’t stop it. At this speed, it’ll reach Garland City in twenty minutes. Twenty minutes is not enough to evacuate all the residents in the city!”

“Let’s go ahead and delay it for now. We’ll try everything we can.” I was also at my wit’s end. I could only do my best. “We’ll try every minute we can.”

At this moment, Dorothy suddenly said, “Be careful of the east side. A group of unknown people had appeared there!

“Is it Kafka?” I asked quickly.

“No… It’s not a Kafka, let me see… Ah! It’s Azazel’s party!”

“Azazel’s party?”

Why would Azazel’s party come? Could it be that they and the Leviathan followers were trying to attack from the left and right? But didn’t they already have internal strife and split up? Could it be that all the clues left behind were lies?

There was no time to think about these. The worst thing was that our planned evacuation route was through the east gate!

“Send a message to the people to evacuate from the north gate and stay away from the east gate! Azazel’s party is here!”

Just as I finished speaking, a loud explosion suddenly erupted from the east. Following that, thick smoke rose like ink in water.

“The east gate has been breached!” the correspondent shouted. “The mayor is leading the people to the north gate!”

At the same time, Dorothy said in a serious tone, “I didn’t see any trace of Azazel’s party from the beginning to the end. No, it’s better to say there was no trace of Azazel’s party as if these people had somehow removed the mark of nature. But that’s impossible!

“The Grand Elder said that the nature symbol on their bodies was created by the Elf King, which means that he’s representing the leader of the entire elven race to bring them the wrath of the entire elven race. Unless the Elf King himself or someone of the same status as him gives up the mark, the mark of nature can’t be removed by itself!”

But now, nature’s tracking of Azazel’s party had failed. A group of ordinary people obviously could not escape the eyes of the Goddess of Nature even with Azazel’s help because the power of the demons would be significantly weakened in the territory of the Goddess of Nature.

However, these problems had to be delayed because Garland City was now completely pincered from the left and right. The people had nowhere to go except the cliff in the north, which was equivalent to a dead end!

“Have you found any trace of Kafka?” I asked Dorothy.

“No,” she replied helplessly. “I didn’t even find any target with a trace of magic fluctuation. It was as if there was no such person as Kafka in the Elf Forest. However, this is impossible. The spell caster of the light cocoon cannot leave the 50-meter range of the light cocoon. Otherwise, the light cocoon will gradually weaken until it loses its effect.

However, I couldn’t find him within a 100-meter radius, let alone fifty meters. Could he be hiding in the forest? However, not to mention that the forest was burning with a raging fire. Just this distance had long exceeded the limit. The light cocoon should not be so strong that it was invincible.

We tried everything we could to attack and block the monster, but it was all useless. No matter if it was physical or magical attacks, it was like hitting a mirage.

Wait a minute.

A mirage?

I subconsciously looked down at the ground beneath the monster. As expected, there was no shadow.

How could there be no shadow? Even if it was a ball of light, there should be a shadow as long as it existed. This shadow might not be the monster’s, but no matter where it existed, it would cast a dark shadow on anything, be it a towering old tree or a tiny speck of dust.

However, this monster made of light had no shadow. There was only one possibility – it was a shadow itself.

It did exist, but it was not the main body. Instead, it was a mirage of the main body the caster had projected into this space through some method. In addition to the shadow, the attacks of the main body were also transferred. The difference was that the shadow was only the shadow of the main body, while the attacks were real attacks from the main body. They were transferred over through some kind of spatial sorcery.

A certain guess gradually formed in my mind. For this reason, I gathered my companions and soldiers around me and said, “Cover me! Draw the monster’s attack toward me!”

Eve and the others were shocked, “What? This is too dangerous!”